¶ How the land of Englond was first named albion/ And by what encheason it was so named  
In the noble land of Sirrie/ Theridamas was a noble King & mighty & a man of great renomee/ that me called Dioclisian, that well & worthily him governed & ruled through his noble chivalry/ so that he conquered all the lands about him/ so that almost all the Kings of the world to him were entendant/ Hit befell thus that this dyoclisian spoused a gentle damosel/ that was wonder fair that was his emes daughter labana/ and she loved him as reason would/ so that he gate upon her xxxiij daughters/ of the which the eldest me called Albyne/ & these damisels when they come unto age become so fair that it was wonder/ wherefore that this dyoclisian anon let make a somening/ & commanded by his lrens'/ that all the Kings that helden of him should come at a certain day. as in his lrens were contained to make a ryal feste/ At which day thither they comen/ & brought with hem amyrals Princes & dukes, & noble chivalry/ The feast was rially awayed/ & there they lived in joy & mirth enough, that it was wonder to wit/ And it befell thus that this dyoclisian thought to mary his daughters among all the Kings that tho were at that solemnity/ & so they spaken and died that albyne his eldest daughter/ & all her sisters richly were married unto xxxiij kings/ that were Lords of grece honour and of power at this solemnity/ And when the solemnity was done, every King took his wife & lad hem in to her own country/ & there made 'em Queens/ And it befell thus afterward/ that this dame Albyne become so stout & so stern/ that she told little pries of her lord/ & of him had scorn & despite/ & would not done his will/ but she would have her own will in diverse matters/ and all her other sisters everichone bear 'em so evil against her Lords that it was wonder to wit/ & for as much as hem thought that her husbands were nought of so high parage comen as her father/ But though Kings that were her Lords would have chastised 'em with fair speech & behests, and also by yefts/ & warned 'em in fair manner upon all love & friendship that they should amend her lither conditions/ but all was for nought/ for they dyden her own will in all thing/ that hem liked. & had of power/ wherefore though/ xxxiij/ kings upon a time & oft-times beaten their wines for they wend that they would have amended her tatches/ & her wicked thews/ but of such conditions they were/ that for fair speech & warning, they didden all the were/ and for setynges ●…ones moche were/ wherefore the King that had wedded albyne wrote the tatches and conditions of his wife albyn and the letter sent to dioclisian her father, And when the other kings herd that albynes lord had sent a letter to dyoclisian/ anon they sent lrens ensealed with her seals the conditions/ & the tatches of her wives. When the King dyoclisian saw & herd so many plaints of his daughters/ he was sore ashamed/ & byoome wonder angry & wroth toward his daughters/ & thought both night & day if he might tho amend it/ that they so mysdid/ & anon sent his letters unto the xxxiij kings/ that they should come to him/ & bring with 'em her wives everichone at a certain day/ for he would their chastise them of their wickedness/ if he might in any manner wise/ so that the Kings comen all at that day & time that though was set between 'em & the King. Dioclisian hem underfeng with moche honour and made a solemn fest to all that were under his lordship/ & the third day. after this solemnity. the King Dioclisian sent after his xxxiij daughters that they should come & speak with him in his chambre/ & when they were come/ he spa●… unto hem of their wickedness & of her cruelty & despitously hem reproved & undernan/ & to them he said/ if they would not be chasty sed/ they should his love lose for evermore/ & when the Ladies herd all thy they becomen abashed & greatly ashamed. & to her father they said that they would make all amends/ & so they departed out from her faders chambre/ & dame albyn that was the eldest sister lad hem all in to her chambre/ & though made wide all that were therein so that no life was amongs 'em/ but she & her sisters yfere/ though said this albyne, my fair sisters well we known that the king our father us hath reproved shamed & despised for encheason to make us obedient unto our husbands/ but certes that shall I never while that I live/ sith that I am come of a more higher Kings blood than mine husband is/ And when she had thus said all her sisters said the same/ And though said albyne/ full well I wot fair sisters that our husbands have plained unto our father upon us/ wherefore he hath us thus fowlo reproved & despised/ wherefore sisters my counsel is that this night when our husbands been a bed/ all we with one assent cutten her throats/ & than we may been in peace of hem/ and better we may do this thing under our faders power. than else where/ And anon all the Ladies consented and granted to this counseyl/ And when night was come the Lords & Ladies went to bed/ & anon as her Lords were in sleep they cut all her husbands throats. & so they slowen 'em all when that dioclosyan the King her father herd of this thing, he become hugely wroth against his daughters/ & anon would hem all/ have brent/ but all the barons and Lords of firrie counseled not so for to do such sternness to his own daughters/ but only should wide the land of 'em for evermore/ so that they never should come again/ & so he died/ And dioclisyan that was her father anon commanded 'em to go in to ship/ and delivered to hem victuals for half a year/ And when this was done/ all the sistren went in to the ship. and sailed forth in the see/ and betook all her friends to appolyn that was her god/ And so long they sailed in the see/ till at last they come and arrived in an isle that was all will dearness/ And when dame albyne was come to that land/ and all her sisters/ this albyne went forth out of the ship/ and said to her other sisters/ For as moche quoth she as I am the ol 〈◊〉 sister of all this company/ and first this land have taken/ and for as much as my name is Albyne/ I will that this land be called albion after mine own name/ And anon all her sisters granted to her with a good will, though went out all the sisters of the ship/ and token the land albion as her sister called it/ and their they went up and down/ and fond nether man ne woman ne child but wild beasts of diverse kinds/ & when her victual les were dispended and hem failed/ they fed 'em with herbs and fruits in season of the year. and so they lived as they best might/ and after that they took flesh of diverse beasts/ and became wonder fat/ and so they desired man's company and man's kind that hem failed/ & for heat they woxen wonder courageous of kind/ so that they desired more man's company than any other solace or mirth/ when the devil that perceived and went by diverse countries/ & took body of the eyr & liking natures shed of men/ and ●…e in to the land of albion & lay by though women/ and shed tho natures upon 'em/ and they conceived. after they brought forth giants. of the which me called one Gogmagog. and another laugherigan/ and so they were named by diverse/ names/ and in this manner they come forth and were borne horrible giants in albion/ and they dwelled in caves and hills at her will/ and had the land of albion as hem liked unto the time that Brute arrived and come to Totnesse/ that was in the isle of albion/ and their this brute conquered and discomfited these giants above said  
〈◊〉 endeth the prologue of Albyon. that though was an isle & her●…eneth now how brute was gotten/ & how he slow first his mother/ & afterward his father/ and how he conquered albion/ that after he named britain after his own name/ that now is called england after the name of Engyst of Saxon   

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In the noble city of great Troy there was a noble knight/ & a man of great power that was called Aeneas'/ & when the city of troy was lost & destro yed through hem of grece/ this encas with all his main fled thence and come in to lombardy that though was lord and governor of that land a King that was call led Latyn/ and another King there was that was called turocelyne that strongly werrid upon this king latin & oft-times did him much harm/ And when this King latin herd that aeneas was comen/ he underfeng him with moche honour/ & him with held/ for as much as he had herd of him/ & witted well that he was a noble knight & a worthy of his body & of his deeds/ This even as help King latin in his were/ & shortly for to tell so well & worthily/ he did that he slow Turocelyne & discomfited him & all his people/ & when all this was done/ King latin give all that land that was turecelinis to eneas in marriage/ with lauyne his daughter the most fair creature/ that any man wist/ & so they lived together in io●… & murthe all her lives tyme. and after he wedded a wife/ and upon her he bygate a son/ that was called Silueyne/ & this silueyne when he could some reason of man unwyting his father & against his will acquainted with a damosel that was cousin to lauyne/ that was King latynes daughter the Queen/ that was aeneas wife/ & brought the damysel with child/ and when ascamus his father it wist/ anon let inquire of the wisest masters & of the greatest clerks/ what child the damosel should bring forth/ & they answered & said/ that she should bring forth a son that should slay both father & mother/ & so he did. for his mother died in bearing of him/ & when this child was born/ his father le●…e call him Brute/ And the master said that he should do moche harm & sorrow in many diverse places/ & after he should come to great honour & worship. This King ascam●… deyde when god would/ & silueyne his son received the land/ & made him won derlych well beloved among his people/ and when brute that was silueynus son was xv year old/ he went upon a day with his father for to play & solace/ and as this brute should sheet unto an heart his arrow misshaped & glaced/ and so there Brute quelled his father/   

How Brute was driven out of the land/ And how he held him in grece/ Ca/ ij  
And when this mischance befall was the people of the land made sorrow enough/ and were sore an angered/ & for encheason thereof/ they driven brute out of the land/ & would not suffer him amongs hem/ & he saugh that he must not abide/ & went fro thence in to Grece/ & there he fond/ seven/ 〈◊〉 men/ that were of the lineage and kindred of Troy that were comen of great blood as the story telleth as of men and women & children/ the which were all holden in thraldom and bondage of the King Pandras of grece for the death of achilles/ that was bitraid & slain at troy This Brute was a wonder fair man and a strong & huge of his age & of glad cheer and semblant/ and also worthy of body and was well beloved among his people/ This King Pandras heard speak of his goodness and his conditions/ and anon made him duelle with him. So that brute become wonder prive & moche beloved with the King/ so that long time brute duelled with the King/ so at the last they of Troy and brute spaken together of kindred & of lineage and of acquaintance/ and their pleyned hem unto brute of her sorrow and of her bondage and of many other shames that the King paudras had 'em done and to brute/ they saiden upon a time/ Ye be a lord of our lineage. & a strong man and a mighty. be ye our capitain & lord/ and we will become your men/ and your commandementzes done in all manner things/ and bring ye us out of this wretchedness and bondage and fight we with the King/ for thorough the grace of the great god we shall him overcome & we shall make you King of the land & to you done homage/ and of you we shul hold evermore/ Brute had tho great pity of her bondage that they were brought in/ & prevelich went him from the Kings court/ and all though that were of Troy went and put 'em in to woods and in to montaygnes and hem held/ and sent unto King pandras/ that he should give 'em leave savelych for to wend out of the land/ for they nold no longer duelle in his bondage/ The King pandras was though sore an noyed/ & though swore that he would slay 'em everichone/ & ordained a great power. and went towards 'em all for to fight/ but brute & his men manlyche hem defended/ & fiercely fought & slew all the kings men that none of hem escaped and token the King and him held in prison & ordained council between 'em what they might done/ some said that he should be put to death/ & some said that he should be exiled out of the land/ & some said that he should be 〈◊〉. And though spoke a wise knight that was called mempries & said to bru●… and to all though of Tooye/ if kyn●… Pand●…as would yield him and have his life/ I counsell that he give unto Brute that is our duke and our sovereign his daughter Gennogen to a wife and in marriage with her an ninety ships well arrayed and all his treasure of gold & silver of corn & of win/ and as moche as us needeth to have of one thing and other and than go we out of his land/ and ordain we us land elleswher for we ne none of our kindred that comen after us shall never have peace in this land amongs hem of grece/ for we have slain so many of her knights & of her other friends that evermore war and contake should been amongs us/ brute tho and all his folk consented well to that counsell/ and this thing they tolden to King pandras and therefore to have his life granted as much as they axed. and anon gave unto Brute Gennogen his daughter to wife and the ninety ships with as moche as hem needed of all vitayllis as before was ordained/ brute tho took his wife/ and all his men that forsook the land of greece and wenten hem unto the see and hadden wind and weather at wyss/ and comen the third day in to an isle that was called ●…or g●…/ Brute anon sent of his men a land for to aspye the manner of the country/ and they founden an old city all wasted and forlet that na●… therein nether man ne woman/ ne no thing duelling and in the middle of this city they founden an old temple of a fair lady that that called diane the goddess and they comen again unto Brute and told him what they had seen and founden and counseled him to gone and to do sacrifice unto dame Diane. For she was woned to give answer of what thing that ever men prayed her/ and namely unto them that her honoured with sacrifice/ Brute went to that image & said Diane noble goddess lady that all thing hast in might and in thy power/ win des wat●…s woods fields and all things of the world and all manner beasts that there in been to you/ I make my prayer that ye me conncelle & tell where and in what place I shall have a covenable duelling for me and for my people/ and there I shall ma ste 〈◊〉 honour of you a well fair temple and noble/ wherein ye shall evermore been honoured/ when he had done his prayer dy●… n●… answered in this manner Brute quoth she go even forth thy weigh over the see in to france toward the west/ and there ye shul find an ice that is called albion/ & that isle is bycompassed all with the see/ and no man may come therein/ but it been with ships/ & in that ●…ude ●…ere wont to be giants/ but no wit is nat so but all wilderness and that land is to you destenyed and ordained for you and for your people   

How Coryn became brutes man/ And how King Gossar was discomfited Capitulo tercio  
When Brute heard this answer of diane the goddess/ an●…ne he let the anchors wind up and sailed in to the high 〈◊〉 when he and his men had sailed. xx/ days and moo they founden fast beside a cost of the se●… a thousand men of the lineage▪ kindred of Troy/ & her sovereign & her master of all was call led Corin/ And when brute wist whennes they were/ he 〈◊〉 vnderfenge 'em with much joy in to his ships/ & hem lad fo●…th with him. This Coryn though become brutes man/ and to him 〈◊〉 fea●…lte and homage and so long they sailed forth in the s●… till they comen in to gascoyn/ and anon they arrived in the ●…auen of leigers/ and there they dwelled. viij/ days 'em for to rest: hy●… sailles to amend there that it was need/ ●…idyng soon come to ●…ng Goffar that was lord of the land/ how that moche f●…lk of 〈◊〉ge land weren arrived in his land in the haven of l●…gers▪ w●…▪ fore he was sore angered and ano●…ed that they comen & 〈◊〉 in his land without love/ & anon he ordained him a great 〈◊〉 to driven out and to shend brute with his people/ but King goffar was discomfited and all his folk/ & himself fled in to ●…raunce to seek help & succour/ And in that time reigned in france/ ●…n kings▪ & the x●… assembled a great power for to help goffar for to fight against brute/ Goffor duelled with them of france half a year & more/ and brute in the mean time and his company destroyed all the land of gascoyne/ and let take all the tresou●… that King gof far had and let bring it in to his ships/ and this brute fond in that land a fair place and a covenable/ & there Bru●… made a fair castle and a strong/ when that was done King Goffar come froo france/ and x●… Kings with him & broughten xx▪ 〈◊〉. men for to fight with brute and his company/ & 〈◊〉 had but one m & CCCC men/ nevertheless when the two hosts met ●…n to gedre/ brutes folk thorough help of himself & of turin his cousin & of Coryn that well and manlych him defended & fought so that in a little time they had slain of the frenchmen/ ij/ m & more/ And though that were alive fled a weigh. And in this battle Turyn that was brutes cousin was slain and Brute let●…e en●…er worthily him when he had space & leisure in the castle that he had made/ and though let call the castle Tours for the name of Turyne that there was entered/ & yet in to this day there is a noble city that is called Tours/ when King goffar wist that Turin was deed/ he come again with his men & after gave a strong battle unto Brute/ but Brute and his men were so weary o●… fighting that they might no longer endure/ but maugre him & all his/ Brute went in to his castle with all his men and made the yates fast for to save 'em self/ & for to taste counseyl among 'em what were best for to done/ Brute & coryn took counsel & ordained that Co●…n p●…uely should go out & bussh him in a wooed till a 〈◊〉/ So that in the morning when brute should fight with his enemies. Coryn should come with his folk in that one side/ and 〈◊〉/ and done all the harm that he might/ And amorning in the d●…wenynge/ brute went out of the castle and fought with his enemies and they fiercely defended/ but within a little time Brute and his folk slew. viij/ C/ of goffars men/ & tho come Coryn fro the bushment/ and smete to ground he and his compa nigh all that would stand or abide/ so that King Goffar and his folk were discomfited/ and fast they gan to flee. And brute and Coryn with her company fiercely hem poursued and quelled more of 'em in the fleeing than they dieden in battle/ And in that manner Brute had the victory/ and nevertheless brute made much sorrow for his cousin Coryn/ that there was slain/ and for other also that he had lost of his men/ that is to say/ seven/ c/ & x●… the which nobly he let entire in the castle of Tours/ Theridamas that he had entered Turyn his cousin   

How Brute arrived at Totnesse in the isle of albion/ And of the/ battle that was between Coryn/ and Gogmagog Capitulo quarto  
When all this was done/ brute would no longer there duelle for to fight. ne no more lose of his people/ For King Goffayus people might every day increase more and more/ and Brutus' lassen/ and therefore he took all his men. and went unto the see/ & had wind and weather at will/ and the fifth day afterward they arrived in an haven at Totnesse and comen in to the isle of albion and there fond nether man nethir woman as the story telleth▪ but giants/ & they dwelled in hills & in caves/ Brute saw the sonde was fair & at his liking. & good also for him & for his folk as dyane the goddess had him byhyght/ though was brute wonder glad/ and late assemble upon a day all his folk to make a solemn sacrifice & a great fest in honour & reverence of diane the goddess through whose counsel he was comen in to that land/ And when they had her solemnity made/ as they upon a day sat at meet/ there comen in upon 'em suddenly thirty giants/ & slew of brutes men thirty/ Brute & his men anon starten up & fought with the giants & slew 'em everichone/ but one giant that was master of all that was called gogmagog that was stronger and higher than any of the other giants/ & brute kept him & saved his life/ for encheason that he should wrestel with Corin/ for corin was greater & higher than any of brutes men from the gerdelstede upward Gogmagog and Corin undertook for to wrastlyn yfere/ and so together they wrestled long time/ but at the last gogmagog held Corin so fast/ that he broke two rib of his side/ wherefore Corin was sore angry/ & took though gogmagog between his arms & cast him down upon a roche/ so that gogmagog broke all to pieces & so died an evil death/ & therefore the place is called yet unto this day the saute of gogmagog/ and though gave brute all that country to Corin/ and Corin called it after his name cornwall & his men he called Cornewaylles. and so shall men of that country been called for evermore/ And in that country dwelled Corin & his men & made towns & houses & inhabited the land at her will/   

How Brute made london & called this land Brytaygne/ and Scotland Albyne/ and Wales Cambyr/ Capitulo quinto  
BRute and his men wenten forth/ and saw about in diverse places where they might find a good place and covenable/ that they might make a city for him and for his folk/ so at the last they comen by a fair river/ that is called the thamies/ & there brute began a fair city & let call it new Troy in mind & remembrance of the great troy/ from which place all her lineage was comen/ & this brute let fall a down woods/ and let erye and sow lands & done mow medes for sustenance of him & of his people/ & he departed the land to hem/ so that everichone of 'em had a certain place for to duelle upon And Brute let call all this land britayne after his own name and his folk he let call bretons/ And this brute had gotten on his wife Gennogen three sons/ that were worthy of deeds/ the first was called lotryn/ the second albanac/ & the third Camber/ and Brute bare corone in the city of new troy. xx. Year after time that the cite was made/ and there he made the laws that the bretons holden/ and this Brute was wonderly well beloved among all men/ and brutes sons also loved wonderly well together/ And when brute had sought all the land in length and in breed/ he fond a land that joined to britain in the north/ and that land Brute gave to albanac his son & let call it Albania after his name/ that now is called Scotland/ And Brute fond an other country toward the West/ and that gave to cambyr his other son/ and he let call it Camber after his name/ and now it is called wales/ And when brute had reigned/ xx. Year/ as before is said▪ he died in the city of new troy/ and there his son him entered with moche honour/ and lotryn brutes son was crowned King with moche solemnity of all the land of Britain/ & after when he was crowned albanac and camber his two brethren went again in to her own country▪ & lived with mickle honour/ And lotryn her brother reigned and was King and governed the land well & wisely for he was a good man and wonder well beloved of all his land/ And it befell so that Albanak dwelled in his own land with moche honour and worship/ & then came King humbar of hunland with a great power & arrived in albany/ and would have conquered the land/ and began to were upon albanac and him slew in battle/ when Albanac was slain the folk of the land fled unto lotryn/ and told him for he was King of bretayne/ how that his brother was slain and prayed him of help for to avenge his brother's death/  
Lotryne anon let assemble all the Brytons of kent of dover in to derewent of Norfolk and Southfolke of kestefen and of lindsay/ and when they were all assembled they sped fast toward their enemies for to give 'em battle/ Lotrine had sent to Camber his brother that he should come also to him with all the power that he might make him for to help/ and so he did with good will/ and so they comen all to geders/ and took her weigh privily for to seche humbar/ where they might him find/ And so it befell that this humbar was besides a water that was 〈◊〉 great river with his folk/ him for to disport/ and though come Lotryn and camber his brother with all her folk suddenly/ ●…r that any of that other wist/ And when humbar saw 'em come he was sore adread/ for as much as his men witted it not/ & also they were unarmed/ and anon humbar for dread leapt in to the wa●…er/ and drenched himself▪ and so died he/ and his men were all slain that none of 'em escaped/ and therefore is that water called hum bar/ and evermore shall be called thus for encheason that King humbar was therein drenched/  
And after that Lotryne went to his ships/ and took there gold and silver. and as much as he found unto himself/ and all that other pilfre/ he gave unto other folk of the host/ 〈◊〉 they founden in one of the ships a fair damosel that was King humb●…rs daughter/ and was called estrylde/ And when Lotryne saw her he took her with him for her fairness/ & for her was ouert●… with love/ & would have wedded her/ these tidings come ●…o 〈◊〉 ryn/ anon he thought to avenge him upon lotryne/ For as much as Lotryne had made covenant for to spousen Corines dough●…r that was called guentolen/ And Corin in haste went to him unto the new Troy/ and thus said to Lotryne/ now 〈◊〉 quod 〈◊〉 ye reward me full evil/ for all the pains that I suffered and have had many times for Brute your father/ and therefore I will now anenge me upon you/ & dro●…e his falchion an 〈◊〉 and would have slain Lotryne/ but the damosel went between 'em/ & made 'em acorded in this manner. that Lotryne should spo●… see guentolen that was Corynes' daughter/ And so Lotryne did And nevertheless that he had spoused Guentolen Corynes' daughter privily he come to Estryld/ and brought her with child & gate on her a daughter that was called Abren/ Hit befell anon after that Corin died and anon as he was 〈◊〉 Lotryne forsook guentolen his wife/ & made estrylde Queen/ And Guento len went thence all in wrath in to cornwall and seized all the folk/ so at the last they comen by à fair river/ that is called the thamies/ & there brute began a fair city & beat call it new Troy in mind & remembrance of the great troy/ from which place all her lineage was comen/ & this brute let fall a down woods/ and let erye and sow lands & done mow medes for sustenance of him & of his people/ & he departed the land to hem/ so that everichone of 'em had a certain place for to duelle upon And Brute let call all this land britayne after his own name and his folk he let call bretons/ And this brute bade gotten on his wife Gennogen three sons/ that were worthy of deeds/ the first was called lotryn/ the second albanac/ & the third Camber/ and Brute bare corone in the city of new troy. xx. Year after time that the cite was made/ and there he made the laws that the bretons holden/ and this Brute was wonderly well beloved among all men/ and brutes sons also loved wonderly well together/ And when brute had sought all the land in length and in breed/ he fond a land that joined to britain in the north/ and that land Brute gave to albanac his son & let call it Albania after his name/ that now is called Scotland/ And Brute fond an other country toward the West/ and that gave to cambyr his other son/ and he let call it Camber after his name/ and now it is called wales/ And when brute had reigned/ xx. Year/ as before is said/ he died in the city of new troy/ and there his son him entered with moche honour/ and lotryn brutes son was crowned King with moche solemnity of all the land of Britain/ & after when he was crowned albanac and camber his two brethren went again in to her own country. & lived with mickle honour/ And lotryn her brother reigned and was King and governed the land well & wisely for he was a good man and wonder well beloved of all his land/ And it befell so that Albanak dwelled in his own land with moche honour and worship/ & then c●…in King humbar of hunland with a great power & arrived in albany/ and would have conquered the land/ and began to were upon albanac and him slew in battle/ when Albanac was slain the folk of the land fled unto lotryn/ and told him for he was King of bretayne/ how that his brother was slain and prayed him of help for to avenge his brother's death/  
Lotryne anon let assemble all the Brytons of kent of dover in to derewent of Norfolk and Southfolke of kestefen and of lindsay/ and when they were all assembled they sped fast toward their enemies for to give 'em battle/ Lotrine had sent to Camber his brother that he should come also to him with all the power that he might make him for to help/ and so he did with good will/ and so they comen all to geders/ and took her weigh privily for to seche humbar/ where they might him find/ And so it befell that this humbar was besides a water that was 〈◊〉 great river with his folk/ him for to disport/ and though come Lotryn and camber his brother with all her folk suddenly/ ere that any of that other wist/ And when humbar saw 'em come he was sore adread/ for as much as his men witted it not/ & also they were unarmed/ and anon humbar for dread leapt in to the water/ and drenched himself. and so died he/ and his men were all slain that none of 'em escaped/ and therefore is that water called hum bar/ and evermore shall be called thus for encheason that King humbar was therein drenched/  
And after that Lotryne went to his ships/ and took there gold and silver. and as much as he found unto himself/ and all that other pilfre/ he gave unto other folk of the host/ & they founden in one of the ships a fair damosel that was King humbers daughter/ and was called estrylde/ And when Lotryne saw her he took her with him for her fairness/ & for her was overtaken with love/ & would have wedded her/ these tidings come to Coryn/ anon he thought to avenge him upon lotryne/ For as much as Lotryne had made covenant for to spousen Corines dough●…r that was called guentolen/ And Corin in haste went to him unto the new Troy/ and thus said to Lotryne/ now certeo quod he ye reward me full evil/ for all the pains that I suffered and have had many times for Brute your father/ and therefore I will now anenge me upon you/ & drowe his falchion an hyg●… and would have slain Lotryne/ but the damosel went between 'em/ & made 'em acorded in this manner. that Lotryne should spou see guentolen that was Corynes' daughter/ And so Lotryne did And nevertheless that he had spoused Guentolen Corynes' daughter privily he come to Estryld/ and brought her with child & gate on her a daughter that was called Abren/ Hit befell anon after that Corin died/ and anon as he was deed Lotryne forsook guentolen his wife/ & made estrylde Queen/ And Guento len went thence all in wrath in to cornwall and seized all the land in to her hand/ for as much as she was her faders heir/ & underfong fault & homages of all the men of the land/ and after assembled a great host and a great power for to been upon Lotryne avenged that was her lord/ & to him come/ & gave him a strong battle/ & there was lotryne slain/ & his men discomfited thee/ v●…yere of his regne/ Guentolen let take estrild & Abram her daughter/ & bind both hands & feet and cast 'em in to water And so they were drenched/ wherefore that water was evermore called after abram after the name of the damysel that was estril dies daughter. and english men calleth that water Severne and welshmen call it abram in to this day/ And when this was done Guentolen let crown her Queen of that land/ and governed the land full well & wisely unto the time that madan her son that lotryne had beget upon her were of xx winter age that he might be King/ so that the Queen reigned xv year/ & though let she crown her son/ & he reigned & governed the land well & honourably & she went in to cornewayl. & there she dwelled all her life time   

Of King Madan how he reigned in peace all his life/ and of menpries and of Mawlyn his sons/ And how Menprys slow maulyn his brother/ & how wolves drow him all to pieces/ Ca/ uj  
When Madan had reigned thirty year/ he died/ & lieth buried in new troy/ & he had two sons/ that one me called menprys/ & that other maulyn. & these two brethren after her faders death striven fast for the land/ and Menprys for encheason that he was the eldest son would have had all that land/ & maulyn would not suffer him/ so that they token a day of love & accord/ And at this day menprys let quelle his brother through treason & himself afterward held the land/ & anon let crown him King/ & reigned/ & after became so lither a man/ that he destroyed in a while all the men of his land/ & at last he became so wicked and so lecherous/ that he forsook his own wife/ & used the sin of sodo my/ wherefore almighty god was wroth/ & upon him took vengeance. For on a day as he went in a wood a hunting/ he lost his folk/ & went all one up & down crying after his men. and there come wolves/ & all to drow him in to pieces/ when he had reigned xxiv year. And when his people witted/ that he was deed/ they made joy enough/ And anon made ebranc his son King/ and reigned with moche honour/   

Of King Ebranc how he conquered France. and bygate. xx soves/ and twenty-three daughters/  
THis Ebranc reigned ●…x year/ and a strong man was and a mighty/ And this ebranc through his might & help of his bretons conquered all France/ and won there so moche gold and silver/ that when he come again in to his land. he made a noble cite/ & after his name let call it ebranc/ that is called everwik And this King made the castle of maidens/ that now is called Edinburgh/ This King had xx/ sons/ & twenty-three daughters. by die verse women gotten/ & the sons were called/ as ye shall here/ brute grenescheld/ Margand/ Seisel/ Morghwith/ Flengham/ Bladud/ Jakyn/ Kymbar/ Rocelyn/ Spadoch/ Godeherl/ Thormnan Eldaugh/ jozkangut/ Haibor ketin/ Rother kater/ and assaruth And the daughters heighten. as ye shall here after/ Elegyne. ymogen/ Oghdas'/ Guenbran gnardych. Angarel guenthold/ Tangus tell/ Gorgon/ Myckel/ medhan/ maylour. Ondur/ Cambredan. Ragan/ Renthely/ Neest/ Cheghan/ Skaldud/ Gladus/ Herberhin/ abalage/ & Blandan/ & these were though twenty-three daughters/ & the brethren became good knights/ and worthy in many countries/   

Of the King Brute grenesheld the first son of Ebranc the King/ Capitulo/ 8  
AFter the death of King ebranc/ reigned Brute grenesheld his son thirty year/ that was Ebranks first son/ that well & nobly reigned/ And when time came/ he died/ And lieth at york/   

Of King leyl/ Capitulo/ ix  
ANd when Brute grenesheld was deed/ reigned his son 〈◊〉 xxij year/ & he made a fair town/ & let call it Carlylle after his name/ & was a worthy man/ & moche beloved of his people And when he had reigned xxij. Year he died/ & lieth at Caerlyll And in his time reigned King Solomon in I●…in/ & made the noble temple/ and to him come Sibelle/ Queen of Saba for to here and see if It were sooth/ that men spekyn of the great & noble wit and wisdom of king Solomon/ & she fond it soothe that men had her told/   

Of King lud ludybras/ that was King leyles son/ Ca/ x  
ANd after this King leyl reigned/ his son lud ludibras that made the city of Caunterbury. and of wynchestre/ & he reigned twenty-three year/ and died/ & lieth at wynchestre/   

Of King Bladud/ that was ludibras son how he reigned/ & was a good man/ and a necromancer/ Ca/ xj/  
ANd after this. Iud ludibras reigned bladud his son a great necromancer/ and through his craft of necromancy he made the merueyllo●… hot bath/ as the geste telleth. & he reigned xxj year/ And he lieth at new Troy/   

Of King leyr/ and of the answer of his youngest daughter that graciously was married to the King of France/ Ca/ xij/  
AFter this King bladud reigned leyr his son/ and this leyr made the town of leicester/ and let call the town after his name/ & he governed the town well & nobly/ This King leyr had three daughters. the first was called gonoryll. the second Rygan/ & the third cordeyl/ and the youngest daughter was fairest/ & best of conditions/ The King her father became an old man & would that his daughters were married/ ere that he died/ but first he thought to assay/ which of 'em loned him most/ & best/ for she that loved him best/ should best been married/ & he axed of the first daughter/ how moche she him loved. & she answered and said better than her own life/ now certes quoth the father that is a great love though axed he of the second daughter/ how much she him loved/ & she said more & passing all the creatures of the world/ per ma foy qd the father/ I may no more axe/ & though axed he of the third daughter/ how moche she him loved/ certes father quod she. my sisters have told you glozing words. but forsooth I shall tell troth/ for I love you as much/ as I ought to love my father/ & for to bung you more in certain how I love you/ I shall you tell. as much as ye been worth/ so moche shall ye be loved/ The King her father went that she had scorned him/ & become wonder wroth & swore/ by beven & earth she should never have good of him/ but his douhtres that loned him so moche/ should been well advanced/ & married/ And the first daughter he married to maugles King of scotland/ and the second he married to havemos Earl of cornwall and so they ordained & spoke between 'em that they should depart the royalme between hem two after the death of King leyr her father/ so that Cordeill his youngest daughter should no thing have of his land/ but this Cordeyl was wonder fair/ and of so good●… conditions and manners/ that the King of France agampe herd of her speak. and sent to the King leyr her father for to have her unto his wife/ & prayed him thereof/ and King leyr her father sent him word that he had departed the land unto his two daughters and said he had no more land wherewith her to maryens/ And when agampe herd this ansner he sent anon again to leir and said that he axed no thing with her/ but only her/ clothing and her body/ & anon King leyr sent her over the see to the King of feaunce/ And he received her with moche worship/ and with moche solemnity her spoused/ and made her Queen of France/ How King leyr was driven out of his land through his folly/ and how Cordeyll his youngest daughter halp him in his need/   

Capitulo xiij  
THus it fell afterward that though ij eldest doughtre●… would not abide till leyr her father was deed/ but warrayed upon him/ whiles that he lived. & moche sorrow and shame him did/ wherefore they bynome him holy the royalme/ & between 'em ordained that one of hem should have King leyr to foiourne all his life time with xl knights and squires that he might worshipfully gone and ride whither that he would in to what country that him liked to play and to solace. So that managles' King of Scotlond had King leyr with him in the manner/ as is above said/ and or other half year were passed/ Corneill that was his eldest daughter and qnone of scotland was so annoyed of him and of his people/ that anon she and her Lord spoke together/ wherefore his knights half & his squires from him were gone. & no ●…o lest but only/ thirty/ & when this was done/ leyr began for to make moche sorrow for encheason that his estate was impaired/ and men had of him more scorn & despite/ than ever they had bifore/ where for he nyst what for to done/ and at last thought that he weld wend in to cornwall to Rygan his other daughter/ and when he was come/ the Earl and his wife that was leyres' daughter him welcomed/ & with him made moche joy. & there he dwelled with thirty knights and squires/ And he ●…ad nought dwelled their scar silly xij months that his daughter of him nas full & of his company/ & her lord/ & she of him had scorn and despite. so that from thirty knights they broughten unto x/ and afterward five/ and so there left with him no more/ though made he sorrow enough & said sore weeping/ Alas that ever he come in to that land/ and said/ yet had me better to have dwelled with my first daughter/ And anon went thence to his first daughter/ but anon as she saw him come she swore by god and his holy names/ and by as 〈◊〉 as she might that he should have no more with him but one knight if he would there abide. though began leir again to weep/ & made much sorrow & said though/ alas now to long have I lived that this sorrow and mischief is to me now fall/ for now am I pourer that some time was rich/ but now have I no friend ne styn that me will do any good/ But when I was rich all men me honoured and worshipped/ and now every man hath of me scorn and despyde/ And now I wot well that Cordeyll my youngest daughter said troth when she said as much as I had so moche should I be by loved/ and all the while that I had good. Though was I beloved and honoured for my richesses, but my two daughters glossed me though/ & now of me they set little pries and soothe told me Cordeyll/ but I would not believe it/ ne understand/ & therefore I let her gone fro me/ as a thing that I set little pries of, & now woe be I never what for to done/ sith my ij daughters have me thus deceived/ that I so much loved. & now moat I needs sechen her that is in another land that lightly I let her gone fro me with out any reward or yefors/ & she said that she loved me as much as she ought to love her father by all manner of reason/ & though I should have aid of her no more/ and though that me other wise behyghte●… through her false speech now me have deceived. In this manner leir long time began to make his moan, & at last he shope him to the see/ & passed over in to France/ & asked & espied where the Queen might be founden/ and men told him where she was/ And when he come to the city that she was in/ privily he send his squire unto the Queen to tell her that her father was comen to her for great needs/ & when the squire was comen to the qnene/ he told her every deal of her sisters from the beginning unto th'end/ Cordeyl the Queen anon took gold and silver plenty. & took it to the squire in council that he should gone & bear it vuto her father & that he should go in to a certain city/ & him arayen Latin & washen. & than come again to her/ and bring with him an honest company of knights xl at lest with her main/ & than he should send to her lord the King/ & sayn that he were come for to speak with his daughter and him for to seen/ & so he did, & when the King and the Queen heard that they comen with moche honour/ they him resseyned. And the King of france though let send through all his royalme and commanded that all men should be entendant to King leyr the Queens father in all maver of thing as it were to himself/ when King leyr had dwelled there a month & more/ he told to the King and to the Queen his daughter/ how his ij eldest daughters had him served/ agampe anon let ordain a great host of france. and sent it in to britayne with leyr the queens father for to conquer his land again & his kingdom/ & cordeil also come with her father in to britain for to have the royalme after her faders death/ And anon they went to ship, & passed the see and come in to Britain/ & fought with the felons/ & hem discomfited & slew/ And though had he his land again/ & after lived iij year/ and held his royalme in peace and afterward died and cordeyl his daughter him let entire with mickle honour at leicester   

How morgan and Conedage that were neveus to Cordeyll warred upon her/ and put her in to prison/ Ca/ xiv/  
When that King leyr was deed/ cordeyl his youngest daughter held and had the land v year/ & in the mean time died her lord agamp, that was King of France/ & after his death she left wydue/ & though came morgan, & conedage/ that were Cordeyl sisters sons/ & to her she had enemyte for as much as their aunt should have the land/ so that between hem they ordained a great power and upon her warrayed greatly/ and never they rest till they had her taken & put her unto death/ and though morgan and Conedage seized all the land/ & departed it between hem, & they held it/ xij year And when though xij year were goon there began between 'em a grete debate/ so that they warrayed strongly yfere/ & every of 'em did other moche disease/ For morgan would have had all the land fro beyond humbar, that conedage held/ But he come against him with a strong power/ so that morgan durst not abide/ but fled away in to wales/ and conedage pursued him, & took him/ & slew him/ Tho come conedage again/ and seized all the land in to his hand/ and held it/ and reigned after xxxiij year/ and though died/ & lieth at new Troy/   

How Reynold that was Conedages son reigned after his father/ And in his time it rained blood iij days in tokening of great death/ ca xv  
ANd after this Conedage reigned Reynold his son a wise knight/ & an hardy & curteis that well & nobley governed the land. & wonder well made him beloved of all manner of folk & in his time it rained blood, that lasted iij days as god would/ & soon after there come great death of people/ for hosts without number of people fought till they were deed/ whereof no man might have ne let, till that almighty god thereof took mercy and pity and though 'gan it cese & this reinold reigned xxij year & died & lieth at york   

How Gorbodyan reigned in peace that was Reynolds son/ & after he died & lieth at york/ ca xvi  
AFter this reynold reigned Gorbodyan his son, xv year/ & died & lieth at york/   

How Gorbodyan had ij sons/ & how that one slew that other for to have the heritage, & how ydoyne her mother slew that other. Wherefore the land was destroyed, Ca/ xvij  
When this gorbodyan was deed his ij sons that he had/ becomen stout & proud and ever warrayed together for the land/ that one was called ferres and that other porres/ and this far res would have all the land. but that other would not suffer him Ferres had a felons heart and thought through treason to slay his brother/ but privily he went in to france and their abode with the king Siward till upon a time when he come again and fought with his brother porres/ but full evil it happened though/ for he was slain first/ when ydoyne her mother witted that porres was deed/ she made great sorrow for encheason that she loved him more than that other & thought him for to slay privily. & prinely she come to her son upon a night with two knives/ & therewith cut his throat/ and the body also in to small pieces/ who herd/ ever such a cursed mother that slew with her own hands her own son/ & long time after last the reprove & shame to the mother that for encheason of that one son murdered that other/ & so lost hem both   

How four Kings courteously held all britain/ and which been her names. Ca/ xviij/  
When the two brethren were so deed they had left behind hem nether son ne daughter/ ne none other of the kindred that might have the heritage/ & for as much as the strongest men dri nen and scomfited the feeblest/ and token all her lands/ so that in every country they had great war & strife under 'em but among all other things there were amongs 'em in the country that over come all though other/ and through her strength & might they token all the lands/ & every of 'em took a certain country/ & in his country let call him King & one of 'em was called scatter/ and he was King of scotland/ & that other was called dawallyere/ & he was King of loegers and of all the land that was lotrinus'/ that was bru●…es son/ the third was called rudac/ & he was King of wales/ & the iiij was called Cloten, & he was King of cornwall/ but this Cloten should have had all the land by reason/ for there was no man that wist none so rightful heir as he was but they that were strongest set little by 'em that were of lass estate & therefore this cloten had no more land among 'em than cornewail   

Of King donebaud that was clotes son/ & how he had won the land Ca/ nineteen  
THis Cloten had a son that was caylld donebaud that after the death of his father become an hardy man & a fair & ●…r to is/ so that he passed althe Kings of britain of fairness & of worthiness/ And anon as he was knight, he wist well. When that his father lived/ he was most rightful heir of all the land & should have had by reason/ but other Kings that were of more strength than he bynome him his land/ & afterward this donebaud ordained him power, & first he conquered all the land of logi ers/ & after he would have conquered all scotland/ & Wales & scatter came with his men and give him battle/ and rudac come again with his walshmen for to help him/ But so it be fell that rudac was slain and scatter also in plain battle. & so donebaud had the victory, & conquered all the land/ and well maintained it in peace & in quiet that never before it was so well maintained,   

How donebaud was first King that ever wered crown of gold in britain, Ca/ xx.  
THis donebaud let make him a crown of gold, and wered the crown upon his heed as never King did before/ & he or deigned a statute that had a man done never so much harm/ & he might come in to the temple. Should no man him misdo, but goon therm safe & in peace/ & after goon in to what country that he would without any harm, & if any man set any hand upon him ●…e than should lose his life/ And this donebaud made the town of malmesbury/ & the town of the vice/ And when he had reigned well & worthily xl year he died and lieth at new Troy/   

How Brenne & belyn departed between 'em the land after the death of donebaud her father/ and of the were/ Ca xxj  
ANd after that this donebaud was deed his sons that he had departed the land between hem as her father had ordained so that belyn his eldest son had all the land of britain on this half humber/ & his brother burn had all the land from humber unto scotland/ but for as much that belyn had the better part/ brenne therefore wax wroth & would had more of the land. & belyn his brother would grant him no more/ wherefore contak & were aroos between hem two, but burn the younger brother bad no might ne strength against belyn/ & therefore brenne through counce●…l of his folk went fro thence in to norwey to the King olsynges & pra id him of help & succour for to conquer all the land upon belyn his brother upon that covenant that he would have his daughter to wife & the king olsinges him granted/ belin anon as his brother was go to norwey he seized in to his hand all the land of nurthumberland and took all the castles/ & let hem array & keep the costs of the see that burn should not arrive in no side/ but that he were take/ The King olfynges let assemble a great host & delivered his daughter to Brenne and all the people that he had ordained/ & this danusel samye had long time loved a King that was called gut laghen/ & to him she told all her counseyl/ how that burn should her have & her lead with him for evermore. & so he should lose her but that she might forsake Brenne/ and when gutlach had herd this tiding/ he lay for to aspye burn with as many ships as he might have/ so that the two fletes metten to guider & long time fought/ so that burn & his ships turned again & were discon fited/ & King gutlach took samye/ & put her in to his ship/ and brenne shamefully fled thence/ as a man discomfited/ And gutlagh would have went in to his own country/ but there come upon him a great tempest/ that v days lastid/ so that through that tempest he was driven in to britain with. iij, ships & no moo/ & though that kept the costs of the see token gutlach & samye/ & all his folk & hem presented to belyn/ and belyn put 'em in to prison/   

How Belyn droof out of this land King gutlach of Denmark & Samyee Ca, xxij  
HIt was not long after/ that brenne ne come again with a greet navy/ & sent to his brother belyn/ that he should yield again his land his wife and his folk/ and his castles also/ or else he would destroy his land/ Belyn dread no thing his menace/ and would no thing done after that he said/ wherefore brenne come with his folk/ & fought with belyn/ & burn was discomfited & his folk slain/ & himself fled with xij men in to France/ and this belyn that was brennes brother went tho to york and took counsel what he might done with King gutlach/ For King gutlach proffered to become his man & to hold his land of him yielding by year a thousand pound of silver for evermore/ & for sikerness of this covenant to behold/ gutlagh should bring him good hostages/ & to him should done homage and all his folk. and yet should swear upon the book that these covenants school de never be broke ne falsed/ Belyn though by connseylle of his folk granted him his asking/ And so gutlagh become his man & beling underfeng of him his homage by oath and by writing the same covenants/ And upon these covenants King gutlagh took samye & his folk/ & went thence & turned again to denmarc evermore after were the covenawntes holden, & the truage paid till the time that hones●…s was King of denmark, & also of this land through his wife gyldeburgh/ that she had spoused/ for she was the right heir of this land/ This belyn dwelled tho in peace & worshipfully him held among his barons/ & he made iiij real ways/ one from the east in to west/ and that was called watling street/ & another from the north unto the south that was called Ikelmestrete/ & two other ways he made in bossing thurghout the land. that one is called fossae, & that other fossedyke, and be maintained well the good laws/ that Donebaud his father had made and ordained in his time/ as before is said/   

How accord was made between burn and belyn through cor newen her mother/ Ca/ twenty-three  
BRenne that was belynus brother had long time dwelled in france. & there had conquered a great lordship through marriage/ For he was Duke of burgoyne through the daughter of the duke Fewyn that he had spoused/ that was right heir of the land/ & this burn ordained a great power of his folk and also of France/ and come in to this land for to fight with belyn his brother and belyn come against him with a great power of Bretons & would tho have yenen him battle/ but her mother Cornewen, that though lived had herd that that one brother would have destroyed that other/ & went between her sons and hem made acorded with moche pain. So at the last the two brethren with much bliss went together in to great Troy/ that now is called london and there they dwelled a year/ and after they took her counseyl for to gone conquer all france. & so they dieden, and brent towns & destroyed the land both in length & breed, & the King of france gave hem battle with his power but he was overcome & gave truage unto belyn/ & to his brother/ And after that they wenten forth to Rome/ & conquered rome & all lombardy, & germany/ & took homage & fault of Earls, bawns/ & of all other/ & after they come in to this land of britain, & dwelled with her britons in joy and rest, and though made burn the town of bristol. and sith he went over to his own lordship, & there dwelled he all his life and belyn dwelled at new Troy/ and there he made a fair gat●… that is called belingesgate after his own name, & when this belin had reigned nobly xj year he died & lieth at●… new T●…oye/   

How King Cormbatu●…s slew the King of denmark for enche son that he would not pay him his truage/ Ca/ xxiv  
ANd after thy belyn/ reigned his son cormbatrus a good man & a worthy. & the King of denmark would not pay him his truage. that is to say a/ m/ pound/ as he had sworn by oath for to pay it/ &. also by writing recorded to belyn his father/ where for he was evil paid & wroth & assembled a great host of britons & went in to denmark & slow the King gutlach/ & brought the land in subjection all new. & took of folk feautes & homages & after went again in to his land/ and as he come forth by orkeney he fond/ thirty/ ships full of men & women besides the cost of the see/ & the King axed/ what they were/ a Earl that was master of 'em all courteously answered unto the King & said that they were exiled out of Spain/ & so that they had travailed half a year & more in the see to wy●…n/ if they might find any King in any land/ that of hem would have pity or mercy to give 'em any land in any country. Wherein they mighten duelle & have rest/ & become his lyege men/ & to him would do homage & feaul●… whiles that he lived/ and to his heirs after him/ & of his heirs holden that land/ & when the King this herd/ he had pity of 'em/ and gave hem an isle all wilderness/ there that no man was dueling safe only wild beasts/ and th'earl thanked much the King & become his man/ & did him homage & fault/ & took all his folk and went in to the same isle/ & the Earl was called Irlamal/ & therefore he let call that land ireland after his own name/ The King Cormbatrus come again in to this land/ & reigned xxv year/ and after he died & lieth at new Troy/   

How the King guentholen reigned in goodness & well governed the land all his lives time/ Ca/ xxv/  
ANd when Cormbatrus was deed reigned guentolen his son a man of good conditions & well beloved/ & he governed the land well & wisely/ & he reigned xxuj year/ & after died/ & lieth at new Troy/   

How King seysel reigned and well governed the land after Guentolen/ Ca/ xxuj/  
ANd after this Guentolen reigned his son S●…ysel well and worthily/ & well governed the land/ as his father had done before him/ and he reigned xv year/ and died/ & lieth at new Troy/   

How kymor r●…gned after seisel his father/ & he bygate howan that regued after. Ca/ xxvij  
ANd after seysel reigned his son kymor well & nobly. xiy/ year in peace/ & howan his son x year/ and died/ & lieth at Ikaldoune/   

How King morwith died through meschaunce through a best for his wickedness Ca/ xxviij  
AFter this Howan/ reigned morwith & become wicked & so stern till at the last great vengeance come to him/ for as he went upon a time by the see side/ he met a greet beast that was black and horrible & hideous & he went that it had be a whale of the see & bent an arblast & would have slain that best with a 〈◊〉 rell. but he might not smite him/ and when he had shot all his quarrels/ the be'st anon come to him in a great hast/ & him 〈◊〉 ured a life/ and so he died for his wickedness through 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of god after that he had reigned nine year/   

Of Grandobodyan that was morwiths' son that made 〈◊〉 town of cambridge/ Ca/ xx●…/  
AFter this morwith was deed the britons crowned grād●…dy an his son. & this grandobodyan long time reigned in g●…nes. & made temples and towns/ & this grandobodyan made 〈◊〉 town of cambridge/ & the town of granthan/ & was well ●…oued of rich & pour/ for he honoured the rich▪ & help the pour/ this grandobodyan had iiij sons/ Arthogayl/ besidur/ higam●… & 〈◊〉 titur/ & when he had reigned xj year he died/ & lieth at new 〈◊〉   

Of Artogaill. that was grandobodyanus son how he was ●…a de King & sith put a down/ for his wickedness/ Ca/ 〈◊〉  
AFter Grandobodyan reigned hi●… son artogayll v year/ and he become so wicked and so stern/ that the b●…ns would not suffer him to be King/ but put him a down/ and made Hesydur his brother King. & he become so good & mer●…able/ that men him called King of pity/ And when he had reigned v year/ he had so great pite of his brother artogayll/ that was King before/ & anon he forsook his dignity. and took his brother the crown a●…ne & made him King against all the briton●… will/ & afterward artogayll become so good of condition. that he was well beloved of all the lo●…de/ for he become so debonayr & free/ & did right & ●…son to all manner of men/ & he reigned uj year & died & lieth at g●…nthā   

How Hesidur was made King after the death of Artogayll his brother Ca/ xxxj  
AFter the death of Artogayll the britons crowned an other time Hesidur▪ but his two brethren higamus & petitur hadden of him great despite/ and eke scorn & ordained 'em help for to were upon the King her brother. and so they token him and put him in to prison the second year of his regne/ and they departed all britain between hem both/ but higamus lived but seven year/ and though had petitur all the land/ and he made the town of pykering   

How the britons nomen hesydur out of prison and made him King the third time/ Ca/ xxxij.  
ANd when this petitur was deed britons took anon yet hesy dur/ and made him King the third time/ and though reigned he 〈◊〉 peace xiv year/ and after he died and lieth at Carleyll/   

How xxxiij Kings reigned in peace each after other after the death of hesydur. Ca xxxiij  
AFter the death of hesidur reigned xxxiij Kings every after other in peace/ & without any long wryeng. I shall tell 'em all and how long each of h●…m reigned/ as the story telleth/ the first King of the xxxiij was called gerbodya/ and he reigned xij year/ and after him reigned morgan ij year/ and after him reigned cighnns uj year/ and after him reigned Idwalan viij year/ and after him reigned rohugo xj year/ and after him reigned wghen xiij year/ and after him reigned catil xv year/ and after him reigned por 〈◊〉 ij year/ and after him reigned cheryn xvij year/ and after him reigned coil xij year▪ and after him reigned sulgenis xiv year/ and after him reigned 〈◊〉 xx year/ and after him reigned andragye xviij year/ and after him reigned urian v year/ and after him reigned e●…ud ij year/ and after him reigned eldagan xv year/ and after him reigned claten xij year/ and after him reigned Quyrgunde viij year/ and after him reigned mortan uj year/ and after him reigned ble●…ch iij year/ and after him reigned caph one year/ and after him reigned Gen ij year/ and after him reigned seysel & King bled xxij year/ and King tabreth xj year/ and archival xiv year/ and grol thirty year/ and Rodingu xxxij year/ and hertir v year/ and hampir uj year/ & carpour seven year/ and digneyll iij year/ and samuel xxiv year/ and ●…de two year/ and ely seven ●…monethes/ and this ely had three sons/ lud cassibalan and enemyon/   

How lud was made King after the death of ely his father/ Capitulo xxxiiij  
AFter the death of h●…ly reigned Iud his son and governed well the land & much honoured good folk & tempered & amended wicked folk/ This lud loved more to duelle at troy/ than in any other place of the land▪ wherefore the name of new troy was left and though was the city called ludstone. but the name is changed through ●…aunce of lrenz & now is called london/ & this King made in the city a fair gate/ & called it ludgate after his name and the folk of the city heat it loundres/ & when he had reigned xj year/ he died/ & lieth at london/ & had two young sons Andragen & Tormace/ but they could nether speak ne go for youngth/ & therefore the britons crowned a strong knight that was called cassibelan that was Ludd's brother/ and made him King of britain/   

How the britons granted to cassibalan that was ludes brother the land in whose time In●…us cesar come twice for to ●…nquere the land/ Ca xxxv  
AFter the death of King lud reigned his brother cassibalan. & become a good man & moche beloved of his britons/ so that for his goodness & courtesy they granted him the royalme for ever more to him & to his heirs. & the King of his goodness 〈◊〉 norissh worthily both sons/ that were lud his brothers & after made the eldest son Earl of cornwall▪ & that other Earl of london▪ and while this King cassibalan reigned come Inlius cesar that was Emperor of rome in to this land with a power of romans and would have had this land through strength/ but cassibalan overcome him in battle through help of britons & drofe him out of his land/ & he went again to rome/ & assembled a great power another time/ & come again in to this land for to give battle to cassiba lan/ but he was scomfited through strength of the britons/ & through help of the Earl of cornwall & th'earl of london his brother and through help of gudian King of scotland & corban King of north wales & of bretaill King of South-Wales/ & in this ba●…ile was slain nennon/ that was cassibelans' brother/ wherefore he made much sorrow/ & so went julius cesar out of this land with a few of romans that were left alive/ And though cassibalan went again to london/ & made a fest unto all his folk that though had him ho●… & when that fest was done/ each man went in to his own country   

Of the debate that was between cassibalan/ & ther●…e of london and of the truage that was paid to Rome/ Ca/ xxxuj/  
ANd after it befell thus upon a day that the gentil●…ē of 〈◊〉 kynge●… household and gentlemen of the Earls household of london after meet went in fere for to play/ and through debate that a●…os among hem enelyn that was th'earls cousin of london slew ●…renglas that was the kings cousin/ wherefore the King swore that enelyn should ●…en hanged/ but th'earl of london that was enelinus lord would not suffer it/ wherefore the King was wroth toward th'earl & thought him to destroy/ & p●…uely th'earl sent lr●…s to julius cesar that he should come in to this land for to help him & him avenge upon the King & he would help him with all his might/ And when th'emperor heard this tiding/ he was full glad/ & ordained a strong power & come again the third time in to this land/ and th'earl of london halp him with seven m men/ & the third time was Cassibelan overcome at discomfyted and made peace to the themperonr for iij m pound of silver yielding by year for truage for this land for evermore & half a year passed/ the Emperor went to rome/ and the Earl of london with him/ for he d●…rst not abide in this land/ and after Cassiba lan reigned xvij year in peace/ & though he died the xvij year of hy●… regne/ and lieth at york/   

How Lords of the land after the death of Cassibalan for encheason that he had none heir/ made Andragen King/ Ca/ xxxvij  
AFter the death of cassibalan for as much as he had none heir of his body/ the Lords of the land by common assent crowned Andragen Earl of cornwall/ & made him King/ & he reigned well & worthily/ & he was a good man/ & well governed the land/ & when he had reigned viij year he died & lieth at london/   

Of kymbalyn that was Andragenys son a good man and well governed the land/ Ca/ xxxviij  
AFter the death of Andragen reigned kymbalyn his son that was a good man & well governed the land in moche prosperity & peace all his life's time/ and in his time was born I●…u cr●…st our saviour of that sweet virgin mary/ This King kym ●…lyn had ij sons guider/ & armoger good knights & worthy And when this King kymbalyn had reigned xxij year/ he died and lieth at london/   

Of King guider that was kymbelynus son would not pay the ●…age to rome for the land that cassibalan had granted/ & how he was slain of a roman. Ca/ xxxix  
And after the death of this kymbalyn reigned guider his so ne a good man & a worthy/ & he was of so hig●…e heart that he would not pay to Rome that t●…age that King Cassybalan had granted unto Inlius cesar/ wherefore the Emperor that was though that was called claudius c●…sar was sore annoyed. & ordained a great power of romans/ & come in to this land for to conquer the truage through strength and have it of the King But the King guider and Armager his brother gathered a gre●… host y ●…ere of britons/ and gave battle to th'emperor claudius/ and slew of romans great plenty/ Thempero●…r had afterward one that was called hamon that saw that her people were fast slain/ preue●…ych he cast away his own arms/ and took the arms of a deed briton/ and armed him with his armure▪ and come in to the battle to the King and said in this manner/ sir 〈◊〉 ye good of heart for gods love for the romans that been your enemies anon shul be slain and discomfited everichone/ & the king gave no keep ne reward to his speech for encheason of the arms that he had upon him/ & went that it had been a briton/ but the traitor ever held him next the King/ and privily under the shoulders of his arms he smote the King/ wherefore he was deed & fell down to the earth/ when armager saw his br●…der deed/ he cast away his arms/ and took to him his brothers arms/ & come in to the battle among the britons/ and had 'em heartily for to fight and fast lay a down the romans/ and for the arms they weened it had be King guider/ that erst was slain that they witted not Thenne gone the britons heartily fight & sl●…w the romans so at the last th'emperor forsook the field/ & fled as fast as he might with his folk in to the city of wyn●…stre/ and the falls traitor hamon that had slain the King fast anon 'gan for to flee with all the haste that he might/ And Armager ●…he kings brother pursued him full fiercely with a fierce heart and droof him unto a water/ and their he took him. and anon smote of both hand heed & feet/ and hew●… the body all to pieces. and though cast him in to the water/ wherefore that water was called hamons haven and afterward there was made a fair town that yet standeth that is called southampton/ and afterward armager went to wynchestre for to seek claudius cesar the Emperor/ & there armager him took/ & claudi us the Emperor. through counsel of his romans/ that with him were left alive made peace with armager in this manner as ye shul here. that is to say/ how that claudius th'emperor should give to armager gennen his fair daughter for to have to wife/ so that this land f●…o that time afterward should be in t●…ēperours power of rome upon such covenant that never af●…ward none empero●…r of rome should take none other tr●…ge of this land/ but only fea●… & so they were acorded/ And upon this covenant claudius cesar sent to rome for his daughter gennen/ & when she was come clau dyus cesar give her to armager to wife/ and armager spoused her at london with moche solemnity & mirth/ & though was armager cronned and made King of britain/   

Of King Armager/ in whose time saint peter preached in anty oche with other apostles in diverse countries/ Ca/ xl/  
THis King armager reigned well and worthily/ & the land governed. & claudius cesar in remembrance of this accord & for reverence & honour of his daughter made in this land a fair town & a fair castle/ & let call the town after his name claucestre/ that now is called gloucestre/ And when this was all done th'emperor took his leave/ & though went again to rome/ & armager though was King & governed the land well & nobly all his life time And this Armager got a son on his wife that was called westmer/ And whiles that this armager reigned saint peter preached in antioch/ & there he made a noble church. in which he sat first in his chair. & there he dwelled seven year and after he went to Rome & was made pope/ till that nero the Emperor let him martrens/ & though preached openly all the apoostles in diverse lands the right faith/ And when Armager had reigned xxiv year/ he died/ and lieth at london/   

How King westmer give to Berynger an island forlet/ and their this berynger made the town of Berwyk/ Ca/ xlj/  
ANd after this Armager/ reigned his son westmer a good man & a worthy of body & well governed the land/ Hit befell so that tiding came to him on a day. that the King Roderick of gascoyne was come in to his land with a huge number people/ and was duelling in staynesmore/ & when King Westmer heard though tidings. he leete assemble an huge boost of britons/ & come to the King roderyk/ & gave him battle/ & King westmer slew roderik with his own hands in plain battle/ & when king roderykes men saw that her lord was deed/ they yoleden hem all unto the King westmer/ & becomen his men for evermore/ & he give 'em a country that was forleten/ wherein they might duelle/ & thither they went & dwelled there all her lives time/ & ix/ c/ men there were of 'em/ & no more left at that battle/ her governor & prince was called berynger/ and anon he began a town that they might there in duel/ & have resort & let call the town berwyk vp●…wede & there they dwelled/ and became rich/ but they had no women amongs hem/ and the Britons would not give her daughters to the strangers/ wherefore they wit over see in to ireland/ & brought●… with hem women/ & though hem they spoused/ but the men could not understand the language ne the speech of the women. & therefore they spoken together as Scots/ and afterward through changing of her languages in all feaunce they were called the Scots/ and so. shullen that folk of that country for evermore/   

How King westmer let arere a stone in the entering of west merland there that he slow roderik/ and there he began first housing Capitulo xlij/  
ANd after this battle that is above said when roderik was deed/ King westmer in remembrance of his victory let are●… there besides the weigh a great stone an high/ and yet it stant and evermore shall stand and let grave in the stone lrens that thus said/ The King westmer of britain slew in this place Roderick his enemy/ and this westmer was the first man that made town and house in england/ and at that stone beginneth westmoreland that westmer let call after his own name/ & when westmer had so done he dwelled all his life's time in that country of westmerlond/ for he loved that country more than any other country/ And when he had reigned xxv year/ he died and lieth at Carleylle/   

Of King coil that was westmers son. that held his land in peace his lives time/ Ca/ xliij/  
AFter this King westmer reigned his son coil a good ●…ā and a worthy and of good conditions and well goverued his land/ and of all men he had love and peace/ and in his time was never contaek/ debate ne were in britain/ and he reigned and was King in peace all his lives tyme. and when he had been King xj year he died and lieth at york/   

How King lucy reigned after coill his father/ that was a good man/ and after he become christian/ Ca/ xliiij  
AFter King coil regued lucye his son that was a good man to god and to all the people he sent to rome to thapposthe enlenthere that though was pope. & said that he would become a cristem man/ and receive the baptism in the name of god and turn to the right believe/ eul●…there sent ij legates that were called pagan and elybayn in to this land/ and baptized the King and all his main/ and after went fro town to town. and baptized the people till all the land was baptized. and this was in the C luj year after th'incarnation of our lord ihu christ/ and this King lucy made tho in this land ij archbishops/ one at canterbury/ an other at york/ and other many Bishops/ that yet be in this land/ & when these two legates had baptized all that land/ they ordained priests for to baptize children/ & for to make the sacrament/ & after they went again to Rome/ & the King dwelled in his land & reigned with much honour xij year/ and after died and lieth at gloucester   

How this land was long without a King/ and how the bretons chosen a King/ Ca/ xl/  
THis King lucy had none heir of his body begotten that was afterward great harm & sorrow to the land/ For after this King lucyes' death/ none of the great of the land would suffer an other to be King/ but lived in were/ & in debate amongs hem/ L year without King/ but it befell afterward that a great prince come fro Rome in to this land that me called savoury nought for to were/ but for to save the right of Rome/ but nevertheless he had not dwelled half a year in this land that the Britons ne slew him when they of Rome wist that seuerye was so slain/ they sent another great Lord in to this land that me called Allec/ that was a strong man and a mighty of body/ & dwelled in this land long time/ & did moche sorrow to the britons so that after for pure malice they chosen 'em a King amongs 'em that me called astlepades/ & assembled a great host of Britons & went to london to seche allec/ there they founden him/ & slew him & all his felaus & one called walon defended him fiercely. and fought long with the britons/ but at last he was discomfited/ & the britons took him. and bond hands and feet and cast him in to a water/ where for that water afterward was called evermore walbroke. Though reigned astlepades in quiet till one of his Earls that me called coil made a fair town against the Kings will/ and let call the town colchestre after his name/ wherefore the king was full wroth and thought destroy th'earl/ and began to were upon him and brought great power/ & gave battle to th'earl & th'earl defended him fiercely with his power/ and slow the King himself in that battle/ & though was coill crowned/ & made King of this land/ This coil reigned and governed the royalme well and nobley/ for he was a noble man & well beloved among the britons/ when they of Rome heard that astlepodes was slain they were wonder glad and sent another great Prince of romans that was called constance/ and become to the King coil for to challenge the truage/ that was woned to be paid to Rome/ and the King answered well and wisely/ and said that he would pay to Rome all that right & reason would with good will/ And so they acorded tho with good will/ and without any contak/ and both they dwelled to geders in love/ The King Coyll give his daughter Eleyn to Constance/ for to have her to his spouse/ that was both fair. Wise/ and good/ & well lettred/ And this Constance spoused her there with moche honour/ And it befell soon afterward that this King coil died in the xere of his reign xiij/ and lieth at Colchestre entierd/   

Of King Constance that was a Roman that was chosen King after the death of coil. for as much that he had spoused eel in/ that was King coil's daughter/ Ca/ xluj  
AFter this King coil/ Constance was made King and crowned. for as much that he had spoused King Coiles daughter that was heir of the land/ the which Constance reigned well and worthily governed the land/ and he bygate on his wife Eleyn a son that was called Constantin/ & this King bore true faith and truly did to hem of Rome all his life/ and when he had reigned xv year he died/ and lieth at york.   

How Constantin that was King Constances' son. and the son of saint elyn governed and ruled the land. and was Emperor of Rome. Ca/ xlvij  
AFter King Constances' death/ Constantyn his son/ and the son of saint eleyn that fond the holy cross in the holy land and how Constantyn became Emperor of Rome/ Hit befell so 〈◊〉 that tyme. there was an Emperor at Rome a saracen a ●…unte that was called maxence/ that put to death all that believed in god & destroyed holy church by all his power/ & slough all christian men that he might find/ And among all other he let martre saint katherine & many other Cristen people/ that had dread of death/ that fled and come in to this land to King Constantin/ and told him of the sorrow that maxence did to Crystente/ where for Constantin had pite and great sorrow. made. and assembled a great boast/ and a great power/ and went over to Rome. and took the city/ and slew all that therein were of misbelieve/ that he might find/ And though was he made Emperor/ and was a good man/ & governed him so well/ that all lands to him were attendant for to been under his governaylle/ And this devil tirannt maxence that time was in the land of Grece/ and heard this tiding/ he become wood/ and sodenlych he died/ and so he ended his life/ when Constantin went fro this land to rome. he took with him his mother eleyne for the moche wisdom. that she coude/ & three other great Lords that he most loved/ that one was called hoel/ another was called daberne. and the third morhyn/ and took all his land to keep unto th'earl of cornwall/ that was called Octavian/ And anon as this octavian wist/ that his lord was dwelling at rome/ he seized all the land in to his hand/ and their with did all his will among high & low/ & they held him for King when this tiding come to Constantyn th'emperor/ he was wonder wroth toward the Earl Octavian/ & sent tavern with xij M men for to destroy the Earl for his falseness/ and arrived at portesmouth/ And when Octavian wist that/ he assembled a great power of britons/ and discomfyted tavern/ and tavern fled thence in to Scotlland/ and ordained there a great power/ & come again in to this land another time for to give battle to Octavian/ when Octaivan heard tell/ that he assembled a great power/ & come toward tavern/ as moche as he might/ so that the two hosts metten upon steynesmore/ and strongly smote together/ & though was oc taivan discomfited and fled thence in to Norwey/ and tavern seized all the land in to his hand/ towns/ castles/ as much/ as they there had/ And sith Octavian come again fro Norwey with a greet power/ and seized again all the land in to his hand/ and drofe out all the romans/ and was though made King and reigned   

How Maximian that was the emperors cousin of rome spoused octavians daughter & was made King/ Ca/ xlviij/  
THis King Octavian governed the land well & nobly/ but he had none heir save a daughter/ that was a young child that he loved as much as his life/ & for as much that he wax sick/ & was in point of death/ & might no longer regne/ he would have made one of his neveus to have been King/ the which was a noble knight/ & a strong man that was called conan meridock & he should have kept the Kings doughtir & have married her when time had been/ but the Lords of the land nold not suffer it/ but gave her council to be married to some high man of great honour. and than might she have all her lust/ And the council of th'emperor acorded thereto/ & at this counsel they acorded & chose though cador of Cornwall for to wend to the Emperor/ & do this message/ and he took the weigh/ and went to Rome/ and told the Emperor this tiding well and wisely/ & the Emperor sent in to this land with him his own cousin/ that was his uncles son a noble knight and a strong that was called maxymyan/ and he spoused Octawians daughter. and was crowned King of this land/   

How maximian that was the emperors cousin conquered the land of Armorican/ and gave it to Conan merydoc/ Ca/ xl●…x  
THis King maximian become so rial/ that he thought to couquere the land of Armorican for greet riches that he heard tell that was in that land/ so that he ne left man that was of worthiness/ knight sqnyer ne none other man that he ne took with him to great damage to all the land/ for he left at home behind him no man to keep the land/ but took 'em with him froo this land thirty/ M. knights/ that were doughty men's bodies/ and went over in to the land of Armorican/ and there sl●…w the King. that was called Imbal/ and conquered all the land/  
And when he had so done/ he called Conan/ & said/ For as much as King octavian have you made King of britain▪ and through me ye were let and distourbled that ye were not King I give you all this land of armorican/ & you there of make King And for as much as ye been a briton and your men also/ and by come fro britayne/ I will that this land have the same name and no more Armorican/ but be called little britain/ and the land fro whence ye been comen. Shall be called moche britain/ And so shall men know that one britain fro that other/ Conan Meridok thanked him hendly/ and so was he made King of little britayne.  
And when all this was done/ maximian went thence to Rome/ and was though made Emperor after Constantin Conan Meudock dwelled in little britayne with moche honour/ & let ordain two thousand ploughmen of the land/ for to cry the land to ●…r we it/ & saw/ and feffed 'em richly after that they were/ And for as much as King Conan and none of his knights/ ne none of his other people would not take wife's of the nation of France he though sent in to great britain to th'earl of cornwall tha●… me called dyonothe that cheese through out all the land xj M of maidens that is to say viij M for the mean people/ & iij M for the greatest Lords that should hem spouse. & when dionoth vnderder●…g this commandment he let seek through all great britain as many as the number can to for no man durst withstand his commandments/ for as moche do all the land was take him to ward and to keep, to do all thing/ that him good liked/ And when all the maidens were assemblyd/ he let hem come before him to london, & let ordain for 'em ships hastily/ as moche as hem needed to that viage and took his own daughter that was called ●…rsula/ that was the fairest creature/ that any man wist/ and would have sent her to King Conan, that should have spoused her. & made her Queen of the land/ but she had made privily to god a w●…e of chastise/ that her father wist not/ ne noman elles/ that was living upon earth   

How ●…rsula & xj M virgins, that were in her company went toward little britayne/ & all were martyred at Coleyne/ Capitulo quinquagesimo  
THis ●…rsula cheese unto her company xj M maidens/ that of all other she was Lady & mistress/ & all they went in to ship at one time in the water that was called the thamyse, and commanded her kin/ & all her friends to almighty god/ and say led toward little britain/ but when they were come in to the high see/ a strong tempest aroos/ as it was gods will/ And ●…rsu la with her ships and her company were driven toward hund land through tempest/ and arrived in the haven of the city of coloyne/ The King of the land that was called gowan was tho in the city/ And when he wist the tiding/ that so many fair may dens were there arrived/ he took Elga his brother and other of his household with him. & went to the ships to seen that fair company/ and when he saw 'em so fair/ he & his company would have onerlayne hem/ & bytake from 'em her maidenhead/ but ●…rsula that good maid counciled/ prayed/ warned/ & taught 'em that were her fellows/ that they should defend 'em with all her might/ & rather suffer death/ than suffer her body to be defouled/ So that all though maidens become so steadfast in god/ that they defended 'em through his grace/ so that none of 'em had power to done 'em any shame/ wherefore the King gowan wax so sore annoyed. that he for wrath let slay 'em everichone anon right/ & so were all though may dens martyred for the love of god/ and lain at Coleyn.   

How King gowan come for to destroy this land/ & how a man of great power/ that was called gracian defended the land/ Capitulo quinquagesimo primo/  
When all this was done, King Gowan that was a saracen called his brother elga/ and said to him/ that he should go to conquer the land that all though fair maidens were in borne, And he ordained though a great power of ●…ehytes of denmark/ of or koney, & of norwey. And they come in to this land/ and brent towns/ & slew folk/ and cast a down churches/ and houses and rest gyon/ & rob the land in length & breed/ & put to death all that would not forsake the right believe and cristendome/ for as much as there was no sonerayne that might hem help, For the King Maximian had taken with him all the worthy men he went to con quere little britaine/ And in the same time/ that ye here now ●…lle was saint albone martyred through the wode tyrant dyoc●…sian in the same place/ where is now an abbey made of saint Albone/ whiles that he was a paynim, But he converted him to God, through the predication of a clerk & a wise man/ that was called An●…l/ that was lodged a night in his house, And this was after the incarnation of Ihu criste cc xxuj year/ And men sh●…e understand that saint albone suffered his martirdeme before that saint edmond was martyred/ And her for saint Albone is called the first martyr of england/ this Gowanes brother and high 〈◊〉 that were saracens went thurghoute the land/ and destroyed all thing that they found/ and no thing they ne spared/ when this tiding came to Rome/ how that King gowan had begun for to destroy this land/ the Emperor & they of Rome sent a strong man and of great power that was called gracian with xx●…ij M men well fighting for to cast out sarasenes out of this land/ and all they arrived at portesmouth/ Maximian might not come himself/ for as much as he was chosen Emperor after the death of Constantin that was saint eleynes son. When this gracian ●…e arrived with his host/ he let espy privily/ where the King go wan might be found/ and he come upon him suddenly as they say in her beds/ and discomfited him/ & slew hem in her beddes●… verychone/ that none of 'em escaped safe Gowan that fled with moche sorrow in to his country/ soon after it befell that maximian was slain at Rome through treason/ And when gracian witted that tiding he let crown him King of this land.   

How gracian made him King. When maximian was slain and afterward the britons slew him for his wykkednes/ Ca lij  
THis gracian when he began to regne/ he become so wys●…sted and so stern & so much sorrow did to the britons that they slow him amongs hem/ Tho the King Gowan had understand that Gracian was slain and done to death/ he assembled a great power & come again in to this land/ & if he had erst done harm/ though did he much more/ for though he destroyed all this land/ & the christian people that was in moche britain/ so that no man was so bardye for to name god/ And he that so did anon he was put to strong death/ But the Bishop of london that was though that was called gosselyn scaped/ and went thence to them of Rome to seche succour to help destroy the sarazens' that had destroyed this land/ And the Ro mains said that they had be so oft amnoyed for her sending after folk in to britayne all for to help the brytons, and they would no more so done/ And so the Bishop gosselyn went thence without any succour or help/ And though went he to the King of little britaine that was called Aldroye. & this was the third King after Gowan merydoc/ as before is said/ The Bishop prayed this King Aldroye of help and succour/ The King had great pity in his heart when he had herd how the Bishop fled/ and how the Cristen men were slain in great britayne through paynims and sarazens'. he granted him Constantin his brother him for to help with power of folk/ and hem died array horse armure and ships & all thing that hem needed to that viage/ And when all thing was ready/ he called the Bishop and to him said/ I take you here to help and succour Constantin my brother upon this covenant that if god give him grace the paynims & the sarazens' to shend and discomfit/ that than ye make him King/ And the Bishop it granted with good will, Constantin and the Bishop took leave of the King Aldroye/ and betook him to god. & took her men xij M & went to her ships/ & sailed toward great Britain and arrived at Cotnesse/ when the britons herd the tidings/ that to hem come succour/ they were strongly helped. and ordained 'em an huge number of people and come to hem/ and under feng 'em with much honour, Gowan anon as he witted of these things he assembled all the sarazens' & come against 'em/ & gave hem battle, and Constantin slow him with his own hands. And all though other saracens were discomfited and slain, that none escaped but though that were converted unto god.   

How Constantin that was the kings brother of little britain was crowned King of moche Britain for his worthiness/ Capitulo quinquagesimo tercio/  
anon after the battle they went to london/ and crowned there Constantin/ & made him King of this land and the Bishop Goselyne set the crown on his heed & anointed him as falleth to a King for to be/ ●…and though began Crystendeme This King Constantin when he was crowned anon after he spou said his wife through council of the britons/ & he bygate three sones on her/ the first was called Constance/ that other Aurilambros/ and the third ●…ter. Constance the elder brother when he came to age/ he made him a monk at wynchestre/ Constantyn her father was slain through treason/ for it be fell on a time that a 〈◊〉 come to him upon a day in message as it were & said that he would speak with the King privily in council/ The King let wide his chamber of the men that were within/ & there abode no more but the King and the pehyte/ & made a countenance as though he would have spoke with the King in his ere/ and there he slew him with a long knife/ and after went queyntely out of the chambre in to another chambre/ so at the last no man wist/ where he was become/ when the kings main wist that her lord was so deed/ they made so moche sorrow/ they nyst all what to done/ for as much as his two sons Aurilambros and ●…ter weren so young that none of hem might be King/ & the third brother was monk at win chestre/ as is afore said/ But ●…ortiger that was Earl of wes●…seye thought privily in his heart through quaintise to be King and went to wynchestre there that Constance was monk and to him said/ Constance said he your father is deed/ & your two b●…rtheren that been with Goselyn the Bishop of london to nourish been so young that none of hem may be King/ wherefore I council you that ye forsake your abyte and come with me/ and I shall done so to the Britons that ye shall be made King/   

Of Constance that was King Constantine's son/ that was monk at wynchestre/ and how he was made King after her fathers death through counsel of ●…ortiger that was Earl of westsexe for as much as Aurilambros and uter his two brethren w●… but young of age/ And ●…ortiger let slay him to be King himself. Capitulo liiij/  
THis ●…ortiger counseled this Constance so much till he forsook his abbot/ and went with him/ And anon after he was crowned and made King by assent of the britons/  
This King Constance when he was crowned and made King he witted ne knew but little of the world/ ne could nothing what knighthood axed. he made ●…ortiger his chief master. & council l●…r, & gave him all his power for to do ordain/ & to do as much as to the Royame's appertained/ so that himself no thing entermelled, but only bore the name of King/ when wrtiger saw that he had all the land in his ward & governayl at his own will/ he thought a prive treason and to slay Constance the King/ that he might himself been crowned & made King and regne/ and let send after an ninety knights of pehytes the worthiest of all the land/ and hem held with him to duelle with him as to been kep●…rs of his body/ as he would wend through the land to ordeyg ne things that appertained to a King/ And this vortiger honoured so much the hond●…rd knights. & so much gave hem of gold and silver/ & so rich jewels. robes/ horse/ & other things plenty/ wherefore they held him more lord than they did the King/ and vortiger told 'em if he most be King ye as it were through treason he would make 'em richest of the land/ so at the last through great yef●…s that he had give largely/ they cried through the court that ●…ortiger were better worthy to be King than Constance/ wherefore ●…ortiger made semblant as he had been wroth/ & departed thence. fro the court and said he must gone else whither for thing that he had to done, and so the traitor said for encheason that they should slay him that is to say. constance/ when this vortiger was go ne it be fell soon after that though hundred knights of pehytes break the doors of the kings chambre, & there they him slow and smitten of his heed/ and bare it to ●…ortiger, there that he dwelled/ and when vortiger saw that heed, he wept full tenderly with his eye/ And nevertheless he was somedeal glad of his death/ And anon let take the ninety knights of ●…ytes. and bind her hands be hind hem and led 'em to london/ and there they were dampened to the death as false traitors/ And anon after all the britons of the land by common assent crowned vortiger/ and made him King of the land/   

How the wardens that had though two children to keep that were Constantine's sons lad 'em to little Britain for the treason & falseness of ●…ortiger Capitulo quinquagesimo quinto/  
THis King vortiger when he was crowned/ they that had the two children in keeping Aurylambros & Uther through ordy nance of Gosselyne/ that was Bishop of london at his death durst not duelle in the land with the children/ but lad hem to the King of little britain/ for as moche, as he though wist of the treason of ●…ortiger that though was made King/ through whom constance her brother was slain/ wherefore the hundred knights of pehy●…s were put to death/ and bearen all the blame/ as that vortiger had not wist there of neither there to consented/ And so the keepers of the two children dread lest Mortiger would put 'em to death through his treason and falseness/ as he had done her brother before/ And therefore they were led over in to little Britain, and the king hem received with moche honour/ and leete 'em to nourish/ And there they dwelled till they become fair knights/ and strong and fires/ and thought to be avenged upon the death of Constance her brother when they saw her time/ and so they did/ as ye shall here tell afterward/ Hit was not long after that the tidings ne come over see to the kindred of though hundred knights of peh●…s/ that were dampened and put to death through vortiger in this land therefore they were wonderly wroth and sworen that they would been avenged of her kins death/ and comen in to this land with a great power/ and rob in many places/ and slow and did all the sorrow that they might/ when Mortiger it witted, he made moche sorrow and was sore annoyed. And in another place also tidings came to him/ that aurilambros and ●…ter his brother or deigned and assembled a great host for to come in to moche Britain/ that is to say in to this land to been avenged upon Constance her brother's death. So that in one half and in that other he was brought in to so moche sorrow that he ne wist whydder to wend   

How Engyst and xj thousand men come in to this land to whom vortiger gave a place that is called thongcastell/ Ca/ ●…vj  
ANd soon after this sorrow tiding come to vortiger that a great navy of strangers were arrived in the country of kent But he wist not whence they were, ne wherefore they were come in to this land/ The King sent anon a messenger thither that some of hem should come and speak with him for to wit what folk they were. and what they axed/ and in to what country they would gone/ there were two brethren masters and princes of that strong company/ that one was called Engyst/ & that other horse/ Engyst went to the King/ and told him encheason wherefore they were there arrived in his land/ And said/ Sir we len of a country that called is saxon that is the land of germayne/ where 〈◊〉 is so moche so●…we that of the people ●…e so much/ that the land may not hem sustain/ The masters and princes that have the land to govern and rule make to come be fore hem men and women that boldest been among 'em for to fight and that best may travail in to diverse lands/  
And so they shul 'em give horse and harnoys/ Armu●… and all thing that hem needeth/ And after they shall say to 'em that they gone in to another country/ where they mo●…e lyven as her ancestors' died before hem. And therefore s●…re King if ye have aught to do with our company. we be come in to your land & with good will you will serve and your land keep help and defend from your enemies/ if that you needeth▪  
When wrtiger heard this tiding/ he said he would gladly hem with old upon such cou●…nant/ if they might deliver his land of his enemies/ he would y●…ue 'em reasonable lands/ where they should duelle for evermore/ Engyst thanked him goodly/ & in this manner he & his company with x●… M should dnelle with the King ●…r tiger/ and so much they did through her ●…oldenesse that they delivered the land clean of his enemies/ though prayed Engyst the King of so much land/ that he might make to him a city for him & for his main/ The King answered▪ it was not for to done without council of his britons/ Engyst prayed him eftsoons of as much place as he might compass with a thong of a skin▪ whereupon he might make him a manner/ and for him to duelle on/ And the King granted him freely▪ thomas took engyst a bull skin and cut●… it as small as he might all 〈◊〉 to a thwonge all round▪ and therewith compassed he as much land/ as he made up a fair castle And when this castle was made/ he let it call thwongcastel/ For as much as the place was marked with a thwonge▪   

Of Ronewen/ that was Engystes daughter/ & how the King Mortiger spoused her for her beauty/ Capi●… quinquages●…mo septimo/  
When this castle was maked/ and full well a●…ayed/ Engyst sent by letter p●…nely in to the country/ that he came of after an ninety ships filled with strange men that were bold and well fighting in all battles/ & that they should b●…nge with 'em Ronewen his daughter that was the fairest creature▪ t●…at any man might see▪ And when the people was come that he had sent after▪ he took 'em in to the castle with moche joy/ And himself went upon a day unto the King/ and prayed h●…m there worthily that he would come/ and see his new manner/ that he had made in the place that had he compassed with a thong of t●…e skin/ The King anon granted it him freely▪ and with him went thither/ and was well apaid with the castle/ and with the fair work▪ and to geders there they eaten and drunken with moche ●…ye And when night come that the King Mortiger should gone in to his chambre for to take there his night rest/ Ronwen that was Engistes' daughter come with a coupe of gold 〈◊〉 her hand/ and kneeled before the King/ and said to him wassaylle/ and the King witted not what it was to mean/ ne what he should answer/ for a●… moche as himself/ ne none of his Britons yet could none Englyssh speaken. ne understand it/ but speaken though the same 〈◊〉 that Britons yet done/ nevertheless a latymer told the King the full understanding there of ●…assaylle/ and that other should answer drink haylle And that was the first time that wassail and drink haylle come up in this land/ and from that ●…me unto this time/ it is well used in this land▪ The King Mortiger saw the fairness of this Ronewen/ 〈◊〉 his arms laid about her neck/ & thrice sweetly kissed her/ & anon right he was enamoured upon her▪ that he desired to have h●… to wife/ and asked of Engist hi●… fad●…/ And En●…yste graun●… him upon this conenaunt that the King should give him a●…e 〈◊〉 country of kent that he might duelle in and his people▪ The King him granted privily with a good will. and anon after he spo●… said the damosel that was much confusion to himself/  
And therefore all the britons become so wroth for 〈◊〉 that he had spoused a woman of misbelieve/ wherefore they went all from him/ and no thing to him took keep/ n●… help him in thing that he had to done/   

How Mortimer that was Mortigers son was made King/ and Engyst driven on●…/ and how Mortimer was slain/ Capitulo lviij/  
THis Engyst went in to kent/ and seized all the land in to his band for him▪ & for his men▪ and become in a little while of so great power/ and so much people had that men wist not in little time/ which were the kings men/ and which were engystes men/ wherefore all britain had of him dred●…▪ and said among hem/ that if they ne took other counsel between hem all the land should he betrayed through engyst and his people/ Mortiger th●… King had bygoten on his first wife three sons▪ the first was called Mortimer/ that second Cartagren▪ and the third passent/  
The britons everichone by one assent chosen Mortimer to be her lord and sovereign▪ and her counsellor in every battle & crowned him and made him King. & would suffer Mortiger no longer to regne for encheason of the alliance between Engyst and him/ The Britons ordained a great host to drive out Engyst & his company of the land. & gave him three battles/ that first was 〈◊〉 kent there he was lord/ the second was at ●…edford/ And the third was 〈◊〉 a shire a this half cool in a more/ And in this battle hem met Cartagren & horse Engystes brother so that each of 'em slew other/ but for as much as the country was yeven long before to horn through vortiger/ though he had spoused his cousin there he had made a fair castle that me called hornecastel after his own name/ And Mortimer was so annoyed for his brother's death Cartagren that he was deed in such manner/ wherefore anon he let fell the castle to ground/ And after that he ne lest night ne day till he had driven out engyst and all his people of the land/ And when engist was driven away▪ ronewen his daughter made sor●… we enough and quentelyn spoke to 'em that were next the King Mortimer▪ and pryvyest with him/ & so much she give him of gifts▪ that he was enpoisened and died at london the fourth year of his ●…gne/ and there he lieth/   

How the Britons chosen another time Mortiger to ●…en her King/ and Engyst come in to this land again▪ and they fought together/ Capitulo/ Lix/  
AFter Mortimers death/ the Briton●… by her common assen●… ●…ones made vortiger her King upon this covenant/ that he sho●… 〈◊〉 never after suffer engyst/ ne none of his eftsoons to come in to this land. And when all this was done▪ Ronewen the Queen privily sent by letter to engyst▪ that she had enpoysened 〈◊〉 and that Mortiger her lord again ●…are the corone/ and reigned▪ & that he should come in to this land well arrayed with moche people/ for to avenge him upon the britons/ and to win this land again/ And when Engyst herd this tiding/ he made great joy/ and appareled him hastily with xv M men▪ that were doughty in every battle▪ and come in to this land▪ And when Mortiger heard tell that engyst was come again with a great▪ power in to this land/ he assembled his britons▪ and though went against Engyst for to have give him battle/ and his folk/ But Engyst dread him sore of the Britons/ For they had discomfited him before/ and had driven him out by strength/ wherefore En gyst prayed a love day/ and said/ he was not comen in to this land for to fight/ but for to have his land again/ if he might 〈◊〉 with the britons/ & of hem have grace/ The King vortiger through council of his Britons granted a love day/ & thus it was ordained through the britons that the same love day should behold fast beside salisbury upon an hull/ And Engyst should ●…me thither with four ninety knights wit●…ute more/ And the King with as many of the wisest of his land/ And at that day the King come with his council as it was ordained/ But Engyst had warned his knights privily. and hem commanded/ that every of hem should put a long knife in his hose/ And when he say fair sire's/ now is time to speak of love & ●…es every man a●… none should draw his knife and slay a briton/ & so they slew a thousand & lxj of knights/ & with moche sorrow many of hem escaped. And the King Mortiger though himself was take/ and lad to th●…oncastel/ and put in to prison/ and some of Engystes men would that the King had ●…e bren●… all quick/  
And Mortiger though for to have his life/ granted 'em as much as they would ask. and gave up all the land/ towns/ Caste●…s cities and Burghes to Engyst/ and to his folk/ And all the britons fled thence in to wales▪ and there they held 'em still  
And Engyst went through the land▪ and seized all▪ the land with franchises/ and in every place let cast a down churches and houses of religion/ and destroyed Crystendome through the land/ and lee●… change the name of the land/ that no man of his were so hardy after that time/ to call this land britayne/ but call it Engystelande/ and he departed all that land to his men/ & there made seven Kings for to strength the land/ that the britons should never after come therein/ the first kingdom was kent there that Engyst himself reigned and was lord and master over all the other/ Another King had southsexe/ that now is ●…ychestre/ the third King had westsex. the fourth King had Estsexe. The fifth King had estangyll/ that now is called norfolk/ Southfolk/ Merchemerych/ that is to say/ the earldom of nychol/ The sixth had leycestreshire. Northhampton shire/ Hertford/ & huntyngdon/ The seventh had oxenford/ gloucestre. wynchestre▪ warwick. and der●…y shire▪   

How vortiger went in to wales/ and bygàn there a castle▪ that▪ would not stand without mortier tempered with ●…de/ Ca lx/  
When Engyst had departed all the land in this manner bitwe ne his men/ he delivered Mortiger/ out of prison/ and suffered him freely to gone▪ whereout that he would/ and he took his wey●…▪ & went in to wales/ Theridamas that his britons dwelled/ for as much as that land was strong and wicked to win. And Engyst ne ver come their ne knew it never before that land/ Mortiger held him therewith his britons/ and axed council/ what him was best all for to done/ And they give him counsel to make a strong castle that he might himself therein keep and defend/ if need were/ mason's in haste though were fet and began the work upon the hill of B●…ygh/ But certes thus it befell/ all the work that the masons made a day/ a down it f●… a night▪ and witted not what it might been. & there of the King was sore annoyed of that chance. & wist not what to done/ wherefore he send after the wisest clerk●…s & also lered men/ that weren through out wales/ that might be found/ For they should tell/ wherefore the fundament so failed under the work. and that they should him tell what was best to done And the wisest men long time had studied they said to the King that he should done ●…ke a child borne of a woman that never ha●… with man to done And that child ●…e should slay and tempre with his blood the mortier of the work and so should the work ever endure without end/   

How the King let seek merlyn through all wales for to 〈◊〉 with him/ Capitulum/ lx●…/  
When the King heard this/ he commanded his messengers anon to wend through out all wales/ to seek that child/ if they might him find/ and that they should bring him forth with hem unto him/ and in record and in witness of this thing he had take 'em his letter/ that they ne were distourbled of no man/ ne let/ And though the messengers went thence and sped so ●…aste that they come in to a town that was called Carmardyne And as they passed forth her weigh▪ they founden two Children/ of xxiv year age chyden together. with hasty words▪ and one of hem said to that other/ 〈◊〉 quod he/ ye done all wrong to chide or strive with me/ For ye have no wit ne reason as I have/ Certes merlyn quoth he/ of your wit ne of your reason/ I make no force/ for men tellyn commonly/ that ye have no thing of god almighty/ sith ye had never father▪ but every man knoweth well/ who is your mother/ The messengers of the King Mortiger when they heard this strif between these two grooms/ they ●…xed of 'em that stood besides/ whence that merlyn was borne/ & also who him norysshe●…/ & the folk him told/ that a gre●… gentle woman him bare in Carmardyne that was called Adhan. But ne ver might man wit/ who might be the child's father/ when the kings messengers heard this tiding/ they went anon to him that was warden of the town. and told him the Kings will/ and his letter showed him▪ wherefore they were come thither. Merlin and his mother anon were send before the war●…yne of the town. and he commanded hem/ that they should gone to the King/ as it was ordained by his messengers/ Merlin and his mother went thence▪ and comen unto the King/ and there they were underfong with moche honour/ and the King axed of ●…at lady▪ if that child were her son/ and who him byga●…▪ The Lady answered full tenderly weeping/ and said she had never company of man worldly But sir quoth she as I was a young maiden in my faders chambre/ and other of great lineage were in my company/ that of●…ntymes were wont to play and to ●…o▪ lace/ I beleft alone in my chambre▪ an●… would nat gone out for brenning of the son▪ And upon 〈◊〉 there come a fair ba●… ler/ & entered in to my chamber their 〈◊〉 alone. but how 〈◊〉 come in to me/ & where▪ I wist it n●… 〈◊〉 wot it not▪ for t●… doors were fast ba●… & with me he did ●…me of love for I ne had might ne power ●…ym to defend fro me/ & oft he come to me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 foresaid manner/ so that he bygate this child/ but n●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wit what he was   

Of the answer of merlyn wherefore the King ayed/ why his work might not stand/ that he had begun ner prove/ Ca/ Lxi●…  
When merlyn had herd all that his mother had said/ spoke to the King in this manner. Sire, how I was begotten▪ ay ye no more, for it falleth nought to you, ne none other to wit/ but tell me encheason wherefore I am to you y brought, and wherefore ye have sent after me/ Certes quoth the King/ my wise counceisours have me done to understand that the mortier of a work that I have begined behoved to be tempered with your blood/ or the fundament shall fail for evermore, sire quod merlyn would ye slay me for my blood for to tempre with your mortier-ye quoth the King or else shall never my castle stand/ as my counselors done me understand/ though answered merlyn to the King/ sire he said let hem come before me tho wise counselors/ and I will prove that they say not weal ne truly/ And when the wise were y com●… merlyn axed if his blood were encheason to make the wert stand and endure, all these wise were abashed/ & could not answer/ merlyn though said to the King/ sire/ I shall tell you then cheson wherefore your work thus falleth and may not stand/ there is under the mountain there that ye have begun your tour a gr●… pond of water/ and in the bottom of the pond under the water there been two dragons that one white that other reed that fighten together against your work Do ye mine deep till your men come to the pond and doth your men take a way the water all out & than ye shall see the d●…gons as I have you told that together fight against your work And this is the encheason ●…trs wherefore the fundament faileth/ The King anon le●… dig under till that men come to that pond and let done away at that water & there they found two dragons/ as merlyn had told that egrely fo●… ghten to geders/ The white dragon eagerly assailed the reed▪ and laid on him so strongly/ that he might not endure/ but withdro we him/ & rested in the same cave/ And when he had a while rested/ he went before. and assailed the reed dragon angrily. & 〈◊〉 de him so sore, that he might not against him endure/ but withdro we him/ & rested/ And ●…r come again the white dragon/ & strongly fought with the ●…ed dragon/ and boat him eu●…/ & him overcome that he fleygh th●…/ and no more ●…me again/   

Of the signyfycation of the two dragons that were in the ●…t tom of the pond/ that fought together/ Ca/ lxiij  
This King Mortiger and his merry that fought this battle had great marvel/ and prayed merlyn to tell him what it might betoken/ sir quod merlyn I shall you tell/ The reed dragon betokeneth yourself/ and the white betokeneth the folk of saxony that first ye toast/ and held in this land that no we fighten against you, and you have driven and enchased/ But britons of your lineage overcomen 'em/ & driven 'em a weigh and sythe●… at the coming again of the saxons they recovered this land/ & ●…de it for evermore/ & driven out the britons and did with this land her will/ & destroyed cristendome through out this land/ She had first joy with her coming/ but now it▪ is turned to you great damage & sorrow/ For though two brethren of Constance/ that was King/ the which ye let slay/ shall come before a quynzyeme passed with a great power from little 〈◊〉 & shall avenge the death of her brother. & they shall burn you first with sorrow/ And after they shall slay a great party of saxons & shul out drive all the remnant of the land. & therefore abide ye here no longer to make castle/ ne none other work/ but anon go else where your life all for to save to god/ I you by●…ke for troth/ I have said to you of thing that shall byfall. And understand well that Aurilambros shall be King/ but he shall be en poisoned/ and little time regne/   

Of King Aurilambros how he pursued Mortiger & engyst/ & how they dieden. Ca/ lxiiij/  
OErlyn and his mother departed fro the King/ & turned 〈◊〉 to karmardyne/ And so after tiding come to the Briton●… that Aurilambros and ●…der his brother were arryned at Totnesse with a great host. & the britone anon assembled 'em. and went to underfonge Aurilambros and ●…ter with great noblesse, and lad 'em to london/ and crowned there aurilambros/ and made him King/ and dieden to him homage/ And he axed. Where vortigr that was King might be found/ for he would be avenged of his brother's death/ and after he would were upon paynims/ And they told him that vortiger was in wales/ & so they lad him thiderward/ vortiger wist well that the brethren come him to conquer/ and fled thence in to a castle that was called gerneth/ that stood upon a high mountain/ and there him held/ Aurilambros & ●…r his brother and her fol●… had besieged the ●…stel full ●…g time, For the castle was strong and well arrayed/ So at the last they cast wyldefyre/ And brent 〈◊〉 and men and all her array/ and as much as was within the castle/ So that vortiger was brents among all other/ & so died he with moche sorrow though was Engyst in kent/ and reigned there/ and herd this tiding and anon fled and would have gone in to scotland for to have had succour. but Aurilambros & his men met with him in the Northcountry/ & gave him battle, & engyst & his men hem defended whiles that they might/ but he and his folk were discomfited/ and slain/ And Otta his son fled unto york. And Aurilambros him followed eagerly/ Otta a little while against him stood but afterward he put him to his mercy/ And Aurilambros vnderfenge him/ & to him & his men he give the country of gale weigh in Scotland. & there they dwelled/ The King Aurilambros went though through out the land/ & put away the name of Engysteland that engist after his name had called it before/ though let he it call again great, britayne/ & let make again churches houses of reli gyon/ castles cities & burghes & towns that the saxons had destroyed/ & come to london. & let make the walls of the city/ which eugist & his folk had cast a down// The britons led him to the mount of Anbrian/ where sometime was an house of relygis on, that though was destroyed through painyms, whereof a knight was called Anbry/ that sometime was founder of the house/ & therefore the hill was called the mount of brian/ and after was called Ambresbury and shall for evermore/   

How Aurilambros died redress the land of great britain that was destroyed through saxons/ Ca, lxv/  
HOw the King Aurilambros let amend and redress the house of Amlesbury/ and therm put monks/ but now there be nuns a little from the place/ that was called Salysbury/ Theridamas though the saxons slew the britons/ where Engyste & he should have made a love day, in which time there were slain a/ M. lxi knights through treason of engyst/ The King thereof had great pity/ and thought to make in mind of him a monument of stone/ that might endure to the worlds end. And of this thing they toast her counceill/ what there of was best for to done. though spaste to the King the Bishop of london that was called Ternestyn that he should inquire after merlyn/ for he could best tell how this thing might be made/ & merlyn after was sought & solid. & come to the King/ & the King told him his will of the monument that he would have made/ though answered merlyn to the King and said there been great stones in Irland and long upon the hill of kydn that men called giants kawll. and if they were in this place as they been there/ here they would endure for evermore in remembrance of the knights that here been entered/ ●…r ma foy quod the King as hard stones be in my land as in Irland soothe quod Merlin But in all your land been none such, For geanntes set 'em for great good of 'em self/ For at every times that they were wounded/ or in any manner hurt/ they wes●…hen the stones with hot water/ and thenne wash 'em therewith/ and anon they were whole/   

How the Britons went for to seche the great stones in ireland Capitulo/ lxuj/  
When these britons had herd of this thing they went & swore among 'em that they would go seche the stones/ & took with 'em meet the kings brother to been her chyveteyne/ & xv. M men/ and merlyn counseled 'em for to gone in to Irland/ & so they diden/ And when the King of ireland that was called gui●… summer herd tell that stranngers were arrived in his land/ he assembled a great power/ & fought against 'em, but he and his folk were discomfited/ The Britons went before till they come to the mount of kylyan and climbed unto the mount. But when they s●… we the stones & the manner how they stood/ they had great 〈◊〉 ill & said between 'em/ that noman should remove for no strength ne engine/ so huge they were & so long/ but merlyn through his ●…afte and queyntise reineved hem/ & brought 'em in to her sh●… & come again in to this land/ And merlyn set the stones there that the King would have hem/ and set hem in the same manner/ that they stoden in ireland/ & when the King saw that it was made/ he thanked merlyn/ and richly him rewarded at his own will/ & that place let call stonhenge for evermore/   

How passent that was vortigers son & the King guyllomer come in to this land/ & how a traitor that was called Co●… enpoisoned the King Aurilambros/ Ca/ lxvij/  
And men shall understand that passent that was mortigers son lived in the same time/ and come in to this land with a great power/ and drryved in the north country/ and would ●…n avenged of his faders death Mortiger. And strongly trusted upon the company that he had brought with him out of the land of germany/ & had conquered all the north country unto yor●…, and when King Aurilambros herd this/ he assem●…d a great power of britons/ and went for to befyght him/ and 〈◊〉 his people were discomfited/ but passent escaped thence with some of his folk/ & fled thence in to ireland/ & come to King gui●…met and prayed him of help & succour/ The King granted him with good will, and said/ he would help him with good will upon that covenant that I myself must gone with you with all my power in to Britain/ and I would avenge me upon the britons rather than they in to my land comen, & token the stones with strength that called is geaunts ●…ll/ the sting guyllomer 〈◊〉 ordain his ships and went to the see with xv M men/ & arrived in wales/ & begun to rob & much sorrow done/ it bfell so that King Aurilambros lay seek at wynchestre/ and might not help himself/ So that he sent in his name 〈◊〉 his brother with a great power to help wales/ and thitherward he went as much as he might/ The King of ireland and passent had herd tell that Aurilambros was sick, & to him come a ●…seyn that was called Coppa and said/ sir quod he/ duelle ye hear all in peace with your host, & I behote you through my queyutyse that I shall slay the King aurilambros that is seek/ if ye do so quod passent/ I shall you richly anaunce. This Trayceur, Coppa put upon him an abyte of religion/ & bete shave him a broad crown/ & come to the Kings court/ & said that he would hele the King of his malady/ though said the traitor Coppa unto the King/ Sir been of good comfert. for I shall give you such a medyeyne/ that ye shall sweten anon right & lusten to sleep/ & have good rest/ and the trai tour gave him such poison/ that he sleep anon right. & died in his sleeping/ And the traitor said that he would gone in to the field till he were awaked/ and so escaped he away/ For no man had to him suspection for encheason of his abyte, that he was in clothed and also for his broad crown/ But when the kings men wyfte that he was deed/ they becomen wonder sorry/ & fast sought the trai tour/ But they might not find him/ for Coppa toened again to the host. fro whence that he come/   

When Aurilambros was deed a star in the morn was say with a clear light/ & at the bought of the beam was fey●… the 〈◊〉 of an horrible dragon/ Ca/ lxviij  
When the King Aurilambros was thus deed & enpoysened at wynches●…e/ a morn after that he was deed about the time of p●…e there was say a ●…rre greet and clear/ and the beam of that star was brighter than the son/ & at the bought of the beam appeared a dragon's heed, & out of his mouth come ij huge lights that were as bright, as any fire brenning/ and that one beam went toward France/ & 'straught over the see thitherward And out of that beam come seven beams full clear & long as it we to the light of fire/ This star was fain of many a man/ but none of 'em wist what it bytokened/ mere that was the kings brother that was in walis with his host of bertons saw that star & the great light that gave he wondered thereof greatly what it might bytoken/ and let call merlyn/ & prayed him for to tell/ what it might bytoken.   

Of the betokening of the star/ Ca/ lxix/  
OErlyn saw that star & beheld him long time & sythen●…s he quoke & wept tenderly, and said alas alas that so noble King & worthy is deed. And I do you to understand that Anrilambros your brother is enpoysened/ and that I see w●… in this star & yourself bytokened by the heed of the dragon that is seen at the bought of the beam that is yourself that shall be King and regne/ And by the beeme that stand toward the est is to understand that ye shall geete a son that shall conquer all France & all the lands that been longing to the crown of france that shall be a worthier sting & of more honour than ever was any of his ancestors', And by the beam that stretcheth toward ireland is bytokened that ye shall get a daughter that shall be Queen of it land/ And the seven beams bytokenen that she shall have seven sons/ & every of hem shall be King and regne with moche honour & abide ye no longer here. but go & ●…ue battle to your enemies & fight with 'em boldly/ for ye shall overcome 'em & have the victory. Mere thanked heartily merlyn/ & took his men and went toward his enemy. & they fought together mortaly/ & so be discomfited his enemies all/ & destroyed/ & himself show passent that was Mortigers son. And his britons slew guyllomer that was King of ireland & all his men. And mere anon after that batuyll took his weigh toward wynchestre for to done entere Auri lambros King that was his brother/ but though was the body borne to stohenge with moche honour that he had done made in 〈◊〉braunce of the britons that there were slain through treason of engist that same day that they should have/ been acorded. & in the same place they entered aurilambros the/ ij/ xere of his ●…gne with all the worship that longed to such a King/ on whose so●… god have mercy   

Of Uter pendragon/ & wherefore he was called so after ye shall here/ And how he was overtake with great love of Igerne that that was th'earl of Cornewaylles wife/ ca lxx/  
AFter the death of Aurilambros Uter his brother was crowned and reigned well and worthily, and in remembrance of the dragon that he was liked to/ he let make two/ dragon's through counsel of his britons/ that one to be bow before him/ when he went in to battle, and that other to abide at wynchestre in the Bishops church/ And for that encheason he was called ever after Uter pendragon/ And Otta that was Engystes son/ commended but little Uter/ that was made new King and against him began to move war/ and ordained a great company of his friends & of his kin and of Ossa his brother/ and had take all the land from humber unto york/ but they of york held strongly again hem/ & would not suffer 'em to come in to the town, neither to yield the city to hem/ and he besieged the town anon ught/ & gave there to a strong assault/ but they of the city hem kept well and strongly/ And when Uter herd thereof/ he come thither with a great power for to help and rescue the town/ & put away the siege & give a strong battle. & otta & his company hem defended as well as they might/ but at last they were discomfited/ & the moose part of 'em slain/ & otta and ossa were taken & put in to prison at london/ And Uter himself dwelled a while at york/ & after he went to london/ and at the ester after suing he would bear crown/ and hold a solemn fest, & let sompne all his Earls & barons that they should come to that fest/ and all though that had wives should bring 'em also to that feste/ and all comen at the kings commandment as they were commanded, The fest was richly holden & all worthy set to meet after that they weren of estate/ so that Earl go●…wys of cornwall/ & Igerne his wife setten all there next the King/ & the King saw the fairness of that lady that she had And was ravished for her beauty/ & oft he made to her nice semblant in looking & laughing/ so at the last the Earl pertained the prive looking & laughing & the love between hem & aroos 〈◊〉 from the table all in wrath/ & took his wife & called to him his knights/ & went thence all in wrath without taking leave of the King/ The King anon sent after him that he should come again & go not thence in despite of him, And th'earl would not come again in no manner wise/ wherefore the King was full wroth, and in wrath him deffyed as his deadly enemy/ And the Earl went thence in to cornwall with his wife in to the castle of tintagel/ And the King let ordain a great host & come in to Cornewayl for to destroy the Earl if he might/ But he had put him in such a castle that was strong & well arrayed of Tyntagel/ & would not yield him to the King/ The King anon besieged the castle & there dwelled xv days/ that never might speed. & ever thought upon ygerne/ and upon her laid so moche love/ that he no wise what to done/ so at the last be called to him a knight that was called Mlfyn that was prive with him/ and told him all his counsel & axed of him what was best for to done/ sir ●…d he. doth send after Merlin for he can tell you the best council of any man living. Merlin anon was sent after/ & come to the King, & the King told him all his will/ sir ●…d merlyn/ I shall done so moche through craft that I can/ that I shall make you come this night in to the castle of Tyntagel/ and shall have all your will of that lady/.   

How Uter bygate on Igerne that was the Earls wife of Cor newayl Arthur King/ Ca/ lx●…/  
OErlyn through craft that he could changed the kyng●… figure in to the likeness of th'earl/ & Ulfyn garsoys his chāb●…rlayn and to the figure of Jordan that was th'earls chamberlain so that each of 'em was transfigured to other likeness/ And when merlyn had so done. he said to the King/ sir ●…d be now may ye gone suddenly to the castle of Tyntagel/ & axen 〈◊〉 ●…er & have your will/ the King took privily all the hose to gover ne & lead to a knight that he much loved▪ & took his way toward the castle/ & with him Ulfyn his chamberlayn & merlyn And when they come thither the portier went that it had been his own lord. & when time come for to gone to bed/ The King went to 〈◊〉 with Igerne the Earls wife. & did with her all his will/ & bygo te upon her a son that was called Arthur, ●…pon the morrow the noble mighty King took his leave of the lady/ & went again to his host▪ And the same night that the King lay by Igerne in bed yfere with th'earls wife, the kings men yeven a strong assault to the castle/ & the Earl and his men manly hem defended/ But at the last it befell so that at at the same assault the Earl himself was slain and the castle taken/  
And the King anon turned again to tintagel and spoused ygerne with moche honour/ and made her quent. & soon after time come that she should be delivered/ & bear a child a son that was call led Arthur/ And after he gate on her a daughter that was called Amya/ And when she come to age/ she was nobly married to a noble baron/ that was called Aloth/ that was lord of leons/ when Uter long time had reigned/ Theridamas come upon him a greet sickness/ as it were a sorrow/ And in the mean time they that had to keep Otta that was Engystes son/ & ossa his brother/ that though were in prison/ men let hem gone for great yefts that they hem gave & went with 'em/ And when though two britherens were escaped & comen again in to her own country/ they ordained 'em a greet host & a great power/ & begun to were eftsoons upon the King   

How King Uter cheese aloth to keep the land of britayne whiles that he was sick/ for as much as he might not for his sickness/ Capitulo, septuagesimo secundo/  
ANd for as much as King Uter was seek/ and might not help himself/ he ordained aloth son of eleyne that though was chosen to be warden and chyveteyne of all his folk/ & he anon & his Britons assembled a great host/ and gave battle to Otta and to his folk/ but Otta at last was discomfited/ Hit befell thus afterward that these britons had dedygnation of Aloth and would not to him been attendant/ wherefore the King was annoyed wonder sore, & let put him in a litter in the host amongs folk And they lad him to beroloyne that though was a fair cite there that saint alone was martyred/ & after was that city destroyed with paynims, through were/ & thither they/ had sent otta & ossa/ & her people/ & entered in to the town/ & let make fast the yates/ and there they held hem/ & the King come/ & hem besieged/ & made a strong assault/ but they that were within manlych hem defended The King let ordain his gonnes & his engines for to break the walls▪ & the walls were so strong/ that nothing might him misdo/ Otta & his people had great despite, that a King ligging in a lyttyer had 'em besieged. & they token conuceill amongs hem for to stand up in the morrow. & come out/ & give battle to the King/ & so they diden▪ & in that battle were both otta & ossa slain & all though other that escaped alive fled in to scotland/ & made colegryne her chyvetayn/ & the saxons that were alive & escaped fro the battle broughten again a great strength, & amongs hem they saiden/ that if King Uther were deed/ they should well con quere the land/ & amongs hem they thought enpoysen the King/ & ordained men for to done this deed/ & gave hem of yef●…s great plen te this thing to done/ & they ordained 'em thitherward there that the King was duelling & clothed 'em in poor wede the better all for to speed her lyther purpose/ but nevertheless for all her falseness & quaintise they might never come to nigh the King/ But so at●… last they espied that the King drank none other liquor but only water of a clear well/ that was nigh besides/ and these falls traitors upon a day privily went to the well/ & put therm wy sen/ so that all the water was enpoisened/ And anon after as the King had drunk of that water/ he began to suclle/ 〈◊〉 soon after he died/ & as many as drunken of that water died also/ And anon as this falseness was espied▪ folk of the town let stop the well for evermore, when the King was deed. his folk bear him to stonhenge with great solemnity of Bishops & of barons that were there/ that buried him beside aurylambros his brother/ & after turned again though everichone/ and let send after Arthur his so ne▪ & they made him King of the land with moche reverence after his faders death the seventeenth year of his regne/   

How Artur that was the son of Uter was crowned after his fathers death/ & how he drofe Colegryne/ and the saxons/ & 〈◊〉 of Almaigne out of this land/ Ca, 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉  
When Arthur was made King of the land/ he was but young of age of xv year/ but he was fair/ and bold/ and doughty of body/ and to meek folk he was good and courtoys. and large of spending/ & made him well beloved among all men/ there that it was need/ And when he began to regne/ he swore that the saxons never should have peace ne rest. Till that he had drive 'em out of his land/ & let assemble a great host/ & fought with Colegry ne/ the which after time that Otta was deed, the saxons mayntened/ And this Colegryne was discomfited & fled unto york/ & took the town. & there he held him/ And the King besieged that town/ but he might nothing speed/ for the town was so strong●…. & they within kept the town well & orpedly/ and in the mean time Colgryne let the town to bladulf & fled himself to cheldri●… that was king of almain for to have of him succour/ & the King assembled a great power, & come & arrived in scotland with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ships/ & when Arthur wist of this tiding that he he had not power & strength enough for to fight against cheldri●…, he let ●…en the siege/ & went to london/ & sent anon his letters to the King of 〈◊〉 britain that was called ●…oel his nephew his sisters son/ that he should come to him with all the power that he might/ & he assembled a great host/ & arrived at southhampton/ And when King Arthur it wist/ he was glad enough/ & went against 'em/ & 'em received with moche honour, so that though two hosts hem assembled & token her weigh even to nychol/ that chelderik had besieged/ but nought yet taken/ And they come upon cheldryk/ & upon his people ere they it wist there that they were/ & 'em eagerly assailed/ The King cheldryk & his meinie defended 'em manly by her power/ But King Arthur & his men slew so many saxons that ne ver ere was seen such a slaughter/ And cheldryk. & his men that were leften alive fledden away. And Arthur hem ponrsued/ & drofe hem in to a wood/ that they might no ferther pass/ cheldrik & his men saw well that they were brought in so much disease & hem yoleden to Arthur in this manner/ that he should take her horse & her armour/ and all that they had they must only gone a foot 〈◊〉 to her ships/ & so they would gone in to her own land/ & never come again in to this land/ & upon assurance of this thing they yeven him good hostages. & Arthur by council of his men granted this thing/ & received the hostages/ And hereupon the other went to her ships/ And when they were in the high see/ her will changed as the devil it would, & they returned her navy & come again in to this land/ & arrived at tottenesse and went out of her ships/ & took the land & clean rob it, & much people slew and token all the armure that they might find & so they went forth till they come to bathe/ But the men of the town shit fast her yates/ and would not suffer 'em come within the town/ and they defended 'em well & orpedly against 'em.   

How Arthur gave battle to the saxons when they come again and besieged the ton of bathe. & hem overcome/ Ca/ Lxxiiij  
When Arthur herd this tiding/ anon he let hung the hostages/ and left hoele of britayne his nephew for to keep the March toward scotland with half his people and himself went to help rescue the town of bathe. & when he come thither/ he gave a strong battle to cheldryk/ & slew all most all the people that he had/ for no man might him withstand/ ne endure the stroke of his suerde. And there both were slain Colgryne and 〈◊〉 his brother/ And cheldrik fled thence & would have go ne to his ships▪ but when Artur it wist/ he took x M knights to Cador that was Earl of cornwall for to let & stop his coming/ And arthur himself went toward the March of scotland For messengers told him that the Scots had besieged hoel of bri ta'en. There that he lay seek/ and therefore he hasted thitherward/ And Cador pursued after Cheldryk/ & took him ere he might come to his ships. & slew Cheldryk, and his people/ And when Cador had done this viage/ he hasted him again as fast as he might towards Arthur/ and fond him in scotland there that he had received hoel of britain/ But the Scots were all far within money ref/ And there they held 'em a while/ but Arthur hem pursued & they fled thence in to lymoygne that were in that country ●…x Iles/ and great plenty of birds/ & great plenty of eagles that were woned to cry & fight to geders & make great noise/ when folk come to rob that land and werren as much as they might/ and so they dieden/ for the Scots were so great raveners that they took all that they might find in the land of lymoygne without any sparing. And therewith they charged again the folk in to scotland for to wend   

How King Arthur axed of Merlin the adventures of six the last kynnges that weren to regne in england/ & how the land should end/ Ca/ lxxv/  
SIr qd merlyn in the year of yncarnation of Ihesu criste/ M, CC, xv, shall come a lamb out of wynchestre/ that shall have a white tongue and true lips/ & he shall have written in his heart holiness/ This lamb should make many god's houses/ & he shall have peace the most part of all his life/ And he shall make one of the fairest places of the world that in this time shall not fully be made an end/ And in the end of his life a wolf of a strange land shall do him much harm & sorrow through were/ but at th'end the lamb shall be master through help of a red fox that shall come out of the northwest/ and him shall overcome. and the wolf shall die in water/ and after that time the lamb shall live no while that he ne shall die, His fede than shall been in a strange land/ & the land shall be without a governor a little while/  
ANd after his time shall come a dragon melled with mercy and este with woodness that shall have a beard as a good that shall give in England shadow. And shall keep the land from cold and heat/ & his own foot shall be fet●… in wy●…e/ & that other in london, & he shall embrace inhabytations, & he shall open his mouth toward wales & the trembling of the hydour of his mouth his ears shall stretch toward many habit●…ūs & countries/ & his breath shall be full sweet in strange land/ And in his time shall the rivers run with blood. and with brain/ and he shall make in places of his land walls that shall do moche harm unto his seed after his tyme. Than shall there come a people out of the northwest during his reign that shall be lad through out a wicked hare that the dragon shall done crown King that afterward shall flee over the see without coming again for dread of the dragon And in that time the son shall be as red as blood/ as me shall see through all the world/ that shall bytoken great pestyle nee & death of folk through dent of sword/ and that people shall been fatherless till the time that the dragon shall die through an hare/ that shall move against him were unto the end of his life that shall not fully been ended in his time/ This dragon shall be hold in his time the best body of the world/ and he shall die beside the marches of a straūge land/ & the land shall duelle fatherless without a good governor/ and me shall weep for his death from the isle of shepey unto the haven of marcyll/ wherefore alas shall be the common song of fatherless folk/ that shall overlyven in his land destroyed/  
ANd after this dragon shall come a good out of kar that shall have horns and a beard of silver/ and there shall come out of his nostrel a domp that shall betoken hunger & sorrow & greet death of the people and moche of his land in the beginning of his reign shall be wasted/ This good shall go over to France, & shall open the flout of his life and of death/ In his time there shall arise an eagle in cornwall that shall have feathers of gold that of pride shall be without pere of the land and he shall despise Lords of blood/ and after he shall flee shamefully by a bear at gaverseche/ and after shul be made bridges of men upon the costs of the see/ and stones shall fall fro castles 〈◊〉 many other towns shul be made plain.  
In his time shall seem that the bear shall burn/ and a battle shall be done upon the arms of the see in a field ordained as a s●…de. And at that battle. Shall die many white heeds/ wherefore his battle shall be called the white battle/  
And the foresaid bear shall done this goat moche harm. and it shall come out of the south-west & of his blood/ than shall the goat ●…se moche of this land till at the time that shendship shall him overcome, & than he shall cloth him in a lion skin, & than shall he win that he had lost/ & more thereto/ For a people shall come out of the northwest/ that shall make the good sore adread/ & he shall avenge him of his enemies through council of two owls that first shall be in peril for to been undone, but the old owl shall wend a certain time/ & after he shall come again in to this land These two owls shullen done great harm to many on & so they shall eoun●…eylle the goat that he should arere were against the for said bear/ & at the last the good and the owls shall come at burton up Trent/ and shall wend over/ and for dread the bear shall flee/ and aswan with him fro his company to burton toward the north, & there they shul been with an hard shower/ and the swan shall there be slain with sorrow/ & the bear taken & beheaded alther next his nest that shall stand upon a broken bridge, on whom the son ne shall cast her beams, & many shall him seek for ver●…u that fro him shall come/ In the same shall die for sorrow & care/ a people of his land so that many lands shall been on him the more bolder of terward/ and though two owls shul do moche harm to the foresaid flower of lice/ and her shall lead in distress/ so that she shall pass over in to France for to make peace between the good/ & the flower delise/ & there she shall duelle till a time that her seed shall come & her/ & they shullen he still/ till a time that they shall hem clothe with grace/ & they shall seche the oules/ & shul put 'em to des piteous death/ And after shall this goat been brought to disease. and great anguyssh/ and in sorrow he shall leave all his life/  
AFtre this goat shall come out of windsor a bore. that shall have an heed of white a lions heart/ and a piteous so●…yng His visage hall be rest to seek men/ His word shall be staunching of ther●…/ To hem that been a thirst his word shall be gospel/ His bearing shall be meek as a lamb/  
In the first year of his reign he shall have great pain to justify 'em that been untrue, And in his time shall his land be multiplied with Alyens/  
And this ●…ore through fyersenes of heart that he shall have shall mast wolfs become lambs/ And he shall be called through out of the world bore of holiness fierceness of noblesse and of meekness, & he shall done measurably all that he shall have to done unto the burgh of Jerusalem & he shall whet his teeth upon the yates of paris and upon four lands/ Spain shall tremble for dread/ Gascoigne shall sweet In france he shall put his wing his great tail shall rest in england. and softly Almaigne shall quake for dread of him/ This bore shall give mantles to two towns of England, and shall make the river run with blood & with brain/ & he shall make many meed wes reed/ and he shall get as much as his ancestors' dieden. and ere that he be deed/ he shall bear three crowns, and he shall put a land in to great subjection/ and of terward it shall be relieved but not in his time, This bore after he is deed for his doughtiness shall be entered at Coloygne. and his land shall than be fulfilled of all good/  
AFter this bore shall come a lamb that shall have feet of bede/ an heed of bras/ an heart of a lop, a swines skin/ and an hard/ and in his time his land shall be in peace the first year of his regne/ he shall do make a city. that all the world shall speak thereof. this lamb shall leave in his time a great part of his land through an hideous wolf. but he shall recover it & give a lordship to an eagle of his lands/ and this eagle shall well govern it till the time that pride shall him overgone/ alas the sorrow/ For he shall die of his brothers suerd. and after shall the land fall to the foresaid lamb/ that shall govern the land in peace all his life time/ And after he shall die/ and the land be fulfilled of all manner good/  
AFter this lamb shall come a mould warp. cursed of god's mouth/ a caitiff/ a coward/ an hare/ he shall have an earthly skin as a goat & vengeance shall fall upon him for sin/ In the first year of his reign he shall have of all good great plen te in his land and toward him also and in his land he shall have great praising till the time that he shall suffer his people live in to much pride without chastising/ wherefore god will be wroth/ Than shall arise up a dragon of the north that shall been full fierce and shall move war against the foresaid mould warp/ and shall give him battle upon a stone/  
This dragon shall gather again in to his company a wolf that shall come out of the west to begin were against the foresaid Moldwerpe in his side and so shall the dragon and he bind her tails together/ Than shall come a lion out if ireland that shall fall in company with 'em/ & thenne shall tremble the land that than shall be called england/ as an aspen leef/ And in that time shall castles be felled a down upon thamyse/ & it shall seem that severne shall be dry for the bodies that shul fall therein/ The u●… ehyef floods in england shall run in blood and great dread shall be and anguish that shall arrisen/ After the moldewarpe shall flee and the dragon/ The lion and the wolf hem shall drive aware/ and the land shall be without hem/ And the moldwarpe shall have no manner power save only a ship/ wlerto he may wend. And after that he shall go to land when the see is withdrawn And after that he shall give the third part of his land for to have the fourth part in peace and rest/ and after he shall live in sorrow all his life time/ and in his time the hot baths shullen by come cold/ and after shall the moldwarpe die aventoursly and suddenly/ alas the sorrow/ for he shall be dreynt in a flood of the see/ His seed shall become fatherless in strange land for evermore And than shall the land be departed in three parties/ that is to say To the wolf/ To the dragon/ and to the lion/ and so shall it be for evermore/ And than shall this land be called the land of conquest/ And so shall the rightful heirs of england end/   

How Arthur overcome guyllomer that was King of Irlond And how the scots becomen his men/ Caᵒ./ Lxxvjᵒ.  
When Guyllomer that was King of ireland had tiding that King Arthur was entered at glastenbury/ he ordained a great power of irish men & come to the see with his irish people/ and so come in to scotland over the see and arryned fast by their that King Arthur was with his host/ & anon as he wist thereof/ he went towards him/ and gave him battle/ and overcome him anon right/ and guyllomer fled with his men again in to ireland. And when this discomfiture was so done/ Arthur turned him again there that he was in to the place/ there that he had left the Scots/ & would have 'em all slain/ But the bishops Abbots and other folk of the coutre and Ladies open ●…ded come before King athur/ and cried him mercy/ and said sir gentle King and mighty have mercy and pity of us/ And as you were sylf been of the right law to holden and maintain christendom full great dishonour it should be to quelle hem, that believe in almighty god as ye done. and for gods love have mercy & pity of us & suffer us for to live. For we have had moche sorrow and pain/ For the saxons have many time through our land passed. but that is not enough to you/ For oftentimes they haven us done sorrow and disease/ For our castles they have taken/ & our beasts slain and eaten/ and moche sorrow they have us done/ & if ye would now us slay/ it were none honour to a King to slay 'em that cryen him mercy/ For enough ye have y done & us overcome, & for the love of ●…od suffer us for to live/ and have mercy of christian people/ that ●…euen in criste as ye done, when King Arthur heard this sorrow, he had pity of 'em. and gave hem life/ & limb and they fill dove to his feet, and become his lyege men/ & he took of hem homages, And after that King Arthur turned again with his host/ and come again to york/ and there abore during that viage/ And though gave he all loegers to Aloth/ that had spou sed his sister/ and other yefts great plenty/ and though was gawen his cousin, but of young age/ and to all his other men that had him served in his were/ he gave rich yefts/ & he thanked 'em moche of her good service/   

How King Arthur spoused gunnore that was gunnores cousin Earl of cornwall/ and after he conquered of guyllomer all ireland. Caᵒ./ lxxvijᵒ.  
When Arthur had brought his land in peace and rest. and in good state and rest was in every country/ though took he. & wedded a wife that was called gunnor, & made her Queen a fair Lady and a gentle/ that Cador the Earl of cornwall had long time nourished in his chambre/ that was his own cousin, but never they had child together/ and nevertheless King Arthur loved her wonder well and dearly/ And anon as winter was passed/ he let assemble a great host/ and all his barons, and said that he would wend in to ireland for to conquer the land/ and he carried not long/ that he ne passed over in to ireland. And guyllomer the King let assemble a great host, and gave battle to King Arthur But guyllomer was discomfited/ and yield him to the King Arthur/ and become his man/ and to him did fault and homage/ and of him held all that land fro that time forward.  
And after passed King Arthur furthermore/ and conquered gut land and yslande/ & took homages of folk & of the land & there dwelled xij year in peace/ and reigned with joy & mirth/ and were read no manner man/ ne no man upon him/ And he become so courtoys and large and so honourable that th'emperors court of Rome/ ne none through out all the world was not accounted to King Arthure that any man wist. ne none so well praised/  
And therefore the best knights of all manner lands come to him for to duelle/ and hem received with good will and reverence And all the knights were so good that noman knew the wert And therefore King Arthur made a round table/ that when they should sitten to the meet/ all should be alych high/ & evenly screwed at the table that none might make a vaunt/ that none were higher than other/ & King Arthur had at that Table/ Batons Frenssh men▪ normans/ flemings/ Burgoners. Mausers/ Lotherms/ & of all the lands a this balfe mount of gory and of his land of britain/ and of the great cornwall/ of Wales/ & of Irland/ and of scotland/ and shortly to tell of all the lands that wolden worship & chivalry seek comen to King Arthures court/   

How King Arthur come in to France, and conquered that land of Frolle that was a roman. & him sl●…we/ Caᵒ/ lxxv●…  
sith it befell that King Arthur through counsel of his barons & Lords would gone and conquer all france/ that though was called gallia through romans that though held that land in her power/ & in her lordship/ & the romans had take that land to a noble knight & worthy of body, that was called frolle/ and when he wist that Arthur come/ he ordained an host/ & a greet power/ & fought with the King/ & he & his folk were discomfited/ & thence they fled unto paris/ & entered the ton/ & closed the yates. & there hem held/ Arthur wist that Froll was gone to paris/ he pursued after/ & come thither/ & him besieged. but the city was so strong/ & well arrayed/ & though that were within/ defended 'em well & manly/ King arthur dwelled there more a month/ & there was so moche people in the city/ & dispended all her victuals/ that were within/ & so great hunger become amongs hem/ that ●…ey dieden wonder thykke within the city for hunger, & comen to Frolle, & prayed him to been acorded with King Arthur for to have pres/ & they would yield 'em to him. & the town also/ Frolle saw that no longer he might hold the town against her will & trust greatly upon his own strength/ & sent to King arthur that he should come fight with him body for body/ & so should they depart france between 'em two/ King Arthur anon granted it & would not that one of his people undertook the battle for him/ & upon the morn both men were armed without paris there that they should fight/ & anon they smitten to geders so fiercely & so well they fought in both sides that no man could dame the better of 'em/ & so it befell, that Frolle give Arthur such a stroke that he kneeled to the ground/ would. he nold he/ & as frolle withdrow his suerd/ he wounded King Arthur in the forehead that the blood fell a down by his eyen & his face/ Arthur anon start up heartily/ when he felt him hurt as a man that seemed almost wood. and he took Tabourne his good suerd▪ & drowe it upon high/ & gave Frolle such a stroke that therewith he clafe his heed down to the shoulders/ so that his helm might not be his warrant/ & so he fell a down deed in the place/ & they of the city made great sorrow for Frolle/ anon everichone yield 'em to King Arthur/ & the town also/ & become his men & died to him homage and feaute/ and he underfeng 'em/ & took of 'em good hostages/ and King Arthur after went forth with his host, and conquered Angyen/ and An gyers, gascoyne pehyto/ navarre/ Burgeyne/ Berry/ Lotherne/ Turyn and peythers. and all the other land of france he conquered holych/ And when he had all conquered and taken by homages and feaultes/ he turned again to paris/ and there he duel led long time, and ordained peace long time over all the country and through out all France/ And when peace was made over all through his noble knighthood that he had/ and also for his own worthiness/ And noman were he never so great a lord durst not mean were against him/ neither to arise for to make the land of france in quiet & pres/ he dwelled there nine year/ & died there many great wonders. and. reproved many proud men/ and lyther tie vaunts/ & hem chastised after her deseruyse/   

How King Arthur advanced all his men/ that had travaylin his service/ Caᵒ./ lxxixᵒ.  
ANd afterward it befall thus at Estren there that he held a fest at paris/ ry●…lely he 'gan advance his knights for her service, that had him helped in his conquest/ He gave to his steward that was called key/ Angyeen & Angy ers/ And to Bedeler his boteler he gave normandy that though was called neustrye/ And to Holdyne his Chambyrlayne he gave flanders and mance/ and to do●…ll his cousin he gave bo●…oyn. And to Richard his nephew be gave ponntyf/ And to all other he give large lands and fees after they were of estate/ And when Arthur had thus his knights feffed at averill next after sewing/ he come again in to britain his own land, And after at whitsuntide next sewing by counseyl of his barons he would be crowned King of glomergon/ & held a solemn fest & let sompne/ kings/ Earls & batons, that they should come thither everichone/ there was scatter King of scotland/ Cadwere King of South-Wales/ Euyllomer King of North-wales/ Maded King of Irland/ Malgamus King of gutland/ Achilles King of Iselande/ Aloth King of denmark/ Eonewas King of norwey, and hell his cousin King of dorkeny. Cador King of little butain/ Mowitherle of Cornewayl/ Mauran Earl of gloucester. guerdon ●…le of wynchestre/ Boel Earl of hertford/ ●…reegy Earl of oxenford/ Cursall Earl of bathe. Jonas Earl of C●…stre. Enetal Earl of dorchestre/ ●…ymare Earl of salisbury, waloth Earl of Caunterbury/ In gerne Earl of chichestre/ Aral Earl of leicester/ & the Earl of war wist. & many other rich lords/ Britons also there came more/ that is to say dyppon/ Donaud/ gennes' and many other that been not here named weren at that feste/ and many a fair fest King Arthur had hold before/ but never none such/ ne so solemn, and that lasted xv days with moche honour and myeth.   

Of the letter that was sent from the city of Rome for pride to King Arthur/ Ca/ lxxx/  
THe third day as King Arthur sat at his meet among his Kings & among 'em that seten at the feast before hem come in xij aldermen of age richly arrayed/ & courtously salved the King and said they come from Rome sent as messengers feo thempetour/ and took to him a letter/ that thus moche was to understand/ greatly us marveleth Arthur that thou art ones so hardy with eyen in thy heed to maken open war & contaste against us of rome that owen all the world to derne for thou hast never yet before this time proved, ne essayed the strength of the romans/ & therefore thou it shalt in a little time/  
For julius cesar conquered all the land of britain/ & took thereof truage, and our folk have it long y had, and now through thy pride thou witholdest it. Wherefore we command the that thou it yield again/ & yet hast thou more folly done that thou hast slain frolle that was our baron of france all with wrong/ & therefore all the commons of Rome warnen/ & command the upon life & limb/ that thou be in haste at Rome, amends to make of thy misdeeds that thou hast done/ And if it so be that thou come not we shall pass the hill of joy with strength/ and we shall the seke where ever thou may be found, & thou shalt not have a fo●… of land of thine own that we ne shall destroy/ & afterward with thy body we shall done our will/ when this letter was rad/ & all men it herd/ they were annoyed all that were at that solemnity/ & the butons would have slain the messengers but the King would not suffer 'em, & said that the messengers should have none harm & mow by reason none deserve/ but commanded hem to be worshipfully served/ And after meet he took counsel of Kings/ ersts & barons. what answer he might give again to the messengers/ and they counseled him atones that he should assemble a great power of all the lands/ of which he had lordship. & manly avenge him upon the Emperor of the despite that he had sent him such a letter/ & they sworen by god/ & by his names that they should him pursue/ & brenne as moche as they might. & said that they would never fail King Arthur/ and rather to be deed/ & they let write a letter to send to th'emperor by the same messengers in this manner/   

Of the bold ansuet that King Arthur sent to th'emperor of Rome and to the Romans/ Caᵒ/ lxxxj/  
UNderstondeth amongs you of Rome that I am King Arthur of butayn/ & freely it hold and shall hold. and at rome hastily I will be/ not to give you truage, but for to axen true age/ For Constantin that was eleynes son that was Emperor of Rome & of all the honour that thereto belongeth/ & maximian King conquered all france & almain/ & mount joy passed & con querd all lombardy/ & these two were mine ancestors'/ & that they held & had/ I shall have through gods will/   

Of the reverence that arthur did to the emperors messengers of Rome Ca/ lxxxij/  
When this letter was made and ensealed/ King Arthur to the messengers gave great yefts/ and after that the messengers took her lean and went thence and come to the court of Ro me again and told th'emperor how worthily they were underfongen/ and which a rial company he had him to serve and 〈◊〉 he was more rially served than the Emperor/ or any King living in the world/ And when the Emperor had seen the letter & herd what was therein/ & saw that Arthur would not be ru ●…d after him. he let assemble & ordain an huge host for to destroy King arthur if that he might/ And King Arthur as touching his power and party ordained his power and knygh●… of the round table/   

Of the Kings and Lords that comen to help King Arthur a against the Emperor/ Capitulo, lxxxiij/  
THe King of Scotland and of ireland and of gutlande/ of denmark/ & of almain/ every of 'em had ten/ M/ men/ The dust of normandy/ Gascoigne. flanders/ ●…hyto/ & of Bosoyn had four. M/ geryn of charters had x M/ Hoel of butayne, bod xij/ M, & himself of his own land xij M/ and of Arbalastyers & of archer's & of other folk in fore/ that no man coude hem number/ & when all were ready for to wend/ King Arthur his land & gunnore his wife took to keep to one of his neveus that was a wise knight and an hardy/ that was called murdered/ but he was not all t●…we as ye shall here afterward/ King Arthur took all his ream to this mordred safe only the crown/ And after that King Arthur took his host & went to southampton there that the ships were brought & the folk assembled/ and they dyden 'em to the see/ & had good wind & wether at will/ & also soon a●… they might they arrived at harflete. and as soon as they might/ they went out of his ships/ & spradden all the country.   

How King Arthur fought with a giant in Spain, that was called dynabus that slew eleyne/ that was King ho●…ls cousin of little britain Capitulo lxxxi●…  
Kying Arthur had not duelled in the country but a 〈◊〉 while/ that men ne told him that there was comen a great giant in to spain/ & had ravished fair eleyn/ that was cousin to hoel of britain/ & had brought her upon an hill/ that is called the mount of saint bernard, & there was no man in that country so hold. ne so hardy, that dursie with him fight/ ner come near the place/ there that giant dwelled. & he was called Dynabus/ that moche sorrow died in the country/ when King Arthur herd this tiding/ he called key & ●…dewere/ & commanded 'em to go privily & & espy where the giant might be found & they comen to the rivage/ there that men should go to the mount that was all enclosed about with water and yet is and ever shall be/ And they saw a brenning fire upon the hill/ & there was also another hill nigh that/ there was thereupon another fire buenning/ Prey/ & ●…ede were come to the next hill/ & founden a wydueopen heed sitting besides a tomb sore weeping and great sorrow made/ & oft she said Eleyne/ Eleyne, and key/ and Bedewere axed what her was/ & wherefore she made so moche sorrow/ and who lay in that tomb/ O quoth she what sorrow, & misauenture fair Lords seek ye here/ for if the giant may you here find ye worth deed anon/ be still good wife quoth they/ there of dismay ye not, but tell us the sooth why thou makest so much sorrow & weeping/ sirs quoth she for a damosel that I nourished with my breast that was called Eleyne that was niece to hoel King of britain/ & here lieth the body in this tomb/ that to me was betaken to noryssh/ So there come a devil a Geant and cavysshed her & me also/ & lad us both away, and he would have forlayne that maid/ that was so young & tender of age/ but she might it not suffer. so great and so huge as the giant was and if he now come as he is woned to do/ certes he will you ●…lee both to. And therefore fast wend ye hens/ And wherefore said they go ye not thence/ Certes Sir qd she/ when that eleyne was deed/ the giant made me to abide to done and haunt his will/ and me must needs it suffer/ and god it wot I do it not with my good will/ for me liefer were to be deed. than with him to deal/ so moche pain I have when he me forlyeth, when stay & Bedewere bad heard all that this woman had told/ they returned again. & come to King Arthur/ and told him all that they had sayne & herd/ Arthur anon took hem both with him/ & went privily by night that none of his host it witted. and come on the morrow early to the giant/ & fought with him strongly/ & at last him slow.  
And Arthur bade bedewere smyce of his heed/ and bring it to the host to show 'em for a wonder/ for it was so great/ and so huge when they comen again to the host/ they tolden wherefore they had been out/ & showed to hem the heed/ and every man was glad and joyful of the worthy deed/ that King Arthur had done that was her lord/ & hoel was full sorrowful for his niece that was so lost/ And after when he had space. he let make a fair chapel of our lady over eteyns tomb   

How King Arthur gave battle to the Emperor/ in which battle the Emperor was slain/ Capitulo/ lxxxv/  
ARthur and his people had tiding that the Emperor had as sembled a great power as well of sarazeyns ao of paynynts and christian men/ where of the number was lxxx/ M/ horsemen & so to men/ Arthur & his people ordained fast forth in her way toward th'emperor and passed normandy and france unto burgoyne and would even have gone to the host. For men told him that the emperors host would come to lucye/ The Emperor & his host in the beginning of august removed ●…o Rome & come forth right the way toward the host, though comen King arthures' ●…spyes and said if that Arthur would/ he should find there fast by themperour. but they said that th'emperor had so great power with him of Kings of the land and of paynims yfere/ and also ●…y ●…ten people that it new but great folly to King Arthur to meeten with him. For the espies told that the empprour had v men or uj against one of his/ King arthur was bold & hardy/ & for no thing ●…ym dismayed/ and said go we boldly in god's name ageyns●… the romans that with 'em lead samseyns & paynims/ that no manner trust they have to god/ but only upon her strength/ go we now and seek 'em sharply in the name of almighty god/ & slew the paynims, & the christian men that been enemies with hem for to destroy christian men/ and god shall us help for we have the right, and therefore have we trust in god. & do we so that the enemies that been to cristendome/ and to god mow be deed and destroyed/ and that men mow record the worthiness of knighthood/ when King Arthur bade thus said/ they cried all with a high voys/ God father almighty worshipped be thy name without end, amen/ And grannte us grace well to done, & to destroy our eve myes that been against christendom/ In the name of the father/ Of the son/ and of the holy ghost/ amen/ & god give him never gra●…/ ne worship in the world. ne mercy of him to have that this day shall feynten well for to smitten & eagerly/ and so they riden sofaly and ordained his wings well and wisely/  
The Emperor herd tell that King Arthur and his folk were ready a●…yed for to fight with him/ and thither they come, And he ordained his wings in the best manner that he might, & more trust upon his strength than in god almighty/ & that was 〈◊〉 afterward/ For when tho two hosts met. the Emperor lost such four of his folk/ as died Arthur/ and so many were slain what in that one side/ and in that other/ that it was great py●… to wyt●… and to seen In this battle were slain through King Arthur v Kings of the paynims/ & of other wonder moche people/ And King Artures men fought so well that the romans and paynims had no more strength to withstand/ than xx. Sheep against five wolves/ And so it befell that in this battle that was wonder hard and long during in that one side/ and in that other/ th'emperor amongs 'em there was slain/ but no man wist forsooth who him slew/   

How King arthur let entier his knights that he had lost in that battle, and how he sent th'emperors body to Rome/ that there was slain in battle. Ca/ lxxxuj  
When the romans wist that the Emperor was deed/ they forsook the field/ & the paynims also. And King Arthur after hem chased till it was night/ & so many of 'em slew/ that it was wonder to tell/ And though turned King Arthur again though it was night/ & thanked god of his victory. & in the morrow he let look and see all the field for his knights that he there had lost that is to say borel Earl of maunt/ Bedewere/ and key and Li gyers Earl of Boloyne. ●…rgeti Earl of baak/ Aloth Earl of wynchestre/ Cursale earl of chestre/ & after holdeyn Earl of flanders these were the great Lords that King Arthur lost in that battle among other worthy knights/ And some he let entiere in Ableyes by the country/ Somme he let be borne in to her own country. And th'emperors body he let take/ and put upon a bear/ and sent it to Rome/ and sent to say the romans that for britain and France/ which that he held/ other truage would he none pay/ And if they axed him any other truages/ right such truage he would 'em pay/ The king let here key to kenen his own castle/ & there he was entered/ & lygyer was borne to boloyne there he was lord/ & holdein was born to flanders/ & there he was entered/ & all the other/ he let entiere with moche honour in abbeys/ & in houses of religion in the country/ there they were deed/ And Arthur himself sojourned that same year in burgoyne with his host & thought the same year to pass the mount of joy/ & have goon to rome all for to take the city/ and have put the romans in sub iection. but the wicked tyrant murdered him letted/ as after ye shall here/   

How murdered the traitor to whom King Arthur took his land to keep & his castles/ and held it against him/ Ca/ lxxxvij  
When King Arthur had taken to murdered his ream to keep/ & was gone against th'emperor of Rome. & was passed the see/ Mordred anon took homages and feautes of all hem that were in this land/ and would have had the land to his own use And took castles about/ & let hem array/ And after this falseness/ he did another great wrong/ for against the law of christian t●…/ he took his own eames wife as a traitor should/ & ordained him a great host against arthur's coming to hold the land against him with strength for evermore/ And to slay King Arthur if he might/ and sent by the see and land/ & let assemble paynims & christian people/ & he sent to saxons/ & to danoys for to help him/ And also murdered sent to cheldryk to done men to come to him out of saxoyn/ that was a worthy Duke/ & bihete him if that he brought with him much people/ he would grant him in heritage all the land from beyond humber unto scotland/ & all the land that engist had of vortigers yeft/ when that he spou sed his daughter/ And cheldryk come with great strength & power of people/ and mordred also had assembled in his half/ that they had xl/ M/ strong knights/ when that they had need/   

How arthur enchaced murdered the traitor. & how he was sla yne/ and also King Arthur wounded to death/ Ca/ lxxxviij.  
When this tiding come to King Arthur there that he was in burgoyne/ he was full sore annoyed/ & took all France/ to hoel for to keep with haluendele of his men/ and prayed him/ that he would it keep till he come again. for himself would wend in to britayne/ and avenge him upon mordred that was his trey tour/ and forth went his way/ and come to whytsand, and made his men gone in to ship/ and would have arrived at sand who & brought with him a great host of France also with his own land/ But ere that he might come to land with his people that were comen out of his ships. Mordred was comen with all his power and gave a strong battle/ so that King Arthur lost many a man ere that he might comen to land/ For there was gawen his ne view slain and angnyssel that held scotland/ and many other. Whereof King Arthur was full sorry/ But after that they were comen to land/ mordred might not against 'em endure/ but an●… was discomfited/ & fled thence the same night with his men/ and upon the morn to london/ but though of the cite would not suffer him to come in/ & fled to winchestre/ & there he held him with his people that with him come/ King Arthur let take the body of gawen his cousin & the body of angnissel/ & let hem be born in to scotland in to her own country. and there they were entered/ & after anon King Arthur took his weigh to destroy mordred/ and fled fro thence in to Cornewaylle/ The Queen gunn●…e that was King Arthur's' wife that though sojourned at york/ & herd that murdered was fled thence/ & might not endure against King Arthur/ she was sore adread/ & had great doubt. and wist not what was best all for to done/ For she wist well that her lord King Arthur would never of her have mercy. for the great shame that she to him had do ne/ & took her weigh privily with four men withonte moo. & come to karlyone/ & there she dwelled all her life that never was said among folk her life during/ Arthur wist that mordred was fled in to cornwall/ and let send after his men in to scotland & nurthumberland unto humber/ & let assemble folk without number/ and comen fro thence in to Cornewayl to seche & pursue after mordred/ & murdered had assembled to him all the folk of cornwall/ & had people without number, & wist that Arthur was coming/ & had liefer to die/ & take his chance/ than longer flee/ And abode. and gave an hard battle to King Arthur/ & to his people/ so that moche people was slain. What of that one half/ & in that other that no man witted/ who had the better party/ but so it be fell at last that murdered was slain & all his folk/ & the good chivalry that King Arthur had gathered, & nourished of diverse lands/ and also the noble knights of the round table/ that so moche were praised through out all the world were there slain/ And Arthur himself was wounded to the death/ but he let him be borne in a lyttyer to Auelon to be heeled of his wounds/ and yet the Britons supposen that he live in another land/ & that he shall come yet & conquer all britain/ but certes this is the prophe cye of merlyn/ he said that his death shall be●…doubtous and said sooth for men thereof yet have doubt/ and shall for evermore as me saith/ For men wit not whether that he liveth or is deed/ Arthur was born to Auelon/ the xxij year of his reign after the incarnation of our lord Ihu christ/ v/ C/ & xluj year/   

How King Arthur delivered the realm to Constantyn the son of Cador his nephew/ Caᵒ. lxxxixᵒ  
When King arthur witted that he might no longer regne he let come before him Constantyn that was Cador's son Earl of corn wail his cousin, & to him betook all his ream/ and to him said, and bade him thereof to been King till that he come again for as much as he had none heir of his body bigoten/ & great ha●… me was it that so noble a King & so doughty had no child of his body bygoten/ but all thing that god will have done/ must be do ne/ whose name be blysshed withouten end/  
Amen/   

How King Constantin was warred of mordredes two sons/ Capitulo lxxxx  
THis Constantin was a noble knight & a worthy of body/ and though two sons that mordred had bigoten had great envy to Constantin/ that though was crowned King/ and so that they bygonne to move were against him, and assembled a great host of 'em that were tofore with mordrede/ and had been driven away & that dieden moche sorrow through all that land. that one brother ordained him to london for to take the city/ and that other to wynchestre/ But Constantin come to london and slow him that was there/ and after he went to wynchestre/ & slow him that there was also, so that both his enemies were deed/ And when Constantyn had reigned worthily iiij year. he died & lieth at london/   

Of the kings Adelbryght and of edel/ Ca/ lxxxxj/  
AFter King Constantins' death/ there were two Kings in bri ta'en/ that one was called Adelbright/ that was a danoys And held the country of norfolk and southfolk/ that other height Edel/ and was a briton/ and held nychol/ lindsay/ & all the land unto humber/ These two Kings fast warrayed to geders/ but after they weren acorded/ & loved to geder/ as they had be borne of one body, The King Edel had a sister that was called Orewenne/ & he gave her through great friendship to King Adelbright to wife/ & he bygate on her a daughter that was called Argentill, & in the fourth year after come upon him a strong sickness/ that needs he must die/ And he sent to King Edelf his brother in law that he should come/ & speak with him/ & he come to him with good will though prayed he the King. & conjured also in the name of god/ that after when he were deed/ he should take Argentil his daughter & the land/ & that he kept her well/ & nourish her in his chambre/ & when she were of age/ she should be married to the strongest & wur thyest man that he might find, and than he should yield up by'r land again/ Edel it granted. & by oath confirmed his prayer And when Adelbryght was deed and entered. edel took the damoisell Argentill/ & nourished her in his chambre. & she become the fairest creature that might live or any man find/ were slain and discomfited. and whiles the battle dured the King pavely hid him/ & stolen away in to wales/ and men wist never where he bycome/ and so was the town of chichester taken & destroyed. And after went gurmond and destroyed cytres and towns that never afterward were made again/ as it is seen yet in many places/   

How this land was called england for the name of Engist and how many Kings were made after in the land Capitulo/ lxxxxuj  
When gurmond had destroyed all the land through out/ he gave the land to the saxons anon/ they took it with good will, for the saxons long time had desired it/ for as moche as they were of Engystes kindred that first had all the land of bri ta'en/ and though let hem be called english men for encheason of Engystes name/ And the land they let call it england in her language, & the folk been called englishmen/ for as much as in his time it was called engystes land/ when he had conquered it of Mortiger that had spoused his daughter/ but from the time that brute come first in to england this land was called britain/ & the folk britons/ but sith the time that this gurmond eftsoons conquered it/ and gave it unto the saxons/ and they anon right chaūged the name as before is said. And when this was done gurmond passed over in to France/ and their conquered many lands and destroyed all christian people there that he come. & the saxons duel led in this land/ and began it fast to inhabit at her own will  
And they would have made new Kings and Lords but they might never assenten to have only one King for to be to hem intendant/ and therefore they made many Kings in divers shires as it was in engystes time, The first kingdom was kent & that other southsexe/ and the third westsexe/ & the fourth estsex. and the v Northumberland/ & the sixth estangle/ that is to say norfolk & southfolk/ & the seventh merchenorth/ & that is the earldom of nychol/ huntingdone/ herford/ gloucestre/ wynchestre/ warwyck/ and derby/ and so departed the english all england in seven parties And after that it befell that though Kings warrayed offtime together. and ever he that was strongest bynome him that was feblyst/ And so it was long time that they ●…ad no King crowned amongs hem/ ne no christian man was tho amongs hem/ ne Crystendome neither/ But were paynims/ till that saint Gregory was pope of Rome. that had seen children of the nation of england in the city of Rome/ that were wonder fair crea●…res/ and had great will and desire 'em to behold/ & axed of the merchants whence they were/ & of what nation/ & m●…n told him that they were of Englond, and Englyssh they were called. but they & all the people of england were paynims/ and believed not upon god/ alas quod saint gregory well may they be called English/ for they have the visage of angels/ & therefore well ought they to be christian. And for this encheason saint gregory sent saint Austyn in to england, & xl good men with him that were of good life and holy men to preach and teach & to conve ●…te the english people/ and hem turn to god/ and that was in the sixth year that saint gregory had been pope/ that is to say after the incarnation of our lord Ihu christ v C lxxxvij year/ as the chronicles tell   

How saint Austyn baptized & converted King adelbright/ & the Bishops that made his fellows, Caᵒ./ lxxxxvijᵒ.  
When saint Austyn come first in to england. he arrived in the isle of Tenet/ and so passed forth/ & come unto Caunterbury/ and there sojourned/ And King Adelbryght of kent that was of the lineage of Engyst fair under fenge saint Austyn & his fellows with moche honour/ and hem fond all that hem needed And furthermore he give 'em a fair place/ that now is called the abbey of saint austyns/ in which place he lieth himself shrined This King Adelbryght was a good man/ & with good will herd saint Austyns' predications/ & gave him leave to preach through all his land to torn and convert to him all the people that he might It befell so afterward through gods grace/ that in little time the King himself was converted to god/ & all his people of his land was baptized/ And in the mean time while the people turned 'em to god saint Anstyn come to Rouchestre/ & there preached god's word/ The paynims therefore him scorned/ and cast on him reygh tails/ so that/ all ●…s mantle was hanged full of reygh tails/ and for more despite they cast on him the gutres of reyghes & of fissh/ wherefore the good man saint austin was sore annoyed & grieved & prayed to god/ that all the children that should be born afterward in that city of Rouchestre must have tai les & when the king witted & heard of this vengeance that was fall through saint Austyns prayer/ he let make an house in honour of almighty god. Wherein women should be delivered of her children at the bridges end/ in which house yet women of the city been delivered of child/ when saint gregory had herd tell how thēg●… were tuurned to god, and converted/ he sent to saint Anstyn his passion by a Bishop that was called paulyn/ & made him p●…mat and archbishop of Englond/ and sent word that he than should ordain/ & make Bishops in the land/ And ●…non as Austyn had the passion of the dignity of the archbishop, he made two Bishops of his fellows that come with him from Rome/ that one was called mellyte. & he dwelled at london/ And that other was called Justyn, that held the dignity of Rochestre/ & this Bishop mellite though went to preach in to estsex/ & baptized the King of the country/ that was called Sygeberte/ that was King adelbryghtes cousin/ his sustres son. This Instyne went to preach in southsex/ & turned moc●… of the people to god/ And saint Austyn went●… himself preaching through out england/   

How saint Austyn went in to wales/ there that the britons were/ & how they nold not be obedient to the archbishop of ●…um terbury/ Caᵒ./ lxxxxviiiᵒ.  
When all england was baptized & turned to god/ saint Austyn went in to that land, there that the britons were/ & for to keep 'em from englishmen/ that is to say in to wales/ And there he found monks and abbeys, & seven Bishops. For the britons destroyed alway the custen people/ that saint Austyn had converted & said to the Bishops that he was a legate of rome & pri mat of all england/ & that they should by all wason to him be obedient. & they said that they nold/ But to archbishop of 〈◊〉 on/ & said/ they would never for no manner thing been obedient to the englishmen/ for the englishmen they said been our adversaries & our enemies/ & have driven us out of our own country/ & we be ●…sten men/ & ever have been. & the englishmen ever have been pay●…/ but now late that they been converted/ saint austin might of 'em none answer have other wise/ but saiden aper●…ly, that they nold neve: hem meek to him/ ne to the pope of Rome/ & saint austyn turned again to King Adolbryght, that was King of kent & told him that his folk nold not be to noman obedient/ but to the archbishop of Caerlyon/ And when the King herd this he was sow annoyed/ and said that he would 'em destroy/ & sent to ●…lfride King of nurthumberland/ that was his friend. that he should come to him with all the power that he might/ and/ that he should meet him at leycester/ & from then●… they would gone in to wales. and destroy the archbishop of Ca●…rlyone/ and all though that had refused saint Austyn/.   

How King Adelbryght & the King olfryde slew brecinale that was a King of britons that held the country of leicester/ Capitulo/ lxxxxix/  
HIt befell so that there was a King Britone that held the country of beycestre/ & all the country about named Brecinale/ And this britone herd tell that though two english Kings would meet there at leicester for to wend in to wales/ he let ordain all the power that he had for to fight with these two Kings/ but little it availed him/ for his folk that he had were/ lain & himself fled & lost his lands for evermore. and these two Kings Adelbryght & elfryd dwelled a while at leicester/ & departed the land amongs hem/ & token homages & feautes of folk of the coum tree/ And after they wenten toward wales/ & though of wales had herd tell of the scomfiture that brecinal had at leicester/ & were wonder sore adread of the two Kings/ & took & chose amongs 'em good men & holy of hermits/ monks & priests & of other folk great plenty that wenten barfoote & wellewerd for to have mercy of the two Kings. But though Kings were so stern & so wykked that they nold never speak with 'em/ but slew 'em everichone/ alas for sorrow/ for they ne spared 'em no more than the wolf doth the sheep. but smitten of the hedes of everichone. & so all were there martyred that to hem come/ that is to understand/ v C/ & xl/ & afterward though two Kings went fro thence to Bangore for to slay all though that they might there find of the Britons And when the britons that herd/ they assembled & ordained all her power for to fight with 'em/ though was there a baron in wales that was called blederyk of corn wail that sometime was lord of Devonshire/ but the King adelbryght had driven him in to wales/ & give him battle. And at that battle was King Adelbright slain/ & elfryd wounded sore/ & forsook the field/ & the most part of his people slain/ & elfrid fled in to Northumberland that was his own land/ And afterward the people of leycestreshyre made with strength Cadewan that was brecynalies son King of beycestre/ & he after reigned nobly & with great honour/   

How Cadewan King of leicester/ & elfryde King of Northumberland were friends/ & of the debate that after was between Edwin and Cadwalyn that were both her sons▪ Capitulo Centesimo.  
ANd after that this battle was done/ the Britons ●…ssembled 'em/ and went thence/ & comen unto leicester/ and made Cadewan that was brecinalies son King of leicester. & of all the country. And he took homages and feautes of all the folk of the country/ And after he assembled a great host/ & said/ he would g●… ne in to Northumberlonde to destroy King elfryde/ & slay him y●… he might. And when he was comen thither. Friends went so bitwe ne hem/ & made 'em accorded in this manner/ that elfryd should hold all the land from humber unto scotland/ And Cadewen should have all the land a this side humber unto the south. & after that they becomen good friends all her lives during/ & loved to gedre/ as they had be two brethren/ And this elfryde had a so ne that was called ed wine/ that had & held all the land of Nor thumberlond after his faders death/ as his father had hold all his lives time/ And Cadewan had another son that was called cawalyn that held his faders land/ as he it held whiles he was a live/ And they loved to gedre/ as they had be brethren/ And the love last between 'em but only two year/  
And after began debate between 'em through a lyther ennious cousin of Cadwalyne that was called briens/ so that they assembled a great host in both parties/ & at●… last it befell that Cadwa line was discomfyt●…d/ & edwin him pursued/ & drofe him fro place to place/ so at●… last he fled in to ireland. & this other destroyed his land/ & cast a down castles/ and bren●… his manners/ and departed all Cadwalyns land among his friends/ And long time after come Cadwalyn again from ireland with a strong power & in plain battle slow edwin/ & all his friendships/ & name lie though that withheld his lands through edwyns yift   

How King oswald was slain through King Cadwalyn/ and peanda/ And how oswy that was saint oswaldes' brother reigned after him/ & slew peand●…/ Ca/ C/ j/  
When that Edwin was slain/ Offries his son undertook the were against God welyne his eme. so that this offry●… deyde during the were/ And after the death of offries though ●…gned a gentle christian man. that moche loved god almighty/ that hadd●… all the land of nurthumberland by heritage/ that was called Oswald/ And he was King of all that land/ But for as moc●… as he was friend to edwin/ & held a great part of the land of God walyn/ the same Cadwalyn warrayed upon him/ and drofe him to ward scotland▪ And when Cadwalyne 〈◊〉 that he nold not abide/ Cadewalyn ●…old no longer him pursue but took some of his folk to peanda his brother in law/ and prayed peanda to pursue oswald till that he were take and slain And Cadwalyn turned home again/ when oswald herd the tiding that Cadwalyn turned home again/ he would no longer fl●… but abode peanda/ & gave him battle/ & peanda was discomfited and fled and come again to Cadwalyn. and said that he would never hold a foot of land of him/ but if were so that he would avenge him of Oswald/ Cadwalyn let assemble a great host for to fight with oswald/ so that he & peanda come unto Northumberland & give battle unto oswald/ & in the same battle was Oswald slain, and his heed smitten of/ & after he was entered at the Abbey of bardeny/ in which place god hath wrought for him many a fair miracle/ both there & else where/ And anon Oswy his brother seized in to his hand all the land that was 〈◊〉 and the folk of nurthumberland loved him wonder well and held him for her lord/ but he had men of his kin worthy ynowg●…/ that would have departed the land/ and they warrayed to g●…dre/ & for as much as they were not strong enough. they comen to peanda and prayed him of help and succour. and byhete him of that long largely upon covenant that he would hem ghye/ & help/ & council▪ P●…anda heard her prayer/ and so spoke with the King Cadwallyn that he should ordain a great host & fast ordain him in to nurthumberland for to fight with oswy/ And Oswy was a meek man and moche loved peace and cha●…e/ and prayed Peanda of love and peace/ & proffered him of gold & of silver gret●… pl●…n te. And this peanda was so proud/ that he nold grant him peace for no manner thing/ but for all thing he would with him fight/ so at the last there was set a day of battle. And oswy ever had trust upon god/ And this peanda trust to moche upon his pride and upon his host that he had/ & together they s●… eagerly/ but peanda anon was discomfyded & slain/ & this was after thyn●…rnacion of our lord Ihesu christ uj/ C/ &/ lv year/ and this Oswy though reigned xxviij year/ and a King that was called oswin/ that was peandaiss cousin w●…rryd upon King Oswy/ & to gedre fought/ but oswy had the victory of oswin & oswyn was discomfited & slain/ and lieth at Cynnemouth/   

How King Cadewaldre that was Cadewaleyn●… son reigned after his father/ and was the last King of briton●…/ Capitulo/ C/ ijᵒ/  
AFter the death of Cadwaleyne/ reigned his son Cadwaladre well & nobly/ & his m●…der was the sister of King peanda/ & when he had reigned xij year he fell in to a great sickness/ & than was there so great discord between the Lords of the land that every warrayed upon other/ and yet in that time/ there fell so great dearth and scarcity of corn/ & other victuals in this land that a man might go iij days or iiij fro town to town that he should not find to buy for gold ne for silver breed wine ne none other vytaill werwith a man might leave/ but only the people lived by roots of herbs/ for other living had they none so much was it failed all about/ fishes wild beasts & all other thing/ so that yet to this misadventure there fell so great mortality & pestilence among the people by the corruption of the eyer/ that the living people/ ne sufficed not to bury the deed bodies/ far they deide so suddenly both great & small/ lord & servant/ eting going/ speaking/ so that ne ver was herd of more sudden death among the people/ for he that went for to bury the body/ with the same deed body was buried They that mighten flee. fledden/ & forsook her lands & houses/ as well for the great hunger/ dearth/ & scarcity of corn/ & of other victual/ as for the horrible mortality & pestilence in the land/ & wen●…n in to other lands/ for to save her lines/ & left the land all desert and waste/ so that there was not any man to travail & till the land/ ne ere/ ne sow. so that the land was barren of corns & all other fruits/ for defaute of tylyers/ & this misadventure 〈◊〉 ●…ed enlenen year/ and moo/ that no man might ere ne sow/   

How Cadwaladre went out of this land in to little britayne  
CAdwaladre saw the great hunger mortality & pestilence/ and the land all power/ and failing corns & other victuals & his folk perished. and saw also the most party of his land all wasted and wide of people. he appareled him & his folk that were left on live/ and passed over in to little britain with a little navy unto King aleyne that he much loved/ that was his cousin & that his father had much loved in his time/ and as they sailed in the see/ he made gre●…e lamentation. & so did all though that were with him and said/ Dedisti nos domine tamquam oves escarum/ & in gentibus dispersisti nos/  
ANd than began Cadwaladre to compleyn him to his folk piteously/ and said/ alas said he to us wretches and Caytyf. For why for our great sins. of the which we would not amend us while we had space of repentance is comen upon us this misadventure/ which chaseth us out of our own realm/ & propre soil/ fro & out/ of which sometime Romans Scots▪ Saxons ne danes might not exylen us/ But what availeth it now to us that before time oftsides have gotten many other lands. sith it is not the will of god that we abide & duelle in our own land/ God that is very jug/ that all things knoweth before they be done or made/ he seeth that we would not cease of our sins/ and that our enemies ne might not us ne our lineage exylen fro and out of our realm/ he would that we amend us of our follies/ and that we seen our proper defaults & therefore hath he showed to us his wrath & will chastise us of our misdeeds/ Sith that he doth us without battle or strength of our enemies by great companies wretchedly to leave our own realm and proper land/ turn again ye Romans/ turn again ye Scots/ turn again ye Saxons/ turn again ye Fraunsoys now showeth to you Brytayne all desert/ the which your power might never make desert ne yet your power hath not now put us in exile/ but only the power of the King almighty whom we have oft offended by our follies/ the which we would not leaven until he chastised us by his divine power/ Among the words and lamentation that the King Cadwaladre made to his folk/ they arrived in little britayne/ and come to King aleyne before said/ And the King resseyned him with joy/ and made him to be served wonder nobly/ and there he dwelled long time after/ The english people that were left on live and were escaped the great hunger and mortality lived in the best wise that they might/ and moche people sprung and come of 'em  
And they senten in to Saxon/ where they were ●…rne to his friends for men/ women & children to restore the cities with people & other towns that were all wide of people/ and for to labour trava ill and tillen the earth/ when the saxons had herd this tiding they comen in to this land wonder thykke in great companies/ And lodged and herburghed 'em in the country all about/ where they would/ For they found no man hem to let ne withstand/ And so they woxen and multiplied greatly/ and used the customs of the countries/ whereof they were comen/ and the laws and the language of her own land/ And they changed the names of cities towns castles & burghes. & gave hem names & called 'em as they be now called/ And they helden the countries baronages/ lordships/ and trees/ in manner as the britons before time had compaced hem/ And among other great companies that come fro germany in to this land. came the noble Queen/ that was called sexburga with men and women/ without number/ and are rived in the country of nurthumberland/ and took the land from Albyone in to corn wail for her & for her folk, For there was none that mighten let hem/ for all was desolate & wide of people But it were a few pour britons/ that were left in mountains and woods until that time/ And fro that time forth losten Britons the royalme for all days/ And the english people begun to regne/ and departed the land between hem. and they made many Kings about by diverse parties of the land/ as here been devised/ the first of westsex/ the second merchenrich. the third estangle/ the fourth kent/ the fifth southsex/ Alle these reigned in this land after Cadwaladre was passed out of this land/ and dwelled in little Britain with King Aleyne his cousin/ & true friend/ And when he had long dwelled there/ and had knowing that the mortality and pestilence was over passed/ & that the land was replenished of Alyene people/ he thought to turn again in to his own land/ And prayed King Aleine his cousin of succour & help that he might be restored in to his pro pre realm/ and first dignity/ And King Aleyne granted him his prayer/ Than did he apparayllen him to take his weigh/ and viage in to this land. and prayed god almighty devoutly that he would make to him demonstration/ if his prayer in to this land were to him pleasant/ or none/ for again the will of god almighty he would nothing done/ when he had thus devoutly made his prayer. a voys fro heaven to him said/ ●…and bade him leave that journey away in to england/ & that he go to the pope of Ro me/ For it was not the will of almighty god that britons reign no more in Britain/ ne never recover the land unto the time that the prophecy that merlyn said before/ be fulfilled/ & that should never been unto the time were comen. that the relics of his body shall be brought fro Rome/ and translated in britain/ & when the relics of other saints that have been hid for the persecution of the paynim folk/ shall be founden/ & openly showed/ than shall they recover her land again/ which they have so long time lost through her deserts/ when Cadwaladre had heard this answer/ he marveled greatly/ and told it to King Aleyne/ Than King aleyne did send for the clergy of his land/ & made 'em to bring the stories & prophecies that merlyn & sibi●… had said in her prophecies/ & when he knew that the prophecy that festome had prophesied of the eagle/ & other prophecies acorded to the divine ansuere/ that Cadwaladre had herd/ he counciled him to leave his people & his navy/ & submit him to the disposiaon of god/ and done all that the angel had commanded him/ Than cad waladre called ynor his son & ivory his cousin/ that was his sister's son. and said to hem/ Take said he my folk. & my navy/ that is here all ready/ & pass in to wales/ & be ye Lords of britons that no dishonour come to 'em by Interuption of the paynim folk for default of Lords/ And he himself left his ream of bri ta'en & his folk for evermore/ and took his way to Rome to the pope Sergius/ the which worshipped him moche/ and so he was confessed/ and took penance for his sins/ And he had not long dwelled there that he ne died the Yijs kalend of may/ the year of grace/ v/ C●…/ lxxix/   

How King offa was sovereign about all the Kings of england/ & how every King werrxd upon other/ Ca/ C. ij  
IT befall so that all the Kings in that time that were in the land as they of westsex/ merchenryche Estangle of kent and of southsex and of other costs each warrayed upon other/ & be that was most mighty took the land of him that was most feeble/ But there was a King amongs 'em that was called Offa that was saint oswaldes brother/ This offa conquered all the Kings of the land/ & reigned above 'em all/ And so great was the were in every country between Kings that no man might wite how the land went/ But abbot's. Pryours'/ & men of religion written the lives & the deeds of Kings/ & how long every reigned had & in whose ceuntrey and in what manner every King died & of Bishops also And thereof made great books and let call hem the chronicles And the good King Alured had that book in his ward & let bring it at wynchestre and let it fast be 〈◊〉 k unto a pillar that men might not remove ne bear it thence so that every man might it see and thereupon look For therein be the lives of all the Kings that ever were in england   

How the King of nurthumberland osbright forlay the wife of Buerne bocard through strength and after this buerne conquered the King with power & strength Ca C iij  
ANd thus it befell in the same time/ that there was a King in nurthumberland that was called Osbryght/ & sojourned in york/ and this King went him upon a day in to a wood/ him for to disport. and when he come again/ he went privily in to a good man's house that was called Buerne/ And the good ●…n of that place was gone that time to the sce/ for oft-times he was woned there aspye & await thieves & robbers/ that oft-times were woned to come in to the land/ to rob. brenne/ and slay/ The lady that was this buernes wife was a/ wonder fair woman/ & welcomed the King with much honour/ and worthily him served in all thing/ when the King had eaten/ he took the lady by the hand. & lad her in to a chambre/ and said that he would speak with her a council/ & all the folk from the chambre he made void sauf only the lady & he/ but the lady witted not where for he it did/ till that he had done with her his will/ & when he had done this deed/ he turned again to york. And the lady he lefre there wonder sore weeping for the deed that he had y done/ & when her lord was com●… home & saw her weep & such sorrow & morning make/ he axed of her what she had done/ & why she made such sorrow Sir qd she queyntely/ & falsely the King Osbryght me hath do ne shame & villainy against my will/ & told him truth/ how the King had her forlayne with strength. Wherefore she said/ she had liefer to die than live/ fair leef be still quoth he/ for against strength feebleness is little worth/ & therefore of me shalt thou never the lass be loved/ & namely/ for thou haste me told truth/ & if almighty god grant me life/ I shall the well avenge/ This buerne was a great man & a mighty lord/ & was well beloved and great friends had and let send for the greatest Lords of the land & to hem made his complaint of the despite that the King to him had y done and said that he would been avenged how so that ever it were/ and all his friends connceyled & granted to wend to ward york/ there that the King was/ And buerne took his main/ and come to the King/ & when the King him saw/ he called him courtously buerne by name/ and buerne him answered/ and to him said/ sir I you defy/ & yield up feautes. homages/ & lands/ & as much as I have hold of you/ & so fro this time forward/ I will never of the nothing hold/ And so he departed from the King without more speech/ or any abiding/ & took leave of his friends. and went to denmark/ & plained to the King godryne. & told him the despite/ that King osbright to him had done of his wife/ & prayed him of succour/ and of help him to avenge/ when King godryne of denmark & the danoys had heard the plaint of this buerne/ & of the prayer that he bade/ they were wonder glad in heart/ for as much that they might find cause for to gone in to england for to were upon the englishmen/ & all so for to avenge buerne of the despite that the King had done to his wife/ and for as much as Buerne was sib to the King of denmark/ anon they let ordain a great host of men/ & let ordain ships/ & as much as was need to that viage/ And when all the host was a ready/ the King made his two brethren chieftains/ that were noble knights & bold/ that one was call lid hunger/ & that other hubba/   

How the danoys took york/ & slew the King Osbryght/ and after ward King elle/ Caᵒ./ C/ iiijᵒ.  
When all thing was ready/ though two brethren took leave of the King godryn/ that went toward the see for to wend in to england as fast as they might speed/ Now is buerne so well con forted/ and fast hied him with the danoys that they been arrived in the northcountre/ and comen through out holdeines/ & destroyed all the country/ & brent towns/ & rob folk/ & slew all that might be take/ till they come to york/ And when King osbright saw 'em come/ he took his people that he had/ and come out of the city/ & fought with 'em/ but no foison he and against hem And moche was the people/ that there was slain in both parties. And King Osbright himself there was slain/ and the city anon was take/ and the danoys wenten in/ And their was also another King in nurthumberland that buernes friends had chosen/ and held him for King/ a man that was called elle. for as much as they would not to King osbright been attendant/ for the despite that he had done to buerne her cousin/  
Hit befell thus that the King else was gone to wood him for to disport/ and of venison somedeal he had take/ and as he sat in the wood at meet to a knight he said. we have well y sped & moche venison taken. and with that word there come in a man/ and to him said. If ye so moche of venison have wonnen/ an hundred so moche more there against ye have lost. For all this country the danoys have get/ and take the city of york/ & against you shall it hold that never ye shall not come therein And for sooth they have slain the King osbryght And when King elle these words herd he let assemble all the folk of the country and ordained all the power that he might have & would have get the town of york with strength/ but the danoys come out anon/ & gave him battle/ & slew the King & the most part of his men that he brought with him/ & the same place there they were slain shall ever be called Ellecroft/ & that place is a little from york/ And though abode the danoys never till they had conquered all northun berlond/ And in that country they made wardens/ & went ferther in to the land/ & token notyngham/ & there they abiden all the winter/ & dieden the sorrow that they might/ And after when summer time come/ they remeved fro Notyngham/ and come in to nychol & to lindsay/ & to holond/ For no man might hem withstand so moche power & strength they had/   

How saint Edmond the King was martyred/ Caᵒ/ C. vᵒ.  
ANd so far had the danoys passed from country unto country & evermore brenning & robbing/ & destroyed all that they might till they comen unto Thedford/ And in that country they founden a christian King/ that much loved god and his works/ that was called Edmond/ And he was King of norfolk/ & south folk/ This saint edmond King ordained as much folk/ as he might & fought with the danoys/ but he & his folk were discomfited/ & the King himself driven unto the castle of Framelyn ham/ & the danoys him pursued/ & come unto the same castle/ And when King edmond saw that the castle might not hem withstand he come against 'em with whom the danoys first speaken/ & anon they axed of him where King edmond was now forsooth said he when I was in the castle/ there was the King/ & when I went out of the castle/ he went out also/ & whether he shall escape or die/ at god's will more it be/ when saint edmond had named god/ by that they wisten well all that it was he himself/ and anon hubba & humbar took him/ & said that he should god forsake and all christian law. as many other had done him he forne/ & saint edmond said that he nold never but rather he would suffer death for god's love and his laws to keep/ though took they saint edmond. and bound him unto a tree/ and made her archer's to him sheet with arrows till that his body stykked as full of arelbes. as an urchon is full of pixckes/ But for all the pain that he had/ he would never god forsake/ and in the same pain and tourment he died. & betook his soul to god/ and when they saw that he was deed/ they smitten of his heed/ And this manner was saint edmond martyred/   

How hubba & hunger took the town of redyng/ Caᵒ./ C/ vjᵒ.  
When saint edmond was martyred hubba and hunger went thence with all her danoys unto reading/ And as they went thitherward/ they brent towns/ and cities/ and slew all Crysten people/ that would not god forsake/ & cast a down churches/ & come to reading & took the town/ & there held 'em till that the King Edelf of westsex come thither/ with all his power for to take the to●… ne/ Tho come out the danoys for to give battle to King edelf/ & at that battle was slain an Earl of danoys that was called adrake upon the morrow come the King elred & his brother Alured with a strong power & a great host/ And the King Edelf come again that had fought the day before to that battle/ And the danoys though comen out for to fight with 'em/ and the battle was wonder strong. for many a man was there slain/ & the danoys that day had the victory/ & the King eldred & his brother allured that day were discomfited/ but the fourth day afterward the danoys & the englishmen fought together another time upon Ekeldenne. And there was slain a King of denmark. that was called Rafyn/ & four Earls of great power/ And that day had the danoys shame for they were driven unto engelfel●…/ and the xv day after the danes/ & the englishmen fought another time at Rafing/ & there were th'Englishmen discomfited/ and from thence a danoys/ that was called Roynt went to reading with his host. and destroyed all that he might take/ And King eldred fought with him/ but he was wounded so wherefore he was deed/ and he had not reigned but five year and lieth at wonburne   

Of King Alured/ & how the danoys in his time prayed him of mercy that they must goon out of the land/ Ca/ C/ seven/  
AFter the death of this Eldred/ reigned his brother Alured/ that Dolfynes was called/ though went the danoys and ass●… bled hem/ & went for to seche Alured that though was the new King of southsex/ and there they found him at wyltone with a little people/ and nevertheless he fought with 'em/ but at last he fled thence from the field/ and went in to westsexe. and ordained so moche people of his own royalme/ and also of other so till that he had a strong host/ so that the danoys had no power against him to stand/ and he come to london with his host, & there where the danes sojourned. & there would he have fought with 'em/ but the danes durst not with him▪ fighten/ but prayed him of peace/ & that they must gone again in to her own countrry/ & nevermore in to england for to come again any harm to done/ And upon this covenant they should give him to pledge good hostages/ & such as the englishmen would axen   

How hubba and hunger were slain at Chippenham/ & how the danoys brought her King to our King/ Caᵒ./ C/ viijᵒ.  
ANd the same day that the danoys departed from london so fast they ridden both night & day/ & never took rest of going till that they comen unto exeter/ and took though the town/ & there held 'em when King Alured herd the tiding/ anon he let take the hostages. And went from thence to excestre with all the power that he had/ And when the danoys heard all of his coming they wenten fro thence in to westsex/ and come to shippenam and there they dieden moche harm in the country/ they rob folk/ and brought 'em in prison/ The King allured 'em pursiewed and come upon 'em/ and fiercely hem assailed/ and there were slain both hubba/ & hunger his brother and buerne/ Bocard/ & in this battle was much folk slain in one party & in that other/ but the gore of the field left with the danoys/ For as much as the King though come with little company/ The King hasted him as much as he might for to wend again/ & when the Danoys founden hubba his body ligging deed/ they entered it, and made upon it a great lodge/ & let call it hubbeslowe/ and so it is called in to this day/ & that place is in Devonshire/ The barons of Somersete. wylteshyre/ and dorsete herd tell how that her king was discomfited & ordained all the power that they mighten have & come to the King there he was, & thanked god that they had him found alive, for they had went that the danoys had him slain though took they a council the King & his barons that they would gone & seche the danes with hem to fighten. & so they riden all that night 'em for to seche & comen a morrow about prime to abingdon there that the danoys were. The King though Alured & his barons assembled & there assailed the danes eagerly/ & there gave hem a strong battle & the danes nobly put 'em of long time that no man witted in whether party more people were slain/ But thus it befall/ as god would that the King Alured had the victory with moche honour/ For the daneys were so driven that they ne wist whither for to torn/ & xv days the King hem pursued at his will that glad & fain they were for to speaken of peace and of accord & token him good hostages/ & said that they would never more upon him were/ ne none debate arere/ and more over they lehiht to the King Alured/ that they would gone/ and bring her own King unto him/ & that her King and they all should be baptystd And upon this condition King Alured him granted life & limb me/ And said to him that they should gone her King for to seche & at a certain day to comen again that to hem was set/ and so they went forth fast/ & comen again at her day that was assigned And all the danoys brought her King with 'em. The King Alu red anon let hem been baptized/ & her names change-soo that the King of danoys called was Athelston/ & thirty of his fela des names were changed also/ & the other were baptized to the right believe/ And all this was done at westmynstre/ & after that the King Alured held with him the King athelston/ & all his danes xij days at sojourn with moche solemnity, & gave 'em greet yefts after that they were baptized/ & so they departed, though was Alured all at ease/ when he had his enemies overcome/ & that they were turned to the right believe of almighty god/   

How the dandies that comen in to france with gurmond comen again in to england/ & of the death of King allured/ Ca, C ix  
ANd thus it befell after ward that the danoys of northumberlonde that were paynims comen with a greet strength & an huge host of france/ that is to understand with 'em that went in to france/ with gurmond of aufcyk when he had conquered England. and it gave unto the saxons/ and though that comen fro France arrived in kent/ & sent in to nurthumberland/ that they should come to hem/ and when though two hosts were come/ and assebled/ anon they wenten to destroy the christian people of england from place to place/ & dieden moche sorrow/ Hit befell thus as all mighty god would an hard chance in england/ For the good King Alured that was woned to abate the danoys/ deyde in the mean tyme. This King allured reigned thirty year/ and a good King had been. and well could chastise his enemies/ for he was a good clerk & let make many ●…ostes/ And a book be made of englyss●… of adventures of kyngee & of battles that had been done in the land & many other books of gests he let 'em write that were of gre●… wisdom & of good learning through which ●…okes many a man may him amid that will hem ●…de & upon ●…oke/ upon whose soul almighty god have mercy/ And this King allured lieth at wynchestre   

Of King edward that was King Aluredes son/ Caᵒ./ C/ xᵒ./  
ANd after this Alured reigned edward his son that wa●… a good man and a wise/ that was called edward that was wonder courtoys/ the danoys did moche sorrow in the land/ & her power increased and 'gan for to wax from day to day/ for the danoys comen of●… with her companies in to this land. And when the King saw that he might no bet●… do/ he took truce with hem and granted 'em his peace. And nevertheless the truce dur●…d not long that the danes strongly gone for to were upon th'English men/ and did much sorrow/ wherefore King edward died assemble a great host for to fight with 'em, And though this King Edward died when god would This King edward reigned xxiv 〈◊〉/ and lieth at wynchestre besides his father/   

Of King Athelston and of edmond eldred/ and of Edewyne his brother/ Capitulum/ C/ x●….  
AFter this edward reigned Athelston his son And when be had reigned four year/ he held battle against the danes and drofe King gaufred that was King of the danes/ and all his host unto the see/ and rested by scotland/ and took strongly the country all a year. And after that though of Cumberlond/ and the Scots of westmoreland begun to were upon King athelston/ And he hem gave so strong battle that he sl●…we so many of 'em/ that no man coude tell the number of 'em/ And aft●…r that he ne reigned but three year/ & he reigned in all xxv/ and lieth at mal●…esbury/ And after this Athelston reigned Edmond his brother/ for as much as King athelstone had no son/ And this Edmond was a worthy knight & a doughty man of body/ & a noble knight/ And the third year after that he was King/ he went over humber/ in which place be fond two Kings of danee, that one was called enlaf/ & that other renant/ this King Edmond drofe hem both from the land/ & after went. & took a great pray in Cumberlond/ This Edmond ne reigned but senen year/ & lieth at glasten bury/ and after this edmond reigned Eldrede his brother that avenged Edward his father of his enemies/ that him slew/ & afterward he seized nurthumberland in to his hand & made the scottrs bow/ & meek unto his will/ & the second yer●… that he had reigned come arnalaf guyran that was King of denmarst and seized all nurthumberland/ & held that land two year/ & after that come King Eldred with a great power & drofe him out of this land. And this King eldred was a noble man/ and a good of whose goodness saint dunstan preached/ and this King Eldred reigned xj year, & lieth at wynchestre/ And after this eldred Ed wine son of Edmond his brother reigned/ & was a lither man to ward god & the people/ for he hated folk of his own land/ & loved & honoured strange men/ And set little by holy church & betook of holy church all the treasure that he might have/ that was great shame & villainy to himself & peril to his soul/ & therefore god would that he should not regne no longer than seven year/ & lieth at wynchestre/   

Of King edgar that reigned above the Kings of scotland/ & of wales. & how he was bygyled through taking of his wife/ Caᵒ./ C/ ●…ᵒ.  
ANd after this Edwin reigned Edgar his brother a man that much loved god & peace/ & holy church also, & was a worthy lord/ bold & mighty, & maintained well this lā●… 〈◊〉/ And this edgar was lord & King above all the kynge●… 〈◊〉 scotland & of wales/ from the time that Arthur was agone/ & never was King sithen of his power/ And this edgare was saint Ewardes father/ And when edgares wife was deed/ that was saint Edward'S mother & entered/ he heard speak of the fairness of estrylde that was orgarus daughter a baron of devonshire/ that was so fair a woman/ that all men speaken thereof/ he called one of his knyht●…s that he moche loved & trusted upon & told him/ So quoth he to the noble baron Orgar of Devonshire/ & see if his daughter be so fair as men speaken of/ & if it be soothe/ I will have her unto my wife/ this knight that was called ●…delwold went forth his weigh & come there that the lady was & when he saw her so fair he thought to have her to wife himself. & thereof spoke to Orgar her father/ & orgar was an old man, & had no ●…o children, but only her/ & saw that edelwold was a fair young kny●…t & worthy/ & rich/ and was well with the King/ & thought his daughter should well be married/ & well ●…eset upon him/ & granted him his daughter/ if the good lord the King would consen●… thereto/ This edelwold come again to the King▪ & told him that she was fair enough upon to see/ but she was wonde: loathly, though an suerd the King & said that he took but 〈◊〉 charge. Sir quod edel would/ she is her faders heir, and I am not ry●… of 〈◊〉 And if ye would consent & gra●…/ that I must her have than should I be rich enough/ In god's name quoth the King I con sent thereto/ Edelwold thanked though moche the King. & went ayent in to devonshire/ & spoused the damosel, & in that country he duel lid/ And thus it befell upon a tyme. that he told his counsell & all this thing unto his wife/ how & in what manner he had begifed his lord the King that would have had her to wife/ & anon as she it wist/ she loved him nevermore afterward/ as she had done before/ This lady conceived by him a son/ & when time was that the child should be borne/ Edelwold come to the King/ & prayed him to have a son of his at fontstone/ the King him graūted & let call him Edgar of his own name/ And when this was done/ he thought that he was siker enough of the King that nold not have taken his wife for as much as his lord was a jolly man & an amorous   

How that King edgar wedded estrylde after the 〈◊〉 of Edelwold/ Ca/ C/ 〈◊〉  
THus it befell that all men in King edgaris court though 〈◊〉 & said that edelwold was richly advanced through the 〈◊〉 ●…yage of his wife. And yet they said. he was advanced an ninety fold more/ For he had spoused the feyrest woman/ that ever was seen/ And the King heard speak so moche of her beauty/ He thought that edelwold had him deceived/ and beguiled/ and thought pavely in his heart that he would gone in to Devonshire as it were for to hunt for the heart & for the hind & other wild be ste●…/ & than he should see there the lady or he departed thence, And this lady was dueling at a manner besides the forest there that the King would hunt/ & at that manner he was lodged all nygh●… And when time come/ the King should soap and the son shone the King asked after his gossip/ and after his godson/ & Edelwold made her come before the King/ And nevertheless if it other might have been she should not have comen in his sight by his wit The lady welcomed the King and sweetly him kissed/ and he took her the hand/ and though next by him her set●…e/ and so soped they to gedre/ And though was a custom & usage in this land/ that when a man drunk unto another, the drinker should say wassayll, & that other should answer, drink haylle/ and thus died the King & the lady many times and also kissed/ And after 〈◊〉 when time was gone to bed, the King went unto his bed 〈◊〉 thenking upon that Ladies fairness/ and though was overcome for her love that him thought that he should die. but of her his will he had/ upon the thorn the King aroos, & in the forest went him there to disport with hearts and hinds & all other wild beasts/ and of the hearts great plenty to that lady he sent/ & thrice he went to solacen & speak with that lady whiles he dwelled in that country And after that the King removed thence/ & thought how he my●…t best deliver Edelwold from his wife/ as he had him first deceived/ And the King anon after eight days let ordain a parliament at salisbury of all his barons council to have/ and for to ordain how the country of nurthumberland might best be kept/ that the danoys come not there the land to destroy/ & this Edelwold come also unto the kings parliament/ & the King sent him to yo●…ke for to be kepar of that country/ And thus it befell that men that knew him not/ slow him by the weigh/ And anon as the King herd that he was deed/ he let send after the lady Estryld/ that she should come to the city of london/ & there been wedded to the King with great solemnity & worship/ and held a solemn fest and be wered a crown of gold/ & the Queen another/ And saint dunstan a morrow come unto the King in to the chamber/ and f●…ū de the King a bed. & the Queen also yfere/ & saint dunston axed who she was/ the King answered the Queen estryld/ and the arch Bishop said that he did great wrong. and against gods will to take a woman to wife/ whose child he had take at the fontstone And the Queen for that word never after loved saint dunstan/ 〈◊〉 nevertheless the good man warned of that folly to let/ but his ●…yng availed little for the love between 'em was so much The King bygate upon this woman a son that was called Eldred/ and though the child was six year old/ the King his father died/ & about that time he had reigned xvij year/ & lieth at glastonbury/   

Of saint Edward the martyr/ how estryld his stepmother let him 〈◊〉 for to make eldred her own son King/ Ca/ C/ xiv/  
ANd after this edgar reigned edward his son that he byga●… on his first wife/ that well & nobly governed the land/ for 〈◊〉 was full of all manner goodness/ and lad full holy life/ & above all thing he loved god and holy church/ And the Queen Es●…ryld his stepmother leete him slay/ for encheason to make her own son eld●…ed King/ and thus was he slain as afterward ye shall here/ Hyt befell thus on a day that the King edward went in to a wood for to play in the south country besides a town that is called warham/ in which forest was great plenty of hearts & hinds/ & as he had been ●…a while there him for to play he thought upon his brother eldred that was with his mother the Queen▪ for her place was nigh the forest/ & thought for to gone thither for to visit & see high brother/ & took with him but a little meinie▪ & went him tho toward his stepmoders' house that in that time sojourned in the castle of Corfe/ & as he road in the thykkenes of the wood to aspye his game/ It befell that he went amiss & lost his meinie that with him come/ & at last he come o●…te of the wood/ & as he looked about/ he saw there fast besides the manner that his stepmother dwelled in/ & thitherward he went all one. And anon it was told the Queen how that the King was comen alone without company/ & therefore she made joy enough/ & thought how that she might done that he ner slain as prevelich 〈◊〉 she might/ & anon privily she called to one of her knygh●…s/ to whom she had told moche of her conn●…yll between 'em 〈◊〉 both they comen to the King & courteously him received/ and the King told that he was come her to visit/ & also for to speak with ●…dred his brother. The Queen many times him thanked/ & him prayed for to alight & lodge with her all that night▪ The King said that/ he might not but again he would wend unto his folk if he might 'em find/ And when the Queen saw that he would not abide/ she prayed him that he would once drink/ & he granted her and anon as the drink come/ the Queen drank unto the King and 〈◊〉 King took the cup & set it to his mouth/ & in the mean time ●…les that he drank/ the knight that was with the Queen with a knife smote even the King unto the heart/ & there he fill a 〈◊〉 deed of his palfrey unto the earth▪ The Queen for this deed ya●… to the knight gold & silver great plenty/ & of other richesse 〈◊〉 And the knight anon as this was done. he went him over the 〈◊〉/ 〈◊〉 so escaped he out of this land/ when this King edward thus was martyred/ Hit was in the year of incarnation of our lord. ●…u ●…st. ●…x. C/ lxx●…/ year/ & he had reigned xij year & an half/ & lieth at glastenbury.   

Of King e●…dred/ 〈◊〉 how the King sweyne of denmark held 〈◊〉/ And how Eldred that was saint edward's brother was not ●…ed in his Royame's/ & therefore he fled in to normandy/ 〈◊〉/ C /ᵒ. 〈◊〉ᵒ.  
AFter this King Edward reigned Eldred his brother/ and saint dunstan crowed him/ & this saint dunstan died soon after that he had foryeve the Queen her trespass/ Estryld for encheason that she was cause of King edward's death/ & saint dunstan had her assoiled▪ & penance her enjoined/ & she lived after chaste life & clean/ This King eldred wedded an english woman/ and on her bygate edmond Irensyde/ & another son that ●…as ca●…led edwyne and after died the Queen her mother/ And in that time come in to England sweyn that was King of denmark for to challenge and conquer all that his ancestors' had before that time and so he conquered & had it all at his asking. For the good Earl Cut●…ert of lindsay/ & all the people of nurthumberland/ & almost all the great of england held with sweyne that was King of den mark/ for as moche as they loved not King eldred for encheason that his good brother edward was slain f●…ely for encheason of him/ & therefore noman set but little by him. Wherefore King sw●…yn had all his will/ and took all the land/ And eldred the King fled tho in to normandy/ & so spoke to the du●… richard that the duke gave him his sister Emma to wife/ upon the which he 〈◊〉 gate two sons/ that one was called Alured/ and that other Ed ward/ And when sweyn had conquered all the ●…ād/●…e ●…gned no bly/ and lived but fifteen year/ & died & lieth at york/   

How King eldred come again fro normandy/ and how knought the danoys reigned/ & of the were between him 〈◊〉 Edmond Irensyde/ C●…/ C/ 〈◊〉  
AFter the death of sweyne that was a danoys knoght his so ne dwelled in england/ & would have be King/ and though 〈◊〉: again eldred out of normandy with moche 〈◊〉/ and wit●… a strong main/ that knoght durst not abide/ but fled thence in to Denmark/ The King eldred had again his royalme/ & 〈◊〉 sed great lordship that he began to destroy all though that 〈◊〉 Sweyn that was a danoys against him/ And afterward 〈◊〉 again this knoght from denmark with a great power/ so 〈◊〉 ●…yng. E●… d●…ed durst not with him fight/ but fled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…o lon●…n/ 〈◊〉 there held him. though come knought and him 〈◊〉/ ●…o long 〈◊〉 King eldred died in the city of london/ & 〈◊〉 at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & he reigned nine year/   

Of King knoght. Ca/ C 〈◊〉  
AFter the death of this eldryd knought that was 〈◊〉 danoys bygan though for to regne/ but Edmond Irensyde that was King ●…ldredys soon by his first wife ordained a great host/ & by 'gan to were upon King knought/ & so he did many times/ and of●…/ & the were was so strong & hard that wonder it was to wite/ And the Queen Emme that dwelled tho at westmynstre had g●…te dread of her two sons of the were allured & edward l●…ste they should be defoiled. & misdone through this werr/ wherefore she sent 'em over see in to Normandy to the Duke Richard her vucle & there they dwelled in safety & peace long time/ This Edmond Irensyde & knoght warrayed strongly to geders/ but at last they were acorded in this manner/ that they should depart the Royamme by●…wene hem/ & so they dieden/ & after they becomen good friends & so well loved that they becomen sworn breth●…ren/ & so well loved to geders/ as they had ●…e brethren gotten of one body/ & of one mother y borne/   

How King Edmond Irensyde traytou●…sly was slain through a traytonr that was called edryth of stratton/ Caᵒ/ C/ xv●…ijᵒ.  
ANd after though reigned King edmond Irensyde. and knought the danoys/ but thus it befell afterward/ that in the same year that they were acorded/ & so much loved together/ wherefore a fall se thief traitor had envy unto the love that was between 'em & friendship/ whose name was Edryst of s●…ratton/ that was a great lord that was edmond I●…ensydes man/ & of him held all the land that he had/ & nethe●…s he thought his lord to betray/ & make knoght King of the land in intent richly to ●…en auaun●…d and with him well be beloved/ wherefore he prayed his lord edm●…d Irensyde upon a day with him for to eaten and to duelle/ and the King courteously him granted. & to him come at his prayer/ and at the meet the King rially was served with diverse meats and drinks/ and when night come that he should go to bed/ the King took his own main▪ and went in to chambre/ and as he looked about/ he saw a wonder fair image & well made/ & in sem●…t as it were an archyer with a bow bend in his hand/ & in the bow a fyn a-row/ King edmond went tho near to behold it letter what it might been/ & anon the a-row him smote through the body. and there slow the King/ for that engine was made to slay his own lord traitorously/ And w●…n King edmond thus was deed and slain/ he and reigned but x year/ & his people for him made moche sorrow/ and his body they ●…ere unto glastenbury/ & there they him entered/ And this falls traitor Edryth anon went to the Queen that was King edmonds wife that witted of her lords death anon he took from her two sons that were fair & young that her lord had upon her gotten that one was called edward/ & that other e●… dewy●…. & lad hem with him to london/ & took 'em to King knoght that he should do with 'em what his will were/ & told him how queyntely he had slain King edmond/ for encheason & love of him so that King knoght all england in his power holy might have O thou fal●… traitor/ hast thou my tr●…we brother slain for encheason of me/ a man that I most loved in the world/ Now be mine heed/ I shall for thy travail the well reward/ as thou hast deserved/ & anon let him take/ & bind hand & fe●…te in manner of a traitor & let cast him in to thamyse/ an●… in this manner the false traitor ended his life/ T●…e King took tho two children/ & took 'em to the ab●…ot of westmynstre to ward and to keep till he wist what was best with 'em to done/   

How King knoght saint King edmondes sons both in to denmarck for to slay/ and how they were saved/ Caᵒ./ C/ nineteen/  
HIt befe●…e soon afterward that King knought had all the land in his hand. & spoused the Queen emme through the consent of his barons for she was a fair woman that was eldred●…s wife & the Duke's sister of normandy/ And they lived together with moche love as reason would/ The King axed upon a day coū●…eyll of the Queen what was best to done with the sons that we●…e edmond Irensydes. Sire ●…nod she they be the right heirs of the land/ & if they lyven/ they will you do moche sorrow with were/ & therf●…r let send hem in to a strannge land a far to some man that may hem defoil and destroy/ The King anon let call a danoys that was called walgar/ & commanded him that he school the lead though two children in to denmark. & so do/ & ordain for ●…m that never they 〈◊〉 ●…o tidings of hem/ sir said this 〈◊〉 gladly your commandment shall be done/ & took though two children & led 'em in to denmark/ & for as much as he saw that the chyldr●… were wonder fair & also me●…/ he had of hem great pyt●… & ●…uth & would not hem slay but led hem to the King of ●…ūgary for to n●…yce For this walgar was well byknowen with the King & ●…oued/ Anon the King axed whence the children were/ and walgar told him & said that they were the right heire●… of engl●…d/ & therefore men would 'em destroy/ & their sir to you they ●…e comen mercy & help for to seche & forsooth if they mow lyven/ your men they shall becomen/ and of you they shall hold all her land/ The King of hungary hem underfeng with moche honour/ and let hem worthily to ●…en kept/ And thus it fell afterward that edwyne the younger brother died/ and eward the elder brother lived a fair man & a strong & large of body/ & gentle & courteous of conditions/ so that all men him loved. And this edward in the cronykles is call led amongs englishmen edward the outlaw/ And when he was made knight the kings daughter of hongary so much him loved for his goodness & his fairness that she made and called him her darling/ The King that was her father perceived well the love that was between 'em two/ & had none heir but that daughter/ & the King ●…ouched his daughter to no man as well as he did to him that she loved & he her/ & he y●…fe her unto him with good will/ & edward her spoused with moche honour/ the King of hungary sent after all his barons/ & made a solemn fest & a rich wedding/ & made all men to understand that he should be King when that he were deed/ & therefore all they made great joy/ & of that tiding they were full glad/ This edward bygate upon this lady a son that was called edgar ●…lyng/ & afterward a daughter that was called margrete that afterward was Queen of Scot land. & by the King of scotland that was called malcolyn she had a daughter that was called mawde/ that was Queen afterward of england through King henry/ that was the first son of the conqueror that her w●…dded/ & he bygate upon her a daughter/ that was called mawde/ that after was Empress of Almaigne/ and of th●… maude come the King of england that unto this day is called henry the Empress son/ And yet had this edward another daughter by his wife that was called Crystyan/ & she was a nun   

How King knoght that was a proud man conquered Norwey & how he become afterward meek and mild/ Capitulo/ C/ xx/  
Now have ye herd of Edmondes' sons with Irensyde that King knoght wend that they had been deed/ as he had comman●…d walgar before/ And this knought had in his hand all england and denmark/ and after that he went to norwey that land to conquer/ But the King of the land that was called Elaf come with his people/ and ●…ende his land we'll have kept and defended/ and so there he fought with him/ till at the last he was slain in that battle/ And though this knoght took all that land in his hand/ And when he had conquered Noreweye▪ & taken fea●…tes & homages there he come after again in to england & held himself so great a lord that him thought in all the ●…orld his peer no man was▪ & become so proud/ & hauteyn/ that it was great wonder/ And so it befell upon a day as he had herd mass at westmynstre/ & would have gone in to his palace the wawes of the thamyse so swiftly against him comen that almost they commanded his feet/ though said the King with a proud heart/ I command the water to torn again/ or else I shall make thee/ ●…he wawes for his commandment would not spare/ but flowed over in ●…e more & more/ the King was so proud of heart that he w●…ld not ●…e the water/ but abode still in the water/ And beat the water ●…th a small yard that he held in his hand/ and commanded the water that it should wend no ferther/ but for all his commandemen●… the water would not cese/ but ever wa●… more & more an high/ so that the King was all wete/ & stood deep in the water/ And when he saw that he had abide there to long/ & the water would n●…thynge done his commandment/ though soon he withdrowe him/ & though 〈◊〉 he upon a stone. & held his hands an high/ & said this word in hearing all people/ This god that maketh the see thus arise an ●…gh he is King of all Kings. & of mights most/ & I am a 〈◊〉 and a man deadly. & he may never die/ & all thing doth his com●…dement/ & to him is obedient/ To that god I pray that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my warrant. For I knowledge me caitiff fe●…e & of no power/ and therefore I will go to Ro●… without any letting my wy●…dnes to punish/ & me to amend/ For of that god I claim my land for to hold & of none other/ And anon made ●…dy his 〈◊〉 & himself to Rome without any letting▪ and by th●… w●… died many alms deeds/ and when he come to rome also/ and when he had ●…en there & for his sins done penance/ he come again in to Englond/ & become a good man and an holy/ and 〈◊〉 all manner pride & stoutness/ & lived an holy life all his life after/ and made two abbeys of saint benet/ one in england/ & that other in Norwey. For as much as he loved specially saint Benet before all other saints/ and moche also he loved saint edmond the King and of●…e he gave great yefts to the house/ wherefore it was made rich/ & when he had reigned xx year/ he died & lieth at wynchestre   

Of King harold that liefer had gone in foot. than ride ●…n 〈◊〉 Capitulo/ C/ xxj/  
THis knoght/ of whom we have spoken before had two sons by his wife emme that one was called hardyknoght, & that other harold/ & he was so light of foot that men called him comenlych harold hare foot/ And this harold had no thing the conditions & manners of King knoght/ that was his father/ for he set but little pries of chivalry/ ne of courtesy/ neither of worship but only by his own will/ And he become so wykked that he exiled his mother emme/ & she went out of the land in to flanders & there dwelled with the Earl. Wherefore after there was never good love between him & his brother/ for his brother him hated deadly/ & when he had reigned two year & a little more he died/ & lieth at westmynstre/   

Of King hardeknoght that was heralds brother/ Caᵒ/ C/ xxij.  
AFter this harold harefoot/ reigned his brother hardeknoght a noble knight & a worthy/ & moche loved chivalry. and all manner goodness/ And when this hardeknought had reigned a little while/ he let uncover his brother harold, & smite of his heed that was his brother at westmynstre & let cast the heed in to a gonge, & the body in to thamyse/ & after come fishers & took the body with her nets by night/ & bear him to saint cl●…mēts church/ & there him buried/ And in this manner avenged him hard knoght of his brother/ For in none other manner he might be au●…ged/ This King hardeknoght was so large yever of meet & drink, that his tables were set every day three times/ full with ryal meats & drinks for his own main/ & for all that comen unto his court to be richly served of ryal meats. And this King hardeknoght sent after Emme his mother/ & made her come again in to england/ for she was drive out of england/ whiles that ha' rolled harefoot reigned through counsell of the Earl godewyn that though was the greatest lord of england next the King/ & most might do what he would through all england/ through his commandment/ for as much as he had spoused the daughter of the good King knought, that was a danoys/ which daughter he had by his first wife/ and when this Queen was drive out of Englond/ & come to the Earl of flanders that was called baldewyne his cousin/ He fond her there all thing that her needed unto the time that she went again in to England/ that the King Hardeknoght had sent for her that was her son/ & made her come again with moche honour This King hardeknoght when he had reigned v pere. he died/ & lieth at westmynstre/   

Of the villainy that the danes died to the english men/ where for from that time after was no danes made King of england/ Capitulo/ C twenty-three/  
AFter the death of this King hardeknoght for as much as he and nothing of his body bygote/ the Earls & barons assem bled and made a council/ & never more after no man that was a danoys/ though he were never so great a man amongs 'em he should never be King of england for the despite that the danoys had done to english men/ For evermore before hand if it were so that englishmen & danes happeden to meet together upon a budge/ the englishmen should not be so hardy to move ne steer a foot/ but stand still till that the danoys were apassed/ And more over if the englishmen had not abowed down her hedes to done reverence unto the danoys, they should have been beat & defouled/ & such manner despytes & villainy dieden the danoys to our englishmen/ wherefore they were driven out of the land after time that hardeknoght was deed/ For they had no lord that hem might main tene/ In this manner voided the danoys england that never they come again/ The Earls and barons by her common assent and counsel senten unto normandy for to seche though two brethren allured & edward that were duelling with the duke Richard/ that was her eme in intent for to crown allured the elder brother & him make King of england/ and of this thing to make an end therfes & barons made her o'th'/ But th'earl goodwin of 〈◊〉 falsely & traytously thought to slay the two brethren anon as they should come in to england in intent to make his son Harold King. the which son he had bygoten upon his wife that was King knoghtes daughter that was a danoys. & this godewyn pri vely went him in to southhampton for to meet there the two brethren when they should come to land/ & thus it be fell that messengers sagers that went in to normandy found not but only Alured that was the elder brother/ For edward his brother was gone to hunga rye/ for to speak with his cousin edward the outlaw that was edmonds son with the Irensyde/ the messengers told & said to allured how that th'earls & barons of england sent after him/ & that he boldelyche should come in to england/ & unde: fong the ream/ For: King hardeknought was deed/ & all the danoys were driven out of the land,   

How Godewyn the false traitor took Alured upon Gyldesdoune when he come f●…o normandy to be King of england/ and did him been martyred in the yl●… of ely/ Caᵒ./ C/ xxiiijᵒ.  
When Alured heard this tiding/ he thanked god/ and in to ship went with all the haste that he might/ & passed the See. And arryned at south hampton there that Godewyn the traitor was/ And though this traitor saw that he was come/ he welcomed him & underfeng him with moche joy/ & said that he would lead him to london there that all the barons of england him abode for to make him King, & so they went in her weigh to ward london And when they come upon gildesdone though said the traitor godewin to Alured/ Take keep about you both on the life side & on the right side/ And of all ye shul be King & of such an hond●…rd more, now forsooth quod Alured I behote you/ & if I be King I shall make & ordain such laws whereof god and all fol k●… shu●…en 'em hold well paid, Now had the traitor commanded all his men that were with him/ that when they were come v●…on gyldesdone/ that they should slay all that were in alureds come panye/ that come with him fro normandy/ And after that taken Alured and lead him in to the isle of Ely/ & there put out both his eyen of his heed. and afterward bring him unto death/ & they dieden so/ for they slew all the company that xij were in number of gentlemen/ that were come with Alured from normandy/ And after token Alured/ & lad him in to the isle of ely/ & put out his eyen out of his heed/ & rend his womb. & token the chief of his boels/ & put a stake in to the ground. & an end of the boels there to fastened/ & with needles of iron prykked the good child & so made him go about the stake/ till that all his bowels were drawn out/ & so died there allured through treason of the Earl godewyn/ when the Lords of england had herd/ & wist how Alured that should have been her King was put unto the death through the false traitor godewyn. they were all wonder wroth/ & swore between 'em god & by his holy names that he should die in more worse death/ than did edryth of stratton/ that had betrayed his lord edmond Irensyde/ & they would have put him to death/ but the thef traitor fled thence in to denmarck/ & there held him four year/ & more & lost all his land in england   

Of saint edward the confessor that was Aluredes brother/ how he was King of england. Ca /ᵒ. C/ xxvᵒ./  
ANd when this was done all the barons of england senten another time in to normandy. for that edward should come in to england with moche honour/ And this edward in his childhood loved almighty god & him dread/ And in honest & cleanness see lad his life/ & hated sin as death, And when he was crowned and ennoynted with a ryal power/ he foryate not his good manners & conditions that he first used/ and foryate not all good customs for no manner honour/ ne for no manner riches/ ne for no manner ●…ghnes, but evermore & more gave him to goodness/ and well l●…ed god and all meekness/ & loved god & holy church passing all manner thing/ & pour men also/ & 'em loved & held/ as they had been his own brethren/ & to hem oft gave great alms with good will,   

Of the first specyalyte that god showed for Edward'S love by his life/ Caᵒ./ C/ xxvjᵒ/  
IT befell on a day as he went from the church of westmynstre/ and had herd mass of saint Johan evangelist/ for as much as he loved saint evangelist more specially after god and our lady/ than he did any other saint/ And so their ●…me to him a pilgrim and prayed him for the love of god and of saint Johan evangelist some good him for to give/ And the King privily took his ring of his finger that no man percerued it/ and gave it to the pilgrim/ & he it underfeng and went thence/ This King edward made all the good laws of england. that yet been most holden/ and was so merciable and full of pity that no man might be more/   

How th'earl godewyn come in to england/ and had again all his land. and after ward saint edward wedded his daughter/ Caᵒ./ C. xxvijᵒ.  
When th'earl godewyn that was duelling in denmark had moche heard of the goodness of saint Edward/ and that he was full of mercy & of pity, And thought that he would gone a gain in to england for to seche/ & to have grace of him. & that he might have his land in peace/ and arrayed him as much as he might/ and put him toward the See, And come in to england to london. There that the King was that time/ and all the lo●●●s of england/ & held a parliament/ godewin sent to 'em that were his friends/ and were the most greatest Lords of the land & prayed 'em to beseech the kings grace for him/ and that he would his peace & his land grant him/ his enemies lead him before the King to seche grace/ And anon as the King him saw/ he appelled him of treason, and of the death of Alured his brother/ & these words unto him said/ traitor Godewyne quoth the King I the appeal that thou hast betrayed and slain my brother Alured/ Certes sir quod Godewyn save your grace and your peace and your lordship. I never him betrayed/ ne slew him/ & therefore I put me in reward of the court/ Now fair Lords qd the King/ ye that been my lyeges Earls and barons of the land/ that here been all assembled/ full well ye have h●…rd mine appeal/ & the answer also of godewyn/ And therefore I will that ye award and do right/ The Earls and barons though drawn 'em all to gedre for to done this award by 'em self/ & so they speaken diversly amongs hem/ For some said there was never alliance by homage serment service ne by lordship between Godewyn/ & Alured/ for which thing they might him draw/ & at the last they devised and deemed that he should put him in the kings mercy all to geders/ though spoke the Earl leveryche of coventry a good man to god & to all the world/ & told his reason in this manner/ & said the Earl godewyn is the best friended man of england after the King/ & well might it not been gain said that without counsel of godewyn Alured was never put to death/ wherefore I award as touching my part that himself & his son & every of us/ xij/ Earls that been his friends wend before the King charged with as much gold & silver. as we mow bear between our hands/ & praying the King forgive his evil will to th'earl godewyn/ & receive his homage/ & his land yield again/ & all they accorded unto that award/ And comen in this manner as is above said every of 'em with gold & silver as much as they might bear between her hands before the King/ & they saiden the form/ & the manner of her accord and of her award/ The King would not hem gain say/ but as moche as they ordained, he granted and confirmed/ & so was th'earl godewyn accorded with the King/ & had again all his land And afterward he bear him so well and so wisely that the King loved him wonder much/ and with him was full prive.  
And within a little time, the King loved him so moche that he spoused godewyns daughter/ & made her Queen/ and nevertheless for all that though the King had a wife, he lived evermore in chastity/ & in cleanness of body without any fleshly deed doing with his wife & the Queen also in her half lad holy life two year & died/ And afterward the King lived all his life without any wife/ The King gave the earldom of oxenford to harold that was godewynes son & made him Earl/ And so well they were beloved both the father & he & so prive with the King both the father & the son/ that they might done what thing they would by right. For against right would he nothing done for no manner man/ so good & true he was of conscience, & therefore our lord Ihu christ great specially love to him showed   

How King edward saw Sweyne King of denmark drenched in the see in the sacrament as he stood & herd mass/ ca/ C xxvij/  
IT befell upon whitsunday as King edward herd his mass in the great church of westmynstre right at the levation of Ihesu Christ's body. And as all men were gathered in to the church & come near the altar sacring for to see the King his houdes ●…te upon high, & a great laughter took up/ wherefore all that about him stood greatly gone Wondre/ and after mass they axed why the kings laughter was/ fair Lords quoth t●…e King/ Sweyne the younger that was King of denmark come in to the see with all his power for to have comen in to england up on us to have warrayed, & I saw him & all his folk drenched in the high see/ & all this saw in the elevation of Ihu Christ's body between the priests hands, & I had thereof so moche joy that I might not my laughter withhold/ and the Earl leveryche besides him stood at the levation, & openlyche he saw the form of breed torn in to a likeness of a young child/ & took up his right bond & first blessed the King & afterward th'earl/ & the Earl anon turned him toward the King to make him see that holy sight/ And though said the King/ sire Earl said he I see well that ye see thanked be god that I have honoured my god my saviour vys●…ly Ihesu christ in form of man whose name be blessed in all worlds  
Amen   

How the ring that saint edward had give to a pour pilgrim for the love of god/ & saint Johan evangelist come again unto King edward Capitulo/ C xxix  
THis noble man saint edward reigned xiij year/ and thus It be fell upon a time before ere he died that two men of england were went in to the holy land/ ●…nd hadden done her pilgrimage/ and were going again in to her own country/ And as they went in the weigh they met a pilgrim that courteously he in salved. and axed in what land and in what country they were borne/ And they said/ in england/ Tho axed he who was King of england/ & they answered & said the good King Edward/ fair friends though said the pilgrim/ when that ye come in to your country again/ I pray you that ye will gone unto King edward/ & oft-times him great in mine name/ And oft times thank him of his great courtesy/ that he to me hath done and namely for the ring that he give me when he had herd mass at westmynstre for saint Johns' love evangelist/ and took though the ring and took it to the pylgryms/ And said I pray you for to gone and ●…re this ring/ and take it to King edward/ and ●…rl le him that I sent it him and a full richer gift I will him give. For upon the. xij. day he shall come to me/ and evermore duelle in bliss without end/ sir said the pylgryms/ what man l●…n ye/ and in what place is your duelling. Fair friends quoth le I am Johan the evangelist/ and am duelling with almighty god/ And your King edward is my friend/ & I love him specially for encwson that he ever hath lived in cleanness/ and is clean maid/ And I pray you my message all for to done/ ●…o I have to you said/ when saint Johan enangelyst had thus l●…m charged suddenly he wyded out of her sight/  
The pilgrims though thanked almighty god/ and went forth in her way/ And when they had gone two or three mile/ they begun to wo●…e weary/ And sat a down him for to rest/ and so fell a sleep/ And when they had slept well, one of 'em a work & lif●…e up his heed. and looked about and said unto his fellow/ Arise up/ and wend we in our weigh/ what said that one fellow to that other/ where be we now/ Certes said that other/ It seemeth me that this is not the same country/ that we laid us in for to rest and sleep/ For we were from Jerusalem but three miles/ They token up her hands and blessed hem/ and went forth in her way/ And as they went in her weigh/ they saw shepherds going with her sheep that speaken none other language but english leave friends qd●… one of the pilgrems what country is this/ & who is lord chewf. & one of the shepherds answered/ this is the country of kent in england/ of the which the good King edward is lord The pilgrims thanked almighty god/ and saint John evangelist/ & went forth in her weigh/ & come to Caunterbury. and fro thence in to london/ & there they found the King. & told him all fro the beginning unto the end/ as moche as saint Johan had 'em charged/ and of all things how they sped by the weigh/ and took the ring to King edward/ & he underfeng it & thanked almighty god/ and saint John evangelist/ And though made him a ready every day from day to day. for to wend out of this life/ when god would for him send/   

How saint edward died on the xij day/ Ca, C/ thirty/  
ANd after it befell thus in christmas eve as the holy man Edward was at god's service mannes for to here of the high fest, he become full sick// & in the morrow endured with moche pain the mass for to here/ and after let him be lad in to his chambre there for to resten him/ but in to his hall amongs his bawns & knights might he not come 'em for to comfort & solace as he was woned for to done at that worthy fest/ wherefore all her mirth & comfort amongs all that were in the hall was in to care/ & sorrow/ for encheason that they dread for to l●…sc ler good lord the King/ And upon saint Johans' day evangelist tho that come next/ the King underfeng his rights of holy church as falleth to every christian man, & abode the mercy & the will of god. & though two pylgryms he let before him come/ & gave h●…m rich yefts & betook 'em unto god/ And also the abbot of westmynstre he let before him come/ & took him that ring in honour of god & saint mary/ & of saint John evangelist/ & the abbot took & put it among other relics/ so that it is at westmynstre and ever more shall be/ & so lay the King seek/ till the xij even/ & tho died the good King Edward at westmynstre/ & there he lieth/ For whose love god hath showed many fair miracles/ & this was in the year of incarnation of our lord ihu christ/ in, lxv/ year/ And after he was translated/ & put in to the shrine through the noble martyr saint thomas of Caunterbnry/   

How Harold that was good wyns son was made King/ and how he scaped fro the Duke of normandy/ Caᵒ./ C/ xxxi  
When saint Edward was gone out of this world/ & was gone to god/ & worthily entered/ as it appertained to such a lord for to be/ the barons of the land would have had Edward Helyngus son to Edward the outlaw that was edmond Irensydes son to be King for as much as he was most kyndeste Kings blood of the ream/ But harold son of th'earl godewyn through the strength of his father good win and through other great Lords of the royamme that were of his kin/ & unto him sibbe seized all england to his hand/ and anon let him crown King after the interment of saint edward/ This harold that was godewynes son the second year tofore that saint edward was deed would have gone in to flanders/ but he was deyve through tem pest in to the country of pountyf/ & there he was take & brought to the duke william/ And this harold went though that Duke william, would have been avenged upon him for encheason that th'earl Godewyne that was harols father had let slay Alured, that was saint edward's brother/ and principally for encheason that allured was Queen enemies son that was rychardes mother duke of nor mandy that was ayell to the duke wylliam/ And nevertheless when the Duke william had harold in prison/ and under his power for as much as this harold was a noble knight wise and worthy of body/ & that his father and he were accorded with good King edward/ and therefore would not misdone him/ but all manner things/ that between hem were spoken/ & ordained Harold by his good will swore upon a book/ & upon holy saints that he should spouse & wed due williams daughter after the death of saint edward/ & that he should busily done his devoir for to keep & save the royalme of england to the profit & advantage of Duke william/ & when harold had thus made his oath unto duke wylliam/ he let him go/ & gave him many rich yefts/ & he though went thence & come in to england/ & anon deed in this manner/ when saint Edward was deed & as a man falsely forswore/ he let crown him King of england/ & falsely broke the conenaunts that he had made before with Duke william/ wherefore he was with him wonder wroth and swore that he should upon him been avenged what ever so him befell/ And anon Duke william let assemble a great host/ & come in to england to avenge him upon harold/ & to conquer the land if that he might/ And in the same year that harold was crowned harold harestrenge King of denmark arrived in scotland. & thought to have been King of england/ & he come in to england & slew/ and rob & destroyed all that he might till that he come to york/ and there he slew many men of arms a/ M/ & an ninety priests/ when this tiding come to the King. he assembled a strong power & went for to fight with harold of denmarck/ and with his own hand him slew/ & the danes were discomfited/ & though that left a live with moche sorrow fled to her ships/ And thus King Harold of england slow King harold of denmark.   

How william bastard Duke of normandy come in to england/ and slew King harold/ Caᵒ./ C. xxxijᵒ./  
ANd when this battle was done/ harold become so proud & would no thing part with his people of thing that he had gotten/ but held it all toward himself/ wherefore the most party of his people were wroth/ & from him departed. so that only with him left no more but his soldiers/ And upon a day as he sat at meet/ a messagyer come to him & said/ that william bastard Duke of normandy was arrived in england with a great host/ 〈◊〉 had taken all the land about hasting/ and also mined the castle/ when the King had herd this tiding/ he went thither with a little people with all the haste that he might for a little people was with him left/ And when he come thither/ he ordained for to give battle to the Duke william/ But the Duke axed him of these three things/ if that he would have his daughter to wife as he had made and sworen his oath/ and behyght/ or that he would hold the land of him in truage/ or that he would determine this thing through battle, This harold was a proud man and a stout/ and trusted wonder moche upon his strength/ and fought with the Duke and with his people/ but harold and his men in this battle were discomfited/ & himself was there slain. And this battle was ended at Conbrydge in the second year of his reign upon saint kalyxtes day. and he lieth at waltham/  
Of King william bastard/ & how he governed him well and wisely/ & of the were between him, & the King of France/ Capitulo C/ xxxiij/ w●… Han william bastard, Duke of normandy had conquered all the land upon crystemasse day/ though next sueng/ he let him crown King at westminster/ and was a worthy King/ and gave to En glysshmen largely lands. & to his knights  
And afterward went over the see/ and come in to Normandy and Theridamas dwelled a while/ And in the second year of his regne le come again in to Englond/ and brought with him maude his wife/ & let crown her Queen of england on whitsunday, And though anon after the King of Scotland that was called malcolyn began to strive and were with the Duke william. and he ordained him tho toward scotland with his men to the by land & by see for to destroy King malcolyn/ but they were acorded/ And the King of scotland become his man/ and held all his land of him And King william resseyned of him his homage/ & come again in to england/ and when King william had be King/ xvij/ year/ maude the Queen died, on whom King william had bygoten many fair children/ that is for to say Robert Curthose/ william. le Rous/ Richard also that died/ Henry beauclerk/ and maude all so/ that was the Earls wife of Bleynes. & other iiij daughters/ & after his wife's death great debate began between him/ & the king of france philip/ but at last they were acorded/ & though dwelled the King of england in normandy/ & no man him warrayed & he no man long time/ & the King of france said upon a day in scorn of King william/ that King william had long time lain in childbed/ and long time had rested him/ & this word come to the King of england there that he lay in normandy at Roen/ & for this word was though ill paid. and eke wonder wroth toward the King of france/ & swore by god that when he were arise of his gysyn/ he would light a thousand candles to the King of France/ And anon let assemble a great host of normandy/ and of englishman/ & in the beginning of harvest/ he come in to france/ & brent all the towns that he come by through all the country/ & rob bed/ and did all the evil that he might through out all france/ & at last he brent the city of mandoes. & commanded his people for to here wooed/ & as much as might burn and himself help thereto all that he might with a good will/ And there was great heat what of fire that was so great & of the son/ that though was wonder hot/ that all stuffed himself become/ & fell in to a greet sickness, & when he saw that he was so strong sick. he ordained and assigned all normandy unto Robert Curthose his son/ & all england to wylliam the rous/ & byquath to henry beauclerk all his treasure/ And though he thus had done. he underfeng all the sacramentis of holy church/ & died the xxij year of his regne/ and lieth at khan in normandy.   

Of King william Rous that was wylliam bastards son/ that destroyed towns & houses of religion for to make the new forest/ Capitulo C/ xxxiiij/  
ANd after this william bastard reigned his son william the Rous. and this william was a wonder contrarious man, to god and to holy church, and let amend and make the town of Cardeys that the paynims had destroyed/ This King william destroyed holy church & all her possessions in what part he might 'em find/ & therefore there was so moche debate between him & the archbishop of Caunterbury Anc●…lme/ for encheason that he undernamme him of his wickedness that he destroyed holy church/ And for encheason thereof the King to him bore great wrath and for that cause he exiled him out of the land/ And the archbishop though went to the court of Rome/ & there dwelled with the pope/ and this King made the new forest/ & cast & destroyed xxuj towns/ and lxxx houses of religion all for to make his forest longer and bredder, And become wonder glad and proud of his wood/ and of his forest. and of the wild beasts/ that were therein/ that it was marvel for to wite/ so that men called him kepar of woods and of pastures. and the longer that he lived/ the more wykked he become both to god & to holy church/ & to all his men, And this King let make the great hall at westminster/ so upon a day of whitsunday he held therein his first feste/ and he looked about & said that the hall was to little by the haluendele/ And at last he become so contraryorous/ that all thing that pleased god displeased him/ & all thing that god loved/ he bated deadly/ And so it befell that he dreamed/ & met upon a night a little or that he died/ that he was let blood. and blood a great quantity of blood/ & a stream of blood leapt an high toward heaven more than an/ C/ fathem/ & the clearness of the day was turned all in to darkness/ and the firmament also/ And when he awoke he had great deed/ so that he nyst what to done/ and t●…ld his dream to many of his counsell, And said that he had great dread/ and supposed that him was some mischance to come/ And the second night before/ a ●…ōke dreamed of the household/ that the King went in to a church with moche people/ & he was proud/ that he despised all the people that was with him/ and that he take the image of the crucifix/ and shamefully boat it with his treth. And the crucifix meekly suffered all that he did/ but the King as a wode man rent of the arms of the crucifyx/ and case it under his feet/ and defouled it/ & three we it all a broad/ & a greet flame of fire c●…m onte of the crucifix mouth, of which dream many men had great wonder/ The good man that had dreamed this dream had told it to a knight that though was most prive with the King of all men/ & the knight was called bamsides son And the monk & he told the dream to the King and said that it should bytoken other thing than good and nevertheless the King lau ghed there at twice or thrice/ & little set thereof/ & thought that he would gone hunt & play in the fovest/ and his men him counsel led that he should not that day for no manner thing come in the wood/ so that he abode at home before meet/ But anon as he had eaten/ no man might him let that he nold gone to the wood for to have his disport/ And so it befell that one of his knights, that hight walter Tyrell would have shot to an heart/ & his arrow glansed upon a branch, & through misadventure smote the King to the heart & so he fell down deed to the ground without any word speaking & so ended his life/ & it was no great wonder for the day that he died he had let to fermethe archebisshopriche of Caunterbury & xij abbeys also/ & ever more did great destruction to holy church/ thurugh wonrgful taking & axyng/ for no man durst withsay that be would have done/ & of his lythernes he would never withdraw neither to amend his life/ & therefore god would suffer him no longer regne in his wickedness/ & he had been King xiij year/ & sixth weeks, and lieth at worcester/   

Of King henry beauclerke that was william Rous brother/ & of the debate between him & Robert Curthose his brother Capitulo/ C/ xxxv/  
ANd when this william Rous was deed/ henry beauclerke his brother was made King for encheason that wylliam rous had no child bygoten of his body, and this henry beauclerk was crowned King at london the fourth day after that his brother was deed, that is to say/ the fifth day of August/ And anon as Ancelme that was archbishop of Caunterbury that was at the court of Rome herd that wylliam Rous was deed. he come again in to england, and the King beauclerk welcomed him with moche honour/ and the first year that King henry was crowned he spoused maude that was margaretes daughter/ the Queen of Scotland/ And the archbishop Ancelme of Caunterbury wedded 'em/ And this King biga●… upon his wife two sons and a daughter/ that is to say/ william Richard/ and maude, And this maude was after the Empress of Almaigne/ And in the second year of his regne, his brother Robert Curthose/ that was duke of normandy come with an huge company in to England for to challenge the land/ but through connceylle of the wise men of the land they were acorded in this manner that the King should give the duke his brother a thousand pound every year/ and which of 'em longest lived, should been other heir/ & so between he in should be no debate ne strife/ and when they were thus acorded/ the Duke went home again in to normandy/ And when the King had reigned four year/ there aroos a great debate between him/ & the Archebissho of Caunterbury Ancelme/ for cause that the archbishop would not grant him for to take tallyage of churches at his will, And therefore eftsoon the archbishop went over the see to the court of Rome/ & there dwelled with the Pope/ And in the same year Duke of normandy come in to england for to speak with his brother/ And among other things the Duke of normandy for gave to the King his brother the foresaid thousand pound by year that he should pay him/ And with good love the duke went though again in to normandy/ And when though two year were a gone through enticement of the devil/ and of lyther men/ a great debate aroos between the King and the Duke/ so that the King through counsel went over the see in to normandy/ And when the King of Englond was comen in to Normandy/ all the great Lords of Normandye turned to the King of england/ and held against the Duke her own lord/ and him forsook/ and to the King hem yelden and all the good castles and towns of normandy/ And soon after was the d●…k tasten/ and lad with the King in to england/ and the King le●…e put the Duke in to prison/ And this was the vengeance of god/ for when the Duke was in the holy land/ God gave him such might and th'honour/ there wherefore he was chosen to been of ●…emsasem King, and he would not be it/ but forsook it/ & therefore sent him that shame and despite for to be put in to his brother's prison/ though seized King henry all normandy in to his hand/ and s●…e it all his lives time/ And in the same year come the Bishop Aun●…lme from the court of Rome in to Englond again/ and the King and he were acorded.  
And in the year next coming after there began a great debate between King philip of France/ and King henry of england/ wherefore King henry wend in to normandy/ And the were was strong between hem two. And though died the King of France/ & Louis his son was made King anon after his death And though went King henry again in to england/ & married man de his daughter to henry the Emperor of almain/   

Of the debate that was between King Louis of France/ & King henry of england/ & how King henry's two sons were lost in the high see/ Capitulo C/ xxxvij.  
when King henry had been King xvij year/ a great debate aroos between King Louis of france/ and King henry of england for encheason that the King had sent in to Normandye to his men/ that they should been helping to th'earl of Bloys as much as they might in were against the King of france/ & that they were as ready unto him as they would been unto her own lord/ for encheason that th'earl had spoused his sister dame mand/ for which encheason the King of France did much sorrow to normandy, wherefore the King of england was wonder wroth/ & in haste went over the see with a strong power/ & come in to nor mandye for to defend that land/ & the were between 'em lasted two year together/ till at the last they two fought together/ & the King of France was discomfited & uneath scaped away with moche pain/ & the most part of his men were take/ & the King did with 'em what him liked/ & some of 'em let he go frelych & somme let he put to the death/ but afterward tho two Kings were acorded/ And when King henry had holych all the land of Normandy/ & discomfited his enemies of France, he turned again in to england with moche honour/ & his two sons william & Richard would come after her father, & went to the see with a great company of people/ but or that they might come to land/ the ship come against a roche & break all in to pieces/ & all were drenched/ that were therm safe one man/ that was in the same ship/ that escaped/ & this was on saint kateryns day/ & these were the names of 'em that were drenched/ that is to say wylliam the Kings son/ richard his brother, th'earl of chestre/ Otto●…el his brother Geffroy ridelle/ wal●…er emurcy/ Godfrey archedeken/ the kings daughter the Countess of perses/ the kings niece. the Countess of chester, and many other/ when King henry/ and other Lords arrived were in england/ & herd these tidings/ they made sorrow enough & all her mirth & joy was turned in to moruing & sorrow   

How mawde the Empress come again in to england. And how she was afterward wedded to geffroy the Earl of Angeo/ Capitulo. C xxxvij  
ANd when that two year were a gone that the Earl had duel led with the King/ the Earl went tho from the King/ and began to were upon him/ & did moche harm in the land of normandy, and took there a strong castle/ & there he dwelled all that year/ And though come to him tiding/ that henry the Emperor of almain that had spoused maude his daughter/ was deed/ and that she dwelled no longer in almain/ and that she would come again in to normandy her father/ And when she was come to him/ he took 〈◊〉 though to him/ and come again in to En glond/ and made the englishmen done oath & feaute unto the Em peresse/ And the first man that made the oath was william the archbishop of Caunterbury/ and that other King david of scot land/ & after him all the Earls and Bawns of england/ And after the noble man the Earl of angeo a worthy knight sent to the King of england that he would grant him for to have his daughter to spouse maude the Empress/ And for encheason that her father wist that he was a noble man/ the King granted him, & consented thereto/ & though took his daughter/ & lad her in to Normandy/ and come to the noble knight Earl gaufred & he spou said the foresaid maude with moche honour/ and the Earl biga●… up on her a son that was called henry th'empress son/ And after when all this was done/ King henry dwelled all that year in nomandy/ And after that long time a grievous sickness took him/ where through he died/ And this King henry regne●… xxxv/ 〈◊〉/ and four months/ & after he died as before is said in norm●…dy and his heart was entered in the great church of our lady in Ro aen/ And his body was brought with moche honour in to england and entered at reading in the abbey/ of the which abbey he was beginner and foundour   

How stephen King henry's sustres son was made King of england/ Ca●…/ C/ xxxviij●…/  
AFter this King henry that was the first was made King his nephew his sisters son stephen Earl of Boloyne/ For anon as he heard tiding of his uncles death/ be passed the See/ and come in to england through counsell/ and strength & help of many great Lords in england against her oath that they had made to maude the Empress took the royalme & let cronne stephen King of the land/ And the archbishop william of Caunterbury that first made the oath of feaute unto maude the emperes see set the crown upon King stephen's heed/ & him ennoynded and Bishop Rogyer of salisbury maintained the kings party in as much as he might/ The first year that King stephen began to regne/ he assembled a great host. & went him toward scotland for to have werrid upon the King of scotland/ but he come against him in peace/ & in good manner/ & to him trusted, but he made to him none homage/ for as much as he had made homage to the 'em peresse maude/ & the fourth year of his regne, maude the Empress come in to england, & though began debate between King stephen, & maude th emperesse/ This maude went in to the city of nychol & the King her besieged long time/ & might not speed so well the city was kept & defended/ & though that were within the city queyntely escaped away without any manner harm/ & though took the King the city & dwelled therein till candelmesse/ And though come the barons that held with the Empress that is for to say the Earl Randulphe of chester/ the earl Robert of gloucestre hugh bygot/ Robert of morley/ and brought with 'em a strong power & fought with the King & give him a great battle/ in which battle King Stephen was taken & set in prison in the castle of Brystowe/   

How maude the Empress went fro wynchestre unto oxenford And after she escaped to wallyngford/ and what sorrow/ & disease that she had/ Capitulo, C/ xxxix.  
When the King was take & brought in to ward in the castle of Bristol/ this maude the Empress anon was made lady of england & all men her held for lady of the land/ But though of kent held with the King stephens wife, and also william of Pree and his retinue help him, and held war against maude the Empress/ & anon after the King, of scotland come to 'em with an huge number of people/ & though went they yfere vnto wynchestre/ there that the Empress was, & would have take her/ but therebe of gloucester come with his power/ & fought with hem & the Empress in the mean while that the battle du●…d escaped fro thence & went unto oxenford/ & there her held/ And in that battle was th'earl of gloucestre discomfyted & taken/ and with him many other Lords/ And for his deliverance was King steven delivered out of prison/ and when he was delivered out of prison, he went thence to oxenford/ and besieged the Empress that was tho at oxenford/ and the siege endured fro Mychelmasse unto saint andrewstyde. And the Empress let tho cloth her all in white lyn●…n cloth for encheason that she would not be know/ for in the same time was much snow/ & so she escaped by the thamyse from 'em away/ that were her enemies/ And fro thence she went to wallyngford/ and there her held/ & the King would have besieged her/ but he had so moche to done with th'earl Randulf of chester/ & with hugh bygot that stronglych warrayed upon him in every place that he ne wist whither for to torn/ And the Earl of gloucester halpe 'em with his power/   

How gaufryd th'earl of Angeon gave up unto Harry the Empress son all Normandye/ Capitulo/ C/ xl/  
ANd after this the King went unto wylton, and would have made a castle there/ but though come to him th'earl of gloucester with a strong power/ and almost had take the King. but yet the King escaped with moche pain/ and william martell there was take/ And for, whose deliverance he gave unto the Erse of gloucester the good castle of shirburne/ that he had take/ And when this was done the Earl robert/ and all the kings enemies went to Faryn●…e/ & begun there for to make a strong castle/ But the King come thither with a strong power/ and drofe hem thence 〈◊〉 that same year/ The Earl Randulfe of chester was a corded with the King/ & come to his court at his commandment And the ●…e wend savelyche to come, and the King anon let take him and put him in to prison/ and must never for no thing ●…e out/ till that he had yield up unto the King the castle of nychol/ the which he had take from the King with strength in the xv year of his regne/ And gaufred th'earl of Angeon gave up unto Harry his son all normandy/ And in the year that next sued deyde the Earl gaufred, And henry his son though anon turned again to Angeon/ and there was made Earl with much honour of his men of the land. and to him dieden feaute & ●…omamage the most party of his land/ And thenne was this henry the Empress son Earl of Angewe and Duke of normandy/ In the same year was made divorce between the King of france and the Queen his wife/ that was right heir of gascoyne/ For encheason that it was know & proved/ that they were sib/ and nigh of blood/ And though spoused her Henry the Empress' son Earl of Angeo, & Duke of normandy/ & Duke of Gascoigne/ The xviij year of this King stephen/ this henry come in to england with a strong power and began for to were upon King stephen & took the castle of malmesbury/ and did moche harm/ and the King steuen had so moche were that he nyst whither for to wend but at last they were acorded through the archbishop Theobald and through other worthy Lords of england upon this condition/ that they should depart the royalme of Englond between hem/ so that henry the Empress son should holych have half the land of england/ And thus they were acorded/ and peace cried through out all England/ And when the accord was made between though two Lords/ King stephen become so sorry f●…use he had lost half england/ and fell in such a malady/ & died in the x●…x year/ viij weeks & v days of his reign all in were. & in con ta●…. and he lieth in the abbey of Feveresham/ the which he leete make in the sixth year of his regne/   

Of King henry the second that was the Empress son/ in whose time saint thomas of Caunterbury was chancellor/ Ca/ C. xlj/  
ANd after this King Stephen, reigned henry the Empress so ne/ and was crowned of the archbishop theobald the xvij day before crystemasse/ And in the same year thomas Beket of London archbishop of caunterbury was made the kings chancellor of Englond/ The second year that he was crowned/ he let cast a down all the new castles that were longing to the crown/ the which King steven had yeven unto diverse men and hem had made Earls and barons for to hold with him/ and to help him against Henry the Empress son/ And the fourth year of his regne/ he put under his lordship the King of wales/ And in the same year when the King of Scotland had in his own hand/ that is to say the city of Caerlylle/ the castle of Banburgh▪ the new castle upon tyne/ & the ersdom of lancastre The same year the King with a great power went in to wales & let cast a down woods/ & make ways and made strong the castle of rutland/ basin work/ and among the castles he made an house of the temple/ And in the same year was Richard his son born/ that afterward was Earl of oxenford/ and the fourth year of his reign he made gaufryd Earl of britain/ and in that year he changed his money/ & the sixth year of his reign he lad an huge host unto Tolouse/ and conquered it. And the seventh year of his reign died thebault the archebtsshop of canterbury/ And though all the city of caunterbury almost through mischief was brent/ The ix year of his regne thomas beket his channceler was chosen to been archbishop of canterbury/ And upon saint bernards day he was sacred/ and in that year was borne Alyenore the kings daughter/ And in the tenth year of his reign saint Edward the King was translated with moche honour/ And the x●… year of his reign he held his parliament at north hampton/ & from thence fled saint thomas archbishop of caunterbury/ for the greet debate/ that was between the King & him/ For if he had been founden in the morn he had be slain/ & therefore he fled thence with three fe●… laws a foot only that no man wist where he was and went over the see to the pope of Rome And this was the pryncypal encheason for as much as the King would have put clerks to death/ that were attaint of felony without ●…ny privilege of holy church/ And the xij year of his reign was Johan his son born/ and the xiij year of his reign died maude the Empress that was his mother/ And in that same year was Johan his daughter borne. The xiv year of his reign the duke henry of Saxon spoused maude his daughter/ And he bygate on her three sons/ Henry/ othn●…/ & wylliam/ And in the xv year of his reign died the good Earl robert of Gloucestre/ that founded the abbey of nuns of E●…n/ And in the same year maryke King of Jerusalem conquered babiloyne/ the xuj year of his regne be let crown his son Henry at westmynstre/ & him crowned Rogyer archbishop of york in harming of Thomas archbishop of caunterbury/ wherefore the same Rogyer was accursed of the pope/   

Of King henry that was son of King henry the Empress son. & of the debate that was between him and his fudre while that he was in vormandye/ Capitulo/ C xlij.  
AFter the coronation of King henry/ the son of King henry the Empress son/ That same henry the Empress son went over in to normandy/ and there he let mary elyenore the daughter of the Dolfyne that was King of almain/ And in the seven/ year that the archbishop saint thomas had been outlawed/ the King of France made the King and saint thomas acorded, and though come thomas the archbishop to Caunterbury again to his own church And this accord was made in the beginning of advent/ and afterward he was slain and martyred/ the fifth day of Crystemasse/ that though next come/ For King Henry thought upon saint thomas archbishop upon christmas see day as he sat at meet, and these words said/ that if he had any good knight with him he had be many day passed avenged upon the archbishop thomas/ And anon Sir wylliam Breton sire hugh moruyle/ Sir william Tracy/ And sir reynold fytz vrse bears son in english privily went unto the see/ and common in to england to the church of Caunterbury/ and him there they martyred at saint benets altar in the mother church/ And that was in the year of incarnation of Ihesu cast/ M/ C/ lxxij/ year. And anon after henry the new King began for to make were upon henry his father/ and eke upon his brethren also/  
And so upon a day the King of France/ and all the kings sons/ and the King of scotland/ and the gre●…ttest Lords of En glond were arrysen against the King henry the father/ and at the last as god would he conquered all his enemies/ & the King of France & he were acorded/ And though sent King henry the father specially unto the King of France/ & prayed him heartily for his love/ that he would send to him by letter the names of 'em/ that begunnen the were upon him/ And the King of France sent again to him by a letter the names of 'em that bygonnen the war/ The first was Johan his son and Richard his brother. & Henry his son the new King/ though was henry the King wonder wroth/ and cursed the time/ that ever he hem bygate. And while the were dured/ henry his son the new King died sore repenting his misdeed and most sorrow made of any man for cause of saint thomas death of Caunterbury/ And prayed his father with moche sorrow of heart mercy for his trespass/ and his father forgave it him. And had of him great pity/ and after he died the xxuj year of his regne/ and lieth at reading/   

How the Cristen lost the holy land in the foresaid kings time through a falls christian man/ that become a saracen/ Caᵒ/ C/ xliij/  
and while that King henry the Empress son lived & reigned/ the great battle was in the holy land between christian men and the sarazens/ but the christian men were there slain through great treason of the Earl Tyrpe/ that would have had to wife the Queen of Jerusalem/ that sometime was bald wines wife/ but she forsook him/ and took to her Lord a knight a worthy man that was called Sir Guy perches/ wherefore th'earl Tyrpe was wroth & went anon right to saladyne/ that was sultan of babyloyn/ & become saraseyn & his man. & forsook his cristendome & all christian law/ & the christian men wist not of his deeds/ but wend for to have had great help of him/ as they were woned to have before/ & when they come to the bataille/ this falls christian man turned unto the saraysus & forsook his own nations/ & so were the christian men there slain with the sarazens/ & thus were the christian men slain and put to horrible death/ & the city of Jerusalem destroyed & the holy cross borne away/ The King of France & all the great Lords of the land let hem cross for to gone in to the holy land/ And amongs 'em went Richard King henry's son first after the King of france that took the cross of the archbishop of tours/ but he took not the viage at that time for encheason that he was let by other manner ways & needs to be done. And when King henry his father had reigned xxxv year/ & v months/ and four days/ he died/ & lieth at founteverard/   

Of King richard that conquered all the holy land that Cristen men had lost/ Caᵒ./ xliiij/  
ANd after this King henry reigned Richard his son a strong man & worthy/ & also bold. and he was crowned at west minster of the archbishop baldewyn of Caunterbury the third day of September. & the second year of his regne/ King Richard himself and baldewyn the archbishop of Caunterbury/ and hubert Bishop of salisbury and Randulfe Earl of gloucester/ and other many Lords of england went in to the holy land/ And in that viage died the archbishop of Caunterbury. And King richard went before in to the holy land/ & rest not till that he come forth in his weigh unto cypress/ And took cypress with great force▪ and sithen King Richard went forth toward the holy land/ and get there as much as the christian men hadden lost before. and conquered the land again through might safe only the holy cross/ And when King richard come to the town of Acres for to get the city/ A great debate aroos between him & the King of france/ so that the King of france went again in to france. and was wroth toward the King richard/ but ex King Richard went again/ he took the city of Acres/ And when he had taken it. he dwelled in the city a while/ but to him come tiding/ that the Earl Johan of oxenford his brother would have seized all england in to his hand/ & normandy also/ and would crou ne him King of the land/ And when King Richard herd this tiding he went again toward england with all the speed that he might/ but the Duke of ostrich met with him/ & took him/ & brought him to the Emperor of almain/ And the Emperor brought him in to his prison/ & afterward he was delivered for an huge ransom/ that is for to say/ a/ C/ M/ pounte/ & for which ●…aunsonne to be paid/ each other chaly●… of england was molte & made in to money/ & all the monks of the ordre of cysteaux yeven all her books through England to done 'em to sell/ & the ●…aunsonne for to pay.  
How King rychard come again from the holy land/ and avenged him of his enemies/ Caᵒ./ C. xlvjᵒ./  
Hyles this King richard was in prison. the king of fraun w ce warrayed upon him strongly in Normandye/ and Johan his brother warrayed upon him in England/ but the bishops & barons of england withstood him with all the power that they might get/ & getten the castle of windsor/ and all other castles And the foresaid Johan saw that he had no might ne pour a against the barons of england for to fight. but anon went him over see unto the King of France/ And when King richard come out of prison/ & was delivered/ and come in to england/ anon after Candelmasse in great haste he went unto notyngham/ & the castle of notyngham to him was yoleden/ and though discomfyted 〈◊〉 Johan his brother/ and that with him held/ And after he went unto the city of wynchestre. & there he let him crown King of england/ and after he went in to normandy for to were upon the King of France/ & the King of france come with uj/ C/ knights toward gysors/ and the King rychard met him/ and though would have give him battle/ but the King of france fled/ and an hundred knights of his were take/ and ij C steeds were trapped with iron. And anon after went King richard for to besiege the castle of gayssard/ And as he road upon a day by the castle to take advisement of the castle/ an Arbalaster smote him with a quarrel that was envenomed/ & the King drofe out the shaft of the quarrel/ but the quarrels heed abode still in his heed/ and it by 'gan for to rankle that he might not help himself/ ne move his arms/ and though he wist that he had deths' wound/ that he might not be hole for no manner thing/ he commanded anon sharply all his men for to assail the castle/ So that the castle was taken or that he died/ & so manlyche his men dieden that all the people that were in the castle were all taken/ & the King died with 'em what he would. & commanded his men that they should bring before him the man/ that him so wounded & hurt/ And when he come before the King/ the King axed what was his name/ & be said my name is bartram guerdon/ wherefore said the king hast thou me slain/ sith that I did the never none harm/ sir said he though ye did me never none harm/ ye yourself with your hand slew my father & my brother/ & therefore I have quit now your travail/ though said King richard he that died upon the cross to bring man's soul from pain of hell forgive the my death/ & I also forgive it thee/ though commanded the King that no man should him misdo/ But for all the Kings defending some of his men him followed/ & privily him slough/ and the sixth day after the King died shriven him & sore repentance having of his misdeeds/ & was houseled & ennoynted/ & this King ne reigned but/ ●…x year. & xxxix weeks & died & lieth besides his father at founteverard   

Of King Johan that in the first year of his reign lost all nor mandy/ Ca/ C/ xluj  
When King richard was deed for encheason that he had none heir, nether son ne daughter/ his brother John was made King and crowned at westmynstre of Huberd that was though archbishop of Caunterbury And when he began to regne be become so marvelous man/ & went over in to normandy & warrayed upon the King of france & so long they warrayed together till at●… last King John lost normandy & angeo wherefore he was sore annoyed it was no marvel though let he assemble before him at london archbishops bishops abbots & priors Earls & barons & held there a great parliament/ & axed there of the clergy the x of every church of England for to conquer & get again normandy & angeo that he had lost/ & they would not grant the king wherefore he was wonder wroth/ And in the same time died Bishop hubert & the prior of the counent of canterbury chosen against the kings will to be archbishop master stephen of langewn/ a good clerk that woned at the court of Rome/ & sent to the pope her election & the pope confirmed it/ & sacred him at vyterbe, when the King wist this tiding/ he was wonder wroth/ & drofe the prior & the convent fro Cannterbury/ & exiled 'em out of En glond/ & commanded that no manner letter that come from Rome/ ne no mandment should be/ underfonge ne plete in Englond. When this tiding come to the pope/ he sent unto King John by his letter/ & prayed him with good will/ & with good heart, that he would underfang steven the archbishop of canterbury unto his church & suffer the prior & his monks to come again unto her own duelling/ but the King would not grant it for no thing/   

How King Johan would no thing done for the Pope's command meant/ wherefore all england was interdicted & suspended/ caᵒ. C/ xlvij  
ANd at last the pope sent●… by his authority/ & enjoined to the Bishops of england/ that if the King would not under fong the prior of Caunterbury/ & his monks that they should do general interditing through out all england/ & granted full power to four Bishops to pronounce the interdyting/ 〈◊〉 were need/ che first was Bishop william of london/ & that other bis shop ●…stace of ely. & the third was Bishop walter of wynchestre & the fourth was Bishop guiles of Herford/ & these four bishops prayed the King kneeling on her knees & sore weeping/ that he would done the Pope's commandment/ & showed him the bulls of the enterdyting. but for no prayer that they might pray he would not consent thereto/ And when the Bishops saw this they went from the King/ And in the morn after the annunciation of our lady they pronounced the general enterdyting through out all england so that the church doors were shit with keys/ & with other fast ning and with walls, And when the enterditing was pronounced than the King began for to wax all out of measure/ & took in to his hand all the possessions of the four bishops/ and of all the clergy through out all the land. & ordained men for to keep it that the clerks might not have her living/ wherefore the Bishops cursed all hem that put or should meddle with holy church gods against the will of 'em that hem owed, & when the King would not cefe of his malice for no manner thing the four Bishops afore said went over the see. & went to the Bishop of Caunterbury and told him all the thing And the archbishop to hem said that they should gone again to Caunterbury/ & he would come thither to hem/ or else he would send thither certain persons 〈◊〉 his stead that should done as much as himself were there/ And when the bishops herd this they turned again in to Englond/ & comen unto caunterbury/ The tiding come to the King that the Bishops were comen again to Caunterbury/ & himself might not come thither that time he sent thither Bishops/ Earls & abbots for to treat with 'em/ that the King should underfang the archbishop stephen/ & the prior & all the monks of Caun terbury/ & that he should never after that time no thing take of holy church against the will of 'em that owed the goods/ & that the King should make full amends to hem. of whom he had any goods taken/ & that holy church should have all franchises as farforth. as they had in saint edward's time the confessor/   

How Stephen of langeton come in to England through the Pope's commandment/ & he went again/ Caᵒ./ C/ xlviijᵒ/  
When the form of accord thus was ordained/ it was in a payr of indentures/ and they put her seals unto that one 〈◊〉 and they that comen in the kings name put her seals to th●… other part of indentures. & the four Bishops above said to see that one part of the indentures to hem/ & that other part of the indentures they bore with 'em to show the King when the King saw the form & understood/ he held him full well paid of all manner thing as they had ordained saving as touching the resty tution of the goods for to make again, to that thing. he nold not accord/ & so he sent word again to the four Bishops/ that they should done out/ & put away that one point of restitution/ & they answered that they nold not done one word out/ though sent the King to the archbishop by though four Bishops/ that he should come to caun terbury for to speak with him there, & sent unto him saufeenduit under pledges. that is to say his justyces/ gilbert peytewyn/ william de la brener/ & John le fitz hugh that in her conduit saufly be should come. & gone again/ at his will/ & in this manner the arch Bishop stephen come to canterbury/ & when the archbishop was come the King come to chilham for he would come no ner to caun terbury/ at that time/ but he sent by his treasurer Bishop of wynchestre/ that he should done out of the end●…tures the clause of resci tution for to make of the goods/ & the archbishop made his oath that he would never out done one word thereof/ ne change of that the Bishops had spoken and ordained/ and though the archbishop went again to Rome without any more doing/ King Johan was though wrother than ever he was before/ & let make a common cry through out at england/ that all though that had holy church rents/ & went over the see/ that they should come again in to En glond at a certain day/ or else they should lose her rents for ever more/ & that he commanded to every sheriff through out all england/ that they should inquire if any Bishop/ Abbot, 〈◊〉 your or any prelate of holy church fro that day afterward resceyned any mandment that come fro the pope that they should take the body & bring it before him/ & that they should take in to the Kings hand all her lands of holy church/ that were yeven to any man/ by the archbishop stephen/ or by the prior of Caunterbury from the time of election of the archbishop/ & commanded that all the woods that were the archbishops should be cast a down. Unto the ground & all sold/   

How King Johan destroyed the ordre of Cisteaux/ caᵒ. C xliy  
ANd in the same time the irishmen begun to were upon King Johan/ and King Johan ordained him for to wend in to ireland/ and let arere a huge tax through out all england that is to say/ xxxv/ M/ marc. and sent through all england to the monks of the ordre of Cysteaux. that they should help him of six/ M/ marc of silver/ and they answered & said that they durst nothing done without her chief abbot of asteaux. Wherefore King Johan when he come again from Irland/ he did 'em so moche sorrow & care/ that they nyst where to abide/ for he took so moche ransom of every house of 'em that the some amounted to ix/ M, & CCC/ mark/ so that they were clean lost & destroyed & boyded how/ & her lands through out all england. & the abbot of uva versey dread so much his menace/ that he forsook all the abbey/ & went thence/ & privily ordained him over see to the house of Ciste aux/ when the tiding come to the pope/ that the King had done so much malice/ though was he to the kyngward full wrath/ & sent ij le gates unto the King, that one was called pandolf/ & that other durant that they should warn the King in the Pope's name that he should cese of his persecution that he did unto the holy church/ & amend the wrong & the trespaas that he had done to the archbishop of can terbury & to the prior & unto the monks of canterbury & to all the clergy of england/ & that he should restore the gods again that he had taken of 'em against her will/ & else they should curse the King by name/ and to do this thing and to confirm the pope took 'em his letters in bulls patrnts/ These two legates come in to Englond. and comen to the King to northampton/ there that he held his parliament/ and full courteously they him salved, and saiden sir we been come fro the pope of Rome/ the peace of holy church/ & of the land to amend/ And we amonest you first in the Pope's half/ that ye make full restitution of the goods/ that ye have ravy shed of holy church & of the land/ & that ye underfong stephen archbishop of caunterbury in to his dignity/ and the prior of Caunterbury. and his monks/ & that ye yield again unto the archbishop all his lands. and rents without any withholding/ And sir ye more over/ that ye such restitution hem make as holy church shall hold her paid/ though answered the King/ as touching the prior & his monks of caunterbury, all that ye have said I will gladly done/ and all thing that ye will ordain But as touching the archbishop/ I shall tell you in mine heart as it lieth that the archbishop let his Bisshopryche/ and that the pope than for him would pray/ and than upon adventure me should like some other bisshopryche for to give him in england And upon this condition I would him receive/ and underfang And nevertheless in england as archbishop yif he abide/ he shall never have so good safeconduct/ but he shall be take/  
though said pandolf unto the King/ Holy church was woned never to discharge an archbishop. Without cause reasonable/ but ever she hath be woned to chastise princes/ that to god/ & holy church were inobedient/ What how now quoth the King/ menace ye me/ Nay said pandolf/ but ye now openly have told as it standeth in your heart/ And to you we shall tell. what is the Pope's will/ & thus it stant/ that he hath you holy interdicted and accursed for the wrongs that ye have do to holy church/ and to the clergy/ And for as much as ye duelle/ and be in will to abide in malice/ and will not come to none ammendement/ ye shall understand that fro this time afterward the sentence is upon you yeven/ and holdeth stead/ and strength/ and upon all though that with you have communed before this time/ whether they been Earls/ Bawns/ or knights/ or any other/ what so ever they be/ We hem assoil saufly unto this day/  
And fro this time afterward of what condition ever that they be/ we hem acurse that with you comen/ & so do we sentence upon 'em openly & specially/ And we assoil quytely Earls/ barons knyghts/ & all other manner men of her homages services & fealties that they should unto you done/ and this thing to confirm. we give pleyne power to the Bishop of wynchestre/ to the Bishop of northewiche/ And the same power we give in scotland to the bishops of rouchestre and of salisbury/ And in wales we give the same power to the bishops of saint david & of landaf/ & of saint ass/ And more over we send through all christendom that all the Bishops beyond the see that they done acurse all though that hell pen you/ or any counsel yeven you in any manner need/ that ye have to done in any party of the world. And we assoil 'em all so all by the authority of the pope/ & command 'em also with you for to were as with him/ that is enemy to all holy church/ though answered the King/ what mow ye done me more/ though answered pan dolf we say to you in verlo dei/ that ye/ ne none heir that ye have never after this day may be crowned/ though said the king by him that is almighty god/ and I had wist of this thing ere that ye come in to my land/ that ye had me brought such tiding/ I should have made you ride all an hole year. though answered pandolf. Full well wend we at our first coming/ that ye would have been obedient to god & to holy church/ & have fulfilled the Pope's commandment & now we have showed to you/ & pronounced the Pope's will. as we were charged therewith/ And as now ye have said/ that if ye had wist the cause of our coming/ that ye would have made us ride all an hole year/ & as well ye might have said. that ye would have take an hole year of respite by the Pope's leave/ but for to suffer what death ye could ordain/ we shall not spare for to tell you holych all the Pope's message/ & his will/ that we were charged with/   

How pandolf delivered a clerk/ that had falsed/ & counterfeited the kings money before the King himself/ ca C/ L/  
ANd anon though commanded the King the sherenes & bailyfs of northampton that were in the kings presence/ that they should bring forth all the prisoners that they might be done unto the death before pandolf/ for encheason the King wend that they would have gain said her deeds. for cause of death all thing that he had spoken afore. When the prisoners were come before the king he commanded some to be hanged/ & some to been draw/ & some to draw her eyen out of her heed/ and among all other there was a clerk had falsehood the kings money/ & the King commanded that he should be hanged and draw/ And when pandolf herd this commandment of the King/ he start him up smertely/ & anon axed a book/ & a candle. & would have cursed all hem that set upon the clerk any hand/ and pandolf himself went for to seche a cross/ & the King followed him/ & delivered him the clerk by the hand that he should do with him/ what that ever he would/ and thus was the clerk delivered. & went thence/ & pandolf & durant his fellow went fro the King Johan/ & come again to the pope of rome & told him that King Johan would not amended been/ but ever abide so accursed/ and nevertheless the pope granted that year through out england that men might sing masses in covenable churches and make god's body/ & give it to sick men/ that pass should out of this world/ And also that men might christian children overall And when the pope wist and saw that the King would not been under the rule of holy church for no manner thing/ the pope though sent to the King of france in remission of his sins/ that he should take with him all the power that he might/ & wend in to england for to destroy King Johan/ when this tiding come to King Johan/ though was he sore annoyed/ and sore dread lest that he should lose his ream/ and himself be done to death/ though sent he to the pope messengers/ & said that he would been Ius tyfyed/ and come to amendment in all things/ and would make satisfaction to all manner men after the Pope's ordinance/ though sent the pope again in to england pandolf and other messengers comen to Caunterbury there the King abode/ & the xiij days of may/ the King made an oath for to stand to the Pope's ordinance before pandolf the legate in all manner things/ in which he was accursed/ and that he should make full restitution to all men of holy church/ & of religion/ and of the goods that he had take of 'em against her will/ and all the great Lords of england swore upon the book/ & by the holy doom. that if the King would not hold his oath/ they said that they would make him hold it by strength/  
Tho put the King him to the court of Rome/ and to the pope and though gave up the ream of Englond and of ireland/ for him and for his heirs for evermore that should come after him/ So that King Johan & his heirs should take though two reams of the Pope's hand. and should hold though two wyaines of the pope as to farm paying every year unto the court of Rome a thousand mark of silver. & though took the King the crown of his heed. & set him on his knees/ and these words he said in hearing of all the great Lords of england/ here I resign up the crown/ & the ream of england in to the Pope's band Innocent the third/ & put me ho lich in his mercy & in his ordynannce/ Tho underfeng pandolf the crown of King Johan/ and kept it v days as for seysen taking of two reams of england and of ireland/ & confirmed all manner things by his chartre that followeth after   

Of the letter obligatory that King Johan made unto the court of Rome/ wherefore the petres pens been gathered through out all En glond/ Caᵒ. C/ ljᵒ./  
TO all christian people through out the world duelling/ Johan by the grace of god King of england greeting to your unyversyce/ & know thing it be. that for as much as we have grieved and offended god/ & our mother church of Rome/ & for as much as we have need to the mercy of our lord Ihu criste/ & we may no thing so worthy offer/ as competent satisfaction to make/ to god & to holy church/ but if it were our own body/ as with our reams of england & of ireland, Than by the grace of god we des●…re for to meek us for the love of him that meeketh him to the death of the cross/ through council of the noble Earls & barons we offren & freely graunten to god/ & to the apostles saint peter and saint Paul. & to or mother church of Rome/ & to our holy father the pope Innocent the third. & to all the Pope's that come after him all the ream & patronages of churches of england/ & of ireland with her appertevaunces for rmission of our sins/ and help, & l●…lthe of our kin souls & of all christian souls. so that fro this time afterward we will receive & hold of our mother church of Rome as see ferme doing feaute to our holy father the pope Inno cent the third/ & to all the Pope's that come after him in the manner above said/ & in the presence of the wise man pandolf the Pope's sub del●…ene we maken lyege homage as it were in the Pope's presence/ & before him were, & we shall done all manner things above said & thereto we bynden us/ and all that come after us/ and our heirs for evermore without any gain saying to the Pope/ and eke the ward of church wcants/ And in token of this thing ever for to last we will confirm and ordain that our special rents of the foresaid royalme/ saving saint Peter's pens in all thing to the mother church of rome paieng by year a/ M/ marc of silver at two terms of the year for all manner custommes that we should done for the foresaid royalmes that is to say at much l inas. and at estren/ that is to say/ seven/ C/ marc for england/ and CCC marc for Irland/ saving to us & to our heirs our justices & our other franchises/ & other realces that appertain to the crown, And all these things that before been said we will that it be ferme & stable without end/ & to that obligation we & our successors & our heirs in this manner been bound/ that if we or any of our heirs through any presumption fall in any point a yen any of these things above said/ & he be warned/ & he will not right amend him/ he shall than lose the foresaid ream for ever more/ ●…and that this chartre of obligation/ & our warrant for evermore be farm & stable without gain saying we shall fro this day afterward be true to god/ & to the mother church of rome & to the pope Innocent the third/ & to all that cometh after him/ & the reams of england and of ireland we shall maintain truly in all manner points against all manner men by our power through gods help,   

How the clerks that were outlawed out of England come again/ & how King Johan was assoiled/ Ca/ C, lijᵒ.  
When this chartre was made and ensealed/ the King under fenge again his crone of pandolfes' hand, and sent anon unto the archbishop steuen & to all his other clerks/ and lrwd, men/ that he had exiled out of his land/ that they should come again in to england. & have again all her lands, & her rentrs & that he would make restitution of the goods that he had taken of her against her will/ The King himself tho and pandulfe & Earls and barons went tho unto wynchestre against the arcwbis shop stephen. & when he was come the King went against him/ & fell a down to his feet/ and said to him fair sire/ ye be welcome and I cry you mercy for encheason that I have trespassed against you/ The archbishop took him up tho in his arms/ & kissed him curoysly oft-times/ and after lad him to the door of saint swithiness church by the hand/ and assoiled him of the sentence. & him reconciled to god/ and to holy church, & that was on saint margarets day/ & the archbishop anon went for to sing mass. & the laying offered at the mass a marc of gold/ And when the mass was done all they went to underfang all her lands without any manner gain saying/ And that day they made all mirth and joy enough/ but yet was not the enterdyting releced/ for encheason the pope had set that the enterdyting should not be undone till the King had made full restitution of the goods that he had take of holy church/ & also that himself should done homage to the pope by a certain legate that he should send in to england though took pandolfe his leave of the King and of the archbishop & went again unto Rome/ And the archbishop anon lets come before him prelate's of holy church at reading for to treat & counsel how moche & what they should ask of the King for to make restitution of the goods that he had take of 'em/ and they ordained & said that the King should give to the archbishop three, M/ mark for the wrong that the King had done unto him/ and also to other clerks by portions xv/ M/ marc/ & in the same time Nycholas Bishop of Tuscan cardinal/ penytauncer of Rome come in to england through the Pope's commandment the v kalend of october & come to london the fifth nonas of october for encheason that King Johan & all the Kings that come after him should evermore hold the reams of england/ & of ireland of god & of the pope paying to the pope by year/ as is above said/   

How the enterditing was undone in england/ & of the debate that was between King Johan/ & the barons of the ream. Capitulo. C/ quinquagesimo tercio/  
When King Johan had done his homage to the legate that showed him the Pope's letter/ that he should pay to Julian & yield again that was King Rychardes wife the third part of the land of england and of ireland that he had withhold sith that King richard died/ when King Johan herd this he was wonder wroth. for utterlych the enterditing might not been undone till that he had made gree and restitution to the foresaid Julian of that she axed/ The legate went though again to the pope after christmas/ & the King sent though messengers over see to Julian that was King Rychardes wife for to have a release of that she axed of him. and so it befell that Julian died anon after ester And in so much the King was quite of thing that she axed/ But though at the feast of saint Johan that come next after through the Pope's commandment the enterditing was first released thurugh all england/ the seven day of Inyll/ & seven year was the land interdicted/ & in the morrow men rung & said masses through out london/ & so after through out all england/ And the next year after Theridamas began a great debate between King Johan & the Lords of england for encheason that he would not grant the laws & hold the which saint edward had ordained & had been used/ & hold unto that time that he had 'em broken/ for he would no law hold/ but did all thing that him liked/ & disherited many men with out consent of Lords & peries of the land/ & he would disherit the good Earl Randulf Earl of chester for encheason that he undertook him of his wykkednes. & by cause he did so moche shame & vylo nigh to god and to holy church/ & also for he held/ & haunted his own brothers wife/ & lay also by many other women great Lords daughters/ for he spared no woman that him liked for to have wherefore all the Lords of the land were with him wonder wroth and went to london & took the city/ And for to cese this debate & sorrow the King & the archbishop/ and other great Lords of the land of england assembled hem before the fest of saint John baptist in a medewe besides the town of stanes that is called Romne meed/ And the King made 'em there a charire of franchises such as they would axen/ & in such manner they were acorded/ & that a cordement last not full long/ for the King himself soon after did against the points of the same charter that he had made. Wherefore the most party of the land of Lords assembled hem & begun to were upon King Johan/ & brent his towns & robled his folk. & did all the sorrow that they might, and made 'em as strong as they might with all her power/ & thought to drive him once of england, and make Louis the Kings son of france King of england/ And King Johan sent tho over see & ordained so moche people of normans & of pycardes & of flemings so that the land might not hem sustain but with moche sorrow/ & among all these people there was a man of normandy/ that was called Fonkes of brent/ & this normand and his company spared neither church ne house of religion. that they ne brent and robled it/ & bore a weigh all that they might take/ so that the land was all destroyed what in one side, and in that other/ The barons and Lords of england ordained among 'em the best speakers & wisest men/ & sent l●…m over see to King philip of france/ & prayed him that he would send lowys his son in to england to been King of england & to under fonge the crown/   

How Louis the king's son of france come in to england with a strong power of people to be King of england, Caᵒ/ C/ Liiij/  
When King philip of France herd this tiding/ he made c●…e rain alliance between 'em by her common election that Louis King philip's son of france should go with 'em in to england/ and drive out King Johan of the land/ and all that were in presence of Louis made unto him homage/ & become his men/ And the barons of Englond held 'em still at london/ & a by den Louis the Kings son of france/ & this was the next sacer day before the ascension of our lord that Louis come in to england with a strong power/ & that time King Johan had taken all the castles of england in to aliens hands/ And Louis come tho & besieged at rouchestre the castle/ & took it with strength/ & the thurs' day in whitsonweke let hung all the aliens that were therein/ & the thursday though next sueng he come to london/ & there he was under fonge with moche honour of the Lords that a biden him there & all to him made homage/ And afterward in the Tuesday next after the trinity Sunday/ he took the castle of reygate/ & in the more row after the castle of gilford. & the Friday next after the castle of Fareham/ & the monday next after the city of wynchestre to him was yolde/ & in the morrow after saint Johans' day the maner of woluesey/ & the tewisday after the utas of saint peter & saint Paul they took the castle of Odyham/ And the monday next after saint margarete day he ordained him toward beaumer for to besyge the castle & there he dwelled xv days & might not, get the castle/ & than went he thence/ & come to london. & the tower to him was yolde/   

And in the same time the pope sent in to england a legate that was called swalo/ & of King Johans' death/ Caᵒ./ C/ lvᵒ./  
ANd in the same time the pope sent in to England a legate that was called swalo. & he was priest Cardynal of Rome for to maintain King Johans' cause against the barons of england/ but the baarons had so huge part & help through Louis the Kings son of france/ that King Johan wise not whydder for to torn/ ne to gone/ And so it fell that he would have gone to Nychol, & as he went thitherward/ he come by the abbey of swyneshede/ & there he abode two days. and as he sat at meet he axed a monk of the house how moche a loof was worth that was set before him upon the table & the monk said that the loaf was worth but an halfpenny/ O quod the King/ here is great cheap of breed, now quoth the King/ And I may live such a loaf shall be worth xx shilling/ or half a year begoan & when he had said this word/ much he thought/ & oft he sighed/ & took, & ●…te of the breed & said/ by god the word that I have spoken shall been sooth/ The monk that stood before the King was for this word full sorry in heart, & thought/ rather he would himself suffer piteous death/ and thought if he might ordain therefore some manner remedy/ and anon the monk went to his abbot/ & was shriven of him/ & told the abbot all that the King said/ & prayed his abbot for to assoil him/ for he would give the King such a wassail that all england should be glad thereof & joyful, though went the monk in to a garden/ & fond a great toad therein/ & took her up/ & put her in a cup & prykked the toad through with a brooch many times. till that the benym come out in every side in to the cup/ & though took he the cup/ & filled it with good ale/ & brought it before the King & kneeling said/ sir qd he wassail/ for never days of your life ne drunk ye of such a cup/ begin monk qd the King/ & the monk drank a great draft/ & took the King the cup/ & the King also drank a great draft/ & set down the cup/ The monk anon right went in to the fermorye, & there died anon/ on whose soule god have mercy/ amen, & v monks sing for his soul special lie & shullen whiles the abbey stant/ The King aroos up anon full evil at ease/ & commanded to remove the table/ & axed after the monk/ & men told him that he was deed/ for his womb was broke in sunder/ when the King herd this he commanded to truss/ but all it was for nought, for his belly began so to sweet for the drink that he drank that he died within two days. the morrow after saint Luke'S day/ & this King Johan had fair children of his body bygoten. that is to say/ henry his son/ that was King after his father/ & richard that was Earl of cornwall, & Jabel that was Empress of Rome, & elyenore. that was Queen of scotland/ and this King Johan when he had reigned xvij year/ v/ months/ & v, days/ he deide in the castle of new work/ & his body was buried at wynchestre/   

Of King henry the third that was crowned at gloucestre/ Capitulo/ C/ luj/  
ANd after this King Johan reigned Henry his son/ and was crowned at gloucester when he was nine year old on saint Symons day and Jude of Swalo the legate of Rome through council of all the greet Lords/ that held with King King Johan his father/ that is to say/ th'earl Randolf of Chestre william earl marchal/ william Earl of penbroke/ william the Brener Earl of Feryers/ Serle the maul baron. and all other great Lords of england held with Louis the Kings son of France/ And anon after when King henry was crowned. Swalo the legate held his council at Brystow at saint martyns' fest and there were xj Bishops of england/ and of wales. and of other prelate's of holy church a great number/ and Earls and barons and many knights of england/ & all though that were at that council sworn feaute unto henry the King/ that was King Iohans son/ And anon after the legate enterdyted wales for encheason that they held with the barons of england also/ all though that holpen or gave council to move were again the new King henry/ he accursed hem/ & in the beginning he put in the sentence the Kings son of france Louis/ And nevertheless/ the same Louis would not spare for to were for all that, but went anon/ & took the castle of Barkemsted/ and eke the castle of herford. And from that day afterward the barons did so moche harm through out all england/ & principally the frenchmen that were come with King Louis/ wherefore the great lords/ & all the common people of england let hem croyse for to drive Louis & his company out of Englond/ but some of the barons/ & eke of the frenchmen were gone to the city of nychol/ & token the city and held it to King Louis profit, But thither come King henry's men with a great power/ that is to say, the Earl Randolf of Chestre, and wylliam earl marchal/ and william the brener Earl of Feryers/ and many other Lords with hem. and yeven battle unto Louis men/ And there was slain the Earl of perches/ and Louis men were there foul discomfyted/ & there was take Earl serle of wynchestre and humfrey de boon earl of herford/ And Robert the son of walter/ and many other that bygonne were against the King they were taken and led unto King henry King Johans' son when the tiding of this scomfiture come unto Louis the king's son of France/ he removed thence/ and went unto Lon done & let shit fast the yates of the city, And anon after the King sent to the Burgeys of london/ that they should yield 'em unto him and the city also/ And he would hem grant all the franchises. that ever they were woned for to have/ and would confirm him by his greet new Charter under his greet Seal/ And in the same time a great lord, that was called Eustace the monk come out of france with a great company of Lords/ & would have come in to england for to have holp Louis the Kings son of france/ but hubert of borugh/ & the/ v/ ports with viij ships though met with 'em in the high see/ & assailed 'em eagerly, & overcome 'em with strength/ & smitten of Eustace the monks heed/ & token also x great Lords of france, & put 'em in to prison/ & slow almost all the men/ that come with 'em/ & anon drenched the ships in the see/   

How Louis turned again in to france/ & of the confirmation of King Johans' chartre/ Ca, C/ lvij,  
When Louis heard this tiding, he dread sore to be deed/ & lost & let ordain/ & speak between the King & Louis by the legate Swalo/ & through the archbishop of Caunterbury/ & through other great Lords that all the prisoners on that one half/ & on that other should be delivered, & gone quite/ & Louis himself should have for his costages a M pound of silver/ & should gone ou●… of england/ & come never therein again/ & in this manner was the accord made between King henry & Louis/ & though was Louis assoiled of the Pope's legate that was called swalo of the sente●…ce/ that he was in/ & the barons of england also/ & after this King henry & Swalo the legate & Louis went unto merton/ & there was the peace confirmed/ & between 'em ordained/ And afterward Louis went fro thence unto london, & took his leave/ & was brought with moche honour at the see with the archbishop of Caunterbury/ and with other Bishops/ and also with Earls & barons, & so went Louis in to france. And afterward the King and the archbishop/ and Earls and barons assembled 'em at london at my chelmasse/ that next come though sewing/ and held there a parliament & there were though renewed all the frunchises that King John granted had at Romnemede, & King henry though confirmed by his chartre. the which yet been holden through out all england/ & in that time the King took of every plough land two shilling/ & hubert of burgh was made tho chief justice of england/ & this was the ●…ij year of King henry's regne/ And in the same year was saint thomas of canterbury translated thee/ L, year after his martyrdom/ And after it was ordained by all the Lords of england/ that all aliens should gone out of england, and come no more therein/ and King Henry took though all the castles in to his hand that King Johan his father had ●…ue & taken unto aliens for to kep●… that held●… with him/ But the proud foukes of brent richly let a●…y hi●… castle of Bedford which he had of the kings yift John and he held that castle against King henry's will with might & strength. And the King come thither with a strong power/ & Besis eged the castle/ And the archbishop master stephen of langeton with a fair company of knights come to the King him for to help/ & from the ascension unto the assumption of our lady last the siege/ And though was the castle won & take/ & the King let hung all though that were went in to the castle with her good will for to hold the castle/ that is for to say/ lxxx/ men, And though after ward foukes himself was found in a church of coventry/ and there he forswore all england with moche shame/ & went tho again in to his own country/ And whiles that King henry reigned edmond of abyngdon/ that was treasurer of salisbury was consacred archbishop of Caunterbury/ And this King henry sent over the see unto the Earl of province/ that he should send him his daughter in to england/ that was called Elyenore/ & he would wed her & so she came in to england after christmas. & in the morrow after saint hillarye/ the archbishop Edmond spoused 'em to gedre at Canterbury/ And at the utas of saint hillarye she was crowned at westminster with moche solemnity/ And there was a sweet sight between 'em/ that is to say Edward that was next King after his father flower of courtesy. & of la●…gesse. and margarete that was after Queen of scotland/ & beatrice/ that was afterward coum tesse of britain/ and kateryne that died maid in religion,   

Of the quinzeme of goods that were granted for the new charters/ and of the purue●…unce of oxe●…ford/ Ca/ C/ lviij/  
ANd thus it befell that the Lords of england would have some additions moo in the chartre of franchises that they had of the King/ & spek●…n thus between 'em/ and the King granted 'em all her axing/ & made to hem two charters/ that one is called the great chartre of franchises/ & that other is called the chartre of forest, & for the grant of these two charters, Prelates/ Grles, & barons/ & all the commons of england give to the King a M mark of silver/ when King henry had been King xliij year/ the same year he & his lords Earls & barons of the royalme went to oxenford and ordained a law in amendment of the Royame's/ And first swore the King himself/ and after all the Lords of the ream that they would hold that statute for evermore/ and who that hem broke should be deed. But the second year after that ordy nance/ the King through council of sir edward his son & Richard his brother that was Earl of cornwall/ and also of other repented him of that oath that he had made for to hold that law & ordinance/ & sent to the court of Rome to been assoiled of that oath/ & in that y●…re next coming after was the great dearth of corn in england/ for a quartyer of wheat was worth xxiv shillings/ & the poor people eat netels/ & other weeds for hunger/ & they the many a thousand for default of meet/ and in the xlviij year of King henry's reign bygan were and debate between him and his Lords for encheason that he had broke the covenants that were made between 'em at Oxenford/ And in the same year was the town of northampton take and the folk slain/ that were with in for encheason that they had ordained wyldefire for to have brent the city of london/ and in the month of may that come next after upon saint pancras day was the battle of jews that is to say the wedenesday before saint dunstans day/ & there was take King henry himself/ and sire Edward his son and Richard his brother Earl of cornwall, and many other Lords/ And in the same year next sewing/ sir edward the Kings son broke out of the ward of Sir Symond of mountfort, Earl of leicester at herford/ and went to the barons of the March/ & they underfeng him with moche honour/ And in the same time G●…l lebert of Clarence earl of Gloucestre, that was in the ward also of the foresaid symond through the commandment of King henry that went from him with great he●…t, for encheason that he said/ the foresaid gyllebert was a fool in his council/ wherefore he or deigned him after so/ and held him with King henry/ And the Saturday next after the mids of August/ Sir Edward the Kings son discomfited Sir Symond de mountfort at kenylworth, But the great Lords that were there with him. were taken/ that is to say. Baldewyn wake william of moun●…ensye and many other great lords/ And the tewysdaye next after was the battle done at evesham/ And there was slain sire S●…mond de mountfort/ Hugh the spencer/ and Mountfort that was Ralph Basset's father of Drayton/ and other many great lords/ And when this battle was done/ all the gentiles that had been with the Earl Symond/ were disherited/ and they ordained to gydre/ and did much harm to all the land for they destroyed her enemies in all they might/   

Of the siege of kenelworth/ & how the gentlemen were disher●…ted through council of the Lords of the ream of england/ & how they come again and had her lands, Ca/ C, lixᵒ./  
ANd in the year next coming in may. the fourth day byforn the feast of saint dunstan was the battle & scomfiture at Chesterfelde of 'em that were disherited/ and their many of 'em were slain/ And Robert Earl of Feriers there was taken and all so Baldewyn wake/ and Johan de la hay with moche sorrow escaped/ And in saint Iohans eve the baptist/ though next sewing by 'gan the siege of the castle of kenelworth/ & the siege last till saint thomas eve the apostle/ in which ●…aye sire hugh hasting had the castle for to keep that yielded up ●…e castle unto the King in this manner that himself, & all the other that were within the castle should have her life & limb/ & as much thing as they had therein/ both horse & harness/ & iiij days of respyt●… for to deliver cleanly the castle of 'em self/ & of all other manner thing that they had within the castle/ & so they went from the castle/ & sir symond de mountfort the younger & the Countess his mother were fled over see in to France/ & there held hem/ as people that were exiled out of england for evermore/ And soon after it was ordained by the legate Octobou●…. & by other great Lords. the wisest of england that all though that had been against the King/ and were disherited/ should have again her lands by grievous ransom, after that it was ordained/ & thus they were acorded with the King, though w●… peace cried through out all england/ & thus the were was end●… And when this was done/ the legate took his leave of the King & of the Queen & of all the great Lords of england/ & went tho to ro me the lv year of King henry's regne/ And Edward King Johans son of britain/ Johan vessy/ thomas of clare/ Rogyer of Clyfford/ oaths of grauntson/ Robert le Brus/ Johan of ●…erdon and many other Lords of england & of beyond the see token her way toward the holy land/ and the King henry died in the mean time at westminster when he had been King lv year/ & nineteen weeks in saint edmondes day the archbishop of Caunterbury/ & he was entered at westmynstre on saint edmonds day the King/ In the year of incarnation of our lord Ihu Crist/ M/ CC/ lxxij   

Profecye of merlyn of the king henry the first exponed that was King Iohans son/ Ca/ C/ lx/  
ANd of this henry profecyed merlyn/ & said that a lamb should come out of wynchestre in the year of incarnation of our lord. M CC/ & xuj with true lips & holiness written in his heart/ & he said sooth for the good henry the King was boar in wynchestre in the year above said, & he spaak good words/ & sweet and was an holy man and of good conscience/ And merlyn said that this henry should make the fairest place of all the world that in his time should not full be ended/ and he said soothe/ For he made the new work of the abbey of saint Peter's church at westminster/ that is fairer of sight than any other church/ that men know through all christendom/ but King henry died ere that work were fully made/ and that was great harm, And yet said Merlin that this lamb should have peace the most time of his regne/ and he said full sooth. for he was never annoyed through were ne diseased in no manner wise till a little before his death/ And yet said merlyn in his prophecy more/ & in the regne, & end of the foresaid lamb a wolf of a strange land/ should done him great harm through his were/ & that he should at last been maystir through help of a reed fox/ that should come out of the north west/ & should him overcome/ & that he should drive him unto the water/ & that profecye full well was know/ for within a little time or the King died Symond of mountford Earl of leicester that was borne in france began against him strong were through which doing many a good bachelor was shent/ & deed/ & disherited/ And when King henry had the victory at Euesham/ & Symond th'earl was slain through help & might of Gillebert of Clare Earl of gloucester/ that was in keeping and ward of the foresaid Symond through ordinance of King henry that went a●●ne to the King with moche power/ wherefore the foresaid Simond was shent/ and that was great harm to the communes of england that so good a man was shent for troth/ & died in charity, and for the common profit of the same folk/ and therefore almighty god for him hath Sythenes showed many a fair miracle to diverse men and women of the sickness and dysesse/ that they have had for the love of him  
And merlyn also told and said in his Profecye that after that time the lamb should leave no while/ & than his seed should been in strange land without pasture●…/ And he said sooth. For King henry lived no while after when Symond mountford was deed that King henry ne died avon after him/ And in the mean time sir edward his son that was the best knight of the world of honour was tho in the holy land/ & get their Acre●…/ & in that country he bygate on dame clyenore his wife Jane of 〈◊〉 cres his dought●…r/ that afterward was Countess of gloucestre/ & he made in the holy land such a viage that all the world spoke of his knighthood/ & every man dread him/ high & low/ through out all christendom/ as the story of him telleth/ as after ward ye shul here more openly/ & from the time that King henry deyde till that sir edward was crowned King all the great Lords of england were as fatherless children without any succour that him might maintain/ & govern & defend▪ against her deadly enemies/   

Of King edward that was King henry's son▪ ca/ C▪ lxj/  
ANd after this King henry reigned his son edward the worthiest knight of all the world of honour. for god's grace was in him▪ For he had the victory of his enemies▪ And as so ne as King henry deyde▪ he come to london with a fair company of prelate's & of Earls and barons & all manner men did him much honour/ For in every place that sir edward road in london/ the stret●…s were covered over his heed with rich clothes of silk/ of t●… pyt●…s & with rich covering▪ And for ioy●… of his coming/ the noble burgeys of the city cast out at her windows gold & silver hands full/ in tokening of love and of worship services & re u●…ce/ And out of the conduit of cheap ran white win/ and read as streams doth of the water/ and every man thereof myght●… drink at her own will/ And this King Edward was crowned & ennoynted as right heir of england with moche honour/ & after mass the King w●…t in to his palace for to hold a ryal fest a monges hem that him did honour/ And when he was set unto his meet/ the King alysander of Scotland come for to done him honour and reverence with a qu●…yntyze/ and an hundred knyght●…s with him well horsed and arrayed▪ And when they were light a down of her steeds/ they let hem gone whither that they would And who that might take 'em took at her own will without any challenge/ An adfterward come Sir Edmond King Edwardys brother a courteous knight & a gentle of renomee/ & the Earl of cornwall/ and the Earl of gloucester/ And after hem come the Earl of penbroke/ and the Earl of Garenne/ And each of 'em by himself/ lad in her hand an ninety knights gai lie disguised in her arms/ And when they were light of her ●…rs they let hem gone whither that hem liked/ & who that might 'em take to have 'em still without any let/ And when all this was done/ King edward did his diligence. & his might for to a mend the ream/ & redress the wrongs in the best manner that he might to the honour of god & holy church/ & maintain his honour and to amend the noyance of the common people/   

How ydeine that was lewelins doughtir of walis p●…nce & aymer that was th'earls brother of montford were taken in the see/ ca/ c ●…ij  
THe first year afterward that King edward was crowned/ Lewelyn Prince of wales sent in to France to the Earl mountford that through council of his friends the Earl should wed his daughter/ and the Earl though avised him upon this thing/ and sent again to lewelyn. & said that he would send a●…r his daughter/ And so he sent aymer his brother after the damosel. and Lewelyn arrayed ships for his daughter/ and for Sir Aymer and for her f●…r company that should go with her/ And this lewelyn did great wrong/ for it was covenant that he should 〈◊〉 his daughter to no manner man without council and consent of King edward/ And so it befell that a burgeys of B●…ystowe come 〈◊〉 ●…e see with win lad. & met 'em/ & hem took with my●… and po●…r▪ & anon the burgeys sent 'em to the King/ And when lewelyn herd this tiding/ he was wonder wroth and 〈◊〉 sorrowful/ and 'gan for to were upon King edward/ 〈◊〉 did much harm unto the english men/ & be●…e a down the Kings Case tells & began fas●… to destroy King edwardys' lands▪ And when tiding come unto King edward of this thing. he went in to uva lys▪ And so much he did through gods grace/ and his great power that he drofe lewelyn unto much mischief/ that he fled all ma ne●…●…ngthe/ & come & yield him to King Edward/ & gave him l. 〈◊〉 marc of silver for to have peace/ & took the damosel and all●… his heritage/ and made an obligation to King edward to come to his parliament two times of the year/ And in the second year after that King edward was crowned. he held a general parliament at westmynstre▪ and there he made the statutes for default of law by common ass●…t of all his barons/ And at Estren next sewing the King sent by his letters to lewelyn Prince of wales/ that he should come to parliament for his land/ and for his holding in wales as the strength of the letter obligatory witnessed/ though ●…welyn had scorn & despite of the Kings commandement/ & for pure wrath began again for to were upon King Edward/ and destroy his lands. & though King edward herd this tiding▪ he way wonder wrath unto lewelyn/ & in haste assembled his people and went him towards Wales/ & warrayed so upon lewelyn the prince till that he brought him in so much sorrow & disease▪ And 〈◊〉 welyn saw that his defence might not avail & come again/ & yield him to the kings grace/ and cried him mercy/ & long time kneeled before the kings feet/ The King had of him pity▪ & commanded him for to arise/ & for his meekness forgave him his wrath/ & to him said/ that if he trespassed again him another time that he would destroy him for evermore/ David that was lewelyns brother that same time dwelled with the King edward & was a fell man/ & a subtle envious/ & far casting/ & moche treason thought/ & evermore held him still for to wit & espy the Kings will/ & evermore made good semblant▪ & seemed so true/ that no man might perceive his falseness   

How lewelyn through egging of david his brother warrayed again upon King edward/ Ca/ C lxiij/  
HIt was not long after that time that King Edward ne give to divid lewelyns' brother the lordship of frodesham/ and made him a knight/ & so much honour did he never after to no man of wales for encheason of him King edward held his parliament at london/ when he had done in wales all that he would/ & changed his money/ that though was full cut/ and rounded/ where for the common people plained 'em wonder sore/ so that the King let inquire of 'em that such trespaas dieden/ & CCC were attaint of such manner falseness/ wherefore some were hanged/ & some dra we/ & afterward hanged/ And afterward the King ordained that the sterling halfpenny/ & ferthing should gone through out his land/ & commanded that no man fro day afterward gave/ ne feffed house of religion with land tenement without sp●…al leave of the King. and he that did should be punished at the Kings will/ & the yift should be for nought/ And it was not long after that lewelyn Prince of Wales through ticement of david his brother/ & by both her consent they thought to disherit King edward in as much as they might/ so that through hem both the Kings peace was broken/ & when King edward herd this anon he sent his barō●… in to nurthumberland. and the surreys also/ that they should gone & taken her viage upon the traitors Lewelyn. and david/ And wonder hard was for to were tho▪ for it is winter in wales when in other countries is summer/ And lewelyn let ordain & well array & victual his good castle of swandon/ & was there in an huge number of people & plenty of victuals. so that King Edward wist not where for to entre/ And when the kings men it perceived/ and also the strength of wales they let come in the see barges and botes. & great planks as many as they might or deigned & have for to gone to the said castle of swandone with men on fo●… & eke on horse/ But the welshmen had so moche people/ & were so strong that they driven the englishmen again/ so that there was so moche press of people at the turning again/ that the charge & the berthen of hem made the barges & botes sink/ & there was drenched full many a good knight/ that is to say Sir Rogyer of Clyfford/ Sir william of lindsay that was Sir Johans' fytz robert & sir richard tanny/ & an huge number of other & all was through her own folly/ for if they had had good espies they had not been harmed. When King edward herd tell that his people was so drenched/ he made sorrow enough/ but though come Sir John of vessye from the King of aragon/ & brought with him much folk of bachelors & of gascoins/ & were soldiers/ & duellyng with the foresaid sir Johan of vessye/ & underfonge of him wages & with him were withhold/ & noble men it were for to fight & brent many towns & slew moche people of welshmen all that they might take/ & all though with strength & might made assault to the castle of swandone/ & get the castle▪ & when david the pryn●…s brother herd this tiding/ he ordained him to flight/ & lewelyn the Prince saw that his brother was flown/ and sore was abashed/ for he had no power to his were for to maintain/ And so Lewelyn 'gan for to flee and wend well for to have escaped▪ but on a morrow Sir Rogyer Mortimer met with him only with 〈◊〉 knights/ & set him round about/ & to him went & 〈◊〉 of his heed and presented him unto the King Edward/ And in this maner the Prince of wales was taken & his heed smitten of. and all his heirs disherited for evermore through rightful doom of all the lands of the ●…ame▪   

How david that was lewelyns brother Prince of wa●…s was put to death/ Caᵒ./ C. l●…iiijᵒ./  
Auyd that was the princes brother of Wales through pride d wen●…e for to have been Prince of wales/ after his brother●… death/ And upon that scent he after the welshmen to his parliament at dynb●…gh/ & follylyche made wales arise against the King/ & be 'gan to move were against the King/ & did all th●… sorrow & disease that he might by his power/ when King edward herd of this thing/ he ordained men to pursue upon him/ And david ferselich him defended till that he come to the town of saint Moryce▪ & there was david take as he fled▪ and led to the King/ and the King commanded that he should be hanged and draw. and smy●… of his heed & quarter him and send his heed to london/ & the iiij quartyers send to the four towns chief of wales/ for they should take example/ and there of been war●…/ And afterward King Edward let cry his pe●…s through out all wales/ & seized all the land in to his hand/ & all the great Lords that were left alive/ come to done feaute & homage to the King edward▪ as to her kind lord▪ And though let King edward amend the laws of wales that were defectif/ And after he sent to all the Lords of wales by his letters patent/ that they should come all to his parliament/ And when they were come/ the King said to hem full cur toysly/ Lodynges/ ye be welcome/ & me 〈◊〉 your counceille/ and your help for to wend in to gascoyne for to amend the trespace●… that me was done▪ when I was there/ & for to entreat of peace between the King of Arragon/ & the Prince of Morrey/ And all the kings lyege men/ Earls▪ and Barons consented and granted thereto/ And though made him King Edward ready/ and went in to 〈◊〉/ and l●…te amend all the tree spaces that him was done in Gascoigne. And of the debate that was between the King of Arragon/ and the Prince of Morrey/ he ceased▪ and made 'em acorded/ And while the good King Edward and the Queen Elyen●…e his wife were in Gascoigne/ the good Earl of corn wail was made warden of england till that King Edward come again/ And though enquered ●…x of his traitors that congetted falseness against him/ And each of 'em all▪ underfeng her doom after that they had deserved/ But in the me●…ne tyme. while that the good King Edward was beyond the see to done 'em for to make amends that against hem had trespassed/ there was a false thief a traitor that was called Rys a●… Merydock began for to make were against the King Edward/ And that was for encheason of sir pain tiptot wrongfully grieved & diseased that for said Ri●… ap merydok/ And when King Edward herd all this he sent by his letters to Ris ap merydok/ that he should begin to make no were/ but that he should be in peace for his love/ & when that he come again in to england/ he would undertake the quarrel & done amend all that was misdone/ The foresaid Rys ap Merydok despised the Kings commandement/ & spared not for to do all the sorrow that he might to the kings men of Englond▪ but anon after he was taken/ & lad to york/ & there was draw & honged for his felon●…/   

Of the redressing that King edward made of his Iusty●…s/ & of his clerks that they had done for her falseness/ & how he drofe the Jews out of england for her usury/ & misbyleve/ caᵒ/ C 〈◊〉  
When King edward had dwelled three year in gascoyne/ 〈◊〉 le come to him/ for to wend again in to Englond▪ & though he was come again/ he found so many plaints made to him of his justyces/ and of his clerks▪ that had done so many wrongs & falseness that wonder it was to here/ And for which falseness sir thomas weylond/ the kings justice forswore Englon●… at the tower of london▪ for falseness that men put upon him/ whereof he was attaint & proved falls/ And anon after when the King had done his will of the justyces/ though let ●…x 〈◊〉 and aspye how the Jews deceived & beguiled his ●…ple through 〈◊〉 sin of falseness & of usury/ & let ordain a prive parlem●…●…mong his Lords/ & they ordained among 'em that all the Iew●… should wide england for her misbelieve/ And also for her false use rye that they did unto christian men/ And for to speed & to make an end of this thing/ all the community of england give unto the King the xv penny of all her goods m●…able/ & so were the 〈◊〉 driven on●… of england/ & though went Jews in to france. & there dwelled through love of King phelip that though was King of france   

How King Edward was seized in all the land of scotland through consent & grant of all the Lords of scotland/ caᵒ./ C/ 〈◊〉ᵒ./  
HIt was not long after that alysauder King of Scotland was deed/ And david earl of Huntingdone that was the kings brother of Scotland a●…ed and claimed the kingdom of Scotland/ for encheason that he was right full ●…yr/  
But many great Lords of Scotland saiden Nay●…▪ Wh●…fore 'gree 〈◊〉 debate aroose between 'em▪ and her friends/ For as much that they would not consent to his coronation/ & in the mean time the foresaid david deyde/ & so it by fell that the same david had three daughters, that worthily were married/ the first daughter was married to baillol/ the second to brus/ the third to hastynges/ and the foresaid brus & bayllol challenged the land of scotland, & grete debate & strife aroos between hem three, for encheason that each of 'em would have be King/ & when the Lords of scotland saw the debate between 'em three/ they come to King Edward of Englond, & seized him in all the land of scotland/ as her chief lord And when the King was seized of the Lords of scotland/ the foresaid baillol/ brus/ & hastings come to the kings court. & axed of the King/ which of hem should be King of scotland/ & King Edward that was full gentle & true/ let inquire by the chronicles of Scotland/ & of the great Lords of scotland which of hem was of the eldest blood/ & it was found/ that bayllol was eldest/ And that the King of scotland should hold of the King of england/ & done him feaute & homage/ and after this was done/ bayllol went in to scotland/ & there was crowned King of scotland/ & the same time was upon the see strong were between the englishmen. & the normans'/ but upon a time the normans' arrived all at dover & there they martyred an holy man that was called thomas of dover And afterward were the normane slain/ that there of hem escaped not one/ & soon after King Edward should lose the duchy of Gascoigne through phelyp King of france through falls casting of the doussepyers of the land/ wherefore sir edmond/ that was King Edward's brother gave up his homage unto the King of france And in that time the clerks of england granted to King edward haluendese of holy church goods in holying for to recover his land again in gascoyne/ & the King sent thither a noble company of his bachyllers/ & himself would have went to portesmouth/ But he was let through one maddoke of wales. that had seized the castle of swandone/ in to his hand/ & for that encheason the King turned again unto walis at Cristemasse/ & for encheason that the noble Lords of england that were sent in to gascoyne had no comfort of her lord the King/ they were take of Sir Charles of france/ that is to say/ sir john of britain/ Sir Robert Tiptoft Sir Rauf tanny/ sir hugh bardolf/ & sir adam of cretynges/ & yet at the as●…ion was madok take in wales/ & another that was called morgan/ & they were sent to the tower of london/ & there they were beheaded/   

How Sir Johan bayllol King of scotland withsaid his homage/ & of sir thomas Turbeluylle. Ca●…/ C/ lxvij●…/  
ANd when Sir John bayllol King of scotland understood that King edward was warrayed in gascoyne/ to whom the royalme of scotland was delivered, falsely though against his oath withsaid his homage through procuring of his folk/ and sent to the court of rome through a false suggestion to be assoiled of that oath that he swore unto the King of england/ & so he was by let tres enbulled/ though chosen they of scotland dousepers for to benym me edward his right, and in that time come two cardinal's from the court of rome/ from the pope celestine/ for to treat of accord between the King of france/ & the King of england/ and as though two cardinal's spoken of accord, thomas Turbeluille was take at lyouns/ & made feaute & homage to the warden of paris. & to him put his two sons in hostage/ for that he thought gone in to england for to aspye the country, & tell 'em when he come in to Englond that he had broken the kings prison of france by night & said that he would done/ that all englishmen & walssh●…ē should abowe to the King of France/ & this thing for to bring to the end/ he swore/ & upon this covenant deeds were made between 'em. & that he should have by year a M pounds worth of land to bring this thing to an end/ This falls traitor took his leave and went thence & come in to england unto the King/ & said that he was broken out of prison/ & that he had put him in such ●…ll for his love/ wherefore the King could him much thank & full glad was of his coming/ & the falls these traitor fro that day aspyrd all the dying of the King, & also his couneeyll/ for the King louy●… him well/ & was with him full prive But a clerk of England that was in the kings house of france herd of this tr●…son & of the falseness/ & wrote to another clerk/ that was duelling with the King of england all how thomas Turbeluylle had done his false coniecting, & all the council of england was write for to have 〈◊〉 unto the King of france/ & through this foresaid lettre/ that the clerk had sent fro france/ it was found upon him, wherefore he was lad to london. & drawn & hanged there for his treason/ and his two sons that he had put in france for hostages were though 〈◊〉/   

Of the Conquest of Berewyk/ Ca/ C lyviij●…  
When though two cardinal's were went again in to France for to treat of the pres at 〈◊〉/ the King sen●… thydder of his Earls and barons. that is to say sir edmond his brother upon god's body/ That is to say Sir Johan of Comyn/ & the Earl of the strathorne the Earl of Carryk and also four Bishops undertook for all the clergy, & so the King delivered 'em/ & gave 'em safe conduit to wend in to her own land. And it was not long afterward/ that they ne arysen against King Edward/ for encheason that they wist well that King Edwardys folk was take in gascoyn/ as before is said/ but Sir Johan bayllol King of scotland witted well that his land should have sorrow & shame for her falseness/ & in haste went him over the see to his own lands/ & there held him & come never more again/ wherefore the Scots choose to her King Willian waleys/ a ribald, & an harlot comen up of nought & moche harm did to the englishmen/ & King edward thought how he might have deliverance of his people that were taken in gascoyne/ & in haste went over the see in to flanders for to were up on the sting of france/ & the Earl of flanders underfeng him with moche honour/ & granted him all his lands at his own will And when the King of france herd tell that the King of Englond was arrived in flanders & come with an huge power him for to destroy/ he prayed him of true for two year/ so that english merchants & also french might sanfly gone & come in both sides The King edward granted it/ so that he must have his men ou●… of prison that were in gascoyne/ & the King of france granted ●…non & so they were delivered/ And in the same time the Scots sent by the Bishop of saint andrews in to france to the King/ & to sir Charlys his brother that sir charles should come with his power/ & they of scotland would come with her power/ & so they should gone in to england that land for to destroy from scotland till that they come to kent/ & the scot●…es trust much upon the French men, but of that thing they had no manner grant/ And nethelos the scottee bigonne to rob & slay in no●…thūberlād/ & died moche harm.   

How william walleys let slay her hugh of Cressyngham/ & of the battle of Fonkyrke. Ca/ C, lxx●…  
When this tiding was come to King Edward that william walleys had ordained such a strong power/ & that all Scot land to him was attendant. and ready to slay Englishmen and ●…e destroy the land he was sore annoyed and sent anon by letters to the Earl of garren/ & 〈◊〉 sir henry Percy/ and to Sir William latomer/ & to Sir hugh of cressynghan his treasurer that they should take po●…er/ and wend in to nurthumberland/ and so forth in to Scotland for to kept the countries/ And when william waleis heard of her coming/ he 'gan for to flee/ & the englishmen him followed/ & drofe him till he come to Stryvelyn/ and there he held him in the castle/ & the welshmen every day hem escryed & menaced/ & did all the despite that they might/ So that the english men upon a time in a morning went out from the castle the mountance of x mile/ & passed over a bridge/ And william was ●…eys come with a strong power & drofe hem a back/ for the englishmen had against him though no might/ but fled. & they that might take the bridge escaped/ but Sir hugh the kings treasurer there was slain and many other also/ wherefore was moche so●…the/ Tho had King edward sped all his needs in flanders/ & was again come in to england/ & in haste took his weigh toward Scot land, & come thither at ascension tide. & all that he found/ he set a fire, and brent/ But the pour people of Scotland come to him wonder thykke/ & prayed him for gods love that he would have on them mercy & pity/ where for the King though commanded/ that no man should done harm to 'em that were yoleden to him/ ne to no man of ordre/ ne to no house of religion/ ne no manner church But let aspye all that he might, where that he might find any of his enemies/ Tho come a spy to the King/ & told him w●…re the Scots were assembled for to give battle/ & on saint marry magdalene day the King come to fonkirk/ & gave battle to the Scots/ And at that battle were slain xxxiij thousand/ and of englishmen, but xxviij/ & no more/ of the which was a worthy knight slain that was a knight an hospyteler/ that was called Frere Brian jay/ For when william waleys fled from the battle that same Frere Brian him pursued ferslyche/ and as his horse ran it start in to a mire of mareys up to the belly, And william waleys turned though again, & there slew the foresaid Brian/ and that was much harm, And that while King Edward went through Scotland for to inquire if he might find any of his enemies, And in that land he dwelled as long as him liked/ & there was none enemy that durst him abide, and soon afterward King edward went to sonthampton, for he would not abide in scot land in winter season for esement of his people/ And when be come to london, he let amend many misdeeds that were done against his peace & his law while that he was in flanders   

Of the last marriage of King edward/ & how he went the third time in scotland ca/ C lxxj  
ANd afterward it was ordained through the court of Rome that King edward should wed d●…me margarete King philyps sister of france/ & the arch Bishop Robert of wynchelsee spoused hem to gedre through which marriage there was made pe●…s between King edward of Englond/ and King philip of France King edward went though the third time in Scotland. And though within the first year he had enfam yned the land/ so that there left not one that ne come to his mercy/ safe though that were in the castle of estrevelyn that wa●… well vitaylled & astored for seven year   

How the castle of Estrevelyne was besieged/ Ca/ C. lxxij./  
Kking Edward come with an huge power to the castle of Estrevelyn, & besieged the castle/ but it little availed/ for he might do the Scots none harm. For the castle was so strong & well y kept/ And King edward saw that/ and thought him upon a quaintise. & let make there anon ij peyre of high gallows before the tower of the castle. & made his oath that as many as were in the castle/ were he Earl or baron, & he were take with strength, but if he would the rather him yield/ he should been hanged up on the gallows/ and when though that were in the castle herd this they come & yield 'em all to the kings grace and mercy/ and the King forgave him all his maletalent/ And there were all the gree to Lords of Scotland/ swore to King Edward that they should come to london to every parliament/ & should stand to his ordinance/   

How Troyle bastone was first ordained/ Ca/ C/ lxxiij/  
THe King edward went thence to london/ and went have had rest and peace of his were/ with which were he was occupied xx year/ that is to say in wales/ in Gascoyn/ and in Scot land/ And thought how he might recover his treasure/ that he had spended about his were/ & let inquire through the ream of mistakings and wrongs done through misdoers in England of all the time that he had been out of his ream that men called tro illebaston/ And ordained thereto justyces/ & in this manner he recovered treasure without number. And his encheason was for he had thought for to have gone in to holy land for to were upon god des enemies/ For encheason that he was ●…oysed long time before/ And nevertheless that law that he had ordained died much good through out all england to 'em that were mysbode/ For though that trespassed were we●… chastised/ And afterward the meeker and the lettre/ & the pour commons were in peace & in rest, & the same time King edward imprisoned his own son Edward for encheason that walter of langeton Bishop of chester/ that was the kings treasurer had made upon him complaint/ & said that the foresaid Edward through council & procurement of one pyers of ganastone a squire of gascoyne had broke the parks of the foresaid Bishop/ & the foresaid pyers counseled & led the same Edward/ & for this cause King edward exiled the said pyers ou●… of england for evermore/   

Of the death of william waleys the falls traytout/ ca/ C lxx. ●…ij  
ANd when this King edward had his enemies overcome in wales goscoyne. & in Scotland/ & destroyed his traitors but onlyeh that ribald william waleys/ that never to the King would him yield/ and at●… last in the town of saint domyny●… in the year of King Edward'S reign thirty. ij that falls traitor was take, & presented to the King/ safe the King would not see him/ but sent him to london to underfang his judgement/ & on saint Bartholomeus eve he was hanged and draw/ & his heed smitten of/ and his bowels take out of his body/ and brent/ & his body quartered/ & sent to four the best towns of Scotland/ & his ●…de set upon a spear & set upon london bridge in example that the Scots should have in mind for to bear, hem amiss ageynsce her lyege lord eftsoons/   

How the Scotces come to King edward for to amend her t●… space that they had done against him/ Ca/ C lxxv/  
ANd at mych●…lmasse though next coming/ King Edward held his parliament at westmynstre/ & thither come the Scots/ that is to say, the Bishop of saint Andrew. Robert the B●…s earl of Carryk/ Symond the frysel/ Johan the Earl of Athell/ and they were acorded with the King and bound/ and by oath sworn that afterward if any of 'em mysber●… hem against King edward that they should been disherited for evermore/ And when ●…r peace was thus y made. they took her love privily, & w●… home to her own country/   

How Robert the brus challenged Scotland/ Ca. C. lxxv●…  
ANd after this Robert the Brus Earl of Ca●…yest sense by his letter to the Earls and barone of Scotland that they should come to him to soon in the morrow after the conc●…pcion of ou●… Lady. for high needs of the land/ And the Lords come a●… the day assigned/ and at the same day sir Robert the brus said fair Lords full well ye know that in my person duelled the right of the reme of Scotland/ & as ye wite well am rightful heir/ sith that Sir Johan bayllol that was our King us bathe forsake & left his land. And though it so be that King Edward of england with wrongful power hath made me to him assent against my will/ if that ye will grant that I be King of Scotland I shall keep you against King edward/ & against all manner men & with that word the abbot of Scone aroos/ & before hem all said that it was reason for to help him/ & the land to keep & defend/ & though said in presence of 'em all that he would give him a M pound for to maintain that land/ & all the other granted the land to him & with her power him for to help/ & defied King Edward of england/ & said that Robert the Brus should be King of Scotland   

How Sir Johan of Comyn gainsaid the crouning of Sir Robert the Brus/ Ca.ᵒ. C/ lxxvijᵒ/  
lordings said Sir Johan of Comyn thinketh upon the troth & the oath that ye made unto King Edward of En glond and touching myself/ I will not break mine oath for no man/ and so he went fro that company at that time/ wherefore Ro bert the brus and all that to him consented were wonder wroth and though mana●…ed Sir Johan of Comyn/ Tho ordained they an other council at donfrys/ to the which come the foresaid sire Johan Comyn/ he dwelled but two mile from Donfrys/ there that he was woned for to sojourn/ and abide/   

How Sir Johan was traitorously slain/ Ca/ C/ lxxviij/  
When Robert the brus wist that all the great Lords of Scot land were come to dōfris sauf Sir Johan Comyn/ that so iourn tho nigh dōfris/ he sent after him specially that sire Johan Comyn should come & speak with him. & upon that he sent after him Johan Comyns his brother/ & prayed him for to come and speak with him at grey freres at donfrys/ & that was the thursday after Candelmasse/ & Sir Johan granted him for to wend with him/ And when he heard mass/ he took a sop/ & drank/ & afterward he bestrode his palfrey/ and road his weigh/ & so come to donfrys/ And Robert the brus saw him come at a window as he was in his chambre/ & though made joy enough/ and come against him and colled him about the neck/ and made with him good semblant/ And when all the e●…s. & barons of Scotland were present/ Robert the Brus spoke and said sires qd he ye wite well the encheason of this coming/ & wherefore it is/ if ye will grant that I moat be King of Scotland/ as right heir of the land/ and all the Lords that were there said with one voys that he should be crowned King of Scotland/ and that they would him help & maintain against all manner men alive/ And for him if it were need die/ The gentle knight though John of Comyn answered/ and said. Certes never for me/ ne for to have of me as much help as the value of a botonne/ For that oath that I have made to King Edward of Englond I shall hold while my life last/ and with that word he went fro that company/ and would have went upon his palfrey/ And Robert the Brus pursued him with a draw sword/ and bore him through the body/ And sire John Comyn fell down to the earth/ But when Rogyer that was Sir John Comyns brother saw the fall senesse and start to Sir Robert the Brus/ & smote him with a knife/ but the falls traitor was armed under/ so that the stroke might done him none harm/ And so moche help come about sir Robert the Brus/ so that Rogyer Comyn was there slain/ and all to hew m to small pieces/  
And Robert the Brus turned again. There that Sir John Comyn the noble baron lay wounded and pined toward his death besides the high altar in the church of the grey freres/ & said unto Sir Johan Comyn. O traitor thou shalt be deed/ & ne ver after let mine advancement. and shaken his sword at the high altar & smote him on the heed/ that the brain fell a down upon the ground/ & the blood start an high upon the walls/ And yet unto this day that blood is sayne there that no water may wash it away/ & so died that noble knight in holy church/  
ANd when the traitor Robert the brus saw that no man though would let his coronation/ he commanded all hem that were of power should come to his crounyng●…/ to saint Johannes ton in scotland/ and so it befell that on our lady of An●…ciacion/ the Bishop of glastone/ and the Bishop of saint Andrew crowned for her King Robert the Brus in saint Johannes town and made him King/ And anon after he drofe out ass the englishmen out of Scotland/ and they fled and come/ & plained unto King Edward/ How Robert the brus had drive hem out of the land/ & disherited 'em/   

How King edward dubbed at westminster xxiv score knights. Caᵒ./ C. lxxx  
ANd when King edward herd of this mischief he swore that he would thereof been avenged/ and said that all the traitors of Scotland should been hanged and draw/ and that they should never be ransomed/ And King edward thought upon this falseness that the Scots had done/ & sent after all the bachyllerye of england that they should come to london at witsontyde/ & he dubbed at westminster xxiv score knights/ Tho ordained him the noble King edward for to wend in to scotland to were upon Robert the brus/ & sent before him in to scotland sir aymer the valance Earl of penbroke/ & sir henry percy baron/ with a fair company that pursued the Scots/ & brent towns & castles/ & afterward come the King himself with Earls & barons a fair company/   

How Robert the brus was discomfited in battle/ & how Symond Frysel was slain/ Ca/ C lxxxj/  
THe Friday next before the assumption of our lady King edward met Robert the brus besides saint Johans' town in scotland and with his company/ of which company King Edward slew seven M/ when Robert the brus saw this mischief he 'gan to flee & hid him that no man might him find/ but sir simond frisel pursued him sore/ so that he turned again & abode battle. For he was a worthy knight and a bold of body/ & the englishmen pursued ever sore in every side. & slew the stead that sir Symond Frysel road upon/ and they took him/ & lad him unto the host/ And sir Symond began for to flatter/ & speak fair/ & said/ lords I shall give you iiij M marc of silver/ & mine horse mine harnoys & all mine armour/ & become a beggar/ though answered Theobaude of Pevenes/ that was the kings Archyer, now god me so help it is for nought that thou speakest, for all the gold in england I would thee not let gone/ without commandment of King edward/ And though was he lad to King Edward/ and the King would not see him/ but commanded to lead him away to have his doom at london, and on our Ladies even nativity he was hanged and drawn/ & his heed smitten of/ and hanged 〈◊〉 with chains of iron upon the gallows. And his heed was set upon london bridge upon a spear, and against christmas the body was brent, for enche son that the men that kept the body by night they saw so many devils raumpand with great Iren erokes running upon the gallows/ & horrybelyche tormented the body and many that hem saw/ anon after they died for dread/ & some woxen mad or sore sickness they had. And in that battle was take the Bishop of baston/ the Bishop of saint Andrew's/ and the abbot of scone well armed with iron, as men of arms as false traitors & falls prelate's against her oath/ & they were brought to the King/ & the King sent 'em to the pope of Rome/ that he should done with 'em what his will were.   

How Johan Earl of atheles was take/ & put to the death/ Capitulo/ C lxxxijᵒ./  
ANd at that battle fled Sir Johan Earl of Atheles, and went in to a church & there hid him for dread/ but he might have there no refute for encheason. that the church was interdicted through a general sentence/ & in the same church he was take/ And this Sir Johan went well to have had escaped from the death for encheason that he claimed kynered of King Edward/ and the King nold no longer be tarried of his traitors/ but sent him to london in haste/ & there he was hanged/ & his heed smitten of/ & his body brent all to asshis. But at prayer of the Queen margarete For encheason that he claimed of King Edward kindred/ his drawing was foryeve him/   

How Johan that was william walleys brother/ was put to the death/ Caᵒ./ C lxxxiijᵒ./  
When the greatest masters of Scotland were thus done to evil death. & shended for her falseness/ Johan that was Willian walleys brother was take & done to death as Sir Johan earl of a theles was/   

How Robert the brus fled from scotland to Norwey/ Capitulo C lxxxiiij/  
ANd at that same day was Robert the brus much bated among the people of Scotland/ so he wist not what was for to done/ & for to hide him he went in to norwey to the King, that had spoused his sister, & there held him succour for to have/ And Robert the Brus might not be found in Scotland/ King Edward though let cry his peace through out all the land/ & his laws were used. & his mynystres served through out all the land   

How King edward died/ Capitulo/ C/ lxxxvᵒ./  
When King edward had abated his enemies/ ●…e turned again southward/ & a malady took him at burgh up sand in the March of Scotland/ and he wist well that his death was fnl nigh & called to him sire henry the lacy Earl of nychol/ Sir●… Guy Earl of Warwick/ sire aymer valence Earl of penbroke/ & sir robert of clifford baron & prayed 'em upon the faith that they him owed that they should make edward of Carnarivan King of england his son as rathe as they might/ & that they should not suf free pyers of ganeston come again in to england/ for to make his son to use ryotte/ & they granted him with good will, & the King took the sacrament of holy church as a good christian man should/ & de●…de in very repentance/ & when he had be King xxxv year he died/ & was buried at westmynstre. with moche solemnity/ upon whose soul god have mercy/  
Amen/   

Of merlyns' prophecies that were declared of King Edward that was King henry's son/ Ca/ C/ lxxxuj/  
ANd of this King edward profecyed merlyn/ & called him a dragon the second King of the uj last Kings that should be for to regne in england/ & said that he should be meddled with mercy/ & also with strength & with sternness/ that should keep england fro cold & he●…e/ & that he should open his mouth toward walis/ & that he should set his one foot in wyke/ & that he should closen with walls that should do much harm to his seed/ & he said soothe/ For the good King edward was meddled with mercy/ & with fierceness with mercy against his enemies of wales/ & after of Scotland/ with fiersnesse when he put 'em to death for her falseness & traytrie as they had deserved it/ & well kept he england from cold & heat sith he kept it from all manner enemies/ that ●…onne upon him to done him any wrong/ & well he opened his mouth toward wales/ & made it quake through the hydour of his mouth/ when he conquered it thurght dint of sword/ for the prince lewelyn & david his brother ries & morgan were put unto the death for her falseness, & her folly/ & he set his one foot in to wyke/ & conquered Berwyck/ at the which conquest were slain xxv M & seven C, out take 'em that were brent in the reed hall/ And the walls that he let make shall be noyous unto his seed. as men shall here after see in the life of sir edward of Carnarivan his son/ And yet merlyn said that he should make rivers run in blood/ & with brain. and that seemed well in his wars there that he had the mastery/ And yet merlyn said that there should come a people out of the north west during the reign of the foresaid dragon that should be lad by an ill greyhound that should the dragon crown King/ that afterward should flee over the see for dread of the Dragon without coming again/ and that was proved by Sir Johan bayllol/ that King edward made for to been King of Scotland, that falsely aroos against him/ & after he fled unto his own lands of france/ & never come again in to Scotland for dread of King edward/ & yet said merlyn that people that should lead the foresaid grehond should be fadreles until a certain time/ & he said sooth. For the people of Scotland greatly were diseased sith that Sir Johan bayllol her King fled from scotland/ And yet said merlyn that the son should become in his time as reed/ as any blood in tokening of great mortality of people/ & that was well known when the Scots were slain/ And sith said merlyn that ilk dragon should nourish a fox that should move great were against him that should not in his time been ended/ and that seemed well by Robert the brus, that King edward nourished in his chambre/ that sythenes' stolen away. & moved great war against him/ which were was not ended in his time/ And afterward Merlin told that this dragon should been hold the best body of all the world/ and he said sooth/ For the good King edward was the worthiest knight of all the world in his time/ And yet said merlyn that the dragon should die in the March of another land, and that his land should be long without any good kepar/ & that men should weep for his death from the isle of shepey unto the isle of marcyl/ wherefore alas should be her common song among people fadreles in the land wasted/ & that prophecy was know overall full well/ For the good King Edward died at Burgh up sand that is upon the March of Scotland/ wherefore the englishmen were discomforted & sorrowed in nurthumberland/ For encheason that King edward's son set by the Scots no force for the riot of pyers of ganaston/ wherefore alas was the song th●…rugh out all England/ for defaute of a good warden from the isle of shepey unto the isle of marcyl the people made much sorrow for good King Edwardys death/ For they wend that good King edward should have gone in to the holy land, for that was hollyche his purpose. Upon whose soul god for his high grace ha ne mercy/  
Amen   

Of King Edward that was King edward's son/ Capitulo C lxxxvij/  
ANd after this King Edward/ reigned Edward his son. that was boar in Carnarivan/ and this Edward went in ●…o France/ and spoused Isabella/ the kings daughter of france the xxv day of january at the church of our lady at Boloyn In the year of our lord Ihesu christ/ a M/ CCC seven, & the xx day of Feverer the next year that come after he was crowned solempnlych at westmynstre of the archbishop Robert of wynchelsee/ and of the●… archbishop of Cauntrbury/ and there was so great p●…ce of people that Sir Johan bacwel was deed & murdered/  
And anon as the good King edward was deed/ Sir Edward his son King of engloud sent after pyers of ganeston in to Gascoigne/ and so much loved him that he called him his brother/ and anon after he give him the lordship of wallyngford/ and it was not long after that he ne gave him th'earldom of cornwall against all the Lords will of the royalme/ And though brought he sire walter of langeton Bishop of chester in to prison in to the Cor of lonton with two knaves alone him to serve/ For the King was wroth with him/ For cause that sire walter made complaint upon him to his father/ wherefore he was put in to prison in the time of Troylbastone/ And the. foresaid Pyers of ganeston made so great masteries that he went in to the kings treasury in the abbey of westmynstre/ and took the table of gold with the trestelles of the same/ and many other rich jewels/ that sometime were the noble and good King Arthures/ & took 'em to a merchant that was called Aymery of Fryscombande For he should bear 'em over the see in to gascoyne/ & so he went the●…s/ & they come never again after/ where for it was great loss unto this land/ And when this pyers was so richly advanced. he become so proud and so stout, whereof all the great Lords of the ream had him in despite for his great bearing/ where for Sir Henry the lacy Earl of nychol, & sir guy Earl of warwyck, the which good Lords the good King edward sir Edwardye King of Englond his father charged that pyers of Ganestone should not come in to england for to bring his son Edward in Ryott/ And all the Lords of england assembled hem at a certain day at the Freres prechours at london/ & speaken of the dishonour that King edward did unto his royalme/ and to his crown, & so they assented all both Earls & commons/ that the foresaid pyers of ganeston should been exiled out of england for ever more. And so it was done/ For he forswore Englond/ and went in to ireland/ and there the King made him chieftain/ and go vernoure of the land by his commission/ And there this Pyers was chieftain of all the land/ and died there all that him liked and had power what he would. and that time were the templars exiled through all Crystente for encheason that men put upon 'em that they should done thing against the faith & good be leave. King Edward loved pyers of Ganeston so much that he might not forlete his company. & so much the King gave & behight to the people of england that the exiling of the foresaid Pyers should ben revoked at staunford through hem that him had exiled/ wherefore pyers of ganeston come again in to Englond, & when he was come again in to this land/ he despised the greatest Lords of this land. & called Sir Robert of Clare Earl of gloucest●… ho●… soon/ And the Earl of nychol sir henry the lacy brostebely. & sir Guy Earl of warwick/ the blac hound of Arderne/ and also he call led the noble Earl and gentle Thomas of lancastre Cherle/ and many other scorues and shame hem said, and by many other great Lords of england/ wherefore they were towards him full angry & so●… annoyed/ & in the same time died th'earl of nychol/ but he charged ere he was deed thomas of lancastre Earl that was his son in law that he should maintain his quarrel against the same Pyers of ganestone upon his benison/ And so it was ordained through help of th'earl of lancastre/ and of the Earl of warewyck that foresaid sir Pyers was beheaded at gaversyche besides warwick the nineteen day of Juyn in the year of our lord a M CCC & xij/ wherefore the King was sow annoyed. & prayed god that be might see that day to been avenged upon the death of the foresaid Pyers/ And so it befell afterward as ye shall here alas the time For the foresaid Earl of lancastre/ & many other great barons were put to piteous drth. & martyred for encheason of the foresaid que●… The King was tho at london/ & held a parliament/ and ordained the laws of Sir Symond Mountford/ wherefore the Earl of lan castre and the Earls/ and all the clergy of Englond made an oath through council of Robert of wynchelsee for to maintain the ordinances for evermore/   

How Robert the brew come again in to Scotland. & gathered a great power of men/ for to were upon King edward. Capitulo C lxxxviij/  
ANd when Sir Robert the brews that made him King of Scotland that was fled in to norwey for dread of death of the good King Edward/ And he heard of the debate that was in england between the King & his Lords/ he ordained an host/ & come in to england in to nurthumberland. & cleenly destroyed the country/ And when King edward herd this tiding he let assemble his host. & met the Scots at Estrevelyn in the day of nativity of saint Johan baptist in the seven year of his regne/ and in the year of our lord Ihu christ a M CCC/ & xiv/ alas the sorrow & loss that there was done, For there was slain the noble Earl gillebert of clare/ sir Robert of Clyfford baron/ & many other/ & of other people that no man coude number/ & their King Edward was discomfited, & Sir Edmond of maul the kings steward for dread went and drenched himself in a fresh river/ that is called Bannokesborne/ wherefore the Scots said in reprove and despite of King edward for as much as he loved to gone by water/ & also for he was discomfited at bannockesborne/ therefore maidens made a song thereof in that country of King edward, of england/ & in this manner they song, maidens of england sare may ye morn/ for tyȝt have ye lost your lemans at bannokesborne/ with hevalogh/ what wend the King of england/ to have get scotland with Rombylough/  
When King edward was discomfited he was wonder sorry and fast fled with his folk that was left on live/ & went to Berwyck/ & there held him/ And after he took good hostages that is to wit seven children of the richest of the town/ and the King went to london & took counsel of things that were needful unto the ream of england/ And in the same time it befell that though was in Englond a Rybaud, that was called Johan Camner and he went and said that he was the good King edward's son, and let him call edward of Carnarian, & therefore he was take at oxenford/ & there he challenged the Fre●… Carmes church that King edward had give 'em, the which church sometime was the Kings hall/ And afterward was this Johan lad to north hampton & draw/ & there hanged for his falseness, & ere that he was deed/ he confessed & said before all the people that there was/ that the devil lehight him that he should be King of Englond & that he had served the devil three year/   

How the town of Berwyk was take through treason/ & how two cardinal's were rob in Englond/ Caᵒ./ C, lxxxixᵒ.  
ANd in medlenten sunday in the year of our lord Ihesu criste M CCC/ xuj/ Barwyck was lost through falls treason of one Pyers of spalding, the which pyers the King had put there for to keep that same town, with many burgeys of the town wherefore the children that were put in hostage through the burgeys of Berwyck followed the kings marchalsye many days fetered in strong y●…ns. And after that time there come two cardi nals in to england/ as the pope had 'em sent for to make pets between scotland & england/ & as they went toward duresme for to have sacred master Louis of Beaumount Bishop of durham. & as they went they were taken & rob upon the more of wyngles down/ of which Robbery sir guyllebert of myddelton was attaint & take/ & hanged & draw at london/ & his heed smitten of/ & set upon a spear/ & set upon newgate/ & the iiij quarters sent to four cities of england/ And that same time befell many meschyefs in england/ for the pour people deyde in england for hunger/ & so moche & so fast died that uneath men might 'em bury/ for a quarter of whe●…e was worth xl shilling/ & ij year/ & an half a quarter of where, was worth x mart/ & oft-times the power people stolen children/ & eat hem/ & eat also all the hounds that they might take & eke horse/ and cat●…s. And after ther. fell a great moreyns among beasts in diverse countries of england, during this Ed wards life.   

How the Scots rob nurthumberland/ Caᵒ./ C/ lxxxxᵒ.  
ANd in the same time come the Scots again in to Englond and destroyed nurthumberland & brent that land/ and rob it/ & slew men women & children that lain in cradles, & brent also holy church/ and destroyed Crystendome/ and took and bare Englysshmennys goods/ as they had been sarazens' or paynims/ & of the wykkednes that they dieden/ all the world spoke thereof through all Christendom.   

How the Scots would not amend her trespaas/ & therefore Scotland was interdicted/ Ca/ C/ lxxxxjᵒ./  
ANd when pope John the xxij after saint Peter heard of the great so●…we and mischief that the Scots wrought he was wonder sorry that cristendome was so destroyed through the Scots & namely they destroyed so holy church. Wherefore the pope sent a general sentence under his bulls of lead unto the archbishop of Caunterbury & to the archbishop of york/ that if Robert the B●…us, of Scotland would not be justified/ and make amends unto the King of Englond Edward her lord & make amends of his loss & of his harnoys that they had done in Englond/ & also to restore the goods that they had taken of holy church that the sentence should be pronounced through all england/ & when the scot herd this they would not let her malice for the Pope's common dement/ wherefore Robert Brus. James douglas, and Thomas Randulph Earl of m●…ref/ & all though that with him communed/ or hem halpe in word or in deed were accursed in every church through england every day at mass three times/ & no more mass should be song in holy church through out all Scotland/ but if the scot would make restitution of the harms that they had made unto holy church/ wherefore many a good priest & holy men therefore were slain through the ream of scotland for encheason that would sing no mass against the Pope's commandment/ & against his will/ & to done & fulfil the tyrunts, will/   

How sir hugh the spencers son was made the kings chamberlain/ and of the battle▪ of mytone/ ca C/ lxxxxijᵒ/  
ANd it was not long afterward that the King ne ordained a parliament at york/ & there was sir hugh the spencers son made chamberlain/ & in the mean time while the were last/ the King went again in to scotland/ that it was wonder for to wite/ and besieged the town of Berwyk But Scots went over the water of Solewath/ that was three mile from the kings host/ and privily they steel away by night, and comen in to england and rob and destroyed all that they might. and spared no manner thing till they comen unto york/ & when the englishmen that were left at ho●… herd this thing/ all though that might travail/ as well monks & priests & freres/ and canons/ & seculeres come and met with the Scots at Mytone up small the xij day of October/ alas what sorrow, For the english husbondmen that could nothing of the were that there were slain and drenched in an arm of the See/ And her chieftains sir william of melton archbishop of york/ & the abbot of se●… by with her steeds fled & comen unto york/ & that was her own foe lie that they had that myschance/ for they passed the water of uva lie/ & the Scots set a fire the stakkes of hay/ & the smoke thereof was huge that the englishmen might not see the Scots/ and when the englishmen were gone over the water/ though common the Scots with her wing in manner of a shield, & come toward the englishmen in array/ and the englishmen fled/ for uneath they had any men of arms/ for the King had 'em almost lost at the siege of Berwyck/ & the Scots hobilers went between the brud ge/ & the englishmen/ & when the great host hem met/ the En glysshmen fled between the hobylers, & the great host/ & the En glysshmen were almost there slain/ & he that might wend ovet the water was saved/ But many were draynt/ alas for there were slain many men of religion/ & seculeres & eke priests & clerks/ & with moche sorrow the archbishop escaped// & therefore the Scots called the battle the white battle/   

How King edward did all manner thing that sir hugh the spencer would/ Ca, C/ lxxxxiij/  
ANd when King edward herd this tiding. he removed his si egg from Berwyke, and come again in to Englond/ But sir hugh the spencer the son that was the kings chamberlain kept so the kings chambre that no man must speak with the King/ but he had made with him a fret for to done his need & that over measure/ & this hugh bore him so stout/ that all men had of him scorn & despite/ & the King himself would not been go verned ne ruled by no manner man/ but only by his father & by him, & if any knight of england had woods manners or lordships that they would covert/ anon the King must give it hem/ or else the man that ought it should be falsely endited of forest or of felovye, & through such doing they disherited many a good bachelor. & so much land getten that it was wonder/ & when the Lords of Englond saw the great covetise & the falseness of sir Hugh the spencer the father, & of sir hugh the son/ they come to the gentle Earl of lancastre. & axed him of couseyll of the disease that was in the Royame's through sir hugh the spencer & his son/ & in haste by one assent they made a prive assemble at Shirborne in elmede. & all they made there an oath for to break & distrouble the doing between the King & Sir hugh the spencer/ & his son upon her power And they went in to the March of wales/ & destroyed the land of the foresaid sir hught/   

How sir hugh the spencer & his father were exiled out of england/ Ca/ C/ lxxxxiiij.  
When King edward saw the great harm and destruction that the Barous of england dieden to sire Hugh the Spencer's lands/ and to his sons in every place/ that they comen upon/ And the King though through his council exiled sire Johan monbray/ sir Rogyer of Clyfford/ & Sir Gosselyn devil/ & many other Lords that were to 'em consent/ wherefore the barons diden though more harm than they dieden before/ And when the King saw that the bawns would not cese of her cruelty/ the King was sore adread lest they would destroy him/ and high Royame's for his maintenance/ but if that he assented to hem/ And so he sent for 'em by letters/ that they should come to london to his parliament at a certain day/ as in his letters was contryned/ & they comen with three battles well armed at all poyntzes, & every ba tail had cote armours of green cloth/ & thereof the right quarter was yellow with white bends/ wherefore that parliament was called the parliament of the white bend. And in that company was sir umfrey de Bohen Earl of herford/ & sir Rogyer of clifford/ Sir Johan mombray/ sir gecelyn devil/ sir Rogyer mortimer uncle of sire Rogyer Mortime of wigmore/ sir henry of Trays. Sir John giffard/ & sir bartholomew of badelesmore. that was the kings steward that the King had sent to shirborne in Elmede to th'earl of lancastre/ & to all that with him were for to t●… of accord that him allied to the barons/ & come with that company/ And Sir Rogyer dammorye/ & sir hugh daudale/ that had spouced the Kings neces sister, & Sir Gillebert of Clare Earl of gloucester that was slain in Scotland/ as before is said And though two Lords had tho two parties of the earldom of Gloucestre/ & Sir hugh the spencer the son had the third part in his wife's half the third sister/ & though two Lords went to the barons with all her power against Sir hugh her brother in law, & so there come with 'em sir Rogyer of Clyfford/ Sir John mombray. sir gosseline davil/ sir rogyer mortimer of work. sir rogrer Mortime of wigmore his neue●…/ sir henry trays/ Sir John giffard/ sir bar tholomewe of badelesmore/ with all her company/ & many other/ that to hem were consent/ All these great Lords comen to westminster to the kings parliament. & so they spoken & did that both sir hugh spencer the father & Sir hugh the son were outlawed of england for evermore/ And Sir hugh the father went to dover & made moche sorrow & fell down upon the ground by the see bank acroes with his arms/ & sore weeping said/ Now fair england and good england to almighty god/ I the betake/ and thrice kiss the ground. and wend never to have comen again. & weeping full sore cursed the time that ever he bygate sir hugh his son And said for him he had lost all england/ and in presence of 'em that were about him he give him his curse, & went over the see to his lands. but sir hugh the son would not go out of england but held him in the see, & he & his company rob two dromondes beside sandwyche/ & took & bore away all the good that was in 'em/ the value of xl 〈◊〉 pound/   

How the King exiled Earl thomas of lancastre/ & all that held with him/ & how the Mortime come & yield him to the King/ & of the Lords, Caᵒ/ C. lxxxxvᵒ./  
HIt was not long after that the King ne made Sir Hugh spencer the father & sir Hugh the son come again in to england against the Lords will of the Royame's/ And soon after the King with a strong power come & besieged the castle of ledes & in the castle was the lady of badelesmere for encheason that she would not grant that castle to Queen Isabel, King Edwardys wife/ But the principal cause was for encheason that sir Bartholomewe badelesmere was against the King/ & held with the Lords of england, & nevertheless the King by help & succour of men of london/ & also of help of Southern men/ the King gate the castle maugre 'em all that were therein/ & took with him all that he my●…t find/ And when the barons of england herd of this thing sir Rogyer Mortime/ & other many Lords took the town of brudgeworth with strength, wherefore the King was wonder wroth/ & ●…ete outlaw thomas of lancastre/ & vinfrey de bohounes Earl of heart ford & all though that were assentant to the same quarrel/ & the King assembled an huge host/ & come against the Lords of england, where for the mortimers put 'em to the kings mercy/ & his grace/ & anon they were sent to the tower of london. & there kept in prison/ & when the barons herd of this thing they comen to pounfret there that th'earl thomas sojourned/ & told him how that mortimers both had yield 'em to the King, and put 'em in his grace/   

Of the siege of Thykhylle/ Capitulo/ C lxxxxvjᵒ.  
When thomas earl of lancastre herd this/ they were wonder wroth & all that were of his company/ & greatly they were does confyted & ordained her power together/ & belyeged the castle of Thykhyll/ but though that were within so manlyche defended hem that the barons might not get the castle, And when the King herd that high castle was besieged, be swore, by god and by his names that the siege should be removed/ and assembled an huge power of people/ and went thither ward to reske we the castle, & his power increased from day to day/ when the Earl of lancastre/ & the Earl of Herford. & the barons of her company heard this thing/ they assembled all her power/ & went 'em to Burton up Trent/ and kept the bridge that the King should not pass over/ But it bifell so on the tenth day of March in the year of grace M CCC/ & xxi/ The King & the Spencer Sir Aymer malaunce Earl of penbroke/ and Johan Earl of Arundel/ and her power went over the water. & discomfited th'earl thomas/ and his company And they fled to the castle of Tutbery and fro thence they went to pountfret/ And in that viage died Sir Rogyer Dammorye/ in the Abbay of Tutbery/ And in that same time the Earl though mass had a traitor with him, that was called Robert of holond a knight that the Earl had brought up of nought/ and bad nourished him in his ●…otelerye/ & had yeven him a thousand marc of land by year/ & so much the Earl loved him/ that he might done in the Earls court all thing that him liked both among high & low/ & so queynt●…lyche the thief bore him against his lord that he trusted more upon him than upon any man alive/ And the Earl had ordained by his letters for to wend in to the earldom of lancastre for to make men arise to help him in that viage that is to say/ v C, men of arms/ But the falls traitor come not there no manner men for to warne'ne to make arise for to 〈◊〉 his Lord/ And when the traitor heard tell that his lord was discomfited at Burtone/ as a falls thief traitor he stolen a way and rob in ●…enesdale his lords men that come fro the scomfiture/ and took of 'em horse and harnoys/ and all that they ●…ad/ and slew of 'em all that he might take/ and though come and yield him to the King/ when the good Earl Thomas wist that he ●…as so betrayed he was sore abashed/ and said to himself/ O almighty god quoth he. how might Robert Holland find in his heart me to bitraye. sithenes that I have loved him so much/ O god well may now a man see by him/ that no man may deceive an other rather. than he that he trust most upon he hath full evil yield my goodness/ and the worship that I to him have done/ and through my kindness have him advanced/ and made high from low/ and he maketh me go from high unto low/ but yet shall be die in evil death/   

Of the scomfiture of Burbrudge/ Caᵒ/ C lxxxxvijᵒ./  
THe good Earl Thomas of lancastre Humphrey de bohounes Earl of herford/ and the barons that with hem were token council between 'em at Frere prechours at pountfret/ though thought thomas upon the Traytrye of Robert Holland & said in reprove/ alas holand hath me betrayed, Ay is in the reed of some evil shred/ and by common assent they should all wend to the castle of dunstanburgh/ the which pertryned to the earldom of lancastre and that they should abide there till that the King had foryeve 'em her maletalent/ But when the good Earl thomas this herd, be answered in this manner & said/ lords quoth he if we go toward the north/ the northern men will sayne that we go towards the scot●…s & so we shall be hold traitors, for cause of distance/ that is bitwe ne King edward & robert the brus that made him King of scotland/ and therefore I say as touching myself that I will go no ferther in 〈◊〉 the north than to mine own castle of pountfret/ And when Sir Rogyer clyfford herd this/ he aroos up anon in wrath and drowe his sword and swore by almighty god, and by his holy names/ but if that he would gone with 'em, he should be deed/ & that he would slay him there, The noble & gentle Earl Thomas of lancastre was sore adread and said fair sirs I will geue with you whereout so ever ye me lead/ though went they to geders in to the north/ and with hem they had seven/ C/ men of arms & come to Burbrudge/ And when sir Andrew of herkela that was in the northcountrey through ordinance of the King for to 〈◊〉 the country of scotland/ herd tell how that thomas of lancaster was discomfited and his company at Burton upon Trent/ 〈◊〉 ordained him a strong power/ & Sir Symond ward also/ that was tho sheriff of york/ & come and met the barons at burb●…udge, and anon they break the bridge that was made of tree/ And when Sir thomas of lancastre herd that Sir Andrew of 〈◊〉 had brought with him such power/ he was sore adread/ & sent for Sir Andrew of herkela/ and with him spoke/ & said to him in this manner/ sire Andrew quoth he ye mow well understand, low that our Lord the King is lad & mysgonerned by moche false council through sir hugh the spencer the father/ & Sir Hugh his son/ and Sir Johan Earl of Arondele. and through Maystyr Robert Baldoke a falls peeled clerk/ that now is in the kings court duelling/ wherefore I pray you that ye would come with vo with all the power that ye have ordained/ and help to destroy the venom of england/ and the traitors that been therein/ and we will give unto you the best part of/ v/ elrdomes that we have. & hold/ & we will make unto you an oath/ that we will never done thing without your council/ & so ye shall been eft as well with us as ever was Robert of Holland/ Tho answered sir Andrew of herkela. & said/ Sir Thomas that would I not done ne consent there to for no manner thing/ ye might me give without the will and commandment of our lord the King/ for than should I been hold a traitor for evermore/ And when the noble Earl though mass of lancastre saw that he nold not consent to him for no maner thing/ Sir Andrew he said/ will ye not consent to destroy the venom of the ream as we be consent/ At one word sir andre we I tell the that or this year be gone/ that ye shall been take & hold for a traitor, & more than ye hold us now/ & in were death ye shall die than ever died any knight of Englond/ And understandeth well that ye did never thing that sorer shall you repent and now goth and doth that you good liketh/ And I will put me unto the mercy/ & the grace of god/ And so went the false traitor Sir Andrew of herkela in his weigh as a falls traitor tyrant and as a falls forsworn man/ For through the noble Earl Thomas of lancastre he underfeng the arms of chivalry/ and through him he was made knight.  
though might men seen archer's draw hem in that one side/ & in that other/ and knights also/ and fought to gedre wonder sore/ and also among other sir humfrey de boughon Earl of Herford a worthy knight of renomee through all christendom/ stood & fought with his enemies upon the bridge. and as the noble lord stood & fought upon the bridge/ a thyef a ribald skulked under the bridge/ and fiercely with a spear smote the noble knight in to the fundament/ so that his bowels comen out there. Alas the sorrow/ For there was slain the flower of solace and of comfort & also of courtesy/ And Sir Rogyer of Clyfford a noble knight stood ever and fought/ & well & nobly him defended/ as a worthy Baron/ But at last he was sore wounded in his heed/ and Sir William of Sustayand/ sir Rogyer of Bernefeld were slain at that battle/ when sire Andrew of Herkela saw that sir thomas men lancastre lassed and slaked/ anon he and his company come to the gentle knight Sir Thomas of lan castre and said/ yield the traitor yield thee/ The G●…ntille Earl answered tho and said/ Nay lords traitors be we none/ and to you will we never us yield while that our lives lasten but liefer we have to be slain in our truth/ than yield us to you And sir Andrew again grad upon sir thomas company/ yolling as a wode wolf and said yield you traitors taken/ yield you/ & with an high voys said/ be thee, aware sirs that none of you be hardy upon life and limb to misdone thomas body of lancastre And with that word the good Earl thomas went in to the chapel/ & said kneeling upon his knes/ and turned his visage to wards the cross. and said almighty god to the I me yield/ I holych put me in to thy mercy/ And with that the vileyns ribaudes leapt about him on every side as tyrants and wooed tormentors & dispoylled him of his armure/ and clothed him in a rob of ray, that was of his squires livere/ and forth lad him unto york by water/ though might men see moche sorrow & care/ for the gentle knights fledden in every side/ & the ribaudes/ & the vyleyns eagerly hem descried/ and grad an high yield you traitors yield you/ And when they were y yolde they were rob/ & bound/ as thieves/ alas the shame & despite/ that the gentle order of knighthood there had at that battle/ & the land though was without law/ For holy church though had no more reverence than it had been a bordelhows/ & in that battle was the father against the son/ and the uncle against his nephew, For so moche unkendenesse was never sayne before in england/ as was that time among folk of one nation/ for one kindred had no more pite of that other than an hungary wolf hath of a sheep/ and it was no wonder/ for the great Lords of england were not all of one nation/ but were meddled with other nations/ that is for to say/ some britons/ some saxons. Some danoys/ some Pehytes/ some frenchmen/ Some normans'/ some spaynardes/ Somme romans, some henaud's/ Some flemings/ and of other diverse nations. the which nations acorded not to the kind blood of Englond. And if so great Lords had been onlych wedded to english people than should peace have been and rest/ amongs hem without any envy/  
And at that battle was sir Rogyer clyfford take/ sire Johan mombray/ Sir william Tuchet/ sire william fytz Willian and many other worthy knights there were take. at that battle And Sir hugh daudele the next day after was taken/ & put in to prison/ And should have been done to death/ if he had not spoused the kings niece. that was Earl gylleberts sister of Gloucestre, And anon after was ●…r bartho●…omewe of badelesme●… taken at stowe park a manner of the Bishops of lyn●…ln that was his ne new/ and many other Barons/ & 〈◊〉/ wherefore was made moche sorrow/   

How thomas of lancastre was beheaded at pountfret/ and five barons hanged and drawn there/ Ca/ C lxxxxviij/  
ANd now I shall tell you of the noble Earl thomas of lancastre when he was taken/ and brought to york/ many of the city were full glad/ & upon him ●…yed with high voys/ A sir t●…aytour ye be welcome blessed be god/ for now shall ye have the reward that long time ye have deserved/ & cast upon him many snow balls and many other reproves did him/ but the gentle Earl all suffered/ & said neither one ne other/ & in the same time the King herd of this same scomfiture/ & was full glad/ & in haste come to pountfret/ & sir hugh the spencer & sir hugh his son & sir Johan Earl of arundel/ & sir edmond of wodestok. the kings brother Earl of kent. & sir Aymer of valance, Earl of Penbroke/ & master robert baldock a falls peeled clerk/ that was p●…ne/ & duel led in the Kings court/ & all come thither with the King/ and the King entered in to the castle. And sir Andrew of herkela a false tyrant through the kings commandment took with him the gentle Earl thomas to pountfret/ & there he was prisoned in his own castle that he had new made that stood against the abbey of King edward, And sir hugh the spencer the father/ & his son cast & thou●…t how & in what manner the good Earl thomas of lancaster should be deed without any judgement of his peries/ wherefore it was ordained through the kings justyces that the King should put upon him points of treason/ And so it be fell that he was lad to bar before the Kings justices barehede as a thief in a fair hall with in his own castle that he had made therein many a fair fest both to rich & eke to power/ And these were his justices/ sir hugh spen 〈◊〉 the father. aymer of valance Earl of penbroke/ sir edmond of woe destoke Earl of kent/ Sir Johan of Brytaygne Earl of Rychemond/ And Sir Robert of malmet thorpe justice/ and sire Robert him acoulped in this manner/ Thomas at the first our lord the King and this court excludeth you of all manner ansuere/ Thomas our Lord the King put upon you/ that ye have in his land ridden with banner displayed against his peace as a twy tour/ And with that word the gentle Earl thomas with an high voys said. nay Lords forsooth/ and by saint thomas I was never traitor/ The justice said again though/ Thomas our lord the King put upon you that ye have rob his folk/ and murdered his people/ as a thief/ Thomas the King also put upon you that he discomfited you and your people with his folk in his own ream/ wherefore ye went & fled to the wood as an outlaw/ And also ye were taken as an outlaw/ And thomas as a trey tower ye shall be drawn by reason/ but the King hath for●…ue you that Jews for love of Queen Isabella/ And thomas reason would also that ye should be hanged/ but the King hath foryeve you that Jews for cause and love of your lineage/ But thomas/ for as much as ye were take fleeing and as an outlaw/ the King will that your heed shall be smitten of as ye have well deserved/ Anon doth him ou●…e of prece & anon bring him to his judgement. The gentle knight thomas he had herd all these words with an high voys/ he cried sore weeping/ And said alas saint thomas fair father/ alas shall I be deed thus/ grant me now bliss full god answer but all availed him no thing/ for the cursed ga' scoynes put him hydder and thither/ and on him ay with an high voys O King Arthur most dreadful. Well known is now thine open traytrye 〈◊〉 evil death shalt thou die as thou hast well deserved/ though set they upon his heed in scorn an old chapelet all to rend and to torn that was not worth an half penny/ And after they set him upon a le●…e white palfrey full unsemelych and eke all bare. and with an old bridle & with an horrible noise they drofe him out of the castle toward his death And cast upon him many balls of snow▪ And as the tormentors lad him on●…e of the castle though said 〈◊〉 this piteous words and his hands held upon high towards heaven/ now the King of heaven/ give us mercy/ For the earth lie King hath us forsake, And a Fre●… p●…chour went with him out of the castle till that he come to the place/ that he ended his life/ unto whom he shrofe him all his life/ And the gentle Earl held the 〈◊〉 wonder fast by the clothes/ and said fair father abide with us till that I be deed/ for my fless●… quaketh for dread of death/ And sot●… for to say the gentle Earl set him v●…n his knees & turned him toward the ●…est. but a ●…baude that was 〈◊〉 led Higone of mostone set hand upon the gentle Earl and said 〈◊〉 despite of him sir traitor torn the toward the Scots thy foul deed to underfang/ and turned him toward the north/ The noble Earl thomas answered tho with a mild voys & said now fair Lords I shall done all your will/ & with that word●… the frere went fro him sore weeping/ and anon a ●…baude went to him & smote of his heed the xj kal of April/ in the year of grace M CCC xxj/ alas that ever such a gentle blood shall been done to death without cause and reason/ And traitorously was the King counciled when he through the false council of the spencers suffered sir thomas his uncles son been put to such a death/ and so been 〈◊〉 heeded against all manner of reason/ and great pity it was also that such a noble King should been deceived/ & misgoverned through council of the false spencers/ the which he maintained through lo selrye against his honour/ & eke profit/ For afterward there fill grece vengeance in england/ for encheason of the foresaid thomas death/ when the gentle Earl of his life was passed/ the priour & the monks of pountfret getten the body of sir thomas of the King and they buried it before the high altar on the right side/ That same day that this gentle lord was deed/ there were hanged and draw for the same quarrel at pountfret Sir william tuchet Sire william fytz william/ sir warreyne of ysylle/ Sir henry of Bradborne/ & sir william Chain barons all and Johan pagesquyer/ And soon after at york were draw and. hanged Sir Rogyer Clyfford/ sire Johan of mombray barons/ And sir gossel●… davill knight/ And at Brystow there were draw and hanged sir henry of wymyngten/ & Sir Henry Monntfort Barons/ & at gloucester were draw & hanged sire Johan Giffard and Sir william Elmebrudge barons/ And at london were honged and draw sir henry ●…yes baron/ And at wynchelsee sire Thomas Colepepi●… knight/ And at windsor sire fraunceys of waldenham baron/ And at Caunterbury was draw and hanged sir bartholomew of badelesme●… and sir bartholomew of Asshebourneham Barons/ And at kerdyf in wales sire william Fleming baron/   

How King Edward went in to Scotland with an hundred thousand men of arms and might not ●…pede, ca C, lxxxxixᵒ.  
ANd when King Edward of Englond had brought the flower of chivalry unto her death through council of Sir hugh the spencer the fridre/ & Sir hugh the son he become a●… wood as any lion/ And what so ever the sp●…cers would have/ it was done/ and so well the King loved 'em that they might done with him all thing that they would/ wherefore the King gave unto sir hugh spencer the father the earldom of wynchestre/ & to Sir Andrew of herkela the earldom of cardoil in pr●…dyce/ and in harming of his crown/ And King edward though through counsel of the spencers disherited all hem that had been against him in any quarrel with thomas of lancastre/ & many●… other were does heryted also for encheason that the spencers converted for to have her lands/ & so they had all that they would desire with wrong & against all reason/ though made the King Robert of Baldoc a falls pilled clerke chancellor of england/ through council of the foresaid spen cers & he was a false ribald and a cou●…itous/ & s●… they counseled the King moche that the King let take to his own ward all the goods of the Lords that wrongfully were put to the death/ in to his own hand/ and as well they token the goods that were in holy church as the goods that were without/ & let hem be put in to his treasury in london/ & let hem call his for faytz/ & by her ●…n ceyll the King wrought for evermore, he disherited hem that the goods oughten/ & through her counsell let a●…re a tallyage of all the goods of Englond/ wherefore he was the richest King that ever was in england after william bastard of normandy that conquered Englond/ And yet through council of hem him seemed that he had not enough but made yet every town of Englond find a man of arms upon her own costages for to gone & warre upon the Scots that were his enemies wherefore the King w●… in to Scotland with an hundred thousand men of arms at whitsuntide in the year of our lord Ihu christ/ M/ CCC/ & xxij/ But the Scots went & hid 'em in mountains and in woods & ●…ed the englishmen fro day to day that the King might for no manner thing hem find in plain field/ wherefore many english men that hadden few victuals for hunger there dieden wonder fast/ & suddenly for hunger in going & in coming/ & namely●… though that had been against thomas of lancastre/ and had rob his men upon his lands  
When King Edward saw that victuals failed him▪ he was though wonder sore discomforted for encheason also that his men died/ and for he might nought speed of his enemies/ so at the last he come again in to Englond/ And anon after come James douglas/ and also thomas randulf with an huge host in to england in to Northumberland/ & wi●…h hem the englishmen that were driven out of england. & come & rob the contrary/ & slew the peple●… & also brent the town/ that was called nortallertone & many other towns unto york/ And when the King herd this tiding he let sompne all manner men that mighten travail. & so the englishmen met the Scots at the abbey of Beygland the xv day after mychelmasse/ in the same year above said/ & the englishman were there discomfited/ & at that scomfiture was take sir Johan of britain/ earl of richemond that held the country/ & earldom of lancastre, & after he paid an huge ●…unsonne, & was let gone/ and after that he went in to France/ & come never afterward again/   

How Sir Andrew of herkela was take/ & pnt unto the death that was Earl of Cardoylle/ Capitulo/ CCᵒ./  
ANd at that time sir Andrew of herkela that new was made Earl of Cardoylle/ for cause that he had taken the good Earl thomas of lancastre he had ordained through the kings commandment of england for to bring all the power that he might for to help him against the Scots at the Abbay of beygheland/ And when the false traitor had gathered all the people that he might/ & should have come to the King unto the abbey of beyg●…lād the false traitor lad hem by another country th●…rgh Copeland/ & through the earldom of lancastre/ and went through the country/ & rob and slew folk all that he might/ And ferther more the falls traitor had taken a great sum of gold and silver of sir James douglas for to be against the King of england & to been helping & holding with the Scots/ through whose treason the King of england was scomfited at beigheland/ ere that he come thither/ wherefore the King was toward him wonder wroth/ & let pri vely inquire by the country about how that it was/ & so men inquired & espied/ so atte last truth was found & sought & he attaint & taken as a falls traitor/ As the noble Earl thomas of lancastre him told ere that he were done unto the death at his taking at burbrudg●…/ & to him said or that year were done he should be take and hold a traitor/ & so it was as ●…he holy man said, wherefore the King sent privelych to sir Anthony of lucy a knight of the country of Cardoylle that he should take Sir Andrew of herkela & put him unto the death. & to bring this thing unto the end the King sent his commission/ so that the same Andrew was take at cardoyl/ & led unto the bar in the manner of an Earl worthily arrayed & with a sword gurt about him & hosed/ & spored/ though spoke sir antony in this manner sir andrew quoth he the King put up on the for as much as thou hast been orped in thy deeds/ he did unto the moche honour/ & made the Earl of cardoil/ & thou as a trai tour unto thy lord the King/ & laddest his people of this country that should have holp him at the battle of beygheland/ & thou laddest them a weigh by the country of copeland/ & through the earldom of lancaster. Wherefore our lord the King was discomfited there of the Scots through thy treason & falseness/ and if thou hadst come by times he had had the mastery/ & all treason thou diddest for the great some of gold & silver that thou underfeng of James douglas a scott the kings enemy/ And our lord the kings will is that th'order of knighthood/ by the which thou underfeng all thine honour/ & worship upon thy body/ be all brought to nought/ & thy estate undone that other knights of lower degree mow after the beware/ the which Lord hath the advanced hugely. in diverse coūtre●…s in england/ & that all mow take ensample by the her lord afterward truly for to serve/ though commanded he a knave anon to ●…ewe of his spurs on his heel's/ And after he le●… break the sw●…rde over his heed/ the which the King gave him to keep & defend his l●…d there with when he made him Earl of cardoylle/ And after he l●…e him unclothe of his furred taberd & of his hood/ & of his furred coats & of his girdle/ And when this was done Sir Anthonye said unto him/ Andrew quoth he now art thou no knight but a knave/ & for thy treason the King will that thou shalt be hanged & draw/ & thine heed smitten of/ & thy bowels taken out of thy body/ & brent before thee/ & thy body quartered/ & thine heed smitten of & sent unto london/ & there it shall stand upon ●…ondon B●…dge & the four quarters shall be sent unto four good towns of england that all other mow be ware & chastised by thee/ And as anthony said so it wa●… done all manner thing in the last-day of october▪ in the year of grace M CCC & xxij year/ And the son though turned in to blood. as the people it saw/ & that dured fro the morn till it was xj of the clock of the day/   

Of the miracles that god wrought for saint thomas love of lan castre/ wherefore the King let close the church doors of the prioryr of Pountfret, for no man should come therein to the body for to offren Capituso, CC/ j/  
ANd soon after that the good Earl thomas of lancastre was martyred a priest that long time had been blind dreamed in his sleeping that he should gone unto the hill/ there that the good Earl thomas of lancastre was done unto the death/ and he should have his sight again, & so he dreamed iij nights sewyn●● & the priest let lead him to the same hill/ and when he come to that place that he was martyred on/ devoutly he made there his prayers & prayed god & saint thomas/ that he might have his slghte again/ & was in his prayers/ he laid his right hand upon the same place that the good man was martyred on/ & a drop of dry blood & small fond cleaved on his hand/ & therewith striked his eyen. & anon through the miȝt of god & of saint thomas of lancaster he had his sight again/ & thanked tho almighty god/ & saint thomas/ & when this miracle was known among men/ the people come thither on every side, & kneeled & made her prayers at his tomb/ that is in the priorye of pountfret/ & prayed that holy martyr of succour & of help, & god herd her prayer/ Also there was a young child drenchid in a well in the town of pountfret/ & was deed iij days & iij nights & men comen, & laid the deed child upon saint thomas tomb the holy martyr/ & the child aroos there from death to life/ as many a man it saw/ & also much people were out of her mind. & god hath sent 'em her mind again through virtue of that holy martyr/ & all so god hath yeven thereto/ to crepels her going/ & to crooked her hands & her feet/ & to blind also her sight/ & to many seek folk her hele of diverse maladies/ for the love of his good martyr/ Also there was a rich man in coundom in gascoyn. & such a malady he had that all his right side rooted/ & fell away from him/ that men might see his liver & also his heart/ & so he stank that uneath men might come nigh him/ wherefore his friends were for him wonder sorry. But at last as god would they prayed to saint thomas of lancastre that he would pray to almighty god, for that prisoner & be height to gone to pountfret for to done her pilgrimage, than the mar tir saint thomas come unto him/ & anointed over all his sick body/ & therewith the good man awoke/ & was all hole & his flesh was restored again that before was rooted & fall a weigh/ for which miracle the good man & his friends loved god & saint thomas ever more after, & this good man come in to england/ & took with him four fellows. & come to pountfret unto that holy martyr, & did her pilgrimage/ but the good man that was sick come thither all naked safe his breach, & when they had done/ they turned home again in to her country/ & told of the miracle where so ever they come/ And also ij men have been heeled there of the mormal through help of that holy martyr/ though that evil be hold Incurable/ when the spencers herd that god did such miracles for this ho lie martyr, & they would believe it in no manner wise/ but said open liche that it was great he resye such virtue of him to believe/ and when sir hugh the spencer the son saw all this doing/ anon he sent his messengers from pountfret there that he dwelled to the king edward that though was at gravene at shipton for cause that the King should undo that pilgrimage, And as the Ribaude messenger sager went toward the King. for to done his message/ he come by the hill on the which the good martyr was done to death/ & in the same place he made his ordure/ & when he had done he went toward the King/ & a strouge flix him come upon ere he come to york/ & shed all his bowels at his fundament/ & when sir hugh the spencer herd this tiding somedeal he was adread/ & thought for to undone the pilgrimage/ if he might by any manner way/ and though the King went & said that they should be in great slander through out all cristendome for the death of thomas of lancastre/ if that he suffered the people done her pilgrimage at pountfret/ & so he councey led the King. that he commanded to close the church doors of Pomfret/ in the which church the holy martyr saint thomas was entered/ & thus they dieden again all franchises of holy church so that four year after might no pilgrym come to that holy body/ & for encheason that monks suffered men to come & honour that holy body of saint thomas the martyr through counsel of sir hugh the spencer the son/ & through council also of Master Robert of bal dok the falls pilled clerk that was the kings chancellor the king consented that they should be set to her wages. & beat make wardens over her own good long time/ and through commandment of the foresaid sir hugh the spencer xiv gascoynes well armed kept the hill that the good man saint Thomas was done unto his death/ so that no pilgrim might come by that way/ full well went he to have be take christs might & his power & the great lose of miracles that he showed for his martyr saint thomas through all christendom, and that same time the King made Robert of bal dok the pilled clerk & false through prayer of sir hugh the spencer the son chancellor of england/ And in the same time was the castle of walyngford holden against the King through the pri soners that were within the castle For saint thomas quarrel of Lancastre wherefore the people of the country come & took the castle up on the foresaid prisoners/ wherefore sir Johan of goldyngton knight & sir edmond of the beech prysonner. & a squire that was called rogyer of walton were take/ & sent to the King to pontfret/ & there they were done in to prison/ and the foresaid rogyer was sent unto york & there he was draw & hanged/ And anon after sir rogi ere Mortime of wygmore broke out of the tower of london in this manner/ the foresaid sir rogyer herd that he should be draw & hanged at london in the morn after saint laurence day/ & on the day bifo re he held a fair fest in the tower of london/ & there was sir stephn segraue Constable of the tower & many great men with 'em/ & when they should soap, the foresaid steven sent for all the officers of the tower & they come & souped with him. & when they should take her l●…ue of him a squire that was called stephen/ that was full prince with the foresaid Rogyer/ through his counsel gave 'em all such drink that the lest of 'em all slept ij days & ij nyghtrs/ & in the mean time he escaped away by water that is to say by the thamyse & went over the see/ & held him in france/ wherefore the king was sore annoyed/ & though put the same stephn out of his constabelry   

How the Queen Isabel went in to France for to treten of peace between her lord the King of england/ & the King of france her brother. Ca/ CC/ ij  
THe King went tho unto london/ & their through council of sir hugh the spencer the father & of his son & of master robert baldok/ a falls pilled clerk his chancellor let seize though all the Queens lands in to his own hand/ & also all the lands that were sir Edward'S his son/ & were so put to her wages against all manner reason/ & that was through the falseness of the spencers/ And when the Queen of France that was Queen Isabella's brother herd of this falsencs he was sore annoyed against the King of england & his false counselors/ wherefore he sent a letter unto King edward under his seal that he should come in to france at a certain day for to done his homage/ & thereto he somened him/ & else he should lose all gascoyn/ And so it was ordained in england through the King! & his council that Queen Isabel should wend in to france for to treat of peace between her lord & her brother/ And that Oliver of yngham should wend in to gascoyne/ & have with him seven thousand men and more of arms to been seneschal/ & warden of gascoyn/ & so it was ordained that Queen Isabel wet though once see & come in to france/ & with her went sir Aymer of valance Earl of penbroke that was there murdered suddenly in prive siege/ but that was through gods vengeance. for he was one of the Instyces that consented to saint thomas death of lancaster, & would never after repent him of that wicked deed/ & at that time sire Oliver of yngham went over in to gascoyne/ & did moche harm to the King of france/ & though get again that King edward had lost/ & much more thereto.   

How King Edward sent sir edward his son the eldest in to france/ Caᵒ. CC iijᵒ./  
THe Queen Isabel nadd but a quarter of a year in France dwelled that sir edward her eldest son ne axed leave for to wend in to france for to speak with his mother ysabel the Queen And the King his father granted him with a good will/ & said to him/ go my fair son in god's blessing & mine & think for to come again as hastily as thou might/ and he went over see & come in to france/ & the King of france his uncle underfeng him with moche honour & said unto him/ fair son ye be welcome/ & for cause that your father come not for to do his homage for the duchy of Guyenne/ as his ancestors' were wont for to do I give you that lordship to hold it of me in heritage as all manner ancestors' diden to fore you wherefore he was called Duke of gu●…hēne   

How the King exiled his Queen Isabel/ & edward his eldest son. Caᵒ. CC/ iiijᵒ.  
When King edward of england herd tell how the King of France had give the duchy of guybenne unto Sir Edward his son without consent & will of him/ & that his son had underfang the duchy/ he become wonder wroth/ & sent to his son by his letter, & to his wife also that they should come again in to england in all the haste that they might/ The Queen Isabella & sir edward her son were wonder sore adread of the Kings menace/ & of his wrath & principally the falseness of the spencers both of the father & of the son/ & at this commandment they would not come/ wherefore King edward was full sore annoyed/ & let make a cry at london that if Queen ysabel and Edward her eldest son come not in to england that they should been holden as our enemies both to the Royame's and to the cronne of Englond, And for that they would, not come in to england/ both were exiled the mother and her son/ when the Queen Isabella herd these tidings she was sore adread to be shent through the falls congetting of the spencers/ And went with the knyghtrs that were exiled out of Englond/ for saint thomas cause of lancastre that is to say sir Rogyer of wigmore. sir william Trussel/ sir Johan of Cromwell & many other good knights/ wherefore they took her counsel & ordained amongs he in for to make a marriage between the Duke of Guyenne the Kings son of england & th'earls daughter of he naud that was a noble knight of name/ & a doughty in his time/ And if that thing might be brought about than stood they trowing with the help of god & with his help to recover her heritage in england whereof they were put out through the false congettynges of spencers/   

How King edward through council of the spencers sent to the douzepers of france/ that they should help that the Queen Isabella & her son sir edward were exiled out of france/ caᵒ./ CC/ vᵒ.  
When King edward & the spencers herd how Queen Isabel and sir Edward her son had allied 'em to the Earl of Henaud/ and to them that were exiled out of Englond/ For enche son of thomas of lancastre they were so sorry that they nyst what to done/ wherefore sir hugh spencer the son said unto sir hugh his father in this manner wise/ father accursed be the tyme. and the council that ever ye consented that Queen Isabella should gone unto France for to treaten of accord between the King of Englond and her brother the King of france/ for that was your co●… ceyll/ For at that time forsooth your wit failed/ For I dread me sore lest through her & her son we shall be shent/ but if we take the better counsel/ Now fair sirs understandeth how marvelous felony and falsehood the spencers imagined and cast for pri vely they let fill v barrel ferrors with silver/ the some amounted v thousand pound/ & they sent though barrels over see privily by an alien that was called Arnold of Spain that was a brocour of london/ that he should gone to the douzepers of france that they should procuren and speak to the King of France/ that Queen Isa bell and her son Edward were dryne and exiled out of france And among all other things that they were brought to the death as privily as they might/ But almighty god would not so for when this arnold was in the high see, he was take with selandres that met him in the see/ & took him and lad him to her lord Earl of henaud, & moche joy was made for that taking/ & at last this arnold privily stolen away fro thence & come to london/ & of this taking & of other things the Earl of henaud said to the Queen Isabel/ dame make you merry & be of good cheer/ for ye be more richer than ye went have been/ & take ye these five barrels full of silver/ that were sent to douzepyers of france for to slay you and your son edward, & thinketh hastily for to wend in to england/ and take ye with you Sir Johan of henaud my brother and v C men of arms/ for many of 'em of France in whom ye have had great trust had great dainty, you for to scorn/ & almighty god grant you grace your enemies to overcome/ The Queen Isabel sent though through henaud & flanders for her scudy●… ours, & ordained her every day for to wend in to england again/ And so she had in her company Sir Edmond of woodstock that was Earl of kent that was sir Edward'S brother of england   

when King edward let keep the costs by the see & let try all the price men of arms & foot men through Englond/ Capitulo CC vjᵒ.  
When King Edward heard tell that Queen Isabella and Edward her son would come in to england with many aliens/ and with 'em that were outlawed out of england/ for her reb●…lnesse/ he was sore, adread to be put a down & l●…se his kingdom/ wherefore he ordained to keep his castles in wales as well as in england with victuals/ & her apparel. & let keep his rivers and also the see costs/ whereof the v ports token to keep 'em and also the see, And at the feast of decollation of saint Johan baptist the citizens of london sent to the King to po●…ches tree a C men of arms/ And also he commanded furthermore by his letters ordained that every ninety and wapentake of england should try as well of men of arms as of men a foot. & that they should be put in some xx & in some an C, & commanded that all though men were a ready when any out he see or cry were made for to pursue and take the aliens that comen to england for to benymme him the land and for to put him out of his kingdom. And more over he let cry through his patent in every fair, & in every mar kete of england that the Queen Isabella & Sir Edward his eldest son. & the Earl of kent that they were take and saufly kept without any manner harm unto 'em doing/ and all other manner people that come with 'em/ anon to smite of her hedes without any manner ransom/ And what man that might bring sir rogyers heed Mortime of wigmroe should have an C p●…ūd of money for his travail/ And furthermore he ordained by his patent & commanded to make a fire upon every high hill besides the rivers & in low countries for to make high bekenes of timber that if it so were that the aliens come unto the land by night that men should tend the bekenes that the country might be warned/ and come & meet her enemies/ & in the same time died sir rogyer mortimer his uncle in the tour of london/   

How the Queen Isabella/ & sir Edward duke of Guyenne her son●… come to land at here which/ & how they dieden/ Ca/ CC/ vijᵒ./  
THe Queen Isabel/ & sir edward her son Duke of Guyenne sir edward of woodstock Earl of kent & sir Johan therlys brother of henaud and her company dread not the menace of the King ne of his traitors. for they trust all in god's grace/ & come unto here which in south folk/ the xxiv day of September/ And in the year of grace M CCC xxuj/ And the Queen & sir edward her son sent letters to the mayor & commonalty of london requiring hem that they should been helping in the quarrel & cause that they had begined/ that is to say to destroy the traitors of the ream/ But none answer was sent again/ wherefore the Queen & sir edward her son sent another pa●…nt letter under her seals the tenor of which letter here followeth in this manner/ Isabella by the grace of god Queen of england/ lady of ireland/ Countess of pountyf/ & we edward the eldest son of the King of Englond duke of Guyenne Earl of Chestre of pountyf & of moustroylle to the mayor & to all the commonalty of the city of London sendeth greeting/ For as much as we have before this time sent to you by our letters how we become in to this land with good array, & in good manner for the honour and profit of holy church/ and of our right dear lord the King/ & all the Royame's with our might and power to keep and maintain as we and all the good folk of the foresaid royalme are holden to done/ And upon that we pray you that ye would been helping to us in as much as ye may in this quarelle/ that is for the common profit of all the royalme And we have had unto this time none answer of the foresaid letters/ ne know not your will in that party/ wherefore we send to you again/ and pray and charge you that ye bear you so against us that we have no cause to grieve you, but that ye been to us helping by all the ways that ye may or may known/ for weteth well in certain that we & all though that been comen with us in to this ream/ ne thenke not to done if it like god any thing but that shall be for the common profit of all the ream but only to destroy hugh spencer our enemy/ & enemy to all the royalme/ as ye well know wherefore we pray you & charge you in the faith that ye own to our lord the King, & upon us/ & upon all that ye shall mow forfeit again us that if the foresaid hugh the spencer our enemy come within your power/ that ye done him hastily to been taken. & saufly kept until we have ordained of him our will/ and that ye leave it not in no manner wise, as ye desire honour and profit of us all and of all the royalme/ understanding well that if ye done our prayer and mandment/ we shall the more be behold unto you/ And also ye shall get you worship & profit if ye send us hastily answer of all your will/ yeven at baldok the sixth day of October/ which letter early in the dawening of the day of saint denys was takked upon the new cross in cheap/ and many copies of the same letter were takked upon windows and doors, and upon other places in the city that all men passing by the weigh might seen and read/ And in the same time King edward was at london in the tour at his meet, and a messenger come in to the hall/ and said that the Queen Isabella was come to land at herewyche/ and hath brought in her company Sir Johan of henaud. and with him men of arms without number/ And with that word sir hugh the spencer the father spoke/ & thus to the King said my most worshipful lord King of england Now mow ye make good cheer/ For certainly/ they been all ours  
The King saw this word comfortable/ yet he was full sorrowful/ and pensive in heart, And the King had not yet full y●● eaten that there come in to the hall another messagyer & said that the Queen Isabel was arrived at herewiche beside yepswhiche in Southfolk/ sir hugh the spencer the father spoke to the messenger and said tell sooth in good faith to the messenger my fair friend is she come with strength/ Certis sir sooth for to say, she ne hath in her company but seven ninety men of arms/ And with that word sir hugh the spencer the father cried with an high voys & said alas alas we been all betrayed/ for certes with so little power she had never come to land/ but folk of this land were to her consent And therefore after the meet they took her council/ & went toward wales for to arere the walshmen again Queen Isabella & edward her son all for to fight/ & so they were in purpose everyone/   

How master waltier Stapylton Bishop of exeter that was the kings treasurer was beheaded at london/ Ca/ CC/ viij/  
ANd in the same time King Edward was sore adread lest men of london would yield 'em unto the Queen Isabella, and to her son Edward/ wherefore he sent master walter stapylton his treasurer for to been warden and kepar of the city of london with the mayor/ And so he come to the gyldehall of london/ & axed the keys of the yates of the city through virtue & strength of his commission/ & would have had the keeping of the city/ & the commoners answered & said that they would keep the city to the honour of King edward/ and of Isabella the Queen/ & of the Duke the Kings son withouten any more/ The Bishop was so sore annoyed/ & swore o'th'/ that they all should abye it anon as King edward were come out of wales/ And the commoners all anon of the city token the Bishop/ & lad him amids cheap & there they smitten of his heed. & set●…e his heed in his right hand/ And after they beheaded two of his squires/ that held with the Bishop/ & one of 'em was called william of wall/ that was the Bishops nephew/ that other was called Johan of padyngton/ And also they took a burgeiss of london that was called Johan marchal that was sir hugh the spencers aspye the father/ & smitten of his heed also/ And in that same time that Bishop had in london a fair tour in making in his close upon the river of the thamyse/ that was without temple bar, & him failed stone to make thereof an end/ wherefore he commanded his men to gone to the church of frere carmes/ & there they token stone to maken therewith the tour/ & moche sand/ & mortyer & old robous that was left/ And for the despite that the Bishop had done unto holy church, he & his two squires were buried in that sand as though they had been hounds/ And they their lain xj weeks till that the Queen Isabella sent her letters to the commoners & prayed 'em that they would suffer & grant that the Bishop must be taken out of that place/ and been buried at exeter at his own church. & so he was/ & his two squires were buried at saint Clements church without temple bar. & it was no wonder though the Bishop died an evil death/ For he was a covetous man and had with him no mercy/ & evil counseled the King/ And soon after was arnold of spain taken/ he that was assentaunt to have lad the v M pound of silver in v barellies ferryers' unto the douzyepyers of france for to help & hast the Queen Isabel to her death. & edward her son also/ And this Arnold was put unto death without the city of london.   

How King edward & sir hugh spencer, and the Earl of Arun dell were taken/ Caᵒ./ CC ixᵒ./  
When King edward had sent master walter stapilton his treasurer in to london for to keep the city unto him again the Queen Isabel his wife/ and again Edward her son anon himself took with him sir hugh spencer the son and sir Johan Earl of arundel/ & master robert baldok his chancellor a falls p●…l led priest & token her way toward bristol/ and their the King a load a little term & made sir hugh the spencer the father as constable & keeper of the castle/ and the King & that other spencer went in to the ship & sailed toward walis & took no leave of the steward ●…e of none in the kings household/ and over in to walis for to arere the walshmen again dame Isabel the Queen & the duke her son & the Earl of kent & sir Johan of henaud/ and they went and pursued after 'em/ and her power increased every day/ so at the last the King was taken upon an hill in wales and sir hugh the spencer the son in that other side of the same hill/ & the falls pilled 〈◊〉 master robert baldok there fast besides 'em, & were brought again in to england as almighty god would & the King himself was in safe keeping in the castle of kenelworth. & him kept sir henry that was saint thomas brother of lancaster/ And sire Hugh spencer the father came and put him in the Queens grace/ and sir edward her son Duke of Guyenne/ but sir hugh the spencer after the time that he was take nold eat no manner meet neither drink no manner drink for he witted to have no mercy safe only to be deed And the Queen & her counsell though had ordained that he should have been do to death at london/ but he was so feeble for his much fa sting that he was deed almost/ and therefore it was ordained that he should have his judgement at herford/ and at that place of the tower his hood was take from his heed/ and also from ro●…ert of bald●… that was a pilled clerk and a falls/ and the kings chancellor and men set upon her hedes chappeletzes of sharp netteles. and two squires blewe in her ●…rs with ij great bugles horns upon the ij prisoners that men might here there blowing out with horns more than a mile/ And one symond of reading the kings marchal before hem bare her arms upon a spear reversed in token that they should be undone for evermore/ And upon the morrow was sir hugh spencer the son dampened to the death/ & was draw & hanged/ beheaded/ & his bowels taken out of his body and brent and after he was quartered & his four quartres were sent to four towns of england/ and his heed sent to london brudge/ And this Symond for encheason that he despised Queen Isabella/ he was draw and hanged in a stage made a mid the foresaid sir hugh's gallows/ And th●… same day a little fro thence was sire Johan of Arundel beheaded/ for he was of Sir hugh spencers counsellors/  
And anon after was sir hugh spencer the father draw/ hanged and beheaded at B●…sto we/ and after hanged again by the arms w●…h two strong ropes/ & the fourth day after he was hewn all to pe ●…s and hounds eaten him/ & for that encheason that the King had yeven him the earldom ●…f wynchestre his heed was lad thither/ & ●…t ●…n a spear/ And the f●…ls Baldok was sent to london and t●…r he d●…de in prison amongs the the●…/ for men did him no more re〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…n they would done unto 〈◊〉 hound, and so deyden the traitors of england blessed be almighty god/ And it was no wonder for through her counceill the good Earl thomas of lancastre was do ne unto death/ and all that helden with thomas of lancaster through the traitors were undone and all her heirs dysheryded/   

How King Edward was put a down/ and his dignity benom. Caᵒ./ CC/ xᵒ./  
ANd anon after as this was done the Queen Isabel/ and Edward her son/ and all the great Lords of england at one assent sent to King Edward to the castle of Kenelworth/ Theridamas that he was in keeping under the ward of sir Johan hachim that was the Bishop of Ely. & of sir John of percy a Baron for encheason that he should ordain his parliament at a certain place in england for to redress & amend the state of the ream/ And King Edward hem answered and said/ lords quoth he/ ●…ye see full well how it is. Loo haveth here my seal/ I give you all mine power to ordain a parliament where that ye will/ And they took her leave of him and come again to the barons of england, And when they had the kings patent of this thing they showed it to the Lords/ And though was ordained that the parliament should been at westmynstre at the utas of saint Hillarye/ And all the greet Lords of england let ordain for 'em there against that time that the parliament should been/ And at which day that parliament was the King would not come there for no manner thing/ as he had set himself and assigned/ And nevertheless the barons sent to him o time & other/ And he swore by god's soul that he nold come there o foot wherefore it was ordained by all the great Lords of england that he should no longer been King but been deposed/ and said that they would crown King Edward his son the elder/ that was Duke of Guyhenne/ and sent so tiding unto the King there that he was in ward under Sir Johan Earl of garenne/ And sir Johan of Bornwell thun that was Bishop of Ely/ and sir henry percy a baron/ and sir william Trussel a knight that was with the Earl sir Thomas of lancastre for to yield up her homages unto him, for all them of england/ And sir william Trussel said these words/  
Sir Edward fo●…●…cheson that ye have trayed your people of england/ and have undone many great Lords of england without any cause/ But now y●… been withstand thanked be god. And also for encheason that ye would not come to the parliament as y●… or deigned at westminster as in your own letter patent is con●…yned for to treat with your lyege men as a King should/ And therefore through all the common assent of all the Lords of Englond I tell unto you these words/ ye shall understand sire that the Barons of england at one assent will/ that ye be no more king of england/ but utterlych have put you out of your realte for evermore, And the Bishop of Ely said tho to the King/ sire Edward/ here I yield up feaute & homage for all the Archebis shops and bishops of england and for all the clergy/ though said Sir Johan earl of Garenne/ Sir Edward I yield up here unto you feaute and homage for me and for all the E●…les of Englond. And Sir Henry percy gave up also there his homa●… for him and for all the Barons of england/  
And though said sire wi●…iam Trussel/ I yield up now unto you sire mine homage for me and also for all the knights of england/ and for all them that holden by seriauntrie/ or by any other manner thing of you/ so that fro this day afterward ye shall not be claimed King/ neither for King be hold/ But from this time afterward ye shall be hold for a singular man of all the people/ & so they went thence unto london/ Theridamas that the Lords of england hem abode/ and sir Edward abode in prison in good keeping And that was the day of conversion of saint Paul in the xx year of his regne/   

Profecye of Merlin declared of King Edward the son of King edward/ Caᵒ. CC/ xiᵒ./  
OF this King edward prophesied merlyn & said that there should come a goat out of car/ that should have horns of sil●… & a beard as white as snow & a doppe should come out of his nosethillers that should bytoken much ●…me hunger & death of the people/ & great loss of his land. and th●… in the beginning of his reign should be haunted moche lechery/ He said soothe/ alls the time for King Edward that was King Edward'S son was borne at Carnarivan in wa●…s/ forsooth he had horns of silu/ & a beard as snow when he was made prince of wales/ to moche he give him to riot & to folly/ and soothe said merlyn in his propherye that there should come out of his nose a doppe/ for in his time was great hunger among the power people & strong death am●… the rich that deide in strange land with moche sorrow & in we●…e in Scotland and afterward he lost scotland & gascoyne/ & whiles that him 〈◊〉 was King there was moche lechery haunted/ And also Merlin told & said that this goat should seche the flower of ly●… & of death And he said soothe/ for he spoused Isabel the kings daughter of brud brudges/ And in his time merlyn said that there should be made brudges of folk upon dyches of the see/ & that was well sayne at bannokkesborn in Scotland when he was discomfited there of the Scots/ And Merlin told also that stones should fall from castle les/ & many towns should be made plain/ And he said sooth for when King edward was discomfited in Scotland and come tho southward/ the Scots besieged though castles/ and did 'em moche harm and brent towns unto the hard earth/  
And afterward Merlin t●…ld that an eagle should come out of corn wail. that should have feathers of gold/ that of pride should have no pyere. And he should despise Lords of blood/ and after 〈◊〉 should die through a here at gaversiche/ and that prophecy was 〈◊〉 well know and found sooth/ For by the eagle is understand Sir Pyers of ganastone/ that though was Earl of cornwall that was a wonder proud man that despised the baronage of england/ but afterward he was beheaded at Gaversich through the Earl of lancestre/ and through the Earl of war wyke/  
And Merlin told that in his time it should seem that the here should burn/ & that battle should be upon an arm of the see in a field arrayed like a shield where should die many white hedes/  
And he said sooth for by the brenning of the here is bitokened great dread through cutting of sword at that battle ordained in a field as a shield upon an arm of the see is bitokened the battle of mytone/ for there comen the Scots in manner of a shield/ in manner of a wing & slew upon small men of religion priests & secu lers/ wherefore the Scots called that battle in despite of english men the white battle/ And after merlyn said that the foresaid bear should done the goat much harm & that should be upon the south west and also upon his blood/ & said also that the goat should lose much deal of his land till the time that shame should him oucome and than he should cloth him with a lyon skin/ & should win again that he had lost & much more through people that should come out of the northwest that should make him been dread & him avenge of his enemies through counceyle of ij owls/ that first should been in peril to be undone/ And that though two owls should wend over the see in to a strange land/ & there they should duelle till a certain time/ and after they should come in to Englond again/ And though two owls should do moche harm unto many one & that they should counsel the goat for to move were against the foresaid here/ And that the goat & the owls should come unto an arm of the see at Barton up Trent/ and should wend over/ & that for dread the here should flee with a swan in his company unto bury toward the north through an unkind outepulter/ and that the swan than should be slain with sorrow. and the here should be slain full nigh his own nest. that should stand upon pountfeetes upon whom the son shall shed his beams/ and many folk him shall seche for the moche virtue/ and he said full sooth/ For the good Erl●… Thomas of lancastre was born in the north west/ and cousin to the King and son of his uncle/ And by law he made the King lose moche land/ the which he had purchased wilfully till at the last the King thereof took shame/ and himself filled with cruelty. And after he gate again that he had lost/ & much more through fel●… that he let assemble out of the northwest that made him to 〈◊〉 adread and avenged him of his Baron's through counsell of sire Hugh the Spencer the father/ and of sire hugh the son that before were outlawed out of england for her wykkednes But afterward come again in to england sir hugh spencer the father out of france/ and so much counseled the King that he school de were upon thomas of lancastre/ so that the King & the spen cers & the Earl of Arundel/ and her power met with thomas of lancastre at burton up trent/ and him there discomfited/ and sir Humphrey Earl of Herford was in his company/ And after fled den the foresaid thomas and humfrey with her company at burr brudge with sir Andre we of herkela that is called/ the unkind out putter And also sire Edmond ward Earl of york they comen and met with thomas of lancastre with an huge compapanye/ and hem there discomfited/ and in that scomfiture the Earl of herford was slain upon the bridge cowardly with a spear in the fundament And the Earl thomas was take/ and lad unto pount fret/ and though he was beheaded bysyde his own castle/ But afterward many men him sought for miracles that god died for him And in that time merlyn said for sorrow & harm should die people of his land/ wherefore many lands should be upon him the holder. And he said soothe/ for by encheason of his barons that were do ne to death for saint thomas quarrel of lancastre people of many lon des become the holder for to move were upon the King. for her blood was turned to many nacione/ And afterward Merlyntolde/ and said that the foresaid owls should done moche harm unto the flower of life/ & of death/ & they should bring her unto much disease/ so that she should wend over the see in to france for to make peace to the flower delyse/ & there should abide till on a time/ that her seed should come & seche her/ And though they should abide both till a time that they should clothen hem with grace/ & though two owls she should seek. & put 'em unto spytous death/ And that prophecy was well known/ & was full sooth/ For sire Hugh spencer the father/ & sir Hugh the son died much sorrow and persecution unto Queen Isabella through her procurement to her lord the King/ So they ordained amongs 'em that she was put unto her wages/ that is to say xx shilling in the day/ wherefore the King of France her brother was wonder sore annoyed/ and sent in to england by his letters unto King edward/ that he should come to his parliament to paris in France/ but King Edward was sore adread to come there/ For he wend to have been arrested/ till/ that he had made amends for the trespass that sir hugh spencer the father & the son had done/ & for the harm that they had done to Queen Isabel his sister/ wherefore through her ordinance & consent of the spencers the Queen Isabella went over see in to france/ for to make accord between King edward and the King of france her brother/ And there dwelled she in france till edward her eldest son come her to seche/ & so they dwelled there both/ till that alliance was made between 'em/ And the gentle Earl of henaud that if they with her help might destroy/ & overcome the venom & the falseness of the sponcers. that sir edward should spouse dame philip the worshipful lady/ & the Earls daughter of henaud/ wherefore the Queen Isabel/ & sir edward her son/ & sir edmond of wodestok the kings brother of england/ & sir Johan of henaud/ & sire Rogyer mortimer of wygmore/ and sir thomas rocelyn/ & sir Johan of Cromwell/ & sir william trussel/ & many other of the alliance of the gentle Earl thomas of lancastre that were exiled out of england for his quarrel/ and were disherited of her lands ordained 'em a great power & arrived at herewych in southfolk/ And soon after they pursueden the spencers till that they were taken/ & put unto piteous death. as before is said & her company/ and also for the great falseness/ that they did to King edward/ & to his people/ And merlyn said also more that the goat should be put in to great disease/ & in great anguyssh/ & great sorrow he should lead in his life/ And he said soothe/ For after the time that King Edward was take/ he was put in to ward till that the spencers were put unto the death. And also for encheason that he nold not come unto his own parliament at london/ as he had ordained and assigned himself & to his barons/ & also would not govern & rule his people/ ne his realm/ as a King should done/ Somme of the barons of Englond come and yield up/ her homages unto him for hem for all the other of the ream in the day of conversion of saint Paul/ & in the year of his reign xx/ & they put him out of his royalty for evermore/ & ever he lived his life afterward in moche sorrow and anguish/   

Of King Edward the third after the conquest// Caᵒ/ CC xij  
ANd after this King Edward of Carnarivan reigned sire Edward of windsor his son/ the which was crowned King and anointed at Westmynstre/ through consent and will of all the great Lords of the royalme the Sunday in Candelmas eve in the year of grace M/ CCC xxuj/ that was of age at that time/ but xv year/ & for encheason that his father was in ward in the castle of kenelworth/ and eke was put down of his royalty the royalme of england was as without King/ fro the fest of saint katherine in the year above said unto the fest of can delmasse/ & though were all manner pleas of the kings bench aftent And though was commanded to all the sheriffs of england through writ to warn the parties defendants through somning again And also furthermore that all prisoners that were in the kings gaylles that were attached through sheriffs should be let gone quite/ The King edward after his coronation at the prayer & bese ching of his lieges of the ream granted 'em a chartre of steadfast peace to all hem that would it ask/ & sir Johan of henaud & his compa nigh took her leave of the King & of the Lords of the ream/ & turned home to her own country again/ & each of 'em had full rich yefts everich man as he was of value & of estate/ and though was england in peace & in rest/ & great love between the King & his Lords/ & commonly englishmen said amongs 'em/ that the devil was deed/ but the treasure of the King his father & the treasure of the spencers both of the father & of the son/ & the treasure of th'earl of Arundel. & of master robert baldock/ that was the kings chancellor was departed after the Queen Isabellys ordinance/ & sir rogyer Mortime of wygmore/ so that the King had no thing thereof but at her will & her deliverance nought of her lands/ as afterward ye shall here/   

How King edward went to stanhope for to meet the Scots Capitulo/ CC/ xiij/  
ANd yet in the same time was King edward in the Castelle of kenelworth under the keeping of sir henry that was Earl thomas brother of lancastre/ that though was Earl of leicester/ & the King granted him the earldom of lancastre/ that the King his fadre had seized in to his hand/ & put out thomas of lancastre his brother/ And so was he Earl of lancaster & of leicester/ & eke steward of england/ as his brother was in his time/ but sir edward that was King Edward's father made sorrow without end/ for cause that he might not speak with his wife ne with his son/ where for he was in moche mischief/ for though it were so that he was lad & ruled by falls council/ yet he was King edward's son call led Edward with long shanks/ & come of the worthiest blood of the world/ And thylk to whom he was woned to give greet yefts & large were most prive with the King his own son/ & they were his enemies both by night & by day/ & procured for to make debate & contake between him & his son/ & Isabella his wife But the Frere prechours to him were good friends ever more & cast & ordained both by night and day how they might breng him out of prison/ And among her company that the freres had privily brought there was a frere that was called dunhened/ & he had ordained & gathered a great company of folk to help at that need but the frere was take/ & put in the castle of pountfret/ & there he died in prison/ And sir henry Earl of lancaster that had the Kings father in keeping through commandment of the King delivered edward the Kings father by endenture unto sir thomas of berkeley And so Sir Johan Mautrevers/ and they lad him from the cas tell of kenelworth unto the castle of barkley/ & kept him there safe lie/ And at estren next after his coronation the King ordained an huge host for to fight against the Scots/ And Sir Johan th'earls brother of henaud fro beyond the see come for to help King edward/ & brought with him seven C men of arms & arrived at douer. & they had leave for to gone forth/ till that they come to york/ there that the king abode 'em/ & the Scots come thither to the King for to make peace & accord. but the acordement between 'em last but a little time/ And at that time the englishmen were clothed all in coats & hodes painted. with letters and with flowers full seemly with long beards. And therefore the Scots made a bill that was fastened upon the church doors of saint petre toward stangate/ & thus said the scripture in despite of englishmen/   

Long beard hertelees/ painted hood witlees. Gay cote gra●…lees. makes england thriftlees/  
ANd the trinity day next after began the contake in the Cy te of york between the englishmen/ & the Henewers/ And in that debate were slain of the earldom of Nychol/ and murdered lxxx/ & after they were buried under a stone in saint clementzes Churcheyerde in Fossegate And for encheason that the Henewers come to help the King/ her peace was cried on pain of life and limb/ And in that other half it was found by an inquest of the city that the englishmen bygonne the debate/   

How the englishmen stopped the Scots in the park of stanhope/ & how they turned again in to Scotland/ Ca/ CC/ xiiijᵒ./  
ANd at that time the Scots had assembled all her power/ and comen in to Englond and slew/ and rob all that they ' myghten take, and also brenten & destroyed all the north coum tree through out till that they come to the park of stanhope in wyredale/ and their the Scots held 'em in a bushment/ But when the King had herd through certain espies/ where the Scots were anon right with his host besieged 'em within the foresaid park so that the Scots wist never where to gone out/ but only unto her arms. & they abiden in the park/ xv days/ and victuals hem failed in every a side/ so that they were greatly impaired of her bodies/ And sith that brute come first in to britayne unto this time was never seen so fair an host what of Englishmen and of Alyens'/ and of men a fo●…/ the which ordained 'em for to fight with the stottes through egging of sir henry Earl of lancastre, and of sir Johan henaud/ that would have gone over the water of with for to have fought with the Scots/ But sir rogyer Mortime consented not thereto/ For he had privily taken meed of the Scots hem for to help that they might wend again in to her own country/ And the same Mortime counseled so moche Thomas of brothertone the Earl marchal/ that was King Edward'S uncle/ that the foresaid thomas should not assemble at that time unto the Scots & he assented, but he wist not the doing between the Scots/ and the foresaid Mortime, And for encheason that he was marchal of Englond/ & to him pertained ever the vauntwarde/ he sent hastily to th'earl of lancastre/ and to Sir Johan of henaud that they should not fight. Upon the Scots in prejudice and harming of him/ & his fee/ & if they did that they should stand to her own peril/ And the foresaid Earl marchal was all arrayed with his battle at the reredoos of the Earl of lancastre/ for to have fought with him and with his folk/ if he had moved for to fight with the Scots/ and in this manner he was deceived and wist no thing of this treason/ And thus was the King principally deceived/ And when it was night Mortimer that had the wach for to keep of the host that night distourbled the wach that no/ thing might be done/ And in the mean while the Scots steel by night toward her own country as fast as they might/ And so was the King falsely betrayed/ that wend that that all the traitors of his land had be brought to an end as it was said before/ Now here ye Lords/ how traitorously King Edward was deceived/ & how marvelously & boldly the Scots did of were/ for James douglas with CC men of arms ridden thurugh out the host of King edward the same night the Scots were scaped toward it own country/ as is above said/ till that they come to the Kings pavylon/ & slew there many men in her beds & cried some naward naward & another time a douglas a douglas wherefore the King that was in his pavylon & much other folk were wonder sore effrayed/ but blessed be almighty god the King was not taken/ & in great peril was tho the royalme of england ¶ And that night the moan shone full clear & bright/ & for all the kyngesmen the Scots escaped harmele●…s, ¶ And in the more row when the King wist that the Scots were escaped in to her country. he was wonder sorry. & full heartily wept with his young eyen & yet wist he not who him had done that treason/ but that falls tree son was full we know a good while after as the story telleth The King edward come again though to york full sorrowful/ & his host departed, & every man went in to his own country with full heavy cheer/ & morning semblant/ & the henewers took her leave/ & went in to her country/ & the King for her travail 'em hugely rewarded/ & for encheason of that viage the King had dispended moche of his treasure & wasted/ & in that time were seen two moans in the firmament. that one was clear & that other was derk as men might tho seen through out the world/ & a great debate was that same time against pope John the xxij after saint peter. & th'emperor of almain though made him Emperor against the Pope's will, that th●… held his see at Avinion/ wherefore th'emperor made his cry at rome & ordained another pope that hight nycholas/ that was a frere menour/ & that was against the right of holy church/ wherefore ●…e was acursid/ & the power of that other pope soon was leid/ And for encheason that such marvels were seen/ men said that the world was nigh at the end/   

¶ Of the death of King edward of Carnarivan/ Ca/ CC/ xvᵒ./  
ANd now gone we again to sir edward of Carnarivan that was King sometime of england/ and was put down of his dignity/ ¶ alas for his tribulation and sorrow that him befell through false counceille that he lived and trust upon to much that afterward were destroyed through her falseness, as God would/ ¶ And this Edward of Carnarivan was in the castle of berkeley under the keeping of sir morys of berkeley & sire Johan of mautrevers/ and to 'em he made his complaint of his sorrow & of his disease, & oft-times he axed of his wardens/ what he had trespassed ageyst dame Isabel his wife. & sire Edward his son that was made new King that they would nought visit him. though answered one of his wardens/ My worthy lord displease you not/ that I shall tell you the encheason is/ for it is done 'em to understand that if my lady your wife come any thing night you/ that ye would her strangle and slay/ And also that ye would do to my lord your son that same/ ¶ though answered he with simple cheer/ alas alas am I not in prison/ & all at your own will/ now god it wot I thought it never/ and now I would that I were deed so would god/ that I were/ for than were all 〈◊〉 sorrow passed/ Hit was not long after that the King through co●…yl of Mortime granted the ward & keeping of sir edward his father ●…o sir thomas Toiourney & to the foresaid sir John Mautrevers through the kings letter & put out holy the foresaid sir moryce of the ward of the King, & they took & led the King unto the castle of Corffe/ the which castle the King hated as any death/ & they kept him there saufly ●…l it come unto saint mathewes' day in septem b●… in the year of gra●… M ccc xxvij that the foresaid sir rogyer mortimer sent the manner of the death how & in what wise he should be do ne to death/ And anon as the foresaid thomas & Johan had sayne the letter & commandment they made King edward of carnarivam good cheer & good solace as they might at that supper/ & nothing the King witted of that treachery/ And when time was for to go to bed the King went unto his bed & lay & slept fast/ & as the King lay/ & slept/ the traitour●… falls forsworn ay●…ns her homage & her feaute comen privily in to the kings chambre/ and her company with 'em/ & leyden an huge table upon his womb/ & with men presseden & helden fast a down the iiij cornyers of the table upon his body ●…r with the good man a work & was wonder sore ad●…d to be deed there & slain & turned his body though upsodoune/ ¶ though took the false traitors & as wode tyrants an horn/ & put it in to his fundament as deep as they might/ & took a spite of copper brenning & put it through the horn in to his body/ & oft times ●…lled there with his boweles/ and so they slew her lord/ that no thing was perceived/ and after he was entered at Gloucestre/  
¶ How King edward spoused philip the Earls daughter of He naude at york/ Caᵒ./ CC/ xvjᵒ./  
aNd after Cristemasse though next sewing sir Johan of henaude a brought with him philip his brother's daughter that was Earl of henaude his niece in to england/ & King edward spoused her at york with moche honour/ & sir Johan of Bothom Bishop of ely & sir william of melton archbishop of york sungen the mass the souday in the eve of conversion of saint Paul in the year of grace a M ccc xxvij/ but for encheason that the King was but young & tendre of age/ when he was crouned full many wrongs were done while that his f●…dre lived/ for encheason that he trowed the counceilers that were falls about him that counciled him to d●…ne other wise than reason would/ wherefore great harm was do unto the ream/ & to the King & all men directed it the kings deed & it was not so all mighty god wot/ wherefore it was ordained at the kings crouning that the King for his tender age should be governed by xij great Lords of england without which no thing should be done that is for to say the archbishop of canterbury/ the archbishop of york/ The Bishop of wynchestre, & the Bishop of herford/ the Earl of lan castre/ the Earl marchal. & the Earl of kent/ that were the kings uncles & the Earl of garenne, sir thomas wake/ sire henry of ●…ercy, Sir Oliver of yngham/ and Johan of Roos Barons And these were sworen truly for to counsel the King/ And they should answer every year in the parliament of that that should be done i●… the time of that governail/ but that ordinance was soon vnd●…ne/ & that was much loss & harm to all england/ for the king & all the Lords that should govern him were governed & ruled after the kings mother dame Isabella/ & by sir Rogyer Mortimer And as they would all thing was done both among high & low And they took unto hem castles towns lands & rents in great harm & loss to the crown & of the kings state out of measure   

How the peace was made between the englishmen/ & the scot/ and also of justyfyeng of Troylbastone/ Caᵒ./ CC/ xvijᵒ/  
THe King Edward at whitsuntide the second year of his reg ne through council of his mother/ & of sire Rogyer mortimer ordained a parliament at northampton/ at the which parliament the King through her council & none other of the land within age granted to been acorded with the Scots in this manner/ that all the feautes & homages that the Scots should doen unto the croun of england foryaf hem unto the Scots for ever more by his chartre ●…nfeled/ And furthermore an endenture was made of the Scots unto King Edward that was King henry's son/ which endenture they called it rageman/ in the which were contained all the homages and feautes/ First of the King of Scotland and of all the prelatez Erles and barons of the ream of Scotland with her seals set thereon and other charters/ and remembrances that King Edward and his Barons had of her right in the ream of scotland it was foryeve 'em again holy church/ And also with the black cross of scotland. the which the good King Edward con querd in scotland/ and brought it out of the Abbay of Scone/ that is a full precious relic, And also furthermore he relesed and foryaf all the lands that the barons of Englond had in scot land by, old conquest/ And this peace for to hold and last the scot were bound unto the King in thirty thousand pound of silver to be paid within iij year/ that is to say every year x thousand pound by even portions/ And furthermore above all this they speak between the parties above said that david dritonantier that was Robert the Brus is son the false tyrant and traitor. and falls forswore against his oath that arose against his lyege lord the noble King Edward, and falsely made him King of Scotland. that was of age of v year/ And so through this cursed counsel David spoused at Berewyk dame Johan of the tower that was King Edwardys sister as the g●…est telleth upon marry magdale ne day in the year of grace a M CCC and xxviij to greet harm and empeyring to all the kings blood/ whereof that gentle lady came/ alas the time/ For wonder much was that fair damysel dysparaged sith that she was married against all the common assent of england/ And fro the time that Brute had conquered albion and named the land after his own name Britain/ that now is called england after the name of Engyst/  
And so was the ream of Scotland holden of the ream of Englond and of the crown by feaute and by homage/  
For Brute conquered that land/ and gave it to Albanak his second son. And he called the land Albany after his own name/ So that the heirs that comen after him helden of Brute/ & of his heirs the Kings of Britain by feaute & homage and from that time unto this King Edward the ream of Scotland was holden of the ream of England by feautes and seruy●…s a 'bove said as the chronicles of england & of Scotland bearen witness mor●… plenarly/ And accursed be the time that this parliament was ordained at Northampton/ For their through falls counceil the King was there falsely disherited/ and yet he was within age/  
And yet when King Edward was put a down of his royalty of england/ yet men put him not out of the feautes/ and services of the ream of Scotland/ ne of the franchises disherited him for evermore. And nevertheless the great Lords of Englond were against to confirm the peace/ & the truce above said safe only the Queen Isabel that was the kings mother edward & the Bishop of Ely/ and lord Mortime, but reason and law would not that a final peace should be made between 'em without the common assent of england/   

Of the debate that was between Queen Isabella/ and sir Henry earl of lancastre and of leicester/ and of the riding of ●…edeford/ Caᵒ./ CC/ xvijᵒ./  
When the foresaid david had spoused Dame Jane of the tower in the town of Berwyk as before is said the Scots in despite of the englishmen called dame Jane the Countess make peace/ For the cowardo●… peace that was ordained but the kings person bore the wy●…e and the blame with wrong of the making of the accord/ and all was done through the Queen and Rogyer Mortime/ And it was not long aft●…r that the Queen Isabella ne took in to her own hand all the lordship of pountfret almost all the lands that were of value that appertained to the crown of england/ so that the King had not for to dispend/ but of his uses and of his exchequer/ For the Queen Isabelle and Mortime had a greet main of her ●…naunce that followed evermore the kings court, and went and took the kings prizes for her penny worths at good cheap, wherefore the country that they comen in were full sore adradde/ and almost●… destroyed/ Tho bygon the Comynalte of Englond for to ●…ate Isabella the Queen that so moche loved her. When she come again for to pursue the false traitors the spencers fro France/  
And that same time the false traitor Robert of Holond that betrayed his lord Sir Thomas of lancastre was though delivered out of prison/ and was wonder prive with the Queen Isabelle and also with Rogyer the Mortimer, But that availed him but little for he was take at mychelmasse that though come n●… sewing after as he road toward the Queen Isabella to london & sir thomas wither smote of his heed besides the town of saint albans/ And this sir thomas dwelled though with Sir Henry Earl of lancastre & he put him in hiding for dread of the Queen/ for she loved him wonder moche and prayed unto the King for him that the same Thomas must been exiled out of england/ And the Noble Earl Sir Henry lancastre had oft-times herd the common cla mour of the englishmen of the dyseses that were done in england and also for diverse wrongs that were done among the common people of the which the King bore the blame with wrong/ for he ●…as but full young and tender of age/ and thought as a good man for to done away & slake the slander of the kings person if that he might in any manner wise/ So as the King was thereof no thing guilty/ wherefore he was in peril of lieth & limb And so he assembled all his retenaunces/ and went and spoke unto them of the kings honour/ and also for to amend his estate And sir thomas brotherton earl marchal and Sir Edmond of woodstock that were the kings uncles, and also men of london made her oath him for to maintain in that same quarelle.  
And her cause was this that the King should hold his household and his meinie as a King ought for to done and have also his rialte/ And that the Queen Isabella should deliver out of her hand in to the Kings hand all manner lordships rents towns and castles that appertained to the crown of england as other queens had done before her and meddle with none other thing/  
And also that sire Rog●…er mortimer should duelle upon his own lands/ for the which lands he had holp disherit people/ So that common people were not destroyed through her wrong full taking/ And also to inquire how and by whom the King was betrayed and falsely deceived at Stanhope/ and through whose council that the Scots went away by night from the King, And also how and through whose counsel the ordinance that was made at the kings coronation was put a down that is for to say that the King for amendment and helping of the Reamme/ and in honour of him should be governed and ruled by xij the greatest and wisest Lords of all the ream and without 'em should nothing be granted/ ne done as fore is said the which covenants malyaously were put a done fro the King wherefore many harms shames and reproves have fall unto the King and his ream. And that is understand for as much as Edward sometime King of Englond was ordained by assent of the commonalty in plain parliament for to be under the ward/ & governance of Henry earl of lancastre his cousin for salvation of his body. he was take out of the castle of kennel worth there that he was in ward/ And through colour of Queen Isabella and of the Mortimer without consent of any parliament they took & led him there that never after none of his kindred might with him spe●…e ne see/ and after traitorously took and him mordred/ For whose death a foul slander aroos through out all christendom when it was done/ And also the treasure that sir edward of Carnarivan had left in many places in england and in walye were wasted and bore away without the will of King Edward his son in destruction of him and of all his folk/ Also through whose council that the King give up the kingdom of Scotlad For the which ream the kings ancestors' had full sore travailed/ and so did many a noble man for her right/ & was delivered unto David/ that was Robert the Brus son all the right that no right had to the ream as all the world it wyst●…/ And also by whom the charters and remembrances that they had 〈◊〉 the right of scotland were take out of the treasury and taken unto the Scots the Kings enemies to dysheryting of him and of his successors and to great harm unto his lyea●…s and great 〈◊〉 prove unto all englishmen for evermore/ Also where for dame ●…a ne of the tower the Kings sister edward was dysparaged and married unto David/ that was Robert the Brus sone that was a traitor and enemy unto england/ And through whose counceille she was take in to our enemies hands out of england/  
And in the mean time while the good Earl Henry of lancastre and his company token counsell how these 〈◊〉 above said might been amended unto the worship of the King and to his profit, and to the profit also of his lieges/ The 〈◊〉 Isabel through conjecting and subtlety/ and also of the Mortimer let ordain a parliament at Salysbury. And at that same ●…arlemēt the Mortimer was made Earl of the March against all the barons will of england in prejudice of the King & of his Coroune/ And Sire Johan of Eltham the kings brother was gurt with aswerd of cornwall and though was called Earl of Curnewall And evermore Queen Isabel so moche procured a●…ste her son the King. that she had the ward of the foresaid sir Edward and of his lands, And at that parliament th'earl of of Lancastre would not come/ but ordained all his power against the Queen Isabel/ and the mortime/ and men of london ordained 'em with v C men of arms/ when Queen Isabella wist of the doing/ she swore by god & by his names full angrily/ that in evil time he thought upon the points/ though sent the Queen Isabella and the mortimer after her retinue. & after the Kings retenue/ so that they had ordained among 'em an huge host/ & they counseled the King/ so that upon a night they ridden xxiv mile toward Bedford there that the Earl of lancastre was with his company/ and thought to have him destroyed/ and that night she road besides the King her son as a knight armed for dread of death/ and it was done the king to understand that the Earl henry of lancastre & his company would have destroyed the King & his council for evermore/ wherefore the King was somedeal towards him heavy and annoyed/ when the Earl marchal/ and the Earl of kent the kings brother heard of this tiding/ they riden so in message between 'em that the King granted him his peace to Earl henry of lancaster for a certain ransom of xj M pound/ but that was never paid afterward/  
And these were the Lords that held with sir henry of Lancastre/ sir henry Beaumout. Sir fouke fitzwaren/ sir thomas rocelyn/ Sire william Trussel, Sir thomas whither/ and about an ninety knights more that were to him consenting/ and all though were exiled through counsel of Queen Isabella and of the mortimer. for the Mortime weyted for to have her lands if that he might thu●…gh any manner conjecting/ for he was to covetous/ & had to much his will/ and that was great pity/   

How King Edward went over the see for to do his homage unto the King of france for the duchy of Guyenne/ Caᵒ/ CC nineteen  
IT was not long after that the King of france through council of his douzepyers sent to King Edward of Englond that he should come to Paris/ and done his homage as reason it would for the duchy of Guyenne/ And so through council of the Lords of england King Edward went over the see & at ascension tide he come unto paris the iij year of his reign for to do his homage unto the King of france. & the King underfeng his homage and made of him moche joy & worship/ but when King edward had made his homage, hastily he was sent fore in to england thurugh the Queen Isabella his mother/ & anon hastily he come again in to england upon wythsonday without any taking leave of the King of france/ wherefore he was wonder wroth/   

How sir rogyer Mortime bore him proudly & so high/ caᵒ. cc xx  
ANd now shall ye here of sir rogyer Mortime of wygmore that destroyed and coveted to be at an high estate. so that the King granted him to be called Earl of the March through out all his lordship/ And he become so proud & so hauteyne that he would lose & forsake the name that his ancestors' had ever before And for that encheason he let him call Earl of the March & none of the comunes of england durst call him by none other name for he was called so through the Kings cry that men should, call him Earl of the March/ and the Mortimer bore him though so hauteyn & so proud that wonder it was for to wit/ & also disguised him with wonder rich clothes out of all manner reason both of shaping & of we ring wherefore the englishmen had great wonder how & in what manner he might contrive or find such manner pride/ & they said 'em all commonly that his pride should not long endure/ And the same time sir geffroy mortimer the young that was the Morti mers son let call him King of folly/ & so it befell afterward in deed for he was so full of pride & of wretchedness that he held a round table in wales to all men that thither would come & countrefece the manner & the doing of King arthures' table/ but openly he f●…ssed For the noble King arthur was the most worthy lord of renomee that was in all the world in his time/ & yet come never none such after/ for all the noble knights in christendom of deed of arms a loosed dwelled with King arthur/ & held him for her Lord/ & that was well seen/ for he conquered in battle a roman that was call led Frolle/ & get of him the ream of france/ & slew him with his hounds/ And also he fought with a giant that was called thy nabus & slew him that had ravished fair Eleyne that was King hoeles ne●… King of little Britain/ And afterward he slew in battle the Emperor of rome that was called lucy that had assembled against King arthur for to fight with him so much people of romans & phehyts & of saracens that no man coude hem number/ & he discomfited 'em all as the story of him telleth/ & in the same time commune loos sprung in england thurg comecting/ & or dynaunce of the frere prechours that fire Edward of Carnarivan that was King Edward'S father of whom the gest telleth saiden that he was alive in the castle of Corf/ wherefore all the comunes all most of england were in sorrow & in dread whether that it were so or not/ For they wist not how traitorously the Mortime had him done murdered/   

How Edmond of woodstock that was Earl of kent/ & the kings brother Edward of Carnarivan was beheaded at wynchestre Capitulo CC xxjᵒ./  
ANd upon a time it befell so that sir Edmond of woodstock Earl of kent spoke unto the pope Johan the xxij of avignon and said that almighty god had softymes done for thomas love of lancastre many great miracles to many men & women that were through diverse maladies undone as unto the world & through his prayer they were brought unto her he'll/ And so Sir Edmond prayed the pope heartily that he would grant him grace that the foresaid thomas might be translated, but the pope said nay that he should not be translated unto the time that he were better certified of the clergy of england & sayne by her obedience what thing god had done for the love of thomas of lancaster after the suggestion that the foresaid Edmond Earl of kent had unto him y made/ And when this edmond saw that he might not speed of his purpose as touching the translation/ he prayed him of his council as touching sir edward of Carnarivan his brother/ & said that not long agone he was king of england what thing might best be done as touching his deliverance sith that a common fame is through england that he is in life & hole & safe/ when the pope herd him all that sir edward was alive/ he commanded the Earl upon his benison that he should help with all the power that he might that he were deliud out of prison/ & save his body in all manner that he might/ & for to bring this thing to an end he assoilled him & his company a pena & culpa/ & all though that help to his deliverance/ though took Edmond of wodestok his leave of the pope/ & come again in to england/ and when sir Edmond was come/ some of the Frere prechours come & said that sir edward his brother yet was alive in the castle of corf under the keeping of sir thomas gurnay/ though sped him the foresaid edmond as fast as he might till that he come unto the castle of Corffe/ and acqueynted/ and spoke so fair with Johan Daverill that was constable of the same castle/ and gave him rich yefts for to have acquaintance of him/ & to know of his counsel/ And thus it befell that the foresaid sir edmond prayed specially to tell him privily of his lord his brother sir edward if that he lived or were deed/ and if he were alive he prayed of him once to have a sight/ And this Sir Johan Daverill was an high hearted man & full of courage & answered shortly unto Sir Edmond & said that sir edward his brother was in hele/ & under his keeping/ & durst show him unto no man/ sith it was defended him in the kings half edward that was Edward'S son of car narinan/ & also through commandment of Queen Isabel the kings mother/ & of sir rogyer the Mortime that he should show his body unto no manner man of the world save only unto hem upon loss of life & limb/ & to disheryteson of his heirs for evermore/ but the falls traitor falsely lied for he was not in his ward. but he was take thence & lad unto the castle of berklee through Sir Thomas gurnay through commandment of the Mortime till that he was deed as before is said, but sir edmond of wodestok wist nothing that Edward his brother was deed. Whereupon he took a lren unto the foresaid sir Johan/ & prayed him heartily that he would take it unto King edward his brother/ as to his worthy Lord/ And be underfeng the lren of him & behight him for to done his message without any manner fail/ & with that sir edmond took of him his leave then of the foresaid John/ & went tho in to his own country & lordship in kent that he had there/ And anon as this same John wise that sir edmond was gone in to kent his own lordship, anon he went in all the haste that he might fro the castle of Corfe/ & come unto sire Rogyer the mortime/ & took him the lren that sir edmond of wood stok Earl of kent had take him closed/ & enseled with his own seal/ And when sir rogyer had underfong the letter he unclosed the lren. & saw what was contained therein/ & began it for to read/ where of the beginning was this/ worships & reverences with brother's legiance & subjection/ sire knight worshipful and dear brother if it you please/ I pray you heartily that ye be of good comfort/ for I shall so ordain for you that soon ye shall come out of prison & be delivered of that disease that ye been in/ & understandeth of your great lordship that I have to me assentaunt all most all the great Lords of england with all her apparel/ that is to say with armure with treasure without number for to maintain and help your quarrel/ so forsooth that ye shall be King again as ye were be fore/ and that they all have sworn to me upon a book/ and as well prelate's as Earls and Barons/ when sir Rogrer the mortimer saw and understood the might and the strength of the letter/ anon for wrath his heart 'gan whole/ and evil heart bare toward sire Edmond of wodestok that was Earl of kent, and so with all the haste that he might/ he went to Dame Isabelle the Queen that was the kings mother and showed her sir Edmund's letter and his will & his purpoose/ & how he had †conice ted† and ordained to put a down King edward of windsor her son of ryal●… and of his kingdom/ Now 〈◊〉 sir rogyer quoth the Queen hath sir edmond done so/ by my fathers soul quoth ●…he 〈◊〉 will be the●…f avenged if that god grant me life/ and that in a short time/ And anon with that the Queen Isabel went unto King edward her son, there that he was at the parliament at win chester for to have amended the wrongs and trespasses that were done among the people in his royalme/ And though took she & she wed him the letter that Sir Edmond of wodestok earl of kent had made and ensealed with his own seal/ and bad upon her benison that he should be avenged upon him, as upon his deadly enemy/  
though was the Queen so wroth toward Sir Edmond earl of kent/ and ●…sid never to pray until her son till that he had sent in all haste after him/ And upon that the King sent by his letters after sir edmond of wodestok that he should come and speak with him at wynchestre all manner thing left. And when Sir Edmond saw that the King sent after him with his lrens ens●…led he ●…asted him in all that he might/ till that he come to wynchestre/ but though the Queen wist that sir Edmond was come unto wynchestre/ anon she prayed and so fast went unto King Edward her son that the good Earl was aws●…yd anon/ and led unto the bar before. Robert of Hamond/ that was cowner of the kings house ho●…d/ and he assocyed unto him Sir Rogyer the mortime/ & though spoke the foresaid Robert and said/ Sir Edmond earl of kent ye shall understand that it is done us to wite▪ and principally unto our lyege lord Sir Edward King of england that almighty god save and keep that ye 〈◊〉 his deadly enemy and traitor/ and also a common enemy unto the r●…ame/ and that ye have been about many a day for to make pre●…y deliverance of sir edward sometime King of england your brother/ the which was put a down of his 〈◊〉 al●… by ●…mune assent of all the Lords of england in pesing of our lord the kings estate/ and also of his ream/ though answered the good man & said/ forsooth sir understandeth well that I was never traitor to my King ne to the ream/ & that I do me on god & on all the world/ & furthermore by my Kings leave I shall prove it & defend as a man ought to do/ Tho said Mortimer Sir Edmond it is so forsooth I know that it may not well been gain said/ and that in presence of all that here been it shall well been proved/ now had this fal●… Mortime the same letter that sir Edmond had take to sir Johan daverell in the castle of corff for to take unto King Edward his brother that sir Edmond wist not of ne supposed no nothing that sir Johan daverel had be so falls to deliver his l●… in such wise to the Mortime & thought no manner thing of that letter & said to sir edmond and showed a letter se●…d & asked him if he knew that letter and the seal/ This sir Edmond looked thereon & advised him long on the print of the seal/ for he might not see the letter within forth what was therein/ & wist well that it was his seal/ and thought that it had be some letter that had boar no great charge/ and thought nothing of that other letter/ and said openly in hearing of 'em all ye forsooth this is my seal I will it not forsake ●…o quoth the Mortime sirs ye hearen all what he hath said & that he knoulecheth that this is his letter and his seal/ and now ye shall here all what is contained therein/ And than this mortym●… opened the letter that he had folden afore together/ and red it open lie word by word in hearing of 'em all/ and when the letter was red ●…e said lo si●…s ye have herd all what is here w●…n/ & that ye hath knoulecheth that this is his letter/ and his seal/ and may not go there from/ And than they all cried and gave doom that he should be hanged and draw/ and his heed smite of in manner of a traitor/ and he and his heirs disherited for evermore▪ and so he was lad forth and put in to prison/ And when this was done and the Queen wist that he was dampened by weigh of law both of life & limb and his heirs disherited for evermore thurg●… open knowledging in plain court/ wherefore hem thought that were good that the foresaid Sir Edmond were hastily slain without witting of the King/ or else the King would lightly for give him his death/ and than that should torn hem to much sorrow so as he was empeched/ And anon the Queen through council of the Mortime and without any other counsel se●…t in haste to the bailifs of wynchestre/ that they should smite of sir edmondes heed of woodstock Earl of kente vithoute any manner abiding or respite up pain of life and limb/ and that he should have none other execution by cause of ●…ryeng not withstanding the judgement though token the baillif●… sir Edmond out of prison & sad hem besi▪ des the castle of wynchestre/ and there they made a gongfermer smite of his heed/ for none other man durst it done▪ & so died he there alas the time that is to say the x day of Octo●… the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of King Edwardes regne/ & when the King wys●… thereof he was wonder sorry/ & let entiere him at the Frere menours at wynchestre/   

Of the death of sir Rogyer Mortime Earl of the March. Capitulo/ CCᵒ./ xxijᵒ./  
ANd so it be fell at that time that sir Rogyer Mortymer earl of the March was so proud & so hauteyne that he held no lord of the Reamme his peer. & tho become he so covetous that he followed Dame Isabella the Qnenes court/ that was King Edward's mother & beset his penny worths with the officers of the queens household in the same manner that the kings officers did & so he made his taking as touching victuals & also of carriages/ & all he did for cause of spences & for to gather treasure/ & so he did without number in all that he might. though made he him wonder prive with the Queen ●…abel/ & so much lordship & retinue had/ so that all the great Lords of england of him were adr●…d, wherefore the King & his council towards him were aggrieved & ordained among 'em to undo him through pure reason & law for cause that King edward that was the Kings father traitoursly through him was murdered in the castle of berklee as bifere is said more plenarly in the CC xvij chapter of this book/ And some that were of the Kings counceil loved the Mortime & told him in privity how that the King & his counsel were about from day to day him for to shend and undone where for the Mortime was sore amnoyed & angry as the devil against 'em that were of the kings counsel & said that he would on hem been avenged/ how so ever he took on/ ●…it was not long after ward that King edward and dame phelip his wife & dame Isabel the kings mother & sir Rogyer the Mortime ne went unto no tyngham there for to sojourn/ & so it befell that the Queen Isabel through counsel of the Mortime took to her the keys of the yates of the castle of Notyngham/ so that no man might come nether in ne out by night but through commandment of the mortimer ne the King ne none of his counsel/ And that time it befell so that the Mortime as a devil for wrath bolled/ & also for wrath that he had against the kings men edward/ & principally against 'em that had him accused to the King of the death of sir edward his father/ And privily a council was take between Queen Isabel/ & the Mortimer & the Bishop of lyncoln/ & s●…r Symond of Bereford and sir hugh of Trumpyngton/ & other prive of her counsel for to undone 'em all that had accused the Mortime unto the King of his fathers death of treason and of felony/ wherefore all though that were of the kings counsel when they wist of the mortimers casting privily come to King edward, & saide that the Mortime would hem destroy for cause that they had accused him of King Edward'S death his father & prayed him that he would maintain 'em in her right And these were the Lords to pursue this quarelle/ sire william mountagu/ Sir hunfrey de boghun. Sir william his brother/ Sire Rauf of stafford, sir robert of herford/ Sir william of clyn●…n Sir Johan neuyl of horneby, and many other of her consent, and all these sworen upon the book to maintain the quarrel in as m●…ch as they might/ And it befell so af●…r/ that sir william mountagu ne none of the kings friends must not been herburg●…ed in the castle for the Mortime. but went and took her lodging in diverse places in the town of notyngham/ And though were they sore adread lest that the Mortime should 'em destroy. and in haste there come unto King edward Sir william mountagu/ there that he was in the castle/ & privily told him that he ne none of his company should not take the Mortime without counsel & help of william of eland Constable of the same castle/ Now certes qd the King I leave yew well/ & therefore I council you that ye go●… to the foresaid 〈◊〉ble & command him in my name that he be your friend. & your help for to take the Mortime all thing y left upon peril of 〈◊〉/ & limb/ though said mountagu/ sir my lord grant mercy/ 〈◊〉 went forth the foresaid mountagu & come to the constable of the castle/ and told him the Kings will/ And he answered & said that the Kings w●…l should be done in as much as he might & that he would not spare for no manner death/ and so he swore & made his oath/ though said Sir william mountagu to the Conestab●…e in ●…erynge of all men that were helping unto the quarrel/ Now certes dear friend us behoveth for to work/ & do by your ●…yntise foe: to take the Mortime sith that ye be kepar of the castle/ and have the keys in your ward/ sir qd the constable/ will ye understand that the gates of the castle been lokked with the lokkes that dame ●…abel sent hither/ and by night she hath the keys thereof & lei●… hem under the levesell of the led unto the morrow, and so ye may not come in to the castle by the yates in no manner wise/ but I know an alley that stretcheth out of the ward under the earth in to the foresaid castle/ that goeth in to the West which A●…y da●…e Isabel the Queen/ ne none of her men, ne the Mortime ne none of his company knoweth it not/ And so I shall feed you through that alley/ and so ye shall come in to the castle without aspyes of any man that been your enemies/ And the same night sir william mountagu/ and all the Lords of his quarelle/ and the same constable also went 'em to horse/ and maden semblant as it were for to wend out of the mortimers sight/  
But anon as the Mortime herd this tiding he went that they would have gone over the see for dread of him/ and anon he and his company token counsel amongs hem for to let her passage & sent lrens anon to the ports/ so that none of the great Lords should wend home to her own country/ but if they were arrested and take  
And among o●…her things william Eland Constable of the foresaid castle privily lad sir william mountagu and his company by the foresaid weigh under earth so till they comen in to the castle/ and went up in to the tour there that the Mortime was 〈◊〉/ 〈◊〉 it sir hugh of T●…umpyngton hem aseryed hideously. and said A traytou●…s it is all for nought that ye been comen in to this castle/ ye shall die yet an evil death everichone/ And anon one of 'em that was in mountaguys company up with a mace & smote the same hugh upon the heed that the brain breast out/ and fell on the ground. and so●… he was deed an evil death/ though took they the mortime/ as he arrived him at the towers door when he heard the noise of hem for dread/ And when the Queen ●…sabell saw that the Mortime was take she made much sorrow 〈◊〉 heart and the words unto he●… said/ now fair sirs I pray you that ye done none harm to his body a worthy knight our well-beloved friend and our dear cousin. though went they thence and comen and brought the Mortime and presented him unto the King Edward/ and he commanded to bring him in safe ward/ But anon as they that w●…e consen●…e unto the mortimers doing herd tell that he was take they went & hid 'em and privily by night went out of the town ●…he 〈◊〉 his side with heavy heart and morning/ and lived up on her lands as well as they might/ And so that same year that the Mortime was take he had at his retinue ix score kni gh●…s without squires & servants of arms and footmen/ And though was the Mortime lad to london/ And sire Symond of Bereford was lad with him/ and was take to the constable of the tower to keep/ But afterward was the mortimers life examined at westminster before the King & before all the great Lords of england for peril that might fall to the ream/ and to inquire also which were assenting to sir Edward'S death the Kings father/ and also through whom the scot●…es escaped from stanhope in to scotland without the will of King Edward/ And also how the chartre of Rageman was deliud unto the Scots wherein the feautes & homages of scot land were contained that the Scots should d●…ne evermore unto the Kings of england for the ream of scotland/ wherefore in his absence he was dampened to be draw & hanged for his treason/ and this me schyef come unto him on saint andrews even 〈◊〉 the year of incarnation of our lord Ihu christ a thousand CCC/ thirty/   

How King Edward get again unto him graciously the homages & feautes of scotland/ whereof he was put out through falls council of Isabel his mother/ and sir Rogyer Mortime that was new made Earl of the March/ Caᵒ./ CC. xx●…ijᵒ./  
●…Owe ye have herd Lords how sir Johan of Bayllol in time of peace was chosen to been King of Scotland f●…r ench son that he come of the eldest daughter of the Earl david of Hontyngton that was King Alysandres brother of scotland that de●…de without heir of his body bygoten/ & how this Johan made france & homage to King edward henry's son the third for his lands of stotland/ and how he afterward withsaid his homage through coum ceill of the Scots in the year of our lord M ccc lxxij/ & sent unto that pope through a false suggestion that he made his oath unto that fo●…said king edward over his estate & his will▪ of which oath the p●…pe him assoiled through his bulls to him y sent/ And anon as King Edward wist thereof he ordained anon his barons/ & c●…me unto Berewik/ & conquered the town. at which conquest there were sl●…y ne xxv M & seven C/ And the Baillol that was King of scotland come & yield him unto King edward/ And the King afterward delivered him out of the tour of london/ and all the gre●…e Lords of scotland with him that were take at Berewyk. & gave hem saufcon duyt to go in to scotland/ and the Scots sith through her falseness warred upon King edward/ And when Sir Johan Bay●…loll King of scotland saw all this he went/ & put him over the see unto Dunpier/ and lived there upon his own lands as well as he might till that the Scots would amend 'em of her misdeeds/ & trespass/ and lad with him Sir Edward his son/ whe●…fore the Scots in despite of him called him Sir Johan Turnelabard for cause that he would not offend ne trespass against King edward of Englond/ And so he forsook his ream of Scotland/ & set thereof but little pries/ And this sire Johan long time dwelled in france till that he died there/ and sir edward his son underfeng his heritage, & did homage unto the King of france for his lands of dunyyer/ & so it fell afterward that edward that was Johan bayllols son had with him a squire of england that was b●…re in yorkshyre that was called Johan of barnaby/ & this edward bayllol loved him moche & was nigh him & full prive. And so this Johan of barnaby was in debate with a frensshman in the town of Dunpyer & so he slew him & went his way in all that he might in to the castle for to have succour & help of his lord/ And anon come the officers of the town to take John of bar naby as a fellow/ & sir edward his lord halp him & rescued him & by night made him wend out of the castle/ & so he went his weigh & come in to england without any harm/ And when the King of france saw that sir edward had rescued his fellow/ he beco me wonder wroth against sir edward/ & anon let him be a rest & took in to his hand all his lands though dwelled sir edward in prison unto the time that sir henry of beaumout come in to france the which henry sometime was Earl of angoes in scotland through his wife/ & was put out of the foresaid earldom when the accord was between england and Scotland through the Queen Isabel and sir rogyer the Mortime & her company for the marriage that she made between david/ that was Robert the brus son & dame Jane of the tower King Edward'S sister of england and well understood this that at the end he should come to his right but if it were through sir edward baillol/ that was right heir of the ream of Scotland/ And the King of france Louis loved much this sir henry/ and he was with him full prive/ and thought for to make a deliverance of Sir edward baillols body if he might in any manner wise though prayed he the King that he would grant him of his grace sir edward bayllols body unto the next parliament that he might live with his own rents in the mean time and that he must stand to be jugged by his peris at the parliament/ The King granted him his prayer/ and made the foresaid Edward be delivered out of prison in the manner above said/ And anon as he was out of prison sir henry took him forth with him/ and lad him in to Englond, and made him duelle pri vely at the manner of sandehal up ouse in yorkshyre with the lady besey/ and so he ordained him there an huge retenaunce of people of englishmen. and also of aliens for to conquer again his heritage/ And so he gave moche silver unto soldiers/ and to aliens for to help him/ And they behight for to help him in all that they might, but they failed him at his most need/ And at that time Donald Earl of morryf h●…rde tell how that sir Edward was privily come in to scotland and come to him and made with him great joy of his coming again and said to him & behight him that all the great Lords of england should be to him en tendaunt/ & should him hold for King as right heir of Scotland & so much they would done that he should be crowned King of that land/ and dieden to him homage & feaute/ Tho come Sir Henry of Beaumond to King edward of Englond/ and prayed him in weigh of charity that he would grant of his grace unto sir edward Baillol that he must saufly gone by land from sandhall unto Scotland for to conquer his right heritage in Scotland. The King answered and said unto him/ if that I suffer the Bayllol wend through my land in to scotland than the people would say that I should be assenting unto the company/ Now sir I pray you that ye would grant him leave to take unto him soldiers of englishmen that they might saufly lead him through your sand unto Scotland/ And sir upon this covenant that if it so befall that god it forbid that he be discomfited in battle through the Scots/ that I and also all the Lords that holden with Baillol been for evermore put out of our rends/ that we have in En glond. And the King upon this covenant granted her bone as touching him & though that were of the same quarrel/ the which claimed for to have lands or rents in the ream of Scotland And these were the names of the Lords that pursueden this mater/ that is to say Sir Edward the Baillol that challenged the ream of Scotland/ Sir Henry Beaumout Earl of Angos sir David of stroboly Earl of Atheles/ Sir Geffroy of Mombray/ waltier Comyn. & many other that were put●…e out of her heritage in Scotland. When the peace was made between Englond & Scotland as before is said, And ye shall understand that these Lords took with 'em v ninety men of arms and ij thou sand archer's and of foot men/ and though went in to ship at Ramires venespore/ and sailed by the see/ till what they comen in to scotland and comen to land at kynkehorne xij mile from saint Johannes town. & anon sent out her ships again/ for they should not be hurt ne impaired nether that no man should gone in to the ship again. though that they had need/ but abide at all perils and not flee but stand/ & rather suffer death than flee for to maintain her true quarrel/ when th'earl of Fyffe a fierce man & a stern herd knew that the bayllol was comen for to take the land of Scotland he come in haste to kynghorne with x thousand Scots for to distrouble him that he should not come to land/  
But sir Edward Bayllol and his company there him dyscomfyded/ at the which scomfiture sire Alysaunder of Seton was their slain & many other/ The Earl of Fyffe was tho sorry and full ill ashamed that so little a company had him discomfited/ and shamelyche put him & all his company that was alive for to flee/  
Tho come sir edward Bayllol. and took the country all about him till he come unto the abbey of Dunfermelyne/ and there be found victuals for him and for his folk and among all other things he fond in a chambre about v ninety of great staves of fine oak with long pikes of iron & of steel. he took 'em and delivered hem to the most strongest men of his company/ And anon after he went fro thence, and lodged him in a field ij mile from saint Johannes town and when the burgeiss of the ton heard how the Earl of Fyffe was discomfited through the Bayllol they were sore adread & break their bridges that they had made over the water of Erue/ so that the bayllol might not gone over wherefore he lodged him there all that night/ but little heed he took of rest/ and said unto his people/ now dear Lords ye know full well, that we be now y lodged between our enemies/ And if they mow us hampre/ there is no boat but death wherefore if we abide here all this night still/ I leave that it shall torn us to much sorrow and harm/ For the power of Scotland may every day weigh and increase/ and we may not so done/ And we been but little people as against 'em. Wherefore I pray you for the love of almighty god make we us bold and hardy and that we may mightily take the Scots this night and boldly were upon hem and let us pursue 'em this night, & if they be travailed through us/ and they see our hardiness/ so that other Scots that comen and meet hem and see 'em so travailed and weary/ the sorer will they be adread with us for to fight. and fiercely than we shall fight with 'em/ and upon 'em pursue/ so that through the grace of God Amyghty all the world shall speak of the doughtnes of our chivalry/  
And sirs understandeth well that all the company that comen with sir Edward bayllol granted well unto that council/ and were there of glad/ and anon pursued upon the Scots/ that they byco me wonder weary. And the Bayllol and his company sore followed hem/ & did 'em moche sorrow through her assault/ so that they might not for feeble hem help and for little people/ but though said the Scots amongs 'em what is now byfal/ that so li cell a people. as the bayllol hath in wing/ done us so much trava ill and sorrow/ now certes it seemeth us, that he worcheth by grace/ for he is wonder gracious in his quarrel/ and all we certes shall been deed or that we may come to him us for to yield sith that his father set of us no pries And among all other things the Bayllol, and his people passed the water of Erue/ so that sire Rogyer of Swynerton the son was fierce and angry. and went forth/ and they saw people of arms full well arrayed/ & forth they went unto hem, and with 'em fought/ and slew as many as would abide and took/ And nevertheless at that assault they wend it had be the great host of Scotland/ And when it come to the morn/ they gathered hem together/ and rested 'em a whrle But the while that the Eglysshmen rested 'em the noble Baron Thomas of vesey and the noble baron of stafford pril●…ed her lo●…s up and down by the hills for to keep the estres of the country And as they pryked up & down/ they saw a great host of good array ordained in three wings with helms, & sheldes shining coming upon 'em/ and though come though two Lords again unto baillols folk/ & said/ Now for the love of almighty god been of good comfort/ For ye shall have battle anon right/ And though spoke Sir fouke the son of gareyne a baron of great renomee & of deed of arms/ sires lordings understandeth that I will say/ I have seen many diverse wings as well among saracens & Jewee as among the Scots/ And yet saw I never the ferth part of the wing fight/ and therefore if we will abide our enemies/ we be enough for to fight against 'em/ But if we be not of good heart & of good will late us not fight with 'em/ for certes we been full few a●…ns this company/ And therefore for the love of god take unto us a good heart, and let us been bold and think we nether on our wives ne on our children/ but onlyche to conquer 'em in battle/ & through the help of our lord god our enemies we shall overcome And with that come the host of the Scots towards 'em full fie sly/ and against Sir Edward the Bayllol in three battles well arrayed in armure And wonder syerly they come toward the Bayllols men/ But when sire Donald Earl of Marall saw all this/ he said to Robert butts the son of Robert the brus these words/ Sir Robert quoth he full sore me forethinketh at mine heart that these folk that the baillol had brought with him should die with dint of scottissh sword/ sith that they been christian men as well as we been. And therefore me thinketh that it were great charity to send unto 'em for to yield 'em unto our mercy and grace/ and raunsonne hem through grievous raunsonne/ for as much as they have taken our land and done ill/ Now certes quoth sir robert the Brus I have well perceived that thou art an enemy/ and a trai tour unto scotland/ sith that thou wilt consent to save our deadly enemies that have done us much sorrow/ and shame/ and now it seemeth well that ye been of her assent/ Certes Robert quoth sire Donald falsely ye lie/ I am not of her company/ ne of her consent and that hastily ye shall see/ For I will fight with hem rather than any of this company/ And certes Sir Robert said he I shall maugre thine heed assaylle hem ere thou/ And with that they prike ten her steeds fiercely upon Caskemore and her wenges he in fool wrd on a venge/ And though come they & met the baillol/ & his compa nigh at an hanging bought of the more in a straight passage/ & so fast they hasted 'em unto the englishmen/ so that thousands fell to the ground each up other in to a heap both horse & man/ The baillol tho & his men mightily stood against 'em/ and fast slew Scots unto the ground/ & many sore they wounded so long till that they stoden upon hem & feigned hem with her swords & spears through her bodies/ & so sore traveled upon 'em till that they bioomen full weary. & witted not what for to done/ & the Scots that were left alive fledden a weigh for to save 'em self in the best man as they might  
And tho pursued 'em sir edward bayllol & his men & slew of 'em till that it was night/ And fro thence they went unto saint Johans' town & took it & held 'em there/ & vitaylled 'em self at her own will for they founden enough wherewith to make 'em merry  
though made the bayllol his men that were wounded gone to ship for to wend in to England for to hele her wounds/ And in that time there was a fleming in the see a strong these and a robber that was called Crabbe/ And this Fleming was driven out of flanders for his wykkednes. And therefore he come in to Scotland to hold with the Scots/ and died as much harm unto englishmen as he might/ And this Crabbe met in the see the Bayllols men that were wounded in battle/ that were sent again in to england for to hele her wounds/ And this crab gave unto 'em a great assault/ and would have slain 'em everyeho ne/ but the englishmen defended 'em well and manly/ & discomfited Crabbe and his company/ And though gone he flee in to Scot land/ And as he come toward saint Johans' town/ he found a great company of Scots that were comen again together after the die scomfiture of gaskemore/ the which besieged bayllol and his men in the same town of saint Johan/ and anon told the Scots how that he was discomfited of the englishmen that were wounded at gaskemore/ that went toward england for to hele her wounds and said to the Scots that they should have no might ne grace against edward Bayllol for encheason that discomfited & empeired all the chivalry of Scotland with an handeful of men/ as to ac Count/ as against the Scots that were slain/ wherefore he counciled for to remove the siege from saint Johans' town/ & keep 'em in the best manner that they could & might/ The Scots understood though that crab said 'em sooth/ and forsook the siege and went thence by night/ & halpe 'em self in the best manner that they might  
When this thing was know through scotland/ how that the Lords and knights were discomfited at Gaskemore of Scotland through sir Edward the bayllol/ ye shall understand that the lords and Ladies and the gentiles of scotland comen wonder fast to saint Johanes toun/ & yield 'em unto the bayllol/ and to him dieden homage & feaute for her lands/ and yelden hem to his peace, And he hem received freely/ And fro thence he went to the Abbey of Scone/ and their he was crowned King of Scotland/ And after he let cry his peace through out all the land/ And at that same time it bifell that King edward held his parliament among his lieges at the new castle up Tyne for to amend the trespasses & the wrongs that had be done in his land/ and sir Edward the bayllol King of Scotland come to him thither/ & did to him seante & homage for the ream of scotland/ And in this manner King Edward of Englond gathered again the homages & fe autes of Scotland. Whereof he was put out through council and assent of dame Isabella his mother and of sir Rog●…er the Mortime Earl of the March, though took baillol King of scotland his leave of King Edward of Englond & went thence in to his own land of Scotland/ and set but little by 'em that had counseled him/ & helped him in his quarrel/ wherefore they went fro him and went and lived by her lands and rents in scotland/ And so it fell afterward not long that the King of scotland ne removed and come to the ton of Anand, and there took his duelling/ & thither come to him a company of knights strong men and worthy/ and yield 'em unto the King/ and bear 'em so fair in deed/ & in countenance/ so that he trust moche upon 'em/ And anon as the traitors saw that he trust much upon 'em/ they ordained amongs 'em/ l/ in a company/ & would have slain her King/ but through the grace of almighty god he broke through a wall an hole in his chambre/ and as god would escaped her treachery/ & all his men were slain/ & he escaped with moche dread unto the town of cardoil/ and there held him sore annoyed/ and this befell in our Ladies eve the conception/ though sent King edward the Baylloll to King Edward of Englond/ how falsely and traitorously he was in little time put to shame & sorrow through his lyegemen upon whom he trusted wonder much/ & prayed him for the love of god that he would maintain him/ & help him against his enemies/ The King of Englond had tho of him great pity/ and behyght him help and succour/ and sent him word that he should hold him in peace still in the foresaid city of cardoil/ till that he had gathered his power/ though ordained King edward of Englond a council at london and let gather his men in diverse shires of england/ And when he all was ready/ he went toward the town of Berwyk up tweed/ and thither come to him King Edward Bayllol of Scotland with his power/ and besyeged the town and made without the town a fair town of ●…auylons/ and dyked 'em all about/ sa that they had no dread of the Scots/ & made many assault with gonnes. and with other engines to the town/ wherewith they destroyed many fair houses and churches all so were beat down unto the earth with great stones/ that spytously come out of gonnes and of other engines/ And nevertheless the soottes kept well the town/ that though two Kings might not come therein long time/ And nevertheless the Kings abide there so long/ till though that were in the town failed victuals/ and all so they were so weary of waking that they wist not what for to done/ And ye shall understand that though Scots that were in the town of Berewyk through common counseille and her assent let's cry upon the wallys of the town that they might have peace of the englishmen/ And thereof they prayden the King of his grace and mercy/ and prayden him of truce for eight days upon this covenant/ that if they were not rescued in that side of the town toward scotlamnd of the Scots within eight days that they would yield 'em unto the King and the town also and to hold this covenant they proffered to the King xij hostages out of the town of her wist/ when the hostages were delivered unto the King/ anon though of the town sent unto the Scots & told 'em of her sorrow & mischief/ And the Scots come tho privily over the water of tweed to the bought of the Abbey/ & sir will iam dyket that was tho steward of scotland & many other that come with him put 'em there in great peril of 'em self at that time of her life for they comen over a bridge that was to broke/ and the stones away/ and many of her company were there drenched/ but the foresaid william went over and other of his company/ & come by the ships of england/ & slew in a barge of hull 〈◊〉 men And after they went in to the town of Berwyk by the water side/ wherefore the Scots held though the town rescued/ & asked her hostages again of the King of england/ And the King sent 'em word again that they axed the hostage with wrong sith that they comen in to the town of england side/ for covenant was between hem that the town should be rescued by the half of Scotland/ And anon King edward though commanded to yield the town or he would have the hostages/ And the Scots said that the town was rescued well enough. & there to they would hold 'em/ when King edward saw the Scots break her connenaunt that they made he was wonder Wroth/ & anon let take sir thomas fytz william and sir alysander of Seton warden of Berwyk/ the which though mass was person of dunbarre/ & let hem be take first afore that other hostages for encheason that sir Alysandres father was 〈◊〉 of the town/ & though commanded every day ij hostages of the town to 〈◊〉 slain till that they were all done unto the death but if they yield the town/ And so he should teach 'em to break her covenants And when though of the town heard these things/ they bioomen wonder sorry/ and sent to the King of england that he would grant. Him other viij days of respite/ so that between two ●…nderd men of arms and xx men of arms might by strength gone between hem of the town of Berwyke hem for to vytoylle that the town must be hold for rescued/ And if so were that xxj or xxi●…/ or more were slain of the two ninety before said that the town should not be hold for rescued/ and this covenant to beholden/ they sent to him other xij of the town in hostage/ The King of Englond granted hem her prayer & took the hostages in saint margaretes eve in the year of grace a M CCC/ and xxxij the Scots come fiercely in four wings well arrayed in arms for to meet King Edward of england/ & Edward the King of Scot land and with her power/ and come fast and sharply against evensong time, and the same time was flood at Berewyk in the water of tweed that no man might wend over on his horse nor on foot/ and the water was between the ij Kings & the ream of england/ And that time abiden the Scots in that other side for encheason that the englishmen should have been dreynt or slain   

This was the array of the Scots how that they comen in battles against the two Kings of england and Scotland/ In the vauntward of Scotland were these Lords/ Caᵒ./ CC/ xxiiijᵒ  
THe Earl of morryf/ James Frisell/ Symond Frisel/ wall tier steward/ Reynold chain/ ●…atrik of Graham/ Johan le grant/ James of cardoil/ ●…atrik parkers/ ro bert caldecottes/ phelip of melledrum/ Thomas Gyllebert/ Ralph wise man/ Adam gurdone/ James gramat/ Robert Boyde/ hugh ●…arke with/ xl. Knights new dubbed, and six C men of arms and three. M. of communes, In the first party of the half battle weren these Lords/ The steward of Scotland/ The earl of Mouref/ James his uncle/ William douglas/ David of lined say/ Mancolyn Fleming/ William of kethe/ Dunkan kamboke with thirty bachelors new y dubbed/ In the second part of the battle were these Lords/ James steward of Colden/ Aleyn sti ward, william Abbrehyn/ William moryce/ Johan fytz william Adam le mose/ Walter fytz gylbert. Johan of Cerlton, robert wall ham with seven C men of arms/ and xvij M of communes/ In the third part of the battle of Scotland were these Lords, The Earl of marrethe/ earl of Roffe/ The Earl of Straherne/ The earl of sotherland/ william of kyrkeley/ Johan Cambron/ gilbert of Hay/ william of Ramsey/ William prendegest/ ●…yrstyn hard William gurdon/ Arnold Guard/ Thomas dolphin with xl kni ghtes new dubbed/ ix/ C men of arms, and xv M of comunes/ In the fourth ward of the battle of scotland were these Lords Archebald douglas/ The Earl of lonevax/ Alysandre le brus/ the earl of Fyf/ Johan cambel/ earl of Atheles/ Robert Lawether William of vy●…oūt/ William of Lonstone/ John de labels/ grows de Sherenlawe/ Johan of lindsay/ Alysandre de grey/ Ingram de umfrevylle/ patrick de pollesworth/ david de wymes/ Mychel Scot/ wylliam landy/ Thomas de boys/ Rogyer the Mortime with xx bachelors new dubbed ix ninety men of arms/ xviij M and iiij C of comunes/ The earl of dunbarre kepar of the castle of Berwyke halpe the Scots With thirty men of arms/ And sir Alysander of Seton kepar of the foresaid town of berewyke with an hundred men of arms/ And the communers of the town with Iijjs hundred men of arms/ And with hem eight ninety of footmen, The some of the Earls and Lords above said ammounted lxuj/ The sum of bachelors new dubbed am mounteth to an ninety and xl. The some of men of arms ammounteth three/ M/ C/ The sum of the communers amounteth liij M CC/ The sum totayll of the people above said amounteth luj M seven C xlv/ And these lxv great Lords ●…dden ass the other great Lords above said in iiij battles as it is told be fore all on foot/ And King edward of england & edward King of Scotland had well appareled her folk in iiij battles for to fight on foot ayense her enemies/ And the english 〈◊〉 les blue he trumps & her pipes and hideously escried the 〈◊〉tes/ And though had every english battle ij wings of pris 〈◊〉 er the which at that battle shoten arewes so fast & so sore that the Scots might not help 'em self/ And they smitten the scot●…s thousands to ground/ And they 'gan for to flee fro the english men for to save her life/ And when the english knaves saw the scomfiture and the Scots fall fast to the ground they 〈◊〉 her maistres horse with the spurs for to keep 'em fro 〈◊〉/ & 〈◊〉 her master at no force/ And when the englishmen saw that they lepten on her horse & fast pursued the Scots/ & all that abiden they slew down right/ there men might see the doughtynes of of the noble King edward, and of his men how manly they pur sued the Scots/ that flown for dread, And their men might see many a scottisshman cast down unto the ground deed/ and her banners displayed hakked in to pieces/ & many a good 〈◊〉 rione of steel in her blood bathed/ And many a time the Scots were gathered in to companies. but evermore they were discomfited/ And so it befell as god almighty would that the Scots had that day no more foison. ne might a●…nst the englishmen/ than xx sheep should have against v wolves/ & so w●… the Scot tes discomfited. And yet the Scots had well v men against one Englysshman. And that battle Was done on holy down hill besides the town of Berewyk/ at the which battle were slain of the Scots xxxv M/ seven/ C/ xij/ And of englishmen but only xiv/ & though were footmen/ And this victory befell to the english men on saint margarets eve in the year of the incarnation of our lord Ihesu cast M CCC xxxij/ And while this doing last the english pages took the pylfre/ of the Scots that were slain every man that he might take without any challenging of any man/ And so after this gracious victory the King turned him again unto the same siege of Berewik/ & when they besieged saw & herd how King edward had sped they yoleden to him the town with the castle on the morrow after that the battle was done that is for to say on saint margarets day/ And than the King ordained Sir Edward baylloll with other noble and worthy men to been keepers & governors of Scotland in his absence/ & himself turned again and come in to england after this victory with moche joy and worship/ And in the next year sewing that is for to say the year of incarnation of our lord Ihesu christ a M CCC xxxiij/ and of King Edward seven/ he went again in to Scotland in the winter time/ at which viage the castle of ●…ylbrydge in Scotland for him and his men that with him comen he recovered and had against the Scots all at his own lust And in that same year sire Edward Bayllol King of Scotland held his parliament in Scotland with many noble Lords of england that were at that same parliament for encheason of her lands and lordships that they had in the ream of Scotland and helden all of the same Bayllol/ And in the viij year of his reign about the feast of saint Johan baptist Sir Edward Bayllol the very and true King of Scotland as by heritage and right line made his homage and feaute unto King Edward of Englond for the Royame's of Scotland at the new castle up tyne in the presence of many worthy Lords and also of communes both of the reams of england and also of Scotland/ and anon after in the same year King edward of england resseyned of the Duke of Britain his homage for the earldom and lordship of Rychemond/ And so following in the ninth year of his reign after mychelmasse King Edward road in to Scotland/ and there was fast by saint Johans' town almost all the winter time/ and he held his Castemasse at the castle of Rokesburgh/  
And in the same year through out all england about saint Clement's tide in winter there aroose such a springing and welling up of waters and floods both of the see/ & also of fresh rivers & springs that that see brinks walls & costs brek●… up that men beasts & houses in many places/ & namely in low countrys violently & suddenly were dreynt/ & driven a weigh & fruits of the earth through continuance & abundance of waters of the see evermore afterward were turned in to more saltness & sourness of savour/ The x year of King Edward'S reign King edward entered the scottissh see after midsummer & to many of the Scots he give battle and overcome hem/ & many he treated & bowed unto bis peace through his doughtiness/ And after mychelmasse than n●…t following was th'earl of morryf y take at Edinburgh/ & brou●…t in to england & put in to prison/ And in the mon●…thes of Juyn & evil than next following in the xj year of his reign was sayne & appeared in the firmament a bemed star/ the which clerks 〈◊〉 stella cometa/ & that star was sayne in dyuse parties of the firmament/ where after anon there followed in england good 〈◊〉 & wonder great plenty of all chaffer victual & merchandise/ & there against hunger scarcity mischief & need of money/ In so much that a quarter of wheat at london was sold for two shilling/ & a good fat ox at a noble & v good dove birddes for a penny 〈◊〉 which 〈◊〉 died sir Johan of Eltham erl●… of cornwall King edward's brother/ and lieth at westmynstre/   

How King Edward made a duchy of the Erld●…m of 〈◊〉 waylle/ & also of six other Earls that were new made/ and of the first challenging of the kingdom of france/ Caᵒ CC/ ●…vᵒ./  
IN the year of our lord/ M/ CCC/ & xxxvij/ & of King edward xij in the month of March during the parliament at westminster in lent time King edward made of the ere ledome of cornwall a duchy and let it call the duchy of 〈◊〉 newaylle/ the which duchy he give unto edward his first son with the earldom of chester/ And also King edward ●…ade a●…t ●…at same time uj other Earls/ that is for to say Sir Henry earl of lancastres son Earl of leicester William of Boghu●… earl of north ampton/ william of mountagu earl of ●…alysbury/●…ughe of awdele earl of gloucester/ Robert of ●…d Earl of Southfolk And william of Clyntone earl of h●…yngdone.  
And in that same year it was ordained in the same parliament that noman should were no cloth that was wrought out of england as cloth of gold of silk/ ●…eluet/ or damask▪ Satyn/ Baudekyn/ ne none such other ne none wild ware/ ne fu●… of beyond the see/ but such as might spend an C pound of rent a year but this ordinance & statute was of little effect/ for it was nothing hold/ In the xiij year of his reign King edward went over see in to braban with Queen ●…helyp his wife there bearing child at And werp there he dwelled more than a year to treat with the duke of braban and other allied unto him of the challenging of the kingdom of france to King edward of Euglond by right and by heritage after the death of Karoll the great King of france brother german of Queen Isabella King Edward's mother the which was holden and occupied unrightfully by phelyp of valo is the emes son of King karoll/ the which Duke and all his in the foresaid things & in all other there to longing with all his men & goods King edward found ready unto him/ and maden & behoy ghten him seurte by good faith and trust/ & after that the King hasted him in to Englond again/ and left there the Queen still behind him in Braban/ Than in the xiv year of his reign when all the Lords of his ream●… and other that fallen to be at his parley meant were called and assembled together in the same parliament holden at london after the fest of saint hillarye The Kings needs were put forth & promote as touching the kingdom of France/ For which needs to le sped/ the King axed the fifth part of all the meoble goods of england/ & the wools & the ix sheaf of every corn/ And the Lords of every town where such thing should be taxed and gathered/ should answer to the King thereof/ and he had it and held it at his own lust and will/ wherefore if I thal know leche the very truth/ the inner love of the people was turned in to hate/ & the common prayers in to cursyug for cause that the come mune people were so strongly grieved/ Also the foresaid phelyp valois of france had gathered unto him a great host. & destroyed there in his parties and kingdom many of the kings friends of En glond with towns and castles and many other of her lordships and many harms shames and despytes dieden unto the Queen where for King edward when he heard these tidings was strong lie moved/ & there with on angered/ and sent diverse letters over see to the Queen and 〈◊〉 other that were his friends gladding hem and certyfyeng 'em/ tho●… he would be there himself in all the haste that he might/ And anon after Estre when he had sped of all thing that him needed/ and come/ he went over the see again/ Of whose comyug the Queen and all his friends were wonder glad/ and made moche joy/ and all that were his enemies and ageyns●… him helden made as much sorrow/ In the same time the King through council of his true lieges. & council of his Lords that there were present with him token the Kings of fraunces name/ & took & meddled the kings arms of france quartled with the arms of england/ and commanded forth with his coin of gold under the description & writing of the name of Englond & of France to be made best that might be/ that is for to say the floreyne that was called the noble pris of uj shillings/ viij pens of sterlinges & the half noble of the value of three shillings four pens/ & the ferthing of value of xx pens/   

How King edward come to the seluys/ and discomfited all the power of france in the haven/ Ca●…/CC●… CC●…/xxv●…/  
ANd the next year after/ that is for to say the xv year of his regne/ he commanded and let write in his charters writs and other letters the date of the reign of ●…aunce first/ And while that he was thus doing & travailing in France through his council he wrote to all the prelate's Duke's 〈◊〉 and Barons/ and the noble Lords of the ' country ' And also to die nerse of the common people diverse letters & maundements ●…rng date at gaunt the viij day of February/ and anon after with in a little time he come again in to england with the Queen/ and her children/ And in the same year on midsummer eve he began to sail toward france again/ and manly and stiffly fill upon 〈◊〉 lip of Valois the which long time lay and had gathered to him a full huge and boisterous main of diverse nations in the haven of seluys/ And there they fought to gedre the King of france and he with her hosts fro midday unto the iij hour in the morn in which battle were slain thirty 〈◊〉 ●…en of the kings company of France & many ships and cogs were taken/ and so through gods help he had there the victory/ & bear thence a glorious chivalry/ And in the same year about saint James tide without the yates of saint omers robert of arthoys will men of england & flanders bitterly fought against the Duke of burgoyne/ & the frenchmen at which battle there were slain & take of the frenchmen xv barons lxxx knights & ships & Barges were take unto the number of CC and thirty/ The same year the King making and abiding upon the siege of Turney the Earl of Henaude with english archer's maden assault to the town of saint Amand where they slow/ l/ knights & many other. and also destroyed the town. And in the sixteenth year of his reign following in the winter time the same King dwelled still upon the foresaid siege and sent oft in to england to his treasurer and other purveyors for gold & money that should be sent to him there in his need/ but his procurutours and messengers cursedly and full slowly served him at his need/ & him deceived/ on whose defaults & laches the King took truce between him & the King of france/ And the ●…yng full of woe sorrow and shame in his heart withdrowe him fro the siege and come in to britayne/ and there was so great strif for victual that he lost many of his people/ And when he had done there that he come for/ he dressid him over see in to Englondward And as he sailed toward England in the high see the most mishaps storms & tempests thunders/ & lyghtnynge fill to him in the see/ the which was said that it was done & ●…d through evil spirits made by sorcery and necromancy of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 france. Wherefore the kings heart was full of sorrow and anguisshe wailing and sighing/ and said unto our lady in this wise/ O blessed lady saint mary what is the cause that evermore going in to france all things and wethers fallen to me joyful and liking and gladsum/ and as I would have 'em. but alway turning in to Englond ward all things fallen unprofitable and harmful/ Neverlater he scaping all perils of the see as god would come by night to the tower of london/ and the same year the king held his christmas at meneres/ & sent word to the Scots by his messengers that he was ready & would fight with 'em/ but the Scots would not abide that but fledden over the Scottissh see & hid 'em as well as they might/ And in the seventeenth year of his reign about the fest of conversion of saint paul King Edward when he had be in scotland and saw that the Scots were fled he come again in to Englond/ And a little before lent was the tournament at Dunstaple/ to the which tornement come all the young bachelery and chivalry of Englond with many other Earls and Lords/ At the which tournament King Edward himself was there present/ And the next year following in the xviij/ year of his reign at his parliament holden at westmynstre the quynzeme of Paske the King Edward the thyrdde made edward his first bygoten son prince of wales/ And in the nineteen year of his reign anon after in january before lente the same King Edward let make full noble justes/ & great feestes in the place of his birth at windsor/ that there were never none such seen there afore/ At which fest & ryalte were ij Kings/ ij Queens the prince of wales/ the Duke of corn wail/ x Exles/ ix countesses barons/ & many burgeys/ the which mighten not lightly be non bred/ And of dyuse lands beyond the see weren many strangers And at the same time when the justes were done/ King Edward made a great supper/ in the which he ordained first/ & began his round table/ & ordained/ & stedfasted the day of the foresaid round table to be holden there at windsor in the whitsun week eumore yearly/ And in this time Englishmen so much haunted & cleaved to the woodness & folly of the strangers that fro the time of coming of the henewyers xviij year passed/ they ordained & changed 'em every year diverse shapes & disguising of clothing of long large and wide/ clothes des●…ytut & desert/ from all old honest & good usage/ And another time short clothes and strait wasted dagged & kit. & on every side slatered & botened with sleeves & tapytes of surcotes/ & hodes over long/ & over much hanging/ that if that I the sooth shall say they were more lyche to tormentors & devils in her clothing and shoeing/ & other array than to men/ & the women more nysely yet passed the men in array. & coriousloker/ for they were so strait clothed that they let hang fox tailles sowed beneath within her clothes for to hele & hide her arses/ the which disgnisynges & pride peraventure afterward brought forth & encau said many mishaps & mischief in the ream of england. The 〈◊〉 year of King edward he went over in to Batayne & gascoyn/ in whose company went the Earl of warwik/ the Earl of suffolk/ the earl of huntyngdone/ & th'earl of arundel/ & many other Lords & common people in a great multitude with a great navy of cc xl ships anon after midsummer for to avenge him of many wrongs and harms to him done by ●…helyp of valois King of france against the truce before hand granted/ The which truce he falsely and untrewely by cavellations loosed & dysquatte   

How King Edward sailed in to Normandye and arrived at hogs with a great host/ Ca●…/CC●…/ xxvij/  
IN the xxj year of his reign King edward through council of all the great Lords of the Royame's of Englond called and gathered to gedre in his parliament at westminster before estren ordained him for to pass over the see again for to disseise & distrouble the rebels of france/ And when his navy was come together/ & made ready/ he went with an huge host the xij day of evil/ and sailed in to normandy/ & arrived at hogs/ And when he had rested him there uj days for by cause of travailing of the see/ and for to have out all his men with all her necessaries out of her ships/ he went toward cadomum brenning wasting and destroying all the towns/ that he found in his way And the xxuj day of evil at the bridge of Cadony manly/ & orpedly strengthened & defended with nor●…ans. he had there a strong battle/ and a long during through which a great multitude of people were slain/ And there were take prisoners/ the earl of ewe/ the lord of Tankeruylle/ and an C other knights and men of arms/ & uj C footmen numbered/ & the town & the subarbes unto the bar walls of all thing that might be boar & carried out was robled & despoiled/ Afterward the King passing forth by the country about the breed of xx mile he wasted all manner thing that he fond/ when phelyp of Valois perceived all this all though he were fast by with a strong host he would not come/ no nerre but break all the bridges by yond the water of sayen fro Rone unto paris. And himself fled unto the same city of paris with all the haste that he might/ forsooth the noble King edward when he come to paris bridge and fond it broken within ij days/ be let make it again/ And in the morrow after the assumption of our lady King edward passed over the water of sayen going toward Crescy/ and destroyed by the way towns with the people duelling there in/ And in the fest of saint bartholomew he passed over the water of some unhurt with all his host there as never before hand was any manner way ne passage where ij 〈◊〉 were slain of 'em that letted her passage over/ therefore the xxuj day of August King Edward in a field fast by crescy having iij battles of englishman countred and met with philip of valois having with him iiij battles/ of which the least passed greatly the number of the english people/ And when these two hosts metten to gedre/ Theridamas fill upon him the King of beme the duke of loreyne/ And Earls also of flanders Dalaunson Blois Harecourt/ Aumar le and neuers/ and many other Earls/ Baron's lords/ knights/ and men of arms the number of a 〈◊〉 v C xlij without footmen and other men y armed that were nothing reckoned/  
And for all this the unglorious ●…hilippe withdrowe him with the residue of his people/ wherefore it was said in comu ne among his own people/ N●…e 〈◊〉 soy retreat/ that is for to say our fair withdrawith him/ Than King Edward & our englishmen thanked god almighty for such a victory after her great labour token to hem all thing needful to her sustenannce/ & saving of her life for dread of her enemies/ rested 'em there. and full early in the morning after the frenchmen with an huge pas sing host come again for to give battle/ and fight with the englishmen/ with whom metten & countreden the Earls of warrewyke/ Northampton & norfolk/ with her company. and slowen two thousand and token many prisoners of the gentiles of 'em/ And the remnant of the same host fled three mile thence/ And the third day after the battle the King went to Caleys ward destroying all the country as he road whydder when that he was come that is for to say the third day of septembre he began to besiege the town with the castle/ & continued his siege fro the foresaid third day of September unto the third day of August/ the next year after/ And in the same year during the siege of Caleys the King of Scotland with a full great multitude of Scots come in to england to nevilles' cross about saint lucas's day the evangelist hoping and trusting to have found all the land destitute. & void of people/ for as much as the King of england was beyond the see. safe only priests/ and men of holy church and women and children and plo wmen/ and such other labourers And there they robbeden and dieden much prive sorrow/ but yet found they enough that hem withstood by the grace of almighty god  
And so a day of battle was assigned between 'em and certain Lords and men of holy church that were of that country with other common people fast by the city of duresme/ at which day through the grace & help of almighty god the Scots were over comen/ and yet were they iij fold so many of 'em as of english men/ And there was slain all the chivalry and knighthood of the royalme of Scotland/ And there were take as they would have fled thence david the King of Scotland himself The Earl of Mentyf. Sir william douglas/ and many other great men/ And after that our englishmen when they had rested 'em a few days & had ordained there keepers of the northcountrey they comen unto london/ and broughten with hem david King of Scotland/ and all these other Lords that were taken prisoners unto the tower of london with all the haste that they might. And there they bef●… 'em in safe keeping unto the kings coming/ & Ben●…n home again in to her own country/ And afterward was the kings munsonne of Scotland taxed unto an C M marc of silver to be paid in x year/ that is for to say/ every year x M marc   

How King edward besieged Caleys/ & how it was y wonn●… and yolde to him/ Caᵒ./ CC/ xxviijᵒ./  
IN the xxij year of King Edward'S regne/ he went over the see in the winter time/ & lay all the winter at the siege of Caleys/ the which year the while the siege lasted phelip the King of France cast & purposed trechouresly and with fraud to put away the siege & come the xxvij day of evil in the same year with a great host & a strong power & neighed unto the siege of calais/ the which phelyp the last day of evil sent to King edward word that he would give him plain battle the iij day next after that about evensong time if he durst come fro the siege & abide it/ & when King edward herd that without any long tarrying ere long advisement he accepted gladly the day & hour of battle that phelyp had assigned/ And when the King of france herd that the next night after he set his tents a fire & removed & went awey●… thence cowardly/ Than they that were in the town and in the castle besieged seeing all this how that they had none other help ne so cour of the King of france ne of his men/ And also that her vyta ills within hem were spended and wasted and for default of victuals and of refreshing they eaten horse hounds cats and mice for to keep her troth as long as they might/ And when they saw and was found among 'em atte last that they had no thing among hem for to eat ne live by/ ne none succour/ ne rescuing of the frenchmen of that other side/ they wist well that they must needs die for default or else yield the town/ and anon they wenten and token down the banners and the arms of France on every side that were hanged out & wenten unto the walls of the town on diverse places as naked as they were borne/ safe only her shirts and breeches/ and held her swords naked and the point downward in her hands/ and putten ropes/ & halters about her nekkes and yelden up the keys of the town▪ and of the castle to King Edward of Englond with greet fere and dread of heart/ And when King Edward saw this/ as a merciable King and lord received all to grace and a few of the greatest persons of state & of governance of the town he sent in to Englond there to abide her raūso●…e/ and the king's grace/ And all the commonalty of the town the King let gone whider they would in peace/ and without any harm. and let hem ●…ere with 'em all her things that they might here & carry away keeping the town and the castle to himself/ Than through mediation of cardinal's that were sent fro the pope truce was take there bit ween France & Englond for nine months than next following▪ and about mychelmasse King Edward come again in to england with a glorious victory/ And in the twenty-three year of his reign in the east parties of the world there aroos and began a pestilence and death of sarazeyns/ and paynims that so great a death was never heard afore. And that wasted away so the people/ that unneaths the tenth person was left alive▪ And in the same year about the south count●…es and also in the west countries there fill so moche rain/ & so great waters that from Crystemasse unto midsummer there was uneaths day ne night/ but that it rained somewhat/ through which waters the pestilence was so enfected▪ and so habundaunt in all countries and namely about the court of Rome and other places and see costs/ that uneath there were left living folk to bury 'em that were deed honestly/ But maden great dyches and pits that were wonder broad and deep/ and therein buried 'em▪ and maden a renge of deed bodies▪ and cast a little earth to he'll hem above/ & than cast in another renge of deed bodies/ and another renge of ●…th above 'em/ And thus were they buried/ and none other wise/ But if it were the fewer that weren great men of estate/ that weren buried as honestly as they might/ And after all this in the xxiv year of King Edwardes regne/ it was him to done to wite and understand of a treason that was be gone at Caleys/ and ordained for to sel●…e that town for a great sum of florins unto King phelyp of France through the falseness and ordinance of a knight that was call●…d sir geoffrey of Charney that was wonder prive with the King phelip of France And when King Edward herd this▪ he took with him the nobles and gentiles Lords/ and many other worthy and orpe●… men of arms that were there present with him for the solemnity of that high fest. And well and wisely in all the haste that he might/ and as privily/ as he might/ he went over see/  
And that same year the good King Edward held his Cristemasse at bavering. And the morrow after new years day the King was in the castle of Caleys with his men of arms. that none of the aliens wist thereof. And that falls conspy tower and traitor geffroy of Charney sith that he might not open lie have his purpose of the castle privily and stelyngly he come in and held the town with a great host/ And when he with his men was comen in▪ he paid the foresaid sum of florins as covenant was between 'em to a gen●…wey in the town that was keeper of the castle/ and consenting to the same geffroy in all this falseness and treachery▪ and bounden the english mynystres and servants that were in the castle that they might not help 'em self▪ ne let 'em of her purpose/ And than weening that they had be siker enough they speaken all her wickedness and falseness openly▪ an high that all men might here/  
And now shall ye here how they were deceived▪ for they comen in by a prive postern over a little bridge of tree/ And when they were comen in/ subtilely and privily the bridge was drawn up and kept that none of 'em that comen in might gone out n●… no more come in to hem/ And anon our englishmen wenten out at prive holes and windows/ and over the walls of the town and of the castle/ and wenten/ and fought manly with the frenchmen that were without/ & had the better of 'em the which when they weren occupied by 'em self on her side/ the King that was within the town having with him scarcely but/ thirty/ men of arms drew out his sword/ and with a loud boys cried▪ an high/ A saint Edward/ A saint George/ And when folk herd that/ they comen running to him/ and yaven to her enemies so great assault/ that there were more than two ninety men of arms/ and many other slain/ and many fledden away/ and so by the grace of god almighty the victory fill to the englishmen/ Than the King took with him this gef froy that was finder of this treachery/ and also many other French prisons/ And within a while after come again in to Englond▪ And in this same year/ & in the year afore/ & also in the year next after was so great pestilence of men fro the east in to the West/ & namely through botches that though that siked on this day died on the in day/ to the which men that so dieden in this pestilence hadden but little respite of ligging/ The pope clement of his goodness & grace gave 'em full remission/ & forgiveness of all her sins that they were shriven of/ & this pestilence lasted in london fro mych●… mass in to august next following almost an hole year/ & in the se days was death without sorrow/ weddings without friendship wilful penance & dearth without scarcity & fleeing without refute of succour/ for many fledden fro place to place by cause of the pestilence/ but they were infect/ & might not escape the death after that the prophet isaiah saith/ who that fleeth fro the face of dread he shall fall in to the ditch/ And he that wendeth him out of the the ditch/ he shall be hold and teyde with a grenne/ but when this pestilence was seced/ as god would unneaths the x part of the people was left alive/ And in the same year began a wonder thing that all that ever were borne after that pestilence hadden ij ch●…teth in her heed less than they had afore   

How King Edward had a great battle with spaynardies in the see fast by wynchelsee/ Caᵒ./ CC/ xxixᵒ./  
ANd in the/ xxv/ year of his regne abonte saint Johannes day in harvest in the see fast by wynchelsee King edward had a great battle with men of Spain▪ where that 〈◊〉 ships and navy lay chained together/ that either they must fight or drench/ And so when all our worthy men of arms/ & the See costs fast by wynchelsee & Romeny were gathered together/ & our navy & ships all ready to the were/ the englishmen m●…n man lie & stiffly with her enemies coming fiercely against 'em/ and when the spainyssh vessels & navy were closed in all about their men might see a strong battle on both sides & long during/ in the which battle there near but few that foughten that they near 〈◊〉 tously hurt & foul/ And after the battle. There were twenty-three 〈◊〉 pes of hers y take▪ And so the englishmen had the better▪ & in the next year fool wing of his regne/ that is to say/ the xxuj year the King through his counsel lot●… ordain & make his new money/ that is to say/ the penny/ the groat of value of iiij pens/ & the half gro●… of value of ij pens/ but it was of lass weight▪ than the old sterling was by v shilling in the pound/ and in the xxxvii year of his reign was the great dearth of victuals/ the which was call●…d the dear summer/ and in the xxxviij year of his reign in the parliament holden at westminster after estren/ sir henry Earl of lancastre was made duke of lancastre/ & in this same year was so great a dro●…t that fro the month of March unto the month of evil there fill no rain on the earth/ wherefore all fruits/ sedes/ and herbs for the most party were lost in default/ whereof there come so great disease of men and beasts and dearth of victuals in england/ so that this land that ever afore had be plentivous had need that time to seek his victuals and refreshing of other out isles▪ & contrees/ And in the xxix year of King Edward it was acorded granted & sworn between▪ the King of france/ and King Edward of Englond that he should have again all his lands & lordships that longeden to the duchy of Guyenne of old time/ the which had been withdraw/ and wrongfully occupied by diverse Kings of france before hand to have & to hold to King edward and to his heirs & successors for evermore/ freely/ pesybly/ and in good quiet upon this covenant/ that the King of england should leave of. & relese all his right and claim that he had/ & claimed of the kingdom of france/ & of the title that he took thereof/ upon which speech & covenants it was sent to the court of rome on both sides of the Kings/ that the foresaid conenauntzes should be en bulled/ but god ordained better for the kings worship of england for what through fraud & desceyt of the frenchmen. & what thurugh letting of the pope & of the court of rome the foresaid covenants were disquatt & left of/ And in the same year the King revoked by his wise & discrete counsel the staple of wols out of flan dres in to england with all the liberties/ franchises/ & fire custommes that longen thereto/ & ordained it in england in diverse places/ that is for to say/ at westmester/ Caunterbury/ Chichestre/ bristol/ Lyncolne/ Hull/ with all the foresaid things/ that longen thereto/ & that this thing that should thus be done/ the King swore himself thereto/ and prince edward his son with other many grete witness/ that there were present/ And in the thirty year of his reign anon after whitsunday in the parliament ordained at west minster/ it was told and certified to the King that phelip that though held the kingdom of france was deed/ And that Johan his son was crowned King/ And that this John had give karoll his son the duchy of Guyenne/ of the which thing King Edward when he wist thereof had great indignation unto him/ and was wonder wroth/ and strongly moved/ And there for afore all the worthy Lords that there were assembled at that parliament he called Edward his son unto him▪ to whom the duchye of Guyenne by right heritage should long to/ & gave▪ it him there bidding and strengthing him that he should ordain him to defend him/ and avenge him upon his enemies▪ and save maintain his right/ and afterward King edward himself & his eldest son edward wenten to diverses places & saints in england on pilgrimage for to have the more help & grace of god & of his seyntes/ & the second kal of evil when all thing was ready to that voyage & battle & all his retinue & power assembled/ & his navy also ready/ he took with him th'earl of warwick/ the Earl of suffolk th'earl of salisbury/ & th'earl of Oxenford/ & a 〈◊〉 men of arms & as many archer's// & in the nativity of our lady took her ships at plymmouth▪ & begined to sail/ And when he come▪ & was arrived in guyhenne/ he was there worshipfully take/ & received of the most noble men & Lords of that country/ & anon after King Ed ward took with him his▪ ij▪ sons/ that is for to say/ sir leonel/ ●…r le of ulton/ & sir Johan his brother Earl of Rychemond. & sir henry Duke of lancastre with many Earls & Lords & men of arms▪ &▪ 〈◊〉▪ 〈◊〉 archer's/ & sailed toward france/ & rested him a while at cale is/ & afterward the King went with his folk aforesaid & with other soldiers of beyond the see that there aboden the Kings coming the second day of november/ and took his journey toward King John of france there as he trowed to have founden him fast by Odomarum/ as his lrens & covenant made mention that be w●…l de abide him there with his host/ And when King John of France herd of the Kings coming of england/ he went away with his men & carriage cowardly & shamefully/ fleeing/ & wasting all untails for that the englishmen should not have thereof▪ And when King edward herd tell that he fled/ he pursued him with 〈◊〉 his host till hesdene/ & than he beholding the wanting & ye scar●… of victuals/ & also the cowardice of the King of france/ ●…e turned again wasting all the country/ And while all these things were a doing/ the Scots privily & by night token the town of berwyk slaying 'em that withstood 'em & no man else but blessed be god the castle neverlatter was saved & kept by englishmen that were therein/ when the King perceived all this turned again in to En glond as wroth as he might be/ wherefore in parliament at westminster was granted to the King of every sa●… of wool/ l/ shilling during the term of uj year. that he might the myȝtloker fight & defend the roam against the Scots & other misdoers/ And so when all things were ready/ the King hasted him to the siege war●…/   

How King Edward was crowned King of Scotland/ & how Prince Edward took the King of france▪ & sir phelip his younger son at the battle of Peyters▪ Caᵒ./ CCᵒ./ xxxᵒ./  
ANd in the xxxi year of his wgne the xiij day of january the King in the castle of Berwyk with a few men but having there by fast a great host/ the town was yold, to him without any manner defence or difficult/ than that King of scot land/ that is for to say Sir Johan bayllol considering how that god did many merueyles & gracio●… things for King edward at his own will fro day to day/ he took & gave up the ream of scotland & the crown of scotland at Rokesburgh in to the Kings hands of england under his patent letters there y made/ And anon after King edward in presence of all the prelate's/ & other worthy men & Lords that there were let crown him King there of the ream of scotland/ & when all things were done & ordained in thylk countries at his lust/ he turned again in to england with an huge worship/ And while this viage was a doing in Scotland. Sir Edward prince of wales as a man inspired in god was in gnyhen ne in the city of burdeux treating & speaking of the challenging & of the Kings right of england that he had of the ream of france/ & that he would avenged be with strong hand/ & the prelate's peers and mighty men of that country consented well to him/ Than Sir edward the prince with a great host y gadred to him the uj day of evil went from bordeaux going and travailing by many diverse contrees/ & he took many prisoners more than uj/ m/ men of arms by the country as he journeyed & took the tonn of remo●…ntyn in saloyne/ & besieged the castle uj days/ & at the six days end they yolden the castle unto him/ And there were take the lord of crown/ & sir bursigaud/ and many other knights/ and men of arms/ more than lxxx/ And fro thence by Corene & peten fast by chyneney his noble men that were with him hadden a strong battle with frenchmen/ & an C of her men of arms were slain/ And the Earl of dance & the steward of frawce were take with an C men of arms/ In the which year the nineteen/ day of September fast by peyghters the same prince with a/ m/ and ix C men of arms/ and archer's ordained a battle to King Johan of france coming to the prince ward with seven m chosen men of arms/ and other moche people in an huge passing number/ of the which there was slain the Duke of Bourbon/ & the duke of Athenes. and many other noble men/ & of the prince men of arms a m/ and of other after the true account & reckoning viij ninety/ And the King of france was there take/ & sir phelip his younger son. and many dukes & noble men & worthy knights & men of arms about ij m/ And so the victory fill there to the prince & to the people of england by the grace of god/ & many that were take prisoners were set at her ransom & upon her troth/ & knighthood were charged & had leave to go/ but the prince tok with him though the King of france & phelyp his son with all the reverence that he might & went again to burdeux with a glorious victory/ the some of the men that were take prisoners/ & of the men that we 〈◊〉 slain the day of battle was iiij m/ iiij C. xl/ And in the x●…ij year of King edward the/ v day of may Prince Edward with King Johan of france & phelyp his son/ and many other worthy prisoners arrived graciously in the haven of plymmouth and the xxiv day of the same month about iij after none they comen to london by london bridge/ & so wenten forth to the kings ●…aleys of westminster, & there fill so great a multitude & press of people about 'em to behold & see that wonder & that rial sight that unneaths from midday till night they might come to westmynstre & the kings ransom of france was taxed & set to three millions of scutes/ of whom ij should be worth a noble/ & ye shall understand that a million is/ m/ m/ and after some men his ransom was set at iij/ m/ m/ florins/ & all is one in effect/ And this same year were made solemn justes in smithfield being there present the King of england/ & the King of france/ & the King of scot land, & many other worthy and noble lords/ The/ xxxiij/ year of his reign the same King edward at windsor/ as well for love of knighthood/ as for his own worship/ & at the reverence of the King of france & of other Lords that were there at that time/ be held a wonder ryal & costle we fest of saint George passing any that ever was holden afore, wherefore the King of france in scorning said/ that he saw never/ ne herd such solompne feestes, ne royalties holden ne done with tails without paying of gold or silver And in the xxxiiij year of his reign the xiv kal of Juyl. sir Io han Earl of richemond King edward's son wedded dame blanch Duke henry's daughter of lancastre cousin to the same Johan by dispensation of the pope/ and in the mean time were ordained justs at london iij days of the rogations/ that is for to say the m●…re of london with his xxiv aldermen against all that would come/ in whose name & stead/ the King privily with his iiij sons edward's Leonel/ John, & Edmond/ and other nineteen/ great lords helden that field with worship/ And this same year as it was told and said of 'em that saw it. There come out blood of the tomb of Thomas toward us the peace & the accord made between the ij Kings & in no manner to do the contrary/ and there among all his Lords for the more love & strength of witness he dealed & departed the relics of the crown of christ to the knights of england/ & they courteously token her leave/ And in the friday next the same manner oath in presence of the foresaid knights/ & of other worthy men prince edward made at lovers/ Afterward both Kings & her sons/ & the most noble men of both reams within the same year made the same oath/ & for to strength all these things foresaid/ the King of england axed the greatest men of france/ & he had his axing/ that is for to say uj dukes viij Earls/ & xij Lords/ that is to say barons/ & worthy knights  
And when the place & the time was assigned/ in which both Kings with her counsel should come to gedre all, the foresaid things between hem y spoke for to ratify & make farm & stable the k●…ng of england anon went toward the see/ & at hountfleet begun to 〈◊〉 leaving to his hosts that were left behind him by cause of his absence moche heaviness/ And after the nineteen day of may he come in to england/ & went to his palace at westminster on saint dumb 〈◊〉 day/ & the iij day after he visited John King of france/ that was in the tower of london/ & delivered him freely from all manner pri son/ safe first they were acorded of iij mylleons of florins for his ransom/ & the King comforted him & cheered him in all places with all solace & mirths that longen to a King in his going homeward And the ix day of evil in the same year the same John King of france that a fore hand lay here in hostage/ went home again in to his own land to treat of the things & of other that longeden & fill len to the governance of his ream/ And afterward metten & comen together at calais both ij Kings with both her council about all halowen tide/ & there were showed the conditions & the poyntzes of the peace & of the accord of both sides y wreton/ & there without any wythsaing of both sides graciously they were acorded/ & there was done & sungen a solemn mass/ & after the iij agnus dei up on god's body & also upon the mass book both Kings & her sons & the greatest Lords of both reams & of her council that there were than present. & had not y swroe before the foresaid oath that they had made/ & was titled between 'em/ they behighten there to keep/ & all other covenants that were between 'em ordained/ and in this sa me year men's beasts trees & housing with sudden tempest & strong lightening were perissehd/ & the devil appeared bodily in man's a keen to much people as they went in diverse places/ & spoke to hem   

How the great company aroos in france/ & the white company in lombardy/ & of many other marvel/ Caᵒ/ CCᵒ./ xxxjᵒ./  
King Edward in the xxxuj year of his reign anon after christmas in the fest of conversion of saint paul held his parliament at westminster/ in the which was put forth and she wed the accord & the treatise that was stabylyssed & y made bitwe ne the ij kings/ the which accord pleased to much folk/ & therefore by the kings commandment there were gathered/ & come together in westmestre church the first Sunday of lent. that is to say the ij kal of Feverer the foresaid englishmen & frenchmen/ where was song a solemn mass of the trinity of the archbishop of canterbury master simond Islepe/ And when agnus dei was done the King being there with his sons & also with the kings sons of france & other noble & great Lords with candles light & crosses brought forth/ all that were called there to that were not swore afore/ swore that same oath that was written upon god's body & on the mass book in this wise/ We/ N/ &/ N/ swearen upon holy god's body/ & on the gospels stidfastly to hold & keep toward us the peace & the accord y made between the ij Kings & new for to do the contrary/ & when they had thus y sworn/ they token her scrowes that her oaths were comprehended in to the notaries/ & this same year in the ascension eve a bout midday was sayne the eclipse of the son/ & there followed such a drought/ that for defaute of rain there was great barines of corn fruit & hay/ And in the same month the uj kal of Juyn there fill a sanguyn rain almost like blood in burgoyne/ And a sangneyn cross fro morn unto prime Was y seen & appeared at Bologna in the eyre/ the which many a man saw/ & after it moved/ & fill in the mid see/ & in the same time in france & in england & in other many lands/ as they that were in plain countries & desert barren witness suddenly there appeared ij castles/ of the which went out ij hosts of armed men/ And that one host was clothed. & heeled in white/ & that other in black/ And when battle bitwe ne hem was begun/ the white overcome the black/ And anon after the blac took heart unto him/ and overcome the white/ And after that they went again in to her castles/ And than the castles and all the hosts vanished away/ And in this same year was a great and an huge pestilence of people/ and namely of men/ whose wives as women out of governance token husbands/ as well straungyers/ as other lewd and simple people/ the which foryeting her own honour/ and worship and birth coupled & married 'em with 'em that were of low degree/ & little reputation In this same year died henry dust of lā●…stre/ And all so in this year Edward prince of wales wedded the countrsse of s●…nt/ that was sir thomas wife holland/ the which was departed sometime & divorced fro th'earl of Salisbury for cause of the same knight/ And about this time began & aroos a great company of diverse nations gathered together/ of whom her leders and governors were english people/ and they were cleped a people with out an heed/ the which did much harm in the party of france And not long after there arose another company of dyuse nations that was called the white company/ the which in the parties & countries of lombardy did moche sorrow/ This same year sir John of gaunt the son of King edward the iij was made Duke of lancaster by reason & cause of his wife that was the daughter & heir of Henry sometime Duke of lancastre/   

Of the great wind/ & how prince Edward took the lordship of Guyenne of his father/ & went thither. Caᵒ./ C Cᵒ./ xxxijᵒ./  
ANd in the xxxvij year of King Edward the xv day of Janiver/ that is to say/ on saint maures' day about evensong time there aroos/ and come such a wind out of the south with such a fierceness and strength/ that he braced and use we down to ground byghe houses and strong buildings/ towers/ churches/ & steeples/ & other things/ and all other strong works/ that stoden still weren shake therewith/ that they been yet/ & shall be ever more the feebler & weyster while they stand/ And this wind lasted without any telling seven days continuelly/ and anon after their folewed such waters in hay time & in harvest time that all fold works were strongly let & left undone/ and in the same year prince Edward took the lordship of Guyenne/ and did to King Ed ward his f●…dre feaute & homage therefore/ and went over see in to Gascoigne with his wife & his children/ And anon after King edward made sir leonel his son Duke of Clarence/ and Edmond his other son Earl of Cambridge/ And in the thirty viij year of his reign it was ordained in the parliament/ that men of law. both of the temporal/ and of holy church law fro that time forth should plete in her mother tongue/ And in the same year comen in to Englond three Kings. that is for to say/ the King of France/ the King of cypress/ and the King of Scotland/ by cause to visit and speak with the King of england/ Of whom they were wonder welcome & much y worshiped/ And after that they had be here long time ij of 'em went home again in to her own countries & kingdoms/ but the King of france through great sickness & malady that he had abode still in england/ & in the xxxix year of his reign was a strong & an huge frost/ & that lastid long/ that is for to say fro saint Andrews tide unto the xiv/ kal/ of Apul/ that the tilth & sowing of the earth & other such field works/ & hand works were much y let & left undo for cold & hardness of the ere the. And at Orrey in britayne that time was ordained a greet deadly battle between sir Johan of mountfort Duke of Britain & sir charlys of bloys/ but the victory fill to the foresaid sir Johan through help & succour of the englishmen/ And there were take many knights & squires/ & other men that were unnumbered/ in the which battle was slain charlis himself with all that stood about him/ & of the englishmen were slain but seven. And in this year dei de at savoy John the King of france/ whose service & exequyes King edward let ordain/ & did in dyuse places worshipfully to be done/ & to dover of worshipful men ordain him worthily to be led with his own costs & expense/ & from thence he was fet in to france/ & buried at saint denys/ In the xl year of King edward the seven kal of Feverer was borne edward prince edwardis son/ the which when he was seven year old he deide/ and in the same year it was ordained that saint Peter's pens fro that time forth should not be paid the which King Yvo sometime King of england of the country of west saxons that began to regne in the year of our lord/ uj/ C/ lxxix first granted to rome for the school of england there to be continued/ & in this same year there fill so moche xxi yne in say time/ that it was ●…d & destroyed both corn & hay/ & there was such a debate & fighting of sparewes by dyuse places in these days that men founden innumerable multitude of 'em deed in fields as they wenten/ & there fill also such a pestilence. that never such was seen in no man's time that time alive/ for many men anon as they were go to led hole & in good point suddenly they deide. Also that time a sickness that men called the pocks slow both men & women through her enfecting/ And in the xlj year of King edward was boar at burr deux Richard the second son of prince edward of england/ the which Richard King Richard of Armorican heaved at the fonstone after whom he was called Richard. and this same richard when his father was deed/ and King edward was deed also/ was crowned King of england the xj year of his age through right line and heritage/ and also by common assent and desire of the commonalty of the ream/ About this time at King Edwardys commandment of england when all the castles and towns were yold to him that long were holden in france/ by a great company assembled together sir bartram cleykyn knight/ an orped man and a good warrior went and purposed him to put out pyers King of Spain out of his kingdom with help of the most party of the foresaid great company/ trusting also upon help & favour of the pope/ for as much as it came to his ears. that the same pyers should lead & use the most wert and synfullist life out/ the which Piers smitten with dread of this tiding fled in to gascoyn to prince edward to have help and succour of him/ And when he was fled out of spain, Henry his brother that was a bastard by assent of the most party of Spain/ & through help of that fere full company, that I spoke of e●…rst/ was made and crowned King of spain/ And the number of that same company was reckoned & set●…e at the number of lx M fighting men/ This same year in the month of Juyn there come a great company & navy of the danes and gathered hem to gedre in the north see purposing hem to come in to england to run and to rob/ and also to slay/ with whom they countred and met in the see marpners/ and other orped fighting men of the country and dispurpled 'em/ And they ashamed went home again in to her own country/ But among all other there was a boisterous/ and a strong vessel of her navy that was oversailed by the englishmen/ and was perished and dreynt In the which the steward and other worthy and great men of Denmark were take prisoners/ and by the King of england & his council y prisoned/ the which Lords the danes afterward comen & soughten all about for to have had with her goods that they had lost/ & they not well apaid ne pleased of the answer that they had here turned home wards again leaving behind 'em in her inns privily written in s●…rowes and on walls/ Yet shall danes waste the wanes/ Than happened there an english writer & wrote against the dane in this manner wise/ Here shall danes fet her banes, And in this time pyers King of Spain with other kings/ that is to say the King of navarre/ and the King of malogre being means wenten between and prayed counsel & help of sir Edward the prince/ through whose counsel when he had understand her Articles & her desire that he was required of though kings/ loath he was and ashamed to say nay and contrary hem, but nevertheless he was aghast ' jest it should be any prejudice ●…yenst the pope & long time t●…ryed 'em or that he would grant or consent there to till he had better counsel/ & advisement with good deliberation of King Edward his greater & his father/ But when he was with every days & continuel besechynges of many noble men y required and spoken to/ and with many prayers scent and made between 'em. Than prince Edward send to his father both by pleyning letters/ and also comfortable containing all her suggestions & causes with all that other kings epistles and letters for to have comfort & help of the wrongs not only to the King of Spain y do/ but also for such things/ as might fall to other Kings/ Also if it were not the sooner helped/ & amended. through the doom & help of knighthood to 'em that it asked and desired/ The which letter when the King and his wise council had say and understonden/ he had great compassion and heaviness of such a Kings spoylling and robbing with moche marvel/ And sent again comfortable letters to prince Edward his son/ and to that other foresaid Kings/ and warned 'em for to arm 'em. & ordain against that mysd●…er/ and to withstand hem by the help of god that were such enemies to Kings/ when this noble prince edward had received these letters himself with that other kings before said all her counseyl called together or that he would under take the quarrel, he bound & knett sore the King that was deposed with a great o'th'/ that is for to say/ that he should ever after maintain the right believe & faith of holy church and holy church all so with all her ministers/ rights. & liberties. to defend from all her enemies & all evils/ And all that were there against bit●…: lie to punish & distrouble/ and all the rights/ liberties/ privileges of holy church increase & maintain/ and amend/ and all things that were wrongfully betaken/ withdraw/ and bore a weigh by him or by any other by cause of him hastily to restore again/ and to drive and put out saracens, and all other misbelieved people out of his kingdom with all his strength and power/ and suffer/ ne admit none such for no manner thing ne cause to duelle therein/ And that when he had take a christian woman/ he should never come in none other woman's bed/ ne none other man's wife to defoul/ Alle these foresaid things trewelych for to keep continue and fulfil/ as all his life time he was bound by oath afore no●…ryes in presence and witness of the Kings with other Princes/ And than that gracious Prince/ Prince Edward undertook the cause & the quarrel of the King that was deposed & behight him with the grace of god to restore him again to his kin gedom/ & lead ordain & gather together forth within all hast his navy with men of arms for to were & fight in this foresaid cause And in this same time upon the sonde of the scottissh see/ that many a man it sye iij days together/ there were say ij eagles, of the which that one come out of the south. & that other out of the north & cruelly & strongly they fought to gether & wrestled together & the south eagle first overcome the north eagle. & all to rent and tore him with his bill & his claws that he should not rest ne take no breath/ And after the south eagle fly home to his own costs And anon after their folewed and was sayne in the morn afore the son rising/ & after in the last day of october save one day many stars gathered together on an heap & fell down to the earth leaving behind 'em ferry beams in manner of lyghtenyng/ whose flames brent & consumed men's clothes & men's here walking on the earth as it was sayne and known of many a man/ And y●…t that northern wind that is ever ready and destynat to all evil fro saint kateryns even till iij days after destroyed good without number unrecoverable/ & in the same days there fill, & comen also such lightnynge/ thunder/ snow/ & haylle/ that it wasted/ & destroyed/ men/ beasts/ houses/ & trees/   

Of the battle of Spain besides the water of Nazers that was between the prince Edward & sir henry bastard of spain/ Capitulo CCᵒ./ xxxiijᵒ/  
IN the year of our lord/ M/ CCC/ lxvij/ and of King Edward/ xlij/ the/ iij/ day of April there was a strong battle and a great in a large field called priasers/ fast by the water of Nazers in Spain between Sir Edward the prince/ and Henry the bastard of spain/ but the victory fill to prince edward by th●… grace of god/ And this same prince Edward had with him sir John duke of lancastre his brother & other worthy men of arms about the number of. thirty. M. And the King of spain had on his side men of diverse nations to the number of an/ C/ M/ & passing/ wherefore the sharpness & fierceness of his adversary with his full boisterous & great strength maden & driven the rightful a back a great weigh/ but through the grace of almighty god passing any man's strength that huge host was dispurpled might fully by the noble Duke of lancastre & his host/ or that the prince Edward come nigh him/ And when Henry the bastard saw that/ he turned with his men in so great haste and strength to flee/ that an huge company of 'em in the foresaid flood, and of the brudge there of fill down & perished/ And also there were take the Earl of Dene, and sir bartram Cleykyn/ that was chief maker & cause of the were/ and also chieftain of the vaunt ward of the battle with many other great Lords and knights to the number of two thousand/ of whom two ninety were of France/ and many also of Scotland/ And there were felled in the field on our enemies side of Lords & knights with other me ne people to the number of uj thousand/ and more and of english men but a few, And after this the noble Prince Edward resto red the same pyers in to his kingdom again/ the which Pyers afterward through treachery & falseness of the foresaid Bastard of spain/ as he seat at his meet was strangled and deyde/ but after this victory many noble and hardy men and noble of england in spain through the flix and other diverse sickness token her death/ And in the same year in the March was sayne Stella Come to between the north costs and the west/ whose beams stret●…d toward france/ And in the year next sewing of King edward reign xliij in April sir Leonel King Edwardes son that was duke of Clarence went toward Meleyne with a chose main of the gentiles of england for to wed galoys daughter and have her to wife/ by whom he should have half the lordship of meleyne/ But after that they were solemnly wedded/ and about the nativity of our lady, the same Duke of Clarence deide And in the same year the frenchmen break the peace/ and the truce riding on the Kings gronnde/ and lordship of england in the shire and country of pountyf/ and token and helden castles and towns/ and bear the englishmen on hand falsely and subtilely that they were cause of breaking of the truce/ And in this same year died the Duchess of lancastre/ and is buried worshipfully in saint Paul'S church/ The. xliiij year of King Edwardes reign was the greatest pestilence of men & of great beasts/ and by the great falling of waters that fill at that time, there fill great hindering and destroying of corn/ in so much that the next year after a busshelle of wheat was sold for xl pens/ And in the same year about the last end of may King edward held though his parliament at westmynstre/ in the which parliament was treated & spoke of the oath & the truce that was broke between him/ & the King of france/ & how he might best upon his wrong ●…e avenged/ In this same year in the assumpcion of our lady died Queen phelyp of Englond a full noble and good woman/ & at westmynstre full worshipfully is buried & entered/ and about midsummer the Duke of lancaster/ & th'earl of herford with a great company of knights wenten in to france. Where they get h●…m but little worship and name. For there was a huge host of frenchmen upon chalkhull bridge, & another host of english men fast by the same bridge that long time had lain there/ And many worthy men & great of the englishmen ordained & gave coum ceyll for to fight, & give battle to the frenchmen. but the foresaid Lords would nothing consent there to ne assent for no manner thing/ there anon after it happened that th'earl of warwick come thither ●…rward for to were/ & when the frenchmen herd of his coming or that he come fully●…h to land/ they left her tents, & pavylons with ●…l her victuals/ & fledden/ & went away privily/ And when their le was comen to land with his men/ he went in all haste toward nor mandye/ & destroyed the yfe of Caux through dint of sword/ and through fire, But alas in his returning to england ward home again at Caleys/ he was take with sickness of pestilence/ & died not leaving behind him after his days so noble a knight & orped of arms/ in which time reigned & warrayed thilk orped knight sir Johan hawk wood, that was an englisshman born/ having with him at his governance thilk white company that is afore nempned/ the which one time against holy church & another time against Lords warrayed and ordained great battles/ & there in that country he did many marvelous things/ And about the conversion of saint Paul/ the King when he had ended & done the entering & the exequyes with great costs & rialtees about the sepulture/ & burying of Queen phelyp his wife, h●… held his parliament at westminster in which parliament was axed of the clergy a three years disme that is for to say a great dime to be paid three year during/ & the clergy put it of/ and would not grant unto Estre next coming. and than they granted well/ that in three year by certain terms/ that dime should be paid/ And also of the lay fee there was a three years yv granted to the King/   

How Sir Robert knolls with other certain Lords of the reme went over the see in to france/ and of her governance/ Capitulo CC/ xxxiiijᵒ./  
ANd in the/ xlv/ year of King Edward in the beginning King Edward with unwise council/ and undiscrete borewed a great some of gold of the prelate's/ lords/ merchants/ & other rich men of his ream saying that it should be dispended in defending of holy church and of his ream/ never the latter it profited nought/ wherefore about midsummer after he made a great host of the worthiest men of his ream/ amongs whom were some lords/ that is for to say/ the lord fitz water/ & the lord graunson & other worthy knights/ of which knights the King ordained Sir Robert knolls a proved knight/ & a well assayed in deed of arms for to be governor/ and that through his council and governance all thing should be governed and dressed/ And when they comen in to france/ as long as they dwelled and held 'em hole together/ the frenchmen durst not fall upon 'em/ & at last about the beginning of winter for envy and covetise that was amongs 'em/ And also discord they sundered & parted 'em in to diverse companies unwisely & foolily. But sir robert knol les & his men wenten & kepten hem safe within a castle in Bri ta'en/ And when the frenchmen saw/ that our men were deu●…ded in to diverse companies & places not holding ne strengthing hem to geders/ as they ought for to do/ they fillen fiercely on our men/ & for the most party took 'em or slowen hem/ & though that they took led with 'em prisoners/ And in the same year pope urban come fro Rome to Auynyon for encheason & cause that he should accord and make peace between the King of france/ and the King of england for evermore. but alas or he began his treatise/ he died with sickness the xxj day of december/ & was buried as for the time in the Cath●…dral church of auynyon fast by the high altar And the next year after when he had lain so/ his bones were taken out of the earth/ & buried new in the Abbey of saint ●…tour fast by marcile of the which abbey he was sometime abbot himself/ And in both places that he was buried in there be many great miracles done & wrought through the grace of god almighty to many a man's help and to the worship of almighty god/ And after whom folewed next and was made pope Gregory Cardynal deacon/ that before was called pyers Rogyer/  
In the same year the city of Lymonge rebelled and fought a yen the prince as other cities in guyhene for great taxes costages and raunsonnes/ that they were put & set to by prince Edward/ which charges weren Importable. & to chargeable/ where for they turned fro him/ & fellen to the King of france/ and when Prince Edward saw this. he was sow achafed/ & grieved, & in tornyng home ward again in to england with sore scarmuches & fighting & great assaults fought with ●…m. & took the foresaid cite/ & destroyed it almost to the ground/ & slow all that were found in the Cy●…/ And than for to say the sooth for dyuse sickness & malady 〈◊〉 that he had/ & also for default of money/ that he not might with stand n●… tarry on his enemies he hied him again in to england with his wife & his meinie/ leaving behind him in gascoyne the dust of san●…stre/ & sir Edmond earl of Cambridge with other worthy & orped men of arms/ in the xluj year of King edward at the ordy nance & sending of King edward/ the King of navarre come to him to Claryngdon to treat with him of certain things touching his were in normandy/ where the King edward had left certain seges in his stead till he come again/ but King edward might not speed of that/ that he asked of him/ & so the King of navarre with great worship & great yefts took his leave & went home again And about the beginning of March when the parliament at west 〈◊〉 was begun/ the King asked of the clergy a subsidy of ●…l m pound/ the which by a good advisement/ & by a general convocation of the clergy it was granted & ordained that it should be paid 〈◊〉 wysed of the lay fee/ And in this parliament at the request & as King of the Lords m hadrede of men of holy church/ the chauncelez & the treasurer that were Bishops/ & the clerk of the prive seal were removed/ & put out of office/ & in it seed were secular men put in And while this parliament lasted, there come solemn ambassadors y sent fro the pope to treat with the King of peace/ & saiden/ that the pope desired to fulfil his predecessors will/ but for all her coming they sped not of her purpose/   

Of the besieging of Rochel/ & how th'earl of penbroke & his company was there y take in the haven with spaynardys'/ & all his ●…s sells burnt/ Caᵒ./ CC/ xxxvᵒ./  
●…e ix day of Juyn King edward in the/ xlvij/ year of his reign held his parliament at wynchestre/ & it lasted but/ viij days to the parliament were sompned by writ of men of holy church/ iiij, bishops/ & iiij abbots without any more/ This parliament was holden for merchants of london/ of nor which, & of other diverse places in diverse things & points of treason that they were defamed of, that is for to say, that they were rebel/ and would arise against the King/ This same year the Duke of lancastre/ and the Earl of Cambridge his brother comen out of Gascoigne in to Englond/ and token & wedded to her wives xe ●…s daughters sometime King of Spain/ Of which ij daughters the Duke had the elder/ & the Earl the younger/ And that same time there were sent two cardinal's fro the 〈◊〉 that is to say an english Cardynal, & a cardinal of paris to treat of peace bit ween the ij reams, the which when they had been both long/ each m his provinces & in places & contrees fast by t●…tyng of the foresaid peace At the last they took with he in her letters of procuracye/ & went again to the court of Romeward without any effect of her purpose/ In this year also there was a strong battle on the see between englishman & flemings/ & the englishmen had the victory/ & token xxv ships y charged with salt slaying & drenching all the men that were therein unwitting 'em that they were of that country/ & readily much harm had fall by cause thereof ne had peace be made & accord the sooner between 'em/ & in this same year the frenchmen besieged the town of the Rochel. Wherefore th'earl of penbroke was sent in to gascoyne with a great company of men of arms for to destroy the siege/ the which passed the see/ & comen sauf to the haven of rochel & when they were there at the haven, mouth or that they might ●…ire suddenly comen upon 'em a strong navy of spain/ the which oucome though the englishmen in much blemishing hurting & slaying of many persons/ for as much as the englishmen were not than ready for to fight ne ware of 'em/ & in the coming upon the spaynar, des all the englishmen other they were take or slain/ & x of lx m were wounded to the death/ & all her ships y brent/ & there they took th'earl with an huge treasure of the ream of england/ & many other noble men also on midsummer even/ the which is saint etheldredes day & leaden hem with 'em in to spain/ & of this mischief was no great wonder/ for this Earl was a full evil liver as an open lecher & also in a certain plement he stood & was against the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fraun chises of holy church/ & also he counceiled the King & his council that he should ask more of men of holy church than of other persons of the lay fee/ & for the King & other of his council accepted 〈◊〉 token rather evil opinions & causes against men of holy church than he did for to defend & maintain the right of holy church it was seen oft-times after for last of fortune & grace they had not/ ne bare a weigh so great victory ne power against her enemies as they did afore This same year that king with a great host entered the see to 〈◊〉 the siege of rochel/ but the wind was even contrary unto him & suffered him not long time to go far fro the land. Wherefore he abode a certain time upon the see costs abiding after a good wind for 'em/ & yet come it not/ So at the last he come thence with his men to land ward again/ & anon as he was a land the wind began to torn & was in another cost than he was 〈◊〉/   

How the Duke of lancastre with a great host went in to flaun dres/ & passed by paris through Burgoyne/ & through all france till he come to burdeux/ Caᵒ./ CC/ xxxvjᵒ.  
soon after in the/ xlviij/ year of the reign of King Edward the Duke of lancastre with a great host went in to flanders & passed by paris through Burgoyne/ & through all france, till he come to Bordeaux without any manner withstanding of the French men, & he did he in but little harm/ safe he took and raunsonned many places & towns & many men/ & let hem after gone freely/ ●…he same year the King sent certain ambassadors to the 〈◊〉 pra yeng him that he should leave of & meddle not in his court of the keepings & reservations of benefices in england/ & that though that were chose to bisshoppe●… sees & dignities freely/ & with full right might joy have & be confirmed to the same of her Metropolitans & archbishop pes as they were wont to be of old time/ Of these points & of other touching the King & his ream when they had her answer of the pope/ the po●… enjoined 'em that they should certify him again by her letters of the Kings will & of his ream/ or they determined ought of the foresaid articles/ In the same year deide John the are chebisshop of york/ John Bishop of Ely/ william Bishop of worcester/ In whose steeds followed & were made Bishops by authority of the 〈◊〉 master alysander nevil to the archebisshoprich of yorke Thomas of Arundel to the bisshopriche of Ely. & sir henry wakefeld to the bisshopriche of worcester/ In the which time it was ordained in the parliament/ that all cathedral churches should joy & have her elections hole/ & that the King fro that time afterward should not writ against 'em, that were y chosen/ but rather help 'em by his lrens to her confirmation/ & this statute was kept/ & did much profit & good/ And in this parliament was granted to that King a dime of the clergy & a xv of lay fee/ The next year after of King edward xlix/ the xv. day of Juyn died Master Willian wit lesey archbishop of Caunterbury/ wherefore the monks of the same church asked & desired a cardinal of England to be Archebis shop/ and therefore the King was aggrieved, & had meant & purposed to have exiled the monks of the same house. And so they spended much good or they might have the Kings grace again/ & his love but yet would the King not consent ne grant to her election of the cardinal/ ne the 〈◊〉 also/ ne his Cardinals/ And about the beginning of Augu●… was treated & spoken at bruges of certain points & articles hanging between the ●…pe/ & the King of England/ & this treatise last all most ij year/ at last it was acorded between hem/ that the 〈◊〉 fro that time forth should not use ne deal with the reservation of benefices in england/ & that the King should not grant ne let no benefices by his writ that is called Quare impedit/ But as touching the elections above said there was no thing touched ne do/ And that was y wyted & put upon certain clerks/ the which rather supposed & hoped to be advanced & promoted to bisshopriches which they desired & coveted by the court of rome rather than by any elections/ This same year about Candlemas 〈◊〉 met to geders at Bruges many noble & worthy men of both reams to treat of peace between the ij kingdoms/ and this treaties lasted ij year with greed costs & huge expense of both parties/ and at last they went & departed thence without any accord or effect/ The next year after the l year of King edward iiij Non of may being yet void & ●…acaūt the Archebisshopriche of Caunterbury maistyr Symond Sndbery Bishop of london was made archbishop And Master william Courteny/ that was Bishop of Herford was than made Bishop of london. And the Bishop of Bangore was made Bishop of herford/ And this same time in a certain treatise & speaking of peace truce was take between france and england fro midsummer to midsummer come again all 〈◊〉 hole year And about the beginning of April the duke of britain with many Earls barons and other worthy men of Englond went over see in to britayne, where he hath had all his lust/ desire/ & purpose ne had the foresaid truce be so soon y take/ the which letted hem moche/ This same time the isle of Constantyn/ where that the cas tell of saint savour is in that long time was fought at and besieged of the frenchmen was than yoleden to the frenchmen with all the appurtenances m to great harm and hindering of the Reamme of Englond. And this same year there were so great and so passing he●…s/ and therewith all the pestilence in Englond/ and m other diverse parties of the world that it destroyed and 〈◊〉 violently and strongly both men and women without number, This same year died sire Edward the lord spencer a worthy knight & a bold/ And in the minster of Teukesbury worshipfully is buried/ & lasting this pestilence the 〈◊〉 at the instance & prayer of an english Cardynal granted to all people that deide in england that were sorry & repentant for her sins/ & also shriven full ●…nyssyon by ij bulls under lead/ uj months than next to last/ In this same year th'earl of penbroke was take & ransomed by bartram Cleykyn between paris & calais as he come toward england upon saint etheldredes day/ the which saint as it was said the same Earl oft-times had offended/ & within a while after he died/ and in november next after there met at bruged the Duke of lancastre/ & the Duke of Angoy with many other Lords & prelate's of both reams for to treat of peace/   

Of the death of prince Edward & of the lord latymer & dame alice peers through whom & her maintainers the reamme many a day was misgoverned/ Caᵒ./ CC, xxxvijᵒ./  
NOt long after the lj year of King edwardys' regne/ he let or deigned & hold at westmynstre the greatest parliament that was seen many a year afore/ In which parliament he axed of the commonalty of the ream/ as he had done before a great subsidy to be granted to him for defending of him. & of his ream/ but that communes answered that they were so oft day by day grieved & charged with so many tayllages & subsidies/ that they might no longer suffer no such burthons & charges/ and that they known & wisten well/ that the King had enough for saving of him & of his ream if the ream were well & truly governed/ but that it had be so long evil governed by evil officers/ that the ream might nether be plentivous of chaffer & merchandise/ ne also with richesses/ And these things they proffered 'em self, if the King would certainly to prove & stand by/ And if it were found & proved after that/ that the King had need/ they would than gladly every man after his power and state him help & lean/ And after this there were published & showed in the parliament many plaints & defaults of diverse officers of the ream/ & namely of the lord latimer the ●…yn ge chamberlain both to the King & eke to the ream/ And also at the last there was spoken and treated of dame Alice peers for the great wrongs & evil governance. that was done by her and by her counsel in the ream/ the which dame Alyce peers the King had hold long time to his leman/ wherefore it was the lass wonder though thurugh the f●…lte of the woman's exyting and her stering he consented to her lewdness and evil council the which dame alyce/ & also the lord latimer & other such that ste red that King to evil gounnaunce against his profit & the reams also all the commonalty axed & desired that they should be moved/ & put a weigh & in her steeds wise men & worthy that weren true & weal assayed & proved of good governance should be put in her steeds/ So among all other there was one among the comunes/ the was a wise knight & a true & an eloquent man, whose name was pyers de la mare/ & this same pyers was chosen to be speaker for the comunes in the parliament/ And for this same pyers told & published the truth/ & rehearsed the wrongs against the foresaid dame Alice/ & other certain persons & the kings council/ as he was bode by the communes/ & also trusting moche for to be supported & maintained in this matter by help & favour of the prince/ anon as the prince was deed at the instance & request of the foresaid dame alice this pyers de la mare was judged to ●…petuel preson in the castle of notynghan/ in the which he was ij year/ & m the uj ka●… of juil lasting that same parliament died prince edward King Edward'S first son/ that is to say in trinity Sunday/ in the worship of which fest he was wont every year where that ever he were in the world to make & hold the most solemnity that he might/ whose name & fortune of knighthood but if it had be of another ectour all men both christian & heathen while he lived & was in good point wondered moche & dread him wonder sore/ whose body is worshipfully buried in crychirch at canterbury/ And in this same year the men & the Earls tenants of warwick arisen mal●…ciously against the abbot & convent of eveshan & her tenants & destroyed fiercely the abbot & the town & wounded. & bet her men & slowen of he m many one/ & wenten to her manners & places & did much harm/ & break down her parks & her closes & brenten & slewen her wild beasts/ & chased be in breaking her fissh pond hedes/ & lead the water of her ponds stews & rivers run out & token the fish & bear it with 'em/ and did 'em all the harm that they might/ m so farforth that forsooth they had destroyed perpetu ●…lly that abbey with all her membres & appurtenances/ but if the King the sooner had helped it/ & taken heed thereto/ & therefore the King sent his letters to th'earl of warwick charging him & commanding that he should stint redress & amend tho evil ●…ers and brekers of his peace▪ And so by men ye of Lords and other friends of both sides peace and good accord and love was made between 'em/ and for this hurling as it was said the King would not be governed at that time by his Lords that there were in the parliament but he took & made his son the Duke of lancastre his governor of the ream, the which sto●…e so still. as governor till the time that he died/ The same year anon after Candelmas or the parliament was do/ the King asked a subsidy of the clergy/ & of the lay fee/ & it was granted him/ that is for to say/ that he should have of every person of the lay fee/ both of the man & woman/ that passed xiv year age iiij pens. out take pour beggars/ that were know openly for needy pour beggars/ & that he should have of every man of holy church that was beneficed or promoted xij pens. & of all other that were not promoted iiij pens/ out take thee/ iiij/ ordres of the frere beggars/ This same year after mychelmasse Richard prince Edward'S son was made prince of wales/ to whom the King gave also the duchy of cornwall with the earldom of chester/ And about this time the cardinal of england. the iiij day before mary magdalene day after meet suddenly was smitten/ & take with a palsy/ & lost his speech/ & on marry magdaleyne day he died,   

Of the death of King edward/ & sir John monsterworth a knight was draw & hanged for his falseness/ Caᵒ./ CC/ xxxviijᵒ./  
Right anon after in the lij year of King Edward in the beginning of October pope gregory the xj brought and remeued his court with him from avignon to Rome/ And the/ xij day of April Johan Monsterworth knight/ at london was draw●…. hanged/ & than biheded/ & after his body quartered/ & sent to iiij chief towns of england/ & his heed set upon london bridge/ for this same John was full untrue to the King/ & to the ream/ & full covetous & unstable/ for he took oft-times great sums of money of the King & his council for men of arms wages that he should have paid hem/ & took it to his own use, & he dreading that at the last he should be shent/ & accused for the same cause fled privily to the King of france/ & was sworn to him/ & become his man/ & behyght him a great navy onte of Spain in to confusion & destroying of england/ but rightful god to whom no privity is unknown suffr●…d him first to be shent & spilled or that he so traitoursly & falsely his lyege lord the King of england & his people & his ream/ in the which ground the same John was bore wikkedly through battle should destroy or bring his cursed purpose about/ In the fest of saint gree gory though next after King Edward gave to Richard of Bordeaux his heir/ that was prince edward's son/ at windsor the order of knighthood/ & made him knight/ the which King edward wh●…n he had reigned lj year & more the xj 〈◊〉 of Juyn he died at Shent and is buried worshipfully at westminster/ on whose soul god ha ne mercy/ Amen/ This King Edward forsooth was of a passing goodness & full gracious among all the worthy men of the world for he passed & shone by virtue of grace y you to him fro god a 'bove all his predecessors/ that were noble men & worthy/ & he was a well & a hardy hearted man/ for he dread new of no mishaps/ ne harms ne evil fortune that might fall a noble warrior & a for tunat/ for both on land & on see/ & iij all battles & assembles with a passing glory & joy he had eu the victory he was meek & be nyngne homely sober & soft to all man of men as well to strangers as to his own subjects/ & though other that were under his governance he was devout & holy both to god & to holy church/ for he worshipped halp & maintained holy church/ & her mynystres with all man reverence he was treatable/ & well advised in temporal & worldly ne des/ wise in council & discrete, soft & meek/ & good to speak with In his deeds & manners full gentle & well taught having pite of 'em that were in disease/ plentivoꝰ in giving benef●…tes & alm●…sse busy & curious in building/ & full lightly he bear & suffered wrongs & harms/ & when he was give to any occupation he left all other thing for the mean time & tendid thereto. seemly of body & a mean stature having all weigh to high & to low a good cheer, & there sprang & shone so much grace of him, that what man man had behold his face, or had dreamed of him/ he hoped that day that all thing should hap to him joyful & liking/ & he governed gloriously his kingdom unto his age ●…e was large in giving & wise in spences, he was fulfilled with all honest of good manners & virtues/ under whom to live it was as for to regne/ wherefore his fame & his loos sprang so far that it come in to hethnes & barbary she wing & telling his worthiness & manhood in all lands/ and that no land under heaven had brought forth so noble King. so gentylle and so blessed/ or might raise such another when he were deed/ never the latter lechery and moving of his flesh haunted him in his age/ wherefore the rather, as it is to suppose for 〈◊〉 fulfilling of his lust his life shorted the sooner. And here of take good heed like as his deeds before b●…re witness/ for as in his beginning all things were joyful and liking to him and to all people/ And in his mid age he passed all people in high joy worship and blessedness/ right so when he drew in to age drawing downward through lechery/ & other sins little and 〈◊〉 all though joyful and blessed things and prosperity 〈◊〉 & misshaped/ & infortunate things & unprofitable harms with many evils began for to spring/ & the more harm is/ it conti nued long time after/   

And after King Edward the third that was boar in windsor/ reigned Richard of burdeux/ that was prince Edwardys son of wales/ which prince edward was the son of King edward Capitulo/ CC/ xxxixᵒ./  
ANd after the good King edward the third that was boar at windsor/ reigned Richard the ij that was the good sir Edward'S son prince of wales/ which King Richard was borne in the city of burdeux in gascoyne/ & was crowned at westminster in the xj year of his age/ And in the second year of his reign for debate that was between the lord latimer. & sir rauf fer●…ers knight that weren against hawel & shakel squires for the prisoner that was take in the battle of Spain by these ij squires/ & the which lord latimer & sir rauf ferriers would have had the which prisoner was th'earl of dene/ that they took in the battle of spain wherefore these two Lords comen in to the church at westmynstre/ & fond this one squire he ring his mass beside saint edward shrine/ & there they slow him/ the which was called hawel/ and shakel was arrested/ & put in the tower of london/ And there he was long time/ for he would not deliver th'earl of Dene his prisoner unto these i●… Lords by sir Al●…yn buxhill Constable of the tour/ and by sir rauf ferriers one of his adversaries till the King granted him grace/ In the third year of King richard come the galeys of france in to england unto diverse ports/ & brent. & rob/ & slow much people of england, that is to say at wynchelsee/ Rye & hasting Portesmouth. hampton/ stormore, & grauesende/ & dieden moche harm. and went home again/ And in this same year was a parliament hold at westmynstre, And at that parliament was ordained/ that every man/ woman/ and child that weren at the age of/ xiv/ year and above through out all the ream/ pour folk/ and other/ should pay to the tallage iiij pens, wherefore come & bifel afterward great mischief & moche disease to all the commonalty of the ream/ And in the iiij year of King Richard's reign the comunes arisen up in diverse parties of the ream & dieden much harm/ the which th●… called the hurling time/ & they of kent & of estsex made 'em ij chieftains to rule & govern the company of kent & of estsex the one was called Jakke straw & the other wat tiler, & they comen. & assembled 'em upon the blach●… in kent/ and on the corpus cristi day/ & after they comen down in southwerk & breaken up the prison house/ that is to say the kings bench/ & the marchalsye/ & deliud out all the prisoners/ And so the same day they come in to london & there they robleden the people/ & slow all aliens that they might find in the city & about the city/ & despoilled all her goods & made havoc/ And on the friday next after that was on the morn/ & they come than to the tower of london/ & the King being therein they fet out of the tower the archbishop of caunterbury Sir Edmond sudbery. and sir robert halys hospytaler prionr & master of saint Johans' house/ And a white frere that was confessor to King richard/ & brought 'em unto the tour/ and there they smitten of her hedes/ & come a●…ne to london/ & slow moo people of men of law and other worthy men in diverse parties of the city/ and than they went unto the Duke's place of lancastre beyond saint mary strand that was called the savoy, and there they devoured and destroyed all the goods that they might find there/ & bore 'em away and brent up the place/ And than after they went to saint Iohanes without smithfield & destroyed the goods there and brent up that house & went to westmynstre/ and saint martyns grant/ & made 'em gone out of the seyntuarye all that were within for any manner of grith/ And than come unto the temple/ & to all other inns of men of law/ and despoiled hem & rob 'em of her god des/ & also tore her books of law/ and than they come to l●…don 〈◊〉 broke up the prison of newgate/ & drofe out all the prisoners fe lons and other/ & of both countours/ and all the people that were within 'em/ & destroyed all the books of both counters/ And thus they continued both saturday & Sunday unto the monday next after in all her maly●… & wickedness/ And than on the monday King Richard with his Lords that were with him that time/ & with the mayre of london william walworth that was that time come with the alde●…n & the comunes of the city/ and come in to Southwerk to here and know the en●…on of these rebels. & mysgonerned people/ And this Jack straw than made an 〈◊〉 in the field that all the people of accord should come ne●…/ & 〈◊〉 his ●…la mours and his cry/ and his will/ And the Lords and the mayre and the Aldermen with the commonalty having Indig●…acion of his covetyze & falseness/ & his foul presumption/ And ●…one william walworth that time being mayor d●…owe ou●… 〈◊〉 knife/ and s●…owe Jack straw. and anon ●…ght there did 〈◊〉 of his heed and set it upon a spear shaft/ & so it was boar through london & set an high upon london bridge/ anon as these risers & misgoverned men were wide & clean vanished as it had nought be they/ & than the King of his great goodness/ & by prayer of his Lords made there uj knights of good & worthy men of the city of london that is to say Willian walworth that that time was mayor/ & slow Jack straw/ And the second was nycholas brembre, & the iij John philipot/ & the iiij nycholas Twiford/ & the v Robert lands/ the uj Robert gayton/ And than the King with his Lords & his knights returned again unto the tour of london/ & there he rested him till this people were better seced & set in rest & peace/ & th●…n by process of time as they might get & take these rebels & risers, they ●…enge 'em upon the next galewes in every lordship thi●… rugh out the ream of euglond by xl/ & by thirty by x & by xij ever as they might be geten & taken in any parties/ & in the v year of King rychardes reign was the great earth quake, & was generally through out the world the wedenesday after whitsunday in the year of our lord M CCC lxxxxj. Whereof all manner people were sore aghast & dreadful long time for dread of vengeance that our lord she wed & did/ & in the uj year of the reign of King richard sir henry spencer Bishop of norwyche went with a croyserye over the see in to country of flanders, & there they gate the town of graving/ & the town of burburche/ Dunkirk & neweport/ & there they jaded & frauȝt lj ships with pillage for to have comen in to england with these ships & goods/ And the Bishop of norwyche & his counsel seat brenne these ships with all the pelage in the same haven all in to hard ashes. And at dunkirk was done a great battle between the flemings & the englishmen/ & at that battle was slain a great multitude of these flemings & an huge number/ & than went the Bishop with his retinue unto ypres/ & besieged it a long time/ but it might not be gotten/ And so he left that siege & come again in to england/ for our englishmen were foul destroyed and many died on the flyx●…/   

How Queen Anne was wedded to King Richard/ Caᵒ./ xlᵒ./  
ANd in this same year come Queen Anne in to england for 〈◊〉 be spoused unto King Richard/ & her father was Emperor of almain/ And King of beam/ & with her come the Duke of tassy her uncle/ & many other worthy Lords & knights of her country of ●…me & of other duche tongues to do her reverence & worship/ & sir ●…mond beule a worthy knight of the gar●…ir & other knights & squires that weren the kings ambassadors brought in to england, & so forth to london/ And the people of the city/ that is to say/ the mayer & the aldermen & all the comyns ridden against her to welcome her and every man in good array/ & every craft with his minstrelsy in the best manner met with her on the blacheth in kent/ & so brought her unto london through the city/ & so forth unto westmyn stre unto the Kings palace/ and there she was spoused unto King Richard well & worthily in the abbey of westmynstre, and there she was crowned Queen of england/ And all her friends that come with her hadden great yefts/ & weren well chered and refreshed as long time as they abiden here/ And in this same year was a battle done in the Kings palace at westmynstre for certain points of treason between sir Johan Anskley knight defendant and Carton squire the appellaunt/ But this sire Johan of Ansley overcome this Carton/ and made him to yield him within the lists/ And anon was this Carton despoilled of his harness & draw out of the lists/ & so forth to tyburn/ and there he was hanged for his falseness/ And the viij year of the reign of King Richard. Sir Edmond of langeley Earl of Cambridge the king's uncle went in to Portugal with a fair main of men of arms and archer's in strengthing/ and helping of the King of Portugal against the King of Spain and his power/ And their the King of Portugal had the victory of his enemies thurugh help and comfort of our englishmen/ & when that journey was done the Earl of Cambridge come home again with his people in to england in haste blessed be god & his gracious yeft, Amen/ And this same year King Richard held his Cristemasse in the manor of eltham/ And the same time the King of Ermonye fled out of his own land/ and come in to england for to have succour and help of our King against his enemies/ that had driven him out of his Royame's/ And so he was brought unto the King to Eltham/ Theridamas as the King held his ryal feast of Cristemasse/ And there our King welcomed him, and did him much reverence and worship and commanded all his Lords to make him all the cheer that they coude/ And than he besought the King of grace & of help/ and of his comfort in his need/ And that he might be brought again to his kingdom and lo●…de/ For the Turks had devoured and destroyed moche part of his land/ and for dread how he fl●…dde and come hydder for help & succour/  
And the King then having pity and compassion of his great mischief & grievous disease. anon he took his council/ and asked what was best to done/ And they answered & said/ if it liked him to give him any good/ it were well y do. and as touching his people to travail so far in to out lands/ it were a great jeopardy/ And so the King gave him gold & silver/ & many rich yefts and ●…e wells/ & betaught him to god/ And so he passed again out of england/ And in this same year King richard with a ryal power went in to Scotland for to were upon the Scots for the falseness & destruction that the Scots had done unto englishman in the marches/ & than the Scots come down unto the King for to entrete with him/ & with his Lords for truce as for certain years/ and so our King & his council granted hem truce certain years unto her asking/ And our King turned him home again in to Englond/ & when he was come unto york/ there he abo de & rested him they/ And there Sir Johan holond the Earl of kentes' brother slow th'earls son of stafford/ and his heir with a dagger in the city of york, wherefore the King was sore moved & g●…eued/ & rem●…ued thence & come to london/ and the mayor with the aldermen/ & the comyns with all the solemnity that might be done ridden against the King/ & brought him rially through the ate/ & so forth unto westmynstre unto his own palace/ And in the ●…x. Year of King Rychardes regne/ he held a parliament at westminster, & there he made ij dukes/ & a marquis/ & v Earls/ The first that was made Duke was the kings uncle/ Sir Edmond of langle Earl of Cambridge/ & him he made Duke of york And his other uncle Sir Thomas of woodstock, that was Earl of Bukkyngham him he made Duke of gloucester/ And sir ●…y on ●…eer that was Earl of Oxfford him he made markuys of dive lyn. And henry of bolingbroking the dukes son of lancaster him he made Earl of Derby/ And Sir Edward the dukes son of york him he made Earl of Ruttelond/ Sir Johan holland/ that was the erl●… of kentes' brother/ him he made Earl of Huntyngdon/ Sir Thomas mombray Earl of Notyngham/ and earl marchal of england/ and sir mychel de la pole knight him he made Earl of Southfolk/ and chancellor of Englond/  
And the Earl of the March at that same parliament holden at westmynstre in plain parliament amongs all the Lords/ and comunes was proclaimed Earl of the March and heir apparent to the crown of england after King Richard, the which Earl of the March went over sce in to Irland unto his lordships/ & & lands/ for the Earl of the March is Earl of vlster in Irlond & by right line & heritage/ And there at the castle of his he lay that time. And there come upon him a great multitude in busshementis of wild Irisshmen him for to take & destroy/ & he come out fiercely of his castle with his people/ & manly fought with 'em/ & there he was take & hew all to pieces/ & there he died/ on whose soul god have mercy Amen/ And in the x year of King Richardys regne/ th'earl of Arundel went unto the see with a great navy of ships enarmed with men of arms. & good archer's, And when they come in to the broad sce/ they met with the hole fleet/ that comen with win lad from Rochel, the which wine were enemies goods/ and there our navy set upon hem & took 'em all/ & brought hem unto thy verse ports & havens of england/ & some to london & there ye might have had a ton of Rochel win of the best for xx shyllyng sterlinges/ & so we had great cheap of wine through out the ream at that time thanked be god almighty/   

How the five Lords arisen at Rattecotte bridge/ Caᵒ., C C/ ●…lj  
ANd in the reign of King Richard the xj year the v Lords a risen at Rattec●…t bridge in the destruction of rebels/ that weren that time in all the ream. The first of the v Lords was sire thomas of woodstock the kings uncle, & Duke of Gloucestre/ & the second was sir Richard Earl of Arundel/ & the third was sir Richard earl of Warwick/ the fourth was sir henry bo●…ngbroke Earl of derby/ the. v. was sir thomas mombray Earl of notynghan And these/ v/ lords saw the mischief & misgovernance/ & the fall senesse of the Kings council/ wherefore they that weren that time chief of the kings counsel fledden out of th●…o land over the see that is to say Sir alysander neuyl/ the archbishop of york/ and Sir Robert le veer markuys of develyn & Earl of Oxfford/ & sir Michael de la pole Earl of southfolk/ and chancellor of Englond And these three Lords wenten over the see/ & come never again for there they died, And than these v Lords above said maden a parliament at westmynstre And there they took sire Robert Tresilian the justice and Sir Nychol brembre knight and Cytezeyn of london/ and sire Johan Salysbury knight of the kings household, and ●…ske sergeant of arms and many moo of people weren take & jugged unto the death by the council of these five Lords in her parliament at westmynstre for treason that they put upon 'em to be drawn from the tour of london through once the city. and so forth unto Tyburn/ and there they should be hanged/ and her throats to be cut/ and thus they were served/ & died, And after that in this same parliament at westmynstir was sir symond Beverle that was a knight of the garter, and sire Johan beauchamp knight that was steward/ of the Kings how should, and Sir James berners were forjudged unto the death/ and than they were lad on foot to the tour hill/ and there weren her hedes s●…yten of/ & many other more by these/ v/ lords/ In this same parliament/ & in the yij year of King Richard's reign he let cry & ordain a general justes that is called a tournament of lords knights & squires/ And this justes & tournament was hold at london in smithfield of all manner of straungyers of what loud or country that ever they were/ & thither they were right welcome and to hem & to all other was holden open household. And great festes and also great yefts were yeven to all manner of straungyers.  
And of the kings side weren all of su●…e here co●…/ her armure sheldes horse t●…ppure, And all was white hearts with crowns about her nekkes/ and chains of gold hanging thereupon/ & the crown hanging low before the hearts body/ the which heart was the kings livery that he gave to Lords & Ladies knights & squyers for to know his household from other people/ And in this f●…st coming to her justes xxiv Ladies lad these xxiiij●… Lords of the gar therewith chains of gold/ and all the same suit of hearts as is afore said from the tour on horsbac through the city of london in to smith fel●… there that the justes should be hold, And this feste/ & justes was hold general. and to all though that would come/ of what land and nation that ever they were/ And this was hold during xxiv days of the Kings cost/ And these xxiv Lords to an sure all manner people that would come thither. And thither come the Earl of saint paul of france/ & many other worthy knights with him of dy●…se parties full well arrayed/ & out of holland & he naud come the lord Ostre●…aūt/ that was the dukes son of holland and many other worthy knights with him of holland & full well ara yed/ And when this fest and justes was ended/ the King thanked these straungyers & gave 'em many great yefts/ and than they to ken her leave of the King & of other Lords and Ladies/ and whenten home again in to her own country with great love & much thank And in the xiij year of King Richard's regne/ there was a battle done in the kings pal●…ys at westmynstre between a squire of navarre/ that was with the King Richard/ And another squire that was called Johan walshe for points of treason that this naverner put upon this 〈◊〉 but this naverner was oucome/ & yield him creaunt to his adversary/ & anon he was despoiled of his armure/ & draw out of the palace to ●…yborn/ & there was hanged for his falseness/ And the xiv year of King richardes regne sir John of gaunt Duke of lancaster went over the see in to spain for to challenge his right that he had by his wives title unto the crown of spain with a great host of people of men of arms & archer's, And he had with him the Duchess his wife & his three daughters over the see in to spain/ And there they were a great while/ & at last the ●…ng of spain began to treat with the Duke of lancastre/ & they 〈◊〉 ●…ded together through her ●…oth coum ceyll in this manner/ that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of spain should wed the Duke's daughter of lanca●… 〈◊〉 was the right heir of spain. & he should y●…ue unto the Duke of ●…stre gold & silver that weren cast 〈◊〉 to great wedges/ & many other jewels, as many as viij charyettes might carry/ And every year after during the life of the duke of lancastre & of the Duchess his wife/ xim/ mare of gold/ Of which gold the adventures & charges they of spain should au●…ture/ & bring yearly unto Bayone to the dukes assigns by surety made/ Also the Duke of lancaster married another of his daughters unto the King of portyngale the same time, And when he had done thus he come home again in to england/ & the good lady his wife also/ but many a worthy man upon the f●…x in that viage died And in the xv year of King rychardes regne/ he held his Cristemasse in the manner of woodstock/ & there th'earl of penbroke a young lord & tender of age would learn to Inste with a knight that was called sir John saint John/ & ridden together in the park of wodestok And there this worthy Earl of penbroke was slain with that other knights spear as he kast it from him when they had coupled/ & ●…s this good Earl made there his end/ And therefore the King & the Queen made much sorrow for his death/ And in the xuj year of king richards regne Iohn ●…nde being that time mayor of london & Johan Walworth & henry vanner being sheriffs of london that same time a bakers man bore a basket of horsbrede in to fleets●… te toward an hostry/ & there come a yeoman of the bishops of sa●…s bury/ that was called roman/ & he took an horselofe out of the basket of the baker & he asked him why he did so & this roman turned again/ & broke the bakers heed/ & neighbours come out & would have arrested this roman, & he broke from hem & fled 〈◊〉 the Lords pla 〈◊〉/ & the constable would have him out/ but the bishops men shut fast the yates & kept the place that no man might entre/ & than moche more people gathered thither/ & said that they would have him out/ or else they would burn up the place/ & all that were with in/ And than come the mayor & sheriffs with other moche people and ceased the malice of the comyns/ & made every man to go home to her houses & keep the peace/ and this romans lord the Bishop of Salysbury Master Johan waltham that that time was tree sorer of england went to Sir Thomas arundel/ archbishop of your ●…e. & also chancellor of england/ And there the Bishop made his compseynt unto the chancellor upon the pepele of the city of london And than these ij Bishops of great malice & vengeance come unto the King to windsor/ and made a great complaint upon the mayor & sheriffs/ & anon all the city afterward were before the King & his counsel/ & they cast unto the city a grievous heart & wonder great malice/ & anon suddenly the King sent after the mayor of london/ & for the ij sheriffs. & come unto him unto the castle of windsor/ & the King rebuked the mayor & sherenes full foul for the offence that they had done against him & his officers in his chambre at london/ wherefore he deposed & put out the mayor and both sheriffs/ & this was done a xiv days afore the fest of saint Johan baptist/ And than the King called to him a knight that was called sir Edward dalingridge, & made him warden & go vernour of the city & chambre of london/ & over all his people there in/ And so he kept that office but iiij weeks/ by cause that he was so gentle & tender to the citizens of london/ wherefore the King deposed him/ & made sir Baudwyn radyngton knight that was countroller of the kings household warden & governor of his chambre/ & of his people therein/ & cheese unto him two worthy men of the city to be sheriffs with him for to govern & keep the kings laws in the city/ one was called gilbert mawefeld/ & that other Thomas newenton sheriffs/ & than the mayre/ & the ij/ ●…shereues and all the Aldermen with all the worthy crafts of london went on foot unto the tour/ and there come out the constable of the tour/ and gave the mayor and the sheriffs her oath and charge as they should have take in the exchequer of westmynstre in the kings court of his justices and Barons of the Escheker/ And than went they home again/ And than the King and his counseyl for the great malice and despite that they had to the city of london/ removed all his courts from westmynstre unto the city of york/ that is for to say the chauncelrye/ the exchequer the Kings bench/ & the common place/ & there they held all these courts of law fro midsummer/ that is to say the fest of saint Io han the baptist unto the fest of christmas next sewing/ & than the King & his counsel saw it not so profitable there as it was at lon done, than anon he removed it again unto london/ & so to westmes stre for great ease of his officers & advantage to the King & all the comyns of the ream/ And when the people of london saw & knew that these courts were come again/ and the King & his people also. then the mayor & the aldermen with the chief commoners of the city let gather a great some of gold of all the comyns of the cite And ordained & made great ryalte against his coming to london & for to have his grace & good lordship/ & also her liberties & fraun chyses granted unto 'em again, as they before times had/ And than by great instance & prayer of the Queen Anne of her Lords & Ladies the King granted 'em grace, & this was done at ●…ene in suthereye. And than the King within ij days after come to London/ And the mayre of london sheriffs aldermen/ & all the worthy men of the city afterward ridden against the King in good array unto the heath on this side the manner of sheen submitting 'em hun belly & meekly with all manner obeisance unto him/ as they ought to done/ & thus they brought the King & the Queen to london/ & when the King come to the gate of the bridge of london there they presented him with a milk white stead saddled & bridled & trapped with cloth of gold & read parted together/ & the Queen a palfrey●… all white/ & in the same array trapped with white & red/ and all the conduits of london runnen with wine both white & red for all manner people to drink of/ And between saint Paul'S & the cross in cheap there was made a stage a rial standing upon high and therein were many Angels with diverse melodyes'/ & song/ And than an Angel come a down from the stage an high by a vyse & set a cronue of gold pight with rich pearl & precious stones upon the kings heed/ and another upon the Queens head/ And so the citizens brought the King & the Queen unto westmynstre in to her palace/ And than on the morn after the mayor & the sheriffs and the aldermen of london comen unto the King in to his palace at westmynstre/ and presented him with two basyus of silver/ & over gilt full of coined gold/ the some of/ xx, hundred pound praying him of his high mercy and lordship and special grace that they might have his good love with the liberties and franchises like as they have had before times/ & by his letters patents/ & his chartre confirmed. And the Queen & other worthy Lords and Ladies fill on knees. & besought the King of grace to confirm this/ Than the King took up the Queen/ & granted her all her asking/ & than they thanked the King & the Queen & wenten home again/ And in the xuj year of King Rychardes reign certain Lords of scotland come in to En glond to get worship as by feet of arms/ These were the persons/ the Earl of mar & he chalengid th'earl marchal of england to just with him certain points on horseback with sharp spears and they riden to geders as ij. worthy knights & Lords certain courses/ but not the full challenge that the scottissh Earl made/ For he was cast both horse & man/ & ij of his ribles broke with that fall And so he was borne home out of smithfield home in to his yn/ And within a little time after he was carried homeward in a litter and at york there he died, And sir william Darel knight & though the banerer of scotland made another challenge with▪ sire Piers courteyne knight/ & the kings banerer of england of certain courses yet on horseback in the same field/ And when he had ridden certain courses it & assayed/ he might not have the letter/ he gave it over/ & would no more of his challenge & turned his horse & road home to his own yn/ And one Cokkeborne a squire of scot land challenged Sir Nychol hauberk knight of certain courses yet with sharp spears on horseback/ & ridden/ v/ courses to geders/ and at every course the scot was cast a done/ both horse & man/ And thus our english Lords thanked be god badden the field/ And in the xvij year of King Rychardes reign died the good gracious Queen Anne that was wife to King Richard in the manner of she ne in the shire of surre upon whitsunday/ & than was she brought to london/ & so to westmynstre/ and there she was buried & worth lie entered beside saint Edward's shrine/ On whose soul almighty god have pity & mercy/  
Amen/   

How King Richard spoused dame Isabel the kings daughter of france in the town of calais/ & brought her in to england & let her be crowned Queen in the Abbey of saint Peter's of westmynstre Capitulo/ CC/ xlij/  
IN the/ xx/ year of King Richard's regne/ he went him over the see unto Caleys with Duke's/ earl's/ lords/ and barons/ and many other worthy squires with greet array and common people of the royalme in good array/ as than longed to such a worthy King & prince of his nobley and of his own person to done him reverence/ & observance/ as aught to be done unto her lyege lord/ & so might a King & Emperor in his own to abide & receive there that worthy & gracious lady that should been his wife a young creature of nineteen year of age d●…me Isabel the kings daughter of france/ and many other worthy Lords of great name/ both barons/ & knights with moche other people that comen unto the town of graving/ & two dukes of france that one was the Duke of Burgoyne/ and that other the duke of barry that would no ferther lass/ than they had pledges for hem And than the King Richard delivered two pledges for 'em to go safe & come safe his ij worthy uncles/ the Duke of Gloucestre & the Duke of york/ And they ij wenten over the water of graving/ & abiden there as for pledges/ unto the time that the marriage & the feast was done/ And that these ij dukes of france were come again unto graving water, And thenne these two worthy dukes come over the water at graving/ & so to Caleys with this worshipful Lady dame Isabel/ that was the kings daughter of france/ and with her come many a worthy Lord/ & eke lady & knights & squires in the best array that might be/ And there they metten with our meinie at Caleys/ the which well comed her & her meinie with the best honour and reverence/ that might be. and so brought her in the town of Caleys. And there she was received with all the solemnity & worship that might be done unto such a lady/ And than they brought her unto the King/ & the King took her/ & welcomed her & all her fair main/ and made there all the solemnity that might be done/ And than the King & his council asked of the french Lords/ whether all the covenants & for wards with the composition that were or deigned and made on both parties should be truly kepe and ●…l de between hem/ And they said ye/ And there they sworn/ and took her charge upon a ●…oke/ and made her oath well and truly it to hold in all manner of points and covenants without contra diction or delay in any manner wise/ And than was she brought unto saint Nycholas church in Caleys/ & there she was worthily y wedded with the most solemnity/ that ●…ny King or Queen might be, with archbishops and bishops/ and all mynystres of holy church/ And than weren brought home unto the castle/ and set to meet/ And there were served with all manner of delycasye of all ryal meats and drinks. plenteously to all manet of seraungyers/ and all other/ and no creature warned that feste, but all were welcome/ for there were great hales and tents set upon the green without the castle to receive all manner of people/ and every office ready to serve 'em all And thus this worthy marriage was solemnly y done & ended with all ryalte, Thenne these ij dukes of france with her people to ken her leave of the King and Queen/ and wenten again to grave ning water/ And their the french Lords/ that is to say/ the two Duke's/ & all her meinie were comen over the water to graving and there they metten/ And every took leave of other. & so they departed/ and our Lords come again to Caleys/ & the french Lords went over the water/ & so home in to france again/ And anon after the King made him ready with the Queen/ and all his Lords and Ladies and all her people with 'em/ and come over the see in to Englond/ and so to london/ and the mayre and the sheriffs with all the Aldermen and worthy communes ridden against hem unto the blacheth in kent. And there they metten with the King/ and the Queen/ and welcomed 'em/ and that in good array/ and every man in the clothing of his craft/ and mynstralles to fere hem. And so they brought 'em unto saint George's bar in south work/ and there they took her leave, And the King and the Queen ridden to kenyngton. and than the people of london turned home again/ And in turning again to london bridge/ there was so moche press of people both on horse and a foot that there were deed on the bridge x●… persons of men of women & of children/ on whose souls almighty god have pity & mercy Amen/ And than afterward the Queen was brought unto the tour of loudon/ & there she was all night/ And on the morrow she was brought through the city of london all over, & so forth unto westmynstre/ & there she was crowned Queen of england/ And than she was brought again to the Kings palace/ and there was holden an open & rial fest at her coronation of all manner of people that thither come/ And this was done the Sunday next after the fest of saint Clement in the xx year of King Rychardes regne/ And than the/ xxv/ day of August next after by ●…uyl exytation and falls counsell/ & for great wrath and malice that the King had of old time unto his uncle the good duke of Gloucestre and to the Earl of Arundel/ and to th'earl of warwick▪  
And anon the King by his evil exytacyon/ and his council and malice late in the evenyug on the same day above said made him ready with his strength, and road in to Estsex unto the town of chelmesford, & so come to plash sodeuly their sir thomas of wodestok the good Duke of gloucester lay/ And the good Duke come to w●…lcome the King anon/ and the King arestid the good duke himself his own body/ and so he was lad down to the water and anon put to a ship/ and anon had unto Caleys/ & brought in to the captains ward to be kept in hold by the Kings commandment of england/ And that time th'earl marchal was Capitayne of Caleys, And anon after by the commandment of the King & by his false counsel commanded the captain to put him to the death/ And anon certain yeomen that had the good duke in keeping took her counsel how that they would put him unto the death/ And this was her appointment that they should come upon him when he were in his bed and a sleep on a fethyr bed/ And anon they bound him foot/ & hand/ & charged him to lie still/ & when they had done thus they token two small towailles & made on 'em ij rid knots/ & cast the towailles about the Duke's neck & than they took the feather bed that lay under him & cast it above him/ & than they drawn her towailles each ways/ & some lay upon the featherbed upon him unto the time that he were deed by cause that he should make no noise/ & thus they strangled this worthy Duke unto the death. on whose soul god for his high pite have mercy Amen/ And when the King had arrested this worthy Duke & his uncle/ & sent him to Caleys/ he come again to london in all haste with a wonder great people/ and as soon as he was come be sent for th'earl of Arundel/ & for the good Earl of warwick/ And anon as they come/ he arrested hem himself Sir John cob ham & sir Johan Chain knights/ he arrested 'em in the same maner till he made his parliament/ And anon they were put in to hold but th'earl of Arundel went at large unto the parliament time/ For he fond suffisant surety to abide the law and to ansuer●… to all manner points that the King & his council would put upon him/ And in the xj year of King Rychardes regne/ be ordained him a parliament at westmynstre/ the which was called the great parliament/ And this parliament was made for to judge these three worthy Lords & other more as hem list at this time/ And for the judgement. the King let make in all hast a long & a large hoof of timber the which was called an hale/ & covered with ty●…es over & it was open all about on both sides/ & at the ends that all manner of m●…n might see through out/ & there the doom was holden upon these foresaid Lords & judgement give of this foresaid parliament/ And for to come unto this parliament the King sent his writ●…s unto every lord/ baron/ knyght.. & squire/ in every shire through out all england/ that every lord gather & bring his retinue with him in as short time & in the best array that they might get in maintaining & in strengthing of the King against hem/ that were his enemies/ & that this were done in all haste, & they come to him in pain of death/ & the King himself sent in to chestreshyre unto the chieftains of that country/ & they gathered & brought a great & an huge multitude of people. both of knights & of squires/ & principally of yeomen of Chestershire/ the which yeomen, & archer's the King took to his own court & gave hem bouge of court & good wages to be keepers of his own body/ both by night & by day above all other persons/ & most loved & best trust/ the which soon afterward turned yekyng to great loss shame/ hindering/ & his utterly undoing & destruction/ as ye shall here soon after/ And that time come sir henry Earl of derby with a great main of men of arms & archer's/ & th'earl of Rutteland come with a strong power of people both of men of arms & archer's And th'earl of kent brought a great power of men of arms & are chyers'/ th'earl marchal come in the same manner. the lord spencer in the same manner. th'earl of Northumberland/ & sir henry ●…ercy his son/ & sir thomas percy the Earls brother/ And all these worthy Lords broughten a fair meinie & a strong power, & each man in his best array/ & the duke of lancastre & the Duke of york comen in the same manner with men of arms & archer's following the King & sir Willian scrope treasurer of england come in the same manner/ and thus in this array come all the worthy men of this land unto our King/ & all this people come to london in one day/ in so much that every street & lane in london/ & in the subarbes were full of hem lodged, & x or xij mile about london every way. And these people brought the King at westmynstre/ & wenten home again to her lodging both horse & man, And than on the monday the xvij day of September the parliament began at westmynstre, the which was called the great parliament/ And on the fryd●…y next after th'earl of Arundel was brought in to the parliament among all the Lords and that was on saint mathewes day the apostle and evangelist there he was forjudged unto the death in this hale/ that was made in the palace at westmynstre/ And this was his judgement/ he should gone on foot with his hands bound behind him from the placce that he was for judged in/ & so forth through the city of london unto the ●…ure hy●…e/ & there his heed to be smitten of/ & so it was do in deed in the same place/ And uj of the great Lords that sat on his judgement ridden with him unto the place there he was done unto the death, & so to see that the execution were done after her doom, And by the kings commandment with 'em wenten on foot of men of arms and archer's a great multitude of Chestreshyre men in strengthing of the Lords that brought this Earl unto his death for they dread lest the Earl should have be rescued & take from 'em when they come in to london/ Thus he passed forth through the cite unto his death/ & there he took it full patiently/ On whose soul god have mercy/ Amen/ And than come the freres austyn●…/ & took up the body/ & the heed of this good Earl/ & bore it home unto her house and buried him in her quere/ And in the morrow after was Sir Richard Earl of Warwick brought in to the parliament, there as the Earl of Arundel was forjudged/ and they gave the Earl of warwick the same judgement that the foresaid Earl had But the Lords had compassion of him because he was of more age and releced him to perpetual prison. and put him in the isle of man/ And than the monday next after the lord Cobham of kent. & Sir Johan chain knight weren brought in to the parliament in to the same hall/ and there they were judged to be hanged and draw but through the prayer & great instance of all the Lords that judgement was foryeve 'em/ and releced to perpetual prison/ And in this same time was Richard whyttyngdone mayre of london & Johan wodecok and William askam she reves of london And they ordained at every gate of london during this same parliament strong watch of men of arms and archer's/ & through out every ward also. And the King made five dukes and a markuys/ and four Earls/ and the first of hem was the Earl of Derby/ and he was made Duke of herford, and the second was the Earl of Rutteland/ and he was made duke of Aumarle/ and the third was the Earl of kent/ and he was made Duke of Surre/ and the fourth was the Earl of huntyngdon/ and he was made duke of excestre/ & the fifth was the Earl of Notyngham/ & he was made Duke of northfolk/ & the Earl of Somersete ●…e was made the markuys of Dorset/ and the lord spencer was made earl of gloucestre/ and the lord nevil of Raby was made Earl of westmoreland/ and sire Thomas ●…ercy was made Earl of worcester/ And sire William Scrope that was treasurer of england he was made Earl of wylteshyre/ And sir Johan Mountagu Earl of salisbury. And when the King had thus y done/ he held the parliament & rial feast unto all his Lords, & to all manner of people that thither would come/ And this same year died Sir Johan of gaunt the kings uncle & duke of lancastre in the bishops in in holborn/ and was brought from thence to saint Paul'S & there the King made & held his interment well & worthily with all his Lords in the church of saint Paul'S in london/ & there he was buried beside dame blanch his wife that was daughter and heir to the good henry/ that was Duke of lancastre/ and in the sa me year there fell a dissension & debate between the Duke of herford and the duke of Norfolk/ in so much that they waged battle & cast down her gloves/ & than they were take up & ensealed/ and the battle joined/ & the day y set/ & the place assigned/ where & when/ And this should be at coventry. And thither come the King with all his Lords at that day, and was set in the field. and than these two worthy Lords comen in to the field clean armed & well arrayed with all her weepen/ and ready to done her battle/ and weren ready in the place for to fight at utterance/ But the King had 'em cese/ and took the quarrel in to his hand/  
And forth with right there present exiled the duke of Herford for the term of x year/ and the Duke of Norfolk for evermore/ And Sir Thomas Arundel archbishop of Caunterbury was exised the same time for ever, and deposed out of his see for malice of the King/ And anon these iij worthy Lords were commanded and defended the kings ream/ And anon they gate 'em ships at diverse bavenes/ and wenten over the see in to diverse lands each his weigh/ And the duke of Norfolk went to ●…enyce and there he died/ On whose soul god have mercy/ Amen.  
And than King Richard made a clerk of his sir Rogyer walden archbishop of Caunterbury/ And in the xij year of King Rychardes reign by false counsel and imagination of covetous men that were about him were made & ordained blank charters/ & made 'em to be enseled of all manner rich men through out the ream/ In so much that they compelled diverse people to set her seal thereto/ And this was done for great covetise/ wherefore all good hearts of the reamme weren clean turned away from him that was King ever after/  
And that was utterly destruction and end to him that was so high and excellent prince and King/ and through covetise and falo counsel falsely betrayed/ alas for pity that such a King might not see/ And than King Richard set his kingdom/ & his ryal land england to farm unto iiij persons/ the which were these, sir Willian scrope Earl of wylteshire & treasurer of england/ & sir Johan bush/ & henry Grene/ and sir Johan Bagot knights/ which that turned hem to mischief & death within little time/ as ye shall find here after written. And than King Richard made great ordi naunce/ & went him over the see in to ireland, and many great lords with him with great hosts for to strength her King with men of arms archer's & much great stuff & right good ordinance as longeth to were/ And or he passed the see he ordained & made sir Edmond of Langely his uncle the Duke of york his lieutenant of england in his absence with the governance & council of these iiij knights that hadden taken england to farm of the King/ & than he passed the see & come in to ireland/ & there he was well/ & worthily received/ And these rebels that bon called wild ●…ssh men anon her chieftain & her governors and her leders comen down unto the King & yelden hem unto him both body and go des all at his own will/ & swore to be his lyege men/ and there to him dieden homage & feaute/ and good service/ And thus he conquered the most party of ireland in a little tyme.  
And while that King Richard was thus in ireland/ sir Henry of bolingbroking Earl of Derby/ that the King had made bifore duke of herford/ the which Duke the King had exiled out of this land was come again in to england for to challenge the Duke doom of lancastre as for his right and true heritage/ And he come down out of france by land unto Caleys/ And there met him sire Thomas of Arundel that was archbishop of Caunterbury, that was exiled out of england/ and with him come the Earl of Arundel his son/ and heir, the which was in ward and keeping of Sir Johan shelley knight sometime with the Earl of huntyngdone, & with the Duke of Excestre/ the which was in the castle of Reygate in southse●…/ And there be stole him away & come to Caleys/ & and there he was kept well & worthily till these other two Lords weren come to Caleys. And than this worthy Duke/ and the archbishop of Caunterbury Arundel shipped in the haven of Caleys/ and drowe her course northward and arrived in yorkshyre at ravenspore fast by br●…desyngton And there he come and entered the land/ and these two Lords with him and her meinie. And than moche people of the ream that herd of his coming and know where he was anon they drewen to him/ & welcomed these Lords/ & so couraged 'em in all manner thing/ & passed forth in to the land/ and gathered moche people/ And when King Richard herd and wist that these ij Lords were come again in to Englond/ & weren landed/ than the King left his ordinance in ireland/ and come in to england ward in all the haste that he might/ & come unto the castle of flint and there he abode for to take his council and might best be done. but to him come none/ And than Sir Thomas percy earl of w●…rcestre that was the kings steward wist and knew this. anon he come in to the ●…alle among the people/ And there he broke the y●…rde of the ryal kings household/ And anon they were does parpled, & every man went his weigh/ & forsook her master/ & sovereign lord and left him alone/ And thus was King richard brought a down & destroyed/ and stood alone without comfort/ or succour/ or any good counsel of any man, alas for pity of this rial King/ And anon come tidings that sir Henry of boling broke was up with a wonder strong power of people/ and that all the sheriffs of england raised up the shires in strengthing of him against the King Richard/ And thus soon he was come out of the Northcountry to Bristol/ And there he met with sir william scrope Earl of wylteshyre treasurer of england/ and with sire John ●…ssh, and sire henry green/ and Johan Bagot/ but he escaped from 'em/ and went over the see in to ireland/ & these three knights were taken & her heeds smitten of/ And thus they died for her falls covetise/ And than was King Richard y take, and brought unto the Duke/ and anon the Duke put him in fast ward and strong hold unto his coming to london/ And was there a ●…mour in london/ & a strong noise that King Richard come to west minster, and the peuple of london r●…nne thither/ and would have done moche harm and scathe in her woodenness/ Nadde the more and the Aldermen/ and other worthy men seced 'em with fair words and turned 'em home again to london/ And there was Sir Johan slake deen of the kings chapel of westmynstre take and brought to london. and put in prison in ludgate/ And Bagott was take in ireland. and brought to london/ and put in prison in newgate there to be kept/ and to abide his answer/ And soon after the Duke brought King Richard privily unto london/ & put him in the tower under sure keeping as a prisoner, and than come the Lords of the ream with all her council unto the tour to King Richard/ & saiden to him of his misgovernance & extortion that he had done made & ordained to oppress all the common people, and also to all the ream/ wherefore all the common people of his Royame's would have him deposed of his kingdom/ and so he was deposed at that time in the tour of london by all his lords counseyl/ & common ssaent of all the Reamme/ And there he was put from the tour unto the castle of ledes in kent/ & there he was kept a while/ and than was he had from thence unto the castle of pountfret in the Northcountry to be kept in prison & soon afterward right there he made his end/ And than when King Richard was deposed/ & had resigned his crown & his kingdom/ and was kept fast in hold/ than all the Lords of the ream with the comyns assent & by accord chosen this worthy lord sire Henry of bolingbroking/ earl of Derby/ Duk of Herford and Duke of lancastre by right line and heritage. and for his rightful manhood/ that the people found in him before all other/ they chose him/ and made him King of england amongs hem/   

Of sir henry of bolingbroking Earl of Derby/ that reigned after King Richard. which was the fourth henry after the conquest Capitulo/ CC/ xliijᵒ./  
ANd after King Richard the second was deposed & put out of his kingdom, The Lords & the Comyns all with one as sent/ and all other worthy of the Reamme chosen sire Henry of bolingbroking Earl of Derby son and heir of Johan the Duke of lancastre for his worthy manhood. that offtime had be found in him. & in deed proved upon saint Edward's day the confessor he was crowned King of england at westminster by all the reams assent next after the deposing of King Richard/ Than he made henry his eldest son & heir Prince of wales/ & Duke of corn was ill/ & Earl of Chestre/ And he made Sir Thomas of Arundel archbishop of Caunterbury/ ayene as he was afore/ And sire Rogyer walden that King Richard had made archbishop of Caunterbury/ he made him Bishop of london. For that time it stood void/ And he made Earls son of Arundel that come with him over the see from Caleys in to Englond/ he made him Earl of Arundel/ as his sndre had ●…n. & put him in possession of all his lands/ And there he made homage and feaute unto his lyege lord the King/ as all other Lords had done/ And than anon died King Richard in the castle of ●…ountfret in the Northcountry. For there he was enfamined unto the death by his kepar/ For he was kept there four or five days from meet & drink/ And so he made his end in this world. yet moche people in england and in other lands said that he was alive many year after his death/ but whether he were alive or deed forth they held her false opinions & believe that men hadden in moche people/ which come to great mischief and foul death/ as ye shall here afterward  
And when King Henry wist & knew verryly that he was deed/ he seat tere him in the best manner/ and closed it in a fair chest with diverse speceryes and baumes. and closed 'em in a linen cloth all safe his visage/ and that was left open/ that men might see his person from all other men/ And so he was brought to london with torch light brenning unto saint Paul'S And there he had his mass and his Dirige with moche reave rinse and solemnity of service/ And when all this was done/ he was brought from saint ●…ou ses in to the Abbey of westmynstre/ and there he had all his hole service again/ And from westmynstre he was brought to langely and there he was buried. on whose soul god have mercy Amen/  
And in the first year of King henry's reign he held his christ mass in the castle of windsor/ And on the/ xij/ even come the duke of aumarle unto the King/ and told him/ that he and the duke of Surre/ and the duke of Excestre/ and the Earl of Salis bury/ and th'earl of gloucestre/ and other moo of her Affynyte were acorded to make a momming unto the King on the xij day at night/ & there they casten to slay the King in here revelling/ & thus the Duke of Aumarle warned the King/ And than the King come the same night to london privily in all the haste that he might to get him help succour and comfort and council/ and anon these other that would have done the King to death fledden in all the haste that they might for they known well that her coum ceyll was be wre●…d And than fled the duke of Surre and the Earl of Salysbury with all her meinie unto the town of Cissestre/ And there the people of the town would have arrested hem/ and they nold not stand to her arrest/ but stood at defence and fought manly, But at last they were overcome and took/ And there they smite of the Duke's heed of Surre and the erses heed of Salysbury/ and many other more/ & there they put the quartres in to sacks/ & her hedes on poles borne on high/ and so they were brought through the city of london unto london bridge and there her heeds were set upon high/ and her quarters weren scent to other good towns/ and Cytres. and set up there/  
At Oxenford were take B●…ount knight/ and Benette Cely knight/ and Thomas wyntersel squire/ And these were biheded and quartered/ and the knights heeds were set on poles/ and brought to london! & set on the bridge/ & the quartres sent for the to other good towns, And in the same year at ●…ritalwelle in a mylle in Estsex there Sir Johan holland the Duke of Excestre was take with the common of the country/ and they brought him from the mill unto plash/ and to the same place that King Richard had arrested Sir Thomas of wodestok/ the Duke of glouce stre/ and right there in the same place they smitten of the duke of Excestre his he de/ and brought it to london upon a pole/ & it was set on london bridge/ And in the same year at Brystowe was take the lord spencer. that King Richard had made earl of gloucestre/ and the comunes of the town of Bristo we took him/ and brought him in to the market place of the town/ and there they smitten of his heed/ and sent it unto london/ and there it was set on london bridge,  
And in this same time was Sir Barnard Brokeys' knight take & arrested/ and put in to the tour of london▪ and Sir Johan Shelley knight/ and Sir Johan maudelyn/ and Sir william Fereby servants of King Rychardys/ & they weren arrested and put in to the tour of london/ And thither come the kings justyces/ and sat upon 'em in the tower of london/ and there they were dampened all four unto the death/ and the doom was give unto Sir Bernard Brokeys/ that he should gone on foot from the tour through london unto Tyburn/ and there to be hanged/ and after his heed smitten of/ and Sir Johan shelley knight/ and Sire Johan maudelyn/ And sire william fereby were draw through out london to Tyburn/ and there hanged/ and her hedes smitten of, and set on london bridge.  
And in this same year King henry sent Queen Isabella home again in to france/ the which was King Rychardes' wedded wife and gave her gold and silver/ and many other jewels/ & so she was discharged of all her dower, and sent out of england  
And in the second year of the reign of King Henry the fourth was Sir Rogyer of Claryngdone knight and two of his men/ & the prionr of launde/ & viij/ frere menours/ & some maistres of divinity & other for treason that they wrought again the king were draw & hanged at Tyburn all xij persons/ & there began a great dissension & debate in the country of wa●…s between the lord grey rithen. & O wen of glendor squire of wales/ & this owen arreared a great number of welshmen & kept all that country about right strong/ & did moche harm/ & destroyed the kings towns & lord ships through out wales & rob/ & slow the kings people both english & walssh/ & thue he endured a xij year large/ & he took the lord grey rythen prisoner, & kept him fast in hold till he was raunsond of prisoners of the March/ And kept him long time in hold And at●… last he made him wed one of his daughters & kept him there still with his wife. And soon after he died/ And than the King henry knowing this mischief destruction & treason that this owen had wrought/ then anon he ordained a strong power of men of arms & of archer's/ & much other stuff/ that longed to were for to abate & destroy the malice of this false walsshmen And than the King come in to wa●…s with his power for to destroy this Owen/ & other rebels false walshmen/ and anon they fledden in to the mountains/ And there might the King done he 〈◊〉 no harm in no manner wise for the mountains. And so the King come in to england again for losing of more of his people. and thus he sped nought there/ In this same year was great scarcity of wheat in Englond/ for a quarter of wheat was at xuj shilling/ & there was merchandise of england sent in pruys for wheat/ and anon they had lad & freight ships enough. and come home in saufetes blessed be god of all his yefts. And in the iiij year of King henry's regne/ there was a star seen in the firmament/ that showed himself through all the world for diverse tokens that should bifalle so ne after/ the which star was named & called by clergy Stella Cometa/ And on saint marry magdalene day next following in the same year was the battle of shrowesbury/ And thither come sir henry percy the Earls son of nurthumberland with a great multitude of men of arms and archer's. and gave a bat●…ylle to King henry the fourth through falls counsel and wicked rede of sire Thomas percy his uncle earl of worcester/ and there was sire Henry ●…ercy slain/ and the most party of his meinie in the field, And Sir Thomas percy take and kept fast in hold two days/ till the King had set rest among his people on both sides/ And than Sir Thomas percy anon was judged to be ded●…/ draw/ hanged/ & his heed smitten of for his false treason at shrowesbury/ & his heed brought to london/ & set on london bridge And the other people that there were slain on both parties the king le●…e bury/ And there was slain on the kings side in that ba tail th'earl of stafford/ & sir waltyer blounte in the kings cote armure under the kings banner/ & many more worthy men/ on whose souls god have mercy amen/ And in the fourth year of King hen ryes reign come the Emperor of Constantinople with many grete Lords & knights/ & much other people of his country in to england to King henry with him to speak & to disport/ & to see the good goveruaunce & conditions of our people/ & to know the commodities of england/ And our King with all his Lords goodly & worshipfully him received & welcomed him. & all his meinie that comen with him/ & did him all the reverence & worship that they could & might, And anon the King commanded all manner officers/ that he should be served as worthily & rially/ as it longed unto such a worthy lord & Emperor on his own cost as long as th'emperor was in england, and all his men that comen with him/ And in this sa me year come dame Jane the Duchess of britain in to england & landed at fallemouth in cornwall. And from thence she was brought to the city of wynchestre/ And there she was wedded unto King henry the fourth. in the abbey of saint swithiness of win chester with all the solemnity that might be done & made/ & soon after she was brought from thence to london, And the mayre and the aldermen/ & the comyns of the city of london riden a●…enst h●… and her welcomed. & brought her through the Cy●…e of london to westmynstre/ and there she was crowned Queen of england/ & there the King made a ryal and a solemn feast for her & for all manner of men/ that thither would come/ And in this same year dame blanch the eldest daughter of King henry the/ iiij/ was y sent over the see with the Earl of Somersete her uncle/ & with Master Richard Clifford than Bishop of worcester & with many other worthy lords/ knights and Ladies and worthy squires/ as longed to such a worthy kings daughter and comen unto Coleyn/ And thither come the dukes son of bar with a fair meinie and received this worthy lady/ And there the Bishop of worcestre wedded and sacred hem together/ as holy church would/ And there was made a ryal feste, and a great justes in the reveren 〈◊〉 and worship of 'em/ and of all people that thither come.  
And when this marriage and feast was done the Earl and the Bishop and all her meinie token her leave of lord and lady/ & come home again in to england in safety thanked be god/ And in the/ v, year of King henry's reign the lord thomas his son went over see/ and the Earl of kent. and many other Lords & knights with men of arms and archer's a great number to chastise there belles/ that aforne had done moche harm to our englishmen & merchants/ and to many towns and ports in england on the see costs/ And the lord Thomas the kings son come in to flaun dres to fore a town, that is called the skluse amongs all the ship pes of dyuse na●…ons that were there/ & after there they riden with her ships amongs hem/ and wenten a land/ & sported hem there two days/ & comen again to her ships/ & token the broad see/ & there they metten with three carrikkes of Iene. that were lad with diverse merchandise/ & well y manned/ and there they fought to geders long time/ but the englishmen had the victories/ & broughten the carrykkies in to the cambre before wynchelsee, & there they can●…d these goods, and one of these carrykkies was sudden lie there brent/ and the Lords & her people turned 'em home again and went no ferther at that tyme. And in the same time Serle yeoman of King Richard Robes come in to england out of Scot land/ & told to diverse p●…ple that King Richard was alive in scotland/ & so much people believed in his words/ wherefore a great part of the people of the ream weren in great error & grudging against the King through information of lies & falls l●…syng that this Serle had made/ for moche people trusted & believed in his saying/ but at the last he was take in the Northcountry/ and by law judged to be draw through every city & good Burgh towns in england, And so he was served/ and at the last he was brought to london unto the Gyld hall before the justice/ and there he was judged for to be brought to the tour of london. and there to be laid on an hurdle/ and than to be draw through the city of london to Tyburn. and there hanged/ and than quartered and his heed smitten of/ & set on london bridge/ and his quart●…s to be sent to four good towns of england/ & there set up, and thus ended he for his false treason and deceit/  
And in the sixth year of King henry's reign the fourth th'earl of mar of scotland by safe conduit come in to england to challenge/ sir Edmond th'earl of kent of certain courses of were on horsebake/ And so this challenge was accepted/ and granted And the place taken in Smythfeld at london/ And this Erl●… of mar the scot come proudly in to the field/ as his challenge asked/ And anon come in the Earl of kent/ and ●…ode unto the scotte, & manfully road together with sharp spears dyuse courses/ but the Earl of kent had the field/ and gate him moche worship & thank of all manner of men for his manful deeds/ And in the, seven year of King henry's reign the fourth Sir Richard scrope archbishop of york/ & the lord Earl marchal of england gathered unto 'em a strong power against King henry/ And the King hearing thereof in all the haste that he might come with his power northward/ & met●…e with hem at york/ and their we●… these two Lords y take & brought to the King/ And anon the judges were set/ and these two Lords brought forth/ and there they were dampened unto the death & both her hedes smitten of/ & there they made her end. on whose souls god for his pity have mercy amen/ And when this was do ne the King come to london again/ & there rested him/ anon god of his great goodness wrought & showed many greet miracles for this worthy clerk/ archbishop of york that thus was done unto the death/ And in the/ seven/ year of King henry's reign Dam●… Luce the Duke's daughter of mylane come in to Englond/ & so at london/ and there was wedded to Sir Edmond holland Earl of kent in the pryorye of saint marry overeyes in southwerke with moche solemnity and great worship/ The King was there himself/ & gave her at the church door/ And when they were y wedded and mass was done/ the King his own person brought & lad this worthy lady to the bishops place of wynchestre. and there was a wonder great feast y holden to all maver people that comen  
In the. same year Sir Robert knolls knight a worthy weary our died at his manner in Norfolk/ & from thence he was brought to london upon a horse bear with moche torch light/ And so was he brought unto the white freres in fleetstrete/ & there was done and made for him a solemn feste/ and a ryal interment for though that thither would come, both po●…re and rich/ and there ●…e lieth be ryed by dame constance his wife in the mid of the body of the church, on whose soul god for his pity have mercy/ Amen/ And thus in this same year Sir Thomas Ramps●…on knight Constable of the tour of london was dreynte at london bridge, as he come from westminster towards the tour in a barge/ and all through lewdness/  
And In the same year dame Phelyp the younger daughter of king henry was lad over the see with sir richard the Duke's brother of york/ and sir edmond Courteny Bishop of Norwyche. and many other lords knights and squires/ Ladies/ & G●…ntilwomen that appertained to such a worthy kings daughter/ and come in to Denmark with his Lords, & received this worthy lady for his wife. & welcomed these worthy Lords, & did 'em much reverence & great worship. And they were brought unto a town/ that was called london in denmark. & there was this lady wedded & sacred to the King of denmark with moche solemnity/ and there she was crowned Queen of denmark/ Norwey/ & swythen/ and there was made a rial feste/ And when this feste/ and marriage was done/ & ended/ these Lords & Ladies took her leave of the King & the Queen and comen home again in to england in haste/ thank●…d be Ihesu/ And in the viij year of King henry's reign there was a man that was called the welsh clerk/ & he appelled a knight/ that was called sir perceval sowdone of treason, & there they were joined to fight unto utterance within lists/ & the day & place. & time assi gned & limited to be done/ & ended in smithfield/ At the which day the/ ij/ persons comen in to the field/ & fought sore & mightily to geders/ but at last the knight overcome the clerk/ & made him yield him creaunt of his false enpechement/ that he said on him/ & than was he despoiled of his armure/ & draw out of the field to tyburn/ & there was he hanged/ & the knight take to gra●… and was a good man/ And in this same year sir henry earl of nurthumberland and the lord Bardolfe come out of Scotland in prejudice and destruction of King henry/ wherefore they of the Northcountry arisen upon 'em/ and fought with 'em/ and scomfited hem/ and took hem/ and smitten of her hedes/ & quartered her body ●…s. and sent the heed of the Earl & a quarter of the lord bardolfe to london. and there they were set upon the bridge for false treason/ that they had purposed against the King/ And in the/ ix/ year of King henry's reign was Sir Edmond holland earl of kente made admiral of england for to keep the see/ & he went to the See with many ryal ships/ that were full well arrayed and enparelled and enarmed with many a good man of arms & archer's/ & of good defence of were in the kings name of england/ and so he landed at the last in the cost of britain in the isle of Bria●… with all his people, and he besieged the castle and assaulted it and they withstood him with great defence & strength/ And anon he layed his ordinance/ and in the laying of a gone come a quarrel. and smote the good. earl Edmond in the heed, and there h●… caught deths' wound/ but yet they left nought till that they had got the castle/ and all that were therein/ And there this good lord died/ on whose soul god have mercy Amen/ And than his mey nigh come home again in to england with the Earls body, and was buried amongs his ancestors' right worthily/ And in the same year was a great frost in england/ that dured/ xv/ weeks/ And in the tenth year of King henry's reign the fourth come the neschal of henaude with other meinie to seek Auntres and to get him worship in deeds of arms/ both on horseback & on foot at all manner of points of were/ And the Seneschal challenged the Earl of somerset/ and the Earl delivered him manfully of all his challenges, & put his adversary to the were in all points, & wan him there gre●…e worship/ and the gree of the field/ And the next day after come in to the field an other man of arms of the Seneschals party, And against him come Sir Richard of Arundel knight, And the henewyer had the better of him on fo●… in one point/ for he brought him on his knee/ And the third day come in another man of arms in to the field/ & against him come sire Johan cornwall knight/ and manly & knightly quit him in all manner points against his adversary/ and had the better in the field/ And on the iiij day come another man of arms of henaude in to the field/ and against him come Sir Johan chains son/ and manly quit him against his adversary/ for he cast horse & man in to the field/ & the King for his manhood at that time dubbed him knight/ And the/ v/ day there come another man of arms of the henewyers' party in to the field/ & to him come in Sir Johan steward knight/ & manfully quit him there in all manner of points, & had the better/ And the/ uj day come an other henewyer/ and to him come william porter squire/ 〈◊〉 m●…ful lie he quite him/ & had the better in the field/ And the King dub bed him knight the same time/ And the/ seven/ day come another henaude in to the field/ and to him come Johan standyss●… squire & manfully he quit him on his adversary/ & had the better in the field/ & there the King dubbed him knight the same day/ And on the same day come another henewyer/ & to him come a squire of gascoyne/ & proudly & manly he quit him on his adversary/ and had the better/ And anon the King dubbed him knight And on the. viij/ day come in to the field/ ij/ men of arms of ●…nawde/ & to hem come/ ij/ soldiers of Caleys that were brethren that were called Burghes. and well and manly quit hem/ on her adversaries/ and the better in the field/ And thus ended the challenges with moche worships/ And the King at the reverence of the straungyers made a great fest/ and gave hem rich yefts & they token her leave/ & went home to her own country/ And in the xj year of King henry's reign the iiij/ there was a great battle done in smithfield between ij squires/ that one was called glouces tree/ that was appellaunt, & Arthur was the defendant/ & well & manly fought together long time/ and the King for her manfulness and of his grace took her quarrel in to his hand/ & made 'em to go out of the field at ones/ & so they were divided of her battles/ and the King gave 'em grace/ And the xij year of King Henry's reign the fourth Ris die a squire of wales/ that was a rebel/ a ryser/ & supporter to owen of glendor/ that did much destruction to the people of wales was taken & brought to london/ and there he come afore the justyces/ & was dampened for his tree son/ and than he was laid on an hurdle; & so draw forth unto tiborne through the city/ & there he was hanged, & let down again and his heed smitten of/ and his body quartered & sent to four t●…u nes/ and his heed set on london bridge/ And in the xiij year of King henry's reign tho died Sir Johan Beauford the Earl of Somersete/ that was capitain of Caleys/ and was buried at the Abbey of the Tourehill/ on whose soul god have mercy amen  
And in the sau●…e year the lord Thomas King henry's son wedded the Countess of somerset/ And in this same year come the ambassadors of france in to england from the Duke of Burgoyn unto the prince of england King henry's son/ & heir for help & succour of men of arms and archer's against the Duke of Orleaunce/ And though wen●…e over the see the Earl of Arundel/ sir Guyllebert umfrevylle Earl of kyme/ and the lord Cobham Sir Io han Oldecastel/ and many other good knights and worthy squy●…rs/ and men of arms and good archer's in to france/ & come to Paris to the Duke of Burgoyne, and there he received & welcomed these englishmen/ the lords/ and all other meinie/ And than it was done him to wite that the Duke of orleans was come to semt●…lowe fast by paris with a great number of men of arms & Arbalystyers, & thither went out englishmen/ and fought with 'em/ and gate the bridge of semtklowe/ and there they slow moche people of frenchmen/ and armagnacs/ & the remnant fl●…d and would no longer abide/ And than our englishmen comen again to paris. and there they token her leave of the Duke. & comen home again in to england in safety/ & the Duke y●… fe hem great yefts. Anon foleweng the Duke of orleans sent 'em bassatours in to england to King henry the iiij. Beseeching him of his help & succour against his deadly enemy the Duke of Burgoyne  
And than the King made Thomas his son duke of Clarence and his other son Johan Duke of bedford/ And his other son Humphrey Duke of Gloncestre/ and Sir Thomas Beauford Earl of dorset, and the Duke of Aumarle he made Duke of york/ And than the King ordained his son sir thomas Duke of Clarence sir Thomas Beauford Earl of dorset/ & sir Johan cornwall with many other lords knights & squires/ men of arms/ & archer's to gone over the see in to france in helping & strengthing of the Duke of orleans/ And these worthy Lords with her retinue shipped at hampton/ & sailed over in to normandy/ and landed at hogg●…s And there met with him the lord hambe at her landing with seven M/ men of arms of frenchmen/ & three sergeants of arms with 'em, & all were put to flight/ & taken of 'em/ seven/ C/ men of arms &/ CCCC/ horse without though that were slain in the field/ and so they ridden forth through out france/ & token castellee/ & towns/ & slow moche people of frenchmen that withstood hem/ & token many prisoners, as they riden/ & so they passed forth till they come to Bordeaux/ and there they rested 'em a while, & set the country in peace/ and rested till the vintage were ready to sail/ And than the Duke with his meinie come home in to england in saufete/ thanked be god/ And in the same year was the Kings coin changed through out england by the King & his counsel/ that is to sa●…e the noble, half noble/ & ferthing of gold/ And the xiv year of King Henry's reign the fourth he let make galeys of were for 〈◊〉 ●…d hoped to have passed the great see/ & so forth to Jerusalem & 〈◊〉 to have ended his life, but god visited him so soon after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mytees & great sickness/ that he might not well endure no while so fe●…uently he was take/ & brought in bed at westmynstre in a fair chamber/ And as he lay in his led/ he asked his chamberlain what they called that chambre that he lay in/ and he answered & said Ihr●…m/ And than he said that the prophecy said that he should make an end/ and die in I●…rlm/ And than ●…e made him ready unto god/ and disposed all his will/ And soon after he died/ and was carried by wa●…r from westmynstre in a barge unto Feversham/ And from thence unto Caunterbury by land with much torch light brenning in to the abbey of Cri●…hirch/ & there he was entered and buried beside saint Thomas of Caunterbury shrine/ & thus ended the worthy King henry about mydlent●… sunday in the year of our lord a/ M/ CCCC/ xiij/ on whose soul god hau●… mercy  
Amen/   

Of King henry the fifth that was King henry's son/ Capitulo, CC/ xliiijᵒ/  
ANd after the death of King henry the fourth. reigned King Henry his son that was borne at mommouth in walis that was a worthy King and a gracious man/ and a great conqueror/ And in the first year of his reign for great love & goodness he sent to the freres of langely/ there/ as his father had done bury King Richard the second/ and l●…e take his body out of the earth again/ & did bring it to westmynstre in a rial chare covered with black velvet & banners of diuse arms about/ & all the horses drawing the char were trapped in black & beaten with dyuse arms. & many a torch brenning by all the weigh till he come to westmynstre. & there he let make for him a ryal & a solemn interment, & buried him by Queen Anne his wife/ as his own desire was on the ferther side of saint Edward's shrine in the abbey of saint peters of westminster/ on whose soul god have mercy amen/ And in this same year were a certain of Lollards taken/ & falls heretics that had purposed through falls treason to have slain our King/ & for to have destroyed all the clergy of the ream/ & they might have had her false purpose but our lord would not soffre it/ for in has●… our King had warning thereof & of all her false ordinance & worching/ & come suddenly with his power to saint Iohans without smithfield/ And anon they token a certain of the Lollards & falls heretics/ & brought hem unto the kings presence/ & there told all her false purpose & ordinance how they would have done & wrought & they might have reigned & had her will/ and there they ●…ld which were her cap●…tayns & governors/ And than the King commanded 'em to the tower of london/ & than took more of hem both with in the cite & without/ & sent 'em to newgate & to both countries/ & than they were brought in examination before the clergy & the king's justices/ & there they were convicted before the clergy for her false heresy & dampened before the justice for her false treason/ & this was her judgement that they should ●…e draw from the tower of london unto saint giles field & there to be hanged & brent on the gal●…wes, & also there was taken Sir Rogyer acton knight for heresy & eke for treason against the King & the ream/ & he come afore the clergy/ & was convicted for his heresy to be brent & dampened before the justices stices to be draw from the tower of london through the city to saint giles field/ & to be hanged & brent. and in the second year of King henry's reign the/ v/ he held a council of all the Lords of the ream at westmestre. & there he put to hem this demand/ & prayed & besought 'em of her goodness & of her good counsel & good w●…l to she we him/ as touching the title/ & the right that he had to nor mandye. Gascoigne/ and guyhenne, the which the King of france withheld wrongfully & unrightfully/ the which his ancestors' before him had be true title of conquest/ & right heritage, the which Normandy/ Gascoyn/ & guyhenne/ the good King edward of windsor & his ancestors' bofore him hadden hold, all her lives time/ And his lords give him counsel to send ambassadors unto the King of france & his council/ and that he should give 〈◊〉 to him his right heritage/ that is to say/ normandy/ Gascoyn/ & Guyhenne/ the which his predecessors hadden holden afore him or else he would it win with dint of sword in short time with the help of almighty god/ And than the dolphin of france an suerd to our ambassadors. and said in this manner that the King was over young & to tender of age to make any were/ as ay●…nst him. & was not like yet to be no good warrior to do & to make such a conquest thereupon him/ And s●… what in scorn & despyce he sent to him a ton full of tenies balls/ by cause he would have somewhat for to play with all for him & for his Lords. and that be come him better than to maintain any were, And than anon our Lords that were ambassadors token her leave & comen in to england again/ & told the King & his counsel of the ungodly an swear that they had of the dolphin/ and of the present/ ●…e which he had sent unto the King/ And when the King had heard her words & answer of the dolphin/ he was wonder sore agr●…d & right evil paid to ward the frenchmen, and toward the King & the dolphin/ & thought to avenge him upon 'em/ as soon as god would send him grace & might/ and anon le●… make tenies balls for the dolphin in all the haste that they might be made and they were great gone stones for the dolphin to play with all And than anon the King sent for all his Lords & held a great coum ceylle at westmynstre and told unto 'em the answer/ that they hadd●… of the dolphin and of his worthy present/ that he sent to him and to his Lords to play with all/ And there the King & his lords weren acorded that they should be ready in arms with her power in the best a●… that might be done/ And get men of arms and archer's that might be gotten/ & all other stuff that longed to were & to be ready with all her retinue to meet at 〈◊〉 hampton by lammasse n●…t se wing without any delay/ wherefore the King ordained his navy of ships with all manner of stuff, and victual/ that longed to such a warrior of all manner ordinance in the haven of southampton in to the number of/ CCC/ xx/ sailles And than fell there a great disease and a foul mischief/ for there were three Lords/ which that the King trust moche on/ & through ●…ls covetise they had purposed and imagined the kings death And thought to have slain him/ and all his brethren/ or he had take the see/ the which were named thus/ Sir Richard earl of Cambridge brother to the duke of york/ the second was the lord S●…ope Tresoryer of Englond/ the third was Sir Thomas grey knight of the Northcount●…/ And these Lords afore said for lucre of money had made promise to the frenchmen for to have slain King Henry & all his worthy brethren by a falls train soden●…ch or they had be ware/ But almighty god of his great grace held his holy hand over 'em/ & saved 'em from this perilous meinie And for to have done this they received of the frenchmen a mill lion of gold/ And that was there openly proved, And for her false treason they were all there judged unto the death/ And this was the judgement/ that they should be lad through Hampton And without N●…thgate there to be heeded, And thus they ended her life for her false covetise and treasonne/ 〈◊〉 anon when this was done/ the King and all his meinie made 'em ready & wenten to ship/ & token/ & sailed forth with xv C ships/ and arrived with in sayen at kydecause upon our Ladies 〈◊〉 the assumption in Normandye with all his ordinance. and so went him forth to haref●…ete/ and besieged the town all about by land and eke by water/ And sent to the capitain of the town/ & charged him for to deliver the town/ And the capitain said/ that he none delivered him/ 〈◊〉 none he would to him yield/ but bade him done his best/ And than our King laid his ordinance unto the town. that is for to say/ guns/ engines/ & Trip gets, & shet●…en and ●…st to the walls/ and eke unto the town/ And cast down both tou●…s and town/ and laid 'em unto the ground. and there he played at the tenies with his hard gone stones/ And they that were within the town when they should play/ their song was well away/ And alas that ever any such tenies balls were made/ & cursed all though that were began/ & the time that ever they were borne/ And on the morrow the King did cry at every gate of the town. that every man should be ready on the morrow early to make assault unto the town, And William Bouchyer. & Johan grant with xij other worthy Burgeys comen to the King & besought him of his rial princehode and power to withdraw his malice & destruction/ that he died unto 'em/ and besought him of eight days of respi●…e and ●…rewes, if any rescue might come unto 'em/ and else to yield up the town unto him with all her goods/ And than the King sent forth the capitain/ and kept the remnant still with him/ And the lord Gaucorte/ that was captain of the town went forth to Rone in all haste unto the dolphin for help & succour/ But there was none, ne no manner of rescue/ for the dolphin would not abide. And thus this capitain come again unto the King and yield up the town/ and delivered him the keys, And than he called his uncle the Earl of Dorsett/ and made him capitain of the town of harflete/ and delivered him the keys. and bad him gone to put out all the french people/ both men. women and children/ and stuffed this town of harflete with english men/ And than the King sent in to Englond/ and did 〈◊〉 in every good town of england. that what crafty man would come thither and inhabit him there in that town. he should have house and household to him and his heirs for evermore. And so thydder went many diverse merchants & crafty men/ and inhabited 'em there to strength the town and weren welcome/ And when the King saw that this town was well stuffed/ ●…o the of v●…yll and of men/ this worthy prince took his leave/ and went to Caleys ward by land. And the frenchmen herd of his coming/ they thought to stop him his weigh/ that he should not pass that way and in all the haste that they might breaken all the bridges there any passage was for horse & man/ in so much/ that there might noman pass over the rivers neither on horse/ ne on foot/ but if ●…e should be drowned. And therefore our King with all his people went and sought his weigh f●…r up unto paris ward/ and there was all the rial power of france assembled/ and ready to give him battle/ and for to destroy all his people/ But almighty god was his guide. and saved him and all his meinie & defended him of his enemies power & purpose, thanked be god that saved so his own knight and King in his rightful title/ And than our King beholding & seeing the multitude & number of his enemies to with stand his weigh, & give him battle/ Than the King with a meek heart & a good spirit life up his hands to almighty god & besouȝ●… him of his help & succour/ & that day to save his true servants And than our King gathered all his Lords and other people about and bade 'em all be a good cheer/ for they should have a fair day & a gracious victory/ & the better of all her enemies/ & prayed 'em all to make 'em ready unto the battle/ for he would rather be deed that day in the field than to be take of his enemies/ for he would never put the ream of england to ransom for his person/ and the Duke of york fell on knees. & besought the King of a bone that he would grant him that day the avauntward in his battle, And the King granted him his asking, And said grant mercy cousin of york/ and prayed him to make him ready. And than he bade every man to ordain a stake of tree/ & sharp both ends that the stake might be pight in the earth a slope that her enemies should not overcome 'em on horsbak/ for that was her false purpose & arrayed 'em all there for to over ride our meinie suddenly at the fyrsts coming on hem at the first bront/ & all night to fore the battle the frenchmen made many great fires and moche revel with houting and shouting and played our King & his Lords at the dise/ & an archer alway for a blank of her money/ For they wenden all had been here' the morn aroos/ the day 'gan spring/ and the king by good advice let array his battle, and his wings & charged every man to keep 'em hole together. & prayed 'em all to be of good cheer/ And when they were ready/ he asked/ what time of the day it was. & they said prime/ Than said our King/ now is good time/ For all england praith for us/ and therefore be of good cheer/ and let us go to our journey/ And than he said with an high voys/ In the name of almighty god/ & of saint George a vaunt banner/ and saint George this day thine help/ And than these frenchmen come priking down/ as they would have over riden all our meinie/ But god & our archer's made hem soon to stumble/ For our archer's ●…et never arrow amiss but it perished and brought to ground man or whores/  
For they shoten that day for a wager/ And our stakes made 'em top over terve each on other that they lay on heaps two sp●… length of heygthe/ and our King with his meinie & with his men of arms & archer's that thakked on 'em so thikke with arewes/ & saide on with stakes/ & our King with his own hands fought manly/ And thus almighty God and saint George brought our enemies to ground/ and gave 〈◊〉 that day the 〈◊〉 rye/ & there were slain of frenchmen that day in the field of again court more than/ xj. m. with prisoners that were taken/ And there were numbered that day of frenchmen in the field moo than. vj. score thousand/ and of Englishmen not/ seven/ m/ But god that day fought for us/ And after come their tidings to our King/ that there was a new battle of frenchmen ordained ready to steel on him/ and comen towards him/ anon our King let cry. that every man should slay his prisoners that he had take/ and anon array his battle again ready to fight with the frenchmen/ And when they saw that our men killed down her prisoners/ thonne they withdrowen 'em/ and broke her battle and all her a●…ye/ And thus our King/ as a worthy conqueror/ had that day the victory in the field of Agyncourt in py●…rdye/ And than our King returned again there that the battle was, to see what people were deed of englishmen/ and if any were hurt that might be holp/ And there were deed in the field the Duke of 〈◊〉/ The Duke of Alaunsone/ the Duke of Braban/ the Earl of naver ne/ the chief Constable of france/ and eight other Earls/ & the archbishop of Sans, and of good Barons an ninety, and moo/ and of worthy knights of great alliance of cote ●…res a thousand and five ninety, And of englishmen was deed that day the good Duke of york/ and the Earl of Southfolke/ and of all other of englishmen there were not deed passing xxuj. bodice. thanked be God/ And this battle was on a Friday/ which was Cryspyne and Crispynyanes' day in the month of October And anon the King commanded to bury hem/ & the 〈◊〉 of york to be carried forth with him/ and the Earl of Southfolke/  
And there were prisoners the Duke of orleans. the duke of Burtone/ the Earl of ●…done. the Earl of Ewe/ the earl of Rychemond, and Sir Bursigaut marchal of Fr●…ūce. and many other ●…thy fords weren there taken in this battle of Agyncourt and were brought unto the ●…ne of Caleys, and so over the See with the King in to Englond/ and landed at dover in 〈◊〉 with all his prisoners in sau●…, thanked be god almighty/ And so come to Cannterbury and off●…d at saint Thomas shrine/ And so forth he road through kent's the next way to Eltham/ and there he rested till that he would come to london, And than the mayre of london and the Aldermen sheriffs with all the worthy commu ners and crafts comen to blacketh well and worthily arrayed to welcome our King with diverse melodyes'/ And thanked tho almighty god of his gracious victory, that he had showed for him/ And so the King & his prisoners passed forth by hem, till he come to saint Thomas watering, And there met with him all religions with procession. and welcomed him/ And so the King come riding with his prisoner's through the city of london where that there was showed many a fair sight at all the conduits/ & at the cross in cheap/ as in heavenly array of Angels archangel's ●…atryarches/●…hetes/ & virgins with diverse melodies sensing and singing to welcome our King/ And all the conduits tenning with win And the King passed forth unto saint ●…oules and there met with him ●…ij Bishops truessed and my●…red with sens●…rs to welcome the King And sungen for his gracious victory Ce dum laudamus/ And there the King offered and took and toad to westmynsere And than the mayor took his leave of the King and toad home again And in the third year of King ●…ryes regne the fifth come the Emperor of almain King of to me & of hungary in to Englond and so to the city of london  
And the mayre & the Aldermen with the sheriffs and worthy crafts of london by the kings commandment met with him on the blacketh in the best a●…y that they could on horseback  
And there they welcomed him/ and brought him to london with moche honour and great reverence/ And at saint Thomas wa●…ryng there met with him the King with all his Lords in good a●…ye/ And there was a worthy meeting between the Emperor and the King/ & there they kissed to geders & 'em 〈◊〉 each other/ And than the King took the Emperor by the ●…nde/ And so they come tiding through the city of london unto saint Paul'S/ & there they a●…yght and offered/ and all the Bishops stooden ●…uessed with sensers in her hands sensing/  
And than they token her horse/ and riden unto westminster/ And there the King lodged the Emperor in his own palace/ And there he rested him a great while/ and all at the Kings eos te/ And soon after come the Duke of holland in to england to come and see there the Emperor/ and to speak with him/ & with King Henry of Englond/ And he was worthily received and lodged in the bishops inn of Ely. And all at the Kings ceste/  
And when the Emperor bade well rested him/ & seen the land in diverse parties & knew the commodities/ than by process of time he took his leave of the King/ but or he go he was made knight of the garter/ & reseryved/ & wered the livery/ & than he thanked the King & all his worthy Lords/ and than the King & he went over the see unto Caloys/ & abiden there long time to have an answer of the french King/ & a●… last it come/ & pleased him right nought And themperout took his leave of the King & passed forth in god's name/ and our King come over again in to england in all the haste that he might. & that was on saint Luke'S eve. that he come to lambehith/ & on the monday next after he come in to the parliament at west minster/ And in this same year was a great dearth of corn in En glond, but thanked be god it lasted not long. And in the 〈◊〉 year of King henry's reign the/ 〈◊〉/ he held his parliament at westmes tree in the beginning of the month of October/ & lasted unto the purification of our lady than next after/ and their was granted unto the King to maintain his wars/ both of spiritu●… & of tem poralce on hole tax & a disme/ And than anon the King prayed all his Lords to make 'em ready to strength him in his right/ and anon he let make a new retenue/ & charged all men to be ready at hampton in wytsonweke than next after without ●…ny delay/ And there the King made the Duke of Bedford protector and defender of his ream of england in his absence. & charged him to keep his laws/ & maintain both spirituelee & tempo●…/ And when the King had thus done/ & set●… all thing in his kind. On saint marks day/ that was that time hoketewysday. he took his horse at westminster/ & come riding to ●…oules/ and there he offered/ and took his leave. And so road forth through the 〈◊〉 taking his leave of all manner of people as well of pour as of rich p●…ng hem all in general to pray for him/ And so he road forth to saint George's/ and there he offered and took his leave of the mayre charging him to keep well his chambre/ and so road forth to hampton and their abode till his retinue were ready & comen/ for there was all his navy of shippe●… with his ordinance gathered and ●…l stuffed/ as longed to such a ryal King with all manner of victuals for such a ryal people/ as well for horse as for man, as longed for such a warrior/ that is to say Armure/ guns 〈◊〉. engines/ sows/ Bastyles/ Badges of leather/ scaling ladder's/ malles/ Spades/ shovels/ pykeys/ paveys/ bows/ and avewes/ Bowestrynges/ connes'/ chests/ and pipes full of arewes, as needed for such a worthy warrior that no thing was to seche. When time come thither come to him ships lad with gonnes, and gonnepoudre/ And when this was ready/ & his ●…nue come/ the King & his Lords with all his ryal host went to ship and token the see/ and sayleden in to Normandy. & landed at Tou ke upon the lammasse day than next/ And there he made/ xlviij/ knights at his landing/ And than the King hearing of many eemyes upon the see/ that is to say/ ix/ great hulks/ hulks galleys and ships/ that weren come to destroy his navy/ & anon he commanded the Earl of the March to be chief chieftain, and many other worthy Lords with him with men of arms and are chyers' to go to the see/ that none enemies defouled his navy. ne entered his land in no party for to distrouble his viage/ ne his tourueye/ And anon the Earl took his meinie/ & went to ship/ and skimmed the see/ and kept the see costs/ that no manner of enemy durst rout upon the see, And anon the King sent his heraudes unto the capitain of Touke/ & charged him to deliver him his castle and his town/ and else he should neither leave man ne child alyut/ And anon the captain/ and four other Burgeys of the town brought the keys to the King/ & lesought him of grace/ and the King delivered the keys to Sir Johan fly ●…y and made him capitain, and commanded him to put out all frenchmen both of the town & of the castle/ And there beside was the castle of lovers/ and thither the King sent the Earl mar chal with a fair meinie/ and assaulted the town/ anon it was yold to the Earl. & brought him the keys/ And he brought the keyes to the King/ & the King took him the keys/ and made him capitain of the castle of lovers, and of all that longed there to/ and charged him to deliver ou●… all the frenchmen/ And than the King held forth his weigh to Cane that was a strong town/ a fair/ and a rial castle therein/ And anon he sent his heraudes to the capitain/ and charged him to deliver the town/ and his castle/ or else he would hem get with strength of hand/ And they answered and said/ that he took 'em none/ ne none they would deliver unto him/ And than anon he laid his siege unto the town/ and laid gonnes on every side/ and be●… adoune both walls & towers/ 〈◊〉 slow moche peuple in her houses/ and eke in 〈◊〉/ And the good duke of Clarence layed a down the walls on his side unto the ground, And so within a while the King by his counsell assa●… the town all about/ And anon the Duke of Clarence had entered in to the town/ and slow down right till he come to the King/ and spared nether man ne child/ & ever they cried A clarence A Clarence/ and saint george/ And there was deed on the walls on the kings sides a worthy man that was called springs. the which the King commanded to be buried in the abbey of Cane fast by Willian conqueror on whose soul god have mercy/ Amen/ And than the King come in to the town with his brother the duke of Clarence. & many other worthy Lords with moche solemnity and mirth/ And than the King commanded the capitain to deliver him his castle/ And he besought the King to give him xiv days of respyre if any trscue would come/ and if none come to deliver him the keys & the cas tell at his commandment. And under this composition was the town and the castle of Bayous with other toun●…s fortresses & villages in to the number of fourteen upon the hill before the castle of Cane our King pight all his tents that seemed a town as much as Cane/ & by that come tidings that no rescue would come there/ And so at the xiv day at end the captain come out of the castle/ and delivered the keys and the castle to our King and Baious/ and the other/ xiv, towns' weren desyverd unto him also/ And anon the King delivered the keys to the disk of Clarence, and made him capitain both of the town and of the castle and made him captain of Baious/ and of all the other towns also/ And so entered the castle/ and the town also, and there he held saint georges feste, And there he made, 〈◊〉 knights of the bath there was sir ●…owys Robersart/ salyn, chay nigh/ mougomery/ and many other worthy men/ & the King commanded 'em for to put out all the frenchmen & women/ and noman so hardy to defoul no woman/ ne take no manner good away from 'em/ but let pass in peace in pain of death/  
And there passed out of the town in one day more than/ xv. C/ women/ And than our King let stuff the town and castle with englishmen/ and ordained there two captains. one for the town/ and another for the castle/ and charged hem upon her life for to keep well the town and the castle/  
And or our King went the●… he gate ●…aleys/ Newelyne. and layed a siege to Chyrburgh/ And that siege layed the Duke of glou cestre with a strong power and mighty/ and by process of time ga●… it/ and made there a capitain of the same town/ and the sa ●…e time the Earl of warrewyke layed siege to Dounfraunte/ and gate it and put therein a capitain/ And for to speak more of the Earl of the March that the King ordained to skymme the see. and to keep the costs of england for all manner enemies/ the wind arose upon 'em/ that they wend all to have be lost/ but through the grace of god almighty and good governance they riden afore wight all that storm, and there were lost. ij/ carykkes and two balyngers with merchandises/ and other goods and all the people that were within/ And another Carryck drofe before hampton/ and threw his mast over the town walls and this was on saint Bartholme wesday/ And when all this storm was cesed/ this worthy crle of March took his ships with his main/ and went to the see/ and landed in Normandye at hogs, and so riden forth toward the King/ And ever as he come the frenchmen fled/ And there come to hem an Anthony pygge and followed the host all that way till they come to a great water And there they dread to have been deed/ the water closed 'em so/ that they might no where get out/ But at the last god almighty and this pygge brought 'em out all safe, And there they caught a guide that knew all the country about. and he brought 'em through a quick sand/ and so in to a Ilo/ and their they took many prisoners in her way toward the King in her journey/ and so they comen unto Cane/ And there the King welcomed him and took his journey to Argentone/ And anon it was yold unto the King, and they had her lives/ and went her weigh/  
And than our King removed to a strong town that was called Cese/ and there was a fair minster/ and they yield it anon unto the King/ and than the King went from thence to Alaunsom and won the town and the bridge, And the King sent the Earl of warwick to a town that was called B●…lesme with a huge and a strong power/ and anon they yield/ and put 'em in the kings grace and in his mercy/ And so did many moo strong towns and castles that were in though parties, And from thence they went to ●…ernoyl in perch. and anon it was yold unto the king/ both town and castle. Bodies & goods at the kings grace And so the King gate and conquered all the towns and castles/ Pyses'/ strengths and abbeys unto pountlarge. And from thence unto the city of Rone/ And in the/ v/ year of King henry's reign the/ v/ Sir John oldecastel that was the lord Cob ham was arrested for heresy/ & brought unto the tour of london And anon after he broke out of the tour/ & went in to wales and there kept him long time/ And at the last the lord powies ●…ette with him & took him/ but he stood at great defence long time. and was sore wounded or he would be take/ And so the lord powies men brought him out of walis to london in a where l●…ole & so he was brought to westmynstre/ & there was examined of certain points that were put upon him/ & he said not nay/ & so he was convict of the clergy for his heresy & dampened before the justyces unto the death for treason/ And so he was lad unto the tour again/ & there he was laid on an hurdle. and draw through the city to saint guiles field/ & there was made a new pair of galewes, & a strong cl●…yne & a collar of iron for him/ & there he was hanged & brent on the galewes/ & all for his lewdness & his false owynyon/   

ANd in the/ uj/ year of King henry's reign the fifth be sent his uncle Sir Thonas' beaufort Duke of Ex●…tre with a ●…yre main of men of armesand archer's to fore the city of Rone, and there displayed his baver/ and sent heraudes unto the town/ & bad hem yield that city unto our King her lyege lord/ And they said he took 'em none to keep/ ne none he should have there but if it were right dear bought & moved with her hands. for o●…he answer would they none give but guns/ And there the Duke took good advisement of the ground all about. And anon there issued out of the city a great meinie of men of arms/ both on horseback and on foot. & anon our meinie met with 'em/ & overthre we an heap of 'em/ & there were slain and take/ thirty/ persons of right good men's bodies/ & the reemenaunt fled again in to the town And the Duke went unto pountlarge unto the King & told him all how he had sped/ and how him liked the ground/  
And anon as he was go they cast a down all her subbarbes about the city unto the hard ground, For the King there no refres sh should have at his coming/ And the Friday before lammasse day than next following our King with his host come before rone/ & anon he set his siege round about that city/ & anon sere ley his ordinance unto the town/ and the King & his lords weren lodged in the Charterhouse/ & great strength about hem/ & that was in the ●…ost party of the city/ And the dust of Clarence lodged him at the west end in a waist Abley before the port chaux And the dust of Excestre in the northside before the port Beau vesyn/ And between the Duke of Clarence and the Duke of Excestre was the Earl Marchal lodged with a strong power before the castle gate/ And than was th'earl of Ormond the lord haryngton/ & the lord Talbot with her retinue next him/ And than Sir John cornwall. & many other noble knights of name with her retinue lay with the Duke of Clarence. And from the duke of Excestre toward the King were lodged the lord Roos the lord of wylluby. the lord fytzhewe. & sir william porter knight/ with her retinue before the port of saint hyllare/ And than was th'earl of mortayne with his retinue lodged in the Abbey of saint katerynes/ And the Earl of Salysbury with his retinue lay on that other side of saint kateryns, & sir John grey knight was lodge at the abbey that is called mount saint mychel/ And sir phe lip leche knight the kings treasurer was lodged between the water of sayen & the Abbey/ and kept the ward under the hill/ & the baron of Carowe was lodged under the water side to keep the passage/ And Jenyco the squire lay next to him on the water side/ And the ij squires kept manly the water of sayen/ & fought with her enemies oft-times/ & on that other side of sayen lay th'earl of huntyngdon/ & master nevil the Earls son of westmoreland And sire gylbert umfrevylle Earl of kyme/ and Sir Richard of Arundel/ and the lord feryers with her retinue before Ports du pounte/ And each of these Lords had strong ordinance/ and the King did make at pountlarge over the water of say a strong and a mighty chain of Iren. and put it through great piles fast pight in the ground/ and that went over the river of sayen that no vessel might pass that in no kind/ and above that they ne the King let make a bridge over the water of sayen. that man & horse and all other carriage might go to and fro at all times when need were, And than come the Earl of warwick and had goat Dounfront unto the King henry of england/ And anon the King sent the Earl of warrewyke to Cawdebeke to besiege it/ And when he come before the town he sent his herau des unto the captain/ and bad him yield the town upon pain of death/ And anon he layed his siege/ And the Capytayn besought the Earl that he might come to his presence and speak with him/ And so the good Earl granted him/ And than he come out and four other Burgeys with him/ and entreated so with this Earl/ that this same town was under composition to done as the city of Rone did/ and the Earl granted and consented there to upon this condition that the kings navy with his ordinance might pass up by hem in safety without any manner let or dysturbaūc●… & to his composition they set to her seabrs/ And the ships passed up by hem in safety/ and come before the city of Rone in to an hundred ships. and there they cast her anchors/ and than this city was besieged both by land & by water/ & when all this was done & ships comen up/ than come th'earl of warrewyke again to the King/ and lodged him between the Abbey of saint kateryns & the King/ till that the Abbey entreated/ and was yold unto the King/ And than he removed him thence/ & lodged him before port martenuylle/ And though was th'earl of Salysbury commanded by the King to make him ready to ride. but there come hasty tiding & made him to abide/ and so he returned again & lodged him beside th'earl of Huntyngdone/ till the siege was ended And than come the duke of Gloucestre the kings brother from the siege of Chyrbourgh/ the which he had wonnen & gotten/ and stuffed again unto the Kings behove and profit unto the crou ne of Englond. And when he was come to the King before Ro ne/ anon he lodged with great ordinance before port saint hill lare more near the town and his enemies/ than any other lay by xl. Rods of length within shot of quarrel/ And with him lay the Earl of Southfolke. and the lord of bergeveny with all her retinue and strong ordinance/ & manly & proudly fought every day with her enemies ever when they issued out of the city And than come the prior of kylmayne of Irland over the see unto the King with a fair main of men of arms of her own country guise/ the some of xv C good men's bodies/ & the King welcomed 'em & made 'em right good chiere/ and than come tidings unto the King/ that the King of France and the dolyhyn & the duke of Burgoyne would come a down to rescue the city of Rone with a strong power of all manner of nations/ & break the siege/ & he casted him to entre on the northside of the host/ by cause that there was the best entre and most plain ground/ and there fore the King assigned the prior of kylmayne with his power and lodged him on the northside of the host to stop her passage, and was by the forest of lions. And of this ordinance they were full glad/ And so they went forth in haste, and kept gronnd and the place that the King & his council had assigned 'em/ And they qnytte hem as good werryours unto her King/  
Now will I tell you which were the chief captains & governonrs of the city of Rone/ Messyre Guy Botilere was chief capitain both of the city and of the castle And Messyre Termegan was capitain of port de Cavy/ messyre de la Roche was captain of the dysners/ messyre Authonye was lieutenant to messyre Guy botiller/ Henry chantfyen was capitain of the port de la pount/ Johan mantrevas was captain of the port de la chastel/ messyre de preaux was capitain of the port of saint hillarye/ the Bastard of Tyne was captain of the port martenuylle. And grant Jaques a worthy werr your was capitain of all men of war/ And he was governor outward both on horseback & a foot of all men of arms when they issued out of the city of all the ports/ he hem arrayed as they should country with our meinie/ & each of these captains lad/ v. M/ men of arms & some more/ And at the first coming of our King there were numbered by heraudes in to/ ccc, M/ of men & women & children what young & old/ & among all these was many a manful man of his hands/ & so they proved 'em when they issued out of the city both on horseback, and on foot/ for they come never at one gate out alone but at iij or iiij gates/ & at every gate ij or iij M of good men's bodies y armed & manfully countred with our englishmen/ & moche people slain diverse times with guns quarrels and other ordinance. And this siege du red/ xx, weeks, And ever they of the town hoped to have be rescued/ but their come none/ so at last they kept so long the town that there died many thousands within the town for default of meet of men of women & of children/ for they had eaten her horse dogs & cats that were in the town/ And oft-times the men of arms drofe out the power people out of the gates of the town for spending of victual, And anon our englishmen drofe 'em in to the town again/ so at the last the capitain of the town saw the meschyet that they were not rescued/ and also the scarcity of victual, and that the people so deide for default of meet every day many thousands/ And also saw young children lie and suck her moders paps and weren deed/ Than anon they sent unto the King beseeching him of grace and mercy, and brought the keys of the town unto the King & delivered the town to him/ and all the soldiers wyded the town with her horse and harness. & the comyns of the town for to a bide and duelle still in the town yearly to pay to him and to his successors for all manner customs and fee fermes and katrremes/ And than the King entered in to the town and rested him in the Castelle till the town was set in re wle and in governance/   

How the King of england was made herityer & regent of feaū●…r/ and how he wedded Queen katrryne/ Caᵒ/ CC/ xlᵒ/  
ANd anon after that Rone was gotten/ deep/ & many other towns in baas Normandye gave them over withonte stroke or siege when they understood that the King had gotten Rone/ Also this same year had been a peace made and sworn between the duke of Burgoyne & the dolphin. Which were sworn up on our lords body that they should love & assist each other against their enemies/ and after this contrary to this oath/ the dole Johan of Burgoyn was slain/ and piteously murdered in the presence of the dolphin/ wherefore the frenchmen were greatly divided & of very necessity labourid to have a trayttye with the King of england/ For the King of england won daily of them towns cas tells & fortresses/ Also this same year was Queen Jane arrested & brought to the castle of ledis in kent/ And one frere rndolf a do ctor of divinity her confessor/ which afterward was slain by the person of the tower falling at words & debate/ and after Queen Jane was delivered/ In the. seven, year both Kings of france & of england were acorded/ & King henry was made heir & regent of france/ & wedded dame kateryn the kings daughter of france at Troyes in champayn on trinity Sunday. And this was made by the mean of phelyp newly made Duke of Burgoyn/ which was sworn to King henry/ for t'avenge his fathers death & was be come english. And thenne the King with his new wife went to Paris/ where he was rially received/ And from thence be with his Lords & the Duke of Burgoyne & many other Lords of France layed siege to diverse towns and castles that held of the dolphins partyns/ and won hem/ but the town of Melun held long for therein were good defenders. In the viij year the King. & the Queen come over see/ & landed on Candelmas day in the morrow at dover/ And the/ xiv day of Feverer the King came to london/ & the xxj day of the same month the Queen come/ and the xxiv day of the same she was crowned at westmestre/ Also the same year anon after ester. the King held a parliament at westmestre/ at which parliament it was ordained that the gold in english coin should le weighed. & none received but by weight/ And anon after wit sontyde the King sailed to Caleys/ and passed so forth in to france And in March the xxij day before the King came over/ the Duke of clarence was slain in feaunce/ & diverse other Lords take priso ners as th'earl of huntingdon/ th'earl of somerset with dyuse other And all was because they would not take with hem archie●… but thought to have do with the frenchmen themself without hem And yet when he was slain the archer's come & rescued the body of the Duke/ which they would have carried with 'em/ god have mercy on his soul/ he was a valiant man, And the same year between Cristemasse & candelmasse the town of melun was yoleden to the King/ In the ix year on saint nycholas day in december was born henry the kings first bygoten son at windsor, whose god fathers at fontstone was heury Bishop of wynchestre. & John Duke of Bedford/ & the Duchess of holland was godmod●…/ & henry chi cheley archbishop of canterbury was godfadre at confermyn●… And in the x year the city of mews in brye was gotten which had been long besieged. And this same year the Queen shipped at hamp ton & sailed over to the King in france/ where she was worshipfully received of the King/ & also of the King of france her father & of her mother, And thus King henry won fast in france & held great estate/ & sat at dinner at a great feast in paris crowned & the Queen also/ which had not been seen to fore/ & all people resorted unto his court/ but as to the King of france he held none estate ne rule/ but was left almost alone// Also this year the whethercock was set upon poulus steeple at london/ And this year in the month of August the King wax seek at boys de vyncent/ & when he saw he should die/ he made his testament, & ordained many things nobly for his soul/ & devoutly received all the rights of holy church/ in so farforth that when he was anointed/ he said the servi se with the priest/ & at the vers of the psalm/ miserere mei deus that was benign fac dne in bona voluntate tua syon ut edificentur muri Ihr●…m/ he bad tarry there & said thns/ O good lord thou knowest that mine intent hath been & yet is if I might live to reed fie the walls of Ihr●…m, & thenne the priest proceeded forth & made an end/ and anon after this most noble Prince & victorious King flower in his time of christian chivalry/ whom all the world doubted gave his soul in to the hands of god. & deyde/ & made an end of his natural life at the said Boys de vyncent beside paris the xxxuj year of his age/ on whose soul god have mercy/ amen Then was the body enbamed & cered/ & leide in a rial chare & an image like unto him was laid upon the corpse open with dy●…se banners & horse covered richly with th'arms of england & france & also thold arms of saint Edward'S, saint edmond & other & with great multitude of torches/ with whom went the King of scotland & many other Lords which accompanied the body till it come un westmestre by london in england. and in every town by the weigh he had solemnly his dirige on theven, & mass on the morn. and moche alms was yeven to pour people by the way/ & the seven day of November after the corpse was bronght through london with grete reverence/ & solemnity to westmynstre where he now lieth/ it was worshipfully buried/ & after was laid on his tomb a ryal y mage like to himself of silver & guilt/ which was made at the cost of Queen kateryne/ And thus ended & is entered & buried the noble King henry the fifth/ on whose soul & all christian souls god have mercy  
Amen.   

Of the laud of King henry the fifth/ & what he ordained for King Richard. & for himself after his death. Capitulo ducentesimo/ xlvjᵒ/  
HEre is to be noted that this King henry the/ v, was a noble prince after he was King & crowned/ how be it tofore in his youth he had been wild reckless/ & spared no thing of his lusts ne desires, but accomplished them after his liking/ but as soon as he was crowned/ anointed & sacred/ anon suddenly he was chaūged in to a new man/ & set all his intent to live virtuously in maintaining of holy church/ destroying of heretics. Keeping Ius 'tice/ & defending of his ream & subgettes/ And for as much as his father had deposed by his labour/ the good King Richard/ & piteously made him to die/ & for th'offence done to him against his lygeaunce/ he had sent to rome to be assoilled thereof/ for which off●…ce the pope our holy father enjoined him to make him be prayed for perpetuelly, & like as he had done to be taken from him his natural life/ therefore he should do found/ iiij/ tapers to burn perpetuelly about his body/ that for the extynction of his bodily life his soule may ever be remembered/ & live in heaven in spirituel life/ & also that he should every week on the day as it cometh about of his death have a solemn mass of requien/ on the even afore a dirige with ix lessons/ & a dole to pour people alway on that day of xj shillings. viij/ pens to be dealed penny melo/ And ones in the year at his anniversary his terement to be holden in the most honest wise, & to be dealed that day/ xx/ pound in pens to pour people, and to every monst to have xx shillings/ which all these things performed this noble King for his father/ for King henry the iiij his father per form it not during his ●…f/ whom as it is said god touched and was a leper ere he died/ Also thenne this noble prince let do call all the abbots & priors of saint benets order in england/ & had them in the chapter house of westmynstre for the reformation of the order wheryn he had comynycation, And also with Bishops & men of the spiritualty/ in so farforth that they doubted sore/ he would have had the temporaltees out of their hands. Wherefore by thaus' labour & procuring of the spiritualty encouraged the King to challenge normandy/ & his right in france/ to then the to set him a work there that he should not seek occasions to entre in to such matters/ & all his life after he laboured in the werrys in conquering great part of the ream of france/ that by the agreement of the King charlys had all the governance of the ream of france/ & was proclaimed regent & heir of france/ And so not withstanding all this greet were that he had/ yet he remembered his soul●…/ & also that he was mortal/ & must die/ for which he ordained by his life the place of his sepulture/ where he is now buried/ & every day three masses per tuelly to be sungen in a fair chapel over his sepulture/ of which the myddedel mass/ & the first/ & alas mass shall be as is assigned by him/ as it appeareth by these versys fool wing/  

Henrici miss quinti sunt hic tabulate/  
Que successive sunt per monachos celebrate/   

Die d●…ca  
Prima sit assumpte, de festo virgins alme/  
Poscit postremam/ xpuns de morte resurgens/   

Feria. ij,  
P●…ma salutate/ festo virgins ●…xtal/  
Nunaat ang●…cis/ laudem postrema choris/   

Feria iij  
Esse deum natum de virgine prima fatetur/  
Commemorat natam/ sic ultima missa mariam/   

Feria iiij  
Prima ' cebebretur/ ad honorem neupmatis almi/  
Vltima conceptam/ denunciat esse mariam/   

Feria v.  
Semper prima coli/ debet de corpore cristi/  
Vltima sit facta/ de virgine purificata/   

Feria uj,  
Concedet ut prima/ celebretur de cruce sancta,  
Atque salutate/ fi●…t postrema marie●….   

S●…bbato  
Omnes alij scons/ est prima colenda supernos/  
Vltima de requie, pro defunctis petit esse.  
Semper erit media, de proprietate dei/   
And yet the noble King henry the. v, founded/ ij/ houses of religion, one called Zion beside braynford of th'order of saint Brigitte both of men & women/ & on that other side of the river of tamy see an house of monks of chartrehou●…/ in which two places he is continually prayed for night & day/ for ever when they of sion rest they of the Charterhouse done their service/ and in like wise when they of the Charterhouse rest/ the other goon to/ & by the ringing of the bellis of either place/ each knoweth when they have ended their service/ which he nobly endowed/ & done daily there great alms deeds as in the Charterhouse certain children been found to scole/ & at zion certain alms given daily/ And yet beside all this he hath founded a recluse/ which shall be alway a priest to pray for him by the said Charterhouse/ which priest is well & sufficiently endo wed for him & a servant, Co here may all princes take ensample by this noble prince/ that regning so little time not fully, x/ year did so many noble acts/ as well for his soul to be perpetuelly remembrid & prayed for/ as in his worldly conquestis, & he being in his most lusty ag●… despised & eschewid sin, & was virtuous & a great justicer/ in so much that all the princes of christendom dread him & also of hethenes'/ & had determined in himself/ if god would have spared him/ that he would have warrayed again the saracenes/ & for to know the aid of other princes & all the passages in the journey he sent a knight of henaud named sir hugh de lanoye unto Jerusalem but e●… he returned, he died at boys du vyncent in the xxxuj y●…w. of his age. on whose soul god have mercy/  
Amen/   

How King henry the/ uj/ reigned being a child not one year of age/ & of the battle of vernoyl in perch/ Caᵒ/ CC/ xlvij/  
AFter King henry the/ v. reigned henry his son but a child & not fully a year old/ whose reign begun the first day of september the year of our lord M/ cccc/ xxij/ This King being in his cradle was much doubted & dread by cause of yegrete conquest of his father & also the wisdom & guiding of his uncles the Duke of bedford & the Duke of gloucester/ This year the xxj day of Oc●… died charles King of france/ & lieth buried at saint denys/ & then was the Duke of bedford made regent of france, & the Duke of gloucester was made protector & defender of england/ & the first day of march after was sir Willian taillour priest degrated of his priesthood. & on the morn after he was brent in smythfeld for heresy/ This year sir James steward King of Scots married dame Jane the Duchess dou ghter of clarence of her first husband th'earl of somerset at saint marry overayes/ Also this year the xvij day of august was the ba tail of vernoil in perch between the Duke of bedford regent of france & the Duke of alaunson/ which was a great battle, The Duke of bed ford had on his side with him th'earl of salisbury mountagu/ & the the lord Talbot/ & all the power that they could make in normandy the garnisons kept/ And also many captains with much people of the Duke of Burgoyns/ & on that other side was the Duke of a launson/ the Duke of Turon/ that was th'earl douglas/ th'earl of bou gham with many Lords of france/ & great company of Scots/ & are mynakes, And then th'earl douglas called the Duke of bedford Johan with the leaden sword. & he sent him word again that he should find that day/ that his sword was of stel/ And so the battle joined on both sides/ & fought long/ that there wist no man who should have the better a great while/ but at last as god would/ the victory fell unto the english party/ For there were slain th'earl douglas which a little before was made Duke of turone the Earl of bowhayne/ the Earl of Almarre/ th'earl of Tounar/ the Earl of vaunedore, and the vysecounte of Nerbonne/ which was one of 'em that slow Johan Duke of burgoyve kneeling to fore the dolphin and many moo unto the number of/ x/ thousand and more/ And there was taken prisoner the Duke of alaun son and many other sordes & gentiles of france/ but Scots that day were slain down right the substance of them all/  
In the third year of King henry the/ uj, the duke of gloucester married the Duchess of holland/ and went over see with her in to henaude for to take possession of his wife's inheritance/ where he was honourably received and taken for lord of the land/ But soon after he was fain to return home again and left his wife and his treasure that he brought with him in a town that is called Mounce in henaude. which promised for to be true to him/ not withstanding they delivered the lady to the Duke of Burgoyne which sent her to gaunt/ And from thence she escaped in a man's array and come in to zealand to a town of her own called zierixee And fro thence she went to a town in holland called the Ghowde. and there she was strong enough/ and withstood the said duke of burgoyne/ And soon after the Duke of Gloucestre sent over in to Zealand the lord fitzwater with certain men of were and archer's for to help & succour the foresaid Duchess of holland which louded at a place in zealand called brewer's haven, where the Lords of the country come down/ and fought with him, and in conclu sion he was fain to withdraw him & his meinie to the see agey ne/ But yet he slew and hurt diverse Lords, and moche people of that same country/ And so returned home again with his meinie/ and prevailed nothing/ Also this same year earl of Salysbury/ the earl of Suffolk/ the board wylby & the lord Scalis with their retinue layed siege to the city of Mauns the which city was yoleden to them in short time with many other strong towns & castles to the number of xxxuj, This time all Normandye/ & a great part of france unto orleans was under tho●…eysaunce of the King of england/ And all the remnant of france was in great tribulation and mischief.   

How there was a great affray like to have been between the Car dynal. & the duke of gloucester, And of the coronation of King Henry the syxthe/ both in Englond & in france, Capitulo/ CC/ xlviij/  
IN thee/ iiij/ year the same night that the mayre of london Johan coventry had taken his charge/ was a great watch in london for affray/ that was between the Bishop of wynchestre/ & the Duke of Gloucetre protector/ For the mayre with the people of the city would abide by the Duke of gloucester/ as protector of the ream/ but by labour of Lords that went between and in especial by the labour of the prince of portyngale, there was a ●…oyntement taken/ that there was none harm done/ and after the bata ill of vernoyll in perch the Duke of Bedford come over in to england/ And on whitsunday this same year at leicester he dubbed King henry knight/ And forthwith the said King henry dubbed all these knights, whose names follow/ that is to wete Richard Duke of york, Also the son and heir of the Duke of Norfolk/ the earl of Oxenford/ the Earl of westmoreland/ the son and heir of the Earl of Northumberland/ the son and heir of the Earl of ●…mond/ the lord Roos/ Sir James buteler/ the lord mat●…uas/ sir Henry grey of Tankeruylle/ Sir william neuyl lord Falconbridge/ sir george nevil lord latymer/ the lord wells/ the lord berke ley/ the son & heir of the lord Talbot/ sir Rauf grey of work Sir Robert veer/ Sir Richard grey, Sir Edmond hongerford Sir Robert wynfeld. Sir Johan boteler/ Sir Raynold cobham Sir Johan passhely/ Sir Thomas Tunstal, Sir Johan Chidyo oak/ Sir Rauf langford/ Sir william drury/ Sir william a●… Thomas/ sir Richard Carbonel. Sir Richard wedenyl●…, sir John shyrdelowe, sir nychol blonket/ Sir Rauf ratt●…clyfe/ sir edmond t●…f ford/ Sir william chain. sir Willian babyngton/ sir John June/ sir Gylbert Beauchamp/ Item in the/ v/ year the dust of Bedford with the Duchess his wife went over see to Caleys/ And a little tofore went over Harry Bishop of wynchestre/ And on our lady day Annunciation in our lady church at Caleys the Bishop of wynchestre when he had song mass was made cardinal/ and he kneeling to fore the high altar the Duke of Bedford set the ●…att on his heed/ and there were his bulls red. as well of his charge. as the w●…oysyng of his benefices spiritual and temporal/  
And this same year was great abundance of rain, that the substance of hay and of corn was destroyed/ For it rained almost every other day/ This same year the good Earl of Salisbury Sir Thomas Mountagu layed siege unto orleans/ at which siege he was slain with a gone▪ which come out of the town on whose soule god have mercy/ for sith that he was slain english men never gate ne prevailed in france, but ever after began to lose little and little/ till all was lost/ Also this same year a Breton murdered a good widow in her bed without algate/ which we do we found him for alms/ and he bore away all that she had And after this he took the grith of holy church at saint George's in Southwerk/ and there took the cross/ and forswore this land And as he went it happened that he came by the place where he did this cursed deed in the subarbies of london/ and the women of the same parish come out with stones and canel dung/ and slow and made an end of him▪ notwithstanding the constable's & many other men being present to keep him/ For there were many women and had no pity, Also this same year the Duke of Norfolk with many gentlemen and yeomen took his barge thee/ vin/ day of Nonembre at saint marry overayes for to have go through london bridge/ and through misguiding of the barge it overthrew on the piles, and many men drowned/ but the Duke himself with. ij or three leap vpo●… 〈◊〉 ●…yles/ and so were saved with help of men that were above the bridge/ which casted down ropes/ by which they saved 'em self/ This same year on saint Lenardes' day King Henry being seven year of age was crowned at westmestre/ at whose coronation were made/ xxxuj/ knights/ This year on george org●…s day he passed over the see to Caleys toward france/ about this time and afore the Royame's being in great misery and tribulation the dolphin with his party began to make were & g●… te certain places & made destrusses upon englishmen by the me 〈◊〉 of his captains that is to weet la●…r & poton d●… seyntraylles and especial a maid which they named lafoy pucelle de dieu/ this maid rod like a man/ & was a valiant captain among them and took upon her many great enterprises/ in so much that they had a believe to have recovered all their losses by her▪ Notwithstan ding at last after many great feats by the help and prowess of Sir Johan Luxemb●…rgh/ which was a noble capitain of the dukes of Burgoyne/ and many englishmen/ picardes, and Burgoyngons/ which were of our party before the town of compine the/ twenty-three day of may the foresaid pucelle was taken in the field armed like a man/ and many other captains with her. And were all wrought to Rouen/ and there she was put in prison And there she was judged by the law to be brent, and then she said that she was with child/ whereby she was despited a●… while But in conclusion it was found that she was not with child/ And then she was brent in Rouen. And the other captains were put to ransom and entreated as men of war be●… acus●…d med/ etc./ This same year abont Candelmasse Richard hū●… hū●…der a wollepacker was dampened for an heretic/ & brent at tower hill/ And about mydlente Sir Thomas Baggely priest & vy●… rye of maven in Estsex beside walden was disgrated & dampn●…d for an heretic/ and brent in Smythfeld. And also in this same year whiles the King was in france there were many heretics and Lollards that had purposed to have made a rising & case bills in many places, but blessed be god almighty the Cap●… in of 'em was take/ whose name was william Maūde●…yle a we ver of abendon/ and bailie of the same town/ which named himself Ia●… sharp of wygmoresland in wales/ And afterward 〈◊〉 was beheaded at Abendon in the whitson week on the tewysdaye/ This same year the/ uj/ day of december King henry the▪ v●…/ was crowned King of france at paris in the church of our lady with great solemnity/ There being present the cardinal of england/ the Duke of Bedford/ & many other Lords of france & of england/ & after this coronation & great fest holden at paris the King returned from thence to Rouen, & so toward Caleys/ And thee, ix day of Fe verer landed at dover/ whom all the comyns of kent met at 〈◊〉 down between Caunterbury & Dover all in reed hoods/ And so come forth till he come to the blacketh/ where he was met with the mayre and Johan wells with all the crafts of london clad all in white/ And so they brought him to london the/ xxj/ day of the same month/ This same year was a restraint of the w●…llys of Caleys made by the soldiers because they were not paid of their wages/ wherefore the duke of Bedford regent of france being then captain came to Caleys the Tuesday in the ester week/ And on the morn after many soldiers of the town were arrested/ and put in ward/ And in the same week he road to tere wine/ And by the mean of the Bishop of Terewyn he wedded the Earls daughter of saint paul. and came again to Caleys/  
And the xj day of Juyn on saint Barnabes day there were iiij soldiers of Caleys that were chief causers of the restraint biheded. that is to weet Johan maddely. Johan lundaye/ Thomas palmer/ and Thomas Talbot. And an/ C/ &/ x/ banished the town that same time/ And before were banished ninety &/ xx, soldiers/ And on midsummer even after came the Lord regent & his wife to london/   

Caᵒ/ CCᵒ./ x●…xᵒ.  
About this time pope martin deyde, And after him eugeny the fourth was pope/ This was pesybly chosen in rome by the cardinal's/ and was very and indubitate pope/ But shortly after he was put and exp●…lsed out of Rome/ in such wise that he was fain to flee naked, An this same time was the counsel of basil. to which council he was cited to come/ & because he came not they deposed him/ but he wrought not ne set not thereby/ but gate the city of Rome/ and abode seyl pope xvij year/ This year about whytsontyde the heretics of praghe were destroyed/ for at ij journeys were destroyed of them more than xxij, M/ with her captains/ that is to weet/ ●…rocapius/ saplico & lupus presbyter. Also there was taken alive master pyers clerk an englisshman & heretic/ Also this same year was a great frost & a strong during xj weeks/ For it began on saint kateryns even, & lasted unto saint Scolastycays day in Feverer/ in which time the vintage that came from Bordeaux come over shooters hill/ This year was the counsel of Aras/ & a great troth yttye between the King of england. & the King of france/ where was assembled many great Lords of both parties/ at which coum ceyl was offered to the King of england many great things by the moyen of a legate that come fro rome/ which was cardinal of saint cross. Which offres were refused by the cardinal of england & other Lords that were there for the King/ wherefore the Duke of burgoyn which had been long englissh sworn forsook our/ & returned french by mean of the said legate, & made a peace with the french King receiving of the King for recompensing of his faders death/ the coū●…e pontieu the lordship of macon which much other as is specified in the said trayttye/ & so our enbassadours came home again in wrose case than they went/ For they lost there the Duke of burgoyn/ which had been with his bu●…goynons & pycardes a singular help 〈◊〉 all the conquest of Normandy & of france/ This same year was a great battle on the see between the Genoese & the King of Arragon/ of which battle the Genoese had the victory. for they took the King of Arragon/ the King of navarre and the great master of saint James in galyse with three ninety knights & squires/ & much other people, and this was on saint domynykies day/ This same year were seen three sons at one's/ And anon followed the threefold governannce in the church that is to weet of eugeny of the connseyll/ & of the neutraly●…e all so this same year M cccc xxxiiij was a passing greet wind/ by which steeples houses & trees were overthrown. About this time was an holy maid in holland called lydwith/ which lived only by miracle not eting any meet/ This year the Duke of bourgoyne began his order at lyle of the golden flies/ and ordained certain knights of the ordre/ and made statutes & ordinances much according unto the order of the gartre/ Also this same ●…re the frenchmen had enterprised to have stolen Caleys in the fiss▪ hang tyme. For many bootis of france had saufconduytes to come to calais for to take hearing/ and the soldiers of the town had a custom to come to church/ & leave their staves standing at church door, which staves the frenchmen which were arrayed like fishers had purposed so to have taken their weepen/ & win the town but one of them lay with a common woman the night tofore and told to her their counsel/ and she on the morn told the lieutenant which forthwith commanded that every man should keep his we pen in his hand sa●…ryng time and other/ And when they apper●…eyned this that they were myspoynted they sailed straight to De pe/ and stolen and took that town/ And on newyers even after they took harflete/ And thus englishmen began to lose a little/ and a little in normandy/   

How Caleys and guyves were besieged by the Duke of Bur●… goyne. and how they were rescued by the Duke of gloucester/ Capitulo CC/ lᵒ./  
●…His year was a great noise through all england/ how the duke of Bourgoyne would come and besiege Caleys/ wherefore the Earl of Mortayne with his army that he had for to have gone with in to france was countremaunded & charged that he should go to Caleys/ which was at that time well victual bed & manned/ for Sir John Ratclyf was lieutenant of the King in that town/ And the baron of dudley lieutenant of the castle And the/ ix/ day of Juyn the Duke of Burgoyne with all the power of flanders and moche other people come before Caleys and set his siege about the town. and every town of flanders had their tents by 'em self. And this siege endured iij weeks/ In the mean while the duke of gloucester being protector of Englond took the most part of the Lords of england/ & when te over the see to Caleys for to rescue the town or to fight with the duke & his host if they would have abiden/ This time london & every good town of england sent over see to this rescous certain people well arrayed of the best and chosen men for the war, and the ij day of August the said duke of gloucester arrived at Caleys with all his army/ and/ v/ ninety ships & moo/ And the Duke and all his host that lay in the siege as soon as they espied the sails in the see▪ before they approached Caleys haven/ suddenly in a morning departed fro the siege/ leaving behind them moche stuff & victual/ & fled in to flanders and py●…ardye/ and in like wise did the siege that lay to fore guynes/ where as they of Guynes took the greet gone of brass called dygeon/ & many other great gonnes and serpentynes/ And thenne when the Duke of gloucester was arrived with all his host, he went in to flaun dres/ and was therein xj days/ and died but little harm except he brent two fair villages, poppering/ and Belle/ and other houses/ which were of no strength. and so he returned home again/ Also this same year the King of Scotland besieged Rokesburgh with moche people/ But sire Rauf Gray departed fro the castle/ and ordained for rescous/ But as soon as the King understood his departing/ he suddenly broke his siege and went his way/ and leaving moche ordinance behind him/ where he gate no worship. This same year the second day of Janyver Queen Katheryn which was the kings mother/ and wife to King henry the fifth died & departed out of this world/ and was brought rially through london, and so to westmestre/ and there she lieth worshypfully buried in our lady chapel, And also this same year the xiv day of january fill done the gate with the tour on london bridge toward southwerke with two archis & all that stood thereon/ This same year was a great trayttye holden between graving and calais between the King and Duke of Burgoyn/ where for the King/ was the cardinal of england/ the Duke of Norfolk and many other Lords/ & for the Duke was the Duchess having full power of her lord as regent and lady of his lands. Whe●… was taken by thanuys of both parties an abstinence of were 〈◊〉 for a certain time in the name of the Duchess and not of the ●…uk because he had gone from his oath & ligeaunce that he had ma ●…e to King henry/ therefore the King never would write ne appoint ne have to do with him after/ but all in the Duchess name/ Also this same year Queen Jane died the ij day of evil which had been King henry the iiij wife, & was carried fro bermondesey unto Caunterbury/ where she lieth buried by King Henry the ●…ij her husband/ This same year died all the lions in the tower of london/ the which had not be seen many years before out of mind/   

How owayn's a squire of wales that had wedded Queen kate ryn was arrested/ and of the schism between eugeny and felix Capitulo/ CC/ ljᵒ./  
IN the xuj. Year of King henry deide Sygismond Emperor of Almaigne & knight of the garter/ whose terment the king kept at saint Paul'S in london rially/ where was made a ry all h●…rse/ & the King in his estate clad in blue was at even at di●…ge/ & on the morn at mass/ And after him was elect & chosen Albert Duke of ostrich/ which had wedded Sigismundus daughter for to be Emperor, This was taken & received to be King of beme & ungarye because of his wife that was sigismundus dou●…ter which left after him none other heir/ This Albert was 'em perour but one year/ for he was poisoned & so deide/ some say he d●…d of a flix/ but he was a virtuous man & pitiful so much that all the people that knew him said that the world was not worthy to have his presence. This same year one Owayn a squire of wa●…s a man of ●…owe birth/ which had many a day tofore secretly wedded Queen kateryne/ & had by her iij sons & a daughter was taken & commanded to newgate to prison by my lord of gloucestre protector of the ream/ And this year he broke prison by the mean of a priest that was his chaplain, & after he was taken again by my ●…ord ●…e mond & brought again to newgate/ which afterward was delivered at large, and one of his sons afterward was made Earl of ri chemōd/ & another Earl of penbroke/ & the iij a monst of westminster which monk died soon after. This same year also on Newyeresday at baynardyscastel fill down a stack of wood suddenly at after none & slow three men meschievously & foul hurt other/ Also at bedford on a shrireday were xviij men murdered without stroke by falling down of a steyr/ as they come out of their common hall & many foul hurt, In the xviij year Sir Richard Beauchamp the good Earl of warwick died at Rouen he being that time lieutenant of the King in normandy, & from thence his body was brought to warwick/ where he lieth worshipfully in a new chapel on the southside of the choir/ Also this year was a great dearth of corn in all england/ for a bushel of wheat was worth xl pens in many places of england. & yet men might not have enough/ wherefore stephen Broun that time mayor of london sent in to pulse and brought to london certain ships laden with Rye. Which eased and died moche good to the people/ for corn was so scarce in england/ that in some places of Englond pour people made 'em breed of fern rotes/ This year the general counseyl of basil deposed pope eugeny, And they cheese Felix which was duke of Savoy/ And than began the schism/ which endured unto the year of our lord Thu christ M/ CCCC. xlviij/ This felix was a devout Prince/ & saw the sons of his sons/ And after lived a ho lie and devout life/ And was chosen pope by the counsel of basill eugeny deposed. and so the schism was long time/ And this fe lix had not much obedience by cause of the neutralite, for the most part/ and well nigh all christendom obeyed and reputed eugeny for very pope, god knoweth who was the very pope of them both for both occupied during the life of eugeny/ This same year Sir Richard which vycary of hermettesworth was degrated of his priesthood at poulis/ and brent at tourhylle as for an heretic on saint Botulphus day/ how well at his death he died a good cri sten man/ wherefore after his death much people came to the place where he had be brent/ & offered & made a heap of stones/ & set up a cross of tree/ & held him for a saint till the mayor & sherenes by commandment of the King & of Bishops destroyed it/ and made there a donghylle/ Also this same year the sheriffs of london fett out of saint martin's the grant the sayntuarye five persons/ which afterward were restored again to the sayntuarye by the kings justyces/ After Albert the third, Frederyk was chosen Emperor/ This frederik Duke of Osteryke was long Emperor & differred for to be crowned at rome because of the schism but after that unyon was had/ he was crowned with imperial dya dame with great glory & triumph of pope nycholas the iiij, This was a man peaceable, quiet/ & of singular patience not hating the church/ he wedded the King of portyngals daughter/   

How the Duchess of gloucester was arrested for treason/ & committed to perpetual prison in the isle of man/ And of the death of Master Rogyer bolingbroking/ Caᵒ./ CC/ lij/  
IN this year Elyanore Cobham Duchess of Gloucestre was arrested for certain points of treason layed again her/ where upon she was examined in saint stephen's chapel at westminster before the archbishop of Caunterbury/ and there she was enjoined to open penance for to go through cheap bearing a taper in her hand/ and after to perpetual prison in the isle of man under the keeping of Sir Thomas stanley/ Also that same time was arrested Master Thomas south well a canon of westmynstre Master Io han hume a chaplain of the said lady/ Master Rogyer boling broke a clerk using nygromancye. and one margery Jurdemayn called the witch of eye beside westmestre/ these were arrested as for being of counsel with the said Duchess of gloucester/ and as for Master Thomas south well he died in the tour the night before he should have be rained on the morn/ for so he said himself that he should die in his bed & not by justice/ And in the year xx/ Master Johan hume and Master Rogyer bolingbroking were brought to the guyldhalle in london/ and there before the mayor the Lords/ & chief justice of Englond were rained and dampened/ both to be drawn hanged & quartered/ but Master John hume had his chartre 〈◊〉 was pardoned by the King/ but Master Rogyer was drawn to tiborne. where he confessid that he deide guiltless/ & never had trespassed in that he died fore/ notwithstanding he was hanged/ srded & quartered/ on whose soul god have mercy/ And margery jurde main was brent in smithfield/ Also this year was a great 〈◊〉 ye in fleetstrete by nights time between men of court & men of lon done/ and diverse men slain & some hurt/ And one ba●…l was chief cause of the misgovernance and affray/ Also this year atte choosing of the mayre of london the comyns named Robert clop ton & Rawlyn holland tailor/ And the Aldermen took Robert clopton and brought him at right hand of the mayre as the custom is/ And then certain tailors and other hand crafty men cried nay nay, not this man/ but Raulyn holand/ wherefore the mayor that was padysly sent though that so cried to newgate/ where they abode a great while/ and were punished/ In this same year were diverse ambassadors sent in to guyan for a marriage for the King for th'earls daughter of Armynack/ which was concluded But by the mean of the Earl of Suffolk it was let/ and put a part/ And after this the said Earl of Suffolk went over the see in to france/ and there he treated the marriage between the king of Englond/ and the kings daughter of Secyle and of Iherusalem/ And the next year it was concluded fully that marriage by which marriage the King should deliver to her father the duchy of Angeo/ & therldom of main/ which was the key of nor mandye/ Thenne departed th'earl of Suffolk with his wife & diverse Lords and knights in the most ryal estate that might be out of england with new chares and palfrayees/ which went through cheap/ and so went over the see/ and received her/ & sith brought her in the lente after to hampton where she landed/ & was rially received/ And on Candelmas even before by a great tempest of thunder & lightning at after none Paulus steeple was set a fire on the mids of the shaft in the timber/ which was quen. chid by force of labour/ & specially by the labour of the morrow mass priest of the bow in cheap/ which was thought Impossible lauf only the grace of god/ This year was th'earl of stafford made and create Duke of Bokyngham/ the Earl of warwick/ Duke of warwick th'earl of dorset marquis of Dorset/ & the Earl of Suf folk was made marquis of Suffolk/   

How King Henry wedded Queen Margrete/ and of her Coro nation/ Caᵒ./ CC/ lijiᵒ.  
IN this year King Henry married at Southwyke Queen Margrete/ and she come to london the xviij day of may And by the weigh all the Lords of england received her worshipfully in diverse places/ and in especial the Duke of gloucester/ and on the blacketh the mayor aldermen/ & all the crafts in blue gounes broudred with the devise of his craft that they might be byknowen met with her with reed hoods/ and brought her to london/ where were diverse pagenties & countenance of diverse histories showed in diverse places of the city rially & costle ●…o And the thirty day of may the foresaid Queen was crowned at westmynstre/ and there was justes three days during within the sayntuarye to fore the abbey/ This year the prior of kilmyan appealed th'earl of ●…rmond of treason which had a day assigned to them for to fight in smithfield/ & the lystis were made & field dressed/ but when it came to point the King commanded that they should not fight, but took the quarrels in to his own hand/ & this was done at the instance & labour of certain Prechours & doctors of london/ as master gylbert worthyngton parson of saint Andrews in holborn & other/ Also this same year came a great enbassade in to england out of france/ for to have concluded a perpetuelle peace/ but in conclusion it turned unto a tryews of a year/ about this time died saint bernardyne a grey frere/ which began the new reformation of that order in many places/ in so much that they that were reform been called observants/ which observances been increased greatly in italy & in Almaigne/ This bernardyn was canonized by pope nycholas the/ v/ In the year, M/ CCCC & l/ johannes de capestrano was his disciple/ which profited much to the reformation of that ordre/ for whom god showed many a f●…u miracle also/ here is to be noted/ that from this time forward kying Henry never proufyted ne went forward. but fortune began to turn from him on all sides as well in france/ Normandy/ guian as in Englond, some men holden opoynyon that King lenry gave commission plenarly to sir edward hull Sir Robert Roo●…/ dene of saint severyns and other to conclude a marriage for him with the Earl of Armynaks sister/ which was promised as it was said & concluded/ but afterward it was broken/ & he wedded Queen mar great as afore is said, which was a dear marriage for the ream of england/ for it is known verily that for to have her was de●…uerd the duchy of Angeo/ & the earldom of main/ which was the key of Normandy for the frenchmen tentre/ And above this the said marquis of Suffolk axed in plain parliament a/ yv. and an half for to fetch her out of france/ lo what a marriage was this/ as to the comparison of that other marriage of armynak. for there should have been delivered so many castles & towns in guy an/ and so much good should have been yeven with her/ that all england should have been there by enriched/ but contrary wise fill where fore every great Prince ought to keep his promise/ for because of breaking of this promise/ & for marriage of Queen margrete what loss hath had the ream of england by losing of Normandy and guyan/ by division in the ream/ the rebelling of Comyns against their prince and Lords/ what division among the Lords. what murdre & slaying of them/ what fields fought & made/ in conclusion so many that many a man hath lost his life/ & in conclusion the King deposed/ & the Queen with her son fain to flee in to Scotland/ and from thence in to france/ & so to lorayne the place that she come first fro/ Many men dame that the breaking of the Kings promise to the sister of the Earls of Armynak was cause of this great loss and adversity.   

How the good Duke of Gloucestre Humphrey the kings vncl●… was arrested at the parliament of bnry, and his death/ and how an geo in main was delivered/ Capitulo Ducentesimo/ liijᵒ./  
IN the year xxv of King henry was a parliament at bury called saint edmondes bury/ about which was commanded all the comyns of the country to be there in their most defensable array for to await upon the King/ to which parliament come the Duke of gloucestre umfrey the kings uncle/ which had been protectonr of Englond all the none age of the King/ and anon after he was in his lodging/ he was arrested by the vysecount bemond the constable of england/ whom accompanied the duke of Bokyngham/ & many other Lords/ And forthwith all his servants were commanded for to depart from him, &/ xxxij/ of the chief of them were also arrested/ and sent to diverse prisons & anon after this said areste the said duke was soon after deed on whose soul god have mercy amen/ but how he died, and in what manner the certainty is not to me known. some said/ he deide for so row/ some said he was murdered between two fetherbeddes/ othir said that an hot spit was put in his fundament/ but how he dei de/ god knoweth/ to whom is no thing hid/ And thenne when he was so deed. he was leid open that all men might see him/ & so both Lords & knights of the shires with burgesses come & saw him lie deed/ but wound ne token could they perceive how he died, here may men mark what this world is/ this Duke was a noble man & a great clerk, and had worshipfully ruled this ream to the king's behoof, and never could be found fault to him/ but envy of them that were governors/ and had promised the duchy of an geo and the earldom of main caused the destruction of this noble man/ for they dread him that he would have enpesshed that deliverance. And after they sent his body to saint Albon with certain lights for to be buried/ And so sir Geruays of clyfton had than the charge to convey the corpse/ And so it was b●…ed at saint albons in the abbey/ &/ v/ persons of his household were sent to london/ and there were rained & judged to be drawn hanged and quartered/ of whom the names were sire Rogyer chamburlayn knight/ one myddelton a squire/ Herbard a squire/ arthur a squire/ & Richard Nedham/ which/ v/ persons were drawn from the tower of london through cheap unto Tyborn. & there ham,ged/ and late down quick, and then stripped for to have been heeded and quartered/ And then the marquis of Suffolk showed there for them the Kings pardon under his great seal/ & so they were pardonned of the remnant of the execution, & had their lives, And so they were brought again to london/ & after freely delivered/ Thus began the trouble in the ream of england for the death of this noble Duke of Gloucestre/ Alle the comyns of the royalme began for to murmur for it, and were not content/ After that pope eugeny was deed/ Nycholas the fifth was electr ●…o pe/ This nycholas was chosen for eugeny/ yet hanging the scis me/ notwithstandinging he gate the obedience of all Cristen royames For after he was elect and sacred pope/ certain Lords of France and of england were sent in to Savoy to pope Felix/ for to entrete him to cease of the papacy/ And by the special labour of the Bishop of Norwiche/ and the lord of saint Iohans he cess the second year after that pope nycholas was sacred/ And the said Fe lyx was made legate of france/ and cardinal of Savoy/ And resigned the hole papacy to Nycholas. and after lived an holy life/ and died an holy man/ And as it is said almighty god showeth miracles for him/ This was the xx. ij schism between eugeny and felix. and dured/ xuj/ year/ The cause was this/ the general counsel of basil deposed eugeny/ which was only pope & indubitate/ for as much as he observed not/ & kept the decrees and statutes of the counsel of constance, as it is afore said/ neither he wrought not to give obedience to that general counsell in no manner wise/ whereof arose a great altercation among writers of this matter pro and contra/ which can not accord unto this day/ One party saith that the counsell to above the pope/ that other party said nay. but the pope is above that counsel God blessed above all things give & grant his peace in holy church/ spouse of christ amen/ This nycholas was of Iene comen of sow birth a doctor of dyvyuyte/ an active man/ he reedefyed many places that were broken & ruinous/ & died do make a great wall about the palais/ & made the wall new abonte Rome for dread of the Turks/ and the people wondered of the ●…syng, and resygning of felix to him, considered that he was a man of so humble birth, And that other was of affinity to all the most part of Cristen princes/ whereof there was a verse published in Rome in this manner/ ●…ux fulsit mundo/ cessit Felix Nycholao/   

How sir Fraunceys Aragonoys took fogyers in Normandye And of the loss of Constantynople by the Turk/ Capitush. CC/ liiijᵒ/  
IN the year of King henry/ xxvij. Being truce between france and england. a knight of the english party named Sir France is Aragonoys took a town of Normandye named Fogyers against the truce/ of which taking began moche sorrow and loss/ For this was the occasion. by which the frenchmen got all normandy/ about this time the city of Costantynople/ which was the imperial city in all grece was taken by the Turks infidels/ which was betrayed/ as some hold oppiny on. and th'emperor taken & slain/ And that ryal church of sancta Sophia rob and despoiled, & the relics & images and the road drawn about the streets/ which was done in despite of christian faith/ and soon after all christian faith in grece perished & cessyd/ there were many christian men slain/ & Innumerable sold & put in captivity/ by the taking of this town/ the Turk is greatly enhanced in pride/ And it is a great loss unto all christian dom/ In the year/ xxviij/ was a parliament holden at westmestre/ and from thence adjourned to the black friars at london/ & after christmas to west minster again/ And this same year Robert of Cane a man of the westcontre with a few ships took a great float of ships coming out of the say laden with salt, which ships were of pruys/ flan dres/ holand & zealand/ & brought hem to hampton/ wherefore the mar chants of england being in flanders were arrested in brugys' Ipre & other places/ & might not be deliud ner their dettis discharged, till hay had made a poyntement for to pay for ●…hamēdes & hurts of the ships, which was paid by the merchants of the staple every penny, And in like wise the merchants and goods being in d●…s ke were also arrested. and made great amends, This same year the frenchmen in a morning took by a train the town of pount all are che ' and therein the lord Fauconbrydge was take prisoner and after that in december Rouen was taken and lost/ being therein the Duke of Somersete Edmond/ the earl of shrewesbury/ which by appointment left pledges, & lost all Normandye. and ●…me home/ And during the said parliament the Duke of Suffolk was arrested/ and sent in to the tour/ and there he was a month/ and after the King did do fetch him out/ for which cause all the come munes of england were in a great rumour/ what for the deliverance of Angeo and main/ and after losing of all Normandy/ & in in especial for the death of the good Duke of Gloucestre/ in so much that in some places men gathered to geders/ & made 'em captains as blue beard/ and other. Which were resisted & taken & bad justice & died/ And then the said parliament was adjourned to leicester/ and thider the King brought with him the Duke of ●…uf folk. And when the common house understood that be was out of the tour/ and comen thither they desired to have execution on them that were cause of the deliverance of Normandy/ & had been cause of the death of the Duke of Gloucestre/ and had sold gascorne▪ & guian/ of which they named to be guilty/ the duke of Suffolk as chief/ the lord say/ the Bishop of Salysbury/ Danyel & many moo/ And for to pease the commons/ the Duke of suffolk was 〈◊〉 out of Englond/ v/ year/ And so during the parliament 〈◊〉 went in to Norfolk/ and there took shy●…oyng for to go out of the ream of england in to france/ & this year as he sailed on the 〈◊〉. a ship of war called the Nycholas of tower me●… with his ship and found him therein/ whom they took out/ & brought him in to their ship tofore the master & captains. & there 〈◊〉 was examined. And at last judged to the death/ and so they put h●… in a Cabon & hi●… chapelyve for to shrive him/ And that done they brought him in to dover rood/ and there set him in to the boot/ and there smote of his heed, and brought the body a land up on the sondes/ and set the heed thereby▪ And this was done the first day of may/ Lo what availed him now all his deliverance of Normandy/ And here ye may here how he was rewarded for the death of the Duke of gloucester/ Thus began sorrow upon sorrow and death for death/   

How this year was thynsurrectyon in kent of the comyns. of whom Jack ●…de an yrysshman was capitain/ Caᵒ./ CC/ lvᵒ./  
THis year of our lord M/ CCCC. l, was the great grace of the jubilee at rome/ where was great pardon, in so much that from all places in christendom great multitude of people resorted thither/ this year was a great assemble & gading together of the commons of kent in great number & made an Insurectyon & rebel led against the King & his laws/ & ordained 'em a captain call led John Cade an yrysshman/ which named himself mortimer cousin to the Duke of york/ & this captain held these men together & made ordinances among them/ & brought 'em to blacketh, where he made a bill of petitions to the King & his counsel, & showed what injuries & oppressyons the pour comyns suffered/ & all under colour for to come to his above/ And he had a great multitude of people, And the xvij day of Juyn the King many lords captains & men of war went toward him to the blacheth/ & when the captain of kent understood the coming of the King with so greet puissance withdrew him with his people to sevenok a little vyl lage/ and the xxviij day of Juyn he being withdrawn & goon the King come with his arm set in order & enbataylled to the blacketh And by advice of his council sent sir umfrey stafford knight. & william stafford squire two valiant captains with certain people to fight with the captain/ & to take him & bring him & his ac cessaryes to the King/ which went to sevenok/ & there the capitain with his felauship met with 'em/ & fought against hem/ & in con clusion slew them both/ & as many as abode/ & would not yield 'em ner flee, during this scarmuche fill a great variance among the Lords men & common people being on the blacketh against their lords & captains/ saying plainly/ that they would go to the capitain of kent to assist & help him/ but if they might have execution on the traitors being about the King/ where to the King said nay. & they said plainly that the lord say treasurer of england/ the Bishop of salisbury/ the baron of dudely/ the abbot of gloucester/ Danyel & Trevilyan & many more were traitors & worthy to be deed/ herfor for to please the lords main. & also some of the Kings house/ the lord say was arrested & sent to the tower of london/ & then that King hearing tidings of that death & overthrowing of the staffordes with drew him to london & fro thence to killyngworth/ for that King ne that Lords durst not trust their own household main/ Thenne after that the captain had had this victory upon these staffordes anon he took sir umfreys salade & his brigantyns smitten full of guilt nails/ and also his guilt spurs/ & arrayed him like a lord and a capitain/ & resorted with all his main/ and also more than be had tofore to the blacketh again/ to whom come the archbishop of Caunterbury/ and the Duke of Bokyngham to the blacheth. and spoke with him ' And as it was said they found him witty in his talking and his request/ and so they departed/ And the third day of evil he come and entered in to london with all his people/ and there died make cries in the kings name/ & in his name that no man should rob ne take no man's good but if he paid for it/ and come riding through the city in greet pride/ and smote his sword upon london stone in Canwykestrete And he being in the city sent to the tower for to have the lord say/ And so they fet him/ and brought him to the guyldhalle before the mayre and the aldermen, where he was examined/ and he said he would and ought to be judged by his peers/ And the comyns of kent took him by force from the mayre and officers/ that kept him/ and took him to a priest to shrive him. And 〈◊〉 might be half shriven they brought him to the standard in 〈◊〉 and there smote of his heed/ on whose soul almighty god have pity and mercy/ A men/ And thus died the lord say treasure of Englond. After this they set his heed on a spear/ & bore it about in the city/ And the same day about the mile end croume: was beheaded/ And the day before at after none the capitain with ●…y ne of his main went to phelip malpas house/ and rob him, and took away much good/ And fro thence he went to saint mar great ●…atyns to one ghersties house/ & rob him & took away much good also/ at which robbing dyuse men of london of their neighbours were at it/ & took part with them/ for this robbing the peoples hearts fill from him/ & every thrifty man was afeard for to be served in like wise/ For there was many a man in london that awaited & would fain have sayne a common robbery. Which almighty god forbid/ for it is to suppose/ if he had not rob he might have gone far ere he had be withstand/ For the King & all the Lords of the Royame's of Englond were departed except the lord Scales that kept the tower of london/ And the fifth day of evil he died done smite of a man's heed in southwerke/ & the night after the mayre of london/ the Aldermen & the communes of the city concluded to drive away the captain & his host/ & sent to the lord scales to the tower & to Mathewe gouh a captain of Normandy that they would that night assail the capitain with them of kent/ & so they did. & comen to london bridge in to southwerk ere the captain had any knowledge thereof/ & there they fought with them that kept the bridge/ And the kentysshmen went to harness and come to the bridge & shot & fought with hem & gate the bridge/ and made them of london to flee/ & slow many of 'em/ And this endured all the night to & fro till ix of the clock on the morn And at last they brent the drawebridge where many of them of london were drowned/ in which night Sutton an Alderman was slain/ Rogyer heysant, & matthew gouhe/ & many other/ And after this the chancellor of england sent to the captain a pardon general for him & another for all his main/ And then they departed from south work every man home to his house/ and when they were all departed & gone. There were proclamations made in kent/ southsex/ & in other places that what man could take tho captain qnyk or deed shall have a M mark/ And after this one Alexander Iden a squire of kent took him in a garden in southsex & in the taking the captain Johan Cade was slain/ & after beheaded/ & his heed set on london bridge/ And anon after then the King come in to kent/ & did his justyces sit at Caunterbury & inquire who were accessaries/ & chief cause of this Insurrexion And there were eight men judged to death in one day/ & in other places more, And fro thence the King went in to suffex/ & in to the westcountrey/ where a little before was slain the Bishop of Salysbury/ And this same year were so many judged to death that twenty-three hedes stood at london bridge at ones/   

Of the field that the Duke of york took at brentheth in kent/ and of the birth of prince Edward/ And of the first battle at saint Albon ' where the Duke of Somer●… was slain, Caᵒ. CC. lvjᵒ.,  
IN the year thirty the duke of york came out of the March of wales with the Earl of Devonshire and the lord Cobham & great puissance for reformation of certain injuries & wrongs & also to have justice on certain Lords being about the King & took a field at brentheth beside dertford in kente which was a strong field/ for which cause the King with all the Lords of the land went unto the blacketh with a great & strong multitude of people armed/ and ordained for the were in the best wise/ And when they had musteryed on the blacketh/ certain Lords were sent to him for to treat & make appointment with him/ which were the Bishop of Ely/ and the Bishop of wynchestre and the Earls of sa lisbury/ and of warwick/ And they concluded that the Duke of Somersete should be had to ward/ & to answer to such articles as the Duke of york should put on him/ & than the Duke of york should break his field, and come to the King/ which was all promised by the King/ And so the King commanded that the Duke of Somersete should be had in ward/ And then the Duke of york broke up his field/ and come to the King/ and when he was come contrary to the promise afore made/ the Duke of Somersete was present in the field awaiting/ and chief about the King/ and made the Duke of york ride tofore as a prisoner through london/ and after they would have put him in hold/ But a noise aroos that the Earl of March his son was coming with x M men to london ward/ whereof the King & his counsel feared/ And then they concluded that the Duke of york should depart at his wyll●…/ about this time began great division in Spruyse between the great master & the knights of the duche ordre which were Lords of that country tree/ For the comyns and Towues rebelled against the Lords & made so great were/ that at the last they called the King of ●…ole to be their lord/ the which King come & was worshipfully received, and laid siege to the castle of Maryenburgh/ which was the chief castle & strength of all the lord. & wan it. and drofe out the master of Dansk and all other places of that land. And so they that had been Lords many years/ lost all their seygn●…ye and possessions in though lands/ And the year of the incarnation of our lord M CCCC. &, liij on saint Edward's day the queen margrete was delivered of a fair Prince, which was named Edward/ That same day Johan Norman was chosen for to been mayor of london/ And the day that he should take his oath at west minster/ he went thither by water with all the crafts/ where afore time the mayre aldermen & all the crafts road a horseback/ which was never used after/ For sin that time they have gone ever by water in Barges/ Ye have well understand tofore how that contrary to the promise of the King & also the conclusions taken between the King and the Duke of york at Brentheth the duke of Somersete went not to ward/ But alode about the King/ & had great r●…ule/ And anon after he was made capitain of Caleys/ & ruled the King & his Reamme as he would/ wherefore the great Lords of the ream/ & also the commons were not pleased/ for which cause the Duke of york the Earls of Warwick & of Salysbury with many knights & squires and moche people came for to remove the said duke of somerset & other fro the King/ and the King hearing of their coming thought by his counsell for to have gone westward, and not for to meet with 'em/ & had with him the Duke of somerset. the Duke of bokyn gham/ th'earl of stafford/ th'earl of nurthumberland/ the lord Clyf ford and many other/ And what time that the Duke of york and his felauship understood that the King was departed with these said Lords from london/ Anon he changed his weigh and costed the country/ & come to saint Albon the twenty-three day of may/ & there met with the King/ to whom the King sent certain Lords/ and desired hem to keep the peace & depart/ but in conclusion whiles they treated on that one side/ the Earl of Warwick with the March men and other entered the town on that othir/ & fought against the King and his party/ and so began the battle & fighting/ which endured a good while/ but in conclusion the Duke of york obtained & had the victory of that journey/ in which was slain the duke of somerset, th'earl of nurthumberland/ the lord Clyfford and many knights & squires, and many more hurt. And on the morn after they brought the King in great estate to london which was lodged in the bishops palace of london/ And anon after was a great parliament/ In which parliament the Duke of york was made protector of england/ and th'earl of warwick captain of, and the Earl of Salysbury chancellor of Englond. And all such persons as had the rule tofore about the King were set a part/ and might not rule as they did tofore, In this same year died pope nycholas the fifth and after him was Calyxte the iij This Calyxte was a Catalane/ and an old man when he was chosen/ & continually seek/ wherefore he might not perform his zeal & desire that he had against the Turk conceived/ & the cause of letting thereof was his age and sickness/ This Calyxte instituted & ordained the fest of the transfiguration of our lord to be hallowed on saint syxtes day in August because of the great victory that they of hungary had against the Turks that same day he was chosen pope in the year of our lord M/ cccc lv/ And died the year M/ cccc lviij, that same day that he ordained the fest of the transfiguracion to be hallowed/ In this same year fill a great affray in london against the lombards/ The cause began because a young man look a dagger from a lumbard and broke it/ wherefore the youngman on ●…he morn was sent for to come to fore the mayre and Aldermen/ and there for the offence he was committed to ward/ And thenne ●…e mayre departed from the guyldhal for to go home to his dinner/ but in the cheap the youngmen of the mercery for the most part prentyses held the mayre & sheriffs still in cheap/ & would not suf fire him to depart unto the time that their felaw/ which was committed to ward were delivered/ & so by force they rescued their fellow from prison, & that done the mayre & sheriffs departed & the prisoner delivered/ which if he had be put in prison had be in ●…opar die of his life/ And began a rumour in the city against the lombards/ & the same evenyug the handcrafty people of the town arose & ran to the lombards houses/ & rob/ & despoiled diverse of 'em/ wherefore the mayre & aldermen come with the honest people of the town/ & drofe them thence/ & sent some of them that had stolen to newgate/ & the young man that was rescued by his fellows saw this great rumour/ affray/ & robbery. ensyewed of his first moving to the lumbard/ departed/ & went to westminster to sayntu arye/ or else it had costed him his life/ for anon after come de●… an Oeyer determine for to do justice on all them that so rebe●… in the city against the lombards/ on which sat with the mayor: that time william marrow/ the duke of Bokyngham/ & many other Lords for to see execution done/ but the comyns of the city secretly made them ready & did arm them in their houses, & were in purpose for to have rungen the common bell which is named low bell but they were let by sad men/ which come to the knowledge of the Duke of Bokyngham/ & other Lords/ And incontinent they arose for they durst no longer abide/ For they doubted that the hole 〈◊〉 should have arisen against them/ but yet nevertheless ij 〈◊〉 in of the city were judged to death for this robbery/ & were hanged at Tyburn/ anon after the King Queen & other Lords road to couen●…re and withdrew 'em from london for these causes/ And a little to fore the duke of york was sent fore to grenewyche, and there was discharged of the protectourship/ And my lord of Salisbury of his Chauncelership/ And after this they were sent fore by privy seal for to come to Conentre/ where they were almost deceived/ and the Earl of warwick also, and should have been destroyed if they had not seen well to/   

How the lord Egremond was take by th'earls of salesbury●… sons/ And of the robbing of Sandwiche. Caᵒ./ CC/ lvijᵒ.  
THis year were taken iiij great fishes between Eerethe & lo●… done, that one was called Mors marine/ the second a sword fish, and the other twain were whales, In this same year for certain affrayes done in the Northcountry between the lord egremond & the Earl of Salysburyes sons, the said lord Egremond whom they had taken was condemned in a great sum of money to the said Earl of Salysbury/ and therefore commised to prison in new gate in london/ where when be had be a certain space/ he broke the prison/ and three prisoners with him/ and escaped & went his way/ Also this year the Earl of warwick/ and his wife went to Caleys with a fair felauship/ and took possession of his office/ about this time was a great reformation of many monasteries of religion in diuse parties of the world which were reform after the first institution, & continued in many places. Also about this time the craft of enprynting was first found in Magunce in Almaigne, which craft is multiplied through the world in many places/ & books been had great cheap/ & in great number by cause of the same craft. This same year was a greet battle in the marches between hungary and turkey at a place called septe grave, where Innumerable Turks were slain/ more by miracle/ than by man's hand, For only the hand of god smote them/ saint John of Capestrane was there present/ & provoked the christian people/ being thenne afeard after to pursue the Turks/ where an infinite multitude were slain & destroyed/ The Turks said that a great number of armed men f●…lowed them/ that they were afeard to turn again/ they were holy Angels/ This same year the prisoners of Newgate in london broke their prison, & went upon the leedes/ & fought against them of the city/ & kept the gate a long while, but at last the town gate the prison on them/ & than they were put in feteries & irons. & were sore punished in ensample of other/ In this year also was a great erthquave in naples/ in so much that there perished xl, M. people, that sank there in to the earth/ Item in the year thirty uj saint Osmond sometime Bishop of salisbury was canony said at Rome by pope Calyste/ And the xuj day of evil he was translated at Salysbury by the archbishop of Caunterbury/ and many other bishops/ And in August after sire Pyers  
THe Duke of york/ the Earls of warwick/ and of Salysbury saw the governance of the ream stood most by the Quen●… and her council/ and how the great princes of the land were not called to collceyll/ but set a part, and not only so/ but that it was said through the ream that though said Lords should be destroyed utterly/ as openly was showed at bloreheth by them that would have slain th'earl of salisbury/ Thenne they for savaaon of their lives/ and also for the common weal of the ream thought for to remedy these things/ assembled them together with people/ & took a field in the westcountre/ to which th'earl of warwick come from Caleys with many of thold soldiers as Andrew trollop and other/ in whose wisdom as for the were he much 〈◊〉 stead/ And when they were thus assembled and made their field The King sent out his commyssions & privy sea●…s unto all the Lords of his ream to come and await on him in their most the wise/ and so every man come in such wise that the King was stronger/ & had much more people than the Duke of york & the Earls of warwick and Salysbury/ For it is here to be noted/ that every lord in england at this time durst not disobey the out ne/ For she ruled peaceably all that was done about the ky●…/ which was a good simple & innocent man. And thenne when the King was comen to the place where as they were/ the Duke of york & his felauship had made their field in the strongest wise. & bade purposed verily to abiden & have fought but in the night Andrewe Trollop & all should soldiers of Caleys with a great fellowship suddenly departed out of the dukes host/ & went st●…yt unto the Kings field/ where they were resceyned ioyoully for ●…y knew th'intent of the other Lords/ & also the manner of their field And then the Duke of york with the other Lords seeing them so deceived took a counsell shortly in that same night/ & depar●… from the field/ leaving behind them the most part of their people to keep the field till on the morn/ Thenne the Duke of york with his second son departed through wales toward yrlond. leaving his oldest son the Earl of the March with the Earls of warwick and Salysbnry, which together with iij or iiij persons rood ●…yt in to Devonshire/ and there by help and aid of one denham a squire which gate for them a ship/ which cost, cc. xx/ noblis/ & with the same ship sailed fro thence in to garneseye/ And there refreshed them/ and from thence sailed to Caleys/ where they were received in to the castle by the postern/ ●…r they of the Town knew of it And the Duke of york took shipping in wales/ and sailed over in to yrlond, where he was well received/   

How th'earls of March warwick. & salisbury entered in to Caleys/ & how th'earl of warwick went in to ireland/ Capitulo/ CC/ lxᵒ./  
then King Henry being with his host in the field not knowing of this sudden departing on the morn fond none in the field of the said Lords/ sent out in all hast men to follow & pursue after to take 'em/ but they met not with them as god would/ and then the King went to ludlowe. & dyspoylled the castle and the town/ and sent the Duchess of york with her children to my lady of Bokyngham her sister/ where she was kept long after/ And forth with the King ordained the Duke of Somersete Capytayn of Caleys/ And these other Lords so departed as afore is said were proclaimed rebels & great traitors/ Thenne the duke of Somersete took to him all the soldiers that departed from the field. and made him ready in all haste to go to calais & take pos session of his office/ & when he come he fond th'earl of warwyck therein as captain/ & th'earls of March & salisbury also/ & tha●… he londed by scales & went to guysnes/ & there he was received/ & it fortuned that some of the ships that come over with him come in to Caleys haven by their free will, for the shipmen ought more favour to th'earl of warwick than to the Duke of somerset/ in which ships were take diverse men as Jenyn fynkhill/ John felaw/ kaylles & purser/ which were beheaded soon after in calais And after this daily come men over see to these Lords to calais & began to wax stronger & stronger/ & they borrowed much good of the staple/ And on that other side the Duke of somerset being in guysnes gate people to him/ which come out & scarmuched with them of Caleys/ & they of Caleys with 'em/ which endured many days/ during thus this same scarmuching/ much people day lie come over unto these Lords/ Thenne on a time by thavy of coum seyll the Lords at Caleys sent over Master Denham with a great felauship to sandwich/ which took that toun/ & therein the lord rivers & the lord scales his son/ & took many ships in the haven & brought 'em all to Caleys/ with which ships many mariners of their fire will come to Caleys to serve th'earl of warwick/ & after this th'earl of warwick by thaviss of the Lords took all his ships 〈◊〉 manned them well/ & sailed himself in to Irlond for to speak with the Duke of york/ & to take his advice how they should entre in to england again/ And when he had been there. & done his erandes/ he returned again toward Caleys/ & brought with him his mother the Countess of salisbury/ And coming in the westcountre upon the see the Duke of excestre admiral of england being in the grace of dieu accompanied with many ships of war/ met with th'earl of war wyck & his float. but they fought not/ for the substance of the people being with the Duke of Excestre aught better will & more favour to therl●… of warwick/ than to him/ & they departed/ & come to in safety blessed be god/ Thenne the Kings council seeing that these Lords had gotten these ships from sandwiche/ & taken the lord rivers & his son ordained a garnison at sandwich to abide & keep the town, & made one mountfort capitain of the town/ & that no man ne victual ne merchant that should go in to flanders should not go in to Caleys/ Thenne they of Caleys seeing this/ made out master denham/ & many other to go to sandwiche, & so they did. & assailed the town by water & by land/ & gate it, & brought mountfort their capitain over see to Rysebank/ & there smote of his heed/ And yet daily men come over to them out of all parties of england/   

How th'earls of March. of warwick, & of salisbury entered in to england/ And of the field of Northampton/ where diverse Lords were slain, Capitulo/ CC/ lxj/  
ANd after this the said Earls of March, warwick/ & of Salysbury come over to dover with moche people. & there landed To whom all the country drew & come to london armed/ And for to late the Lords of the Kings council know their troth and also their intent assembled them/ & told them that they intended no harm unto the kings person, safe that they would put fro him such persons as were about him. & so departed from london with a great puissance toward Northampton/ where the King was accompanied with many Lords/ & had made a strong field without the town/ And there both parties met & was fought a great battle/ in which battle were slain the Duke of Bokyngham the Earl of shrowesbury/ the vysecounte leamond, the lord Egremond and many knights & squires/ & other also/ and the King himself taken in the field. & afterward brought to london/ And Anon afterward was a parliament at westminster during whi●… parliament the Duke of york come out of Irland with the Earl 〈◊〉 Rutland riding with a great felauship in to the palace at wes●… minster/ & took the Kings palace/ And come in to the parlem●… chambre/ and there took the kings place/ and claimed the crown as his proper ●…he rytaunce & right/ & cast forth in writing his title/ & also how he was rightful heir/ wherefore was moche to do but in conclusion it was appointed & concluded that King Henry should regne/ & be King during his natural life. For as much as he had been so long King/ & was possessed. And after his death the duke of york should be King & his heirs/ kings after him/ And forthwith should be proclaimed heir apparent/ & should also be protector & regent of england during the Kings life/ with maother things ordained in the same parliament/ And if King henry during his life went from this appointment 〈◊〉 any article concluded in the said parliament he should be deposed/ & the Duke should take the crown & be King/ All which things were enacted by the authority of the said parliament/ at the which parliament the comyns of the ream being assembled in the common hons commoning & treating upon the title of the said Duke of york suddenly fill down the crown which hinge then in the mids of the said house/ which is the fraytour of the abbey of westminster, which was taken for a prodyge or token/ that the reign of King henry was ended/ And also the crown which stood on the highest tower of the steeple in the castle of Dover fill down this same year/   

How the noble duke of york was slain/ and of the field of wake field/ And of the second journey at saint Albon by the Queen and Prince/ Caᵒ., CC/ lxij/  
then for as much as the Queen with the Prince was in the north/ and absented her from the King/ and would not obey such things/ as was concluded in the parliament/ It was ordained that the Duke of york as protector should go norward for to bring in the Queen/ & subdue such as would not obey/ with whom went th'earl of Salysbury/ Sir Thomas nevil his son with moche people/ & at wake field in christmas week they were all onerthrowen and slain by the Lords of the queens party/ that is to weet the duke of york was slain. the Earl of Rutland/ Sir Thomas nevil/ and many more/ the earl of salisbury was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…atayll was slain th'earl of nurthumberland/ the lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 John Neuyl/ th'earl of westmerlandys' brother/ andrew 〈◊〉 many other knights & squires. Thenne King henry that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 King/ being with the Queen & prince at york, hearing the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 field/ & so much people slain & overthrown/ anon forth with departed all three with the Duke of somerset/ the lord rose & other toward scotland/ & the next day King Edward with all his army entered in to york. & was there proclaimed King/ & obeyed as he ought to be/ And the mayor, aldermen/ & comyns sworn to be his lyege men/ and when he had tarried a while in the north/ & that all the country there had turned to him/ he returned southward/ leaving th'earl of warwyck in though parties for to keep & govern that country/ And about midsummer after the year of our lord M/ cccc/ ●…y/ & the first year of his regne/ he was crowned at westmestre/ & enoynted King of england having the hole possession of all the hole ream whom I pray god save & keep/ & send him the accomplisshement of the remanant of his rightful inheritance beyond the see/ & that he may regne in them to the playsie of almighty god/ health of his soul/ honour & worship in this present life/ & we'll/ & prouffit of all his subjects/ & that there may be a vera●… final peace in all cris●… reams/ that the Infideles & miscreants may be withstanden & destroyed/ & our faith enhanced/ which in these days is sore my●… ysshed by the puissance of the Turks & heathen men/ And that after this present & short life we may come to the ever lasting life in the bliss of henen/ Amen/  
Thus endeth this present book of the chronicles of Englond/ imprinted by me william Caxton In th'abbey of westminster by london/ finished/ and accomplished the/ viij/ day of Octobre/ The year of the incarnation of our lord God/ M/ CCCC/ lxxxij And in the xxij year of the reign of King Edward the fourth