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It was taken out on the day indicated below: Ew !n———— oh Peter Langtofts CHRONICLE, (as illuſtrated and improvd by R O- BERT OF BRUNNE, from the Death of Cadwalader to the end _ of K. Edward the Firfts Reign. Tae 3 E 7 mte bg (OTT Ls eiu $41 100 Va "e 2E *; mY nem ; Eu aca ae / : Ne a | j »- ; RS 4 2 j s TRANSCRIBD, and now firft publiſh'd, from a MS. in the INNER-TEMPLE LIBRARY By THoMas HEARNE, M.A. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, Beſides a Gloffary and other curious Papers, (1) A Roll concerning Glaftonbury Ábbey, being a Survey of all the Eſtates belonging to that Houſe at the Diffolu- tion, taken by King Hen. the Eighth's order and for his uſe. (2) An Account of the Hoſpital of St. Mary Ma-] gdalen near Scroby in Nottinghamſhire, by John Slacke, Maſter of that Hoſpital. ( 3) Two Tracts by an ano- nymous Author; the firſt relating to Conqueft in So- merſetſhire, the ſecond concerning Stone-henge. IN Two VOLUMES. | OXFORD, | Printed at the THEATER, M. DCC. XXV. Plinius in Prefatione Natural. Fifior. ad Veípafianum Au- guftum. Res ardua, vetuflis novita- tem dare, novis auctoritatem, obfoletis nitorem, obfcuris lu- cem, faſtiditis gratiam, dubus fidem, omnibus vero naturam, & nature fuz omnia. We is hie T = = My que SN Bask D IDE SON TEN T'S. I. H E Publiſher's Preface, ' pag. IX. II. De Petro Longatofta [lege Longa- zofta.] E Pitleo de illuftrib. Angliz Scripto- ribus, . XCIV. III. De eodem. E Lelandi Comm. de Scripto- tib. Brit. ^ XCV. IV. De eodem. E Bibliotheca Gefneri. ibid. V. Concerning Peter de Langetoft, Out of Bp. Nicolſon's Eng. Hiſtorical Library. xcvi. VI. Robert of Brunne's Prologue to his Chro- nicle. ibid: >VIL. Extract of a Letter, relating to Robert ” 0 / — of Brunne and Peter de Lanetoft, written a2 from tty THE CONTENTS. from London to the Publifher by the late learned John Bridges, Eſq. Nov. 28.1723. cr. VIII. Robert of Brunne's Tranſition (called a Prologue by Mr. Bridges) from the firſt to the ſecond Part of his Chronicle, Cv, IX. The Proceedings of the Abbat and Con- . vent of Wincheſter againft Joan of London, 4f. D. 1285. From an old MS. Fragment of that Age, given to the Publifher by Tho- _ mas Ward of Longbridge near Warwick, Efq. CVIL X. A Letter concerning the reputed Nunnery at Little-Gidding in Huntingtonfhire. From a MS. lent to the Publiſher on July 6th. 1724. by the forefaid Thomas Ward, of Long- bridge near Warwick, Efq. CIX, XI. A Copy of the printed Pamphlet. about | the reputed Nunnery at Little-Gidding in Huntingtonſhire. CXXV. XII. Dr. Wallis's Account of ſome Paſſages of his own Life. E Coll. MSS. Smithianis pe- nes Editorem, Vol. 22. p. 38. . CXL. XIIL An Extract of a Letter from Dr. John Wallis to Dr. John Fell, then Lord Biſhop of Oxford, dated April 8. 1685. concerning the Report ſpread about of Dr. Wallis's de- ciphering King Charles the It's, Letters. E | Coll, THE CONTENTS. ©. Coll. MSS. Smithianis penes Editorem, Vol. (22. p. 54. CLXX. XIV. Infcriptiones fingulares hactenus inedite, Hadriano Beverlando colle&ore. E Coll. noftris MSS. Vol. 75. p. x. CLXXII. XV. Robert of Brunne's account of the raifing - of Stone-henge, from the French of Maſter Wace, who followed Geffry of Monmouth. OLD .. CLXXXVIII. XVI. An Account of St, Wenefride, from an old MS. of the Book call d Feſtival or Feftial in the hands of the above mentioned ‘Tho- mas Ward, of Longbridge near Warwick, Eſq. CXCVI. XVII. Extract of a Letter, written to the Pu- - blifher from Wincheſter July 45. 1724. by the Reverend Mr. Richard Furney, relating to the Election of an Abbeſs of Rumfey Nunnery in Hampſhire, ano D. 1333. which confirms what is aflerted in Peter Langtoft, that the faid Nunnery was founded by K Edgar for an hundred Nunns. ~ CCI. XVIII. Extract of another Letter, written to the Publiſher from Winchefter Aug.15. 1724. by the faid Mr. Furney, relating to the Number of the Nunns at Rumfey fome time before the Diſſolution, and to a Note, about VI THE CONDENT S:. about our old Hiſtorians, in a MS. of Trivet | at Wincheſter. | . CCIIT. XIX. A Copy of Dr, Richardſon's and Mr. Thoresby's Letters about the Hoſpital of St. Mary Magdalen, treated of by Mr.Slacke, in the Account mentioned below, Num. | XXIV. CCVI. XX. Biſhop Wren's Narrative, touching Prince Charles's Judgment and Affection to the Religion of the Church of England. From a MS, in the Aíhmolean Muséum. covrm. AXI. Extrac& ofa Letter to the Publiſher from | . Mr. Graves of Mickleton in Glouceſterſhire, . concerning Campden in that County: With a remarkable Paflage, upon that occafion, out of an old anonymous MS. Author (ftiled John Bever by Dr. Powell) in Trinity Col- lege Library Oxon. COH. XXII. Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, (as illu- {trated and improvd by Robert of Brunne) from the Death of Cadwalader to the End of K. Edward the Firſt's Reign. From a MS. in the Inner-Temple Library. — a XXIII. The Copy of a Roll concerning Gla- ' ftonbury Abbey, being a Survey of all the - Eſtates'belonging to that Houſe at the Diffo- Tation, taken by King Hen. the Eighth's or- der THE CONTENTS. der and for his uſe. From a MS. in the Hands ofa Friend at Colcheſter. 343 ! XXIV. An Account of the Hoſpital of St. Mary Magdalen near Scroby in Nottingham- | ſhire, by John Slacke, Maſter of that Ho- ſpital. From a MS. in the Hands of Thomas \ Frewin, of Lincoln's-Inn, Eſq. — 389 XXV. A Diſcourſe about ſome Roman Anti- quities difcoverd near Conqueſt in Somer- ſetſhire, ſuppoſed to be the Place where the Romans Conqueſt of Britain was com- pleated. By an anonymous Author. Tran- ſcrib'd from a MS. lent to the Publiſher by Mr. James Weſt of Balliol-College, 4. D. 1722. 44.1 XXVI. A Difcourfe concerning Stone-Henge. From another MS. lent to the Publifher by the fame Friend, Mr. James Weft, of Bal- liol-Coll. written in the fame hand, and by the fame anonymous Author. 480 XXVII. Gloffary. | | ;18 XXVIII. Index. 690 XXIX. Operum noftrorum hactenus impreffo- rum Catalogus. 71$ THE VII SA Ww. fas.» rh HE uh Lu vi r ^ S Ent a MK M 1 - Uni b iy 5 BiG TIR) Ak? Tu 4 n 2 A Y Mato RENE Ttt PRI TS eM i) iod : 7 vcn AME d i Wh wt af n sat 93 ov hy gs 6 i x "A Pac — - > soda A: jd EME ». : P. 43 due fast pat 44% you | x ‘Abies s "e pry ory, reese má f^ €» | fis Ae RP i RU 34 eee 004 [ND uh " fe] "eoliea === ——< THE PUBLISHERS FERRCECF ATCE HE Robert of Gloucefter, mentioned in the printed Life of St. Thomas Cantilupe, differ- ent from the Author of the Chronicle, and even from the other Roberts of Glouceſter ſpoke of in my Pre- Face to that Chronicle. §.1. Yet he ſeems to have been in the vigour of his Age at the time of the Chra- nicler s Death. A Miſtake of Biſhop Godwin s. 6.11, No reaſon, from the time in which they lived, to take Robert of Gloucefter the Hiſtorian and Robert of Glouceſter the Secretary to be one and the ſame perſon. The Ehftorians in former Times were the Religious, who often loft their firſt Sirnames, and, upon compiling their famous Works, were firnamed anew from the Houſes of which they were Mem- bers. $. 111. Yet there were rather more that re- + tam d their firſt Sirnames, after they became noted for their Writings. John Wethamftede of a greater €haratler than Matthew Paris, The Hiſtorical Paſſages in Dr, Gaſcoigne's Theological Diftionary Voll. b Should IX . THE PUBLISHERS ſhould be publiſhed. Gav. Among others that re- tain d their original Sirnames was Peter Langtoft, | who, beſides his Tranſlation into French Rhythms of Boſenham or Boſcam's Life of Thomas à Becket, compiled a Chronicle of England in French, $.v. This Peter Langtoft ſeems to have died in the begzn- ning of K, Edw. 11%'s Regn, and to have been buried at Bridlington with much ſuch another Epitaph as that to the memory of Robertus Scriba. $. vi. Were the Obituaries, or Obit Books of Bridlington now remazn- ing, it is probable ſomething certain about his Death might be learned from them. The Diligence of the Monks in regiſtring. Many old Chartularies ſtill in private hands, that ought to be ſearch d by men of a true genius. ‘Ibe Chronicle of England written by Thomas Blount, Eſq; $. vii. Notwithſtanding the French Tongue was fo much in vogue an Peter Lang- Loft s Time, yet there were multitudes beſides that deſpiſed it. The Normans not able utterly to extir- pate the Saxon Language. The ll Conſequence from the Endeavours that were us d to that purpoſe. §. viri. Robert of Brunne one of thoſe that culttuated the En- elifo Tongue, and be gained a great Reputation upon — that ſcore. This Robert of Brunne lived to a great — age, tho the year in which he died doth not yet occur. | $1x. He was not deſcended from the Founder of St. Mary Spittle extra Biſhop s Gate. His Tranſlation — of Peter de Langtoft had it s intended Effet. Ma- ny Copies of it formerly, tho tt be now ſcarce. | | The | rg M PREF AC &. | The Stories in it us d in old time inflead of Ballads. §.x. Robert of Brunne a Man of a facetious merry Temper, yet without any Mixture of Immorality. The diligence of the Monks of Wincheſter in ob- ſtrufting the Defign of Foan of London, A Paſſage . relating to the ſedes ftercoraria at Rome from an anonymous MS. Author. §.x1. “Tis tmpoffible to give @ particular Account of the Life of Robert of Brunne. There are Precedents, as well in ancient as later Times, to juſtify any one in leaving behind him Memoirs of his own Life. Dr Wallis left ſome particulars of this nature. The D**. Memorandum at the Beginning of a Book (in the Bodleian Library) containing many Things that he deciphered. $. xix. If Robert of Brunne had any Epitaph, it ſeems to. have been ſhort, agreeable to thaſe times, and to be now irretrievable. §. x11. Peter Langtoft s Origz- nal, as well as Robert of Brunne's Engliſh Wark, conſiſts of two Parts, the firſt Part of which 1s here omitted, as containing nothing but Geffry of Monmouth. A Paſſage out of Raſtail's Chronicle. about Stone-henge. $. xiv. The exaltneſs made uſe | of in publiſhing this piece of ancient Hiſtory. To gratify ſome Readers, ſeveral Specimens of the French are alſo made publick with it. $. xv. And, for further Satisfaction, the Concluſion of the French MS. that belongs to the Heralds Office, is here in- ferted in this Preface. §. xvi. Out of which MS. is here likewiſe publiſhed a Note concerning Hugo b 2 Car- XI "XIE from Mr. Camden s MS. Supplement in the hands — The Robert of $T. = Glouceſter,mention- : ed in the printed Life of St. Thomas Cantilupe, different from the Author of the Chronicle, and even from the other Roberts of Glouce- fter fpoke of in my Preface to thatChro- nicle. IHE PUBLISHERS Cardinalis. Actor for auctor in many MSS. The Author of liber feftivalis or feftialis, 4A Remark relating to St. Wenefride. $. xvni. Many ‘Things an this Chronicle, that are different from what is re- lated by other Hiſtorians. $. xv111. Some of which are here enumerated. §.x1x. In lieu of the firſt Part of Robert of Brunne, feveral Things are here pu- blifned of greater uſe and ſervice. An account of Mr. Andrew Paſchal. A Note about Mr. John Gibbons MSS. Papers in the Heralds Office. A ſhort Account of Dr. Walter Charleton. An Inter- polation in Camden, which Mr. Webb did not dt{co- ver to be ſuch. A Paſſage relating to Stone-henge of the publiſher. §. xx. Stone-henge perhaps a Bri- tio Monument, notwithſtanding it might have been a Roman Work. Mr. Camden's Approbation of, and Affifiance in, Dr. Holland's Additions, may Juſtify fech as cite them for Mr. Camden's own, §. xxx. Fe UST after I had 2S Þ publiſhed Robert ) of Gloucefter, I had the good for- converſe with a om soe Tearned, modeſt and honeſt Friend of Hereford-fhire, (the ſame, I mean, that, befides his other oreat affift- ance tune to fee and xd PREFACE. ance' in the Work, drew up the Indexes to . the celebrated Dr.Hickes's Theſaurus Linguarum Septentrionalium, and is fo excellently well qua- lifyd to compile the Antiquities of that Coun- ty >, about which he hath many curious Mate- rials) at which time he was pleafed to lend me the Life? of St. THomas Cantilupe Bifhop of Hereford, which tho' a printed Book, yet is very rare and ſeldom to be ſeen, as many Books of the ſame kind are al{9 very ſcarce, and, therefore, greedily and induſtriouſly pick'd up by ſuch curious Collectors as was the famous Mr. Richard Smith, that writ about Chriſt's Deſcent into Hell, and colle&ted moſt of his | Rarities + out of the Library of H. Dyſon, a perſon of a very ſtrange, prying and inquifi- tive genius in the matter of Books, as may ap- _ pear from many Libraries, there being? Books, (chiefly in old Engliſh) almoſt in every Libra- Annunciation of our B.Lady.1674- Dr.Hickes's Theſaurus,p.V. 2.Vi- | 890. 4. See pag.371,372. alias de Pref. ad Lelandi Coll. s. 10. | p.401,402. or the laſt leaf fave 3. Intit'led, The Life and Gefts of | one of his Auction Catalogue. S. Thomas Cantilupe Biſhop of He- | 5. So in a MS. Note, written . reford and ſome time before L. Chan- | by my very learned Friend Mr. cellor of England. Extratted out of | Thomas Baker, B. D. of St. the authentique Records of bis Cano- | John's-Coll. in Cambr. at the nization as to the maine part, 24n9- | beginning of my Copy of Mr. nymus, Matt. Paris, Capgrave, | Smith's Auction Catalogue, Harpsfeld, and others. Collefted by | which was given me by the ſaid R.S.S.F. | At Gant, Printed by | Mr. Baker. | Robert Walker, at the Sign of the 1. See the General Preface to | Ty, XIII XIV THE PUBLISHERS ty, that have belong'd to him, with his name ' upon tliem. I perusd and read over this Life of Cantilupe with ſome conſiderable pleaſure and attention, there being many things in it handled in a true rational way, ſuch as be- comes a Chriftian Hiſtorian, But the main reaſon of my ſpeaking of ‘it now is, upon ac- count of the Authors mentioning' a Robert. of Gloucefter, that was Secretary to the ſaid venerable and moft holy Bifhop at the time of the Bifhops Death, and was afterwards Chancellour of Hereford. At firft one would think, that this Robert of Gloucefter (whom the Writer of the Life met with in the ve- ry Procefs of his Canonization) was the Au- thor of the Chronicle that bears his name, but, upon a ferious and deliberate confidera- tion of the matter, I conclude him to be a quite different perſon, and even different alſo from | all the Roberts of Gloucefter, that I have men- tioned in my Preface *, to that Work. Nei- ther is it likely, that, had the Secretary been the Author, he would have paffed over in fi- lence his holy Mafter's Life, and not brought | the thread of his Hiſtory down to that Pe- - riod, and given a very diſtin& and particular | Account of the Acts of fo worthy, religious - and conſcientious a Prelate, who equalld in | AE A TN Ne TE Se 1. See this Life, pag. 195, @c, 2. §. XXIV. the | PREFACE, the great Sanity and Severity of his Life, and In the exerciſe of all virtuous and religious Duties, many of the moft eminent of He pri- XV mitive Chriftians. §. IT. It muſt, indeed, be granted, that there was fó little Res with reſpect to the time, in which theſe two Roberts (the Hiſtorian and the Secre- Yethe ſeems to have been in the vigour of his Age at the time of the Chro- nicler's Death. A Miſtake of ECP tary) flouriſhed, that the Secretary Godwin’. deems to have been in his full vigour when the other died, which was, as I take it :, ſome lit- tle time after the VIth, year of K. Edward the Firfts Reign, which could not, therefore, be long before the Death of Biſhop Cantilupe, who was confecrated * in Chrift Church Canterbury anno Chriſti 1275. and of his Age about 56, and was cut off by a Feaver 3, in the 639. year of his Age, at, or rather near to, a Place known by the name of Monte Fiacone near Florence, on - the 25th, +of Auguft, though his Feſtivity were - kept on the 24. 5 of October. This I note the - rather, becauſe, tho’ Biſhop Godwin $ be right with reſpect to the time of his Death, yet he is 1 See my Preface to Rob. of | whereof I have a Copy in Vel- - Gloucefter’s Chron. §. XVII. | lum, in which alfo his Death 2 So the Life, Chap. XI. p. | (called there depofitio) is made 120. 3 Ibid. Chap, XVII. p. | to happen on the 25th of Au- 199. 4 Tbid.p. 195. 5 So in | guſt, or the day after St Bartho- — that moſt rare printed Book, | lomew's. 6 De Prefulib. Angl. call'd the Miffal of Hereford, | p.537. miftaken XVI THE PUBLISHERS miſtaken in ſaying ', it was at Coita Vecchi, and in his way to Rome, whereas it was really * in his way from Rome (after he had happily gain- ed the Point he went thither for) and at the Place Ihave afligned. Nor does Matthew Weſt- minfter 3, notwitftanding what Godwin ſays, inform us, that his Death happened as he was going to Rome ; which particular is ſo much the more worthy of notice, becauſe it would : otherwife take away that part of the honour which is due to the Bifhop, for accomplifhing a noble Action in behalf of the Rights of the Church of Hereford, againft John Peckham Archbifhop of Canterbury, a bufinefs, I be- lieve, that no one could have carried with the Pope, but one of Cantilupe's extraordinary Piety, Sincerity, and Learning. No reaſon, fromthe 5, TIT. T am aware, that from what time in which they : : lived, to take Ro- 1 have faid about the Age of the Hi- bert of Glouceſter ftorian and the Secretary, it will be the Hiftorian and .- : : Robert of Glouce- inferrd by ſome, that they were one er the Secretary © and the fame perſon. But, unleſs T be one and the fame Perſon. TheHito- am much miſtaken, they will be pre- | rans in former i Times were thee SD ſatisfy'd to the contrary, when | pgious who often they have impartially conſidered, that | loft their firſt Sir- Ju - | . | the original Sirname; of the Hiſto- 1. Ibid. 2. Of which the CCLEXXVII. 4.D.537. 5. See | Author -of his Life mentions | my Preface to Rob, of Glouc. undenyable Proofs, pag. 195. | $. xxiv. | | 3. See his Chron. ſub an. M. | | | rian | ae EREEF ACE; | xvii. tian is at prefent unknown to us, not- halite, and, upon “4 : . . : : cot ir fa- withſtanding I do not doubt but the mous Works, Th Secretary might have his even from ‘tamed anew from P Eis Int HAT f the Houfes of which the time of his Infancy. The Writers of they were Members. Hiftory in thofe times (to fay nothing of other Authors) were the Religious, and when they became famous that way, they often loft - their firſt Sirnames, and receiv'd new ones from the refpective religious Houſes of which they were Members. Hence William of Malmesbu- ry' (whofe true Sirname, it ſeems, was Somer: fet *) and Matthew of Weftminfter? (commons ly called* rius from the Titles of his Work,) to fay nothing of Guilielmus Neubrigen- fis (whofe true Sirname was Petyt^) were thus denominated from their Monaſteries, after they became eminent in Hiſtory. So alſo John of Glaſtonbury was {6 named upon account of the Hiftory or Chronicle of Glaftonbury, 1. Lelandus de Scriptotib. p. | fcelini Catalogus eorum, qui 195. Item Lelandi Coll. Vol.IL | fcripferunt hiftoriam gentis An- p.303. Pitfeus de illaftrib. An- | elorum, & ubiextant. Ad cal- gliz Scriptortb. p. 208. Guil. ! cem Roberti de Avesbury a nos Cavei Hift. Lit. p. 577. Genev. | bis editi, P- 292. Append. ad 1720. 2.Pitfeus ibid. Thome | Guil. Cavei Hift. Lit. p. 50. Ed. « Galei Ptxzf ad XV. Scriptores | Gen. 4. Pitfeus de Scriptorib. Oxonie 1691.fo]. Henrici Whar- | p. 518. Voffius de Hift. Lat. p. toni Pref. ad Vol Il. Angliz Sa- | 491. 5. Le. Flores Hifloviarum. cre, p. I. Ger. J. Voflius de Hi- | 6. De quo fufiffime ad initium |. ftoricis Lat. p. 389. Zug. B. | editionis noftre hujus Guiliel- © €19. DCXXVIH. 3. Joannis Jo- | mi, quam videfis, EVolL : ue of XVI | THE PUBLISHERS | of which he was a Confrere and Monk, as himfelf hath affured us in the Prologue to that ufefull and excellent Work, which was never yet printed, tho ſome things have been ex- tracted from it by Mr. Dodfworth, and are publifhed in the beginning of the Monafticon . Now had Robert of Gloucefter the Secretary been as famous as Robert of Gloucefter the Hiftorian, the better to diftin- guiſh the one from the other, it would have been proper, to have ftiled the latter, Robert the Monk of Gloucefter, and the former barely Robert of Glouceſter. But as it happened, there was no occaſion for that nicety, ſince the Secretary, (however, after his Maſter's Death, Chancel- four of Hereford, tho’ the publiſhed Faſt; 3 do not mention him as ſuch) was not celebrated upon account either of his writings, or any other great Undertaking, that might render _ . his name famous to Pofterity. Yet there were ra= $, TY, But now tho there were fo Du A many that loft their original Sirnames naa eee ee LT I. Johannes abjeftiſiimus & bu- | perquam benevole mutuo dedit. milimus ejuſdem | venerabilis loc; | Et quidem jam alibi monui, Jo- [monatterii fcilicet Glaftonien- hannem hunc operis effe aucto- fis] indignus confrater &» monachus, | rem. Vide Lelandi Coll. Vol. id quod de fe ipfo teftatur no- | VI. p. 97. 2.. Vol, I. p. 1, &c. fter Johannes, quemadmodum | 3. Vide Faftos Ecclefia: Angli- € Codice colligo eximio penes | cane per Johannem Le Neve, nobiliffimum Dominum, Caro- | p. 116. ubi de Roberto noftro lum Dominum Bruce, qui mihi | ne verbum. after | PAR ESTA CE: after they became noted for their Writings, yet there were others, and thoſe too as famous, and as many, yea more, that retain'd them, notwith- ſtanding the Characters they had eſta- bliſhed for the Works compiled by XIX names,after they be- came noted for their Writings. John We- thamſtede ofa great- er character than Matthew Paris, The Hiſtorical Paſſages in Dr. Gaſcoigne's Theological Ditio- nary fhould be pu- them. Matthew Paris was Author of pjjf..a. a very noble Hiſtory, in which he took in what Roger Wendover had done before him ', tho others fay tis all the genuine Work of Matthew Paris*, Yet the great Abbey, of which he was Monk, did not take away from - his primitive Sirname, Neither indeed did John Whethamſtede, or Wethamftede, alias Boſtok 3, (ftiled in Latin Joannes Frumentarius, or Joan- nes de loco Frumenti) looſe his firſt Sirname, al- tho he was even of greater note than Mat- thew Paris, as he was a great Writer *, and a great Benefactor * to the Abbey of St. Alban, r. Vide Guil. Watſy Prafa- | 631. 5. Lelandi Coll. Vol.VI. tionem ad Ed, fuam Matthzi | p.135. Acta Joannis Whetham- Parifienfis 5 uti etiam. v. cl. Jo- | ſted, Abbatis monafterii S. Al- annis Seldeni (nam is collegit | bani,per Joannem Agmundiſha- {cripfitque, quamvis non obfer- | menfem, Monachum S. Albani, vaverit Antonius à Wood) te- | per fingulos annos ipfius regi- ftimonia (cum notis) de eodem | minis,MS. in Bibl. Cott. Claud. Parifienfi ad initium Editionis | D. I. 2. See alſo another MS. Watfiane. 2, Nicolſon's Engl. | in the faid Cottonian Library Hiftorical Library, p. 62. Ed.fol. | (Otho B.IV.) containing abun- 8. Leland Coll.Vol. VI. p.278. | dance of curious Things relat- 4. Baleus de Scriptorib. Majoris j ing to Whethamſtede, as they — Brit, 4to. fol.20o.b. Pitfeus, p. | are ſpecified by my late very | C 2 learned XX THE PUBLISHER'S. of which he was at length Abbat, whereas Mat-- thew Paris was only a Monk of it. But how does it appear, that this Wethamftede was as celebrated a Writer as Paris? He is certainly characteriz d as fuch.: His Works were of more general learning, which fhew him, therefore, to have been a more general Scholar. He was in great Reputation among all good and learn- ed men. He was honoured by Humphrev Duke of Gloucefter ', that religious, good and learn- ed Prince, whofe Hand writing I us'd, when- ever I faw it in the Bodleian Library (where it occurrs feveral times) to fhew a fort of par- ticular refpe&t to, as ſome little Remains of a truly great Man, one that was both a Scholar himſelf and the chiefeft Promoter of Learn- ing and Scholars at that time, by condefcend- ing to whofe Death his Nephew K. Henry VI^. (otherwife generally efteemed for a gentle and innocent Prince) drew on himſelf and this Kino- dom (if the Obfervation of a very wife Hifto- rian* may be regarded) the greateſt joynt- loffe and difhonour, that ever it ſuſtained fince the Norman Conqueſt. Nor do I take We- thamſtede to have been a worſe Hiſtorian than EE Eee eg nd learned Friend Dr. Thomas , fol.200.b. Pitſens,p.630. 2. Sir Smith in pag. 70. of his Cata- | Walter Raleigh's Preface to his logue. 1. Lelandus de Scripto- Hiſt, of the World, rib.Brit.. p.437. Baleus Ed. 4to. i BOUM CM E | Paris, iy at ant PREFACE. | XXI Paris, tho he did not confine himſelf fo clofe- ly to the Affairs of this Kingdom. His Grana- ry, as it is a Proof of his Godoy Dili- | - gence, fo ‘tis, withall, an Inftance (and that too a very noble one) of his Abilities in Hifto- ry. There are Remains of it in many Places. Some I have feen, and often confulted, former- ly in the Bodleian Library. The moſt mate- rial Hiſtorical Paſſages, eſpecially ſuch as con- . cern our own Affairs, (particularly thoſe de vers - eliufiribus, which Leland! admired) ſhould be extracted by thofe, that have the beft oppor- tunity of doing it, and made publick, as ſhould likewiſe thoſe | in D. Gaícoigne s Theological Di- _ Honary in Lincoln-College Library (as was ma- ny years ago noted by Dr. Gerard Langbaine >) _a Specimen of which I have lately given in the Antiquities of Glaftonbury 3, written by a very worthy and pious Gentleman‘, who had he _ lived to improve the Book as he defign d, would - have inriched and adorned it with abundance - of other very curious Remarks and Obſerva- - tions, ſuch as Men of his genius are capable of making, whenever they employ themfelves up- .. X. Lelandus de Scriptorib. p. j 287. 3. Pag. 290. 4. Vide 437. 2. See a Letter of his to | Pref. ad Hemingi Chartularium Mr. Selden, that I have publifh- | Eccleſiz Wig. $. I. ed in Leland’s Coll, Vol, V. p. on XXII | THE PUBLISHERS | on Subjects, to the Study of which they are naturally inclin d. | Among others that 6, V, But ‘twill be endleſs here to retain'd their origi- SUR | nal Sirnames was Multiply Inftances of fuch as have re- Peter Langroft,who, taind their Sirnames after their be- beſides his Tranfla- ) 1 ; | tion into French COming noted Writers. They will be Rhythms of Boſen- TOR ; ham or Bofam, ODVious, enough to ſuch as deal in Life of Thomas à Antiquity. Waving, therefore, others, CLE ‘cu I ſhall mention only one more, which Jand in French. indeed is more material than any other I either have named or can name, and that is Peter Langtoft, or Peter de Langtoft, the Perſon that hath occafioned this preſent un- dertaking of mine. He was ſo called from Langtoft in Yorkſhire, and was nor, as ſome have thought ', a Frenchman by birth, not- withſtanding his being ſo very well vers'd in the French Language, that was in his time fo much in vogue both at Court and elſewhere, | efpecially among Lawyers and great Scholars, a thing which King James the I. look'd upon! as of no true Advantage to Britain?. It does. not appear to me, how he was originally edu- cated; but, without queftion, there was no- | thing wanting, that might render him a com-. pleat Scholar, as well as a Man of honeſty and! good Morals. After he had obtain'd a good | I Gene MM M P €——— | Y. See, the Appendix to this Preface, Num.I. 2. See The Royal | Zaw by Richard Eburne, p. 40. ; fair PRUE PACT; fair Character, he became a Canon Regular: of the Order of St. Auſtin at Bridlington, or Brellington*, a Priory of Black Canons in York- ſhire, founded by Walter de Gant, (temp. Hen. I.) and dedicated to S. Mary and S. Nicholas 3. He was a perfon naturally addicted to Hiftory and Poetry, and ſpent a good deal of his time that way; infomuch that, befides his Tranfla- tion out of the Latin Tongue into French Rhythms of Herebert Bofenham, Bofcam, or Hoſcham's + Life of Thomas à Becket, he com- pild in French a Chronicle of England 5, writ- tenin Rhythm, and is preferyd ſtill in feveral Libraries, XXIIIS : §. VI. The Author begins this Hi- ſtory at the very Original of the Bri- tains, even as early as the Trojans, in the ſame manner as many others do, that have no better Vouchers than the old Brittifh Hiftorian (and 1 look upon This Peter Langtoft feems to have died in the beginning of K. Edw. Ild’s Reign, and to have been buried at Bridling- ton with much fuch another Epitaph as that to the memory him as good® as thoſe dark Times can I. See the Appendix to this Preface, Num. I. IL.III, 2. Le- landi Coll. Vol. III. p. 363. 3- Lelandi Coll. Vol. I. p. 123. & Vol, IV. p.35. Tanner's No- titia Monaſtica, pag.252. 4. Ni- colfon's Engl. Hift. Library, p. 112,113.Fol. 5. See the Appen- dix, Num I. II. IIL.IV. 6. For which reaſon Geffry of Mon- hath been vindicated by many great men, and among others, that uſed to ſpeak well of him, was the learned Mr. Thomas Thompſon, Rector of Montgo- mery, in the Year 1628. as I find by the following Particu- lars, that I have entered at pag. 86. of Vol. 103. of my MSS. Colle&ions: © Mr. Brome [of mouth (who took from him) | © Ewithington, near Hereford] * hath of Robertus Scriba. XXIV THE PUBLISHER’. produce) from whom * firſt Alfred of Beverley, and afterwards Geffry of Monmouth ( tho’ Mr. Dodwell was not fufficiently aware of this 7) took their Hiftories. He brings the Story down to the end of the Reign of K. Edward the firft after the Conqueft; but carrying it no lower, I take it for granted, that he died. towards the beginning of the Reign of K. Ed- ward II. but in what Year, or in what Place, it. was that he finiſhed: his days, 1 cannot pre- tend to determine, unleſs I could meet with ſome good Authority on which to ground an | * hath got Gyraldus Cambrenfis of j © ning} at the end of which | * Dr. Powell's Edition, with | *€ Ponsicus Virunnius is the fol- | * Ponticus Virunnius at the begin- | © lowing MS. Note : | “Ora Wee. eu. ** Legi, nec video qua ratione improbetur hec hiſtoria, cim nil ſapiat, | «€ quod non [it e probabile Ch pofsibile, non obſtamibus invidiofis illis pfeude- | * pigraphis prolatis à Polydaro Virgilio & Guilielmo Cambdeno, Viris alio- | * quin apprime do&ifsimis ; uti fentio Ego Dei fervus humilimus his in fms. | * diis à pueritia ver[atus, * Thomas Thompſon, Re£for Eccl. parochialis de ** Montgomeria, 20°. Febr. 16289. * Immediately after which isa {pare Leaf, on the back fide of | * which is this MS. Note in another hand : | € The beginning of the Giralds family in Ireland, was from one e Girald, | | ** which zooke to wife Neſta, Siſter to Gruffin the prince, of whom he begate * a goodly faire progeny, from whom deſcended Giraldus Cambrenfis. Camb= | © den : Britan: in Pembrokſh : 652, P. | * Giraldus Cambrenſ': was Archdeacon of Brechnock: above 400 Jeeves fince. Cambden: in Brechnock ſb: p.627. 1. Vide Pref. noftram ad Aluredum Bey. s, VIL 2. Éxercit, | de /Etate Phalaridis, pag. 25. — | Affer- l PREFACE. Affertion. I am, however, of opinion, that he continued Canon of Bridlington till the time .of his Death, and that he was buried in the Priory, with ſome {hort Epitaph upon him, much ſuch another as that to the memory of Robertus Scriba, or Robert the Scribe (1o firnamed from the many great Works, that were writ- ten and compiled by him: ) who was the fourth . Prior of Bridlington, and, upon his Death, was buried in the Cloyfter juft before the Chapter- Houfe Door with this Inſcription, as we are affured by Leland > who faw it, at the fame XXV time that he curioufly look'd over his Writings, as they were then preferved in the Priory Li- brary: Robertus Scriba, quartus Prior ; Or, as Leland gives it elſewhere 3, RO BERF US; COGNOMENTO SCRIBA, QUAR- IUS PRIOR. | $. VII. It is not at all improbable, . but; if there be any of the Obit Books - of the Priory of Bridlington now in be- “ing, upon a due Search, ſome note might be found about the exact time, when Peter de Langtoft died. For the Monks were exact in their Regiftring - things of this nature, as may appear e- Were the Obitua- ries, or Obit Books of Bridlington now remaining, it is pro- bable fomething certain about his Death might be learned from them. The diligence of the Monks in re iftring. Many old e xis ftil in private 1. Lelandus de Scriptorib. | feum, p. 245. 3. De Scripto- (p.202. Pitfeus, p.242. 2. Coll. | rib. Brit. p. 203. Vol. IV. p.35. Vide etiam Pit- Vol. I. d ven XXVI hands, that ought to be ſearch'd by men of a true ge- nius. The Chroni- cle of England writ- ten by Thomas Blount, Efq;. THE PUBLISHER'S ven from the Obituaries,or Obit Books, that T have ſeen, particularly one' that belong'd to Eovefham Abbey. They ex- ceeded, in many refpects, what hath. been done fince the Reformation, not-- withſtanding the ftrict Injunctions and Orders | for keeping true and accurate Regifters. Men of diftinction and character were then appoint- | ed for looking after ſuch things. They did not | commit fuch kind of bufinefs to an illitterate | common perfon, no more than they did the care | of their Chartularies, in many of which too | Notes may be occafionally found, immediately | relating to the great and famous Men of thoſe | Times, fuch as would be of very good ufe to : thoſe that are concern'd about our ancient Worthies. But what advantage then, it will be ask'd, will this be of, if, after abundance | of time ſpent in ſearching, nothing of moment | ſhould occur, dire&ly belonging to the Subject, | which gave occafion to the Searches? Or what | Compenſation will be made for fo much pains, | and the laying out fo much time upon dry In- quiries? In anſwer to which it muſt be noted, that none but perſons, naturally inclined to thefe Studies, fhould be imploy d in fearching, | | eters: 1. Cujus apographum penes | de Mickleton in agro Glouce- | fe habet antiquarius amiciffimus | fttienfi, armiger. | doGiffimufq; Richardus Graves, I who j = p PREFACE. who if they do not meet with much about. the _ Lives and Deaths of eminent Men, beſides what is already known, will, nevertheleſs, find a vaſt deal about our Monafteries and our an- cient Hiſtory not yet divulged, which as it will prove of unſpeakable ſatisfaction to them- XXVIL ſelves (for no Study can be more pleaſant to | Perfons ofa genius than that of our National Hiftory and Antiquities) fo it cannot but be of » wonderfull ſervice to the Publick. The ſingle Chartulary of the Church of Worcefter, that I lately publifhed, is an undényable Proof of this. . And that there are many Chartularies, very little known, in private hands, is, I think, agreed amongſt all, We only want the bene- fit of them, by having perſons of a genius im- ploy d to turn them to publick Ufe. Thomas Blount, of Orleton in Herefordſhire, Efq;. was extremely curious this way, and in the year 1669. he met with a Chartulary of the Priory of Leominſter, in that County, with ſome other - choice Antiquities, in the hands of a Friend of his *. I do not know, that there hath been as yet any publick uſe made of this Chartula- ry, but, without doubt, Mr. Blount read it all over, and extracted many things out of it, ſome of which, perhaps, he might have in his Eye, 1. Id quod de feipfo teftatur | nium à Wood fcriptis, quas in in litteris quibufdam ad Anto- | Museo Afhmoliano perlegi. 7% d 2 (not XXVIII THE PUBLISHER'S (not only in his Antiquities of Herefordſhire, a Book never yet printed ', but) in the Chronicle of England that he compiled, a Work in which, | I am informed, he inſerted many Things about. our Religious Houfes, and the Sacrilegious De- {traction of them (what the Clergy and the Poor ought to lament) that was made by K. Henry VIII. of whom a very faithfull and Ju- _ dicious Hiſtorian writes, among other remark- able Particulars, that if all the Pictures and Patterns of a mercileſs Prince were loft in the. World, they might all again be painted to the Lite, out of the Story of this King 3, But, it icems, this Chronicle was never yet printed; nor do I exactly know where it now is, tho’ | fome Extra@s+ from it were, a few years fince, in the Hands of a late ingenious Friend: of which Extracts, as well as of many other cu- | rious Things, I fhould have had a free uſe, | had he lived longer, he being follicitous for me | to go to his Seat, and to peruſe whatever he | had concerning our Hiftory and Antiquities. | , Porno ls GV TIT have oblery d above = that the French Tongue 1 : | was ſo much in the French Tongue was much in vogue | ck Ba EO in the time of Peter Langtoft. Yet | were multitudes be- notwithſtanding this there were very Ede arti 3 000. REL a i! 7; a 1, Coll. noftr. MSS. Vol. 94. | ter Raleigh's Preface to his Hi- | P- 136. 2. Richard Eburne's | ſtory of the World. 4. Coll. | Royal Law, p. 44. 3. Sir Wal- noftr.MSS.Vol.68.p,6r. $.$.V. | many | | | | EE PREFACE. XXIX many exquifite Scholars, that had a fides that defpifed ; j : it. The Normans particular regard to their own native noe able utterly to Tongue, and as for the inferior and ©tirpate the Saxon Vis Language. The ill more illitterate fort of people ^ they Confequence from 3 “aga the Endeavours that wholly deſpiſed the French Language. vene eus mar And twas a piece of great wiſdome purpoſe. to do fo. The introduction of the French Tongue was of very great difadvantage. It brought a difufe of the Scriptures, which hav- . ing been tranflated into Saxon, were common- ly read among the Vulgar, as well as others, (that did not underftand the Originals,) ‘till after the Normans came among us, who did all they could poffibly to deftroy every thing, that look'd like Saxon ; and yet they were not able to bring their ill defign to perfection. The Saxon Princes and great Men had granted abun- dance of Charters in their own Language. Thefe (notwithſtanding fome,tho'a very few,have been fufpected*) were look'd upon as genuine and authentick. Extraordinary care, therefore, was to be usd in preſerving them. Great Immuni- ties and Privileges depended thereupon. ‘The Monks knew this very well. They, therefore, imploy d all their Skill in fecuring them from a People, that was as diligent to deſtroy them, as the Rebells of Somerfetfhire were in 16853. 1.Rob.of Gloucefter’s Chron. 3. H.Whartoni Pref. ad Part.L. p.364. 2.Henr.Whartoni Pref, | Angl. Sacr. p. XII. ad Part. II. Angl. Sacr. p. III. to XXX THE PUBLISHERS to deſtroy very many ancient Writings, that belong'd to the Church of Wells. This being Ao, we may fairly conclude, that the ignorance, which appeared after the Conqueft, was owing to a Conflux of Forreigners, that were againſt that very Language, in which were written great Numbers of excellent Books, among which were the Scriptures, that were after- wards very diligently kept from the knowledge | of the vulgar, and all others, that were not acquainted with the Originals. This was of | difmal Confequence, as will be readily own'd by thofe, that confider, that the Saxon Ver- fion of the Scriptures was excellent, and the Words very fignificant, as will ſufficiently ap- pear to fuch, as fhall confult what MSS. are remaining, relating to it, even to this day, or | if they do not have recourſe to the MSS. (one | of which is the ancient Ruſhworth one in the | Bodleian Archives) they may be fully fatisfied | of the truth of it, from the Saxon Goſpels, | firft printed by Mr. Fox, and afterwards, more | correctly, by Dr. Marfhall, to fay nothing of | ſome other printed Books, John Wickliff and | others had weigh'd this matter well, and upon | that account partly they ſet upon another Ver- fion, agreeable to the Language in ufe in their | own Times, and were very induſtrious in di- : vulging it, which is the reaſon, that we have | | fo. |} LA — = ! PREFACE. fo many MSS. of it at.this time, in which ma- | ny Words appear, that are originally Saxon, and, therefore, it would be proper for any, that ſhall read over one Verſion, to com- _ pare it with the other, by which they will the more readily perceive and find out, the Alter- XXXI ations that have crept into the old Saxon Tongue, _ $J1X. Among ſuch as were concern'd * for cultivating the Engliſh Tongue, Ro- bert of Brunne is defervedly to be rec- koned, he being the very perſon, to whom we owe that Piece of obſolete Engliſh,that is now here publiſhed, He was well apprized of the Credit, that Robert of Brunne one of thoſe that cultivated the En- glifh Tongue, and he gained” a great Reputation upon that ſcore. This Ro- bert of Brunne lived to a great age, tho’ the year in which he Peter Langtoft's Chronicle had obtain- occur. died doth not yet + ed; but then being written in French, it was far - from being of general uſe in England. Upon which he was importuned to tranſlate it into . Engliſh for the fake of ſuch, as did not under- - ſtand either Latin or French. I fay zmportuned, becaufe himſelf hath aſſured * us, that he was requeſted to do it. Nor is there any wonder, that he ſhould be pitched upon aboye any other, fince he had, many years before, obtained a very great charafer for ſeveral Rhythmical Tranſlations that he made, one of which was NUR 2 orroq OM Hitt eth Mou noe Tit oats Y. See his Prologue de Hiſtoria Britannia, in the Appendix to this Preface, Num. V. | Ro- XXXII THE PUBLISHER'S Robert Groſthead's Manuel de Peche, begun by him in the year 1303. 31. Edw. I. about four years. before he feafted (upon account of | fome honour done him) and made Obferva- | tions at Cambridge *. An excellent Copy of | the ſaid Manuel de Peche, as tranſlated by | Robert of Brunne, is in the Harleyan Libra- | ry*, as there is another in the Bodleian3, in | which are ſome other Things probably to be - aſcribed to him. The true Sirname of this | great Man was Mannyng +, but being (as I believe at preſent) born at Malton in York- | ſhire, he was from thence frequently call'd Ro- bert of Malton’. He lived © for ſome time in the Houſe of Sixhill, Sixill, Syxille or Sixle, a Gilbertine Priory in Lincolnſhire, founded by | one Greflei, or Grelle, in.the time of King | John, and dedicated to the bleſſed Virgin Ma- ry7, Hence ‘tis, that he afterwards exprefsd | himſelf fo hearty a Friend? to the Gilbertine | or Sempringham Order. After he had left Sixhill, he became a Canon of Brunne 9, OF ea al OBI, 1 NE oC TT LT e op LUN LP SHS E POS SU UP or d / 1. See below in this Chroni- | Work,p.706. 5. See the Appen- cle, p. 337- 2. See my Preface | dix to this Pref. Num. V. and | to Rob. of Glouceſter's Chron, | my Gloſſary to Rob. of Glouc. _ $X111. 3. Catal. MSS. in Bibl. | loc. cit. 6. Ibid. 7, Mon. Angl. . Bod].n.2313. 4. See the Appen- | Tom. II. P- 810. Tanner's No- dix to this Preface,Num.V. Alfo | titia Mon. P- 129. 8: See my my Preface to Rob. of Glouc. s. | Pref. to Rob. of Glouc, P- LX- | xxiv. and my Gloffary to that | 9. Vide Append, ad hanc Praf. | Num. | . Notit. Mon.p. 119, 3. In his Coll. Voll. p.g6. 2. Tanner's PREFACE - Bourne, a Priory of Black Canons in the fame County, founded by Baldwin de Wake (remp. Hen. 1.) and dedicated to the honour of St. Peter”, tho others * ſay (and even Camden him- {elf3 ſeems to imply, tho’ he does not directly fay, that it was dedicated) to the B. Virgin. Here he lived a great many Years, continuing there, unlefs I am miftaken, to the time of his Death. It doth not yet appear to me in what year he died; but that he muſt have lived XXXIII to a great age, is clear from the Notes him- - ſelf hath left us. He had been of Brunne Ab- bey fifteen Years +, when he began to tranſlate Manuel de Peche, and ‘twas more than thirty Years' after that, before he finifhed his Task about Peter Langtoft, according to this Me- morandum that is put in red letters (but in the fame hand) at the End of it: | Expliciunt gefta Britonum & Anglorum in lin- gua materna per Robertum Mannyng tranfum- | pta anno Chriſti millefrmo.CC C"", tricefimo VIII. Idus Maij, littera deminicali D. prima 1X. tempore Regis Edward: terciz à conqueſtu. XI°. Defence of himfelf againft Brook, p. 27. publifh'd by way of Appendix in fome Copies of his Britannia in 4to. 1600. 4. Pref. ad Rob. de Glouc, p. LX. Vol. I. e $6: X, uA TE Num. V. item Pref. ad Rob. Glouc. p.Lx. & Gloff. ad Rob. Glouc. p.706. 1. Mon. Angl. Tom. II. p. 235, &c. Lelandi XXXIV He was not defcend- -ed from the Found- er of St. Mary Spit- tle, extra | Bifhop's Gate. His Tranfla- tion of Peter de Langtoft had it's in- tended Effet. Ma- ny Copies of it for- merly,tho’ it be now ſcarce. The Stories in it us'din old time inſtead of Ballads. THE PUBLISHER'S $. X. After he became famous for his Writings, he was generally called Robert of Brunne, which was partly occaſioned alfo by his living fo long in that Priory ; fo that I fhould not think, that he was defcended from Walter Brune, or Broune, who, with Roifia or Rofia his Wife, founded St. Mary Spittle extra Biſhop's Gate for Canons Regular or Black Canons' az, 1197. an Houſe. of ſuch relief to the needy, that there were found ftanding at the furrender thereof, nine- | {core beds, well furnifhed for receipt of NOOK | people *; of which kind I might (were it my proper bufinefs now) give other Inſtances in | thofe times, when Biſhops alfo were Men of dif. fufive Charity, inſomuch that Richard Red- man 3, firſt Biſhop of St. Aſaph, then of Exe- ter, and afterwards of Ely, where he died and was buried 4°. 1505. as he was a perſon of great liberality and bounty, and of a virtuous and. godly lite, ſo when* he travell'd through any Towns where he ſtay'd but an hour, he cauſed a Bell to be rung, that the poor and indigent might come and partake of his Charity, which | he plentitully beſtowed amongft them. Now | DTT om TT EET ee id 1. Lelandi Coll. Vol, I. p.36. 13. Godwin de Pref. p. 3315 | Monaſt. Angl. Vol. II. p. 383. | 473, 662. Le Neve's Fafti,p.21, 2. Stow's Survey of London, | 70, 83. 4. Coll. noftr. MSS. | P- 86. b. 176. a. Ed. 1633, fol. | Vol. 8o. p. 54. | aS | | PREFACE TERRY, as Robert of Brunne undertook the Tranf- lation of Langtoft, not for Praiſe and Vain- Glory, but with a deſign of doing good, fo what he propoſed had it's intended Effect. He adapted himſelf to the Capacity of the Vul- gar, and did not affect a high-flown Stile, nor hard Words, ſuch as were complained of in the Stories of Erceldoun, of Kendale, and of Triftram*, celebrated Rhythmical Books (but - ? full of lyes) in Robert of Brunne's time, tho little known fince. Now as Robert of Brunnes Tranflation was much cryed up, fo there is no doubt, but there were many Copies of it for- merly, notwithſtanding it be fo ſcarce fince, there being, at preſent, only two MSS. that I know of, one in Vellum in the Library of the Inner-Temple, the other (which 1s imper- ee) sme 1. See the Appendix to this I find it in a very fine, but im- Pref, Num. V. 2. And it was | perfe& MS. thereof (written, as to ſuch Romantick Books, that | I take it, in Edward the III. the Rhythmical Author of the | time) that was lent me by my Lives of the Saints (who, it may | very worthy Friend, Edward be, was Robert of Brunne) had , Sheldon of Weſton-houſe, near regard in the beginning of his | to Long Compton,in Warwick- Work, where is this Paſſage, as | ſhire, Eſq;. {Del aubt we lony Criſtendom, pat is fo dere p bout With oure Lorde's herte blode,that pe ſpere hath p fouzt. Men wiinepe more p heze of bataile of kpngts, And of knupstis hardy, that mochel is lefpnaísg ; DE Roulond and of Dlynere, and Gy of Warewpke, | Df Wawayen and Triſtram, pat ne foundde here p like. 11D5o fo loucthep to here tales of ſuche ppng, Pere he may y here thyng pat nys no leſyng, € 2 Df XXXVI — *and tranſlated into Engliſh THE PUBLISHER'S fect») in Paper in that of Lambeth:. The for- mer of theſe MSS. belong'd lately to William | Petyt, Efq;. who gave it to the Inner-Temple, from whence I have had the Loan of it by the Grant of that learned Society, at the In- tereſt of my learned Friend, John Anttis, Efq;. Garter-Principal King of Arms, who put it in- to the Hands of my late very worthy Friend John Bridges, E{q;. from whom I receiy'd it a Df poſtoles and marteres, that hardi knpsttes were, Ind ſtedefalt were in bataile,and fledde nost for no fere. I. © The Chronicle” [of Pe- | © Addition or Alteration to be ter Langtoft in MS. in Lambeth | * ſeen throout the whole MS. Library] **is written at one , © At the end indeed there is * time, on the fame Paper by | “this remark added by a late “two different hands. There | “hand: : *is no modern mark of any & Note this Book imperfect. The French Copies of L angroft in the * Cotton. Library, and alſo in the Herald's Office end with she Reign « of King Edward the mit. E litteris amici pereruditi Edvar- | ** verfe the Hiſtory of England, di Burtoni,armigeri,datis ad me | “writ in French by Peter de - . Londini Mar.s. 1724. © Longatofta, Canon of Brid- 5 © [ington, a Specimen of which 2. © Robert Brunne was a Ca- | you'l find in Stow's Hiſt. in © non of the Abby of Brunne or | RIES. D. 1279, where and in “Bown near Depyng in Lin- | © 1266. he is join'd in the mar- *colnſhire — flourifh'd in the | «« gin with Peirce Longton or Long- * Jatter end of K. Ed. I. reign, | © vofe z but his true Name Brunne * has defcribed thus: Peres of Langtoft a Chanoun Schaven p the houſe of Wridiingtoune On Bomaunce al this ſtory ye wrote Df Englyth kynges ag we wel wote &c. | © This PREFACE. little FEY his Death *. But tho' there were many intire Copies of the Work formerly, yet others were very imperfect. For notwithftand- ing moſt people then (as well as they are now) were very defirous of heaving: the Acts of their famous Anceſtours related, yet much the great- er part were not of ability to get compleat Copies of this Book, and for that reaſon were contented with Tranſcripts of ſome particn- lar Stories out- of it, which for recreation (a thing aimed at by Robert of Brunne) they uſed to recite, and very often to fing by way of Ballads, Which method we ought not to won der at, fince our more ancient Ballads were no- thing but ſuch Rhythmical Hiſtorical Accounts, done by Perſons of note for Learning, who propoſed Truth in their Relations; and fuch Relations were ftiled ancient Gefts, which Word Geſts was oppoſed to the French lio: mance ?, a Word it ſeems that was apply d to . Whatever Hiſtory was compiled in French Rhythms. XXXVII §. XI. Now from Ron of Brunnes Robert of Brunne a an of a facetious. calculating this Work for the Diver- merry Temper, yet ** This tranſlation is yet extant , dix to this Pref.Num.VI. 2. See . “MSS. in Lambeth Library n. | pag.205. of this Chronicle. See ** 13%~ folio, *' E litte- | alſo the Appendix to this Pre- ris viri cujufdam pereruditi ad | face, Num. VII. amicum. I. See the Appen- fion XXXVIII without any Mix- ture of Immorality. The diligence of the Monks of Winche- fter in obſtructing the Defi ign of Joan of London. A Paſ- fage relating to the fedes ſtercoraria at Rome from an ano- nymous MS, Author, | THE PUBLISHER'S | fion and Recreation of the reſpective Readers, and fuch as met together | for Mirth and Pleaſure, we may eafily | gather, that he himſelf was of a chear- full, pleaſant humour, and that he was very blithe and merry whenever he ſaw a proper occaſion; at all which times, however, he behav'd himſelf LO any immoral or indecent Expreſſions. He was naturally addicted to virtue, and. his being engaged in a religious courſe of Life made him have a ftrider Guard upon | himſelf. But ‘twill be objected, that in the younger part of his Life, as hath been al-| ready noted', he was a Member of Sixille, a Houfe that conilted of Women * as well as | Men. Can we, therefore, think, that, faces he was of a jocular Temper, he could be whol- | ly free from Vice? or that he ſhould not fome- | times exprefs himfelf loofely to the Sifters of that Place? This Objection would have ſome | weight, had the Priory of Sixille been any Ways | noted for Luxury or Lewdnefs; but whereas | every Member of it, both Men and Women, | were very chaſt, we ought, by no means, to. fuppofe, that Robert of Brunne behaved hil | {elf otherwiſe than became a good Chriſtian | —— 1. $. IX. 2. See pag. 243. of this Work. See alfo the Ap. Ke to this Work, Num.VI. dird | PREFACE. XXXIX during his Abode there. Had his Life been fullied during that time, he would have been | branded for it afterwards, and 'twould have been impoſſible for him to have obtained a Ca- nonry at Brunne. Had the Friers and Nunns of Sixille acted againſt the Rules of Chaſtity and good Manners, they had Enemies enough to have marked them for it, not only in thoſe more early Times, but even of late, when ſome, particularly a very fabulous Hiſtorian, have {pared no pains to rake up all the ſcandalous Stories they could againſt the Religious, tho'I .do not know, that they have particularly accuſed the Priory of Sixille. “Tis indeed no wonder, | that there ſhould be always ſuch fictitious Writ- ers, when they have ſome wicked Deſigns to carry on. Malice hath always been at the bot- tom, and tho' it hath oftentimes prevailed to the utter ruin of whole Societies, yetit hath fre- - quently likewiſe diſcovered it ſelfſo palpably,as to baffle and quite overthrow fuch as have pro- »moted it. "Twas nothing elfe but the virtue of the Monks of Winchefter, and their Diligence to ſecure their Reputation, that obſtructed the Defigns of one Joan of London, in the time of K. Edward I. She pretended to be a re- ligious Convert, and had obtain d, at leaft got | forged, an Order from Rome and Canterbury, _ to have a yearly Maintenance allow d her, dur- ing x THE PUBLISHERS © ing life, in the Monaſtery of Wincheſter, claim- ing the fame Pittance, viz. 8 s. (or, as it ſhould be perhaps, 8./zbs.) a year pro alimentis, that eve- ry Monk had, a thing which fo exafperated the Monks, that they profecuted her in the Court of Arches, and I doubt not but they car- ried their Point, the matter being of pernicious conſequence, if they had acquiefced and per- mitted fuch an Innovation. I did not meet with this Piece of Hiftory, ‘till lately, when I | read over an old Parchment Fragment *, that was given me by my ingeniqus Friend Tho- mas Ward, of Longbridge near Warwick, Efq;. The like Attempts were made, without difpute, upon other Religious Houfes, which, I ſuppoſe, met with the like Succefs. Envy ac- companies Virtue, and, therefore, there will never be wanting perfons, that will be ready to calumniate the moft innocent. "Tis what is complain d of among all Perfuafions. Even the Roman-Catholicks (who, to give them their due, and: to hint what hath been long fince obferv'd, in the point and practice of Cha- rity, and in the provifion for thoſe that ſerve at Gods Altar, ſeveral of which are forced to put their hands to many a fervile labour and baſe Employment, have ſhew'd themſelves more I. See the Appendix to this Pref, Num. VIII. found PREFACE, found and conſtant, more righteous and reli- gious, more reafonable and confcionable than lome of us Proteſtants, that in profeflion and knowledge go far before them) affert; that what many eminent Proteſtants affirm of the fedes Stercoraria, in the proceſſion of a new Pope to Lateran, is meer Fiction and Calumny. A learned anonymous Author, therefore, which I have now before me in MS. > but imperfect, being lent me by the juſt now mentioned inge- nious Mr.Ward, tells the Story thus 3: ---- When the pope cometh to Laterane, he entreth into the £4- lerie or cloyfter of the church, wher he is receyved of the canons of the fame church in theyr habites ho- norablye with the croffe, whych the prior of the ca- nons offreth to be kyſſed of hym defcendinge from his borfe, which he doth, the cardinall deacon takynge zt of the prior, and houldynge it tothe pope's mouth zakynge of his crowne & kyffynge it. The crowne 25 geven to the auditors to be houlden, and he tak- Juge his miter, is by the ſame prior and canons re- ceyved and condufted unto a marble ſeat, ſtandinge without the principal gate at the left hand, which ſeat is called (of the ceremonies there done) fterco- EE DO 4o o n omNE 4 x os RE IIS ENDL I. Rich. Eburne's Royal Law, | the ſecond of thynges done, as occaſion P- 44, 48. 2, Intit'led, The Ce- ſerveth, at Rome or elſewhere, But remonyes of the holy Church of Rome. | there is only one Chapter (and It is in 4to. and conſiſts of two | that too imperfect) of the fe- Books, the firſt booke whereof is | cond Book of this MS. the reſt of the thynges done only « Rome: being wanting. 3. LI. chap.7, * Vol. I, f raria, XLI XLII THE PUBLISHERS . raria, the ftercorarie. for fyttynge down in that ſeat, and leanynge a little on one fyde, fo that he may feme rather to lye than to fyt, the cardinales come to hym, & lyfiynge hym up, fay: ſuſcitat de pulvere egenum, & de ftercore erigit paupe- rem: he lifteth up the nedie from the duft, and exalteth the poore from the dunghill, that he may fyt amonge the princyes, and poſſeſſe el. 1:2. ue the throne of glorie. Then the Pope ryſynge up, princip caketh out of the boſym of his chamberlayne fo much lium glo- money, as he can grip (and yet ther 1s nether gould nor fyluer) & cafteth it amonge the people fayinge : { # « -argentum & aurum non eft mihi, quod autem nether f 1-habeo hoc tibi do: I have nether ſylyer nor guid. gould, yet ſuch as I have I geve the. I know | what is uſually faid on this occafion ; but I am not concerned, at preſent, either way any far- ther, than to repreſent the Author's words, as I have done, faithfully, and to leave them to the confideration of all ſuch, as are willing, and judge it very reaſonable, to examin things fairly, before they accuſe any of notorious Im- moralities, and among ſuch I am ſure Robert of Brinne will be lookd upon as a Man of probity and virtue; eſpecially fince the fame ingenuous perfons (who are far from taking up with Calumnies) cannot be ignorant, what an a= fperfion fome wicked men were pleafed to caft - upon a very pious and devout Family at Little | | Gid- ae PREFACE Gidding in Huntingtonſhire, and to print a li- - bellous Pamphlet upon the occaſion, (on pur- poſe to expoſe. a moſt worthy and excellent Deſign as ſuperſtitious and popifh) which was extracted, in good meaſure, though with un- warrantable Alterations, from a Letter that is now in MS. in the hands of the forefaid Mr. © Ward, from which I ſhall print it in the Appen- dix* to this Preface, that it may be compared with the printed Book, of which, ‘becaufe it 1s now extremely ſcarce, I ſhall, at the ſame time, give* a new Impreſſion (according to the for- mer, provided it may. be call'd, Orthography) from a Copy, the loan of which was obtaind for me by my very learned and judicious Friend Thomas Baker, B. D. of St. John's- College in Cambridge, who, upon this occaſion, was {0 kind, among other particulars, to write to me in this manner: If an account of that reputed Nun- . nery [of Little Gidding] be what you want, you have the beſt and moſt authentic account, in Bp. Wit- - liams s Life (then Bp. of the Dioceſe) by Bp. Hacket, Par. 2d. pag. 50, 51, &c. Fal, & ſomewhat in Mr. Oley s Preface to Mr. Herbert s Country Parſon, who was of the ſame College with Mr. Ferrer, viz. Clare-Hall, where Mr. Nich. Ferrer was firſt Fel- low-Commoner, and after Fellow, where he commenc t de CU PRG MNT gee ee ek 1. Num IX, 2, See the Appendix to this Pref. Num. oy f 2 Mr. XLIII . XLIV THE PUBLISHER'S Mr. of Arts 1613. Fe mas fo great and fo good a man, that the late Bp. of Ely (Bp. Turner) had a de- - Sign to write his Life, but what Colleétions he had made, or where log d, I do not know: His Library mas fold. "fis impoflible to give a particular Ac- count of the Life of Robert of Brunne. There are Prece- dents, as wellin an- cient as Jater Times, to juſtify any one in leaving behind him Memoirs of his own Life. Dr. Wallis left ſome particulars of this nature, The Dr’s. Memorandum at the Beginning of a Book (in the Bod- Jeian Library) con- taining many things that he deciphered. $.XII. But Imuft not pretend to en- ter into the minute Circumftances of the Life of Robert of Brunne, who al- though he was fo well known in his own time, yet is now, as it were, quite forgot, even among our beſt Antiqua- ries. Stow indeed hath quoted him”, and given us a remarkable paſſage out of him =. Otherwiſe I do not remem- ber, that he hath been cited by any noted Writer, A thing much to be wonderd at,’ efpecially fince Selden was very diligent this way, and hath given? usa Paſſage out of the original Langtoft, whom Brunne calls* his Maſter. And what is {till ſtranger is, that he ſhould not have been known to Leland, who had been at Bourne, and had taken ſpecial notice of the Place; for it's pleaſant Situation, But it ſeems this Author's Works were not then at Bourne, having been, it may be, convey d off in that time of Plunder, otherwife Leland, without queftion, would have | RIOR: iei E e ot: NOR app DERI _ I. Annals pag. 196, Ed. fol. | XIV. 3. Diff. upon Fleta; p. . 2. lbid. p.zor. See alfo my $48. 4. See pag. 206, 285. Preface to. Rob. of Glouc. $. | 5. Lelandi Coll, Vol. IV. P. 3r. judged PREFACE. judged them worthy his notice. Neither was there then, when Leland was there, as I believe, any Obit Book about the time when Robert of Brunne died, at leaft if there were, ‘tis probable there-was no note in it about his being a cele- brated Writer, which particular, BE even the Members of the Priory might have acquainted Leland with, had they had any inclination to gratify him, as I am apt to think they had not, upon Account of the mifchiefs they wifely fore- faw Henry VIII. (from whom Leland had his Commiffion) was apt to bring upon them. For want, therefore, of particulars, we muft not think of writing a full account of Brunne's Life, the only Memoirs about him being what he hath given himfelfin his Prologue * to this work, in his Tranſition from the firſt Part thereof to the ſecond, and in what he writes3 in the Har- leyan MS. of Manuel de Peche, which are in- deed but lender, and yet {uch as give us ſome (and that no deſpicable) Idea of hint I with he had been fuller of himſelf; as I do likewiſe la- ment, that ſome other of our ancient Worthies had not left us Memoirs of their Lives.. But this, it may be, was neglected by them, as dif- agreeable to the Rules of Modeſty, which, not- I. See the Appendix to this | Preface to Rob, of Glouc. $. Pref. Num, V. 2, See the Ap- | XIII. . pendix, Num. VII. 3. See my | with- XLV XLVI THE PUBLISHERS withſtanding, was a falſe notion, eſpecially if they took care to conceal what they committed to writing of that kind till after their death, and put it into the hands of ſome faithfull Friends, that might make uſe of it in defence of their poſthumous Fame againſt malicious Enemies, Some of the greateſt Men did not look upon it as immodeſt to do themſelves this piece of Juſtice, not excepting even that good man venerable'Bede. And Pofterity hath imi- tated them. Thence. Sir Thomas Bodley was pleaſed alſo to leave behind him an Account written by himſelf of his own Life 7; and, to name no others, ſince his time the learned Dr. John Wallis writ an Account of ſome Paſſages of his own Life, by way of Letter to my late learned Friend Dr. Thomas Smith, from whofe Papers I ſhall publiſh it in the Appendix, with part of a Letter? of the Dr's. to Bp. Fell con- cerning the Report of his deciphering King Charles the Firſt's Cabinet, in reference to which I fhall only here remark, that the Dr's. original Book (in his own hand) is now in the x. Publifhed firſt in 4to at Oxford anno D. 1647. and af- terwards, at the Beginning of Reliquie Bodleiane, at London in 8vo. A.D, 1703. This Life was tranflated into Latin, and ‘tis {till preferved in that Lan- guage both in the Bodl. Libra- ry, and in the learned Dr. Tho- mas Smith's MSS. in my poffef- fion, Vol. 22. p. 6o. 2. Num, XI. 3. Num. XII. Bod- PREFACE. Bodleian Library, with this Memorandum (in his own hand alfo) at the beginning of it: Hane Epiſtolarum ColleStionem, quas. Ciphris feriptas Ipfe expoſuerat, Celeberrime Biblio- thece Bodleiana in Illuſtriſſima Academia Oxonienfi dedit Fohannes Wallis, ibidem Geo- metrie Profeſſor Savilianus. Reſervat# fib n pofterum poteftate addendi vel emendandi. A Colleion of ſeveral Letters and other Pa- pers, which were at ſeveral times intercepted, mritten in Cipher, Deciphered by Fobn Wallis, Profeſſor of Geometry in the *Oniverſity of Oxford --- Given to the Publick library d Anno Domini 1653. Which Memorandum I the rather take notice of, becaufe the being acquainted with the liber- ty, that Dr. Wallis referved to himfelf, may be of fervice to fuch, as are concerned to defend, as well the Title of this Book in the printed. Catalogue *, as what hath been ſaid of this MS. by Henry Stubbe* and Anthony à Wood 3, who (as other honeft men have done *) lookd upon Y. Tom. I. Part. 1. n. 3524. 2. In pag. 7. of A ſevere enquiry into the late Oneirocritica y or an ex- | aft accouns of the grammatical part of the Controverfie between Mr.Thom. Hlobbes and John Wallis, D. D. Lond. 1657. 4to.. 3. Ath.Ox- on. Vol. II. col. 415. See alſo | pag. 61. ofthe Life of Dr. John Barwick in Engliſh, Lond. 1724- 890, 4. See pag. 156. of a Book, intit, The Civil Warres of Great XLVIT XLVIII THE PUBLISHERS this bufinefs of deciphering as a baſe a&t. And it may be the learned Dr. Smith would have {pared his note on the occafion, had he been either aware of the beforefaid Memorandum, or given any credit to. what Anthony à Wood had faid' of the Dr's. being able at any time to make black white, and white black, for his own ends,and of his having a ready knack of fophiftical evaſion, a character which Anthony afterwards enlarged, notwithftanding it does not appear in the late ſpurious Edition of his Athene Ox- onzenſes, in which he is made to have written Things tranſacted after his Death. E in d Brunne — $. XIII. But to return to Robert of ad any Epitaph, it D ſeems to have been Brunne, it is very well known, that nes v CM to Leland in his Travells made it his bu- benow ircetrievable. finefs, not only to ſeek out and inſpect MSS. but to view and conſider ancient monu- mental Stones, in which he ſhew'd a great deal of Judgment. For he did not think it worth his while, to take notes of all Inſcriptions and. Monuments that he happen'd to light. upon, but of ſuch only that were to the memory of perfons of worth ; and among other Places that Se lr ef, Great Britain and Ireland. Con- | End of his Dedication, To the taining an Exatt Fiftory of their | moſt noble Charles Duke of Riche Occaſion, Originall, Progreſs, and | mond and Lenox, &c, 1. Vol. Happy End. By an Impartiall Pen. | II. coll. 816. of the genuine E- | Lond. 1661.fol. The Author | dition of his "bene Oxon. fubícribes himfelf J.D, at the he ‘PREFACE he nicely examined, was this of Brunne, tho’ his Notes upon that occafion do not now oc- cur. Tho therefore I am of opinion, that Ro- bert of Brunne was buried in the Priory of Brunne, and had ſome Epitaph over him, yet in what part it was, and what the Epitaph ſaid of him, is now uncertain, unlefs the Stone were ſtill preſerved, as I do not think that it is, or unleſs ſuch Papers as Mr. Leland's were forthcoming to inform us. If he had any Epi- taph, I do not at all doubt but it was ſhort, far from the modern way of writing Infcri- ptions. A good man deferves praiſe ; and the {peaking often of ſuch is of great uſe for pro- moting virtue. But then to repreſent ill men as good, is one effectual way to encourage wickedneſs ; and yet this is what is now adays too often practiſed. A lewd vicious wretch ſhall have a fine Epitaph (and too often an Ha- rangue from the Pulpit) and be characteriz d as an exceeding good man, tho at the fame time, perhaps, he did not deferve the leaft fhare of ſo great an Encomium. Our Anceſtors, no queſtion, had their Defects; but then they were not guilty of ſuch Extravagancies in their Characters of the Dead. A plain Monument, and a plain Inſcription was then common. Their Names and Offices, with a cujus anime propicie- tur Deus, was then generally the Subject of Vol, I. g their XLIX THE PUBLISHER'S | their Epitaphs; but ſhould ſuch a Concluſion be made uſe of at this time, the Outcries would. be great, and nothing but Curſes de- nounced. The Favourers thereof ſhould be called the worft of men; and be condemn'd as injurious to the Dead, as if the Defunc& need- ed either. prayers or pity, notwithftanding, it may be, none ever ftood in greater need of fuch mercifull Offices. But what is this to Brunne ? or what occafion was there to ſpeak of the cuftom of writing Epitaphs? A Que- . ftion that may be ſoon refolved by thoſe, that will confider, that Brunne lived in an age, when the cuftom of writing concife Epitaphs was much practiſed, and that therefore, in all probability, the Epitaph, if there were any at all, upon him, did not deviate from the then receivd cuſtom, when even the Date of the refpective perſons Deaths was frequently omit- ted, which is what might alfo be left out in that of Brunne. This Brevity and Simplicity is agreeable to ‘Antiquity, tho it muft be grant- ed, that ſome of the ſhort Roman Inſcriptions carty Tokens in them of their being ſpurious; and whether there be not ſuch. in (ſome, at leaſt, of) the Lafcriptiones fingulares znedite of Hadrian Beverland, 1 ſhall leave to the Judg-' ment of the Reader, after he hath perusd them in the Appendix '. udis 71 7 7. Mam. XIII. $. XIV. PREFACE. _§. XIV. Now fince we have no more Memoirs, relating to the Life of Ro- bert of Brunne, I fhall leave the far- ther difcuffion of that Point, and will Li Peter Lanptoft's O- riginal, as well as Robert of Brunne's Englifh Work, con- {ſts of two Parts,the firſt Part of which is here omitted, as. con- confine my felf to the Hiftorical Work he hath left behind him. This Geffry of taining nothing but : F mouth. APaſſage out conſiſts of two Parts, as likewiſe does of Rattall’s Chro- the French Original of Peter Lang- nice about Stone- henge. toft. The firft Part brings the Hiftory down from the moft early Times to the Death of Cadwalader, the fecond from that Period of time to the Death of K. Edward the Firſt; But then whereas both Parts in the French are written in long Verfe, and in one Column, on the contrary the ſecond Part only in the Engliſh Book is in long Verſe, and in one Co- lumn, and the firſt Part is in ſhort Verſe;. and makes two Columns; which Remark, however, is not fo worthy of notice, as another, which .Imuft by no means omit, and that is this. Pe- ter Langtoft himſelf had carefully read over Geffry of Monmouth, and reſolved to make him his Standard for the firft Part of his Work; but then, inftead of reprefenting him intire, he abridg'd him, and left only a Rhyth- mical Epitome of him ; which when Robert of Brunne well perceiv d, inſtead of following Pe- ter Langtoft in that point, he judged it more adyiſcable to .reprefent Geffry at large, but BL not LII THE PUBLISHER'S not according to the compendions Account in Langtoft, but in the manner he found done in French Rhythms to his hands by one Maſter Wace (the ſame, as I take it, that others call Wate ) whofe Tranſlation being approved of, Robert of Brunne thought it a piece of pru- dence to follow him, without regard tó the Original Latin of Geffry, The firſt Part, there- fore, of Robert of Brunne is nothing but Gef- fry of Monmouth, and that too tranflated in- to Englifh from a French Author; but then the ſecond Part contains a Tranſlation of Pe- ter Langtoft's ſecond Part, yet with many In- fertions that do not appear in the Original. After I had read over the whole Work, (which, take it all together, may be properly call'd Ro- bert of Brunne's Chronicle, a Title I have call d it by lately >) I concluded it to be a needleſs piece of fervice to publifh any of the firft Part, ( ex- cepting the Prologue 3 to the whole Work, and the Tranfition + from the Firſt to the ſecond Part thereof, in both which he ſpeaks of him- ſelf and the Work) and all my Friends, that I conſulted upon the occaſion, readily con- currd with me. For which reaſon I have kept Se ee i3 iro dual es eccle. ek ee I See Aaron Thompſon's | Rob. of Glouc. 3. See my Ap- Preface to his Tranflation of pendix to this Preface, Num. V. Geff. of Mon. pay. xxv. 2. iz. | 4. See my Appendix, Num. in ſeveral Places of my Ed. of I VII. ' to, PR iE EsSA:C E. to, and made publick, the latter Part only, as. containing a great many Things not common- ly known, fuch as all, that are curious in our 'Engliſh Hiſtory, will be glad to be acquainted with, efpecially fince Peter Langtoft, the ori- ginal Author, flouriſhed in Edward the Firſt's time (whofe Story he tells at large) and Robert of Brunne, his Tranſlator and Improver, was LIII not Jong after him. But then, tho the Firft , Part be defervedly paſs'd over by me, yet the Reader may meet with feveral Specimens of it, if he be pleaſed to have recourfe to my Gloffa- ry to Robert of Gloucefters Chronicle, and another Specimen alſo I ſhall annex here in - the Appendix ', for the fake of thoſe who ſhall undertake to write about Stone-henge, which our old Engliſh Hiſtorians unanimoufly affirm to have been a Britifh Work, which opinion Raftall himſelf ſeems likewiſe to have efpoufed, notwithſtanding he did not readily agree with thoſe, that held them to be natural Stones, His words * are worth reading, and therefore I ſhall here tranſcribe them, as I found them in the Copy of his Chronicle, that was lent me by my Friend the ingenious Mr. John Mur- ray of London : and indeed they are the ra- ther fit to be conſidered, becauſe Camden 3, as 1. Num. XIV. 2. In his Chron. C. jj, a. 3. Brit. p. 184. in Wiltſhire, Ed. Lat. fol. | I be- LIV | THE PUBLISHER'S I believe, had them in his view at the fame time that he was writing about their being artificial, notwithſtanding he hath not been pleaſed to make any mention of. his author. C Thys Aurplambrote dyſtroyd the panym lawps « reedps! | kyed churchys of cryſtendome he was poyſonyd at wpnehee fer was buryed at ſtoneheng wonder the grete ſtonys; whych ffonps the bryttons fap that one Merlpon which was. degotin of a woma by the Denpll brought out of preland by. - the craft of magpk whych dpucrs men thynk ſtondpth nos ther with good fapth nor reaſon « aiſo the bryttons fap that. thys Marlpon told € wrote many propheſpes wheron they: gretelp beleye But other clerkis and grete lernyd men gyne. ipttyll credence to them | & alfo they fey that thoſe ftonís | were nener brought ont of yretand by merlion but that they Were made bp craft of men as of ſement € morter made of fynt fonys | one reaſon they alege therto becauſe thoſe | ftonís be fo baro that no pryn tole wpll cut them without | grete byſpnes and alfo thep be of one facyon and bpgneg | fauc only there be. jj. fortis | # fo moſt lpkly to be caſte and | made ín a molde € that men thynke it a thyng almoſte on- | polipble to get fo many grete ftonys owte of anny quarre or | rokb that tbolo be fo herd fo equall of bygnes # faſſon la! nother reaſon they lep that ít « not well potfpble to aue | fo many gret ſtonis to be all of one color € of one greyn throw and in enery place but that ſome ſtone (pulo be more - darker of colour in one place or another or at the leſt hane fome vaynys of other colours in them as grete ſtonis of | merbcll and other gret (tonis commpynly bane | But theſe fonts at ſtonchenge be all of one gryt without chaunge of | colour or vayne € all of onc facpon therfore many grete | wyſemen ſuppoſe them to be made of a morter of üpnt or | other ſtonys. | | | $. XV. | Hiſtory, I have aim'd at the fame ac- PREFACE. LV §. XV. In publiſhing this old Piece of The exa&nefs made ! uſe of in publiſhing this piece of ancient gnragy and exactneís as I have done. Hittory. To gratify this Piece of Antiquity I have made fome Readers, feve- an my other publick Works, and as tal Specimens of the in Robert of Gloucefter, foal in bien rade Uſe of four Saxon Characters, vix. 5 or g, por th, p or w (which, however, very rarely occurs) and y or y, letters that are met, with in moſt MSS. of that age, as well as in thoſe of the times afterwards quite down to the Beginning of printing, nay even to the Deftruction of the Religious Houfes, which put a ftop to many laudable Employments, among which was alfo the Elegancy of writing, (which was much en- courag'd in Abbeys,) and the profeffion of the Saxon Tongue, which was kept up, with more than ordinary diligence, in ſome of thoſe Houſes of Religion. This exactnefs I have always been cautious in, becauſe ‘tis what the moſt judicious Readers exfpect, and where they meet with it, they never fail to fet the greater efteem upon the Writings that are fo fet out. And becaufe fome curious perfons will be ready to inquire, what fort of French it is, that Peter Langtoft made ule of; part- ly to gratify them on that account, and partly to illuftrate ſome expreſſions of Robert of Brune, I haye given many Specimens of bes an- LVI THE PUBLISHER'S »: | Language in the Notes, that I have put at the. bottom of the page, in order to which I have| perusd three French MSS. of Peter Langtoft,| that were ſent me, after I had begun to print | this Tranſlation of Robert of Brunne's, by that| moſt excellent. and accompliſhed Herald, the| learned Mr. Anftis. One of theſe MSS. (which | is the moſt ancient) belongs to the College | of Arms, the, Members whereof, as they are | Men of curious Learning, and ready to pro-| mote Works of this kind, generouſly conſent- | ed, that I ſhould have the loan of it, juft in | the ſame manner as (a thing I have hinted before *) the Members of the Inner-Temple | (who are equally ready to advance Underta- kings of this nature) moſt willingly agreed, that | 1 fhould have the benefit of the MS. of Ro-. bert of Brunne. This MS. of the Heralds Of fice belong'd once to that truly great, good, | and generous man (a perſon of an unaffected | Plainneſs and primitive Spirit) Raphe Sheldon, | ' of Beoly in Worceſterſhire, Eſq; as appears | from this Note, written at the beginning of | it by the late induftrious Antiquary Mr. Antho- | ny à Wood, to whom Mr. Sheldon was a very | great and liberal Friend: : | EVE E TEUER VA RRND gio trug IPT y mrone PR, any re D ] I. $. X. 2. See Aibene Ox- | don’s AffeQion for Mr. Wood | en, Vol. I. col. 364, 604. Vol. | is this, that not long before he | II. col. 449, 866. One In- | died (as I am inform'd by an | ſtance of the ſaid Raphe Shel- | excellent Friend) he gave Mr. : Wood, | PREFACE. | Given to the Herald; office at Toon by Raphe Sheldon of Beoly ix Woreſterſh. E[4; who died 24 June 1684. The other two French MSS. belong to Mr. Anftis himſelf, and are both oro in one and the ſame Volume; but then whereas one continues the Story to the Death of K. Ed- ward I. the other (which contains only the fe- cond Part of Langtoft) ends before that Pe- riod at thefe Words in pag. 287. De granted for to gyue pe fitte peníc to pe kyng, In his werre wele to lyue, € ſave per oper ping. LYII $. XVI. Tho’ the French Paflages at the bottom of the page are ſuffi- cient for my purpofe, yet, as a farther Satisfaction to the inquifitive and cu- And, for further Sa- tisfaction, the Cons clufion of theFrench MS. that belongs to the Heralds Office is here inferted in this rious Reader, I {hall here publiſh, in Preface. this Preface, the Conclufion of the French Pe- ter de Langtoft, as “tis expreſs'd in the MS. of the Heralds Office, efpecially fince the laft Lines are the Scribe's own, which will, in ſome meaſure, confirm what I have obſery'd* for- ‘merly about Chaucer's Revocation of the Par- Wood, by word of mouth, CONE to olm (tho' not ob- an hundred Pounds towards | lig'd) when he came into pof- printing his Athene Oxonienfes, | ſeſſion of the eſtate. 1. See my . which the Father (a perfon of | Appendix to Rob. of Glouce- great virtue and honour) of the | fter, p. 601, 602, 603; preſent Edward Sheldon, Eíq;. Mol. “En os h ſon's LVIIf THE PUBLISHER'S íon's Tale, and the fame might be withall con- | firm'd from other MSS. where the like Addi- | tions have been added by the Scribes or Libra- - 24 years 8 months and 5 days. Our rians. En laa auaunt nome cum nous anouns oye, Le tout ſetyme de Jule, pur veir vous certifye, Xie notre Reis Edward, bi alme dien benye, I Burg fuz les fabloung, alaunt vers Jlbanye En uerray creaunce, ſon ſecle ad finye, Maindenaunt aere fa mort effaít puplye, @ranſlatcz eft le core, par barnes € clersye, A Waltham pres De Loundzes fa demene abbeye, 1 Quatre Mays enteres folempneint ſeruye, Baune3 tuft fur bere, ſaunz auoyz efpaznye, Parttſaunt a pouers, qe Qua cele alme prye. ‘Trent? € quatre annz. vjjj. Mays. b. tours vous die RBegnayt 3 fus Engletere par ley eſtablye, - «£t reſoun & drett mayntint la monarchye. De vigour ¢ value de fen replenye, 4 Pere nul auoyt Dount gwiez ſeygnorye. En pzeve fon lygnage ore eft > le core fenelpe I Weſtmonſtez en toumbe de marbre bien polye. Le prince; qt puz nous fus Pilate fu punye, Le Beis fire Edwazd reſceyne cn ſa mercye, Keleſe al alme face des fozfetz en ſa vye, En regal manſioun 1a mene a compaygnye On ſezuiſe ny ad fors (opc & melodye. A, — —_— — 1. Qatre mops enters fo- | reigned 34. years 7 months and | lempnement Cod. Anftifianus. | 21. days. For he began his 2. Robert of Brunne (pag. 341.) | reign Nov. 16. 1272. and died July 7.1397. 3- Sur Cod.Anft. 4. Par nul anapt Cod. Anft. 5- Son corg pro le corg in ‘Cod, Anft. hath wrongly exprefs'd this, by telling us that he reigned only later Chronicles are more exact, which tell us, that K Edward I, Cy | PREF AC HE , * 'uI Cy finit Peres fon linez en Honour, Et Fon qe 1efczit parfet ad ſon tabouz, Al terme de fa vie Dieu luy face ſocouz, Et mette ſalme en repoſe one Seintz en Dotous; Jon qe leſcrit ordre porte de preſtre, Le vikeze de Atlyngflete Sire Jon qe fi ſon meſtre, Le pria del efcriner par fa mayne deſtre, Diens t mene lotz almes en la (oye celeftre. $. XVII. And this is all T have to Ont of which MS. is obſerye with reſpect to the French prz Phe pu- ; ^. .blifhed a Note con- MSS. made uſe of by me in this Work, cerning Hugo Cardi- i E ; nalis. ' Ator for au- unleſs it be, that at the end of CITED on trama. MSS. longing to the Heralds Office is a Note, The Author of liver i j ; ; feſtivalis or feſtialis. written in an old hand, (but different ‘A Remark relating | from that of the MS.) concerning Hu- '? >t Weneftide. | 20 Cardinalis, a Perſon of great Sanctity and Learning, which I ſhall alfo take the liberty of publifhing here, “Tempore Regis HH. tercij. «t Hiis temporibus floruit vita & fciencia Dns,Hu- ,,,, y,. | ** go Cardinalis, fratrum Predicatorum ordinis, ,,,; 4 © qui doctor eximius doctrina fana & perlucida ee exe | TN nde ugone | «totam Bibliam poſtillavit. Concordanciarum C12 . ~ . . . : s qui concor- t eciam Bibliz primus actor fuit, que ‘opter dincias Bis ES. P d oh mY Bd a blix com- € «itam bonam & fcienciz famam, papa Inno- potus. € cencius Sante Sabinz inftituit. Cardinalem, “in quo ftatu licet eflet de ordine fratrum « Praedicatorum, omnibus tamen Religionibus “ac eciam ſecularibus placidus extitit, . In h 2 which LX THE PUBLISHER'S which Note aéfor is the fame with auftor, and — Keligionibus the fame with Kelgwfis. The ſame | way of writing autfor I have very often ſeen in | old MSS. and fo 'tis written in an excellent | MS. of the Book called Feſtival or Feſtial, lent me by my very kind Friend Thomas Ward, | of Longbridge, Eſq;. At the top of the firſt | Page of which MS. an old, but later, hand hath | written, This boke is called The Feſtial. of | Englithe Sermones. neceſſari to ſimpleCurates | and parithe prieſtes. per. and at the bottom of | the ſame (firſt ) page, in the fame later hand is written, ador libri dicitur fue. | plommer. T cannot tell who is meant | by Plommer, Mr, Ward (and I am not willing | to diflent from fo candid a Gentleman) conje- | Cures him to have been Robertus Plimmodunen- fis or Plymton, ſo firnamed from Plympton in. Devonfhire, of which he was a black Canon, and | is ſaid * to have written Conciones Dominicales, | But then I find by my late learned Friend Dr. | Thomas Smith's Catalogue, that the MS. in the Cottonian Library afcribes this Work to John Mirkus a black Canon of Lulfhul or Lille- | thull in Shropſhire; and it may be very truly. - This is certain, that there is but juſt room or | time, for Plympton's being the Author or Col- | a I, Baleus, p.379. Ed, fol. Pitfeus, p.409. 2. Claudius A.ILr. - lector. | Vl | zl PREFACE. lector. For the Author ſays himſelf in the Pro- logue or Preface, this treatys is drawen oute of legenda aurea, the Author whereof Facobus de Viragine or Voragine flourifhed' anno 1290. and died circa an. 1300. and Robert Plympton ſeems (from Le Neve's Fa/fz*) to have been Arch- deacon of Totton an. 1310, &c. Mr.Ward's MS. is in many refpects different from the printed | Book, ſpoken of by me in my Gloſſary 3 to Ro- | bert of Gloucefter, but then theſe Variations chiefly relate to the Orthography, which is much changed in the Print for more modern Expreſſions, as leſs lyable to ſtop the Reader. And yet there is one Omiffion I find in the | here, and that is the Account of St. Weneftide, which is intirely left out in the print, and for that reaſon I ſhall fübjoyn it in my Appendix +, better compared with the old Rhythmical Life of this holy Virgin, printed at the End of the late Bp. Fleetwood's Book” about her from a Copy that I tranſcribed and ſent to his Lord- ſhip, at the ſame time that I ſent him a Tran- I ſhould likewiſe have communicated to him (0 1- Cavei Hift. Lit. p. 654+ E- | frede,togerher with her Litanies ; with . dit.Genev. 2, Pag.g6, 3. Pag. ſome Hiſtorical Obſervations made 939. 4: Num, XV. 5. Intit. | thereon, Lond. 1713. 8vo. | The Life and Miracles of St. Wene- this print, which I cannot forbear taking notice of as a Specimen of the MS. and that it may be the . ſcript of Robertus Salopienſirs Life of her, when © LXY LXII . reford, had the Compilers thought otherwiſe) | THE PUBLISHERS Zi this Account in the Feſtival, had I then had the command of the MS. tho' at the ſame time T cannot forbear noting, that my ſentiments, are widely different from the Biſhop's with re: | ſpect to this Virgin. For whereas the Biſhop. hath infinuated, that there never was any ſuch holy perfon, and that all which is reported of her 1s fiction, on the contrary, I not only be: | lieve, that there was ſuch a virtuous, pious and. holy young woman, (nor can I imagine, that. fhe would have been inferted either in the Ca- | lendar, or in the Offices of the Miffal of He- | but that fhe perform'd many uncommon acts | of Devotion, which occafion'd many Specula: | tions; and tho I am far from believing many | Things alledg'd about her, yet I think, that | the very fame Arguments that his Lordíhip | hath offerd in this Affair (if they fhould be judgd valid, as I cannot think that they ever | will) may as well ferve to cut off abundance of other holy perſons that are celebrated in. | Hiſtory, whoſe Examples conduce much to the. advancement of Piety and good Works. Argu- ments drawn from Inconfiftence in Chronolo- gy are but weak, fince it appears, that the | Monks were generally but indifferent Chrono- | logers. Neither are negative Arguments of any greater Force. Kobertus Salopienfis was Prior | of | PREFACE of Shrewsbury, a man ofa devout life, and,with- out doubt, followed other Writers notwith- ftanding they be loſt fince; and yet at the fame time it muſt not be queſtioned, but he followed Tradition in ſeveral Things. Which we need not wonder at, fince the Brittifh Hi- ftory, i in very great meafure, depended, in the more early Times, upon Traditions delivered from Father to Son; fo that in this cafe it was very difficult to adiit. the exact years, füch as accurate Chronologers exfpect. A thing that will be readily allow'd by fuch as confider the LXIII uncertainty of the ancient oes. Nor dol fee any thing incredible in what is faid of a Cripple's being reftored to his limbs, that had prayd and watch'd all night at the Shrine of St. Wenefride, whatever the latitudinarians and libertines of this Age may think. In old time Vigils were ftriddly obíervd, and ‘twas not look'd upon as Superſtition and Foppery to continue in deyotion all night, and to render Thanks to Almighty God for. Founders and Benefactors, and for the good Examples of pious Perfons. The Name of Vigils is ftill re- taind, but the practice too much laid afide. The Founders of, and Benefactors to, Churches are (alafs!) generally forgot, and little care 15 now adays taken st oc ES for them, $. AV LXIV THE PUBLISHER'S | Many Things in this 6, XVIII. Such as are ftudious of MEE. our Hiſtory and Antiquities will the M ciue by ether more readily peruſe this Chronicle, and. Atorians. : . | conſider the particulars with the great- | er attention, when they ſhall underſtand, that there are many Things in it, that are different | from what is related by other Hiſtorians. The reader himſelf will be much more able to col- lect all theſe together, and afterwards to paſs a Judgment upon them, than I am. Nor in-| deed is it properly my bufinefs to point bur fuch Paſſages, my immediate province, in Af- | fairs of this kind, being to act the part of a. faithfull Editor, not that of an Annotator or | Commentator. And yet, for the fake of fome, that have occaſionally conſulted me about ſuch Paffages, I ſhall here take notice of ſeveral of them, as I have obſerved a few at the bottom. of the Page of the Text, and will leave the reſt to thoſe that ſhall take the opportunity of read-. ing over and confidering this obſolete Chroni-. cle, which will be. efteemed (unleſs I am very | much miſtaken) as ſuch another Curioſity as. that of Robert of Gloucefter, to which as I add- ed a Gloffary (that hath given great fatisfaGtion, and been well receiv'd) ſo I have likewiſe per- | form'd the ſame piece of ſervice for Peter Lang- | toft, by which his Language (which is now oft en very difficult and intricate, notwithſtanding | in ; PREFACE. LXV in his own time it was the vulgar fpeech) will be render d the more intelligible. | 1:1. XES. In pag. 5. the Author tells Somme of which are us, that K. Ina had a Son named Adel. 5°? enumerated, lus, and that he died before his Father, a par- ticular which I do not, at prefent, remember to be mentioned by others: In pag. 8. he calls Eadbald K. of Lyndefay, tho’ he was really K. of Mercia, He ufes this ſtile, it may be, becauſe Lindfay in Lincolnſhire was the chief part of his Refidence, and therefore afterwards‘ he makes ule of the word Lyndeſay for Mercia, In p. 13. he tells us, that Brightrick, K. of the Weſtſax- ons, was buried at Tewksbury, whereas others fay it was at Wareham. In p. 17, he acquaints us, that Wilaf, K. of Mercia, was ſlain by K. Egbert at Doncafter. Others make him only vanquifhed, and obſerve that he was afterwards an obedient tributary Subject to Egbert. In p. 20. he notes, that K.Ethelwulph was buried at Wincheſter, and this is what the generality of Hiſtorians agree in, tho’ Speed tells us?, that he was firſt buried at Stamrige, and afterwards removed to Wincheſter, which ſeems very true, fince even Affer Menevenfis, according to Archbiſhop Parker's excellent Edition in Saxon Characters, agrees in the very ſame thing, as | I. Pag. 9. 2. Pag. 659. Vol. I. 1 may LXVE THE PUBLISHERS . may be ſeen in my Diſcourſe * upon ſome Hifto- rical Fragments (lent me by Mr. Murray) at the end of Heming's Chartulary of the Church of Worceſter, to which I ſhall refer the Reader. - In p. 2x. he tells us, that Eadbald was buried at (pr. by W. de Worde 1495.) fol. | Shirburn; but then others tell us, that he was! afterwards removed to Salisbury, which was the Roman Sorbtodunum: and whereas in p. 20. he makes Ethelbert to be uncle to the faid Edbald, and brother of K. Ethelwulf, on the contrary Ethelbert was really brother toK. Edbald, and | Ethelwulf the father of both. In the ſame page Elfrith (or, as others, Ethelred) is made to be fon of K. Egbright, or Egbert, whereas by was his grandſon. In p.22. he tells us, that the town, where S. Edmund, King of the Eaft-An- oles, was ſlain, was in old time called Oren. Others fay Pegleſdune*, Egleſdene 3, Cgleſ- dons, Agtefioun’, Hoxtoun’, or Poxon?7. In p. 23. he ſays, that K. Elfride, or Ethelred, was buried at Driffeld (or Driffield in. Yorkſhire) whereas others fay, he was interred at Wins burn in Dorſetſhire; but then he hath cons: founded the faid' Elfride with Alkfryd, or A-. 1. P. 659. 2 MomAnpl T. I. | fapnt Edmond! kpng and. p:284.az b. 3 - Mon Angli T.I. p. | | magtyr, 5. Lelandi Coll. Vol) 291.4, 4: ia of the Saints | I. P. 219. 6. Ibid. 7, Mon, A, Tom. I. p. 285. b. CCCXXXIX. b. in the Ipf of. | lured, | PREFACE. lured, the moft learned K. of Northumberland, who was really buried at Driffield '; and tis with no leſs errour, that he makes* that to belong {pending his time, which belong'd really to A fred the Great. In p. 25. is ſomething added by Robert of Brunne himfelf about Hanelok the Dane, which is not in the original Peter Langtoft, nor our common Hiftorians, but 'tis, however, very imperfect, occafioned, I fup- pofe, for want of Vouchers. In p.27. he makes Edward the Elder have 14 children by two Wives. Others ſay. three Wives. His Notes about theſe Wives are ſhort but ſingular; yet he did not know the Names of ſome of theſe Daughters. In pag. 28. he makes K. Athel- ſtan caſt his brother Edwin headlong into the Thames, which is different from what is taught to K. Elfrid or Ethelred, with reſpe& to his LXVII us by other Hiſtorians, as may be ſeen in pag. . 337. of the third Ed. of Speed. In p. 29, 30. he tells us, that Charles, K, of France, married Ilde or Edhild, fifter of K. Athelftan, whereas, according to others, ſhe was married to Hugh Earl of Paris. Authors differ mightily about the Names of Edward the Elders Daughters and their Marriages. From p.29. we learn, x, Camdeni Brit. p. 635. Ed. | 3. Guil. Malmesb.p. 23. & Speed | ato, 1600. 2. Pag. 23, 24: | p. 338. | i | | 12 that LXVIII THE PUBLISHER'S that Peter Langtoft cannot tell us, where K., Athelftan was buried. Robert of Brunne ſays at Hexham ; but others report it tobe at Malmf- | bury. The Saxon Chronicle tells us not. In. p. 33. he tells us, K. Edred was crowned at Lon- don. Others fay at Kingfton. In p.34. he makes | Edwy brother to K. Edred, whereas he was his nephew. Inp.35. he remarks, that umey or Humſey Nunnery in Hampſhire was founded by | K. Edgar for an hundred Nunns. This was a. large number. And I began to fufpect, that it | was a Miſtake, eſpecially when the Valuation at. the Diſſolution did not, as I thoughr, anſwer. ſo many. But, upon my writing to my learned. Friend Mr. Richard Furney, I was ſoon con- vinced, that there could not be fewer than | are aſſigned in this Chronicle, from an Election | of an Abbeſs of this Place in the year 1333." being the ſeventh year of the Reign of K.. Edw. III. at which time there being very near | 9o Nunns preſent, that gave their Votes, it is an undenyable Proof of what is afferted by. the Hiſtorian, Mr. Furney extracted his Ac-- count from an authentick Regiſter; and I ſhall: beg leave to infert it at large from his Letter. in my Appendix'. There is no doubt but the. Provifion was every way equal to the Num- | ber, as well as to the Quality, of thofe da i. Num. XVI. were | | | Boece PACT. IXEX were educated and lived here, notwithftand- ang the Valuation I have ſpoke of, tho’ 1 be- lieve the Revenues, upon ſome Accidents or other, had been much altered from what they had been originally, as the Number of the ANunns was alſo very much decreaſed ſome time before the Diſſolution, as may appear from what my before mentioned Friend Mr. Furney hath obfervd in another:. Letter to me; in which he hath been pleaſed likewiſe to. inſert a Note, about our old Hiſtorians, from a valuable MS. of Trivet. There is now a fair Church at Rumfey, being the remains of the diffolved Nunnery *. In the fame page (viz. 35.) tho the Author tells us that Edmund, Son of K. Edgar, died at Peterburgh, yet he hath not been pleaſed to inform us, where he was buri- ed, which others aſſure us, was at Rumfey Nun- nery, that I have been ſpeaking of. Whence we read in the Saxon Chronicle 3, An.pccccrxxt. “hep poxS-pepve Gadmund epeling. 5 hip lic 1 c Rumey-tge. With which agrees Florence of Wor- cefter. Clito Eadmundus, (faith he*,) regis Eadearz filius obiit, & in monaſterio Rumefie honorifice eff | ſepultus. Nor is there any variation in that moſt excellent Copy of Florence that I have with | | 1. Sce my Appendix to this | p.g5. 3. P121. 4. Pag. 558. | Preface, Num. XVII. 2. See | Ed. 4to. fub anno 971. | Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs, ‘Dr: k LXX THE PUBLISHER'S Dr. Langbaine's MSS. Notes, This Nunnery | had been founded but the year before by his | Father K. Edgar, and fo this was one of the | firft Bodies of the Royal Family with the Sepul- | ture of which it was ever honoured. In p. 36. he tells an odd miraculous Story of K, Edgar. | This K. Edgar died, according to our common Chronicles (tho' there is a difference in ſome Writers) in the year 975. Our Author informs | us, that twenty four years after his Death (which | muſt be 4. D. 999.) one Edward was Abbat of | Glaſtonbury, and that this Edward made a_ Tombe for K, Edgar, but that the Tombe be- | ing too little, the King's ſhanks were broke by the direction of the Abbat, in order to fit the | Tombe for the Royal Remains. Hereupon | Bloud and Water, it ſeems, came out of the - hanks, and the Abbat became blind. Which | being look'd upon as a Miracle, Biſhop Of | wald (the fame that became Biſhop of Wor- cefter 4. D. 960. and being tranſlated to the | Archbilhoprick of York in 971. or 972. held - both ‘till his Death in 992. ) ran and laid the Bones in a rich Shrine; and that was (as our. Author afferts) in 4. D. 973. (at which time Sigegarus, and not Edward, whofe Name Ido 1. Godwin de Pref. Part. I. P: 504. & Part. II. p. 17, Ifaac- ſon's Chron. Le Neve's Faſti Eccleliz Angl. p. 294, 306, not 7 Oo BRE EA CHE. ‘not find in the Lift, was Abbat of this Mona- Rery) which could not be, if the thing happen- “ed, as our Author himſelf affures us it did, twenty four years after the King's Deceale. But I think, after all, that the Story is to be underſtood of Egelward, (abbat of Glaſtonbury) it being reported of him by John of Glaſton- bury in his MS. Chronicle, and placed by him under the year r052. a little after which fa- crilegious act (for ſuch the violence ſhew'd to K. Edgar's Body was efteem'd) the faid abbat (as we are affüred by that Author) died diftra@- ed. In p. 37. he tells us, that Edward the Martyr was buried in a Shrine at Weftminfter. Others tell us, that he was firft buried at War- ham, and afterwards removed to the Minfter of Shaftsbury ; tho the Saxon Chronicle and Elo- rence of Worcefter ſay, that he was interr'd at Warham,without adding any thing about his be- ing removed to Shaftsbury. Nor do they place his Death under the year 976. as our Author doth, but under 978. In p. 4o. he makes Ed- mund Ironfide to be Son of K. Ethelred by his Queen Emma, whereas others make him his Son by his firſt Wife Elgiva. In p. 43. he | ſpeaks of Kurkille Earl of the Danes, where, | at the Bottom of the page, I have noted, that | he is commonly called Turkille, and indeed it is Turkille in the French MSS. In p. 44. he jas makes GLXXI — LXXII THE PUBLISHERS — makes Suane die at Gainesborough ; and fo al- fo ſome others: but then others relate, that. it was at Thetford. In p. 46. he ſpeaks of K. | Eilred or Ethelred's falling fick at Eveſham, whereas others fay it was at Cofham. In p.47. | he makes mention of the Tower of Northam- | pton, (and tis four alfo in the French;) by which word Tower I take it for granted, that he means the, Caſtle of Northampton, con- cerning which Leland writes thus * : The Caſtel Srondith hard by the Weft Gate, and hath a large Kepe. The Area of the Refidew is very large, and bullewarkes of Yerth be made afore the Caftelle Gate. | In p.49. he tells us, that Edmund Ironſide | had no other Child beſides one Son, he means Edward firnamed the outlaw. whereas 'tis well | known from other Hiſtorians, that he had an- . other Son (younger than Edward ) called Ed- | mund. Paffing over what he fays in p. 50. of Harold Harefoot (the Son of K. Cnute) his | being a Baftard (for the beft Hiftorians affirm : the fame) I cannot but remark, that whereas | in p. st. he makes the faid Cnute to be bu- ried at Weſtminſter, others aſſure us it wasat | Wincheſter. In the fame page (viz. 51.) he — lays, that the Aſſembly or Meeting about Ha- rold Harefoot and Hardeknute was under (orm near) Southampton. Others tell us it was at I. Itin. Vol. I, p. 6, | | | ; | | | | Ox- 4 PREFACE, LXXIII | Oxford. In p. 58. he tells us, that Earl God. - wyns Wife, that was banifhed by the Earl her Husband, was named Engle. Others call her Gytha. In p.75. he ftiles William the Con- querór s Queen by the Name of Elianor, whom others call Maud. In p. ead. he calls Harold of Kent's Sons Edmund and Edwyn. Others call them Edmund and Godwyn. In p.82. he calls that the third year of William the Con- querors Reign, which was the thirteenth, and that the fourth, which was the fourteenth. In p. 105. he informs us, that Maud, K. Hen. the - Firfts Queen, was buried in a Tomb at St. Pauls, and refers us to Weftminfter for her Story. Others make no mention of her being buried at St. Paul's, but tell us it was at Weft- minſter, and fo in particular the Regiſter of the Priory of the Bleſſed Trinity (commonly called Chriſt-Church) at London, as may be . ſeen from what I have publiſhed out of it in my Ed. of Gulielmus Newbrigenſis*, where her Epitaph alſo occurrs; which Epitaph, it may be, our Author had in view, when he directed us to Weſtminſter for a particular Account of her, tho’, I ſuppoſe, he had alſo ſome other Record (that was much fuller) in his mind, _ that is fince quite loft. In p. 127. he tells us, | that it was reported, that Maud the Empreſs Vol. I. ; k wag EXXIV. THE PUBLISHER'S was buried at Feverfham ; but others more tru- ly obferve, that it was at Bec in Normandy. The Miftake arofe from Maud the Wife of Kang Stephen's being buried there, and. 'twas K.Stephen’s Queen (and not the Empreſs Maud, as our Author would infinuate) that built the Offices of Feverſham Abbey, which Perform- ance, perhaps, occafioned the Author of the Profe Additions’ to Robert of Gloucefter, as well as Henry Huntingdon?, to aſcribe the Foundation of the whole Abbey to her, where- -as it was really built by her Husband K. Ste- phen. In p. 128, he obſerves, That Thomas a Becket's Father (Gilbert à Becket, Portgrave of the City of London, then the higheſt Go- vernour of che City3) was rich, being able to _ ſpend 300 dbs. that is, as I take it, per annum, which, indeed, was a very great Sum for thoſe | days. Inp. 157. he quotes the Romance, and the Romancer, of Rich. I. A Romance js a Story or Tale. But I have faid enough, relat- ing to the Romance of that King’s Reign, in my Preface+ to Robert of Gloucefter, whither I hall, therefore, refer the Reader: In p.205. he tells us, that K. Richard was wounded the Ardtibiſhope of Canterbury, Collyi nie, M.DC.XXXIX, YO. 4. Pap. LV, @c. ° ; I. E:227.b. 2. P.467. 3. See. P3g. 137, 138. of a very ſcarce | Book, intit. The Life or The Ec- | clefiafticall Hiſtorie of $. Thomas fourth | PREFAKCTE fourth day next before Palm-ſunday, and died nine days after. Others differ from this: In p. 206, 21r. he calleth K. John’s Wife (by whom the King had two Sons, and two Daugh- ters) Elizabeth for Ifabell. In p. 207. he calls Arthur Earl of Britain's Sifter Margaret, that is calld Elianor by others. In p.2 10. he ſpeaks of K. John’s making the Walls, (or, as he ex- prefies it, the Groundwalle) of Berwick Caſtle very thick; a "Thing which Fordun ſhould have {poke of in particular, had he thought fit to have mentioned the Works of K. John diftinct- ly. In p. 212. he makes K. John’s Daughter Habell to have no Children. Others fay fhe had Children; and here, upon this occafion o£ the mention of K. John, I cannot but take no- tice of a fingular Remark of John Rofs, who . In p. 199. of his Chronicle, that I publiſhed, calls Richard K. of Almayn the Brother, inftead of the Son, of K, John. In p. 217. he tells us, that K. Hen. III. and his Retinue lodged in the Priory of Lewes, immediately before the Battle of Lewes (for which Priory, I believe, ' he had a particular regard) a Thing which tho noted by Stowe (who had perufed Brunne and other old MSS.) yet is paffed over by many other of our Hiftorians. In p. 248. he favs, LXXV he thinks Q. Elianor, Wife of Edw.I. was bu- | ried at Weftminfter. He might have been po- ko Huye Li LXXVI THE PUBLISHERS ("7 fitive, fince 'tis certain fhe was buried there. In p. 323. he tells us, that the Court of Rome | 15 not to be truſted, and fo the French MSS. | too. This was a bold Stroke, and is what is. alluded to by Mr. Bridges about Pope Boniface 1n the Fragment of his Letter, printed in the Appendix', In p. 333. is mention made of Eymer, or Aymer, of Valence, Eatl of Pem- broke, a Man of great Valour, and very fer- viceable both to K. Edw. I. and K. Edw. II. and had fuitable Rewards from each. This is the fame Aymer de Valence, that, in the 8th, year . of K. Edw. II. (to note this by the way) ob- tained licence? to make a Caſtle of his Houſe at Bampton in Oxfordſhire, a Thing which if Dr. Plot had confidered, he would not have conjecturd, (or relyd, I believe, upon tradi- tion, which informs us,) that it was built by K. John. - In heu of the firſt Part of Robert of Brunne , ſeveral Things are here pu- blifhed of greater uſe and ſervice. An Account of Mr. An- drew Paſchal. ANote about Mr. John Gib- bon's MSS. Papers in the Heralds Office. A ſhort Account of F. XX. After I had, upon mature deliberation, and with the Advice and Concurrence of learned Friends, re- ſolved to paſs over the firſt Part of Robert of Branne, as being a Tranf- lation of a French Verſion of Geffry | of Monmouth (whoſe Story may be beſt learned from the original Latin) 1. Num.VI, 2. Pat, 8 E. 2, P.2- M22, Dugdale’s Baronage, T- I. P. 777. I de- DPSIROBGTOA C E. I determined with my ſelf, in lieu thereof, to publifh fome things be- and fervice to the Reader, and be, withall, lefs bulky, (for both the Parts, with the Glofiary, would have made HI Volumes.) Accordingly, therefore, tides, that would be of more Benen: EXXVII - Dr. Walter Charle- ton. An Interpola- tion in Camden, which Mr. Webb did not diſcover to be ſuch. A Paſſage relating to Stone- henge from Mr. Camden's MS. Sup» plement in tae hands of the pu- . befides the curious Remains,that are to blifher. be met with in the Appendix to this Preface, and in the Gloſſary, I have publiſhed at the End of Peter Langtoft theſe four Pieces following, viz. (1.) The Copy of a Roll concerning Glaſtonbury Abbey, being a Survey of all the Eſtates belonging to that Houſe at the Diſſolution, taken by the King s Order | and for his Uſe, at the Diſſolution. This Copy was tran{cribd from a noble and beautifull O- xiginal in the Hands of a Friend (perſonally ‘unknown to me) at Colcheſter, who was pleaſ- ed afterwards yery kindly to cde me with | the faid Copy, and to expreſs himſelf with ma- “ny particular Marks of Affection and Efteem for ' | Whatever I undertake for the publick. (2) An Account of the Hoſpital of St. Mary Magdalen (near Bautre) in Nottinghamſhire, by Fobn Slacke, | Maſter of that Hoſpital. It was written at the Command of the moſt Reverend Father in God Richard Neile, Lord Archbiſhop of York, as appears from the Author's Letter (at the be- ginning of it) to the Archbiſhop. I tranfcrib d it LXXVIII THE PUBLISHER'S 4 it from a MS. in the hands of a modeft inge| nious Gentleman, who is one of the ſubſcriber; to what I publifh. "Tis a very faulty MS. Bu| it being the only one I know of, I could no; correct it otherwiſe than by conjecture. Wha! Corrections and Notes I have made occur a’ the bottom of the page. Only I muſt here beg leave farther to note, that whereas in pi 394.19. itis 2 50. . in the Engliſh, in the Latin) immediately following, it is (p. 395. 1. 26.) all large pro ducentis & quadraginta libris; that thd Robert Archbp. of York, mentioned p.398. 1.4 was Robert Halgate or Holgate ; that for Com: mifioner in p. 400.1. 2. perhaps ſhould be read Commiffioners ; and that in p.40 5.1.2. may be alſo] read vacancy as well as vacante, tho' vacante be neareft the MS. After I had propoſed to print this MS. I writ to my ingenious and worthy. Friend Mr. Thoresby of Leedes in Yorkfhire | in order to get fome farther Information about this Hoſpital, much about which time I alfo writ to my learned and accomplifhed Friend; Dr. Richardfon of North Bierly near Bradford in that County, that I might, if poffible, get fome Intelligence about the nature of Earth- horns, mentioned in this Chronicle. But tho” the Action, upon account of which thefe Earth- horns are fpoke of, happened in that part of | England, and tho the Dr, be a perſon ex- : tremely | ] p REFACE. LXXIX iremely curious in ſuch Affairs, yet he was not ible to ſatisfy me in that point, as I ſoon un- | lerſtood by a Letter from him, at which time 1e was pleafed likewife to acquaint me, that Mr. T horesby was incapable of writing himſelf tome, he having been lately feized witha pal- F, which had, in a great meaſure, deprived um of the uſe of his right hand. Hereupon I Writ again to Dr. Richardſon, with a Requeſt, that he would, were it not too great trouble, 2€ pleaſed to give me what light he could him- elf in the Affair of the Hofpital. Whereup- on, not long after, he obliged me, not only vith a Letter written by himfelf, but with one hat he had receiv'd from Mr. Thoresby, who iad imploy'd a Friend to write for him; a Co- ay of both which ſhall be fubjoyn’d in the Ap- yendix'. ( 3.) Two Tracts written by an ano- aymous Author, and tranſcrib'd by me from wo MSS. (both written in the fame hand) that were lent me by Mr. Weft of Balliol-College, in ingenious and curious Gentleman (I have mentioned formerly?) whom I have always found very ready and willing to promote what- aver I undertake for the publick fervice and penefit of Learning. The firſt of theſe Dif r. Num. XVIII. 2. See at | p. 682, 706, 739. of my Gloffa- pag.285. of The Hiſtory and An- | ry to Robert of Gloucefter. tiquities of Glaftonbury. See alſo : E courfes LXXX | uS. : : | THE PUBLISHER'S | courſes is about ſome Roman Antiquities dif coverd near Conqueft in Somerfetfhire, fuppofec to be the place where the Romans Conquefl of Britain was compleated. The other is con. cerning Stone-Henge, and is intituled, by it's Ebrey, Fellow of the Royal Society, endea- Author, A fool's Bolt foon ſhott at Stonage. It is without doubt, the fame Tract that is men- tioned in the following Paflage of the Addi. tions to Bp. Gibſon's Engliſh Ed. of Camden: Britannia’: “The opinions about Stonehenge «may be reducd to theſe 7 heads; x. That it «1s a work of the Phoenicians, as Mr. Sammes “in his Britannia conceits; a conjecture that “has met with fo little approbation, that 1 «ſhall not ſtay to confute it. 2, That it was a “Temple of the Druids long before the com- «ing in of the Romans; which Mr. Fohn Au- “yours to prove in his Manuſcript Treatiſe, “entitld Monumenta Britannica. 3. That it was *an old Triumphal Britiſh Monument, erected “to dnaraith the Goddeſs of Victory, after a * bloody battel won by the illuſtrious Stanings, “and his Cangick Giants, from Divitiacus and “his Belge; and that the Captives and Spoils “were facrificd to the ſaid Idol in this Tem- “ple. An opinion advancd (upon what grounds a OMe SA ERAS I I ke 2 oo 1. Col. 108. Ed. Lond. 1695. I know: | PREFACE. '*T know not) in an anonymous MS. writ about ‘the year 1666, and now in the hands of the “learned Mr. Andrew Paſchal, Re&or of Chedzog “ near Bridgewater. 4. That it was a monu- “ment raisd by the Britains in memory of “Queen Boadicia; advanc'd by the Author of © Nero-Cefar. 5. That it was a Temple built “by the Romans to the God Celum or Termi- “nus, of the Tufean order; is Mr. Fones's, in « his ingenious Conjecture upon this Subject. “6. That it was the burial-place of Usher. Pen- © dragon, Conſtantine, Ambrofius, and other Britiſh “Kings; or as others would have it; a monu- * ment erected by Ambrofius in memory of the “Britains here flain. 7. That it was a Danith « monument, erected either for a burial-place, I. Viz. in, 1707, poſſe ; LXXXVIII THE PUBLISHERS poſſe ; ſalvam autem Remp. fervari non poſſe, mft | Legitima fucceffione fervat. There is one thing | which at this time it will be improper to pats | by, and that is, that whereas Mr. Webb hath | taken abundance of leatned pains to refute Dr. | Charleton, I have often wondered, that, whilſt | he was ftriving all he could' to weaken that. Argument, to prove the Monument Danifh, which the Dr. drew from an Inſcription in odd Characters, quoted by him from Camden, and. fuppofed by him to be Runick, Mr. Webb. (who otherwife very readily carelit at every. thing he could of that kind to expoſe the Dr.) had not difcovered, that the Words were not really Mr. Camden's, but his Tranſlator Dr. Philemon Holland's. The Words are thefe, as I find them in pag. 254. of the Tranflation >: I have heard that in the time of King Henrie the Eighth, there was found neere this place [of Stone- henge] a table of mettall, as zt had beene tinne and lead commixt, infertbed with many letters, but in fo ſtrange a Charatter, that neither Sir Thomas E- liot, nor maſter Lilye Schoole- Maſter of Pauls, could read it, and therefore negletted it. Had it beene: preſerved, ſomewhat happily might have beene diſcovered as concerning Stonehenge, which now | lieth obfcured. Which Words are in’ no Latin Tore Webb's Vindication of | the new Edition, 2. . Of the Ed, | Stone-Fieng reſtored, p. 78, Gres of | 'at:Lond, 1637. 7 | Edi-- xs) | | SO BAR: ER AMC Ra 7 "CLXYXNIE Edition ; nor is there any thing like them in Mr. Camden's Latin Book (of the folio Ed. 1607.) as I have it corrected and improved with his own hand, and for that reafon both ‘this, as well as other Interpolations of Dr. Hol- land are defervedly put at the bottom ofthe Page in the late Tranſlation. And yet I can- | ‘Dot but acknowledge, that Mr. Camden does {peak of an Inſcription in his Supplement to the ‘Topographical Deſcription of Britain, which I have ain MS. * in his own hand writing, where? I ‘meet with the following Things about Stone- henge that are not in the Britannia it fclf, “ As “for Stone-heng uppon Sarisbury plaine, I can- “not tell what to faye. I know oute of Vitru- 4 vius that the: auncient imitating the nature “of heaven, did efpecially take pleafure in “round Temples; yeat confidering the rudnes « and deformity of this work, I cannot perſuad “my felf, that it was in Claudius the Emperour's “time, when Architecture was come to the “topp of perfection. To think they were T. Inter Codd. Smithianos, | jacent, Dedicated to the right hono- Nam. VII. It is thus intit'led : | rable Thomas Earle of Arundell and A Suplement of the Topographicall | Surrey Primier Earle of England, [Deſcription of Britain publiſhed | Lord Foward, Fitx- Alan, Mal- MDCR. Conteining many ſpecialites | travers, Mowbray, Segrave, Bruſe which fince have intervened concern- | and Clun, Knight of the moſt noble ing Creations, Inſcriptions and 0- Order of the Garter, and of his Ma- ther memorable matters in England, | jeſtie's moft honorable privie Coun- ‘Scotland, Treland, and the Tiles ad- | cell, 2.Pag. 45. 3, L. auncients. Im Vol. I. dun -«bronebe XC “were doting impiety, when the like ftones, “for greatnes and graine, are found at Avely _ “have any hope of diſcovering the veritie here- IHE PUBLISHER'S “brought hither oute of Ireland by Magick, “and elfwher. If the {male Pyramides about the | *midle centure be juſt thirty, it may allud “to the 30 encounters, that Veſpaſian, ſent «by Claudius, had with the Britains, If we: “in, the very centre is to be digged open, and <« the inſcription to be looked with the letters * down-ward. How fo ever it feemeth to con- “cern Aurelius Ambrofius, when as the next “town 1s denominated Ambresbury of him. « And becauſe it is fituated in the midſt as it. “were of the Ifle from the Eaft to the Weft, - * doubtlefs it was a place for convention uppon: “divers occafions. I doubt not but the Bri- « taines and Hengeft mett here for their confe- “rence, and ds it was called therupon Sten- * Hengelt (as Rudborn teftifieth.) How Clau- “dius remitted to the nobilitie of Britane the “confifcation oi their goodes, and that ther-| «fore they erected an alter to him, and adored « him as a God, and how felect gentlemen. * wearing Crown of Gold {pent their private «ſtates, you maye reade in Tacitus and Aria- * nus, and the Britans called it Chorea Gigantum, | | “that is, the Temple of Giantes, you may. « read in the forefayd Rudborn, and how the « place | V ; PREFACE, | XCI * place was called Kiffen Wypoden, z. the ridge “of Bath, I need not to remember, neither * how the ſtones of Mercolij were fo diſpoſed, “that here was one ſtone, ther was an other, *and the third placed upon them both. At a Selden de^ “word, I am perſuaded that * this were ſo 259. “placed by the firſt inhabitants of this yfle, “when as Hector Boétius writeth that Mainus * King of the Scotts did mnſtitut folemne ceremonies, “and ereéting huge flones in divers places circislarly, “the greateſt ever toward the South, which ſerved “im ſteed of an alter to» Jacriz beaſtes therupon. “Thies ſtones are yeat extant called by the common ‘fort, The temples of the Gods. Any man that ‘ feeth them would mervaile by what arte and what “ferength of men they were fo reared. Thus fart * Boétius.What other men can gather out of the ‘word yeluis, which fignifieth, in the Britain lan- “guage, lame, I fee not, albeit I know that the “name of Claudius came originaly from lamnes. * Not long fince a hilloc was here digeed down, ‘and in it was found a ftagg's hedd, and under *neth coales, which is a manifeſt profe that it * was a Land marck. |.$. XXI. I have above declared, that Stone-henge ^ per- | have no mind at this time to inter- MP5 a Britih Monu- ment, notwithſtand- "ofe my own Sentiments about Stone- ing it might have ELEM eS LG Won ab POW Rl I, L.theſe. 2. L. ſacrifice. m 2 henge, KCI THE PUBLISHER'S been a Roman henge, and yet whereas formerly I "Work, » Mr. Cam- den's Approbation | have fignifyd', that ‘tis a Romar of, and Afſiſtance in, Work, I ſhall now ſo far gratify the Dr. Holland's Addi- tions, may juſtify Be ders curiofity as to aflure him {ach as ite them for that I ftill am inclin'd to think it fc Mr Camden's own. much owing to the Romans, as to have one or more of them for carrying od the Ar. chitecture, whilft, at the fame time, it is pro. bable it was, as our anonymous Author ftiles it. a Brittila and no Roman Monument, or it may be even the Britains themfelves taie it accord- ing to the Rules of Archite&ture in which the) had been inftruéted by the Romans, both peo: ple being as it were now incorporated, and the Britains being at length fo much beloved by the Romans, that the Romans were very will ing to do all imaginable fervice to. them, a: may appear from the Affiftance they receiv'd from the Romans even at that time when the Romans were 'oblig'd to relinquiſh the Iſle foi fecuring other Parts of the Empire. But I will not, Imuft not exfpatiate. Aud yet I cannot, hefglie I leave this Subject, but ingenuoufly confefs, that I my ſelf, ſome years ago, fell: into the ſame miſtake with Mr. Webb in tak- ing Dr. Philemon Holland's Interpolation for 1. Ductor Hiſt. Vol. II. p. | at the End of the firſt Vol. of 319. Diſcourſe concerning ſome | Leland's Itin. p. 106. 2. See Antiquities found in York-ſhire, | the faid Diſcourſe, p. 106. Mr. WON PREFACE. | Mr. Camden's own Words. And indeed, up- on recollection, I think that they may ftill be | properly enough calld Camdens, fince he both allowd of that and other Additions of the Drs. | claim'd them, having, I ſuppoſe, help'd the Dr. his own. And ‘twas upon account of his ap- probation of what Dr. Holland did, that he drew up the Supplement, with a deſign that it fhould be taken into the fecond Edition, in ' which nevertheleſs it was omitted, being not, it may be, communicated to him. It is likely Mr. Webb himfelf alfo confidered this matter, which if fo it will excufe him alfo, as well as Dr. _Charleton and others, for afcribing any Inter- | polation to Mr. Camden, and then it will ceaſe _to be a wonder, that either he ot any one elfe thould mention Mr. Camden's inſtead of Dr. "Holland's name. Oxford Auguft 3. 1725. | to many of them, and being willing enough, | that they ſhould be quoted and” look'd upon as - XCIII and hath not any where, that I know of, dif- . IHE XCIV THE PUBLISHERS | APP Nope] xut To his PREFACE. - ANum.I. Vide Pref. $. v. E Pitfeo de illuftrib. Angliz Scriptorib. p.890. in Appendice. De Petro Longatoſta, ETRVS Longatofta, Gal- 7) lum fuiffe füfpicantur non- nulli, ego vero exiftimo na- | tione Anglum. Fuit ordinis Y 5. Auguftini Canonicus regu- | I laris in coenobio Bridlindgto- || nenfi Eboracenfis agri; Vir | cui pietas & doctrina celebre nomen dederunt. Humaniores bene tenuit litteras, hiftoriis le- gendis & fcribendis non mediocriter delecta- tus. THE PUBLISHER'S APP. &, tus. In Gallus aliquandó ftuduit, & linguam Gallicam accurate calluit, Ex Hereberto Boſca- mo Latine fcriptam tranftulit in rithmos Gal- licanos Ped Vitam S. Thome Cantuarienfe, — Librum unum, Scripht Anglice chronicon Anglia, Librum unum. MS. in bibliotheca Baronis Lumleiani, De hoc auctore nihil prorfus aliud invenio... .... . This is all in Pitfeus. He ſeems to have in- tended more by the Points, Longatoſta, 1 ſup- pole, is a Miſtake in him, as well as in Leland and Gefner for Longatofta, Num. II. Vide Pref. s. v. | E Lelandi Comm. de Scriptorib, Brit, p.218. — Petrus Longatofla, canonicus Auguftinianus in coenobio Brillendunenfi, hunc [ Hereberti Bof- fanhamenfis de vita Thome Becketi] tranſtulit in Gallicos rhythmos libellum. Num. III. Vide Pref. $. v. E Bibliothecd Geſneri, Tiguri 1583. Fol. . Petrus Longatofta, Gallus, Canonicus Re- gularis ccenobu Bridlyngtonenfis in Anglia, ex Hereberti de Boſham de Vita Thome Cantua- rienſis Lib. I, Joannes. Lelandus. | | Num. latino fermone in metra Gallica tranftulit opus | XCV xvi THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX | Num. IV. Vide Pref. $. v. | | Bp.Nicolfon s Engl. Hiſtorical Library, p.7 9. Ed. Fol. —— Peter de Langetoft, who drew up an ' Epi- tome of our Chronicles in old French Rhimes, beftows one whole Book upon Edward I. Num. V. Vide Pref. $. 1x, x11, XIV. Robert of Brunne s Prologue to his Chronicle. Incipit Prologus de hiſtoria Britanme, tranfumpta per Robertum in materna. lingua. Drdynges, that be now here, - fl FE xe wille liſtene € lere W an pe Gory of Jnglande, '© Als Robert Mannyng totyten it fand, E on 3nglyfcb has it (chewed, Not fot pe ler(o bot for pe lewed, For po pat in pis land wonn, pat pe Latyn no Frankys conn, For to haf ſolace € gameinr Jn felawſchip when pat fitt ſamen. And it is wisdom forto wytten pe ſtate of pc land, an fat it wryten: What manere of folk firſt it wan, E of what kynde tt Gri began. aloe i in i UN ree EE E 1. Bib), Cott.-Julins, A. 5. Inv | | TO HIS PREFACE. Ind gude it (g for many tbynges, - For to here pe dedis; of kyngeg, Whilk were foles € whilk were wyſe, E-whilk o£ pam conth maſt quantyfe; _ Ind whilk did wrong © whilk ryght, € whilk mayntend pes a f5ght, Dt pare dedes falle be my fawe, Jn what tyme e of what lawe, I falle sow ſchewe fro gre to gre, Sen pe tyme of fir Noe, Fro Noe vnto Eneas, € what betwix pam wag, And fro Eneas tille Bratus tyme, pat bynde he telles in pie rime. F20 Brutns tile Cadwaladres, pe laſt Brzton pat pig lande ecg, Jlle pat kynde & alle the fzute, pat come of Brutus pat is pe Brute ; Ind pe ryght Brute is told nomoze, þan the Brytons tyme wore, Aftez be Bretons pe Jnglis camen, pe lordſchip of pig. lande pat namen ;: South € North, Wet « EH, pat calle men; now pe Inglis geſt. When pat fizſt amang pe Wretons, pat now ere Jnglis pan were Saxons, Saxons Inglis hight alle eliche: pat aryned vp at Sandwyche, | : Vol. L n Ta XCVIE Jn þe kynge's tyme Uortogerne, - | pat pe lande walde pam not werne. | pat were mayſters of alle pe topire, | | Hengift he hight « Hors his bropize. | pes were hede, als we fynde, | | Where of is comen onze Jnglis kynde. FJ hundrethe « fifty seze pat com, | Dz pat receyued Criftendom . | So lang woned pat pis lande in, Dr pat herde out of Saynt Juſtyn, Amang pe Bzetons with mykelle wo, Jn ſclaundire, in threte € in thro. | pes Jnglis dedes se may here, | As Pers telles alle pe manere. Mne mayſtez Wace pe Frankes telles, be Brute alle pat pe Latyn ſpelles, Fro Eneas tille Cadwaladre, pis mayſtez Wace per lenes he. And rygbt ag mayſter Wace ſays, — J telle myn Jnglts pe ſame ways. $02 mayſtey Wace pe Latyn alle rymes, pat Pers oneghippis many tymes. Mayſtez Wace pe Brute alle-redes, | & Pers tellis alle pe Jnglis dedes. | per mayſtey Wace of pe Brute left, | Ryght begynnes Pers cft, Ind tellis forth pe Jnglis Tory, E ag he ſays, pan fay 3. | | xcvui THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX | | : "TO HIS PREFACE. Als pat haf wryten € ſayd, af J alle in myn Jnglis layd, Jn ſmple ſpeche as 3 couthe, pat is lighteſt in manne's mouthe. BF mad noght for no difours, Ne for no ſeggers no harpours, — Wot for pe 1uf of fymple men , pat ſtrange Jnglis can not ken. For many it eze pat ſtrange Jnglis Jn ryme wate neuer what it is, Ind bot pat wilt what it mente, Ellis me thoght it were alle ſchente. J made it not fozto be prayſed, Bot at pe lewed men were ayſed. . Fett were made in ryme couwee, - oz in ſkrangere oz enterlace, pat rede Jngilis tt ere (nowe, pat coutbe not af coppled a kowe, pat onthere in couwee 02 in baſton Som fuld haf ben fozdon, So pat fele men pat it herde, Suld not witte howe pat ít ferde. I ſee in ſong in ſedgeyng tale Df Erceldonn « of Kendale, Non pam ſays as pat pam wroght, E in þer ſayng it ſemes noght. pat may pou bere in Sir Triſtrem, Daer gettes it has pe thee, Duez XCIX . € THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX Dueg all pat is 02 was, | 3t mer ít ſaydas made Thomas, "Wot 3i Here it no man fo fay, | pat of ſom copple fom (g away, = So pare fayre ſaying heze beforne, f js pare tzauayie neze forlorne. — pat ſayd it for patde € nobleye, - pat non weze ſaylk as pet, | And alle pat pat wild onezwhere, — Wile pat ilk wille now fozfaac. | pat fayd in fo quainte Jnglis, pat manyone wate not what it ts, | pezfore beuyen wele pe moze | Jn ſtrange ryme to tzanajle fore. And my witte was qure thynne, So ſtzange ſpeche to tranayle tn, And fozſoth 3| couth noght Ys So ſtrange Jnglis as pat wzoght, - And men” beſoght me many a tyme, . To tnzne ít bot in light ryme. pat ſayd, (£ 3| in ſtrange ít tyzne, | To heze it manyon fnld skagne. ® "i For it eze names fulle ſelconthe, ; "| pat eze not vſed now in mouthe. And perfore for pe comonalte, pat blythely wild liften to me, Dn light lange J it began, For iuf of pe lewed main, | TO HIS PREFACE, Go telle pam pe channces bolde, pat dere before was Don € tolde, For pig makyng 3 wille no mede, Bot gude prayere, when ze it rede, perfore, Ze lordes lewed, For wham J hal pis Jnglis ſchewed, Prayes to God he gyf me grace, I tranayled for cong ſolace, DE Brunne jam, (€ any me blame, Robert Mannyng is my name. W1tlled be he of God of henene, at me Robert with gude wille nenene. : In pe thrid Edwarde's tyme was I, When J'wrote alle pis ſtory, Jn pe hous of Sixtile J was a throwe, Danz Robert of Maitone pat ze know Did it wryte fog felawes fake, When pat wild ſolace make. Num. VI. Vide Pref, $. x, xix. Extrait of a Letter, relating to Robert of Brunne _ and Peter de Langtoft, written from London to the Publiſher by the late learned Fobn Bridges, Efq;. Nov. 28. 1723. This day, by Godfrey the Oxford Carrier, there goes a Packett, directed to Will- mott the Bookſeller, in which there is the MS. . of Robert of Brunne. It belongs to the Inner [5 i Temple CEE THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX Temple Library, being given, with other MSS. | to that Society by the laſt Will of William Petyt, | Eſq;. late Keeper of the Records in the Tower | of London. And Mr. Anftis being one of his | Truſtees, I have, by his means, procur ‘dit for | you, in Mk to be printed. It feems to be a perfect MS. from the be- | ginning to the End, and written about the fame | time that the Ano: hiv d, vz. at the beginning of Edw. 3%. Reign. Youll find in it : feverall Things worthy of Remark. Firft, it appears, that he livd fometime in the Moni of Szxill or Szxle in Lincolnſhire, a mixt Monaſtery of Nunns and Friers: And that he calls himſelf Robert Manning of Brunne, now Bourne, a Town allo in Lincolnſhire, where | was a Monaſtery. .He calls himſelf allo Dang | Robert of Malton. 2dly, The Prologues acquaint us, that Pers (or Peter) de Tanda Canon of Bridlington, | wrote the Original Hiftory in French Rhime. One part whereof, viz. from Eneas to Cadwalla- der, was taken from Geffry of Monmouth, and abridg d by the ſaid Peter, but tranſlated more at large into French by Mayſter Wace, which Mayſter Wace is follow d cheifly by the Trant- | lator; but in the other part, v:z. to the End of Edw. 1. he tells the Story according to Lang-_ toft. 3dly, TO HIS PREFACE. 34y, There is an exact account of his being - Author of this Tranſlation by a Note at the End of both the firſt and ſecond Parts, together with the Time when it was wrote. 4*bly. There are ſome particular Paſſages of Hiſtory found in the Tranſlator, that are not. in the Original, viz. That King Jobs died at | Hauhe (or Haugh) in Lincolnſhire. That Wen- zhan, the daughter of Lewellyn, being an In- - fant about two years'old when her Father was beheaded, was profefs d and died a Nun in the . Convent at Sempringham. And that Gladous, her Couzin-German, daughter of David bro- ther of Lewellyn, died alfo a Nun in the Mona- {tery of $zxle, both of them being i in the Coun- ty of Lincoln... You'll find alfo in moſt Paſſages the Tranſlator to be more copions and large than his Original. v guy. In his Prologues he takes notice of fe- verall forts of Old Englifh Verfe, viz. Couwe, Stranger, Enterlace, and Baflon. The firſt of which ( Coume ) he gives Inſtances of and Marks in the Margin. He alſo mentions feverall Tales of Erceldoun, Kendale and Triftrem, all which were very well known in thoſe Days. But I find none of them expounded in our Mo- . dern Gloffaries, which therefore, as well as o- ther antient Terms and USC, will need an Explanation. : | gthly, CHI - | ew, IHE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX othly, The Hiftorian {peaks very freely of the Vices of the Court of Rome, particulary Pope . Boniface. There is a MS, in French Metre of Peter de Langsafii in the Cotton Library, Julius A, In the | firſt Page whereof are theſe Remarks in mo- dern Hands: ; «t “Hane P. Langtoft in Gallicam profam ver- | “tit Auctor Scale Chronice. Leyland. + baa continet notabilia, que apud vul- “gatos Hiftoricos haud facile invenies. «T, G." (i.e. Thomas Gale.) ** Aliud Exemplar extat in Collegio Heral-. <«dorum—— Extat Verfio Anglicana. in * Lambethana Bibl, T. G-" In the Elenchus of the faid Cotton Library MS. ts rightly obſery'd, that this Hiſtorian "is very prolix or fpatious in the Life of Ey. I. The ſecond part of the Chronicle begins with theſe four Latin Verſes: | Incipiunt Geſta, que ſunt Anglis manifeſta, Beda pater prafla Petro, quod dicat honefta, Lefor narrabit id quod Scriptura parabit. Peirus diffabit quod fibi Beda dabit. _ At. the end: of the Volume (after a Tale or | Romance in. French of five Leaves, which ins tervene) are three other Verfes, which ſeem to. referr to the fame Peter de Langtoft. plug TO HIS PREFACE. € Arius Scriptoris careant gravitate doloris. .« Sermo de Bruto fit ſub dittamine tuto. “ Culpa datur Petro deficiente Metro. This Tranſlation was taken at firſt for Robert f Gloucefter by the total Ignorance of the Own- rs. — It is very ſtrange, that this Author has een never taken notice of or quoted. In my Jpinion, it far exceeds A. of Glouceſter, both or the matter and manner'of his Story, Nej- her do I find any Account ofhim in Leland, or he other Byographers, Biſhop Nicolſon fays ittle or nothing. See Num. VII. Vide Pref. 5. x, XIV. Robert of Brunne's Tranſition (called a Prologue by Mr. Bridges) from the feft to the fecond Part of bis Chronicle. | Explicit biftoria Britannia, tran[bofta in lin- gam maternam per Robertum, Inciptunt Gefta An- lorum ſecundum Petrum de Langtoft, tranfpofita er eundem R, Mannyng. Uf DW hat 3| told of pe Bretons, IN i DE kynges « fom barons. How pet mayntend pis lon, VL Sipen Brutus firſt it fond, Unto Cadwaldre's tyme, per of Bretons lene we to ryme, - Vol. I. Oo & / CV cv: THE PUBLISHERS APPENDI) & now of Jnglts wille we telle, | Sen pe Bretons here gan duelle, pat toke pe lond porgh Gode's bette, per tyme we halle pe Jnglis acte. Alle is calo gefte Fnglis,. pat on pis langage ſpoken (s. Frankie ſpech «8 calo Romance, So ſais clerkes & men of France, Pers of Langtoft, a chanon Df pe hous of ' Brdlyngton,, On Frankis fiie pis Torte wrote Of Inglis kynges, for him we wote He wrote per dedes as pet wrouht, After him in Jnglis 3 it broubt. Df his menyng J wote pe way, Wot his faire ſpech 3| can not fay. | J am not worpt open his boke, - | For no konyng per on to loke, ; | Wot forto {chew bts mykelle witte | Dn. uy fpech, pat is bot skitte ; | Vow he was quaynt in ſpech & wys, pat fuilk a bobe mad of pris, | E gadred pe fortes alle tille one, þat nener ore was mad fox none. Whan he firſt bigan his werk, — He bifonht a holp clerk, To gyue him grace wele to ſpede, pat Holy man bight S. Bede. TU SIC. Fo! MA TO ALPS PREPAICE. For in his bukes mykelle he fond, kn He mad fyne bokes of Jnglond. I falle praie Him pat i1k wats, L His he holy € curtats, He gif me grace wele to ſay, € rightly pig in ryme lay, pis ſtory. pat is fato of Pers, pat alle be pated pat it hers. Amen. Num. VIII. Vide Pref. $. xr. be Proceedings of the Abbat and Convent of Win- cheſter againſt Foan of London, A.D. 1285. / From an old MS. Fragment of that Age, given to the Publifoer by Thomas Ward, Eſq;. Officialis curiz Cantuarienfis religiofo viro riori reverenter falutem in Chrifto Ihefu. Sua overit religio, ubi abbas & conventus Win- hefter peticione monftrarunt, quod vos, pre- andentes 3 à fede apoftolica vobis effe commit- im, ut in monafterio fuo de Winchefter, Jo- annz de London, mulieri converſz, ad fui iftentacionem, fuo perpetuo de tanto faceretis anis fingulis providere, quantum unus de mo- achis, ibidem exiftentibus, pro fuis alimentis srcipit, annuatim cidem Johanng, ^ odo s. erlingorum, percipiendos per annum, quoad ib ———————— ————— eee ee eee 1. F. offo fcilicet libras flerlingorum, percipiendas. | Me) vixerit, CVE CVI THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDI? vixerit, de monaſterio Wyncheſter memorate certis terris, pro zqualibus porcionibus, nomi ne fuftentacionis hujus religiofz, ipfis ad hae nullatenus evocatis, nec de ipfo mandato apc ftolico, feu de provifione ipfa; per citacioni feu denunciacionis modum, quicquam fcienti bus, fed ignorantibus, immo nulla fuper facu tatibus dicti monafterii, feu ſuper eſtimation , vel valore exhibicionis feu ſuſtentacionis cuju cunq; monachi domus ejufdem per annum, ir . quificione praemiffa, in ipforum religioforum, a {uz domus, prejudicium non modicum & gt: vamen, prefertim cum in inmenſum zre ‘ied fuerint ornati, non abíq; juris offenſa, iniqu & temere providiftis, à qua veftrz provifioni hujus fentencia, tanquam ab iniqua, quam c to id ad notitiam corundem pervenit, fedet apoftolicam, & pro tuitione. fedem Cantuar enfem legitime, ut afferunt, applicuerunt. t. Qu re vobis inhibemus, & ceteris omnibus, qu bus exigit inhiber, ne, pendente in curia Car rini hujus tuitionis appellationis negoci( aliud hac occafione acceptetur feu acceptare £ ciatis, in partis prejudicium appellantis, qu minus liberam habeat proſecutionem appell: tionis fuz, prout juftum fuerit. *utriuſq;. C tetur eciam, feu citare faciatis peremptorie pai ar A—— M mn =, I. Sic cum duobus vhs fub #, perinde ac fi i utrifque legi di beat. ter | | TO HIS PREFACE. - tem appellatam, quod compareat coram nobis, ' vel commiffario noftro, in ecclefia beatae Ma- A” - rie de arcubus Londoniz, tercio die juridico | poft Octavas Sancte Trinitatis, factura & re- | ceptura fuper preemiflis, quod poftulaverit or- do juris, & pariter ad procedendum in princt- | / pali, fi viderit expedire. De die vero receptio- - nis praefentium, & quod fuper praemiffis feceritis, nobis, vel commiffario noftro, dictis die & lo- co conftare faciatis, per litteras veftras paten- - tes harum feriem continentes. Dat. Londonix . quarto Nonas Mail, anno Domini M». CC». . octogefimo quinto. | Num. IX. Vide Pref. §. xr. A Letter concerning the reputed Nunnery at Little- — Gidding in Huntmgtonſhire. From a MS. lent to the Publiſher on July 6th. 1724. by Thomas Ward, of Longbridge near Warwick, Eqs. The Coppie of my Letter to Sr. Thomas Hed- ley, Kt. Serjeant at Lawe, upon his Requelt to certifie, as I found, concerninge the re- puted Nunnerie att tt: in Hunting- toníhire. » Good Mr. Serjeant, I cann give you but a ſhort Relation of my, not two howers, ſtaye at the reputed (at leaſt re- CIX cx THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX : reported) Nunnery at Giddinge, and yet muſt leaye out three partes of our paſſages, as fitter” for Relation then a letter. I came thither a£ ter terme, and found a faire houſe fairelie | ſeated, to which I paſſed through a faire grove, and fweete walkes, letticed and gardened on both fides, their livelihood. 5ooli. per annum (as my Lord Mountague tolde mee.) | A man ſervant brought mee into a faire ſpacious Parlour, whether foone after came to mee the olde Gentlewoman's ſecond ſonn, a batchelor ofa plaine preſence, but of able ſpeech and parts, whoe (after I had, aſwell as in ſuch caſe I coulde, deprecated anye ill conceipt of mee, for foe unufuall and bolde a viſite) en- tertayned mee very civilly, and with humility, yet faide, I was the firſt that ever came to them in that kinde, though not the firſt that they had heard of, that determined to come. After Deprecations and ſome Complements, hee ſaid, I ſhoulde ſee his mother, if I pleaſed. I fhewinge my defire, hee went upp into a Chamber, and preſently came his mother, (a | tall, ſtrazght, cleare complextioned, grave Ma- | tron, of. 8o. yeares of age) his eldeft brother married, (but wheather * Widdowe or noe, I X asked not,) a ſhort, blacke complextioned man, his apparrell and hayre foe fafhioned, as made . I. F. Widower. : him TO HIS PREFACE. him ſhewe Preift like, and his fiſter married to one Mr. Cooles, by whom fhee hath, r4. or. 15. Children, all which are in the howfe, which I fawe not yet; and of thefe, and two or three mayde ſervants, the Familie confifted. I ſaluted the mother, and daughter, not like Nunnes, but as wee uſe to falute other wo- men; and after wee were all fett circular wife, and my Deprecations renewed to the other three, 1 deſired that, to their favour of enter- tayninge of mee, they woulde add the givinge of mee a free there to ſpeake * ingeniouſlie, what I conceived of any thinge I ſhoulde fee or have hearde of, without any diftaft to them. Which beinge Biblio, I firft tolde them what I had heard of the Nunnes of Giddinge; of two watchinge and prayinge all night ; of their Cannonicall howers ; of their croffes on the outſide, and infide of their Chappell ; of an Alter there richly decked with plate, rapeſtry, and tapers; of their * Adora- tions, Iniculations at their entringe therein, which I objected might favour of Superftition | and Popery. Heere the younger fonne (the mouth for them all) cutt mee off, and to this laſt an- ſweared, baer. Sic, 2. F. "Adorations, Genuflections, and Geniculations, Nam | fic infra in libello impreffo. ; |< Firſt CXI CXIL ' | THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX | Firſt with a proteſtation, that hee did as | yerely beleeve the Pope to bee Antichriſt, as any Article of his faith. Where with I was fa- | tisfied and filenced touchinge that pointe. — | For the Nunnery, hee ſaid, the names of. Nunnes was odious, but the truth (from whence | that untrue report might ariſe) was two of his : Neeces, and lived one with thother. 32. yeares | virgins, and foe refolved to continue, as hee. hoped they woulde, the better to give them- {elves to faftinge and praier, but had made no. vowes. | For their Cannonicall howres, hee faide, they. ufuallie praied. 6. tymes a daie, (as I remem- ber,) twice a daie publiquelie in the Chap- pell, and. 4. tymes more privatelie in their howíe; in the Chappell after the Order of the’ booke of Common-praier, in their houſe per-. | ticular praiers for a private Family. I faide, if they ſpent foe much tyme in prayinge, they. woulde leave little for preachinge, or for their! weekelie callings. For the one I vouched the text, Hee that amet awaye his eare from JU inge the Lawe, his prater is abominable. For the. other, fixe dayes ſhalt thou Labour &c. | To the one hee anfweared, that a Neighbour’ Miniſter, of another Pariſh, came on Sunday! morninge, and preached in Bici: Chappell, and | I. F. Neetes had lived. : | fome | TQ HIS PREFACE. fome tymes they went to his Parifh; To the Other, that their callinge was to ſerve God, Thick he tooke to bee the beſt, I replyed, that for men in health, and of active and able bodies, and parts, it were a temptinge of God, to quitt our Callings, and whollie betake our ſelves to faftinge, praier, and a Contemplatinge lyfe, which by fome is thought to bee noe better, then a ſpecious kinde of Idlenes, not to terme it, as St. Augu- {ine termes Morrall vertues without Chrift; ſplendida_ peccata. Hee rejoyned, that they found diverſe perplexities, diftraGtions, and al- moſt utter ruine in their callings, but TEE knewe, what. comfort and content God had mi- niftred unto them, ſince their ſequeſtration, . and with incredible improvement to their live- lihood; it i might incourage at to the like courte. | faid, Et hes an * Invitation might bee T aro Conſequence, and that yf any, which were in good 2 Cauſe before, ſhoulde thereby fall into. povertie, fewe afterwards wonlde followe the example. _For-their night watchinge, 3 at their rifinge at.4. ofthe Clocke in the morninge, which (dfaid,) was much for one of. 80. yeares, and for Children; To the one hee faide, it was I. L. Innovation. 2. F. Caſe, 3. L. and their, "Vol. I. | p not OXIH | | 3 cuv THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX not much, fithence they alwaies went to bedd at. 7. of the Clocke in the eveninge. For the other hee confeft, there ' was every night two (Alternatim) continued in their devotions, that 2 went to bedd untill the reft arofe. For the Croffes, hee made mee the nfuall Anſweare, that they were not aſhamed of that badge of Chriftian profeſſion, which the pro- pugners of the faith bare in their banners, and which wee in our Church diſciplyne reteyne to this date. For their Chappell, that it was nowe neere Chappell tyme, (for eleaven 1s the howre in the forenoone) and that I might (if I pleaſed) accompany them thither, and foe fatisfie my felfe beft of what I had heard metaeraria that. Which offer I willinglie enterteyned. Meane tyme I tolde them, that I perceived all was not true, that I had heard of the place. Foi 1 coulde ſee noe ſuch inſcription on the fron: teſpeece of the howfe, conteyninge an Invita: tion of fuch às were willingé to learne of them. or woulde teach them better, which was fome incouragement to mee to come (as one defi- rous to learne, not to teach) and might bee fome excufe of my Audacity, if they will be pleaſed ſoe to accept it. I. F. mere. 2, E. went mh $0. | But TO HIS PREFACE. ments) faid, the ground of that Report hunge ‘over my head, wee fittinge by the Chymney. ‘On the Chymney peece was a Manuſcript Ta- bleture, which after I had read, I craved leave to begs a Coppie thereof, foe that they woulde not take mee for to bold a begger, which hee forthwith tooke downe, and commaunded to bee prefentlie tranfcribed, and given mee. I offered the writer money for his defetved paines, which was refufed, and they conjured mee not to offer it the fecond tyme, and there upon made it his ſuite to mee, not to offer any thinge to any of that houfe at my partinge, or otherwiſe, The words of the proteſtation are as follow- eth: 1. H. $. | Hee that, by reproofe of \ Hee that, by 4 cheare- mr Errors, or Remon- /full participation of that france of that which is\ which is good, confirmes rer fect, ſeekes to make us( us in the fame, is wel- Vetter, 1s welcome as an\ come as a Chriſtian frend. Angell of God; And | But, | Hee that any maze goeth \ And hee that faults us in | TE na lt. us i Doo a5 ++ But hee (barringe mee from further Comple- Mout to divert or diſturbe.| abſence for that which — CXV. own THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX | us zn that which 1s, and |* zs" in preſence hee made ought to bee, amongf? \ a Jhewe to approve" of, | Chriſttans, is a burthen i fal, by a double guilt of whilſt hee ſtaies, and ſhall | flattery and flaunder, vio- beare bis Fudgment what- | late the bands of frend- foever hee bee. 2 ſhipp and Chriftianitye: | Mary Farrer Widdowe, and mother of this Fa- multe, aged about, 80. yeares, that bidds a . deme to all feares, and hopes of this worlde, and defires to ſerve God. To the matter of this Declaration, beinge in ſuch generall termes, I faid, I thought it without Exception, but praied eee to except againſt a Circumſtance, namely the Inſcription, beinge the proper Character of the Jeſuites in every booke and exhibite of theirs. Hee faid, it was that Aufpicious name, worthy to bee the Alpha and Omega of all our doinges, and _wee are commaunded zo write ſuch thinges on the poſts of our bouſes, and upon our gates, I toulde him, I was farr from exceptinge againft that facréd and favinge name of Jefus, onlie I coulde have wiſhed it written at length, or anie other waies, to have differed from that the Papiſts onlie uſe, and noe Proteſtants, and that the text hee mentioned was in AS oulde 1. Dele. | | Ig LYBO MES FREENCH 35317 owe Teftament, where there was noe mention of Jeſus but of Jehova, to my remembrance; but ‘wee paſſed by this towards the Chappell, being about two paces from the howfe, but ftaid a little (as with a parentheſis) with a glafſe of facke, fuger-cake, and a fine napkin brought by a mannetlie maide, which refrefhed my me- morie, to tell them what my Lord Bifhopp of Lincolne faide of them,wherein yet I brake noe Lawes of humanitie, nor hofpitalitie, though ſpoken at the Table. For hee ſaid nothinge but that they might, and were gladd to, heare, beinge but the Relation of the grave and uis. creete Anfweares (as my Lotd himfelfe termed them) of the oulde Gentlewoman’s to ſome of his Lordſhipp's expoftulations to that part con- cerninge the younge deacon, which his Lord- | fhipp had heard of to come from Cambridge, i to affociate in their Chappell. Hee (zmmuendo ever the younger ſonne, ) whoe onlie was the ſpeaker, ſaid, that himſelfe was the younge deacon BET that hee is 42. yeares olde, ' was fellowe of an howfe in ‘Cambridge, und | hath taken Orders'of Deacon (to {aie nothinge | of his havinge been at Rome) whereof I coulde | have excepted noe more againſt him, then hee might to mee. For havinge been fo. longe in the labour of the ‘Chappell, itis nowe high | tyme wee were at Church. | no : At cxvyur THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX | At the entringe whereof hee made a lowe obeyſance, For paces further a lower, comm: inge to the halfe-pace, which was at the Eaſt end, where the Table ſtood, hee bowed to the >rotind; if not proſtrated bimíelit, then went upp into a faire large readinge place, a preach- inge place beinge of F the fame proporcion, neu over againſt it, The Mother with all her trayne, which were her daughter, and daughters daughters, had a faire Iſland feate. Hee placed mee above up- on the halfe-pace, with two faire longe Win- dowe-Cufhions of greene Velvett before mee. Over againft mee was there ſuch another feate foe fuited, but noe body to fitt in it. The un 4. Íonnes kneeled all the while at the edge of the halfe-pace, all in blacke-gownes, and, as they went to Church, in round Monmoth-Capps (as my man faid, for I looked not backe) the reft all in blacke, fave one of the daughters, whoe v Was ina te $ ereene gowne. Wee beinge thus placed, the Deacon (for foe I muſt nowe call him) with a very lowde and diftin& voice, began with the Letany, read divers Praiers and Colle&s in the booke of Common-praier, and Athanaſius his Creede, and concluded with The peace of God, &c. Ar RT TO HIS PREFACE. > All attended”, the Mother, with all her Company, attended my comminge downe ; but her fonne decon toulde her, I woulde ftaie a while, to viewe the Chappell: foe (with all their Civill falutations towards mee, which I retorned them a farr off, and durft come noe neerer, leaft I fhoulde have light upon one of the virgins, not knowinge wheather they woulde have taken a kiffe in good part or noe) they departed home. Nowe none but the dea- con and I left, I obferved the Chappell in ge- nerall to be fairelie and fweetelie adorned with | herbes and flowers, naturall in fome part, and artificiall upon every Pillar thereof a longe ‘both fides the Chappell, ſuch as are in Cathe- dralls, with Tapers (1 meane, greate Virgin “Waxe Candles) on every Pillar. The halfe- | pace at the upper end (for there was noe other diviſion betwixt: the body of the Chappell and the Baſt part) was all covered with tapiftry, and ‘upon that: halfe-pace ftood the Communion "Fable, not Altarwife (as was reported) with -a rich Carpett hanginge very large upon the 2 halfe,and fomme of plate, as a Callice and Can- Aleftickes with waxe Candells. By the preach- inge place ſtood the font, the legg; laver and | cover all of braffe cutt and carved. the Cover DENN es oem EE. delend. nifi malis, All ended. 2. Fe halfe-pace, and ſome. | Plate, had * CXIX CXX ge cd Paw THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX | had a Crofle erected, the laver of the bignes of a barbors Baſen; and this is all I had lea- lure to obferve in the Chappell, fave that I asked for the Organs, which he toulde mee were not there, but that they had a paire in their houſe: I asked alfoe, what uſe they made of fo many Tappers. Hee ſaid, to give them light, when they coulde not ſee without them. Then havinge formerlie (as I faid before ) ob- teyned leave, to faie what I lifted, I asked him, to whom hee made all thoſe Curtifies. Hee faide, to God. I asked him, if the Pa- piſts make any other anfweare for theire bow- inge to Images and Crucifexes, yet wee ace compt hea Idolaters for foe doinge. Hee faid, wee have noe fuch W arant, for the-one, but for the other, wee have a précept to.doe all things-wath decencie and order, as hee tooke this to.bee. I demaunded then, -why hee. uſed: not the fame folempnitie in his ſervice at his. howle, and wheather hee thought that ‘Chap- pell-more holie then his howſe. Hee faid noe, but that God was more imediatelie preſents whiles we were worlhippinge him in the 'T'em-- ple. I replied, that God was as prefent at. Paule's Croffe as at 'Paule's:Church, and at the preachinge place at White hall and Spittle-Ser- mons as elfewhere. For wherefoever two or three are gathered togeather in his name, God | \. | ae A TO HIS PREFACE, Cxxt is in the middeft of them. And yet in thoſe places, noe not in the bodie of the Church, though there bee {ſermon and praiers, we did ' not ufe this threefold reverence, nor any lowe bowinge, unleffe in the Chancell towards the Eaft, where an Altar, or ſome * Crucifex, is. Hee aníweared mee ſome thinge of the T'rina- ry number of this their bowinge, which I did not well underſtand, nor * wee heare. This, ' as all other our diſcourſe beinge ended with mildenes and moderation (on his part, at the leaſt) I faid further, that fince their devotions, from which they woulde be loath to bee 3 de- livered or interrupted, (as in their faid protefta- tion maie appeare,) are more ſtrict and regular, and if in their Conſciences they were perſwad- ed, that all their Formalities and Ceremonies were but + Adiaphera (thinge indifferent) I then thought, they were as wyfe as Serpents in the Scripture, fince in *complayninge foe with Church Ceremonies, that they might them- felyes hould on their Courſe without exce- ption, for in 7 this Comptenent though authori- tie woulde not except againſt them, unleſſe for exceedinge the Cathedrall, whoe make but one Reverence, whereas they make three. Hee TREE dts PILAM t zug 3. F. di- | complying? | 7. Sic hxc concipiun- verted. 4. L. adiaphora ( things | tur, Conjeceram, this, authori- | &c, s. B. Scripture ſenſe, 6. An, | tie, though competent, would &C. Jl iso Vol. I. q {aide, 25 CXXII THE PUBLISHER'S APPRNDOM faide, I fpake like one that it ſeemed had had experience in the Worlde. Beeinge nowe neere | twelve of the Clocke, wee ended our Difcourfe, and I called for my horſes, hopinge there upon, that hee woulde have invited mee to ftaie dyn- ner, not for that I cared for his, or any man's meate (for you had given mee a dynner in too good a breakefaft,) but that I might have gayn- ed more * more" tyme to have feene and ob- ferved more of their fafhions, and wheather the Virgins, and younger forte woulde have mingled with us, with diverfe other thinges, which a dynner tyme would have miniftred inatter for; but in fteede of makinge mee ftaie, hee alfoe helped mee in callinge for my horfes, accompanyinge mee even unto my ftirropp, and foe I not returninge into the howfe, as wee frends mett, foe wee parted. . Many more queftions I thought on, when it was too late, and yet, you fee, I was not idle for the fhorte tyme I ftaide. I asked him oftheir monethlie receivinge the Sacrament, and wheather their fervants, when they receiv- ed, were attended by their Mafters and Mi- ſtreſſes, and not ſuffered foe much as to laye or take awaie their owne trenchers, (as I had heard;) whereat hee ſmiled, as at a frivilous fable, and faid, that the only difference from '1. Dele. other TO HIS PREFACE. other daies was, that the fervants, the daie they received, fatt at the fame Table with them. I heard alfoe, that they never roft any meate, 'onlie boile and bake, but not in paſte, that their fervants maie not bee much hindered from their devotions, and that they have but one horfe amongſt them all; but of thoſe I made noe mention. They are extraordinary well reported of by their neighbours, that they are very liberall to the poore, at greate coſt in preparinge of phi- fick and Surgery for the ficke and fore, whom. they alfoe vifitt often, and ſome. 6o. or. 8o. poore people they taske with Catechifticall queſtions, which, when they ' come, cann make noe Anſweare ee unto, they are rewarded with money and dynner, by reafon of which Corody of meate and money, the poore * Ca- 'techumen learne their leffons well, and foe their bodies and foules are well fedd. /* I finde them full of humanitie, and libera- litie, and others fpeake as much of their Cha- ritie, which I alfo verelie beleeve, and there- fore am farr from cenfuringe them, of whom I ‘thinke much better then of my felfe. My 3appoſinge fome of their opinions and praiſe (as you maie {ee in this my Relation, EM oo o | 1. F. come, and can make Anſweare therennto, &c. 2. L. Catechument. (3. Sic. | | q 2 | where- CXXIII - CXXIV | | THE PUBLISHER'S APP. &c. | | | wherein I maie have varied in fome Circum- ſtances, but nothinge from the ſubſtance) was onlie by waie of argument, and for myne owne better Information. I ſhall be gladd to obſerve, howe wyfer men will judge of de or imitate their Courfe of lyfe. I intended not a third part of this, when ] begann, as you maie fee by my firft lynes. But one thinge drawinge on another, I have nowe left. out a little or nothinge to my re: membrance, favinge that I arts fitt in gooc manners, upon my firſt affront, to make wait for my welcome, and ad captandam benevolen tiam, which is not worth the repeatinge if ] coulde, and I am ſome thinge better at actingt fuch a part, then at PR it, though goot at neither. | | After this longe and tedious Relation, I m nowe make but hore thankes to you and nm Ladie, for my longe and kinde welcome, where in my wyfe joyneth with mee, prayinge my Re membrance.of my lovinge refpects to our kind Neece, hopinge the good Schollers at Weft minſter are well, and ee I leave you all in th grace of God, aaa am The fame | Your lovinge Frend | ALS. Num Num. X. Vide Pref. 6. xr. A Copy of the printed Pamphlet about the reputed Nunnery at Little-Gidding in Huntington lire. or eB ARMINIAN NWUNNER SY: OR, A BRIEFE DESCRIPTION. : AND i Relation of the late erected Monaſticall Place, called the ARMINIAN Nunnery at little _ GIDDING in HUNTINGTON-SHIRE. _Humbly recommended to the wiſe conſideration of this | preſent PARLIAMENT. ; _ The Foundation is by a Company of Farrars | . at GIDDING. NR "DE gum = 4 : =e DSS = ee mV, . Printed for Th mas Underhill, MDCXLI. po SR OA jd: ELI. Y CXXVII So n. THE ARMINIAN RGN. N E KR X: O R, "^. A BRIEFE DESCRIPTION and Relation of the late erected Monafticall Place, called the ARMINIAN NUNNERY at little GippiNcG in HUNTINGTON The Foundation is by a iun of Farrars at GIDDING. VERE and Gardined on both | Sew) fides; their livelihood or Re- xd venew about soo. I. per An- S num, One of my Lord Moun. tagues Manſion- Houſes being within two or three miles off called Hemmington Houſe not farre from Oundle. * A Gentleman comming to vifit the {aid * Pag. 2. Houſe, was firſt brought to * faire ſpacious Par- | | 3-The Pages in the Margin anfwer the former Impreſſion, ' 2. Sic, our, exxym THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX | lour, where foone after appeared the old Gen- tlewomans fecond,fonne, a Batchelour of a| plain prefence, but pregnant of {peech and, parts, unto whom when I had deprecated and, excuſed my felfe for ſo ſudden and bold a viſit, he entertained me with ſeeming civilitie anal humilitie. After deprecations and fome ee paſt betwixt us, he ſaid I ſhould fee his Mo- ther if I pleafed, and I ſhewing my defire, hee| went up into a Chamber, and prefently re. turned with his Mother, (a tall ancient Gen. tlewoman about 8o. yeares of age) fhee being Matron of the Houſe, his elder Brother a Prieft:| like man in habit and haire. Now he had : j Siſter married in the Houſe to one Mr. Cooles | who had 14. or 15. Children in the Houſe, anc of thefe with a man-fervant and 2. or 3. maid fervants the Family then confifted. I was permitted to falute the Mother Al Daughters, as we ule to falute other women: and after we were all fitten Circular, I hac leave to fpeake ingenuoufly of what I had hear and did or might conceive of their Houſe. | firft told him what I had heard of the Nunns a .. Gidding; of two watching and praying all night. of their Canonicall boures ; of their Croſſes on th outſide and infide of the Chappell; of an Alta richly decked with Tapeſtry, Plate and Tapers e] | | TO HIS PREFACE. of their Adorations, genufleétions, and genicula- tions, which I told them plainly might ftrong- ly favour of Superſtition and Popery. - _ Now you muſt underſtand that the younger Brother who firſt came unto me is a jolly pra- gmaticall and Prieft-like fellow, and is the mouth for all the reft, and he began to cut me off, and anſwered with a ſerious proteſtation (though CXXIN - not fo properly) that he did as verily * beleeve * Pag. 3. the Pope to be_Antzchriſt, as any Article of his Faith, which I noted and gave the hearing: and therein if he ſpake from his heart, he much differed from the opinons of Prieſt Shelford, Prieft Squire, Dr. Draffig, the red Dragon of Ar- minians, and other eminent Arminzans. He denied the place to be a Nunnery, and that none of his Neeces were Nunnes: but hee confeſſed that two of his Nzeces had lived the one thirtie, the other thirty and two yeares Virgins, and fo reſolved to continue (as he hop- ed they would) to give themſelves to Faſting and Prayers; but had made no Vowes. | Tw 6. times a day, viz. 2. times a day pu- blikly in the Chappel, and 4. times a day more privatlyin the Houfe; in the Chappel after the Order of the Booke of Common Prayer, at both \times chanting out aloud the Letany ; and in their Houſe particular private Prayers for a Familie. i Vol. I. Loc en _ For their Canonicall hours, he ſaid they uſually - CXXX * Pag. 4. THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX. And hee being asked, if they ſpent fo much time in Praying, they would leave little for Preaching, or for their weekly calling for which the Text is pregnant: He that turneth away his eares, from hearing the Law, his prayer is aboniil nable: PRO. 18. and 19. And the fourth Com- mandement, $2x dayes ſhalt thou labour, Sc. Un- to which this Prieft-like pregnant Prolocutor anſwered but flubbringly, That ſometimes a neighbour Parſon would come and preach in their Chappell; and to the other, That their Calling ( forſooth) was to ſerve Gov, which he tooke to be beſt: Oh the ſtupid and blind de- votion of theſe people, for Men and Women in health of able and active bodies and parts to have no particular Callings, or to quit their Callings, and betake themfelves to I wot not what new forme of Faſting and Prayer, and * a contemplative idle life, a lip-labour devotion, and a will-worfhip, Eccl. 4. & 17. which by the word of God is no better then a fpecious kind of idlenefs, as St. Auguſtine termes them to be but ſplendida peccata: as if diligence in our particular lawfull callings were no part 4 ‘our ſervice to God. And doubtleffe ſuch a Monaftick Innovation in a ſettled Church-government, is of dangers ous Cres. in many pid For LOy Ys’ PRE PAC E. -For their night-watching and rifing at 4. of the Clock in the morning ( which was much for the Matron of 80. yeares of age, and for her Grand-children) the Prieftlike Prolocutor did not want a premeditated excufive Juftifica- tion: But how neere it complieth with the fu- perſtitions Nunneries in Popifh. places beyond the Seas, I and others that have travelled and feene them may plainely perceive and notifie; eſpecially confidering hee could not but con- fefle there were every night two (alternatim) continued in their Devotions untill the reft roſe. For their divers Gals the ' Prolocuter made me this anfwere; That they were not aſhamed of the badge of Chriſtian profeſſion, which the firſt Propugnators of Faith bore in their Ban- ners, and which are in our Church Diſcipline re- tained unto this day, How confuſed and abſurd this Croffe An- fwere was, let every Chriſtian man judge. | On the Chimney-peice where wee fate, there was a Manuſcript Tableture with this Inſcription following, whereof I peed, and had a Copey tranfcribed. | | HE Sie | : | CXXXI - ls TAS IHS * cxxxm THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX * Pag. 5. are the proper Character of the Jefuites in eve- FS EN (2 GN P iio = IHS E He that by reprofe of\ Hee that by a cheere-. our-etrors or remem- / V full participation of that brance of that which i{ __ which is good confirms | more perfect feekes to & «us in the fame, is wel- make us better is wel-( Jcome as a Chriftian come and an Angel of ' Friend. God. a S Du He that any way goes a-€ Hee that faults us in ab- bout to divert or difturb | fence for that which in us in that which is and | preſence hee made thew. ought to bee amongſt to approve of, fhall by Chriſtians though it be | tu ja double guilt of flattery not ufwall with the «& } and ſlander violate the World, is a burthen bonds of Friendſhip and. whiles he ftayes and; | Chriſtianity, | fhall beare his judge- ment whoſoever he be. | V Mary FERRAR Widdow, Mother and Ma- tron of this Familie ; aged about 80. yeares, that bids adue to all feares and hopes of this world, and defires to ferve God. The Letters of the top of which e 13 TO HIS PREFACE. CxxXxUE | ry Booke and Exbibite of theirs. And the lines of the Inſcription, how full of nonſence, jufti- fication and oftentation of ſuperſtitious devo- tion, beſides their Creation of Angels of Gon; Let every underſtanding Chriſtian Reader or hearer hereof judge. | The Prolocutor in juſtification of the Je- ſaiticall forme of Letters which I excepted againſt: he faid it was the auſpicious name worthy to be the Alpha and Omega of all our Actions, and wee are commanded to write fuch things upon the poſts of our Houſes, and upon our Gates: Whereas indeed the Text which hee aimed at 1s in the Old Teſtament and not in | the New, where there is no * mention of Feſus * Pag. 6. but Fehovah: And the words are moft plainly, Moſes Precept of the Law of God, and not of the Name, &c. Deut.6. Gc. f _ Therfore this his Apologeticall anfwere was nothing but ignorant Eloquence, or eloquent Ignorance; moſt grofsly and abfurdly applyed. - This Prolocutor confeſſed himfelfe to bee about 42. yeares old, was a fellow in a Houfe in Cambridge (he named not what Houſe) and that he had taken Orders of a Deacon (but he faid nothing of his having beene at Rome, as it is well knowne he hath beene.) | Now I was invited by this Deacon to goe with him into the S m to their devotion, | at - cxxuv THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX D yao 7, I at the entrance whereof this Prieftlike deft Dea- con made a low obeyſance, a few paces farther lower, and comming to the half-pace which is at the Eaſt end Re the altered Table ſtood, hee bowed and proftrated himfelfe to the ground; then he went up into a faire large reading place (having placed mee above with a faire large Window Cuſhion of green Velvet before me : ) The Mother Matron saith all her Traine, which were her Daughters and Daugh- ters Daughters, who with foure Sonnes kneeled all the while on the bodie of the halfe pace, all being in black gownes, and as they came to Church in round Monmouth Capps, all I fay in blacke, ſave one of the Daughters who was in a Friers grey gowne. . We being all placed before the Deacon © now fo we muſt call him) with a very loud and ſhrill voyce began and trolled out the Letanie, and read divers other Prayers and Collects in the Book of Common Prayer and Athanafius his Creed ; and concluded with the forme of words, of, The Peace of God, &c. | Their Seryice ented, the Mother vun all her Company attending my comming downe; but 1 durft not come very neere left I might happily have light upon one of the Virgins lippes, not knowing whether they would have. taken a fecond kiffe in good part or no, with | their TO HIS PREFACE. their civill falutations towards mee, which Y returned them a far off, they departed from the Chappell home. _ - Now the Deacon and I left, I obſerved the Chappell in generall to bee fairely and ſpe- cioufly adorned with herbes and flowers natur- all and artificiall, and upon every pillar along on both fides the Chappell (ſuch as are in Ca- thedrall Churches,) Tapers; I meane, great Vi- CXXXV gin-waxe-Candles on every Pillar: The halfe- . | pace at the upper end (for there was no other- diviſion betwixt the body of the Chappell and the Eaft end) was all covered with Tapeftry and upon that halfe-pace ftood the Altar-like Table, with a rich Carpet hanging very large on the halfe-pace, and fome Plate, .as a Challice, and Candlefticks with waxe-Candles in them: By the preaching-place ſtood the Font, a Leg- aver and cover all of Braffe cut did carved with Imagery worke, the Laver of the bigneffe of a Barbers Bafon, and the Cover hada Croffe erected on it. And this is all I had leiſure to obſerve i in the Chappell. ‘Then I made bold in temperate termes to ny Tapers on the Table, and in the Chappell; he anſwered (forfooth) to give them light, when they could not fee withdus them. And 'having formerly as I faid before obtained leave | | | to | [8 the Deacon what uſe they made of ſo ma- * » , ll 4 à | Y # | oxy THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX * Pag. 8. to fay what I liſted, I asked him to whom he made all theſe Courtefies, bowings and proftra tions, he ſaid to Gon; I told him the Papift: make no other anfwere for their bowing tc Images and Crucifixes, yet we account ther Idolaters for fo doing, as juſtly wee may: Het ſaid wee * have no ſuch warrant for the one but for the other we had a precept ( forſooth' to doe all things with decencie and order, as he tooke this to be. I demanded then why hee ufed not the fame folemnitie in his houfe, anc whether he thought the Chappell more holy then his Houſe, ke ſaid no, but that God wa: . more immediately prefent in the Chappell ther in the Houfe, whilft we were worlhipping him, I replied that God was as prefent at Paules Crofse as in Paules Church, at the Preaching-place at White hall and the Spittle-Sermons, as in othet Churches and Chappels. For wherefoever 1m or three, &c. and in thoſe fore-named places, nc not in the bodie of any Churches, though there be Sermons and Prayers there, we do not ule this threefold reverence, or Baked or pro- ftrating, no nor the Papiſts themſelves, unleflé in the Chancell towards the Eaft, wherein ar Altar or fome Crucifix is; He anfwered me ſomewhat confufedly, for this their trinary number of bowing which I did not well under- ſtand, nor well conceive what he meant. | It TO HIS PREFACE. CXXXVII It feemes moreover that at their monthly receiving the Sacrament ( which this defendant Deacon performeth and confecrateth the bread and wine) their fervants when they received, were attended by their Mafter and Miftris, and hot fuffered to lay or take away their owne trenchers as it 1s reported. | _ They alſo take upon them to be Phiſitians and Chirurgions in miniſtring Phyſicke and Chi- rurgery tor the fick and fore, and pretend to be very charitable to the poore; but as it is yerily thought in a meritorious way. They alfo take upon them to be Catechifers and to task many poore people with Catechi- fticall queftions; Which when they come and can make anſwere thereunto, they are re- warded with money and their dinners, * and * Pg s. fo they pretend they feed the poores bodies and foules, But their Catechifme or Catechi- fticall queſtions (ſome fay) are ſtrange ones and *tor different from our Orthodox Catechifmes. * Your may take notice that fince the obfer- ‘vation of the premiffes, th’ old Matron of the place is dead. -— And now beloved and Chriftian Reader, you : have had an ingenuous Relation of this late erected religious Houfe for the fervice of God (as the Founders would have it termed and | | ' | | 3 pd I.S "x. Sic. | NN f held.) | | cxwvur THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX } held.) But certes we may wonder at nothing | more * that in a fettled Church-government our | Biſhops who are accounted Governours of the - Church will permit any ſuch erection or Founda- tion, fo neerly complying with Popery, and that by a fond and fantaſticall Family of Farrars, the principall Preift a poly-pragmaticall Fellow, hav- ing beene at Rome, and there (as it is credibly reported) he was conformable to all the abo- minable Ceremonies and Services of the Church of Rome. Now forfooth, in outward ſhew, hee would pretend that hee and the reſt dif- claime the Pope and Poperie, but by and by you fhall fee him and his Companions crouch- ing, cringing, and proftrating to the ground to the Altar-like poore Communion-Table, or the rich gilded candlefticks, and waxe Tapers and other knacks thereon ftanding; And for another fhew that they would not bee account- ed Popifh, they have gotten the Booke of Mar- tyrs in the Chappell; but few or none are fuffer- ed to read therein, but onely it is there (I fay) kept for a fhew; and befides their lip-labour of trolling out the Letanze foure times a day, they have promifcuous private Prayers all the nightlong by nightly turnes, juft like as the Engliſh Nunnes at Saint Omers and other Po- pifh places: which private Prayers are (as it i: Sic. | feemes ) TO HIS PREFACE. "ond feemes) taken out of Fohn Coxens his C oxening De- votions, (as they are rightly diſcovered to be * Pag: to. by Orthodox men) and extracted out. of divers Popifh Prayer-Bookes. This Fryer-like Familie, and as they are not unfitly termed Arminian Nunnery have divers other Commick and Mim- ‘mick actions of will-woríhip to the great dif- honour of Almighty God, who will be ferved in ſpirit and truth, and he will once fay unto them as hee did by the Prophet /faiab, to the ſuperſtitious and ceremonious Jewes, Who hath required this at your hands? &c. Surely we may marvell that the preſent Prz- yy. cam. mate of all England and Metropolitane being the principal Governour,of the Church, under his fa- cred Majeflie, and as hee profeffeth ſuch an Anti-Papift and enemy to ſuperſtition and Ido- airy, ſhould permit this /nnovation, and con- nive at ſuch canting betwixt the barke and the tree in matter of Religion: But by what hath beene related of theſe Peoples practiſes, we fee ‘that poſition made good, That Arminaniſme 18 a bridge to Popery, the bridge was ' not not onely made (a great part of the Clergie of this Land being downright Arminians) but ſome have paſt overit; E oucds Preift Shelford, Preilt Co- zens, and this Familie in this Booke treated on with divers others, and had not God of his 13510 {v2 great CXL but the Letter 1s of the hand of | it himſelf, THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX. great mercy undermind the chiefe Arches of that bridge, cauſing them to fall in the River. of confufion, wee have cauſe to think that the greater part of this Land would alfo have fol- | lowed the reſt; but now God hath hindred it, | not only by breaking the bridge in the RY downfall of many of the chiefe of the lise nian Faction, but alſo by ſetting up that {trong, high, and thick wall-of the late Pi E ed nationall Proteftation ; for which (as allo for allthis mercies at all times, ERIS for this. years wonders) his name be for ever praiſed (fay 1) and let all Proteſtants fay, Amen. FINIS. Num. XT; Vide Pref. §. x11. Dr Walks s Account of ſome Paſſages of bis own Life. E Coll, Smithiants penes Editorem, Vol. 22. p.3 8. |. ' For the Reverend and Learned, Thomas | Smith, Dr, in Divinity, late Bellow of | Magdalen College in Oxford". Sr, In compliance with what you have oft defired of me, I fend you theſe Memorials of my Life. ———————————————M— 1. This Superſcription is writ- | his amanuenfis, only here and. ten by Dr. Wallis's own hand; | there Dr. Wallis hath couretied = My. FO HIS! PREFACE] © _ My Father was John Wallis ; a grave and Re- verend Divine: Son of Robert and Ellen Wallis, of Thingdon (or, as it is ufually pronounced, Fyenden) in the County of Northampton : Born in January 1567, and there baptiſed the 18th. of that Month. He was educated in Trinity Col- lege in Cambridge: where he took the De- grees of Batchelor and Mafter of Arts: and [about the fame time) entred into Holy Or- ders; in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. b Toward the end of Qu. Elizabetbs Reign ; he was made Miniſter of A/bford; a great Market- Town in Kent. Where he continued the re- nainder of his Life, in great efteem and repu- ation, not only in that Town and Pariſh, but with the Clergy, Gentry and Nobility round ibout. | ! He was a Pious, Prudent, Learned and Ortho- lox Divine; an Eminent and Diligent Preacher ; ind with his prudent carriage, kept that great _ l'own in very good Order; and promoted Pie- y to a great Degree. - Befide his conftant preaching twice on the Lord's-day, and other occafional Sermons, and us Catechifing and otherwife Inftructing the 'ounger fort; he did (with fome of the moft sminent Neighbour-Minifters) maintain aWeek- lay Lecture, on Saturday, their Market-day. Which was much frequented (befide a nume- tous CXLI | cuu THE PUBLISHERS APPENDID rous auditory of others) by very many of tk Neighbour-Minifters, the Juſtices of the Peac and others of the Gentry. Who (after Sermo) did ule to dine at an Ordinary, and there coi fer (as there was occaſion ) about ſuch affai: as might concern the welfare and good Gc vernment of that town and the parts ny wherein they were reſpectively concerned. He died at Aſhford, Navemb. 30. and was he buried Decemb. 3. 1622, much lamented; left behind him a good memory, which is nc yet extinguiſhed, My Mother was Joanna, Dayal of Zim and Sarah Chapman, then of Godmer/bam in th County of Kent; who afterward removed t Afbford ; and lived (both of them) with my fz ther and mother, during my father's life; an with my motber, afterwards, to a great ag and with great efteem, which Sarah was Daugh ter and Heireſs of Drew Sanders, an eminen Merchant in London. My Mother was born in March, and apo gd March 15,1581. She was married to my Fa ther (after the death of his former Wife March 12.1612. By whom he had (beſide m felt) two Daughters (Sarah and Ellen) who wen elder than I1; and two Sons (Henry and William who were younger than I. TO: HIS: PREFACE; I was born at A/bford (as l'find among other f my Fathers Memorials) Novemb. 23. 1616. nd baptifed Decemb. 1. then following. _ My Father dying while I was a se I was holden to the Piety, Care and Kindnefs of ny Mother for my Education. Who, after ny Fathers death, continued a Widdow, for he good of her Children, (tho otherwiſe, ſhe lad fair opportunities of marrying well, if fhe ad been fo difpofed:) ſhe continued for the noft part, (after my Father's death) to live in Mhford, in a houſe which fhe there purchaſed fter my Father's death; but ſometimes with one or other of her two daughters then mar- ied, and, at laft, with my brother Henry, who vas then a Linnen-Draper in Afford; where he died, $ept. 26. 1643. Leaving her children Il furviving and in good circumſtances, and he youngeft of us about 21 years of age. In the year 1625 (the firſt year of K.Charles he firſt) there happened a great Plague at Lon- lon, and many other places of the Kingdome, ind (particularly) at A/bford, which cauſed ma- iy of the Inhabitants to remove thence to Neighbour Pariſhes for ſafety. | I had, til then, been educated at A/bford; in earning Englifo and ſomewhat of Latin. But, apon this occafion, was fent to School to Ten- orden (another great Market-Town in Kent; ) | where, CXLIII cuv THE PUBLISHERS APPENDI? where, at a placé called Ley-green (within th Pariſh) lived Mr. Finch, a worthy Gentlema of a good Eftate ; io. having divers childre of his own, ah tertalriea a School-Mafter in h Family, Mr. Fames Movat, a Scotchman, wh was a very good School-Mafter, and kept a pi vate School for the TalbencuGn of all the Ch dren of that Gentleman, and of divers othe who lodged in the Neighbor-hood. His Scholar I continued for divers year and was by him well grounded in the 'Techn cal part of Grammar; fo as to underſtand tl Rules, and the grounds and reafons of fix Rules; with the ufe of them in fuch Autho as are uſually read in Grammar Schools, Fc it was always my affectation even from a chili in all pieces of Learning or Knowledge, n merely to learn by rote, which is foon forgo ten, but to know the grounds or reaſons « | sta Llearn; to inform my Judgement, as we as furnifh my Memory; and thereby, make better Impreffion on both. | In the year 1630, that Gentleman's elde Son being defigned for the Univerfity (and th others, otherwiſe) that School broke up. © might then perhaps have gone to the Univer fity, as well as fome who did; (being not in ferior to them in Learning) but I was though too young. 4 Oe HIS PREFACE. My School-Mafter (who had a great kindneſs for me) ſoon after travailed, as Tutor to an- other Gentleman; and would haye had me travailed with him, (into France, Italy, and other places;) but my Mother was loth to fend me abroad. | | - At Chriſtmaſs 1630, I was ſent to School to Mr. Martin Holbech, at Felſted in Effex; who was reputed (as indeed he was) a very good School-Mafter.- He there taught a Free School, of the Foundation of the Earl of Warwick, whofe Seat at Leex was within that Pariſh. At this School, though in a Countrey Village, he had at that time above an hundred or fix core Scholars ; moſt of them Strangers, ſent hither from other places, upon reputation of he School; from whence many good Scholars were ſent yearly to the Univerſity. Mr. Holbech was very kind to me; and uſed © fay, I came to him the beft grounded of ; my Scholar that he received from another school. ‘sear I continued his Scholar for two years; and vas by that time pretty well acquainted with he Latin and Greek tongues, having read di- fers Authors therein (fuch as at Schools are vont to be read) and was pretty accurate in he Grammars of both; and in fuch other Learn- ng as is commonly taught in fuch Schools ; and Pay ol. I. | bes as CXLV cv: THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX. as wel qualified for the Univerfity as moft tha come thither. I had been uſed in both thi Schools, to ſpeak Latin; which made that Lan guage pretty familiar to me; which I found to be of great advantage sftérWard: | I learn'd there (ORE of Hebrew alſo. Si much at leaſt, as to be able (with my Gramma and Dictionary) to proceed further withou a Teacher: which I did afterwards profecut to a good Degree of accuracy, as to the Gram mar of it; (for this I was wont to be very care ful of, in all Languages that I meddled with, and in a few years, had read over all the He brew Bible, and much of it more than once, | And I was there taught fomewhat of Logick as a preparation to a further ftudy of it in " Univerfity. While I continued a Scholar there, at Chi mafs 1631, (a feafon of the year when Boy uſe to have a vacancy from School) I was, fo about a fortnight, at home with my Mothe at Afbford. Y there found that a younger Bro ther of mine (in Order to a Trade) had, fo about 3 Months, been learning (as they calli it) to Write and Cipher, or Café account, (and hi was a good proficient for that time. ) Wher I had been there a few days; I was inquifitiv to know what it was, they fo called. And (t fatisfie iy curiofity) my Brother did (during thi | TO HIS PREFACE. the Remainder of my ſtay there before I re- turn'd to School) ſhew me what he had been Learning in thoſe 3 Months. Which was (be- fides the writing a fair hand) the Praftical part of Common Arithmetick in Numeration, Ad- dition, Subftrattion, Multiplication, Divifion, The Rule of Three ( Diref and Inverſe,) the Rule of Fellowſhip (with and without, Time) the Rule of Falfe-Pofition, Rules of Prattiſe and Reduttion of Coms, 'and ſome other little things. Which when he had ſhewed me by ſteps, in the fame method that he had learned them; and I had wrought over all the Examples tm he before nad done in his book; I found no difficulty to inderftand it, and I was very well pleafed with t: and thought it ten days or a fortnight vell fpent. This was my firft infight into Ma- hematicks ; and all the Teaching I had. CXLVH - This fuiting my humor fo well; I did ' henceforth profecute it, (at School and in the Univerſity) not as a formal Study, but as a leaſing Diverſion, at ſpare hours; as books. X Arithmetich, or others Mathematical fel occa- ionally in my way. For I had none to direct ne, what books to read, or what to feek, or n what Method to proceed. For Mathema- icks, (at that time, with us) were ſcarce look- d upon as Academical Studies, but rather Me- hanical ; as the buſineſs of Traders, Merchants, 092 Sea- "- cxtvi1 THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX Seamen, Carpenters, Surveyors of Lands, or the like; and perhaps ſome Almanack-makers in Lon don. And amongſt more than Two hundrec Students (at that time) in our College, I dc not know of any Two (perhaps not any) whe had more of Mathematicks than I, (if fo much which was then but little; And but very few in that whole Univerfity. For the Study o Mathematicks was at that time more cultivate: in London than in the Univerſities. At thi time alfo I learned the rudiments of Muſic] and of the French Tongue, About Chriflmafs 1632.1 was fent to the Uni verfity of Cambridge; and was there admitte: in Emanuel College, under the Tuition of M; Anthony Burgeſs; a pious, learned and abl . Scholar, a good Difputant, a good Tutor, ai eminent Preacher, a found and orthodox Di vine; and (after he had left the College) was under the Tuition of Mr. Thomas Horton and laſtly of Mr. Benjamin Whichcot ; all abl Scholars, and Eminent Divines. Mr. Burge) was afterwards Miniſter of Sutton-Coldfeld i: Warwickſhire ; Dr. Horton was afterwards Ma fter of Queen's College in Cambrige, and Dr.Whick cott, Provoſt of King's College there; and al of them in their time, eminent Preachers i ii London. | Whei TO HIS PREFACE. When I was come to the Univerfity ; I found it was no difadvantage to have ftayd a year or more at School longer than perhaps I need- ed to have done. I found that, befide the improvement of what skill I had in Latzn, Greek and Hebrew Languages (which I purfued with diligence) and other Phzlologich ſtudies , my firft bufinefs was to be the ftudy of Lo- gick. as to it's true ftru&ure, and the Reaſon of it's Confequences, however Cryptically propofed: fo as not eaſily to be impoſed on by Fallacies or falfe Syllogifms, when I was to Anfwer or Defend: and to manage an Argument with good Advantage, when I was to Argue or Op- pofe; and to Diftinguifh ambiguous Words or Sentences, as there was occafion; and was able to hold pace with thofe who were fome years my Seniors; and had obtain d the reputation of a good Difputant. And indeed I had the In this, I ſoon became Maſter of a Syllogi/m, GXPEIX 5.7 good hap all along (both at School and in the | Univerſity) to be reputed (if not equal) not much inferior, to thofe of the beft of my rank. From Logick, I proceeded to Ethicks, Phy- ficks and Metaphyficks, (confulting the School- men on ſuch points) according fo the Methods of Philoſophy, then in faſhion in that Univer- Bt | And CL THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX And I took into it the Speculative part of Phyfick and Anatomy ; as parts of Natural Phi- lofophy; And as Dr. Giiffon (then Publick Pro- feſſor of Pbyfic& in that Univerfity) hath fince told me, I was the firft of his Sons, who (in a publick. Difputation) maintaind the Circula- tion of the Bloud, (which was then a new, Do- Ctrine,) tho I had no Deſign of Practifing Phy- Jick. And I had then imbib'd the Principles of what they now call the New Philoſophy. For I made no Scruple of diverting ( from the common road of Studies then in faſhion ) to any part of uſeful Learning. Preſuming, that Knowledge is no Burthen; and, if of any part thereof I fhould Aston ies no occa- fion to make ufe, it would at leaft do me no hurt; And, what of it I might or might not have (etit for, I could not then foreſee. _ On the fame account, I diverted alfo to 4- —flronomy and Geography (as parts of Natural Phi- ofopby) and to other parts of Mathematicks ; though, at that time, they were fcarce looked upon, with us, as Academical Studies then i in faſhion, | As to Divinity, (on which I e an eye from the firft,) I had the happinefs of a ftrict and aii Education, all along from a Child, Whereby I was not only preferved from vicious. Courſes, and acquainted with Religions Exer- cifes ;_ TO HIS PREFACE. cifes; but was early inftructed in the Prin- ciples of Religion, and * Catachetical Divinity, and the frequent Reading of Scripture, and Other good Books, and diligent attendance on Sermons. (And whatever other Studies I fol- lowed, I was careful not to neglect this.) And became timely acquainted with Syffematick and Polemick Theology. And had the repute of a good Proficient therein. | ' Soon after my admittance into Emanuel Col- lege, 1 was choſen into the Foundation, as Scho- lar of the Houſe, And fo continued during my ſtay in that College. But I was not in ca- pacity of being Fellow there, by reaſon of a Pro- vifo in the College Statutes; not permitting more than one Fellow, of one and the ſame County, at the fame time. So that, there being alrea- dy a Fellow of the County of Kent, ( Mr. Wellar ) who continued there, ‘til long after I had left the College, there was'no room for me (being of the ſame County) to be Fellow there. O- therwiſe I was well eſteem'd, and well beloved in the College, and had certainly been choſen Fellow if I had been in a capacity for it: and loth they were that I ſhould go away. And, (as I afterwards underſtood) Dr. Oldf- worth then Maſter of the College (who had a kindneſs for me) had been conſulting with them | Tec SiC. about CLI CLII THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX about founding a new Fellowſhip on my accouni rather than I fhould leave them. But, the time: becoming troublefome, left no room for fuck thoughts. I was afterwards Fellow of Queen. College in Cambridge for a ſhort time, but foor quitted it upon my Marriage, on March 4 1644, 5 In Hilary Term 1636,7.1 took the Degree o! Batchelor of Arts; and in 1640, the Degree oi Maſter of Arts, and then left Emanuel College: and the fame year I entred into Holy Orders. ordained by Bijuop Curle, then Bzfbop of Win: cheſter. I then lived a Chaplain for about a year, ir the houſe of St. Richard Darley, (an antient worthy Knight, ) at Buttercramb an Yorkſhire; and then, for two years more, with the Lady Vere, {the Widdow of the Lord Horatio Vere, partly in London, and partly at Caftle-Hedingham in Effex, the antient Seat of the Earls of Ox- ford. In the year 1644, I was one of the Secreta- ries to the Aſſembly of Divines at Weftminfter. Not from the firſt fitting of that Affembly ; but fome time after, and thenceforth during their fitting. Wherein I do own my felf to have re- ceived much advantage by the Converfation and the learned Debates of fo many Grave, Re- verend and Learned Divines, on all points of Di- IO HIS PREFACE, Divinity, while they were compiling the Con- feſion of Faith, and the Larger and leſſer Cate- chifm. "Ihe Occafion of that Afsembly, was this; The Parliament which then was, (or the prevailing part of them,) were ingaged in a War with the King: Occafioned, Partly, from divers innova- tions in Ceremonies and Super-Conformity, intro- duced and ftridly urged within ten or twelve years then laft paft, tending (as was appre- hended) to a nearer compliance with Popery ; of which, divers of the Biſhops then in power were preſumed the Authors and Fomentors ; Together with the impoſing of Bifhops ( there long diſuſed) and the Common-Prayer Book on the Scots, which much inraged that Nation. Partly by ſeveral Incroachments on Liberty and Property (as was apprehended) by ſeveral Me- thods practiſed for razfmg of Money on the Sub- ject, without the conſent of Parliament, with other Grievances, of which there were great Complaints, and the /ong intermiffion of Parlaments. Part- ly, by divers Severities of the Star-Chamber and High-Commiffion Court, (againſt perſons other- wiſe Conformable) for not complying therein. The Iffue of which War, proved very different from what was ſaid to be at firſt intended. As is uſual in ſuch cafes; the power of the {word frequently paſting from hand to hand, and thoſe 4 Vol. I. u who CLIII cuv. THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX: who begin a War, not being able. to tara - Where it wil ends. The Parliament thus engaged, had (amos other things) a great difpleafure againſt the Order of Biſhops ; (or rather, not fo EL againſt the Order, as the Men, ie againft the uid for their fakes,) and had refolved upon the Abolition of Epifcopacy as it then ſtood ; before they were agreed what to put inftead of it. And did then convene this Aſſembly, to con- {ult of ſome other Form to be fuggefted to the Parliament, to be by them fet up, if they liked it; or, fo fc as they ſhould like it... hs Divines of this Aſſembly. were, for the Generality of them, Conformable, Epiſcopal Men ; and had generally the reputation of Pzous, Or- thodox and Religious Proteſtants ; and ( excepting the feaven Independents, or, as they were called, Diſſenting Bretheren,) 1 do not know of any Non- Conformift among them (as to the legal Conformi= ty then required,) many of them were profeſſeds ly Epifcopal; and (I think) all of them fo fax Epifcopal as to account a well-regulated Epifco pacy to be at leaft allowable, if not defireable; and adviſable; yet fo as they thought the pre- ſent Conſtitution capable of aga for the better. 8 When I name the Divine: of this Afembly, 1 do not include the Scotch Commuſſioners ; ; who | tho. TO HIS PREFACE. tho they were permitted to be preſent there, and did interpofe in the Debates as they ſaw - occaſion; yet were no Members of that Affem- bly, nor did Vote with them; but acted : ſe- peratly, in the behalf of the Church of Scotland, and were zealous enough tor the Scotch Presby- tery ; but could never prevail with the Afembly to declare for 1t. : On the other hand, the * Jndependants were againſt all united Church Government of more than one ſingle Congregation; holding that each ſingle Congregation, voluntarily agreeing to | make themſelves a Church, and chufe their own Officers, were of themſelves Jndependant, and not accountable to. any other Ecclefaftical Go- wernment; but only to the Civil Magiſtrate, as tothe Publick Peace. Admitting indeed, that Meſſengers from ſeveral Churches might meet to conſult in Common, as there might be oc- cafion; but. without any Authoritative furit E t Againft theſe; the reft of the Aembly was sema (and the Scotch Commzffioners with them,) That it was lawful by the word of God, for divers particular Congregations ( beſide the inſpection of their own Paſtor and other Offers) to be united under the fame Common Govern- ment. And füch Communities to be further fub- a ur tsi HRS RE CHAIR CN rp Y u 2 - ordinate CLV CLVI THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX ordinate to Provincial and National Affemblie. (which is equally confiftent with Epiſcopal an Presbyterian Principles.) But, whether with o without a Bilhop or ftanding Prefident ove fuch Affemblies, was not: determined or de bated by them. When any fuch Point chanced to be fug geſted, the Common Anſwer was; That thi Point was not before them; but was preclude by the Ordinance by which they fate; whic| did firſt Declare the Abolition of Epiſcopac (not refer it to their Deliberation;) and the only to ſuggeſt to the Parliament, ſomewha in the room of that fo Abolifhed.- And thisis a true Account of that Aſſembly a 'to this Point. (And when as they were calle: Presbyterians ; it was not in the ſenſe of Anti Epifcopal, but " Anti-Independants.) which I hav the more largely infifted on, becaufe there ar not many now living, who can give a better ac count of that Affembly than I can. To this may be objected, Their agreemen to the Covenant, (which was before I was amongf them.) But this, if rightly underſtood, make nothing againft what I have faid. The | Covenant as it came from Scotland, anc was fent from the Parliament to the Afembly feemd ay againſt all Epifcopacy, and fo! 1: DIC, ſetting TO HIS PREFACE. ſetting up the Scotch Presbytery juſt as among them. But the 4fembly could not be brought to aflent to it in thoſe terms. Being ſo worded as, To Preferve the Government of the Church of Scotland; and, zo Reform that of England; and fo zo Reduce it to the neareſt Uniformity. CLVII But, before the Afembly could agree to it; it | was thus mollified, To Preferve that of Scotland {not abſolutely, but) agaznft the common Enemy ; And to Reform that of England (not, fo as it is in Scotland, but) according to the word of God, and the example of the beft reformed Churches; And to endeavor the neareſt “Uniformity (which might be as well by Reforming that of Scotland, as that of England, or of both.) - And whereas the Covenant, as firſt brought to them, was againſt Popery, Prelacie, Eja of Schifm, Prophaneſs, 8c. They would-by no means be perfuaded to admit the word Prelacy, as thus ftanding abfolute. For though they thought the Engli/o Epifcopacy, as it then ſtood, capable of Reformation, for the better in divers things; yet to Engage indefinitely againſt all Prelacy, they would not agree. After many days debate on this Point (as I -underftood from thoſe who were then preſent) ſome of the Parliament (who then preſſed it) ſuggeſted this Expedient ; that by Prelacy, they did not wnderRand all manner of Epiſcopacy Or cwn THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX : or Superiority, but only the prefent Epifcopa cy, as it now ſtood in England, confiſting © Arch-Bifhops, Biſhops and their ſeveral Court: and fubordinate Officers, &c. And that if an confiderable alteration were made in any par of this whole frame, it was an Abolition of th prefent Prelacy, and as much as was here’ in tended in thefe words ; and that no more wa intended but a Reformation of the prefent Epi {copacy in England. 'Andin purfuance of this it was agreed to be Expreſſed with this Inter pretation, Prelacy; that ts, Church Government b Arch-Bifbops, Biſhops, their Chancellors and Com miſſaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Arch-Dea cons, and all other Ecclefiaflical Officers dependim on that Hierarchy, And with this Interpreta: tion at length it paſſed. And the Scotch Com miffioners, in behalf of their Church, agreed tc thofe Amendments. Mu i 2d I know fome have been apt to put another ſenſe upon that Interpretation; but this was the true intendment of the Aſſembly, and upon this occafion. | | 259 During my attendance on the Aſſembly; 1 .,. was a Minifter in London; firſt in’ Fan-church ftreet ; and afterwards in Iron-monger Lane ; where J fo continued till my Remove to Oxford. — About the beginning of our Civil Wars, in. the year 1642. a Chaplain of Sr. Will. Waller s, | - (one | | EC DOUHTSY PREFACE: (one evening as we were fitting down to Sup- per at the Lady Vere's in London, with whom f then dwelt,) fhewed me an intercepted Letter written in Gpher. He ſhewed it me as a Curio- ity (and it was indeed the firſt thing I had ever {een written in Cipher.) | And asked me be- tween Jeaft and earneſt, whether I could make any thing of it... And he was ſurpriſed when I laid (upon the firſt view) perhaps I might, if t proved no more but a new Alphabet. — It was about ten a clock when we roſe from Supper. I then withdrew to my chamber to confider of it. And by the number of different characters therein, (not above 22 or 23:) I udged that. it; could not be more than a new Alphabet, and in about 2 hours time (before X went to bed). I had, deciphered it; and I fent 1 Copy of it (fo deciphered ) the next morning to him from whom I had it. . And this was my irft attempt at Deciphering. | » This unexpected fuccefs, on an eaſy Cipher, was then looked üpon as a great matter; and I was ſomewhile after preſſed to attempt one of another Nature; which was a Letter of Mr. Se- retary Windebank, then in France, to his Son in England, in a Cipher hard enough, and not un- >ecoming 'a Secretary of State; It was in Nu- meral Figures, extending in number to above leayen hundred, with many other Characters | in- CLIX edt "Ri cx THE PUBLISHER'S’ APPENDIX intermixed, But not fo hard as many that 1 have fince met with. I was backward at firfl to attempt it, and after I had ſpent ſome time upon it, threw it by as deſperate : But, afte ſome ons reſumed it again, and had the good hap to mafter it. .. Being encouraged by this fuccefs, bere expectation; I afterwatds ventured on many others (ſome of more, ſome of leſs difficulty and ſcarce miſſed of any, that I undertook, foi many years, during our civil Wars, and after: wards. But of late years, the French Methods oj Cipher are grown fo intricate beyond what ii was wont to be, that I have failed of many. . tho I have maſterd divers of them. Of ſuck deciphered Letters, there be copies of diver: remaining in the Archives of the Bodleyan Librar) zn Oxford ; and many more in my own Cuſtody and with the Secretaries of State. On March 4. 1644, 5. I married Suſann daughter of John and Rachel Glyde of Northjan in Suſſex; born there about the end of Fanua: ry 1621, 2. and baptiſed Feb.3. following. By whom I have (befide other children who diec young) a Son and two Daughters now fur. viving ; John born Dec.26.16 50. Anne born Tune 4. 1656. and Elzzabeth born Sept. 23.1658. | My Son John, ſometime of Trinity College in Oxford, afterwards of the Inner Temple Lon- don, TO. HIS PREFACE. don, Barriſter at Law, Feb, 1.1681, 2. married Elizabeth daughter of Fobn and Mary Harris of Soundels by Nettlebed in the County of Oxford; and afterward Heireſs to her Brother Taverner Harris, to a fair eſtate, at Soundels. She died Aug. 8. 1693, leaving three children now fur- viving, Fohn, Mary and Elizabeth. My daughter Anne married Dec. 23. 1675, to John Blencow, {on of Thomas and Mary Blencow of an antient family at Marſton St. Laurence, in Northamptonfbire, then Barriſter at Law, now one of the Barons of the Exchequer, by ite ſhe hath feaven children, all now furviving, Fohn, Mary, Anne, Thomas, William, Elizabeth and Suſanna. . My Daughter Elzabeth, married Feb. 21; 168 1,2. to Wiliam Benfon fon of George and Ma- ry Benſon of Tomceſter in Northamptonfbire ; and is now a Widdow. He died Nov. 5. 1691, - leaving no child ſurviving, _ My Wife died at Oxford Mar. 17. 1686, 7. after we had been married more than 42 years. About the year 1645, while I lived in Lon- d (at a time, when, by our Civil Wars, Aca- demical Studies were much interrupted in both our Univerfities :) befide the Converfation of divers eminent Divines, as to matters Theolo- gical; I had the opportunity of being acquaint- ed with divers worthy Perfons, inquifitive into Po I. A Na- CLXI CLXII «| | THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX Natural Philoſophy, and other parts of Ht mane Learning; And particularly of what hat been called the Nem Philofophy or mrs Philofophy. We did by agreement, divers of us, mee weekly in London on a certain day, to treat an! diſcourſe of ſuch affairs. Of which numbe were Dr. John Wilkins (afterward Bp. of Cheftes Dr. Jonathan Goddard, Dr. George Ent, Dr. Gl:ſſoi Dr.Merret, ( Drs. in Phyfick,) Mr. Samuel Fofte then Profeſſor of Aſtronomy at Greſham Colleg Mr.Theodore Hank (a German of the Palatinat and then Reſident in London, who, I think gave the firſt occaſion, and firft ſuggeſted thoi meetings) and many others. | Thefe meetings we held fometimes at D. Goddard's lodgings in Woodftreet (or ſome cor venient place near) on occafion of his keepin an Operator in his houſe, for grinding Glafft for Teleſcopes and Microſcopes; and fometim at a convenient place in Cheap-fide; fometim at Greſham C ollege or fome place near adjoyning Our buſineſs was (precluding matters c Theology and State Affairs) to difcourfe an confider of Philoſophical Enquiries, and ſuch a related thereunto; as Phyfich, Anatomy, Gu metry, Aftrouomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magn . ticks, Chymicks, Mechanicks, and Natural Expert ments; with the ſtate of theſe Studies, as thet - cul TO HIS PREFACE. cultivated, at home and abroad. We there difcourfed of the Circulation of the Bloud, the Valves in the Veins, the Vena Latlee, the Lym- phatick Veſſels, the Copernican Hypotheſis, the Na- lure of Comets, and New ſtars, the Satellites of Fu- ‘tater, the Oval Shape (as it then appeared) of Sa- \wrn, the ſpots in the Sun, and it's Turning on it's ln Axis, the Inequalities and Selenograpby of the Moon, the ſeveral Phaſes of Venus and Mercury, ‘be ſmprovement of Teleſcopes, and grinding of Glaſſes | tr Impolf;bilty of Vacuities, and Nature s Abhor- ence thereof, the Torricellian Experiment in Quick- lver, the Deſcent of heavy Bodies, and the degrees Acceleration therein; and divers other things if like nature. Some of which were then but lew Difcoveries, and others not fo generally inown and imbraced, as now they are, with ther things appertaining to what hath been ulled The New Philofophy; which, from the (mes of Galileo at Florence, and Sr. Francis Ba- tt ( Lord Verulam) in England, hath been much ultivated in Italy, France, Germany, and other arts abroad, as well as with us in England, + About the year 1648,1649, ſome of our com- iny being removed to Axford (firſt Dr Wilkins, jay divided... Thoſe in London continued to leet there as before (and we with them, when LE NC we {ar that purpoſe, the Weight of dir, the Poffibility | en I, and ſoon after Dr. Goddard) our com- - CLXIII | cxiwv THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX we had occaſion to be there;) and thole of v at Oxford; with Dr.Ward (fince Bp. of Salisbury Dr. Ralph Bathurſt (now Preſident of Trinity Co lege in Oxford) Dr. Petty (fince Sr. William Petty Dr. Wills (then an eminent Phyſician in Oxford and divers others, continued ſuch meetings 1 Oxford; and brought thoſe Studies into faſhio there; meeting firſt at Dr.Pettie s Lodgings, (1 an Apothecarie's houſe) becauſe of the convi nience of inſpecting Drugs, and the like, : there was occaſion; And after his remove t Ireland (tho' not ſo conſtantly) at the Lodging of Dr. Wilkins, then Warden of Wadham Co And after his removal to Trinity College mm Car bridge, at the Lodgings of the Honorable Mr. R bert Boyle, then reſident for divers years in 0, ford. Thoſe meetings in London continued, ar (after the King's Return in 1660) were 1 creaſed with the acceſſion of divers worthy at Honorable Perſons; and were afterwards 1 corporated by the name of the Royal Society, & and fo continue to this day. | In the year 1649 I removed to Oxford, beit then Publick Profeſſor of Geometry, of the Fou dation of Sr. Henry Savile. And Mathematic which had before been a pleaſing Diverſio was now to be my ſerious Study. And (here as in other Studies) I made it my bufinefs | € TO HIS PREFACE. examine things to the bottom; and reduce ef- fects to their firft principles and original caufes. Thereby the better to underftand the true ground of what hath been delivered to us from - the Antients, and to make further improve- ments of it. What proficiency I made therein, Ileave to the Judgement of thofe who have thought it worth their while to perufe what I have publifhed therein from time to time; and the favorable opinion of thofe skilled there- in, at home and abroad. | In the year 1653 I was perfuaded to publifh a Grammar of the Engliſh Tongue ; chiefly to gra- tify ftrangers, who were willing to learn it ( be- caufe of many defirable things publifhed in our Language) but complained of it's difficulty for want of a Grammar, fuited to the propriety and true Genius of the Language. To this I prefixed a Treatife of Speech (de loquela) wherein I have Philofophically confi- dered the Formation of all Sounds ufed in Ar- ticulate Speech, (as well of our own, as of any other Language that I know ;) By what Or- gans, and in what Pofition each found was formed ; with the nice diftinétions of each, (which in fome letters of the fame Organ, is very fubtil:) fo that, by fuch Organs, in fuch Pofition, the Breath iffuing from the Lungs, will form fuch Sounds, whether the Perfon do | or CLAW $ ; ; | T | cixvi THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX. or do not hear himſelf ſpeak. Which was, 1 think, a new attempt, not before undertaken by any (that I know of) before that time, For tho it were obferved, that ſome letters were. Labials, ſome Dentals, ſome Palatines, and Tome Gutturals ; and ſome Grammarians have in ſome | few ſhewed a different Formation * in ſome few" of the ſame Organ; yet it is but of very few. they have fo done; and very imperfe&tly ; None | (that I know of) had before attempted it, as. to all; whatever may have been done fince in. purſuance of what I had then taught. In purſuance of this, I thought it very poffi- ble to teach a Deaf perſon to ſpeak, by dire&- ing him, fo to apply the Organs of Speech, as the found of each letter required, (which children learn by imitation and manifold at- tempts, rather than by art:) And in the year 1660 being importuned by ſome friends of his, - I undertook fo to teach Mr. Daniel Whalley of | Northampton, who had been Deaf and Dumb | from a Child. I began the work in 1661, and - in little more than a year's time, I had taught | him to pronounce diftinétly any words, fo as | I directed him, (even the moſt difficult of the — Polio Language, which a Paliſh Lord then in Oxford could propoſe to him, by way of trial, |. of thoſe five or fix fele& hard words, which — CHEERY BFP i cm nee a r. F. delend. they IO HIS PREFACE. they ufe to propofe to others, as not to be pro- nounced by any but themfelves:) and in good meaſure to underſtand a Language and expreſs his own mind in writing; And he had in that time read over to me diftinétly (the whole or greateſt part of) the Engliſh Bible; and did pretty well underſtand (at leaft) the Hiſtorical part of it. : | In the year 1662, I did the like for Mr, A- lexander Popham ( {on of the Lady Wharton, by her former husband Admiral Popham:) with like fuccefs. On whom Dr. William Holder had before attempted it, but gave it over. I know that both of theſe (who I think are yet living) were apt to forget (after their parting from me) much of that nicety (which before they had) in the diftinét pronouncing Tome Letters, (which they would recover, when Thad occaſionally been with them to fet them right ;) wanting the help of their Ear to direct their ſpeaking, as that of the Eye directs the hand in writing. For which reaſon a man who writes a good hand, would foon forget fo to do, if grown blind. And therefore, one who thus learns to ſpeak, will (for the continuance and improvement of it) need ſomebody conti- nually with him, who may prompt him, when he miftakes. I haye, _CLXVH cixym THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX I have, fince that time (upon the ſame ac- count) taught divers Perſons (and ſome of them very conſiderable) to ſpeak plain and diftin@ly who did before heſitate and ftutter very much. and others, to pronounce ſuch words or let ters, as before they thought impoffible for then to do: by teaching them how to rectify fucl miftakes in the formation, as by fome natura impediment, or acquired Cuftome, they hac been ſubject to. About February 1657, 8. (upon the death o: Dr. Gerard Langbain, Provoſt of Queen's College i Oxford, a very worthy perſon) I was choſen Cu flos Archivorum in this Univerſity ; to keep anc to inſpect their Records, Charters, and othe Muniments. . And was thereby engaged in the Study of our Charters, Rights and Privileges which I did with great diligence. And in pur fuance thereof, I was concerned from time te time in defending their juft Rights and Privi leges, in ſuch Law-Suits, as did ariſe, of thi Univerfity with the City of Oxford, the Station ers of London, and others. Wherein I founc that ſome little knowledge, which I had befor acquired, by occaſional infpe&ion (amongfi other Studies) into our Books of Law, was o: great ule unto me; and of which I was here. by ingaged into a further Study, efpecially a: to thofe Cafes, wherein the Univerfity wa: | con TO HIS. PREFACE. concerned. And I think it. will be acknow: ledged, that 1 have therein.done the Univer- fity conſiderable ſervices. I am ſure it hath been my endeavour fo to do, when I have been em- ployed by them. It hath been. my Lot to live in a time, wherein have been many and great Changes and Alterations. It hath been my. endeayour all along, to act by moderate Principles, be- tween the Extremities on either hand, in a mo- derate conipliance’ with’ the ‘Powers in being; in thofe places, where it hath-been my Lot to live, without thé fierce and violent animofities uſual-in füch Cafes; againft all, that did not act juft.as I. did. knowing that her were many Worthy Perfonsengaged on either fide; And will- ing whatever fide was upmoft, to promote (as I was able) any good defign for the true Intereft of Religion, of. Learning, and the publick good; and ready fo to do good Offices, as there was Opportunity ; . And, if things could not be jut, as I could wiſh, to make. the beſt of what is: And hereby, (thro! God's gracious Providence ) CLXIX - haye been able to live eafy, and ufeful, Gapgh not. Great: +, "Thus in Compliance with your repeated de- fires, I have given you a fhort account of divers paſſages. of my life, ‘till I haye now come to more than fourfcore years of age. How well _ Vol. I. y | [1 cixx THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX I have acquitted my felf in each, is for others rather to fay, Nen for | Your friend and fervant Oxford January John Wallis. 29.169647. * . Num. XII. Vide Pref. $. x11. An Exiraét of a Letter from Dr. Fohn Wallis to Dr. John Fell, then Lord Bifbop of Oxford, dated April 8.1685. concerning the Report ſpread about of Dr. Wallis's deciphering King Charles the 1s, Letters. E Coll. MSS. Smithianis penes dies rem, Vol. 22. p. 54. | My Lond, ^ underſtand there have of late been com: plaints made of mee, that I deciphered the late King's letters, meaning thoſe taken in the late King's cabinet at Nafe-by fight, and after print. ed. As to this without ſaying any thing, whe- ther it bee now proper to repeat what Wat done above forty yeares ago: the thing 1 is quite otherwiſe. Of thoſe letters and papers, (whats ever they were) I never ſaw any one of them, but in print: nor did thoſe papers, as I haye been told, need any deciphering at all, either | by TO. HIS PREFACE. by mee, or any body elſe : being taken in words at length, juſt as they were printed -. fave that fome of them were, I know not by whom, tranſlated out of French into Engliſh, ‘Tis true, that afterwards ſome other letters of other perſons, which had been occafionally intercepted, were brought to my hands: fome of which I did decipher, and fome of them I did not think fit to do, to the difpleafing of ſome, who were then great men. And I ma- CLXXI - naged my felfe in that whole bufines by ſuch - meafures, as your Lordfhip, I think, would not bee difpleafed with. I did his Majefty, who then was, (K. Charles the firſt) and his friends many good offices, as I had opportunity, both before and after that King's death: and ven- tured farther to do them ſervice, than perhaps ſome of thoſe, who now complaine of mee, would haye had the courage to do, had they been in my circumſtances. And I did to his late Majeſty, K.Charles the ſecond, many good fervices, both before and fince his reſtauration : which himfelfe has been pleaſed divers times to profeſs to mee with great kindnes. And if either my Lord Chancellour Clarendon, or Mr. Secretary Nicolas, or his late Majeſty, were now alive, they would give mee a very different character from what, it feemes, ſome others have done. And I thinke his Majeſty, that EUNT WES now CLXXI THE PUBLISHERS” APPENDIX now 1s, knowes ſomewhat of it, and ſome other y jj ili ON honour d ne &c. | | P am, My Led | Your very humble fervant ‘John Wallis. Tranſcribed (faith Dr. Smith) from the copy. which Dr.Wallis lent mee at icm 6 Auguſt 1698. | iu Tho. Smith. Tn the Oxford Catalogue of MSS. (faith Dr.Smitl alſo) in hyperoo Bodleiano, 2zt ss ſaid there pag, [ 170, num. 3524.34.) that Dr. Wallis decypheres ſeveral of King Charles I. Letters, and that they ari zn the book of C 'yphers, which hee gave to the “Unt: verſity. Library, (in the yeare 1653.) which is « great and ſcandalous flander. | gry Num. XIII. Vide Pref. $. x11. Inferiptiones fingulares hattenus inedite, H ^ D R 1: No BEVERLANDO colleffore. Ad fidem Co dicis MS. vira magne apud omnes litteratos au éoritatit HENRICI ALDRICHII, non ita pridem A&dis Chrifli Decani. Mecum vero (di more fuo) perquam humaniter communicavit vit pereruditus ( fodalzs nofter à paucis jucundiffimus, nam mibi cum eo amicitia conjunttifima fuit) C4 AO TO HIS PREFACE, ' cxi ROLVS BRENT, 4M. & /£dis Chriſte Alumnus, funere immaturo (id quod viris littera- 215, quibufcum babuit conſuetudinem, maxime fuit acerbitati) nuper prereptus. E Coll. noftris MSS. Pal. 75. p. 1. In via Tiburtina, CHIAE Ti CLAU- I . 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MULIERV.M GLORIA QV VIX ANN. XXII. M. V. D. XVI PROH DOLOR | QVANTUM FVIT CARISSIMA. Ferro V A- i OO TT EO TO HIS PREFACE. - CLXXXVID | VALERÍA:.-:- 32 HIC SITA.. -. - VIX AN. XIX VIRGINITAS - - FVIT GRAVIS: SIT NUNC EI TÉRRA LEVIS & hoc fictitium. "ROS MAN © TU QVICVNQVE TITULVM NOSTRY RELEGES ROGO PER SVPEROS SI AD INFERNAS PARTES RECEPTA RIS NE VELIS TRIBVS SEPVLCHRIS MOLESTARI, SES IACET HIC PICUS. MIRANDULA Cxtera NOSCUNT ET TAGES ET GANGES FORSAN ET ANTIPODES 3 242 H A. clxxxyi THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX HADRIANUS. BEVERLANDUS. HiC. SVM:@iBE TU. OWI) HAEC. LEGIS. ESSE NOLLES. RIDES. | NON. RIDEBIS. CREDE, MIHI. EADEM, DECRETA. SVBITURUS. Sibi vivo. p. @ Num. XIV. Vide Pref. $. xiv. Robert of Brunne's account. of the raifing of Stone- henge, from the French of Maſter Wace, who followed Geffry of Monmouth. eua C Fro þtþen [York] to London He [Aurelius Ambrofius] mbro- | fius] Lon- went, | " doniam. pe toun he fond paired E fchent, Kirkes, houſes beten poti. To pe kyng pet ment pam of pe toun, pat many of pe belt burgets, Were fico E tik man sede his wets, De bigged tt eft pat are was playn, Cierkes burgets did com agayn, dis ad . € gafilkon agayn per eſtre. nto- ii Sitpen he turned to Wyncheſtre, Bigged kizkes € houſes pere, aig he had von elg where. ; C Sipen DOCH ES PRERIACE. € Sipen he sede.to Salebiri, & to pe abbey of Fmbisbirt, Eto pat ſtede he toke his way, pea Yengilt did pe Bretons dete. pare biriels he poubt to honoure With fom ping pat ay myght doure, E frithe pat ſtede per pet lay, pat myht laſt tille Domesday. He did maſons denyſe € catt, What werk mot langett lat. With pe kyng a clerke was pore, His name was Sir Tremore, Was archbiſhop of Kerlioun, He did pe king in refon, ** FE he wild mak a werk of fyne, * Send song fond to ſeke Merlyne, * Mak pis werk may no man, ** Gif ſutlk confetie ag he can. © Be can sow teile what falle betide, ** fter him J rede souz werk abide. “be kyng ſaid it falle ſo be, ** Mykille J deſire Merlyn to fe. < Df his wisdom wild J here, © He ſais ſelconthes many. manexe, At a welle fer tn Wales, Waynes it hight bt olde tales, pe meflager pez Merlyn fond, Come ſpeke with king he ſent his fond. ^ CLXXXIX Locus nbi magnates fuerunt oC cafe, Confilium Tremoris epifcopi. Rex mifit pro Merli- 0, C Whan : | | exe T HE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX C Whan he come be fore þe kyng, | Joye he made for his comyna, - E honourd him for he was xopfe, E chertilid oucz alle oper of priſe, Ye grato him with fulle lonand ſpeche, What ſuld be tide he wild yim teche, Reſponſio . ©Stz byng”, fato Merlpn, “certis nay, Merlini ad Be A : revem. To opyn my mouthe 3| Daz ne may. “ Bot if it be a behouely ping at neve, “bat were warnyng oz tokyn of Dred. “€ sit with grete lounes of Hert, ** pat pride tourn noght oner theurt, ** For if 3| ſpake prow pryve or boſk, **Dr for ſcorn a gapn mp goft : “‘ pat t1& goft pat in me xoong, * pat alle me bennps, € alle me mong, **Dwt of my touthe tt wild him draw, ** DE my conpng rene me my ſaw, *' pat no more mpght J ſpeke with monthe, “ban a noper pat noght ne conthe. < perfor of ſilk prinete “pink not pez on, lat it be. \ 4 “pink on pat wht pou me foubtes, | < Bring pat tille end wht pou me bronhtes, ** Jf pou wille mak a werk fteofatt, ** pat faire wille enermore to laſt, ** Send fo? pe ſtones peg pet ſtand, “bat pe Geants bronbt tille Freland. ©* Bounds "v o» TO HIS PREFACE. **Rounde about eze pet fct, | ** Dat of Anfrik weze pee fet, * 3i5on on ope tg ſet vpright, |" füo man in erth has now pat mjght, “ Foz to tak Doun o ſtone, | "fac Cet pam eft es per none. pan ſaid pe kyng, € on him lonh, . © It were pan grete ferly how, ** pat po ftones pat poti of ſais, ** Ere fo heny and of ſilk pais, * pat non has force ne fofoun,. *To remone pam vp ne noun, *Eere fo fer oper pe fee; 22 © Who mygbt pam pan, bring tome? - hi iud an fato Derlyn to pe hyng, ^ $ 'S © Nuayntiſe oyercomes alle ping. * Strength ig gode vnto-trayaile, “beg no ſtrength may flecht wille vaile. ** Sleght € conyng Dos many a.char; «d *Begpnnes ping pat ſtrength ne dar... “With flegbt may pou pe ſtones sonne, * E in 2bretaym fet pam in, | ** bes pow ne falle with trength. ** Bemoue pam a fone length. *© Jn Aufrik were pet compat e wronht; * Geantz tille Jreland fro pipen pam bronht, ."* € fet pam one a hille fulle Hit ** With enayng fulle quayntip. a << Firſt CXCI Prudencia ſuperat om- ne robur, . " } 3 cst THE PUBLISHERS APPENDIX Ecce de Stonhenger, e viriute eorum. ’ 1 “ | F STS FREFACE + exey T little he ſtode, fipen him bí went, | Ye ſpak, bot non wiſt what he ment. pet ſanh his lippes tia ope doun, Bot non herd his quiriſoun, Whan he had gon alle aboute Within pe karole e withoute, E latd his quiriſons, Agayn he cald pe Bretons, € ſaid, © Now may se lightly bere *piſe ftones to ſchip, withouten dere, “Go now alle € {pedis sow, “For se falle welde pam wele inoub. ds Merlyn pam taubt € faid, Into fcbíppeg pam lightly laid, pan had pet won pet fer had foubt, (To pe playn of Saleſbiri pam broubt, Df Amnelbiri beſide pe abbay, | E was at þe Whitſonenday,. pe Byng did mak fomons MDE bifthopes, erles € barons, E oper folk of noble geſte, E Did him croune at pat tcfte, pre daies fat pe feſte of fode, {© MDnepþe fezth vay gaf ye aiftes gode, Kroces to clerkes of pris, To Saynt Sampſon € Saynt Dubris. Seynt Dubris he gaf Kerlion, Sork he gat to Saynt Sampſon, bb z pis EXGVI THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX | pig gat be at his crounment, E many mo bi comon aſſent. . "gl 25í for pe lordes, pat com pidez, | | Meripn fet pe tones togiver. His pet were ore ín pat certayn, | Stand pet now vpon pe playn. be) | Within pe compas of pe ſtones | Er birted alle pe lordes boneg, pat Hengift at pe parlement logh, Here beforn gc herd wele how. ) i ee ad I Num. XV. Vide Prof $. XVII. An Account of St. Wenefride, from an old MS. of the Book call d Feſtival or Feſfial, zu the bands . of Thomas Ward, of Longbridge near Warwick, . Eo De Sanita Wenefreda virgine. >” Dode men & women, fuche a day ze ſchalle hane fent. ) Wenefredus day, pe whiche dap is nott ordepnyd bp. | Holy churche to be halowed, but perve ag nien han Dez uocyon to pis holy madon. Wherfore pe pat han enocion to pis holy fcant,cummptbe pat dap to churche to worſlchip God, € pis holy maydon € martir. þen how fche ſuffered martirs Dome 5e fcballe here, For pows fum knowen bít, set fum. bnovoon hit nott, alſo pows a goove tale be tupas tolde, Hit is but pe better fo? to lorne and to vudurſtonde. perre. was ít hez tyme an holy armet was called Wennowe, pe whiche com to a goode monnus bofe, pat was called Thow: | | nythe, and was fent Wenefredus fadyz, & was a ryche | mon of londus « rentus, & prayd pis Thewnpthe to xyff. bom a place of erpe, vppon the whiche be mpgthe bylde a chute Perr OH LS PREFACE, b. toferne God in, and to preche Goddus worde to 2 pepulle, pen was pis ‘Theanptye glad of his askpng, E ordeynyd Hym a place nps to his owne howſe, pat he upgtc fo cum to Goddys ſernice, pus pe meyne tyie whille the churche was in bpldpnge, ofte he preched God- bus worde to pe pepulle, and Wenefrede com þpdur with her fader to here Hit. Ind when ſche hazde bpm ſpeke of pe Grete mede & joy, pat madones fchuld bauc in Bepuon, paſſyng oper oorderes, pen jad fcbe ſo grett deyocyon in his ſapinge, pat a non {che made a wope, pat ſche woibe neuer haue parte of mon, but a bpDe cuer in Dez madon hode, whille pat {che lyffed. pen on a Sondap, when pis churche was made and bylde, Thewnythe, with alle his mene, . Dear Sir, — Upon receiving yours, I lookd into the Regiſter of John Stratford, ſome time Biſhop of Winton, afterwards Archbiltop of Canter- bury, and therein, fol. 82. found the following particulars, which relate to what you mention- (^ Vol. I. | ee ed, | Wincheſter July 4th. 1724. by the Reverend Mr. i | CCI "Yi cor THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX ed, viz. That Sibil Carbonel the Abbefs dying on June 1. 1333. Joane Icche was elected . Tune 25. following, there being at the time of the Election Agnes de Stanlegh Priorifla, Jo- hanna Gervays Sub-Prioriffa, Alicia de Roppe- leigh Sacrifta, Johanna Icche Celerariar. (the fame that was elected Abbefs,) Oliva Beaufou Precentrix, Agnes de Bromore, Cecilia de Blonteſdone, Bla Croupes, Elena Baa, Alicia de Roucettr, Agatha de Wynton, Katerina de _ Grymſtede, Beatrix Beaufou, Amicia Bluet, Marg. per me, Agnes Beaufou, Alicia de Wal- tham, Sarra Okly, Alicia Brembelsfhete, Mar- ear. de Tydelefhide, Lucia Gower, Matild de Grimftede; Margir. Deneys, Margar. Poyntz, Amicia Malure, Johanna de Farnlington, Ami- cia de Forftebury, Johanna de Compton, Ali- cia Levynton, Katerina Joevene, Johanna Poyntz, Johanna Beaufou, Agatha Bekks, Johanna Payn, Beatrix Neyvill, Habel de. Ha- meldone, Marger. filia Warini, Amicia de Wyn- hale, Eugenia Chartes, Marg. Cracy, Margar, Warblynton, Alicia de Groveneye, Katerina de Aysfhelonde, Margar. de Buctefthorn, 1ſol- da Roches, Matild. Trenchard, Agnes de Wyn- ton, Johanna de Roppelye, Agnes Waram, Ha- wyfia Luffegrave, Dionifia Golaffre, Alic. de Wynton, Ifabella de Staunford, Maria de Rop- pelye, Alicia de Thuddene, Marg. Foreft, Eli- zabeth TO HIS PREFACE. zabeth Syfrewaft, Johanna de Sparkeford, Marg. Pauncefot, Marg. Atte Rye, Johanna ‘Boyton, Johanna Purie, "Uabella Fraunceys, Ju- liana de Romefeye, Criftna Okham, Eva Doi- ‘gnel, Matild de Roppelye, Eliz. Silvayn, Cri- ‘ftina Brikevill, Muriele Cotel, Katerina de Donton, Margar. de Weſton, ELE Rude, Criſtina Bromham, Katerina Warham, Johan- ‘na de Totteford, Johanna Carbonel, Alicia Carbone, Johanna de: Enedford, Editha Ey- mer, "T de Aune, Conftancia Wauncy, Jo- | hanna de Tyftede, Johanna de Winterbourne, ‘Katerina Warham, Alic. de Ciceftr. Pettonilla de Wendlefworth, Margar. Fokeram, Ifabell . Walraund, forores: Mag. Ricardus de Chadd ' Canonicus & Prabendar. Ecclef. Conventual. Mag. Robertus de Stratford Canonicus & Pre- bendar. Ecclef; Conventual. de Romſey per Procurator. elegunt Abbatiflam. : * | | Num. XVII. Vide Pref. 5. xx. Extrait of another Letter, written to the Publiſher from Wincheſter (ue; 15. 1724. by the faid Mr. Cia Fur- SS —ÁH—— CCII .. CCIV Weng "TE UP | THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX Furney, relating to the Number of the Nunns a Rumfey ſome time before the Diſſolution, and t a Note, about our old Fiiftortans, in a MS. oj Trivet at Wincheſter. UNIONE INT IE ou ae ion ne aig de Concerning Rumfey I learn, that the num. ber of the Nuns was very much decreaſed be fore the diſſolution. For Elizabeth Ryproft being elected Abbeſs 16 Dec. 1523. but 21 Nuns are mentioned. ‘The fame Eliz. Ryprofc was Abbefs in 1534. when the true yearly va lue of the. Nunnery is faid to be 395 1. 125 rd. The following particulars, tho they tell nc more than what you know already, yet as they are taken out of a valuable MS. of Nich. Tri vets Chronicle, wrote on paper, now remain. ing in the library of the Dean and Chapter oi Winchefter, I thought, you would give them the reading. | « Hiftoriam de origine & geftis Britonum pri- * mus ex Gwallico fermone in Latinum tradu. « xit Galfridus Borochmot aay is, definens in A- * thelftanum. | * Res Gwallicas excepit ab eo Galfrido Mo- “ nomethenfi Karadocus Lancarvenfis. . « An- TO HIS PREFACE. CCV « Anglorum res geftas ab eorum primo ad- «ventu in Britanniam Beda fcripfit ad fua /'* ufq; tempora. . «Willielmus Malmisburienfis Bedam excipiens /&& fuccinéte colligens ufq; ad regem Egbri- “tum, qui, varia forte profligatis. eatis in- “ful paene totius nactus eft monarchiam. In- de pleno curfu tempora lucide defcribit ufq; /.* ad finem Henrici primi. . “Nicolaus Trivettus, Malmisburienfem exci- -* piens, incipit à Stephano, & definit in mor-' “tem Edwardi primi. | “Ab hoc qui filum Hiſtoriz recto tramite .*deinceps deducerent, non funt reperti, fed |. *pleriq; fuo quifq; ftudio particularia. delegit *fibi perfequenda, principium finemq; pro ar- . € bitrio ftatuens. _ «Edmerus fobria fermonis feftivitate à Re- « ge Edgaro uíq; ad Willielmum primum ra- «ptim tempora perftrinxit, & inde licentius | *evagatus ufq; ad obitum Radulphi Archiepi ' * (copi diffuſam & neceflariam hiftoriam Mele * fus exhibuit. | ( by the Favour of the Rt. Hon the Earl of Oxford,)| and from his Anſwer I under fraud, that the Paffage, | referr d to by Dr.Powell, is alfo wanting there; but | then 1 find, that tis in the MS. of Trinity-College Li-| brary im this Oniverſity (the ſame that 1 have cited | in my Gloſſary * ) from which I ſhall here publiſh it | at large, as tis inferted in my MSS, Collections ^, a£ | the fame tame advertifing, that this Trinity-College | MS. 1s a Colleftion by an anonymous Writer (whom, however, Dr. Powell, to whom zt belong d, ventures | to fisle Bever) and that ‘tis not the true. Renuine | Bever, ſuch as may be met with (as far as 1 can, at preſent, underſtand) 1 in the Cottontan and Harkyan | MSS. Quoniam ex fcriptura commendabili felicig)| Bedz presbiteri modernorum traditur memos | .rià, per quot regna, quibus, quotq; regibus | olim Britannia fubjacebat, id in hoc opuſculo. i redigere nom decuit, quod. tantus pater fug. carmine fingulis patefecit. Verum quia felix | Beda preelibatus anno nati Salvatoris ex virgine | DCcxxxir. ex hac vita tranfiffe fertur, ex tunc. regum geſta regniq; fortuita futurorum tradere | memoriis ftudentem racio ſuadebat. Inſpect - X. Pag. $99. 2. Vol. 107. p. 82. 1gitur TO HIS PREFACE. igitur cronicarum collectis, ac de geftis Agios | rum libellis, actus veritati concordes Auctor hujus operis tenore preſentis paginze copulavit. Ut itaq; ex certo principio preefens narracio fi- nem debitum per ordinem forciatur, prodeffe creditur ab ejus incipere progenie, qui Brito- jum rex ultimus reliquid Britanniam alienis. Anno fiquidem gracie pccxxv. ante deceflum Bedz feptimo, luorius & Henyhinus, filii filize fegis quondam Cadwalladri, de Hibernia ve- nientes, duobus Walliz regibus opem preſtan- tibus, totam Ceftrie provinciam vaftaverunt. Venientes quog; in rure Danorum, quod ex eo Anglice nomen accepit Campedene, Latine campus Danorum, regibus Anglorum ien ‘unt legatos, ut Britanniam fibi reftituerent, | qua fuos patres & parentes injuſtis scarf | ‘xpulerunt. Addentes mandando, quod niſi in- Ta quindenam regionem redderent, ulterius vi- te {pacium non haberent. Inclitus ergo Weft- &xiz Ine rex, filius Kenredi regis, romaine Anglorum regibus hoc mandatum innotuit, qui nox armata manu in monte de Campedene ve- 1erunt, quibus rex eciam Eftfexiz Sibertus ait, Animadvertamus, kariffimi, quales ſumns, & *quales qui contra nos veniunt. Vere Britones funt, quorum patres & parentes, patres no- * ftri à fuis hereditariis expulerunt. Nunc fiqui- | dem veniunt de jure, pugnando calumpniare “ quod : \ cov THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX « quod à ſuis noftri juribus abftulere. Faciamus “ergo ficut cetera faciunt regiones. Eligamus| “nobis capud, qui nos ducat, dirigat & guber- “net; cui nos omnes, tanquam membra, ficut “domino, tam pacis quam guerre temporibus, « inclinemus, quoniam fine capite non fperatur « victoria reputari. Nonne anno fecundo poft « Britonum difperfionem, Saxonicum fuper pos! «pulum, multo nunc nobis forciorem, infra «feptennium quindecies applicuerunt, regna «regum fpoliarunt, populum trucidarunt, & res, € vertentes noftros vix vivos laceratos vulneri- “bus reliquerunt?" Reges fiquidem. Anglorum, omnes, hoc contenti confilio, ftrenuiffimum militem Ine, Weſtſexiz regem, in caput & do- minum regum Anglorum unanimiter eligerunt, anno Domini pcrLxxxix. Qui regum acceptis homagiis, vexillum regni erexit, ac excercitum Iuorii & Henyhini ita deba&tavit, quod in Wal liam, relictis tentoriis, fugierunt. Optenta itagz victoria, rex Ine, cum Anglorum regibus, (pra: ter Sibertum regem Eftfexie, qui, cauſa fene- Ctutis & impotenciz, ad fuam ' rediens regio- nem) apud Southampton fe divertit, ubi fuus cognatus Adelardus occurrens nunciavit, quod Iuorius & Henyhinus excercitum novum con- gregarunt, ut Angloruni populum iterum 2 de- 1. F. redit. 2. F. debellarens, | | ; ! bel- " | TO HIS PREFACE, bellarunt. Rex namq; Ine, miles validiffimus, illuc progredi non tardavit, Snaudonem obſe- dit, Hibernes & Britones ad naves fugere com- pulit, & totam fibi Walliam fubjugavit. Fe- ftum vero San&ti David rex Ine tenere volens, cum fuis regibus & Wallie magnatibus apud Bangor acceffit, ubi die feptimo poft feftum proclamare fecit, quod omnes reges ad fuas 'redire[nt] regiones, moraturi donec mandatum haberent, ut iterum convenirent. Regibus ita- . que repatriatis, Rex Ine cum Adelardo {uo co- gnato, & tota Regia familia, fuam civitatem Mameceftriam petivit, Ethelburgam fuam re- ginam, fuumq; filium Adellum ibidem invenit, cum quibus vix tribus menfibus repaufavit. A- dellus quoq;, filius regis unicus, prefentem vi- tam terminavit eo tempore, dolorem patri non modicum propinando. Adelardus interea, Wal- liam cupiens circuire, tres exploratores obviam habuit, quibus captis & fcrutatis, concepit, quod Thorius & Henyhinus venturi fant Angliam cum tanta populi multitudine, quod omnes Anglo- rum reges eorum viribus refiftere non valebant. ‘Adelardus igitur ad regem Anglorum Ine re- diens, eidem retulit quod audivit. Rex autem Ine, fuis ftatim regibus exfpreffa caufa, manda- vit, quod indilate venirent Ceftriz, in equis & armis parati contra fuos hoftes, fuas defendere regiones. Reges namq; mandatum hujufmodi = Vol. I, | ff | pari- CCXXV ccxxvi THE PUBLISHER'S APPEND. &, pariter acceptantes, Ceſtriz convenerunt, ves xillum regium fectantes, percufiog; bello cum Britonibus, in fugam converterunt adverfarios, qui infra fequens TERI Angliam fepcies 1 in- vadebant, civitates & villas fpoliabant, & cum {polis deo Interea rex Ine optenta victoria remeavit, & annis triginta fex lupet regno Weſtſexiz ‘peradtis, Adelardo cognate {uo (gang fuum legavit. | 74 5 : D es en ay pa. l ll i " 0 i ion Y / : FIO wi. » t| _ ic IE s p q Y 6; - 1 eS Y Sq ihe AS ih Oh 2 b 1d US MT - - 1 7 d 5 2! Ax) '© o d uA cp - $4.4 P i € Nal} = Vy | W "wc ny W à EN Y vs p | zis " } wal " va Gis NS. 25. j um ~ CCXXVH - d - E ; SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. | ] Homas Allen, M.A. ReQtor of Murfton and Kingf- | down in Kent. John Anftis, Etq. Garter, Principal King of Arms. Edmund Archer, D. D. Archdeacon of Taunton. | Thomas Bacon, alias Sclater, of Catley near Linton i in | Gambrideathixd, Efq. Thomas Baker, B. D. of St. John's-Coll. Cambr. Charles Bale, M. D. | The Rt.Revetend Father in God; George(Hooper) Lord Bp. of Bath and Wells. Oliver Battely, M. A. Student of Chrift.Church Oxon. Hilkiah Bedford, M. A. [deceas'd.] Ihe Reverend Mr. 'Thomas Bernatd, Mafter of the Free School in Leedes, Yorkſhire, Thomas Bowdler, Efq. Mr. William Bowyer, of London, Printer. Henry Bradſhaw, of Marple in Cheſhire, Eſq, Matthew Brailesford, D. D. Dean of Wells. John Bridges, Efq. Gentleman .Commoner of Chrift- Charch Oxon. Ralph Bridges, D. D. Vicat of Southweald in Effex, and _ formerly Chaplain to the Right Rev. Father in God . Henry ( Compton ) Ld. Biſhop of London. William Brome, of Ewithington near Hereford, Gent. The Hone. William Bromley, Eſq. Member of Parlia- ment for the Univerfity of Oxford. | Daniel Browne, Book(feller in London. « Lp The CCXXVIII | SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. The Rt. Honble, Charles Lord Bruce. . Edward Burton, of the Middle-Temple, Eſq. The Hon, Benedi& Leonard Calvert, Eſq. John Campbell, of Calder, Eſq. Francis Canning, of Foxcote in Warwickſhire, Eſq. His Grace James (Bridges) Duke of Chandois. John Chicheley, of the Middle-Temple, Eſq. — j| Ihe Rr. Honourable the Earl of Cholmondley. | Robert Cholmondley, of Holford.in Chefhire, Efq. | The Hone, George Clarke, Eſq. D. Civ. L. Member of Parliament for the Univerſity of Oxford, and Fel: low of All-Souls-College in the fame Univerſity. — | john Clarke, Bookfeller in Cornhill, London. | Walter Clavell, of the Inner-Temple, Eſq. F.R.S. | Sir Clement Cotterill, Kt. Mafter of the Ceremonies. | Thomas Crowe, of London, M.D. | Mr. Davis, of London, Bookfeller. | Peter Davis, Eſq. Recorder of Wells. = | Ralph Daviſon, of London, Gent. n | Francis Dickins, L. D. Regius Profeffor of Law of the . Univerſity of Cambridge. | | "The Hon?le, Brigadier James Dormer, Eſq. Richard Dyer, M. A. Fellow of Oriel-Coll. Oxon. John Edwards, Eſq. 6 | Sir John Evelyn, of Wotton in Sutrey, Kt. and Baron Sir Robert Eyre, one of the Judges of the King's Bench, John Fenwick, Eſq. Fellow- Commoner of St.John Con lege Camb. Stephen Fletcher, of Oxford, Bookfeller. | . Richard Foley, Eſq. Prontibficeaay of the Common-Pleas. The Rt. Hon®le, Thomas Ld. Foley, Baron Foley, 6 ol Kidderminſter in Worceſterſhire. Richard Frewin, M. D. ' Thomas Frewin, of f Lincoln, Efq. Ri- pe | "SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. | Richard Furney, of Gloucefter, M. A. Roger Gale, Eſq. F. R. S. | mY Samuel Gale, Eſq. | | Thomas Girdler, D. D. | | John Godfrey, of Norton Court in Kent, Eſq. | Thomas Goodman, M. D. Phyfician in ordinary to his IE. Majeſty. - | Mr. Thomas Granger. | | | Richard Graves, of Mickleton near Campden in Glou- _ cefterfhire, Eſq. | | Henry Gregory, M. A. Student of Chriſt-Church Oxon. | John Griffin, of Sarefden in Oxfordſhire, M. A. | | Sir Richard Grofvenor, of Eaton in the County of Che. | " fter, Baronet. | | "The Honourable Francis Gwyn, of Ford-Abbey in De- | . vonfhire, Eſq. | | Fletcher Gyles, of London, Bookfeller. George Harbin, M. A. | Philip Harcourt, of the Inner-Temple, Eſq. | The Right Honourable Simon Ld. Harcourt, Vifcount Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt in the County of Oxford. » "Edward Harley, Eſq. M. A. of Chrift-Church Oxon. | John Harwood, D. Civ. L. of Doctors Commons and ao F.R.S. | John Hill, B. D. Reétor of Charleton upon Otmere in Oxfordfhire. Thomas Hinton, M. A. Rector of Lafham in Hampſhire. William Holwell, of Exeter, Eſq. me . Mr. George James, Printer in London. | Thomas Jett, Eſq. F. R. S. | William and John Innys, of London, Bookfellers. | Maurice Johnſon, Eſq. W ANTI! - James Joye, of Duke ftreet Weſtminſter, Eſq. Be- CCXXIX . COXXX , Richard Moftyn, of Penbedw, Eſq. John Markham, Gent. Apothecary to the Charter-Houle. | SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. Benedi& Ithell, of Temple Dinfley in Hertfordſhire, Eſq. | William Kido Civ.L. Principal of St.Mary-Hall. Oxon. | The Rt. Honourable Gerald de Courcy, Lord Kingfale. Gilbert Lake, B. D. Vicar of Chippenham in Wilts, | Peter Le Neve, Efq. Norroy King of Arms. | Henry Levert, M. D. Phyſician to Sutton and St. Bats | tholomew’s Hoſpitals London. ( deceas'd.] Francis Lewis, Eſq. The Right Honourable George Henry ih Earl off Litchfield. | Lincoln-College Library Oxon. The Honourable Society of Lincoln's-Inn. Francis Lutterell, of the Middle-Temple, Eſq. Charles Lyddell, B. Civ.L. Rector of Ardingly in Suffex. | Richard Lyddell, Eſq. | Legh Maſter, of New-Hall in Lancaſhire, Eſq. William Maſter, of St. Paul's Covent-Garden, Eſq. | Mr. Samuel May of London. " Richard Mead, M. D. F. R. S. OU | Samuel Mead, Efq. | John Burchard Menckenius, Counfellor and Hiftorio- grapher to the King of Poland. John Merrill, of Golden Squate Lond. Efq. Conyers Middleton, D. D. Principal Library Keepet of the Univerfity of Cambridge. NI Sir Charles Mordaunt, Baronet. 1 Sir Roger Moftyn, Baronet. ; " Tohn Murray, of London, Gent. Robert Myddelton, of Chirke Caſtle in Denbigſhire, Bfa. | His Grace Thomas Holles (Pelham) Duke of Newcaſtle. John Nicoll, M. A. Student of Chriſt-Church Oxon. and | ſecond Maſter of Weſtminſter School. »| The | SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. ccxxxp- | The Rt, Honourable Edward ( Harley ) Earl of Oxford |. and Earl Mortimer. | Mr: Samuel Palmer, Surgeon. | Thomas Palmer, of Fairfield near Bridgewater, Eſq. | The Rt. Honourable Thomas ( Herbert ) Earl of Pem- | broke. b | | | Henry Plumptre, M. D. F. R. S. | | Richard Rawlinfon, D. Civ. L. of St. John's-Coll. Oxon. | and F. R. S. Ti coma ‘Thomas Rawlinſon, Eſq. F. R. S. [deceasd.] - | The Hone, Sir Robert Raymond Knight, one of the | Judges of his Majeſty's Court of Kings-Bench. Sir Robert Rich, of Sunning in Berks, Baronet. [de- | ceas'd.] Richard Richardſon, of North - Bierly in Yorkſhire, IB M. Ihn | | | Mr. Thomas Richardſon, “of London. Sit Thomas Sebright, Baronet. Edward Sheldon, Eſq, ut Mr. John Shipfton, of London. ‘Matthew Skinner, of Lincoln's-Inn, Eſq. Serjeant at Law, and Recorder of the City of Oxford. Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet, Preſident of the College of Phyſicians, Gc. — George Smith, of St. John's. Coll. Cambr. Gent. The Reverend Mr. William Smith, Vicar of Todington | «in Glouceſterſhire, Robert Stephens, Eſq. Sollicitor of the Cuſtoms, | William Stratford, D. D. Archdeacon of Richmond, and Canon of Chrift-Church Oxon. William Stuart, D. D. , Sir Philip Sydenham, of Brimpton D' Evercy in Somer- Thor CCXXXII SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. Thomas Tanner, D. D. Chancellor of the Diocefs of Norwich, and Canon of Chr. Ch. Oxon. | Lewis Ts of London, Merchant. 4 Timothy Thomas, M.A. Student of Chriſt-Church Oxon. William Thomas, Eſq. "| John Thorpe, of Rocheſter, M. D. F. R. S The Honourable Mrs. Thynne. .: John Turvin, Efq. Richard Topham, of Windfor, Elq. | Harry Trelawny, Eſq. . rj William Trambull, of Eaſt- Hamftead Park i in Berkſhire, | Eſq. Richard Tyſon, of London, M. D. Arthur Vanfittart, Eſq. | William Veſey; M. A. Fellow of Lincoln-College Oxon John Warburton, Eſq. Somerſet Herald, F.R.S. - Thomas Ward, of Longbridge near Warwick, PM Lee Warner, Efq. ; Sir Anthony Wefcombe, B ! triewh James Weft, B. A. of Balliol-Coll. Oxon. — | cM john Whiteſide,” M: A. Keeper of the Afhmolean Mas séum, and F. R. S. | The Right Honle, Heneage ( Finch) Earl = Winchels 1 ſea. Robert Woodforde, Be Civ. Li. Reétor of athe E Somerfetfhire- |. T7 John Woodward, M. D. Fellow of dia Royal Sai | and Profeſſor of Phyfick in Greſham-College London. | Dr. Worth of Dublin. — William Wright, of Offerton in Chefhire; Efq. E Hugh Wrottefley, of Lincoln’s-Inn, Efq. E p e" x, e. Ris, Cees $8 x E ty: Pee thy h.t VIE xou» UR E d EAS NT SISSY tum is M Re he o 24 PETER. LANGIDETM CH RO \ T C :L b. 2 Saynt Bede bokes writen er sth ait Sex hundreth € four fcore € nten Bere mo er roide Sen pat Jheſa Crifte of Mary was born, ^ E pe kyng Cadwaladre pis 1ond had alle dorm. For €nglíc & Seflons he went to leſſe Bzetaſn, To ſpeke with his cofyne, His name was kyng Flayn, E fro pien he went-bnto pe courte of Wome, == 075-— or to tak his penance & of his ſynnes Dome, = n (Dhan he was afoyieb of pe pape Seraie, Be died € was biried in Rome folemplte. ^ 88 Jn pe cere after nouþer lefſe ne more | © 7 sig otto kom his « his koſyn Jni € Juore, - In {chip ont of Jrelond, in Wales gan pet byryae, orgh out Cheſtreſchire werre gan pet Dryne.. Pad pei no tyntyng, bot porgh alle pet ran, Unto Wyncheltre, alle pe 1ond pet wan, Vol. I. SS A In { z De bello fub Campdene. De Rege de (^. 'N Weſiſex was pana kyng, + His was Str Jne. Wefifexe. ; |Whan he wit of pe Bretons,of werre ne wild he fine, =" Wellengers he fent porghont Jnglond | Unto pe Inglis kinges, pat had it tn per bono, | € telo how þe Bretons, men of mykeile myght, pe lon wtid wynne ageyn þorh force 4 kyght. Haſtifly kone pe kynges com fulle ſujthe, Bolde men & toute, per hardineſe to kiþe. jns grete Daneis felde per pet ſamned alle, pat cuer fipen hiderward, Kampedene men baile. Df all po Jnglts kynges, pat pan comen wore, Stgbert, kyng of Eltſex, in elde was he more. He bígan to fpeke tille alle pe chinairies . = dut EX d ny 30e. be comen alle of kynde of Germente, - V ; I “bat chaced has pe Bretons here of per kitbe c | * Now ere pet comen to clayme it,# mykelle force pam with. | H * Diþer bihoues vs defend it, or xclde bp ong? righ. -- : | 463 rede we cbefe a bebe, pat vs to werre kan dight, y ET ** & to pat tk bebe 3| rede we tg bynde. [d odi ** For werre withouten bebc 1s not wele, we fynde. a pe barons sede to conſeile, E teld tt fipen on die, | a Jne byng * kjng” of Weſtſex was a kuyght worpie, 2 Forto gye vs alle, pat now er comen here... .- "T Jne toke pe feante, diſplayed, his banere, E went to pe bataile (n a fulle faire grene,.- -, ,. pat is vnder Bampebent, a medew J wene, et Juor € 3ní were bifconfte pat vay, . Mi y be Jris € pe Wals with bam fied away, f P | US Pro, his name ; Was, 2, L. right. 3. "2 Redinidae De bello anie ti | dile were pet neve: flapit, © po pat ber: — 5779" 6.80 | m vnto Wales, vnto-þer WER FE satis 5 ifi ^t s. t | Site toke his feaute-of alle plana ie sine At pe fiftend day pet. ſamned at Sontbamptone, 05 207 | With joy alle at ong, pet tent tile idu Ki EL Juor & 3ní, pat tapífco bp pat ſide, -- To puructe. paste: a fknikyng, on je ergs eft to rides: Bot Jne had pe Engits eeritkon at wile, | | d Rie | Bot Segbert of Eftſer at home. left. fille. gr Aa Hon Be was of arete elde! E m\ght not? trauatle, | Bot Juor € Jn pe Englis gan ham atate. , T Praed s " ‘fe Englis' wee. bolde, € Drofe pam | to. a ſand. ch ond Piu. Libelüe ond]. ue pag. 12,13. of a moſt rare Book, be- ing Mr. Thomas Ellis's imperfect Edition (with:great Improve- ments)of Dr.Powell's Hiftory,to which is prefix! d Sir Fobn Prife's Deſcription of Wales. Oxon. 1663. 4to, Icall it imperfect, becauſe: ‘it was never neat compleated by Mr. Ellis, as. will appear from the following Remark, which I have written at the beginning ef my Copy that I happen'd to purchaſe in the Year 1722. * T he following De‘cription of be fled out of Wales away title en vb Englis/ 2 anges t dieit; __ mot'vo' more, Bot ſotorned jam a while if reſt « Bangyre, , | & « Wales v was publiſhed; by: Mr. «€ Thomas Ellis, A.‘M.'and Fel- | © low of Jeſus Coll.Oxon;. but 3 : Zuor c^ Ini .. fugi. «rns. much altered | from the «Edition which Dr. Powell fet «out; with the Hiſtory of Cam- «bra; now. called. Wales, at « Lond: in 1584. 4to. The faid “Mr. Thomas Ellis was a learned * Man, and a very great Anti- * quary;- He began alfo to re- «print the ſaid Hiſtory of Cam- «€ bria, which was grown (and «is now) very ſcarce. In order” * to which that greatAntiquary, Az «Rob, . : 5 * pat ba byng of'teame tid mak Han'aite revie, o0 ak pe Paſke after be kyng Fre t gaat trie, oF 0! ws. | Home foztowend to thilde € to pig et | 22 | To ífitte per lotibes; to folacc per life} 517 od 2008 | Jne king of Welles fot his * wife Tent! ^ m Unto 4 ag; sid — tie (oni ‘went. $t die * Rob; cVaughan of! Hebyvoril ** in Merionethfhire, Eſq, (who |. “ was diverted by other Buſineſs * from publiſhing this Work; as} “he otherwiſe defigned): com- * municated to him his Core, ©reftions and Additions. But “ Mr. Ellis finding, that a paul-' " try, illitterate Author, ;called | < Percie Enderbie,ha ‘been be- © fore hand with him, and ſome “ way. or, other. had ; got; Mr]: bo Vaughan's Notes gallo, apd |. *€ was £6 Bold, as, Without Mr” ** Vaughan's leave;to print them *3f his Book! (which: is:büt a < poor thing); in iFélion call'd; ' Cambria Triumphans s | or, ancient " and modern Britiſh and Welſh Fix « ſtorjes;he Jaid, by his Defign; * and ſo no 'nióre was printed: ‘than 128. Pages,;all which * are hete.., After. he: bad. de- © fitted’ (for: which allo cüriods “and learned Men) were very ** ſorry, he. being’ fo very capa- * ble ‘of doing great ub | meceftre appellat Hovedenusj | ** the Copies, all buta very few **were fold for waft Paper. cdi “which: account the. Book 1s "Powell's Fiſt. of Cambria is upon | | publiſhed, (as ‘tis alfo. in Do | Powell's own’ genuine 'Ed.) out | ef John! Caftoreus: or. Bevery which will véry muchi illuſtrate | this Place of Langtoft..: | | 7 | (UE F. gatto Quod gart retis | pared... | *€ now ai —" nen sii | 4. highly valuable. Dr.Powell’s | & Additions | are mark'd thus | «6$ "Mr. © Vanghan's thus € | Ie This Book belong'd- to: the | | cc Revd, Mr. . Jofiah Pullen,M.A, | & and Vice-Principal of Magd. | (Hall Oxoh.?:^Wliat I have | here obfetv.d- about. My. Boy | "& Percie Enderbie is confirm'd | by Mr. Wood, Vath. Oxon. Vol. | ILzcol: 2485249«; Butthe chief | reaſon of "A referring here t | "Mr. Ellis’s ünperfec Ed. of Hr! | 1 account of aPdffage tliat is there | neas, tüm idem: eriti quod pres ; chc Fittíte: 3. Ethele burga. 42 Id ety Mancheſter, itt agro Lancáftrenfi, quod Maz | Mamerceaſter Florentius, Ma- | i 15e-ceaycen Chron: Sax, Fue) tilem autem eorum conjecturam: | effe | Ine pe kyng hadoa fonne, his name bellus. Deve him toke € he died; als tt ſalle Doves. .— | Sorow #ſite he made, per was now oper d fo yis fonnc € beyte; - fo. nut ne DEDE. 01 lage arbitror, nec. ulla qe pan. te se em an Jgeman- | | tione egere qui vocem Mani nan. Pro on uran beenfejc, | | se ceaycen (in Chronico Sak6=:| autmmnat; 1 tempore habet Floréh- nico) non de unica. duntaxat] tius Wigornienfis: Sic enim ille... urbe, fed de multis civitaybus fub A.D. .920. (quo anno, non, | effe intelligendam putant. Sed [| ut Chr. Sax. 923. rem geftam en tibijipfa werbare Clironitoy 4 fuiffe retuliti) ^ Arummnali tem- ‘fob anno Dnccccxx11I. ubi de pore rex imvicli(Simus Eadwardus ad | Edmundo Seniore agens,docuit, Tealweale profeHns, eft jbidemgue | ip eodem illo anno, mox ben conftruxir, WT: ad. kay: pref | i e. Therwel, five Thelwail, *| f reliquis. Mif. n t.eiiam in Northe | viculum ad ripam füininis Met: imbriam TERI exercitum, ut fey in agro Ceſttenſi,notante chil item ataimercedfiiam reſtaurarent, Gibfono, p. 45. Explicat. .N0- |. epe. im ea fortes, milites collocarent. ! minum Locor. in Chr.Sax.] cum Neque: hac in re quid. diſcrepat exercitu profectuin,primam jaf |" cemph ie icis ARE IA Edi- fiffe cam atbem confirui, efie p tionis Blórentii Wigernienfi 15 in mari, prafidioque muniri ; : de- | ,atosLon dinix 39a: quo d,do&tif- inde juffiffe etiam alum exer- fimi Lan bainii papi is quamplu- citum, dum ibi commbtaretut; |: rmi; MSS." (maxima ex parte é de Merciorum tertas adire {Bas | "duobus ‘Mariant Scot, € quo migeceafter 1 in Northymbtia, ac, plerags, fua furripuit Florentius, eam refarcire, prefidivque SAEI Gent im Lelando noſtro, Col. nire. Hep on pyy jum tgeape-: [Vol HL p. 277. 4monui, Codi- pon Eaoyeapo cynmg .mid,} cibus eximiis, ; calamo exaratis, Fypoe on uyan heprfeyt co | petitis) adornatum, € Muſeo Delpxle. het sepypcam pa | Arthuri Charletti, nuper de- ‘buh. jzereccan.: yseman- functi, redemi, idem nimirum man. Ano hec ope, rypo | illud exemplar, | quod ad pag. ,eac of Myjicna peooe.pa hyile | 212. editionis noftre vite #l- pe he pep rec. Zefapan Ma. esis REES coms “magerccay cep on NopB-b ym. | memoravi. « | Gaur: Rone A UN. A » Ine pervexit Romamy@- Adelardus cepit regna gubernacula, | Jne was kyng of Weſtſex.ſex/e prítty gete, © IE Fulle wele he semed pelonb frowo «fro wehere: TS Fgor 4 Bunt oft dtd: he pam cbace, «oor 374.2048 «| In his tyme tortfe had pet nener grace: IDEO mi Tuenty grete batailes Jne onerkam; | pe quene withouten childe non heyre of hir nam. 4l Ine went to Rome als ín pilgremage,. 350439; ex ibi fipultus Adelard his cofyn be gat hig perieigess ejt, Feee de Henrico Flunyng- tone, De Alex- andro epi. ſeopo Lin. colnie. The pape him afoyied in treuth fiebfaft, DE on li Whan he had don his. penance, He gud to Gov re gate | Songs a Delard of Weliſex was king of pe Rl ore A A Df Noreis € Surreis, guyour of tik fchtre: al He ne fuffreb neuere wrath to be aboue | Bitnex kyng baron, pat ne he mad-ay Ioue. : à | Bile pc Bretons he onercome, pat wild him affatie, ^ 1 & in his þiztende sere force gan him faile. jj K 1 Tille Uttred his bofyn, a ftiffe knyght in fout, He gal his kyngdom, E Died tn langoure, * : Ye Hgges at Wathe, for þider was he born. -1//, þe holp man Saynt Bede died'a Bere beforn. o» TH C Benzy of Huntyngton fen pat day e pat sere. h : (To write Inglis geſtes fond he non Hts perc. 3) biſhop of Lincolne, Hitfandre he hight, Prated him to write pe geſtes pat were right, perfor pis Benry ts calo a compilonte. | Dc wrote be Englis actes whtlom of honoure. | | pus wrote to pe biſhop Denry pe ſame, He fais, pis lond hight Bretayn, pat now has oper tei | Jngload! | Que plage. 7 [Inglond now (d calo, for Jnglis men we fynd- px folk pat és perin; (t ts of Diners kynd. Dc fais pis iond hag fuffrco ſo many tyme wo, |. ‘Fine lorowes he writes withouten oper iuo. po ilk fine ſorowes he calles fine woundes,''| — bat ere not Zit haled, ne falle be many: ſtonndes, Nopeles pe clerk Meripn' fais cevteym,| ©1012 17 That Bretons at pe Jatt falle haf pis lond agayn, |Whan Cadwaldre falle calle with him pe &yng Konan, |hat tyme it falle falle, zit wote noma. |Row of fine foromes, pat zít not endid-are, |Benry in his writyng telles what pet ware, He Grit of piſe fine was porgh Romeyns, Coco T pat wan it of Caſbalan in to per Demeyng. plagarum. terre prima Grete treuage pet toke of pigiond Here, | plaga fnis, pre ponſand pounde of gold to paye tik a sere. & four hundred sere lafffo pat ilk too, pet mad pe Lond file ponere, pe folk Ded pet flo. petoper forow of pig iond mykelle gan it greue, Aus | a Scottes ¢ pe Peihtes togider gan pet chene, pes Lo watte alle Northumberland, þe godes away pet ledde, |" men with pe betteg in feldes pet pam fedde. C The prio ſorow of pis lond com porgh pe Seffong, Tercia pla» pat ten fipes aryued vppon pe Bretons, nt oe Be | E fipen were chaced ageyn aw with matfrie, . & eft aryued of pam here porgh quantiſe of ſpie. | At pe laſt pet chaced out pe Bretons fo ciene, | Bway onto Wales per kynd (g 3 wene. bo Quarta plaga. Quinta plaga. Fienvicus dicit. Uttredus regnavit. . He fette pe Ingtis to be paalle, pator.was fo fre. Rex Uttredus. pe Gnglig of pis lond pe lordſchip pet tole, +1 74) E haf it sit in per bonb, pe Bretons forſoke. 1+ 410) C pe ferthe ſorow of pis tondicom potgb pe Danes, |. 4 (43.49% | 7 ew pe folk of pe North floub, Detzoied pez wanes. Sipen wan pet alle pe South, maiſtrie pet pea E laid per Mangilde on dered € iewed, € icft pe Inglis pe london a forward deze, To pay Uk a bene a peny to pam bí sere. pat aryued of pislond, Harald. he flouh in ffoure E barons oþer*inouh, pat Died in pe feild, 4 C The fitt forow pez after com, whan William = | þe lond iefe pearmes, changed is pe ſcheld. Sipen he € his bat had pe lond in heritage, pat pe Inglis haf folad, pat pet iyue ta ſeruage, — «- He pat bigan tt alle in pe geſte may se fe. Enry of Duutyngton teftimong pig title. 9... » 15 pe byngvom of Weſtſex,heſais, it was not litelle, | Whan Idelard died perfro, € Uttred perto went. ^ 2 ttreo in his fiz sere meſſengers he fent | | Fox juges € barong. ntille his -parlement, -/ | - Jn ſteve ere it fette, pet wilt what it ment. Bot Eadbald tt withſaid, kyng of Lyndeſay, | 1 o Uttred wrathed him perforce, & ran-snhim fulle tite, & tuys porgh batale in felve was Eadbald difconfite, | | Tile he was wonded pe prid tyme; € died alfa ſmerte. $« 25 wa M S irieÞ | " 1 ' He was of pe Bretong kynde, he ſtode of him non eye. | | | Sthreht, Kynewolf. 9 | Wirted he is at Bepyndon, € tn pe kirke: he lig. | | Ye pat wille not bowe in fhtlle, J hold him vnwis. | Many tymes on Uttred Bretons bataile foubt: | Uttred was fo valiant, he gaf of pam right nouht. | Ye regned fiftene sere, € died alle to rathe, | He ligges biried als a kyng in the toun of Bathe..' | 2M Fter Uttred regned Sibriht, his koſyn, - Sibribe De lyffed wele pe Bretons, pat com tle tle fyn, ded vt Ye bare him ſo tülc his barong,pat notper song ne olde | Wald vnto him bowe, nc bltþeli of Him Holde, — | What did pe barons alle with pis fole Sibriht 2 . Chaced him fro his reame, « cbefe a noper knyght, Kynewolf, of pc kynred. of Adelarde’s blode, | Kynemolf Awhile infed pe Inglis, € wele with pam ftobe. % bh | Sébribt pat ſchrew. as a lordan gan luſk, I ſanhird {mote he to dede vnder a thorn. buſk, Re s = —— | ynexoolt toke pe kyngdom (for better mot not falle) Rex K ynt- 2 € fipen toke pe feante of pe kynges alle, | "ofa a «s his anceſtres had it befor band, ‘Bot of Kent Edpndelay & Northumberland, ‘pile pre kynges. geynfatd it Hym, & Kynwolf to po pre bare Him ſo brym, 'Sowis he was tn dede, of body fo valiant, With dynt of fuero € drede he mad pam recrcant. 'Kyng was Kynwolf ſep €tuenty sere, ‘Be was neuer wedded, to woman's daungere, +. Vol. I. TN No m Brittrik Rex. Nochilve had he netter, his heritage wyahtto xoente;! = Bot welth tnouh towelbe, ontille higipue’s ende. ^ At Wyncheltre he dis, píoer men him bare. © QUEM Fuile frely be lyned here, his foule with oo tt fare: 2 ^j Dan pe byng Mynwolf had bon Bis endyng, ©" a: Brittrk his koſyn pet lift him to &yng. Offa, byng of Lindſay, a faire donhter had, \ | Rex Brit- trik. Brittrik hirwedded; e quere hotte Hit dao. © D |? Whan He had regneo foure sere,ore ryued sii his right 2 Duke of Danmark, Kebrthr He hight, ^ | Britrik had a fiwatd, pie name wes Derman:-— -* Kebriht he kept at Bamber, € on hit he ran, — 0o Hard was pe bataile, als pet togider fipnt. — | Herman was pet flayit; pe Duke gaf pe Synt. | Igeyn to Danmark Kebriht gan ſchake," ^— TENE pat pe kyng 2 Kebriht ‘ne mygbt Him onertake.' (7 " ie mot not venge Herman et Kebriht pat Him floub. Be oio his oft turne agayn, @had foro» tnonh. - M. Jn his ellencnt gere. cont folk, pat mifieuco, "| Aryued on Brittrik, € fore pet him greueb. ; pore Brittrik bare him fo in pat ith bataile, - | pe bebe cede Danes to, pe Norets gan dim vale x Edburgh hight pe quent, pat 3 otc of ment, A | Scho purneted a ‘poston to pe kyng fonte of Kent, 3 : | Hatred before was, G.2bene herd BWlay, —^—5— dH | Biten pe kyng of Kent, & pecking of Lyndlay. ^ ‘a | I. L. Brittrik. 2. F. Brittrik, | obſcure and imperfe& 5- Warhame. Brittrik Rex, €: Eilzed of Lyndeſay alle Kent: he waſted. | "pe kyng after, v fay, to hate often he taſted | ype was of Lyndeſay, als 3 ore: told. ERA (Scpo 2 purueid ‘pat poston porgh Hateredof olo. | | | 1v? Malim, Eitred (velut alii | Cantii regem vocaüt, Flric) of Kent alle AX pnócfay he waſt- ed. 2. The Anthor‘hath here dn eye upon the Hiſtory of Bad- bürg, (or,as he juſt above writes her,” Edburgh) King Bri&rick's Offa; K. of Mercia’; but, as he | hath reprefented it, it. 5 very and whereas he tells us, that Bri- tick was buried at Tewksbury, others affure us, that it was at Whence the Saxon Annals. An. ^ DCCEXXXIV, Hep Cynehe sand ofloh Cy- nepuly cy mng-^ ^ne yz ye- as” ‘op4ylesens | j rxxxw. monna mio him. Anv ba on- feng Bypacpic’ Pet -S-axna pucey: 7 he picyooe xvr.geap. dnb hiy yzeoepen-cjn 5s co Cepcice. The ſtory 'of Éadburg is given at large “by” re Writers. She was a moſt beau- tifull Lady, and had gained the AffeGtions of the King her Huf- band (a good ‘natured mild Prince) fo much, that he was governed and dire&ed more by her, than was confiftent with AB Royal Dig tity. She was of | a very waht ake temper, aid could norbrook, that the King fhould have any favourites, but fach as fhe approved of, So that if the ſaw, or knew of, any, that, without het ſpecial con- ' fent and approbation, were | Queen, who: was Daughter of countenanced, - and particularly refpe&ted: by him, fhe contrived ' merhods.'to make ſuch away. There” happened to be a very delicate, fine young Gentleman (Son, it ſeems, as Langtoft i in- forms us, to the King of Kent) that the King ſhew'd a more than ordinaty kindnefs to, both upon. account of his exquilite beanty,andthe excellency of his underſtanding. The youth was perfectly innocent,and the King (notwithſtanding an Ufurper, as being not of the right line [See Dr. Brady's ZZiflory of the Succef- fion, p. 359.1) of too virtuous I nature to cauſe any juſt grounds, of ſuſpicion, that there was any immorality in the caſe. The Queen, however, thought otherwife. She look'd upon the youth as the King’s mmton, and her jealoufy wrought her to Arai a ap o ERA, that fhe pre- | par'd a potion for him (an or- B 2 dinary 12 wolf (father to Alfred the BufeibeRed | dinary praiſe with her, when Dffes doughter of Merchenes ſe had a mind to vent her | riche, Whiche Edburge (tue ſpleen) that provd fatal not ! ried her lorde ayenft gtits only to the lovely youth, but | ife men, notwithſtandyng even to the King himſelf, who | that him ſelf was meoke and had the misfortune (tho? quite | benynge. And yé the ne inyght | contrary to her defign) to taft | nat come to here purpoſe by! firft of the cup. This rais'd the | connſeille to ouercome thoo indignation of the King's Sub- | that here liked by werre, hea jects to ſuch a degree, that ſhe | Dude hein be ſlayne by poys was forced, for ſecurity, to fly | fon. This was prened ina beyond Sea, and the Weſt-Sax- | yonglyng of the kynges, ons thereupon reſolv'd, that,for whiche he muche 1oued, the future, no Queen ſhould fit | which bco with ber poyíen on the throne with the King, ſloughe. And after that the nor be ftil’d his Queen,but only | byng Deyde porgh adrenche, the King’s wife. But this cuſtom ! Whiche vnwytyng the quene being look'd uponas barbarous | he dranke, of bure makyng. and very diſhonourable, jt was | and whenne the tythinge | foon after broke by King Ethel- heze of was ſprong oute, thulke wikked quene by the comminalte was dryue oute. of the countre, and a ſtatute. i made a mong the Veſts. Saxoncs, that no quene af= terwarde ſhulde fitte by the Lite of K. Alfred, p. 24. to | Benge attemete,ne be clepud which place I ſhall refer the | quene, for the malice of EDs | Reader, and, upon this occa | burge forſaiden. Ind theo pen | hon, will only beg leave to in- | xocnoyng to kyng 1 fert, whatis faid about King | Charles the aret Charles Brictrick in the profe additions | of Fraunce, bi thegrete, to the MS. of Robert of Glou- | happe on a tyme, ap ceſter, that belongs to the He- | ag the was efheked of him, talds Office. After him [Kyne- | whether theo hadde 15uer- wulfe] Brightrik regned, xvi. | hane him, than His ſone that | rere, more ſtudions a boute | ſtove ther by, into houſbond, | pees thanne bataille. This | theo chees his fone. Thenne toke to wyfe Edburge, kyng ' Charles, of he anfwere az | EON | meved, | Great) notwithſtanding in the times of ſome of his ſucceſſors there was often a refpect had unto it, as I have fhew'd in my Notes upon Sir John Spelman’s | meved, faide thus. PEthow ' eft hane hadde my fone; but for thow caſteſt me a way, and cheſe my ſone, nother Ind then he putte ber ín a ' abbep, where the was xoot- ' hipfulliche J founde. but af- ter theo was founde gylty in Techerie, \putte oute ther of. Kyng \ wyue as for the mígbtycft | kpnge's doughter of En- ' gliſſhemen, that thourgh the afünite of hure he myghte haue his regneatte his wille, and. putte of his Enmys the broker, anb a gafte the rebelle to him. By tbe belge 'of this kpng Offe be droff in 'to Fraunce Egbright, of the —_— and whiche he moſt dradde to be ayentt hym and contrarte ! Haddeſt choſe me,thow huld-. him ne me ſhalt pow dance. wherfore. (be was | ' Bryghtryc had take theſe to ' Brittrik — | Brittris bir lord, pat ſcho nonht witte!! ' Unwarned drank perofa drauht als him liſte, | De iyued bot a moneth, per of gan he die. | At Tenkeſbirt in toumbe his body did lie, fram Jne to him, were oute of the right pne of kynges, as of Certikes kyn. Whanne Egbright thus was exiled, to Brightric a newe gre- naunce yut ſprong. For a folke of hethen Danes,y vſed to lyue by ſee robbery, pryuy= lich ín iti. ſhippes thende the pes of Weſtler. Whiche hhip= pes aſpied the plenteuoufz nette of the londe and the ver= tues of the men ther ínne | Dwelling, and they thenne wendpng home a ye, brought more peplc, and aſſaide to ftroye the contre, ſo that they toke tbe kyngns toune that was netghe and robbed hit. , but anon, for drede of the peple rennyng therto, thev flow to Her thippus, iefong her ea Ind whenne aboue is fatbe. by poyſon happeliche J dronke, atte to his profytes. For this | Warham his body was take Wrightric, and other kynges | to buriels. 14 Exbrite Rex. De Berne pat heſuld voide pe fond, if he his life wild ſave. wolf rege, Egbriht Rex. Beruwolf Rex. Aw. "bribt, pat 3i of told, pat pe 1ond had lom, 4.00 » y pat a fuynbírbfloub onder a buſk of ot 9 Pada koſyn, hight Cgbriht, whilom exiled was, -x F] porh pebyng 2Dribtréb, 3i ne wote for what triſpas.,.- | pis ih Eqbrizt was norifed at Paris Jt Charlemayn tourte, fire of Saynt Dinys. 3 Jilrik was his: fader, a Duke of faire fainc, Lord of Wicombe, of Bedynges, € of Tame. pi moder was Sibriht fifter, pat. was. a fole kyng. pat Writtrik was Dede him com. tiping. Dc toke iene at Charles, € coi tile pis iond, Among his riche kynde gode frendes he fond. What Þorgh lowe of lond, & olde aunceftric, Wan he þe regne of Welltler alle pleynertie, Whan he pleynere feyfyn in pat His cam had lorn, pat his fiuc anceftres had holden beforn, | pozghout pe South to pe Porth he had for arcte nyth, nw BE any Breton were fonden Holdand ono or dyth, '' Many fled to Lynday, focour forto bane, To pe &yng Bernewolf, pat was Breton, E he withſaid his feaute, þat he ſuld-yaf don. Wituex pife tuo kynges a werre bigan, Slain was Wernewolf, € with him many man. | Under Elendoune pebatatle was ſmyten. Men ſpng in pat cuntre (fele it it witen) 1. Mele. Nam pater Egberti fuit Alemundus five Ealmundus. | Vide Sax. Chron. p. 76. | Bernwolf Rex. Febribt Rex. ** Elendogne; Elendoune, pi lond is fulie rede. 23 ——* Df pe blade of2Detnexoolf, pev he tobe his vede. ^C After pat bataile Ggbrtht, pus Herd J fay, © Seiten Kent e Eſiſex, Sonthſex € Surray, © | Ealle pe grete iond, fro Doyer to Grymfby., | -Wilaf, Bernewolf fonne, perwith bao envy. He wild bat venged his fadere, if he had bauco myght. i - Bot be fond no force agayn pe kyng Egbrtht, Je He wild onht haue, after t after" his fader deceſſe,” Nevly him bihoued com tille Egbriht pes. At pe att He com, & mad pe kjng homage, | Egbrtht tot his curteiſie gaf Him his heritage. © C Egbriht of alle pc ono had-þe regante, Fro Donere viito'Tuede; alle was His fee. Wilaf with Him he ied, AWales forto fe... Wangore with force, pet tobe pat cite. 9° The Waiſch men it faub, it mot no better be, pet com befor Egbriht, emad him feaute. CSone after pe wyntere, whan pe ſomer bigan; pe kyng € his meyne went to burgh Konan. Jt was ow Whitfonday, in tyme of flepyng, Bom meſſengers of pe Nozth, € telo Egbriht-þe hug, Ap - þorgh Frithbald a lord of pe Northende, € fain, ** Sir Egbriht, otiv cbefe kyng to tille lende, * Sufkre not Sir Frethebald long to 1ede pis pyne. ' “is folk beſide Cuede cs flayn € kaſt per ine, “He ts now in poynt his regne forto tyne. m yorgh pam of Danmark pis lond wille pet wyne, | I. Dele, "*& "vp De homa- gio Walia. Konyngeh- burgh Ce De Frethe- baldo, I6 Bellum a- pud Kar- bam, rex fugamcepits De Day. C Dardan hight þe cheftayn of þat company, dano filio regis Da- Cie, Egbriht Rex. * € i£ pet Sir Frethebald haf now oucr comer, ** be to pere remenant of pe North fon falle pet nomen, * — “Sir, for pis hie feſte;: € for pe Trinite, ** Sutfre vs noubtto leſe, for defaute of pe. Hat did kyng Egbriht 7 Withouten any ſomons, | | € withouten aſkyng of Erles or barons, He Hied him pider ſujth,#,whan he com toTuede, De fanh fajik ofte of gaíeng, pat alle he was in-drede. | Nenerpeleg at Karham was pe bataile gyuen, pe kyng wags narow holden, his folk alle to dryuen. Tuo dukes € tuo biſhopes for euer tobe per leue, pe kyng was alle affraied, per ‘Dede gan him greue. pe kynge's folk was litelle, it had no dure, Dri” pe nyght he fled away, pat non ſuld him ſe. | M7ght he neuer noure fynd a rethyng place. Bight onto Donkaſtre pe Danes gan Him chace. Whan he wend haf paſſed po pat gan him dryue, | pan weze avyued in Bamber pritty ſchippes & fjge. | Jlkone with folk inouh, redy to bataile, * God wate,” ſaid pe kyng, “now comes me tranaile. Sadok ſonne of Danmark kyng Daneſry. per-panillons had pet fette beſide pe water. of Done, Egbriht/ gadred. partie, € Zared Him fulle fone. Litten now, How Jheſu Crifte, for his mykelle mercy, — Agayn pe fals paiens pe Criſten love he by, Es | Stbriht Perot Rees 9 CS | Ibriht Dake of Brailes, Eqbrtht fifter fonne, De militia SD He com his eam to ſocour fro fer per he gan wonne, Anglorum, Syward pe gode weltreis, Edald pe vavaſonre, Fl su | Wilaf kyng of Merce, he com to pat ſtogre. | Harald of Donſmore his lord pider led | Berald of he Marche, of ſtrength non he Dred. Haldayn of Donkaſtre was choſen pat ilk nbn | To bere pe kynge's banere ageyn pe paien lay, | Bot Hakon, Yernebaid ſonne, of beſt he bare þe votce, | Inſtede of kynge's baneze he did him bere pe croice, In wirſchip of 3ibefu, «€ of his paſſion, | hepaieng were fo fezd, ‘pet myght bat no fojfon, |. pe ferth day of Septembre, in pe * heneſt tide, | It Donkaſtre mot men ſe manyon to batale ride, rok Ts | pat to pe kyng Egbriht alle were þet gyuen, ju: Agen; | For pet heritage per to die or 1yen. kafire inter | pet hewe on pe paiens, as men of wille gode, hea ete | pe patens ageyn pam fulle ftifely pet ſtove. Danos, . | pet fanht alle pat vay, ne left pet not pe nygbt, | Wilaf pe kyng of 3 Merte was flayn in pat fight, | E Berald of þe Marche, E pe Duke Uttre Lord of Cirenceſtre, pat nyght flayn was he. | Jlle pat nyght pe kynge's folk fulle ide were pet led, Many on was ſ\layn, € wonded hard biſted, Bight in pe mornyng in aldermoſt neve - Com pe kynge's ſonnes tuo, als Crifte wild it rede, Dut of Germinite with folk inonh of myght, or € Ethelbert, Enyghtes bope fulle wyght, 1. Se "28916" 5. L. Merce. | Vol. I. CC Was LRL 4 18 Egbrihi Rex. Was neucr tn alle his ipue per fadere ore fo glad, |... | | aic whan he faub his ſons tuo, pe paiens force to gprad, " Idelwoif his fader. faued at pat ik torne, EEtheibezt in pe felde his fader ete. he le, cili How Darvan for his lance doun to pe erth went, | E fmotc hts hede. of, his fader to preſent. C Paraid of Doneſmore vppon Done him mette Utbrand, Dardane’ g broper, with ſuerd fo him gtette, ; pat porghout bis armes Wibrand alle to bewe. | Sone with js Danes, gamned pam ko glewe. pat perceyned Yalvazn, pat bare pe croice on hic, saa Sex € rity. patens enbulled priuelic, iid arti dL ; He tok his. fuerd in hand, pe croyce lcte he falle, : | E medeled him (n pe pres, among. þe barons alle. | Eeedepro- Wefore pe bpng & his ſons he rinsthed pam pe way, bitate Hal- ae , 369 ee qd Many wer je paiens þat.Dalvajy Bid flonb pat Vay. portavit. © Bites nücron Enoen, wag pe feld alle wonnen, — |. crucens fro ht vi, ia meade o a ii. LU ae 2 | vexillo. . Foz alle pat wild abide were ouez riden. E tonne, | pe byng with þe maiſtrie, went in to pe tonm, = a pe pris bc had xoonnen, tn vertew of Crifte's pafioun. — C Whan he had, Done pere alle pat bc ſuid. do, Fl He went vnto, \Wynchekre, his conſeile gaf him ſo. Unto þe ſomereſtive, pet gan he lende,; m Fyue € pritty batatles had he broubt tille ende.. | 4 ae felt him beuy € ferly ſcke, his body. wex.alle fette, His childre he wild auance, tille he olyue were, ..— | & (e Adelwolf gat he UWeſtſex, benc of alle pe thede,” a Lordſchip ouer alle pe londes bituex Doner € Cuede. — Ethel: dete Ree ig Ethelbert held Ettfer, Soutbfex Kent, - fot homage € feaute tile Jdelwoif it went. Whan Egbriht had feffed his ſons in londes cere, Now in his laſt ende of fyuc € pritty ‘sere, At Wyncheſftre he died, © per his body is latd. Was neuer pe lonb fo semed, pe folk fo pan ſaid, Fyue childir he had, knyghtes boubty of handes, E alle were pei Byes in Divers tiit 7 | | een of Welifex, after hig fadere Deve, ~~~” " Adelwolf At Cheltre fette his pazlement,his tenants pesto bebe, 7**: He ſent for alle pe bynges, fro Berwik onto Kent, € pet with fulle godewille alle onto Him went, € mad tille him feaute, vottijonten any cheſt, € cieymed Hin for perchefe of Wee of Eft, — DE North € o&South in length'#'inbreve, : Fro Kent vutilie Werwik, als daftég dile pat theve, PTs qui dedit € He was firſt of Jnglond, pat aat God his tipe 7, ey ec "Df 3füue of beſtes, of londes or of 1iþe, - ping . He was alſo fo great a Among others that afcribe this Friend to the Univerſity of Ox- | A& to K. Ethelwolf is John ford, that he had thoughts of | Raftell; or Raſtall, in his Chro- rebuilding it, aſter jt had been | nicle, nus fcarce print- deſtroyed by barbarous Ene- | ed ETA lent me by my very mies. Whence ‘tis that ſome | worthy Friend, the ingenious Hiſtorians fay, that he was the | Mr... John Murray of London. Founder of that Univerlity, | €, Ethelwolphns. ( ſays Ra- which, however, is more truly ftell) fon to Egbert began his allerted of his Son K. Alfred, , repn ouer the weſtſaxons the “who certainly did raiſe it up | pere of crpft. biti. c. revit. | again after the Deſtruction | ſome fap that this Ethelwoid [brought upon it by the Danes. | [I. Ethelwolt] foundyd furſt ak i the 20 Zdbaldus rex faruns, mini. ! ccc. FP Juht hundreth enen, & ſexti € on. Febelbertus Yer, ‘Wot pug Jfond in my boke, he lies at Schirburne. eons "e pe date of Crifte to nenen pus fele were gon, Eadbaldus Rex. Maler tud Rex. | 1 Sthen he went to Rome, as man of holy wille, | His ſonne e be alle pat sere with pe pape dnelled ſtille. — pe toper sere next, after his dueling, | He went home bí France, € ſpak with pe kyng. : pe kyng him his douhtez, bít name was Juwet, | Fulle wele on Sir Adelwolf was pat maiden fett. id Ye broubt hir Juglond, X ſipen lyned tuo sere. Ye lies at Wyncheſtre beſide an antere: pre poufand marke he gaf with teſtament fulle right To Petir EPanle of-Rome, to ſuſteyn per light. | Fter Idelwolf, his fonne hight Edbalde, To zere € a half pe regne gan he halde. Df him in holy kirke men ſaid enclic ſawe, Dis ftepmode: Juwet he weddid agayn pe lawe. Df His body was no force, non for him wild murne. | Fter Edbalde com Ethelbert His cam, A Adelwoife's broper, of Egbrihte's team. * De DID him coroune kyng, he was a noble man, | € in his firſt seve patens on him ran | 4 the vnpnerſyte of Dronford, | niverfity here before. Sce my Where the word furft is to be | Preface toThomas Sprot 'sChro- underſtood of the firſt founding | nicle, $. 15. it after it had been deſtroyed, | I. Repone, DCCC.LXIO, not that there had been no U- Bight Elfridus Rex. 21 ' Bight at Wyncheſtre, ageyn þam gan he ſtand, pe byng pam bataile, @ did pam fle pe land. | Sn werryng € in wo he regned fyue sere. Men birted him at Schireburn, Edbald falle nere. pe date of Jheſa Criſte was writen in pis Ipue, Anno Juht hundreth wynter ferti € fyne, M: dul LX.V9, Fter Ethelbert com Elfrith his broper, Elfridus rex, ' pat was Egbrihte's ſonne, € sit per was a noper. Elfride porgh heritage toke him pe coronne, |. € cafAYlfride his broper Surray to wariſoune. . Tille Elfride oure kyng com tipinges farke, | pat fjuekynges © fyue cries wercomen of Danmarke, pat wild on him renne, evene Him pe coronne, With alle pez grete folk, þet lay in Aluertonne. | pe &yng € his broper, pat hight Flfrede, | Gadred folk togider, als men pat had neve, | & com to pe bataile with fulle egre herte, | pe Manes ſtod e pam ageyn with bataile fulle ſmerte. In pe paſſion tyme was pe firſt bataile, | Nene was pat (1& sere, arcte was per tranatie. i pe toper sere, pe prto day after Palwethurs tide, | pe Danes, porgh Gode's grace, were on pe wers fide. For flajn were pet alle, erle € baron. | pe kyng did mak at sork a faire proceſſion, 'E þanked Jheſq Criſte with herte fulle mylde, | pat ageyn pe pateng his lond myght ſchilde, Elfride "nw S. Edmundus Rex. De Sen2fo (dim ride Had a boſjn, pat jug was of feheld, martire, ci Morthfolk € Sonthfolk of Elfride he helde, rh Pu pat was Gaynt Edmunde, pe croune pat tyme bare. fum. # Duke of Danmark, his name was Jnguare, Ubbe an etie of Yuneis with pat Jnguar kam, | :| Uppon Saynt Edinynde Northfolk he nam. Edmunde fent his mellengers, of pes pam bífoubt. Jnguar ſent bode ageyn, pat pes wild he noubt, Wot if he zald him pe lond, pan he ſuld haf pes. pat wild not Saynt Edmunde, pe bataíle he ps | He atired htm t» batatle with folk pat he Had. . | Wot pis curſed Danes fo grete ofte ay lad, A pat Edmnunde wag taken, and ſlayn at pe laſt, | Fulle fer (10 pe body lay was pe hede kat. | | pe body fon pet fonde, pe hade was in Doute. | | Up edoune in pe felde pet foudt it abonte, | uva | Ecce mira- Tg Vaf knowyng petof, alle pet were in were, he » | culm de | Apes a «Lille pe bebe him felt fato, here, here, here. ii, per pet fond pe benc is now a faire chapelle, Oren hate pe toun, per pe body felle. - per where he was fchotte a ttoper chapelle ſtandes, E ſomwhat of pat tre, pet bond vntille his handes. pe tone is fro petoper moten a avete myle, So fer bare a woulfe þe hede, e kept ita grete while, Unto pe hede fato, here, alg J befor ſaid. Fro pe woulf pet it toke, bute pe body tt latd. Men ſais, per he ligges pe ficich famen sede, | Bot pe token of pe wonde als a reve threde, | Now | Elfridus Rex. 23 | Now lies he in ſchryne in golde pat ts rede. 5 | | Senen sere was he kjng pat tyme pat he was ede, P 44 N pe Zere after, right tn be time of May, * i ; : Ofeth, vex Ig Dleth, pe Danes kyng, com Inglond to affray. ii A. Ye aryued at Werwik, tn pe water of ‘Cueve. | icd i b Vp er Priue help of pe Scottes he had at his nede, DANA gen E com faſt toward pe South, gzete powere he led, Wy Srila Elfride € his bropere out of cork fled. pet prated God ſpectally, pat he wild pam fane, € ageyn pe Danes help inouh to yaue, It pe poynt of pe bataile, diſplayed his banere, - pe kyng sede to pe kirke, his meſſe forto here. Bot BWitrive his broper sede to pe bataile, | He was ouer hardy, pe Danes he gan affatic. - | Dilcomfite was Jlfrive within a 1itelle throwe. . fad p pe kyng herd pat telle, þat his ſide cede lowe. Ye Dight him to pe bataile, His folk to ſoconre. God did faire miracle for Elfride pat houre. For non of pe Danes aſkaped with pe life. Wot pe Scottes kyng, pat mapntend pat ftztfe, DOpon Cifrive ran, als traptoure inferd, Elfride he wonded with Bynt of a fuero. A Sex sere was he king, mith werre weldid þe ſcheld. Fuile gode was his endyng, he ligges at Driffeld. € pof alle pat he werred in wo € in ttrife, pe fonte € tuenty houres he fpended in holp life, pe ferſt. viit. houres in prater alderbeſt, pe toper. ditt. houres in flepe e inreft, — M7 te -*- F o pe: 24 "ridus Rex. pe prio. vitt. honzes he ſtudied, how be myght Mayntene þe Jond with lawe, his folk hald to right. Haluendele his godes he gaf to Gode's werkes, Suſtened abbeis, noriſed pouer clerkes, Did retle vp kirkes, pat were fallen doun, Moli p, € alle pat him ferned he broubt to wartfoun. quei pe sere of Criſte's birth was aubt hundreth euen, E pus many mo, ſexty e ellenen. Lfride His broper, a gode clerk was he one, A Df body fo donhty tn Fnglond was none. He refceyned pe coroune, after His broper dede, Strong were pe batatles pe Danes on him bede. uo etucnty batailes he wanne pe firſt sere, pe Danes ſo many tymes aryued on him here, De Rollo pat he fo many fion) a dake had envie, pont & cft aryued on pis lond with fulle grete naute. nomenerat Rollo was His name, a knyght falle Doubty, 64, lt pat Bifrive wend wele, haf lorn pe ſeignory, quifivit to- Phan pet com to bataile, (1k oper gan aſkie, sam Nor- manniam, Bifride vnto Rollo fone gan Him alte. So many Doubty dyntes was bituex pam tueye, Weie pet did togidere, better may no man ſeye. God, porgh his grace, pat day fo wele ſped, pat Rollo aſked Criſtendom at pe kyng Alfred. porgh pat Criſtendom, po, pat wege fo wrope, 3t haly kirke's fayth alle on were bope. Wollo was halb Roberd, whan he was baptized, porgh pe kyng Jlfride, alg he had deniſed, Now | Alfridus Rex. 2j Now is Mobcro Criften, He dightes hid hadie; ^ "^ . & ferde oner pe ſee; € contjuerdNormandie, Duke pan was he calo, porgh conqueſt of dai Alfrid be left Mille here in Bnglond. €st a noper Danes byng in pe North gan ques 1-5 De Gun- eT as $270. Pale Jlfrid it herd, pidere gan he Dryue.. OBIS 30 373 pranelck, anelok faver he was, Gunter was his nates 5 91's 0 m. He brent cíteeg € tonnes, otier alle vio he {ehames - Saynt Cutberte’s clerkeg po Danes pet dred.” pe toke pe holp bones, about pet pam ded. -- - Seuen sere porgh pe land wer pet born aboute, 3t comforted pe kyng mybkelle, whan he was in Donte. € Whan Jifrio e Gunter had werred long it tlic, d " porab pe grace) of od, Gunter tyrned His wille, Criftend wild bebe, pe kyngobfonte Diti litt, - | E pritty ofhis knyghtes tuvneg; þorgh Gode's gift, ^- po pat firſh, were foos, &-com of paten tay, 7 000 77 I | DE Criſten men haf 108, € fo pet wend away, ^07 a] | | Cot FZ haf grete ferly, pat 3 fund notan, 02 De Fares, pat has writen iti tory, how Hanelok pis long wan, ^C a Noiper Gildas; noWede, no Wenty.of Duntyrton, - No William of Walmeſbiri, neÞers of iBritpntet, Writes not ty per bokes of no &yng Athelwoldy . — | Ne Goldeburgh his ooubtere, ne Wanelok not of tow, i. AObüb tyme-þe-were hynges, Jong ot now date — pet mak no menyng whan, no tr what date. Bot pat piledowed men vpon Jnglith telits, * Bight ſtory camme not ken, pe certeynte what ſpellis- 3:Vol. I. D Wen 26 De comitie bus Dacié. Edwardus Tex, Edwardus primus Rex. Men fats in Lpncoin caſtelle 1igges sit a tone, pat Wanelok katt wele forbi encr tikone. E zit pe chapelle andes, per he weddid his wife, Goildeburgh pe kynge's douhter, pat ſaw is zít rife. E of Gryme a &fibere, men redes xit in ryme, pat he bigged Grymeſby Gryme pat tk tyme. Df alle ſtories of honoure, pat 3 haf þorgh ſonht, 3 fynd, pat no comptlonre of him tellis onht. . Sen 3 fynd non redy, pat tellíg of Panciok kynde, f urne we to pat-fory,! pat we writen fynde. | On after com anerle, Jifden hight pat hanvde, ” Aryned vp with Jaguar, pat flonh S. Edmande.. - Upon pe kyng Alfrid werre fon began, Wot porsh pe gode Northeren flayn wer (aman. | Sex € fifty bataties Alfrid-ouercam, After nyen € tuenty sere pe Dede him Hipen tam, € lex monethes mo, pus pe ſtory fato. At Wyncheſtre in toumbe tn þe abbay íg he latu. pe Date pat certeyn es in boke writen here, Nouper more no, lefle, pan nten hundreth sere. Fter pis Aifride kom Edward pe olve, A Faire man he was & wis, ſtalworth € bolde. It London, at Saynt Poule's, toe he pe cronne, € purucicd his parlement of erie € baroufe. Ve {etd onto pam alle, pat purucied ſuld (t be, pat in alle pedond fuip be no king bot he, pe Edwardus primus Rex. 27 | pe ſmale kynges'of pe Jond all were pet comen, Df Scotland, of Wales, of Kombirlond, pei nomen —— Inglis: Danes, # pe gode Norreis; | Duke, eric € baron, € oper knyghtes curteis, | pet ſaid in pat pariement, porgh conſeile of alle, | pat Edward felle beſt be chefe, oper ſuld non falle. | Dw is Edward choſen kyng at per parlement, | 32 € pe lordichtp of pe lond alle tílle him went, | Fourtene chilbre he gate opon tuo wifes, Sex ſonnes € auht douhtres, po were faire lynes. | Athelſtan, Cowyn, Edgar, Edmond, Cored, Cows: . Dioec was his voubter, was kaid Hilden lady, . Elfled & ſapntEadburgh pat lyued holy life, pe ferth Octonian Mary pat Emperoure’s. wife. . pei paſſed of pis world, whan pet were 2ight songe, What per names were J kan telle no tonge. C Jn Edwarde's tend sere aryued vp in Kent — þrekynges € ſerdukes, pat out of Danmark went. | 3n toLyndſay broubt pei him tiyng, ie E purneied offe & dight him als a donhty kyng. At Teteford in Northfolk His baner was diſplaied, pe pre kynges were flayn, pe toper were affraied, | pat pet went to per fcbippeg, ſo hard heſette his chace, Edward had pe mailtri, € panked God his grace, Ye com neuer to batatle, pat he ne had pe maiſtrie, Foure f tuenty cere was he kyng, & porch no folie Neuer in jis lyne a fote of Lond he les. Scotland € Cumberland @ Wales he had in bes; : | W's Corns 28 Athelflanus Rex. Cornwaile, Apudlay € Kent, Dorſette © Surreis; i5 4 He ligges at Wyncheſtre,: pe ſoth it ia to fete. : pe vate of God nien hundreth, € four € tuentt mo, M Whan deve his Ain ſandred, be folk for "e was 00. Aelita SF ter, Edward dii is regned 3theiffan, ity ME e pat was his eldeſt ſonne, & a noble man. | be baronage & pe clergíc were ſomond to Kyngeſton, pet wes dis feft. holden, & gynen him pe croune. ee pe next sere pore after his cozonment, - | þe Walſh men, pat luf no yes, on him van € ‘wanes | Wot Jtheiſtan pe mailtrie wan, € did pam mercte erie, E alle Povthwales he ſet to treyage hic. | (& ucntí pounde of gold be Fere, pre hundreth of filuer clere, E per to fyue hundreth hte 41k gere to His lardere. - Siluer for Southwales not a ferping noke Ftiſunt qui per trenage be fette, a þouſand kie he toke. ei C pc ferth seve of pe regne Dwald a werrecure,. TE Abs, Conſtantin of Scotland kjng was ¢ traitoure, | regem. Duwer kyng of Wentland, pele pre with per powerc, _ Werred on” Ithelſtap with ofte fulle-aufters./ 1414 2 Wot Atheiſian, þorgh Gode's grace, ſowith pam fore, © pet were-fayn. to afk pes; € feaute pet him. ſyore; yo | pe tend Acre of his "un ſen be was "un Rpg, | At "PP ín hé d is becas men bím fond, AtheiGan did him byad both fote & bono, - | € katt him in tile T cinfe, whan tt was molt brym, 'To challife alle oper he. tok vengeance: on Him. | 5 | D. AM dod Athelanus Rex. 29 At mn tnberftanoyág he wild tak no mebe — patwasatcyntof wikkednes, His broper to Dede da c Conſtantyn of Scotlond, pat 3i are o£ ſpak,” Brak his feaute fone, of trefon it isla, Ny man nl Ae Galle folk of Danmark with Conttantyn yas; ^. Porum. € fioub ouz Jngltſh men, waſted toun € feld. : | TJthelſtan herd fay, he went to Benerlay, | Epraied to pe biſſhop Jon in Fertre per he 1a5, - | pat he wild beds his bone, vntiile pe Crinite, | € be ſuid gyuc big kirke franchiſe «fé, ^^ | To haf € to holde alg he was kyngleale, ^ — | Df him hat pet chartre telen with bis ſeals: | Sipen he went to Durham, €. gat Saynt Cutbert | Londes# lipess mith chartir aperte.: | pe bíftbop of his gift holnes his' fe, Siþen he went to bataile, Conftantyn ta (dc. Conſtantyn he reymed, € div onto ſtreſle;\ € wan pe 1ond íf& Dele, € waſted alle d dde a Js | € his fon golben onto his oftage. © | Wi Sipen be turned to London; q« his baronage. ' ‘ Miſn vex Athelſtan in Scotland'a ſelcouth ded He one, © ont pgp He {mote Depe at Donbaree, an » eme in uk dads + ffano pro | | | | | me 4 ſorore ſua uev at E Hilda. lege vour per totum. T be fcfte of our lady pe Iſtunipetoh, Went pe kyng fro London toward Abinvdon. pider ont of France fro Charles Byug of fame Com groupe of 25oloyn, Adulphus was his name, (d. Princeps nceps bujus legationis s fuit 1 | thelſwithe Guil. Malinsb. de geftis Adulphys, filius Baldewini Comitis | regum Anglorum; p. 28. lenáiie, ex filia. regis Edwardi E- E 5 j No non fo faire of face, of ſpech fo infiy, y ., Scho granted befor pam alle to Charles bir body, ' € fo did pe kyng, «alle pe baronage. Trerum de perjteratione vegis Scotto- rum, e de ' bello Da- corum, Athelltanus Rex. | E pe Dake of Burgoyn, Edmunde fonne, Reynere. | pe broubt kyng Athelfton preſent withouten pete, Fro Charles kyng ſanz faic pet broubt a gonfaynoun pat Saynt Morice tn bataíle befoz pe 1cgioun, € ſcharp lance pat thrilled Jheſu fide; E a fuerd of gold, in pe Hilte did men hide uo of po nayles, pat war pott 3befu fete Cached on pe crojce, þe blode pet out lete, E fom of pe thornes pat don were on his hened, E a fair pece pat of pe croyce lened, pat Saynt Heleyn fonne at pe bataile wan | Df pe Soudan of Aſkalone, his name was Mavan. €. pan blewe pe trumpes faile loud & full ſchille, pe kyng com in to pe halle, pat hardy was of wille. | | . pan {pak Beyner,Edmundeſonne, (for he was meflengere) “Atheittan, my lord pe gretes, Charles pat has no pere. “He ſendes pe pis pzcſent, & fais, he wille jim bynoe- **To be porh Five pé ſiſtere, € tille alle pt kynde. Wefor pe mellengers was pe. maiden brouht, | Df body fo gentílle was non in erth xoroubt. a Wykelie was pe vichelle, pei puructeo Hi paſſage; ? Eled hir vnto France, ſpouſed forto be, ^^ a Athelltan lenes ſtille, & palled not pe fe. 3n pe Sete after pat Five wedded was, Conſtantyn of Scotlond did sit more triſpas, ve He brouht pe kyng Tnlaf aryned vp in Vimbere, Seuen hundreth ſchippes a fiftene slo fele were pe numbere, Athelftan herd fay of per mykelle offe, Ye € Comunde hig broper Dight pam to pat cofic. at Bruneſburgh on Humber pet gan pam affatie, Fro morn onto even laffeil pat bataile. It pe laſt to per ſchippes þe kyng gan pam chace, Jlle away pet fled, pat was of Gode's gzace, Wot pe moſt partie algate was ſlayn, | pat with life fled J trowe pet were falle fayn. Chan pe kyng 3iniaf fanh his folk torn,” | He fled onto Danmark per pere he was born, At pe Walk after he ryued in pe South, | Sita hauen of Sandwich, in pe portis month, Whan he was aryged, pe folk was affray, | E com vuto Wyncheſltre per pe kyng lay. | He brouht with him a denelle, a hogge Geant, | Wele hat Se herd telle, he hight Colibrant, | Inlaf ſent meſſengers onto Itheiltan, E bad him Feld pe lond, or fynd a hoper man | REo kight with Colibrant, pat was his champion ; Who felle to haf þe lond, on pain it fuld be don, | IAtheiſtan tok a day, a parlement did make, If any ageyn Colibrant pe bataile dard take, ‘Be fond no man pat Durt, for non had myght, With Colibrant alone in bataíle to fight, pan prated Athelltan to Criſte € fore wepe, € "t4 tent Him iokenjng o on nyght als be flepe, | Athelflanus Rex. | MS Guo onde et Dd —— | » pat 32 Edmuadus Rex. pat ‘he ſuld fynd. a palmere orly at mori, It pe South sate, alone ag he was born, E if he wild prate him, for Jheſu Crifte’s lone, x De wtld do pe batatie, € pet fuld be abene, ree pat was Guy, of Werwik, as pe boke ſais. c» Coi. per he flouh Colibrant with yache Danets. bran. Aniaf turned agayn, J trowe him was wo, | Þe t alle his tofchippe gan pet go. God delyuezde Itheiſtan of many Hard affaies, Sertene sere was hekyng € feuentene Daics, Sipen at Giouceftre Dede cüclic him toke. Bot quik he ont went, fo ſais my boke. Pers can not fay where he lies, re Wot ag J herd telie 3 fay myn anys. Shel ,, Wen fay he was fonden in. pe North cuntre- regis, It Hexham now late, J/wenso foth tt be. Amo ye nate whan he died of God men tellig by. Domini. pccccmo. Nien hundreth cau € tulle erii * L9, Jlle pe Plorth,ende was in. His kepyng; « E alle pe South ende tílle Comande pet drouh.. Upon pe fale füorrcig Edmunde wan inouh, Fyuc cites he wan, pat pet held for pers, pat S nil was Pace Rte fro ‘gia vrito hetres, Edmundus Fter Itheifian- ie mee rane his snail "ne , penorthren vid him deſceit,” ©ches pana nopers - Due Awat pei ches, € crounedD. Hite fo? byng. | | |] 119438 3 4 rU; 8. i RENS E a Edredus Res, - 33 | Lycoln € Derby, e ' Southampton, 57777 005 | XLeyceftte € Stamford, pife fyue wan (oro, | € ptt pe kyng Andaf fo hard gan he chace, | pat he aſked Criftendom opon Gove's grace. | Wope he € iBevnato was Guthefride's' fonne, | 700 | Be extide pam out of þe North, per peí wild wonne; © | € caf to Malcolme,' yng of Scotlande, — INDY | pat he ſuld be him leale; bt fe & Bi fande,: He fifte Sere of His regis He went to Canterdirt,’ pe tette of S.'Anſtine, to hold: it falle myrf 7 3) thefe of His conrte was. ontlawed late, - * | pe byng knew. Him/ falle wele, he dete th in se — | Whilom he ſerued in.h6s panterie, | ; E was outlawed for wfeloníto ONES | pe kyng tok pid pantelere, € ffrangled! Him — d | € he wonded fe kyng vebely fulle ſore,” ^— 7o "e = De mirabill | Seuen gere was he kyng, © ſenen'monethis mo. 7 07- a |. Sit Glouceſtre is he 1aid, þe pantelere did him no | pe date was niſenHtindreth foupty € fenen. Ps oy | nho pi$ was pe ſelconthelt cas, pat haf herd nenen. Domini. verge 4: ehh eer FoI OP 2159 ask WE, Dceceste, at aaa es ne SECUN ea. IM on Dred after'Edmunde had pe coroune, — Wb us | A $757 EQUS Upon pe Paſt day, at London'tbune, — | OO rexyframeb Sipen of all his barons he tok feaute, ee is NEUEM | | Bot pe Northeren men held Hite no leaute, — 707707 1. Snotingabam (vel Notinges Chron. det Stafford Fro Stam= bam) aliis. Neque aliter quidem | ford habet Speedus, fecus atque Were Florentium quam & | auctores vett. : Cylrike 34 Edredus Rex. Edwy Rex. Cyirtke of Danmark for. kyng pet him ches, E forſoke Edrede, per weze pet les. Edrede with powere bntiile pe North went, Bile pe toun of Bipon. he waſted € brent. Northumberland was in affray for Cored comyng, pei did doun Cylrik pe Danes kyng, E went out of pe lond with bis raſcaile, - Was he not fo hardy at ſtand to bataile. - Jlle po Norrets, pat had bien ſo fikelle, Pes forto baue pct gloſed Him fulle mykelle, per londes e per rentes were at his wile, - He gaf S. Cuthbert perof, stt pet hold it fille. — Mile pe tegne holy was pat tyme in his hand, € erles € barons pat wer in pe land, - So wele were pet chaſtiſed, alle com tille his arith, - pat pe-pes of pe lond pe fikered him alle with. | . Auht sere was he kyng, his dates alle filled. pt At Wjncheſtre he lies, fo himſelf willed, -- Domini. pe date níen hundreth. fifty « fyue, roo Whan pat kyng Cored paſſed of pis iyue.. 4 LUE Edgarus — Fter Sir Edred was his broper Edwy, rex homo : ; ks Tantus, pa- He reſceyued pe croune of pe {eignory, ser Sancli So foole a man of his life. non was ſeene, Edwardi wh | Ta; marsyris, pe hie men of pe lond.confeild pam bítuene, - | To do doun Edwy at a parlement, E tille His broper Cogare gyf pe tenement. | S, Dons | | Edgarns Rex. 35 S. Donſtan pe biſhop was at his 7 coronment, - | & of alle bis anceftres xoag neuer better kyng. ° Ne He was bope gode e wys in alle his Ddedis, E right vnderſtandyng, to help at alle nedis, Mikille he wirſchiped God, e ſerued our Lady, pe abbey of Rumeye he feffed. richely, With rentes fulle gode € kirkes of pris, | He oto per in of Nunnes a hundreth ladies. | CEdgare forte fle ticbery of ipfe,. ^ His barons gat him confetle for to take a wyfe Elfled pe faire, pe duke's Douhter Ormere. He gate of bít S. Edward, pat ts pe martere. Dame Eifled died fone, sit wild helnf mare, He tok bittere Eftrild; Duke's donhter Drgare, Df hir logo Edgaz had {cho ſonnes tucye, Edmunve, pat in his tende sere at Peterburgh gan dete. Evired was pe songett, € Eftrild fulle dere, Wo was in his tyme, as se may after here, Edgar per fadez had alle Jngland, He went to Kerlton, pe Walſch men he band | With homage € feaute, in right € in lawe. Omnes ifl Kymak byng of Scotland, he com for fyne awe, fni ^ & Malcolme of Combirland was at his wille, — regi Ed- garo, Maccum kyng of pe Jles, Dufnald fits Dmere, Sifreth € Huwalle, Jacob & Juthille, He did bam mak fcaute, als right was & ſkille, Sipen he went aboute, kirkes by to raiſe, Jbbayes forto help, were fallen in miſeyſ ; 1, F. coronyng. e M— Ez we 36 Edwardus Rex e& martir. Ye gaf to Cronland, in pe Abbot tyme Gountere, . pre myle of ſeignozie, about bis antere. Anhten sere Edgar :regned kyng € fire, 9 © 4 Ye lies in tombe ín pe abbey of Glaſtenbize. raculo San- Ecce de mi- F Edgar pe hyng pus fond J writen; &i Edgari. | | JP Pers telies pe ſame ping,at his boke may se witen, Sen four-€ tuentt sere, pat be: én.ertl) was laid, In abbot of Glaſtebiri, Coward his name íg ſaid, Ye did mak a toumbe, .Edgar-in to lay; Wot it was ouer litelle,.in alle maner way. pet bra in tuo his. ſchankes, to, mak pe toumbe mete, þe blode was. bope warme € freſh, pat of pe ſchankes lete, pe abbot wer alle blpnb, pat did his, bones breke. pe biſhop Dwald herd. of. pat miracle ſpeke, | Ben at at pe toumbe, he tok vp þe.bones, | .- Jn a fertre pam laid a riche for pe nones. - pars pe date was nien hundreth fertt € prittene,, LXXIID. He was a holy man porgh miracle was fene. I Fter Edgare was Edward his fonnc, De Sanfty' à | Eawardo &%, Begnand'in alle pe ond, alg his faber was wonne. martire. D AA ai rtl is RE xod S. Dunſtan corouned him bifor pe baronage E oper bifthopes inouh, fulle zonge he was of age. I gode man he was, € ſtalworth knyght als ftcle. Jn Jngland neuer before was kyng Infco ſo wele, Ne of pe folk ſtrange non honourd fo mykelle, pe right lawes did he loke for falg men € fikelle. Bope | ? w Eilredus Rex. Bope riche € pouere he Zemed in euenhede, | nat | Non {uid Do oper wrong for couctife no Drede. » | Eſtrild his tepmoder {cho þouht on felonie. | Tille-wikked men {cho ſpak, Edward: to afpíe, - pet did alg fcho pam bad; # wrouht pam ſeluen woud, - It Korueſgate porgh deſceit Edward yng, pet ſloth. | pte seve was he byng; pe ftory pus me ſaid, — — | His body at Weſtmynſtere in featre is ít aid, - pe date was nien handreth fertt & fertene, — ^ pat was alle forwondzed," for his Dede com tene. | Q4 Kyngeſton pe firſt wouke of Map Com'S. Dunſtan, opon a Sonenday, E of alle pe lond eric € baroun,. To Etlred, Edgaz ſonne; bítaubt Him pe coroun. 'S, Dunttane hette him wele, in ſorow-his life to lede, - ‘Qin alle his life tik dele, of ſyegd he mot him drede, j S. Dunſtan tille him ſpak wrothfulle wordes of eye, | How pei of his month brak, liſten, J ſalle sow ſeye. *Eiixed,” ſaid Dunſtan, © pi broper Edward was flayn | | * porgh pi moder Eſtrid, per of {cho was tulle fayn. * For flauhter of pí broper has pou pe coroune, * WPele weld tt falle pounencr, pou has tt porh trefoune. | “pof alle Edgar pe gate, Eftrild pi moder ware, “Co pe reame has pou no right, bot porgh llauhter caze. | ** For pe inf of pe pt broper did ſcho fio, perfor pou & pine falle weld tt with wo. © Eſone after pi dates pe reame falle men fe , © Gouerned porgh aliens kynde, € cuermore fro pe. Cc Whan i» Ecce de morte ejus anno. pccccmo, LKXXVI°, Ecce eaque Sanélus Dun[lanus promifit Re- gi Eilredo. Eilredus co» ronatus eff. 638 Eilredus Rex. C Whan Dunkan had thus ſad, bifor alle pat were pore, E taken had his iene of barons icile ¢ more, Cilred pe. songe kyng toward London sede, # rede clonde in pe ſkie about Jngland gan fprede, So mykelle blobe (t rayned, pe erth weg alle 2ede, Sera be folk was affaieb; ¢ alle heny alg lede, mum sore € pe toper sere next of his cozonment, mentum. pe Danes bparyuco, Sonhamptone pet brent, E robbed Cornwatle, pe folk were alle anojed, pat with Norwais Kerlion was deſtroiev. pet com to London, € brent pe cite. Etlred € pe barons, pat were of his meyne, With pe erie of Herford held contck € fight, pat per heritage Defend pet ne myght. vM "t dis alle pis forow ¢ wo was tn pe gynnyng, dumior- Died S, Dunſtan, men herd pe angels fyng. mentum. & 3 . _ ———————————á -————————— -— ———ta— a————U "A Uſtyn € Godemunde,of Danmark dukes riche I : aryued in Southfolk & brent Splewiche, Yen + women floub, € robbed porgh pe lond, Tile pet com to Mideweite, cuntre non pet fond. IDith pe erie of Kent pet countred at Dedeweic, pe maiſtrie of him pet wan, pet dtd his folk alle dee. pe lertd & pe lewtd, pat wonned in pe South, | Sauh werte on ilk a fide, pei wer in pe woulfe's mouth. Ten pounde of gold bt Sere for pe pes pei gat To Juſty € Gudmund, pei tok alic riffe @ raf. To {chip pet turned ¢ went, € charged bam fulle wele, j Iryued ín Danmazk with robberic (lk a dele. 2 Jn Etlredus Rex. | 39 fà to Wales pat cofte went Eilred pítonfly, ^. Tercjum For to gadre him offe, if he mot/haf/maiſtrie, nu in pat tik tyme, as he to Wales went, ^ © Tuoontlandes kynges on pis iond hanens'hent. Siniaf of Norway, of Danmark kyng Snane, © © Jryued in pig lond, to many wer pet bane, pet oftes bope at ons vnto London nam, ~ pet toun was warned wele, € wiſt pat pet cam. Folk ínonl) redy was gadred, to þe cite ^ pet went egrely, € DID po kynges fle, y Fro London pet. were drynen, & com to Southampton. É w Wan € bette pet flonb, deſtroted pe contre Dont. ^ € (reb nyght nouht to ſtand pam ageyn, pa Sor pes he pam bifondt, tomyf pam a certeyn. | Summa. C Fyue pouſand pound of filner pe Danes Byng to tobe. Quart pe went to per ſchippes, & to Danmark' ſchoke. © atria € many of po Danes priuely were Left. E buſked Weſtward, forto robbe eft. Wilton had pei taken, Southampton alfo, " Cornwatle ¢ Wales bouwed pam onto. pe cuntre of Dorfeth, lond & tenement, Bile had pet waſted, fro Senerne onto Kent. © Circo on a found pe told of pat wo, Summa, Four € tuenti ponfand ponde he gaf away to go, © To hat pes in his lyue, pe 1ond no more ſchende. pe Danes tok pe filuer, to Danmark gan wende. Four 40 wei Mar € tuenti wynter lated pis tim rfeY ^ j Jf he had pes at enen; he had'non at mordw. —— De filiis Eilredi ree gis, E Eilredus Rex. For fo bette. S. Dunſtan, he fald alle His ipue »» | With werre his: ono welde, € with his ſnerd sryne. Now bag Eilred;nede of help E focoure, For boidenes he wild him bynd to fom berde in-boure. Fulle ſo frendes. he had, € fele. foog inowe,” Unto pe. Duke of. Normundie he went for to wouwe. He wedded be Dake’ 8 Doubter, faire Emame pe blaunche, pre bouwes of pam ſpronge; pe. ton eg holy braunche. | Edmunde 3renfioe was eldeſt of po pre, pe to high Coward, pe prid Aifrid hight he. C * porgh of Six Richard, duke of Movmundie, . Creo sede porgh.hisJond, pziuely to ſpie o s Cucrilbon pe Danes, € finertly bounde Dr fmyte, of per. bebes. , ay ag men pam founde. .; pus bao Cre. pelono at bis wille, . ; Bot pe duke died fonc, € pat felle Him, fulle. /3 pan was Eilred, ſocoure fone away went... yy € iping com to Danmark, pat he be Danes ſchent, Suane pe Danes byng perwith Had-enyy.., ,,, +, Co atyue on ingland. he dight his nauy. Whan he was, aryued, he fent fulle baldely /\-,, | MWelſengers to: € üreo, als tille- his enmy. . ll | pis was his meflage,, his Danes wild he cine | | Ageyn Him (n batatle, to renne # to renge. Cilred our kyng his help had he lorn OF pe duke of Normundie, pat Dede was beforn. 1. 1d eft, through aid of. — euam Eilredus Rex. ie Suane, pe Danes kyng, was of fo grete ſtrength, pat he deſtroied pis iond in brede € in length, Fyne wynter holy laſted pat werre, pat nener Etlred our kyng dart negh him nerve, Noiper bi Norþ no bt South com him neuer help. Wo was alle his comforth, of forow mot he Zelp. pritty þonſand pounde vnto Suane he ſent, | Pes to haf his lyne, E pet to Danmark went; Ow is kyng Suane went tille his cuntre, Etlred fent for Edrik to be his owen prine, | wil « KEY So tals a traptour in evt) was non ag he, - DE Lincoine he gafhim pat cuntre ſchire. pe duke ſaid vntoþe kyng, “Sir, 3 falle sow ſay, ** For to ſane sour lond wele, a fulle ſiker way, * Do mak þre-hundreth ſchippes opon pe fees koſte, *Tokepe pam of Nozweie € pe Danes ofte. *E if pe folk perin be trewe onto pe, ** Donte pe of non enmys, pat comes vp on pe. € pe fent to feke many a ſchip wright ... Toe toun of Sandwiche, pe uaute forto dight, Whan Corik ít wiſt, pat pe ſchippes wer redy, He ſent to Norwete his lettres priuely, é Unto pe kyng Aniaf, tille Jnglond to com. Inlaf € Sir Thurkille aryneo vp in pet nom. Aniaf € Thurkille arpued vp in Kent, 3e about pet robbed, € tok pat pet mot bent. pe folk of pecuntreto pis conſetle pei ches, To gytpatt four hundreth pounde, forto Ipne tn peg. Vol. I. F be At — Eiedus Rex. | pe Danes tok pat filuct; € turned eft ageyn, € voided pe cuntre, pe folk was falle feyn. C Bot in pe sere after, obowen Grimſby | Eft pet. gan aryue porgh ſonde priyely, i: 0 porgh fails Gorike, þat-pam pider Hated. | Lincolne € Lyndeſeie pet: ftroíco € waſted. fails Edrike went, pes with pam to make. — Fourtt þouſand/ pounde he: did pam tábe; ^ / pat non in alle pe cuntre more ſnld be piled, Bot euer was’ Etired fouly begiled. ^^ € Whan pe kyng wende, haf peg in His Ipue, Suane of Danmark at Sandwyche gan aryue, ee E broubt biber with him hts fonne, pat hight Knoute, pe folk vntille bumber to'Suane gan pet lonte. Alle was porgh Edrik; pat mykelle wag to blame. Pe was " Suri g — did — mykele pes ig d nd gs a Ye [com onto Gaynelburgh, of Suane forte halve, qu eue in pe North, Ucdred men Kaide, Forto lyne ét pes, € werre forto fle, - He com. onto Snane,E inap Hint fcaute, « E DE pe North Suane had a paztie, peSouth he deſired, fD(teg tille him his fonne faſt pet ative,” 17 1 tinoute went tope faórt), Suane: ida xi didi pan wag Ctlved (npe wolfe's mouth:”. Snane toward Dxenford Nilo oo € in pat ik toun Dto. be brie a-krie; |. pat alle pat him fciueo,. e ot. bis meyne. Xoate, Wan, woman echilde, ſaid: pet alio; forfare. i | | | - Kaſtels x» 4 Eilrédus Rex. 43 Bafigis fuio. ped bete Doun, kirkes fnio- pes brenn, | | | Bopecitez tounes, pat pe mot fe or ken, u OE petoun of iDyncheürcfcaute had he at xoti; = Stpen he went ts London, pat hated be fulle (le. -- pe bode com to pe kyng, pat ſotorned: per in, oi 9 19/0 pat pe kyng Suane pe toun wild-he/wyn.: | 3 Danes erie, with pekkurkille he hight,» De halp out kyng defend pe toun at His: myght;' yng Suane gaf aſſaut, pe walles to aſſaile, Wykelle folk he les, € tyut his; tranaile. Four € tuentt, pouſand ín Temſe-alle at: ones... Wer dronbled of Danes; pe Denelle djaf per bones, E. "m Stars 2 Jo 415335 $4 450 INARI: Uane turned fro London,;;alle-porgh felonie, € went to Wallyngford, to mak his maiſtrie. Stpen he sede to Bathe, € fette pe toun on fire, Ichelmare-tille Him felle, an Erle of Denenſchire, | | Ichelmare with feaute to Suane he him bonde, . | FzoWellis onto London alle,felle to. his honde, . Suanc toward Danmark ſped him tulle faſt, © Soltage of London, he had at pe lath. ., | Bik cried on oper, now is Suane kyng | Duer alle Jnglond, e €üreo has nopíng. — 'CEfired is fo reymed of His treforic, | | Bllredus - His wife E His childre he ſent to Normundie. | de dA pe bifthop of Londone be hight Str Jlphanie oo Norman- ak | man, . Led Edward E#Alfride, «Emme pat was ladie, obs Vulgo vocant Turkillum. | e | F2 Jn 44 Eilredus Rex. N pe wynter after Eilred went our pe fe Unto ! Nomundie, with his wife to be. Whan pe duke herd fay, pat Etired piver cam, With mykelle nobley ageyn Etired he nam. | Refceyned him curtaſly, € fat, ©1efe @ dere, ** Wy lond is at pt wille, tille pe ſocoure ts here.” — ais pe date a ponfand was, € mo bí fourty xere, po pat Etired € his childre fotorned with duke Richere. C Now comes Suane cft ageyn with Crifte’s maliſon, pe 1ond icío to taliage ſo mykelle on tlk a toun, pat notper erle no baron of alle per heritage MWyght not lyne per on, to gif per taltage. Trenage als he aſked of S. Edmande ping, pe corſaynt € pe kirke he thrette for to brennyng, —E bot he had his aſkyng, pe dono be ſuld deftroye. To Gayneſburgh he kald pe barons forto nove. He ſaid befor pam alle, of S. Edmunde's lonb Ye wild haf treuage, or brenne alle pat he fond, C Jlle was wele, tille euen after pe ſoupere He sede about, € plaied with po pat were Him acre. De faul) ont of pe firmament an armed knyght com doun, pat was S, Edmunde, crueile als a eon, Syuerd girded & lance in hand, pan gan Suane to crie, Non faul) bot he one, he ſaid, “now falle J' die, ** Help knyghtes, if zc may, J may no ferrer go, ** 3 ſe Edmunde with me wrope, J wote he wille me flo. De morte With pat word he felle Doun Dede as any ſtone, ee Kife € ſanle to Welle, € fleſch, blove € bone. 1, Sic, Now Eitredus Rex. ©. 45 | Dw ts Snane bebe, € wonnes with Sathanas, -- : $2 pe Danes ches Knonte to kyng of Danmark pat he was, EF Jnglond he ſeiſed for his fader conqueſt, — Grete taliage lato he peron bi Eſten & bi Welt. - pe folk wild not fuffre to be treywageres, | Wot fent after Exlred bí certeyn meſſengeres, | € prated him to com home, pe croune seme ¢ take, | þe Jordſchip of Knogte kjng wild pet alle forſake. | 4| €ürcb fent tille Jnglond Str Edward his fonne With his letter ſealed, & panbe wild he pam conne, | E bliþely tille Jnglond weld he com agayn, | FE he myght on pam trofte, pat pet were certayn. . Wille pe comons of pe jond with letter pam bond, € ilkon ſette his ſeale- perto with his own ono, pat if he wild com ageyn, pe lond forto were, - Nener more to Danes kyng faiþe ſuld pei bere. Whan he wit per wille, be Hied btoet ſuythe, pei refceyned him fulle faire, © were of him bipthe. With him alle, pet ſaid, ped wild lyue € pete Alle holy pedond, bot pet of Lyndſeie —Etired per lege lord Him pet alle forſoke, E per hede kyng Knout pet pan tole. peter | | Knoutun | regem, & | Dw riſes Eilred, € gadres ofte ſtark, © frerumre- | # chaces bjng Knonte in tile Danmark, ^ Smp Whan þeDanes were out, pat timbred Him his tenc, Lindeſeie he deſtroied quite alle bivene, — ^ | Jt was pam ſelf to wite, pet Jete of him fo lite. pc wrong was alle pairs, pekyng did bot right, | C Whan 46. DeEdmun- do Irenfide. Edrik in tile Danmark to Knoate fent. fpicg, Eilredus Rex. Edm. Irenſ; de Rex. C Whan pe kyng wende, yat. pes fulo forpe go, - pe fals Erle Edrik bigan eft a wo. ^ (n0 olde gentilie men Corik did fozfaze, pe ton hight Sigiferd, pe toper Sir Worgare, For couctiſe of per londes, e fetgnorte pat pet Heide E for pet were a partie fmyten th to ede, - be fais Corí& viv iede Sigiferde’s wife Unto Malmceſtre, Hir name was Aldife. Edmunde Jrenſide; Etlrede's ſonne, - 3 fat ener in pis iond fille wild. he wonne, Of pis ilk trefon be herd oft ſpeke, € of fais Corth fayn wild he him wreke. He toke Sigiferde's wife, withouten his faber lene, € wedded hiv at pe kirke, Edrik. forto greue. Whan he had Hiz wedded, be went alfo quik, . E oute of alic polondes he batt pe eric Edrik, DE alle pat tenement, pat bope pe brethres mare, pat longed. to Sigiferd, € to Sit Morkare, | Ow is Ettred our kyng fallen (n fcheneg, y PC lies atEneſham, his abbay it cg. Fro Donere vnto Wales pe folk tille him mekes, E pe crle Edrik he gadred mykelle pride," Knyghtes, & ſerganz on” Lyndeſay ſide, _ Forto\lo Edmunds þorgh tricherie, Wot Edmunde eg wele warned of his felonie. Cdinunde bimeslengers po erle he viffies, 4 or to ‘Dig eideft fonne Edmunde knyghtes gode he ſches, Ealredus: Rex: Edm: Irenfide Rex, «7 For to com tile Jnglond fone ſuld he allay, - df gen ve Aryued pat he ware of Sole pe tuelft day... Ax : Knoute bí his fonde Edrik ageyn grette vos ^ j (£o aryue he (uid fonde pe day pat He Him fette, o Dmen is Knonte to cuntre, toride he him haftig,; '- 9Dan € woman to. flo, he robbes € wattis. 5.4 us wii @ gode erie of Warwik was Don to pe ſnerd, -. - porgh pat fais Edrik, als he did Sigiferd. . . ^ aipand Etlred was ied to London, € feke gan per ie, Edmunde praíco him of help priyelp di ſpie... Londreies inow, com tile Edmunde, E waſtid alle & brent Leiceſtre alle bonn. . Bot þe fals Edrik did. his quaintiſe, - 231 pat Edmund with 3suoute mette tn non wyle, © Knoute € Corth pet ſeiſed porgh trefone PIT mo Detradi- Wokyngham € Bedford, pe toun of Duntjngtonc,. i y ncn Lincolne Notyngham, pe toure of Porthampton. Sipen went to Donkaſtre € vntille Alnerton, E alle Northumberland it was at per wille,,, . . Edmunde € pe erle Utred pat tyme held pam fille, | fo London vnto Eiired bathed. pet, per, mete, For bodword men dronh, be kyng ſuld fone Dele,” i 2H |. Whan Edrik wilt Edmond to London-wag gone, Vis londes & his tentes he feífcu. ett tkone,., | €üreo at London endid his life, HOI Aortuneſt .— Subte pritty wynter be regned with frite.. nut zd Nj EN pat tyme be Died in peyn € in wo, TOM Domini Fe date was a poufand E ſextene mo. ( i à C ES "Now 48 AInostus fatiu: eft rex An- glia. Knoutus Rex. Edm. Iren/ide Rex. | Ow ts Etlred bírícb, pat mykelle wo bade. | fas ef pe clergic € pe baronage ſamned at a reade, | Ecom to Southampton, & corouned Sir Knonte. | pe burgeis of London were xorope ¢ ftonte, | | E fato pet ſyid fond to felle Knoute's pride. Edmundus Vei corouned* for enuy Edmunde Jrenſide. Trenſide co» ronatus de pud Lone done, perof were pet paied alle pe North cuntre, | | pe com alle to London to mak him feaute. | | Knonte gadred him an offe, on Edmunde he ran, — | E Edmunde on him ageyn, as a douhty man, E tranailed fore Knonte, neuer He blanne, Whan wend haf left, Comunde btganne. Tuo sere pet werred with many tranaties, Jn po tuo seres were lex grete bataics. | Jn pe ſer batailes was many a man flayn. At pe lati pet acorded, pe lond was fulle fayn. Edmunde of pe Jond had pe haluendele, He regned bot tuo sere, no more his tyme felle, Mortuus eſt He lies at Glaſtenbire toumbed, as y wene, Edmundus Trenſide Anno, MO. XKVI11?, pe Date of Criſte a poufanb & mo bí aubtenc. Han God had don his wille of EdmundeJrenſide 0H Knonte onto London com with grete pride. He aſked pe barons ín bat parlement, If he ſchewed a ping, operwaies be ment: If Edmunde pe kyng, whan to acorde went, 3t he ſaned to his beyerg ofper iond or tenement, Jlkon ſaid, pat Comunvde pe kyng ; Spak no word per of, at ber fanbtüiyng. " | | *Wharfor pe barons granted him ilkone, Knoutus Rex. 49 Knoute to be corouned, ¢ haf it alone; 4d aW Dan Knoute had zeſceyued bope pe ſetgnorics, ere. Ye parted pe ond in foure parties, Knoutus Vile pe Wek cuntre him feluen be held, fas cache Sais Corik gaf he Lyndeſeie of Ayncolne pe fecto. Unto pe erle Thurkille he gal Eftangle, Northfolk € Southfolk, ficacie men Jangle, To pe crie Ugired Northumberland he toke, pe pes to mayntene pe fuore alle on pe boke. € pan tok kyng Knoute alle his Homages, pat cleymed to Hold of him per heritages. Edmunde had a fonné, &childre no mo, | porgb Edrike's conſeile Knoute did Him flo, € tok quene Emme € wedded bit to wife, Thorgh Edrike's conſeile, {cho ſcorted his life, (€ Knoute on a day bi his wife fatte, Y Df Edrike's trefon {cho warned him of bat, *Liſten me, lord Knoute, if it be pi wile, “ow he betrated my lord, e my foune fulle ile, . © Whilom Eilred my lord he Him bitraift to Sow, “€ my ſonne Edmunde þozgh trefon he flouh, “Gif he 2egne long Je ſalle haf pe fame, * Ye was never with no man, pat he ne did him ſchame. @ pe Byng one on pe morn went to London, His Sole forte bolo was his enchefon. - Anoute poubt on pat tale, pat bts wife Jim told, ... € fipen ateined rik þorgh treſon of old. 3Vol. I. (1 ES $0 | Knoutus Rex. pe fer.pe day of pe feft, no lenger it was, Edrik was hanged on” pe toure, for his triſpas. pan ſaid þe quene, “pat Edrik pe Giloure ** Pad not fully dome, pat felle to traytoure. **Traytours with runties ſuld men firſt dzawe, ‘fea Daine,” ſaid pe kyng, “ bot he falle haf pe law, ; ** bat his body falle hang in colde a ín dote, *Schame tille alle his kynd, bat it fees & wote. Knoutus Noute of his body gate fonnes pre, crag th Tuo bi tuo wifes, pe prid tn jolifte, ſuis, Bi pe fir had he Suane, he was eldef} broper. - i Emme, pe ſecond wife, Wardeknoute anoper. Harald he had geten on His playeng, Knoute lufed him beſt, he was His derlpng. Olaf ín Norwete regned fulle ſtonte, E bare Him ouer ſtrange to pe kyng Knoute, Knoute com with his kythe, pat kant was € kene, j E chaced him out of Norwete quyte € clene. pan was he kyng of Danmark, Jnglond & Morwete, Danmark was his heritage, he conquered pe toper tuete. Maicolme, pe Scottis kyng, pat tyme Died be, Mathithade his broper reſceyued pe regante. Knonte as for bis chefe he tok his homage, DE þe kyngdom of Jnglond he had pe heritage. Knoute vnderſtode wele, he mot not long lyue, Wis ſonnes in his 1pue his londes wtld he gyue. Suane gat he Norweie, (Dlaf he chaced oute) Danmark his heritage he gat tille Pardeknoute, E Haraldus Rex. He aſſigned Yarald to Jnglond, to had it in fee. pus he gat his londis tle his ſonnes pre. Senentene sege was he kyng porgh conqueſt defceit, Ft Weſtmynſtere he ligges in a toumbe purtreit. J pouſand was pe date @ ſex & pritty, Whan Knonte kyng Died, fo ſais pe ſtory. Iraid was curteys € firong, of body auenant, | To be per kyng & hede pe lond was wele ogrant, Hardknonte of Danmark payd not withalle, pat he ſuld bere pe coroune, for he was born thzalle, He gadred of Danes folk right inouh, E did him toward pe fe, « tílle pis lond dronh. Whan he was aryyed, he ſent to Harald, E ſaid, pat a baſtard no kyngdom ſuld bald, Wot if pat he it wan with fuerd or with lance Df tirant or of Sarazin, porgh douhtynes of chance. E if he wille pe lond zelo, € to pe pes cheſe, For he is my broper, he falle not alle leſe; 'E if He wille porgh bataile, per to wille I (tano, E batatle bituene vs wille not be ſemand. Harald was fulle, a lone day he toke, | & here what be barons pam bope wtid Joke, | C Under Southamptone was per aſſemble, | Df Harald € Hardknonte, what fu!b bituer pam be, For pet were breper, pc luf was more fenc, pe barons portiond pe lond cuen pam bituene, Harald tille his parte fuio haf alle pe Northende, E alle pe Southſide tille Harknout ſuld wende, | | FL Anno. M2, XXXVI?. Haraldus vex. Parliamen- tim fitum eft. 52 iia euoute Rea et Haraldus Rex. o pat tik Jokyng bopc pet conſent, in inf pet Departed, Yardknott TY went. 4 x f3 pat tyme, n Harald 0 e vedi held partie, Died pe Dake Boberd, pat regned in Morinundic. William was hizHeire, reſceyned pe heritage, "1 pat we balle þe baſtard, pat fette bs in fernage. | Richard was Roberd fader, pe duke pat died befor, +. Emme be quene his donhter, of pe toil was born. 216co € Edward, Darbbnonte pe prid, | pc tao firſt of Eilred, of Knonte Wardknoute tid. Fifred # Edward, pat of Eilred Kain, | Ther with duke Roberd, now ere pei with William, po childre tob to reve, to com vuto pis 1ond, To ſpeke with per moder, at Wynchetker pet bit fond, Aifrede was eivet, non mot His wille withhald, | To London he wild alle gate, to ſpcke with kyng Harald, | De obtczt- Bonwyn, an erie of Kent, met with ditto, cione Als fred fratris Bim € alle his feres vatille prifon pain ied. | diro Tf fom fatotc of per Hedes, of fot put out per ixene, "Tuer Ser hundzcth at Gudford vid Godwyn ſlo € pyne. Alfred he was led to be abbay of Elpng, | Wifor Godwyn himſcluen pet did hte izene ont prita. | He lyuco bot pre. daies, v Salo to God pe gatte, | {| be bode coit to his moder, ſcho did Edward in haſte iDcnoc to Mormundie, foz Drede of Alfred pyne, To William, bir broper fonne, was Edwarde' g koſyne. Edward told William of Alfred alle pe caſe, | io E-prated him of help, for he dred harder gafe, ^ — Ld | Haraldus Rex. $3 | € if he myght conquere Jnglond, pat was his ſperre, | | Edwazd fikerd him wele, to mak William His heyre, | & bonb fim with thrite, his ſeale hy nan perbt, | peingraii- GMBülíam bette Him wele, to help him fikerly. " ape c , . Haraldi. Dwdnelles Harald pe,?ng among his baronage, (tle Emme, Yardknonte's moder, he div a grete E outrage, | Dis broþez a fonie deſpite, Him ſelf vileyn TM | He chaced bir out of pe 1ond, & {cho went onto Flandres. | Unto pe crie Baldwyn, for ſcho was of his kynde. | He reſceyued hit fulle faire inouh, he Did Hir fynde | To brige in to Danmark, per Yardbnout was kyng. | Df Jnglond € of Flandres broubt men him tiping, How kyng Harald chaced his moder of lond. | What [kille he had E wht Derdknout served to fond, | Now' Hardwnont toward Flandres dightes him day bt day. pat tyme at Weſtmjnſtir Harald fore ſeke las, Mortansef Died € was per laid, als my boke me told. Haraldus. uti. Flarde-" Fyue zere was he kyng, € # lex € fifty old. knoutus ob« pe date of Criſte pan was a pouſand € fourtt, pam ae Harald for his treſpas sit (cllc a vilany, 2 Mo. L. ; N I9. | Ow is kyng Parald Dede, pat whtlom was fo ftoute, | N pe barons fent Flandres onto Harveknoute, € praied him com to lond spe coroune if he wild take, | FE he wild vnderitond, non oper Bing. wtld pet make. *F. IN (Mp. MP; XL9; | | Pd Ahan 34 Hardeknoutus Rex. Whan he witk per wille, be hatted him pider futpe. pet gaf him pe coroune, € were of -him fulle bliþe, | Ye fuvicd, how bt myght venge his mover Deſpite, - — Ye did Harald body Do Dratwe vp alſo tite, | E poagh pe podels it dronh, pat foule were + deppeſt, & fipen in to Temſe his body did he beſt. pat fiſchid inTemſe on pe nyght,whan pet per neites vp wond, pe body of Harald in anette pet fond. pet durſt it not forth ſchewe, for pe kyng wer pet fero. Som frendes he had, pat birted tt in Birke Ferd. Ca Arveknont Did charge pe lond in ſuilk treyuwage, Jas. pat noiþer erle no barone myght lyue for taliage. So pat alle pe comonalte had him ageyn herte, pat were to him fo fre, forpoubt it fore E ſmerte. Hardbnoute wer fulle wroth toward Godwyn of Kent For his broper Alfzed, pat he foul & fchent, E to pe bilſhop Alfrik, pat was his conſeilere. pet dred pe kyng folle ſore, for he was fulle auſtere. — pe cric had frendes, to acorde þet gat him pe weie. P T 7 pe erle was fulle quaynte, Did mak a riche galeie Siem With fourſcore armed knyghtes, in ſuit apparaille bight, pat fo riche armes was neuer ſene with fight. 74 & {1k knyght bare on his arme, be redy acounte, Jiſo mykelle brent gold, as ſextene vnce amounte. Withouten alle pis a hundreth knyghtcs he tobe. Befor pe byng & pe barons he ſuore on pe boe, E pat nener Jlfred his broper þozgh him was Dede, T | No biynfeld no flayn, bot porgh Yaralde's rede. Ss n n 5 ABíttiex pam + be meſſengers bropetulle wordes bras, Hardeknoutus Rex. pet ſaid he did inonh, pe erle alle vplift, | pe kyng forgaf his xorape, reſceyued hts gift. € Jn Saynt Edwarde's life tt fais, he was forfuorn. Bifor Edward htmſeif he ſtrangled € was torn. € 3 ſalle telle pat tale, or J ferrer go, How falſnes brewes bale with him, € many mo, Jn S, Edward tyme bc erie ſaid with him ete, 3 ſernitour per was, pat ſerged at pe inete, He ombled at a chance, € felle on his hnc, porgh pe toper ſchank he ros, « ſeryed tn His degre. * 3: 5a!" ſatd pe erle, “had pat ſchank ne bien, ** pou Had liggen per Mille, pe rifen fuld non bat fene. * God wote, faid pe king, fo (s it with me nouh, — ** & F had my broper Alfred, pat pou fioud, “bot 3| had ftombled porgh myn vnmayn, *He fuld haf bien my ſchank, E reiſed me agayn. ** pan hopes pou,” ſaid pe cric, *©þat for me was he Deve. ** J praye God if it wer fo 3| ftrangle of pis brede. € puttc a morſeilc in his mouth with pat 41k worde, Bifor pe kyng € pam alle He ſtrangled at pe borde. pe kyng biheld Him a Mound, © ſauh no repentance, He bad drawe away pat hound, God has taken vengeance. Dan Yarknout € pe erle wer at an aſſent, , porgh alle His lond pe kynghis ſonde ſent, / Forto reiſe pe treuage, pat on þe lond was fete, 'Paver € Thurfton to pat office were tette. pe folk of Wirceſtre ageyn pe treuage fpak, Paver Ty Narratio de v.ta Sanéli Ed- mardi, de comiteGode mino quali ser ftrangi~ latus. fiit propter fale ſum Juras mentum, " 56 Hardeknoutus Rex. Qader € Thurſton per hedes per pet left. pe kyng ' Wurd ſend oper to aſk treyage eft. pe &yng fone herd ſay, his meſſengers were flayn, Toward Wirceſtire he com with myght € mayn, € comanded all po, pat euer luteo Him wele, Alle Wireceſtreſchire ſpare it neuer a dele, Noiþer man no beſte, no manere ho no toun. pe cite of VBirceſtre pet brent euen Doun. Alle pct waſted quitely, € \louh pe folk fulle Zerne, Wot po pat fled with per godes to pe 2 fide of Seuerne, E pat wer ín pe (loe Duclicd per for D2ede,. Untille pe kyng turned, € his wrath ouer sede. Ficveni: CM Bight als Yazdeknout Had left alle pat folic, Fawards ^ com Edward, Eilred fonne, out of Normundic, ad curiam dun & ardeknoute’s broþer of His moder fide, 0nil. Right heyre of pe lond, porgh grace pat may betide. Edward was welcom tille Hazdeknoute pekyng, ibe bad Hts wille fuld be, als his in alle ping. Pere now of Yardeknoute, How he endid his life. 'Tille a duke of Danes he gaf his Douhter to wife. pe bridale wag Holden at pe maner of Lambithe. Ifter mete ín pe haule pe byng mad alle blithe. Jn alle his joy makyng, among pam ilkone, Ye felle Dede Doun colde ag any ſtone. pei bare Him to Wyncheſter, 4 biried Him pore. Guo sere € a half he regned, € no more. i. Alu Thurum vocant. Vide | brine fluminis ftam, que Beuereg Flor. Wig. pag. 403. ed. 4to. | muncupatur, confngerant : &c. Flo! 2 Civium vero mult;tudo in quan. | Wie. pen dam modicam inſulam, in medio Sa- Sancius Edwardus Rex. $7 | 3 pouſand was pe Date, € tuo € fourty, |J trowe it was for vengeance, he Died fo fobenij. n5 | Lle pe baronage at alk afterward, TE Coronado | Com to Wyncheſter to coroune byng Edward, d n His he pat had gode right onto pe. regalte, Jn Jnglond was non fo right heyze ag he. | Whan he had. regned fyc, € wele was aboue, —O— nt DE, NS as. Suane pe byng of Danmazk fent to him for louc, € praicd him for his nauy to help him with ſumm, | Bataile was gynen.tn pe ſe, ageyn pe kjng Magnum, | pat was kyng of Norweie, with wrong gan him trauaile. | Edward fent Him fifty ſchippes, to help at his bataile. For alle pe help pat he had, Magnus on him fo ran, | TE chaced away Suane, E Danmark on him wan, , . Bot pis tik Magnus 1yued per no longe. | Eft Suane, pe Danes kyng, his lond did vnderfonge, | & cft ontílle Edward Suane fent ageyn, | Eprated him bituex pam pe pes wer certcyn. | Edward him granted, opon fuilk a wiſe, | pat heuer pe Dangilde for nc non of bífe, | Sulo be chalenged for man of Danes lond, | € Suanc, kyng of Danmark, to pat conant him bond, | pus was pe pes granted with ſkrite on boþe ſides, | E pe Danes gilde forgyuen, pat neuer eft bitides, N pis Edwarde's tyme a riche crle pan wag, D&S pat hight Godwin of Kent, J red him ore in gag. Car e Haraldo - , 1/10 eins, i Vo]: T. H an / 58 Sanus Edwardus Rex. Þe hada ſonne Harald, heyre of his tenement” | Engle his wike he drofe away; «€ held in peyrment. Egyne, pat was an abbes, out of hir hous had AJaugre hire wille #hordom his life with bic lad,” — Ageynþ6kjng Edward, € of his to wynne, ot qo >, Godwyn þe Erle to werre wild bigpnne. © | Sk Harald 4 Lofwyn,” pile were his fonneg tueye, — Douhty knjghtes pei were, after falle we ſeye. Godwyn ſent for frendes, knyghtes he had inowe, pe kyng- was at Glonceftre, & þiderward pet Drowe. {Dhan Edward percevued, his herte was in findie, Wow pat werre bigan on Him fo fopanly. © ac - be king Kared his folk, on haſte alle pat he myght. —— pe erie tn his aſkyng Had no maner right. ; Wherfor pe tvic of Ba div Gowyn underſtand, To lene alle his werre, # take pe lawe of land. ** At London at pe benke ſrhewe per pin aſking; © Nile pat lawe wile, pow wpnnes it of pe kyng. | eo Dc byng com to London, with lawe to mote inbenke, WM), 929m ſauh ow pebynge’s five per was no gile, no wrenke s | | 3 E for he had þe trenth, on his fide were pe mo, & Godwyn pereeyuen wele, oi his ſide were bot fo. berfor Godwyn «€ His fro London went away, Þe ſtode butille no more, defante he mad pat Day. perfor was pe Dome gyuen porgh pe Jultiſe, To exile pe erie Godwyn, his fonneg & alle Hite. | Godwyn Santlus Edwardus Rest Godwyn went to Flandres, tuto pe eric BaldwyHn, —.—. 8t Writtow in tille Jreland ſchipped Harald € Lofwyn. = —— ee ee IE ED = E AN 4 C Whan pe erle was exiled, his ſonnes tille Jrland over, Willtam pe Pormant aryuco vp at Doner, Jn inf cin pes to ſpeke with Sir Edward. He had bien in his.courte,whan his happe wag more Hard. doc reſceyued him with joy, €with berte fulle glad, To fc pe lond about pe dube with him He lad, Whan he had ſotorned long, & was in wille to go, Bode giftes he him gaf, or pat, he went him fro. So pat alle of big were paied, of per parte. | | With joy alle-.ageyn ped went to Normundie,) C Thus Harald eLofwyn, pat out of lond were, pryucit, With grete ofte of Jrcland at Cheſtre vp aryucn:, Dorſeth-& Somerſeth pet robbed, € 0(0 WO, 4... oo DE knyghtes & fergans pet flouh prítty € tug.) .. - Whan pet eo fo vobbeb, pat pam poubt (nou, pei went ageyn to fcbig, & fatle bp oroub. ,., Toward pe South fide turned pet par flete, _pavfader €-pet o chance togider gan Acte. Godwyn, € his: fonnes at Sandwych hauen hent, Lettres tille bis frendes for. help about ſent, De focour € conſeile difouht pam mítonfip, |... DE many had He grante, fo aft for him mercy, . © CWhan pe yug wiſt, pat pei, hav taken land,,, T" For po barons he fent pat. were bís wele ear, " E for pe longe onclljng of barons in pe tay, vc Godwyn, pat non wiſt, aryucd in Surray. Hs pe 59 Willelmus, dux Nor- mannie,ue- nit in An- gliam ad Sanélum Edwardum Regem. 60 | | | De Regina Edith. Santius Edwardus Rex. be kyng alfo fuipeta batatle mad him gave. Goovwin he diffied, € alle pat with Him ware. Grete wer po parties, pat ferd in to pe fede. ^ €ivolf, biſſhop of Wath, pe peg mayntend € helde. Eldolf, pe gode biſſhop, com with his clergie, | E ſaid to kyng Edward, © Sire, we pe mercy cric “for pe erie Godwyn, pat wille zelo him to ye. ** His fonnes er at pt wtile, € alle pat with pant be. pe barons ſaid, ©* for pare fake, for bam pan praye we, * pate treſpas we vndertake opon alle our fee. E pe eric com him felf, mercy forto craue, © pe kyng, for his curteyſie, granted pam pes to dane, E gaf him ageyn bope rent & 1ond, a Harald € Lofwyn to pe pes pam bond. -- : Bot Suane, pare broper, pat died in Lumbardie, For he flouh his cofya, he fled porgh felonis, +. He went fo pe Holy dono, todo perfor penance, E dted per for colve tn Lumbardie 9 chance, — He kyng wedded a wife, pat Godwyn donhter was. “CC Scho fotorned at Romenete, for bit fader treſpas. (^ heerle biſouh pekyng, to tak hir home agepn. pe kyng granted pat ping, to mak peg alle pleyn. pe erle vnto pe kyng bare him fipen fo wele, & his fonnes bope tüle him war troſt als ſtele; Sithen in alle his courte were non fo wele-him with, bet halp him at pare myght to maynten pes € grith. lus Sancius Edwardus Rex. 61 | N pe Miffonday at Burgh in Joynpefecie - PD Com bode to pe kyng; € pus gam pet ſee, '- | . pat pe Duke Siward ? Had taken in his balic ' Wachog, pe Scottes kyng, pat wild, porgh traitourte, ‘Daf traifed Edward pe kyng, pat tn pe North was rife. ! perfor Wachog les pe reame € his life. © | Ye gaf ét to Malcolme, pat was of Cumberland. | borgh gift of Coward he ſeiſed it in His hand,” -- | Walcolme. mad homage tille Edward our kyng, | pat be & alle his age of Jngland ſaid: hold pat ping. Riffjn, kjng of Wales, pat {1k ſelf sere Griffynus 1 de W aliia. {Dag proued traítonre falg,e pat bouht he fulle dere. J. ym mo- "2 vit contra Myon pe tucift euen Gziffyn his Hede les, Fi exam To Gloucefter was ít broubt befor pe kyng at des, Regem. | Edward hada &ofyn in preſon at Dungaríe; — | Edinugnde, his broper forme, was per porgh.tricherte. | pe kyng ſent to frendes for him alle aboute, - | | For praier at pe laſt; pe chtive was laten oute. : | Home onto Jngiond pe childe tille Edward cam, | € for pat childe's luf forgeten was William... - -- | poubt he not of pe trouth, pat he to William plight, | For to mak him his-heyre, if he pe lond haf myght. | Nenezpeles to William he seid him weie his bone, | Df pig no more to fpcke, pe chtlde died right fone, | Jigar, an erie of 2 Kent, pat tyme extied was s. c | My boke fats with wrong, He did no treſpas. - 1, Vide Johan. Forduni Sco- | he was earl of Cheſter. See p. fichron. p. 396. 2. Others fay, | 121. of Mr. Thomas Ellis's pé © t 62 Sancius Edwardus Rex. He went in fo Wales to Oriffyn, Griffyn ſonne, ——. Harald — pefetno a werre als HDalfc men ez wonne. > 07 ipie C Whan Edward hard fay, he ſamned alle his oe, idis Harald, Godwyn fonne, 1ed pat bf pat coſte. At Berford in Males peofice per mette, E dight on bope parties (n bataties te ſette.-] - Harald This Jnglis biheld pe crie Pigare, pam forpoult tute ſore, pat he fuld pore misfare. pis waldpe Jnglis conſeile, if pet mot Algare fant, : For him pet fulo biſeke, pe kynge's pes to auc. © © pe 3nolig com to pe kyng, per he was in place, E ſpectally Harald, he had pe kynge's grace. "wy Ow pe erle Algare had pe kyng mercie, | E forgat Sir Griffyn alfo for-curteilie. - (Han pat kyng Edwazd wend to lyue in pes, - L Griffyn, kyng of Wales, eft He mad a veg. He com vnto Herford, #flonh pe bifthopLigere Spared #ttoiþer preſte no clerk, to dede alle zede in fere Kirkes € houſes brent, nonht pan wild he ſpare, per pe Inglis had bigged, he mad it walk € bare. '-- Pe yin C Malcoime of Scotland kyng . | | Dre was his hous on ihre, per StvMobert day, ——— 7 E brent Roberd to Debe, bh pat tt was Vay. ^ 33 Now (s; pe 3&omyn beo; his haires has alie torn, Ecce Da- William i ít forbede, de held bíeionbes beforn. | | nach, pic 4 141647 Ti Ow William Fs og fiajt: alic: es nas. JL Eto pe South is turned, als hyng pat wan pe pris. Tiþjnges.com Visi fulle ftoute, eu prete ofte + ‘fark; | 243p | With Harald € with Knoute, M hiis: tonius of Danmark, Were arjued in Humbere, € an ezle-/Turkille, With folk withouten nombere, pe Morrets felic pam ttile. ng i. Vide Dugdalit Baronag. ricos noftros, ahi fecus - atque 'fom. I. p.54- Lolandi Coll.vol. | nofter rem narrárunit. i IL. p. 380. aliofque etiam Hifto- y Coz Willelmus Congue ſtor Rex: 7s, Comen ts pe eric Edgar, with alle po of his bynde, - Sir Wolnoth he is par, þo with, þat he mot fynde.- Marleſuayn Turkille ſonne, € Suane a Doubty bnygbt, - Df Scorland Goſpatrik, with pam at alle his might... pe Normans. in pe South wer itt ſo grete affray, | Df kaſtels © of touns pet com out alle DAY: «yp To Fork ran tik a man, to reſcet tn. pat toun, pat no Danes man þe walles to breke Doun. | Str William Malet was wardeyn. of pecuntres, , . Sibrigh pe Gaunt was ſet with him to kepe pe fees. pife tuo broubt tiyng, pe wer comen bi þat colte, dan ur perfor William pe kyng did turne, ageyn his ofte, ds E ſuore a grete othe, pat he {uid neuer {pare "pe Noiper lefe no lothe northeren, what fo pet ware. C William turned ageyn, € held pat he had fuorn, "Alle mad he waſteyn, pattar, medow € korn, — © & flou) bope fancr ¢ fonne, women ete pet gon, - - ” Hors « hondes pet ete, vnnepis fhapeo non. i Whan be Danes herd, pat William Held his oth, | i pat be with pe Norreis fo fero, ſpared lefe no loth, " . Fullle quaintly pet fent to William meſſengers, “fy | Df pes pet mad prefent, to turne tikon per pers /' Jgeyn to Danmark go with his wille € his lege, i bat he ſuld no mo flo, ne pei ſuld him not grene. | Fee Da- ey th nachi. Ow ducltis William eft,fylle. bare mas many wone, | , DE gode men er non left, bot ſlayn er tione. Cierkes vnnepis pet icte, to kizke o lyue to go, | | Horſes € hondes pet cte for hunger «€ for wo, K 2 Grete 76 De Reli- quiis Santh Cuthbert, Sece at Porke. Willelmus Conqueſtor Rex. Grete fpnne did William, pat futik wo did wizke, So grete vengeance he nam of men of holy kirke, pat not did no wem, tille him ne no treſpas, - Fro sork vnto Durhem no wonyng ſtede was, * Nien sere, fats my bike, laſted fo grete ſorowe, be biſſhop clerkes tnke, par iyues forte borowe. Seynt Cutberte's bones of fertre toke pet out, With pam pet fled at ons in fere ſtedes about, pat vengeance burd be don, als tellis S, Edward, He ſanh in a viſion, pat vengeance ſuld falle hard Df preſtes € of clerkes, of princes of pc Jond, Df God ne of his werkes pet dred not pat pet fond. 1. Id quod etiam notat Jo- | epteszpns of porke enterpd thi annes Raftellus, five Raſtallus, | citye | and flewe mo than in Chronico fuo, ſupra a me tit. MP, Normans. Wut fom commemmorato, libro ſane rarif- | after kpng Wyllyam chatpl fimo, mihi vero (pro more fuo), them out | and Drone then perquam humaniter mutuo da- | to thepr ſchyppes and tobi to ab amiciflimo noftro Mur- | ſache diſpleaſure with th rato, cujus cum alibi, tum jam | tnhabptans of that proupnce ſupra etiam mentionem feci. Sic , that be diſtroped the land autem Raftellus : C Jiſo about from porke toDurham | on the. tit. perc of his [Wyllyam | tx. perc after it lay bnlaborp Conquerours ] rapne | Barz | and ontplled | anb the M rolde € Cauntus [Sic] ſonnes | pie there were Beat n har | to Suanus kyng of Den- | by the warte of the kynge in ſuche fampne that the marke enterpd into theNorth | E wee conntrep] and with the helpe | ete tattes | cattes | dogg of fome of the people of the | ano other vermpne, contrey and of ſome of the Sayt Willelmus Conqueftor Rex. 77 Aynt Cutberte's clerkes in Hidnes ener xede, — ItGeruans* ſet per merkes,a hous pe gan vpſpede. =it Northermore pet sed vntille Bethiyngton, * It Toghalle was pe prid, € per reſtid pam doun. þe ferth was holy Eland, þer þe ſe it withdrouh, pet zede om pe ſand, to pat Jive wele inonh. . Whan pet wer perinne, of non had pet Donte, pe flode bigan to gynne, & kloſed it abonte. Sipen dred pet no ping, of pete ne of feloun | at were with pe kyng, Norman no Burgoloun. þe kirke of Geruans pat ilk tyme was bzent, Durham þe ſame ſans, alle to fire went. © pe croice & pe rode, right as Critic vs bonht, T | Tille aſkes alle it cone, pe fire ſpared noubt. pe Normans did it alle in pe guyſe of theft, | pe godes perof (tal, no ping pet ne left, 'C Whan William vnderſtode, how his men ferd with alle, Df holy Kirke pe gode his ſerganz robbed € fal, "Be comandid alle hts, to mende pat treſpas, Jn alle maner wife, as it ore feffed was, E on he ſame afife ſerned € alowed Df alle pe franchiſe, pat it are was Dowed. Bot of pat wikkednes, pat men ſuld haf wroken, Was noiper more no leſle of per penance ſpoken. Reliquia pe bifthop brouh pe bones ageyn vnto pe fe, paris "i Tille Durhame's wones, per pei wer wont to be. ad Durham : ubi prius in EMEN REECE Ne opormomemanas ts feretro re- 1. Vide Sim. Dunelm. p. 199. & Leland. Coll. Vol. IT. p. 380. conduntur, Wil: Willelmus Conque/tor Rex. Jiltam pe Conqueronr changis his wikked T , Dut of his firft errour, regentis of big ile, 3 ^ & of his crneites be gynnes forto aſſuage, E gaf ageyn pofees, of whilk be toke | oftages. Goſpatrik-com tille hand, € left of his manage, € William Comberiand gaf him in heritage. Holpatrik sed. alle porgh, his dedis forto praiſe, | ^ pe kaſtelle of Bamborgh' pe wailes he did vpreiſe, Maicolme, pe Scottes kyng, perwith had envie, pat Golpatrit of ſaijk ping bare his ſtate fo dic, Dight him to Combirland, deſtroted about aywhare, Jikon he flonb at hand, per.godes away bate, | Many with him he ied, & did þam in feruage, — Jn Scottiand wag alle ſpred mykelle of pat lynage. € On pis Goſpatrik William gan affie, Ye dight alſo quik, € went Normundie. an | .. Walcolme in Kymberland dos pat he may tille ite,” Goſpatrik his wtiland lates him haf his wile. pre pouſand poundeMalcoime fent tilte Goſpatrik treforte, To William comyng pat went fuid. ſaffre his folie. . Litelle wend William of his trecherte, @ meſſage tille Him nam onto Normundie, A & cio William euerideje. of Malcoime robberte, Foz filuere pat he tobe ſaffred pe folk to die, Goſpatrik .did not wele, mayntend his partie. William alfo fuipe dight bim tille his naute. 1. F. oftage. Wilz Willelmus Conqueftor Rex. 79 Jlitam has baucu nomen, « is at Southampton. Willems ‘po pat with him er bomen, erit &nygbt & baron, nl Went tile Comberland fulle-ſutþe-opon haſte, pioniam. pe cuntre pat pet fant alle was wilde &xoaffe. 6 |: . faicolme fled beforn in mountayng © i play, He wend for nener moreMWilliam {aids comsagayn. : No more did Goſpatrik, pat did him pat-diſcett;!- Wot comen ts William quik, # ſckes pam fulle-ſtreit. Bt a fide of Scotland Maicoime flies fer tn, Wot William Malcolme fano in pe tot o£ Fbrenethyn. per is Malcolme taken, € solden to preſon, | Stluer was not forſaken was gtffen for his Tannſon. ^ Co take he bed tnouy; for at his wille -he-wag. j William to do his: prowe, forgaf alle His: tiere. 9palcointe with ſkrite-him bond, his hetres:of ve vest To bolo of Jngload for fecautc ¢ homage. »! : C Whan pe pes was lier; pe kyng turned? faite, Tutpe, Goſpatrtk pat ſuffred biker; be -reft bope- lone dtpe. : Cumberland him reft, his oper londesals;: 5503 7 — pe lif oucr mykelle- him left, for he was traitonr fals, Sipen to Durham went, pet he deſtroied þe ſee; - _ pe biſhop be bífoubt, S,Cutberte's bones toi fee, | — pe biſhop opned pe ſchryne, pe bones pet tp raiſed. — pe&yng wepte with bis ine, pat fight mykelle he praiſed, € filuer grete-plente-opon pe altere latd, ; ( pet franchiſe gat pam fre, pe whilk pat pet of ſaid. pe kaftelle dd he wirke of his trefore alle, & S, Cutberte's kirke cloſcd with a walle. | Sthen So \Sthen he bad pam tarne to cork, € per abide, Willelmus Conque tor Rex. : For per he wtld fotorne alle pe Whitſons tide. 3 Bt gotb did he crie, his pes ſaid holden be, De tribus monachis de Lyndfay. pat non Did-felonie bí land no bi fe. | Sipen he zeoc to London, pat cite fet to grith, E to pe jawe alle bondon tik man tn His kith: Chetfe juſtiſe he fatte, pe ſothe to atric, Forlefe no loth to lette pe right lawe to guye. 1 pe wronges to amend, & maynten pe right, Ageyn pe fals\defend, porgh Dome of Juſtiſe fight. . pre monkes of Lyndſay sede to feke wonyng. . «pel firſt dan Jidwyn, pe toper Elwyn hight he, T. tyme pat 3 of ſay of William pe kyng,"/! - > pe pato hight Reynfride, pus told my boke to me. —— Hughe le fts Galdre, of Sork be was Schirne, . © Be refceyued alle pre, & bebero pam bilene. © After pet fotornyng, whan pat pet ſuld wende, | | He praicd pam of alle ping, as gentille men ehende, To hafifaf condite, onto pe New Kaſſelle, >... E Bugh did as He hight; 1ed pam faucip welle. Fro pe New Kaſteile vnto Geruans pet seve, per duelled pet non feel, to Durhain gan pam fpe. Fdificave- C Whan pet to Durham com to pe biſſhop Waltere, runt eccle- fiam. er claufirum de Durham. per pet bigan a home of religiouſe manere. 3 cloſtez pet bigan, pe biſſhop po pat wrought, Wired ilk a man, 4 alle paied € bought. Dr it wer alle ent pe werke pat pet did wirke, pet ordeynd a conent, to miniſtre in pat Birke. n^ Willelmus Normannus Baſtard. “Help Lady,” fato Waltere, ‘of pe pan is pis houſe - **pat are was prouendere, now-is religtoulſe, + Cosorke pe com ageyn, € wrouht per worſchiply Cloiſtre with conent pleyn a Birk of- out Lady. C Whan it was wronht tille ende, pe monkes alle pre To Whitby gan wende, pat ſtandis- oi pe ſee, per wirke pet wild an abbeyewele to, preife In wirſchip of Saynt Heive, a birbe pet did vp reiſe. pas wrouht pife monke pre, port pe holy gotte, Ibbayes in fere cuntre, pat wikked men did waſte, € manya gode man to holp iif did calle, pat porgh pe lawe paien men left & icte Donn falle. | € London is William, at Lundreig takes leue, A 'To pe parlement he nam at Paris to Lowis: cheue.. pe duze pers of France were pat tyme at Parys; ' To William felle par chance, he mad'conqueſt of. "Wh pe toun wan of Cerwenne, the caltelle of WMalbigs,; - Vis aunceſtrie whilom when cft tt porgh' folig,) 103154 | Whan William with pe lawe had feifen pleyneriyy! oo) Sipen he gan him drawe roward Normundy, pe lond to'vilite, € to comfort Hts frehdes; — atten. Dc reftid bot a lite, a fonde pe Inglis him fendes,. 4 pe ezle of Surrey fent Hacon Yenry ſonne, wage? ; 'He to William went, & prated him sit eftſonne., a - Go com tile Jnglond, or cis alle he; iclis, "Endo: _ cU ^ Ageyn htm wille men ſtond, € partie tille him chcſis, | qu liam wag in wehere, whan be herd pat tiping, |." $n his auhtend ere, als he regned kyng, 1 Vol. I x; At 8r "dificatur abbatia beate Ma» . vie apud Eboracum. LEaificaves runt clau- ' ſirum de Whiteby, Rex venit ad parlia- mentum a= n Parys, M | 82 Jillelmus Normannus Baſtard. Ht Wpnceheftre he held his parlement i1k sere, € per men him telo, who was his aduerſere, Df Morthfolk pe eric © Roger, men fato of him trefon, For prater or for pere pet DID him in priſon, Unto pe Mazche gan long an erie, Woinot he hight, þe kyng with mykelle wrong did him flo pat bnyght. Abowen Wyncheſtere was (chewed tille alle pat pet ware, Tolewed men € lerid, to kirke as pet him bare, Miracle faire myrie, whan pet tato him in pitte. William of Malmeſbirie witnes it in his writte. Df Durham biſſhop Waltere was finyten porgh | á with a lance. Quomodo ^e Gatetheued (t was, & po pat ſuld be ſchent Epifcopus 5 eren po did pat trepas, Sir Liolfe's kynde of Kent, € pe eric dLéolt was flayn, for pe biſſhop dede. My boke fats certayn, pat he gaf neuer pat rede. perfor kyng Willam did fleme alle pat kynde, pat landes fro pam. nam, pat men mot knowe € fynde. - S's in his prio sere he teilis per of a chance, Ss in bis ferpe sere he went tille Jluerton, | No man wend in erpe Drede of no felon. 1. His name was Ralph. But j the. x. verc of Hs raygne | his Confederate, the Earl of | Rogez eric of Yarforde | and. Hereford's Name! was Roger. | Rafe eric of Northfolke See Dugdale’s Baronage, .p. 67, fledde | and were outlaude | 68. This Affair is thus touch'd | & the erle xvalreffe was bez upon. by John Raftall, dn his | beopv. T moſt rare Chronicle: 'C About On Willelmus Normannus Baſtard. 83 Mn warned him of a þing,þat Malcolme with poyfoun, Schuild begtie pe kyng, with fom pat luted treſoun. IDilliam ſent his fond His cloeft ſonne Roberd, If he mot vnderſtond, or any ſutlk of herd, RKoberd about did ſpte, tf Malcolme wild bat wronht. Bot alle ít was a lic, pat ping was neuer poudt. Jn his auhtend sere pat William was regnand, Extendere €xtendours be fette forto extend pe land, 5 om Eridam «€ baroníc how mykelle felle to pe {chelde, vifi terras fiiis fuis. Knyght € ſergeancie als how mykelle pet helde. How mykelle dono € rent holy Kirke_had to a prowe, Alle pet did extend to witte pe verrey valowe, E William wiſt of alle, what it ſuld amounte, Df lorbyng € of thzaile pe extente porgh aconnte, C Koberd Covurthoſe his ſonne be gaf all Normundie, To hold, ag it was wonne, als heyre of anceftrie. - William pad pe fe, per of he mad pe ſbrite, Df France to hold pat fe of oper, tenement alle quite. . C Bis oper fonne William Jnglond a(figneb he, .. Ealle pat of him cam with chartre mad he fre. His fonne Yenry was fire of Wales with chartre firette, | Df alic Loncaftre ſchize vntille Bromſthneite. C Ide his douhter dere, he lufed bír als his life, pe etie of Pleſance Stenene weddid bít to wife, € kyng Steven on hir gate, pat withouten reſon Df pis lond had þe ſtate, F conquered þe coroun, - «| Pts douhter Cuftance was wedded to Bretayn, With William's ordenance, onto be eric Alayn. joa) Tyo 84 Sepultus eſt in Kame Anno Domini. MY Txxx. VIII. Willelmus Normannus Baſtard. (uo sere & ahalfhe duclied in Normundte, € in pat lond ſelf ati hame gan he die. At Saynt Stenen's kirke pet laid him with honoure Dímfelt ded (t wirke, ye was pat * fondoure, Tuenty sere had he pe land € nien moneth ſreite, pe date was a pouſand & fonrſcoze « aubte. — A diea 39. Sont ansa OE and 33575 to 2 1.This king, in remembrance of the great Victory he had ob- tain’d over Harold (by which he got Poffeflion of England) founded. the, great Abbey of Battel in Suffex. But then that, | wanne tbe fploc agapnſt Da- for which I am chiefly obliged to make thisNote,is, his found- | meſepe tn Southwarke befpde ing the Cluniack Abbey of Bermondſep in Surrey, if we may give any credit to John Raſtall's Chronicle, which is a moft rare Book (as I have. be- | fore noted) and was written by alearned Man (tho’ a Printer, for Printers them were Men of | Learning) whohad married E- lizabeth, ‘the Sifter of Sir Tho- mas More,which was of no finall Advantage to him in the Hifto- ry of our Englifh Affairs. The Words in Raftall are theſe. 'C[ ed. it, other abbapes in Nor- by the learned Dr. Tanner. A Nore (faith the Dry Pref. to his mples, Jn his tyme ye kept j {pd the Deuke of Normandy the englpſſhemen fo lowe | | to Conquer England; under that fewe of them bare anp | pretence of penance cauſpd offyce of honour or rule { | bim to give muche Lands to Ibbpes, Not. Mon. p. 42.) annexed to an ; old MS. book of Ecclefiaflical Con- — This voplpam made the | /timrions in rhe Bodleian Livrary | newe fore inBanphpre and | [ Inter MSS. junian. 121.] deffres — therfore caſt Downe dpners |» to note the ſipght of tbe. — churches b» tbe ſpace of. eer, | Pope, that when he hadcau= but ſomwhat bc fauored the | citpe of London. Aifo he © buploed twoabbapes in En= © glande | that ts to fap the abbape of Wattell | where he © rolde and the abbap of Bar= - London | and alls he bupld= — mandpe. Which Words will | give fomeConfirmation to what | is aſſerted by thoſe, that tell us, | that’ William the Conqueror | built many abbyes of the order — of Cluny; | in relation to which | there is thisNote in aMS.in the. | Bodleian Library, as is obferv'd | Willelmus Rufus Rex. ek Dc conquerour íg laid at Kame Dede (m granc, 7/illelmus pe Courthole befor fato Normundie-falle aue. — Rufus coro- natus eft To William pe rede kyng is gyacn pecoronn, ped jio monalte= At Weſtmynſtere tok he ryng tw pe abbay of Londoun. rium, iban he had alle plenerly ſeiſyn of pe 1ond, ^ pe barons € pe clergy ageyns him he fond. pis was pare comon ſawe in burgh € cite, “be Courthole with pe lawe ſuld pare lord be. *He is broper eldeſt, pe coroun falle he bere. “Me is of body beſt, pe reame forto were. What Dío pe arcte lordynges, erles € barounes e Kaſtels € oper pinges ſctfed, maners Et tounes. pe kyng had fulle grete þonht, his reame ageyn Him ros, Frendes faſt he ſouht, to venge him on his fos. bis forow € pis drede laſtid him pre sere. | ^ DE pes ne might he ſpede, bot euer in per Dangere. - His frendes gan Him reve, to go to pe kjng of France, Co confcile him in pis nede, to abate pat diſtance. For pis kyng William dight Him onto ſchip, Wis frendis with him nam onto kyng Philip. © [ Unto yng Philip he fchewed (ha dele, | - ow His barons gan kip ageyn him did not wele, 4 Suff. and Selby in Com. Ebor. and plde many of tbe Order of | thePriory of Hitchinbroke in Com. Juny, becauſe Pope Gregory ! Hunt. and the Alien-Priovies of IL was a monk of Cluny. | Frampton iz Com. Dorf. Paunt- ho’ £ cannot. find (continues the | feld ia Com. Etlex, Derehirft in ^.) that ever he founded any of - (m, Gloc. Andover im Com, / ve Order, yet he built and endowed | Hantl. and Stayning in Com, ve greas _Abbies of Battel Com | Suff, lbbpes, and that Deuke dpd < berfor € $6 Willelmus Rufus Rex. ** perfor J am comen, to wite at sow our heued, x ** pe londes pat we haf nomen,to whom pe ſalle be ſued *Eat gout jugement J will ſtand € do, * With pi pat it be ent pe Grif bítuen vs tuo. Philip fato bliþely, & ſent his meſſengers | Tille Jnglond to þe clergy, erles, barons per. pers, — E aſkid if pet wild ſtand to per lokyng. be duke Boberd fulfilled, fo Did William pe kyng. þe barons wrote agejn, at His demyng pet ches, pet held his dome certeyn, for he was prince of pes. Philip was fulle wigs, with {crite he bond pam bope. He fatd pan His avis, “bifle € be not wrope. It pe firlt pet kiſte, as frendes felle to be. ** Df sour fader biqueſte, dome pan ſalle xe ſe, Doun pet ſat on” benke, among pe duze pers. T Philip gan him ' thnke, € ſaid of pis maners. Ecce diſcuſ- q “ William pe Conquerour his anceſtres & he fro facta eft coram Phi- lippo inter Willelmum Rufum cx Robertum fratrem e- 15, ducem JNVorman- nie. “Weld with grete honour Normundie én fe ** OF alle kynges of France, & ſo did he of me, “for alle oper diſtance, with homage « (caute, “Bile Jnglond he wan þozgh bis vaſlalage, | * € Wazald kyng ouer ran, pat Did William outrage. | | ** berto had he no right, no non of his lynage. | *pat William wan with myght is told non heritage. — | © We fe alle Day in place ping pat a man wynnes, j * Jt ts tolo purchace, whedir he ít hold or tupnnes. 1 **E bat comes of grace or of conqueſt bigpnnes, fe may, tille he has ſpace, gif it withouten ſpnnes. T it 1 ** Yer! Willelmus Rufus Rex. 87 * Beritage pat Iynes € lenes to pe eldeſt ſonne, © Purchaced ping men gyues, woman weddyng to mone, ** Ortille a man is ſtrange for his feruife oftfone. *Heritage falle men not change on purchace wile to wone. ** Boberd, porgh our aſſent, pe heritage to pe lies, * & pou, William, falle hent pe parchace at our avis. ** pus sour fader sow fette, als man of lawe was wig, ** Dis Dede ne wille we lette, be pe martir Saynt Denys. C Whan Roberd ſanh € witt, how pe conſetle sede, To pe holy land him lift, « pider gan Him (pede. . Whan he com at Marſille, € ouer pe fe {aid wend, Philip faub his wille, « after him gan ſend, pe bode was ſent to rape, pe meſſenger com onerfone, -. For ſoth (t was gret ſkathe, his paſſage was fo2done.. - He rede kyng Willſam Celle a faire chance, © To Sapnt Poule's he cam, withouten grenance, For erles € barons bí fond he for ſent, E alle at his ſomons to parlement went, He {chewed on € oper, pat bated wag pe ſtrife Wituer him € Roberd, & were in luf of life, With chartre wele wreten a felto certeyn, E wele ít was to witen no chalange ageyn, Wherfor he pam hight, if pet to inf wild drawe, pe coroune at his myght to maynten with lawe, | Robertus E pat he fo ſuld pe barons Had affiance, nies j : app icut IR Dis kaftels pet him solde, with alle pe purtenance. Angliam Jn pe sere folowand, at pe ſomere's tide, | raat BoberdD com to pigiand, at Douer gan vp ride. fratri ſuo yal à; Whan Wilelmo, oo. Hen. I. The Book being, as [ ' have before noted, extremely * ſcarce, I ſhall give the Pailage at ., large from Mr. Murray's Copy, Willelmus Rufus Rex. MWDhan herd ſay with laf, tille him he ſped, E with arcte noblay tille London Him led. ee | With in po auht.daies com William pis tiping, - pe North had fele affraics, porgh pe Scottis kyng, | pe cuntre gan affaile, pe folk forto ſchende, | | Roberd gaf him confaíle, þider famen to wende. | — | With pider. pet ferd William @ Roberd. Malcolme, whan he it herd, fled for ferd, E William toke him pere, His folk flou) 116 man, E als pet were fleand onto Louthian, jd So ferd thet him found, pet cbliged pam to-gyue, 9 | Fourtt pouland pound, at his pes to 1yue. Dpon pat he {nore, to Hold of Him his fe, oou (d E or William forc, tok homage € (caute. To London William turnes, & had alle his wille, E Malcoime ſoiornes in Scotland with (le. - rn | Whan he was at London, a hanule ' He did vp wright, 3 Firſt þonht & founden, for chambre was ít right. 1. Concerning which I find | von |-that blewe Downe. | a very remarkable; Paſſage in pf. howles and the» vote Raftal's Chronicle, | together. Bowe churche | € opo. grei with a Note about the firſt | hyrte in wyncheſter and 1 coming of the |" Ciſtercian | dpuers other places. 3n thi Monks into England, which o- ryme-alſs the welchemen/21 thers refer to the Reign of King | bellpd | but thep were ful daed E thepr duke or kpn called “Wyle was" flayt whiche was. eccompted. th laſt kynge of wales. Aft ee hi eam ame pt € The. titi. pere of higrapne | that Malcolpn beng of Sco: | a gecat wpnde, was in dLon- | tes .rebelipd and came. ‘tn ne Willelmus Rufus Rex. 89 Dbezd leuc has taken, e went to Normundie, prove, 3 (Co Wales ts William fcbaben, eftres to fpte.. ix Nor- Bt fel'e in tyme of pe sere, at Saynt Brice feſte, "© pat he had regned here nyen sere at pe mette, the kyng of Engiands with | newe halle that is nowe. For Scottes his retenews | | the armes that appere in the flayn whome one Bo- | halle that nowe ts aſwell in bert. erle of | the ſtone worke as’ in the Nozthamberlande incontet= | tymber wozke | be the armes pd | € there the kyng Mal- | whiche kpng Bycharde the colpn was flapne | and bp | ſeconde gane | which be. ttt. the apde of kyng wpliyam | Lyons with the flour. delpce Edgare his ſon was made quarterly | € the whpte. hart hpnge of Scotlande. C Az | for his badge. For there was bout this tyme the order of | neuer kpng of Englande that Cyſteaux was fyrſt- brought | bare thearmes of Fraunce |. into Englande | by one xoa- | whiche be the flour delyce | ter Eſpeke that founded the | before kyng Edwarde the: fyrſt Abbey of that religyon | thyzve | for in his tyme the at Bynall. C This kypnge | armes of Fraunce was fyrſt wpllpam was a berp couetousg toyned to the azmes of Eng2 man | a proude & axopifall | | lande. wherfore it hui feme and pplied bothe the ſpery= | enpdently that weſtmyſlter tualte € temperalte | with | yalle that is nowe | was nat Teipnae of Byſſhoprykes | | vpide in the tyme of kpnge \ Abbeys | & benefpces | and wyllpam Rafus | except it _ leupenge vureſonable tares & | were onelp the. foundacyon , rybutes on the temperalte | | therof | or els it was the fpecially by the onelp coun- | halle in weſtmpltez abone fell of one Banulphe hyspro- | the flepres | which is nowe Curatour. whiche ryches the | called the whpte halle. Stowe Bynge opo fpende vpon the | tells us (in his Survey of Lon- €owre of London | € ſome | don, p. 521. Ed. fol. 1633.) fap vpon the makpnge of | that this Hall was repaired by , weſtinyſter halle: bat pf that | K. Rich. IL. which will recon- | fapenge be trewe of weſtmy- | cile what is obferv'd by Raſtall | fle» halle | it muſt be ſome | about the Arms. olde halle there | E nat the | Vol. I. \ er ce eee, (SED = LEES IE EEE A ED De eEIAiDEeneDS nn onus EER Danes en E — — rs — UU Ut M Bog 90 De contu- melia Scot- torum code dominio & poteftate Anglia. Willelmus Rufus Rex. Ros in Porthumberiand ſuilk a forow hard,\* oo 1 Malcolcolnie sede redband, & his fone Edward. — d bat herd an erle Boberd, he zared him to bataile With Malcolme e Edward, he gan pain aſſaile. | "opat bataile was hard, fo men has no frith,” | Slayn was pat coward, € his fonne him with, @ pe folk that aſcaped on Malcolme fide, "To Scotland pam 2aped, € pupliſed tt fuic wide. pet mad pariement, € toke pam to rede. Walcolme to God was went, © Edward his fonne Debe, "& corouned Dufnald, Sir Malcolme bropet.. . His ſonnes pet newald, pe ton no pe toper. @ DE Malcolme pat” man left tuo ſonnes ware, be ton hight Dunkan, pe tober Edgare. CU ”y " Dunkan faut) His cam had his heritage, s iyd per he wilt bote of beaitt, he went pat viage Fd ; \ToWilliam pe redekyng, per he was .ín Wales. ſh What tid of pat ping, he tolo him alle pe tales. ' 77^ “Oyu heritage 3 crave of pe, pat is my heued. 0. _ << Help me it to haue; pat Dufnalo has me rened. — ^ T: "With ferite vuto William Sir Duikai bim bond, he € to pe heirs pat of Him cam, for be coroune of Scotlond. "Inglis € Normans pekyng did ſomoune; | To wend with Str Dunkan, € Do Dufnald doune, E ſeiſe Dynkan per in, ais heyr of Heritage, | 'To hold € alle his kjn of Jnglond for homage. Whan corouneb was Dunkan, € pe feſt ent, Jnglis « Norman to kyng William went. EC STC. T P on | a (4 Dub Willelmus Rufus Rex. st Dufnald, pat is put oute, alle about wendes In fele ſtedes aboute, € gadres his frendes, E conſeiled with pam pis cag, pat alle fai pet go, | & fpie where pe hyng was, Dunkan ff he mot flo. Slayn haf pet Dunkan, € eft corouned Dufnaln, Def king William wild pei no morehald, C pe kyng was in affray, he myght not tent. petto | With Roberd pe Moubray, hts coroune he wild for do, Contumelia Boberd wild haf reft. William alle His right, Mg ot. pe coroune his koſyn left, & gif it him porgh myght. pi William is war of pis, porgh for Roberd he pretis, — "roy. E takes him maugre his, his baftelle doun betis. Better were Boberd, in pes haf holden him ftille, pan layn in priſon ſperd, € at bis fomen wille. - Jn Wpndeſonere is he lened, ſorow pan is his pyne, 3 pat be wis ouct his hened, pe chip. falles in bts ine. C pe next gere per bi William to Wales went, | --,þe Walſch men dtd folí, his lond robbed & brent. ; perfor William ne wold vnnepis lene on o Iyne, pat bope song & old alle sede to pe kryne. | Neuer bífor in Wales was don fo grete grtue, 25t Dounes F bi Dales, par folk at ſuilk miſchene. | Sen pis greuance hard, pe flanhter € pe drede, . Fulle fone afterward pebyng to Sork seve. b piber com Edgar, was Malcoime ſonne, — — E Sir Dunkan broper, pat flayn was porgh trefonne, — € ſchewed to Willtam, pat beyre be was of kynde, Df DYalcoime be kam, rightea falle non fpnve, M 2 “Wher 92 De ingrati- ^nt >> leimi. Willelmus Rufus Rex. * Wherfor J sow biſeks, help me pe lond to hane, | ** € J with wille fullemeke sour ſeruiſe falle J ſane. — — | William vnderſtode, þat he ſaid refon, E was next of blode, ¢ Dufnald did treſon. He dight an ofte fulle toute with Edgar forto Icue, iDufnalo to dryne onte, or his bene Him reue. Cuftace of Ferers pat ofte ſaid guye, DF Scotland pet Him brouht, Dufnald forto ſpie, € fcifco Edgar in alle, as right was pesto. To William for pe regalle he did pat he ſuld do, Edgar € his peres pe chaced day bi day, Df Scotland pei Him brouht for euer, & drof away. Edgar was Malde's broper, ment kald pe gode quene, Sit ſais on € oper, fo gode has here non bene. x Han Willtam had his wille of Scotland «o! E - Wales, | ; Coriche men was he grille, of poucz Held no tales Cierkes of holy kirke he chargis qreuolly, | pet were biſie & trke on per rentes to lyne by. DE alle his wikked werkes pele me poubt pe meſte, pat fenenten kirkes he mad tille His * forefte, I. This was the new Forclt | mitted alfo much Sacrilege. But near Wincheſter, which was | then others (and even Peter o: really made by his Father King Langtoft and Robert of Brunnt William the Conqueror, who | themfelves feem to have beer deſtroyed many Churches for it, j of the fame opinion) tell. us and his Son William Rufus was | that this was not the New Fo: only an Improver of it, by en- | reft near Wincheſter, but the larging it, in which he com- | New Foreſt of Windſor, a mon} Willelmus Rufus Rex, 93 pat neuer ere non was ſen pe Criftendam. - 'Be did grete trefpas of holy birke fo nam. - WDele tnelue sere kept he pis lond, 'S how he died here ſelconthly J fond. € if zc wille lithe, J falle telle it 0x0, His dede com him fuytbe meruelioſly, fe how. 19. a Thnrday at nyght at enen he sede to vefte, ie To hunte per he had tight in his new forette. Rufi, & de On fiepe fone he (cilc, pe fueuen bifor him ran, ke im þouht in his chapelle he was withouten man, Menon he fauh no herd, & he biheld aboute, pe dures were fo ſperd, he myght (n no fede oute. So grete hunger him cam, & mete had he none, Ne ye ne wit to wham, pat he mot mak His mone. [o DisssiQuebimmpUM DEDE DU Ub m. NU EE CNN SS RT RENNES ERES: mong which is John Raſtall, who writes thus: This Bynge wpllyam as is ſapd € xorpt- 'ten cf hym | had great plea- ſure in buntpnae) in fo moche "that he pulled Downe € Di- ftroped dyuers houſes of re- ligpon to inlarge the. newe foreſt of wpndeſoze for wplde | MW.C, without any yllue of his body, And he rayned.xit. pere. xi, monethes and. rif. Dapes | and is buryed at weſtmpſter. In which Paſſage this is alſo remarkable, that he makes William Rufus to be bu- ried at Weſtminſter, as does alſo the Chronicle I now publiſh, Dere: but a knyght- of His | whereas it is well known, from “named water Tyreil by the | our other Hiſtorians, that he — glaunfpng of his arowe vpon | was buried at Wincheſter. And a braunche whan he thot at y indeed it is Wincheſter in the an harte in the ſapd foreſt] [mote the kyng € wounded » hyin to Dethe wherof ſhortely he Dped. The fpr! day of | en toumbe, al monſter ſeint French Original of Peter Lang- tcft. Le cors a Upnceſtre fet leuefge porter, ct mettze le | Juguſt the pere of Chryſt, Peer. Yis ' His hunger wag fogrete, hewend haf waren wode, ..,/ _ *berfot alle pat pow may to penance take pou ſpace, Willelmus Rufus Rex. Dpon pe rode he ſchete, € ete it ais ít ſtode. ; Whan he had eten pat, git him hangred eft, 2. pe Mariole per fcbo fat, of bít no ping be left. Whan be was turned, € went out of pat affray, For à bíf(bop he ſent at morn whan it was day, Str Ove of Wyncheltere, fo pat biſhop hight, He told him of alle pe eſtere, pat him mette pat nyght. be biſhop gan t: rede, “ God ts pe turned grym, < Duber in word o2 Dede Has pou greued him. **þat neuer on Friday to wod pon go to chace. **be viner falle pou forſake on Friday (iba. Dele. ** pat penance 3| pe take, Sir kyng, pou kepe it welc.. Sir Dove pe bilthop es with lene went him fro, pe kyng herd his meſſe, to gamen pan wild he go. His penance was forgeten, bc aſked for his archere, Waiter Circle was haten, maiſter of pat miſter. To triſte was he fette, forto waite pe chance, With a herde pei mette, a herte perof gan lance. Walter was redi, he wend haf ſchoten þe Herte, | pebyng ftode oner ‘net, pe ſtroke he laubt fo [merte, | png died William pe kyng, on pis dh manere, _ _. : Six Dde herd pat tiping, tulle mournand was his chere. | At Weſtminſire is be laid, at Saynt Petir kirke, Jn a toumbe purtraid, pe biſſhop did it wirke. pe date a poufand was, & a hundreth mo, Forgif him his treſpas, 3befu, pat dete pe fio. qat. Henr. primus, filins Will. Baftardi. 9s | It tyme in Scotland was a maybe feng, ^ ^ ^^ peMail Þ As J red biforhand, Malcolme doudter pe kyng. — ey fu MPalve bight pat mayden, many of bir ſpak, Fair ſcho was, pet ſaiden, € gods withouten Jak. 3 donhter had Saynt WMargrete, pat ín Scotland lig. Df pat Doubter fute com Malde, pat was e ris, & Dunkan € Edgar, pat J ted biforn, ' Maide's breper pet war, of Margrete donhter born, Fter William men calo pe rede kyng, © ae EN A Henry pe corouti nam, his broper pat was King, co primo. pe biſhop Maiirice Henry corouned be; ^- pat tyme he did pé office; of London kept peTe,'7 57 | Roberd pe Courthofe'toþe Holy lon wag weiit, ^^ I Breton (bayct his" his "nofe) for Moberd pider ſent.” iw ot A Breton fent pat'fond, he did for trelon, © Po € Koberd com to lond, withonten oper telon. ' pat did Roderd tranatie for nonht, He was a file.” Nopeles pe erie of Cornwaile kept his wife pat "€ Charies donhter fcho Jord of cede, Dame Edith bright ag Glas; Boberdpouht' no pile, Bot com on gode manere tille his broper Henry. He wife pat fotorned here, ‘he led toNormandie. * € Henry wedded dame “Move, pat kyng voag e fire. Saynt Anfelme men tolde corouned' him € hire. pe corounyng of Henry, # of Walde pat may, At London was folemply on S. Martyn's Day. e. 3. Bidaund. The See SUN NS i M b 96 — Henricus primus Rex. De falſate He biſſhop of Durham, * Kandolf he hight, s sette DE. falfpene to mak a gicam, pe xotong onto pe right For he € oper fele fent. onto Boberd, pat found fuld he not ſpele, ſen he pat tiyng herd. Roberd purneid him fille, & com whan he wild. _ “be folk. ig alle in wille, þelond pe to seid. porgh meſſengers fals Roberd gadred offe. —— Henry was warned als, € did kepe be cotte.. To pe fine portes he fent, € het pam in couenant, pat aliens ſuld non bent baucn-ot. formant. per fikernes was faſt of pe fine portes, € pc Bing Henry dight him on haſte to petoun of Haſtyng. 4 kaſtelle did vp fette, His ofte longe per lay.. pet wend Roberde's flette ſuld haf comen bt pat way. De wadi- C pe bifthop poubt trefon, for warned was Henry. m are He went to Southampton, with him alle his clergy: pe maiſtres. of. pe portes for gyftes tílie him tobe, - _ pe kyng € his force for Roberd pet forfoke. | 4 hundreth ſchippes « fiftene went to Normundie, . To help € to majntene pe duke Boberde's partie. T 'Boberd mad bím alle preſte, pe wynde gan dim drjue. pe firſt Day of heructe at Porteſmouth gan he rjue. - | Towazd Wyncheftre pam Dight, his folk forto. cfe, ^ Jn token pat be had myght, a baftelle he did refe. a To erles & barons lettres he ſent abonte. | For riche rewardons to Roberd gan loute. Fulle fele ſutlk be fond, pat with Roberd held, DE Jnglis of pis lond agayn Wenry bare ſched. : Ly Bandolf, | Boberd "Of i | Henricus primus Rex. ds | Mberd bi his letter His broper gan diffie, - — De Roberto — | B Him þonht his partte better ,of him to haf maiſtrie, ise pbi | Wot gove Anſelme, pat kept. of Canterbirte pe fee, Mani. Before pe barons lept, kried, pes, per. charite. porgh conſeile of Juſelme, pat wild pe comon prowe, . Fk anatied His helme, to conſeile drowe. | pe parties were fulle ſtark, neuerleſſe porgh praiere, , Henry pre pouſand mazk gaf to-Boberd bí sere, pus gate was pat werre peſed, withonten lore, pat noiþer partie com nerre, 3 bliſſe Jnſeime þerfore. . Jn conenant of yes, men may. wele witen, Bitnex pam nopeles a [brite enfeito € writen, | De pace €. 21s Inſeime pe firif gan pes, of pe duke € pe kyng, . Denm Com Roberd de Beleyſe, porgh his ouerwenyng, Abe Y chy epi[copum E paſſed bíber oucy pete, e ín to Wales went, _ VAR He gadred arcte mayne of alle pat he mot Dent, pe Frankis tillehim felle,& alle pe Walſch fulle fikelle, pe &aftelie Jrondelle be ſeiſed, & als of Tikelle, Gites, burghes € tonnes ageyn kyng Yenry | | At Burgh in Schroblchire to werre mad him redy, Jlle Schobſchire held with Koberd de Weleyſe, Henry lift vp fcbelo, His kaſtels did he ſayſe. pe walles DID Doun felle, pe tours bette he Down. | Jn pritty daies to tclie, Boberd- was taken in toum. Withtn dayes pritty taken he was porgh ſpte, € led to kyng Henry, don had he felonic, € his broper Arnaid, (for with Roberd he fore,) Js for i bald pe Jond bope forſyore. Pd. Low ? N Now Ecce de Henrico, Henricus primus Rex. Dw is Henry venged of his traytours, La oe | & 1ord of mybelle ping, € riche man of treſours. E Maid pe gode quene gat him in confcíle, To inf His folk bítucne, € leue alle his tirpeile, Were him tille his barons, pat held of Him per fees, & to lordes of tounes, tille burgets of Citees. porgh counfcíle of dame Malve, a kynde woman € trewe, per ore was hatred alde, now gynnes inf alle newe. Now inf pei fulle wele pe barons € pe kyng, “pe kyng dos i1ka Dele in ſkille alle per biddyng. C Wot Henry” pink it ark, pat He is charged fo, To gyuc pre pouſand mark, «€ bonden be perto. porch confetle of his barons, he ſent to duke Boberd. What was his refpons writen, J ne ſanh no herd. Tuo gentílle men of blode, pe beſt of Normundie, Venry gaf gyftes gode, to hold on his partie. Whan Denry wilt per wille, bi meſſengers prine, An offc he puruetd ſtille, € paſſed ouer pe fe.- He pouht to compags'tlle pe ſame tille him did He. Now falle Roberd fulfille, pat he tok in his cuntre. C Whan Henry was ryued per, per he wild ame, porgh power did he dryue Boberd out of Lame, WBayone rent € fe fone had be lorn, , pe belt of pat cuntre tille pe kyng wer ſuorn. Boberd fele fipeg at pat comyng Jee Boe tondes €lipes, or he mot hal pe ves. JE he ne were porgh help of William de Martayn, E Koberd de Bele5fe halp him with myght emayn. ji Henricus primus Rex. — 99, piſe tuo went to France, € fonden at Parys,, s it was par gode chance, Sir Philip fonne Lowys, For Roberd pet biſouht of ſocour & mexcis, Str Lows failed nonbt, bis help was him xedie, Lowys wrote his letter vnto pe kjng Henry, pat pet acorded. better, for His luf ſpecially, pe bíffbop of Parys pe pes pan formed he, “Fe pet at his anys bope wild pated be, | Boberd faile cleyme all quite to Henry bifor vs here, «bre pouſand mark be ſkrite pe Henry gat bi sere, * pat Boberd, ne non of hiſe, falle aſk. Yenry pe byng | *pis Dette on non wife, peny no ferping. Han pis barette was ent,þe biſhop tok his lene, AX" 4 E Venry home went, to no mo wild he grege, 7% pe londes wild he nonht seid, pat he of Roberd wan, Wot haf pam he wilde, € hold for any man. Sen pat Henry was gone, Boberd went to France To Str Lowys on one, € told him pat greuance : .& Str Lowys perfore bad him tille Jngland go, To praye Henry reſtore po tonnes he tok him fro. Boberd tille Jngland bam, € bífoubt pe king po fees he fro Him nam, reſtore ageyn pat ping. Henry anfuerd nap, perto were Him lotbe. E Roberd went * awith, with William was he wrothe. Whan he ſauh, pat Roberd for wroth turned ſo fone, Eno ping anfuerd, bot to wend was alle bone, “Henry mad him sare, € after him fulle fuipe To Normundie to fare, € ſe what be MD kipe, ne s F, away, x00 Henricus primus Rex. E duciled per a cere bifroe Roverd his bropet, ^ pat notper werre wo did pc ton to pe toper. m. | Aid oy C Jn alle pis tik chek of Robezd Yenry, in "Noe Bituex pam voce contek, pe kyng € þeclergy. manniam. yg kyng in pe courte of pe lay pe clezkes wild jultife. ©» Saynt Inſclm fato Him ‘nay, he wild on no wile. þe kyng on gan hal, to haf pam at his dome. S. Inſelm perfor appeld vnto pe courte of Rome. uam C Whan he had fpev his nedis, € fro pe courte comer, deo þe kyng for oper dedis to Normundie was nomen. Inſelm Duclled noubt, ' bot fone ouer pe fe To pe kyng tiping oroubt, what perof fald be, be biſhop ſchewed him ſkille, pat he mayntend pe tile. " pe kyng conſentid per tile, + gat Inſelm his wille. porgh Inſelm maytenyng was pe contek ent. De tok lene at pe kyng, € home to Jngtond went, be kyng his retenans alle title Him he droth ^ Df Jngits € Normanz, € gavred folk inonh, Whan he had famned His ofte of folk fc? € nere, Be ſeged bf pat cofte pe kaſtelle of Cenkere. Whtlom Wiliam Wortayn perof lord was, pe Courthole (8 vnfajn, him pen& tt a trefpas. perfor pe duke him dight, as man of grete vaiue, Koverd 2beleyfe with myght, pe ſege pet wendremne. | Decapcione pe Mortayn, befor ſpoken, with his nevow Meynere, i dash pe ſege pe wend hat broken, pet com with per powere. ey”, C pe king faub pat pet kam, his trompesdid he blovor,- fine ejuſadem (To pe batatle bc nam, Boberd ſide sede lowe. Roberti vide per iom. Robert Henricus primus Rew. Roberd fide xede Down, for he bitrayed was. Dis owen men did trefon, pebyng him tob, allas ! Now taken is Koberd, ¢ bronht vnto priſon” i It Corne his kaſtelle fperd depe tn a Dongeon. William pe Mortayn he ſkapes with no gile, ; Fettered he is certayn Roberd of Stoteuile. € Sir William Crifpyn with pe duke was lev, Togider prifoned in seres € dayes pam fed pe kyng pam pev in mete € cloth {noub, pat neuer pet were o twynne, pntiile ded pam flonh, " m Ften I bat herd told of pig Dube Moberd, : So gode bnyabt no fo bold was non in alle pe werld,' —— ' Sisejn pe Sarazins in batajle forto go, Now ye 1igges in pynes, ſorow wille him flo. | 'IDhy felle Him ſailk chance, € pis tik miſhap 7 For of Gode's ordinance he forſoke pe ſchap. Gode's grace he forſoke for Zernyng of pis lond. Uengeance perfor he toke at his endyng_ he fond. F(T * Cone is Roberd dede, pe mane? of his endjng | A My boke it me forbede to telle perof no ping. . -, x, L:Coruye.Others fay Caer- Robert Duke of ' Normandy's dif in South-Wales. See what is | Eyes were pulled out, fo neither faid about his death in p. 426, | does John Raſtall fay any thing |. 443.0f Rob.of Glouc. To which ? of that matter, as well knowing »fnay. be here added;that as nei- (and Sir Tho.More too had told | him the truth of that part of our Hiſtory) that the Story was "ther Robert of Gloucefter, nor the Chronicle of Peter Langtoft — (chat I now publiſh) fay, that not vouch’d by ſuch Hiſtorians, as Ecce, heu? di&a God- fridi de Bo- lyon de Ro- . berto Cour thoſe. 102 ' This Bobert by His man- Hode | dyd many notable "But bp medtacpon of the . others hepre. Ind fone after that | this Robert depagted - con vpon the mpſczeantes E Epnge of Jeruſalem | whiche - Henricus primus Rex. as came neareft to Duke Ro- | he refuſed to take boon him,- bert's time. But I ſhall put down | Jin this tyme began great | the Words of Raftall at large, | warre in Normandpe bez | becaufe they will give ſome ; twene kpng Venry € kpnge light to the Reader as he is per- ufing this Work of Peter Lang- toft. C Jin theſeconde perc of his [Hen. the Firit's] repgne BobertCourteyſe his brother Duke of Normandye | whiche Had ben longe tyme occupped in warre agapnſt Chryſtes enempes baupnge worde of the dethe of his brother xopl- Iyam Bufus | and that hig brothez henry bad takpn op- on bpm to be kynge of Eng- iande | made preparacpon ín Normandye and came oner into Englande with a great Hooſt to chalenge the crowne, Philpp of Frannce| but kyng. eae fone after dyed. C About the. (ttt. yere of this kyng | RobertCuzteyſecame. into Englande agapne | to. his brother henry whiche made bpm great chere that | before. that Robert departed f he releaſed to his brotbez the | forenamed trpbute of. 11.99. markes | & departed agapne {nto Normandpe. After this a great varpannce fell bez twene this Robert and his lordes. in Normandype that ' thep ſent onto kpng henry his. | brother wylipnge for to come. intoNormandype]et thep wolde lordes | £t was agreed that Delpuer hym the contrey, Kobert ſhulde hane enerp Ind alfo by the (ntpſſement pere durpnge his life, (4.99. of pH tale tellers | a great taz markes | as was prompfen | tvaunce fell betwene hym before by kynge wyl- | Benge henry e his battel in lyaut his brother. Ind who | brother Robert | Normanz ſo ener ipued longeſt to be ! that the kynge dye, with a-greatarmpe | [is into Normandye | E with the helpe of the lordeg there | chaſed his brothezRoz | bert from place toplace | and. wanne from hpm oan | Cane | Faloys | and all the good townes E many cafteig, But at the laſt this Robert gaue battell to kynge hens wp] i ; agapne into Normandpe, artes | and ſpecially at the wyrnpnge of the cítpe of J= Turkes | and was choſpn A L6 1. £ LAM X LAUS Vos P SNL Ae RF ln We Henricus primus Rex. 3 hardy Bnyght was he; oucr all bare pe pris, Sit Jeraſalem Cite, opon Gode's enmys;- - Godfezay Bolion fato, pat many maw (t herd, - «More my trifte is lato on” pe duke Roberd, ** & jl had avete nede ageyn pe Saraztnes to go, * € better ſn1d he ſpede pan a hundreth mo. “Cake him pe kepyng pe coroun of Jeruſalem, «© For feke is þe kyng, of him is no bote of beein. C be paid day of Idnent, bifor Crifte’s mette, © pe kyng a ſeknes bent, pe Dede hint tok alle freſſe, pe folk of pat Cite to God mad oriſonn, At pe temple domina with gode denocionn, 'Who pan were worþt pe coroune forto hage, “Ageyn pe gaemy pe Criftendam to ſane, Godfrey € Roberd, Elered men € lewed, & God per praleres herd, ¢ to pam alle fchewed. 3) brightnefle com fro heuen, € of Roberd light, pre tymes alle enen, pat alle fauh it with fight. pris pat alle mot fe pe light on Roberd toke, Ungracious man was he, pris he it forfoke. porgh confeile of fom of hiſe, refuſed he pat preſent; pet fato, on. oper wife he falle Haf anancement. . tp | in the whiche | where he after dyed without duke 13o- battell this Ro- | puc of his body | and was bert taken bert was takyn | burped at Glonceſter. And _ priſoner. and fent onez ) when this Robert was tak= | into Cnglande | | pn | the kynge Yenrp ſeaſyd and kept in priſon in the ca- ſtell of Cardyffe in walps | _ by the ſpace of. xxviii. pere alle Normandpe into His owne Handes. Godfrey Fee? que» modo Ro- bertus dee ſpexit gra- cam & t. lectionem Dei, es (X04. Henricus primus Rex. Godfrey wag oglíft; to Roberd ſpab falle tite, « Mithouten any efloyne, vengeance falle falle þe not lite. .< Lady to mayntemright fen ſho wag has non bene; 211 Now has kyng Benry, porgh pis weddyng, inqE aD Grete power € pasty ageyns a lordyng. ; € Now Denry kyng leue nam at pe Emperour Penry, + , € his fonne William, & went to Pormandy. Ye gaf William dis ſonne with ſkrite € * £' fecle fulle fre To hold, als it was wonne, alle Normandie in fe. To Chebaud of Pieſance left with him of his meyne, € ontílle Jnglond eft he turned oner pe fe. N his feuentend Sere pat he regned kyng, ei wae Malde pe quene his pere in God fcbo div enDyng. Adatildis At London at SayntPoule's ín toumbe is ſcho1aid, dogg Criſte pan haf bír foule menſk of bir men ſaid, If any man wille witen, & ſe of bir forte, It Weſtmynlter writen er pet redilie, 1» Deleiio2/Sic:Sed Eddlend: eft. »- Vo], I. O C Now 106 # Henricus primus Rex. Be gos to. Mexmundy to his fonne Wilitan. | Tuo sere he wonnes, € faire courte per. held, Ginttlie bope hie fonnes per moder Dede he teld. - Ein pe priv sere he jung to Jnglond! went, - His fonnes € per gowere a noþex/ tide pet bent. ped tobe a noper tide; alas! it was oner Hard, E dronkled bt pe fc fide bope William € Bichard. | Tuo erles 4 þer wynes with pam Dronkicd were, E manyopezipucs in pe fe left peve. 9” | © CNow :es'þe byng foty, bir deve Dos Him faile gram, — Wilitam Wigotiper felle; Roberd Zipaubut pat Hight, - E Sir Epkrey Ridelie; € Othes pat was his. knyght. | pife men were of @ode,pat DronkicdD al in fete. To ipuc non nexode, bot on was marine, pe bodies with per codes weg coften vp on pe fond, After! an ebbe of pe Mode, eutz fikow pet fond. Tuo ſonnes were'snr kyng Both, pat His- Heires T vti ere pet lori, ‘for Wi roe ig ere ipu /D ond com be iig after pat paſſage; Uzü With many arete lordyng of his baronage. - Godefrey of Lonayn, pe duke pat was douhty, Wt meſſengers tuayn fent to kyng Denry, 44 © For his donhter'Jdelaſn; pat wele toas pan of age, - “Sir Henry mad pe fine, E mad pe mariage. eus pe may withonten vice; his weddyng was wele bigbt, & Mailde pe Emperice ts heyre of Benry right, Mavildim- Cpe Emperouz Denty, pat Maid has to wyne, peratrix Vida, Scho had no child him by Wald in alie His Ipue. pan Héhricus primus Rex. pan died pe Emperour, Henry: for Mald ſent! {+ dig Emperice-with honour, Bald. tille/Jnglond went, Henry was alle glad of his ooubter comyng, Pouhtiong fiþew ſcho had prater for weddyng.- ~ pe gode erie of dinioxoe of Wald herd je fay! © iol. Fulle vithely tottoioc, tile tok hid way. s He tjuco vp atWonere, e-dight bim eft alle bone, - * | Whan alle were wele oucze; to Xonbon com hefone. — be erle ſo wele ſped''tille our byhg Henry, 19) BS pat his fonne ſuld wed, & Mald was alle redy. pe Emperice was'Ddight, asJadyfelle/to-be, ^ — With hte went many a bnygbttille Antowe pat cuntre, pc crie pig lady gent gat Henry * his ſonne, LE alic his tencment, pat bis cldres was wonne. 1. The Author here (as he | offpcers: /Sone. after" this does alfo in many other Places) | ; Henrp tbe Emperour dyed | ftrangely differeth from other E Maude the empreſle came Hiſtorians, in making Maud the | to” her father kynge henry | Empreſs to be Inatrid to Henry.] whiche cauſed 3DaupD the Son of the Earl of Anjou,when kpnge of Scotlande. and the ſhe was really married (after the | more parte of the lordes of Death of the Emperour Henry | Englande'to 00 othe and fez IV. who was her firſt husband) | aite tothe Empaeſſe:| and. to to Geffrey Plantagenet, Earl, of | kepe the lande to. her if the Anjou, fon of Foulk King of | kynge d Ri Hang D Jeruſalem. Hence John Raſtall |-male; -» - (in. his moſt, ſcarce Chronicle): | .. er. ajifo rae he; Exbtit, “writes thus: C dibout the.xxt. pere | onc Geffrep Plantage= pert fof Hen. E) there wasa net erie of Ingeo maryed tbe great counſel} called ín Zone fapd 4Baude and after bp Her Don | for the correccpon of the | bao ulue Yenrp | whiche | vicyous lpupnge of preeftes | heary after kynge Stenupn | to be Done by the kynges i was kynge of Englande, Oz Whan Ws - 108 Henricus primus Rex. Whan pe fader had ent alle: at his anys, To pe holy lond. he went, € died on Gode's entnys, Enry his fonne € Molde, pat held-þe ſeignorie, . I ſonne pethad fulle boide, € His'name Wenrie. Sipen had pet a noper, pat pet cald William, pat was Henry broper, bope of Maid cam. Hir faber pe kyng Joued po childre fo, pat he wild for no ping pefight of pam forgo. SU byng went at 'thelaſt vnto Normundie, € prated his douhter faſt; to bere him compante ; € bít ſonnes bope, Henry € William, pet were him neve bope, gladly with him pet. ram; Henry regned here pritty sere à fiuc, € pre monepes fere, in pis febie ipue. pe Dede enele him toke, he died at his day, pe body did pet loke, pat long abouen expe lay. Dn bere lay kyng Yenry, on bere bixond pe ſe, pat non wiſt certeynip, who his heyr ſuld be. DE Mald.ſom had pe ſpcyre, pe erle wif of Antowe, Hiv ſone Henry € heyre of him was maſte to trowe, £0 longhelay on bere, for doute of his lynage, Tille men pefoth mot here, who ſuld haf pe heritage. Els 3 newote for wham, his biriyng ſuld men ſchonne, p De morte. Title Steuen of 39lefancc cam, pat was his ſiſter fonnc. ANN Stenen com for pe nons, pis lond to hat be pouht. 600 After were Yenry bones to Bedynge's abbay broubt. Vis Stephanus Rex. 99 Bis bones did he lay in a toumbe of honour, . Jt was his owen abbay, þerof he was ' foundour. comite Aln- € Steven wille do His beſte, ín Jnglond 1cueg he degavie, fille. | | Thebaud, Stenen broper, as erie in high cuntre, Of 0 fide ne of oper no ping deles be. Dentj of Antowe takes conſetle at frendes, With Maide, pat is fo trowe, to Saynt Denys he wendes, 'E his ſonne Henry, pat men helde of grete pris, þei gat him Normundie bifor pekyng Lowys, E tille his heyres for ay, to/hold of pe kyng of France, & on pe toper Day men telo bim of a chance, . pat Gerard of Peiters pe erie Marchis had fet, Antowe with per ſouders was alle biſeged « fet. Whan Henry herd tclie, he tok lene at Lowys, Bot Wald fco gan duelle at pe caſtetle Sir Amys, pat was duke of Gaynes, Henry coſyn porgh right. To fuffre Henry paynes he hette him alle his myght. ifo pe Dake Denry with his fadere sede, With help of Mormundic, pe better mot he fpede. 35 is at his refte, his foule at Crifte’s wille,, D'Peo | L.C This kynge henry the | the pere ofChryſt.M.C.xxvv. fpr | buyided the Abbey of | dyed. Some fay he dyed ofa Bevpnae | e releaſed theEn- | ſurfer | and ſome wryters ſay Blpfibemen the Dane gelt. , that it was by a fall of a difo this kynge henrp bepnge | horſe | and his bodp was ín Normandye in tbe. x xv. | brought intoEnglande | aud pere of bis repne | the ſes | is burped in the Jbbap of ipo day of December ta | Bevynge. J. Raſtall in his e 0 110 . — Stephanus Rex. Wot William, Henry btopet, Died; e pan was wo," ^ © i pe werre with alle pe toper laſted fine geve & mo. —— 77 Jn alle pis ilk tirpelle wer Steuen a fulle wife man, | potgb quatntífe € confetle pe coroune of Jnglond wan, pe date of Jheſn pundred, pat men tellis bt, .—— he @ poufand E a Hundred € fex € pritti... cione Ste- phani. pe barons on gobe aray at London mad pet fette, porgh conſeile of tikon, pat gaf Steuen pe coroun, Weyre was he non, no pertilie Had reſoun. 1 pe Empertce fonne Henry he had right pertiile, | Bot right sede per forby, pe barons did tio fhille. De jura- C Wot fen his corounyng tille Oxenford he fore, Ahh Ty € per Steuen pe kyng bifor pe clergie ſnore, | pat if a bifthopriche bacant wer pe fe, be kyng, no; non of his, fuld chalange pat of fe, With wrong no with right, of non pat fro him cam, Ye did brenne Helwelle, a William V i flonh. 61 Sic, pe 120 J Stephanus Rex. pe caftelie of Witham toGtibert golden was. Jt longed to William, pat tyme felle him pat cas. pag. Jiliam of Aimarie pat tyme Northward toe, — WE pe cattelie of Hindmanby he catt Sonn alle 6 brode, | FRI 9 3 Sir Enftace le fits Fon at pat Dede was, More hit, pan Akon, pe wited pat trefpas. — 19ho fo was wrope, ot oper, biforn, for any chance, is enmy pe topere toke pan His vengeance.” po pat iufco werryng mad parties ay bitnen, Som Held withSteuenþe kyng,X ſom withMaid pe quene. For erles'# barons, pat were of 'Malde's {kynde, — — Sonht cites € touns, pe kyng if pet mot fynde. Wir frendes fulle faſt waited aboute € woke, . € Maid at pe laft byng Steven fcio toke, E ied him to Briſtow, e did Him per in Hold, Jn priſon, J trowe, porgh pe quene Mold. : pan pe viche € pouere, € alle comonly, 2 For Berwik to Douere held Hir for lady. C Whan pe lond gan hir onte, & alle was athir wile, . pan bare fcho hir oner ſtonte, & wild -vnto no ſkille, For or pat gere was gon, ſcho bare bít fo ſtotite, = pat pe Lundreis tikon of London drof Hir oute. Maid porgh þe Lundreis fro London is katched, With hors ¢ herneis Briſtow yas fcbo latched. | — 1.Des riches & Deo pouers | letmperice; Dame refcew de de communaite Eft -Malde | gre. Gall. 2. F. fro, . | What Stephanus Ries I2r What for (re e tene, € alle in euelle wiile, Scho ſtokked byng Steuen, € per. did cho (iie, | Ns turnes eft Mold to Wynceltez fulle toute, », Mail- ESteuen out of pat hold quaintip ſkaped onte, | de Impera- | à | iri €. | Boberd went bir with, Walde's half broper, € pe kyngDautdof Scotland was. pe topes. | At Wynchelter- gan {cho Duelle, biſeged pe caftelle : pe Londreis herd it telle, € Saved pam fulle welle, | With gode aparaile- of alle pat pei mot acte. | pe ſege pet gan affaile, & tob hiv at pe mete, | KBoberd per was taken in to pe Londreis hand, | Bot Dauid was welewaken, he fled faſt to Scotland, die porgh Cheſtreſchire, be fled to Louthian, | A prefie was. with Hire, pat Maid fro pam wan, | Wald & Boberd Lonelle tille Orenford pet. fled, | € ſeiſed pe cattelie, € Stenen faſt him ſped, | € gadred him anofte, € went onto Wilton, E Did retſe in pat coſte a ſtalworth donjon, | Maid wilt pat tulle wele, bir barons pider ſent, | E Stenen left tlka dele, & to Northampton went, | William 9Barfcbatie o chance was taken at pat turne : be aat for his Delpucrance pe caftelle of Schirbnrne. bs Folk bisond pe ſe, pat were of Stenen's kynde, | Tille him com grete plente, € oper pat pet mot fynde. | . Steyen with his power tille Dxenford gan ſchake, \ His ſege he ſet plener, pe caſtelle forto take. | pe Emperice (t held, was tt pe wynter tide, | þe ſnowe lay in pe feld, pe water freſe bíior.- WE ii e d Stephanus Rex. be lady had defante bope of mete € Drynk, E {cho dred per aſſaute, hunger was at pe brynk. Scho aſked bir conſeile, what was per of to rede. ** Stenen wille vs traneile, «€ famen vs to Dede. Non ne conth ne wtld conſeile on no partic, Wo pe caſtelle to zelo, € aſk pe kyng mercte. pat ne wid ſcho noubt, bír perte was fo ftoute. Bot here now how ſcho wronht, & how ſcho paſſed onte. C I fulle felcouth zede tok at bír owen herte, Scho left fox life no Dede, ne colde pat was fo fmerte. Sone after mydn5ght, pat crowe fuld pe cok, Jn pe ſnowe for ſyght ſcho zede ont in bit ſmok, Duere pe water of Temſe, pat froſen was tyg, Withouten kirtelle or kemſe,ſane Kouerchet alle bare vis. To Walyngford ſcho wan, ¢€ per ſcho left a while, þeway ſcho sed & ran, onlength it is ten mile. E Stenen pe caſtelle wan of pam ever ilkon, pet gelded it dl man, * wham dam Mald was gon. vid fn pis tyme had Stenen regned anht sere in alle, 38 Lered €iewed were enen, € perc € paringalle ; So pat knyght € ſquiere, if pet powere mot make, WE holy kyrke pleynere tok pat pet mot take. pe pape pan herd pe pleynt, he ſent Hider a legate. At London pet wer atteynt, decre was mad for pate, cif any lewed man laid Hand opon clerk, Dr with (lle on ran, pat of corun had merk, we ſuld not eſcape, porgh biſſhop granted fre, Df non bot of pc pape myght he alloyled be, 1. F. whan, be, Stephanus Rex. 123 pe king it was herd, € chaſtiſed his meyne, . € oper afterward left of per nycete. Her after balf a sere pe clergie had gode pes, pat noiþer wo no werre non on pam gan pres. Wot Getfrey of Maundenile þe kyng Steuen him reft His baronie, pat while robberie with Job wag left, þe abbay of Rameſete bi nyght he robbed it, pe trefore bare aweie with Hand pet myght on hit. Abbote € priour e monke pet did out chace, Df holy kirke a fonte to theft pet mad it place. | RBoberd pe Marmion pe ſame wayes DID he, De Roberto He robbed þorgh trefon pe Kirke of Conentre. " qum Here now of peir ſchame, what chance bifelle, pe ſtory ſais pe ſame, ſoth as pe goſpelle. | CBoberd pe Warmyon he lepe vp on his fede, porgh Couentre pat toun onto pe kirke- he sede. He comandid his men, to dryue ont pe couent, pe godes him biken, pat pet mot tak or bent, Whan pet had tnoth, als mybellc ag pet mot lede pat pet of Hernets dronh, to go pei gan pam ſpede, He turned his bridelle wip querte,he wend away haf gone, pedede Him ſmote to pe herte, word ſpak he neuer none. | C Gekfrey of Maundenile to fele xorouj be wouh, — De G. Maunde- pe Deuelle sald him His whtle, with anarowe on him loud. ,,, pe gode biſhop. of Chelire curled pis ilk Geffray, His WE out of pig eſtre in curfyng.went away. Irnulf his ſonne was taken als thefe, € bronbt in bond, Bekor pe kyng forſaken, + gie qut of pig Lond. het 2 124 Stephanus Rex. . pe marfchaile of pam alle, Delpg of Saynt Dimere, To ded pan gon be (alie doun of his deftrere. be maiſtir of per pedatie, pat kirkes brak € brent, E abbets gan atfaíie, monkes ſlothe ſchent, ' Was born tn Pikardie, « his name T Jn ſuilk felonte gabreo qvete aucte. | Ye had what he wild, € was of piles sale E had a ſchipe wele filled, over pe flode to fare, per in was wif € childe, & trefore wikly wonnen. So com à tempeſt wilde, His ſchip had alle oner ronnen, pe inaryner was ogaſt, pat {chip pat wid not go. aLotes Did pet katt, for whom pei had pat wo,» pe lote felle ot Beynere, € on his wif alfo. pris kal at tymes fere, felle it on pam tuo. | 53 | iin Lo E fchip mat wittwele, be tempeſt pat pam ſmote, © ^ P For pam com lk a Dele, he oto pan tak a bote, E did pam alle perin, Meyuer € his gode, E whan pet were otuyn, per ſchip fero on pe flode. - Beyner € his wif doun tille belle ped fank, For his wikked 1if pe 3Denelle gad him pat pani. Avi f. his tende Sere a hatrex wee alle hote, | BY pe Bing fulle auſtere ageyn Sir Pugh Bigote. pe kyng DID not wele, with pe wrong he wronht; Amendes he mad fom Dele, bot of pe moſt right noubt. C Rauf pe erie of Cheltre; € pe kyng were wroth, — In his ellenend sere, pe wend haf acorded both cum f | " J à St ephanu $ Rex. | 'T 2'5 Jn alle maner of ping, pat Banf felt him filed. Wot here now how pe kyng Raul pe erle begiled: Unto Porthampton Baul to courte kam. þekyng, porgh trefon, Rauf per he nam, € held him tílle be sald of Lyncolne pe caftelle; E plenerly haf he wald pe ventíg pat perto feile. | C pe tuelft sere of his regne at sole he held his feſte / At Lyncolne, as in ſigne, pat it was his conquette. Sone after pat feſte, pat he per ſeyſen tok, | pe courte, moſte t lefte, tille Jrundelle pet fchoke. pat pe byng was gone, Rauf herd fone fay, To Lyncoin forth on one Ranf pau tok his way, € reiſed a mangnel, to katt onto pe toute, pe burgeis werfulle felle, pet sald. him hard ſtoure, pe Gyour of his olte at pat faut was flayn, E Raut, for alle his boſte, fulle faſt fled-agayn, n Dc sere next on hand sede pe kyng of France | Ecce kou- Lo pe holy land, with his puruciance. wardif pe emperonr with po kynges went withouten grace. GER po € oper lordynges mad pe grete manace, — mm. Upon Gode's enmys forto tak vengeance. pei ſanh pe papens of pris of ſo grete puruetance, pe Criſten turned for drede withouten dynt of lance. Bot here How pe poratie ſpede, God gat pam fair chance, C pe poraile pat went pider, pat had no ſpendyng, pet {nore per oth togider, to lette for no ping, _ Cowend vnto Spayn, € tuo Cites pet wan, pe Sarasing wag per wayn, 4 flonh pam (1 a man, VW et Sabet alata eee 126 | Stephanus Rex. pet sede fro {ond todond, € von ageyn pam ftode. | pe better grace pet fond, pe ferrer pat pet sode. Widere com pattipand tille oper lordes' manymo, Pow mykeile grace pet fand, pat Durf pe Sarazins fio. pe lordes mot haf fehame, whan pet bero it telle, pat Dred for Gode's name; at home pet sede to Pelle. * UN fà his ſextendFere Steuen pat pe lond anht, artuas Tmperatri- Maid ſcho died here, btv ſoule to God betauht. y dpa € Hir ſonne Benry to lonp was he comen, d interSte-be barons € pe clergy tille him alle pe nomen, anum ' joa: E with pe kyng Steuen pet held parlement, fiium Im- yar Henry ee eucn acorded or pei, went. peratricis. With ſkrite was fet pe pes, € ordeynd porgb baroun, pat Steuen tille his diſes of Jnglond {uid dere coroun, E his gyft certeyn be holden ſtabilly. - To Normundie ageyn {uid turne pe duke Henry, € Jngiand alle holy after Steuen pe kyng Suid turne to pe ſame Henry, withouten geynſaiyng. € if pat Yenry die, or Stcuen mak his deſes, Henry heyr we ſeie falle haf pe lond in pes, Coroun forto bere, as heyr € eldeſt ſonne, His heritage to were in right, als it was tonne. So pat Steuen pe kyng, no non of His heyres, For heritage no ping falle chalange for peires. pis dede was-enſeled bítaubt pam of Se Poule's, . pat wrong were not deled for drede of if € fonieg. Now Henricus fecundus Rex... 127 | Ow wendes duke Henry onto Normundie,' | N Seyline has plenerip of alle his cheualric, | EStenen lenes here, Jnglond is his balíc. After in his prid sere Stenen fulle ſcke gan lie, Ein pat gzete languour endid pe his life, | Ninetene sere pe honour he kept ín werre & ſtrife. At Fenerſham he lis, at a henen in Kent, | Jn an abbey of pris He founded with lond € rent. 'E Maid pe Emperice per pan is {cho lato, pat ſeryed per office to me, fo pet fato. pevatea poufand right a hqndzeth | & fifty, Anno: | pat Stenen to Dede was dight, now comes pe ſectnde Henry. MAL, ^ | | | | |. Dw is Steuen Dede, € lies at Fenerſham, Henricus pe barons paír red, € after Henry nam. ns «i | To London pet htm brouht with grete ſolempnite, rex. ‘Pe popille him bífoubt per kjng forto be. | pe Day of Saynt Liger ? was Yenry corouned kyng, f& bebalo of Canterber gaf him pe cozoune & pe ring. pis Benzy was Mald fonne, pe erle wif of Aniowe. ‘pe Empertce was wonne, € right hejre forto trowe. For Yenry Douhter ſcho was, € his heyre porgh fight. Now comes hir ſonne in pas, Henry hir heyr porgh right. | e | I. Obiit re vera Stephanus rex OG. 25.1154. Ipfius autem tegina Matildis defuncta eft Maii .39. 1152. apud Hedningham nimirum five Dengbam, vulgo Peningham, elegans olim ca- ſtram ( notante Camdeno ) & Oxonir Comitum antiquam habitationem, in agro Effexi- enli. 2. Oct.2. Sed de tem- pore Coronationis variant: hi- ſtorict, Penry r28 Henricus fecuudus Rex. Henry has font ſonnes, e doubters has he tno, / Is pe ſtory mones, pefe ere pe names of po: | Henzy E Richard; Erle Geffrey « * Jone, 2 Jlkon afterward wag kyng, e quenc 3 bot on, ^ v Geffrey was no more, bot erle of Bretayn': — 7 € dame Heltanore ſcho we quen of Spayn. Dame 4 Jon was songett, € lady of Cezile, pev fader kyng richeſt lynand in alle His while. % € pis 11k Henry ts told Henry pe ſcecunde, 2 So riche a prince in wold in pis Lond fipen non fande. Antiowe € Normundie alle Holy he held, Df Gaſcoyne pe ſeignorie bowed onto his ſcheld. Jlk a knyght € ſquieze, clerkes were to him fuori. pan was bis Chancelere Thomos of London born. Saynt Choma fader'J fynd hight Thomas Weket, Jn London of noble kynd, € maſte of alle was let. @ riche man he was,mot ſpend pre hundzeth pound : Erſdcken His ſonne Thomas of Canterbizt pat found, - Jn alle manere cauſe he ſought pe right in ſkille, ‘Co gile no to fraude wild be neuer tille, 1. John. 2. Perperam. Nam | cent, tam Johannam quam & tres duntaxat reges erant, Gal- | Blianoram reginam fuiffe. Ad- fridus vero Britanniz tantum- | eo ut pro eorum ſententia mox modo Comes five Dux, id quod ! infraquenc of Cesztle pro lady. mox ipfe notat Auctor, qui pro- | of Cezile fit reponendum. id inde forfitan voluit, comitem quod etiam liquet ex Petri de kic loci pro regulo accipi. haud | Langtoft Codicibus Gallicis,-in enim aliud alibi etiam | valet, quibus, Alyenore fafylie fü. ficut ex Hemingo noftro colligi Bayne de Eſpayne, Rayne De potet. 3. Quin & hic etiam | Secylle Johane ia fylle bag auctor fecus atque alii, qui do- | vayne, 4. Joane, oe | pe Henricus fecundus Rex, 129 pe Erichiffhop pat was pat tyme died he, - ——— Sanflus be Erreſdeken Thomas wag ſacred in His fe. | Hose Wele mayntend he Holy kirk, € alle pe digntte, (0 archiepifco- With pe lawe to wirke mayntend pe ordine. MUT If any man mad pleynt of clerk for haſtinencſle, Dr if pet were atteynt in oper wikkedneſſe, Ecce cone Thomas ſulfred nouht * cleke to be alle ſchent, ae Ne to pe lay couzte be broubt to tak per jugement, lbi vos ey clerum. Wot tille holy birke, of whom he bare pe merke, Eat pat lawe to wirke, if he were ordeynd clerke. . pe kyng for pat chefon wrathed with Thomas. | Here now pe refon, wht pat wreth firſt was. : | pat he fuore at pe gpnnyng, whan he pe coroune tobe. EVoLT, erke, R » Lerkes often tide miſdo blithely, dic di Fog/deynonſhede € pride, efor pez ſtate (g hy: — clero per pet paſſe mefure € right, forte haf per xoilie, Fi € whan pei ere in myght, willie pet hepe no fhílle, © For pei wille vnderfong a fulle gre empyziſe, | € ſuſteyn it with wrong, with fletht ¢ quaínttfe, po pat felt pam greued, of per wikked dedis, Co iordes, pat pei to cheucd, pleyned pet moſt nedig, — pat ſuilk was not lees, it com to þe kynge's ere, He comanded his pes to lered & lewed pat were, E if a clerke men founde in his lond pat reft, porgh flauhter or wounde, or porgh oper theft, - Wen fuio ſchewe his guilte in pe courte of lay, | € per be faned or ſpilte, bot Thomas ſaid him nay, | Thomas fato pe kyng, pat othe ſuld he wele loke, | } | I IT porsh 130 Henricus fecundus Rex. © porgh God 3i pe fogbede to chalange any clerke ** Jn lay courte for non nede, of holp kirke has merke; © **Ne pe franchife fordo,pat tt ouh to halve, **Bot tille pat courte com to, of whilk he is:membre calde. € pis was at Clarendoun, pat Chomas gaf reſpouns, € fipen to Narthamptoun Chomasicom ett ſons, Deljuer his cler&eg fro dome, bot no grantiſe wag. Wherfor tope courte of Bome-þan kalled.S, Thomas, Thomas toke pe way, € paſſed. oue? pe fe. / be kyng Yenry Herd ſay, his meſſenger-ſent. he. 1, + » 0e Hop Bogere of gorb pan kept pe fe, eot - + + oe » his Powere corounco forto be, - + 6 « - opnt alfo with wrong, pei mad alle mirie. 'Tille Thomas teile it to pe kirke of Canterbirie,” Whan Thomas it wilt, he did mak a cutfyng. Boger he curſed, irk, patcorouned/þe gong! kyng, E alle pat wer him-with, or in his courte wer fene, Sane pe kyng had grith, his chilore: € pe quene, To Thomas pe kyng bifouht, pe biſhop to aſloile, Wot Thomas wild,nouh, bot porgh grace of pe apoftoile: 1. Torn off. But the ſenſe, le Reis Yenry fet maintes notwithſtanding, is plain, efpe- | haunt maunder. Lerceneſge cially if the paſſage be compared | de Eyerwik fon noun fu Boz with the French, which is thus: | &€2, Et fon $3 Henry le hf | corouner,Et opndre en Reig, le zeqne por [the word pur is wanting in Mr. Anftis’s Copies] fees, Deliyerer ſes clezs,mes | g uerner Toit Kt a Chose Ceo fu a Claringdoun, ou Thomas ad. parles, Ct a Norhampton vint #1 altre rien 1uy fu grantez. @ la | mas, ke fuſt outre mere, Kar courte deBome ad Chomas | pu? bew a luy appent cel appeilez. Thomas Ddeuers la | tiefer. courte va la mere paſſer, Et | " Whers R Heuricus fecundus Rex. Wherfor pe kyng wer wroth, ¢Chomas did exile, ^ ^ His kynredlefe e loth he did fleme # reuile. C þe kyng ſuld haf no plight, De ſaid bot tille a knyght, pat Thomas fo was dede, pat Thomas Him miſbede3 E if he had had men; as he wend, of renoun, + pet fuio bat venged- Him of futlk a clergtonn. - Foure kyngtes it herd withouten any more, To Canterbirt pei fero, & flou Thomas right pore *. » C who fo wille wit pis chance hie lif This languour ; € how pe kyng of France did him grete honour; & how pe pape ſent his bulle with a legate; - E how, or he went, he ferched alle pe. fate; € how at Pountney: pe angelle to: Him ſaid ; & how alle his kinde exile was. on pam laid; ' 21 I.In the Cathedral Church | at St. Bennet's Altar, as even Raftall takes notice, in his moſt | wonderfull rare Chronicle, lent | me by the curious and. ingeni- ous Mr. John Murray. C aifo | (faith he) for Dyners attes | that the kynge procured to be mas of made agapne the Caunter- Ipbeztes of the burpflapne. churche. There fell a great Dez ſaynt tbo- bate betwene bym and Tho ' | mas then Archebdplibop of | Caunterburp | that the byſ- | thoppe fied onto Bome. Wut after whan Thomas came | agapne to Cannterbury, (cit. of the kynges knpghtes bez cauſe the kyng bepng inNor- manope | thep hHarde the kpng fap theſe wordes | if he had. anp men about bpm | he had ben a venged vpon that traytour longe or that tpme. 'Therfore theſe knyghtcs caine fro the kynge bepnge ín Normandye | and ſlewe this Thomas in the cathedrall churche in Caunterburp at fapnt Benettes auter:whiche Thomas is nowe bp the churche canonpfed for a holp ſapnt | € Dpuers mpracles auttorpfco by the churche that gov hathe thewed for hym, Kis E 13% | De morte Sanéti Thome, 132 Heurieus fecundus Rex. E how pe apoftotle latd on pam grete payn, Dr he wild pam affotle, pat had Thomas flayn; E how for holy kirke he ſuffred paſſion, E how God dos wirke in ſchrine þer he is don ; Dpen his boke € fe, for per in ere pet writen, iih grete plente, pat fele of bs ne witen. Omen is tiping, pe biſſhop flayn is he, $t. € pe songe kyng tis went oucr pe ſe, Df Almarle erie William with pe kyng was pen, Tuo caſtels he nam open pe Fzankis men. Df Jimarle in pe caſtelte pre lordes be toke, Df meſſengers fulle fuelle he ſent Hider to 1loke Untille Inglond, of Flandres men falle tile, Jn warde or in bond in priſon leue pei fille. €. pe fader kyng Yenry in herte Had he payn, ig Fi € anguífeo areuofly, pat Thomas was fo flayn. torum. William pe Scottis kyng perfor wag fulle blithe, pat Henry had illelikyng, werre on Him gan he kithe. Buzgh his way beforn he ſeſev pat kaſtelle, Mulgard porgh him was lorn, Prudhow faucd welle, Captus eff Vis way left he nonht, tille he com tille Jinwik, rex Sper was he taken, € brouht to Bichemunde alfo quik. - Bichard pe Mornile knyght of gode renonn, _ BichardComyn pat while with him com to pe toun. þe Northren ſo wele ſtove in treuth to ye Byng Benry, pat gyſtes he gaf pam gode, € pat was largely. So pat alle pe toper com vntille his grith Df lordes on & oper, Efayn to Hold Him with. ee ontek Henricus fecundus Ren. (27133 Contek in countes alie was peyled wele, ' Baret of baron fers forgyuen ilkadele. .. pan was Inglond in pes € charite, € alle in Yenry gracious kyng € fre... 1 Jn bis nientend sere of his vegalte, . | -- Dé confilio : e» falfftate .. Henry his fonnz bis pere was sit ouer pe fe. FE Pr pe &yng ſiſter of France Henry allied. him to, Here of a deſceyuance pet conſeild. Him. to do, þe erle Philip of Flandres gaf him in conſeile, € Chebald of Pleſence. egged to pat tirpeile, Ageyn his fader to riſe, per he Had. no rígbt : pe kyng of France € bile hight him alle his myght. f an pe fader xvíft pe fonne wild werre on him, ns E 3 blame him not ifhim liſt turne ageyn fulle grim-per EJenri- For pam of Scotlond he ſentWilliam # Dani his ^" | broper, _ Stile blipely pet went, € with pam many oper. pe erle of Leyceſtre pe ofte alic did he guye, DE werre he was per matttre, dight pam to Normundie. | CWhan pei were bp aryued, pet fond pet par. chance : | pat reame was bifeged mith pe power of France. - Henry chaced his fonne porgh force fro toun to toun, pe kyng of France eftfonne left tent € pauilloun, , Philip of Flandres fleth & turned ſonne pe bak, |». € Thebald noubt ne deth, ſchame of pam men ſpak.. Fro toun to toun of reme pe Frankis did pei fle, — Ducrtok it to seme, € laucd pat cite. Dur 134 -Henricus fecundus Rex. _ Dur 3nglís duelled per, vnto pe pes were gicjm. °° po pat per were beforn wild no more com ageyn. | dere] Upon pe firſt day tille Jnglond. forto fare. TING Fulle: fone pe song kyng with gode man pat wer gayn | Be | Purnetd his wendyng, € Bichard fits Jan, pe duke of Peiters, E pe erie of Bretayn, þiſe & oper pers to ſathtillyng did per payn. pite on knees gan falle bífore pe kyngis face, For luf pet prated him alle to grante pe king Hts grace. “sour wrath Him forgyue, pe treſpas to amend, ** Jn pes with sow to lyne, € at sour conſeil deſcend. " “be fonne cam alfo ſaiþe, € cried his fader mercy. pe kyng perof was bliþe, forgaf him gentilly; E he with ſcrite & oth mad obligacion, pat for lene no loth, porgh conſeile of treſon, Suld werre on him begynne, bi water ne bt lond, © Ne his pes breke no tupnne, pe ſonne pertille him bond. Jn alle pis faubtülyng bituex pe fader € pe ſonne Com pe Scottis kyng, € aſked Henry a bone Df grantiſe of grace, to haf his ſeignorte, * Bifor alle in pat place he gaf it him biipeiy. pan wer bope pe kynges broubt alle tille euen, € pefed tn alle þinges, þanked be God of heuen, Reverfi J fà pe moneth of May our Jnglis of was sare, © — pan Henricus fecundus. Rex. 135 Jn fat? Sir-Yenry, nedes burd him wende | — Pp f£ o France €Mormundie, to witte a certeyn ende. dt Parys wild he be, at per parlement. ; pet wille wald he ſe, to what pet. wild: conſent. - At pe duzepers pe ſothe wild he wite, € on what-maners, e wharto he ſuld lite, E whedir pet wild to werre, or pet wild nonbt, Dr alle ín lu£ fperre pat ping pat pet had wronht, €. He lauh wele bi figne, he drouh faſt title elde, .- Long myght be not regne, ne on dis lif belive. .ÞWDherfor Yenry fato he wild, or he went, - pat pe fumme wer laid. of his teſtament, Lifte € 3 falle rede pe parcelles what amonntes, | If any man ín dede wille keſte in a countes, |. Ex poufanb marke tille Acres did he fend. ——— b) Ageyn his comyng pidere,bt marchand; fo he wend; Fifty pouſand mares had he lent abbeíg, De AG ! D mente Fene | pat wer ín pouerte, p pam forto reife... + 21 vici fecundi, | Jlle pat was gyuen, € befor Hand lent, bcn pat was not ín cofre, whan be mao teſtament. | 1 per totum. Df pat pat was in cofre, & in his cofineg, .—. He mad hig teſtament, alg did oper pilgrimes. € To Waltham sede pe kyng, his teſtament to make, € pus quathe he His ping, for bis ſonle ſake, C To temples in Icres he quath five pouſand marke, € fiuc poufand to pe bofpítale, for pet were in karke. CTo pe folk pat duciled, Acres forto fende, Dper five pouſand marke he gaf pam to ſpende, C Tille 536 Henricus fecundus Rex. : | CTille oper houſes of pe cuntze fiue poufand marke he gaf, | Tilleheremites € tiic ſeke men, € oper of fuii raf, | C Tille monkes € to Chanons, pat were in Jnglond, Fine poufand marke vefceyueo pet of His hond, C To poof pat religion, pat were in Normundie, Fine ponſand mark vnto per treforie. CE to mefelic houfes of pat ſame Jond, | pre pouſand mark nto per ſpenſe he fond, | C To ladies of habite, Uflers € Wortayn, abc gaf tuo hundreth mark, 3| trowe pet were fayn. C To po religiouſes pat were in Gaſcoyne, | He gaf a pouſand mark, withouten eſſoyne. C Co paw of Fonnz Eberard, per his body lis, Þe gáf tuo poufanb mark, po ladies vf pris. C To pe ladies of Bretayn, men calle Seynt Suplice, dc gafa hundreth mark, to mend per office. E € Eo pe tjoufeg of Chartres tuo poufand mark bt connte, | . & pte ponfand mark to pe ordre of Grant mounte. | 4L To pe ordre of Ciſtcaus he gaf tuo poufand mark, +. peordre of Clony a pouſand, to lay vp ín arke. ^f pe ordre of 39remonttere tuo hundreth mark pet bao. - Tope ladies of Markajne a handreh mark pet Jad, - C To pc houlkes of Irroys, pat ere bizond pe fe, Tuo hundreth mark porgh teſtament gat he. C To women of Jnglond, of gentille lynage, \ 3 hunderth mark of gold, to per martage. CTogentille, « tille oper, pat were in Normundie, J Hundreth mark of gold pet had to per partte, € €» Henricus fecundus Rex. C To gentille women of Aniowe, of non anancement, Si bunorctt) mark of gold vnto pam was ſent, Withouten pis teſtament pat he did writen, € pe grete trefore tüle Acres was witen, € pat he lent religioufe to bring pam abone, Fourty pouſand mark he aat for Gode loue. 7 Han þe kyng Henry had mad his teſtament, Wa He dight his ofte redy, € to Parys went. Fro . . erwent to Douere pat beſt wer worþi With . . , , , went pet ouer, atired richelt. | fa... . , nd pe folk in Parys, pat ped wele herd, — With fo fayre folk of pris neger no prince ferd. DE pe kyng of France he aſked amendment, pe duzepezs for chance pet vog with on aſſent, E in per conſetle batle per chance on ilk fide, | pet acordid at pe Jaſte, pat pes mot beſte betide. }. - - Whan pes was fet certeyn bituex po kynges tueye,: + - € Normundie pozgh fcyen, tille Jnglond he tok pe weye, N pe sere afterward at midſomer men teld, | -- J pe kyng in Dxenford his pariement held, _ ; d | Bt his writte he fent after bins Willams William dight him € went, tille Oxenford he cam, | .- 1. Kaunt le Rey Henry ad | le Rep alez,atyrez richement. fet ſon teſtament, Il paric- Dount par my Parys eft diſt — ment de Fraunce ſon chemyn coinmunement, Ke vnkes bis enprent. Cons leg mel; ta- | rent Reis oue fi [five ouf ne5 [five vayez] de Douer a | ly] bele gent, Petri noftri ex- . Derwent Sunt one [five ouf] ' emplacia Gallica. Vol. I. | S & 137 1.38 Statutum fatum in- ter Angli- am cr Sco- ciam per aſſenſum, Henricns fecundus Rex. € {aore to kyng Henry pe next Iffumpcton, pat wag of out Lady, fuld com to £02k hie tonm, E bring pider bis clerate of Scottond pe barons. He did ſo certeynite pe day of his fonons. per pei mad thon Homage « feaute, | Not to pe faber alle on, bot tille His heir fato be, E obliged pam with ſcritte, hyngand (ib a ſeale, pat per dede was perte, d his homage leale, — € pe Kirke of Scotland to Canterbirie ore fe ‘Mbliged' pam & band, as to per primalte; - E if pe Scottie Byng milfake th any bratde ' pe barons & pe clergte' tw on wer alle fcbryuem, Unto king Henrie ageyn William Mid be-gynen. E if it fo bet(de, pat any tbete ‘ov felotn © Fle fro Jnglond fide to Scotlond regioun, Bot he mak pam fo wite, wht pat he is comen, "uc NNI C Df treſon tn any thyiig,. ageyn Henry forfatny = pat pe courte may him quite o chance if he be momen. If he be els fanden; ‘for thefe talo € bent, Tille Jnglond bronht alle bunpen, & per fat jugement, C 41s if it fo be, of Scottond'ſkape a thefe, da E tille Ingtond fic, als a felon arcte, ee Wot if he to per baylifes mak his ſikerneſſe, © þat pet. wille him mapnpis, if He wer cald to ſtrelle, If be folowand were ſonhr for pat felonte, - © Ageſnto Scotland be brouht, # per hanged Hie. Whan ; Henricus fecundus Rex. ' ape NAY Pan pis ping was grant, Henry Dred diſceite; ML E Be wild, pat his conant were holden ſtable &. fireite, - | | Be ſeſed fine calicis, e held pam in His wage, |. Foure erles € ſextene bynghtes perfor in his oftage, 4 Sikon of pe knyghtes had a barony, | M pet € alle per rightes were don in bis mercy. [: 9! C Whan Yenry for His owen Had holden pat ſeignorie, » E pe Dede was knowen porghout Jlbanie, UND pe caſtels € oſtagers He sald porgh curteyfie, 9 .. € ' with” William with chartre bond Him tile Penrie, pat be € his beives, & alle pev progente Df Scotiond, {uid Hold of Yenry. .certeynlie E of alle bis cites, € com to per crie, | € homage € caute to mak pam xedie, -... | Whan pis was fet # ſtabled,.# pes. cried on hit, Henry pe song hyng Sede to Normundie, | E died 2 ber pat sere, € birted folemplie. | 1.Abeffe malim. Nam exem- || of the fine young Wench Ro- plara Gallica, par chartre enc | famond, a thing that ftruck alfo ſcle le Rey deſcoz fe lye, 1. e. "very, much upon the young per chartam figillatam Rex Scocie | King's Brothers, Richard and | feipfum obligavit. 2. His death | John. For which reaſon it is, . was much lamented by his Fa- | that we have this Paffage in Ra- ther, notwithſtanding he had | ftall’s Chronicle: This kpnge been a difobedient Son; which | Henrp let crowne henry his diſobedience aroſe (in great | eloptt ſonne kpnge of Engs ‘meafure) out of difcontent,that | lande | and went bpm felfe his Father had abandon'd his | into Normandpe | but his [young Henry's] Mother, [Q. | ſon henry Dyed before his faz Eleanor,) and given himſelf up | ther | and therfore he ts nat intirely (as it were) to the Will | accounted in the nombre of | 3 3 kpnges " a 46i De Balde- wino lepro- fo, & Wit- lelmo Ac- quitane, pro auxilio in Angli- em veni- ' ente, Henricus fecundus Rex. iban pis song kyng was vede &lafo in graue, Fro Jeruſalem com tiyng, pat help bard it haue. Hat tyme in Jernſalem * wad deve a Donhty kyng, (Was blode non of his teme, bot a mayden sing) Baldewyn pe meſelle, his name ſo hight, Noble kyng € lele, & wele semed his right, Nener in his ipue he leſe a fote of ond, The Sarazins gan him dryue, pet were him ener fleand, For foule meſcirie he comond with no man, | Sarazin with maiſtrie nener nonht of him wan. With him was a knyght, € onder him chefetayn, € name couth of myght, William of Jquitayn. Whan Badwyn was bebe, he weddid pe mayden sing, porgh pe Criſten rede William was choſen kyng, For pig bold Baldewyn Criften men gan morne, Gode hap had pe Sazaxin ageyn on vs to turne. be Sarazins on vs cam, ont Criften fone gan felle, So pat kyng William no langere per durſt buclic. Wode com to pis lond, for help « foconr, Kyng Wenry he fond, € ſchewed him alle his ſtour, How pe fails ſoudan deftroied alle pe lond, Slonh tik Criſten man, or els in priſon bond, Epnges pof Enclande. This | cauſe. tbe kynge impriſoned YVenrp his ſon and his. tt. | Elynor His wyfe | whtche bretherne | Johri” | E Kp= | was kept ín priſon tyll the } charve | made warre agapnſt | kpnge dyed | and he kept the | thepr father. Some ſap the | wenche Boſamonve, cauſe of the warre was be- 1. Pro, wag. bers BE. | | | Henricus fecundus Rex. 141 ** pevfote J pray to Fow, hafte pat 5e wer comen, . **15í pis is Acres now biſeged, or alie nomen. C Whan pe kjng it herd, he wept with his ine, Rex lacri- | *' Richazd € Jon his ſonnes fulle Celle, € wile non boul). | : matus eft, pe Criften fo misferd, pe Sarazins did fo pync. He faid, “ Dy ſonne, myn heyre, pat was corouned late, **Of his lif wag my ſpeyre, he myght haf taken pe gate. “Wot now tis 5e dede, myn heyre pat bare coroune, *' perfor J kan no rede, 3| doute me of treſoune. | For if J were of 20nd, pe werre {ald fone. bígpnne, * Aliens fuld fone fond, our heritage to wpune. ©Btchard my ſonne is knyght, with me wild he go, | * Sone fnio we leſe our right, if we were fer per fro. — “ Fayn J wild porueie for Acres, pat cite ** Ordeynd wer ſom weie, how it mot faued be. William tob His lene at our kyng Yenry, | Giftes wele to lene he had richelp. \ Hewent to pc kyng of France, # ſchewed him his refong; | þorgh per ordenance per duzepers gaf reſpong. |. Bifor Str William pe duzepers gat anfuere, *Jt er bot tuo k&yngdams on pis half Grece to were. ** France # Jnglond þiſe tuo regions, Reſponſio * & er in diuezſe lond, € in ſeze bandons : Ins © Henry in Jnglond wonnes, & has trefore inogh, Be pee: er tot. *Eif pat zc were gone, & we went with sow, “bat Richard € Jon wille waken bn mykelle wonh. | © Bot whan kyng Yenzy « his fonnes wille go, ** J1De falle be redy, forts wend with po. William 142 vs Ricardns Rex. [| William went ageyn onto Jeruſalem, Df pile Deve meee i o beame. (P mj. for his iius did fulle grete Honour. | vy To pe martir Saynt Thomas, for mercy € locour, | Sex sere fipen ued he in wo € ſorow fonte. He went oner peſe, € lay in grete langoure. Jn arcte ſckeneſſe € hard he day in Normundie: Tille bim com his ſonne Richard, forſoth, file 65ndelie, | € whan Henry ſuld Die Wichard þorgh bitfivng bond, | | Ye ſuld bis chcnalrie ofc dn pe holy lonb, * 3 ſalle-Jene pe tnouh for to do with alle, ** Fader,” he ſaid, ** for sow certes þider JI falle. Whan He had xegned bere, € felt of fele aflaies, ' Foure € tuenty sere ſex monethes © tuclé dayes, | | Mortuns eft No morc of him to ſeie, be Died fone afterward. | / | Fienricus 39e Uigges (man abbeie, men calle pe Founz Eberard. fecundus, Anno Do- Þ poufand € a hundred pe vete fourſcore € nyne. se, So many gets dt pundred, whan he paſſed pia pyne. Zina moneth mirie, Septembre pe gpnnyng, ‘o Baudwyn of Canterbirte com to coroune pe kyng. - . Bichard at Londoun, opon a Sonenday, Coronacio Remini It Weſtmynſtre tok pe coroun; of Zork. biſhop defháy cardi apud. Was fent: after pat tyde, him felle to be pe toper, i j 4 m id Dpon pe fabere fide he was Bicharde's-broþer. / ; I! Lege, foutre € thritty | fce (TER 31 gift al Fount &c. Nam, Apres. xxx. (iii. | Ebrar Den labbeye De forours ann5. vi, maps. tt. jours 3Du | in MSS. Gallicis. A regalte Rep Wenry cellaynt a ph fis Bichad Kicardus Rex... V X 3 Richard his pallion' bt meffengere iw tom, 25 © 2.77 | € bts confirmacion fro pe courte of Rome; foi. 1! | C Comen er to kyng Richard bope erle € baroun, “pat had pe Lond in ward'porgh out pe regioun, | Knyghtes € burgets, ſerganz ais was refoun, — _ Homage to mak alle weis pat Celle viito-þe coronn, pe pes DID He cric, & puryetd warnifoun, þe'Sarazing porgh: imatiric haf won acres toun,” © © ye by . Inglis & Normant, knyghtes for rewardoanſs wiry eem With Bichard ere in conant ageyn Sarazine folo. j His fader left Him (noub, penyes grete-foyſoun, Us UL C pat he pe way not widrouh'opon his beniſorin, ^c. pe byng of France was went to Saynt Denys to holde Hts prine parlement;.# pez one him íttolot/: 1 PERI pat Bichard prinely his guruetyance dtd (gpnne finitiloquio regis Fran- Dpon pe paemy, pe lond Surrie to wpnne,! oo Cie... Co Paris turned pe kyng; for pat tlk faoe, ^| 9 © € per a ſamenyng hts barong piver gan dzawe; i500 He bifonh in pam alle,’ to conſeil at pat nego; - What! help mot beſt falle, for pe Sarazing reve.) - E telo: pam an outrage, pat Richard perkyng, fou + 7 Wille tele pie viage; withouten my wityng.- [7 Loke how kyng Philip fato vncurteiſly; Mayet haf his lip, € his noſe perby. Forto pat pariement com Richard meſſengers,” pat to Philip wer fent, € to pe duzepers, pe names of pam pat cam was pe erie of Petters, Df Pimarie erle William, # an erle Rogers, - ay: TUNER | Lucas 144. Ricardus Rex. Lncas de Lncie, € Roberd de Coyngners, pife grete Philip of France, e alle his conſetlezs, Ye erle of Jlmarle ſaid, **Bichard onz Jnglis kyng | T © His luf is tille sow laid, « lut is his gretyng, | | At “bat ge wille tats to herte, pe grete noyfe € cric Ricardiedi- © Fro Acres pat comes fo ſmerte, lorn is fo Doeifullic, | re ae * Dur Criften men ere lorn, pe Sarazins alle abone, | Francés < yexfor Richard beforn praíeg sow for lone, * For him pat on pe crotce died for mankynde, <©Bes bope at a voice, in one Sour wille be mynde, * To help pe Criſten men, pat Jheſy Critte boubt, < Igeyn pe ofte paen, pat Him lufed neuer nouht. — © Richard him atires, His wille perto ts feſt, « So mykelle he þider deſires, pat he may haf no reſt, ** JE se of him haf help, € he for sow focour, | “alle pis world ſalle selp of sour grete bononr, _ € Whan pe duzepers herd pe bodword of Richard: To Philip, pet anfuerd, © his fond se falle reward. _ «He -bedes sow luf inouh; se pank Him of his fond. << So noble bot on of sow is non, be water no lano. “Richer kyng is non tn pis world bot xe, « No valianter of bon in Criftendam als he. ©. * Large er po londes, pat his eidres wonnen, ** be bebes of per Hondes porgh reames «2 ronnen. : * Stlner he has ínoub, bis fader Has Him fonden — : *Knyghtes to do his prouh, with ſkrite tilie him er bonden “Co whom Acres falle be soiden alfo títe, * His felanſchip to fle, to God se do deſpite, ait Fl Ricardus Rex. —— 79 RAS o. 3 Flip fent ageyn to Bichaxd -curteyly 11 492 5 peſponſio x Bode bi pocerteyn, ſaid often grant mercy, - 5 FALL E þanked him his gone wille, e his noble fond, E he wild fuifie, & at hig myght {uid fond, | € ſent Richard to fay, pe next Marche folowand:— | He ſuld take pat way, if wyndewild with him ſtand, At MWarſile to,aryue, if. he of lif had ſpace, & i6 þewynde wild dryne, porgh myght € Douce grace. Be praied Richard pe kyng, # alle his men of Gode, To lene for no preching, pat way pat pet ne sade. - _ CWhan Richard had conceyued, pat Philip: perto ſtove, Wis mobles on ſiluez veiled porgh Jnglond alle his gode, Rentcs-# fom feez he comandid. to felle,: © nag — Vendidie : | mobilia e pat burgh no Cites of talíage fuld non telle, - ^ maneria» pe tende fuld be noubt, no pe tuende non make. pe. bífbop of Durham boubt Saberg ,with pe meer. pe bífibop. o£ Wynchelize at pebyng be bouht © - Twomaners title his eſtre, c Bichard willy ihe Foz he.wele vnderſtode of taltage wags grete Dreve, Jt {uld neucg Do gove, ne per withalle fuld fpedes - Namely to pe holp ond, pidez he poubt to go, Jn taliage non. he. bond, nc robbed ne DID wo. ^^ He ſent to-þe Scottis kyng, pat He {uid com € Do,” . _©-mak pes forpat ping, pat he was haldento. Che moneth of Nouembre, afte, Jlhabwemeſſe, | pat wele is to remember, com kyng Wilitam alle ftelle, 7, homa- Batand toCanterbiri, € per galo him his fee, - A is yng Richard oua fire DUO & fcaute sior627 3 regis Scot 107413, J, SUC. Vol.'I. ! T "i EE 146 Ricardns Rex. He mad foz alle po landes, pat he of Jnglond held, € tille pe pes he ſtandes, pat bowes tile his ſcheld, - sit of penyes rounde to Richard gan he bede 7 Sextt poufanb pounde, to mende his mifpede. & Bichard on pis wiſe forgaf it William fo, Toſaue pat ferutfe, pat Maicolme was wone to do Unto pe Jnglis kynges, ag steht was 4 ſkille, E do aile pe comynges, whan bodword'com-þam tille, To'London forto coin, whan pariement- fdio be, Vis cuſtom was wonne, € tak per his linere. ERBichard als quik sald to kyng William - Bokeſburgh € Werwik, pat he in his hand nam. William tok. his lene; His way to Scotland cbeg, Wele mot William cheue, «alle þat-lufes pes. EROS € mykelle ping fellis, filuer forto sare. terre, | Wardans fette he ſtable, trewe menat his myght, pat nener lufed fable, bot mayntend pes « right. Sire Yugeof Durham, biſhop. & man worpt : An oper Sir William, biſhop of Ely. pife ſuld kepe pe 1ond; € pe dignites, Juſftiſes tile pam he bond, to kepe pe lawes a fees; Yuge Wardolf fulle fezs, Willtam Marſchalle his pere, Geftfrey le fitz Pers, William dela Bruere : piſe were mayntenours, to ſuſtene pe coreun, € rightfulle goneznours pe folk in feld € toun. C Now has he bronght to ſtalle, Hig lond tabled redy, E now with his folk alle, he wendis to Normundy, Stabilivit fre Bichard. sit duellis, € purneis him to fare, : Ricardus Rex. E per he purueis him title Acres © Sully, ... SDu Gore's enmys grim he gadres gode party. Jn pe cite of Rouhan his sole fefte he held With many Doubty man, © knyghtes gode of ſcheld, Eo € Monenday pat felle to be next after pe tnelft vay, F^ petyng of France € he, at pe viner of S. Uma), eld a parlement, gode fikernes to make, pat bope with on allent pe way ſuld-vndertake, Ilbon fikered oper with {crite € feale perby, 'Togidere fuore pam breper, wherfor pe clergy . Gaf a grete curſyng on whilk. of pam fo brak, =: Digan a wikked ping, pat enelle bítner pam ſpak, | C Now is Philip certeyn, be gos to S. Deny, | | € Bichard turnes ageyn, to dight his nany, Ye ſerches ilk cofte of alle his ſeignorie, pe Guyours of his ofte, pife wer withouten lie : pe Erſebiſſhop of Anxus, danz Guard of renown, With anoper biſſhop, Bernard of Bayoun, € Richard Uc Cameuile, € Roberd dy Sabloun, € William de Fortis was lord of Oleroun, pite gouerne per naute, now ere pet in pe fe, Toward pe paemte, pider pei Fezned to be. Bichard ſaid pam his wille, © mariners if ze moun, **Iryues in to Marſille, with Gode's beniſoun, pis was pe firſt woke of pe paſſion, As J on on boke gan loke, pe ofte clerke & baron Wer fatland in pe ſe toward Marſille pat toun, Help pam ber pet wild be Crifte Say Simioun. bei | J : 147 | Applicuis in Nor- 7 manniam, Mods para- verunt ſe ad terram fanciam, 148 Ecce mir ds culum c de maris periculo. Ricarday Ree pet had in be Wu a ie SLA ten, der N jet fitte ba digo per — eft pam pe right way, to wend pe wer blynde, - pe right Te of Bretayn, per out were pet went, Jn to'þe fe of Spayjii wer dryuen in a torment | Among pe Sarazins;' bot God, pat grace pam lent, Saued jam atte potymnes fro pet encumberment. Cen ſchippes wer: 'dryuen, porgh ile anifement, porgh a tempeſt? rfnen, “pe ſchipmen Heid pam tchent.” Dn per was on vepe kroken € alle to tent, "- pe nien God gan kepe, pat grace he pam ſent. :» Eft God pet bifonht, to fauc pam tn pat cas, - Sauely to bauen be bronht, for luf of S, Thomas, pat for holy kirke ſyffred martirdam, & God for pam gan wirke, her how a voice cam, I fcbip per ‘wag of London, richely atítcb, 3 hundrcth per in fondon, to ferue God deſired. | Biſide pam on per ſchip com a biſhop 'oun, | pe maſt in hand gan kip, with croice € patltoun, Ea kyng pe fibi, of gold ſchone his coroun, A noþer biftpop pam bi, pe firſt fato his fermoun. pan ſaid pe Erfbifthop to Londrets wordes fuete, “Zan Thomas cour hope, to whom se crie € grete, * (partir of Canterbire, sour bale ſalle 3 bete, * &cynt Edmunde pe martire his help 3 sow bete, * be biſhop S. Nicholas, whos help is ay revie *.To fchipmen tn ale cas, xbjan peíon" him cric. TN Ricardus Rew. - 49 We prc haf pe ward of Gov € ong ladie, “be ſchippes, of kyng Kichard to bepe € How pam bie. After pis biheſte, pat Thomas to pam fato, . ! Sone alie pe tempeſt in. a throwe was lato. pife nine ſchippes gau ride per wyld wynd pam drine, | pet ne wilt to au fide, ne. icd Bs tn to ras | AA 'T Arodo ſar le Bone was 39bütp € "Brezaiv, De Johan- 2, pei ſpas & mad þer-inone,what haven pe mot toward. T jane Jn alle pe cuntre porgh fo grete folk mot men fe, | pat nouper cite ne burgh myght pet in herberd be. | Philip toward Gene his ofte DID alle go, E Kichazd ofte bivone at Marſfille left alle po. - / / C To mere on a while pe trompes blowe alle clere, ABatano fro Ceztle coim Him a melſengere, Fro þe quene dam Jone, his awen filter dere. Abiífor pam euerilkone he told kyng Bichere, Dede is kyng William, pat regned in Ceztile, pat Jone pe lady nam; He Iyned bot a while. pat eric is of Tancre, Geffrey a douhty bnyght, E valiant man of Dede, € to pe coroun has uo ioc regnes after Him, & late had pe coroune, To Jone he is fulle grim, € haldes hir tn priſoune. Werfor kyng Bichard wrathes him € fais, *© Dight vs pide, ward our buſſes © galats, ** Mit ſiſter 3 willie out wyn or J ferrer go. * Bot he bigyn Cezile he turnes fro, * E bot he wille with pes acorve in reſon, Fit fallerewe bim pat res, pat he to onc has Done. bs rjo - Ruaradns Rex. M9. C9, pe Date wag a ponfanb a hundreth € ninetic, LXXXY" bat 1B. was ſatland toward paemic, €. pe fenent day of heruct, in pat ik xere, pat 3| rakend laſt, writen abouen here, pat Bichard tarned to Gene, & whan he com to fond, Philip was mykele to mene, 18. {eke him fond. Bot mykelle he comfortid him, € fipen tok his lene, Toward Ceztle fulle grim, pe kyng he pouht to arene. €. Whan his flete was alle at Cibre eueritkone, Hi pe pape a cardinalle fent Sir Octobone. | ni aps What Richard fpak, € he confelic is € was, Ricardom, ‘CO me it is prine, 3| faut it in no pag. ber dnellid BR, {chip pre dates to geſle, i Bt pat was kyng Phtlep riſen of hig fekeneffe, E was in Cezile ariyed at Melchyne, € after ín a while com 18. cuen as lyne, þe day of þe croice, ín pe herueft tide, Bight als Gode's voice had ordeynd Him to ride, Were þo ſchippes nine, pat B. wend haf lorn, In pe bauen of Melchyne ariued Utitle beforn, It was a Gode's grace, pat pat tk naute Irined in. pat place, pet Richard ſuld tte. Au num pm Dre days in pat cite buellto kyng Richard, ns Ü ," Xo pe kyng of Tancre he fent his letter hazd, Regem. * Ko Deliver his ſifter Jon out of bis prifon “Den mad tille him grete mone, it was without reſon. ** Bot he delinezhir me with luf, at my pratere, * pat tyme faite he ſe, ſcho ſalie be boupt folle Mise pis Ricardus Rex. IST @ pis &yng of Tancrede he wag a wys knyght, _ Be fauh ít was to drede, € He did not alle right. He faub Richard an (tcp, a his mykelle myght, iis folk armed € tired, € ay redy to fight, De fent his fitter Fone with mjkelle honeſte, With his barons ilkone, to MWilchines pat cite. Philip was curteife, ageyn dame Jone he seve, «Lüle bír broper paletfe with grete honour did ede. N (loe was per bilide, pat a Sarasin held, Cronage he gat bí tide to Criſten men, pet teld. dilas! fato Richard, pat ener ít {uid fo be, pe€ritten porgh forward ſuld grant a Sarasin fre, I water pat cloſed it in, pat Qum was de la fare, te pe wonnyng of pe Sarazin, pat tide hight Labamare, Kyng * Bichad it wan, e tille his ſiſter (t gaf, |. pe Saraztns tih man he flonh alle rif & raf, An oper tive biſide, men cald it Griffonie, Bichard pat tis tide, He did pam alle out fite, pe toonnyng of pat tide Richard gon pam rene, Was non of pam fo wiide, pat lenger Durtt þer lene. | C Whan pe folk pie herd, pe burgets of Meſchyn, | per gates ageyn him fperd, e wild not lat him in, Wherfor þe contek on pis mane? it cam, E for pet did pat chek, an oth he ſnore to gram, Bot pe kyng wild mende pat pet oto him þere, - 3 ping he ſaid ſende, to do als lawe (t were: Fulfille pe teſtament of kjng William pat was, pat tille his ſiſter ment for dowerie pat treſpas, é ; 1: Dice * 152 Ricardus Rex. € bot he Salo ít alle, pat is writen pet in, De fictions With luf, els Ji falle with werre fond him to wyn. lip. ii C Whan pc byng of France Herd po tipinges, pat fo avete diſtance was bitucy po kynges, Conſeil gan he take, pat he fuld be partie, 2 gode acord to make, forſoþe fulle fayntite. EUN, Nopeles pe kyng of Tancrede did fulle curtetfly, sue dv ſa- (To kyng B. he seve, € ſaid he was redy, ET þe teſtament to fulfille of kyng William, — eredi, E pat His men fulle ile onfbilfully nam. < E prated bir of grace to dnelle ‘pat with pe byns. Bile pre vayes tide Richard mad fotonre, pe barons bi pat fide dtd him grete hononre. " Whan Richard fulo wend, he tok dene at 'Taneres, $ - =] = eee ee TS )LLEPEG Tancrez was fulle hend; conueted him tuo fournes, 3i Gaf him four ſchippes grete, e were of way beforn, dis be tuo charged with whete, pe toper with oper cozn, & fiuc oper galcíg with alle per apparatle, | Bichard was curtets, panked His tranatle, —— & Bichard at pat turne gat him a faire Jaelte, pe gove fucrd Caliburne, pat Irthur laffed fo welle, C pan fato Sir Tancrede vnto Richard out kyng, « God, pat ſanes at ede bope pe olde € sing, d « Kepe pe fro miſchance, € fro pe fals enmys, * pat er with Philip of France, cuer ageyn b vis. « i Hugh of Burgoſn he ſent a letter vito me, * bat 3| ſuld, or pou went, “be bitraied pozgh pe, « & if werre ot wo had rifen vs bituen, « be € pine to flo with me he fald hane bien, « ye foth pan ſchewes it, pat my ſawe is trewe,” c Sir hak here pig writ, e ſchewe him alle newe, « JE he it geynfay, F wile prone it on him. C Tancred went his way, € Richard wer fulle brim. iR. tok his lene, Sir Boger turned € went, EB, | gan him arene, to Philip pe letter fent. — C pe naníccom on a ſtounde, to Meſchyns pat cite, Wiforn Him he founde his ſiſter € his meyne. Ricardus Rex... | 15y / 35. with Philip. Dele wild he nonbt. : | goyiíp bote on. his iyppe, € perceyneo B, pouht. | Whi pat it ment, Philip gan afpte : I wiles to iB. ſent, how long he wild per lie, E what time he Had tight fozward bis nauie, His ſege to. fette € Digbt, to help pe Criften crie?,.. CB. anſuerd per tille, € ſaid, © it is, foly,. ecce ** Forto amend Four ftat J wille conſctloure, juo amputavit nafum 1.Qnyoun e Reymound rez | quis tere ne tenement in the fuum cum " nenent ünement, Pur coe | French, tho’ in one of Mr. An- cielo. [five ceo] gil ne ount con- | ftis's Copies ne ountis wanting. a St indo Rex. “Sir kyng Jfakin J am pi vanafoure, ** My nam ts Statin, 3 wille be no tzaitoure. **I haf kept pi land, J ſe pat dihonoure licen now pe nerhand, porgh pis conquerour, *! bat an Jnglis kyng, a wys werreour. **Loke pou iefe no ping for pi fole erronre, *Ne pelond be not lorn, pat pin ancefloure “So wele kept biforn, als noble gonernoure. **Go € mak his pes, or he do þe more ſtoure, **Epou to pt defes may bat pe frute € floure. pan ſaid Jſaac title him, “ert pou his mayntenour 2 Fulle bropely & brim he kept vp a trencheour, € hatt it at Statin, did him a ſchamfulle {choure, Bis neſe & his inc he carfe at mifauentoure. I Latin vp he ſtirte, him poubt perof qrete ſchame, BS a ) “Sir pou has ine hirte, perfor pou ert to blame. 21s fo fuipe be sede vnto kyng Richard, € {chewed him all pat dede of Jfaac pe coward. ** Str be my focoure, € venge myn outzage. BR. did Him honoure, € he mad him homage. Statin wele pan lete, he salde him alle pe honour Df Waak e Butnet, 2 pat he of Js Diendamour. CORR CE 7725088 OPNS SR NOUS ger dr pe grow versas: coc NE E | 1. Deeft eg, (i.e. is.) Nam in | and Diendamour. For the Codicibus Gallicis, Me Reis | French Copies have, 2baffe &' eſt des Englays, eſage gwe= | Buffenet, Candare € Den reyour. 2. Le. Diendamour, | Damour, Et totes leg cites that he had of Tſaack, But it | dount Flake fu gwyour. — thould be rather read, Candare - Caſtcls | Ricardus Rex, 167 Caftels € cites pat he he of Jſaac held, Baronies € feez, he sald him ilk a ſcheld, pe grete lordes Jnglis, pat pe werre had gonnen, Wer fuile glad of pis, Cipres fo fone was wonnen, € fide of S. Andrew was an Bbbay, Cape pe name men knew, per in herd pei ſay, pat kyng Jſaac was priuely hid per tn, nat ‘eh | To B. fo bet ſpak, he went him out to xopune. - PERRA | ALL atta UGE | Ifaac tiping herd, 18. com Him to ſeke, abſconditus | Igepn B. he ferd, to fote he felle fulle meke, Hop | € fato, © Sir mercy, my life bou faue it me, “Do not pat vilany, fettred pat 3 be. | | | “Fn priſon pou me do, bot nonht in bondes bynde, | * 3 pray sow it be fo, for ſchame_ of my kynde, Said iB. “pou ſalle hane at pin owen Denys, L pt life Ji falle pe fauc," Jſaac he did vp rife. ED dele,” ſaid pe kyng, “pis is a tole Briton, “ He ſpak no maner ping, fox regne to gif raunfon, . “eno ping Him biſouht, he was of kynge's blode, * Bot for priſon bífoubt, als folc pat couth no gove, bi Now er his anens xotoubt, of ſiluere wele ouer gilt, * Dayet pat perof rouht, his was alle pe gilt, | Taken is he to lobe to Berenger € Fone, | E pet him vndirtoke po ladies eucr ilkone, | |o Statin gat 18. pe cite in kepyng, 'E bad him be ſtiward, als ore was with pe kyng. | 1, Et 1c Bey Richard ad | {chal bc Cyprela garde des 'mayntenannt donez Bl ſene- | cites, ÞPartaunt coc a ein % 168 Cipria cone queſta eft per Regem Ricardum. ‘pat bies woule €wyne, € {ellis with conant. “Do com,” ſaid Statyn, © burgets € merchant, Ricardus Rex. For Iſaac did him ſchame, His lord fuld be, pet cald him pis toname, Statin pe nafee. Ow is Ctpres lorn fro Iſaac € btfe, 32 E to 13. ſnozn for his valtantífe, þe mene folk (comonly fulle gode men & wife) Com to his mercy, Doand him feruife, *E knyght € ſquiere, € mab pam sour tenant, “Cites € tounes fere, hofbond « fergant, ©E tak of pam homage, as cuſtom is & haunt, I gretebulle € gay, fulle hie of ſaile wag be. | pe weder was fulle ſoft, pe wynde held pam (tile, | pe ſatle was hte o loft, pet had no wynde at wille. | Jn Philip naute of France a pencelle pet put onte, | His armes on a lance ouer alle pe chip aboute, So mykelle was pat barge, it myght not lightly fatic, € fo heuy of charge, € pe wynde gan faile, To wite what pet were went a marinere, \Beſpons pet gat him pere, “pet were men of miſtere, oM Fro Antioche were went onto kyng Philip, ** & for vs has he fent, & bia ts pis (chip. | ERES 12516. Val. L. Y Said 170 Ecce dicit Rex. Ricardus Rex. Said pe ing BB. * Str prince 1£ pou be, © **45i tyme turne to me ward, for J willie ſpeke with be. i pe prince com fulle fone, Stz Richard did he calle, © Do Dight € mak sow bone, pe (chip ere Sarazins alle, **Tille Xczes pei pam rape, venom for our men icde, * E if pet vs aſcape, pe Criſten may pam drede. pan cried Btchazd on hie, ** now batale vs beiyne, © þ62gh help of our ladie, pat ſchip falic alle to ryne. t Fik man pat may wynne tok to his partie, 1 1] To fct cbalange per inne falle no man be hardie. pe kynge's owen Galete, he cald it &ventbemere, pat was firſt on” weie, # com pe ſchip fulle nere. Dper were per inowe, pat per after dronh, Bot he com with a ſuowe, pat pe ſchip to vot. pe ſchip caſt trokes ont, pe galete to pam oroub, pe kyng fione fulle ſtout, € many of pam ſlonh. 19;lde fire pet balk, pe kyng to confound, igs ſchipmen were fulle wralk, els Had he gon to ground, pe kyng abatft him nouht, bot ſtalworthly fanht, dle to Dede be bronht, pat his Galeie ouer raubt. pe galcte per porght ſchete, € pe kyng was gode, be ſchip pat was fo grete, it dronbled tn pe flode. pet teld fiucten hundred Saraztns, pat Drenkled were, Fourti @ ſex wer ſundred, & alle po were ſaued pere. be ſumme couth no man telle of gold pat was per in iE oper riches to felle, bot alle mot pet not wyn. 1, Et ait [five eyt] cheſcun | fauns altre id Codices | ia gwayne [vel fon wayne] ! Gallia. : pe - c Ricardus Rex. UO og > pe venom alle pct. bent, in pe fe caſt it away, pe folk ít mot haf ſchent, pat about Acres lay. Irmoar pet had plente, € god beſquite to mete, 3t fanke fon in pe ſe, half myght pet not gete, | Richard bade, “hale vp hie sour ſailes, per God bs icde, * Dur men at Acres lie, of help pet haf grete nede. . pe vate was a þouſand, a hundreth nienti € one, | Fro Cipres he was fatiand, a toun he wan acon. 'C @is grace of God wild be, pe wynde gan him dryue, Ricardus j ; niet pe euen of pe Trinite vnder Acres K. gan aryue, kt iro Dame Jone & Berengere bifor him fond he eft: Acres, Iſaac pe Emperere at Cripies was left. pe folk of Griffonie, whan 18. was gone, 'ToStatin had envie, a monk pet ches ilkone, pat Jſaac cofpn was, € coronned him for kyng, pet did a fonle treſpas, it was vnſemly ping, —— Statin wiid pei greue, miſpated was Boberd, Pe fato, “pei falle miſcheue,” whan he pat tiping bero. Night & day pet woke, Roberd © Statyn, | porgh force pe monke pet toke, € brought him to Cheryn. sit he ſkaped out, pe monke of priſoun, 2 pet cried, “bas armes about Roberd fro toun to tour. | pe folk whan pet were comen to Statyn € Roberd, Eft be monke pei nomen, at Cheryn pet him fpero. Dpon pe prid day pe folk be DID fomonne, | Lered men € lay, fre & bond of toune. se 0 LL es 1, Le Rey Richard les ſp- | hors de 1a prifone noctauntre gles comaunde eſchaucer, Et | eſt paſſe, Statyn ¢ Robert haſter vers Jkres, les Cri- | af armes ount crye, Gallice. feng eyder, Gallice. 2, On! Y s E JDe mona- cho rege fafpenfo. X “ at > ae 5 " "ud P E Ricardus Rex. A queſt pan wild he take of pe monke pat bate pe coroune, ijíg abite he gan foxfake, His ordre lete alle Doune. € sit a noper ſawe of beboucs be ſpoken, — Ageyn pe comon lawe, pe prifon has be broken. Som chefons pei caſt, ¢ ſom for him fato, Wot here now at diu — dome was on didi lato. Lo Aid Sit Roberd, “monk pou was whilom, = EL For wirſchip of pe werld forſoke pou alle + fom, | “€o God pou mad a vow in pi profeffionn. | ‘is traitour ert pou nox», pou did Him a treſoun. ** For pe worlde's bitfle pou left pin Habite, *E now pou oft for wiſle of boþe ert pou quite. © Ye toke pe als robbourc in pis Uk cuntre, * pou veft pe kyng his honour; pat felle vot onto pe. **To Chezyn pat ilk toun, pider was pou led, "(per pou brak prtfoun, © away pou fled. * Eft we Did þe take, in priſon we pe bond, * bat lawe 3i falle pe make, pat fg Bichard lond. *' Galwes Do se reife, € byng pis cheitefe. 1 *c Wetter him wer with eífe in cloftre Haf led his life, ** be ſeruile of bis ſong recorded € lered, “ban chalange with wrong pat kyng B, conquered, "*E pt mefle ſongen, € ferued God alle myght, ** pan to be hongenin pi frendis fight. qi Ow of pig olbe monk € pis new kyng, y my pat was not worth a fonk, Don has his envyng. | ; þ % , Ricardus Rex. 173 . pe folk was alle peſed; to Statyn wild pei cheue. Of Statyn pat was ſeſed' Roberd toke his lene pe ſailes, as men ſais, ſom were blab € bio, | With riccheſſe tnouh, pat he to Acres ied, € teld byng 1K. how of alle pat he had ſped, *: bc folk of Griffonie a monk peícbefe tokyng, - - * Sib 3faak a partie had mad a chalangyng. * Jn Cipres wer pet comen, per maiſtrie gan pet kipe, * € we ageyn pam nomen, €tok him als fuípe. */To Cheryn we him led, € per he brak priſoun. © Eft we toke him fied, broubt him ageyn to toun, ** be courte opon vim ſat, pe queſt filed Him # ſchent. * For trefpas of pat, He toke jugement. “Aas! for vilente,” ſaid 13. pe byng, “‘bata kyng fulo ſo die, hanged for no ping! © BRoberd pou ert to blame, pou Did ageyn reſoun, ** Certes pou has don ſchame tille alle pat bere coroun, * Sir,” ſaid Roberd, “per of is not to ſpcke; “tate alle pis be ſperd, on Gode's enmys pe wreke, « Siben Philip htder cam, he gaf never nion allaut : © Jt wer mykelle ſcham to mak futlk a defaut, “<4 partie has pou ſped, þanked bsGod alle myght ; * cit falie pou mak pam Dred, or com a fourtenyght * Do reiſe vp pin engyns, € xoy of pam-piſe dikes, © ^j trowe pe Sarazins out comyng millikes. . T Ichard als ſaiþe did-reiſe his engyng, " Ricardus i WR pe Jnglis wer pan blipe, Normans EPeteuyns. r dad Jn bargeis € galets he ſet myines to. go, lum, "$74. Lamenta- tio facta ad Regem pro fame Chris flianorum per epifco- Prim, Ricardus Rey. Som were rede € grene, pe wynde about pam blewe, I ſelly fight to lene, fize pe failes prewe. pe ſtones were of Bynes, pe noyfe Dredfulie & grete, It affraicd pe Sarazins, as 1cnen pe fire ont ſchete. pe noyfe wag vnride, it laſted alle day, Fro morn tile enentide, pet of had many affray. To while pet had wondryng, of pis pat bet ne knew Stove B. our kyng, be chyne in tuo bc hew, € fefib pe Sarazin dikes, mangre pam euerilkon, Now pe Harazing miſlikes, to Wahoun mad pet mone. Dar Criſten wer tulle fayn; pe faul 15. pertn, - pe dikes wer all drawen with iren chynes prin. €" Certes," ſaid pe Soudan, pat was tn Acres toute, Achard was yaſtif, & anfuerd pat ſtund; ALY © Certes pon lies cheitif, e as a ftinband hund, **Yere ere a pouſand mo more wo2þi haf pris, TR pan he pou tellis fro, pat tik traitoure mazchis. *Jt falic anaile him nouht, pat he sour Soudan fent. ** 3 ie pat he has bonht pe lond with his preſent, ** © pig lond is oute, € our right wonyng, * For out ancefloure hereof was he kyng, “Ese ere our eninys, pe Criftendam to fptile, -* & now ts pemarchis turned to sour wille, ** ^3] 2ede ont of pis ofte pe marchis go his gate, _ © Bt God pat myght has moſte, be may go to late. © If he porgh traptorte ſalle be at sour denys, **^3$ falle do him hang bie, or drawe with runcys. a Aid pe kyng of France, 38. wht art pou wroth, e» **What is sour diſtance, pat He is pefo lot? — * € be is aentülebnygbt, ofbynge's blode comer, _ SFE he wtth vnright oubt of pin haf nomen, +» ; He falle at pi wille mak alle pin amendes, | **E late alle be fille, pat pou Him defendes, CSaid pe kyng 18. © Sir, at zout honoure, *© Jn pat ilk fozward he selde me my tzeſoure, Hii Vol, I. | Z Na / 178 Ricardns Rex. “bat my fadere Benry gaf to pe Moly lond. * Toc toke ít wikkedly ont of pe Yoſpitelers bonu. ** Fourti poufand pounde, € if he =elde ít me, * Ihe ſalle fare «€ founde als frendes falle to be. Sir Philip ſtile he ſtode, worde ne fpab he more, Jn pat ſame way pet sode, right als it was ore, RBichard aſked po landes, pat be Criſten wan Dat of pe Sarasíng handes, € chaced pe Soudan. pe Sarazins wild not zelde fo mony Jondes fere, Ne pe bynges ne wilde acorde in oper manete. => Jit tile our Jngiis men was fchewed a mervaile I ate | A parte was ſchot to þem,bot non wilt who it fchete. Jn pe ſchaft was purtreit, porgh pe holy goſte trowe 3l, Fece mira» In nomine patris, it ſaid, & filii & fpiritus ſan, CU. Was neuer Criſten man coupe perceyue pe certeyn, Ne wilt what tyme no whan it paſſed ont eft ageyn. Jt com fro pat tureile, pat 18. had Doun ſmyten, Alle pe Sarazing conſeile in pe ſchaft was writen, E alle per ordinance, kyng RB. tt wife, | Jt was a fulle faire chance ſchewed porgh Jheſq Crifte, B. mad pankyng to Jheſa for pat fond, E for pat ſchewyng to wirſchip him fuld he fond. =D Philip © Richard pe Sarazins fatd pet wild, 2 | , Jn a gode forward, pe toun to pam seid, 1.3 Phelipp € Richard les | Sarecyns volaint Souent la | cite Ricardus Rex. 179 Df Jeryſalem pe iand pet fato he ſuld it haue, - - petto tuentt pouſand of Criften men to ſage, pet treiftid not per tille, bot pet did ít in Dede, pe kynges with gode wille onto aſſaut sede. B. had minoures, pat myned bndere pewalle, Acres Gi- . 9 pece with a grete cours at ons felle voyn alle, PARE pe Frankis bare pam ftoute, pe myned bope € caſt . cadum. Unto a toure Maudut, € wan ítat pe laſt. pe Savazins fom pet flonh, € ſom for Dreve fled, It pa: tyme mele inouh pe Frankis manly ped. pe Jinglis at per triſte bifor pam bare alle doun, EB. als him liſte pe way had redy roun. " mille Criftiens qen grifoun | 1. Le ouk de Aultrice f | auaínt. Ne Phelipp ne Mis orent. & banere deſplye, Gall. ind . fRovo has 18. entre, & Acres taken eg, pe Sarazins com tulle fre, € offred Him grete riches. 'Nto Philip of France pe Frankis mad a crie, f “bt worſchip to auance com in als kyng Hardie. *© Com in ag lord of £c, for Hedeles ere pet hopped ** & flayn alle may pou fe, pat pi way (topped : € now is Acres taken þozgh B. pe conquerour, His banere held pam waken was put of o toute. Kyng Philip did alſo, his baner was forth lato, E righ it elle perto, for no man him withlaid. C * pe erie of Ditrece cam, & put His banere out, EB. aſked porgh wham pe ezle bare Him ſo ſtout. cite rendre € bien promet- | chard de ceo ſe affyaynt, Wes taynt, Ke 1a ſeinte tere Fes | de jour en altre al allalt a- rufaiem rendraynt, Et vint | laynt, in Codd. Gallicis. quin X. , t 280 Ricardus Rex. diyng iB. porght hatte after pe Erle ſent, E aſked, © of what ſeignorie holdes pou iond « rent, “pat pou has put out Here pt baner for maiſtrie, “Among kynges baneres, withouten auowrie 2 £ Ir,” ſaid pe duke, © J am now comen here, aa » P» pite Saraztns to rebuke, & ſlo at my powere. * My lond J hold with right,at no man's dome, * Bot of God alle mygh, € Saynt Petir of Rome. <1 Jf pou to non pat lynes,” ſaid B. ‘pow chene ne bows, “bi lond men ſalle gife tille one pat may it vowe, Grete ſcathe afterward in a litille p2axoc Com tille kyng B. for pat envios fawe. Deobfdi- — q(7W Dw af pe Criſten won Acres pat was lori, alvi Hp ot di P x Pe Sarazins ouer ron with force € Doun born. i er ne pe folk was mykelle € ſtrong, of mete pet had gzete ne Pn;- lippi. neve, pain bard departe per prong, pat lond mot pam not fede. pet parted pe ofle in tuo, porgh comon acordance. B. wille was fo, fo was Philip of France. a caſtelle was pet biſide fro Aczes a jorne, Grete {cape tt did bi tide to pe Crítten in pe cuntre. pat caftelle hight Pilgrym, of alle it bare pe flour : pe Sazazins Rept it pat tym for per chefe warinftour. quin & Duk etiam infra in MSS. | plane habet. ! j Gallicis. Adeo ut apud inter- j 1, Size Duke, diſt le Reis, © pretem noftrum idem valeat | par le fiz Marie, St tu nag '- erle quod Dub, id quod paullo | ſeygnoyr, ta tere ert altrye, — poft etiam liquet, ubi Dube Gallice. fl ras pat | j Ricardus Rex. pat caftelie was fulle ſtrong, € tlle for to wynne, be Sarazins kept it long, pet wer (novo pez in. Philip went him pidere, pat caſtelle to conquere, spe Frankis alle togidez DID nouh whan pet com pere. C Richard ofte forth ran, € grace bifor him fond, Juht jornes he wan with ín pe Sarazins lond. Philip pat per lay to {pede bao he no grace, Jt was not worpe an ay, his Dede no His manace. B. herd it ſay, he Dred an ofte mot ſkip Wehind, € ſtop his way bituex him € Philip, ** € if pe Soudan ros opon Philip of France, pe morn men him fand, € pe frere Waudwyn, —— Facobi. | | Welchifaſyn, [five Wettphaz | chimpn] MSS. Gall. 2, Le | ſin]Seygnour de Galyle € del | Bey Yenry ton gere en chaz | Jen ou Cayn Tua fon frere | el Conftantyn Engendra | Bbel par [vel on] feloun en- | ma mere fur dame Avelyn, gyn Codd. MSS. Gallici. Countcite ve 1a Marche, pur — 1.Stre Jaqes de Aucunes, Dieu € Scínt Martyn Uenez | [fivediuenues) verray peiryn, | venger ma morte fur cco Sa- "cfcygne dela croice € prent | racyn, Codd. Gallici. fon chemyn [live chymyn vel A > Ricardus Rex. 3) frere of pe holpitaile, pe erle's ſoiine Paulyn, Was lord of Mortan alle ¢ of Mouttt © QBodyn. f Dan B, Herd ſay, pat James was lay, & Ye wend for dole to dey,he com ag a wode man, 2 ESaladynſauh him cain, per of fullewele he lete, @geyn B, he nam, togider gan pet mete, & kyng c a Soudan of alle pe worlde pe bette. B. tille Him ran, a ſtroke on him be feſt, He ſmote him in pe helm, bakward he bare his troupe, pe body he did onerwheltn, his heve touched pe croupe, Ye felle Doun with pe dynt, bot fon he ros bp light, Derneyg nonht ne tynt, bot eft of Hors tulle wight. asta 13. at pat ture pe don he wan fulle wele, Ricardi & For Sarazin ne wild he ſkurneþat were of his efchele. D edi Fourti poufand patent, what vrenkled & what Mayr, E a poufand Criften, fo was pe tale cetteyn. For foth pe prid eſchele fulle hard was bitten, pe tempiers ik a Dele failed € pien fled. pesverle.” bakward was born, «alle pe Frankigmen ~ .. . Fulle nere had’ pet bien Tori, bot pet cried: help Criſten® © pe erte bigan to crie, “turne e help os Richard, © © Dr c1g faile we die, pat ere in pis zereward. "1. Morph Codd. Gall. re ja. funt encountrez, : flaunt Saladyn_ ly batt 6. Gallice, 3.Duk De Pugna e bone tolentes Aproche al Key Codd. Gall. | Ricardus Rex. 195 Cx, Ir,” ſaid byng Guyon, "tutne ageyn, I reve, us © Fuankis © Burgoilion, elg alle gos to deve, **be Soudan Saladyn bag pam nece conquered, © be templers magre myn, falg pet er € ferd, * 4€ pet had ftanden neve, pe myght bat wonnen pris, © Non dos per denere, bot Raynald pe marchis. Said þe kyng B. “if pe duke be taken, * Jt falle be pam hard, bot pet a£ him forſaben, pe flom fone he left, ageyn toke his gate, þe duke fro þam he reft, welnere he. com to late. 2 pe duke at pat batatle loft ſex € pritty knyghtes, . . pre hundreth of pedaile, a hundreth ſezgeanz; at vighteg, pe duke alle peſe les, € po, hat-were olyue, | B, for alle pe pres fanely did. pam. to tyne. | It pat tyme B, bere many aman, ſlonh he, pe kynge fonne of Dare he {mote in tuo his tbe. | pe Soudan Saladyn he was, fulle vnfayn, | | He fled with mykelle.ojn, onto pe mountayn, | B. has pe pris at pe flou. of Ciſare, | pe Sarazin force. doun.his, Jheſy we pan pe. . De Jeruſalem de Key | youre chiualers trent € ſys, Gazoun gentyis. Diſt al Rey | Trets cents de petayle, ſert: | Richard, Sire tournez levys, | aunts cente dye. Ct De cel | Le ak € fa efchele ſunt ta, eſchele, qaunts qe ſount vez | taunt ſupris, Le Soldan Saz | mys, Set ic Bey paſſer le | Jaoyn apoy [fivead poy, vel a | fium a [vel ad] lont amys, | poy] les ad conquys, Codd. | Codd. Gall. Gall. 2, Le dub pardiſt cel | ! piſe, 192 Saldanus Vents trae Gare pa- cem. © 1 ib 1-488 » ; Ricardus Rex. : F,, Jfe Savrasing were fo feſid, pat fled was Saladyn, Pp E Ciſare has he ſeſid, Japht ¢ Joppyn, . -— «aves #Ilcalon, alle has kpng Richard: Under him kyng Gnyon had pam alle in ward, pe duke was tn a cas, his wondes wer fo grym, pat His leche was in (lle hope of him, E B. was fulle Dred, pe leche mot him not fauc." (Tile Acres pet Him led, better hele to hane. In per way ik Dele pei fond votde als hcthe, pe toun of Mount Tarmele, pe toun of Nazareth, pe rong caftelle Pilryn, pat firſt wonne was, alle tok Ricardyn, Caloyn « thayfag. Jlkon pile pet ſeiſed, tome alle pet fond, Seke were per heiſed, heled pam of wound, @ pe Soudan to BR: ſent, to ſpcke togider in glath, For pe pes tt ment, € of no maner wrath. Ne no ping {uid it grene onto pe Crifttente, pe barons ſaid bt lene, welcom mot he be, Saladyn come pider pat day pat he ſette, pe barons wer togidez, pe kyng € pam he grette. C**Sir,” ſaid Saladyn, © þi God has grete powere, _ ! Wherfore to.ſom, of His he ſchewed-pam pe (hog: "Jug To treus on. alle wiſe him, bury grant pertélle, +: 1-7 bri Ay Der po mount/Thabor, in a faire medne, — 07 Mg. Bope pe parties wer porc to.conteilc for pe treus- | 2 * Gir," fatu Salabyt, ** is it,þ1 wille-to supe “bis vay is myu. € pin, cbefe pou. noxo xobat xoay... For Safadpnis fawe 33. Had enuíe; (oi ioc] és " pat fame pat he pet. faid, fowelentt was of. din Jn boke itx»ag bp laid, gítis idatosattacaia 5m E B. pis anfucrd to Saladyn for tzen, : 0 o. es For po men pat tt wed wrote o8 a pO alit new, ; » sew Reus pou aſkes a nod fort tuo mend or iin s ^ “bomen, pat pe bnowe, ſay pow f&orneg me.-— < be folk of patemte pexooro per of fer gos,” — “ME alle pat ſeignorie porghout pinis pe logs 9)” * Jn armes 19 pez mone, pat to pi renonn reches, | * WDperfor pou has gone, & of pi prueſle- preches, | E I. Le Rey Richard as vns lami venuz cn amour fauns la chos certifye, Et a parler | boydie, Ct prye al Rey iz ve trewe al Golban plus fe | chard, qc ſon plaſir ly Dye, piye, MSS. Gall. 2, Eft Sa- Codices Gall. Bb 2 *pat Wherfore a gode prawe be tod in deis ive as D 19$ De pace ivatiata ev ordinata per Ricardum € Saladi- num. (196. Ricardus Rex. “pat if poutte mot mete bt onr felnen tno, “ My lif Fl \uld forlete, or my yede for go. "€ if pou votile it prone, pat pow ert fo worpt, “a fede tille out behone here is on alle revi. ©* Now for pi-grete valow, J afk pea bone, © pat or we grante trew, fight we als fo fone, ^ pat on non oper ſide body fo bolde to be, **On fote ne hors 2ide, to focour me no pe. ""Ewhilk of vs is doun, € mad is recreant, ^ Cleyme € accioun he iefe, & pe remanant * Of pat tik land, pat Criften ener audt, * pat pet held in per hand of God pat pam it tauht. €. pan ſaid Saladyn, * if pon fond any man, " €títen or Sarazin, ' pat what tyme or whan, “3 mad anancement with þe alone to fight, * Bot J to bataile went for tny reame's right, “Pere 3 falle pe gyne alle myn heritage, . *Ealg long as J 1yne to be in pin oftage. C pe matter of pe Cemple com procurand pe pes, *No more of pis to demple, tak pat pat se firſt ches. Saladyn for alle hiſe hette to hold conannt, Seven sere at his deniſe, & B, per to grannt, pat dk a Criften man ſuld hold € hane certeyn Aile pat he per wan, € no ping Feld ageyn. —_— Y. Id eſt;that knows or can tell what &c, . Now Ricardus Rex. — "o das Ow ig it in forward alle pefed ¢wele ent, | 32 Now turne byng B. tile Jcres is he went. Ifter kyng Guyon € for his fonne he ſent, _ Df Antioche Reymon him alfo he ment, Junfrey of Curoyn he was per preſent, Df Triple erle Bumoun fulle futpe pider glent, Str ' Rufffn broper Leoun, alle pife held parlement, ( KyngB. his reſoun fato pam, “ how he was ſchent, ' | * Philip did him treſoun, deftroied His tenement. * For to ftanch his foyfoun homward haf J ment. © Normundie alle doun, mykelle per of is brent « Dummods + T Jon did Him treſpas, His rentes tok e folv,, - a oy | | His cattels ſeſed & brak, bigan a grete diſtance, ful ultra € neuer no word {yak of BR, Deliucrance, ndi d [ys Bot als a kyng oflonb Jon bare him fulle toute, .— ies perfor BR. wele fond with dome to chace him oute;; . © 1 multis in- E deme him als a noper, for his \bnkynd folte, <4.» 5" doin 2 To kyng B. his broper Jon mercy gan crie; 13:163.50 7þ per moder pam bifouht, for tobe at-one, Df trefpas pat he had wrouht B. forgaf it Jon . € ſaid, “pi miſdede be in þi_mynſpng, |. *' Euer more to drede, eft to do futlk ping, | *E 3 wtlle nener more on pt trefpas penk, “Bt pou repent pe ſore, pat pou did fuil a blenb. » Vol. I. XC: ed Biz 202 Ricardns Rex. De tint FGehard to Londen wendes, to hold parlement, jeg For his bazons fendes, € pet alle to him went. Bt Weſtminſter ilkone parlement pet Held, To pam he mad his mone, € pus to pam telo. - CE Lordynges of my chance wele 5e aub to wite, -« & pat pe kyng of France wille me Ditherite. * For pat J was biftad bigond pe ſe in hold, «perfor Philip is glad, « beres him fulle bold. * dy caſtels he takes, € ſeiſes my cites, « Deſtruction he makes of rentes € fees. « xherfore barons dere, fais me a gode certeyn, *« De feritate be monkes of Canterbire fro per cloíüere pam fep,.. 5 Job. E gaf it to Brabans pe clo(tter ín bepyng.. - horgh conſetl of Satbang wrouht per Jon pe kyng, |» / pe pape ſauh out of cours pe wikkednes of Jon, Him e his fantours he curſed eucrilbon, E enterdited pis lond, pat melle was non ſaid, I ded man if men fond, in kirke zero was non latd, Vol, I. j OL d Þe 210 Johannes Rex. . Ve wag a folc of lif, € bled lichorte, - De Anglia Both mayden € wif alle wild he ligge' bie. Mares What did pe baronage € bargeis of Cite - prints Diſtroted € Did outrage of caſtelle, tonn « fe. About pet gan Him chace, € hunted him als hayze, Long had he no ſpace. to Dnelle no wele fare, © Many men of his kynde ſatth him fo abated, For him pet fanht with TOTEM € oft "irai he ſaned, De Rege Ls pis wo was Jaſtand in OT gerítonfe, ^'^ goa yng William of Scotland did hts donhter fponte | €o pe erle of Boloyn, € whan Fon ít wiſt, Withouten any effoyn, North alle: gate him it. 9 4 Son he wan Berwik, q caftelic’ he poubt to reife, He calt pe. groundwalle pth, bis folk he pout per eie. "iliam. he poubt to nreue, for pat avete deſpite,-- * pat be withonten iene, his donbter’ gaf marite. -- Edenburgh € Bokeſburgh' vp pat be af&eb quite, ^ ©! € his fonne Aliſandere for oftage eld yim tite. '/2Bot-þe: kyng William alie pig ageynfato; ^ | : a Jit conaunt pat pet nam with peg alle was (t latd. + € Df William has Jon pe pris, toward pé South he ius | De contis- E rennegon his" ‘enmys, & dos pain: fchame ‘mond, © ee € his enmys on him, € deffzoyed alle his fez,- > Fam, Bib one tile oper were grim porgh"tonnes's as So pat bolp kirke, €alle pe orvines;s 27 E bifthop wo he.wike; clerkes otbtiáttés : pet rene pam pronendes, porgh power pat pet page, ^ ^ € noman þam'Defendes; no wille pai help’ no phe Fohannes Rex. | ari ' COft was pe plepnt mad onto pe pape, ' pe manfeſoues ateynt, € curfed ouer. pe nape, -— pe pape of per erroure had fulle grete pite, | He fent to pez focoure tuo legates ouer pe fe. - At Douere pet gan ariue, Pandolf € Durand, €o London gan pet drine, pe barons per pet fand, porgh Pandolf prechyng per werre was broubt tille ende. pe barons € pe byng were mad felauhes € frendes, | Iſoiled & alle on enen, bot pe kyng an oth ſuore, ‘He ſuld him venge on Steuen, whider fo ener he fore, E of po fourtene monkes, where men mot pam finde, — We beten alle fonkes or in priſon pam binde. | C Pandolf # Durand did com forth pe Erſbiſſhop, - De pace | € pe monkes forth pet fand, Jon ſaid, pet ſuldhedeles hop. P? ien " . Pandolf proued pe kyng, in his dſiputeſon, He mayntend wzongfulle ping, € wild to no refon, Ye proued porb wiſdam in tk manere cas, | pat hekyng miſnam, € did arcte treſpas. dlc gate pe kyng he peſed, fo pat pe werre was ent, E ilka clerke ſeſed ageyn to haf his vent. Pandolf tok his lene, Eto Rome went, "I trow on him gan cleuc many riche preſent, - Now is Pandolk gone, € Steyen Erſbiſſhop eg, Aſſoiles kyng Jone of alle his wikkednes. Jon has ſonnes tuo bi Elizabeth pe quene, De filiis & € tuo Doubters alfo, fairere were non fene. = Henry was eideſt, heyre of alle his ping, & Richard songett, of Jlmayn choſen kyng, Dd2 Jſaz De morte Fohannis. 212 | Fohannes Rex. Iſabcile faiz as flonre; pat neuer chiive had, Frederik þe Empezour Emperice home Hir tad, pe erle of Leyceſtre pe toper weddid here, € Jon regned in pis eſtre &yng auhten sere, 3t pe abbay of Suynethened per he Drank poyſon, At 1 Hanhe his if be Jeued, fo ſay men of pat toun, M9.CCmo Flenricus tercius covo- 3 XIII 12. # poufand € tuohandred pe date wag € ſextene, | Bis tyme mag alle forwondred, € endid alle with tene. T 2 Weltmyntere euen es Jon laid folempnely, natus eff. pe Erſbiſſhop Steuen corouned his fonne Benry, J godemanalle His 1yne, of poner men had mercie, Clerkes pat wild pryne, auanced pam richelie : 7. What he fays here about | fy, tous jours, des poners King John's dying at Hanghe | aneyt mercy,Pius ama feinte | (which is in. Calceworth hun- | Eglepſe qe nul Rey denaunt dred in Lincolnſhire) is very | lp. Clers ke chaunterent remarkable, and contrary to o- i bien funt toft envichy. E= ther Hiſtorians, who make him , glyfeg & prouandes ne funt dye in the caſtle of Newark. efparny, Ke Clerk de la cha= But it ſeems Robert of Brunne | pele natt porcioun par my, (for *tis not in the French) had | in the MS. of the Heralds Of- it from tradition, the people of | fice. But in one of Mr. Anſtis's Haughe talking frequently of it Copies we have, home lem pop in his time. 2. Tt ſhould be ra- | fonapt, E gif a Wyrceſtre, ther Worceſter, asit is in'o- | and a little after, plus ama ther Hiftorians, and indeed in | ſepnt Egliſes, and after thar, the French Peter de Langtoft. | Egliſes ne pronandreg. Which En labbeye de Swynhened | variations are not of fo much home lenpufonayt, JI giſt a | conſequence as thoſe in the o- . Wirceſtre, il memes le voz | ther of Mr. Anfti,’s Copies, latt. Dre eft le Rey Jon mort, where the whole paſſage is read c ſenelycLerceneſqe Eftenen | thus: 41 Bbbaye dela Swyne= ad coroune Yenry.Prodhome ! beuco home lenpoufonait, 31 21. Rye | gilt Henricus tertius Rex. 215. Kirkes wild he Dele pronchdis pat wes worpie, ' To clerkes of his chapele, pat wele coup fyng € bie. Enz5 kyng ont prince at Weſtm5nſter kirke DP pe erlys donhter of Pronince, þe faireſt may o lif, ir name is Yeltanore, of * gentiUle norture, Bixond pe fe pat wore was non fuilk creature. Jn Jnglond is ſche corouned pat lady gent, Tuo ſonnes, tuo dotthteres fre Jheſus has pam lent, Edwazd #Edmunde, knyght gode in ſtonre, Df Laiceftre a founde was Edmunde erle & floure. Unto pe Scottis kyng was married L£argarete, Df Bretayn Beatrice sing pe erie had pat mayden fuete, Faire is pe werk € hie in London at Weſtmynſter kirke, pat pe kyng Yenrie of His treſore Did wirke. Grace God gat him here, pis lond to kepe long ſpace, Sex E ? fifty sere withouten werre in grace ; Bot ſone afterward failed Him powere, Wot his ſonne Edward was his conſcilere. Dur quene pat was pen dame Yelianore bis wife, pe gode erie of Warenne 3 Str Hugh was pan olife, gift a Wileceſter, (1 meme 1e chapelayns et clers de la res volait, -- ; 148% . | neſtery. Clers ke chauntent Inno Domini M.ce.xvi. — | ben funt toft en richi. Eglt- Dre eft le Ray Joh mort, ſes ct prouendes nc funt pas et en fenely Lerceueſke E- eſparny, Ke clerk de Ja chaz fteuene ad corounct Yenrt. pele nad porcioun par my. \ Prodhome fuſt tuz jeurs, de 1. De gentyl parente. MSS. - poucrs atatit mercy, Plus Gall. z.ReGius,fouatp, cum ama feint egliſe ke nul Rays | Codd. Gall. 3. Sire Huge veuaunt iy. Deus en fa cha- iefpenfer MSS. Gall. pele fu noblement feruy, Paz Sir 214 Henricus tertins Rex. Str Wiliam of Ualence, Sir Roger Mortimere, Jon Manncelle pe clerke, e an erie Richeze, € oper knyghtes inowe of bí ond pe te, - 'To pe kyng Drowe,' auanced wild pet-be. Edward ſaffred wele, his fadere haf his wille, be barons never a dele ſaid pe kyng did tHe, liens to anaunce ouper in lond or rent. (Co mak diſturbannce pet held a pariement. Df be aliens 11k tatie þe lond voided clere, (Cope kyng E his conſatle pet ſent a meſſengere. pe © Eyng ſent pam ageyn, his barons alle pet grette, It Drenford certeyn pe day of parlement fette. © pis parlement reſted pat Diftaunce, For per was it ent, aliens to anaunce. | pe kynge's ſtate here paires, porgh confeti of baroun, Cobim this heyres grete ditheritefan. | Df wardes € relefe pat barons of him held, bet be was ore of chete, tille htm no ping ſuld gelo; E oper pat held of pam, per pe kyng felle be partie, füoubt of pat fuld claym of all pat ſeignorie. ille ilk a lordyng ſuld ward € relefe falle, Bot tille pe kyng no ping, he wag forbarred alle, be kyng perceyued noubt of pat ilk pefceit, pe chartre was forth broubt with wittnes enſeled fircít. HB EL I Lo done dt dg I. Le Rets les refpount, | [vel, Droyt] a Oxenforde 1a [ve], Le Bays pur reſpouns] pariementer, [vel,a Drenford jour les fct Donee, Tut drait b tout” parlementer]JMSS.Gall. i Ne Henricus tertius Rex. 215 : Ne no men pat were firange in courte [ald at no inyght, . fRe office to do no chance withonten þe comon light. ‘pis pet did him fuere, als he wag hyng € knyght, pat oth {nid he were, e maynten wele pat right. He. kyng was holden hard, porgh pat he had ſqorn, Qr Hts frendes aftezwazd, þo pat wer next bozn, pe com to him € ſaid, © Siz, we fe pin’ (lle, * bt lordſchip ts doun lato, € ied at oþez wille. - “De fe bia. (1B erronze noght pou bndezſtove. * Jt ts a diſhonouze to pe €.to pi blode,. . ** bou has fo bonden pe, -þet lede þe't1k a Dele. ** Ht per wille ſalle pou be, Sir, we fe it wele, ©*Calleageyn pin oth, drede pou no-niahace, - a cU ** Mouper of lefe ne loth, pé lordſchip to. purehace, EE anos d “bow may fulle lightlp at abſolutionn;* © * For it was a gilery, pou knew not per trefonn. © pou has frendis tnowe in Jngland € in France, ** Jf pou turne tà pe rowe,”þet faite drede pe chance. - m C pebyng liltned pe fawe; at pat confatl wild Uo, © - d eee AX ape iu Vd aed aie dr msJerum pe barons had grete/awe, whan pet wilt Hewtld fo, ~~~ Ps Symone gutes nd of Hie) at Sent lida] ole dede" fy | monte forti, 1, Et qe nul eftzaunge en , other of his Copies the paſſage couzt ept pullaynce, Ne qe | is read thus : Ke nal alyeng le Bey faung els de tere nul | en cart. ent puſſaunce, St auaunce, Ne mette en bayile noun par aſſent de commun fann3 lou? ordinaunce, inthe | volyaunce, Et ke 1c Rays French MS. of the Heralds Of- | apres de terres nal auaunce, fice. And fo alfo in, one of Mr. | St Englays ne fait et de ia Anſtis's Copies, unleſs it be that | neſſaunce.” 2, Dele. it hath ep for ept j but in. the | pet 216 Henricus tertius Rex. pet to & fent; per fond after Sir Symonn, pe Mountfort ont of jond was, whan pis was von. A meflage pet him-ſent, pe Mountfort fon home cam, pe barons with on affent to Sir Symon pei nam. ped teld Him pe procefle of alle per comon ſawe, € he as foicalie freile fulle eth per to to drawe. Withonten his: conſetle, or pe kynge's wittyng, To maynten per tirpetle be ſyore ageyn pe kyng, pe ſtatute for to Hold: (n werre € tn pes, | ; pe poyntes pat pet him told, perfor his-life. he leg.. _ Hardely dar J ſay he did a perte folie, Bis wys men. pis way, bere ferſt pe toper partie. oe boas Sone pei reiſed rit, brent pe kynge's tounes,” e M Ehis caſtels tob, Held pam -in:þer bandoyn-/ ^ Dn bis londes. pet ſchob, € robbed. vp. & doun: + o> po pat per puruetance of Drenford not held, With ſcheld ¢ with lance fend him-in peed... 3) . Jn alle, pig ; baxetts. pe kyng. € Sir Simon hi outa od IÞ yis ;, &ilica lokyng pam fette, of þe prince fain it be uw - In oth ſyore pet pare, to ſtand to pe ozdinance, fDuet pe fe to fare bífot Philip. of france, t His Dome fuld ít be, withoute refufyng. “per for went ouer pe fe Sir entry our bing! | pe quene wtid not Duelle, to pe kjug gan bit big, | pus my boke gan telle, ſcho tob grete” 'vilanie | 41 “DE pe Londreis alle, whan {cho of London went. | ae pat tt fulv fatie J ne wote what. it ment; De guerra $5: Symon was haſtif, bis fonnes € pe barons Wot Henricus tertius Rex. 217 Bot whan pe kyng of France had Bnowen certeynly, - pat pe puructance diſherite kyng Yenry, | He quaſſed tt 11k Dele porgh jugement. | | pe kyng wag paicd wele, € home to Jnglond went. Whan Sir Symon wilt, pe Dome ageyn pam gon, . His felonte forth thrift, ſamned his men (lon, Diſplated his banere, lift bp his dragoun, Sone falle zc here pe folie of Symoun. Ye eric did mak a chare at London þozgh gilery, | De bello (iy Himſelf per in ſuld fare, © ſeke he wend to ly. 4#4Zeans, Sextt pouſand of London armed men fulle ftoute To pe chare were fondon, to kepe it wele fo? Donte, per pe batatle {uid be, to Leaus pat gan pam alle, pe kyng € his meyne were in pe priorie. _ Symonn com to pe feld, € gut vp his banere, pe kyng {chewed forth his ſcheld, his dragon falle anſtere. pe kyng ſaid on” hie, & Symon ieo vous defie ; - Edward was hardie, þe Londres gan he aſcrie. He {mote tn alle pe ronte, € ſeſid him pe chare, Diſconfited alle aboute pe Londreis pat per ware. . Edward wend wele haf fonden pe cric per in, . Diſceyned tih a dele, he went E myght not wyn. Towhille Str Edward was aboutc pe chare to take, — pe kynge's fide, allas! Symoun did Donn ſchake. Unto pe kynge's partie Edward turned tite, pan had pe erle pe maiſtrie, pe kyng was diſconfite, _ pe ſoth tofay € chefe, pe chare's gilerie DED V Edward lieve pat day pe Tem Vol, be 318 | Rex Al- mannie captus eſt, 2 multi alit, The bücrong with a great multytude | gapne € fought fo ferfly that . of the citye of London | and | the kynges parte gaue bathe! tell at Lewys. bo Henricus fertius Rex. pc 'fourtend day of May pe batail of Leans was, à) poufand € tuo hundzeth ſexti € foure in pas. C pe kyng of Almayn was taken to priſoun, DfScotiond Jon Conyn was left tn a donjoun. pe erle of Warenne, J wote, he ſcaped oner pe fe, E Str Hugh Bicote als with pe eric fled He. Many faire ladte leſe hit lord pat day, E many gode bodice flayn at Leaus lay. pe numbre non wrote, for telle pam-mot no man, Wot be pat aile wote, & alle ping ſes € can. Edward, pat was sing, with his owen reve, For his fader pe kyng Himſelf to priſon beoe. For pe &yng of Jlmayn His neuow was oftage, Jn priſon nete a sere was Edwatd in cage. M. 502 BENI ui ONU. Tp: ons adn I. Others fay the 12th. of | by them of tbe kynges partes May.. See Stowe's Annals, pag. | began to Drawe backe. 194. Ed. fol. But not fo right- | Wut the barons incurzag- ly, as I take it. See Dugdale’s | ed theyr men in ſuche wyle ſtall Gays in his Chronicle, that Baronage, Tome I. p. 408. Ra- that thep nat onely ſet vpon - them with freſſhe men | but it was fought the 23d. of May. | incurraged fo them that gaue | ——And than (fays he)the baz | backe | that they turned a= > with 8 great hooft of other € the kpng loſt the fpioe. people came agapnlt the where the hpng bpm ſeife kpnge | betwene whome the. | & the kyng of Romapns & xxiit. Day of May was fought | Edwarde the kynges ſon a marnelons cruell battell at | were takpn priſoners t many | Lewys | and the Londoners | other mo | and. xx. WM. men | that gaue the fprſt aſſent | ſlapne for this battell contp- by reaſon of the ſharpe ſhot | nued the more part of the of Jrowes * lirokes gruen | dap, 2.Prahge, &. Aboute Henricus tertius Rex. Iboute with Sir Symoun pe kyng went pat Sete, Cite, cattelie € toun alle was in pe erle's Dangere. Jt was of a Day Edward poubt a wile, . — Sefato he wild afay per hors alle in a mile. We aſaycd pam bí € bí, Eretreted pam (ibone, & ſtoned pam alle wery, fandand ftilic as ftone, I fuyft ede per was a lady puer ſent, Edward knowe his pas, pe laſt of alle him bent, . Aſated him vp € Doun, fuyftett he was of alle. pat kept him in paifoun, Edward did. him calle, ** Maiſter hat gone Day, fotorne wiile no more, « 7] ſalle sit, if JI may, my ſotorne, trauaile ſore. pe ftede he had aſaicd, € knew pat he was [1 (111 A Jn to pe watere he (taie, € paſſed wele pat flode, CWhan Edward was ouere graciouſly € wele, Be hoped haf recoyere at Wigemore caffeic. Edward is wiſely of priſon ſcaped oute, Felaus he fond redy, € mad his partie toute. - pe erle's fonnes wer hauteyn, did many folic Dede, pat teld a Enyght certeyn to pe eric als pet bope Fede-. Eaſked him on his play, « what baf J be fight? QT ea eric gebe on à vay, to plaj m: with a bnjgbt, - 219 Edwardpi evaſit de carcere Herfordie ; Es de eva- [fone ejus. Ecce ditium militis ad comitem de peknyght anſuerd € faío, (n sow a faute men fynde, filiis. * E is an (lic vpbraid, pat 5c ere mere blpnDe, pe eric ſaid, “ nay perde, ^j may fc right wele. be knyght fatd, “Sir nay, se vanep 19 any Dole. ** For pou Has ile ſonnes, foles & vnwile, * per dedeg pou not mones, ne nou? pully pam calle 220 Henricus tertius Rey. *J rede pou gyne gode tent, € chaſtiſe pam fone, “For pam ze may be ſchent, for vengeance ig granted bone, pe etie anſnerd noubt, he lete pat word ouet go, No ping per on he poubt, tille vengeance felle on þo, Cuer were his ſonnes Hanteyn, € bold for þer partie, ' Bope to knyght e füeyn did pet vilante. For lefe ne for lot, fole wild pet not ſpare, - IWDhezfor wer with pam wroth Sir Gilbert of Clare, Sir Gilbert herd ſay of per Dedes (lie, Df non pe had ay to fiynt ne hold pam fille, . per of Edward hezd ſay, pat Gilberd turned his wille, De filiis Symonis e | ftultitia eo- rum per rolum, To Gilbert tok His way, bis luf to tak « tile, Sone pet were at one, with wille at on affent Wis Inf fro Manfort gon Jteite Symon for ſchent. Trenth togtdere þet plight Coward € Gilbert, ' Ageyn Symon to fight, for oubt pat mot be herd. Mercy ſuld non vane Symon no his ſonnes, No raunſon fuo pam fauc for doute of drede cftfoneg, Schent is tik baroun, now G{lbert turnes grit, pe MWountfort Six Symoun moſt affied of him, "illas! Str Gilbert pou turned pin oth, : *Ft Site's men it herd, how God M ror was wroth, mw eric fonnes vp e Dott of parties mad pet bot, : Cowhils at Northamptoun pife kynges gadred oft. Symon ſonnes it left, to Dillyngworth pei went, & per pe fotorned eft, per rioterie pam ſchent. Suk ribaubíc bet led, pet gaf no tale of whan, Towhils Str Edward hay feild alle Cueham. ‘Cpe Henricus tertius Rex. 221 C pe fift day it was after Lammeſſe tide, | De bello de Ewriten gin pat pas, at Euctham gan ped vide. ae 0874173 Jn pe alder next pat pe batatle was of Leaus, ! dege. pe gynnyng of beruct, as pe ſtory ſcheawes, Com Symon to feld, € pat was tnaugac his, Dr ener he lift his ſcheld, his wilt (t sed amys. He was on his ſtede, diſplaied his banere, Doc fant) pat treſon sede, Donn went his-powere. Ye ſauh Str Edward ride, batailed him ageyn, Glouceſtre pe toper fide, pan witt pe etie certeyn, is fide ſuld Doun falle, tille his he ſaid fone: | *© God haf ou? ſatiles alle, our Dàyeg ere alle done, Edward fizft in rode, «€ perced alle pe pres. , po pat him abode pet lynes alle pet ies. | He mad his fader quite of prifom per be lay, Deltuezd him als tite with dynt of {nerd pat day. Yard was pat batatle, € ouer grete pe folie, So ſcharply gan pat aſſaile, ſo mpkille folk gan die, Stoutly was pat toute, long laſtand pat fight, pe day loft his coloure, € mirk was ag pe nyght. pe lif of many man pat tlk day was lorn, po pat it firſt bigan wrotherhaile wer'þei born. Ow is pe batatie ſmyten, Sir Symon tg per flayn, © N His ſonnes, als se witen, died on pat playn. — His membres of þeiſchare, & bare pam to preſent Sir Bugh Deſpenſer, pare als he to Dede went, eS —nmmymmymymmyit—m———m—s 1 Sir Bauf pe gode Ballet did per His endyng, ; Sir Pers of Mountfort (ct his deve at pat emo Noa >.” r MS Henricus tertius Rex. Sir Guy Waliol died pore a song knyght € hardy, Ye was pleyned more pan oper tuenty. pife € many mo died in pat foure, pe kyng may fauely go, € maynten His honour. Pris pan bas pe fonne, pe fadere matric, pet went Northampton, fo wild kyng Wenrte. pe countas of Leiceſtre, bir ſonnes wtid no man fpele, De parlia- Dper 1ordes inowe of evies € barouns, kg, To pemod fom drowe, « ſom left in prifoung. proniam. To fay longly or ſchorte, alle armes bare. 1 Jlmerik or Monntfozt depzined was þaze, E þe treforie, þat he had in kepyng, © gaf pat ilk bailie tor pe Mortimere ſonne sing. Deot,. CT legate Dttobon pe pape Hider fent, bono legato. (To mak pe barons on porgh his prechement. pe quene com ont of France, & with hir alle po, pat for pe puructance were extld to go, Sauce Jon pe Maunflelic, he died bisond pe ſe, ais chance for him felle, pe toper welcom be. Be. Mc. CA thouſand © tuo hundred, « ſex & fexti, EET pat pat er fled & fundred po rife ageyn Henri. For after pe takyng of Kilyngworth caſtelle, pe flemed ageyn be Lyng rog eft fulle rebelle. A; pe gatlement was flemed-barons fele, 1. Emerike ve Mountfort | leglyſe Seint Pere, de Eue1- ' | floges fu pryuez. De la tres | wik nomez, Al 63 le Worty- — forye, Dount futt eſtailez En | merleBey lao Done3,MSS.Gal. © +. For Henricus tertius Rex. 223 For þe men pat were fled diſherited of per londes, | 'To purches pam pet ſped, now db of pam fo fondes. Robert of Ferers he robbed bope e ſlonh Bi nyght in fede fers, & tille his felawes drouh. | Df pam was per non pat lufed &yng Yenry, To Cheſtrefeld (hon pe com tnavatíoufly, pe kyng DID pam fpic with gode men of acnoum, Com on pam prinelie, aſſailed pam in pe toun. be barons fauht ageyn, pet wiſt of no ſocoure, . Many of pam wer flayn, € ſom paſſed at Honour, pat was pe gode Deyuile, he did wele his denere, — pat ſtoure he held a while, © paſſed quite € ciere, — 4L In pe wonyng eft bigan a new ſtoure, Bobert Ferers per left, Wandewpn pe vauaſoure | Lord of Cheſtrefeld, piſe myght not lightly fle. per fide alle Doun held, taken were per meyne. Robert of Wolierton, 3| trowe for ſom trefpag, He had grete renoun, on Kene hanged he was. C pis donhty Deynile his name was Str Jon, Df Irhoim to pe 31e he ſcaped himſelf alon. For to tobbe € rene, per be Held His. haunt, He wild ſpare ne lene burgeis no merchaunt. E whan he dred him ouht, for cuercomyng of mo Coward pe South he ſonht, als he were non of po, - Bot as a paſſand man, felawes forto ſebe, So often away he wan, € vmwhile cheke bi cheke. à pug did pe Deyuile more pan half a sere, » E gadred him þat while inouh of powere. C Whan 224 . Henricus tertius Rey. C Whan ped wer tnowe, on whilk pet mot ake, | Derapaci- To Lyncoin pet drowe, € per pet ald velie. Au be tuelft day of Jprile, whan per power wag grete, Lincol- E went alle ato wile, (n to Lyncoin pet ſchete. nae porghout pe Juery pet robbed pam € ſloth, pe cofres with trefory pe braken & pe awey Ddronb. pe chartzes & pe ſcris pat noted Criften men, pat lay for blure tn pris clleuen als for ten, Were caften in fire € brent in podels vdayniy, Df $ueg flayn & ſchent a hundred & ferty. €. Whan Sir Edward herd, pat pet Had Lincoln taken, E pe Juerte misferd, per treforie ouerſchaken, Ye ſped him pider in haſte, with Hilled hors of pris, He com & fond alle waſte, away were po enmys, pei went to pe (de of Hely onto Siz Bagh Pecche, pet manned pam fo boldely, on pam had non entre. Edward'Jete not wele, pat he with pam not mette, To Kiljngworth caſtele he went, pe ſege to fette. | Fro Widſomeretide to pe Apoſtle S, Thomas | W pe fled mayntend per ſide, pe caftetie holden was. - For alle pat pider went, Sir Edward a ikon, Untille pe pape ſent his legate Ottobon, Whan pis legate was comen, of ſom he was biſotht, 3n forward out pet nomen, els wild pet nonht. Str Henry of Haſtyng he sald it bi his wille, Dyer alle maner ping life € Iymmes haf tilie, E alle peg tzeſorie, pat perin was fonden, | Withouten vilente onto pe peg bonden. fis \ E Henricus tertius Rex. v ini pis legate Détobone mad a cuzſpng hard Def pam enerilkone; pat brak pat afterward; — E fom of perheyres fo bard chazged wore, € sit manyttpeytes, « fom Has fatied fore. | € pan went pis Ottobone porghout pe cuntre, E quaynted him with tikone, lewed € ordine, E many of pam wer mendid of folies porgh his Dome, € be pe better fpendid als ye went to Rome. ey Jr Coward onto ye tide.he went of Bely, - = »), With many man folle wilde to. bataíle vedy, ~ Goward alic aboute Heſpied in to vide, With in-had pei no Doute, Defenivtd on (1& fide. So ageyn Edward pet held tt tjalf a Sere, á ops pet faulty pe.feue:fo hard, pet fent: a mellengete, - pet (doe forto Sele at his owen biddyng, | It he pam fauc wilde: ageyn Yenty our byng. Edward was -curteys, © man fulle. of mercy, With hors Eherneys he went to'kyng Henry, C BRightin alle pis fare wer an ened cheb, Adon Gilbert of Clare pe byng was in contes, Sir Edward was witnes; wht pe wrath {ald be, Bot sit tome tt es forfoth als prigete, pe men pat were in pe tide of pis contc& Herd, pe confeiled pam a while, &.ſipen to London ferd To Gilbert of Clare, d mayntend his powere, With him bileft pet pare a quarter of a Sete. Men in pert it &aft, pat were of gode avis, | Jt myaht tot long lath ſuilk werre # partis. Vol. I. pe -226 JJ Tn 10. M2. "^ CCmo, XXX. Henricus tertius Rex. pe partis confetie bent, meſſengers- pet ches; | Unto pe byng pet fent, for a finalle peg, It pe laſt right neve, peſed behoned it be, So pat tl& man sede with pes to Hie cuntre: - 4 ey Dward als fo quik toward pe Porth him ſped, WL pecaſteile of Jinewtk he tok, € with him led pe gode lord Vefcy, pat wag fo trew a knyght, To kepe pat ſeignory he tok tille on pat myght, Sir Edward com to London, per was his fader Henry, Dit knes he feile to grounde, € prated for the Ueſcy. pe byng was fulle curtets, forgaf Bim ilk a Dele, pe lord of Kilyngworth als pat tyme ſped wele. ats body DID pe fa T withouten priſoun, Yts londes forto oy he gaf pe kpng raunſon.; C Bight als pis werre wag ent, « pe 1ond ín fate, pe sage his bulle fent Hider nto pe legate, E comanded him to preche porgh alle be iond, pe Sarazing do grete wreche, pe Criften forte ſchond. Unto pe kyng of France was ſent an oper legate, pat teld him of pat chance, whan Lowys bero of pat, Himſelf pe firſt was croiſed on his fleſh, Forto wend pat pas, his wille was ener freſſh, Str Henry of bis dono was pat ik willie, is fonne per to him bond, his fader mot lene fille. Sir Edward toke þe croice, for bíg (aber to go, Ilheſu pou grant him voice, to benge him on pt fo. 4 poufand tuo hundred mo, " fextí E ten, Str Edward forte go he gadres him douhty men, The "ie sy Aye bes be yn E 4 IF Y RA v3 Henricus tertius Rex. 22196 He nett Letenes tide Sir Lowys went hig way, | No langere wild he bide, for ping pat-men mot fay, ©» Witherles# bazouns,with knyghtes godeof plight, Als futi prince ot retioun felle to haf poat right. . He hied him fulle sare toward pe Oeekis ſe, þank God his gode fare, whan He (chipped fuid be. Withouten any-hime pe wynde gan Him drine Untille pe tonp of! time, € per be gan vp artuc. pe Sarazing to Deſtroie fulle nobilly be gan, . pe Criftendam mot it note pe Dede of fatl& a man. ce 2 Long duzed he noubt, fipen be comen wag, | Wot pat God wiile hal wrouht els His dede, allas ! Os next herneft folowand Edward was fulie sare, 2bíiRome bexoent pat land, with pe pape ſpak He pare, eA Sipen in Ceztie alle pe xoyntete he lay, Tier dis ^ pe ſomer com ina while, & he went on his xay, — - agg Jn þe ſe ſatland to 3 time; € whan he com to lond- Japetaum Ciping com him ontime, Sir Lowys dede be fond, per duelled beno more, tille Acres went our &yng, pe Criften pat per wore wer fayn of bis comyng. rete folk of Frifland, pat to Acres were comen, Tille him pet were willand, for lord pet alle dim nomen. pe ofte was ſprede fulle wide, about Acres pat lay, Alle paemic pat tide was in arcte. affray. 1.Sic MS.Rectius,Cune,(i.e. , terminayt, MSS. Gall. 3. Sic Tunes, five Thounes, ut in | etiam & posita MS. e Codd.Gall.) 2,Mout fu grant Angl. at Tyne. potius legend. "uns NI Damage, ge viuer n poayt, NAN Tunes live Tounes in Wes, ort le prift, allas! fa vie | Codd: Gall. 54 " às Ffz DE Cu 2 8 De haut A ffifes? locus nobilitatis . inter Sarde "£7105, ubi crſtodiuntur | pueri cum "gaudio, nec metununt morten , fed eflinant ſemper vi- "Vere, = w- T c =D ig ¢ BA nn dE RÀ Df men of armes bold pe nambre ‘pet ame,. — 4 thoufand € tuo hundred told of Critter men bt name. / 7 pe lont pef ſuld haf wonne porgh powere pat pet Had, Wot if trefon had-gonne, + porgh vilcett bien lad. MWykelle was pe drede porgh out pacmte, ^ pat Criſtendam at nede mot haf facii chenalrie. pe Soudan was in wehere pe Criften had fuit offe, Sir Edwarde's powere over alle he dred motte, perfor day € nyght he was in avete ftudie, Dr what manere He might Edward flo porgh fpte. "em Her es a fede of wpnne, wet calle tt haut affife, . Men nortfe childre per tune, on merbetloug wife, €uer in joy € bliſſe, in alle pat pet may do, pet wene it falle neuer miffe, ne oper Dede com to. pei fatre right als dog foles, pet Do ag men pat fay, pe childir of po ſcoles, pet pink to iyue ay.’ ' pe Soudan of po in/cloþes'of gold him clap) - Tille Edward fuld he go, € do as pe Soudaw bad. al letter pis fole tok, bad: him for nefü or hard pezon {ald no man loke, vot only Sir Edward, Envenomed knyfe he bare alfo prinely, i Gs e p |a [P bo ICT pat non per of were ware, who fo ſtod him by, *) 25í pam {elf alone in chambir faid pet be; © So bad pe Soudone ſchewe him his prinete. ' 1. La tere fy lonr wayne | faſt da TUM ME ge les, par poer faunz velceit, Ne, encombrayt, Gallice. 2. ICP «€ & M 1 * E whan pou fees, Jeylere, pat he ne gerceyue pi witte, — *3Dith pebnjf him 1 to. with pebuyte him to finite. C Comen is pe Savasíu to ſpebe with Six Edward, Clad in clopes fn, himſelf is a molar. . 0 Be ſaid he wild ſpeke with pe byng vrinely, — De anne =>, Conſcile-non to breke,-no telle it alle on hy. 32 yacione. i mivadh, Stz Edward grapes xocle,tílle his chambre him broubt, DE trefon newer a Dele, no ping per on be poubt. be letter-in his hand laid, enfelio e in fie bounde, þe envenomed bnyfe out. braid, € gal Coward à wounde. To, J wene, he lanht, als his Romance ſais, - T A tretilic Goward raupt, pat beuy was of gaia, pe Sarazin fo he ſmote in pe beoe with pat. £rette, ht brayn € blode alle bote & isen alle out gan | breft. Dis for Edward woundes pe Cristen ere. fori, -- T pat with in fo ſtoundes ere chances fallen fellt. . His ſurgien him tolde, if be ſuld him fauc, E his. 1if_hoide, reſte behoued him Haue. - », pat was a miſchance, pat per. beoe Dou Jay, iun .& pe kyng of France died pat oper Page. gu esee I noþez sit more ſtark, pe pape pat € bene, wet f 'E pe patriark pe legate liggts in lee. uis uie rs Mia + pe byng of Naner Hight his help.to Six Epward, Jn Cecile pe dede him dight, als he was pidopward. 2 To God his fader foundes mad his teſtament, . kal Six Cr MIE of his woundes was in we ve dams | '& Gallias non: Ellis: 2. "Sire E, Edward par ſes playes eſten © d ye. . grant hi. i rs cum T Be. ALES Yero. E ous defit vernaculum, De morte COPD XX11119, . Afftez pe Wartjnmelle' pat he died here, "Be regned moze ne dette pan ſex € fifty cete; — 5 It Weſtmynitere he lig toumben richely, — ^00 Aa jna marble big: of him ig mad ſtory, | Sen pat he was dede God has ſchewed his ife. -.- gu Edward with his reve in his 1yue tok a Wife; m © pe kynge's donhter of Spayn'da Wqtsanoze fulle ging.” Df bít fairhede was fayn Edward our song kyng. In Acres of bit ig bozn a mayden childe dame Fone, : Was non fairer biforn of Inglis als fcho one. 3 þouſand € tuo hundred pe date ferti € tnelge - Sir Edward Help is ſandred, o lyüe is bot him ſelue, — | C pe day of Sant Comound, pat martir * is € kyng, — Sir Henry at Londoun in God mad his endyng. — — pat tyme his fonne Edward wag in paemie, | His chance felle per fo hard, pat home behoued him bie. | For alle his help was dede, als J ſaid beforn, + ; pis iond beboued bat beoe, his heritage in born. pe ‘Date of Crifte pundred, pes fele