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I. THE Publisher's Preface. pag. ix.

H. De Petro Longatosta [lege Longatofta.] E Paseo de illustrib. Anglia? Scriptoribus. Iciv.

III. De eodem. E Lelandi Comm. de Scriptorib. Brit. acv.

IV. De eodern. E Bibliotheca Gesneri. ibid.

It. Concerning Peter de Langetoft. Out of Bp. Nicol- son's Eng. Historical Library. xcvi.

VI. Robert of Brunne's Prologue to his Chronicle. ibid.

VII. Extract of a Letter, relating to Robert of Brunne and Peter de Langtoft, written

Vol. I. b from

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Edward

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First's Reign.

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TRANSCRIB'D, and now first publish'd, from a MS. in the

INNER-TEMPLE LIBRARY By THOMAS. HEARNE, M. A.

TO , WHICH ARE ADDED, Besides, a. Glossary and other curious Papers,

(1) A Roll concerning Glastonbury Abbey, being a Survey of all the Estates belonging to that House at the Dissolu-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 anonymous Author; the first relating to Conquest in So-mersetshire, the second concerning Stone-henge.

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from London to the Publisher by the late learned • John Bridges, Esq. Nov. 23. 1723. cr.

VIII. Robert of Brunne's Traniition (called a Pro-logue by Mr. Bridges) from the first to the second Part of his Chronicle. cv.

IX. The Proceedings of the Abbat and Convent of Winchester against Joan of London, A. D. 1285. From an old MS. Fragment of that Age, given to the Publisher by Thomas Ward of Longbridge near Warwick, Esq. cvn.

X. A Letter concerning the reputed Nunnery at Lit- tle-Gidding in Huntingtonshire. From a MS. lent to the Publisher on July 6th. 1724. by the foresaid Thomas Ward, of Longbridge near Warwick, Esq. — crx.

XI. A Copy of the printed Pamphlet about the reputed Nunnery at Littic-Gidding in Huntingtonshire.

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XII. Dr. Wallis's Account of some Passages of his own Life. E Coll. MSS. Smithianis penes Editorem, Vol. 22. p. 38. CXL.' t

XIII. An Extract of a Letter from Dr. John Wall is to Dr. John Fell, then Lord Bishop of Oxford, -dated April 8. 1685. concerning the Report spread about of Dr. Wallis's deciphering King Charles the Ist's.Letters. E

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Coll. MSS. Smithianis penes Editorem, Vol. 22. p. 54.. crxx.

XIV. Inscriptiones singulares haeienus ineditm, Ha. driano Beverlando collectore. E Coll. nostris MSS. Vol. 75. p. 1. CL.XXII.

XV. Robert of Brunne's account of the raising of Stone-henge, from the French of Master Wace, who followed Geffry of Monmouth. CLXXXV ni.

XVI. An Account of St. Wenefride, from an old MS. of the Book call'd fotitat or gotta' in the hands of the above mentioned Thomas Ward, of Long- bridge near Warwick, Esq. cxcvi. •

XVII. Extract of a Letter, written to the Publisher - from Winchester July 4th. 1724. by the Reverend

Mr. Richard Furney, relating .to the ElCction of an Abbess of Rumsey Nunnery in Hampshire, Anno D. 1333. which confirms what is asserted in Peter Langtoft, that the said Nunnery was founded by K. Edgar for an hundred Nunns. cci.

XVIII. Extract of another Letter, written to the Pub-lisher from Winchester Aug. 15.1724. by the said Mr. Furney, relating to the Number of the Nunns at Rum-sey some time before the Dissolution, and to a Note,

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about our old Historians, in a MS. of Trivet at Winchester. tern.

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 CharIes'i Judgment and Affection to the Religion of the Church of England. From a MS. in the Ash- molean Museum. CCVIII.

XXI. Extract of a Letter to the Publisher from Mr. Graves of Mickleton in Gloucestershire, concerning Campden in that County. With a remarkable Passage, upon that Occasion, out of an old Anony-mous MS. Author (stiled John Bever by Dr. Powell) in Trinity College Library Oxon. CeXIII".

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XXII. Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, (as illustrated and improv'd 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. 1

XXIII. The Copy of a Roll concerning Gla- stonbury Abbey, being a Survey of all the Estates belonging to that House at the Disso- lution, taken by King Hon. the Eighth's or-

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der and for his use. From a MS. in the hands of a Friend at Colchester. ° 313

XXIV. An Account of the hospital of St. Mary Magdalen near Scroby in Nottinghamshire, by John Slacke, Master of that Hospital. From a MS. in the Hands of Thomas Fre win , of Lincoln's-Inn, Esq. 389

XXV. A Discourse about some Roman Antiquities discover'd near Conquest in Somersetshire, supposed to be the Place where the Romans Conquest of Bri- tain was compleated. By an anonymous Author. Transcribi$1 from a MS. lent to the Publisher by Mr. James West of Balliol-College, A. D..1722.

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XXVI. A Discourse concerning Stone-Honge. From another MS. lent to the Publisher by the same Friend, Mr. James West, of Balliol-Coll. written in the. same hand, and by the same anonymous Author.

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THE P UBLIS H ER'S

PREFACE.

THE Robert of Gloucester, mentioned in the printed Life of St. Thomas Cantibv, 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. §. i. Yet he seems to have been in the vigour of his Age at the time of the Chro- nicler's Death. A Mistake of Bi shop Godwin's .§. if. No reason, from the time in which they lived, to

take Hobert of Gloucester the Historian and Robert

of Gloucester the Secretary to be one and the same person. The Historians informer _Times were the Religious, who often lost their first Sirnames, and, upon compiling their famous Works, were sirnamed anew from the Houses of which they were Mem- bers. §. m. Yet there were rather more that retain' d their first Sirnames, after they b,ecame noted for their Writings. John Wetbamstede of a greater character than Matthew Paris. The Historical

Passages in Dr. Gasthigne' s Theological Dictionary

b 4 should

1 X

T THE PUBLISHER'S should be published. §. i v. Among others that retain' d their original Sirnames was Peter Langtoft, who, besides his Translation into French .Rhythms of Bosenham or Bosom's Life of 7 homas a Becket, compiled a Chronicle of England in French. §. v-, This Peter Langtoft seems to live died in the begin-ning of K. Edw. II" Reign, and to hare been buried at Bridlington with much such another Epitaph as that to the memory of Robertus Seriba. §. vi. Were the ' Obituaries, or Obit Books of Bridlingtonnow remain.: ing, it is probable something .certain about his Death might be learned from them. The Diligence of the Monks in regi string. Many old Cluzrtularies still in private hands, that ought to be search' d by men of a true genius. The Chronicle of England written by Thomas Blount, Esq; §. vii. Notwithstanding the. French Tongue was so much in vogue in Peter Lang-lift' s Time, yet there were multitudes besides that despised it. The Normans not able utterly to extirpate the Saxon Language. The ill Consequencefrom the Endeavours that were us' d to that purpose.§ .v m . Robert of B1101710 one of those that cultivated the En-glish Tongue, and he gained.a great Reputation upon that score. This Robert of Brunne lived to a great age, tho' the year in which he died cloth not yet occur. § ix. He was not descendedfrom the Founder of St. Mazy Spittle extra Bishop'sGate. his Translation of Peter de Langtoft had it's intended Eject. Ma- n!) Copies of it formerly, tho' it be now scarce.

The

PREFACE. xi The Stories in it 2ts' d in old time instead of Ballads. c. x. Robert of Brunne a Man of a facetious merry Tender, yet without any Mixture of Immorality. The diligence of the Monks of Winchester in obstructing the Design of Joan of London. A Passage relating to the cedes stercoraria at Rome from an anonymous MS. Author. §. xi. 'Tis impossible to give a particular Account of the Life tlf 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. ll'allis lift some particulars of this nature. TheDr's.Memorandum at The Beginning of a Book (in the Bodleian Library) containing ntany Things that he deciphered. §. xn. If Robert of Brunne had any Epitaph, it seems to have been short, agreeable to those times, and to be now irretrievable. §. xiii. Peter Langtqft's Origi-nal, as well as Robert of BrUllne S English Work, consists of two Parts, the first Part Of which is here omitted, as containing nothing but Glry of , Monmouth. A Passage out of RastaW s Chronicle about Stone-henge. §.xiv . The exactness made use of in publishing this piece of ancient History. To grati fy 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 inserted in this Preface. §. xvi. Out of which MS. is here likewise published a Note concerning Hugo

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mit TIlE PUBLISHER'S Cardinalis: Actor for auctor in many MSS. The Author of liber festivalis or festialis. A Remark relating to St. Wengfride. §. xv H. Many -Things in this Chronicle, that are dfferent front what is related b,y other Historians. §. xv in. Some of which are here enumerated. §.xix. In lieu pl. thefirst Part of Robert of Brunne,' several Things are here pu-. Wished of greater use and service. An account of Mr. Andrew Paschal. A Note about Mr. John Gibbon's )IISS. Papers in the Heralds Office. A short Account of Dr. Waller Charleton. An Inter-polation. in Camden; which Mr. Webb did not discover to be such. A Passage relating 'to Stone-henge from Mr. Camden's MS. Supplement in the hands of the publisher. §. xx. Slone-henge perhaps a Bri- tish Monument, notwithstanding it might have been a Roman Work. Mr. Camden's Approbation of, and Assistance in, Dr. Holland's Additions, may justify such as cite them for Mr. Camden's own. §. xxi.

The Robert of • 'Gloucester, men- §. I. rWP UST after I had honed in the print- ,:..; rC., ser- t.it

ed Life of St. 'Ck9k) b published Robert .....,_.. Thomas Cantilupe, C.P7r-1.11v of Gloucester, I

dill from the •••• 1.,i; , ,` 4tp Author of the . • had the good' for- Chronicle, and • - i tune to see and even from the other Roberts of converse.with a learned, modest and ho- Gloucester spoke nest Friend ofHereford-shire, (the same, of in my Preface

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to that Chronicle y mean, that, besides his other great assist- A

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PREFACE. XIII

anco in the Work, drew up the Indexes to thecelebratedDr.11ickes's Thesaurus Linguarum ScptentrionaUnlit, and is so excellently well qua- lify'd to compile the Antiquities of that Coun- ty', about which he bath many curious Mate- rials) at which time he was pleased to lend me the Life 3 of St. Thomas Cautilupe Bishop of Hereford, which tho' a printed Book, yet is very rare and seldom to be seen, as many Books of the same kind arc also 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 collected most of his Rarities4 out of the Library of II. Dyson, a person of a very strange, prying and inquisitive genius in the matter of Books, as may appear from many Libraries, there beings Books, (chiefly in old English) almost in every Libra-

' See the General Preface ed bq Robert Walker, at to Dr. Ilickes's Thesaurus, p. V. 2 Vide Prmf. ad Lelan.

the Sign of the Annuncia_ lion of our B. Lad)]. 1674.

di Coll. §. 10. 3 Intit'lerl, 8vo. 4 See pag. 371, 372. The Life and Gests of S. alias p. 401, 402. or the last Thomas Cantilupe Bishop of leaf save one of his Auction Hereford and some time be- Catalogue. S So in a 111ti. fore L. Chancellor of Eng_ Note, written by my very land. Extracted out of the learned Friend Mr. Thomas authentique Records of his Baker, B. D. of St. John's- Canonization as to the maine Coll. in Cambr. at the be- part, Anonymus, Matt. ginning of my Copy of Mr. Paris,Cupgrave,Harpsfeld, and others. Collected by

Smith's Auction Catalogue, ,which Was given me by the

R.S„S,J. At Gant, Print- said Mr. Baker.

%Iv THE PUBLISHER'S ry, that have bclong'd to him, with his name upon them. I perus'd 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 Christian Historian. But the main reason of my speaking of it now is, upon ac-count of the Author's mentioning' a Robert of Gloucester, that was Secretary to the said venerable and most holy Bishop at the time of the• Bishop's Death, and was afterwards Chancellor of Hereford. At first one would think, that this Robert of Gleutester ( whom the Writer of the Life met with in the very Process of his Canonization) was the Au- thor of the Chronicle that bears his name, but, upon a serious and deliberate consideration of the matter, I conclude him to be a quite different person, and even different also from all the Roberts of Gloucester, that I have mentioned in my Preface 2 to that Work. Neither is it likely, that, had the Secretary been the Author, he would have passed over in si- lence his holy Master's Life, and not brought the thread of his History down to that Pe-riod, and given a very distinct and particular Account of the Acts of so worthy, religious and conscientious a Prelate, who equall'd in

'See this Life, pag. 195, 4c. 2 §. xx a. the

PREFACE. XV

the great Sanctity and Severity of his Life, and in the exercise of all virtuous and religious Duties, many of the most eminent of the pri-mitive Christians.

§. II. It must, indeed, be granted, Yet he seems b

that there was so little difference with have been in the vigour of his Age

respect to the time, in which these two at tho time. of the

Roberts (the Historian and the Secre- cAhrAolniisctalekre'sDofea:

tary) flourished, that the Secretary shop Godwin's.

seems to have been in his full vigour when the other died, which was, as-1 take it', some little time after the VI"'. year of K. Edward the First's Reign; which could not, therefore, be long before the Death of Bishop Cantilupe, who was consecrated ' in Christ Church Canterbury anno Christi, 1275. and of his Age about 56, and was cut off by. a Feaver 3, in the 63d. year of his Age, at, or rather near to, a Place known- by • the name of Monte Fiacone near Florence, on the 25th. 4 of August, though his Festivity were kept on the 2d. s of October. This I note the rather, because, tho' Bishop Godwin 6 be right with respect to the time of his Death, yet he is

I See my Preface to Rob. of whereof I have a Copy in Vel- 0 loucester's Claw). §. XVII. lum, in which also his Death 2 So the Life, Chap. XT. p. . (called there depositio)ismade 120. s Ibid. Chap. XVII. p. to happen on the 25th of Au- 190. 4 ibid. p. 195. $So in gust, or the day after St. Bar- that most rare printed Book, call'd the Missal of ITereford,

tholomew's. 6 De Praisulib. Angi. p. 537. • mistaken

X VI

THE PUBLISHER'S mistaken in saying', it was at Civita Vecchi, and in his way to Rome, whereas it was really' in his way from Rome (after he bad happily gained the Point he went thither for) and at the Place I have assigned. Nor does MatthewWest- minster 3, notwithstanding 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 otherwise take away that part of the honour which is due to the Bishop, for accomplishing a noble Action in behalf of the Rights of the Church of Hereford, against John Peckham Archbishop of Canterbury, a business, I believe, that no one could have carried with ' the Pope, but one of Cantilupe's extraordinary Piety, Sinfmrity, and Learning.

No reason, fromthe §. III. I am aware, that from what time in which they

to take Ro- I have said about the Age of the Hi- lived,bert of Gloucester storian and the Secretary, it will be the Historian and Robert of Gloixe. inferr'd by some, that they were one ster theSecretaryto and the same person. But, unless I be one and thesame Person. The His.. am much mistaken, they will be pre- torians in former sently satisfyl to the contrary, when Times were theRe- ligious, who often they have impartially considered, that lost their first Sir.. the original Sirnames of the Histo-

' Ibid. 1 Of which the ccrxxxvxs. 4 P. 537. s See Author of his Life mentions my Preface to Rob. of Gloud. undenyable Proofs, pag. 195. §. xxiv, 3 See his Cliron. sub an. M.

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PREFACE. xvii rian is at present unknown to us, not- names, and, upon

withstanding I do not doubt but the nccl)ongi

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Secretary might have his even from sirnamed anew • •

from of

the time of his Infancy. The Writers whichhouses

they were of History in those times (to say no- Members.

thing of other Authors) were the Religious, and when they became famous that way, they often lost their first Sirnames, and receiv'd new ones from the respective religious Houses of which they were Members. Hence William of Malm- esburyt (whose true Sirname, it seems, was So- merset') and Matthew of Westminster; (commonly called' Florilegus from the Titles of his Work,) to say nothing of Gnilielmus Neubrigen- sis (whose true Sirname was Petyt 6 ) were thus denominated from their Monasteries, after they became eminent in History. So also John of Glastonbury was so named upon account of the History or Chronicle of Glastonbury,

' Lelandus de Scriptorib. p. Catalogus eorum, qui scripse-` 195. Item Lelandi Coll. Vol. runt historiam geutis Anglo:. II.p. 303. Pitseus de illustrib. rum, & ubi extant. Ad cal.. Angliae, Scriptorib. p. 208. cent Roberti de Avesbury a Guil. Cavei Mist. Lit. p. 577. nobis editi, p. 292. Append. Genev. 1720. 2 Pitseus ibid. ad Gull. Cavei Mist, Lit. p. Thome Galei • Pra,,f. ad X V. 50. Ed. Gen. 4 Pitseus de Scriptores aronio? 1691. fol. Scriptorib. p. 518. Vossius Bendel Wharf. of Prwf. ad de Hist. Lat.11). 491. 5 1. e• VOI. 11. Anew Sacra!, p. T. Flores Ilistoriarum. 6 De

• Ger. J. Vossius de ilistoricis quo fusissime ad initium editi- Lat. p. :389. Lug. B. cm. pcxxvil. 3 Joann6 Joveclini

orris nostrw hujus Guilidmi, quani videsis.

of

X VIII

THE PUBLISHER'S of which lie was a Confrere and Monk T, a, himself bath assured us in the Prologue to that • usefull and excellent Work, which was never yet printed, tho' some things have been extracted from it by Mr. Dodsworth, and are published in the beginning of the Monasticon Anglicanunt 2.. Now had Robert of Gloucester the Secretary been as famous as Robert of Gloucester the Historian, the better to distinguish the one from the other, it would have been proper, to have stiled the latter, Robert the Monk of Gloucester, 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- lour of Hereford, tho' the published Fasti 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 Posterity.

Yet there were ra. S. IV. But now tho' there were so Cher more that re. tailed their. first Sir. many that lost their original Sirnames

' Johannes abjectissimus perquam benevole mutuo de- er humilimus ejusdem verse. dit. Et quidem jam alibi mu. rabilis loci [monasterii scili. ani, Johannem hunc operis cet Glastoniensis] indignus esse auctorem. Vide Lelan. confrater of monachus, id di Coll. Vol. VI. p. 97. quod de se ipso testatur no- 2 Vol. I. p. 1, &c. 1' Vide ster Johannes, quemadmodum Fastos Ecclesioe Anglicanw e Codice colligo eximio penes nobilissimnmllominum, Caro-

per Johannem Le Neve, p. 116. ubi de Roberto nostro

mum Dominum Bruce, qui mihi ne verbum. after

11

PREFACE. xix after they became noted for their names, after they

Writings, yet there were others, and their became

Writings.no tfd for

those too as famous, and as many, yea JohnWethamstede . of a greater cha. more, that retain'd them, notwith- racter than Mat-

standing the Characters they had esta- thew Paris. The II istoricalPassages

blished for the Works compiled by in Dr. Gascoigne's them. Matthew Paris was Author of Theological Dicti-

onary should be a very noble History, in which he took published. in what Roger Wendover had done before him l, tho' others say 'tis all the genuine 'Work of Matthew Paris i. Yet the great Abbey, of which he was Monk, did not take away from his primitive Sirname. Neither indeed did John Whethamstede, or Wethamstede, alias Bostok 3, (stiled 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 4, and a great Benefactor to the Abbey of St. Alban,

' Vide Guil. Watsii Prmfa- 631. s Lelandi Coll. Vol. VI. tionem ad Ed. suam Matthaei p. 135. Acta Joannis Whe. Parisiensis ; uti etiam v: cl. Jo- thamsted, Abbatis monasterii annis Seldeni (nam is collegit S. Albani, per Joannem Ag. scripsitque, quamvis non ob- mundishamensem, Monachum servaverit Antonius. 4 Wood) S. Albani, per singulos annos testimonia (cum notis) de eo. ipsius regiminis, MS. in Bibl. dem Parisiensi ad initium Edi- Cott. Claud. D. 1. 2. See tionis Watsianm. 2 Nicolson's also another MS. in the said Engl. Historical Library, p. Cottonian Library (Otho B. 62. Ed. fol. 3 Lelandi Coll. IV.) containing abundance of Vol. VI. p. 278. 4 Baleus curious Things relating to de Scriptorib. Majoris Brit. Whethamstede, as they are 4t0. fol. 200. b. Pitseus, p. specified by my late very

Vol. I. c learned

xx THE PUBLISIIER'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 Wethamstede was as celebrated a Writer as Paris? He is certainly characteriz'd as such. His Works were of more

'general learning, which spew him, therefore, to have been a more general Scholar. He was in great Reputation among all good and learned men. He was honoured by Humphrey Duke

' of Gloucester 7, that religious, good and learned Prince, whose Hand writing I us'd, whenever I saw it in the Bodleian Library (where it occurs several times) to slim a sort of particular respect to, as some little Remains of a truly great Man, one that was both a Scholar himself and the chiefest Promoter of Learn- ing and. Scholars at that time, by condescend- ing to whose Death his Nephew K. Henry VI'. ( otherwise generally esteemed for a gentle and innocent Prince) drew on himself and this King- dom (if the Observation of a very wise Histo- rian 2 may be regarded.) the greatest joynt- losse and dishonour, that ever it sustained since the Norman Conquest. Nor do I take We- thamstede to have been a worse Historian than

learned Friend Dr. Thomas 4to. fol. 200. b. Pitseus) p. Smith in pag. 70. of his Cata- 630. ' Sir Walter Raleigh's !ogue. i Lelandus de Scripto. Preface to his Hist, of the rib. Mit. p. 437. Baleus Ed. World.

Paris,

PREFACE. xx 1 Paris, tho' he did not confine himself so closely to the Affairs of this Kingdorn. His Granary, as it is a Proof of his extraordinary. Diligence, so 'fis, withall, *an Instance ( and that too a very noble one) of his Abilities in History. There are Remains of it in many Places. Some I have seen, and often consulted, formerly in the Bodleian Library. The most material Historical Passages, especially such as concern our own Affairs, ( particularly those de viris illustribus, which Leland . admired) should be extracted by those, that have the best opportunity of doing it, and made publick, as should likewisethose in Dr. Gascoigne's Theological Dic- tionary in Lincoln-College Library (as was many years ago rioted by Dr. Gerard Langbaine .) a Specimen of which I have lately given in the Antiquities of Glastonbury 3, written by a very worthy and pious Gentleman 4, who had he lived to improve the Book as he design'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 themselves up-

' Lelandus de Scriptorib. p. V. p. 287. ;Pag. 290. 4 Vide 437, 2 See a Letter of his to Prmf. ad llemingi Chartula. Mr. Selden, that I have pub_ rium Ecclesim Wig. §. I. fished in Leland's Coll. Vol. •

c 5t on

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THE PUBLISHER'S on Subjects, to the Study of which they are naturally inclin'd. •

Among others that §. V. But 'twill be endless here to retain'd their ori- ginalSirnames was multiply Instances of such as have re- Peter Langtoft, tain'd their Sirnames after their be- who, besides his Translation into coming noted Writers. They will be French Rhythms obvious enough to such as deal in of Bosenham or Boscam's Life of Antiquity. Waving, therefore, others, I Thomas a Becket shall mention onl one more, which in- compiled a Chro: y nick of England deed is more material than any other I in French. 'either have named or can name, and that

is Peter Langtoft, or Peter de Langtoft, the Person that bath occasioned this present undertaking of mine. lie was so called from Langtoft in Yorkshire, and was not, as some have thought 1, a Frenchman by birth, not-withstanding his being so very well vers'd in the French Language, that was in his time so much in vogue both at Court and elsewhere, especially among Lawyers and great Scholars, a thing which King James the I. look'd upon as of no true Advantage to Britain 2. It does. not appear to me, how he was originally educated; but, without question, there was nothing wanting, that might render him a com-pleat Scholar, as well as a Man of honesty and good Morals. After be had obtain'd a good

' See the Appendix to this Preface, Num. I. 2 See The Rosal Law by Richard Eburne, p. 40.

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fair Character, he became a Canon Regular ' of the Order of St. Austin at Bridlington, or Brellington 2, a Priory of Black Canons in York- shut, founded by Walter de Gant, (temp. Hen. I.) and dedicated to S. Mary and S. Nicholas'. He was a person naturally addicted to History and Poetry, and spent a good deal of his time that way; insomuch that, besides his Transla- tion out of the Latin Tongue into French Rhythms of Herebert Bosenham, Boscam, or Hoscham's 4 Life of Thomas a Becket, lie com- pil'd in French a Chronicle of England; written in Rhytkem, and is preserv'd still in several Libraries.

s. VI. The Author begins this Hi- This Peter Langtoft eems to have died story at the very Original of the Bri- sin the beginning of

tains, even as early as the Trojans, in K.Edw. 1141 Reign, and to have been

the same manner as many others do, buried at Bridling. that have no better Vouchers than the ta

on twh

ither E

mu.cth suck

has

old Brittish Historian ( and I look upon that to thepmepmory him as good 6 as those dark Times can of Robertus Scriba.

' See the Appendix to this bath been vindicated by many Preface, Num. I. II. III. great men, and among others, ' Lelandi Coll. Vol. III. p. that used to speak well of him, 363. 3 Lelandi Coll. Vol. I. p. was the learned Mr. Thomas 123. & Vol. IV.p. 35. Tanner's Thompson, Rector of Montgo. Notitia Monastica, pag. 252. 4 mery, in the Year 1628. as I Nicolson's Engl. Hist.Library, p. 112, 113. Fol. s See the A p.

find by the following Particu. lars, that I have entered at pag.

pendix,Num.I.II.III.IV.6 For 86. of Vol. 103. of my MSS which reason Geffry of Mon. Collections: 6 4 A1r.Brome (of mouth (who took from him) " Ewithington, nearliereford)

c 3 "bath

xxiv THE PUBLISHER'S produce) from whom ' first Alfred of Beverley, and afterwards GelTry of Monmouth (tho' Mr. Dodwell was not sufficiently aware of this a) took their Histories. He brings the Story down to the end of the Reign of K. Edward the first after the Conquest; 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 whatPlace, it was that he finished his days, I cannot pre-. tend to determine, unless I could meet with some good Authority on which to ground an

44 hath got Gyraldus Cambren. 4‘ the beginning, at the end of ' sis of Dr. Powell's Edition, 44 with Ponticus Virunnins at

" which Ponticus Virunnius is 44 the following MS. Note :

esii, S'Ofa. ctiolv. " Legi, nec video qua ratione improbetur hec historia, chug

" nil sapiat, quod non sit Si probabile 4. possibile, non ob.stanti- " businvidiosisillis pseudepigraphis prolatis a Polydoro Virgilio " 4- Guilielmo Cambdeno, Viris alioquin apprime doctissimis: " lid sentio Ego Dei serval humilimus his in studiis li pueritia " versatus,

44 Thomas Thompson, Rector Ecel. parochialis de " Nontgonteria, 20°. Fcbr. 162b°.

44 Immediately after which is a spare Leaf, on the back 44 side of which is this MS. Note in another hand :

" The beginning of the Giralds family in Ireland, was from a one Girald, which tooke to wife Nesta, Sister to Grein the " prince, of whom he begate a goodly faire progeny, from " whom descended Giraldus Cambrensis. Cambden: Britan: " in Pembroksh: 652. P.

" Giraldus Cambrols: was Archdeacon of Brechnock: above 400 yeeres since. Cantbden: in Brechnocksh : p. 627.

' Vide Prxf. nostram ad Aluredum Bev. §. VII. a Ex. ercit. de .iEtate Phalaridis, p. 25.

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Assertion. I am, however, of opinion, that he continued Canon of Bridlington till the time of his Death, and that he was buried in the Priocy, with some short Epitaph upon him, much such another as that to the memory of Robertus Scriba, or Robert the S,cribe (so sirnamed from the many great Works, that were written and compiled by him ' ) who was the fourth Prior of Bridlington, and, upon his Death, was buried in the Cloyster just before the Chapter- House Door with this Inscription, as we are assured by Leland 1 who saw it, at the same time that he'curiously look'd over his Writings, as they were then preserved in the Priory Li- brary : Roberins Scriba, quartus Prior; or, as Leland gives it elsewhere 3 , ROBERTUS, COGNOMENTO SCRIBA, QUARTUS PRIOR.

Were the Obitua. §. VII. It is not at all improbable, ries or Obit Books

but, if there be any of the Obit Books ortril

ning.tt

o.nnow of the Priory of Bridlington now in something being, upon a due Search, some note

bable certain about his Death might be might be found about the exact time, learned fromthem.

when Peter de Langtoft died. For the Tth

h em

dili diligence of e r Monks were exact in their Registring gistring. Many

things of this nature, as may appear e- old thartulariesstill in private

3 Lelandus de Scriptorib. seum, p. 243. 3 De Script°. p.202. Pitseuslp.242. 'Coil. rib. Brit. p. 203. Vol.IV. p.35. Vide etiam Pit. •

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THE PUBLISHER'S hands, that ought yen from the Obituaries, or Obit Books, to be by that I have seen, particularly one' that men of a

seatrue

'd rch ge -

nius. The Chroni- belong'd to Eovesham Abbey. They ex- cleof England written by Thomas ceeded, in many respects, what hath Blount, Esq ;. been done since the Reformation, not-

withstanding the strict Injunctions and Orders for keeping true and accurate Registers. Men of distinction and character were then appointed for looking after such things. They did not commit such kind of business to an illitterate common person, no more than they did the care of their Chartularies, in ' many of which too Notes may be occasionally found; immediately relating to the great and famous Men of those Times, such as would be of very good use 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, directly belonging to the subject, which gave occasion to the Searches ? Or what Compensation will be made for so much pains, and the laying out so much time upon dry In- quiries ? In answer to which it must be noted, that done but persons, naturally inclined to these Studies, should be imploy'd in searching,

Cujus apograplium penes C raves, do Mickleton in agro se habet antiquarius amicissi7 Gloacestriensi) armiger. Titus doctissimusq; Richardus el

who

PREFACE. XXVII who if they do not meet with much about the Lives and Deaths of eminent Men, besides what is already known, will, nevertheless, find r. vase deal about our Monasteries and our an-cient History not yet divulged, which as it will prove of unspeakable satisfaction to them-selves (for no Study can be more pleasant to Persons of a genius than that of our National History and Antiquities) so it cannot but be of wonderful service to the Publick. The single Chartulary of the Church of Worcester, that I lately published, is an undenyable Proof of this. And that tbere arc many Chartularies, very little known, in private hands, is, I think, agreed amongst all. We only want the benefit of them, by having persons of a genius imploy'd to turn them to publick Use. Thomas Blount, of Orleton in Herefordshire, Esq;. 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 '. 1 do not know, that there bath 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 licipso testatur l nium el Wood scriptig, quas in in litteris quibusdam ad Anto-IMus6o Ashmoliano perlegi.

(not

XX VIII 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 itl.which, I am informed, he inserted many Things 'about our Religious Houses, and the Sacrilegious De- struction of them ( what the Clergy and the Poor ought to lament') that was made by K. Henry VIII. of whom a very faithfull and judicious Historian writes, among other remarkable Particulars, that if all the Pictures and Patterns of a merciless Prince were lost in the World, they might all again be painted to the Life, out of the Story of this King '. But, it seems, this Chronicle was never yet printed ; nor do I exactly know where it now is, tho' some Extracts* from it were, a few years since, in the Hands of a late ingenious Friend : of which Extracts, as well as of many other curious Things, I should have had a free use, had he lived longer, he being sollicitous for me to go to his Scat, and to peruse whatever he had concerning our History and Antiquities.

Notwithstanding §. VIII. I have observ'd above', that the French Tongue was SO III uchin vogue the French Tongue was much in vogue in Peter Langtoft's in the time' of Peter Langtoft. Yet Time, yet there were multitudes be- notwithstanding this there were very

8 Coll. nostr. MSS. Vol. 94. ter Raleigh's Preface to hisili.. p. 136. I Richard Eburne's story of the World. 4 Coll. Royal Law, p. 44. 3 Sir Wal. nostr.MSS.V01.68.p.61. s §.V.

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many exquisite Scholars, that had a s:itides,;.hhat

e Ndespised

particular regard to their own native no. t able utterly to Tonguc and as for the inferior and extirpate the Saxon

Language. The ill more illitterate sort of people ', they Consequence from wholly despised the French Language. there

eEndeavoutors

w us'd

And 'twas a piece of great wisdome purpose. that that

to do so. The introduction of the French Tongue was of very great disadvantage. It brought a disuse of the Scriptures, which hav-ing been translated into Saxon, were commonly read among the Vulgar, as well as others, (that did not, understand the Originals,) 'till after the Normans came among us, who did all they could possibly to destroy every thing, that look'd like Saxon; and yet they were not able to bring their ill design to perfection. The 'axon Princes and great Men had granted abundance of Charters in their own Language. These ( notwithstanding some, tho' a very few, have been suspected 2 ) were 1pok'd upon as genuine and authentick. Extraordinary care, therefore, was to be us'd in preserving them. Great Immuni- ties and Privileges depended thereupon. The Monks knew this very well. They, therefore, imploy'd all their Skill in securing them from a People, that was as diligent to destroy them, as the Rebel's of Somersetshire were in 16S5 3 .

I Rob. of Gloucester's Sacr. p. III. 3 H. Whartoui Chron. p. 364. 21Ienr.Whar- toni Pra.f. ad Part. H. Angl.

Pref. ad Part I. Ang1. Sacr. p. XII.

to

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THE PUBLISHER'S to destroy very many ancient Writings, that belong'd to the Church of Wells.- This being so, we may fairly conclude, that the igrn,rance, which appeared after the Conquest, wins 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 wore afterwards very diligently kept from the knowledge of the vulgar, and all others, that were not acquainted with the Originals. This was of dismal Consequence, as will be readily own'd by those, that consider, that the Saxon Ver-sion of the Scriptures was excellent, and the Words very significant, as will sufficiently ap-pear to such, as shall consult 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 satisfied of the truth of it, from the Saxon Gospels, first printed by Mr. Fox, and afterwards, more correctly, by Dr. Marshall, to say nothing of some other printed Books. John Wickliff and others bad weigh'd this matter well, and upon that account partly they set upon another Ver-sion, agreeable' to the Language in use in their own Times, and were very industrious in di-vulging it, which is the reason, that we have

il so

PREFACE. xxx.1 so 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 shpil read over one Version, to com- pare it with the other, by which they will the more readily perceive and find out, the Alter- ations that have crept into the old Saxon Tongue.

§. IX. Among such as were concern'd Robert of Brunne

for cultivating the English Tongue, Ro- octitleltho'atf

tetdhotre thEnat

. bert of Brunne is deservedly to be me- 0" Tougue, and

he gained a great koned, be being the very person, to Reputation upon whom we owe that Piece of obsolete that score. This Ro-

bent of Brunnelived English, that is now here published. He to a great age, tho' was well apprized of the Credit, that the year in which

he died loth not Peter Langtoft's Chronicle had obtain- yet occur. 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 sake of such, as did notunder- stand either Latin or French. I say importuned, because himself bath assured 2 us, that he was requested to do it. Nor is there any wonder, that be should be pitched upon above any other, since he had, many years before, obtained a very great character for several Rhythmical Translations that he made, one of which wa6

'See his Prologue de Historia _Britannia?, in the Appen_ slix to this Preface, Num. V.

Ro-

LXXI i THE PUBLISHER'S Robert Grosthead's mantic! Tie pabe, begun by him in the year 1:303. 13. Edw. I. about four years before he feasted ( upon account of some honour done .him) and made ribserva- it tions at Cambridge '. An excellent Copy of the said Manuel De Pecbe, as translated by Robert of Brunne, is in the IIarleyan Libra- ry 1, as there is another in the Bodleian', in which are some other Things probably to be ascribed to him. The true Sirname of this great Man was Mannyng 4, but being (as I believe at present) born at Malton in York- shire, he was from thence frequently call'd Ro- bert of Malton s. He lived 6 for some time in the House of Sixhill, Sixill, Syxille or Sixle, a Gilbertine Priory in Lincolnshire, founded by one Greslei, or Grelle, in the time of King John, and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Ma- ry 1. Hence 'tis, that he afterwards express'd himself so hearty a Friend 8 to the Gilbertine or Sempringliam Order. After he had left Sixhill, he became a Canon of Brunne , or

, See below in this Chroni- nary to that Work, p. 706. de, p. 337. aSee my Preface 5 See the Appendix to this Pref. to Rob. of Gloucester'sChron. Num. V. and my Glossary to 4 x M. 5 Catal. MSS. in Bibl. Rob. of Glouc. loc. cit. 6lbid. Bodl. n. 2313. 4 See the Ap- 7 Mon. Angl. Tom. II. p. 810. prndix to this Preface, Num. Tanner's Notitia Mon. p. 129. V. Also my Preface to Rob. of Nee myPref.toRob.ofGlouc.p. Glouc. §. xxl v. and my Glos- Lx.9VideAppend,adhancProef.

Num.

PREFACE. XXX II Bourne, a Priory of Black Canons in the same County, founded by Baldwin de Wake (temp. lien. I.) and dedicated to the honour of St. Peter `, 4Iho' others' say ( and even Camden himself; seems to imply, tho' he does not directly say, that it was dedicated) to the B. Virgin. Here he lived a great many Years, continuing there, unless I am mistaken, to the time of his Death. It cloth not yet appear to me in what year he died ; but that he must have lived to a great age, is clear from the Notes himself bath left us. He had been of Brunne Ab- bey fifteen Years4, when he began to translate MillIttil DC pew, and 'twas more than thirty Years after that, before he finished his Task about Peter Langtoft, according to this Me-morandum that is put in red letters (but in thi same hand) at the End of it :

• „a.... Explieinnt gesta Briton= ss Arigh»./tin ?AIM •

gua materna per Rolart um 31annung fransum,- pta wino Christi miliesimo. CCC 710. trice8imo VIII. kilts illajj, litura dominicali 0.. Prima 1X. ternpore Reds Edward' level( r? ennwstli X V.

Num. V. item Praf. ad Rob. his Defence of himself against Glouc.p.Lx. & Gloss. ad Rob. Brook, p. 27. published by Glouc. p. 706. ' Mon. Angl. way of Appendix in sonie Tom. II. p. 235, &c. Lelandi Copies of his Britannia in Coll. Vol. I. p. 96. 2Tan. 4to. 1600. 4 Prmf. ad Rob. ner's Notit. Mon. p. 119. 3 In de Glouc. p. LX.

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He was not descend. §. X. After he became famous for ed from

. the

Found. his Writings, he was generally called er of St a

tle extra Bishop's Robert of Brunne, which was partly Gate. His Transla_ tion of Peter de occasioned also by his living sk, long in Langtoft had it'sin. that Priory; so that I should not think, tended Meet. Ma.. ny Copies of it that he was descended from Walter tnerly,tho' it be no. w Brune, or Broune, who, with Roisia scarce. The Stories in it us'd in old time or Rosia his Wife, founded St. Mary instead of Ballads. Spittle extra Bishop's Gate for Canons

Regular or Black Canons' an. 1197. an House of such relief to the needy, that there were found standing at the surrender thereof, nine- score beds, well furnished for receipt of poor people' ; of which kind I might ( were it my proper business now) give other Instances in those times, when Bishops also were Men of diffusive Charity, insomuch that Richard Red- man 3, first Bishop of St. Asa* then of Exe- ter, and afterwards of Ely, where he died and was buried A.. 1505. as he was a person ofgreat liberality and bounty, and of a virtuous and godly life; so when 4 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 plentifully bestowed amongst them. Now

' Leland; Coil. Vol. T. p. 1633. fol. 3 Godwin de Prtes. 36. Monast. Angl. Vol. 11. p. p. 3311 4731 662. Le Neve's 383. 2 Stow's Survey of Lon. Fasti, p. 21, 707 83. 4 C011. " duni, P. 86. b. 170. a. Ed. nostr. MSS. Vol. 80. p. Si.

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as Robert of Brunne undertook the' Trans- lation of Langtoft, not for Praise and Vain- Glory, .but with a design of doing good, so 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 IVords, such as were complained of in the Stories of Erceldoun, of Kciidale, and of Tristram', celebrated Rhythmical Books (but

full of lyes ) in Robert of Brunne's time, tho' little known since. Now as Robert of Brunne's Translation was much cryed up, so there is no doubt, but there were many Copies of it formerly, notwithstanding it be so scarce since, there being, at present, only two MSS. that I know of, one in Vellum in the Library of the Inner-Temple, the other (which is imper-

'See the Appendix to this a very fine, but imperfect Pref. Num. V. 2 And it was MS. thereof (written, as I take to such Itomantick Books, that the Rhythmical Author

it, in Edward the Mies. time) that was lent me by my very

of the Lives of the Saints worthy Friend, Edward She'. (who, it may be, was Robert don of Weston.house, near of Brunne) had regard in the to Long-Compton, in War_ beginning of his Work, where

this Passage, as I find it in wickshire, Esq;.

Mid sot toe Imp eltilletfoom, tat is to acre E bout Ctigith sure Lorhe's berm Mote, that pe fpere bath E font, Olen mita* mote p peg of hataite of Urn*, Rah of fontio oattr, tont moctict is fermis; fag &MOD ant of efrucre, an k82 of Martin*, Of Xtotoopen anD Ingham, tat ne fountitie pm g like. ai I 0 o Co fouetbcp to bete tales of CutOc prne, to:re be MAP g here thrill:1 Pat ups no wrath

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feet 7 ) in Paper in that of Lambeth '. The former of these MSS. bclong'd lately to William Petyt, Esq;. 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 Anstis, Esq;. Garter- Principal King of Arms, who put it in- to the Hands of my late very worthy Friend John Bridges, Esq;. from whom I receiv'd it a

Of poadeo anD marteren, that harbi Ammo Were, 2Inli &octal Were in bataile, anD fiebDe not for no fae.

1 44 The Chronicle" [of Pe. " mark of any Addition or ter Langtoft in MS. in Lam- " Alteration to be seen thro. beth Library] " is written at ." out the whole MS. At " one time, on the same " the end indeed there is this "Paper by two different " remark added by a late " bands. There is no modern " hand :

" Note this Book imperfect. The French Copies of Lang- " toji in the Cotton Library, and also in the Herald's " Office end with the Reign of King Edward the first".

E litteris amici pereruditi Ed- " verse the history of Eng- vardi Burton', armigeri, da.tis 44 land, writ in French by ad me Londini Mar. 5. 1724. " Peter de Longatofta, Ca.

o " non of Bridlington, a Spe. 8 " 'Robert Brunne was a 44 cimen of which you'1 find in " Canon of the Abby of 44 Stow's Ilist.in A D. 1279. " Brunne or Bourn near " where and in 1266. he is 44 Depyng in Lincolnshire — " join'd in the margin with " flourish'd in the latter end 44 Peirce Langton or Long. 66 of K. M. 1. reign, and 44 rofe; but his true Name 44 translated into English 44 Brunne has described thus :

1Peres of ILanotoft a elbanoun ri st) robrn p the houfe of Illriblinatoune .. 2:,11 Boman= al thin Om ,e Wrote Of emit* limo az toe WI lute &c.

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little before his Death 1 . But tho' there were many intire Copies of the Work formerly, yet others were very imperfect. For notwithstanding most people then (as well as they are now) were very desirous of hearing the Acts of their famous Ancestours related, yet much the greater part were not of ability to get compleat Copies of this Book, and for 'that reason were contented with Transcripts of some particu lar Stories out of it, which for recreation (a thing aimed at by Robert of Bromic) they used to recite, and very often to sing by way of Ballads. Which method we ought not to wonder at, since our more ancient Ballads were nothing but such Rhythmical historical Accounts, done by Persons of note for Learning, who proposed Truth in their Relations ; and such Relations were stiled ancient ems, which Word ecflo was opposed to the French Eoi mance 2, a Word it seems that was apply'd to whatever History was compiled in French Rhythms.

§. XI. Now from Robert of Brunne's Robert of Brunne a Man of a facetious calculating this Work for the Diver- merry Temper, yet

" This translation is yet ex.

•

Appendix to this Pref. Num. " taut MSS. in Lambeth Li. V 1.2 See pag.205. of this Chro. . " brary n. 131. folio." — nicle. See also the Appendix E litteris via cujusdam pere. rutliti ad aMicum. I See the

to this Preface, Num. VII.

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without any Mix- sion and Recreation of the respective tore of Immorality. The diligence of the Readers, and such as met together Monks of Winche. for Mirth and Pleasure, we may easily ster in obstructing the Design of Joan gather, that he himself was of a chear- ofLondon. A Pas- ful' pleasant humour, and tliat he was sage relating to the sedes stercorariaat very blithe and merry whenever he Rome from an ono- saw a proper occasion; at all which nymousMS.Author. . tunes, however, he behav'd himself

without any immoral or indecent Expressions. Ile was naturally addicted to virtue, and his being engaged in a religious course of Life made him have a stricter Guard upon himself. But 'twill be objected, that in the younger part of his Life, as hath been already noted ', he was a Member of Sixille, a house that consisted of Women 2. as well as Men. Can we, therefore, think, that, since he was of a jocular Temper, he could be whol-ly free from Vice ? or that he should not . some-times express himself loosely to the Sisters of , that Place ? This Objection would have some weight, had the Priory of Sixille been any ways noted for Luxury or Lewdness ; but whereas every Meml:er of it, both Men and Women, were very chast, we ought, by no means, to suppose, that Robert of I3runne behaved himself otherw ise than became a good Christian

el

, §. IX. 2 See pag. 243. of this Work. See also the Ap- pendix to this Work, Num. VI.

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during his Abode there. Had his Life been sullied 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 Hiitorian, have spared 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 bath always been at the bot-tom, and tho' it bath oftentimes prevailed to the utter ruin of whole Societies, yet it bath fre-quently likewise discovered it self so palpably, as to bailie and quite overthrow such as have promoted it. 'Twas nothing else but the virtue of the Monks of Winchester, and their Diligence to secure their Reputation, that obstructed the Designs of one Joan of London, in the time of K. Edward I. She pretended to be a religious Convert, and had obtain'd, at least got forged, an Order from Rome and Canterbury, to have a yearly Maintenance allow'd her, dur-

. d 3 inCrb

14 THE PUBLISHER'S ing life, in the Monastery of Winchester, claim-ing the same Pittance, viz. 8 s. (or, as it shoUld be perhaps, S libs.) a year pro alimentis, that eve-ry Monk had, a thing which so exasperated the Monks, that they prosecuted 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 acquiesced and permitted such an Innovation. I did not meet with this Piece of IIistory, 'till lately, when I read over an old Parchment Fragment ', that was given me by my ingenious F,riend Tho- mas Ward, of Longbridge near Warwick, Esq;. The like Attempts were made, without dispute, upon other Religious Houses, which, I suppose, met with the like Success. Envy ac, companies Virtue, and, therefore, there will never be wanting persons, that will be ready to calumniate the most innocent. 'Tis what is complain'd of among all Persuasions. Even the Roman-Catholicks ( who, to give them their due, and to hint what bath been long since observ'd, in the point and practice of Cha, rity, and in the provision for those that serve at God's Altar, several of which are forced to put their 'hands to many a servile labour and base Employment, have shew'd themselves more ,

r See the Appendix to this Pref. Num. VIII. 99Plid

PREFACE. xf,t sound and constant, more righteous and reli-gious, more reasonable and conscionable than some of us Protestants, that in profession and . knowledge go far before them ') assert, that what many eminent Protestants affirm of the sedes 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. 2 but imperfect, being lent me by the just now mentioned ingenious Mr. Ward, tells the Story thus 3 : m - When the pope cometh to Latcrane, he entreth into the p- icric or dopier of the church, zcher he is receyvcd of the canons of the same church in theyr habites ho- norablye with the crosse, whych the prior of the ca-nons

offreth to be kgssed of h/ in descendinge from his

horse, which he cloth, the cardinal! deacon takynge it of the prior, and houldynge it to the.pope's mouth takynge of his crowne 8s kyssynge it. The crowne is green to the auditors to be houlden, and he tak- yuge his miter, is by the same prior and canons re- ceyved and conducted unto a marble scat, standinge without the principal! gate at the left hand, which seat is called (of the ceremonic there done) stereo-

' Rich. Eburne's Royal Route : the second of th.yuges Law, p. 41, 48. 2 Intit'led, done, as occasion servellt, at The CeremonNes of the holN Rome or elsewhere. But there Church it/' konte. it is in is only one Chapter (and that 41o. and consistsof two Books, the first booke whereof is of

too imperfect) of the second Book of this MS. the rest being

11w thringe$ done unt;si at wattling. I L. 1. chap. 7. d 1 raria,

XLII THE PUBLISHER'S raria, the stercorarie. for syttynge down in that seat, and lcanynge a little on one syde, so that .he may sense rather to lye than to syt, the cardinales come to limn, and lyftynge hint up, say: suscitat de pulvere egenum, & de stercore erigit paupe-

. rem : he lifteth up the nedie from the dust, and exalteth' the poore from the dunghill, that he. may syt amonge the princyes, and possesse

Ps. 112, ut sedeat tam prineipi- bus, & so. lium glo- rim teneat.

it is a err- trysts cogne • neither of

the throne of glorie. Then the Pope rysynge up, takelh out of the bosynt of his chamberlene so much money, as he can grip ( and yet filer is neether gould nor sylver) 8s eastern it amonge the people mine : argentuin & aurum non est. mihi, quod autem habco hoc tibi do : I have neither sylver nor

'silver nor of could, gould, yct such as I have I geve the. I know

what is usually said on this occasion ; 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 consideration 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 Pauline will be look'd upon as a Man of

• probity and virtue ; especially since the same ingenious persons (who are far from taking up with Calumnies) cannot be ignorant, what an a-spersion some wicked men were pleased to cast upon a very pious and devout Family at Little

. Gid-

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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 popish) which was extracted, in good measure, though with un-warrantable Alterations, from a Letter that is now in MS. in the hands of the foresaid Mr. Ward, from which I shall print in the Appen-dix ' to this Preface, that it may be compared with the printed Book, of which, because it is now extremely scarce, I shall, at the same time, give 1 a new Impression (according to the for-mer, provided it may be call'd, Orthography) from a Copy, the loan of which was obtain'd 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 so 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. Wil-liams's Lie (then Bp. of the Diocese)by Bp. Racket, Par. 2d. pag. 50, 511, BSc. Fol. 8s 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

'Num. IX. 2 See the Appendix to this Pref. Num. X. Mr.

xuv THE PUBLISHER'S Mr. of Arts 1613. He was so great and so good a man, that the late Bp. (If Ely (Bp. Turner) had a de-sign to write his Life, but what Collections he had . made, or where log'd, I do not know : His Library

• was sold. • ';Fis impossible to §. XII. But I must not pretend to en- give a partiCularAc_ count of the Life of ter into the minute Circumstances of Robert of Brunne. the Life of Robert of Brunne, who al- There are l'rece- dents, as well in an- tnough he was so well known in his cient as later Times, own time, yet is now, as it were, quite to justify any one in leaving behind him forgot, even among our best Antigua- Memoirs of his own Life. Dr. Wallis left ries. Stow indeed bath quoted him ', some particulars of and given us a remarkable passage out this nature. The Des. Memorandum of him 2. Otherwise I do not Jemem- at the Beginning of her, that he bath been cited by any a Book (in the Lod- notedWriter. A thing much to be leian Library) con- tainingmany things wonder'd at, especially since Selden that he deciphered. was very diligent this way, and bath

given 3 us a Passage out of the original Langtoft, . whom Brunne calls' his 'Master. And what is still stranger is, that he should not have been known to Leland, who had been at Bourne, and bad taken special notice of the Places 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, otherwise Leland, without question, would have

' Annals pag.I96. Ed. fol. XIV. 3 Diss. upon Fletal p. 2 Ibid. p. 201. See also my 518. 4 See pag. 206, 285.

1

Preface to Rob. of Glouc. § 5Lelaudi Coll. Vol. IV. p. 31. • " judged

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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 least if there were, 'tis probable there was no note in it about his being a celebrated Writer, which particular, however, 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 mischief's they wisely fore- saw Henry VIII. ( from whom Leland had his Commission) was apt to bring upon them. For want, therefore, of particulars, -we must not think of writing a full account of Brunne's Life, . the only Memoirs about him being what be !lath given himself in his Prologue' to this work, in his Transition from the first Part thereof to 2 the second, and in what he writes' in the Har- leyan MS. of Millittei DC PCCRI which are indeed but slender; and yet such as give us some (and that no despicable) Idea of him. I wish he had been fuller of himself, as I do likewise lament, 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 dis- agreeable to the Rules of Modesty, which, not-

. ' See the Appendix to this Preface to Rob. of Glouc. §.

Pref. Num. V. 2 See the Ap. XIII. pendiv) Num, VII. 3 See my . with,

XLVI

THE PUBLISHER'S 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 faithful' 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 Posterity bath imi- tated them. Thence Sir Thomas Bodley was pleased also to leave behind hin1 an Account written by himself of his own Life ' ; 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 whose Papers I shall publish it in the Appendix', with part of a Letter 3 of the Dr's. to Bp. Fell cow. cerning the Report of his deciphering King Charles the First's Cabinet, in reference to which I shall only here remark, that the Dr's. original Book (in his own hand) is now in,,the

I Published first in 4to at that Language both in the Oxford anno D. 1647. and Bodl. Library, and in the Afterwards, at the Beginning learned Dr. Thom, Smith's of neliqui,eBodleioner, at Lon- s1SS. in my possession, Vol. don in Svo. A.D. 1703. This 22.p. 60. i .Nutn. XI. 3Num. Life was translated into La- tin, and 'tis still preserved in

XII.

Bod-

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Bodleian Library, with this Memorandum ( in his own hand also) at the beginning of it :

Hanc Epistolarum Collectionem, quas Ciphris scriptas Ipse exposuerat, Celeberrimx Biblio- them Bodkiante in Illustrissima Academia Oxoniensi (kdit Johannes Wallis, ibidem Geo- metria Professor Savilianus. Reservatd sibi in posterum potestate addendi vel emendandi.

A Collection of several LetterS and other Pa- pers, which were at several times intercepted, written in Cipher, Deciphered by John Wallis, Professor of Geometry in the University qf Oxford—Given to the Publick library there, Anno Domini 1653.

Which Memorandum I the rather take notice of, because the being acquainted with the liberty, that Dr. Wallis reserved to himself, may be of service to such, as are concerned to defend, as well the Title of this Book in the printed Catalogue', as what bath been said of this MS. by Henry Stubbet and Anthony a Wood ', who (as other honest men have done*) look'd upon

'Tom. I. Part. 1. n. 3521 Wallis,D.D. Lond. 1657. 2 In pag. 7. of A severe en- 4to. ; Ath. Oxon. Vol. IL gully into the late Oneirocri- col. 415. See also pag. 61. tics; or an exact account of of the Life of Dr. John Bar. the grammatical part if the wick in English, Lond. 1724. Controversie between Mr. 8vo. +See pag.156.0f a Book, Thom. Hobbes and John intit. 'The Civil ;Fames of

Great .

XLVIII THE 'PUBLISHER'S this business of deciphering as a base act. And' it may be the learned Dr. Smith would have .spared his note on the occasion, had he been either aware of the beforesaid Memorandum, or given any credit to what Anthony a. Wood had said' 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 sophisti- cal evasion, a character which Anthony afterwards enlarged, notwithstanding it does not appear in the late spurious Edition of his At1wn Oxonienses, in which he is made to have written Things transacted after his Death.

If Robert ofBrunne §. XIII. But to return to Robert of bad any Epitaph, it seems to have been Brunne, it is very well known, that short, agreeable to Leland in lig Travells made it his bu-those times, and to

mess, not only to seek out and inspect be now irretrievable. .

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 persons of worth ; and among other Places that

Great Britain and behind. End of his Dedication, To Containing an Exact History the most noble Charles Duke of their Occasion, Original!, of Richmond and Lenox., &c. Progress, and Happy End. By I Vol. 11. coll. 818. of the ge.. an Impartial: Pen. Lond. nuine Edition of his Athente • 1661. fol. The Author sub. axon. scribes himself J. D. at the ,I

he

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he nicely examined, was this of Brunne, tho' his Notes upon that occasion do not now occur. 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, unless 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 bad any Epi- taph, I do not at all doubt but it was short, far from the modein way of writing Inscri- ptions. A good man deserves praise ; and the speaking 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 same time, perhaps, he did not deserve the least share of so great an Encomium. Our Ancestors, no question, had their Defects ; but then they were not guilty of such Extravagancics in their Characters of the Dead. A plain Monument, and a plain Inscription was then common. Their Names and Offices, with a odus anima! propicie- Mr Deus, was then. generally the Subject of

their

THE PUBLISHER'S their Epitaphs; but should such a Concltiiion be made use of at this time, the Outcries would be great, and nothing but Curses de- nounced. Tile Favourers thereof should be called the worst of men, and be condemn'd as injurious to the Dead, as if the Defunct need-ed either prayers or pity, notwithstanding, it may be, none ever stood in greater need of such merciful! Offices. But what is this to Brunne ? or what occasion was there to speak of the custom of writing Epitaphs ? A Que- stion that may be soon resolved by those, that will consider, that Brunne lived in an age, when the custom of writing concise 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 receiv'd custom, when even the Date of the respective persons Deaths was frequently omit-ted, which is what might also be left out in that of Brunne. This Brevity and Simplicity is agreeable to Antiquity, tho' it must be grant-ed, that sonic of the short Roman Inscriptions carry tokens in them of their being spurious; and whether there be not such in (some, at least, of) the Inscriptiones singulares ineditte of Hadrian Beverland, I shall leave to the Judg-ment of the Reader, after he bath perus'd them in the Appendix'.

' Num. XIII. §. XIV. 1,

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§.X IV. Now since wehave no more Peter Langtoft's Original, as well as Memoirs, relating to the Life of Ito- • Robert of Brunne's

bert of Brunne, I shall leave the far- EnglishWork, consists of two Parts, ther discussion of that Point, and will .the first Part of

conf ine my self to the Historical which is here omitted, as containing

Work he hath left behind him. This . nothing but Geffry

ofa a sA consists of two Parts, as likewise does of

pa ss lge o

Monmouth.ut

the French Original of Peter Lang- taIl's Chronicle a- toft. The first Part brings the History bout Stonehenge.

down from the mqst early Times to the Death of Cadwaladvr, the second 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 Verse, 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 so worthy of notice, as another, which I must by no means omit, and that is this. Pe-ter Langtoft himself had carefully read over Gary of Monmouth, and resolved to make him his Standard for the first Part of his Work; but then, instead of representing him intire, he abridg'd him, and left only a Rhyth- • mical Epitome of him; which when Robert of Brunne well percciv'd, instead of following Pe- ter Langtoft in that point, he judged it more . adviseable to represent Gpirry at large, but

Vol. I. c not

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not according to the compendious 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 2 call Wate) whose Translation being approved of, Robert of Brunne thought it a piece of pru- dence to follow him, without regard to the Original Latin of Geffry. The first Part, therefore, of Robert of Brunne is nothing but Gef- fry of Monmouth, and that too translated in- to English from a French Anther ; but then the second Part contains a Translation of Pe, ter Langtoft's second Part, yet with many In- sertions 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., bed of Brunne's Chronicle, a Title I have call'd it by lately 2 ) I 'Concluded it to be a needless piece of service to publish any of the first Part, (excepting the Prologue 3 to the whole Work, and the • Transition 4 from the First to the second Part thereof, in both which he speaks of himself and the Work) and all my Friends, that I consulted upon the occasion, readily con- curr'd with me. For which reason I have kept

i See Aaron Thompson's Ed. of Rob. of Gime. 3 See Preface to his Translation of my Appendix to this Preface, Geff. of Mon. pag. xxv. 2 Num, V. 4 See my Appen. ViX. in several Places of my dix) Num.,yJI.

to,

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to, and made publick, the latter Part only, as containing a great many Things not common-ly known, such as all, that are curious in our English History, will be glad to be acquakted with, especially since Peter Langtoft, the ori-ginal Author, flourished in Edward the First's. time ( whose Story he tells at large) and Robert of Brunne, li& Translator and Improver, was not long after him. But then, tho' the First Part be deservedly pass'd over by me, yet the Reader may 'Vet with several Specimens of it, if he be pleas to have recourse to my Glossa-ry to Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle, and. another Specimen also I shall annex here in the Appendix ', for the sake of those who shall. undertake to write about Stone-lienge, which. our old English Historians unanimously affirm to have been a British Work, which opinion Rastall himself seems likewise to have espoused, notwithstanding he did not readily agree with those, that held them to be natural Stones. His words 2 are worth reading, and therefore 1 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 I, as

I Num. XIV. I In his Chron. C. ii. a. 3 Brit. p. 184.

In Wiltshire; Ed. Lat. fol. a 2 I be-

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I believe, had them in his view at the same time 'that he was writing about their being artificial, notwithstanding he hath not been pleased to make any mention of his author. if Inez St urgrambrofe 'ogarogb the panpm latogo g umpteen Ourchess of creftentoome he Mao porforrlit- topnchener g man burgeb at floneheng antler the grete cones tobecli Carr the brpttono fag that one ileerIpon which Wag beg ;tin of a Wow be the teugli lumen out of prelatiO by 6lpe cniit of moult lohYdi bruero men thenb floor* nother %Di* loop fag* nor reafon g alto the brztono fag that tors gpartron ;alb t turotednaniprophefgez lnheron thee gretelg beleue 1But other clerbia0 any grete Irmo men Rue fetef trebence to them I 4 alto rhea peg that thbfe ftonia Mere neuer brought out of Enfant; be median but that thep mere mabe be craft of men as of foment g matter Male of flan gongs 1 one reafon rhea siege 'therto.,,becaufe thofe sons be fo hard that no grgn tole togli cut them •Mitheu, grete begneo mat alto thee be of one farm anti bEgnes Glue wig there be. ii. (luau 1 g fo moo Ighlg to be cane anti maDe in a molbe g that men *puke it a *file almofte bnpoffebre to get fo mane grete . nom elate of atm (pure or rade that tont be to herb fo mall of ,bggnez g faffgon I a nether reafon ther leg. that it ID not Wen lag& to WC fo mang gret Ito* to be alt of one color, 4 of one gregn *NW ant in cure place but that tome none Muth be more barber of colour in 'one place or another or at the feat haue tome barites of other colours in them as grete (Ionia of merbetl ant; other gret !Ionia coming:11g haue I 113pt there (Ionia at flonel hgttge be all of one grgt ivithout ebaunge of colour or base g all of une flagon *afore mane grete togfemeu fuppofe them to be matte at; matter of fignt or other (tam

" §. XV.

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§. XV. In publishingthis old Piece of Theexactness made use of in publishing 'd History, I have aim at the same ac- this piece of ancient

curacy and exactness as I have done is.olim"eoary.asiTo graetviefy

in my other publick Works, and as ralSpecimens'of the in Robert Of Gloucester, so also in m

Frenchade

ae also publick with

this Piece ofd Antiquity I have made it. use of four Oxon Characters, viz. z or g, 12 or tb, p or 111( which, however, very rarely occurs) and y or p, kAters that are met with in most • MSS. of that age, .as well as in those of the times aftervvakds Ifn-i4e down to the Beginning of printing,. nay even to the Destruction of the Religious Houses, which put a stop to many laudable Employments, among which was also the Elegancy of writing, (which was much en-courag'd in Abbeys,) and the profession of the Saxon Tongue, which was kept up, with more than ordinary diligence, in some of those Houses of Religion. This exactness I have always been cautious in, because 'tis what the most judicious Readers exspect, and where they meet with it, they never fail to set the greater esteem upon the 'Writings that are so set out. And because some curious persons will be ready to inquire, what sort of French it is, that. Peter Langtoft made use of; part-ly to gratify them on that account, and partly to illustrate some expressions of Robert of Brunne, I have given many Specimens of that

e 3 Lan-

LTI THE PUBLISHER'S

. Language in the Notes, that I have put at the bottom of the page, in order to which I have perus'd three French MSS. of Peter Langtoft, that were seat me, after I had begun to print this Translation of Rolie—rt of Bruune'srby that

#

most excellent and accomplished Herald, the learned Mr. Anstis. , One of theseMSS. ( which is the most ancient f belongs to the Colle/ge of Arms, the Members whereof,/ as they are Men of. curious Learning, and icady to pro-mote Works of this kind, ;Ciiefbusly consent-ed, that I should have tile loan 0( it, jii'st in the same manlier iS ( a thing I have hinted i., before ' ) the Members of 'the .Iiiiier-iTinple ( who arc equally ready to advance Underta-kings of this nature) most willingly agreed, that I should 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 Moly- in Worcestershire, Esq; as appears from this Note, written at the beginning of it by the late industrious Antiquary Mr. Antho-ny a Wood, to whom Mr. Sheldon was a very great and liberal Friend a .

1 §• X. % See Allietur Ox- don's Affection for Mr.Wood

on. Vol. I. col. 364, 604.Vo1. is this, that not long before he If. col. 449, 866. One In- died (as 1 am inform'd by an

-stance of the sa:d RapheShel. . excellentFriend) he gaveM r. Wood,

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Given to the Heralds office at London bg Raphe Sheldon of Beoly irt Worestersh. Esq; who died 21 June 1684.

The othei two French MSS. belong to Mr. Anstis himIelf, and are both bound in one and the samj Volume; . but then whereas one continues the Story to the Death of K. Edward I. the othq (which contains only the second Part of angtoft) ends before that Period at

these Word4in toily,287. ibe Goma for to 63rue Pe fifte penie to ke ft3,ttg, Inoio them their to !put, tt Cabe per °Pet Pin.

§. XVI. Tito' the French Passages And)for furtherSa.

at the bottom of the page are suffi- ctiisufsaicotinooiri;h

tehFe rCe no cah..

cient for my purpose, yet, as a farther MS. that belongs to the Heralds Office

Satisfaction to the inquisitive and cu- is here inserted in rious Reader, I shall here publish, in this Preface.

this Preface, the Conclusion of the French Pe- ter de Langtoft, as 'tis express'd in the MS. of the Heralds Office, especially since the last Lines are the Scribe's own, which will, in some measure, confirm what I have observ'd .1 formerly about Chaucer's Revocation of the Par-

. . . Wood, by word of mouth, an hundred Pounds towards

Sheldon, Esq;. confirm'd to him (tho' not oblig'd) when

printing his Athente 0 xonie n. he came into possession of the ses, which the Father (a per. estate. I See my Appendix to son of great virtue and ho. flour) of the present Edward

Itob. of Gloucester, p. 601, 601, 603.

e 4 son's

LVIII

THE .PUBLISHER'S son's Tale, and the same might be withall confirm'd from other MSS. where the like Addi- tions have been added by the Scribes or Libra- rians. .

en tan auaunt name cum noun auouno akef lI.e lour fec5rme De 3lute, put Wit bows certify', tie notice Mein anima, hi ahne4u henire, 2 Burg fup ten oablouno,,alaunr beta Sittbank an tterrak creaunce, fonlccle ab fini,e. figfainbenitunt apre fa mart Wait puptke, eradiate; ea to cord, par bunt, e cicrxkt, 8 Mecham prep he tountneo fa Demcne ablnit, .. --- . ' III Inure gilaSus enteral folempneiesc fern 113aunef tuft fur bore, fauni attai1 tfliorlte; Ducat= a pouern, cie pm cele Mitt piife. a Zulu 2 n quatre ann$. bjii. l',fako. b. Mum noun tie lacnnajrc 3 fuf annletere par lek eattlake, Q t refoun 3 Ureic majrntinc la monarcp5re. De binour a taupe fen repten51, 4 Pere nut auokr Daunt gtoie; feknnocke. an webe fon lkenacle ode eft S to tors fend,/

. a alcamontlec en routnbe De marbre lien poiSic. Lc prince, qi pm noun fu5 Pilate fu punye, iLe Ilteia are Catnap) refcejrue en fa metcyc, nelefe at dun face Den folfer5 en fa bye, en renal manaoun to mene a compaSqinke %on'feptife nk all fora ioye a mat*. St.

2 ihatce morn gram folemp, clement Cod. Austisinnus. a

that K. Edward I. reigned 34. years 7 months and 21. days.

Robert of Brunne (pag. 341.) For he began • his reign. Nov. bath wrongly express'd this, by telling us that he reigned

16. 1272. and died July 7. 1307. 5 ' Our. Cod. Anst.

only 21 years 8 months tied 5 4 Ipac nut auapt Cod, Anst. thys. Our later Chronicles s goon Coro pro It tors iii Cod. are more exact, which tell us) Anst.

et

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tck finia Verna fon Hue' en Donout, (Mt 3on qe WO patfet ab ton labotth

Si term be to bie Dieu it.6, face room, et mette faime en rep* oue eetrit$ en totouh Ion qe Wait otbre pone be mare, Re bike be SIttirmsfiete Oire 3lon qe Cu fon meitte,- Re ptia De deduct pat fa mane beau,

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Vieux i m e lout dingo en la iqe tektite.

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observe with respect to the French lished a Note con- MSS. made se of by me in this Work, cd7nr nut! if,ut, /°„,c•afor; unless it be, tlittehtet le end of that be- auctor in many I

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go Cantinas, it Person of great Sanctity and Learning, which 1 b hail also take the liberty of publishing here.

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" go Cardinalis, fratrum Prwdicatorum ordinis, milli M. CC. LUff.

" qui doctor eximius doctrina sana & perlucida De Hugone

" totam Bibliam postillavit. Concordanciarum qeuairdcomnatioiL " eciam Biblim primus actor fuit, quern, propter btcasoutB-6 " vitam bonam & sciencia famam, papa Inno- "suit' " cencius Sancta Sabinm instituit Cardinalem, "in quo state licet esset de ordine fratrum q Prmdicatorum, omnibus tamen Religionibus ", ac eciam secularibus placidus, extitit." In

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THE PUBLISHER'S which Note actor is the same with auctor, and Religionibus the Same with ReligiOsis. The same way of writing auctor I have very often seen in old MSS. and so 'tis written in an excellent MS. of the. Book call d• land or satin', lent me by my very kind Friend ;limas Ward, of Longbridge, Esq;. 'At the toil) of the first page of which MS. an old, but later, hand bath written, SlitO bake ifo MO Stic fc id of engine ecrmanc0., ;calla( to-,4fitup eit- rotes anti parne prie ico. c. ird at t e ha- torn of the same ( first) p ge, in the sang later hand, is written, actor lib .. diciturfuisse.

plommer. I cannot tell—who i& meant by Plommer. Mr. Ward (and I am not willing to dissent from so candid a Gentleman) conje-ctures him to have been Robertus Plimmodunen-sis or Plymton, so sirnamed. from Plympton in Devonshire, of which he was a black Canon, and is said . to have written Condones Dominicales. But then I. find by my late learned Friend Dr. Thomas Smith's Catalogue, that the MS. in the Cottonian Library 2 ascribes this Work to John Mirkus a black Canon of Lulshul or Lille-Shull 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- .

- ..— Ci•-•-•-•-•

inaleui , p. 379. Ed. fol. Pitseus, p.409. ' Claudius A. II. 1. lector.

PREFACE. . LIC I lector. For the Author says himself in the Pro- • logue or Preface, 010 tterar5 to Tinian ma of legenlia num, the Author whereof Jacobus de Viragine or Voragine flourished a anno 1290. and dieiNcirca an. 1300. and Robert Plympton seems ( froln LeNeve's Fasti') to havebeen Arch- deacon of Totton. an. 1310, &c. Mr. Ward's MS. is in may respects different . from the printed Book, spoken of by me in my Glossary 3 to Ro- bert of (sIsester, .ut then these Variations chiefly rehite t.3 the Orthography, which is much changed in .the Print for more modern Expressions, as lc , lyable to stop the Reader. 'And yet there is one Omission I find in the print, which I cannot forbear taking notice of here, and that is the Account of St. IVenefride, which is intirely left out in the print, and for that reason I shall subjoyn it in my Appendix 4, as a Specimen of the MS. and that it may be the better compared with the old Rhythmical Life of this holy Virgin, printed at the End of the late Bp. Fleetwood's' Books about her from a Copy that I transcribed and sent to his Lord- ship, at the same time that I sent him a Tran- script of Roberins Salopiensis's Life of hei, when I should likewise have communicated to him

, Cavei Hist. Lit. p.654. E. Wenefrede, together with her (lit. Geoev. 8 Pag. 96. 3Pag. Litanies; with smile Historical /39. *Num. XV. s intit. Observations made thereon. The Life and Miracles of St. Load. 1713. 8vo.

WS

An THE PUBLISHER'S this Account in the Festival, had I then had the command of the MS. tho' at the same time I cannot forbear noting, that my sentiments are widely different from the Bishop's with respect to this Virgin. For whereas the BiShop bath insinuated, that there never wo any such holy person, and that all which is reported of her is fiction, on the contrary, I not only be-lieve, that therevpl such a virtuous,lpious and holy young wodum, ( nor can I irrilgine, that she would have been inserted either; in the Ca- lendar, or in the OlYteets of Missal of He- reford, had the'Compilers 'thought otherwise) but that she perform'd 'many/uncommon acts of Devotion, which occdsion'd many Specula-tions; and tho' 1 am far from believing many Things alledg'd about her, yet I think, that the very same Arguments that his Lordship bath offer'd in this Affair ( if they should be judg'd valid, as I cannot think that they ever will) may as well serve 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 Inconsistence in Chronolo-

. gy are but weak, since it appears, that the Monks were generally but indifferent Chrono- logers. Neither are negative Arguments of any greater Force. Robertus Salopiensis was Prior

of

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Of Shrewsbury, a man of a devout life, and,witb- out doubt, followed other Writers notwithstanding they be lost since ; and yet at the same time it must not be questioned, but he followed Tradition in several Things. Which we need ibt wonder at, since the Brittish Ili-story, in Very great measure, depended, in the more early Times, upon Traditions delivered from Fatlfr to Son; so that .in this case it was very difficult to adjust the exact years, such as accurate Obstnologers exsp6et. A thing that will be readkily allow'd by such as consider the uncertainty of the‘ancient yevecti. Nor do I see any thing incredible in what is said of a . Cripple's being restored to his limbs, that had pray'd and watch'd all night at the shrine of St. Wencfride, .whatever the latitudinarians and libertines of this Age may think. In old time Vigils were strictly observ'd, and 'twas not look'd upon as Superstition and Foppery to continue in devotion ail night, and to render Thanks to Almighty God for Founders and Be-nefactors, and for the good Examples of pious Persons. The Name of Vigils is still re-tain'd, _ but the practice too much laid aside. The Founders of, and Benefactors to, Churches are (alass ! ) generally forgot, and little care is now adays taken about Thanksgivings for them. .

§. XVIII. .

LXIV THE PUBLISHER'S Many Things in this §. XVIII. Such as are studious. of Chronicle) that are different from what our History and Antiquities will the is related by other more readily peruse this Chronicle, and Historians. consider the particulars with the great-

er attention, when they shall understand, that there are many Things in it,that arg- different from what is related by other Historians. "The reader himself will be much more able to Col-lect all these together, awl afterwards to pass a Judgment upon them, than I am) Nor in-deed is it properly my businessdpr point lout such Passages, my immediate provive, in A£, fairs of this kind, being tri act the part of a faithful! Editor, not that d' an Annotator or Commentator. And yet', for tlicAe. pSjoute, that have occasionally consulted me aooTii such Passages, 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 lewie the rest

- to those that shall take the opportunity of read-ing over and considering this obsolete Chroni-cle, which will be esteemed ( unless I am very much mistaken) as such another Curiosity as that of Robert of Gloucester, to which as I add-ed a Glossary (that bath given great satisfac-tion, and been well .receiv'd ) so I have likewise perform'd the same piece of service for Peter Langtoft, by which his Language ( which is now often very difficult and intricate, notwithst4nding

in

PREFACE. 1,x . v in his own time it was the vulgar speech) will be render'd the more intelligible.

§. XIX. In pag. 5. the Author tells Some of which are here enumerated.. us, that K. Ina had a son named Adel-

lus, and that be died before his Father, a particular which I do not, at. present, remember to be mentioned by others. In pag. S. he • calls

• Eadbald K. of Lyndesay, tho' he was really K. of Mercia. ;tie uses this stile, it may be,. because Lindsay in Lincolnshire was the chief part of his Residence, r,r,d therefore afterwards 1 he makes use of the wordlypigiekr for Jilercia. In p. 13. he tells us, that Brightrick, K. of the Westsax- ons, was buried at Tewksbury, whereas others say it was at Wareham. In p. 17. he acquaints us, that Wilaf, K. of Mercia, was slain by K. Egbert at Doncaster. Others make him only vanquished, 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 atetan1110e, and afterwards removed to Winchester, which seems very true, since even Asser Menevensis, according to Archbishop Parker's excellent Edition in Saxon Characters, agrees in the very. same thing, as,

' Pag. 9. 1 Pag. 659. . may

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may be seen in my Discourse' upon some Histo- rical Fragments ( lent me by Mr. Murray) at the end of Heming's Chartulary of the Church of . Worcester, to which I shall refeclhe Reader, In p. 21. he tells us, that Eadbald was-buried at Shirburn; but then others tell Lig, that he was ; afterWards removed to Salisbury, which was the Roman Sorbiodunwn : and whereas in p. 20. he • makes Ethelbert to be uncle to the said Edbald, and brother of K. Ethelwulf, on the contrary Ethelbert was really brother to 11.i, -Edbald,` and EtheiWulf the father of both. In the same page Elfrith (or, as others': Ethelred) is made to be son of K. Egbright, or .lighert, whereas he was his grandson. In p. 22. he tells us, that the town where S. Edmund, King of the East-An- gles, was stain, was in old time called Dun. Others say Degiefotitte 2, Cgiefune 3, Ciller- /ion; &Mellow' 3, Hoxtoue, or Oran,. In p. *23. he says, that K. Officio, or Ethelred, was buried at Driffeld (or Driffield in Yorkshire) whereas others say, he was interred at Win- burn in Dorsctshire ; but then be bath con- founded the said Elfride 'with Alkfryd, or A- . , . 1 P. 659. 2 Mon. Angl. b. in tpe Irf of kat Oftintonli

T. I. p. 284. a, b. i Moil. fiEne Sub magrr. $ Lelandi Angl. T. 1. p. 291. a. 4Le. Coll. Vol. I. p. 219. 6 .Ibid. gend of the Saints (pr. byW. 7 Mon. A. Tow. 1. p. 285.

. deWorde1495.)fol.cccxxxix. b. 11

lured,

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lured, the most learned K. of Northumberland, who was really buried at Driffield 1; and 'tis with no less errour, that he makes 1 that to belong to K, Elfrid or Ethelred, with respect to his spending his time, which belong'd really to _Mi- tred the Great. In p. 25. is something added by Robert of Brunne himself about Hanelok the Dane, v hich is not in the original Peter Langtoft, 'for our common Historians, buCtis, however, very imperfect, occasioned, I suppose, 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 lie 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 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, sister of K. Atbelstan, whereas, according to others 3, she was married to Hugh Earl of Paris. Authors differ mightily about the Names of Edward the Elder's Daughters and their Marriages. From. p. 29. we learn,

1Camdeni Brit. p. 635. Ed. 1 3 Gull. Malmesb. p. 28. & 4t0. 1600. 2 Pag. 23, 24. I Speed p. 338.

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that Peter Langtoft cannot tell us, where K. Athelstan was buried. Robert of Brunne says at Hexbam ; but others report it to be at Maims- bury. The Saxon Chronicle tells us not. In p. 33. he tells us, K. Edred was crowned at Lon- don. Others say at Kingston. In p.31. he makes Edwy brother to K. Edred, whereas he was his nephew. In p. 35. he remarks, that Ewe? or EtIllier Nunnery in Hampshire wa4ounded by K. Edgar for an hundred Nunns. This was a large number. And I began to suspect, that it was a Mistake, especially when the Valuation at the Dissolution did not, as I thought, 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 90 Nunns present, that gave their Votes, it is an undenyable Proof of what is asserted by the Historian. Mr. Furney extracted his Ac- count from an authentick Register, and I shall beg leave to insert it at large from his Letter in my Appendix '. There is no doubt but the Provision was every way equal to the Num-ber, as well as to the Quality, of those that ._,.......,,..........,

. ' Nam. XVI. . , , were

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were educated and lived here, notwithstanding the Valuation I have spoke of, tho' I believe the Revenues, upon some Accidents or other, had been much altered from what they had been , originally, as the Number of the Nunns was also very much decreased some time before the Dissolution,• as may appear from what my before mentioned Friend Mr. Furney litith obscrv'd in another ' Letter to me, in which he !lath been pleased likewise to insert a Note, . about our oid Historian's, from a valuable MS. of Trivet. There is now a fair Church at Rumsey, being the remains of the dissolved Nunnery'. In the same page ( viz. 35. ) tho' the Author tells us that Edmund, Son of K. Edgar, died at Petcrburgb, yet he bath not been pleased to inform us, where he was buri-ed, which others assure us was at Rumsey Nun- nery, that I have been speaking of. Whence we read in the Saxon Chronicle;, An. DCCCCLXXI.

Hen Fo0- repte eaDMUllto Xj)elm3. 1 fur be li xt Rumeri-ze. With which agrees Florence of Worcester. alto Eadmundus, (saith he 4,) regis Eadgari filiusobiit, 8s in monasterio Rumesiee hoizori- fice est sepultus. Nor is there any variation in that most excellent Copy of Florence that I have with

'See my Appendix to this p. 95. 3 P. 121. Pag. 358. Preface) Num. XVII. 2 See Ed. alto. sub anti° 971. SirThomaslIerbert'sMemoirs,

f 2 Dr.

LXX THE PUBLISHER'S Dr. Langbainc's MSS. Notes. This Nunnery had been founded but the year before by his Father K. Edgar, and "so this was one of the first 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 Auth'or informs us, that twenty four years after his Death ( which must be A. D. 999.) one Edward was Abbat of Glastonbury, and that this Edward made a Tombe 1)r K. Edgar, but that the Tombe being 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 Blond and Water, it seems, came out of the shanks, and the Abbat became blind. Which being look'd upon as a Miracle, Bishop Os- wald (the same that becatne Bishop of Wor- cester A. D. 960. and being translated to the Archbishoprick of York in 971. or 972. held both 'till his Death in 992. r) ran and laid the Bones in a rich Shrine; and that'was (as our Author asserts) in A.D. 973. (at which time. Sigegarus, 'and not Edward, whose Name I do

• ' God win de Pr es. Part. I.

p. 504. & Part. II. p. 17. Fasti Ecciesim Angl. p. 294, 306. ►i

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not find in the List, was Abbat of this Mona-stery) which could not be, if the thing happen-ed, as our Author him..elf assures us it did, twenty four years after the King's Decease, But I think, after all, that the Story is to be understooil of Egelward, ( abbat of Glastonb ury ) it being reported of him by John of Glaston-bury in his MS. Chronicle, and placed by him under the• year 1032. a little after which sa-crilegious act ( for such the violence shew'd to K. Edgar's Body was esteem'(') the said abbat (as we arc assured by that Author) died distract- ed. In p. 37. he tells us, that Edward the Martyr was buried in a Shrine at Westminster. Others tell us, that he was first buried at War-him, and afterwards removed to the Minster of Shaftsbury ; tho' the Saxon Chronicle and Flo-rence of Worcester say, that he was iuterr'd at Warham, without adding any thing about his being removed to Shaftsbury. Nor do they place his Death under the year 976. as our Author doth, but under 978. In p. 40. he makes Ed- mund Ironside 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 Turkillc in the French MSS. In p. 44. be

f 3 makes

LXXII THE PUBLISHER'S makes Suane die at Gainesborough; and so also some others : but then others relate, that it was at Thetford. In p. 46. he speaks of K. Eilred or Ethelred's falling sick• at Euesham, whereas others say it was at Cosham. In p. 47. he makes mention of the Tower of Northam- pton, (and 'tis tottr also in the French ; ) by which word Tower I take it for granted, that he means the Castle of Northampton, concerning which Leland writes thus r: The Castel stondith hard by the West Gate, and bath a large Kepe. The Area of the .Residezo is very large, and bullewarkes of Ycrth be viade afore the Castdle Gate.' In p. 49. he tells us, that Edmund Ironside had no other Child besides one Son, he means Edward sirnamed the outlaw ; whereas 'tis well known from other Historians, that he had an-other Son (younger than Edward) called Ed- mund. Passing over what he says in p. 50. of Ilarold Ilarcfoot (the Son of K. Cnute) his

• being a Bastard ( for the best Historians affirm the same) I cannot but remark, that whereas in p. 51. he makes the said Cnute to be bu-ried at Westminster, others assure us it was at Winchester. In the same page (viz. 51.) he says, that the Assembly or Meeting about Ha-rold Barefoot and Hardcknute was under (or near) Southampton. Others tell us it was at

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Oxford. In p. 58. he tells us, that Earl God-wyn's Wife, that was banished by the Earl her Husband, was named Engle. Others. call. her Gytha. In p. 73. he stiles Williatn the Con- queror'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-queror's Reign, which was the thirteenth, and that the fourth, which was the fourteenth. In p. 105. he informs us, that Maud, K. Hen. the First's Queen, was buried in a Tomb at St. Paul's, and refers us to Westminster for her Story. Others make no mention of her being buried at St. Paul's, but tell us it was at West-minster, and so 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 Guilicintus Nettbrigensis I, 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 since quite lost. In p. 127. he tellS us, that it was reported, that Maud the Empress

. P. 702. f4 was

!XXI V THE PUBLISHER'S was buried at Feversham; but others more truly observe, that it was at Bee in Normandy. The Mistake arose from Maud the Wife of K. Stephen's being buried there, and 'twas K. Stephen's Queen ( and not the Empress Maud, as our Author would insinuate) that built the Offices of Feversham Abbey, which Perform- ance, perhaps, occasioned the Author of the Prose Additions ' to Robert of Gloucester, as well as Henry Huntingdon a, to ascribe the Foundation of the whole Abbey to her, whereas it was really built by her Husband K. Ste- phen. In p. 128. he observes, That Thomas a Becket's Father (Gilbert A. Becket, Portgrave of the City of London, then the highest Go-vernour of the City 3) was rich, being able to spend 300 Ms. that is, as I take it, per annum, which, indeed, was a very great Sum for those days. In p. 157. be quotes the Romance, and the Romancer, of Rich. I. A Romance is a Story or Tale. But I have said enough, relating to the Romance of that King's Reign, in my Preface 4 to Robert of Gloucester, whither ' I shall, therefore, refer the Reader. In p. 205. he,tells us, that K. Richard was wounded the

1 F. 227. b. 8 P. 967. qf S. 'Thomas Archbishope of 3 See pag. 137, 138. of a very Canterbury. Collonie. Al .DC. t carce Book, intit. The Life xxxix. 8vo. 4 Pag. J.Y. or The Leciesiasticall Hislorie 4-c. ti

fourth

PREFACE. LXrif fourth day next before Palm-sunday, and died nine days after. Others differ from this. In p. 206, 211. he called' K. John's Wife ( by whom the King had two Sons, and two Daugh- ters) Elizabeth for Isabell. In p. 207. he calls Arthur Earl of Britain's Sister Margaret, that is call'd Elianor by others. In p. 210. he speaks of K. John's making the Walls, (or, as he ex-presses it, the erountilualle) of Berwick Castle very thick; a Thing which Fordun should have spoke of in particular, had he thought fit to have mentioned the Works of K. John distinctly. In p. 212. he makes K. John's Daughter Isabell to have no Children. Others say she had Children; and here, upon this occasion of the mention of K. John, I cannot but take no-tice of a singular Remark of John Ross, who in p. 199. of his Chro.nicle, that I published, calls Richard K. of Almayn the Brother, instead 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, lie had a particular regard) a Thing which tho' noted by Stowe (who had perused Brunne and other old MSS.) yet is passed over by many other of our Historians. In p. 248. he says, he thinks Q. Elianor, Wife of Edw. I. was buried at Westminster. He might have been po-

sitive,

LXXYI THE PUBLISHER'S sitive, since 'tis certain she was buried there. In p. 323. he tells us, that the Court of Rome is not to be trusted, and so the French MSS. too. This was a bold Stroke, and is what is alluded to by Mr. Bridges about Pope Boniface in the Fragment of his Letter, printed in the Appendix '. In p. 333. is mention made of Eymer, or Aymer, of Valence, Earl of Pem-broke, a Man .of great Valour, and very ser-viceable both to K. Edw. I. and K. Edw. II. and had suitable Rewards from each. This is the same Aymer de Valence, that, in the Sth• year of K. Edw. II. (to note this by the way) ob-tained licence 2 to make a Castle of his House at Bampton in Oxfordshire, a Thing which if Dr. Plot had considered, lie would not have conjectur'd, ( or rely'd, I believe, upon tradition, which informs us,+) that it was built by K. John.

In lieu of the first §. XX. After I had, upon mature Part of Robert of Brunner several deliberation, and with the Advice and Things are here pu- Concurrence of learned Friends, re- Wished of greater use and service. An solved to pass over the first Part of Account ofMr. An. Robert of Brunie, as being a Trans-drewPaschal.ANote about Mr.JohliGib. lawn of a French Version of GelFry bon'sMSS.Papers in of Monmouth (whose Story may be the Heralds Office. A short Account of best learned front the original Latin)

'Nom. VI. 2 Pat. 8 E. 2. p. 2. m. 22. Duo-dale's Ba, rouge, T. I. p. 777.

I de-

PREFACE. LXXVII I determined with my self, in lieu Dr. Walter Charle- thereof, to publish some things be- L

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sides, that would be of more benefit which Mr. Webb did not discover to

and service to the Reader, and be, be such. A Passage withal!, less bulky, (for both the Parts, h

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with the Glossary, would have made Camden's MS. Sup- III Volumes.) Accordingly, therefore, ple

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in the ha

of the pu. besides the curious Remains, that are to Usher.

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 Abbe y, being a Survey of all the Estates belonging to that House at the Dissolution, taken by the King's Order and for his Vsc, at the Dissolution. This Copy was transcrib'd from a noble and beautiful' O-riginal in the Hands of a Friend (personally unknown to me) at Colchester, who was pleas-ed afterwards very kindly to present me with the said Copy, and to express himself with ma-ny particular Marks of Affection and Esteem for whatever I undertake for the publick. (2.) An Account of the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen (near Bautre) in Nottinghamshire, by John 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 beginning of it) to the Archbishop. I transcrib'd

it

E.xxviii THE PUBLISHER'S it from a MS. in the hands of a modest ingenious Gentleman, who is one of the subscribers to what I publish. 'Tis a very faulty MS. But it being the only one I know of, I could not correct it otherwise than by conjecture. What Corrections and Notes I have made occur at the bottom of the page. Only I must here beg leave farther to note, that whereas in- p. 394, I. 19. it is 250. 1. in the English, in the La-tin, immediately following, it is (p.395. 1.26.)at large pro ducentis 8s quadraginta libris; that the Robert Archbp. of York,mentioned p. 398. 1.4. was Robert Ilalgate or llolgate; that for Com-missioner in p. 400. 1.2. perhaps should be read Commissioners; and that in p. 405. 1. 2. may be also read vacancy as wellas vacante,tho' vacante be nearest the MS. After I bad proposed to print this MS. I writ to my ingenious and worthy Fiiend Mr. Thorcsby of Lcedcs in Yorkshire, in order to get some farther Information about this Hospital, much about which time I also writ to my learned and accomplished Friend Dr. Richardson of North Bierly near Bradford in that County, that I might, if possible, get some Intelligence about the nature of Earth- horns, mentioned in this Chronicle. But tho' the Action, upon account of which these Earth-horns are spoke of, happened in that part of England, and tho' the Dr. be a person ex-

tremely

PREFACE. LXX ix tremely curious in such Affairs, yet he was not able to satisfy me in that point, as I soon understood by a Letter from him, at which time he was pleased likewise to acquaint me, that Mr. Thoresby was incapable of writing himself to me, he having been lately seized with a pal- sy, which had, in .,a great measure, deprived him 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, be pleased to give me what light he could himself in the Affair of the Hospital. Whereup- on, not long after, be obliged me, not only with a Letter written by himself, but with one that he had recciv'd from Mr Thoresby, who had imploy'd a Friend to write for him; a Co- py of both which shall be subjoyn'd in the Ap- pendix'. (3.) Two Tracts written by an anonymous Author, and transcrib'd by me from two MSS. (both written in the same hand) that were lent me by Mr. West of Balliol-College, an ingenious and curious Gentleman I have mentioned formerly') whom (I have always found very ready and willing to promote whatever I undertake for the publick service and benefit of Learning. The first of these Dis-

' ' Num. XVIII. 2 See at also p. 682, 706, 739. of my pag. '285. of The History and Glossary to Robert of Glou- AtiquitiesofWastonbury. See ce4ter.

courses

LXXX THE PUBLISHER'S courses is about some Roman Antiquities dis-cover'd near Conquest in Somersetshire, supposed to be the place where the Romans Conquest of Britain was compleated. The other is concerning Stone-Menge, and is intituled, by it's Author, A fooi's Bolt soon shott at Stonage. It is, without doubt, the same Tract that is mentioned in the following Passage of the Addi-tions to Bp. Gibson's English Ed. of Camden's Britannia': " The opinions about Stonehenge " may be reduc'd to these 7 heads ; 1. That it " is a work of the Phoenicians, as Mr. Sammes " in his Britannia conceits ; a conjecture that " has met with so little approbation, that I " shall not stay to confute it. 2. That it was a " Temple of the Druids long before the corn- " ing of the Romans; which Mr. John Au- " brey, Fellow of the Royal Society, .endea- " yours to prove in his Manuscript Treatise, " entitl'd lilonumenta Britanniea. 3. That it was " an old Triumphal British Monument, erected " to Anaraith the Goddess of Victory, after a " bloody battel won by the illustrious Stallings, " and his Cangick Giants, from Diviliacus and " his .Belgx" ; and that .the Captives and Spoils " were sacrific'd to the said Idol in this Tem-" pie. An opinion advanc'd ( upon what grounds --,

1 Col. 108. Ed. Loud. 1695. ti

" I know

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" I know not) in an anonymous MS. writ about cc the year 1666, and now in the hands of the " learned Mr. Andrew Paschal, Rector of Cited- cc zoy near Bridgewater. 4. That it was a mo- " nument rais'd by the Britains in memory of " Queen iloadicia ; advanc'd by the Author of " Nero-Ciesar. —5.> That it was a Temple built " by the RomansS; the God Cceium, or Tenni- " nus, of the Tuscan order ; is Mr. Jones's, in " his ingenious Conjecture upon this Subject. " 6. That it was the burial-place of Tither-Pen-

" dragon, Constantine, Ambrosias, and other Bri- " tish Kings ; or as others would have it, a Eno-c‘ nument erected by Arnbrosius in memory of the " Britains here slain. 7. That it was a Danish " monument, erected either for a burial-place, " a trophy for some victory, or a place for the " election and coronation of their Kings." These two MSS. are also very faulty. Some of the Errors I have corrected, as the Reader will perceive as he goes along. What Notes I have added, I have distinguished from the Au- thor's own by the Letter H. I have, after my usual custom, observed the Author's spelling, which sometimes is singular, as indeed his Ob-servations, tho' learned, are likewise frequent-ly singular. Who the Author of these two Tracts was is to me very uncertain. 'Tis probable that some light may be learned from Mr. Pa-

schal's

LXXXII THE PUBLISHER'S schal's Papers (provided they are still in being) which after his Death (that happened, I think, in 1696, when he was succeeded as Chancellor of the Church of Wells by Marshall Brydges, A. M. being installed ' on Nov. 23. that year) fell into the hands of the late Dr. Roger Maun-der, Master of Balliol-Collette. As for Mr. Pa-schal (to wh6rn these Tracts belong'd) he was (to observe this by the by) Fellow of Queen's- College in Cambridge, being admitted as such an : 1652. thus : Andreas Pascall Middlesci . : in Artibus Ba- c 7: electus [Sodas Coll. Regin :] Jan: IS: adnzissus Jan: 19: 1652. This, the Read- er will observe, was in ill times, and therefore Dr. Martin the ejected President or Master up-on his being restor'd in 1660: oblig'd all the Fellows that bad broken Titles to a new ad- mission; Andr : Pascall stands thus, Andreas Pascall Londinensis in locum 11Pi. Johis Coldham (who was an ejected Fellow.) And after he and the rest are nam'd, it is entred thus, Omnes rite electi,furati, 8s admissi, secuncluin Statuta Col- legii, Aug : 23, 24, 4 25, 1660. And yet Mr. Paschal did not immediately succeed Mr. Cold-ham, but Mr. John Hore (as I think), the immediate Successor. Dr. Martin was a Man of very high Principles, and show'd it sufficiently 0••••••

' Le Neie's Fasti) pag. 41. li upon

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upon this occasion, in such a manner, as I care not to describe. Mr. Paschal besides the De- gree of Mr. of Arts,took that of Bach. of Div. and was presented to the Rectory of Chedzoy above mentioned 13/ Francis Rolle, Esq;. He was af-terwards Prebendar s Canon, and (as bath been

ialready insinuated Wells, of ells, but publish'd nothing that I know of, but some few Observations mention'd in the Transactions of the Royal Society. lie wrot a Book upon the Revelations, but agreeing in his Notions with the late Prophetic (as he was commonly stiled) Bishop of Worcester, he never printed it. I ne- . ver he,ard but Mr. Paschal was in himself a grave, sober, learned, and religious Clergyman; but by the Instigation of his Wife and Daughters, he did some Things which were prejudicial to his SucceSsor at Chedzoy, and a Blemish to his own Character. But to return, the late ingenious Mr. John Bagford in his Catalogue (pre-fix'd 'to the late English Translation of Cam-den's Britannia) of some Books and Treatises re-lating to'the Antiquities of England, speaks of a short Treatise upon Stonehenge written by Mr. John Gibbons. MS. Mr. Gibbon's MSS. Papers are now in the Heralds Office ; but my Friend be-fore mentioned Mr. West, who, with the learn-ed Peter Le Neve, Esq;. Norroy K. of Arms, bath turned them all over, assures me, that

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THE PUBLISHER'S those Papers chiefly relate to Heraldry, ex-cept some few concerning Judicial Astrology, Impulses, Daemons, 8sc. and that these is nothing.among them concerning-Stone-henge, besides a leaf at the End of Dr. Charleton's printed Book, which Is-indeed wrote by Mr. Gibbon, but contains only extracis from Charleton, without any mention of it's being Brittish. This single leaf confirms Mr. Bagford'h Asser-tion; but then what is become of MeGibbon's Tract I cannot say. l le was a man of Humour and some Learning; but then there is more Learning in the two imperfect Pieces I now publish than, I think, he was master of. Who- ever the Author of them was, 'tis plain from what lie says' himself, that he was living in the year 1670. He designed a Frontispiece to his Discourse of Stone-henge, containing a Draught of some (as many as he thought ne-cessary) of the Stones: as also a Map of Wilt- shire. But both are wanting. Nor do I think, that he ever finished them. Tho' Dr: Charle- ton's opinion was exploded by many, when his Book first, appeared, yet it was applauded by divers very eminent Antiquaries, one of which was Sir William Dugdale, and they did not stick to affirm ( what vex'd Mr. Webb, who

' See p. 4992 501. IA

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could not forbear speaking very contemptuous- ly, as appears sufficiently from his Book, not only of Dr. Charleton, but even of that very great man Olaus Wormius, ) that they verily be- liev'd Dr. Cljarleton to be in the right in making it a Danish 1Yorlc, and since that time many oththka...dcela(ejlAnselves to be of the same mind, as others do (one of which is the Author we publish) that it is Brittish, in which they are confirm'd by the very old Brittish Writer in Jesus-College Library. I care not (at present ) to interpose my own opinion in this Affair, but I shall beg leave to take notice, that whereas all the three Pieces about Stone-henge., viz. Mr. Jones's, Dr.Charleton.'s, and Mr. Webb's, are very lately ' reprinted together, it appears to me, that the Edition is by no means equal to the first Edition of those three Pieces, ( I mean as they all three came out separately') and that 1is there 3 falsly insinuated that Dr. Charie- ton died in one of those Islands, which are the Re- mains of our French Conquests. For tho' this great man was unhappily reduced to Straits in the latter part of his Life, and found himself therefore obliged to retire into the Isle of Jer-

t Lond. 1725. fol. :The Webb's, at Lend. 1665 fol. first, viz. Mr. Jones's, at 3 Viz. at the beginning of the Lond. 1655. fol. The 2d. Edition, in p. 5. of the Me- Dr. Charleton's, at Lond. moirs relating to the Life and 1663. 4to. The 3d. Mr. Writings of Inigo Jones, Esq ;.

sey,

LXXXVI THE PUBLISHER'S sey, yet he really died (in a very indigent con- dition, d Anglia quam ingrata es bene de tc meren- tibus ! said some great Danish Lords to the famous Mr. Oughtred a) Mid wns-bmied in-Lon...I don, as may be learned from the following Passage, that was writ in a . Leiter a to inn by my late reverend and verb, lear.tcd Fricnd Dr.1 Thomas Smith, ivbieli will 'also correct what isi said in the second (or spurious) Edition of Athenee Oxonienser4 about , tku yea% in whiclil Dr. Charleton was horn.--" As to what eon- " cernes Dr. Charleton, short Memorials of whose " life, I beeleive, wil be written by some one " or other of his surviving friends, I can cutely " tell you at present very briefely, that bee was " the son of Walter Charleton, Doctor of Di- " vinity, and borne at Shipton-Mallet in So- " mersetshire on Candlemas day in the yeare " 1620. as wee reckon, bred up in Magdalen f` Hall Oxon. under the care and tuition of Mr. " afterwards Bp.Wilkins, created Dr. of Physic " in 1642. as appears by the diploma, which " bee formerly chewed mee, and was together " with Dr. afterwards Sir Edward Greaves, bro- " tiler of Mr. John Greaves, travelling Physi- " eian to K. Charles I. from that time _forward,

7 coil, nostr. MSS. Vol. 82. Dr. Charlton was torn at Shep- p. 37. 2 Dated at London 31 ton-Malkt onthe second day of :gay 1707. 3 Vol. II. coll. Mr. 1619. 1112. where we are told, that

" whilst

" PREFACE. LXXXV I I

" whilst that excellent, but greatly unfortunate, " Prince was able to keepe an army in the field: " which particulars, with many others, too long "'to bee here related, hee has told mee more " than once. Hee dyed the 24at. of April last'

c in the S70. ycare of his age, and was buryed, ,c accortliagtvCis earnest desire and express " order, the 'Suaty next following, viz. 27th. " very privately and obscurely in the Church- " yard of St. Paul's Covent-Garden". Instead of saying more of this learned Person at this time, I will only insert what is spoke of him in a 410. MS. that formerly belong'd to him-self, but was given by him, about a fortnight before he died, (and not long after his Ono- masticon Zoicon, of the folio Ed. with great Improvements by the Author's own hand, in order to another Edition, which it very well deserves, was sent to the University of Ox-ford, and put into the Bodlejan Library, to which he had in his prosperity been a Bene-factor) to the said Dr. Thomas Smith, who left it to me with many other MSS. at his Death as a Legacy. Omnibus in confesso esi, hunt virunt constantissinze Regias partes calanti-t0SiSSilltiS dim temporibus tutatunt fuisse: seepiiis dicentent, Religioni, nisi salva Rep. consztli non

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1 Viz. in. 1707.

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posse; salvarn avian Remp. servari non posse, nisi Legitima successione sercatd. . There is one thing which at this time it will be improper to pass by, and that is, that Nylieceas,Mr. Webb bath taken abundance of learned pains to refute Dr. Charleton, I have often wondered, that, whilst, he was striving all ,he could 6to Nye alien that Argument, to prove the Aionunient Danish,

, which the Dr. drew from an Inscription in odd Characters, quoted li3r him from Camden, and supposed by him to be Runick, Mr. Webb (who otherwise very readily catcht at every thing he could of that kind to expose the Dr.) had not discovered, that the Words were not really Mr. Camden's, but his Translator Dr. Philemon Holland's. The Words are these, as I find them in pag. 251. of the Translation 2 : 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 it had beene tinne and lead commixt, inscribed with many letters, but in so strange' a Character, that neither Sir Thomas E- liot, nor, master Lilye Sthoole7111aster of Pawls, could read it, and therefore neglected it. Had it beene preserved, somewhat happily might have beene discovered as concerning Stonehenge, which nozv lieth obscured.. Which Words are in no Latin

' See Webb's Vindication of tcc. of the new g4ition. 3 01

Stone-Ho Stone-Hog restored, p. 78 ) I the Ed. at Loud. 1637. Edi#

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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

'‘itli his own hand, and for that reason both th?s, as well as other Interpolations of Dr. Hol- land are deservedly put at the bottom of the Paguq, th ate Translation. And yet I can-

le

not but a nowledge, that Mr. Camden does speak of an Inscription in his Supplement to the Topographical Description of Britain, which I have in MS.' in his own hand writing, where I I meet with the following Things about Stone- henge that are not in the Britannia it self. " As ‘, for Stone-heng uppon Sarisbury plaine, I can- " not tell what to saye. I know oute of Vitru- " vius that the' auncient imitating the nature <, of heaven, did especially take pleasure in " round Temples; yeat considering the rudnes " and deformity of this work, I cannot persuad " my self,that it was in Claudius the Etnperour's " time, when Architecture was come to the " topp of perfection. To think they were

' Inter Codd. Smithianos, honorable Thomas Earle of Num.VIL It is thus intit'led : Arundel! and Surrey P rimier 4 Suplement of the Topogra. Earle of England, Lord Him. phicall Description of Britain published 11DCX. Containing

ard, F itz- Man, Maltravers, Moiebray, Segrave, Brwe and

many specialites which since Clan, Knight rd' the most noble have intervened concerning Cm- Order of the Garter, and of his ations, Inscriptions and other illajestie's most honorable privie memorable matters in England, Councell. 2 Pug. 45. 3 L. Scotland, Ireland, and the Vsles adjacent. Dedicated to the right

auncients.

4 ,, brought

se THE PUBLISHER'S " brought hither oute of Ireland by Magick, " were doting impiety, when the like stones, " for greatness and grainc, are found at Avely " and elswher. If the smale Pyramides AO "the midle centure be just thirty, it may al!iid " to the 30 encounters, that Vespasian, sent " by Claudius, had .wiili the BNins. Jr we " have any hope of discovering rile i JITi-r c here- " in, the very centre to be digged open, and" " the inscription to be looked with the letters " down-ward. How so ever it seerneth to con- " cern Aurelius Ambrosiiis, when as the next " town is denominated Ambresbury of him. " And because it is situated in the midst as it " were of the Isle from the East to the West, " doubtless it was a place for convention uppon " divers ocsasions. I doubt not but the Bri- " tames and Hengest mett here for their code- ." rence, and that it was called therupon Sten- " Hengest (as Rudborn testified]. ) How Clan- " dins remitted to the nobilitie of Britane the " confiscation of their goodes, and that ther- " fore they erected an alter to him, and adored " him as a God, and how select gentlemen " wearing Crownes of Gold spent their private " states, you maye reade in Tacitus and Aria- " nus, and the Britans called it Chorea Gigantunz, " that is, the Temple of Giantes, you may " read in the foresayd Rudborn, and 119,w the

" place

PREFACE. xc i " place was called Eiffell 15platicit, i. the ridge " of Bath, I need not to remember, neither " how the stones Of Mercolij were so disposed, "‘t. at here was one stone, ther was an other, " ai d the third placed upon them both. At a s Men dr Diis Syris: " word, I 'am persuaded that ' this were so " placed by,the first inhabitants of this ysle, .F., " when as 4:lector BoCtins writeth that Mainus " King of the Scotts did institut solemne ceremonies, " and erecting huge stones in divers places circularly, " the greatest ever toward the South, which served " in steed of an alter to 2 sacri: beastes therupon. " Thies stones are yeat extant called by the common " sort, The temples of the Gods. Any man that “ seeth them would mervaile by what arte and what " strength of men they were so reared. Thus farr " Boiitius. What other men can gather out of the " word ycluis, which signifieth, in the Britain " language, lame, I see not, albeit I know that " the name of Claudius came originaly from " lames. Not long since a hilloc was here dig- .. ged down, and in it was found a stagg's hedd, " and under neth coales, which is a manifest " profe that it was a Land marck.

§. XXI. I have above declared, that Stonehenge per. I have no mind at this time to inter- haps aBritishMonu. nient,notwithstand. pose my own Sentiments about Stone- ing it might have

t L. these. 2 L. sacrifice. henge,

xcil TIlE PUBLISHER'S been a Roman henge, and yet whereas formerly I

have Cam- Work. Mr. ify n s den's Approbation ig 'di, that 'tis a Roman

of, and Assistance Work, I shall now so far gratify the in, Dr. Holland's Additions, may jus_ Reader's curiosity as-lo assure fin', tify such as citethem that I still am inclined to think t so far Mr. Camden's Own. much owing to the Romans, as to-fiave

one or more of them for carryir wi the Ar4

qr i

chitecture, whilst, at the same Linke i

, t s 'probable it was, as our anonymous Authot stiles it, a Brittish and no Roman Monument; or it may be even the Britains themselves raised it according to the Rules of Architecture in which they had been instructed by the Romans, both people being as it were now incorporated, and the Britains being at length so much beloved by the Romans, that the Romans were very willing to do all imaginable service to them, as may appear from the Assistance they receiv'd from 'the Romans even at that time when the Romans were oblig'd to relinquish the Isle for securing other Parts of the Empire. But I will not, I must not exspatiate. And yet I cannot, before I leave this Subject, but ingenuously confess, that I my self, some years ago, fell. into the same mistake with Mr. Webb in taking Dr. Philemon Holland's Interpolation for

, Thictor Hist. Vol. IL p. first Vol. of Leland's Itin. p. 319. Discourse concerning some Antiquities found in

106. 2 See the said DisVourse, p. 106.

York-shire, at the End of the Mr.

• PREFACE. xem Mr. Camden's own Words. And indeed, up- onrecollection, I think that they may still be properly enough. eall'd Camden's, since he both. allow'd of that and other Additions of the Dr's. and hath not any where, that I know of, dis-elatrit'd them, having, I suppose, help'd the Dr. to many o;,_ them, and being willing enough, that they 'should be quoted and, look'd upon as his own. And 'twas upon , account of his approbation of what Dr.. Holland did; that he drew up the Supplement, with a design that it should be taken into the second Edition, in which nevertheless it was omitted, being not, it may be, communicated to him. It is likely Mr. Webb himself also considered this matter, which if so it will excuse him also, as well as Dr. Charleton and others, for ascribing any Inter-polation to Mr. Camden, and then it will cease, to be a wonder, that either he or any one else should mention. Mr. Camden's instead of Dr. Holland's name.

Oxford August 3. 1725.

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4 THE PUBLISHER'S"

APPENDIX To his PREFACE.

Num. I. Vide Prmf. §. v.

E Pitseo de illustrib. Anglim Scriptorib. p. 890. in Appendice.

De Petro Longatosta.

' ' , 7 , r ETRVS Longatosta, Gallum fuisse . . ID suspicantur nonnulli, ego yea,

existimo natione Anglum. Fuit /ti '. g -*';'Q. ordinis S. Augustini Canonicus --'`:-.7,7.:

regularis in ceenobio Bridlindg- tonensi Eboracensis agri. Vir cui pietas & doctrina celebre nomen dederunt. Hu- maniores bene tenuit litteras, historiis le- gendis & scribendis non mediocriter delata-

tus.

THE PUBLISHER'S APP. 8sc. xcv tus. In Galliis aliquande studuit, & linguam Gallicam accurate calluit. Ex IIereberto Bos-camo Latine scriptam transtulit in rithmos Gal-licanos

Vitain S Thome Cantuariensis, Librum 121111111. Stripsit Anglic chronicon Anglice, Librum ununt.

MS. in bibliotheca Baronis Lumleiani. De hoc auctore niliil prorsus aliud invenio

This is all in Pitseus. .He seems to have intended more by the Points. Longatosta, I suppose, is a Mistake in him, as well as in Leland and Gesner for Langatofta.

Num. IL Vide Prmf. S. v. " E Lelandi Comm. de Scriptorib. Brit. p. 218. — canonicus Petrus Longatosta, Augustini-

an= in ccenobio Brillendunensi, hunt [Hereberti Bossanhanzcnsis de vita Tbomm Beckett] transtulit in,Gallicos rhythmos libellurn.

Num. III. Vide Praf. S. v. E Bibliotheca Gesneri, Tiguri 1583. Fol.

Petrus Longatosta, Gallus, Canonicus Re-gularis ccenobii Bridlyngtonensis in Anglia, ex latino sermone in metra Gallica transtulit opus Hereberti de Bosham de Vita Thom Cantua- riensis Lib. I. Joannes Lelandus.

Num.

xcvi THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX

Num. IV. Vide Prwr. §. v. lip. Nicolson's Engl, Historical Library, p. 79.

Ed. Fol. . —Peter de Langetoft, drew 1 Epi- who up an

tome of our Chronicles in old Frencl; Rbknes, bestows one whole Book upon Eclwal, I.

Num. V. Vide Prwf. §. xx, xii, xxv.

Robert of Brunne's Prologue to his Chronicle. Incipit Prologus de historia Britannia, transumpta

per Robertuin in materna lingua. - ., ei: . Ordynges, that be now here,

If ge wille listen & lere

. 'P " ' All pe stork of Inglande,

'-'--'?'. .*1i Als Robert Manning written it fand, uq- & on Inglisch has it.schewed, Not fox pe lerid bot for pe lewed, For Iv pat in pis land yonn, pat pe Latin no Franks con% For to haf solace & gamc In felawschip whe7ipai sitt samen. And it is wisdom forto wirtten Pe state of Pe land, an haf it writen : ' What manere offolk first it wan, & of what kynde it first began.

MA

! Bibl. Cott. Julius; A. 5. And

TO HIS PREFACE. And guile it is for many thinges, For to here Pe dedis of kinges, Whilk were foles & whilk were wise, & whilk of pain couth mast quantise; And whilk did wrong & whilk right, & utak maintend pes & fight. Of pare dedes salle be mi sawe, In what time & of what lawe, I salle gow schewe fro gre to gre, Sen Pe time of sir Noc, Fro Noe vnto Eneas, & what betwix Jam was, And fro Eneas tille Brutus time, Pat kinde he tclles in Pis rime. Fro Brutus tille Cadwaladres, Pe last Briton pat Pis lande lees. Alle Pat kinde & alle the frute, Pat come of Brutus Pat is Pe Brute ; And Pe right Brute is told nomore, pan the Britons time wore. After Pe Bretons Pe Inglis camen, Pe lordschip of pis lande pai names; South & North, West & Est, Pat calle mein now pe Inglis gest. When pai first amang lye Bretons, pat now ere Inglis pan were Saxons, Saxons Inglis blight alle oliche. pai ariued vp at Saudwyche,

xCvli

In

KC VIII THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX. In Pe kknge's tkme Vortogerne, pat pe lande walde pain not werne. Pat were maksters of alle pe toPire, Hengist he hight & Hors his broPire. Pes were hede, als we fknde, Where of is comen oure Inglis It'knde. A hundrethe & fifty gem pai coin, ,

Or Pat recekued Cristendoin So lang woned pai pis lande in, Or Pa herde out of Saynt Austin, Amang pc Bretons with mkkelle wo, In sclaundire, in threte & in thro. Fes Inglis dedes ze may here, As Pcrs telles alle pepanere. One makster Wace Fe Frankes telles, pe Brute alle pat Fe Latyn spelles, Fro Eneas tille Cadwaladre, pis makster Wace Per leues he. And rkght as master Wace says, I telle myn Inglis Pe same mfrs. For malster Wace pe Latirn alle dmes, pat Pers ouerhippis many tkmes. M4ster Wace Pe Brute alle redes, & Pers tellis alle pe Inglis dedes. per makster Wace of Pe Brute left, Rkght begknnes Pers eft, And tellis forth Pe Inglis stork, & as he says, Pan sal I.

Alc

TO HIS PREFACE. xcix

Als Pal haf wr9teri & sa9d, ILA I alle in mS,ii Inglis lai'd, In qmple speche as I couthe, Pat is lightest in manne's mouthe. I mad noght for no disours, Ne Air no seggers no harpours, Bot for pe luf of s9inple meii , Pat strange Inglis can not ken: For many it ere Pat strange Inglis

In r9me wate never what it is, And bot Pai ivist what it inente, ,

Ellis me thoght it were alle schente. I made it not forte be praksed, Bot at pe lewed men were *ed. If it were made in rme couwee, Or in strangere or enterlace, pat rede Inglis it ere inowe, pat couthe not haf coppled a kowe, Pat outhere in couwee or in baston Som suld baf ben fordon, So pat fcle men Pat it herde, Suld not witte howe pat it ferde. I see in song in sedgekng tale

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Of Erceldoun & of Kendale, Non Pain says as Pal Pain wroght, & in Per sang it seines noght. pat nay Pon here in Sir Tristrein, Oucr gestes it has pe steem,

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And alle pat Pai wild ouerwhere, Alle pat ilk wille now forfare. Pai said in so quainte Inglis, pat mankone wate not what it is, perfore heuked wele Pe more In strange rime to trauakle sore, And my witte was oure thknne, So strange speche to trauaklc in, And forsoth I couth noght So strange Inglis as Pai wroght, And men hesoght me many a time, To tame it hot in light rime. Pal said, if I in strange it tune, To here it maniron suld skurne. For it ere names fulle selcouthe, Pat ere not vscd now in mouthe. And perfore for Fe comonalte, pat blythelj, wild listen to me) On light lange I it begaii, ,, Fox luf of pe lewed man ,

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TO HIS PREFACE. ea To telle jam pe chaunces bolde, Pat here'before was don & tolde. For pis making I wille no merle, Bot gude praiere, when ze it rede. perfore, ze lordes leveed, For wham I haf jis Inglis schewed,

' Prayes to God he gjrf me grace, I trauaited for tour solace. Of Brunne I am; if ant, me blame, Robert Manning is my name. Blissed be he of God of heuene, pat me Robert with glide wille neuene. In Pe thrid Edwarde's time was I, .

When I wrote alle Pis story. In Pe hous of Sixille I was a throwe, Danz Robert of Maltorie Pat p know Did it write for felawes sake, Wben Pai wild solace make.

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Nurn. VI. Vide Prmf. §. x, xix. &tract of a Letter, relating to Robert of Brunne

and Peter de Langtoft, written from London to the Publisher by the late learned John Bridges, Esq ;. Nov. 2S. 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 Brume. It belongs to the Inner

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el' THE PUBLISHER'S 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. Anstis being one of his Trustees, I have, by his means, procur'd it for you, in order to be printed.

It seems to be a perfect MS. from the be-ginning to the End, and written about the same time that the Author liv'd, viz. at the beginning of Edw. 3". Reign. You'll find in it severall Things worthy of Remark.

First, it appears, that he liv'd sometime in the Monastery of Sixiit or Sixle in Lincolnshire, a mixt Monastery of Nunus and Friers : And that he calls himself Robert Manning of Brunne, now Bourne, a Town also in Lincolnshire, where was a Monastery. He calls himself also Danz Robert of Malton.

2d1Y. The Prologues acquaint us, that Pers (or Peter) de Langtqft; Canon of Bridlington, wrote the Original History in French Rhime. One part whereof, viz. from Eneas to Cadwalla-der, was taken from Gtfr.y of 3/07/mouth, and abridg'd by the said Peter, but translated more at large into French by Mester Wace, which Mayster Wace is follow'd cheifly by the Trans-lator; but in the other part, viz. to the End of Edw. I. he tells the Story according to Lang-

soft. le 3d ly.

TO HIS PREFACE. cm 3dIY• 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.

4thiY. There are some particular Passages of History found in the Translator, that are not in the Original, viz. That King John died at Hauhe (or Haugh) in Lincolnshire. That Wen-tilian, the daughter of Lewellyn, being an In-fant about two years old when her Fattier was beheaded, was profess'd and died a Nun in the Convent at Sempringluan. And that Gladous, her Couzin-German, daughter of David bro-ther of Lezvellyn, died also a Nun in the Mona-stery of Sixle, both of them being in the Coun- ty of Lincoln. You'll find also in most Passages the Translator to be more copious and large than his Original.

561Y. In his Prologues he. takes notice of se- n verall sorts of Old English Verse, viz. Couwe, Stranger, Enterlace, and Baton. The first of . which (Couwe) lie gives Instances of and Marks in the Margin. He also mentions severall Tales of Emelt/Dun, Kendale and Tristrem, all which were very well knOwn in those Days. But I find none of them expounded in our Mo-dern Glossaries, which therefore, as well as o-ther anticnt Terms and Words, will need an Explanation.

ti 3 6thly.

civ THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX 6tMy. The Historian speaks very freely of the

Vices of the Court of Rome, particularly Pope Bootlace.

There is a MS. in French Metre of Peter de Langtofi in the Cotton Library, Julius A. In the first Page whereof are these Remarks in mo-dern Hands :

" Hanc P. Langtoft in Gallicam prosam ver- " tit Auctor Scala Chronicw. Leyland.

" Multa continet notabilia, glue apud vul- " gatos Historicos baud facile invenies.

" T. G." (i. e. Thomas Gale. ) " Aliud Exemplar extat in Collegio Heral-

" dorum— Extat Versio Anglicana in " Lambetliana Bib]. T. G."

In the Elenclzus of the said Cotton Library MS. 'tis rightly observ'd, that this Historian is very prolix or spatious in the Life of Edw. I.

The second part of the Chronicle begins with these four Latin Verses :

Incipiunt Gesta, qua, sent Angus manifesto, Bede pater prtesta Petro, quod dicat honesta, Lector narrabit id quod Scriptura parabit.

Petrus dictabit quod sibi Reda dabit. At the end of the Volume (after a Tale *or

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Romance in French of five Leaves, which in-tervene) are three other Verses, which seem to referr to the same Peter de Langtoft. It

" Artus

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. " Artus Scriptoris careant gravitate doloris. " Sermo de 13111i0 jit sub dictamine tut°.

" Culpa datur Petro deficiente Metro. This Translation was taken at first for Robert of Gloucester by the total Ignorance of the Own- ers. — It is very strange, that this Author has never been taken notice of or quoted. In my Opinion, it far exceeds B. of Gloucester, both for the matter and manner of his Story. Nei- ther do I find any Account of him in Leland, or the other Byographers. Bishop Nicolson says little or nothing.------

Num. VII. Vide Praf. §. x, xtv.

Robert of Brunne's Transition (called a Prologue by Mr. Bridges) from the first to the second Part of his Chronicle.

Explicit historia Britannice, transposita in linguam nzaternanz per Robertum. Incipiunt Gesta An- glorztm secundum Petrum de Langtoft, transposita per eundem B. Illannyng.

, ' , y...) :,. OW haf I told of Pe Bretons, 1. Of liSrnges & som barons.

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Sen Pe Bretons here gan duelle, . pat toke pc loud porgh Gode's heste,

Per ttine we kalle pe Inglis geste. Alle is cald geste Inglis, pat on pis langage spoken is. Frankis spech is cald Romance, So sais clerkes & men of France. Pers of Langtoft 2 a chanon Of Pe hous of ' Brdltngton, 01 Frankis stile Pis stork wrote Of Inglis ktages, for him we wote Ile wrote Per dedes as Pei wrouht, After him in Inglis I it brouht. Of his menkng I wote Pe waft, Dot his faire speck I can not sat. I am not worPi open his boke, For no kontng Per on to loke, lot forto sebew his mtkelle witte On my sped), Pat is bot skitte; How he was quaint in spech & wts, pat suilk a boke mad of pris, & gadred Pe stories alle title one, pat newer ore was mad for none. Whan he first bigan his werk, 1 le bisouht a holy clerk, To gtue him grace wele to sprde, Pat holy man bight S. Bede.

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For in his bukes mkkelle he fond, He mad fkue bokes of Inglond. 1 salle praie him Pat ilk wais, Als he holy Sr curtais, He gif me grace wele to say, & rightly Pis in rime lay, pis stork pat is said of Pers, ',at alle be paled pat it hers. Amen.

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Num. VIII. Vide Pref. §. xi. The Proceedings of the Abbat and Convent of Win-

chester against Joan of London, A. D. 1285. From an old MS. Fragment of that Age, given to the Publisher by Thomas Ward, Esq;.

Officials curie Cantuariensis religioso 'viro priori reverenter salutem in Christo Ihesu. Sua noverit religio, ubi abbas & conventus Win-chester peticione monstrarunt, quod vos, pre-tendentes 1 sede apostolica vobis esse commis-sum, ut in monasterio suo de Winchester, Jo- hanne de London, mulieri converse, ad sui sustentacionem, suo perpetuo de tanto faceretis annis singulis providers, quantum unus de mo-nachis, ibidem existentibus, pro suis alimentis percipit, annuatim eidem Johanne, 1 octo T. sterlingorum, percipiendos per annum, quoad

' F. octo scilicet liloras sterlingorum, percipiendus.

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cviu THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX vixerit, de monasterio Wynchester memorato, certis terris, pro mqualibus porcionibui, nomi-ne sustentacionis hujus religiosm, ipsis ad lime nullatenus evocatis, nee de ipso mandato apo- stolico, scu de provisione ipsa, per citacionis seu denunciacionis modum, quicquam scienti-bus, sed ignorantibus, immo nulls super facul-tatibus dicti monasterii, seu super mstimatione vel valore exhibicionis seu sustentacionis cujus-cunq ; monachi domus ejusdem per annum, in-quisicione prmmissa, in ipsorum religiosorum, ac sum domus, prmjudicium non modicum & gra-vamen, prmsertim cum in inmensum acre alieno fuerint ornati, non absq; juris offensa, inique & temere providistis, 5, qua vestrn provisionis bujus sentencia, tanquam ab iniqua, quam ci-to id ad notitiam eorundem pervenit, sedem apostolieam, & pro tuitione sedcm Cantuari- ensem legitime, ut asserunt, applicuerunt. Qua- re vobis inhibemus, & ceteris omnibus, qui-bus exigit inbiberi, ne, pendente in curia Can-tuariensi hujus tuitionis appellationis negocio, aliud bac occasion acceptetur scu acceptare faciatis, in partis ptejudicium appellantis, quo minus liberam habeat prosecutionem appellationis sum, grout justum fuerit 1 utriusq ;. Ci- tetur eciam, seu citare faciatis peremptorie par-

- Sic cam duobus punctis sub u) perinde"ac si utrisque legi

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TO HIS PREFACE. cix tem appellatam, quod compareat coram nobis, vel commissario nostro, in eeclesia beatm Ma-rim de arcubus Londonim, tercio die juridico post Octavas Sancta Trinitatis, factura & re, ceptura super prvemissis, quod postulaverit or-do juris, & pariter ad procedeudum in princi- pali, si viderit expedire. De (lie vero receptio- nis prwsentium, & quod super prwmissis feceri-tis, nobis, vel commissario nostro, dictis die & loco constare faciatis, per litteras vestras paten- tes harum seriern continentes. Dat Londonire quarto Nonas• Maii, anno Domini M°. CC°. octogesimo quinto.

Num. IX. Vide Prref. §. xi. A Letter concerning the reputed Nunnery at Little-

Cid(ling in Huntingdonshire. From a MS. lent to the Publisher on July 6th. 1721. by 77wnzas. Ward, of Longbridge near Warwick, Esq; .

The Coppie of my Letter to Sr. Thomas Hed-ley, Kt. Serjeant at Lawe, upon his Request to certifie, as I found, concerninge the re-puted Nunnerie att Giddinge in Hunting-tonshire.

Good Mr. Serjeant, I cam give you but a short Relation of my,

not two bowers, staye at the reputed (at lea' re-

cx THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX reported) Nunnery at Giddinge, and yet must leave out three partes of our passages, as fitter for Relation then a letter. I came thither after terme, and found a faire house. fairelie seated, to which I passed through a faire grove, and sweete walkes, letticed and gardened on both sides, their livelihood. 5001'. per annum (as my Lord Mountague tolde mee,)

A man servant brought me into a faire spacious Parlour, whether soone after came to mee the olde Gentlewoman's second sonn, a batchelor of a plaine presence, but of able speech and parts, whoe (after I bad, aswell as in such case I coulde, deprecated anye ill conceipt of mee, for soe unusuall and bolde a visite) en-tertayned mee very civilly, and with humility, yet saide, 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 shewinge my desire, bee went upp into a Chamber, and presently came his mother, a tall, straight, cleare complextioned, grave Ma-tron, of. 80. yeares of age) his eldest brother married, (but wheather ' Widdowe or noe, I asked not,) a short, blacke complextioned man, his apparrell and hayre soe fashioned, as made

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TO HIS PREFACE. cxt him shewe Preist like, and his sister married to one Mr. Conies, by whom slice bath. 14. or. 15. Children, all which are in the howse, which I sawe not yet; and of these, and two or three mayde servants, the Familie consisted. I saluted the mother, and daughter, not like Nunnes, but as wee use t5 salute other wo-men; and after wee were all sett circular wise, and my Deprecations renewed to the other three, I desired that, to their favour of eiiter-tayninge of mee, they woulde add the givinge of mee a free libertie to speake ' ingeniouslie, what I conceived of any thinge I shoulde see or have hearde of, without any distast to them. Which beinge graunted,

I first tolde them what I had heard of the Nunnes of Giddinge ; of two watching° and prayinge all night; of their Caunonicall howers; of their crosses on the outside, and inside of their Chappell ; of an Alter there richly decked with plate, tapestry, and tapers ; of their .Adora- tions, Iniculations at their entringe therein, which I objected might savour of Superstition and Popery.

Item the younger sonne (the mouth for them all) cutt mee off, and to this last an-sweared,

I' Sic. 2 F. Adorations, Genuflections, and Genieulations; Nam sic infra libello imp resso.

First

exit THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX First, with a protestation, that hee did as

verely belceve the Pope to bee Antichrist, as any Article of his faith. Where with I was satisfied and silenced touchinge that pointe.

For the Nunnery, bee 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 soc resolved to continue, as hee hoped they woulde, the better to give them-selves to fastinge and praier, but had made no vowes.

For their Cannonicall howres, hee saide, they usuallie praied. 6. tymes a daie, (as I remem-ber,) twice a dale publiquelie in the Chap- pell, and. 4. tymes more privatelie in their howse ; in the Chappell after the Order of the booke of Common-praier, in their house per- ticular praiers for a private Family. I saide, if they spent soe much tyme in prayinge, they would leave little for preachinge, or for their weekelie callings. For the one I vouched the text, Hee that turneth awaye his eare from hearing the Lazne, his praier is abominable. For the other, sixe dales shalt thou Labour &e.

To the one bee answeared, that a Neighbour Minister, of another Parish, came on Sunday morninge, and preached in their Chappell, and

' F. Neeces had line,. Some

TO HIS PREFACE. cxiii some tymes they went to his Parish; To the other, that their callinge was to serve God, which 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 fastinge, praier, and a Contemplatinge lyfe, which by some is thought to bee' noe better, then a, specious kind of Idlenes, not to terme it, as St. Augu-stine termcs Morrall vcrtucs without Christ, splendida pcccata. lice rcjoyned, that they found diverse perplexities, distractions, and al-most utter mine in their callings, but if others knewe, what comfort and content God had ministred unto them, since their sequestration, and with incredible improvement to their live-lihood, it might incourage others to the like course.

I said, that such an . Invitation might bee of dangerous Consequence, and that yf any, which were in good 2 Cause before, shoulde thereby fall into povertic, fewe afterwards woulde followe the example.

For their night watchinge, 3 at their risinge at. 4: of the Clocke in the morninge, which (I said) was much for one of. SO, yeares, and for Children; To the one bee saide, it was

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can/ THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX not much, sithence they alwaies went to bedd at. 7. of the Clocke in the eveninge. For the other bee confest, there ' was every night two. (Alternatim) continued in their devotions, that 2 went to bedd untill the rest arose.

For the Crosses, he made mee - the usuall Ansi,veare, that they were not ashamed of that badge of Christian profession, which the pro-pugners of the faith bare in their banners, and which wee in our Church disciplyne reteyne to this dale.

For their Chappell, that it was nowe neere Chappell tyme, (for eleaven is the howre in the forenoone) and that I might (if I pleased) accompany them thither, and soe satisfie my selfe best of what I had heard concerning that.

Which offer I willinglie enterteyned. Aleane tyme, I told them, that ,I perceived all was not true, that I had heard of the place. For I coulde see noe such inscription on the fron , tespeece of the howse, conteyninge an Invita-tion of such as were willinge to learne of them, or woulde teach them better, which was some incouragement to mee to come (as one desi-rous to learne, not to teach) and might bee some excuse of my Audacity, if they will be pleased soe to accept it.

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TO HIS PREFACE. cry But bee (barringe mee from further Comple-

ments) said, the ground of that Report hunge over my bead, wee sittinge by the Chymney. On the Chymney peece was a Manuscript Ta- bleture, which after I had read, I craved leave to begg a Coppie thereof, soe that they woulde not take mee for to bold a begger, which bee forthwith tooke done, and commaunded to bee presentlie transcribed, and given mee. I offered the writer money for his deserved paines, which was refused, and they conjured mee not to offer it the second tyme, and there upon made it his suite to mee, not to offer any thinge to any of that house at my partinge, or otherwise.

The words of the protestation are as follow-ctli :

I. H. S.

lice that; by reproofe of) Hce that, by a cizeare- our Errors, or Remon- full participation of that strange of that which is i which is good, confirmes perfect, seekes to make us r us in the same, is wel- better, is welcome as an come as a Christian freed. Angell of God; And .1

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soever hee bee. J shipp and Christianitye.

Mary Fairer Widdowe, and motherof this Fa-milie, aged about. 80. yeares, that bidds a dewe to all .feares, and hopes of this worlde, and de. sires to serve God.

To the matter of this Declaration, beinge in such generall termes, I said, I thought it without Exception, but praied leave to except against a Circumstance, namely the Inscription, beinge the proper Character of the Jesuites in every booke and exhibite of theirs. Hee said, it was that Auspicious name, worthy, to bee the Alpha and Omega of all our doinges, and wee are comrnaunded to write such thinges on the posts of our houses, and upon our gates.

I toulde him, I was farr from exceptinge against that sacred and savinge name of Jesus, 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 bee mentioned was in the oulde

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TO MS PRgVACt. . txviirk Testament, 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 howse, but staid a little (as with a parenthesis) with a glasse of sacke, suger-cake, and a fine napkin brought by a mannerlie maide, which refreshed my me-morie, to tell them what my Lord Bishopp of Lincoln saide of them, wherein yet I brake noe Lawes of humanitie, nor hospitalitie, 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 dis-creete Answeares (as my Lord himselfe termed them) of the outde Gentlewoman's to some of his Lordshipp's expostulations to that part con-cerninge the younge deacon, which his Lord-shipp had heard of to come from Cambridge, to associate in their Chappell, lice (innuendo ever the younger sonne, ) whoc onlic was the speaker, said, that himselfe was the younge deacon intended, that hee is 42. yeares olde, was fcllowe of an hawse in Cambridge, and bath taken Orders of Deacon (to saie nothinge of his havinge been at Rome) whereof I coulde have excepted noe more against him, then hee might to mee. For havinge been so lougc iii the labour of the Chappell, it is nowe high tyme wee were at Church.

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cxvin THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX At the entringe whereof hee made a love

obeysance, fewe paces further a lower, comm-inge to the halfe-pace, which was at the East end; where the Table stood, hee bowed to the ground, if not prostrated himselfe, then went upp into a faire large rcadinge place, a preach-inge place beinge of the same proporcion, right over against it.

The Mother with all her trayne, which were her daughter, and daughter's daughters, had a faire Island seate. Hee placed mee above upon the halfe-pace, with two faire longe Win-dowe-Cushions of greene Velvett before mee. Over against mee was there such another seate soe suited, but noe body to sitt in it.

The daughter's. 4. sonnes 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 said, for I looked not backe) the rest all in blacke, save one of the daughters, whoe was in a Fryer's greene gowne.

Wee beinge thus placed, the Deacon ( for soe I must nowe call him) with a very lowde and distinc' voice, began with the Letany, read divers Pr .ers and Collects in the booke of Cohimon-praier, and Athanasius his Creede, and concluded with The peace of God, 8sc.

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TO HIS PREFACE. elm . All attended", the Mother, with all her

Company, attended my comminge downe ; but her sonne decon toulde -her, I woulde staie a while, to viewe the Chappell: soe ( with all their Civill salutations towards mee, which I retorned them a farr off, and durst come noe neerer, least I shoulde have light upon one of the virgins, not knowinge wheather they woulde have taken a kisse in good part or noe) they departed home. Nowe none but the deacon and I left, I observed the Chappell in ge-neral' to be fairelie and sweetelie adorned with herbes and flowers, natural' in some part, and artificial) upon every Pillar thereof a louge both sides the Chappell, such as are in Cathe-dralls, with Tapers ( I 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 East part) was all covered with tapistry, and upon that half-pace stood the Communion Table, not Altarwise (as was reported) with a rich Carpett hanginge very large upon the 2 halfe, and somme of plate, as a Cal lice and Can- dlestickes with waxe Candells. By the preachinge place stood the font, the Legg, laver and cover all of brasse cutt and carved. the Cover

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cxx THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX had a Crosse erected, the layer of the bignes of a harbor's Basen ; and this is all I had lea-sure to observe in the Chappell, save that I asked for the Organs, which he toulde mee were not there, but that they had a paire in

• their house. I asked a,lsoe, what use they made of so many Tappers. Hee said, to give them light, when they coulde not see without them. Then havinge formerlie (as I said before) ob-teyned lehve, to saie what I listed, I asked him, to whom bee made all those Curtisies, Hee saide, to God. I asked him, if the Pa- pists make any other answeare for theire bow-inge to Images and Crucifexes, yet wee ac- compt them Idolaters for soe doinge. Hee said, wee have noe such Warrant, for the one, but for the other, wee have a precept to doe all things with decencie and order, as hee tooke this to bee. I demaunded then, why bee used not the same solempnitie in his service at his howse, and wheather lice thought that Chap.. pen more holie then his howse. Hee said noe, but that God was more imediatelie present, whiles we were worshippinge him in the Tem- ple. I replied, that God was as present at Paule's Crosse as at Paule's Church, and at the preachinge place at White hall and Spittle-Ser.' mons as elsewhere, I'pr wheresoever two or three are gathered togeather in his name, God

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TO HIS PREFACE. cxxi is in the middest of them. And yet in those places, noe not in the bodie of the Church, though there bee sermon and praiers, we did not use this threefold reverence, nor any lowe bowinge, unlesse in the Chancel' towards the East, where an Altar, or some' Crucifex, is. Hee answeared mec some thinge of the Trina- ry number of this their bowinge, which I did not well 'understand, nor 3 wee heare. This, as all other our discourse beinge ended with mildenes and moderation (on his part, at the least) I said further, that since their devotions, from which they woulde be loath to bee 3 delivered or interrupted, (as in their said protestation maie appeare,) are more strict and regular, and if in their Consciences they were perswad- ed, that all their Formalities and Ceremonies were but 4 Adiaphera (thinge indifferent) I then thought, they were as wyse as Serpents in the s Scripture, since in 6 "complayninge soe with Church Ceremonies, that they. might themselves hould on their Course without exception, for in 7 this Comptenent though authori- tie woulde not except against them, unlesse for exceedinge the Cathedral], whoe make but one Reverence, whereas they make three. Hee

i Sic. 2 F. well. 3 F. di- vetted. 41.. adiaphora (things

concipiuntur. Conjecernm, I this, azahoritie, though corn-

&C. s F. Scripture sense. 6 plait, would &c. An, complying , 1 sic !me

11 4 saide,

cxxxx THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX saide, I spake like one that it seemed had had experience in the Worlde. Beeinge nowe neere twelve of the Clocke, wee ended our Discourse, and I called for my horses, hopinge there upon, that bee woulde have invited mee to staie 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 breakefast, ) but that I might have gayn-ed more ' more" tyme to . have seene and ob-served more of their fashions, and wheather the Virgins, and younger sorte woulde have mingled with us, with diverse other thinges, which a dynner tyme would have "ministred matter for ; but in steede of makinge mee staie, bee alsoe helped mee in callinge for my horses, accompanyinge mee even !Into my stirropp, and soe I not returninge into the howse, as wee frends mett, soe wee parted.

Many more questions I thought. on, when it was too late, and yet, you see, I was not idle for the short tyme I staide. I asked him of their monethlie receivinge the Sacrament, and wheather their servants, when they receiv-ed, were attended by their Masters and Mi- stresses, and not suffered soe much as to laye or take awaie their owne trenchers, (as I had beard ; ) whereat hee smiled, as at a frivilous fable, and said, that the only difference from

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TO HIS PREFACE. - cxxiii other daies was, that the servants, the daie they received, satt at the same Table with them. I heard alsoe, that they never rost any meate, onlie boile and bake, but not in paste, that their servants maie not be much hindered from their devotions, and that they have but one horse 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-sick and Surgery for the sicke and sore, whom they alsoe visitt often, and some. GO. or. 80. poore people they taske with Catechisticall questions, which, when they' come, cann make noe Answeare there unto, they are rewarded with money and dynner, by reason of which Corody of meate and money, the poore Ca-techumen learne their lessons well, and soe their bodies and soules are well fedd.

I fin& them full of humanitie, and libera-litie, and others speake as much of their Cha-ritie, which I also verclie beleeve, and there-fore am farr from censuringe them, of whom I thinke much better then of my sclfe.

My' apposinge some of their opinions and practise (as you maie see in this my Relation,

' F. come, and can make Answeare thereunto, &c. ' L. Cate, Outwits. • Sic.

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cxxiv THE PUBLISHER'S APP. BSc. wherein I maie have varied in some 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, Lowe wyser men will judge of them, or imitate their Course of lyfe. •

I intended not a third part of this, when I begann, as you maie see by my first lynes.

But one thinge drawinge on another, I have nowe left out a little or nothinge to my re-membrance, savinge that I thought fitt in good manners, upon my first affront, to make waie for my welcome, and ad captandam benevolen-tiain, which is not worth the repeatinge if I coulde, and I am some thinge better at actinge such a part, then at relatinge it, though good at neither.

After this longe and tedious Relation, I must nowe make but short thankes to you and my Ladie, for my longe and kinde welcome, where-in my wyfe joyneth with mee, prayinge my Re-membrance of my lovinge respects to our kinde Neece, impinge the good Schollers at West-minster are well, and soe I leave you all in the grace of God, and am

The same Your lovinge Frend

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A BRIEFE DESCRIPTION AND

Relation of the late erected Monasticall Place, called the ARMINIAN NUNNERY at little GIDDING In HUNTINGTON-SHIRE.

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ARMINIAN NUNNERY:

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A BRIEFE DESCRIPTION

and Relation of the late erected Monasticall Place, called the ARAIINIAN NUNNERY at little GIRDING in HUNTINGTON-SHIRE.

The Foundation is by a Company of Farrars at

GIDDING.

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HERE stands a faire Hovsz ;. v• well scituated with a fine Grove

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and sweet Walks; Letticed and 4.,, Gardined on both sides; their

livelihood or Revenew about 500. 1. per Annum. One of my Lord Mountagues Mansion-Houses being within two or three miles off called Hem- mington House not farre from Oundle.

* A Gentleman comming to visit the said * Pas' 2' House, was first brought to i faire spacious Par-

, The Pages in the Margin mower the former Impression. 2 Sic.

lour,

bxxvflt THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX lour, where soonc after appeared the old Gen• tlewomans second sonne, a Batchelour - of a plain presence, but pregnant of speech and parts, unto whom when I had deprecated and excused my selfe for so sudden and bold a visit, he entertained me with seeming civilitie and humilitie.

After deprecations and some complements past betwixt us, he said I should see his Mo-ther if I pleased, and I shewing my desire, hee went up into a Chamber, and presently returned with his Mother, (a tall ancient Gen-tlewoman about 80. yeares of age) slice being Matron of the House, his elder Brother a Priest- like man in habit and haired Now he had a Sister married in the House to one-Mr. Cooles, who had it or 15. Children in the House, and of these with a man-servant and 2. or 3. maid-servants the AWN then consisted.

I was permitted to salute the Mother and Daughters, as we use to salute other women ; and after we were all sitten Circular, I had leave to speake ingenuously of what I had heard and did or might conceive of their House. I first told him what I had heard of the Nunns at Gilding; of two watching and praying all night; of their Canonical houres ; of their Crosses on the outside and inside of the Chappell; of an Altar richly decked with Te.restry, Plate and Tapers;

of

TO HIS PREFACE. cxxix of their Adorations, genuflections, and genicula- lions, which I told them plainly might strong-ly savour of Superstition and Popery.

.

Now you must understand that the younger Brother who first came unto me is a jolly pra-gmaticall and Priest-like fellow, and is the mouth for all the rest, and he began to cut me off, .and answered with a serious protestation (though not so properly) that he did as verily * beleeve • tile Pope to be Antichrist, as any Article of his

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Faith, which I noted and gave the hearing : and therein if lie spake from his heart, he much differed from the opinons of Priest Shelton!, Priest Squire, Dr. Draf fig, the red Dragon of Ar- Ininians, and other eminent Arminians.

He denied the place to be a Nunnery, and that none of his Neeces were Nunnes: but bee confessed that two of his Nieces had lived the one thirtie, the other thirty and two yeares Virgins, and so resolved to continue ( as he hop-ed they would) to give themselves to Fasting and Prayers; but had made no Trowes.

For their Cammicall hours, he said they usually prayed 6. times a day, viz. 2. times a day pu-blikly in the Chappd, and 4. times a day more privatly in the House; in the Chappel after the Order of the Booke of Common Prayer, at both times chanting out aloud theLetang ; and iii their House particular private Prayers for a Faindie.

And

cxxx THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX And hee being asked, if they spent so 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 cares, from hearing the Law, his prayer is abomi-' nable: PRO. IS. and 19. And the fourth Com- mandment, Six dayes shalt thou labour, 8v. Un-, to which this Priest-like pregnant Prolocutor answered but slubbringly, That sometimes a neighbour Parson would come and preach in their Chappell; and to the other, That their Calling (forsooth) was to serve Gon, 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 themselves to I wot not

i Pag.4. what new forme of Fasting and Prayer, and * a contemplative idle life, a lip-labour devotion, and a will-worship, Ecel. 4. ss 17. which by the word of God is no better than a specious kind of idleness, as St. Augustine termes them to be but splendida peccata: as if diligence in our particular lawfull callings were no part of our service to God.

And doubtlesse such a Monastick Innovation in a settled Church-government, is of danger-ous consequence in many respects.

For

TO HIS PREFACE. cxxxi For their night-watching and rising at 4. of the

Clock in the morning ( which was much for the Matron of SU. yeares of age, and for her Grand-children) the Priestlike Prolocutor did not want a premeditated excusive 'Justifica-tion : But how neere it complieth with the su-perstitious Nunneries in Popish places beyond the Seas, I and others .that have travelled and seene them may plainely perceive and notifie ; especially considering bee could not but con-fesse there were every night two (alternating) continued in their Devotions until the rest rose.

For their divers Crosses, the I Prolocuter made me this answere ; 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 retained unto this day.

How confused and absurd this Crosse An-swere was,, let every Christian man judge.

On the Chimney-peice where wee sate, there was a Manuscript Tableture with this Inscrip-tion following, whereof I desired, and bad a Coppy transcribed.

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lie that by reprofe of Hee that by a cbeerc- our errors or remem- fill participation of that brance of that which is , which is good confirms

. more perfect seekes to us in the same, is wet- make us better is welcome as a Christian come and an Angel of Friend. God.

But lie that any way goes a-- flee that (hulls us in ab- bout to divert or disturb sence for that which in us in that which is and presence bee made shew ought to bee amongst to• approve of, shall by Christians though it be - a double. guilt of flattery not usuall with the ' and slander violate the

• World, is a burthen bonds of Friendship and whiles he stayes and shall Beare his judgement whosoever he be. .

Christianity.

MARY Funann. Widdozol Mother and Matron of this Female ; aged about SO. Meares, that Li* mitre to all feares and hopes of this world) and desires to serve God.

The Letters of the top of which Inscription are the proper Character of the Jekuites in eve-

ry

TO HIS PREFACE. cxxxiii ry Booke and Exhibite of theirs. And the lines of the Inscription, how full of nonsence, justi-fication and ostentation of superstitious devo-tion, besides their Creation of Angels of GOD ; Let every understanding Christian Reader or hearer hereof j udge.

The Prolocutor in justification of the Je- suitical) forme of Letters which I excepted against : he said it was the auspicious name worthy to be the Alpha and Omega of all our Actions, and wee ore commanded to write such things upon the posts of our Houses, and upon our Gates : Whereas indeed the Text which bee aimed at is in the Old Testament and not in the New, where there is no * mention of Jesus * but Jehovah : And the words are most, plainly,

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Moses Precept of the Law of God, and not of the Name, &c. Deut. 6. ,e.

Therfore this his Apologeticall answere was nothing but ignorant Eloquence, or eloquent Ignorance; most grossly and absurdly applyed.

This Prolocutor confessed hirnselfe to bee about 42. yeares old, was a t.11ow in a House in Cambridge (lie named not what House) and that lie had taken Orders of a Deacon (but he said nothing of his ha% ing beene at Rome, as it is well knowne he bath beene. ) .

Now I was invited by this Deacon to goe 'with him into the Chappell to their devotion,

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cxxxl v THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX at the entrance wfiereof this Priestlike deft Dea-con made a low obeysance, a few paces farther lower, and comming to the half-pace which is at the East end where the altered Table stood, bee bowed and prostrated himselfe 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 with 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 say in blacke, save one of the Daughters who was in a Friers grey gowne.

We Being all placed before the Deacon (for now so 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 Prager and Athanasius his Creed; and concluded with the forme of words, of, The Peace of God, &c.

Their Service ended, the Mother with all « Pag. 7. her Company attending my comming downe;

but I durst not come very ncerc lest I might happily have light upon one of the Virgins lippes, not knowing whether they would have taken a second kisp in good part or no, with

their

TO HIS PREFACE. cxxxv

their civill salutations towards mee, which I returned them a far off, they departed from the Chappell home. • Now the Deacon and I left, I observed the Chappell in general! to bee fairely and spe-ciously adorned with babes and flowers natur-all and artificiall, and upon every pillar along on both sides the Chappell (such as are in Ca-thedrall Churches,) Tapers; I meane, great Vir-gin-waxe-Candles on every Pillar : The haffe-pace at the upper end ( for there was no other division betwixt the body of the Chappell and the East end) was all covered with Tapestry and upon that halfe-pace stood the Altar-like Table, with a rich Carpet hanging very large on the halfe-pace, and some Plate, as a Challice, and Candlesticks with waxe Candles in them: By the preaching-place stood the Font, a Leg-layer and cover all of Brasse cut and carved with Imagery worke, the Laver of the bignesse of a Barbers Bason, and the Cover had a Crosse erected on it, And this is all I had leisure to observe in the Chappell.

Then I made bold in temperate termes to aske the Deacon what use they made of so ma-ny Tapers on the Table, and in the Chappell ; he answered ( forsooth) to give them light, when they could not see without them. And having formerly as I said before obtained leave

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cxxxvi THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX to say what I listed, I asked him to whom he made all these Courtesies, bowings and prostra-tions, he said to GOD; I told him the Papists make no other answere for their bowing to Images and Crucifixes, yet we account them Idolaters for so doing, as justly wee may : Hee

• Pag• S• 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 bee used not the same solemnitie in his house, and whether he 'thought the Chappell more holy then his House, he said no, but that God was more immediately present in the Chappell then in the House, whilst we were worshipping him, I replied that God was as present, at Paula Crosse, as in Panics Church, at the Preaching-place at White hall and the Spittle-Sermons, as in other Churches and Chappels. Tor wheresoever two or three, Esc. and in those fore-named places, no not in the bodie of and• Churches, though there be Sermons and Prayers there, we do not use this threefold reverence, or bowing, or pro-strating, no nor the Papists themselves, unless in the Chancell towards • the East, wherein an Altar or some Crucifix is ; He answered me somewhat confusedly, for this their urinary untidier of bowing which I did not well under- *11. nd, nor well conceive what he meant.

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70 HIS PREFACE. cxxxvii It seemes moreover that at their monthly

receiving the Sacrament ( which this defendant Deacon performeth and consecrateth the bread and wine) their servants when they received, were attended by their Master and Mistris, and not suffered to lay or take away their owne trenchers as it is reported.

They also take upon them to be Phisitians and Chirurgions in ministring Physicke and Chi-rurgery for the sick and sore, and pretend to be very charitable to the poore; but as it is verily thought in a meritorious way.

They also take upon them to be Catechisers and to task many poore people with Catechi-sticall questions ; Which when they come and can make answere thereunto, they are rewarded with money and their dinners, * and • so they pretend they feed the poores bodies and soules, But their Catechism or Catechi-sticall questions (some say) are strange ones and

Ng. 9.

' for different from our Orthodox Catechismes. ' Your may take notice that since the obser-vation of the premisses, th' old Matron of the place is dead.

And now beloved and Christian Reader, you have had an ingenuous Relation of this late erected religious house for the service of God ( as the Founders would have it termed and —......................

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exxxvixt THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX held.) But certes we may wonder at nothing more ' that in a settled Church-government our Bishops who are accounted Governours of the Church will permit any such erection or Founda-tion, so neerly complying with Popery, and that by a fond and fantasticall Family.of Farrars, the principall Priest a poly-pragmaticall Fellow, hav-ing been at Rome, and there (as it is credibly reported) lie was conformable to all the abo-minable Ceremonies and Services of the Church of Rome. Now forsooth, in outward shew, bee would pretend that bee and the rest dis-clairne the Pope and Poperie, but by and by you shall see him and his Companions crouch-ing, cringing, and prostrating to the ground to the Altar-like poorc Communion-Table, or the rich gilded candlesticks, and waxe Tapers and other knacks thereon standing; And for another spew that they would not bee account-ed Popish, they have gotten the Booke of Mar-tyrs in the Chappell; but few or none are suffer-

' ed to read therein, but onely it is there ( I say) kept for a shew; and besides their lip-labour of trolling out the Letanie foure times a day, they hive promiscuous private Prayers all the night long by nightly tunics, just like as the English Nunncs at Saint Omers and other Po- pish places: which private Prayers are (as it

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TO IIIS PREFACE. CXXXIX

seemes) taken out of John Cozens his Cozening De- votions, (as they are rightly discovered to be by Orthodox men) and extracted out of divers

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Popish Prayer-Bookes. This Flyer-like Famine and as they are not unfitly termed Arminian Nunnery have divers other Commick and Mini-mick actions of will-worship to the great dis-honour of Almighty God, who will be served in spirit and truth, and be will once say unto them as lice did by the Prophet Isaiah, to the superstitious and ceremonious Jewes, MI6 bath required this at your hands? &c.

Surely we may marvell that the present Fri- mate of all England and Metropolitans being the principal Governour of the Church, under his sa-cred Majestic, and as bee professeth such an

w. cant.

Anti-Papist and enemy to superstition and Ido-latry, should permit this Innovation, and con-nive at such canting betwixt the barke and the tree in matter of Religion : But by what bath becne related of these Peoples practises, we see that position made good, That Arminianisme is a bridge to Popery, the bridge was ` not not onely made (a great part of the Clergie of this Land being down right Arminians) but some have past over it ; NV itnesse Preist Shefford, Preist Co- zens, and this Familie in this Booke treated on with divers others, and had not God of his

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Ext. THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX great mercy .undermin'd . the chie•fe Arches of that bridge, causing them to.fall in the River of confusion, wee have cause to think that the greater part of this Fund would also have fob. lowed the rest; but now God bath hindred it, not only by breaking the bridge in the just downfall of many of the chiefe of the Arminian -Faction, but also by setting up that strong, high, and thick wall of the late Parlamentary national Protestation; for which (as also, for, . all' 'his niercies at ail times, especially for this, years wonders) his name be for ever praised (say I) and let all Protestants say, Amen. ' •

FINIS. • • . .,

Num. XI. . Vide Pnef. §. mi.

. Dr. Wallis's Account of sante Passages ,qf Wis. own . Life. E Coll. Snyithianis penes Eclito,rem, Vol.

2.S. p. 38. . . - . . For th'e Reverend and Learned, Thomas

Smith, Dr. in Divinity, late Fellow of Magdalen College in Oxford".

Sr • In compliance with what you have oft desired

of me, I siind yOu these. Memorials of my Life.

'Mg Soporseriltion is writ., fob by Dr. Wallis's, own hand i hUt the Letter is of the hand of

• hii Amanuensis) only here .and

. thereDr. WallishatIreorrected it himself.

My.

TO HIS PREFACE. CXLI

My Father was John Wallis; a grave and Re-verend Divine : Son of Robert and Ellen Wallis, of Thingdon (or, as it is usually pronounced, Flientkn) in the County of Northampton: Born in January 1567, and there baptised the 1St''• of that Month. He was educated in Trinity Col- lege in Cambridge : where he took the De- grees of Batchelor and Master of Arts : and (about the same time) entred into Holy Or-ders ; in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Toward the end of Qu. Elizabeth's Reign ; lie was made Minister of Ashford; a great Market- Town in Kent. Where he continued the re-mainder of his Life, in great esteem and repu-tation, not only in that Town and Parish, but with the Clergy, Gentry and Nobility round. about.

He was a Pious, Prudent, Learned and Ortho-dox Divine ; an Eminent and Diligent Preacher; and with his prudent carriage, kept that great Town in very good Order ; and promoted Piety to a great Degree.

Beside his constant prettching twice on the Lord's-day, and other occasional Sermons, and his Catechising and otherwise Instructing the younger sort; he did (with some of the most eminent Neighbour-Ministers) maintain a Week-day Lecture, on Saturday, their Market-day. Which was much frequented ( beside a nume-

rous

CXLII THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX roux auditory of others) by very many of the Neighbour-Ministers, the Justices of the Peace, and others of the Gentry. Who (after Sermon) _did use to dine at an Ordinary, and there con-fer (as there was occasion) about such affairs as might concern the welfare and good Go-vernment of that town and the parts adjacent, wherein they were respectively concerned.

He died at Ashford, Novemb. 30. and was there buried Decemb. 3. 1622. much lamented ; and left behind him a good memory, which is not yet extinguished.

My Mother was Joanna, Daughter of Henry and Sarah Chapman, then' of Godmersham in the County of Kent; who afterward removed to Ashford; and lived (both of them) with my father and mother, - during my father's life; and with my mother, afterwards, to a great age and with great esteem, which Sarah was Daugh-ter and Heiress of Drew Sanders, an eminent Merchant in London.

My Mother was born in March, and baptised March 15. 1581. Site was married to my Fa- ther (after the death of his former Wife) March 12. 1612. By whom he had (beside my self) two Daughters ( Sarah and Ellen) who were elder than I; and two Sons ( Henry and William) who were younger than I.

TO HIS PREFACE. CXLIII

. I was born at Ashford (as I find among other of my Father's Memorials) Novenzb. 23. 1616. and baptised Decemb. 1. then following.

My Father dying while I was a child; I was beholden to the Piety, Care and Kindness of my Mother for my Education. Who, after my Father's death, continued a Widdow, for the good of her Children, (tho' otherwise, she had fair opportunities of marrying well, if she had been so disposed: ) she continued for the most part, (after my Father's death) to live in Ashford, in a house which she there purchased after my Father's death : but sometimes with one or other of her two daughters then mar tied, and, at last, with my brother Henry, who was then a Linnen-Draper in Ashford ; where she died, Sept. 26. 1643. Leaving her children all surviving and in good circumstances, and the youngest of us about 21 years of age.

In the year 1625 (the first year of K. Charles the first) there happened a great Plague at Lon-don, and many other places of the Kingdome, and (particularly) at Ashford, which caused many of the Inhabitants to remove thence to Neighbour Parishes for safety. .

I had, til then, been educated at Ashford; in learning English and somewhat of Latin. But, upon this occasion, was sent to School to Ten-terden (another great Market-Town in Kcnt;)

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CXLIV THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX where, at a place called Ley-green (within that Parish) lived Mr. Finch, a worthy Gentleman, of a good Estate ; who having divers children of his own, ( ntertained a School-Master in his Family, Mr. James Movat, a Scoichnzan, who was a very good School-Master, and kept a pri-vate School for the Instruction of all the Chil-dren of that Gentleman, and of divers others who lodged in the Neighbor-hood.

His Scholar I continued for divers years; and was by him well grounded in the Techni-cal part of Grammar; so as to understand the Rules, and the grounds and reasons of such Rules ; with the use of them in such Authors as are usually read in Grammar Schools. For it was always my affectation even from a child, in all pieces of Learning or Knowledge, not merely to learn by rote, which is soon forgot-ten, but to know the grounds or reasons of what I learn; to inform my Judgement, as well as furnish my Memory; and thereby, make a better Impression on both.

' In the year 1630, that Gentleman's eldest Son being designed for the University (and the others, otherwise) that School broke up. I might then perhaps have gone to the Univer- sity, as well as sonic who did ;1 (being not in-ferior to them in Learning) but I was thought too young. ,

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My School-Master (who had a great kindness for me) soon after travailed, as Tutor to another Gentleman ; and would have bad me travailed with him, ( into France, Italy, and other places;) but my Mother was loth to send me abroad.

At Christmass 1630, I was sent to School to Mr. Martin Hotbed:, at Feist& in Essex; who was reputed (as indeed lie was) a very good School-Master. He there taught a Free School, of the Foundation of the Earl of Warwick, whose Seat at Leez was within that Parish. At this School, though in a Countrey Village, he had at that time above an hundred or six score Scholars; most of them • Strangers, sent thither from other places, upon reputation of the School ; from w hence many good Scholars were sent yearly to the University.

Air. Holbech was very kind to me; and used to say, I came to him the best grounded of any Scholar that he received from another School.

I continued his Scholar for two years; and was by that time pretty well acquainted with the Latin and Greek tongues, having read di-vers Authors therein (such as at Schools are wont to be read) and was pretty accurate in the Grammars of both ; and in such other Learn-ing as is commonly taught in such Schools; and

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I learn'd there somewhat of Hebrew also. So much at least, as to be able ( with my Grammar and Dictionary) to proceed further without a Teacher : which I did afterwards prosecute 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 somewhat of Logick ; as a preparation to a further study of it in the University.

While I continued a Scholar there, at Christ-mass '1631, (a season of the year when Boys use to have a vacancy from School,) I was, for about a fortnight, at home with my Mother at Ashford. I there found that a younger Bro- ther of mine ( in Order to a Trade) had, for about 3 Months, been learning (as they call'd it) to Write and Cipher, or Cast account, (and he was a good proficient for that time,) When I had been there a few days; I was inquisitive to know what it was, they so called. And (to satisfie my curiosity) my Brother did (during

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TO HIS PREFACE. cxvvii the Remainder of my stay there before I re-turned to School) skew me what he had been Learning in those 3 Months. Which was (besides the writing a fair hand) the Practical part of Common Arithmetick in Numeration, Ad-dition, Substraction, Multiplication, Division, The Rule of Three (Direct and Inverse,) the Rule of Fellowship (with and without, Time) the Rule of False-Position, Rules of Practise and Reduction of Coins, and some other little things. Which when he had shewed me by steps, in the same method that he bad learned them; and I had wrought over all the Examples which he hefore had done in his book; I found no difficulty to understand it, and I was very well pleased with it; and thought it ten days or a fortnight well spent. This was my first insight to Ma. thematieks ; and all the Teaching I had.

This suiting my humor so well; I did thenceforth prosecute it, (at School and in the University, not as a formal Study, but as a pleasing. Diversion, at spare hours; as books of,Arithinctick, or others Mathematical fel occasionally in my way. For I had none to direct me, what books to read, or what to seek, or in what Method to proceed. For Mathema- ticks, (at that time, with us) were scarce look-ed upon as Academical Studies, but rather Me-chanical; as the business of Traders. Merchants,

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CXLVIII 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 hundred Students (at that time) in our College, I do not know of any Two (perhaps not any) who had more of Mathematicks than I, (if so much) which was then but little; And but very few, in that whole University. For the Study of .11 /atheniaticks was at that time more cultivated in London than in the Universities. At this time also I learned the rudiments of Musick and of the French Tongue.

About Christmas 1632. I was sent to the Uni-versity of Cambridge; and was there admitted in Emanuel College, under the Tuition of Mr.

• Anthony Burgess; a pious, learned and able Scholar, a good Disputant, a good Tutor, an eminent Preacher, a sound and orthodox Di- vine; and (after he bad left the College) I was under the Tuition of Er. Thomas Horton, and lastly of Mr. Benjamin Whichcot; all able Scholars, and Eminent Divines. /W. Burgess

. . was afterwards Minister of Sutton-ColtUield in Warwickshire ; D'. Horton was afterwards Ma-ster of Queen' s College in Camlwige, and Dr. Which-colt, Provost or King's College there; and all of them in their time, eminent Preachers in , • London.

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When I was come to the University; I found it was no disadvantage to have stay'd a year or more at SOhool longer perhaps than I need- ed to have done. I found that, beside the improvement of what skill I had in Latin, Greek and Hebrew Languages (which I pursued with diligence) and other Philologiek studies, my first. business was to be the study of Lo-oick,

In this, I soon became Master of a Si/nog/sob as to it's true structure, and the Reason of it's Consequences, however Cryptically proposed: so as not easily to be imposed on by Fallacies or false Syllogisms, when I was to Answer or Defend : and to manage an Argument with good Advantage, when I was to Argue or Op-pose; and to Distinguish ambiguous Words or Sentences, as there was occasion; and was • able to bold pace with those who were some years my Seniors ; and, had obtain'd the reputation of a good Disputant. And indeed I had the good hap all along (both at School and in the University) to' be reputed (if not equal) not much inferior, to those of the best of my rank.

From Logick, I proceeded to Ethicks, Big—sieks and Metaphgsicks, ( consulting the School-men on such points) according to the Methods of Philosophy, then in fashion in that Univer-sity.

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Physic* and "halm!' ; as parts of Natural Phi-losophy; And as Dr. Glisson, (then Publick Pro-fessor of Physick in that University) bath since told me, I was the first of his Sons, who (in a publick Disputation) maintain'd the Circula- tion of the Blond, (which was then a new Do- ctrine,) tho' I had no Design of Practising Phy- sick. And I had then imbilfd the Principles of what they now call the New Philosophy.

For I made no Scruple in 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 should afterwards have no occa-sion to make use, it would at least do me no hurt; And, what of it 1 might or might not have occasion for, I could not then foresee.

On the same account, I diverted also to A-sironomy and Geography (as parts of Natural Phi-losophy) and to other parts of Mathematicks ; though, at that time, they were scarce looked upon, with us, as Academical Studies then in fashion.

As to Divinity, (on which I had an eye from the first,)' I had the happiness of a strict and Religious Education, all along from a Child. Whereby I was not only preserved from vicious Courses, and acquainted with Religious Exer-

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TO IIIS PREFACE. eLt cises; but was early instructed in the Prin- ciples of Religion, and . Catacktical Divinity, and the frequent Reading of Scripture, and other good Books, and diligent attendance on Sermons. ( And whatever other Studies I followed, I was careful not to neglect this.) And became timely acquainted with Sgstematick and Polemick Theology. And I had the repute of a good Proficient therein.

Soon after my admittance into Emanuel Col-lege, I was chosen into the Foundation, as Scho- lar of the House. And so continued during my stay in that College. But I was not in capacity of being Fellow there, by reason of a Pro-viso in the College Statutes; not permitting more than one Fellow, of one and the same County,. at the same time. So that, there being already a Fellow of the County of Kent, (,)11r. Wellar) who continued there, lil 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 estceni'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. Olds-worth then Master of the College (who had a kindness for me) bad been consulting with them

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CLII THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX about founding a new Fellowship on my account rather than I should leave them. But, the times becoming troublesome, left no room for such thoughts. I was afterwards Fellow of Queen's College in Cambridge for a short time, but soon quitted it upon my Marriage, on March 4. 1614, 5.

In 'Mau Term 1636, 7. I took the Degree of Batchelor of Arts; and in 1640, the Degree of Master of Arts, and then left Emanuel College; and the same year . I cntred into Iloig Orders, ordained by Bishop Gude, then Bishop of Win-chester.

I then lived a Chaplain for about a year, in the house of Sr. Richard Darley, (an antient

. worthy Knight, ) at Buttereramb in Yorkshire; and then, for two years more, with the Lady Vere, (the Widdow of the Lord Horatio 17crc,) partly in London, and partly at Castle-fiedingham in Essex, the antient scat of the Earls of Ox-ford.

In the year 1644, I was one of the Secreta-ries to the Assembly of Divines at Westminster. Not from the first sitting of that Assembly; but some time after, and thenceforth during their sitting: Wherein I do own my self to Jim re-. ceived much advantage by the Conversation and the learned Debates of so many Grave, Re- verend a9d Learned Divines, on all points of

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Divinity, while they were compiling the Con-fession of Faith, and the Larger and lesser Cate-chism.

The Occasion of that Assembly, was this; The Parliament which then was, (or the prevailing part of them,) were ingaged in a War with the King: Occasioned, Partly, from divers innova- tions in Ceremonies and Super-Conformity, intro- duced and strictly urged within ten or twelve - years then last past, tending (as was appre• . beaded) to a nearer compliance vs ith Popery; of which, divers of the Bishops then in power were presumed the Authors and Fomentors ; Together with the imposing of Bishops (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 raising of Money on the Sub-ject, without the consent of Parliament, with other Grievances, of which there were great Complaints, and the long intermission of Parliaments. Part-ly, by divers Severities of the Star-Chamber and High-Commission court, (against persons other-wise Conformable) for not complying therein. The Issue of which War, proved very different from what was said to be at first intended. As is usual in such cases; the power of the sword Frequently passing from hand to hand, and those

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. who begin a War, not being able to foresee where it will end.

The Parliament thus engaged, had (amongst other things) a great displeasure against the Order of Bishops; (or rather, not so much against the Order, as the Men, and against the Orlin. for their sakes,) and had resolved upon the• Abolition of Episcopacy as it then stood ; before they were agreed what to put instead of it• And did then convene this Assembly, to con-sult of some other Form to be suggested to the Parliament, to be by them set up, if they liked it; or, so far as they should like it.

The Divines of this Assembly were, for the Generality of them, Conformable, Episcopal Men; and had generally the reputation of Pious, Or-thodox and Religious Protestants; and (excepting the seaven Independents, or, as they were called, Dissenting Bretheren,) I do not know of any Non- Conformist among them (as to the legal Conformi-ty then required,) many of them were professed-ly Episcopal; and (I think) all of them so far Episcopal as to account a well-regulated Episco-pacy to be at least allowable, if not desireable, and advisable; yet so as they thought the pre-sent Constitution capable of Reformation for the better.

When I name the Divines of this Assembly, I do not ivlude the Scotch Commissioners; who

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TO HIS PREFACE. cix tho' they were permitted to be present there, and did interpose in the Debates as they saw occasion; yet were no Members of that Assem- bly, nor did Vote with them; but acted s se-paratly, in the behalf of the Church of Scotland, and were zealous• enough for the Scotch Presby-feu ; but could never.prevail with the Assembly to declare for it.

On the other hand, the 2 Independants 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 chuse their own Officers, were of themselves' Independant, and not accountable to any other Ecclesiastical Go-vernment; but only to the Civil Magistrate, as to the Publick Peace. Admitting indeed, that Messengers from several Churches might meet to consult in Common, as there might be oc-casion; but without any Authoritative Juris- diction. ,

Against these, the rest of the Asscnibljj was Unanimous ( and the Scotch Commissioners with them,) That it was lawful by the word of God, for divers particular Congregations (besides the inspection of their own Pastor and other Officers) to be united under the same Common Govern- vied. And such Cdnumniitics to be further sub- ••*.....

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When any such Point chanced to be suggested, the Common Answer was; That this Point was not before them; but was precluded by the Ordinance by which they sate; which did first Declare the Abolition of Episcopacy (not refer it to their Deliberation;) and they only to suggest to the Parliament, somewhat in the room of that so Abolished.

And this is a true Account of that Assembly as to this Point. (And when as they were called Presbyterians; it was not in the sense of Anti-Exiscopal, but ' Anii-Indepcntlants.) which I have the more largely insisted on, because there are not many now living, who can givb a better ac-count of that Assembly than j can,

To. this may be objected, Their agreement to the Covenant, (which was before I was amongst them.) But this, if rightly understood, makes nothing against what I have said.

The Covenant as it came from Scotland, and was sent from the Parliament to the Assonb/li, seem'd directly against alf Episcopacy, and for

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-to assent to it in those terms. Being so worded as, To Preserve the Government of the Church of Scotland ; and, to Reform that of England; and so to Reduce it to the nearest Uniformity. But, Wore the Assembly could agree to it; it was thus mollified, To Preserve that of Scotland ( not absolutely, but) against the common Enemy; And to Reform that of England (not, so as it is in Scotland; but) according to the word of God, and the example of the best 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, ,Heresies Schism, Prophaness, &c. They would by no means be persuaded to admit the word Prelacy, as thus standing absolute. For though they thought the English Epicopacy, as it then stood, capable of Reformation, for the better in divers things; yet to Engage indefinitely against all Prelacy, they would not agree.

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After many days debate on this Point (as I understood from those who were then present) some of the Parliament ( who then pressed it) suggested this Expedient; that by Prelacy, they did not understand all manner of Episcopacy

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CLVIII THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX or Superiority, but only the present Episcopa-cy, as it now stood in England, consisting of Arch-Bishops, Bishops and their several Courts, and subordinate Officers, &c. And that if any considerable alteration were made in any part of this whole frame, it was an Abolition of the present Prelacy, and as much as was here in-tended in these words ; and that no more was intended but a Reformation of the present Epi- scopacy in England. And in pursuance of this, it was agreed to be Expressed with this Inter-pretation, Prelacy; that is, Church Government by Arch-Bishop's, Bishops, their Chancellors and Com-missaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Arch-Dea-cons, and all other Ecclesiastical Officers depending on. that Hierarchy. And with 'this Interpreta- tion at length it passed. And the Scotch commissioners, in behalf of their Church, agreed to those Amendments.

I know some have been apt to put another sense upon that Interpretation ; but this was the true intendment of the Assembly, and upon this occasion.

During my attendance on the. Assembly ; I was a Minister in London; . first in Fan-durch street; and afterwards infron-mongerLane ; where I so continued till my Remove to Oxford.

About the beginning of our Civil Wars, in the year 1642. a Chaplain of Sr. Will..lraller's,

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(one evening as we were sitting down to Sup-per at the Lady Vere's in London; with whom I then dwelt,) shewed me an intercepted Letter written in Cipher. He shewed it me as a Curio- sity (and it was indeed the first thing I had ever seen written in Cipher.) And asked me between jeast and earnest, whether I could make any thing of it. And he was surprised when I said (upon the first view) perhaps I might, if it 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 consider of it. And by the number of different Characters therein, (not above 22 or 23: ) I judged that it could not be more than a new Alphabet, and in about 2 hours time (before I went to bed) I had deciphered it; and I sent a Copy of it (so deciphered) the next morning to him from U110111 I had it. And this was my first attempt at Deciphering.

This unexpected success, on an easy Cipher, was then looked upon as a great matter; and I was somewhile after pressed to attempt one of another Nature; which was a Letter of Air. Se-cretau Windebank, then in France, to his Son in England, in a Cipher hard enough, and not Un- becoming a Secretary of State. It was in Nu-meral Figures, extending in number to above seaven hundred, with many other Characters

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have since met with. I was backward at first to attempt it, and after I had spent some time upon it, threw it by as desperate : But, after some months, resumed it again, and had the good hap to master it.

Being encouraged by this success, beyond expectation; I afterwards ventured on many others ( some of more, some of less difficulty) and scarce missed of any, that I undertook, for many years, during our civil Wars, and afterwards. But of late years, the French Methods of Cipher are grown so intricate beyond what it was wont to be, that I have failed of many; tho' I have master'd divers of them. Of such deciphered Letters, there be copies of divers remaining in the Archives of the Bodleyan Library in Oxford; and many more in my own Custody, and with the Secretaries of State.

On March 4. 1644, 5. I married Susanna daughter of John and Rachel Glyde of North jam in Sussex; born there about the end of Janua-ry 1621, 2. and baptised Feb. 3. following. By shorn I have (beside other children who died

young) a Son and two Daughters now surviving; John born Dec. 26. 1650. Anne born June 4. 1656. and Elizabeth born Sept. 23. 1658.

My Son John, sometime of Trinity College in 0.zford, afterwards of the Inner Temple Lon-

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don, Barrister at Law, Feb. 1.,1681, 2. married Elizabeth daughter of John and Mary Harris of Soundels by Nettlebed in the County of Oxford; and afterwards Heiress to her Brother Taverner Harris, to a fair estate, at Soundels. She died Aug. 8. 1693, leaving three children now sur- %iving, John, Mary and Elizabeth.

My Daughter Anne married Dec. 23. 1675, to John Blencow, son of Thomas and Mary Blencow of an ancient family at Marston St. Laurence, in Northamptonshire, then Barrister at Law, now one of the Barons of the Exchequer, by whom she bath seaven children, all now surviving, John, Mary, Anne, Thomas, 11; illiam, Elizabeth, and Susanna.

My Daughter Elizabeth, married Feb. 21. 1681,2. to William Benson son of George and Ma-ry Benson of Towcester in .Northamptonshire;, and is now a Widdow. He died Nov. 5. 1698. leaving no child surviving.

My Wife died at atford /liar. 17, 1686, 7, after we had been married more than 42 years.

About the year 1615, while 1 lived in Lon-don (at a time, when, by our Cis it Wars, Aca-demical Studies were much interrupted in both our. Universities:) besides the Conversation of divers eminent Divines, as to matters Theolo-gical; I had the opportunity of being acquaint-ed with divers worthy Persons, inquisitive into

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CLXII THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX Natural Philosophy, and other parts of Hu-mane Learning; And particularly of what bath been called the New Philosophy or Experimental .Phllosoplw.

We did by agreement, divers of us, meet weekly in London on a certain day, to treat and

• discourse of such affairs. Of which number were Dr.johnlVilkins (afterwards Bp. of Chester) Dr.Jonathan Goddard, Dr .George Ent, Dr.Glissan, Dr.1Verret, (Drs. in Physick,) Mr. Samuel Foster then Professor of Astronomy at. Gresham College, Air. Theodore Hank (a German of the Palatinate, and then Resident in London, who, I think, gave the first occasion, and first suggested those meetings) and many others.'

These meetings we held sometimes at Dr. Goddard's lodgings in JVoodstrect (or some con-venient place near) on occasion of his keeping an Operator in his house, for grinding Glasses for Telescopes and Microscopes; and sometime at a convenient place in Cheap-side; sometime at GreshamCollege or some place near adjoyning. :,

Our business was (precluding matters of Theology and State Affairs) to discourse and consider of Philosophical Enquiries, and such as related thereunto; as Physick, Anatomy, Geo- metry, Astronomy, Navigation, &alias, Magne-ticks, ay►nicks, Alechanicks, and Natural Experi-ments; with the state of these Studies, as then

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cultivated, at home and abroad. We there discoursed of the Circulation of the liloud, ,the Valves in the Veins, the Venue Laded', the Lym-rhatick Vessels, the Copernican Hypothesis, the Na-ture of Comets, and New stars, the Satellites of Ju-piter, the Oval .S'hape (as it then appeared ) of Sa-turn, the spots in the Sun, and it's Turning on it's own ! Axis, the Inequalities and Selenography of the Moon, the several Phases of Venus and Mercury, tho Improvement of Telescopes, and grinding of Glasses for that purpre, the Weight of Air, the Possibility or Impossibility of Vacuities, and Na-ture's Abhorrence thereof, the Torricellian Experi-ment in Quicksilver, the Descent of heavy Bodies, and the degrees of Acceleration therein; and divers other things of like nature. Some of which were then but New Discoveries, and others not so generally known and imbraced, as now they are, with other things appertaining to what bath been called The New Philosophy; which, from the times of Galileo at Florence, and Sr. .Francis Bacon (Lord Verzdan!) in England, bath been much cultivated in Italy, France, Ger-many, and other Parts abroad, as well as with us in England.

About the year 1648, 164q, some of our com-pany being removed to Oxford ( first Dr. Wilkins, then I, and soon after Dr. Goddard) our company divided. Those in London continued to meet there as before (and we with them, when

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CLXIV THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX we had occasion to be there ; ) and those of us at Oxford; with Dr. Ward (since Bp. of Salis-bury) Dr. Ralph Bathurst (now President of Mi-ni ty College in Oxford) Dr. Petty, (since Sr. Wil-liam Petty) Dr. Willis (then an eminent Physici-an in Oxford) and divers others, continued such meetings in Oxford; and brought those Studies into fashion there; meeting first at Dr. Pettie's Lodgings, (in an Apothecarie's house) because of the convenience of inspecting Drugs, and the like, as there was occasion; And after his re-move to Ireland, (tho' not so constantly) at the Lodgings of Dr. Wilkins, then Warden of Wad- ham Coll. And after his removal to Trinity Col- lege in Cambridge, at the Lodgings of the Honor-able Mr. Robert Boyle, then resident •for divers years in Oxford.

Those meetings in London continued, and (after the King's Return in 1660) were in- creased with the accession of divers worthy and Honorable persons ; and were afterwards incorporated by the name of the Royal Society, &c. and so continue to this day.

In the year 1649 I removed to Ozford, being then &Wick Professor of Geometry, of the Foun- dation of Sr. Henry Savile. And Mathematicks which bad before been a pleasing Diversion, was now to be my serious Study. And (herein as in other Studies) I made it my business to

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examine things to the bottom ; and reduce ef-fects to their first principles and original causes. Thereby the better to • understand the true ground of what hath been delivered to us from the Anticnts, and to make further improvements of it. What proficiency I made therein, I leave to the Judgment of those who have thought it worth their while io peruse what I have published therein from time to time; and the favourable opinion of those skilled therein, at home and abroad.

In the year 1633 I was persuaded to publish a Grammar of the English Tongue; chiefly to gra-tify strangers, who were willing to learn it (be-cause of many desirable things published in our Language) but complained of it's difficulty for want of a Grammar, suited to the propriety . and true Genius of the Language.

To this I prefixed a Treatise of Speech (de loquela) wherein I have Philosophically consi-dered the Formation of all Sounds used in Ar-ticulate Speech, (as well of our own, as of any other Language that I know ;) By what Or- gans, and in what Position each sound was formed; with the nice distinctions of each, (which in some letters of the same Organ, is very subtil : ) so that, by such Organs, in such Position, the Breath issuing from the Lungs, will form such Sounds, whether the Person do

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ctatri THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX or do not hear himself speak. Which was, I think, a new attempt, not before undertaken by any (that I know of) before that time. For tho' it were observed, that some letters were Labials, some De►►tals, some Palatines, and some 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 so done; and very imperfectly; None (that I know of) had before attempted it, as to all ; whatever may have been done since in pursuance of what I had then taught.

In pursuance of this, I thought it very possi-ble to teach a Deaf person to speak, by direct-ing him, so to apply the Organs of Speech, as the sound 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 so 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 distilled), any words, so as 1 directed him, (ecen the most difficult of the Polish Language, which a Polish Lord then in Oxford could propose to him, by way of trial, of those five or six select hard words, which

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they use to propose to others, as not to be pro-nounced by any but themselves:) 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 distinctly (the whole or greatest part of) the English Bible; and did pretty well understand (at least) the Historical part of it.

In the year 1662, I did the like for Mr. A-lexander Popham (son of the Lady Wharton, by her former husband Admiral Popham:) with like success. 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 (a►ter their parting from me) much of that nicety (which before they had) in the distinct pronouncing some Letters, (which they would recover, when I had occasionally been with them to set 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 soon forget so 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 mistakes.

m 3 I have,

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count) taught divers Persons (and some of them very considerable) to speak plain and distinctly, who did before hesitate and stutter very much; and others, to pronounce such words or let-ters, as before they thought impossible for them to do: by teaching them how to rectify such mistakes in the formation, as by some natural impediment, or acquired Custome, they had. been subject to. .

About February 1657, 8. (upon the death of Dr. Gerard Len gbain, Provost of 2ueen's College in Oxford, a very worthy person) I was chosen Cu-stos Archivorum in this University; to keep and to inspect their Records, Charters, and other Muniments. And was thereby* engaged in the Study of our Charters, Rights and Privileges : which I did with great diligence. And in pursuance thereof, I was concerned from time to time in defending their just Rights and Privi-leges., in such Law-Suits, as did arise, of the University with the City qf Oxford, the Station- ers of London, and others. Wherein I found that Some Iiitle knowledge, which I bad before acquired, by occasional inpection (amongst other Studies) into our Books of Law, was of great use unto me; and of which I 'was here-

' by ingaged into a further Study, especially as to those Cases, wherein the University was

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concerned. And I think it will be acknow- ledged, that I have therein done the Univer- sity considerable services. I am sure it hath been my endeavour so to do, when I have been employed by them.

It bath been my Lot to live in a time, wherein have been many and great Changes- and Alterations. It bath been my endeavour all along, to act by moderate Principles, between the Extremities on either hand, in a moderate compliance with the Powers in being, in those places, where it hath been my Lot to live, without the fierce and violent animosities usual in such Cases, against all, that did not act just as I did, knowing that there were many worthy Persons engaged on either side. And willing whatever side was upmost, to promote (as I was able) any good design for the true Interest of Religion, of Learning., and the publick good; and ready so to do good Offices, as there was Opportunity; And, if things could not be just, as I could wish, to make the best of what is: And hereby, (thro' God's gracious Provi-dence) have been able to live easy, and useful, though not Great.

Thus in Compliance with your repeated de-sires, I have given you a short account of divers passages of my life, 'Lill I have now come to more than fourscore years of age. Ilow well

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• Your friend and servant

Oxford January • 29. 1696,7. John Wallis.

Num. XII. Vide Praef. §. xii.

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 deciphering Xing Charles the hrs. Letters. E. Coll. MSS. Smithianis penes Edito- rem, Vol. 22. p. 54.

My Lord,

I 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 Nase-by fight, and after printed. As to this without saying any thing, whether it bee now proper to repeat what was done above forty yeares ago; the thing is quite otherwise. Of those letters and papers, (whatever they were) I never saw any one of them, but in print: nor did those papers, as I have been toN, need any deciphering at all, either

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by ince, or any body else : being taken in words at length, just as they were .printed: save that some 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 occasionally intercepted, were brought to my hands : some of which I did decipher, and some of them I did not think fit to do, to the displeasing of some, who were then great men. And I ma- naged my selfe in that whole busines by such measures, as your Lordship, I think, would not bee displeased with. I did his I\lajesty, who then was, (K. Charles the first) and his friends many good offices, as I had opportunity, both before and after the King's death: and ventured farther to do them service, than perhaps some of those, who now complaine of mee, would have had the courage to do, had they been in my circumstances. And I did to hi late Majesty, K. Charles the second, many good services, both before and since his restauration: which hinaselfe has been pleased divers times to profess to me 'with great kindnes. And it 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 seems, some others have done. And I thinke his Majesty, that

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I am, My Lord, •

Your very humble servant John Wallis.

Transcribed (saith Dr. Smith) from the copy, which Dr. Wallis lent mee at Oiford 6 August 1698:

Tho. Smith.

In the 0.r ford Catalogue of .MSS. (saith Dr. Smith also) in hyperoo Bodleian°, it is said there pag. [170. num. 3524.34.] that Dr. Wallis decy-phered several of King Charles I. Letters, and that they are in the book of Cyphers, which he gave to the Vnivcrsitg Library, (in the year 1653.) which is a great and scandalous slander.

Num. XIII. Vide Praq. §. mu: Inscriptiones sin gularcs hactenus Mediu', HADRIA-

. NO BEVERLANDO collectore. Ad lideln CO- dicis )4S. vizi magn‘c apud wanes litleratos an- doritatis HENRICI ALDR1CHII, 11011 ita 2wi dem illadis Christi 1)ecaui. Mecum very (dc more suo) perquam humaniter conzmunicavit vir pereruditus(sodalis nostcr e panels jucundissimus, nam milli cunt eo anzicitia conjunctissima full) CA-

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Turpia tot tnmulo defixit crimina Balbus Post Superos spurco Tartara more premens.

Pro facinus ! finita nihil modo vita retraxit Luxuriant ad manes mcecha sepulchra gerunt.

Romae in columna.

LYMPHAE MATRIS.

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VALERIA - - - - MC SITA - - - VIX AN. XIX V1RGINITAS . - . FVIT GRAVIS: SIT NUNC EI TERILA LEVIS

& hoc fictitium.

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HAI RIANUS. BEVERLANDUS. HIC. SVM. URI. TU. QVI. HAEC. LEGIS. ESSE. NOLLES.

kli)Es. NON. RIDER'S. CREDE. MINI. EADEM. DECRETA. SVBITURUS.

Sibi vivo. P.

Num. XIV. Vide Prwf. §. xiv.

Robert of Brunne's account of the raising of Stone-henge, from the French of Master 'Face, who followed Gq§5:y of Monmouth.

Reparavit II Fro pipen [York] to London he [Aurelius Ambrosias) [Ambro-sius] Lon. doniam.

went, ' pe toun he found paired & schent, •

Kirkes, houses beten doun. To pe king pei meat pam of pe toun, pat many of Pe best burgeis, Were fled & ilk man Bede his weis.

rail ad

He bigged it eft pat are was pla5,n, Clerkes burgeis did com again, , & gal ilkon again per estre.

Wynta Itiunt. SiPen he turned to Wynchestre,

Bigged kirkes & houses Pere, Als he had don els where.

61 Silo'

TO HIS PREFACE.

ii Si)en he'sede to Salobiri, & to Pe abbey of Ambisbiri, ,

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Locus Obi magnates

& to pat stede he toke his way, per Hengist did pe Bretons deie. pare biriels he pouht to honoure

fuerunt oo, cisi.

With som ping pat as, mkght doure, & frithe pat stede per pei lay, pat mkht last tille domesday. Ile (lid masons deukse & cast, What werk mot langest last.

With pe kj,ng a clerke was pore, His name was Sir Tremore, Consilium

Trento,* Was archbisshop of Kerlioun. episcupi.

He did pe kkng in reson, 44 If he wild mak a work of Tyne, 64 Send sour sond to seke Merlyn, 44 Mak pis werk may no man, 64 Gif suilk conseile as he can. 44 He can sow telle what salle betide, 44 After him I rede sour werk abide. 64 pe kkng said it salle so be, Rcx misit

pro Morli. " Mkkille I desire Merlku to se. no.

" Of his wisdom wild I here, 44 He sais selcouthes many manere. At a welle fer in Wales, Baynes it bight bi olde tales, pe messager Per Merlyn fond, come spoke with king he sent Lis sond.

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I Whan he come be fore pe king, Joke he made for his comkng, & honourd him for he was wyse, & cherisid ouer alle °per of prise. lie praid him with fulle louand speche, What suld be tide he wild him teche.

Respoasio Merlitti ad

44 Sir king", said Merlyn, 44 certis nak„ regem. 44 To opkn my mouthe I dar ne may.

44 Bot if it be a behouelk ping at node, 44 pat were warning or tokkn of dred. 44 & git with grete lounes of hert, 64 pat pride tourn noght ouer theurt, 44 For if 1 spice prow pride or bost, 44 Or for scorn a gayn my gost : 44 pat ilk gos, that in me woes, 44 pat alle me kennys, & alle me mons, " Owt of ink mouthe it wild him draw, 46 ()limy conyng reue me my saw, 44 jut no more myght I spoke with mouthe, 44 pan a noPer pat noght ne couthe. 66 perfor of suilk priuete

44 kiilk not per on, lat it be. 44 pink on Pat whi you me souhtes, 44 Bring Pat tille end whi you me brouhtes, 44 Upon wille mak a work stedfast, 44 pat faire wille euermore to last, 46 Send tin pe stones Per pei stand, 44 pat pe Geautz brouht tille Ireland.

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" Rounde about ere /el set, 44 Out of Aufrik were /el fet. 44 Ilkon on oiler is set vpright, " No man in erth has now pat might, " For to tak doun o stone, " Ne set /am eft es per none. Pan said /e king, & on him Iouh, 44 It were /an grete ferlk how, 44 /at /o stones /at /on of sail, 44 Ere so heuk and of suilk pais, " /at non has force ne fosoun, 66 To remoue /am vp ne doun, " & ere so fer ouer /e see ; 64 Who night /am /an bring to me ?

*tiltil:** an said Merlyn tele king, # b * * r * " Quay ntise overcomes alle Nag.

Prudenciu uperat on-

nc robbir. UM** 46 Strength is gode vnto &attune,

44 per no strength may sleght mine vaile. 6C Sleght & coning dos many a char, " Begynnes ping at strength ne dar. 46 With sleght may /on /e stones wynne, 44 & in Bretakn set pain in, " per /on ne sails with strength " Remoue /am a stone length. 44 In Aufrik were /ei compast & wrouht, '‘ Geintz tille Ireland fro J1/en /am brouht, 44 & set /am one a hills lune hii " With engkns fulle oak') tiy.

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44 First whan pei were compast newe, " Pei did grete gode to popam knewe. 44 po pat were seke & lauht scathes, " Wesch Pe stones did it in bathes. 44 Pat felt Pam greued of grete Pinges, " Bathed pain of pe self wassliSroges,

Ecce de Sion- henges, & , virtute eorum.

" & holed wele of per p5,ne,

44 Had pei non oiler medicyne, 5 Whan pe kkng herd of per vertu, pat pa mot falle lie folk to pro, He had longkng for pam to go. & of Pat wille were °per mo, pe stones to Bretakn forto bring, Pat Merlyn mad of sermonkng. pei ches Uteil,ekknge's broiler, pe kyng offred him self pe toper.

• Of folk Pei led fiften Pousand, Agai,n pe Iris forte stand. With pam went danz Merlyn, For Pe stones to mak eng57n.

• '11 Whan Uter with his folk was garei Pei went to schip ouer pe se to fare, & argued vp bi pat coste, pe Iris king gadred his oste. AgaSrn pe Bretons pei I tom zerne, pe loud if pei mkglit Pam werne.

pis hist:11'141'g pat regned pare,

His name was sir Guillomare.

Pro, com. Whan

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Whan he wist whi pei kam, So fer viage for pe stones nam, Ouer pe see title an oper loud, For pei ne stones bender fond, & said po stones pei salle haf here, pei salle bee pain first fullo dere. If we may salle not spade, Po stones out of our load to lede. Ile scorned & said, it salle be nouht, pei salle faile pat pei haf souht. So long he menaced & prette, At pe last togider pee mette. At Per meting was no lite, Pat pei gon togidere smite. Fulle wele fauht bope parties, Bot lie Bretons wan pe pris. pe Iris couth not so wele feint, Ne of armore had lei no sleiht, Ne were per of so wele bone, perfor the Iris fled tulle sone. Fro stede to stede Pei lied to skulk, One hij Mlles to hide & hulk. Whan Pe Bretons had don pat chace, & rested pam a long space,•

Q ,,atitve Merlyn had pam alle at ones Britnne4

per Merti• To pe hille to se pe stones. nuns aspor-

taverna! Killomare bight pat hille, tapides its

I bet nia ad pre Pe geantz brouht pam title. Britaniam.

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It pis Bretons renged about Pe feld, pe 'kerole of the stones beheld, Many tkme Bede pam about, Bilield within bilield without.

' Alle pei said so said lie kkng, pei satili never so Mouth ping, Row Pei were raised. pei had wondere,

& ho* pei said be brouht iy'sondere. With pat worde Pei pam rescued,' pei ne wist how Pei suld reinued. Merlyn said, " Now makes assak) " To putte pis stones dour if ge may. " & with force fond pain to here, , " per force is oiSfitille pe loose wille dere. pe oste at ons to pe bale went, & ilik man toke Pat he mot hent,

Ropes to drawe, trees to put, • pei ichoued, pei grist, Pei stode o strut, One Ma side beliknd beforn, • & alle for nouht per trauaile lorn. Whan atle pe had put & 'mist, kitli man don pat him list;

& left per putOng mankon, Zit stired pei not pe lest ston. Merlyn wist it suld not vaile Strength of body ne trauaile. lie bib Pam alle draw pain o dreib, •

Porgh strength ne com ge pam neigh.- .

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A litille he stode, sipen him hi went, Be spak, bot non wist what he ment. pei sauh his lippes stir vp & doun, Bot non herd his quirisoun. Whan he had gon ale aboute Within pe karole & withoute, & said his quirisons, Again he cald Ins Bretons, & said, " Now may ge lightly here 46 Pise stones to schip, withouten dere. " Go now alle & spedis gow, " For ge salle welde pant wele inouh. Als Merlyn Pam tauht & said, Into schippes pam lightly laid.

Pan had pei won Pei for had souht,

To Pe plain of Salesbiri Punt brouhti Of Amnesbiri beside le abbay, & was at pe WhitsonendaY, Pe kYug (lid mak somons Of bisshopes, erles & barons, & °per folk of noble geste, & did him croune at pat feste. pre daies sat pc feste of fode, One pe forth day gaf he giftes gode, liroces to clerkes of pris, To Saint Sampson & Saint Dubrii. Sent Dubris he gaf Kerlion, Bork he gaf to Saint Sampson.

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pis gaf he at his crounment,

& many mo bi commit assent.

Bi for pe lordes, pat com eider, Merlyn set Pe stones togider.

Als pei were ore in pat certan,

Stand pei now vpou Pe playn.

Within pe compas of pc stones

Er biried alle pe lordes bones,

Pat Hengist at jv parlement Moult,

Here beforn ge herd wele how.

Num. XV. Vide Prwf. §. x

do _Account of St. Wenefride, from an old lfS. o the Book caled jcitfbal or jfeOtial, in the han of Thomas Ward, of Longbridge near Warwick Esq ;.

De Sancta Wenrfreda virgine.

GOODE men & women, suche a day go schalle h Wenefredus day, pc whiehe day is nott ordeynyd by hol, churche to be halowed, but perre as men ban deuocyon t. pis holy madon. Wherefore ye pat ban denocioirto p holy scant, cummythe pat day- to chorale to worschip God. & pis holy mavdon & martir. pen how sche suffered martin dome go •chalic here. For powg sum knowen hit, get su know on hit nott. & also pow a goode tale be twvus told hit is but pe better for to Ionic and to vndurstomle. per was in her tme an holy armet was called Bennowe, 17 whiehe corn to Pi goode monnus hose, pat was called nos nythe, and was sent Wenefredus fader, & was •a rych mon of londas & rent us, & prayd The wnythe to gy hym a place of erPe, vppon the middle he mygthe bylde

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churche, to serue God in, and to preche Goddus worde to pe •pepulle. Inn was pis 'fliewnythe glad of his askyng, & ordeynyd hym a place ny3 to his owne howse, Pat he my3te so corn to Goddus seruice. pus pe meyne tyrne whille the churche was in byldynge, ofte he preched Goddus worde to Pe pepulle, and Wenefrede corn bdur with her fader to here bit. And when sche harde hym speke of pe gretemede & joy, pat madones schuld haue in Heytion, passyng oiler oorderes, Pen had sche so Brett deuocyon in his sayinge, .pat a non sche made a woye, pat sche worde neuer haue parte of mon, but a byde ever in her madon bode, whille pat sche 'pled. pen on ti Sonday, when pis churche was made and bride, Thewnythe,

, with alle his mere, dude to pc churche, but Wencfrede bode at home, for a seknus pat greuyd her pot), pat sche mygte nott goo with hem to churche. pen as sche sott at home her selfe, per corn a kyngus sonne, was called Cradoke, to have

. layen by Pis madon. But when he spake to hur of doyng of pe synne, sche said, sche worde go in to hur chambur, & make her more honeste Pen sche was, & cum a 3ayne to hym a non, and when sche cum to her chawmbur by an

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vtter durre, sche rantowarde churche as Paste as sche tnygte, hopyng to haue socur Perre. but when Cradok sy3 'hur ren towarde churche, he ron aftur, and ouer toke her,

. & sayde, but sche worde assent to his wylle, he worde a non smyte of hur hed. pen keeled Wenefrede doAe & saide, " I haue leuer pat pou do me to dethe, pen defowle my 46 body, pat I have made a woo to kepe in maydon hede, ccwhille pat I Lytle, to my lorde Jhestt Criste." Pen Cra.. dok owte with his swerde, and at on stroke he smotte of her bed, & for hit was downe the hylle to pe churche, pe

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, lied stynte neuer tumbullynge, tj Ile hit corn pystur in to pe sy3te of alle pat were perre. Whe dor(' men weren so a fry3te,

0 ',at pey madon suche a nowse, pat Bennowe bad trett met.- ' wayle what hit my3te be, & com to hem to wytte NI hat was it Pe cause of pat noyse. Pen when he syg the hed, he toke hit i

vppe, and cussed hit ofte tymes sore w epettg, and bare hit 1 vp to the body, byholltlyng on Cradoke liow he wype.I his

swerd on pe gras, pat was alle blodv of the strol,... Pen said Benow hir to m, t

tt " Pou w‘ kked loon & an pi .k. aske o 2 ' .4 Inert.)

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4 4 mercy of God for pis orribulle Bede, and welt God wulle 64 haue mercy on Pe ; & yf pow wylt nott, 1 pray God pat " he send vegance on pe ". & a non rygte in sygte of pis

• alle pepulle, and for he wolde not crye mercy in sygte of alle pepulle, a non he felle downe to pe erpe, & Per with the erpe oponyd & suowlowyd hym down, body and sowle in to Belle. pen toke Bennow pe bed, and sett hit agayne to Pe body, & helled hit with her mantelle, & glide to his masse, and when he had songon and preched pe pepulle, & tolde myche of pis madon, he sayde, God wold nott that sche schulde so be dad gett. For be had ordeynyd myche pe. pule to be holpon by hur. Wherfore he bad yche mon pray to God, to reyse hur a Bayne to lyue, and so God dyd ; & when key commyn to hur, sche satt vppe, and with her honde sche wypid of her face pe doste at was per on, & spake to hem as hole and sownde as sche was by fore. Pen God schewned perm tree grett myraculis. On was when pe erpe swoloyd hym bodily, pat had slayne hur. A no_ per was, for per as pe hed a bud, a non spronge a fay- re wulle perre as non seen be fore. pe pride was, when sche pat was slaylie sche ruse a zayne to lyue. lie 1111rith• was, at euer

• aftur whille sche lyllinl,, per was a white circle a bowte her nekke per as Pe stroke was lyke a white prede. Wherfore per as sche was called lie fore Brewa, fro 17at day forthe men called hur Wenefrede, pat is in linglysche, a white prede. pen syg Wenefrede pe grett myraculle pat God wrowgte in hur, and toke hit Itygly to herte, and gaff hur ever after to holy ly tly nge, and nygte and day was besy to same God, as Bennow thawgte hur. pen when sche was perfytt in alle doyngus, Bennow• zude to a noPer place per as weron inne moray holy virgynnus, and when he corn pydur schee lyffyd so perk ttly in alle pyngus, at alle tokon ensampulle of hur, & for pat ylke white came was an euydent tokon of her martirdome, perfore ale men and 1 womon haddon grett deuocion in her worth's, and in alle her do-y tigus, so Pat mony lafton Iv worldis ocupacion, and weron fayue to comma and dwells in her companye. So when sche had lylryd perre molly elms, sche was warned by God,

i / Sic.

pat

TO HIS PREFACE. ciC 1 x

Init. her defile day was nygte. Wherfore sche made hur re- 7d y, & when sche had ite sacramentis of holy churche, ken, in sygte of halle her systeren, scho gaff vpp ke goste to Jhesu Criste, kat sche louyd with alle her herte, and byrryed in the churche gorde per mony oker seyntis weron byrryed in by fore. Now how the holy sent com in to ke abbey of Schrowysbury, ze schalle here. IV hen key abbey of Scrowys-

: bury was newe made, ke monkus of ke place madon ofte gret I mone, for key haddon no sent with hem to be her patrone,

and beyrer of her preyers to God, as oker abbeus of ke ctiii- trey hoddon. Wherfor ke abbot of kat howse, for he had herde by fore of sent Wenefrede, he made his prior to go in

' to Waylys, and seche were kat sche was byrryed. So wente kis prior forthe, and, by the grace of God and reue- lacion of ke holy madon, be coin to ke place where sche

FI lave, and so with strenke of lordschip, and oker helpe kat he hadde, he broagte her boss nos in to sent Gylus churche at Scrowesbury townus elide, and kerre abode to a certen day, in ke whiche sche schulde be translated, & with honour and worschip be browgte in to ke abbey. ken when pis day coin , gret multitude of pepulle rot—n hder in party for a gret miraculle, pat was done in that churche, of a chelde pat was hey led of grett sekenes, mid also to do worschip to pat hol v madon, and so ken the abbot of 1,e place and j)e con_ cent, pith mony over men of holy churche, browgtan hur in to ke abbey, and setton her )ere as sche is nowe, where

' God in schorte tyme aftur wrowgte pWty grett myraculs kat byn wrytton, with owte oker mony kat byn not writton,

i bothe of pose kat sche dyd in her lyue, and over mo mony • kat by n wrowgte at her walk ken to sterre yowre denocyon

ke more to kis sent, now 1 wulle telle tow a myraculle kat was done to a mon of Erkalle tow no, kat was called Adam. kis mon was greuesly payned with ke fallyng euelle, and

I bothe his hondus weron turned ageynward, and layer llatt to his armes, so kat ke army s weron stompus and noe armes. 11e had also suche a greuance in his on legge, kat he ruygte nott goo but with myrtle pry Ilallre. So PIS Adam, nit?' pese grett greuus, with myrtle penance he comme to ke schry tie of sent Wenefretle, & was kerre in his prayers alle a nygte. But an ke morower what fur wash_

0 3 died.

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shed, what for wery, he felle on slepe, and when he woke he feld hym selfe hook in alle his lymmys, & sy3 his hondus strente euon owte, and stirryd his fyugurs alle at his lyk_ ynge, and sayed whedur he myg3te goo, and 3ude forthe wythe owton grette, and felde welle at he was }mole of pe faltyng cuelle. Wherfore with hy3 voyce he ponked God & pis holy madon, and was fayne of his heyle, pat he made a woo, pat he wolde neuer goo from hur, but by a seruand in pat churche alle his lyue aftur, and so he was. pus, gode men & women, ge ban ensampulle to do worschip to pis holy maydon and martir, and pawg 3e by now hooly in body Attie hell, mony of yow byn seke in sowle; wherfore ye ban pe more cede to seche hur to bane heyle in sowle pen in body. For ofte tymes God sendus sekenes in body fo hole to pe sowle. but sekenes of sowle ys here defile, but stile be pe soner heylyd. Wherfore prayt:b too hur to Bete yow hele hothe in body and in sowle, so at ye cum to hym Pat is hey1e to alle sowlus, Pat is, Jhesu Criste God sou of hey non. A (oaf miraculum. In the townie of Schrowysbury selan LIle men t.) goidur, and as pey seton talkyng, an at-turcoppe cum ow ,e of Ito wows, and bote hem by the tick-kits alle pre, & pots3 hit greey d hem at pat tyme but 1y-tulle, sone after it ronco9A & so swalle her protes, & forset her breythe, pat 11. of hem weron deed, and pe prydde was NO Il► :c deed, pat he made his testament, & made hym redy in alk, ltyse, for he hoped now3te but only dethe. jam as he lay in his torment, he powgt on sent %Venefrede and of her myraculus, & so as he mygte he had his modur go pyder, & ;,Ilia a cantle& lo pe schryne, & butte hym of pe water pal her bones were wasschon yn, and so sche dyd. & when he had pis water, he math, whasseche his sore per with, & when he had done so, he felde pat he amended, & pen he made a .a, wooe to sente Wenefrede, at giI1 he my3te haue Lytle & hele, he wolde make au ymage of svluer & olhir to her. pus he mended y de, day Ow oiler, tulle he was alle hoole, & pen he made an ) mage of syluer as he be hette, & zude py. der, & olli,ryd hit to Pe schryne, & be cum her seruant cuter whi Ile he ly try d aftur. /Mud miratulum. Also to a day of In r translacil lia'r cum owte of Wayles knygtus, & usotty men with hem, to se the solempnite & pe maner per of,

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TO HIS PREFACE. eci

& so hi her company cou7 a gret mon, at was dowmbe, & mygte no pynge speke, but alle by signes. So when ley common in to pe churche, sodenly pis dowmbe mon felle doune to ke grownde, & felle on slepe. pen as he lay sent Wenefrede corn to hym, and bad hym drynke watur put her bonus were wasschon yn, & he schuld be hoole of his speche, & of okereuel pat he had. ken a non he woke, and bad gill hym holy watur. ken haddon his felowus gret wondur, pat Joy hardon hym speke, & asked hym what watur he wolde haue. ken sayd he, le watur pat sent Wenefredus bonus weron waschon yn; & when he had dronkon of Pat water, he was hoole as any fysche, & a non he dude in tope qucre, & by 1)e couent he tolde oponly pat he corn pydur for no oiler pyng, but only to se pe doyng'ofpesolempnite. but now for sche bathe, of her gret curtesy, Geffen me my specie, and heled me in my body also, perfore I ruffle be her pylgryme whine pat I lyue, & so he was euer aftur.

Num. XVI. Vide Prwf. §. xix. Extract of a Letter, written t1 the Publisher from

Winchester July 4th. 1724. by the Reverend Mr. Richard Furney, relating to the Election of an Abbess of Rumsey Nunnery in Hampshire Anno D. 1333. which coyirms what is asserted in this Chronicle, that the said Nunnery was found-ed by K. Edgar for an hundred Nunns.

Dear Sir, Upon receiving your's, I look'd into the

Register of John Stratford, some time Bishop of Winton, afterwards Archbishop of Canter-bury, and therein, fol. 82. found the following particulars, which relate to what you mention-

() 4 ed.

cm THE PUBLISI1ER'S APPENDIX ed, viz. That Sibil Carbonel the Abbess dying on June 1. 1333. Joane Icche was elected June 25. following, there being at the time of the Election Agnes de Stanlegh Priorissa, Jo-hanna Gervays Sub-Priorissa, Alicia de RopPe- leigh Sacrista, Johanna Icche Celerariar. (the same that was elected Abbess,) Oliva Beaufou Pramentrix, Agnes de Bromore, Cecilia de Blontesdonc, Ela Croupes, Elena Baa, Alicia de Roucestr, Agatha dc.Wynton, Katerina de Grymstcde, Beatrix Beaufou, Amicia Bluet, Marg. per me, Agnes Beaufou, Alicia de Wal-tham, Sarra Okly, Alicia Brembelssliete, Mar-gar. de Tydeleshide, Lucia Gower, Matild de Grimstede, Margir. Deneys, Margar. Poyntz, Amicia Malure, Johanna de Farnlington, Ami-cia de Forstebury, Johanna de Compton, Ali- cia Levyuton, Katerina Joevene, Johanna Poyntz, Johanna Beaufou, Agatha Bekks, Johanna Pap], Beatrix Neyvill, Isabel de Ha-ineldone, Mugu. [ilia Warini, Amicia de Wyn-hale, Eugenia Chartes, Marg. Cracy, Margar. Warblynton, Alicia de Groveneye, Katerina de Aysshelonde, Margar de Buctesthorn, Isol- da Roches, Matild. Trenchard, Agnes de Wyn-ton, Johanna de Roppelye, Agnes Waram, Ha. wysia Luffegrave, Dionisia Golaffre, Alic. de Wynton, Isabtlla de Staunford, Maria de Rop-pelye, Alicia de Thuddene, Marg. Forest, Eli-

zabeth

TO HIS PREFACE. cult zabeth Syfrewast, Johanna de Sparkeford, Marg. Pauncefot, 11arg. Atte Rye, Johanna Boyton, Johanna Purie, Isabella Fraunceys, Ju-liana de Romescye, Cristna Okham, Eva Doi-gnel, Matild de Roppelye, Eliz. Silvayn, Cri- stina Brikevill, Muriele Cotel, Katerina de Donton, Margar. de Weston, Elianora Rude, Cristina Bromham, Katerina Warham, Johan- na. de Totteford, Johanna Carbonel, Alicia Carbonel, Joanna de Enedford, Editha Ey-mer, Alic. de Anne, Constancia i'Vanney, Jo-hanna de Tystede, Johanna de Winterbourne, Katerina,Warham, Alic. de Ciccstr. Petronilla de Wendlesworth, Margar. Fokeram, Isabell Walraund, sorores : Mag. Ricardus de Chadd Canonicus & Przebendar. Eccles. Conventual. Mag. Robertus. de Stratford Canonicus & Prw- bendar. Eccles. Conventual. de Romsey per Procurator. elegunt Abbatissam. * * * * * * * *

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Num. XVII. Vide Prirf. §. xix. Extract of another Letter, written to the Publisher from Winchester Aug. 15. 1724. / the said :11r.

Fur-

cm, THE PUBLISIIER'S APPENDIX Furney, relating to the Number of the Nunns at Ramsey some time before the Dissolution, and to a Note, about our old Historians, in a MS. of Tri-vet at IVinchester.

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Concerning Rumsey I learn, that the num-ber of the Nuns was very muca decreased before the dissolution. Tor Elizabeth Ryprose being elected Abbess 16 Dec. 1523. but 23 Nuns are mentioned. The same Eliz. Ryprose was Abbess in 1534. when the true yearly va-lue of the Nunnery is said to be 3951. its. Id.

The following particulars, tho' they tell no more than what you know already, yet as they arc taken out of a valuable MS. of Nich. Tri-vet's Chronicle, wrote on paper, now remain-ing in the library of the Dean and Chapter of Winchester, I thought, you would give them the reading.

" Ilistoriam de origine & gestis Britonum ,c primus ex Gwallico sermone in Latinum tra-" dux it Galfridus Monothmotensis, desinens in " Athelstanum.

" Res Gwallicas excepit ab co Galfrido Mo-" nomethensi Karadocus Lancarvensis.

"An-

TO IIIS PREFACE. CCY

" Anglorum res gestas ab corum primo ad- " vertu in Britanniam Beda scripsit ad sua " usq; tempora.

" Willielrnus Malmisburiensis Bedam exci- " piens & succincte colligens usq; ad regem " Egbritum, qui, varia sorte profligatis regu- " lis, insulm pzene totius nactus est monarchi- " am. Inde plcno cursu tempora lucide des- " tribit usq; ad finem Ilenrici primi.

" Nicolaus Trivettus, Malmisburiensem ex- " cipiens, incipit A Stephan°, & dcsinib in mor- " tem Edward; primi. .

" Ab hoc qui filum Historim recto tramite 46 deinceps deducerent, non sunt reperti, sed " plcriq; suo quisq; studio particularia dele- " git sibi persequenda, principium finemq; pro " arbitrio statuens. :

" Edmerus sobria sermonis festivitate A, Re- " ge Edgaro usq; ad Willielmum primum ra- " ptim tempora perstrinxit, & inde licentius " evagatus usq; ad obiturn Radulphi Archie- " piscopi diffusam & necessariam historian stu- " diosus exhibuit.

" Ita preetermissis I tempore Beda ducentis " & viginti tribus annis, temporum cursus clau- " dicavit.

" Henricus Hontendonensis archidiaconus. " Galterus Oxnefordensis. " Alfridus Beverlacensis thesaurarius.

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ccvi THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX " NVillielmus Rivalensis. " Giraldus Cambrensis Res Hibernia. " Joannes Sarisburiensis. " Florentius Wigornensis Monachus. " Thomas Walsyngham ab irruptione Nor-

" mannorum usq; ad principium regni Ilenrici 6ti. cui opus dedicavit.

" Secuti sunt qui minium ante se scribentium " particulas in mum.' corpus conflarent, ut sunt " hi:

" Ranulphus Cestrensis scripsit varii generis " variarumq; gentiumhistoriam, orsus i mun- " di origine, eam tcxens usq; ad Ilenricum " quartum, quam Polichronica voluit appellari.

No other particulars are mentioned in this note, which seems to have been written at the same' time, that. tile Index to the MS. was, much later than the MS. which seems to have been written about the time of the Authour. * * it * * * *

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A ters

Num. XVIII. Vid Pritf. §. xx.

Copy of Dr. Richardson's and Mr. Moresby's Let- about the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen near

Bemire.

For Mr. Thomas Hearne in EdnIund-Hall Oxford.

Dear

TO HIS PREFACE. ccvn Dear Sir,

I received your second letter, which I com-municated to a neighbouring gentleman, who immediatly wrote to a friend at Bawtree, to make inquiry after St. Mary's Hospitall. I received an answer, but no satisfactory one. I alsoe at the same time wrote to Mr. Thoresby. He sent me word, that he hoped shortly to give me some satisfaction about it, through the me- diation of a new Curate, that was come to Leedes and born at Bawtrec. 'The inclosed I received yesterday, which I beleive wil, in a great measure, answer what you desire. I can not get the least information about the Earth- Horns. If in this or any other respect I can be serviceable to you, freely command

Your friend and servant

Ric: Richardson. North Bierley Feb. 8th. 1724.

For Dr. Richardson at North Bierley near Bradford

These. . Honoured Sir,

Just now I receiv'd this Account from the Vicar concerning the Hosp. of St. Ma. Mag. near l3autre. That the ('happel, Hospital and

Alms

ccviu THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX Alms House are all in good repair, that the an= nual pensions are 121. G s. 8 d. The present Ma- ster of the Hospital is Mr. Benjamin Day,Vicar of Mattersry, w ho succeeded Dr. Samuel Crow-brow Arch-Deacon of Nottingham; whose Pre-decessor was John Lake, D.D. Vicar of Leedes, and afterwards Bishop of Chichester. This Reverend Prelat's Predecessor was one Walter Barnard, who enjoy'd it during the Usurpa-tion of 0. Cromwell, and preach'd a Lecture on the first Thursday in the Month, in stead of the Morning Prayers on Wednesdays and Fri- days, which had before, and have since been duely used. his Predecessor was John Slack, mentioned in the Letter of Mr. Hearne, to whom pray present my service, I not being able to write to him any self, who am his and

Your humble servant

Ralph Thoresby. Leedes Feb. 2

1724.

Num. XIX. See the Glossary to thisWork, voc. bone.

Ex MS. Dugd.) in Muse° Ashnioliano) E 2. sub Mien).

4 Transcript of a certain Narrative, written by the late Bp. of Ely (Dr. Matthew Wren) with his own

Hand,

TO HIS PREFACE. ccix Hand, of that remarkable Conference, which, after his Return from Spain with Prince Charles (Anno MO he had with Dr. Neale, then Bp. of Dur-ham, Dr. Andrews Bp. of Winchester, and Dr. Laud Bp. of St. David's, touching the said Prince : whereat something Prophetical was then said by that Reverend Bp. of Winchester.

After our Return from Spain, My Lord of Winchester (among other great expressions of his Respects to me) made me promise to him, that, upon all occasions of my coming to Lon-. don, (for I abode still at Cambridge) I would lodge with him. To which end, he caused three Rooms near the Garden to be fitted and reserved for me: And twice or thrice I had lodged there.

And at another time comb-4 suddenly to Lon-don and late, I lodged at my Sister's in Fri-day-Street, and the next Day (being Friday) I went to Winchester-House to Dinner, and craved his Lordship's pardon, that I lodged not there ; because that my businesse was to treat with some Countrey Gentlemen, who lay in Ilolburne, whom I should not meet with but in the Evening and Morniiu when it would not be safe for me to pass the Bridge or theThames: And so after Dinner I took my • Leave of him. hoping to return for Cambridg=e on Monday.

But

ccx THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX But on Saturnday going to do my Duty to'

My Lords of Durham and St. Davids, and tell-ing them of my sudden Return, they would needs over-rule me, and made me promise them, tho' I had taken leave of My Lord of Winchester, yet to meet them next Day at White-Hall at My Lord's Chamber at Dinner : I did so, and there we sat after Dinner above an Hour. And then I spewing them, that on the morrow my Business would be dispatched, and I would be gone on Tuesday, I took leave again of them all. But on Munday morne by break of the Day (before they used to be Stirr-ing in Friday-Street) there was a great knock-ing at the Door where I lay; And at last an Apprentice ( who lay in the Shop) came up to my Bed-Side, and itold me, there was a Mes-senger from Winchester-House to speak with me : The Businesse was to let me know, that My Lord, when he came from Court last Night,. had given his Steward charge :.o order it so, that I might be spoken with, and be required as from him without iliac, to dine with him on Munday; but to . be at Winchester-House by Ten of the Clock, which I wondered the more at ; his Lp. not using to come from his Study till near Twelve. My business would hardly permit this ; yet because of his Lordship's im-portunity, I got up presently, and into Hol-

burne

TO HIS PREFACE. ccxi burne I went, and there made such Dispatch, that soon after Ten of the Clock I took a Boat, and went. to Winchester House, where I found the Steward at the Water-gate waiting to let me in the nearest way, who telling me, that my Lord had called twice to know if I were come; I asked where his Lordship was'? He answered, In his great Gallery, ( a place where I knew his Lp. scarce came once in a Year.) And thither I going, the Door was lockt : but upon my lift-ing the Latch, My Lord of St. David's opened the Door, and letting me in, lock'd it again.

There I found none, but those three Lords, who causing me to sit down by them, My Lord of Durham began to me. " Doctor, Your " Lord here will have it so, I that am the un- " fittest Person, must be the speaker : But thus " it is : After you left us Yesterday at White- " Hall, we entring into farther Discourse of " those things, which we foresee and conceive " will 'ere long conic to pass, resolved again to " speak to you before you went hence.

" 'We must know of you, what yourThoughts " are concerning your Master the Prince. You " have now been his Servant above two Years, " and you were with him in Spain ; We know " he respects you well; and we know you are

no Fool, but can observe how things are like " to go. What things my Lord ?" ( quoth I. )

Vol. !. P • " In

coat THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX " In brief," sayd he, " how the Prince's Heart " stands to the Church of England, that when " God brings him to the Crown; we may know " what to hope for.

My Reply was to this effect ; That however I was the most unfit of any to give my Opinion herein, attending but Two Months in the Year, and then at a great Distance, only in the Clo-set, and at Meals ; yet seeing they so pressed me, I would speak my Mind freely : So I sayd, " I know My Master's Learning is not equal to " his Father's ; Yet I know his Judgment to " be very right : And as for his Affections in " these particulars, which Your Lordships have " pointed at, for upholding the Doctrine and " Discipline, and the right Estate of the Church, " I have more confidence of him, than of his " Father, in whom they say (better than I can) " is so much inconstancy in some particular " cases.

Hereupon My Lords of Durham and St. Da-vid's began to argue it with me, and required me to let them know, upon what ground I came to think thus of the Prince: I gave them my reasons at large, and after many replyings (above an Hour together) then My Lord of Winchester ( who had said nothing all the while) bespake me in these Words;

" Well

TO IIIS PREFACE. ccxlii " Well Doctor, God send you may be a

"true Prophet concerning your Master's Inch- " nations in these particulars, which we are " glad to hear from you : I am sure I shall be " a true Prophet; I shall be in my Grave and " so shall you, My Lord of Durham, but My " Lord of St. David's, and you, Doctor, wilt " live to see that Day that your Master will be "put to it, upon his Head and his Crown, with- " out he will forsake the Support °rale Church.

Of this Prediction made by that holy Father, I have now no Witness, but mine own Con-science, and the Eternal God, who knows I lie not ; no body else being present when this was spoken, but those three Lords.

Num. XX. See the Glossary to this Work, voc. itaMpttletle.

Extract of a Letter to the Publisher from Mr. Graves of Mickleton in Gloucestershire, concerning Camp. den in that County. With a remarkable Passage upon that occasion, out of an old anonymous MS. Author (stiled John Bever by Dr. Powell) in Tri-nity College Library avon.

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ccxiv THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX As to the Etymology and Scituation of

Campden, as you relate it from Dr. Skinner's Etymologicon ; I very readily agree with him, but never saw the Book; and consulting with Ant. a Wood, and finding a good Character of the Author, I think to gett it.

I have formerly observ'd, that John Bever, or Castorius, call's it Campoduntan ; which Ter-mination made me believe it to be a Roman Town ; for we meet in Antoninus's Itinerary with those of Cambodunum, Margiduntan, Camu-lodunum, Muridununt, Sorviodunum, and Mari-dunum ; in all which Dr. Gale make's the Termi- nation, thzunt, to answer to, conis, in the La- tine ; and so likewise the Scituation of those Towns he observe's to be on Hills ; and indeed our Campden is • ever reckon'd among the Towns on the Cotswold Hills, but at the same time is scituated in a deep Valley, or Den, on those Hills.

Tor, as you come to it on the North side, on the Road from Warwick, and Stratford, through Mickleton; you goe up hill almost all the way for the 2. last Miles, that is, from Mic-kleton ; and yet you see little or nothing of the Town, but the Church, and some Remains of the Great House, till you come within a Land's length of the Town ; and then you fall down, as it were; unexpectedly into it : But,

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TO HIS PREFACE. ccxv its you approach it on the South side, on the Road from London and Oxford, you come down a Hill for above a Mile to it, and have a full view of the whole Town, which lye's in length East and West, all along the Bottom ; but in breadth North and South, on a declining Bank; and the Church, and these Remains of the Great House, stand on a rising ground above the rest.

Lying in this Valley it is encompassed on 3. sides, that is, North, West, and South, by the Cotswold Hills; but lye's open on the East side to the Morning Sun, which make's the Scitua- tion both pleasant and healthful! ; and over-look's a pleasant Vale, lying considerably be-low it; which run's through some Parts of Worcestershire, Warwickshire, and Oxford- shire, to the Borders of Northamptonshire.

Dr. Powel, in his Notes on the History of Wales, pag. 11, 12. ha's translated the whole Passage out of Bever, and it seem's by his Ac-count, that the Place was then (above a Thou- sand years agoe) of considerable Note, and large Extent ; for, upon a threatning Message from the Britains, the great King Ina of the 'est Saxons summoned all the other Saxon Kings to repair thither ; where old King Sibert of the East Saxons making a Speech to them, and, among other things, recommending to

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cexvi THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX them the choosing a Head to lead them, they made Choice of King Ina ; who received Hom-age of them there, and advancing his Standard, marched forward against the Britains.

Probably it might be then the chief Resi-dence of the West Saxon Kings, at least of this Ina; however it must be necessarily furnished with stately !louses, lift to give Reception to the Persons of all the Saxon Kings of the Ile-. ptarchy, with their Courtiers and Attendants, which must be very numerous ; besides, there seemed to have been a great Army along with

. them, which waited the Result of their Con-sultations.

I know not, what should induce the Dr. to call the Place Mount Campedrn ; unless there was some word in the original Latine, besides that of Campoduflum, that answer'd to that of, Mount; for, if it was barely that and no more, I think it should have been rendered, according to Dr. Gale, the Camp on the Mount, or Mt But I want very much to see the original Latine, and accordingly, when I was at London last year, went to the Cotton Library to peruse that Copy of Bever, which is said to be there, Vitell. E. XVII. 4. I saw the MS. indeed, but there is not the least mention of that Passage in the Book; which Mr. Casley and I, both of us, thoroughly examined; that I concluded, it was

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TO HIS PREFACE. ccxvii not Bever's Chronicle, but some other Anony- mous Writer. .

The printed Catalogue of MSS. mention's one Copy of this Authour in Trinity Colledge Library Oxon, and another in Sr. Simonds D' Ewes Library, which are all I meet with.

I don't find any Autbour ha's follow'd Bever, in calling it Campodunum, but Langhorn in his Citron. Reg. ylngl. who both in the Epistle Dedi-catory, pag. 5. and also the Book it self, pag. 250. write's it Campodununz: But all Authours and Records, that I have seen, generally spell it with a (p.) which agree's with Dr. Skinner's Etymology.

I have not mett with any mention of the Place, after that Account of Bever's, 'till the Time of William the Conquerour, when in Domesday-book it is written Campedene, fol. 166. b. In the next King's Reign, A.D. 1093. in the Charter of Will. Rufus, confirming the Grant of Hugh Earl of Chester, (to whom the Conquerour had given Campden,) of the Titles of that Manor, ( among others,) to the Church of St. Werburge's in Chester, it is called Campe-dena ; Mon. Angl. vol. I. pag. 201. a. lin. 45. And so, through all the King's Reigns, quite clown to this present time, it ha's constantly been written with a (p.) but differently spell'd, as Catnpedoza, Caumpedena, Compedena, and some-

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ccxviii THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX times, Campoidena ; as particularly in a Charter of Hugh de Gundeville, who lived in the Reign of K. Henr. 2. to the Abbey of Evesham ; which is in a Register of Charters of that Abbey in the Cotton Library, Vespas. B. 24. fol. 44, a. which, because it make's much for the Antiqui-ty of the Markctt here, I have added at length, viz.

" Notum sit presentibus, et futuris, quiid " ego Hugo de Gundevilla concessi omnibus " hominibus Abbatis de Evesham liberam " potestatem et quictam cundi, et emendi, " et vendendi, in foro meo de Campendena; " et prohibeo, ne aliquis Balivoriim two-" rum petat ab aliquo suorum Tclonium, " vel aliam consuetudinem ; vet aliquarn ye- " xationem cis faciat in foro meo, vel in

via ; nec aliam consuetudinem ab. eis exi-" gat, quam mei faciunt in foro Abbatis. " Testibus, ( inter alios,) Osmundo de Cam-

. " pendena, Everardo de Campendena."

And in another Charter in the same Register , fol. 42. a.

" Sciant, &c. quZid ego Rogerus Dci gratia " Abbas de Evesham, et ejusdem loci Con- " ventus, concessimus, &c. Johanni. Grene, " et Alitie uxori ejus, filie Everardi de Cam-" pendena, &t,". Testibus, ( inter alios,) IV i lio

" tilio

TO HIS PREFACE. ecru " filio Everardi de Campendena, Everardo " et Augustino fratribus ejus, &c.

Dr. Gale in his Commentaries on Antoninus's Itinerary, on the word Cambodununz, safe's, An-tonini codices aliquot MSS. legunt Campodunum, quemadmoduan ss Beda ; alit Campodonum et Campadunum : So that there seem's to have been a Place of the same Name with that of Bever's, in the time of the Romans, in the North of England; and I think our Campdcn likely enough to have born the same Name, (Campodunum,) as long agoe, in the South of England.

Verstegan, ( Antw. 1605. 40.) pag. 287. agree's with Dr. Skinner in his deriving it from the A. S. Lamp, and Den; but fan-cie's it to have been some Place appointed for Champions, Combat-fighters, or men of Arms, to encounter each other, &c.

I don't know, whether you have Sr. Rob. At- kins; but he sales, pag. 309. a. That it is so called from a Camp, near that Place, where a Battle had been formerly fought ; and pag. 322. a. That a great Battle was fought between the Mercians, and West-Saxons, in the Ham-ktt of Barrington, about a Mile from the Town of Campden : The Camp of the Mercians was at Willersey, the camp of the West-Saxons on

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ccxx THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX Meen-Hill, in the Parish of Quintone, and Mic- kleton. (4e. ) A Bridge in Barrington retain's the name of Battle-Bridge. Barrington, an- tiently Burington, is likewise so called from being the Burying place of the Slain.

• I could never meet with an Account of this Battle in any Authour. What Authority Sr. Robert bad for it, I know not: but, no doubt, such a Battle was fought there, both from the constant Tradition of the Inhabitants, and the Place still retaining the Name of Battle-Bridge; though at present there is scarce left one Stone upon another, and it is oncly a shallow Ford through a little Brook.

There are two such Camps, as he mention's, on Willersey-Hill, (about a Mile from Camp-den,) and Meen-Hill, but I should rather think, that of the West-Saxons to have been on Wil- lersey-Ilill, and the Mercians on Meen-Hill ; for the former lye's in the South West, and the latter in the North East, in respect of each other ; they are both .of a square form, and large extent, with deep double Trenches.

I never saw it written, or called, Barrington, but always 13errington; and in Antient Records it is, Bcrintone, &Mom, Baritone, &c. It is contiguous to the rest of the Town, and the very Church it self stands in that, which is call-ed Bertiogton, which cOnfirm's its being the

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TO HIS PREFACE. ccxx/ Burying-place of the Slain; Battle-Bridge is in-deed in the District of Berrington, but above half a Mile from the Town.

There is another Tradition, very current among the Country People, that it was formerly, A Camp of the Danes; and so took it's Name from Camp, and Dane; but I take the Name to be antienter, then the Time of the Danes being here : However, I find, some in print have mentiou'd it; particularly Ogilby in his Survey of the Roads of England, Edition in Svo. pug. 159, who sale's, The ToVvn is of great Antiquity, the Danes being supposed to have their Camp near it, and thence it's Name seem's to be deriv'd; but I don't know, whe-ther there be any more Grounds for this, then that, of it's being formerly called, Little Lon-don, which is also very common in the Mouths of the People.

I am sure, I have now sufficiently tired you ; but the great Love I have for the Place, where I had a good Part of my Education, make's me dwell the longer upon the Subject; and have nothing more to add, but my most kind Love and Respects, from,

Dear Sir, Mi ekieton, Easter Your most obliged humble Ser yaw, Munday, 29th, of March,

A. D. ins, Richard Graves. l`pon

, . mix!' THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX

Vpon occasion of this Letter from Mr. Graves; .1 desired a worthy Friend to consult the Harleyan .11I S . of Bever, which accordingly he very readily did, (by the Favour cl the B'. Hon'". the Earl of Oxford,) send from his Answer I understand, that the Passage, referr'd to by Dr. Powell, is also wanting there; but then I Ad, that 'tis in the MS. of Trinity-College Li-brary in this Vniversity (the same that I have cited in my Glossary') from which I shall here publish it at large, as 'Us inserted in my MSS. Collections', at the same lime advertising, that this Trinity-Col-lege MS. is a Collection by an anonymous Writer (whom, however, Dr. Powell, to whom it belong' d, TelttUrCS to stile Bever) and that 'Us not the true genuine Bever, such as may be met with (as far as I can, at present, understand) in the Cottonian and Ilarlcgau MSS.

Quoniam cx scriptura commendabili felicis Becht presbiteri modernorum traditur memo- ria, per quot regna, quibus, quotq; regibus ohm Britannia subjacebat, id in hoc opusculo redigere non dccuit, quod tantus pater suo carmine singulis patefecit. Verum quia felix Beda prailibatus anno nati Salvatoris ex virgin° ACCXXXiI. ex hac vita transisse fertur, ex tune regain gesta regniq; fortuita futurorum tradere memoriis studentem racio suadebat. Inspectis . --

1 PaW. 599. 2 Vol. 107. p. a igitur

TO HIS PREFACE. ccxxu

igitur cronicarum collectis, ac de gestis Anglo-rum libellis, actus veritati concordes Auctor hujus opens tenore prmsentis paginm cop tdavit. 'Ut itaq; ex certo principio prresens narracio fi-nem debit= per ordinem sorciatur, prodesse creditur ab ej us incipere progcnie, qui Brito-num rex ultimus reliquit Britanniam alienis. Anno siquidem gracim DCCXXV. ante decessum Bela; septimo, Iuorius & Henyhinus, filii filim regis quondam Cadwalladri, de Hibernia ye-nientes, duobus IVallite regibus opem prwstan-ti b us, totam Cestriaa provinciam vastaverunt. Vcnientes quoq; in rure Danorum, quod ex eo Anglice nomen accepit Campedene, Latine campus Danorum, regibus Anglorum manda-runt legatos, ut Britanniam sibi restituerent, a qua suos patres & parentes injustis incursibus expulerunt. Addentes mandando, quod nisi infra quindenam regionem redderent, ultcrius vita spacium non haberent. Inclitus ergo West- sexiw Ine rex, filius Kenredi regis, omnibus Anglorum regibus hoc mandatum innotuit, qui mox armata manu in monte de Campedene ve-nerunt, quibus rex eciam Estsexim Sibertus ait. " Animadvertamus, karissimi, quales sumus, & " quales qui contra nos veniunt. Vere Britones " sunt, quorum patres & parentes, patres no- " stri i suis bereditanis expulerunt. Nune siqui-ff dem veniunt de jure, pugnando calumpniare

" quod

ccxxiv THE PUBLISHER'S APPENDIX " quodl suis nostri j uribus abstulere. Faciamus " ergo sicut cetera; faciunt regiones. Eligamus " nobis capud, qui nos ducat, dirigat & guber-" net; cui nos omnes, tanquam membra, sicut " domino, tam pacis quam guerrm temporibus, " inclinemus, quoniam sine capite non speratur " victoria reputari. Nome anno secundo post " Britonum dispersionem, Saxonicum super po- " pulum, multo nunc nobis forciorem, infra " septennium quindecies applicuerunt, regna " regum spoliarunt, populum trucidarunt, & re-" vertentes nostros vix vivos laceratos vulneri-" bus reliquerunt ?" Reges siquidem Anglorum omucs, hoc contenti consilio, strenuissimum militem Ine, Westsexite regem, in caput & do-minum regum Anglorum unanimiter digerunt, anno Domini ncLxxxix. Qui regum acceptis homagiis, vexilluth regni erexit, ac excercitum Iuorii & Henyhini ita debactavit, quad in Wal- liam, relictis tentoriis, fugierunt. Optenta itaq; victoria, rex Inc, cum Anglorum regibus, (prm-ter Sibertuin regem Estsexim, qui, causa sene-ctutis & irnpotencim, ad suam ' rediens regio-nem) spud Southampton se divertit, ubi suus cognatus Adelardus occurrens nunciavit, quod Iuorius & Henybinus exercitum novum con-gregarunt, ut Anglorum populum iterum 3 de-

' eredut. 2 F. debellarent. bel-

TO HIS PREFACE. ccxxv bellarunt. Rex namq; Ine, miles validissimus, illuc progredi non tardavit, Snaudonem obse-dit, Ilibernes & Britones ad naves fugere corn- pulit, & totam sibi Walliam subjugavit. Fe-stum vero Sancti David rex Ine tenere volens, cum suis regibus & WaHim ►nagnatibus apud Bangor accessit, ubi die septimo post festum proclamare fecit, quod omnes reges ad suss redire[nt] regimes, moraturi donee mandatum haberent, ut iterum convenirent. Regibus ita- que repatriatis, Rex Inc cum Adelardo suo co-gnato, & iota Regia familia, slain civitatena Mamecestriam petivit, Ethelburgam suam re-ginam, stilling; filium Adellum ibidem invenit, cum quibus vix tribus mensibus repausavit. A- dellus quoq;, filius regis unicus, prassentem vi-tam terminavit eo tempore, doiorem patri non modicum propinando. Adelard us interea,Wal- liam cupiens circuire, fres exploratores obviam !tabu it, quibus captis & scrutatis, concepit, quod Iuori us & Henyhinus venturi sunt Angliam cum tanta populi multitudine, quod °miles Anglo-rum reges eorum viribus resisters non valebant. Adelardus igitur ad regem Ang'ovum Ine rediens, eidein retulit quod audivit. Rex autem Ine, suis statim regibus exspressa causa, manda-vit, quod indilate venirent Cestrite, in equis & armis parati contra suos hostes, suas delendere regiones. Reges namq; mandatutu bujusmodi

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ccxxvi THE PUBLISHER'S APPEND. esc. .pariter acceptantes, Cestrite convenerunt, ve-x ilium .regium sectantes,. perctissoq; Bello cum Britonibus, in fugam converterunt adversarios, qui infra sequens biennium Angliam sepcies in-vadebant, civitates •& villas spoliabant, & cum spoliis repedabant. Interco, rex Ine optenta victoria remeavit, & annig triginta sex super regno WestsexiEe- peractis, Adelardo cognato suo regnum suum legavit.

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Sen Pat Jhesu Criste of Mary was born, & Fe ii ir ng Cadwaladre Pis loud had alle born.

For Euglis & Sessons he went to lesse Bretairn, To speke with his cosine, his name was kilig AlaYn. & fro pie!' he went vnto Pe courte of Rome, For to tak his penance & of his synnes dome. \Vhan he was asoOed of pe pope Sergie, Ile died & was bided in Rome solemplie. In pezere after nouPer Jesse ne more Kom his & his kosili Ini & Itiore, Io schip out of Irelontl, in \Vales gat' Pei vpryne, porgh out Chestreschirc werre gan Pei drirue. I hid Pei no sOntfing, hot Porgli idle Pei ran, Unto Wiinchestre, able Iv loud Pei wan.

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2 De bello sub Campdene. "e 'lege (lc IN Westsex as pan a king, ' his was Sir Inc. Westsexe.

Whan he wilt of pe Bretons, of werre ne wild he fine. Messengers he sent Porghout Inglond Unto Pe Inglis kjrnges, pat had it in Per hoed, & teld how Pe Bretons, men of mjikelle Inj,glit, pc loud siild `Wynne age0 porh force & fyght. Haslislk ilkone Pe kittiges coin folic suNte, Bottle men & stouts, Per hardinesse to kips. In a grete Daneis fettle per Pei samned alle, pat ewer sipen I►idcrward Kampedenc men kalle. Of all Po Inglis liSrliges, Pat Pan comcn wore, Sigbcrt, king of Estsex, in eldc was he more. He bigan to speke title alts Pe chittalrie: 44 We be comcn alle of kj,nde of Germenie, 44 pat chaced has Pe Bretons here of Per kj,t1i,:. " Now erc rei comcn to clajrmc it, & mj'kellc force pain with. " Oiper bihoucs vs defend it, or 3eldc vp our 2 righ. 64 I redo we chese a hede, Pat vs to werre kan light, " & to pat ilk hede I rcde we vs binds. " For Ileac withouten hede is not wele, we 6'nde. Pc barons Bede to conseile, & teld it siPen on hie, Inc king 3 king" of Westsex was a knight worPic, Fork, g5.e vs alle, Pat now er comcn here. Inc take pc feaute, displayed his banere, & went to pe batailc in a tittle faire grenc, Pat is viler Kampedene, a mcdcw I wenc. lnor & Ini were discontite Pat dak, Pe Iris & Pe Wats with pain fled away.

i Pro, his name was. 2 L. right. 3 Redundat. Alle

De bello sub Campdene. 3

Alle were pei nem slayn, & Po Pat Per left Incr. & Ini fugiunc.

Fled unto Wales vnto per schippes eft. Whan pise Bretons tuo were fled out of pis load,. Inc tokc his fcante of allc pat ' lond helde. At the Mend (14 pei stunned at.Southamptone, With joy alle at ous pei went title Snowdon° On Inor & Ini, Pat tapised by Pat side, To paracie pam a skulkjng, on pe Englis eft to ride. Hot Inc had pc highs eucrilkon at wile, • Hot Segbcrt of Estsex at home left stifle. Ile was of grete Mc, & inftlit not trauaile, Hot Inor & Ini pe Englis gait pam assaile. Pe Englis were bottle, & drofe Pam to Pe sand. pe. fled out of Wales away tilleI reload.

. . Til E Englis ' kino•6es turned, Pei mot do nomore, Hot soiorned Pam a while in rest a Bangore,

' L. helde lond. :See peg. " IVales was published by Mr. 122, 13. of a most rare Book, be. 6 ‘ Thomas Ellis, 4. M. and ing Mr. Thomai Ellis's impel-- " Fellow of Jesus Cull. Oxon. fect Edition (with great Im- 64 but 'tis much altered from

Provements) of Dr. Powell's 66 the Edition which Dr. Ilistorg, to which islVix'd 66 Powell Se/ out, with the Iles_

SirJohn Prise's Description 44 MiT of Cambria) 'ow call_ ofWales. Oxon. 1053. 41". " ed If 'ales, at Loud. in 1584. I call a imperfect, because it " Ito. The said Mr. Thomas was never near compleated by " Ellis was a learned Man, and Mr. Ellis, as will appear .ifrom "a vcrg great Antiquary. lie the following Remark, which I 44 begun also to reprint the have written at the beginning of no Copy that I happen'd to

" said Ilistoi,y of Cambria, " which was gro;:n (and is

purchase in the Year 172,2. “ now) verg srarce. In order to " Tie following Description of "::Irish 1h"1 grout " I' II(1""Q1

s '2 ,' Rob.

4 Inc Rex Westsar. Pat ilk a kjrng of reame suld*mak him alto redie. At pe Paske after pc king Inc ' gart 2 trie, Home forto.wend to childc & to wife, To visit to Per londes, to solace Per life. Ine king of Westsex for his 3 wife sent Vnto* Malmcestrc, Pe queue title him went.

" Rob. Vaughan of Bengwort " now a wonder full Rarity, and 44 in Merionethshire, Esq. (who " highly valuable. Dr. Powell's " was divertedby other Business 46 Additions are marked thus " from publishing this fVork, as " I. Mr. Vaughan's thus ¶.

44 he otherwise designed) corn- " This Book belong'd to the 44 munkated to him his Correc. " Revd. Mr. Josiah Pullen, 44 tionrand Additions. But Mr. ".3! A. and Vice-Principal of 44 Ellis finding, that a paid- 44 Magd. Hall Oxon." IVhat I 44 trs,alitterate Author, called have here observ'd about Mr. 44 Percic Enderbic, had been be_ Ellis 4- Percie Enderbie is con- " fore hand with him, and some firni'd by Mr:Wood, ith.Oxon• c" ray or other had got ,31r. Vol. II. col. 248, 249. But the 46 Vaughan's Notes also, and chief reason of myreferring here 44 was so bold, as, without Mr. to Mr. Ellis's imperfect Ed. of 66 Vaughan's leave, toprint them Dr. Powell's Mt. of Cambria " in his Book (which is but a is upon account of a Passage that " poor thing) in Folio call'd, is there published, (as'tisalso in 46 Cambria Triumphans : or, an- Dr. Powell's own genuine Ed.) 44 clout and modern British and out of .1 ohnCastoreus or Bever, 44 Welsh Histories, he laid by his which will very much illustrate 44 Design, and so no more was this Place of Langtoft. " printed titan 128. Pages,, all ' F. gan. Quod si gart reti- 44 which are here. After he hail neas, tune ideni erit quod pre.. 6‘ desisted (for which all curious pared. 2 F. crie. 3 Ethel- " and learned Men were very barge, 4 Id est, Manchester, in 66 sorry, he being so ddry cape- agro Lancastrensi, quod Ma- " ble of doing great Matters) mecestre appellat Ilovedenus, " the Copies, all but a very few, Mamerceaster Florentius, Ma. " were sold for west Paper. nize-ceartep Citron. Sax. Fu.

" upon which account the Book is Wan «Wen corium conjectural; esse

Inc Rex Wesisex. 5 Inc 17e kjrng had a sonne, his name AdeIlus. Dedc him toke & lie died, als it salle do vs. Sorow & site lie made, Per was non over retie, For his sonne & ligre, vat so sone was Bede.

esse arbitror, nee ulla confuta- I hie zebetan 1 zemannian. tione egere, qui voccm Mani. Pro on uyan hxprert, autam." ze ceartep (in Chronico Saxo. nail tempore babel Florcntius nico) non de unica duntaxat Wigorniensis. Sic enim ille sub urbe, sad de multis civitatibus 4.D. 920. (quo anno, non, ut esse intelligendam putant. Sed Cur. Sax. 923. rem gestam en tibi ipso verba e C'hrouico, subanno nceccxxiii. ubi de

fuissc retail.) Autumnali tern_ pore rex invictissimus Eadwardus

Edmundo Seniore agens, docu. ad Tealweale profeetus est, ibid- it, ipsum eodem illo anno, mox emque urbem construxit, & ad post testatem, ad 'Thitiwwle ejus praisidium quosque fortissi- [1, e. The] wel , the Thelwall, viculum ad ripamfluminis Mer-

mos de exercitu suo reliquit. Mi. sit etiam in Northimbriam Mer-

sey ut agro Cestrensi, notante ciorum exercitum, ut urbem Ma- cl.Gibsono, p.45. Explicat. No. me'iceastram restaurarent, & in minum Locor. in Chr.Sax.] cum ea fortes milites collocarent. Ne- exercituprofectum,primamjus- qua )lac in re quid discrepat ex.. sisse cam totem construi, kfir.. emplar prwstantissimum cditio. marl, prtesidioque muniri ; de. nisFlorentiat'igorniensisin4to. bale jussisse etiam alium exer. Londini 1592. quod, doctissimi citum, dam ibi commoraretur, de 31erciorum terra, adire Ma.

Langbainii notis quamplurimis MSS.(maximaex parte eduobus

nigeceaster in Northymbria, ac .31ariani Scoti,e quo pleraq; sua call resarcire, prtesidioque mu. surripuit Florentius, sicut in nine. ilep on ji57ryinn zeape. Lelando nostro, Col. rot. III. Fop lianreapn ejrninz nub p. 277. monui, Codleibus ext. robe on uptu lialirert to mils, calamo et:al-a(ls, refills) Dmilmle. I 114 4t Zeppean j,a adornatum, i• NusZo Arthuri

btiPh• I Zerettan• 1 zeinanntati. Char/eta, wiper drfuncti,rede. Ape Pith eac or Attb bet -

mi, idem nimirum illud exem- /%1 • cna pc_Abe • kit hpile lie he plan, quod ad pag.212.editionis

flan Mawr- per rat zepy

ceartcP 9n No.0-11nribrall• nostrce vita. A' lfredi Magni Spel m an niana: CO mine al o ran i.

a 3 Ina

6 .1delardus cepil regni gubernacula. Inc was king of \Vestsex sex & gritty acre, Mille vicic he gulled Pc loud fro wo & fro wehere. Nor & Ini ost did he ram chase. In his irnie to rise had Pei inciter grace. 'Isuenty grtte hatailes Inc otterkam, . Pe queue withouten childe non lc re of 'lir nain.

toe per- ,exit Ro-want, & ibi sepuitus

Inc went to Romc als in pilgremage,

Adelard his cositn he gaf his heritage. est.The

•

Pape him asoiled in treuth stedfast,

Whan he had don his penance, he gald to God re

• .

gaste,

ADELARD of Westscx was king of re empire, Of Noreis & Surreis, guiour of ilk seltire. Ile ne stared ncuere wrath to be ubotte Ilituex king baron, fiat ne he mad ni lone. Allc re Bretons he ouere'orne, pat wild him assaile, & in his kirtende acre force gan him faile. Tillc Uttrcd his kosin, a stifle kni-ght in stoure; He gaf his kingdom, & died in latigoure. lie ligges at Bathe, for eider was he born. pc holy man Saint Bede died a acre before.

rece de f t fruriro

Henri of Huntington sen pat day & pat Sere Iliaqiig- tune.

To write Inglis gestcs fond he non his per,. A bisshop of Lincolne, Alisandre he bight, Praied hitn,to write ke gestcs rat were right.

ketfor pis llenrir is cald a compilottre.

Di. Al .x. tt..ii o .. 1,

lie N1 rote j)e nigh§ gestcs whiloin of honoure.

broi) I I. , .. if

t.,int,t, PUS a rote to Pe bisshop Henry Pe same, Ile sais, }'is loud bight Bretayn, kat now has orer name,

Ingiond

Quinque plagw. 7

Inglond now is cald, for Inglis men we f!:rnd

pc folk Vat is Verin, it is of diners k5rnd. Ile sais pis loud has suffred so many qme wo,

Fine sorowes he writes withouten oiler mo. po ilk flue sorowes he caller flue woundes, Pat ere not zit haled, ne salle be many stoundes. Nopeles Pe clerk 'Merlyn sais ccrtqn,

That Bretons at lie last salle haf Pis loud agaSli, \Vhan Cadwaldrc salle calk with him pc kyng Ronan, What lilac it sane falle, zit %vote no man. Now of tine sorowcs, pat git not endid are, Henri in his wriqng telles what Pei ware.

• I LIE first of Vise flue was Vorgh RoinejTus, Quinque . That wan it of Casbalan in to per deruejis. plaganun

term pri-

Crete treuage Fel take of Vis loud here. ma plaga full.

Pre pousand pounde of gold to paj'e ilk a zere. & four hundred sere lastid Vat ilk wo, pei mad Pe loud fulle poucre, Fe folk ded pei slo.

11 Pe toper sorow of Vis loud m5rkelle gan it greuc, Secunda plaga.

PC &Oita & Pe Peihtes togider gan Pei clime, •

To waste elle Northumberland, pc: godes away pei ledde,

pat men with 1,e bestes in feldes Pei pain feddc. II The Arid sorow of pis load corn porgh pc Sessons,

pat ten sipes argued vppon Fe Bretons)

Tem in pla-ca.

& siPen were eliaceil agejrn aw with maistrie, & eft argued on Pam here porgh quantisc of spic, At Pe last pei chaced out pc Bretons so acne, Away vnto Wales per lqiid is I were.

u 4 te

S Rex Ultredus. pc Englis of Pis lond Pe lordschip Pci tokc, & hal it zit in per bond, Pe Bretons forsoke.

Ovarta 1 plaga.

pc fertile sorow of Pis lond coin porgh Pc Danes, Fe folk of the North slouh, dcstroicd per wanes. Silva wan pci alle Pe South, maistric Pei schewed, • & laid Per Dangildc on lered & lewed, & left pc Inglis Pc loud on a forward dere, To pay ilk a hede a peg to imm bi xere.

Qninta 5 plaga. The lift sorow Per after coin, whan William conquerottre, Pat argued on is loud, Ilarald lie slouh in stoure, &.barons °per limb, Pat died in pc feld, Pe lond lose pc armes, chatigal is Pc scheld. Sipes he & his haf had pc loud in heritage, Pat fe Inglis haf so lad, pat Pei hue in sernage, He sette pc Inglis to be pralle, pat or %las so fry. Ile Pat bigan it allc in pc gestc may lc se.

ifenricipt dicit.

IIENBY of Iluntjugton testiinons Pis title. pe kjingtIont of Westsex, he sail, it was not litelle, Whan Adelard died Pedro, & Uttred perto went.

Fit red- s regliavit.

Uttred in his first zere messengers he sent. For lijrnges & barons vntille his parlement, In stele Per be it setts, Pei wilt what it inent. Bot Eadbald it withsaid, kyng of LytidesaS., Ile was of IV Bretons kyode, he stole of Iliin non c):•c. Uttred wrathed him Ferfore, & ran on hint fulle tile, & I ii;,s Porgli batale ill tilde was Eadbald discolaite. zit wild be not be ma Per bi, so prottde he was in herte, Ti'ic I c was wonded Pe prid quit!, & died also suierte.

Biried

• Sibriht. 14nezeof. 9

Biried he is at Repktidont, & in Pe kirke he lis. Ile pat wine not bowe in skille, I hold him vnwis. Mani, ,times on Uttred Bretons bataile souht : Uttred was SO valiant, he gaf of Pam right nouht. He regned .fiftene pre, & died alle to ratite. . 1-Ie ligges biried als a king in the toun of Bathe.

AFTER Uttred regned Sibriht, his koqn, He billed wele Pe Bretons, Pat com tulle ille fin. .

Sibribt regnavit.

Iie bare him so tulle his barons, ',at noiper song ne olde Wald vnto him Bowe, ne blipeli of him holde. What did pe barons alle with pis fole Sibriht? eltaced him fro his reame, & chose a noper knight, likneWolf, of pe 14tired of Adelarde's blode, Ky. newolf

ccepit ra- A whilelufed pe Inglis, & wele with Pam stode. pare. Sibriht 15 El t schrew as a lordan gan Lusk, A suOthird smote he to dede vndeil a th6rn busk.

KiNEWOLF toke pe 14mr,dorn (for better mot not falle) Rex Kyne- - wolf. • & siPen toke Pe fettute of Pe kirnges alle, As his ancestros had it befor hand, 13ot of Kent & Lyndesair & Northumberland. Pise Pre lOnges geSensaid it lt54n, & Kjrnwolf to po pre bare him so brim, So wis lie was in dede, of body so valiant, With dint of suerd & tlrcde he mad Pam recreant. Kung was 14nwolf sex k tuentSr zere, lie was inner wedded, to woman's daungere.

No

10 • Brittrik Rex. No childe had he newer, his heritage might to wende, Bot welth inou to welde, vntille his lyue's ende. At Wynchestre he lis, rider men him bare. Fulle tidy he lined here, his soulc with God it fare.

Rex Brit- trik. WHAN pe king KinwoIf had don his ending,

I Brittrk his kosin Pei lift him to king. Offa, king of Lindsay, a faire doubter had, Brittrik hir wedded, & quene home hir lad. Whan he had regned foure acre, one Tined vpon his A duke of Danmark, Kebriht he bight.

right,

Biitrik had a stiward, his name was Herman: Kebriht he kept at Humber, & on hint he ran. Hard was pc bataile, als pei togider stint Herman was per slays, pc duke gaf pc dint. Age5rn to Danmark Kcbriht gan schakc, . Pat Pe king 2 Kebriht ne Might him oucrtakc. He mot not venge Herman of Kebriht pat him sloult. He did his ost turne again, & had sorow inoub. In his elleuent zero corn folk, pat misleued, Aritted oi7Brittrik, & sore Pei him grcued. Pore Brittrik bare him so in Pat ilk batailc, Pe dede zede Danes io, Pe Noreis an him vaile. Edburgh bight pe quene, 'rat I ore of meat, Scho purueied a poison to pe king 'SWIM of Kent. Hatred before was, S. Bede herd I silk, Biter Pe king of Kent, & Pe king of Lindsay. ,

PI

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1 L. Brittrik. ' F. Brittrik. I Eil-

It Briltrik Rex. N. Eilred of Lyndesak alle Kent he wasted.

pe kkng after, I s4, to hate often he tasted Pe was of Lyntlesak, als 1 ore told. Scho 2 purueid Pat pqson porgh hatered of old.

*dim, Eilred (vet, at alii a very haughty, proud temper, Candi regem vocant, Alric) of and could not brook, that the Kent alle Lyndesair he wasted. 2 The Author bath here

King should have any favourites, but such as she approved of. So

an eye upon the History of Lad- burg, (or, as he just above writes

that if she saw, or knew of, any, that, without her special con-

her, Edburgh) King Brictrick'i sent and approbation, were thi.ueen, who was Daughter qf countenanced, and particularly Ofira, K. of Mercia ; but, as he respected by him, she contrived hash 'represented it, it is very methods to make such away. obscure and imperfect; and There happened to be a very 'whereas he tells us, that Bri_ delicate, fine young Gentleman ctrick was buried at Tewksbury, others assure us, that it was at

(Son, it seems, as Lungtrft in-forms us, to the King of Kent)

Warhame, Whence the Saxon thal the King shew'd a more Annals. Au. nictxxxlv• than ordinary kindnest to, balk Hop CSrnebeapb or-rloh Cy- upon account of his exquisite nepulp cOing. 1 he kmp pc- beauty, and the excellency of his apW oF-ylegen. 1 Lxxxiv. understanding. The youth was monna mitt him. Ant) pa on- 'perfectly innocent, and the King pens 115,plirpic fierr—Seaxint (nwwithstanding an Usurper, as nicer. 1 he picrobe xvI. geap. being not of the right I ine[See Dr. anb hay ymbepen-On 34 to Brady's History of the Succes- Cepbace. The story of E tdburg sion, p. 3.591) of too virtuous a is given at large by several nature to cause any just g rounds Writers. She was a most beau- of suspicion, that there MIS tifull Lady, and had gained the any immorality in the case. Affections of the King her Hits- The s.?ueen, however, thought baud (a good natured mild other vise. She look'd upon the Prince) so much, that he was youth as the King's minion, and rverned and directed more by her jealous.), wrong& her to such her, than was extsislent with 4 pitch of madness, that she pre. his Royal Dignity. She wav of par'd a potion fur him (an or-

dinary

12

Brittrik Rex. dinary practise with her, when Offes doughter of Merchene- Vic had a mind to vent her riche. \Vhiche Edburge stu- spleen) that prov'd fatal not tied her lorde a yenst gilt. only to the llovely youth, but lese men, notwithstanding even to the King himself, who that him self was meoke and had the misfortune (tho' quite benSrnge. And 'f she ne mkght contrary to her design) to last nat come to here purpose bjr first of the cup. This raised the counseille to ouercome thoo indignation of the King's Sub- that here liked bjr werre, sheo feels to such a degree, that she dude hem be slajrne by poy- was forced, for security, to fly son. This was preued in a beyond Sea, and the West-Sax- Srongljrng of the kjrnges ons thereupon resoled, that, for the future, no 2ucen should sit

whiche he muche loued, which heo with her poises

on the throne with the King, nor be surd his Oucen, but only the King's wife. But thiscustom

sloughe. And after that the king deSrde porgh a drenche, whiche vnwjrtjrng the quene

being look'cl upon as barbarous he dranke, of hure makjrng. and very dishonourable, it was and whence the tjrthinge soon after broke by King EtNi- wolf (father to JElfred the

here of was sprong oute, thulke wikked queue by the

Great) notwithstanding in the comminalte was driue oute tones of some of his successors of the countre, and a statute there was often a respect had i made a mong the West- unto it, as I have sleew'd in my Saxones, that no queue af- Notes upon Sir John Spebnan's terwarde shulde sitte bk the Life of K, ./Ey'red, p. 24. to kynge atte mete, ne be clepud

which place I shall refcr the queue, for the malice of Ed- Reader, burge and, upon' this m.o. forsaiden. And sheo Pen sion, will only beg leave to in- wend5rng to king sort, what is said about King Charles the gret Charles Brictriek in the prose additions of Fraunce, hi the grew. to the MS. of Robert of Glou- ecster, that belongs N ettie He-

happe on a time, as she was essheked of him,'

raids Office. After him [Kync- whether sheo hadde Ikuer

tvuife] Brightrik regned. xvi. haue him, than his sone that yore, more studious a bout° pees thanne ; bataille. This

stode ther by, into housbond, sheo chees his sone. Thenne

toke to tqfe Edburge, kyng Charles, of he answere a- tneved,

13 Brittrik Rex. Brittrik hir lord, pat scho nouht wiste, Unwanted drank Perot' a drauht als him liste. He limed bot a moneth, per of gan be die.

• At Teukesbiri in toumbe his bodj, did lie.

meved, saide thus. Yf thow fram I'm to him, were cute haddest chose me, thow shuld- est haue hadde my sone ; but

of the right lyne of kynges, as of Certikes kyn. Whanne

for thow castest me a way, and chese my sone, nother

Egbright thus was exiled, to 13rightric a newe gre.

him ne me shalt pow haue. uance yut sprong. For a. And then he putte her in a folke of hethen Danes, y vsed abbey, where she was wor- to iyue by see robbery, prYuy. shipfulliche I founde. but at. lich in iii. shippes shende the ter shoo was founde 014, in pes of Westsex. NVhiche ship. Iechcrie, wherefore she was pes aspied the plenteuous- putte oute ther of. Kyng nesse of the Londe and the ver. BrjightrYc had take these to tues of the men ther inne wYue as for the mightYest dwellYng, and thej, thenne kynge's doughter of En. wendyng home' a Ye, brought glisshemen, that thourgh the more peple, and assaide to allinite of pure he mYghte stroke the contre, so that they haue his regne atte his wille, and putte of his EnmYs the, lightloker, and a gaste the

toke the kyngus tonne that was neighe and robbed hit. but anon, for drede of the

rebelle to him. BY the heipe peple rennyng thjto, they of this kyng Offe he droff in flow to her shippus, lesyng to Fraunce Egbright, of the her praYe. And NI heune kynge's kyurede alone a lyf, and whiche he most dradde to

Brigheric [sic] was dede, as aboue is saide, by poyson

be a Yenst hYrn and contrarie happeliehe I drouke, atte io his profytes. For this Warham his body was take Brightric, and other kynges to buriels.

Si.

14 Egbriht Rex. B erizzoolf Rex.

Egbrilit SIBRIIIT, Pat I of told, at pe lond had lore, Pat a suknhird slouh vndcr a busk of thorn,. Had a kosyn, light Egbribt, whilom exiled was porn Pe king Brihtrik, I nc wote for what trispas. pis ilk Egbriht was norised at Paris In Charlernakn courte, sire of Saint Dint's. ! Ailrik was his fader, a duke of faire fame, Lord of Wicombc, of Redknges, & of Tame. His moder was Sibriht sister, pat was a fole king. Pat Brittrik was dcde him corn tieing. Ile Coke lene at Charles, & corn tulle Pis lond, Among his riche kirndc ;ode frendes he fond.

. What porgh lowe of lond, & olde auncestrie, \Van he pc regne of Westsex alle plekncrlie.

De Berne- uolf rege.

'Whan he pleknere sekskn in pat his earn had torn, pat his flue ancestrcs had holden before, porghotit Fe South to Fe North he had for grete njrtli, If any Breton were fonden holdand lond or lkth, pat he mild voide pc bond, if he his life wild sane. Many fled to LSinda5r, socour forto bane, Tope king Berncwolf, Pat was Breton, & be witloaid his feaute, Pat he suld haf don. Bitttex Fist tuo Icknges a werre bigan, Slain was Bernewolf, & with him many man. Under Elendoune Fe bataile was smkten. Men syng in pat'euntre (fele zit it witen)

1 Male. Nam pater' ligberti fuit Alemundus sive Ealinundus. Vide Sax. Chron. p. 76.

" Elen-.

Benzzoof Rex. Egbrilit Rex. 13

" Elendoune, Elendoune, pi lond is fulle rode " Of pc blode of Bernewolf, Per he toke his dede. After Pat bataile Egbriht, pus herd I sat, Seised Kent & Estsex, Soutlisex & Surat, & alle Pe grete loud, fro Douer to Grimsby. Wilaf, Bernewolf sonne, perwith had envy. He wild haf venged his fadcte, if he had hailed might. Bot he fond no force again pe king Egbrilit.

.If he wild ouht hauc, after' after" his fader decesse, Nedly him bihoued coin tille Egbriht pes. At pe last l►e coin, & mad Pe king homage, 1gbril►t for his curteisie gaf him his heritage.

I Egbrilit of alle pe lond had Pe regante, De 'coma- Fro Douere vnto Tuede, alle was his fee. gio Wallice.

Wilaf with him he led, Wales forto se. Bangore with force, Pei toke Pat cite. The Walsch men it saub, it mot no better be, ,-, Pei coin befor Egbriht, & mad him feaute,

II Sone after Pe wtntere, whan Pe homer bigan, Pe king & his mettle went to burgh Konan. Kontig& It was 611 Witso►►day, in time of sleping, burghe.

K,oin messengers of Ix North, & teld Egbriht Pe king, porgh Frithbald a lord of pe Northende, & said, " Sir Egbriht, our chefe king to tille lende, 44 Sutl're not Sir Frethebald long to lede Pis pine. " His folk beside Tuede es slain & kast Per mile, " Ile is now in point his refine forte type. De Frethe- ( 4 porgh pam of Danmark pis lend wille pd. wine, ()attic).

' Dele. &

16 Eglirilit Rex. • e, & if Pei Sir Frethebald haf now ouer comen, " pe to Pere remenant of Pe North son salle Pei nomen.

Rennin a- pud Kar-

" Sir, for Pis hie feste, & for Pe Trinite, ham, & rex " Stare vs nouht to lose, for defeaute of pc. fitgain cepit.

'

WHAT did king Egbrilit? Withouten any somons, & withouten asking of Erles or barons, He bled him eider suj,t11, &, whan he corn to Tuede, He saute sqlk oste of paiens, Pat ale he was in drede. Neuerpeles at Barham was the bataile gkuen, Pe king was narow holden, his folk alle to dOuen. Tuo dukes & tuo bisshopes for euer toke per 'elle, Pe king was alle affraied, per Bede gate him greue. Pe 1:imp's folk was litelle, it had no dure. On the n5rglit he fled away, pat non said him se. 1115,ght be neuer nourc fjend a resting place. Right vnto Donkastre pp Danes gait him chact... Whan he wend haf passed Po Pat ban him dque, Pau were arSrued in Humber gritty sehippes & tint. Ilkone 'with folk inouli, red5, to bataile. " God watel" said lye king, " now comes me tranaile.

De Dar- dano filio regis Da- cite.

I Dardan bight Pe cheftaSrn of Pat company, . Sadok sonne of Danmark king Danesrir. Per pauillons had pei sette beside pe water of Done, Egbrilit gadred partie, & tared him fulle sone. Listen now, how Jhesu Criste, for his milelle mercjr, Again Pe fals paiens Pe Cristen stode he by. '

Sibribt

Eohriht Rex. , 17

SIBRIFIT duke of Bridles, Egbriht sister sonne, n, militim Anglortn,

Ile coin his earn to socour fro fer per he gan wonne. & notnini. bus cortn.

Skward pe gode westreis, Edald Pe vavasoure, • \Vilaf king of Merce, he coin to Pat stoure. •

Harald of Donsmore his lord eider led • Berald of pc Marche, of strength non lie dyed. Haldnin• of Donkastre was chosen pat ilk day, - To bere pe kingc's banere agqn pe paien lag. Bot Ilakon, Hernebald sonne, of best he bare Iv voice, In stale of kinge's banere he (lid him bere Pe croicc, In wirschiP of Jhesu, & of his passion, pe paiens were so fcrd, pei might haf no fogson. pe fcrp day of Septembre, in Pe' heuest tide,

IITTn.dia At Donkastre mot men se minion to batale ride. s ptilithris

foil lit.11.1m pat to Pe king Egbriht alle were Kt ginen, :qua Dun-

kit t .• tuner For Per heritage per to die or linen. regent • Fr, -

— briltt & Pei lime on Pe paiens, as men c6 wile gode. pe paiens agein Pam fulle stifely Pei stode.

i)ano..

Pei lank alle pat (14, ne left Pei not Pe night, Wilaf pe king of 3 Merle was slain iu that fight, & Berald of Pe Marche, & Pe duke Uttre Lord of Cirencestre, pat night slain was he. Alle Pat night pe kinge's folk fulle ille were Pei led, Mani on was slain, & wended hard bisted. Right in Pe niorpkng in aldermost nede Com pe kinge's sonncs tuo, als Criste wild it rear, Out of Germinic with folk inouli of might, Adelwolf & Ethelbert, knightcrs bope fulle wight.

' Sic. 2 .Sic: 3 L. Merce. Vol. I. c \Vas

IS Eobbrila Rea.. Was neuer in alle his lyue Per fadere ore so glad, Als whin be saulk his sons tuo, Pe paiens force to sprad. Adelwolf his fader saued at pat ilk iorne, & Ethethat in the felde his fader lete he se, How Dardan for his lance doun to Pe erth went, & smote his hede of, his fader to present.

1 Harald of Donesmore vppon Done him mette Vibrand, Dardane's broiler, with suerd so him grate, Pat Porghout his armes Wibrand alle to hewe. Sone with Pe Danes gamned Pam no glewe. Pat perceyued Haldain, Pat bare pe croice on bie, Sex & gritty paiens enbussed priuelic. Ile tok his suerd in hand, pe croYee tete he (idle, & medeled him in pe.pres, among pe barons alle.

Ecce (le probitiac Ilaidajto,

Before pe kyug & his sons be rincthcd Pam Pe way, . Many wer pe paiens Imt HaldaYn did slouh at day.

'Pi Prta- vit enicem Bituex vndcron & men was ix fold alle wonnen. pro vexillo.

I

For alle pat wild abide were ouer riden & ronnen. pe king with pe maistrie went in to ix toun, ,, Pe pris he had wonnen, in vertew of Criste's passioua, Whan he had done Pere alle pat he suld do, He went vnto Wynchestre, his conseile gaf him M.

Unto Pe somerestide Per gan he lende, • Fyuc Sr gritty batailes bad he brouht title ende.

' • lie felt him henY & ferlY seke, his bodkowes alle seere, His childre he wild auance, title he o li,ue were. Title Adclwolf gaf he Westsex, hede of alle pe thede, Lordschip ouer alle Pe Linde& bituex Douer & Tucde.

Ethel.

Adehag Rex. • . 19

Ethelbert held- Estsex, Southsex & Kent, For homage & feaute tile Adelwolf -it went. Whan Egbriht had fared his sons in londes seere, Now in his last ende of que & gritty pre, At Wirtichestre he died, & Per his body is laid: Was neuer pc load so zemed, Ix folk so Pan said. VS,ue childir he had, knkhtes doutitSr of hawks, & ale were pei khiges in diuers Nudes.

ADELWOLF of Westsex,' after his Were dede, Adelwolf At Chestre Bette his parlement, his tenantz Perto bode. vas.

He sent for ale re kiruges, fro Berwik vnto Kent, & Pei with fulle Bode wile .allc vnto him went, & mad tile him feaute, withouten any chest, & cleymed him for Per chefe of West & of Est, Of North & of South in length & in brede, Fro Kent vntille Berwik, als tasks ale Pat thede.

5 Ele was first of lagload, Pat gaf God' his tije', Primusrer, qui dedit

Of IssIme of bcstes, of londes or of liPe. decimal cc- rtesint in Anglia.

i He was also so great a Among others that ascribe this Friend to the University of Act to K. ..:Ethelmolf is John Oxford, that he had thoughts Rasta!, or Rastall,in hisehro- of rebuilding it, after it had nicle,a wonderfull scarceprint- been destroyed by barbarous ed Rook, lent me by my very Enemies. Whence, ,iis that worthy Friend, the ingenious some Historians sat,, that he Mr. John Murray of London. .was the Founder of that Uni. 'I Ethelwolphus (says Ra. versily,which,hozoever, is more dell) son to Egbert began his truly asserted of his Son K.A1., fred, who certainly did raise it

reyn over the westsaxous the yere of cryst, viii. c. xxxii. I

Up (span after the Destruction some say that this Ethelw old brought upon it by the Danes. [1. Ethelwolf ] fouudyd furst

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20 . Eadbaldus Rex. Ethelbertus Rex.. Sipen he went to Rome, as man of holy wille, His sonne & he alle pat zero with Pepape duelled stale. Pe toper zere next, after his duelling,

' Ile went home bi France, & spak with pe king.

• Fe king him his douliteri tar name was Juwet, FitIle wale on Sir Adelwolf was Fat maiden sett. Ile brottlit hip Inglond, & siPen lined tuo here. lie lies at Winehestre beside an autere. Pre Pousand marke he gaf with testament fulle right To Petir & Pattie of Rome, to sustein per light.

Edbaidu% rex faluus.

.AFTER Adelwolf, his sonne bight Edbahle, To here & a half pe regne gall he hide. Of him in holy kirke men said euelle save, IIis stepmoder Juwet he werldid agan Pe lavve. Of his body was no force, non for him wild murile Rot pus I fo in my boke, he lies at Schirburne.

A IMO An. milli. ' D cx„ . j,X1°.

Pe date of Criste to neuen Pus fele were gon, Auk bundreth eucn, & sexti & on.

rthelbertlis rex.

AFTER Edbalde corn Ethelbeit his earn, Adelwolfe's broiler, of Egbriltte's team. Ile did him coronne king, lie was a noble man, & in his first here paiens on him ran . ,

i the vnyuersyte of Oxonford. no University here before. Where the word furst is to be Sec mg Preface to Thomas understood of the first found. lug it after it had been destroy- ad) not that there had been

Sprot's Chronicle, §. ' Repone, nccc.t.xt°.

15.

Rittitt

Elfridus Rex. night at Wircichestre, ageirn pam gan he stand, pe king pain bataile, & did Pam fie Pe land.

21

In werrirng & in wo he regned firue zero. Men bided lim at Schireburn, Eclbald fulle nere. Pe date of Jhesu Criste was written in pis lyue, A nno

Domini. • Auht hundreth winter sexti & que. pcccrno.

c.x.vo.

A.FTER Etheibert corn Elfrith his broiler, Etfridu$ rex. Pat was Egbrilite's sonne, & zit per was a noper. Elfride porgh heritage toke him pc coroune, & gaf Alfridc his broiler Surray to warisoune. Tulle Elfride oure king corn tipinges starke, pat firm kirnges & firue cries wer cornea of Danmarke, pat wild oic him rcnne, & reue him pe coroune, With alle per grete folk, pei lair in Aluertoune. Pe king & his broiler, Pat hight Alfrede, Gadred folk togider, als men Pat had nede, .

& coin to Pe bataile with fulle egre herte. pc Danes stode Pam ageirn with bataile fulle smerte. In pe passion time was Pe first bataile, Nene was Pat ilk gore, grete Was Per trauaile. Pe toper gore, pe prid daj, after flalwethurs tide, Pe Danes, porgh Godes grace, were on Pe wers side. For slain were pei alle, erle & baron. Fe king did mak at Bork a faire procession, 8.: !milked Jhesu Cristo with herte fulle midde, pat ageyn Pe paiens his loud night t childe.

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22 S. Ednzundus Rex.

De Sancto ELFRIDE had a kosin, pat king was of scheldel Edmundo lnartire, & Nortbfolk & South folk of Elfride be held;

'de morte 4ius per to cum.

pat was Saint Edmunde, pe croune at time bare. A duke of Danmark, his name was Inguare, Ubbe an erle of Huneis with Pat Inguar kam, Uppon Saint( Etimunde Nortlifolk be nam. .

Edmunde sent his messengers, of pes pam bisouht. Inguar sent bode ageitn, pat pes wild he noubt, Bot if he Bald him Pe load, Pan he suld haf pes. Pat wild not Saint Edmunde, pe bataile he ches. He atired him to bataile with folk pat he had. Bet is cursed Danes so grete oste ai lad, pat Edmunde was taken, and slain at Pe last. Tulle fcr fro pe bodj, laj, was Pe bale kast. pe body son Pei fonde, pe bade was in doute.

Ecce mire- eultun de capita Sun- eti Edmun-di.

Up & doune in pc felde Pei. sonbt it aboute, To haf knowing pad, alle Pei were in were, Tile pe hale him self said, here, here, here. ' per Pei fond pc hede is now a faire cbapclle, Oxen hate pe toun, per Pe botli felle. •

' Per where he was schotte a noPer chapelle stashes, & somwbat of Pat tre, Pei bond vntille his halides. pe tone is fro pe toper motes a grate mile, So fcr bare a woulfe pe liede, & kept it a grate while, Unto Pe hetle said, here, all I bcfor said. Fro Pe wottlf Pei it toke, vnto Pe batik it laid. Men sais, Per he ligges Pe tlesch samen zede, Bot Pe token of Pe wonde als a redo threde.

Nov

Pfiidus Rev. 23

Now lies he in schrine in golde Fai is retie. Seuen gcre was he king Fat time Fat he was dale.

IN Fe gere after, right in Fe time of May, Oieth. rex Dache, ar-

Osetli, Fe Danes king, com Inglond to affray. ripuit pnr- tum in Ber-

Ile argued at Berwik, in Fe water of Tucde. wik super 0 regem LI-

Prittebelp of Fe Scottes he had at his node, fridtun

& cont fast toward Fe South, grcte powere he led. Elfride & his hropere out of Bork fled. poi praied God specially, pat he wild Fam saue, & agcin Fe Danes help inouh to have. At Fe point of Fe bataile, displayed his hanerc, Fe king Bede to Fe kirke, his messe forto here. Bot Alfride his limper Bede to Fe bataile. Ile was ouer hardy, Fe Danes be gan assaile. Discomlite was Alfride within a litelle throwe. Fe king herd Fat telle, Fat his side gede Lowe. Ile dight him to pc bataile, his folk to socoure. God did faire miracle for Elfride Fat houre. For non of Fe Danes askaped with Fe life. Bot Fe Scottes kyng, Fat mayntend Fat strife, Opon Elfride ran, als iraytoure inferd. Elfride he'wondcd with dint of a suerd. Sex gere was he king, with werre weldid Fe scheld. Flak gods was his ending, he ligges at Drifreid.

1 i)of alle Fat he wcrred in Nvo & in strife, Fe foure & tuenti houres he spended in holy life. 1/,; fcrst. viii. homes in praicr aldethest, Fe token viii• houres in slope & i❑ rest,

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21 Afridus Rex. ,. pe prid, viii. houres lie studied, how he mkght Makntene Pe lond with lawe, his folk bald to right. ' Haluendele his godes he gaf to Gode's writes, Sustened abbeis, norised poucr cicrkcs, Did reise vp kirkes, fiat were fallen doun, & alit Pat him seruedle brouht to warisoun. '

Ann°. D. Pe geie of Criste's birth was anlit hundred' euen, ccc°. . Lxxo• & pus many mo, sexik & elleuen. •

.A.LFRIDE his broPer, a gode clerk was he one, Of body so douldk in Inglond was none. He rescekucd pe coroune, after his broiler Bede, Strong were pe batailes pc Danes on him beds. Tuo & tuentk batailes he wanne Pe first here, pe Danes so many tyines argued on him here.

Dc Rollo Pat he so many slouh a duke had envie, p-lzano

• ba: ! o, cut & eft argued on pis lond with fulls grete nauie. Amat mown erat Itobertm, Rollo was his name, a knkght Nile douhtk, & hie coo- pat Alfridc wend wele, haf Torn Pe seignork. qubivit totam Nor- „,„„,iim Whan Pei coin to bataile, ilk over gan askie,

AlfriJc veto Rollo sone gan him alie. So many doulitk (Vines was bituex Pam tueke, .. Welc Pei did togidere, better may no man seke. God, porgh his grace, Pat day so wele sped, pat Rollo asked Cristendom at Pe kyng Alfred. porgli Jat Cristendom, p?9 pat were so write, . '

At balk kirke's fiikth alle on were boPe. Rollo was kald Roberd, whan be was baptized, fl:) :01 Pc 141111; Alfride, als he had deuised.

Now

Afridus Rex. . 25

Now is Roberd Cristen, he dightes his nauie, & ferde ouer Pe see, & conquerd Normundie. Duke pau was he cald, porgh conquest of hond, Alfrid he left stille here in Inglond.

II git a noper Danes king in pe Norp gan argue. De Gun-tero patre

Alfrid it herd, Pidere gan he drgue. Hawlok. sicut dicit

Hanclok fader he was, Gunter was his name. Pctrus.

Ile brent citees & tonnes; over alle did he schame. Saint Cutbcrtc's cicrkes po Danes pci. dred. Pe tokc Pe holy bones, about Pei Pam led. Seam gore porgh Pe land wet. Pei born aboute, It comforted pe king mikelle, whan he was in doute.

II Whan Alfrid & Gunter had werred long in ill; porgh pe grace of God, Gunter turned his wille. Cristend wild he be, Pe king of fonte him lift, & gritty of his kngghtes turtles, porgh Gode's gift. po pat first were foos, & corn of paten lay, Of Cristen men haf los; & so Pei wend away.

II Bot I haf grete ferl5r, Pat I find no man, Dc Haw-

Pat has writcn in stork, how Hanelok pis lond wan. tax,

Noiper Gildas, no Bede, no Henri of Iluntynton, No William of Malmesbiri, nc Pers of Bridlynton, • Writes not in Per bokes of no king Athelwold, NC Gold&ugh his doubter; ne !lanelok not of told, Whilk time Pe were kinges, long or now late pei mak no melting what), no in what date. Rot pat pise lowed men vpon Inglis!) tellis, Right story can me not ken, Pc cflteinte what spellis.

Alen

26 . Edwardus primus Rex. Men sais in Lyncoln castelle ligges zit a stone, Pat 'Janelok kast wele forbieuer ilkone.

. & zit Pe chapelle standes, Per he weddid his wife, Goldeburgli pe kYnge's doubter, pat saw is zit rife. & of Grime a fissliere, men redes zit in rime, Pat he biggecl Gr5rmesb9 Grime Pat ilk time. Of alle stories of honoure, pat I haf porch souht, I find, Pat no compilonre of him tellis oat. Sen I find non redY, Pat tellis of Harmlok kYnde, Tune we to Pat story, Pat we writen fYncle.

1)""rniti- bus Dacia. SON after corn an erle, Alfilen Iii,glit pat huride, Argued vp with Inguar, Pat slain S. Edmunde. Upon Pe king Alfrid werre son began, Bot Porzli pe gode Noitheren slain wer ilkaman. Sex & fifty batailes A Uric] ouercain, After nyen & tuenty zero pe,dede him !ripen nani, & sex monetbes mo, pus Pe story said. At WYnchestre in tournbe in Fe abbaY is he laid. Pe date Pat certqn es in boke writer' here, NoUPer more no lesse, Pan nice hundreth zere.

Edwardus lei. AFTER Pis Alfride kom Edward pe olde)

Faire man he was & u is, stalworth & bolde. At London, at Saint Poole's, toke lie 1.7e alpine, & purueied his parlement of erle & baroune. He seid vnto Pam alle, pat jiurueied said it be, Pat in alle lid load said be no icing bot he.

, pe

Edw•ardus primus Rex 27 •

pe smale 'tinges of pe lond all were Pei comen, Of Scotland, of Wales, of Kombirlond, Pei nomen Inglis & Danes, & Pe gode ISTorreis, Duke, erle & baron, & oPer knightes curteis,

• pei said in pat parlement, porgh conseile of alle, pat Edward felle best be chefs, oiler said non talk.

NOW is Edward chosen king at per parlement, & Pe lordschip of h lond alle title him went. Fourtenc childre he gate von tuo wiles, Sex smiles & auht douhtres, po were faire lyues. . Athelstan, Edwin, Edgar, Edmond, Edred, Edwi: 'tilde was his doubter, was kald Ililden lady, mai & saynt Eadburgh pat lyued holy life, pc ferth Octouian Mari Pat Emperoure's wife. poi passed of pis world, whan psi were right zonge, What per names were I kan telle:no tonge.

I In Edwarde's tend were aritted vp in Kent Pre kings & sex dukes, Pat out of Danmark went. In to Lyndsai broulit Pei him ti5rag, & purucicd oste & (light him als a doubti king. At Teteford in Northfolk his batter was displaied, Pe pre 'tinges were slain, Pe toper were affraied, Pat Pei went to Per schippes, so hard he sette his chace, Edwa`rd bad Pe maistri, & Prinked God his grace. Ile corn ncucr to bataile, at he ne had pe maistrie. Foure & tuenti zere was he king, & porgh no folic Ncuer in his lyue a foie of lond he les. Scotland & Cumberland & Wales he had in pes,

Corn.

28 Allielstanus Rex. Cornwalle, Lyndsai & Kent, Dorsette & Surrcie. He ligges at Winehestre, Pc sofa it is to seie. Pe date of God nien hundreth, & four & tuenti mo, Whan dede his lyfe sundred, pe folk for him was wo.

A delsta. AFTER Edward Pe olde regned Athelstan, DM rex.

Pat was his' eldest sonne, & a noble man. Pe baronage & Pe clergie were somond to Kingston, Per wes his fest holden, & gine!' him Pe croune.

De Trilmlo wat I iae. PC next gerc Pere after his coronment, PC Walsh men, pat luf no pes, on him ran & brent. Hot Athelstan pc maistrie wan, & did Pam ramie cric, & alle Northwales he set to trcuagc hie. . Tuenti pounde of gold be pre, pre hundreth of siluer dere, & per to fine hundreth kie ilk 3crc to his lardere. Siluer for Southwales not a fcrping nokc

'so Atm qui moveront guerram ¶ super A theist:nm regem.

OPer trcuagc lie Bette, c pousand kie he toke. Pc fedi' gere of Pe regne Owald a werreoure, Constantin of Scotland king was & traitoure, Ouwer king of Wentland, pose pre with Per powere Werred oil Athelstan with oste fulle austere. But Athelstan, Porgh Gode's grace, so with Pam_fore, Pci were fain to ask pes, &,feaute Pei him snore. Ile tend pre of his regne sen he was crouned kyng,

• Of Edwin his broper bifellc suilk a Ping. At London in his courte with wiknes men him fond, rt Athelstan did hint bind both fote & bond, & kast him in tille Temse, whan it was most brim) To chastise alle oJcr he tok vengeance on him.

At

Athelstailla hex. . 29

M min vnderstanding he wild tak no mede pat was ateknt of wikkeelnes, his broiler to Bede Bede.

II Constantin'of Scotlond, pat I are of spak, Brak his feaute son; of tresoti it is lak, De,falsitate

regis Sco- & die folk of Danmark with Constantin held, forum. & slouh our Inglis!' men, wasted toun & fele]: Athelstan herd sai, he went to Beuerlak, & praied to Ile bisshop Jon in fertre per he lair, Pat he wild bald his ben; *Mille jte.Trinite, St he suld due fris.kirke franchise & fe, To haf & Co holde a4 he was king leale. Qf him hal itei chartre seled• with his scale. SiPen he went to Durham, & gaf Saint Cutbert Londes & lipes; with chartir aperte. Ix bisshop of his gift holdes his fe, SiPen be went to bataile, Constantin to Ile. Constantin he reined, & did lo'itto stresse, & wan ite lond ilk dole, & wasted alle Cathenesse, & his son golden vnio his ostage. Sipen he turned to London, & his'baronage. Misio reir

Attie!stair in Scotland a scleOuth tied he one, 'iamb gi Athel- stow pro lie smote delve at Donbarte, an clue in Pe stone. snrore son Hilda. lege per tut um.

AT te feste of our lady ite Assumpcion, Went iv king fro London toward'Abinclon. pidq out of France fro Charles king of fame i dein pe of Boloim, Adulphas r"gts his name,

' Princcps ludas legntionis Pia reris Edwartli Ethel.. ,fitit 1dulphus, Arts Bade. switha Gni!. Ilinlinsb. de gestis • t„ini Comais Riau/1.in., ex regum Anglortttn, p. 28.

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30 illhelstanus Rex. & pe duke of Burgoin, Edmunde sonne, Reinem pe brouht king Athelston present withouten pere, Fro Charles king sanz faile thei brouht a gonfainoun pat Saint Morice in bataile befor Pe legioun, & scharp lance Pat thrilled Ihesu side ; & a suerd of gold, in Iv bilk did men hide . Tuo of Fo nailes, pat war porh Ihesu fete Tached on Pe croice, Pe blode Pei out lete, & som of pe thornes pat don were on his heued, & a fair pece pat of Pe croyce leued, Pat Saint Ilelein sonne at pe bataile wan Of pe Soudan of Askalone, his name was Madan.

I pan blewe pe trumpes fulle loud & fulle schille, pe king com in to pe hallo, Pat hardy was of wile. pan spak Reiner, Edmunde solute, (for he was messengere) " Athelstan, my lord pc gretes, Charles pat has no pere. " He sondes pe pis pres;.:iit, & sais, he wile him b$'nde 0 To Pe Porli Ilde pi sistere, & tille alle pi kinde. riefor Pe messengers was Pe maiden brouht, Of body so gentile was non in erth wrouht. No non so faire of face, of speck so lufly, Scho granted befor pam alle to Charles hir balk, & so did pe king, & ale pe baronage.

herum de

Mikelle was Pe richesse, Pei paneled hir passage, & led hir vnto France, spoused forto be, .0. Athelstan lenes stifle, & passed not Pe se. '''

Fedora- lion regis

un, & de bello

g In Pe zere after at Ilde wedded was, Constantin of Stotlond did zit more trispas.

Dacorum,

Ile

dthelstanus•Rex. 31

lie brouht pc king Aulaf arkued vp in Humbere, Seuen hundreth schippes & fiftene, so fele were Fe numbere. Athelstan herd say of per mkkelle oste, He & Edmunde his broiler light Fain to Pat coste. At Brunesburgh on [lumber pei gan pam assaile, Fro morn viito even Listen pat bataile. At pe last to Per schippes Pe king gan Pam chime, Alle away pei fled, Pat was of Godc's grace. Bot pc most partie algate was slain, Pat with life fled I trowe Pei were fulle fain.

11 Whan pe king Anlaf saute his folk torn, He fled vnto Danmark per TM he was born. At Pe Pask after he rued in pe South, At a hauen of Sandwich, in pe portis mouth. Whan he was aqued, pe folk was affray, & coin unto Wkachestre Per Pe k}•ug lay. Ile broulit with him a deuelle, e hogge Geant, Wele haf ze herd telle, lie bight. Colibrant. Anlaf sent messengers veto Athelstan, & bad him 3ehl Pe load, or yinl a noPer man To fight with Colibrant, Pat was his champion ; IVIio felle to haf Pe load, on pain it sill be don. Athelstan tok a day, a parlement did make, If any aiqii Colibrant Pe bataile durst take. He fond no man pat durst, for non had might, With Colibrant alone in bataile to fight. pan praied Athelstan to Criste & so►e wept.) & God sent him tokerifriig on night als lie slepe,

Pat

32 . .Ednzundus Rex. fiat he suld find a palmere orlir at morn, At pc South gate, alone as he was born, & if he wild praic him, •for Jhesu Criste's lone,

Eat de . He wild do Pe bataile, & Pei suld be about. bell* inter Gu5rclolem pat was Guy of Werwik, as Pe boke sais. de Wcrwyk Per he slosh Colibrant with hache Muds. & colt- loan'. Anlaf turned again, I trowe him was wo,

He & alle his to schippe gan pei'go. God delyiterde Athelstan of milk hard affairs, Sextene gere was he king & seucntcne dales, Sipen at Gloucestre dcdc euelle him toke. Bot cittik he out went, so sais my boke. Pers can not wy where he lies, Bot as I herd telle I say min auirs.

n, fine Men say he was fonden in Fe North cuntre Athewani ors;, At Hexham now late, I .wene soth it be. • An„. Pe date whan he died of Cod men tellis bk Domini m.ccono. Nicn hundred' winter 8c fulle fourtk. .xt., •

Eth.„„d„, AFTER Athelstan Pe king was Llniunde his broiler, Rex. pc waken did him desceit, & cites pam a noPer.

One Anlaf pei cies, & crouned him for kin;. Alle pe North ende was in his kepirug, & tale pc South en& title tdmunde pei drouh. Upon pe lids Norrcis Edmund() wan inouh. Firm cites be wan, Pat Pei held for Pers, Pat whilom was anccstres, fib heires veto 'wires,

• .I,3c01(1

Edredus Rex. 33

14coln & Derby, &' Southampton, Leycestre & Stamford, pise firm wan Edmon, . & yit pe king Anlaf so hard gait he chace, Pat he asked Cristendom opon Gode's grace. Rope he & Reknald was Guthefride's sonne, Re exilde pam out of ix North, Per Pei wild wonne. & gaf to Malcolme, king of Scotlande, Pat he suld be him leak, bi se & bi laude.

• THE fiftc zere of his regnc he went to Canterbiri, Fe feste of S. Austine, to hold it fulle n4ri. A thefe of his courte was outlawed late, Pe king knew him fulle wele, he mette him in pe gate. Whilom he serued in his panterie, & was outlawed for a felonie. Fe king tok pis pantelere, & strangled him right Fore, & he wonded Pe king dedely tittle sore. EMrnirabili

Worteregis. Seuen zere was he king, & seuen monethis mo. At Gloucestre is he laid, ix pantelere did him slo. Pe date was aim hundreth fourPty & seuen: Anna

Domini Pis was Pe seleouthest cas, pat bat' herd neuen. ocrectuo. r XIAll.

EDRED after Edmunde had Pe coronae, Fciredmi rex, Prater

Vpon pc Pask day, at London Willie. it Lila:midi. SiFen of all his barons he tok feaute, Hot Pe Northeren men held him no leaute.

' SnOtingalium (vel Notinge- quoin eS• Chron.Saxon.Stafford ham) du:. Neque aliter gut- Iwo Stamford hubet Speedos,

dent tan spud Florentium secus (ague auctores vett.

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31 Edredus Rex. Edrey Rex. . EYhike of Danmark for,king Pei him dies, & forsoke Ed redo, per were Pei les.

• Edrede with powcre vntille Pc North went, Ale Pe toun of Ripon he wasted & brent. Northumberland was in Mimi for Edred coming, pci did doun EYlrik Iv Danes king, & went out of Pe load with his rascaile, Was he not so hardy at stand to bataile. Alle Po Norreis, Pat had bicn so fikelle, Pes forto hauc Pei glosed him fullc mikelle. Per londes'& Per routes were at his wille, . Ile gaf S. Culbert perof, zit pei hold it stile. Ale pe regne holy was Pat time in his hand, & erles & barons Pat wer in Pe land, So wele were Pei chastised, ale corn tile his grith„ pat Pe pcs of Pc lond pe sikcred him alle with. . Aulitzere was he king, his daies ale filled.

• A nno

At Winchestre lie lies, so himself willed. pe date nien hundreth fifty & fine, •

Domini. Decccme. iso.

x h" reomo swims, pater sam ti

Whan at king Edred passed of pis liue.

-AFTER Sir Edred was his broiler Edwy, Ile resceined Pe croune of Pe seignori.

"wadi uartyris. So foolc a man of his life non was scene, Pe hie men of pe lond conseild intm bituene, To do doun Edwi at a parlement, & tulle his broiler Edgare Of Fe tenement.

S. Do"

Edgarus Rex. 35

S. Donstan Pe bissbop was at his' coroninent & of title his ancestres was never better Ling. He was bo,pe gode & wis in alle his delis, & right vnderstanding, to help at alle nedis. Mikille he. Wirschiped God, & serried our Lady, Pe abbey of Rumeie he felled richely, With rentes tulle gode & kirkes of pris, • He did Per in of Nunnes a bundreth ladies.

SI Edgare forto fle licheri of lyfe, ' His barons gal him conseile for to take a wife Elfied pe faire, pe duke's doubter Ormere. He gate of hir S. Edward, pat is pe martere. Dame Billed died sone, zit wild he luf mare, He tok bittere Estrild, duke's doubter Orgare. Of hir lord Edgar had scho sonnes tueiFe, . ' Edmunde„ Pat in his tende 3eie at Peterburgh gan deie. Eylred Nyas the zongest, & Estriki fulle dere. Wo was in his time, as ze may after here. Edgar per fader had alit Ingland, He went to Kerlion, Pe Walsch men he band With homage & feaute, in right & in lawe. Otnnes isti

feceront Kymak 'king. of Scotland, he coin for One awe, & Malcolme of Combirlaud was at his wille, g

rearo.

Ed-homatgintatt

gi

Mace= king of pe Iles, Dufnald fits Omere, Sifted) & Ilitivalle; Jacob &Juthille, He did pain mak feaute, als right was & skille: sipen he went aboute, kirkes vp to raise, : Abhaies forto help, were fallen in miseise.

• . P. coroqng. u2 He

36, Edwardui Rex es. marlir. He gaf to Cr9uland, in Pe Abbot time Gountere, pre inple of seignorie, about his autere. Anliten gere Edgar regned king & sire, lie lies in tombe in Pe abbey of Glastenbire.

Eccedelni- raculo San- cti Edgari.

OF Edgar Pe kkiig pus fond I writen, Pcrs telles pe same Ping, at his boke may ge witen. Sen four & tuenti gere, Pat he in erth was laid, An abbot of Glastebiri, Edward his name is said, Ile did mak a toumbe, Edgar in to lap, Bot it was ouer litelle, in alle manor way. Pei brak in tuo his schankes, to. mak pe toumbe mete, Pe blode was bope warme & fresh, pat of pe schankes pe abbot wex alle blynd, Pat did his bones broke, pe bisshop Owald herd of pat miracle speke, Resist at at pe toumbe, he tok vp pe bones, In a fertre Pam laid a riche for pe nones.

lete.

Anna ncccono. locxne.

pe date was !lien hundreth sexti & Prittene, Be was a holy man porgh miracle was sene.

DC Saila() AFTER Edgare was Edward his sonne, Edward() maim. Reg nand in alle Pe load, als his fader was *nine.

S. Dunstan corouned him bifor Pe baronage & oper bisshopes inouli, fulld goose he was of age. A gode man he was, & stalworth koPglit als stele. In Ingland newer before was king lufed so wele, Ne of Pe folk strange WI honourd so mPkelle:

• Pe right laves did he Joke for fals men & fikelle. •

noPe '

Eilredus Rex. . • 37 Dope riche & poucre he zeroed in euenhede, Non suld do oPer wrong for couetise no drede. Estrild his stepmoder scho pouht on felonie. Title wikked men scho spak, Edward to aspic. Pei did ats scho pam bad, & wrouht Pam seluen wouh, At Koruesgate porgh dcsceit Edward king Pei slouh. • Pre zero was he king, pe storS, pus me said, His body at WestmS,nstere in fertre is it laid. Ecce de

Pe date was nien hundreth sexti & mo rte ejus sextene, anti°. mo ucccevio. Pat was alle forwondred, for his dede coin tene. Lu

UNTO Kkngeston pe first wouke of May Ecce ea gum Sane- Com S. Dunstan, opon a Sonendak, tus Dun- stanus pro-

& of alle Pe lond erle & baroun, misit Re- gi Eilredo.

To Eilred, Edgar sonne, bitauht him Ix coroun. Eilredus

S. Dunstane hette him welt, in sorow his life to lede, corouatue est.

In alle his life ilk dole, of suerd he mot him drede. S. Dunstan title him spak wrothfulle Ironies of eye, How Pei of his mouth brak, listen, I salle zow se5re. " Eilred," said Dunstan, " Pi broPer Edward was slain " Porgh pi moder Estrid, per of scho was fulle fayu. " For slauhter of Pi broiler has you pe coroune, " Wele weld it salle you neuer, you has it porh tresoune. 44 Pof alle Edgar Pe gate, Estrild pi moder ware, " To Pe reame has you no right, bot porgh slauhter care. " For Pe luf of Pe pi broiler did scho slog " Fedor you & pine salle weld it with wo. Cc 8:-.'cone after pi daies pe reame salle men se " Gouerned Porgh aliens kkiide, & euerrnore fro Pe.

D 3 4 IV han

38 . Eilredus Rex. II Whan Dunstan bad thus said, bifor alle Pat were pore,

& taken had his Icue of barons Jesse & more, Eared pe zonge king toward London cede, A rede cloude in Pe skie about Ingland gan sprede, So mftelle blode it rained, Pe cab wex alle rede, pe folk was allied, & alle heuir als lode.

Ereft primum tor- =awn.

II Pe toper were next of his coronment, Pe Danes vp ariued, Souliamptone pei brent, & robbed Cornwaile, pe folk were alle anoied, Pat with Norwais Kerlion was destroied.

. Pei coin to London, & brent pe cite. Eilred & Pe barons, Pat were of his meine, With Pe erle of Ilerford held contek & fight, pat Per heritage defend pei tic might.

d;encnetsoercun-

mentutn. Als alle Pis sorow & wo was in pc ennjrng, Died S. Dunstan, men herd pc angels s5rng.

JUSTYN & Godem.u nde, of Danmark dukes riche, Ariued in Soutbfolk & brent Ipsewiche, Men & women slouli, & robbed porgh pc lond, Tille pci corn to Mideweie, cuntrc non pei fond. With Pe erle of Kent pei countred at Mcdcwcie, Pe maistric of him Pei wan, Pei did his folk alto &ie. pe lcrid & Pe lewid, pat wonned in Pe South, Sault wcrrc oil ilk a side, pei wer in Pe woulfe's mouth. Ten pounde of gold hi acre for Pe pes Pei gaf

• ''To Justy & Gudmuiall pei tok alle rale & raf. To schip pei turned & went, & charged pain fulle wele, Argued in Danmark with robberie ilk a dde.

In

Eilredus Rex. ' 39

IN to Wales Pat costc went Eilred pitouslk, Tercium turmentum.

For to gadre him ostc, if he mot haf maistrie. In pat ilk tjrme, as he to Wales went, Tuo outlandes kines on pis loud hauens bent. Anlaf of Norway, of Danmark king Suane, Argued in Pis lond, to many wer Pei bane. Per ostes boPe at ons vnto London nam, Pei toun was warned wele, & wist Pat pci cam. Folk inouh red was gadred, to pe cite

' Pei went egreljr, & did po kknges Ile. Fro London pei were drjruen, & com to Southampton. Man & beste Pei slouli, destroicd Pe cuntre doun. Eilred myght notilit to stand tam agejn, For pes he Pam bisouht, to gyf Pam a certe5rn.

Soma' 11 Firm pousand pound of siluer to Danes king toke. Qnartum

Pe went to Per schippes, & to Danmark schoke. tormentum.

& many of to Danes prinelk were left, & busked Westward, forto robbe eft. Wilton had Ilei taken, Southampton also, Cornwailc & Wales bouwed Pam vnto. Pe cuntre of Dorsett), lond & tenement, Alle had pei wasted, fro Scuerne viito Kent.

!lumina. Eared on a stound Pe told of pat wo, Four & tuenti pousand ponde he gaf away to go, To haf pes in his ljue, Pe lond no more schende.

pe Danes tok Pe siluer, to Danmark gan wende.

D 4 Four

40 Pilredus Rex. FOUR & tuenti w§nter lasted pis sorow, If he had pes at euen, lie had non at morow. For so hette S. Dunstan, he suld alle his lyue With werre his lond welde, & with his suerd strkue. . Now has Eilred nede of help & socoure, For boldenes he wild him liSrnd to soin berde in boure. FuIle so frendes he had, & fele foos inowe, Unto pc duke of Normundic lie went for to wouwe. Ile wedded pc duke's doubter, faire Emme Pe blaunche, pre bouwes of pam spronge, Iv ton es holy braunche.

De Eil gis.

filiis edi re-

Edmunde Irenside was eldest of po pre, PC to high Edward, pe ',rid Alfrid bight he.

11 ' Porgh of Sir Richard, duke of Normundie, Eared 3ede porgh his load, priuely to spie Eucrilkon pe Danes, & smertlir bounde Or sniSle of per hedes, sir as men pam founde. pus had Eilred pe lond at his wile, Bot Pe duke died sone, & Pat fele him itille. pan was Eilred socoure sone away went. TiPing corn to Danmark, Pat he Pe Dimes schent. Suane pe Danes king perwith had envy. To argue on Hingland be dight his Haul. AVlian he was argued, he sent fulle baldelk Messengers to Eared, als tile his mink. pis was his message, his Dimes wild he venge 110.09 him in bataile, to rennc & to renge. Eilred our king his bell) bad he torn Of Pe duke of Normundie, Pat dede was beforn.

' Id est) through aid of. Swine

Eilredus Rex. 41

Suane, pe Danes king, was of so grete strength, pat he destroied pis lond in brede & in length. Fine winter holy lasted Pat werre, Pat neucr Eilred our king durst negh him nerre. Noiper bi Norp no hi South corn him ncuer help. Wo was alle his comfort!), of sorow mot he gclp. Pritti Pousand pounde vnto Suanc he sent, Pes to haf his line, & Pei to Danmark went.

. . Now is king Suane went title his cuntrc, Eilred sent for Edrik to be his owen priuc. So fals a traytour in will was non as he, Of Lineable he gaf him pat cuntre schire. pe duke said vino pc lqiig, " Sir, I suite now sar, " For to sane sour lond wcic, a fulle siker wai. " Do mak pre hundreth schippes opon pe sees koste, " To kepe Pam of Norwcie & Pe Danes oste. " & if pe folk Perin be trewe vino PC) " Doute Pe of non enmis, Pat comes vp on Pe.

1.Pe sent to seke monk a schip wright . To pe toun of Sandwiche, pe nauic forto dight. Whan Edrik it wist, pat Pe schippes wer redi. Ile sent to Norwcie his lettres prinelk, Unto Pe king Anlaf, title lnglond to COM. Anlaf & Sir Thurkille arkued vp in pei nom. Anlaf & Thurkille aryued vp in Kent, Alle about Pei robbed, & tok Pat pei mot hont. Pe folk of Pe cuntrc to Pis conseik, Pei cites, To gg Palo four hundreth pounde, forto lyuc in pes.

to

42 Eilredus liar. Pe Danes tok Pat siluer, & turned eft agehi, & voided Pe cuntre, Pe folk was fulle feYn.

11 Bot in Pe gere after, obowen Grimsby Eft Pei gan aryue porgli sonde priuely, porgh fals Edrike, pat pain pider basted. Lincoln & Lyndeseic pei stroied & wasted. FaIs Edrike went, pes with pam to make. Fourti pousand pounde he did pam take, Pat non in alle Pe cuntre more suld be piled, Bot cuer was Eilred fouly begilcd. •

11 Whan Pe king wende, haf pes in his lyue, Suane of Danmark at SandwYche gan argue, & brouht hider with him his sonne, Pat bight Knoutc. pe folk Amine Humber to Suane gan pei Mute. Alle was porgh Edrik, pat mYkelle was to blame. Ile was pe kynge's conseiloure, & did him mykelle schame.

ANE erle in Pe North, Uctred men kalde, He com vnto Gaynesburgh, of Suane forto batik, Forto lyue in pes, & werre forto fle, He corn vnto Suane, & mad him ferrite. Of the North Suane had a partie, Pe South lie desired,

Ostes tile him his sonne fast Pei atired. Knoute went to Pe North, Suane in to Pe South, Pan was Eilred in Pe wolfe's mouth. Suane toward Oxenford went folic smertly, . & in Pat ilk toun did ho krie a krie, Pat ale pat him scrued, & of his meYne ware, Man, woman & childe, suld Pei alle forfarc.

. Kastels

Eilredus Rex. liastels suld pei bete doun, kirkes suld Pei brenne, •

43

BoPe citez & tonnes., Pat pei mot se or ken. Of Pe toun of Winehestre feaute had he at wile, SiPen he went to London, pat hated lie tittle ills. pe bode corn to pe king, pat soiorned per in, pat pe king Suanc pe tdun wild he win. A Danes erle, a with Pe Kurkille he bight, He half our king defend pe toun at his might. King Suane gaf assaut, pe wanes to assaile, Mkkelle folk he les, & tint his traimile. Four & tuenti pousand in Temse alle at ones Wer dronkled of Danes, Pe Deuelle haf per. bones.

SUANE turned fro London, alle porgli felonie, & went. to Wallingford, to mak his maistrie. Sipen he 3ede to Bathe, & sette pe toun on fire. ACheimare title him felle,.an Erle of Deuenscbire. Achelrnare with feaute to Suanc he him bonde, Fro Wellis vnto London alle felle to his honde. Suane toward Denmark sped him fulle fast, & ostage of London he had at Pe last. Ilk cried oii-oPer, now is Suane king • Ouer alle Inglond, & Biked has no ping.

11 Eilred is so reimed of his tresorie, His wife & his childre he sent to Normundie. Eilrmins

trausfrma.. pe bisshop of Londone he fright Sir Alphanie Novo Led Edward & Aifride, & Emme at was ladle. wain.

' .-- Vulgo vacant Tarkillam.

In

44 Eilredzi s Rai.

IN pe winter after Eilred went ouer pe se Unto' Nomundie, with his wife to be.

4

'Man pe duke herd say, pat' Eilred eider cam, With mikelle noblei agein Eilred he nam. l' , &seeped him curtasli, & said, " lefe & dere, 44 Mi load is at Pi wille, title pe socoure is here."

Anno Pe date a Pousand was, & mo bi fourti zero, DOM1111. MO. xi.-. Pat Eilred & his childre soiorned with duke Richere.

5 Now comes Suane eft agein with Criste's malison, Pe load leid to taliage so mikelle on ilk a toun, pat noiper erle no baron of alle per heritage Might not liue per on, to gif Per taliage. Trcuagc als he asked of S. Edmunde ping, pe corsaint & pe kirke he thrette for to brenning, & trot he had his asking, Pc load he sold destroie. To GaSrnesburgh he kald Fe barons forto note. He said befor Pain allc, , of S. Edinundc's load lie wild haf treuage, or brenne alle pat he fond.

5 Alle was wele, title euen after Pe soupere He gale about, & plaied with Po Pat were him nere. He swill out of pe firmament an armed knight coin dour]; Pat was S. Edmunde, cruelle als a icon, Suerd girded & lance in hand, pan gan Suane to crie, - Non saute bot lie one, he said, 44 now sallc I die, 44 help knkghtes, if ge may, I may no km go. " I se Edmunde with me wrope, I wote he wille me slo.

De morte With Pat word he fellaoun dede as any stone, Swine,

Life & saule to Mlle, & flesh, blode & bone.

. ' Stc. Now

Eilredus Rex. 45

Now is Suane dede, & wonnes with Sathanas, Pe Danes ches Knoute to king of Danmark pat he was, & Inglond he seised for, his fader conquest, Grete taliago laid he Peron bi Esten. & bi West. Pe folk wild not suffre to be treuwageres,

• Bot sent after Eilred bi certain mcssengcres, & praied him to coin home, Pe croune zeme & take, ' Pe lordschip of Knoute king wild Pei alle forsake.

II Biked sent tille Inglond Sir Edward his sonne With his letter sealed, & Panke wild he Pam conne, & blipcly title Inglond wild he corn again, If he might on Pam troste, pat Pei were certain. Alle Pe cocoons of Pe lend with letter Pam bond, & ilkon sette his scale Pert° with his own bond, pat if he wild coin again, pe lond forto were, . Newer more to Danes king failx said Pei here. Whan he wist per wille, he hied hider sqthe, Pei rescqued him fulle faire, & were of him blythe. With him alle, Pei said, poi wild 1Srue & deie Alle holi pe loud, but Pei of Lyndseie Eilred Per lege lord him Pei Ale forsake, Eilredui

fuga%. it & Per hede king Knout Pei pan toke. IC flout itin

rcgei, & ilerum re-gnuni cripit. No \'V rises Eilred, & gadres oste stark,

& chaces king Knoute in title Danmark. Whan Pe Danes were out, Pat timbred him his tent-, 14ndeseie he destruied quite alle iidene. It was Pam self to wite, Pei fete of him so lite. e wrong was alle Pairs, Pe king did hot right. '

11 Whan

46 Ei&edits Rex. Ednz. Irenside Rex. 11 Whan pe king wende, Pat pes suld forge go,

Pe fals Eric Edrik bigan eft a wo: Tuo old gentile men Edrik did forfare, Fe ton Night Sigifcrd, pe toper Sir Morgare, For couctise of per londes, & seignorie pat Pei helde, & for Pei were a partie smiten in tc, clde. Pe fals Edrik did lede Sigiferde's wife Unto Malmeestre, hir name was Aldife. Edmunde Irenside, Eilredc's sonne, teener in pis lond stile wild he wonne, Of Pis ilk treson he herd oft spekc, & of fals Edrik fain wild he him wreke. He toke Sigifcrde's wife, withouten his fader !cue, & wedded hir at pe kirke, Edrik forto greuc. Whoa he had hir wedded, he went also quik, & outc of alle po londcs he kast pe erle Edrik,

De Edmun- do Irenside.

Of alle pat tenement, pat boPe pe brethres ware, pat longed to Sigiferd, & to Sir Morkare. •

NOW is Eilred our king fallen in sckenes, He lies at Euesham, his abbai it es. His eldest sonne Edmunde knightes gode he sekes, Fro Douere vnto Wales Pe folk tille him mekes. Sc Pe erle Edrik lie gadred mykelle pride, Knyghtcs & serganz oiaindesai side. Forto slo Edmunde porgh tricherie, hot Edmunde es wele warned of his felonie. Edmunde hi messengers Pc erle he dillies, Edrik in tille Danmark to Knoute sent spies,

For to

Eilred-us Rex. .edm. Irenside Rex. 4'r

For to corn tille Inglond sone suld he assay, Arkued:Pat he ware of Bole ix tuelft day. Knoute bi his sonde Edrik agqn grettei To argue he suld fonde pe day pat he him settc.

*. °C - OMEN is KnOute to cuntre, to ride he him hastis, Man & woman to slo, he robbes & wastis. A gode erle of Warwik was don to Pe suerd, Porgh pat fals Edrik, als he did Sigiferd. . Eilred was led to London, & seke gan per lie. Edmunde praied him of help pritiely bi spic. Londreies inow corn title Edmunde, & wastid ale & brent Leicestre alle doun. • Bot Pe fals Edrik did his quaintise, ',at Edmund with Knoute mette in non wyse.

il Knoute & Edrik pei seised Porgh tresone De tradi- Bokingliam & Bedford, Pe toun 91. HuntYngtone, Lincolne & Notimgham, Pe toure of Northampton.

time EMIL,

SiPen went to Donkastre & vntille Aluerton, & alle Northumberland it was at Per wille. . Edmunde & Pe erle Uctred pat time held pam stifle. To London vnto Eilred basted pet per weie, Tor bodword men broub, Pe king suld sone deic. Whan Edrik wist Edmond to London was gone, Ms londes & his rentes he seised eft ilkone. Eilred at London endid his life, Atlitt & Prittk wynter he regned with strife.

Mortuus est Eilredus rex anno

pat tirrne he died in pen Sc in wo, Domini *nil lessimo.

Pe date was a Pousand & sextette mo. xvi..

Now

48 KnouIns Rex. Edm. Irenside Rex. Kn ut ous rex llacim NV NOVO is Eilred biried, pat mikelle O bade. factus est rex Au-gliat.

Pe clergic & pc baronage samned at a reade, & coin to Southampton, & corouned Sir Knoute. Pe burgeis of London were wroPe & stoute, & said Pei said fond to felle Knoutc's pride.

Edinimdits pei corouned for enui Edmundc Irenside. Irensideco-ronattlx a,- pud Lon-done. •

perof were Pei paled alle Pe North cuntrc, Pe coin alb to London to mak him feaute. Knoute gadred him an oste, on Edmundehe ran, & Edmunde on him agein, as a douhti man, & trauailed sore Knoute, neuer he blanne, Whan wend haf left, Edmunde biganne. Tuo pre Pei averred with milk tranailes, In Po tuo acres were sex grete batailes. In the sex batailes was many a man slain. At Pe last pei acorded, pc lond was felle fayn. Edinunde of pe lond had pe.lialuendele, He regned bot tuo gore, no more his time felle.

Nlortuus est lid1111111d0

He lies at Glastenbire toumbed, as 1 wene, Irenside PC date of Criste a Pousand & mo bi aulitene. Anno. M. vim°. .

WIIAN God had don his wille of Edinunde Irenside, Knoute veto London coin with grete pride. He asked Pc barons in Pat parlement, If he schewed a ping, oPerwaies he ment : • If Edmunde pe king, whan to acorde went, • If he sailed to his heirersoiper loud or tenement. Ilkon said, Pat Edmunde pe king Spak no word Per of, at per sauhti115,ng. .

wbar-

Knoulus Rex. 49

Wharfor Pe barons granted him ilkone, Knoute to be coroune. d, & haf it alone.

WHAN Knoute had resceirticd boPe Pe seignories, IIc parted pc loud in foure parties. Knontns

Alle Pe West cuntre him seinen he held, remtvit per town'.

Fats Edrik gaf he Lyndcscie of LSrticolne pc scheld. Vnto pe erle Thurkille he gaf Estangle, North folk & Soutlifolk, ficacic men Jangle. To pc crle Uctred Northumberland he toke, Pc pcs to rna3:71itene Pc suore alle on pc boke.

V Pan tok king Knoute alle his homages, Pat clekmed to hold of him per heritages. Edmunde had a sonne, & childre no mo. porgh Edrike's conseile Knoute did him slog

. & tok queue Emme & wedded hir to wife, Porgh Edrike's conseile, scho scgrted his life.

11 Knoute on allay bi his wife satte, ' Of Edrikc's treson scho warned him of pat. " Listen me, lord Knoute, if it be pi wille, " how he betraicd my lord, & my sonne hale ilk. " Whilorn Eilrcd my lord he him bitraist to sow, " & raj, sonne EtImunde porgh treson' he stool), " & if lie regne long he salle haf pe same, " Ile was limier with no man, Pat lie tic did him schame.

4 pc king one on pe morn went to London, His pule folio hold as his encheson. .1 Knoute poulit on ix tale, pat his wife him told, & siPon attlined Edrik porgh treson of old.

Vol. I. E pe

30 Knoulus Rex..

Pe fer Pe day of pc fest, no longer it was, Edrik was hanged oirpe toure, for his*trispas. Pan said PC queue, " pat Edrik pe Giloure " Had not WS, dome, pat felle to traitoure. " Traitours with runties suld men first dram, 44 za dame," said pe king, " bot he salle baf Pe law, " Pat his body salle hang in colde & in hote, " Schame Ellie alle his kind, at it sees & wote.

Knoutus divisit re-gnum Mils suis.

KNOUTE. of his body gate sonnes pre, Tuo bi tuo wiles, Pe Prid in jolifte. Ili pe first had he Suane, he was eldest bropm Bi Emme, Pe second wife, Hardeknoute anoint.. Harald he had geten on his plaieng, Knoute lured him best, he was his derlyng. Olaf in Norweie regned fulle stoute„ & bare him otter strange to pe king Knoute. Knoute coin with his hithe, Pat kant was & kene, & chaced him out of Norweie quite & clone. pan was he king of Danmark, Inglond & Norweie, Danmark was his heritage, he conquered Ie toper tilde. Malcolme, pe Scottis 4ing) at time died he, Mathithade his broiler resceiued Joe regante.

' Knoute as for his chefe he tok his homage, Of Pe kingdom of Inglond he had Pe heritage. Knoute vnderstode wele, be mot not long Vue, His sonnes in his lyue hirlondes wild he gyve. Suane gaf he Norweie, (Olaf he chaced oute). Danmark his heritage he gaf title Hardeknoute.

IIe

Ilaraldus Rex. 51

He assigned IIarald to Inglond, to had it in fee. pus he gaf his londis tillc his sonnes Pre. Seuentene gcre was he liktig Porgh conquest & desceit) At Westmknsterc he ligges in a toumbe purtreit. A thousand was Pe date & sex & prittk, Anno. It..

IXILVV. What' Knoute kkng died, so sais Pe stork.

HARALD was curteks & strong, of boclk auenant, To be per kkng & hcde Pe lond was wele ogrant.

I Taraldus rex.

Hardknoute of Danmark paid not withalle, Pat he suld bere pc coroune, for lie was born thrallc, He gadred of Danes folk right inouh, & (lid him toward pc se, & tills pis lond drouh. AVlian he was argued, he sent to Harald,' & said, pat a bastard no kkngdom suld bald, lot if pat he it wail with sucrd or with lance Of Unita or of Sarazin, 1/orgli doul4nes of chance. & if he wale Fe lond zeld, & to Pe pes clicse, For he is my broker, he salle not alle lese; & if he wille porgli bataile, per to wille I stand, & bataile balletic vs wille not be semand. Harald was tittle, a lone day be joke, To here what Pe barons Pain bope wild loke.

11 Vnder Soutliamptone was Per assemble, Purl twit

irtmen-situp]

Of Harald & Hardknoute, what suld bit uex Pain be. eNt. For Pei were breper, Pe luf was more sene, Fe barons portiond pc land cuen Pam bituene, Harald title his parte suld haf : le ke Northende, $: allc Pe Southside title Harknout suld u elide.

E '2 To

52 Hardknoule Rex 6s• Haraldus Rex. To pat ilk lokS'ng hope pei consent, In luf pei departed, Ilardknout home went.

IN Pat 011ie, Pat Harald & Hardknout held parties Died Pe duke Roberd, pat regned in Normundie. William was his !ire, resceS, (led pe heritage, Pat we kalle pe bastard, Pat sette vs in seruage. Richard was Roberd fader, Pe duke Pat died beforn, Emme pe quene his doubter, of Pe whilk was born Alfred & Edward, Hardknonte pe prid, Pe tuo first of Eared, of Knoutc Hardknoute tid. Alfred & Edward, pain of Eilrcd kam, Wcr with duke Roberd, now ere pei with William. po childre tok to rede, to com vnto Pis load, To speke with per moiler, at Wiruchester Pei hir fond. Alfrede wos eldest, Hon mot his wile withhold, To London he wild ulle gate, to speke with king Harald.

1),„1,„,.. Goduln, an erle of Kent, met with Alfred, p (Moe AI- ...

& tole his freili fra, ris 111111 tote teres vntille prison Pam led. Ed., ardi, & morte Of sum smote of Per belles, of sont put out Per igene, ...jos. Sex !tundra!' at Gildford did Colwyn slo & pi-le.

Alfred he was led to Pe abb4 of Elyng, "{icor Godwitit himseluen Pei did his igene out Pring. IL lYtted bot pre daies, & gold to God Pe gaste, pe bode com to his moiler, sell() did Edward in haste' Wrende to Normundie, for drede of Alfred pyre, To William, hir broper stAine, was Edwardc's ko4tit Edward told William of Alfred tole pe case, & praied him of help, for he dred harder pare,

• ' &

Haraldus flex. 53

& if he might conquere.Inglond, at was his spcire, Edward sikcrd him wele, to mak William his hejrre,

De Mgr: i & bond him with skrite, his scale hingand Perbi, tudine nialic & William hette him wele, to help him sikerli. ilaraliadi.

Now (ladles Harald pc king among his baronage, Title Emme, Hard!mottle's moder, he (lid a grete outrage, His broiler a foule despite, him self vile in skandre. He chaced hir out of Pe load, & scho went veto Flandres. Unto pc erle Baldwin, for scho was of his kinde. Ile resceiued hir fulle ftirc inouh, he did hir tirade To brige in to Danmark, per Hardknout was king. Of Inglond & of Flandres brouht men him tieing, How king Harald chaced his moderof load. What skille he had & whi Herdknout zerned to fond. Now ' Hardwnout toward Flandres dightes him day bi (14. Pat time at Westrqnstir Ilaraldrsore seke lair, Mortuns est

Ilaraidns. Died & was per laid, als mi boke me told. ilarde-

knontus ob. E.5Tue acre was he king, & sex & Lift old. limit re-

gnum anno Pe date of Criste Pan was a Pousand & fourti, ..1-1... Harald for his trcspas zit fellc a vilani.

NOW is king Harald dede, pat whikan was so stoute, Pe barons sent Flandres unto Hardeknoute, & praicd him corn to loud, pe coroune if he wild take, If he wild vnderstond, non oiler king wild pei make.

' Sic. 2 L. sib. XL°.

E 3 Wban

54 Hardeknoulus Rex. Whan he wist Per wine, lie basted him eider suiPe. pei gaf him pe corounc, & were of him (idle bliPe. He studied, how he might venge his moder despite, He did Harald body do drawe vp also titc, & Porgh Pe podcls it drouli, pat finite were & deppest, & siPen in to Temse his bodj, did he kest. Pat fischid in Temse on pe njight, what) Pei Per nettes vp1,,,...2 Pe bodj, of Harald in a nette Pei fond. Pei thirst it not forth schewe, for Pe king wcr Pei ford. Sam frendes he bad, pat biricd it in kirke zeal..

HABDEKNOUT did charge pe lond in suilk treuwage, Pat noiper erle no barone inklit Ijrne for taliage. So pat Idle pe conionalte had him ageSql hcrte, pat were to him so fre, forpottlit it sore & muerte. Ilarclknoute wex tulle wroth toward Godwirn of Kent For his broiler Alfred, pat lie slonli & schen', & to pc bisshop Alfrik, Pat was his conseilere. pei Bred Pe king folic sore, for he was fulle austere. pe erle had frendes, to acorde pei gaf him Pe wcie. Ile erle was fulle quaynte, did mak a riche galeie With fourscore armed knklites, in suilk apparaille light, Pat so riche armes was neuer sene with sight. & ilk knight bare 6ii his arms, he redj, acounte, Also mjrkelle brent gold, as sextene voce amounte. Withouten alle Pis a hundred' kriklites he toke. Befor Pe king & Pe barons he snore on pe boke, Pat neuer Alfred his broPer porgh him was Bede, No blynfeld no slain, bot porgh Haralde's redo.

pei

JJ ITardeknoulus Rex. r -

Pei said pe king

he did inoult, Pe erle alle vplift, forgaf his wraPe, resceitted his gift. Narratio

de vita Iii In Saint Edwarde's life it sais, he was forsuorn. Sancti Ed-

wardi, de Bifor Edward himself he strangled & was lorn. comiteGod-

wino quasi- & I salle telle pat tale, or I ferrer go, ter stamp-

latus fnit How falsnes brewes bale with him, and mans' mo. propter fal-

sum jura- In S. Edward time pe erle suld with him ete, raentum.

A seruitour per was, pat seined at pc mete, He stombled at a chance, & fells on hiskne, porgh Pe toper schank he ros, & served in his dcgre. 46 A ha!" said pe erle, " had pat schank ne bicn, 44 you had liggen Per stifle, Pe risen suld non haf sene. 44 God vote, said 1.e king, so is it with me non'', cc & I had ms' broper Alfred,. pat polio skull, ,, pof I had stombled porgh min vitmain, " He suld haf bien ms' schank, & reised me again. 44 pan hopes poti," said Pe erle, " Pat for me was he dede. " I praie God if it wer so I strangle of pis brede. & putte a morselle in his mouth with pat ilk worde, Bifor Pe king & Pam alle he strangled at Pe borde. Pe king biheld him a stound, & swill no repentance, lie bad drawe awai pat hound, God has taken vengoance.

%VIIAN Ilarknont & pc erle wer at an assent, porgh alle his loud pc king his sonde sent, Forto patter

rcise Pe treuage, ',at on Pe lond was sette, & Thurston to pat office were fettc.

pc folk of Wircestre agqn pe ti..uage spak, Baum pain & Pe messengers bropefulle wordes brak.

E 4 Padet

56 Hardeknoulus Rex. Pader & Thurston per hedes Per Pei left. Pe king ' Bud send oper to ask treuage eft. Pe king sone herd say, his messengers were slayn, Toward Wirccstrc he corn with night & majrn, & comanded all po, pat euer lufed him wele, Alle Wirecestreschire spare it never a dele, NoiPer man no beste, no manere no no tout). Pe cite of Wircestre Pei brent cuen down. Ale pei wasted quiteU, & slouti pc folk fulle zeine, Bot Po Pat fled with per godes to Pc' ilde of Senernc, & pat wer in pe ildc duelled per for drede, ' Hindle Pe kjoig turned, & his wrath ouer Bede.

Bic venit s Right als Ilardeknout bad left alle pat folic, Edwardus nd curiam tiard-

Com Edward, Eilred sonne, out of Normundie, biotin & Ilardeknou. te's broper oirhis moder side,

Right Itqre of Pe land, porgh grace Pat may betide. Edward was %%dem til)e Ilardcknoute pe k0g, He bad his wile suld be, als his' in ale ping. •

Here now of Ilardcknoutc, how he endid his life. Title a duke of Danes he gaf his dotihter to wife. Pe bridale was holden at pe mailer of Lambithe. After mete in pc haule Pe king mad alle blithe. In alle his joj, malijrng., among Fam ilkone,

Ile felie Bede dour colic as anj, stone. Pei bare him to Wjoichester, & biried him Pore. Tuo gere & a half he regnedy & no more.

j AliiThurum meant.T Vide

1'tor. IVig. pag.403. cd.4to. Civium vero multitudo in

Judi° Sahrium iluminis sitam, qua: Beuerege nuncupatur, confugerant: ,. -c. Flor. Wig•

quaudam modicam insulam, in i

Sanctus Edwardus Rex. 57

A Pousand was Pe date; & tuo & fourtjr. I trowe it was for vengeance, he died so sodenIST.

ALLE Pe baronage at Pask afterward, Coronacia Sancti Ld-

Com to Winchester to coroune king Edward, war&

Als he Pat had gode right vnto pe rcgalte, In Inglond was non so right hOre as he, Whan lie had regned time, & wele was abmie, Suane pe king of Danmark sent to him for loue, & praied him for his natij, to help him with summ, Bataile was ellen in pc se, ageSrn pe 14iig Magnum, pat was king of Norueie, with wrong gall him tmuaile. Edward sent him fifty schippes, to help at his bataile. For alle pe help Pat he had, Magnus on him so ran, & chaced alvaS, Suane, & Danmark on him wan. Bot Pis ilk Magnus 1Srued Per no longe. Eft Suanc, pc Danes king, Pis loi.d did vnderfonge, & eft viitille Edward Suanc sent agekn, &- praied him bituex pain Pe pes wer certekn. Edward him granted, oporrsuilk a wise, pat miler pe Dangilde for ne non of hise, Suld be chalcuged for man of Danes lond,• & Suane, king of Danmark, to _pat conant him bond. Pus was pe pes granted with skrite oil boPe sides, & pe Danes gilde forguen, pat neuer eft bitides.

•

IN Pis Edwarde's t5Ine a riche erle Pan was, pat bight Godwin of Kent, I red him ore in pas.

De comae Cloth% ino & Harald* fib ejus.

lie

58 Sanctus Edreardus Per. He had a sonne Harald, heire of his tenement. Engle his wife he drofe away, & held in peirment. Eerie, Pat was an abbcs, out of hir hous had Maugre hire wille in hordom his life with hir lad. Agein the king Edward, & of his to Wynne, Godwin Ix Erie to werre wild higynne. Harald & Lofwin, Pise were his sonnes tneie, Douhti knightes Pei were, after salle we seie. Godwin sent for frendes, knightes he had inowe, Pe king was at Gloucestre,& Piderwardpei drove. %Vhan Edward perceitied, his herte was in studio, How pat werre bigan on him so sodanli. Pe king dared his folk, on haste alle pat he might. pe erle in his asking had no maner right. Wherfor pe erle of Ba did Gowin'understand, To icue allc his werre, & take Pe have of land. 44 At London at pe benke bcliewe Per pii, asking, 44 Alle Pat lawe wille, you wynnes it of pe king.

THE king corn to London, with lawe to mote in benke, Men saute on Pe kinge's side Per was no bile, no wrenke; & for he had Pe treuth, on his side were Pe ma, & Godwin perceived wele, o-ii his side were hot fo. Fedor Godwin & his fro London went away, He stole vntille no more, defaute he mad Pat day. 11 perfor was Pe dome gueri porgh Pe Justise, To exile Pe erle Godwin, his sonnes & alle bisc.

Godwin


Godwin went to Flandres, vnto pc erle Baldwin. At Bristow in tille Ireland schipped Harald & Lofwjrn.

Y Whan Pe erle was exiled, his sonnes tille Irland oucr, Vi'illeinuts, dux Nor-

William Pe Normant argued vp at Douer, rnannito,venit in An-

In luf & in pes to speke with Sir Edward. gliztin ad sanction

He had bien in his courte, whan his happe was more hard. I:du-anima Regent.

He rescekued him with joy, & with herte fulle glad. To se pc lond about pc duke with him he lad. Whan he had suiorned long, & was in wille to go, Gode giftes be him gaf, or Pat lie went him fro. So pat alle of his were paled of per parte. With joy alle agein Pei went to Normundie.

¶ Thus !Ladd & Lofwin, ht out of lend were dquen, With grete oste of Ireland at Cliestre vp arjruen. Dorseth & Somerseth Pei robbed &did wo, Of knj,ghtes & serganz Pei slouh Prittjr & tuo.' Whan Pei had so yobbed, Pat Pam Pouht inouh, Pei went agejrn to schip, & saile vp drouli. Toward Pe South side turned Pei Par flete, Par fader & pei o chance togider gan mete. Godwin & his sonnes at Sandwich haiten bent, Lettres title his frendes for help about sent, Of socour & conseile bisonht Pam pitously, Of monk had he grante, to ask for him mercy.

¶ Whan pc king wist, pat pei had taken land, For Po barons lie sent pat were his wele willow]. Sr, for pc longe duelling of barons in Fe wai, Godwin, pat non wist, ariued in Surrai.

Pe

6J Sanctus Edwardus Rex; • Pe kin; also suiPe to bataile mad him are.

Godwin he diffiedi & alle Pat with him ware. Crete wer po parties, pat ferd in to pe felde.. Eldolf, bisshop of Bath, Pe pes mairntend & helde. Eldolf, pc gode bisshop, com with his ciergie, & said to kkag Edward, " Sire, we Pe mercy crie " For Pe erle Godwin, Pat wille zeld him to pe. " His sonnes cr at Pi wine, & alle pat with Pain be. Pe barons said, " for Pare sake, for pain Pan praft we, " pare trespas we vndertake opon alle our fee. & Pe erle com him self, merci, forto crane, Pe 14rig, for his curteksie, granted pain pes to bane, & gaf him agqn hope rent & lond, Harald & Lofwkn to pe pes Pam bond. Bot Stiane, pare broper, Pat died in Lumbardie, For he slouh his eosin; he fled porgh felonie. He went to pe holy lond„to do perfor penance, & died per for colde in Lumbardie o chance.

De Regina Edub. THE king wedded a wife, pat Godwin doubter was. Scho soiorned at Romencie, for hir fader trespas. • Pe erle bisoub pe k5rng ) to take hir home agcyn. Pe lqiig granted Pat Ping, to mak pes alle pleyn. Pe erle vino pc king bare him sipen so wele, & his sonnes bope tine him war trust als stele, Sithen in alle his courte were non so welc him with, Pei halp hint at Pare mAilit to ni*ten pes & grill].

On

Sanctus 'Edwardus Rex. 61.

ON Pe Wissondai at Burgh in Lindeseic Cora bode tope king, & pus gan Pei seic, Pat pe duke Siward ' had taken in his balie Machog, pe Scottes king, pat wild, porgh traitourie, Haf traised Edward,pe king, ',at in pe North was rife. perfor Machog les pe reame & his life. He gaf it to Malcolme, at was of Cumberland. Porgh gift of Edward he seised it in his hand. Malcolme Mad homage title Edward our king, Pat he & tale his age of Ingland sold hold pat ping.

GRIFFYN,' king of Wales, pat ilk self zere criffynns lie Wallis Was proued traitoure fats, & pat honk he tittle dere. helium me- vit contra Opon Pe tuelft even Griffin his hede les, Edwattittra Reran. To Gloucester was it brouht befor ])e king at des.

Edward had a kosin in presort at Ilungarie, Edmunde, his broiler sonne, was Per Porgh tricherie. 0 Pe kin; sent to frendes for him tale aboute, For praier at lie last Pe chit& was laten oute. !tome veto Inland pc childe title Edward cam, & for pat childe's luf forgeten was Willi:pi- Pouht he not of pe trouth, pat lie to William pii:xtit, For to mak him his heyre, if he Fe land hat' might. Nenerpeles to William he geld him wele his hone, Of pis no more to spcke, Fe chide died right 'sone. Algar, an erle of 2. Kent, Pat time exiled was; Mir Hoke sacs with wrong, he did no trespas.

' Vide Johan. Fordoni .S.co. i he z,:as earl of Chester. See)). tiehron.p. 396. 2 Others say, I 121. of Mr. Th mas Ellis's Ed.

of

62 Sanctus Edwardus Rex:

Miraldus rictus est dux tunna- i rum aped

He went in to `Vales to Griffin, Griffin sonne, pest too a werre als Walsch men er wonne. W' Edward hard say, he samned alle his oste.

Wallkill'. Ilarald, Godwin sonnc, led Pain bi Pat coste. At Herford in Wales pc ostes Per melte, & dight oil bops parties in batailes to sette. Harald & his Inglis batch.' pe erlc Algare, Pam forpoultt folic sore, pat he suld Pore misfare. Pis wald pc Inglis conscile, if Pei mot Algare saue, For him Pei suld biseke, pe kinges pes to haue. Pc Inglis corn to pe king, per he was in place, & sireitilly Ilarald, he had Pe kingc's grace. Off-pe erle Algarc had Pe king mercie, & forgaf Sir Griffin also for curteisie.

WIIAN pat king Edward wend to line in pes, Griffin, king of Wales, eft he mad a res. • He corn veto Herford, & sloult pe bisshop Ligerc, Spared noiper preste no clerk, to dede alle 3cde in fere. Kirkes & houses brent, 'Ionia pan wild he spare. per pe Inglis had bigged, he mad it mast & bare.

De rege II &alarm").

Malcolme of Scotland king it on Inglond ran, • Pe king had him auanced, he was an vitkind man.

Northumberland he brent,.& wasted Pat he fond. Kirkes non wild he spare of S. Cutberte's lond. Pe bisshop sent to pe king, for socour him .bisouht.

• Whan Malcolme herd it say, no more skaPe he wrouht.

of part of Dr. Powell's History earl of Mercia. See Dugdale's of Wales. But it should be rather, Baronage, Toni. I. p. 10.

II Pe


1 pc kkng did samen his men, to abate Griffin's pride, & Harald Pam bitauhi agekn pc Walsch to ride. cc Do him vnto Pe suerd, withouten jugement, " If ze may Griffin fake bitkme at auk went. Harald went to Wales, his was title fre, & whan he corn per, Griffkn was passed pc se Unto Irland, Pan comandid Harald Po londes to dcstroie, pat Griffkn Per gan hall. His tonnes forto brennc, pe houses doun to breke, & dcstroie pat kkntle, pat ouht to him eolith spoke.

I Harald ix Walschmen did Pam ilkon snore, pat to kktig Edward fakthe peisuld alto here. Sipen to Rutland he went, & exiled Griffkn Pore, Him & alto his hekres for pat tkme euer more.

1 Griffkn corn agekn, whan Harald home was went, pe folk prittelk of Wales mad per a parlement. Pei said, Pat Sir Griffin with right he was outlawed, & Edward of Ingloud had pant so gate awed, Pei said, " we wile no more, his vengeance is zit hote. Pei toke Per Sir Griffkn, & of his bode Pei smote, & sent it king Edward, & presented him with Pat Right at Glastenbiri, at his mete pore he sat.

GRIFFYN hail tuo brePer, Bleoth & Rabe \\ratan.

. po tiro were with pc king, whan lie oil Grillim kan. perfor veto° Pam tuo he gal Griffkii's fcez.

De but & Ellie

fratri- i Grittin

us. ej

For South Wales holy poi mad Pe king fcautcz.

lIarald

6• Sanctus Edwardus Rex. Harald to Wales went, vnto ' Portastiche. Wrightes he did make, haules & chambres riche, Whan Harald'or pc king wild coin eider efisons In Pe time of gese, to tak.Pam venksons. Karaduk, Griffin sonne, he fordid po wones. He corn eider on night, Je wrightes slouh atones, & alle at he mot Bete, be robbed & reft,

De conhi- Pent no peniworth, no Ping be no left. India Dun. etani, filii In pat ilk time, pat• pis was beten doun, Agilet.

Harald title his fader went to Southampton. For Dunstan, Agilet sonne, wild grcue Sir Godwin, For Gospatrik was slain, pei blamed him per in. M boke tellis nak, Godwin did him no dere. It sais Pe quene Egko, Pc blame suld sac) bere. Scho did slo Gospatrik, withouten an skill°, Tostus of Cumbirland retted Godwin per title.; Tostus of Cumbirland he was chefe Justise, Agekn Pe erle Godwin he gert sette assise. Gospatrike's dede on Godwin wild he vcngc, Harald soubt Tostus, to leue pat ilk chalenge. He praicd hiin•for luf, in pes lat. him be stale, & kisse & be bode frende in luf & in a wille. Tostus wild not le. ue, bot held on his manace, & llarald toned witlialle,•of -fond he did him chase.•

Vulgo, Port Skewetli. Por- plinths ulla in eximio nosiro tascith Mena. Florentio; sub Floreniii Cyclic° Longbai- 4. D. 1065. !cepa discre. niano.

Tostus

Sanctus Edwardus Rex. G5

110STUS otter pe se went to S. Omere, pe Tosto de Cumber.

His wife & his mejne, Liz.: duelled Per Pat sere laud.

With Pe ale Baldwin, pe winter alle plet.e-e. His londes he were f,"5, lien to Morkar Litz lliehen. Pe gode kyng Edward to London ttirt.e. he, Pe feste of dole to hold, with grete solempa;te, At Saint Petir ntinstere, Pat he did sette & wirke, On Saint Stolen day he did halow pat kirke. pc king fro day to dak be heuied more & more, Ncrhand his ending, sekenes grcucd him sore, no %isione

&morto Pe barons before him kald, & said vnto Pain alle, Sancti i.:1-

1%artli. " Title Harald, Godwin sonne, pe regne wills: best falle. Mc meruailes of my boke, I trove, lie wrote not right, Pat he forgate Wiliam of forward tat lie him bight. Neuerles Pe forward held what so was in his touht, I vote wcle Criste it wild, Pat Edwarde's wile wer wroulitl• "Who so Jokes his tile, & redis his vision, What vengeance ordeknd was on Inglond to be don Of princes of Pe lond, it sais of tam pis saw; • Pat Pei tired no Ping God, )to zemed ettenbed of lawe, But fehtwes veto Pefes, to robbours of ilk cuntre, Par wilkedues was fulfilled, venged behoned it be. Prelates ne no prestes, non of Pain lytted wele, Pe did not Godde's hestes, bot brak pain ilk a dole. Lietwos lif pei led, & PottItt it in par bre:te, llolittes did away, of Pe kirke gaf Pei leste. Edward God bisotilit, ht it suld be forg5ruen, & amentlid with Penance, & pad eleme be scryuca

Vol. I. F Of

66 Ilaraldus Rex. Of pat pat Pei had don, & Pat pat suld.betide To warne pam perfro, & lie it on ilk side. But pis was anstiere agein, " 4 a dai Per in salle folic, " pare wiknes is fulfilled, per in ere waxen ' hard. " God has sette Pat were, a day per in salle tittle, " pe Inglis salle go to suerd, to pine Par soules alle. " Dede & fire salle fede Pe schepercles & Pare schepe. Pis vision is zit to drede, Pink & gif Gode kepe.

1.1 trowe it is oucrgone Porgh William conqueroure, He com &.slouh ilkone Po wikkcd men in stoure, & sette vs in scrooge, of fredom fulle pe flonre. Pe Inglis porgh taliage lyue zit in sorow fulle soure. Now is Edward dede, pe soner for F0 affraies. Pre & tuenti zere, sex monePes & seuenten (lakes He refined in pis loud, pe date of God Pan wex A Pousand, I fond, .sexti Zere & sex.

llarniaus factus acRex.

AFTER Saint Edward, Harald king Pei ches, porgh conscile of Pain allc, & he Pe scheld les Right & in lawe, Pe barons held him trewe. Netierles his falshed brouht vs sorowe alle newe. Tostus, Pat was exiled porgh Harald ore I told, He corn out of Flandm, brook an oste fulle bold. Fro Sandwich to Liucoliip Tostus ran, Tresore alle & bcstes he robbed ilk a man. pat herd Harald, fulle kene he was & kof, With folk out of Pe South toward pe North drof. oi ,..---

' Deest forsan alle. Tostus

ilaraktus Rex. 67

Tostus herd it sat, Pe best wild he do, To Maleohne, Pe SCottis k'ng, Tostus alied to. Tostus tok his leuc, argued in Norweie, & how Pe gaMen gale lithe I sale gow seie. In Norweie was a king, m' boke tells sua, Satnt Onlaf broPer, tlarald Heruegra. He argued in Tyne, hot sone he went agetn, & smote iu title Humber, ills flete alle pieta In an arme of Ouse vnder Riealle lay, On Saint Mathew euen, on a Wednesday.

EDWYN & Morkare, too tonics Xumberland, To Harald & Tostus poi gaf butane on hand. Harald of Norweie had folk right inouh, A hundreth-& at Pe toper side ale sloutt. Harald & Tostus vndir Ricalle so sped, A hundreth & fifty to zork ostage liei led.

Nouht Nen tulle for to Pam corn a tieing, Pat Harald was comand, neulY was mad kYng. Of Pat ilk tieing Tostus was airmied, & Harald Ileruegra, I Crow, was no Ping paled. Jorgh a merle Pei passtd veto Statinford brigge, Par loges & Pare tentis vp pei gnu bigge.

¶ Whan Harald Jider cam, & molt ale Par manere, • 'int.:thins rex dericit

Title pant smertly he natn, displaicd his banere. bellunt, oc-cidit ' fla-

In pe morning it was, he mette with his enints, roldumTos-tutu spud

& alle Pe day Pei &Ott, at even he had pe prix. Stayoford

Harald & Tostus hope to dede Bede, porgh Harald pe gong king, of wham I sale role.

brigge.

Sic. F 2 Listen

68 Iktraldits Rex. Listen & I salle rode, milk pe misauentoure • On Harald side gag sprede, pore" William conquerourec,

THE duke of Normundie, William is his name, \Volnoth, fIaralde's broper, he had in prison at Kamef & his neuow Hakim in prison was him with, I ne wote for what roson so fer out of Per kith. Harald whim he was zs-onge, he went vnto France, Pe mitre forto se, & for to here of chance. Alle his mishappOg felle, he coin in to Pountif, To Richere pat was erle, men told it fulle rif. pis lord of Pountif Richer le fitz Izonn He tok pis ilk Harald, & did him in presoun. • Pe bode of him sone kam to Pe duke of Normundie, Pi duke went to Pountif, & toke him with maistrie% & brouht Ilarald home, & said, porgli curteisie, , " Harald haf now pin cyst, in alle my scignoric. Now has Harald his ei•se at roson in alle ping, pc mejrne in alle ping plesed him next Iv lOng.

Nola de 11,William & Harald went Pam forte ' pal;‘, :=7;de caumicon-queblus.

Tales togider Pei Laid, ilk MI a gode palfrak. 'MUM Pei had wele ride'', Pat Pahl pought right land;, pci lighted & abiden bisidc a water stank. " Ilarald, '' said William, " listen to my iesoun, '' What.right pat I liana of Inglond Pe coroun " After Edwarde's dcdc, if it so betide, " That God haf orknd so I after him abide. " Whan ',at we were Edward Pe king & I, " He was in mS, fader courte exiled, I ne wote is hi,

it Out ' Pro, play.

H 69araldus Rex. . .4 Out of Inglond, Pan snore lie to me, ‘g If he Pe coroun mot wknne, his here suld I be. 44 perof he mad me skrite, his hote to mak kale, " & for to sikere his dede, set per to his scale. " Harald whan Jon scs tkme, do pi hap perto, cc I sallc delyner ' p broper, & pi neuow also, " & Marie my doubter to wife I wile pe gkue, " A man I salle pe make, richelk forto lyue, " 0,r my elide Justise, pe lawes to mend & right. " Pi sistere I salle gkue a rich prince of inkght.

1 " Sire," said Harald, " I salle, if Pat I may, " Help pc pe coroun to bald, & euer I se pat day. 44 Mk broker delktier you mc, nik ncuow you mc grants, " & hold pi certekiite, & sale hold conenante." pe presons forth were fette tille Harald or he foore. To bold Pat lie had hette, on Pe boke lie suore. Now gos he home Ilarald, & has onercomen his tene, Pe oPe Pat he suld hold, it is forgeten clene.

EDWARD is dede, alias ! messengers ouerwent To Williain: Ilarald was, porgli comon assent, ' 'Was" corouned nobly, & for 14eig psi him beide, Bot pe duke of Normundie to William fele Pe schelde.

¶ Pe duke wrote to pc 14ng, in luf withouten loth, Bisout him oiler alle ping, Pat he wild hold his otb, & geld him pe coroun of Inglond ilkadele; Or Marie to warisoun wed hir, & joy it wele; & if lie wild not so, lie suld m mk him oknowen, He suld Wynne it fur du in right as for his oven. , -

• Pro, li. 2 Redundat. r 3 Ilaral4

70 Haraldus Rex. • Harald wrote agekn, & said be neuer pould, Marie to wedde certeyn, Pe lend bight him nouhil & if he wild it wynne with dint, als duke hardic, He mild find pollute king Harald redie.

Ecce mire. ii Zit is 1 lIalald, I saj., regnand in might & main, pe kin of Norway in bataile has he slain. • pe duke•forgeten is he of ping, pat Harald belle, Now is he in Pe see with saile o►i mast vpsette. Toward Pis lond Pei drool►, to auenturc his chance, With Normandes inoub, of Flandres & of France. He had redk sailing, pat to pc loud him ledde, & at his tilting Pe lond non him forbedde. his folk went vpto loud, him semen was pe last, To bank oucr pe sond, plankes pei oucr kast. Als William Per on suld go, he stombled at a n4le, Into pe waist pain fro lie tombled top otter taile. Ilis knirgbtis vp him left, & (lid him cft afire, William was oglyft, his helm was futile of mire, . William was not paled, pat Rile mad him ofright, He stode alle dismayed, pan said tills him a knight, " Discomfort no p►ng pe, so faire happe neuer you fond, " Stoupe & you may se, Pi helm has wonue loud. " Pat peIond is Pin, pi helm schewes it Pe, " Forsuorn is Haralkii, he salle no dure.

Pell= in. ter Han- WIIAN William alle was di ht & to pc boun d itm & Willelmum Red with him to fight, he forid IIarald fulle sone. Conquebto-. rem. ---

/ Sic. . Ile

Haraldus Rex. 71

He fond. fulle wele & sone, Fat Harald noubt ne slepe, To prouc with dede to done fulle wakand oli him Icpe. To bataile baf Fei mint Harald & William, Bot non stode Harald dint, Fat bifor him kam. Fe roubt of Fare rascailc he did it rcre & rime, Normanz & Flemming taile lie hutted manS, time. To while Fat he was fresch Fei fond him fulle austere, Pei felt of his pruesse, als kn.ight did his deucre. For he was oucr prest, & ogre to assaile, He wild haf.no rest, tille be might tranaile. Atlas! for ' for" Sir IIarald, for him was mikelle reuth, Tulle wele his awen suld bald, if he had kept his treuth. Bot Fat he was forsuorn, mishapping Ferror he fond, SuId he neuer cis baf born for William no loud, Ne bien in Fat bondage, Pat brouht was over Fe se, Now ere poi in seruage fulle fele pat or was fre. Our fredom Pat day for ever toke pc leue, Fur I larald it went away, his falsbed did vs greue. l ie was so fer in presse, so fele wer him about, H im befOr able Fei ches, Fat he suhl not skape out. liataldus

Normanz & Burgolons, with lance, suer(' & mace, occiiits est. regnnvit nnvetn Bare Sir Ilarald doun, atlas! be had no grace. rnetrie4 &

So doublyknight of dede was non of ;wiper sides, tre,s dies.

Fore to dale he zede, Ids man forsuorn betides. Nien monelbes Worn kept Harald Fe regalle Bot Fat he was forsuorn, Ferfor he lost able. Out of Fe stoure Fat, stode tuo men askapcd ware Of Sir Haralde's blodc, Badwin & Morkare. •

.1 Redundat. r 4 tel.

r79 I q Haraldus Rex.

Pei tokc pc queue Edith, for doute of treson, . Was Itkrig Edwarde's wif, lid hir to Kelion. Wele was scho per, to hold priue soiorne. Eadwkn & Morkare to London gar' pci turnc, Vnto Pc Londreis pei told, pat pei had fonden an hakre, Was Edmund koskir pe kkirg, pc Londreis wer in spekr, Him for Par king vplift, his name was kald Edgar. For William Pei were oglift, & said, " pat we ne dar. " For slain is kkng Ilarald, & in load may non be, " Bot of William held for homage & fcaute. Morkar reclekined es, as es pe faukon fre, & Eadwkir corn to pes, he mot no better se. pe brirgeis of London par conseile wild it nouht, To gif Edgar pe coroun, Pat for heir pei brouht. William Jr' Conquerour to London has he pouht, per pc bataile was stoure an abbak wild he haf wrouht. per he & Harald mette, Per standes pc kirke, For blodc p.ht per was gette, to praic pei suld not irke. To London corn William, his sole (este to hold, Ills barons with him nam, k4glites pat wet- bold. Wardekns of tour & tour', & oper pat ne wold Per landes les ale doun, for tint wer Pei told. To Frankis & Normanz, for Par grete laboure, To Flemmkirges & Pikardes, Pat wer with him in stoure, Ile gaf londes bitkme, of .1% bilk per successoure Hold git pe sekque, with fulle grete honoure. Fa r grace William fondf , his chance fulle wele him gate, j 9 mune of Inglond so graciously he gattc.

frilleimus Conpuestor Rex. pc archbisshop Stigand, of Inglond primate,

73

Pat time was suspended, Pe pape reft him Pe state. & abbot & prioure, men of Religion, & oiler men of honour, archdecane & person, Wer priued of par office, of woulfes had renoun. For lichorie Pat vice wer monk als don doun. Pe archbisshope of Bork corn with deuocioun, Porgh William praicre, corn to London toun; Bifor pe barOns.broulit, he gaf William Ire coroun. To chalange was he nouht, Sir Stigand was don doun. *Man William was cornned king so solemply, & had taken homage of barons bi & bi, IIe turned over pe se vnto Normundi. Dam ' Ilelienore queue was sche, scho bare him company. Whan he had duelled Pore at Pask he corn agein, & dam lIelianore with many knight & win. To London alle Pei went Pe courte holy alle plein, For Pe archbisshop lvi sent, messengers Bede tuein. Eked Pe archbisshop of Bork had Pe se, Pe king him bisouht, als clerk of dignite, To coroune Ifelianore, Pat bisckc I 1,6. Ficlinnors

regina . co- Pe bisshop corouned hir pore, bifor pat !hire semble. rote aiI.

NVIlan pc folk had bier at pe coronment ilk dole, Bope pe king & pe queue pe barons paicd wale. pe king & Pe cicrgic ordeind Pat ilk sale, pc pcs to zerne & giue with lawes trewe als stele. Edmunde & 2 Edwin, Harald sonnes of Kent, Alle Somersetschire Pei wasted & brent,

! Matildin appellant alit. 2 b. coronata. 3 Gothqu aliis. Si!

74 Willelmus Conquccstor Rex. Sir Adinotli pei skull', & alle Pat !xi mot heat. Whan pci. had frau!' hm!), agekn tale Ireland went. Pc erle Robert Comgn, pe West had to welde, pat non vnto William for no ping suld pun 3elde. •

anal:. ad. versilatcs. /VIIAN pat king William F0 tipitmes herd say, a

To Pe toun of Durham tittle fast he toke pc wag. Pe bisshop to him said, '1 & told to him fullc tile, Pat Pe Norreis purucied, to do him a despite. For Pat ilk tale, Pat Pc bisshop told, Pe Kornkn had his bale, his hf was lightly sold. • pe lond of S. Cutbert be did serch Pat n5ght, William allc apert his oste red he dkght. At pat pei mot fktul, to suerd elle pei 3ede, & or Roberd wist, or Foutit on sulk a dede, Ore was his lions on lire, per Sir Robert lag, & brent Roberd to dede, bi Pat it was day. New is Pe lioinkn dede, his hakes has alle torn,

F.,„ Da- William para it forbedc, pat held his tootles beforn. mein. -

NO W William has soiortted, & slays alle his enniks, & to Pe South is turned, als likng Pat wan Pe pris. TiPknges corn him Me stoute, Pat a gretc ostc & stark, With 'braid & with Knoute, pe kyng S01111CS of Danmark, Were argued in Ilumbere, & an erle Turkille, With folk withouten nombere, Pe Norreis tette Pam talc.

Vide Dugdalii Buronag. Ilistoricos nostros, qui sccus Tom. I. p. 54. Lelandi Coll. col. II. p. 380, aliosque dim

atque nester rem namirunt.

Co.

Willehnus Conqucestor Rex. '75

Comen is pe.erle Edgar with alle Po of his kjrnde, Sir Wolnoth he is Par, Po with pat be mot. fiide. Marlesuakn Turkille sonne, & Suane a doolitjr knight, Of Scotland Gospatrik, *ith Pam at alle his might. Pe Normans in Pe South wer in so grete affra5-, Of kastels & of touns Pei corn out alle day, To Bork ran ilk a man, to rescet in Pat twin, pat no Danes man Pe walks to broke dorm. Sir William Millet was wardejin of Pe cuntres, Sibrigh pe Gaunt was set with him to kepe Pe fees. pise too broulit tiyng, Pe wer cornea bi Pat coste, Perfor William iv king did turn agej,n his oste, & snore a grete cube, pat he said rimer spare NoiPer lefe no lothe northercn, what so Pei ware.

S William turned agejrn, & held pat he had suorn, Alle mad he wastej,n, pastur, mellow & korn, & slouh hope fader & sonne, wrInien bete Pei iron, hors & boucles Pei etc, vitnepis skaped non• What' Pe Danes herd, PaMilliam held his oth,

.-/. Pat he with Pe Norreis so ferd, spared lefe no loth, Folk quaintlj, Pei sent to William messengers, Of pes Pei mad present, to turtle ilkon For pers Agqii to Danmark go with his wide & his leue,

Be pee sold him not greuc. pat he sold no too slo, ...hi. Ecee Da-

NOW duellis William eft, fable bare mas mans, wore, Of gode men er non left, hot slays er ilkonc. Clerkcs vimepis Pei Icte, to kirite o Vire to go, Horses & hondes Pei cte for hunger & for lo.

Grete

76 Triflelmus Conqucestor Rex. Grete synnc did William, Pat suilk wo (lid wirke, So grete vengeance he nam of men of holy kirke, pat not did no wem, tine him ne no trespas, Fro zork vnto Durhem no wonyng stede was. ' Nien zero, sail my buke, lasted so grcte sorowe, pc bisshop cicrkes tuke, par lines forto borowe. Sent Cutberte's bones of fertre toke 1,6 out, With pam poi fled at ons in sere stedes about, Pat vengeance burd be don, als tellis S. Edward, Be sauli in a vision, pat vengeance suld falle hard

ne Reiff- Of prestos 84: of clerkes, of princes of pe lond, qc

tuiiii1sIIS)c.arn(ci.ti Of God ne of his werkes pei drcd not pat pei fond.

' Id quod Wain notat Jo- contrey and of some of the annes Rastellus, sive Rastal- cytezyns of yorke enteryd the las, in Chronico suo, supra d citye I and slewe mo than. me commemorato, libro sane iii. M. Normans. But sone rarissinzo, milli vero (pro after kyng Wyllyam chasyd more sea) perquam humani_ them out I and drone them to mutuo dato ab amicissimo to theyr schyppes and toko nostro Murraio, cujus cum suche displeasure with the alibi, tum jam supra etiani inhabytans of that prouynce I mentionem feci. Sic autem that he distroyed the lande

Sere at Rastellus: ¶ Also about the. from yorke to Durham I that. )orke. iii. yere of his [IV911yanz ix. 3-ere after it lay vnlaboryd

Conquerour's] ravne I Bar. and Yntylled I and the peo- rolde & Cauntus [Sic] sonnes ple there were kept so harde to Suanus kyng of Denmarke by the warre of the kynge I enteryd into the North coup. & in suche famyne that they trey I and with the hel'ple of etc tattes I cattes I dogges I Aome of the people of the and other vcrinyne.

,Salit

Willelmus Conpueslor Rex. 77

SAYNT Cutberte's clerkes in hidnes euer zede, At Geruans 1 set Per merkes, a lions pe gan vpspede. zit Northermore Pei zed vntille Bethlington, At Toghalle was Pe Arid, & per restid pam down: Pe forth was holy Eland, Per Pe se it withdroub, Pei zede on pe sand, to Pat Ilde wele inoub. •Whan Pei wer 'whine, of non' had Pei tIoute, Pe flode bigan to ginne, & klosed it aboute. Sipen dyed pei no ping, of pefe ne of feloun ixit were with pe king, Norman no Burgoloun. pe kirke of Geruans pat ilk time was brent, Durham pe same sans, alto to fire went. pe croice & Pe rode, right as Criste vs bouht, Title askes ale it 'ode, pe fire spared nouht. . Pe Normans did it alto in 1)e guise of theft, Pe godes fcrof stal, no ping Pei ne left.

II Whan William vnderstode, hoW his men ford with alle, Of holy kirke pe gode his serganz robbed & stall He comandid alle his, to men& pat trespas, In ale maner wise, as it ore fetfed was, & on Pe same asise serued & slowed Of idle pe franchise, Pat it are was dowed. Bot of pat wikkednes, at men sold haf wroken, Was noiper more no lessc of Per penance spoken. Reliquiin pe bisshop brouh the bones agein veto Pe se, Sancti

Cuthhcrti Title Durhatne's wonea, Per pei were wont to be. ad Ma'am

nin prim in icretro re-conduntur.

i Vide Situ. DuneIni. p. 199. & Li land. Coll. Vol.11. p. 380.

AYH.

5S Willebnus Conqureslor Ilex.

-WILLIA AI the Conquerour cbangis his wikked wile, Out of his first errour, repentis of his ille, & of his crueltcs lie gynnes forto assuage, & gaf agekn to fees, of -Milk lie tokc 2 ostages. Gospatrik corn tile hand, & left of his manage, & William Comberland gaf him in heritage. Gospatrik ged alle Porgh, his dedis forto praise, Ix kastelle of Bamborgh Pe walles he did vpreise. Malcolme, Pe Scottes king, Perwith bad envie, Pat Gospatrik of suilk ping bare his state so hie, flight him to Comfit.land, dcstroicd about aywhare, Ilkon he slouh at band, per godes away bare, Many with him he led, & did Pam in seruage, In Scotland was ale spred mkkelle of Pat lknage.

II On pis Gospatrik William gan aflie, He Bight also quik, & went Normundie. Malcolme in liumberlatul dos pat he may tile ilk, Gospatrik his willand lates him haf his wille. pre pousand pounde Malcolme sent tille Gospatrik trcsorier To William comkng Pat went sold suffre his folie. LiteIle wend William of his trecheric, A message tile him nam unto Normundie, Told William eueridde of Malcolme robberie, For silucre Pat he toke suffred pe folk to die, Gospatrik did not wele, makntend his pantie. Wiliam also suiPe diniit him tille his nauie. .17,

' F. ()stage. Wit-

Willelmus Conquteslor Rex. '79

WILLIAM has hauen nomen, & is at Southampton. Winelam applicuit

Po Pat with him er komen, crle knight & baron, a pud Haar ptuniam. •

Went title Cumberland fulle suiPe opon haste, pc cuntre pat pei fand alle was wilde & waste. Malcolme fled beforn in mountains & in plain, He wend for neuer more William suld coin again. No more did Gospatrik, ',at did him pat disceit, Hot cornea is William quik, & sekes pain fulle streit. Hi a side of Scotland Malcolme flies fer in, Dot William Malcolme fand in pe loan of Abrenethin. per is Malcolme taken, & 3olden to preson. Siluer was not forsaken was gitfen for his raimson. To take he bed inouh, for at his wille he was. William to do his prove, forgaf alle his trespas. Malcolme with skrite him bond, his heires of-his linage To hold of Ingland for feaute & homage.

1 WThan pe pcs was siker, Pe kin; turned Nile suiPei Gospatrik Pat suffred biker, he reft boPe loud & liPe. Cumberland him reft, his oiler londes als, iv lif over mikelle him left, for he was traitour fats. Sipen to Durham went, Per lie destroied },e see. Pe bisshop he bisouht, S. Cutberte's bones to see, Pc bisshop °plied Fe schrine, the bones Pei vp raised. Fe king wepte with his ine, that sight niiIelle he praised, & saner grete plente °poll the altere laid, per franchise gal pain fre, Pe whilk Pat Pei of said. Fe kastellc did he wirke of his tresore allc, & 8. Cutberte's kirke closed w'iti a walk.

. Sil)en

80 Willelmus Conqucestor Rex. SiPen he had pam tome to Bork, & Per abide, • For Per be wild soiorne ale pe Whitsons tide.

II At Bork did he cric, his pcs sold holden be, pat non did felonie bi land no bi se. Sipen be Bede to London, pat eke set to grid], & tope lawe ale bonclon ilk man in his kith. Chcfe justise be satte, Pe sothe to atrie, For lefe no loth, to lette Pe right lawe to gujre. Pe wronges to amend, & majrnten Pe right, AgOn pe fals defend, porgh dome of Justise sight.

De tribes mnnachis de Lynd- sq.

THAT time Pat I of say of William Pe kjrng, Pre monkes of Lyndsay cede to seke wonyng. Pe first clan Aldwkn, pe toper Elwyn bight he, pe prid bight Rejrnfride, Pus told my boke to me. Ilughe le fitz Galdre, of Bork he was Sainte, He rescejned alle Pre, & heberd Pain bileuc. After Per soiornjrng, whan Pat pei snld wende, Ile praied j'am of alle ping, as gentile men & betide, To haf saf condite, vnto lie New Kastelle. & Il ugh did as he bight, led Pam sanely welle. Fro pe New Kastelle vnto Geruans Pei Bede, per duelled pei non seel, to Durham gan pain specie.

indificave- 1 runt (Tele- skun & ciatorum

Whan pei to Durham con] to Pe bisshop Waltere, per Pei bigan a home of religious° manerc.

4e Durham. A closter Pei bigan, Pe bisshop Po Pat wrought, hired ilk a man, & pile paied & bought. Or it wer alle ent Pe werke pat pei did;wirke, Pei ordOnd a couent, to ininistre in pat kirke.

Li 1 kV

.1Villamas Normanntts Bastard. ,•bl

(4

help Lady," said Waltere, " of pe Pan is pis house 4C pat are was prouendere, now is religiouse. .Edificatur

abbatia To zorke pe coin azeYn, & wrouht per worschiply theatre Ma-

ria' amid Cloistre with couent plekim a kirk of our Lady. Eburacuer.

I Whan it was wrouht title ende, pe makes alle Pre .V.difica‘ t - runt clan-

To Whitby gan wende, Pat standis oii pe see. strum de

Per wirke pei wild an abbeys wele to preise \% hitch 5..

In wirschip of Saynt IliIde, a kirke psi did vp reise. Pus wrouht piss monks Pre, Porh Pe holy poste, AtkaYes in sere mitre, Pat wikked men did wzste, & many a gods man to holy lif did calle, Pat Porgh pe lawe paien men left & lete dorm falle.

AT London is WilHain, at Lundreis takes leue, To Pe parlement he nam at Paris to Lowis cheue. Ilex venit

ad ad prlia- pe duze pers of France were at t' me at Pars mentum a-

To William felle par chance, he mad conquest of pris, pud Par)

Pe toun wan of Terwenne, the castelle of Alaibis, Ills auncestrie whitom when left it porgh folis. Whan William with Pe lawe had seisen pleYnerly, Sipen he gan him drawe toward Norinun4, Pe lond to visits, & to comfort his frcndcs. lie restid bot a lite, a sonde te Inglis him sendes. Pe erle of Surrey sent Ilacon Henry sonne, Ile to William went, & praied him zit eftsonne To corn title Inglond, or els alle he lesis, Agekp him wille men stolid, & partie tulle him chesis.

111 William was in where, whim he herd pat tiPing, In his arthtend zere, als he regime 1 kkng,

Vol. I. G At

82 Willelmus Nor»zannus Bastardy- At Wyncehestre he held his pat-lemma ilk gere, & Per men him tell, who was his aduersere, Of Nortlifolk pe erle' Roger, men said of him treson, For praier or for pere Pei did him in prison. Unto Pe Marche gas long an crle, Woloot he bight, Pe king with mkkelle wrong did him slo pat knkght. Abowen Winchestere was schewed title allc Pat per ware, To lewed men & lerid, to kirke as pei him bare, Miracle faire & mkrie, wban Pci laid him in pitte. William of Malinesbiric witnesse it in his writte.

SITHEN in his Arid gerc he tellis Per of a chance; Of Durham bisshop Waltere was smkten porgh with a lance.

ouomodo In Gatesheued it was; & Po Pat said be schent, Episcopus Duneinlife interfectus est.

leo did Pat trepas, Sir Liolfe's kknde of Kent, pe crle Liolf was slaps, for Pe bisshop dude. My bokesais ccrtayn, Pat he gaf neuer Pat rede. perfor king William did &me alle Pat kinde, Far landes fro pam natn, Pat men not knowe & Guide.

SITHEN in his ferPe pre he went tille Aluerton, No man wend in erPe drede of no felon.

' His nume was Ralph. But II About the. x. yere of 'bit his Confederate, the Earl of raygne I Roger erle of /far- Hereford's Name was Roger. See Dugdale's Baronage, p. 67, 68. This itIla4ir• is thus

forde I and Rafe erle of Nord], folke liedde I and were out- laude I & the erle walreffe was

touch'd upon kyJohn Rastall, in his most rare Chronicle :

behedyd.

0"

IVillelmus Normannus Bastard. 83

On warned him of a ping, Pat Malcolme with pqsoun, Schuld begile Pe kyng, W:ith som Pat lufed tresoun. William sent his sond his eldest sonne Roberd, If he mot vnderstond, or auk suilk of herd. Roberd about did spie, if Malcolme wild haf wrouht. Dot alle it was a lie, pat ping was neuer poulit. In his attlitend gere Pat William was regnand, Extendours lie sette fin-to extend pe land, •

Ertendere fccit ter-ram, tit di-v tail terns& Er'dam & baronie how mkkelle felle to pe schelde, slits suii.

Knkght & sergeancie als how mSrkelle pei helde. How m5rkelle lond & rent holy kirke bad to a prow, Alle Pei did extend to witte pe verrek valowe, & William wist of alle, what it sold amounte, Of lordirng & of thralle pe extente porgh acounte.

1 Roberd Courthose his sonne he gaf all Normundie, To hold, as it was wonne, als hejrre of ancestrie. William passid Pe se, Per of lie mad Pe skrite, Of France to hold pat fe of °per tenement alle quite.

II Ills oiler sonne William Inglond assigned he, & alle Pat of him cam with chartre mad he fre. His Ronne Henry was sire of Wales with chartre strcite, Of alle Loncastre schire vittille Bromsthucite.

1 Ade his doubter dere, he lufed hir als his life,,, ire erle of Plesance Steuette weddid hir to wife, & king Steven ois hir gate, Pat withouten roson Of Pis lond had pe state, & conquered pe coroun.

1 His doubter Cushitic° was weddel to Bret4n, With William's orcleinuicc, veto Pe elle ALIO.

Tuo o 2

84 WI&haus Nornzannus Bastard. , .

Tuo acre & a•half be duelled in Normundief & in pat loud self at Kamc gan he die.

&whits cst At Saint Stcuen's kirke Pei laid him with honoure, in Kninc Anno Himself did it wirke, be was par' fondoure. Domini. nee ixxx. TuentS, zere had he Pe land & nien moneth streite, vile.

pe date was aPousand & fourscore & aubte. . . , .-- -- —

2 This Icing, in remembrance but somwhat he fauored the of the great Victory he had ob- citye of London. Also he tain'd over Harold ( by which buylded two abbayes in En. he got Possession of England) glande 1 that is to say • the founded the great Abbey of abbaye of Batten I where he Ballet in Sussex. But then that, for which I am chiefly obliged

wanne the fylde agaynst Ha-rolde and the abbay of Bar.

to make this Note, is, his meseye in Southwarke besyde founding the Cluniack Abbey Loudon I and also be buyld. of Bermondsey in Surrey, if we ed. ii. other abbayes in Nor. may give any credit to John mandye. Which Words will Rastall's Chronicle, which is a give some Confirmation to what most rare Book (as I have be_ is asserted by those, that tell fore noted) and was written by is, that William the Conqueror a learned Man•(lho' a Printer, for Printers then were Men of

built many abbyes of the order of Cluny, in relation to which

Learning) who had married E. there is this Note in a MS. in the lk,abeth, the Sister of Sir The. Bodleian Library, as is obscro'd mas More, which was of no by the learned Dr. Tanner. A small Advantage to him in the Note (saith the Dr. Pref. to his

. History of oul• English Affairs. Not. Mon.p. 42.) annexed to all The Words in Rastall are old MS. book of Ecclesiastical• these. if This wyllyam made the Constitutions in the Bodleian newe forest in Ilanayshyre and Library [littelb MSS. J unian. t he rfore cast dowse dy tiers 121.] desires us to note the slyght churches by the space of.• rm. of the Pope, that when he had myles. In his Lyme he kept causyd the Deuke of Norman. }he• englysshemen so love I. dy to Conquer England; under that fewe of them hare any pretence of penance causyd offyce of honour or role I him to give muche Lands to

Abbves,

Willelnzus Rufus Rex. 85

THE conquerour is laid at Kame dede in graue, - Willelmus Rufuscoro-

pe Courthose bcfor said Normundie salle haue. natus est apud Wt st-

To William Pe rede king is giuen pe coroun, monaste-rium.

At "Westrninstere tok he ring in Pe abbajr of Londoun.. Whan he had alle plenerly seisin of pe lond, Pe barons & Pe clergy ageins him he fond. Pis was Pare comon save in burgh & cite, " Pe Courthose with Pe lawe suld pare lord be. " He is broiler eldest, Pe coroun salle he here. " He is of body best, Pe reame forto were. What did pe grete lordinges, cries & barounes ? Kastels & oiler binges seised, mailers & tonnes. . pe king had Tulle grete Pouht, his reame agein him ros, Frendes fast he souht, to venge him on his fos. pis sorow & Pis drede lastid him Pre zere. Of ilea ne might he spede, bot ewer in Per dangere. His frendes gan him rede, to go,to Pe king of France, To conseile him in Pis nede, to abate kat distance. For pis king William (light- him vnto schip, His frendis with him nain vnto king Philip.

I Vnto king Philip he schewed ilka deli-, How his barons gan kip agekn him did not wele,

Abbyes, and that Deuke dyd Suss. and Selby in Corn. Ebor. bylde many of the Order of and the Priory of Ifitchinbioke Cluny, because Pope Gregory in Com. hunt, and the A lien- VI. was a monk of Cluny. The' Priories of Frampton in Com. I cannot find (continues the Dr.) that ever he founded any of this

Dors. Paunsfelei in Com.Ester, Derehirst in Corn. Glue. iit:do-

Order) yet he built and endowed ye'' in Com- Hants. and Sta"S'ig the great Abbies of Berate: Com. in Lott'. Suss.

G 3 t 4 I) etfor

86 Inllelmus Rufus Rex. " Perfor I am comen, to wite at sow our heued, " pe londes Pat we haf nornen, to whom Pe salle be 'cued; " & at sour jugement I will stand & do, " With Pi pat it be ent pe strif bituen vs tuo. Philip said bliPelk, Sr sent his messengers TiIle Inglond to Pe clergy, erlos, barons per pers, & askid if Pei wild stand to Per lolikng. Pe duke Roberd fulfilled, so did William Pe king. Pe barons wrote agekn, at his deinStng Pei ches, Pei held his dome certeyn, for he was prince of pes. Philip was fulle wis, with scrite he bond pam hope. He said pan his avis, " kisse & be not wroPe. At Pe first pei kiste, as frendes felle to be. " Of sour fader biqueste, dome pan salle se se. Doun Pei sat on benke, among Pe duze pers. Philip gan him ' thnke, & said on pismaners.

Ecce dis- I cassia facts est coram

" William Pe Conquernur his ancestres & he " Held with grete honour Normundie in fe

Philippa • inter Wil- lelmum Ratan &

" Of alle kirttges of France, & so did he of me, " For alle oiler distance, with homage & feaute.

Itobertum . fratrem e- jus, ducem

" Alle Inglond he wan Porgh his vassalage, Norman- idle.

" & Harald king over ran, Pat did William outrage. " Perto had he no right, no non of his linage. " Pat William wan with might is told non heritage. " We se alle day in place ping Pat a man wynnes,

"It is told purcbace, whedir he it bold or tuynnes. g & Pat comes of grace or of conquest bigynnes, " He mat, title he bas space, gif it withouten synnes.

. I Sic. cc Heti'

' InMinus Rufus Rex. 57

4 4 Heritage Pat lyrics & leues tope eldest sonne, . '" Purchaced Ping men Ones, woman wedding to mone, " Or tale a man is strange for his seruise oftsone. " Heritage salle men not change oripurchace wise to wone. " Roberd, porgh our assent, pe heritage to pe lies, " & Pon, \Valium, salle bent Pe purchace at our avis. " Pus sour fader-sow sette, als man of lawe was wis, " His dede ne wille we tette, be pe martir Saint Dents.

I Whan Rolird saute & wilt, how pc conseilc cede, To pe holy land him list, & eider gan him spode. Whan he corn at bfarsille, & ouer pe se suld wend, Philip sauh his wile, & after him gan send. Jae bode was sent to rape, pe messenger corn ouersone. For soth it was gret skathe, his passage was fordone.

THE rede lijrng William felle a faire chance, To Saynt Poule's he cams withouten greuance. For erles & barons hi sond he for sent, & alle at his somons to parlement went. lie schewed on & oiler, Pat bated was Pe strife Bituex him & Roberd, & were in luf of life, With chartre wele wreten & selid certeyn, & wele it was to NI it e n no clialange agekn, Wherfor he pant Night, if Pei to luf wild drawe, pe coronae at his might to matnten with lawe, Robertne

Courthose & Pat he so suld pc barons had affiance, applicult in

Angliam His kastels poi him solde, with alle pe purtenance. cum amore,

& venit In pe sere folowand, at pc somer's tide, fratri etto Window. Roberd corn to Pis land, at Donor gan vp ride,

G 4 Wham

88 Wilianas Riffus.Rex. Whan herd say with luf, Me him he sped, & with grete noblaY tine London him led. With in Po aulit daics com William is tieing, pc North had fele affraics, Porgh Pc Scottis kyng, Pe mitre gan assailc, Pe folk forto schentle, Roberd gaf him consaile, pidcr samen to wends. Willi eider Pei ferd William & Roberd. , Mateoline, than be it herd, fled for.ferd, & William toke him pore, his folk sloult ilk man, & als Pei were flcand vnto Louthian, So ferd thei him found, Pei obliged Pam to gYue, Fourti pousand pound, at his pes to lyuc. Opon pat he snore, to hold of him his fel & or William foie, tok homage & feaute. To London \Villain tomes, & bad arc his wile, & Mateoline soiornes in Scotland with ille. Whan he was at London, a haule l be did vp wright. First Ponlit & founden, for chambre was it right. •

' Concerning which I find London I that blewe dowse. a very remarkable Passage in v. c. howses and the rofe of Rastall's Chronicle; together Bowe churche I & dyd great with a Note about the first hurte in wynchester and in coming ofthe Cistercian Monks dyuers other places. In this into England, which others tyme also the welchemen re. refer to the Reign of King bellyd 1 but they were sub- ./kit. I. The Book being, as I dued & theyr duke or kyng have before noted; extremely • called Ryse was slayne scarce, Ishall give thePassage which was accompted the ct large from Mr. Murrag's last kynge of wales. After Copy. II The. iiii. yere of his that Malcolyn kyng of Scot. tit, ne a great wynde was in tes rebellyd . and came into

Eng.

Willelmus Rufus Rex. 89 • ROBERD leue has taken, & vent to Normundie, Itobertus

app

it To W ales is William schaken, estres to spie. in Nor- or It felle in tyme of ix gere, at Sa5,nt Brice feste, inaniata

pat he had regned here nien gere at ix meste,

Englande with newe hallo that is nowe. For The kyng of his retenewe I the armes that appere in the Scours slayn. whome one Ro- belle that nowe is aswell in .

bert erle of the stone worke as in the Northumberlande inconter- tymber worke I be the armes yd I & there, the kyng Mal- whiche kyng Rycharde the colyn was slayne I and by second gave I which be. iii. the ayde of kyng. wyllyam Lyons with the flour delyce Edgare his son was made quarterly I & the whyte hart kynge of Scotlande. I A- for his badge. For there was bout this tyme the order of neuer kyng of Englande that Cysteaux was fyrst brought bare the armes of Fraunce I into Englatide I by one wa- whiche he the flour delyce 1 to Espeke that founded the before kyng Edwarde the fyrst Abbey of that Religyon thyfcle I for in his tyme the at Ryuall. ¶ This kynge armes of Fraunce was fyrst wyllyam was a very covetous ioyned to the armes of Eng- man 1 a proude & wylfull I lande. wherfore it shuld seine and pylled bothe the spery_ euydently that westmyster tualte & temperalte I with halle that is nowe I was nat sellynge of Bysshoprykes I bylde in the tyme of kynge Abbeys I & benefyces I and wyllyam • Rufus I except it leuyenge vnresonable taxes & were onely the foundacyon trybutes on the temperalte I therof I or els it was the specially by the onely cone- halle in westmyster aboue sell of one Ranulphe hys pro- the steyres I which is nowe curatour. whiche iyches the called the whyte hallo. Stowe kynge dyd spende vpon the tells us (in his Survey of Lon- Towre of London I & some don, p. 521. Ed. fol. 1633.) ay vpon the ntakynge of that this Ball w.as repaired by

westmyster halle: but yf that K. Rich. Il. which will recon- sayeuge be trewe of westmy. ci/ordzal. is olicerv'dky Rastall ster halle I it must be some olde halle there 1 & Bat the

about flu ,f - r a.

Ros

90 Iri&laws Rrifus Rex.

Ros in Northumberland suilk a sorow bard, 1 Malcolcolme Bede robband, & his sonne Edward. pat herd an erlc Robert!, he g:►red him to bataile With Malcolme & Edward, he gan gam assaile. pat bataile was hard, fo men has no frith, Slain was Pat coward, & his sonne him with.

II Pe folk that ascaped.on Malcolme side, To Scotland Pam raped, & puplised it fulle wide. jki mad parlement, & toke Pam to rede. Malcolme to God was went, & Edward his sonne deck, & corouned Dufitald, Sir Malcolme broiler. . His sonnes Pei ne wald, pe ton no Ile toper.

De contn. ¶ melia Scot. tornm, & de dominio

Of Malcome pat man left tuo sonnes ware, pe ton bight Dunkan, pc toper Edgare.

& potestate Dunkan nub his eam had his heritage, Anglim.

per he wit bote of beam, be went Pat viage To William Pe rode king, Per he was in Wales. What tid of Pat ping, lie told him alle pe tales. " Myn heritage I crane of pe, pat is mk 1►oned.

• " Help me it to bane, pat Dufnald has me reued. With strife vnto William Sir Dunkan him bond, & to Pe heirs Pat of him cam, for pe coroune of Scotlond. Inglis & Normans pe king did somoune, To wend with Sir Dunkan, & do Dnfi►ald donne, & seise Dunkan Per in, nls bekr of heritage, To hold & alle his 14n of Inglond for homage. Whan corouned was bunkatt, & Pe fest eta; Inglis & Norman to king -William went.

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, Sic.•

IVillelmus Riffus Rex. 91

Dufnald, pat is put oute, alle about wendcs In fele stedes aboute, & gadres his frendes, & conseiled with Pam Pis cas, Pat alle suld pei go, & spie where pe king was, Dunkan if he mot sin. Slain haf Pei Dunkan, & eft corouned Dufnald, Of king William wild Pei no more hall.

1 Pe king was in affrak, he might not tent perto With Roberd pe Moubrak, his coroune he wild for do. Contumelia

orta est ia- Roberd wild haf reft William alle his right, ter Regem

& Rober- Pe coroune his koskn left, & gif it him porch might. tam Atop- William is war of pis, porch for Roberd he Pretis, bSr.

& takes him maugre his, his kastelle doun betis. Better were Roberd, in pes haf holden him stile; pan lain in prison sperd, & at his fomen wille. In Wyndesouere is he lend, sorow Pan is his pyne, Pat he wis otter his heued, Pe chip falles in his ine.

1 Pe next sere Per bi William to Wales went, Pe Walsch men did foli, his lond robbed & brent. Perfor William ne wold vnnePis leue on o lyuc, Pat bope song & old ale cede to pe krkue. Neuer bifor in Wales was don so grete greue, Di dounes & bi dales, par folk at suilk mischeue. Sen pis greuance hard, pe slauhter & Pe drede, Folic sone afterward pe king to cork cede. eider corn Edgar, was Malcolme sonne, & Sir Dunkan broiler, pat slain was porch tresonne, & schewed to William, Pat here he was of kkode, Of Malcolme be kam, righter salle non fynde.

44 When.

92 Willeluius Rufus Rex.

" Wherfor I sow biseke, help me pe lond to haue, " & I with wille fulle meke sour scruise salle I sauc. William vnderstode, pat he said rcson, & was next of blode, & Dufnald did treson. • He dight an oste fulle stoute with Edgar forto kin Dufnald to drkue oute, or his heck him roue. Eustace of Ferers Pat oste suld guke, Of Scotland Pei him brouht, Dufdald forto spie, & seised Edgar in alle, as right was Perto. To William for pe regalle he did pat he suld do. Edgar & his Peres Pe chaced day bi day, Of Scotland Pei him brouht for encl., & drof away. Edgar was Malde's broker, mei( kald pe gode quene, • zit sais on & °per, so gode has here non bene.

neingran. WIIAN William had his wile of Scotland &. of Wales !Wine Vs il- ) lebni. To riche men was he grille, of power held no talcs.

Clcrkes of holy kirke he chargis greuoslk, Pei were bisic & irks on per rentes to Ikue by. Of ape his wikked werkes Peso me ',mild pe mcste, pat scuenten kirkes lie mad title his' foreste;

' This was the new Forest near milted also much Sacrilege. But Winchester,, which was really then,others (and even Peter of made by his Father King Wil.. Langtoft and Robert of Brunne liana the Conqueror, who de- themselves seem to have been strayed many Churches for it, and his Son. IVilliam Rufus was

of the. same opinion) tell us, that this was not the New Fo-

nay an Improver of it, by en- rest near Winchester, but the ear b if iMrb . it ? in which 1w com. New Forest of Windsor, a.

monk

Willelinus &flits Rex. 93

pat never ere non was sen ix Cristendam. He did grete trespas of holy kirke so nam. Wele tuelue sere kept he pis lond, & how he died here selcouthly I fond. & if se wille lithe, I salle Idle it sow, His dede corn him scythe meruellosV, se how.

ON a•Thurdair at night at men he cede to reste, D e 'none Virillehni

'.('0 hunte P Ruff, & de er he had light in his new foreste. visione ante On slepe sonc he felle, Ix sueuen bifor him ran, mortem.

Him pouht in his chapelle he was withouten man, Ne non he said' no herd, & he bilteld aboute, l'e dures were so sperd, he might in no stede oute. So grete hunger him cam, & mete had he none, Nc he ne wist to wham, pat he mot mak his mone.

mong which is John Rastall, who writes thus : This kynge

M.C. without any yssue of hiebody. And he rayned. xii.

wyllyam as is said & wryt- yere. xi. raonethes and. xii. ten of hym I had great plea.. dayes I and is buryed at sure in huntynge 1 in so moche westmyster. In which Passage that he pulled downe & di. this is also remarkable, that stroyed dyuers houses •of to. he makes William Rufus to be ligyon to inlarge the newe buried al Westminster, as does forest of wyndesore for wylde also the Chronicle I now pub- dere :-. but a knyght of his named water Tyrell by the glaunsyng of his arowe .vpon

lisp, whereas it is well known, from our other Historians, that he was buried at Winches-

a braunche what. he shot at ter. And indeed it is Vin_ an harte in the sayd forest I chaster in the French Original smote the kyiig & 'wounded of Peter Langtoft. Le cors hym to dethe wherof shortely a Wyncectre fet leuesque por-

, he dyed. The fyrst day of ter, et mettre le en t mmbe, al August the yere of Chryst. monster seint l' ,r.

If is

94 trillelmus Rufus Rex.

His hunger was so grete, he wend haf waxen WOdC, Opon pe rode he schete, & ete it als it stode. Whan he had den pat, git him hungred eft,

. pe Mariole per scho sat, of hir no ping he left. Whan he was turned, & went out of Pat affray, For a bisshop be sent at morn whan it was daS,2 Sir Ode of Wirnchestere, so Pat bisshop bight, He told him of alle Pe estere, Pat him mette Pat night. Pe bisshop gan it rede, " God is Pe turned grim, " OuPer in word or dede has you greued him. “ Perfor alle Pat you may to penance take you space, " Pau neuer on Friday to wod you go to chace. " Pe-riuer salle you forsake on Fridayilka dele. " Pat penance I pe take, Sir king, Pou kepe it wele. Sir Ode pe bisshop es with leue went him fro, pe king herd his messe, to gamen Pan wild he go. His penance was foreeten,he asked for his archere, . Walter Tirelle was oaten, maister of pat mister. To trisic was he sette, forto waite pe chance, With a herde Pei mette, a herte Perof gan lance. Walter was redi, he wend haf schoten Pe herte, Pe king stode otter nebi, Pe stroke he lank so smerte. Pus died William pe king, ori-Pis ilk manere. Sir Ode herd pat tieing, fulle mournand was his chere. At Westminstre is he laid, at Saint Petir kirke, In a toumbe purtraid, Pe bisshop did it wirke. Fe date a pousand was',1 & a hundreth mo, Torgif him his trespas, Jhesu, Pat lete Fe go.

pat

Henr. primus, filius Will. Baslardi. 95

PAT time in Scotland was a maiden zeng, De da bona

Matil-

As 1 red biforhand, Malcolme doubter pe king. Regina.

Malde bight at maiden, many of hir spak. Fair scho was, pei saiden, & godc withouten lak. A doughter had Saint Margrete, Pat in Scotland lis. Of Pat doubter sute corn Malde, Pat was of pris, & Dunkin). & Edgar, Pat I red biforn, Malde's breper pei war, of Margrete doubter born.

.AFTER William men cald pe rede king, Henri Pe corona nain, his broiler Pat waving. • pe bissbop Maurice Henri corouned he, • pat time he did pe office, of London kept Fe se.

De n°

Henri-prime.

Roberd pe Courthose to pe holi loud was went. A Breton (daiet his' his" nose) for Roberti eider sent. A Breton sent Pat solid, he did for treson, & Roberd corn to load, withouten oiler reson. ,

Pat did Roberd tranaile for nouht, he was a file. Nopeles pe erle of Cornwaile kept his wife pat while, Charles doubter scho lord of Cezile, Dame Edith bright as glas ; Roberd poubt no gile, Bot corn on gode manere tulle his broj'er Henri. Ile wife Pat soiorned here, he led to Normundie.

¶ Henri wedded thine Motile, Pat king was & sire. Saint Anselme men tolde corouned him & hire. pe corouning of Henri, & of Malde Pat mak, At London was solemplk on S. Marquis day.

1 F. delend. The

96 Henricus primus Rex. De falsItate episcopi

THE bisshop of Durham, ' Kandolf he flight, Dunelawn- sis.

•

Of falshede to mak a gleam, Pe wrong vnto Pe right. For he & oiler fele sent vnto Roberd, Pat stound Said he not spele, sen he pat tigng herd. Roberd purueid him sidle, & coin whin he wild. " Pe folk is alle in wille, Pe lond Pe to geld. porgh messengers fals Roberd gadred oste. Henri was warned als, & did kepe pe costc. To Pe fiue portes he sent, & het Pam in couenant, pat aliens suld non bent batten of Normant. per sikernes was fast of Pe flue portes, & pe king Henry dight him on haste to.pe town of Hasting. A kastelle did ip sette, his oste lunge Per lag. pei wend Roberde's flette suld haf comer bi pat wag.

De tradi- ir Ile bisshop pouht treson, for warned was Henry. tione Epi- • seopi. He went to Southampton, with him alle his clergy.

pe maistres of Pe portes for ggftes tille hint toke, pe king & his force for Roberd pei forsake. A hundred] schippcs & fiftene went to Normundie, • To help & to maintene pe duke Roberdc's partie. Roberd mad him alle preste, Pe wgnde gan him drgue. Pe first day of lierueste at Portesmouth gan he rine. Toward Winchestre pam dight, his folk forte eise, In token pat he had might, a kastelle he did regse. To erles & barons lettres he sent aboute. For riche rewardons to Roberd gan !mite. Tulle fele suilk he fond, pat with Roberd held, , Of Inglis of Pis lond again Henri bare scheld.

1 L. Randolf. Roberd

Henrkus primus Rex. 97

ROBERD bi his letter his broiler gan difile, De Ro- berto

Him Pouht his partie better, of him to haf maistrie. Co.srthose dure Nor-

Bot gode Anselme, Pat kept of Canterbirie pe see, tnanniss.

Before Pe barons lept, kried, pes per charite. Porgh conseile of Anselme, Pat wild Pe comon prone, Ilk auailed his Udine, & to conseile drove. Pe parties were Nile stark, neuerlesse porgla praiere, ' IIetirk Pre Pousand mark gaf to Roberd bi 3ere. Pus gate was Pat werre pesed, withouten lore, pat noiper partie corn nerre, I blisse Anselme kerfore. In coucnant of pes, men may wele witcn, Bituex Pain nopeles a skrite euselid & writen. De pace

11 Als Anselme pe strif gan pes, of pe duke & Pe king, A fa nstcts 1per

Co .ar ra Roberd de BeleStse, For el his ouerwenjrng, epts

mum copoin

& passed hider over Fe se, & in to Wales went, Cannarite.

He gadred grete main of alle hi he mot bent. Pe Frankis tille him felle, & alle Pe Walsch tulle fikelle, Pe kastelle Arondelle he seised, & als of Tikelle. Cites, burgbcs & tonnes age5rn king Henri, At Burgh in Schrobschire to werie mad him recV. Alle Schobschire held with Roberd de Belekse, . Ilenrk lift vp scheld, his kastels did lie sayse. Pe walks did doun tale, Pe tours bette he doun. In gritty daies to telle, Roberd was taken in toun. Within dtqes pritti taken be was pore] spies & led to king henry, don had he felonie, & his broiler Arnald, (for with Roberti he fore,) As for tr4tours bald Pe lond bops forsuore.

Vol. I. it Now

98 Henricus prhnus Bar.

Now is henry yenged of his traktours, & lord of mykelle ping, & riche man of Omura. Maid Pe gode queue gaf him in conseile, To luf his folk bituene, & leuc alle his tirpeile, Bern him tillo his barons, pat held of him Per fees, & to hordes of tonnes, .title burgeis of Citees. porgh counseile of dame Malde, a kkude woman & trewe, per ore was hatred aide, now gynnes luf alle uewe. Now luf Pei full° wale Pe barons & Pe king, pe king dos ilk a dole in skille alle per bidding.

Ecce de licnrico.

11 Bot Henry pink it stark, Pat lie is charged so, To due pre pousand mark, & bonden be perto. porgh (*unite of his barons, he sent to duke Roberd. What was his respous writen, I ne sauh no herd. Tuo gentille men of blode, Pe best of Noratundie, IIenrY gaf gyftes gode, to hold on his partie. Whan Ile:irk wist Per witle, bi messengers priue, An oste he purneid stifle, & passed ouer po se. lie ',oat to compas ille pe same title him did he. Now salle Roberd fulfille, Pat he tok in his centre.

11 Whan Henry was ryued Per, per be wild ame, porgh power did he driue Roberd out of Kame, Bakone rent & fe sone had he born, pc best of at mitre title pe king wer suorn. Roberd fele siPes at Pat eomyug les Bopc londes & liftes, or he mot hut' pe pes. If he ne were porgh help of 'William de M.artafn, & Roberd de &IOW balp him with might & majm.

Pise

Ilenricus primus Rex. 99

Pise tuo went to France, & fonden at Parks, Als it was par gode chance, Sir Philip sonne Lowks. For Roberd pei bisouht of socour & mercie, Sir Lowks failed nouht, his help was him rcdie. Lowks wrote his letter unto pe king Ilenrk, Pat pei acorded better, for his luf specially. Pe bisshop of Parks pc pes pan formed he, " If pei at his auks bope wild paied be, " Roberd salle elekme all quite to Henry bifor vs here, " Pre Pousand mark be skrite pe Henry gaf bi pre, "pat Roberd, ne non of hise, salle ask Henri Pe king " pis Bette on non wise, pent' no ferping.

WHAN Pis baretle was cnt, Pe bisshop tok his leue, Recessit de Nonnars- & Henry home went, to no tno wild he greue.

pe londes wild he multi, :cad, Pat he of Roberd wan, nia.

Bot haf Pam he wilde, & hold for any man. Sen Pat Henry was gone, Roberd went to France To Sir Lowks on one, & told him pat grcuance : & Sir Lowks Perfore had him title Ingland go, To prake Ilenrk restore F0 tonnes he tok him fro. Roberd titre Ingland kam, & bisouht pe king Po fees he fro him nam, restore agekn pat ping. Henry ansuerd nay, Ferto were him lothe. & Roberd went' awith, with William was be wroth°. \Vhan be saute, pat Roberd for wroth turned so sone, & no ping ansuerd, bot to wend was Idle bone, Henry mad him tare, & after him Hie sloe To Normundie to fare, & se what lie wild kipe,

4 F. away. n 2 &

100 Ifenricus Primus Rea.. & duelled Per a zere biside Roberti his broiler, Pat noiper werre wo did Pe ton to Pe toper.

Iterum re. S verses est in Nor- manniam.

In alle pis ilk click of Roberd & IlenrY, Bituex pam wex contek, Pe king & pe clergy. pe king in pc courte of lye lay pe clerkes wild justise. Saint Anselin said him nay, he wild on no wise. Pc bYlig on ban bald, to haf Pam at his dome. S. Anselin perfor appeld Vnto ix courte of Rome.

Dicta An- It selmi pro ciao,

Whan lie had sped his nedis, & fro Pe courte comen, PC king for oper dedis to Normundie was nomen. Anselm duelled nouht, hot sone ouer Pe se To Pe kyng tieing broulit, what perof suld be. Pe bisshop sebewed him skills, pat be maYntend Pe ille. Pe king consented Per title, & gaf Anselm his wile. Porgh Anselm maYtenYng was Iv contek ent. Ile tok kue at pe king, & home to Inglond went. pc king his retenanz ally title him he drouli Of Inglis & Norman; & gadred folk inonli. Whan he had sanined his oste of folk fer & ncrc, Ile segcd bi Pat costs pe kastelte of Tcnkerc. Whilom‘ Wiliam MortaYn perof lord was, Pe Courthose is vilfakii, him penk it a trespas.

De cap. clone

Perfor Pe duke him dight, as man of grete value, Roberti Beleyse with might, pe sege Pei wend remue.

Roberti pe Mortayn bcfor spoken, with his nevow ReYnere, Courthose fratris lien- rici, & de fine ejcs. 11 dem Ro-berti vide per totum.

pe sege 1.e wend huf broken, Pei coin with per powere. Pe king sauh pat Pei liana, his trompes did he blowe, To Pe bataile lie nam, Roberd side zeds love.

Roberd

Heurieus primus Rex. 101 Roberti side cede dOun, for lie bitrayed was. His owen men did treson, pe king him tok, alias! Now taken is Roberti, & brouht vnto prison—, At Coruc his kastelle spent depe in a dongeon. William pe Nfortan he skapes with no gile, Fettered he is certain Roberd of Stotenile. & Sir William Crispin with pe duke was led, Togider prisoned in zeres & dajes pain fed Pe king pam per in mete & cloth biot', Pat neucr Pei were o twynne, vntille ded Pam slouh.

OFTEN I haf herd told of pis duke Robcrd, So Bode knight no so bold was non in alle Pe werld, Azejrn Pe Sarazins in bataile forto go, Now be liggcs in pines, sorow wille him slo. • Whjr felle him suilk chance, & is ilk mishap? For of Code's ordinance he forsoke Pe schap. Gode's grace be forsoke for zerning of pis loud. Vengeance Perfor be tok at his entling he fond.

AT ' Cone is Roberd dcde, pc maner of his enclitics M boke it me forbede to telle perof no Ping.

Ecce heu! dicta O A- fridi de 141. 15,ott de , 0. bet to Cu6.-thoic.

1 L. Come. Others say Cam diff in Soo h-IPales. See what is said about his death in p. 426, 443. of Rob. of Glouc. To 2.7h:rh ma.y be here added, that as neither Robert of Gloucester, nor the Chronicle of Peter Lantoft (that I now publish) say, that

Robert Duke of Normandy's Eyes were pulled out, so neither does John Rastall say any thing of that mutter, as well knowing (and Sir T/no..11c e too hau told him the trait of that part of our Ilish,ry) th,,, the ,Stuty was not rouch'd by such 11.Still'ill3S,

it 3 as

102 , Henricus prirnus Rex.

as came nearest to ltuke Ro- he refused to take vpon him: bert's time. But I shall put In this tyme began great loran the Words of Rastall at warre in Normandye be.. large, because the,ty will give twene kyng Henry & kynge some light to the Reader as he Philyp of Fraunce $ but kyng is perusing this work of Peter Philyp sone after dyed. / Langtoft. II In the secoude About the. iiii. yore of this yore of his [Hen. the First's) kyng I Robert Curteyse came reygne Robert Cottrteyse his into England agayne I to brother duke of Normandye I his brother henry whiche ,ivhiche had ben longe tyme oc- made hym great chere that cupyed in warre agaynst Chrys- before that Robert departed I tes enemyes hauynge worde of he released to his brother the the dethe of his brother wyl- fosenatned trybute of. iii. M. lyam Rufus I and that his markes I & departed agayne brother henry had takyn vp- into Normandye. After this on hym' to be kynge of Eng- a great varyaunce fell be. lande I made preparacyoui in twene this Robert and his Normandye and came ouer: lordes in Normandye that into Englande with a great they scut into kyng henry his boost to chalenge the crown?. brother wyllynge for. to come But by mediacyon of the into Normatulye I & they wolde lordes I it was agreed that delyuer hym the contrey. Robert shulde haue euery And also by the intyssement yere duryuge his life. iii. M. markes I as was promysed

of yll tate toilers 1: a great Ira, ryaunce fell betwene

hym before by kynge Ivy]_ kynge henry & his band in bran his brother. And who brother Robert ) Norm.- so euer lyued longest to be that the kynge dye. others heyre. And sone after with a great armye that I this Robert departed ' hayled into Nprmaudye I & agayne into Normandye. with the helpe of the hordes This Robert by his' man. bode I dyd many notable

there I chased his brother Ito, bert from place to place 1 and

actes I and. specially at the wanne from. hym. Roan I wytnynge, of the citye of A... . Cane I Faloya I and all the con vpon the mvscreantes & good townes. & many caste's. . Turkes I and was chttsyn But at the last this Robert kynge of Jerusalem I whiche gaue battell to kynge lien.

IIenricus primus Rex. 103

A hardy knirght was be, ouer all bare pe pris, At Jerusalem Cite, opon Godes entqs. Gotlferak Bolion said, that many mah it herd, " More my triste is laid °it pe duke Roberd, " & I had grete tittle agekh pe Sarazines to go, 46 & better said he spode Pan a hundreth mo. " Take him pe keping Pe coroun of Jerusalem, " For seke is the lOngs of him is no bote of beem.

I Pe Arid day of Advent, Win. Cristo's messes Ecce quo- modo Ro-

Pe kyng a seknes bent, pe dede him tok alle fresse. bertus de- k spea gra•

pe folk of pat Cite to God mad orisoun, ciam & e- lectionens

At pe temple domince with gods deuocioun, Dei. Who pan were ivorPi Pe Coroune fort° haue, Ageyn pe paemy pc Cristendam to sane, Godfrey & Roberd, & lered men & lewed, & God Per praieres herd, & to Pam alle schewed. A brightnesse corn fro hetien, & on Roberd light, pre tirmes alle enen, Pat alle satili it with sight. pris pat alle mot se Pe light otTRoberd toke,

Vngraciout man was he, pris he it forsoke. Porglt eonseile of som of hise, refused be Pat present, Pei said, on oiler Wise he sale haf auancement.

ry I in the whiche where he after dyed without duke Ro• battell this Ro- yssne of his body I and was Vert taken bert was takkn buryed at Gloucester. And prisoner, and sent Mier when this Robert was tak.

into Englande I yn I the kynge Henry seasyd and kept in prison in the ca- alle NIrrnandye into his stet! of Carditie in walys I owne haudes. by the space of. xxviii. yerc

it 4 Godfret

101 . Henricus primus Rev. Godfrey was oglift, to Robcrd spak folic We, , •

" Witlionien any essoine, vengeance salle lidle Pe not lite. " Forsakes you Godes gift, you dos him grete despite. pus said Godfrey of Bolyon, his pert was fulle of site. Forsoth vengeance he fond, of Criste pe grace he les. For couetise of pis loud, his mischene be dies. Of Roberd is no speire to mak of parlement. Ills broiler Henri is heire of alle his tenement, Of alle Normundie, withouten geknsajig, Als heir of ancestrie, Henri seised Pat Ping.

SONE pan was it told vnto pe king of France, Pat Roberd lif was sold porgh treson & mischance. Whan Lowis herd pat save, pat Roberd was so dcde, Agein right & lawe, tills Henri he misbede. For traytours of men Inglis to Lowis pam bond, Pei bight him forto wisse, :low he mot. haf is load. Ile trowed to per conseile, at Douere he gan vp Otte, It bad Wen wroperheile, if he ne had went beliue. Pe kSinge's kosin Thebaut, & Randolf Gobion, To gyf Lowis assant, sainned.at Chilkngton. Of Wales Pei had inowc, pat Sir Lowis gan chase, & of his men pam slowe, to rest pei had no space. Vuto pe se side chaced pci Sir Lowis, Ile durst not abide, no turne Thebald his vis. To sell ip ilkon pa nit, fiille oii load 'cued.

. Mot Pei Lowis hent, he said haf born his heued,

Whan

Henricus priinus Rex. 105

WHAN Henri herd telle Pis of Pat gode chenisance, De Matild fiiia Hen.

Of a of pe toper Inglis, Pat conseild Lowys of France, pat said haf Bien his owen, & mad pe chance ouer grim,

rici reel,.

& Pei wer fulle wele knowen, Pat wild haf tresond him, How Gobion was certein, Thebaut his neuow stoute, Turned Lowys ageyn, of loud pei chased him oute, SiPen with grete noblei, & with mikelle honoure, Henri toke his way toward Pe Emperoure, To pe Emperour of Almain his douliter to gine. Malde bight pat maYden, a fairer mot non line. Pat maiden moder light Maid pe gode quene, Lady to maYnten right sen sho was has non bole. Now has king Henri, porgh pis wedding, Grote power & party ageYns a lording.

i Now Henri king leue nam at pe Emperour Henry, & his sonne William, & went to Normundi. Ile gal William his sonne with skrite & l f" seek fulle fro To hold, als it was wonne, alle Normundie in fe. To Thebaud of Plesance left with him of his ineine, & vntille Inglond eft he turned oucr Pe se.

IN his seuentend ere pat he regned king, Maide pc queue his pew in God sell," did endinq.

De marts Ma,illis Retinue

At London at Saint Poule's in toumbe is scho laid, Inouye.

Criste Pan haf hir souk mensk of hir men said. If any man wile witen, & se of bir stork, At Westminster written er Pei redilie.

....... , Pete. 2 Sic. Sod f. delend. est.

if Now

106 Henricus primus Rex. t Now es pe king sort, Mr dede do him fulle gram,

He gos to Normundi to his sonne William. Tuo gere he wonnes, & faire courte per held, Untille bope his sonnes per moder dede he teld. & in Pe Prid gore pe king to Inglond went, His sonnes & per powere a noper tide pei bent. Pei toke a noPer tide, alias ! it was ouer hard, & dronkled bi Pe se side hope 'William & Richard. Tuo cries & Per wiues with pam dronkled were, & monk oiler Iyues in Ix se left Pere. William Bigot Per felle, Roberd Mancini pat bight, & Sir Geffrei Riddle, & Othes pat was his knight. Pise men were of G-ode, pat dronkled alle in fere. To lyue non ne gode, but on was marinere. Pe bodies with Per godes wer costen vp on pe sond, After an ebbe of pe flotle, euer ilkon pei fond. Tuo sonnes were our king born, pm his hcires suld & boPe ere pet Torn, for'soth Pat Is pite.

be,

To loud corn pe king, after Pat passage, With many grete lording of his baronage. Godefrei of Louayn, Pe duke Pat was dotthti, Jai messengers tu*I•sent to king Henri, For his douhter Adelain, pat wete was pan of age. Sir Henri mad pc fine, & mad pe mariage. pc may withouten vice, his wedding was weir light, & Malde Pe Emperice is heire of Ifetrq right.

Matild hn. / peratria vidua.

Pe Emperour Henry, Pat Maid has to wjrue, Scho had no child him by Mald In alle his tyue.

pan

107 Ilenricus primus Rex.

Pan died Pe Emperour, Henri for Maid sent As Emperice with. honour, ,Maid title Inglond went. Henri was alle glad of his doubter coming, NouItt, long sil)en scho had praier for wedding. pe gode erle of Aniowe of MaId herd .he say Fulle rielteli to trove, title tok his way. He rifled vp at Dr:mere, & dight him eft alle bone, Whan alle were wele (mere, to London com he sone. Pe erle so wele sped title our king Henry, Pat his sonne suld wed, & Mold was alle reds,. Pe Emperice was dight, as lady felle to be. With bir went many a knight title Aniowe Pat cuntre. Fe erle Pis lady gent gaf Henri ' his solte, Alto his tenement, pat his eldres was wonne.

' The Author here (as he to be done by the kynges does also in many other Places) offy cers. Sone after this strangely difereth from other Henry the Emperour dyed I Historians, in making Maud & Maude the empresse came the Empress to be married to to her father kynge henry f Henry Son of the Earl of An- whiche caused Dauyd the kynge jou, when she was reaily mar- of Scotiande and the more ried (after the Death of the parte of the lorries of Englande Emperour ilenq 1V.who was to do othe and (cane to the her first husband) to Gefrey Empresse 1 and to kepe the

Plantagenet Earl of Anjou, son of Foulk King of Jeru-

lande to her if the kynge dyed without issue male.

sakm. Hence John Rustall 11 Also about the. xxviii. (in his most scarce Chronicle) yere I one Gelltey Montage. writes thus : I About the. xxi. net erle of Angeo maryed the yere [of lien. I.) there was a sayd Maude end after by her great counsell called in Lon. had issue Henry I whiche don I for the correccyon of the henry after kynge Steuyn

cyous 1Yuynge of preestes Was kynge of .Engloade.

Whan

108 Henricus Primus Rex. Whan pe fader had entalle at his auirs, To pe holy lond he went, & died on Godc's enmirs.

HENRY his sonne & Molde, Intl held pe seignorie, A sonne pa bad fullc bolde, & his name Ilcnrie. Sipen had pei a noper, at Pei cald William, Pat was henry broiler, boPe of Maid cam.

Hir fader pc king lolled po childre so, Pat be wild for no Ping pe sight of Pain*forgo.

pE king went at the last vnto Normundic, & praied iris doubter fast, to here him companic ; & !lir smiles hope, henry & William, Pei were bun nere hope, gladly with him pei nam. Henri, regned here gritty gere & fine, & pre monepes sere, in pis feble lyue. Pe dede envie him toke, he died at his day, pe bod5, did Pei lokc, pat long abouen ergo lair. On bac l4 king Heurk, on bore bigond pc se, pat non wist ccrtqnly, who his heSrr sold be. Of Mald som had Pe speirre, Pc erie wif of Anio►se, Hir sone Henry & befte of him was waste to trowe. So long he lair oil bore, for doute of his linage, Tille men Pe soth mot here, who suld haf Pe heritage.

De morte Els I ne wote for wham, his biriirng suld men schonne, Tille Steuen of Plesance cam, Pat was his sister sonne.

Ilenrici primi per tom,. Stcuen corn for Pe ;tons, pis lond to haf he pouht.

After were henry bones to Recljrnge's abbak broulit.

His

Slephanus Rex. 109

His bones did he lay in a toumbe of honour, It was his owen abbai, ttrof he was s foundour.

HENRY is at his reste, his souk at Criste's wille, DeHenricia comae An-

SiStenen wille do his beste, in Inglond lows he stifle. .degavite. Thebaud, Stetter) broiler, as erle in his centre, Of o side ne of °Per no ping 111es he. lIeuri of Aniowe takes conseile at frendes, With Malde, Pat is so trowc, to Saint Denis he wendes, & his sonne Henry, pat men 'icicle of grete pris, Pei gaf him Normundie bifor Pe king Lowis, & tilte his heYres for ay, to hold of 1,e king of France. And on Fe toper day men teld him of a chance, pat Gerard of Peiters Pe erle Marchis had fet, Aniowe with Per souders was alle biseged & set. Whan Henry herd telle, he tok 'cue at Low5rs, Bot Maid scho gan duelle at Pe castelle Sir Amjrs, pat was duke of Gaines, Ilenr5, cosjrn pore) right. To suffre Ilenr5r paynes he hette him alle his might. Also lye duke IIenri with his fadere Bede, With help of Normundie, Pe better mot he spede.

' 4 This kynge henry the the yere of Chryst. M.C.xxxT. fyrst I buylded the Abbey of say he dyed of a dyed. Some sa Redynge I & 'released the En. surfet 1 and some wryters say glYsshemen the Dane gelt. that it was by a fall of a Also this kynge henry beynge horse I and his body was in Normandye in the xxxv. brought iito Englande 1 and yere of his reyne I the se- is buryed in the Abbay of Re- s:omit day of December in dynge. J. Rastall in his Chr.

Rot

110 •

Stephanus ller. Bot William, Henry broiler, died, & Pan was wo, Pe werre with elle pe toper lasted fine zere & mo. In elle Pis ilk tirpelle wex Steuen a fulle wise man, porgh quaintise & conseile Pe coroune of Inglond wan, pe date of Jbesu pundred, Pat men tellis bi, A Pousand & a hundred & sex & pritti.

De corona- clone Sle-phani.

ON &kilt Steuen clap, withouten any conquest, Pe barons on bode [1114 at London marl Pei feste, porgh conseile of ilkon, Pai gaf Steuen Pe coroun, IIePre was he non, no peddle had resoun. •

Pe Emperice sonne Henry he had right peddle, Bot right cede Per forbk, Pe barons did no skille.

Dejura. mentos Re-gis.

If Bot sen his corounkng tille Oxenford he fore, "st per Steuen pe king bifor pe clergie snore, pat if a bisshopriche vacant wer Pe se, Pe king, no non of his, suld chalange Pat of fe, With wrong no with right, of non pat fro him cam, So help him God alle might, & Pat lialidam.

-

It A noPer oth not lefte, pe clergie did him karke, Pat wodes ne foreste, witliouten palaised parke, Pe comon folk suld queme on & oPer in fere, Pe king no man suld deme in courte for wilde dere, Clerk ne hewed man foil no wilde beet, For comon pe folk it wan wod open & forest.

I Pe Arid point Pei wild, to suere he was drSmen, Pat pie Danegelde thr euer suld be foremen, & of i of ilk a hide tuo schillknges pat he toke Suld Heuer eft betide, he snore Pat on boke, .__ —_........ ' Sic.

. Ne

Stephanus Rex. lli

Ne costom no serui►se of ping pat he forgaf, pat noiper be no hise suld chalange rif no raf. Of som pointes he spak, & suore vnto pc clergie. pat ilk zere he it brak pe kyng in som pantie.

WIIAN wrathed Steuen with Dauid of Scotland, Pat wild not title him chenen, no bows vnto his band. Dauid vnto Maid had mad his homage, Steuen was in defaut, to Dauid did outrage. Bot Henry Dauid sonne, Pat his heir suld be, Contek for to schonne, to Steuen mad feautc. Steuen saute his Skille, Pat Henry did resoun, With alle Pat longed per title he gaf him Huntingtoun. Henri of Huntington he wrote Pe gestes olde, & sais in his sermon Pat newe ere now tolde. A bisshop of. Lincoln, Alisaundre he 'tight, Pat non suld be forholn, he praied him if he might. In Alisaundre time ham, & Henries Pe compilour Ros pe ordre of Sempyngham porgh Gilbert Pe confessour. Saint Margrete stork sais Dauid of hir ham, Of Dauid king Henry', of Henri corn William, Of William Alisandre, & Alisandre of him, pat wedded king Edward sistir, Pat was pe Scottis grim. pis is pe Genelogic fro S. Margarete Pe quene Of hinges bi & bi in kinde Pat has bene. Now of Steuen to speke turne we eft agcyn, Our talc wille we no breke, bot tette forth Pc certqu.

At

112

Perjuratus Si est Rex.

Slephanus Rex. A. T Pask in London Pe king his feste held, With erle & baron, with knight pat was of scheld. Was 11011 Pat pider 'ode, Pat holden was of pris, pat he ne had gyftes Bode of Steucn pat was wis. After pis fast praised Stcucn with alic his here, ke castellis he seised, pat he hat never erc. & Baudewyn of Beduere he Rented fro toun & &lode, A kestelle with powere agein pe king held, Pe kastelle title him toke, Baudwin had it lorn. Here how Pe king forsoke his oth .Pat he had suorn. In Huntingtonschire pc king in Pat forest A nioneth tai, to spire for wod & wilds beste. Forsters did somoun, cnquercd NT & doun, Whilk men of toun bad taken his venisoun, & who ])at was gilti porgh Pe foresters sawe, Mercied was Nile hi, & don' & fulle grete awe. pus he brak his avowe, pat he to God bad morn, For a buske or a bowe pat he forgaf beforn.

.OPON Pis ilk skit to Normundie he went. Iv serganz he fond Perin, be exiled Pam & schent, Pat had kept Pe land porgh Maid Pe Emperice, pat were hir wele willancl were putt out of office. SiPen he went to Fraunee, & coin veto Paris, & Per acordance bituex him & Losqs, & gaf it Enstace his sonne alle Normundie in fe, To hold, as it wa4'wonne, of Lowis forieaute. Pe kyng for his seruise conformed his gift, & 071 pis ilk wise Enstace to duke was lift.

' F. in Me. 5 le

Slephanus Rex. 113

II pe Arid ere of his regne he com to Ingland, De obsidis-ne Beofor-

Bedford he beseged, & wan it to his hand. dire, & cap-clone ejus-

Sipco dight him to Scotland, & mikelle folk him wit, dem.

& slouh alle Fat he fand for luf of king Dauid. For be mot never drawe Dauid tille homage. Dauid did hot lawe, Maid had his seruage. • Tille Maid with alle his might for lefe or for loth, For scho was heire porgh right, to hir he held his oth. Ile sauh he might not spede, & Dauid com no nerre, To Wales suiFe he cede, and oa Fam gan werre.

STEUEN stoutly doles, in stedes For he kennes, misit Gan-nok in Ber-

l/at agein him holder kasteles onparn rapeli rennes. fordia.

In Herford fulle stouteli his gannok has vp set., With Roberd fitz Henri Steven so with him met, Fat Bristow kastelle & toun, whedir he wild or non, & slede with alle Im honour, & oiler sex ilkon, Carro, Lodelow toun, Schrobesiiiri & Warwik, Dunford & Maltone, Steuen wan pain ilk a stik, & Po Pat Fe casteles kept, in penance pei soiorned, Pat eft not on him lept, to Wknchestre he tourned. At Winchestre he spires, hisfrendes drawes title him, For folk of fele schires agen him turnes grim.

11 Whan Dauid of Scotland herd Fe soth sawe, De Rege

Fat Steven was duelland in Fe South grete Pra.we, Scottoruur.

Fe folk ferly mikelle agein him'Fei ros, & Dauid herte gan tikelle, Fat him wex fele fos. Fulle son at Rokesburghe his parlement he helde, Fe' solk did somon porgh of tuenty winter elde.

.... Vol. I. ' L. folk. x &

114 Slephanus Rex.

& gaf pam sonde at wille in Inglond forto fare, Man & beste to spille, non ne suld Pei spare. Southward Pe Scottis basted, bifor Pim bare alle doun, Alle Pe cuntre wasted unto Aluertoun. Whan Pe king Dauid Aluerton had sene, & wend wele at his grith alle Inglond had bene, Pe Norreis so Pam defendid ageyn po Pat he brouht, Whan Dauid alle had spendid, of Pam wan be nouht. • Liste how Dauid les his spente & his trauaile, & whilk oii him gan pres, to renne on his rascaile.

THE archbisshop Thurstan, a gode clerk wele in ages Herd Pe Scottis coin ilkan of Dauid baronage, ., Tort° destroie Inglond, & set it in seruage, Thurstan sent his sond, tille a bissh sauuage, Rauf of Orkenek, noble of 'image, pat he suld tak Pei wekopon his kostage,, & do Pe Scottis deic,' & Per pride asuage. Whan Rauf herd him so seie, be dight him to Pat rage.

I Pise were po pat nam, als in Pe geste it sais, Of Almarle erle William, &,Walter de Gounteis ; Roberd de Brus Per cam, & Gilbert de la Say, & his sonne Adam, & Roger de Moubrak. Walter Spek was in Pal stoure, gode knight at alle nodes, pe boke tellis grete honoure of his douhtk dcdes, Of monkes & chanones he did mak abbeis, Wis man in pe laWe knight gode & curteis. William Peuerelle corn als, he was of pe West, Agein pe Scottis fats, a gode man with pe best.

Fuse

Stephanus Rex. 115

Piss were Pe barons, Pat com of pe North ende, pat Rauf mad somons ageSrn Dauid to wende. vise men lift Per standard, pat stoute was & grim, AgeS,n Dauid wandelard, & disconfite him.

SAID Rauf tille ilkon, or Pei to bataile went, " Of pe bisshop Thurston haf I comandment, •

De Radul-,pho de • orknete,

" Pe clerkes forto tech, for Pe londe's nede, c fait

doetor d

t "

dede. Pe leveed also to preche, & comforte Dram be to ant quiH • i " se wits wele a remenant, & forsoth se kenne, fuerunt in

pupil°. " Fat Inglis & Normant be now ons men. ," sour ancestres conquered all France quitelk, " Were Pei neuer ferdeuf Frankis men hardy. " Pople with alle Pe recchesse, & akres, als Pei wonnen, " Pore' Per douhtinesse, Pe load Porgh pei ronnen. " Sipen wan pei Inglond, Pat is so plentimous, " & now er Pi:se bot mansbond, rascaile of refous. " On sour fadres pink, pat were staworth in stoure. " For vise ne salle se bleak, bot hold vp Per honoure. " Go we with gode wille, & here I sow assoyle, " Of alle zotir synnes ilk granted of pe apostqle, " Fat se haf said or Fouht, or dun Fat is schryuen, " In Criste, Fat vs alle bouht, be it sow forduen. " Ferto my benSrson tille alle Pat go blipely, " In Pe name of pe fadere & Pe sonne & sprit sancti. .

DAUID of Scotland basted to pe bataile, •Walter Spek ros on hand, Pe folk to forme & talk.

t 2 He

116 Stephanus Rex.

He bad, pat non alone breke out of Pe rengaile. William of Almarle acordes to Pat consaile. To white pat pise men bold with per folk gan dale, Sir Robert de Brus Pe old to Dauid gan trauaile. Here now of pe Brus, how he Dauid gan sale, With word Pat was Irus, if it mot out auaile.

41[ 44 Dauic.1 my lording, land I hold of pe, " & als of Steven king, for homage & fcaute. " Leue alle pis foly, pat you here bigynnes, " pin heyres salle it by, & you no ping wynnes.

De consilio " & loke, pat you not lese of lond*Pis ilk day, Roberti Brus.

' " Fe best I rede you diesel pi lif sane if you may. " For Inglis & Normant er stalworth men in stoure,. " It is folk valiant, over alle pei here Pe floure. " For neuer mot you fknde Inglis king giloure. " To Pe & to pi kynde baf pei don honoure, gg Londes hat pei gkuen to Pin ancessoure. " If trespas be misdrkuen, & do Pin owen socoure, " & I wile mak amendes, tak a day of loue.

. " If pou ne wille, you spender, & we salle be aboue. " you may haf Pi wille, if you to lone chese, g' & if you turne tille ille, non wote who salle lese. " Wherfor, my lord Dauid; do bi gode conseile, . gg Zak zow pes & grab, & late be Pis tirpeile, gg & late not now be spoken of ix mishap. " For eft it while be wroken with a hardere klap.

Dauid

Stephanus' Rel.. 117

DAVID listend Roberd, to pes fulle ech to drawe, Dot on per was ansuerd, & sturbled alle Per sawe, William his neuen, a.man of pfoude wile, & said, "Roberd pe bru, traytour bold pe stile. Roberd said him flak, traytour was he non, " Dauid haf gode day, min homage now is gon. He smote his hors with spors, & fleih fro pat rascaile, & comandid his trompors, to blow vnto bataile.

11 Rauf of Orkenek cried, " Inglis go now,go, " & do Pise Scottis deie, Pei waken vs euer wo. Pe Normans were alle glad, porgh schet pam als Pe ro.

. pe Inglis did as he bad, bifor pam stode bot fo. Almerle his banere sprad, & oiler barons mo, Mikelle blod Pei schad of folk Pat Fel gon slo. Dauid away fled, pat bigan alle Pat pro, Here how a spier sped, sen Dauid fled pam fro.

41 A hede Pat was of srnkteti, Pat Pis squier fond, Priue, pat non said when, in an orfreis it wond, & sette it on a spere, in an orfreis vnbiwened, & said, " lot here I bere Dauid king heued, 44 NS is Pe hede Pat was of Dauid Iv Scottis king. Pe Scottis said, " alias I pis is a grete encumbering. Pe Scottis Pat stode fer fro, & pe hede biheld, Fulte wightlk gan Pei go, flehand out of Pe feld, NVolgrkn & Dufnald for euer more pei left, Of knight no squier bald on lyue non Pei left. pe Scottis whan Pei cam, bestes over alle Pei toke, Hors & nete alle samen bifor per oste pei schoke.

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118 Slephanus Rex.

Pei did it for a wile, porgh & Porgh toun, To put bestes in perile, our folk to bere doun, Our men herd it say, Pei were warned beforn, In ilk strete & way pei ordeknd an erpe horn. Whan Pe corn Fern blewe, pe bestes agejrn fled, pe Scottis men doun tbewe, for roqng wer pei dred, Pe bestis porgh pam 3ede, & ouer Per rascaile ran, Pe Inglis after with dede, & slouh Pam ilk a man. Pis was at Kouton more, Pat Pe erPe homes blewe. Per pe Scottis misfore, men telle pe tale it newe. Sir Henry, Dauid sonne, Pe romance sais so pore, His dedis were more to moue, 'pan sex pe best Per were, Onr barons had pe pris, with pam'held Pe right, Pe Scottis.side doun lis, Pei Panked God all might.

le caPci- ii one David, Pe moneth of heruest was Dauid disconfite,

& de Ens- tathio filio fitephani.

pe next zole alle preste Steuen dight him fulle tite, & tille Scotlond went, & tok he king Dauid, & title Inglond him sent, his sonne Houk him wit.

' II A sonne had Steuen pe king, Eustace was his name, In arrives gode gynn5rng, of pruesse had he fame, Lowks doubter of France Eustace tok to wife, Steuen for Pat chance was more stouter in strife. Alisander, pat was bisshop of kncolo schire, I ne wote for what trespas, pe king title him had ire, Sleford & Neuwerk Pe king reft him Po taeStn, At Winchestere porgh conseile he had Pam boPe ageing

ittptie1radi

tsrix I L Pat ilk time so &Ile Maki pe Empere corn to loud,

!colt in Anoiam. Pe castelle of 4rondelle open agein tar fond.

Who

.Stephanus Rex. 119

Whan Steuen vnderstode Maid was in Arondelle, With.mikelle folk & gode ' bigeged Pat kastelle. Maid pouht.of pis stoure, scho bipouht hir straite, &.douted dishononre, Pat mot coin Porgh disceite. Scho did hir to Bristow, & duellid oiler half pre, & pider fro Anjowe coma hire a messengere, & told to Mald here, pat scho fulle wele trod, .

r lord lair on bere, his soule bitaken God, & Henri, hire sonne had pe heritage, To hold as it was wonne, don was his homage. Maid, in Bristow lettres fast sendes, Bi messengers trowe, forto procore frendes, To burgeis & citez (Fe wardens alle scho freistes,)

Bush baro-nibus pro auxilio.

& to lordes of feez, pat who on treistes. Of help scho Pam bisouht, in right & lea4te, pat Pei failed hir nouht, for here Pe moist hir be. Pe barons said, scho had right in hire asking. Son was Pe contek schad bitud Pam & Pe king. Ilkon on his side to bataile purueid himt Pat power had to bide most was stoute & grim.

it Sir William of Almarle wex a stoute sire, - He 3erned to haue aile Lyncolnschire, • Ageirn Gilbert Pe Gaunt reised his banere. Gilbert was valiaunt, ageirn him fulle austere. Gilbert had Pe erledam Pat time of heritage. Bituex him & William was don many outrage. Of Gilbert first to telle, to William did he wouh, He did brenne Helwelle, & William broiler slouh,

. i Sic.

r.4 ,

120 Slephanus Rex. pe castelle of Bitham to Gilbert golden was. It longed. to William, Pat time felle him at cas.

WILLIAM of Almarle pat time Northward rode, pe castelle of Hundmanbi he cast doun alle o brode. Sir Eustace le fitz Jon.at pat dede was, More him, an ilkon, Pe wited Pat trespas. Who so was wrope, or oiler, biforn, for any chance, His enmk pe toPere toke Pan his vengeance. Po Pat lufed werring mad parties ai bituen, Som held with Steuen pe king,IL som witle,Mald Pe quene. For erles & barons, pat were of Malde's kinde, Souht citez & touns, pe king if pei mot finde. IIir frendes fulle fast waited abo' ute & woke, & Maid at pe last king Stencn scho toke, & led him to Bristow, & did him per in hold, In prison, I trowe, porgh peluene Mold. 1 Pan pe riche & pouere, & alle comonly, 2 For Berwik to Douere held hir for lady.

It Whan pe lond gan.hir loute, & alle was at hir wilte, Pan bare scho hir otter stoute, & wild vat() no skate. For or pat ere was gon, scho bare hir so stoute,. pat Pe Lundreis ilkon of London drof hir oute. Maid Porgh pe Lundreis fro London is katched, With hors & herneis Bristow has scho latched.

' Des riches & des poucrs leimperice dame rescen de de communalte Eft Malde I gre. Gall. 2 F. fro.

What

Slephanus Rex. 121

What for ire & tene, & alle in euelle wille, Scho stokked king Steuen, & Per did scho ille.

Now turnes eft Mold to Wjrncester fulle stouttj De Matil-de lmpera-

SC Steuen out of Pat hold .quaintly skaped mite. trice.

Roberd went hir with, Malde's half broiler, & pe king Dauid of Scotland was pe toper. At Winchester gan scho duelle, biseged pe castelle : Pe Londreis herd it telle, & pared Pam fulle welle, With gode aparaile of alle pat pei mot gete. Pe sege Pei gan assaile, & tok hir at pe mete. Roberd per was taken in to pe Londreis hand, Bot Dauid was wele waken, he fled fast to Scotland, Alle porgh Chestreschire, he fled to Louthian. A preste was with hire, Pat Mald fro pam wan. Mald & Roberd Louelle title Oxenford Pei fled, & seised Pe castelle, & Steuen fast him sped, & gadred him an oste, & went vnto. Wilton, & did reise in pat coste a stalworth donjon. Mald wist Pat fulle wele, hir barons eider sent, & Steuen left ilka dde, & to Northampton went. William Marschalle o chance was taken at pat bane: He gaf for his dclyuerance pe castelle of Schirburne.. Folk bigond pe se, Pat were of Stencil's k'Srnde, Tille him corn grete plente, & oiler Pat 17ei mot fS7nde. Steuen with his power title Oxenford gan schake, His sege he set plener, Pe castelle forto take. pe Emperice it held, was it pe winter tide, Pe snowe lay in Pe feld, Fe water frese biside.

1)0

12 Slephanus Rex. Pe lady had defaute boPe of mete & drknk, • & scho dred per assaute, hunger was at pe brink. Scho asked hir conseile, what was per of to redo. gl Steil& wille vs traueile, & faracn "vs to deck. Non ne couth ne wild conseile on no partie, Bo Pe castelle to geld, & ask pc kkiig mercie. Pat ne wild scho.noul►t, hir berth was so stoute. Bot here now how scho wrouht, & how scl►o passed oute.

►d A fulle selcouth rede tok at hir owen herte, . Scho left for life no dede, ne colde pat was so smerte. Sone after mydntght, Pat crowe mild pe cok, in Pe snowe for sight scho Bede out in hir smok, Ouere Pe water of Temse, pat frosen was its, Withouten kirtelle or kemse, saue kouerchef alle bare vis. To Walkngford scho wan, & Per scho left a while, Pe was, scho zed & ran, on length it is ten mile. & Steuen Pe castelle wan of Pam eucr ilkon. poi gelded it ilk man, ' wham dam Maid was gqn,

IN Pis time had Steucn regned aunt acre in alle,

Lered & lewed were euen, & pere & paringallc ; So Pat knight & squiere, if Pei powere mot make, Of holy kSrrke pleynere tok Pat Pei mot take. pc pape Pan herd Pe pletnt, be sent hider a legate. At London pei wer atteynt, decre was mad for Pate, zif any lewed man laid hand opon clerk, Or with ille on rai►, Pat of corun bad merk, He sold not escape, porgh bisshop granted fre, Of non bot of Pe pape might he assokled be. --, r--- _

► F. what. Pe

Siephanus Rex. 12.3

Pe king it was herd, & chastised his mekne, & oiler afterward left of Per nkcete.

.. THER after half a pre pe clergie had Bode b pes, pat noiPer wo no werre non oii pam gan pres. Bot Geffrek of Maundeuile pe king Steuen him reft His baronie, pat while roliberie with Job was left. Pe abbay of Rameseie hi night he robbed it, Pe tresore bare aweie with hand Pei might on bit. Abbote & priour & monke Pei did out chace, Of bolt' kirke a toure to theft pei mad it place. Roberd pe. Marmion pe same wakes did he, DeRoberta

He robbed porgh treson pe kirke oP Couentre. Marnv on.

Here now of Peir schame, what chance bifelle. pe stork sais pe same, soth as Pc gospelle. Roberd Pe Marmion he lepe vp on his stede, Porgh Couentre pat toun unto Pe kirke he cede. He comandid his men, to dqu.e out Pe couent, Pe godes him biken, Pat pa mot tak or hent. Whan pei had inoub, als mftelle as pei mot lede _Pat Pei of herneis drouh, to go pei gan pain spede. He turned his bridelle wip querte, lie wend away haf gone, Pe dede him,smote to pe herte, word spak he neuer none.

li Geffrek of Maundcuile to fele wrouh he wouh, De G. Maundy

pe denelle Bald him his while, with an arowe on hint slouh. Idle. Pegqde bisshop of Chestre cursed pis ilk Geffray, His lif,out of Pis estre in cursing went away. Arnulf his sonne was taken als thefe, & broulit in bond, Vidor Pp king forsaken, 4 exiled out of Pis fond.

Fe

124 Stephanus Rex. pe marschalle of Pain alio, Helys of Saint Omere, To ded Pan gon he falle doun of his destrere. Pe maistir of per pedaile, pat kirkes brak & brent, & abbeis gan assaile, monkes slouh & schent, Was born in Pikardie, & his name Reiuere, In suilk felonie gadred grete auere. Ile had what he wild, & was of wending are, & bad a schipc wele filled, ouer Pe flode to fare.

Per in was wif & childe, & tresore wikljr wonnen. So coin a tempest wilde, his schip had alle ouer ronnen. Fe mariner was ogast, Pat schip Pat wild not go. Lotes did Pei kast, for whom Pei had pat wo. Pe lote felle on Reiuere, & on his wif also. pris kast at times sere, selle it on Pain tuo.

PE schip man wist wele, Pe tempest Pat Pam smote, For Pam corn ilk a dole, he did Pan tak a bote, & did Pam alle Perin, Reiner & his gode, &.whan Pei were o tuyii, per schip ferd on pe flode. Reyuer & his wif doun tille belle Pei sank, For his wikked lif Pe Deuelle gald him Pat Pank.

IN his tende gere a hatrex wex alle hote, pe king tittle austerefagein Sir 1l ugh Rigote. pe king did not wele, with Pe wrong he wrouht ; Amendes be mad som dole, bot of Pe most right nought.

I Rauf Fe erle of Chestre, & Fe king were wroth, In his elleuend gem, pe wend haf acorded both

In

Slephanus Rex. 125

In alle maner of ping, pat Rauf felt him filed. Bot here now how Pe king Rauf Pe erle begiled, t Unto Northampton Rauf to courte kam. pe king, Porgh treson, Rauf Per he nam, & held him tille he Bald of Ltneolne pe castelle, & plenerlt haf he wald Pe rentis pat perto felle.

'11 Pe tuelft sere of his refine at sole he held his feste At Lime°lne; as in signe, pat it was his conqucste. Sone after pat feste, Pat he per setsen tok, Pe courte, moste & feste, tulle Arundelie Pei schoke. pat Pe king was gone, Rauf herd sone sat, To Lincoln forth on one Rauf pan tok his way, & reised a mangnel, to kast vnto pe toure. pe burgeis were fulle felle, Pei Bald him hard stoure. pe Gyour of his oste at pat saut was slain, & Rauf, for alle his hostel fulle fast fled again.

, . THE zere next on hand zede Iv king of France To 1,e holy land, with his purueiance.

Ecce kou. wardise magnatum

Pe emperour with Po ktnges went withouten grace. po & oPer lordtnges mad pe grete manace,

& fogs eo. rum.

Upon Gode's enrnts forto tak vengeance. Pei sauh pe payens of pris of so grete purueiance, Pe Cristen turned for drede withouten dint of lance. Bot here how pe poraile specie, God gaf Pam fair chance.

II Pe poraile Pat went eider, Pat had no spending, pei snore Per oth togider, to lette for no ping, To wend vnto Spain, & tut) Citez Pei wan. pe Sarazins was Per wain, & slouh Pam ilk a man.

pei

126 StePhagUS Re.ti

Pei zede fro lond to load; & non ageyn Jam stode, _ pe better grace Pei fond, pe fcrrer pat pei 3ode.

Hidere com Pat tipand tulle oPer lordes manimo, How mikelle grace felt farad, pat durst pe Sarazins do. pe lordes mot haf same, whan Pei herd it telle, Pat dred for Gode's name, at home Pei zede to Ilene.

be morte IN his sextend zere Steuen Pat Pe lond auht, Matildis imperatri- Maid scho died here, hir some to God betauht.. cis, & de Forma seri- & hir sonne Henri to lond was he comen, pti inter Stephanum Pe barons & pe clergy tulle him alle pc nomen, & Henri- cum &Bum & with pe king Steuen pei held parlement, Imperatri- cis. Pat Henry & he euen acorded or Pei went.

With skrite was set Pc pcs, & ordeind Porgh baroun, pat Steuen tale his discs of Inglond suld bere coroun, & his eft CertOn be holden stabillk. To Normundie ageku suld turn pe duke Henry, & Ingland alle holy after Steuen Pe king Suld tame to pe same Henri, withouten geinsaiing. & if Pat Henri die, or Steuen mak his doses,

Henri heir we scie salle haf pe lond in pes, Coroun forto here, as heir & eldest sonne, His heritage to were in tight, als it was worme So. Pat Steuen pe king, no non of his heftes, Tor heritage no ing salle chalange fcr Peires. Pis Bede was enseled,bitauht Pam of S. Poole's, Pat wrong were not deled for drede of lif & soules.

NOW

. Ilenricus secundus Rex. 127

N OW wendes duke Ilenrk unto Normundie, SeSTsine has plenerly of alle•his cheualrie, & Steuen leues here, Inglond is his balie. After in his Arid were Steuen fulle seke gan lie, & in pat grete languour endid helfis life, Ninetene Sere Pe honour he kept in werre & strife, At Feuersham he lis, at a heuen in Kent, In an abbeS, of prix he founded with lond & rent. & Maid pe Emperic,e Per pan is scho laid, Pat scrued per office to me, so Pei said. Pe date a pousand right a hundreth ' & fifty, Anon. Pat &cum to dede was Bight, now comes secunde Henry. X. ' L.

NOW is Steuen dede, & lies at Feuersham, Henriens secundus Pe barons Pair red, & after Henry nam. fiketus est rex. To London Pei him brouht with grete solempnite.

pe popille him bisoulit Per king forto be. pc day of Saint Liger 2 was Ilenq Icorouned king, Thebald of sCanterber gaf him Pe coronae & Pe ring. Pis lienrk was Maid some, 1)e erle wif of Aniowe. Pe Emperice was wonne, & right here forto trowe. For lIenr5r doubter scho was, & his here porgh sight. Now conies hir sonne in pas, lIenrY hir heft porgh right.

1 Milt re veru S'tephanus rex strum (notante Cam deno) of Oct. 25. 1154. Ipsius dutem re- Oxonice Corniturn antiquam ginaMatildis defunct a est ..4Iaii habitationem, in afro Esse.ci. 3°. 1152. apudlleduingliam ni. ensi. 2 Oct. 2. Sed de tem. mirum rive Ilenghain, pulp', pore Coronationis variant hi.. Heningham, elegans .olim ca.. storici.

Henry

128 Jlenricus secundus Rex.

Murk has four sonnes, & doubters has he tuo, As Pe stork mones, Pese ere Pe names of Po : Murk & Richard, crle Geffrek & ' Jone, s 'ikon afterward was kkng, & quene 3 bot on. Geffrck was no more, bot .crle of Bretakn : & dame Ilelianore scho we quen of Spaku. Dame * Jon was zongest, & lady of Cezile. Per fader king richeSt lkuand in alle his while.

1 pis ilk lIenrkis told flenrk pe scecunde, So riche a prince in wold in Pis lond siPen non funde Aniowe & Normundie alle holy be held, Of Gascokne Pe seignorie bowed vnto his scheld. Ilk a knight & scrim, clerkes were to him suorn. pan was his Chancelere 'rhornoS of London born: Saint Thoma fader I find bight Thomas Beket; In London of noble kind, & maste of alle was let. A riche man he was, mot spend pre hundreth pound : Ersdeken his sonne Thomas of Canterbiri pat stound, In alle manere cause he sought pe right in skille, To.gile no to fraude wild he neuer tale.

' John. a Perperam. Nam cent, tam Johannam quam 4 tres duntaxat reges erant, Gal- Elianoram reginamfuisse. Ad- fridus vero Britannice tantum. eo ut pro eorum sententia mox modo Comes sive Dux, iil quod infra queue of Cezile pro lady mox ipse noted Auctor, qui proof Cezile sit reponendum. id rode forsitan voluit, comitem quod etiam liquet ex Petri de hic loci pro regulo accipi. hand Langtvfl Codicibus Garnets, in enim aliud alibi Want valet, ticut ex Hemingo nostro colligi

quibus, Alyenore sa fylle fu Rayne de EspaYne, Rayne de

potest. 3 Quin 4 hie etiam Secylle Johane la fYlle darayne. auctor ,(ems alque alii, qui do- 4 Joane.

pe

Henricus secundus Rex. mu

Pe Ersebisshop Pat was at time died he, Pe Erresdeken Thomas was sacred in his se. Wele mayntend he holy kirk, & allege dignite,

Sanctus Thomas foetus eat archiepis-

pus Can-cowar.

With pe lawe to wirke majrntend Ix ordine. if any man mad plejrnt of clerk for hastiueneise, Vr if pei were attejrtit in oiler wikkedncsse, Thomas suffred nouht 1 cleke to be alle schent,

Ecce con-troversia orta est in• ter regem & clertnn.

Ne to Pe lay courte be brouht to tak per jugement, Bot tille holy kirke, of whom he bare pe merke, & at pat lawe to wirke, if he were ordejrnd clerke. Pe king for Pat cheson wrathed with Thomas. Here now pe reson, whi pat wreth first was.

CLERKES often tide misdo blithely,

For deynoushede & pride, & for per state is h5r : Ecce de clero per totura.

Pei passe mesure & right, forto haf Per wille, & whan Pei ere in mjrglit, wile Pei kepe no skille. For Ini wille vnderfong a fulle gre emprise, . 84 suste5rn it with wrong, with sleiht & quaintise, Po pat felt Pam greued, of Per wikked delis, To lordes, Pat Pei to chewed, plejrned Pei most nedis., -Pat suilk was not lees, it com to pe kjrnge's ere, He comanded his pes to lered and lewed pat were: & if a clerke men fouude in his loud Pat reft, Porgh slauhtcr or wounde, or j)orgh over theft, Men suld schewe his guilte in Pe courte of lay, & per be saucd or splite, bot Thomas said him nay. Thomas said pe kipkg, Pat othe suld he wele loke, Pat he snore atPe gynnSrng, whan he pe coroune toke.

Vol. 1. ' L. clerke. I - 44 torgir

130 Henricus secundus Rex.

" Porgh God I Pe forbede to chalange any clerke " In lay courte.for non nede, of holy kirke has mcrke ; 46 Ne Pe franchise fordo, pat it °till to halde, " Bot tills Pat courte corn to, of whilk he is membre cattle.

I pis was at Clarendoun, Pat Thomas gaf respouns, & sipen to Narthamptoun Thomas corn eft sons, Del5rtier his clerkes fro dome, bot no grantise was. Wherfor to Pe courte of Rome pan lolled S. Thomas. Thomas toke Pe way, & passed ouer Pe se. pe king Henry herd say, his messenger sent he. . hop Rogere of Bork Pan kept pe se, his powere corouncd forto be, oynt also with wrong, psi mad alle mirie. Tille Thomas Idle it to pe kirk of Canterbirie." Whan Thomas it wist, he did mak a cursing. Roger he cursed first; Pat corouned Pe gong king, & alle pat wer him with,, or in his courte wer sene, Satre Pe kin; had grail, his childre & pe quenc. To Thomas pe king bisouht, Ile bishop to assoile, Bot Thomas wild riouh, bot Porgh grace of Pe apostoile.

z Torn off. But the sense, notwithstanding; is plain, es-

mere passer; Et le Reis Henry fetmaintenaunt maunder. Ler-

pecially if the passage be corn- ceuesqe de Euerwik son noun pared with the French, •which fu Roger,• Et son fiz Henry le is thus: Ceo fu a Claringdoun, on Thomas ad parlez, Et a

list corouner, Et oyndre en Reis, le regne put. [the word

Norhampton Vint it altre feez, pur is wanting in Mr. Anstis's Delinerer.ses clers,'I mes rien Copies] gouerner. Toit fist a luir fu grantez. Ala courte de Thomas, ke fust outre mere. Rome ad Thomas appellez. Kar pur veir a 1,5, appent eel

Thomas deuers la courte va la 'nester. 1Vher.

llenricus secundus Rex. 131

Wherfor Fe king wex wroth, & Thomas did exile, His kinred lefe & loth he did fleme & reuile.

il Fe king suld haf no plight, Fat Thomas so was dede, He said hot title a knight, Fat Thomas him mishecle ; De morte

Sancti & if he had had men, as he wend, of rcnoun, Thom e.

pei suld haf venged him of suilk a clergioun. Foure kingtes it herd withouten any more, . To Canterbiri Fei fcrd, & slonh Thomas right Pore'.

II Who so wille wit Pis chance his lif & his languour ;

& how pekkng of France did him grete honour ; & how Fe pape sent his bulle with a legate ; & how, or he went, he serched alle Fe state; & how at Pountne pe angelic to him said ; & how alle his kinde exile was on Fam laid ;

' In the Cathedral Church at kynges knyghtes because the St. Bennet's Altar, as even kyng beyng in Normandye Rastall takes notice, in his 1, they harde the kyng say these most wonderfull rare Chroni- wordes I if he had any men • de, lent me by the curious and about hym 1 he had ben a yeng. ingenious Mr. John Murray. ed vpon that traktour longe or II Also (saith he) for dyuers that tyme. Therforc these actes that the kynge procured knyghtes came fro the kynge to be made agayne the lyb'ertes beynge in Normandye I and

saknt um- of the churche. There slewe this Thomas in the cathe-

mas of fell a great debate drall church in Canterbury at Quinton. betwene hym and saynt Benet.es auter : whiche huryslayne- Thomas then Arche- Thomas is nowe by the churche byshop of Canterbury 1 that the canonysed for a holy saynt I & byshoppe fled unto Rome. But dyuers miracles auctorysed by after whanThomas came agayne the churche that god bathe to Cauuterbury-. iiii. of the shewed for hym.

it 2 &

132 Henricus. secundus Rex, & how pe apostoile laid.on Pam,grete pain, Or he wildc Pam assoile, jig had.Thomas slain ; & how for holy kirkc be suffrcd passion, & how God dos wirke in schrinc per he is don ; Open his boke & se, for per iii crc Pei writeny Meruailes grcte plentey p4 fele of vs ne witen.

COMEN is tiping, pe bishop slajrne is he, & Pe zonge king is went ouer Pe se, Of Almarle erle William with Pe king was Pen, Tuo castels he nam open Pe Frankis men. Of Almarle in pe castelle Pre lorries he toke, Of messengers fulle suclle he sent hider to Joke` Untille Inglond, of Flandres men fulle ill% In warde or in bond in prison lcue Fel stilt.

5 Pe fader king IIenrk in herte had he pain, De falsitate Scot—tonna.

& anguised greuoslk, Pat Thomas was so slain. Williampe Scottis king therfor was fulle blithe, Pat Henry had ale liking, wcrre on him gam he lathe. Burgh his was' beforn he sesed Pat kastelle, Midgard Porgif him was lorn, Prudhow saued welle.

Captus est rex Scot-term.

Ills wok left he nouht, tille he corn tille Alnwik, per was •he taken, & brouht to Richemunde also quik. Richard Pe Moruile lAirglit of gode renouny Richard ComSn pat while with him corn to Ix town•. Fe Northren so wele stode in treuth to ke king Mort. pat Oftes he gaf 'Pam gode, & Pat was largely. So pat alle Pe toper corn vutille his grith Of Ionics on & (ter, & fain to hold him with..

Contek

Flenricies secundus Rex. i 33

Coi;tek in counter alle Was peksed wele, Baret of baron feez forgyuen ilkadele. tan was Inglond in pes & charite, & alle in Henri gracious king & fre. In his nientend zere of his regalte, De consilio

& falsitatt Henry his sonne his pere was zit ouer te se. Franco-

ram Pe king sister of France Henry allied him to, . Here of a desceivance tei Conseild him to do. Pe erle Philip of Fiandres gaf him in conseile, & Thebald of Plesence egged to tat tirpeile, Agein his fader to rise, per he bad no tight : pe king of France & hise bight him alle his might.

WHAN Pe fader wist to sonne wild werre on him, De re_rnoto obsidinnis I blame him not if him list turne ageyn fulle grim. per Henri_

Forpant of Scotland he sent William & Dauid his bro)er, cum' Tille blitiely Pei went, & with Pam many open. pc crle of Lekeestre Ix este alle did he guke, Of werre he was per maistre, light tam to Nonnundie.

¶ Whan tei were.vp argued, tei fond per par chance: Pat reame was biseged with te power of France. Henri chaced his sonne torgli force fro toun to toun, Pe king of France eftsonne left tent & pauilloun. Philip of Flandres fleih & turned sonne Pe bak, & Thebald nouht ne deih, schame of tam men spak. Fro toun to toun of reme te Frankis did Pei fie, Oucrtok it to zerne, & saued tat cite.

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134 Henricus secundus Rex. Our Inglis duelled Per, vnto Pe pes were plekn. po pat per were beforn wild no more corn ageyn.

Reversi soot in

IN Pe moneth of May our Inglis of was sare, Anglian'. Vpon Pe first day tille Inglond forto fare.

Pune sone Pe song king with godc man pat wer gain Purueicl his wending, & Richard fitz Alain, Pe duke of Peiters, & Pe eric of Bretaktc, pise & oPer pers to sauhtillkng did pakn. pise o-ii knees gan falle bifore Pe kYngis face, Tor luf Pei prised him alle to grante pc king his grace. " sour wrath him forgkue, pe trespas to amend, 6‘ In pes with ;how to lkue, & at sour conseil descend. pe sonne cam also snipe, & cried his fader merck. pc king Perof was bliPe, forgaf him gcntillk ; & be with scritc & oth mad obligacion, pat for leue no loth, porgli conseile of treson, Suld werre on him bcgynne, hi water ne hi lond, Ne his pes breke no tuknne, pe sonne pertille bim bond, In alle Pis sauhtillkngbituex pe fader & pe sonne Corn Pe Scottis king, & asked Henrk a bone Of grantise of grace, to haf his seignorie. Bifor alle in Pat place he haf it him bliPelk. Pan wer boPe Pe kknges brouht alle tine euen, & pesed in alle pingcs, Nuked be God of heoco,

Pan

Henricus secundus- Re..r. 135,

PAN said Sir Henri, nedes burd him wende To France & Normundie, to witte a certein ende. At Paris wild he be, at Per parlement.. Per wille 1,iald he se, to what Pei wild consent. At Pe duzepers Ix sothe wild he wite, & on what maners, & wharto he suld lite, & whedir Pei wild to wOrre, 'or Pei wild nonlit,-

... Or alle in luf sperre pat ping pat Pei had wroulit. I He sauli wele bi signe, he drouli fast title elde, . Long might he not regne, ne oii his lif belde. Wherfor Hen.ri said he wild, or he went, Ina pe summe•wer laid of his testament. • Lists & I'salle reels pe Parcelles' what amountes, If any man in Bede witle keste in a countes.

• • SEXr ponsand marke title Acres did he fend. Agin his 'coming Pidere, hi marchandz so he wend. Eifti Pousand mares had he len? abbeis, De testa-

ment° Pat wee in ponerte, vp Pam forto reise. ricise He, -

cundi, facto apud Alle pat. was gyuen, & befor hand lent, . vanillin), per totem. Pat was not in cofre, wham lie mad testament.

Of pat Pat was in cofre, & in his Cofines; He mad his testament, ills Aid °per pilgrimes.

5 To Waltham Bede pe king, his testament to make, & Pus quathe he his Ping) for his soule sake.

¶ To temples in Acres he quath flue Pousand marke, & fine thousand to pc bospit;i1e, for Pei were in karke.

I To Pe folk pat. duelled, Acres forto fende, • Oiler fine pousand marke he gaf Pam, to spende.

K. 4 it Tale

Jg6 Jienricus secundus Rex. It Tille oiler houses of pe centre flue pousand markc he gaf,

Tulle heremitcs & title seke men, & oPer of suilk raf. II Tille monkes & to Chanons, pat were in Inglond,

Fiue pousand marke rescekued Pei of his hond. 4 To Po of pat religion, pat were in Normundic,

Fiue pousand mark vnto per trcsoric. I & to meselle houses of Pat same lond,

Pre Pousand mark vnto Per spense lie fond. ¶ To ladies of habite, Vilers & Mort*,

He gaf tuo hundreth mark, I trowe pei were fairut 1 To be religiouses Pat were in GascOne,

He gaf a Pousand mark, withouten esso5rne. I To Pam of Founz Eberard, Per his body lis,

He gaf tuo pousand mark, po ladies of pris. S To ix ladies of Brett*, men calle SOnt Suplice,

He gaf a hundreth mark, to mend Per office.' 1 To Pe houses of .Chartres tuo Pousand mark bi counter

& Pre Pousand mark to Pc.. order of Grant mounte. If To Pe ordre of Cisteaus he gal tuo pousand mark,

pe'ordre of Clonk a pousand, to 14 vp in arke. 5 Pe ordre of Premonstere tuo hundreth mark Pei had.

To Pe ladies of Marka5rne a hundreh mark Pei lad. It To pe houses of Arrojis, Pat erc bipnd Pe se,

Tuo hundreth mark Pqrgli testament gal lie. ¶ To women of Inglond, of gentille Vnage,

A liundegh mark of gold, to per mariage. ¶ To gentille, & till„ oiler, pay were in Normundie,,

A hundreth mark of gold pei bad to Per pantie.

• Henricus secundus Rex. 137

i To gentille women of Aniowe, of non auaucement, A' hundreth mark of gold unto pam was sent. Withouten pis testament Pat he did writen, &Pe grete tresore tille Acres was witen, & pat he lent religiouse to bring pain above, Fourtk Pousand mark he gaf for Gode lone.

int-rvvHAN pe king henry'had mad his testament,

He dight his oste redk, & to Paris went. Fro . . erwent to Doucre pat best wer worPi With went pei ouer, atired richeli. pa nd pe folk in Pads, Pat Pei wele herd, 'With so faire folk of pris neuer to prince ferd. Of Pe king of France he asked amendment, pe duzepers for chance Pei ros with on assent,

, & in per conseile kaste Per chance on ilk side, Pei acordid at pe laste, Pat pes mot best betide. Whan pes was set certejrn bituex lxi kjrnges tueSre, & Normumdie Porgh seven, tile Inglond he tok iv weS7e.

IN pe pre afterward at midsomer men told, Pe king in Oxenford his parlement held.

• pi, his writte he sent after king William : William dight him & went, title Oxenford he cam,

. . ' Kaunt le Rek Henri ad

fet son testament, Al park- le Rey ales, atirez richement,

par my Paris est dist .Dount ment de Fraunce son chemSrn communement, Ke vnkes vi. 'enprent. Touz les melz vs- rent Reis one si [sive ouf 15,1

nez [sive vauez] de Douer a bele gent, Petri nostri ex. Derwent Sunt one [sive ouf] emplaria Gallica.

Jit

138- Henricus secundus Rex. & suore to king Henri pe'next Assumpcion, pat was of our Lady, suld corn to zork his town, & bring eider his clergie of Scotlond Pe barons. He did so certeknlie pe day of his somons. per pei mad ilkon homage &feaute, Not to Pe fader elle on, bot tulle his heir suld be, & obliged Pam with scritte, hingand ilk a scale, Pat Per dede was perfite, & his homage leale. & pe kirke of Scotland to Canterbirie ore se Obliged pam & band, as to per primalte; & if Pe Scottis king mistake in any braid°

Statutum I factum in-ter A ngli- ant Sc Sco-dm per

Of treson in any ping, agein Henry forsaid, The barons & pe clergie in on wer elle schriuen, Vnto king Henrie agein William suld be giuen.

/155C113L1111. & if it so betide, pat any thefior feloun Ile fro Inglond side to Scotlond regioun, Bot he mak pam to wite,• whi Pat he is comen, pat Pe courte may him quite o chance if he be nomen. If he be'els funden, for thefe tald & bent, Title Inglond brouht alle bunden, & per haf jugement.

If Als if it so be, of Scotlond skape a tilde,

& tille Inglond Re, als a felon grefe, Bot if be to Per baklifes mak his sikernesse, Pat pei wille him maripis, if he wer cald to stresse, If he folowand were souk for at felonie, . AgeSinto Scotland be broubt, & Per bilged hie,

. . -Wham

13% Henricus secundus Rex.

WHAN pis ping was grant, Henry dred disceite, - He wild, pat his conant were holden stable & streite, He sesed fine castels, & held Pam in his wage, Foure erles & sextene kYnghtes Ferfor in his ostage, Ilkon of pe knYghtes had a barony, Pei & alle Per rightes were don in his mercy.

¶ Whan Henry for his owen had holden pat seignorie, & Pe dede was knowen porghout Albanic, Pe castels & ostagers he zald porgh curteYsie, & ' with" William with chartre bond him title Henrie, Pat he & his heires, & alle per progenie Of Scotlond, suld hold of Henry certeYnlie '& of alle his heires, & com to per crie. & homage & feaute to mak pam redie. Whan pis was set & stabled, & pes cried on hii, Henry Pe song king Bede to Normundie, & died 2 Per at pre, & biried solemplie.

0 2 "Besse malim. Nam exem. of the fine young Wench Ro-

plaria Gallica, par chartre en. samond, a thing that struck al. sole leRey descoz se 1S7e,i.e.per so very much upon the young chartant sigillatam Rex Scocia. King's Brothers, Richard and seipsum obligavit. 2 His death was much lamented by his Fa-

John. For which reason it is, that we have thisPassage inRa-

ther, notwithstanding he had stall's Chronicle : This kynge been a disobedient Son; which henry let crowne henry his disobedience arose (in a great eldyst sonne kynge of Eng- measure)out of discontent )that lande I and went hym selfe his Father had abandon'd his into Normandye I but his [young Henry's] Mother, [Q. son henry dyed before his fa- Eleanor,) and given himself up ther 1 and therfore .he is nat intirely (as it were) to the int/ accounted in the nombre of

kynges

140 . Henrecus secundus Rex.

When pis song king was dede & laid in graue, Fro Jerusalem com tiyng, Pat help burd it haue.

WHAT time in Jerusalem * wad dede a douhtir kSingt • (Was blode non of his teme, bot a maiden ging)

De Balde. BaldewYn pe meselle, his name so bight, wino leprO- so? & Wil- Noble king & lcle, & wele gemed his right. lelmo Ac- quiumite, i Netter in his lyue he lose a foie of lond, pro auxilio in Angli- The Sarazins gan him driue, Pei were him euer fleand. am veni- irate. For foule meselrie he comond with no man,

Sarazin with maistrie never nouht of him wan. With him was a knight, & vnder him chefetain, & name couth of might, William of Aquitain. What' Badwin was dede, he weddid Pe maiden ging, porgh Pe Cristen rcde William was chosen king. For Pis bold Baltlewin Cristen men gan morne, Gode hap had pe Sarazin agein on vs to turn. pc Sarazins oiTvs cam, our Cristen foue gan felle, So Pat king William no langere Per durst duelle. Bode com to Pis lond, for help & socour, King Henry he fond, & schewed him alle his stour, How pc fills soudan destroied alle pe fond,

Slouli ilk Cristen man, or cis in prison bond,

kynges of Englande. This cause the kynge imprisoned Henry his son and his. ii. .Elynor his wyfe I whiehe bretherne I Johto I S. lty. was kept in prison tyll the charde I made warre agaynst kynge dyed' and he kept the theyr father. Some say the cause of the warre was be.

weneho Rosamonde, ' Pro; was,

gg 1,er-

Henricus secundus Rex. 141

IC Perfore I pray to sow, haste Pat se wer comen, " Bi pis is Acres now biseged, or alle nomen.

1 Whan Ile king it herd, he wept with his mile, Rex hen. mans est.

Pe Cristen so misferd, pe Sarazins did so pine. - Ire said, " My sonne, min heire, Pat was corouned late, " Of his lif was my speire, he might haf taken Pe gate. " Bot now is he dede, min heire Pat bare coroune, " Fedor I kan no red; I doute me of tresounc. " For if I were of lond, pe werre suld sone bigynne, " Aliens suld sone fond, our heritage to wynne. " Richard ink sonne is kqght, with me wild he go, 4C Sone suld we lese our right, if we were fer Perfro. " Fain I wild purueie for Acres, Pat cite 46 Ordeined wer som weie, how it mot saued be. William tok his leue at our king Henry, Cites wele to leue he had ricbely. Ile went to Pe king of France, & schewed him his resons, Porglt per ordenance per duzepers gaf respons. Bifor Sir William Pe dnzepers gaf ansuere, " It er bot tuo kingdams on Pis half Grece to were. " France & Inglond vise tuo regions, Responsio

Franconia/ " & er in diuersc lond, & in sere bandons : wiilelmo

Aquitanis " Henri in Inglond wonnes, & has tresore inoub, per totem.

" Richard & Jon his sonnes fulle felle, & wile non bouh. " & if Pat ze were gone, & we went with sow, " pat Richard & Jon wille waken vn mikelle wouh. cc Bot whan king Henri & his sonncs wale go, " We.salle be redy, forto wend with po.

William

142 . Ricardus Rex. • William went nein tvnto Jerusalem,

Of pisekinges tuein was git no bote o beame.

• . HENRY for•his trespas did fulle grete honour To Pe martir Saint Thomas, for mercy & socour. Sex gore siPen liued he in wo & sorow soure. He went ouer Pe se, & lay in grete langoure. In grete sekenesse & hard he lay in Normundie : Tille him corn his sonne Richard, forsoth, fulle kindelie, & whan Henri suld die Richard Porgh blissing bond, He suld his cheualrie vse in pe holy fond, " I salle leue pe inouli for to do with alle. " Fader," he said, " for gow certes Fitter I salle. \Vhan he bad regned here, & felt of fele assaies, 1 Foure & tuenti gem sex monethes & tuelf &ties,

Mortuusest No more of him to seie) lie died sone afterward. Ilenricus secund us, He ligges in an abbeie, men calle Pe Founz Everard. Anno Do- mini. WC. A Pousand & a hundred pe dete fourscore & nine. Lxxxcly.

So many gers it punched, whan he passed pis pine. In a moneth mirk, Septembre pe gynnyng,

Baudwyn of Conterbirie com to coroune Pe king. Richard at London% opon a Sonenda5r,

Coronado At Westminstre tok Pe corona, of Bork bishop Geffray R Ri- caegis

rdi apud Was sent after Pat tide, him felle to be Ix toper, Londo- n'am. Opon pe fadere side he was Richarde's broiler. • .

r Lege; Foure V thritty (53-c. Ii gist al Fount Ebrard en Nam, Apres. xxx. iiii. annz. labbeke de sorours in MSS. vi. mays. xii. jours Du regatta Gallicis. ReylienrkcessaYnt ses labours. Richard

Ricardo Rex. 143

Richard his pallion bi messengere did corn, & his contirmacion fro Pe couree of Rome.

If Cornea er to king Richard bope erle & baroun, pat had pe lond in ward porgh out Pe regioun, Knightes & burgeis, serganz als was resoun, Homage to mak alle weis pat felle vnto pe coroun. Pe pes did he cric, &,purueid warnisoun, Pe Sarazins Porgh maistrie haf won,Acres toun. Inglis & Normant, knightes for rewardoun, With Richard ere in conant agein Sarazins feloun. His fader left him inouh, penies grete foisoun,

¶ Pat he Pe way not widrouh opon his benisoun. pe king of France.was Went to Saint Denys to holde His priue parlement, & Per one him it tolde, Ertr de

stldtilocitdo 1)at Richard priuely his purueiiance did gynne regis Fran: Opon Pe ,paerni, Pe lond Sufic to wynne. "$'

To Paris turned Pe king, for Pat ilk save, 0 •

& Per a samening his barons eider gan drawe. He bisouli in Fara alle, to conseil at pat nede, . What help mot best faller for 'Pe Sarazins drede, & Oil pam an outrage, pat Ricluird pe king, Wille stele pis Ninge, withouten mi witing. Loke how king Philip said vricurteisii, Daiet haf his lip, & his nose Perbk. Forto pat parlement corn Richard messengers, pat to Philip wer sent, & to Pe duzepers.

.•Pe names of Pam Pat cam was Pe erle of Peiters, Of Almarle erle William, & an'erle Rogers,

. . Lucas

144 Ricardus Rex..

Lucas de Lucie, & Roberd de Coinguers, pise grete Philip of France, & alle his conseilers.

Nuncium Ricardi

THE erle of Almarle said, " Richard our Inglis king cditum in

• curia regis " His luf is title Tow laid, & luf is his greting,

Francitn. " Pat se wille tak to herte, Pe grete noise & crie " Fro Acres Pat comes so smerte, lorn is so doelfullie. " Our Cristen men ere lorn, Pe Sarazins alle aboue, C6 perfor Richard beforn praies sow for 'me,.

• " For him Pat on pe croice died for mankind°, C6 Bes boPe at a voice, in one sour wile be mind°, " To help pe Cristen men, pat Jhesu Criste bouht, 46 Agein Pe oste paen, pat him lufed never nouht. " Richard him atires, his wille perto is fest, " So mikelle he eider desires) pat he may haf no rest. " If se of him haf help, & he for sow socour, g' Alle pis world salle yelp of sour grete honour.

I Whan pe duzepers herd pe bodword of Richard To Philip, Pei ansuerd, " his sond se salle reward. " He bedes sow luf inoub, se pank him of his sond. " So noble bot on of sow is non, be water no land.

' " Richer iqngis non in Pis world bot se, " No valianter of bon in Cristendam als he. " Large er Po londeg, pat his eldres wonnen, 66 pe dedes of per boucles porgh reames er ronnen. 66 Siluer he has inouli, his fader has him fonden " Xnfrghtes to eib his prouh, with skrite tale him er bonden. " To whom Acres salle be golden also tite, " His felauschip to fle, to God se do despite.

t, Pilip

Ricardus Rex. IpILIP sent ageyn to Richard curtqljr

144

esonsio reR

gi9p

Fran.. Bode bi Po certeknt said often grant mercy, corm.

& Panked him his gode wille, & his noble sond, & he wild fulfille, & at his might suld fond, & sent Richard to say, Pe next Marche folowand He said take Pat way, if wS,nde wild with him stand, At Marsile to argue, if he of lif had space, . & if Pe w5rride wild drkue, porgh might & Gode's grace. He praied Richard pe king, & alle his men of Gode, To leue for no preching, Pat walk pat Pei ne 'ode.

¶ Whan Richard had concqued, Pat Philip jerto stode, His mobles on silver reised porgh Inglond alle his gode, Rentcs & som feez he comandid to selle, pat burgh no Citez of taliage suld non tclle,

Vendidit roobilia & maneria.

PC tende suld be noubt, no Pe tuende non make. Fe bisshop of Durham bouht Saberg, with Fe wapentake. pe bisshop of WSTnchestre at Pe king he bouht Two maners Lille his estre, & Richard wisly wrouht. For lie wele vnderstode of taliage was grete drede, It suld neuer do gode, ne per withalle suld spede. NamelS, to Pe holy lond, eider he pouht to go, In taliage non he bond, ne robbed ne did we, Ile sent to pc Scottis king, Pat he suld com & do, & mak pes for pat ping, tat he was halden to.

II Pe moneth of Nouembre, after Alhalwemesse, pat wele is to remembre, com king 'William alle fresse, De bonus.

gio & obli- Batand to Canterbiri, & per bald him his fee. King Richard our sire homage & fcaute

gacione regis ‘4cot, thrum.

I Sic. Vol. I. L He

146 . Ricardus Rex. He mad for elle Po landes, fat he of Inglond held, & tille Pe pes be standes, Pat bowes tille his scheld, zit of polies rounde to Richard gan he bede Sexti pousand pounde, to mende his migdede. & Richard on pis wise forgaf it William so, To sane pat seruise, pat Malcolme was wone to do

. Unto Pe Inglis kings; as right was & skille, & do elle Pe cominges) whan bodword corn Jam tille, To i ondon forto corn, whan pnrlement suit! be, Als custom was wonne, & tak Per his liuere. & Richard als quik 3ald to king William Rokesburglt & llcrwik, ',at he in his hand nam.. William tok his lcue, his way to Scotland cites, Wele mot William cheue, St alle at lufes pes.

Stahilivit justitiarios

T7 . JIYNG Richard it duellis, & purueis him to fare,

& custodes term. '

& mftelle ping sellis, siluer forto are. Wardans sette he stablc, trewe men at his might, pat neuer lufed fable, but majrittend pes & right. Sire Huge of Durham, bisshop & man worPi : An °per Sir William, bisshop of Eli. Pise said kepe Pe loud, & Pe dignites, Justiscs title pam tie bond, to kepe Pe lawes & feez; Huge Bardolf fulls fers, William Marschalle his pere, Geffrei le fitz Pers, William dela Bruere: p,-e were maintenours,. to suslene Pe coroun, & r,glitfulle g9uernours Pe folk in feld & toun.

7 Now 1 as he brought io stalk, his lond stabled redi, & now with his folk alle, he wendis to Normundi,

Ricardus Rex. 147

& Per he parueis him tille Acres & Sully. Applicuit in Nor-

On Gode's eninS7s grim he gadres gode parts,. roanniaro:

In pe cite of Rouhan his sole feste he held With many douhtir man, & kn5rghtes gode of scheld.

DE Monendal Pat felle to be next after Pe tuelft dak, Pe king of France & he, at pe riuer of S. Rimak, Held a parlement, gode sikernes to make, Pat bope with on assent pe way suld undertake. Ilkon sikered oiler with scrite & scale perbk, Togidere snore pam brePer, wherfor pe clergy Gttf a grete cursing oil whilk of pam so brak, Bigan a wikked ping, Pat euelle bituex pam spak. Modo pa-

raverunt se Si Now is Philip certein, he gos to S. Deny, ad terrain

tanctam. & Richard turnes agekn, to dight his nauir. He serches ilk coste of alle his seignorie, pe G4ours of his oste, Pise wer withouten lie: pe Ersebisshop of Anxus, danz 'Guard of renoun, With anger bisshop; Bernard of Bajroun; , & Richard de Cameuile, & Roberd dn. Sablonn1 & Williva de Fortiz was•lord of Oleroun, pise gouerne per nauie, now ere pei in pe se, Toward pe paemie, ',icier pei zerned to be. Richard said pam his wille, " mariners if se moun, " Argues in to Marsille, with Gode's benisoun. pis was Pe first woke of pe passion, As I on on boke gan Joke, pe oste clerke & baron Wer sailand in Pe se toward Marsille pat toun. tlelp paw per pei wild be Criste & Say Simioun,

L 2 Pei

148 Ricardus Rex. ' phi had in per route a hundreth schippes & ten, Bot God Pei had no doute, ne no dcfaute of men.

Ecce mica- ON pc fifth day changed per wy.nde, . culum & de marls Reft Pam pe right way, to wend pe wer bISTnde. periculo.

pe right se of Bretakn, per out were Pci went, Into Pe se of Spain wer dquen in a torment . Among Pe Sarazins, bot God, Pat grace Pam lent, Saued pam alle po,tkmes fro per encumberment.

. Ten schippes wet diluter], porgh ille auisement, porgh a tempest ryuen, pe schipmen held pam schent. On Per was ort depe kroken & alle to rent, pe nien God gan kepel pat grace he Pam sent. Eft God Pei bisouht, to sane pam in pat cas, Sauely to hauen be broubt, for luf of S. Thomas, Pat for holy kirke suffred martirdam, & God for Pam gan wirke, her how a voice cam. A schip Per was of London, richelf, atirea, A hundreth Per in fondon, to serue God desired. Biside pam on per schip com a bisshop doun, Pe mast in hand gan kip, with croice & pallioun, & a king Pe sill, of gold schone his coroun, A Doper bisshop pam bi, Pe first said his sermoun. pan said Pe Ersbisshop to Londreis wordes suete, 66 I am Thomas sour hope, to whom ge crie & grete, " Martir of Canterbire, tour bale salle I bete. 66

Sent EdInUnee Pe martire his help I gow bete,

"Pe bisshop S. Nicholas,, whos help is aS, redie " To schipmen in alle cas, who Pei ouhim crie.

cc We

Ricardus Rex. 149

We Pre haf Pe ward of God & our ladle, .

" Pe schippes of king Richard to kepe & zow Pam bie. After Pis biheste, pat Thomas to Pam said, Sone alle Pe tempest in a throwe was laid. pise nine schippes gan ride per wSrld wind pam driue, Pei ne wist to what side, ne what hauen in to riue.

.AT Leons sur le Rone was Philip & Richard, Pei spak & mad per mone, what hauen pe mot toward.

' De na, sua,

Johan-sorore

In alle ix cuntre porgh so grete folk mot men se, pat notiper cite ne burgh might Pei in herberd be. Philip toward Gene his oste did elle go, & Richard oste bidene at Marsille left alle F0.

II To mete on a while pe trornpes blowe alle clere, Batand fro Cezile corn him a inessengere, Fro pe queue dam Jone, his awen sister dere. Bifor pam euerilkone he told king Richere, • Dede is king William, Pat regned in Cezile, Pat Jone Fe lady nam, he lyued bot a while. pat erle is of Tancre, Geffrek a douhtk knight, & valiant man of dede, & to Pe coroun has right, 11e regnes after hirn, & late had pe coroune, To Jone he is fulle grim, & haldes hit in prisoune. Herfor king Richard wrathes him & sais, " Dight vs Pider ward our busses & galais, " Mi sister I wille out win or I ferret go. \ — . " But he bigyn Cezile he turnes fro, " & bot he wille with pes acorde in reson, " It salle rewe him Pat res, Pat he to &me has done.

1., 3 pe

150. Retard= Read. .... c-. Lxxxv. • Pe date was a Pousand a hundrcth & ninetie;

pat R. was sailand toward,paemie. 5 Pe seuent dak•of hcruest, in Pat ilk gere,

pat I rakend last,* wriien abouen here, pat Richard turned to Gene, & whan he corn to,londi Philip was mikelle to mene, R. seke him fond. Bot mftelle he comfortid him, & sipen tok his leue, Toward Ceiile fullegrini, Pe king he !guild to greue.

_ 5 ilic tetilt

Whan his flete was die at Tibre euerilkone, pe pape a. cardinalle sent Sir Octobone.

Octobonus Cardinalis ad Regem

What Richard spak, & he conselle is & was, Ricardum. To me it is priue, I sauh it in no pas.

Per duellid R. schip Pre dales to gesse, Bi Pat was king Philep risen of his sekenesse, & was in Cezile ariucd at Meschjrne, & after in a while coin R. euen as line, pe day of pe croice, in pe heruest tidei Right als Gode's voice had ordeknd him to ride. Were po schippes nine, pat R. wend haf lora, In Pe batten of Meschkne ariucd litille Worn., It was a Godc's grace, Pat pat ilk nauie •

Ariued in pat place, per Richard suld lie. . .

Alisit atm- cium Tanc red

ad um

THRE dais in pat cite duellid king Richard, To Pe king of Tancre he sent his letter hard.

Regem. " To deliver his sister JOR out of his prison " Men mad title him grete 'none,. it was without reSon.. •" Bot he dcliuer hir me with' luf, at my praiere, " Pat time salle he se, scho salle be bouht folle dere:

it fig

Ricardus Rex.

I Pis king of Tancrede he was a wis knight, • He saull it was to drede, & he did not alle right. He saute Richard an ired, & his m'kelle might, His folk armed & tired, & ai red' to fight. He sent his sister :Tone with mikelle honeste, With his barons ilkone to Mischines Pat cite. Philip was curteise, agein dame Jone be seder Tille hir broper paleise with grete honour did lede.

AN ilde was per biside, pat a Sarazin held, Trouage be gaf bi tide to Cristen men, pei teld. Alias! said Richard, pat euer it said so be, Pe Cristen Porgh forward said grant a Sarazin fre. A water Pat closed it in, pat flum was de la fare, Pe wonning of Pe Sarazin, Pat ilde fright Labamare. King' Richad it wan, & title his sister it gaf, pe Sarazins ilk man he slouh alle rif & raf.

I An oiler ilde biside, men cald It Griffonie, Richard pat ilk tide, he did Pam alle out flue. Pe worming of Pat ilde Richard gon Pam reue, Was non of Pam so wilde, Pat lenger durst per leue.

I Whan Pe folk Pis herd, Pe burgeis of Meschin, Per sates agejrn him sperd, & wild not lat him in. Wherfor pe contek on pis manor it cam, & for pei did pat chek, an oth he snore to gram, But pe king wilde mende Pat Pei did him Pere, A ping he suld sende, to do als lawe it were : Fulfille pe testament of king William pat was, pat tulle his sister merit fur dowerie Pat trespas,

151.

• ' Sic. it, 4 &

152 Ricardus Rex.

De &Pone regis Phi- lippi. I

& bot he Bald it alle, Pat is writen Per in, With lul, cis I salle with werre fond him to win. Whan pe king of France herd po tipinges, pat so grete distance was 'Attica po kinges, . Conseil gan he take, pat he suld be partie, A gode acord to make, forsope fulle faintlie.

De humili- tate & sa-pientia regis Tan-credi.

Nopelegpe king of Tancrede did fulle eurteisli, To king R. he Bede, & said he was rely, pe testament to fulfille of king William, & Pat his men fullc ille vnskilfulli nam. " Alle pat was reson, I wille amend it wele, " & tille pi sister hal don plenerli ilka dole, " Alle pat me felle to do of William's' testamet. " Witnes I tak hit to hir seluen in present. 44 IIir seluen dame Jone acorded with his sawc, " Of Pe testament alone he has don alle pc law, 4 g Alle pat felle to me, bot it I ask a noPer, CC pat fallis vnto Pe king Richard mi broker, " Of mi Mules witeword,•witncs Per of haf I. " Of gold Per is a borde, & tretels per bi, " Of siluer oiler vesselle gilte fulle richeli ; gg & Z it a noPer jowelle fairer & worPi, gg A pauillon of honour, with riche atisfement, " To serue an Empeiour at a parlement. CC pus quath mi lordc Pe, Pat lime he suld die, 'g Fe Both forto say, & witnes wille not lie.

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' 14. testament.

" Darnel

Ricardus Rex. 153

" DAME," said Tancred, " of trestels & borde " Fultille I salle in cede 1)c ktnge's witworde. Fourti pousand vnces of gold he bale pc king, & R. tok pe pundes, withouten more saing. CC Bot pis," he said, " I sane, pat Arthure my cosy!' " Tancred doubter salle haue, & alle pat now is Pin. Of Bretatn Arthure is als ode of heritage, & he granted to pis, conformed Pat mariage.

5 Als Pise tuo kinge wore about pis forward, me venit mate r regis At Meschtne righ pore pc.kkngc's motier Richard R. ad eum.

Ariued at Pat rivale, brouht him busses pritti Charged with vitaile, with godc men & douhti. Of Flandres Pe crle Philip, a lorde of honour, Of Helianore schip he was hir gouernour. Elianore brouht per a fair maiden sing, Pe kkoge's doubter of Nauere, to R. ix kin;.

• Hir name was Berengere, fairewoman of age, Was per non hir pere of no heiere parage. In Cipre of Pat mat was mad pe mariage At king R. pat, porgh conselle of baronage. • Whan Pci were trouth plight, & purucied Pe sposage, Hclianore forth hir dight to Rouhan hir menage, Bileft dame Berengere at Ricbarde's costage. Dame Jonc kept hir dere, pci lyued als birde in cage.

WIIAN pes was alle certe5rn of Richard & Tancrede. la; A,Ciii..1111 11, .6 &

To PC cite of Kateyn in pilgrimage pci Bede. peregri Tancred us

nati aunt ad san-etanx Aga-thaw vilgi-

To Rem.

154 Ricarthis Rai'. To Pe fertre of Saint Agate Richard made offering, & praied hir of grace to duelle pat with Pe.king. Atte pre dales tide Richard mad soioure, Pe barons bi pat side did him grete honoure. %Vhan Richard suld wend, he tok leue at Tancrez, Tancrez was fulle head, conueied him tuo journez, Gaf him four schippes grete, & were of way beforn; pe tuo charged with whete, Pe toper with oiler corns

'

& fiue oiler galeis with alle per apparaile, Richard was curtris, panked his trauaile, & Richard at Pat turns gaf him a faire Judie, pe gode sucrd Caliburne, pat Arthur lulled so welle.

I pan'said•Sir Tancrede vnto Wchard our kyng, "God, Pat saues at nede boPe pe olde & sing, " Kepe pe fro mischance; & fro Pe fals clunks, " pat er with Philip of France, euer agekn pi vis. " Bi Hugh of Burgoin he sent a letter +Into me, "pat I suld, or you went) be bitraied porgh pe; gg & if werre or wo had risen vs bituen, gg pe & pine to slo with me he suld haue Bien. "pe sotli pan schewes it, pat mi sawe is trewe)

" Sir haf here Pis writ, & schewe him alle newe. " If he it geinsai, I wille prone it on him.

I Tancred went his way, & Richard wex fulle brim.

Dealterca-

R. tok his leue, Sir Roger turned & went, & R. gan him.grcue, to Philip Pe letter sent.

vtoi en: r

idnutine r II pe nauie cum' a a stounde, to Meschins Pat cite,

81 • pum perPhiliP.

totem. Biforn him he founde his sister & his mein.

R.

Ricarthis Rex. It. with Philip dole wild he nouht. Philip bote on his lyppe, & perceiued R. Pouht. Whi pat it ment, Philip gan aspie : A wiles to R. sent, how long he wild per lie, . & what time he had tight forward his nauie, His sege to sette & dight, to help I) e Olsten crie ?

II R. ansuerd Per tille, & said, " it is folk, " To schewe counseil & skille, Pat not is to affie, I' & phit per owen writte per dede dos certifie. tc Me pink in min inwitte it semed traytorie.

1 Pan spak Philip ogrefe said, " I wote what Pis menes, c, pat was a fals brefe, & forged wele, it semec, " For mi sister Aleise, pat is now forsaken, " For on of mor richenesse of Naucr you has taken. " It salle not so Richard, I wile pe gif a gjrue, " you salle hold forward, if you wort Pat I

IIV. •

HAN Richard vnderstode, Pat king Philip had suornet,

Bifor Pe clergie he stode, & proued it on Pe morne, Pat his fader Henry pat ilk AleSrse had knowen,

A childe scho him by, pat he held for his owen.

' Respouns del Rey de engendrait, ke mort est & Fraunce qaunt Richard ad seuele. La lee de seSrncte bye, Al inat5rn lk proue de- egl5rse trop serraS1 blemke. uaunt la clergie, Qe le Reis Et Richard & Aleks de dam.. son pore, duk de Normend5re, pne dieu maldke, Si en ma- A nekt conou Aleks, gaunt tauait en baillie, Et file

Oage Richard par la se Ike, Codices Gallia.

A

155

156 Ricardus Rex.

11

A maiden childe it was, & now dede is it, " pis wer agrete trespas, again min Owen braille, " So febli foil() wirke, for drede of Gode's awe, " I Richard haf maugrc, & I Aleyse take, "Whan my fader & she suilk samenyng gan make, Pan said king Philip title alle F0 of France, " Of gile Pis is a trip of Richard descekuance, " Gisors mk gode cite, with alle Pe purueiance, " Richard I gaf it fre, to mak pis aliance " Of him & hir PO WO) pat er now in' distance. " Ten pousand mark & mo, pat now er in balance, 46 & I betraised of alle, bi God, pat alle may auance, " I salle bring him to stalk, bot he mak me acquitance.

Concnrdati

" NOW," said king R. " Pe manace late alle be, " you salle haf reward of Gisors Pi cite;

soot per barones. 66 Pe tresore ilk a dole, Pat you me bitauht.

" For me salle haf wele alle Pat you ewer auht. pe barons suffred noulit pc kjrnges to be wroth. Luf & pes Pei souht, pat pei acorded both. Richard Bald him his right, his tresore & his toun, Porgh witnes & sight, of clerk, erle & baroun, His sistir forto .marie, where God wild loke, To mak certekn pattie, R. a quitance toke.

AFTER Fe acord sone, Philip dight him forward, To boote madItim bone, & toke leue at Richard.

' pe Ni inde was in his saile, title Acres gan him driue, Bot litille was his trauaile, tille R. gan ariue.

Whan

Bicardus Rex. 157

Whan Philip title Acres cam, litelle was his deck, Pe Romance sais grete skam, who so Pat pas wille rede. Pe Romancer it sais, R. did mak a pele, On kastelle wise alle wais, wrouht of tre fulle welle, Agekns holy kirke title Alekse forto drawe. In schip he did it lede, to reise vp bi Pe walle, &, if him stode nede, to couere him with alle. He reised it at Meschines, of werre tieing he held, Forge ilde of Sarazins Per zates ag,ejm him sperd. Pe Romance of Richard sais, he wan Pe toun. His pole fro Pat forward he cald it mate Griffoun. Tancred he was wks, he did R. wille, To Philip turned his vys, so Pat he held him stille.

NOW is Philip on flete, kkog R. zit duellis, Iles pele pat he vpsctte eft agOn it fellis. For wrath first of Tancrede IL vp it reised, If he had turned to nede, his folk forto haf eised. Bot whanloei were mad frendes, Forgh sight baroun, Tancred to him sendes, praied him take it doun;

' Pat no man for envie eft agekn him held, Ne porgli non over harie to do him reise his scbelde.

11 Now purneies him Richard ilk a day alle preste, Title he he be forward, he mak haf no reste.

De navibus pericl tibus i in

Acres Pan is his triste, opon Pe Sarazin feendes, To verge Jbesu Criste Piderward he wendes.

mar v Cipr

l iara,

ersus

& Cancel-larius sub-

pe k5,-nge's sister .lone, & dame Berenger, mersus est.

Formast of ilkone, next gam his Chanceler.

Roger

155 Ricardus Rex.

Roger Mankael Fe Chancelere so hight His tidefelle not welC, a tempest Oil him light. His schip was dounborn, his self gan per deie. Pe kinge's scale was lorn, with ()Per busses tueie. Dame Jone pe fre to Jhesu scho bisouht, In Cipres scho mot be to hauen saueli brouht, • pe maiden Berenger scho was alle ofright, Pat nouPer fer no nere Pe king sclio sauh no sight. Tuo busses wer forfaren, Pat in Pe tempest brak, Fe godes attached waren to pe king of cipres Isaac. Pat Pat askeped pat drede, & to Cipres wan,

De bus.

navt- 5

Isaac did pain lode, to prison ilk a man. Whan king R. herd of Pat mischuos tide, & how his schippis misferd, he turned vnto Pat tide ; Title Isaac lettres sent bi Roberd of Thomham, Sir Steuen with him went, a noj7er knight William, " Praie him for God aboue, als I am his pilgrime, " geld it me with louc, pa he holdes of mine. " Mir godes pat he has pare, my men deliuere of bond, 1" & destorbe not our fare, we salle to pe hold, load; " & if he wile nouht deliuer me my ping, " Fulle dere it salle be bouht, hi Jhesu henen king. c messengers kamen to Pe king isaak.

isaak tille alle samen) Pis ansuere he spak. " Messengers, wherto chalange ze 14 ping, " & what haf I to do with Inglis tailed king ?

• " Pe godes Pat be fonden on my londe o chance, " Tulle him I am not bonden to mak deliuerance.

s‘ It

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" It is nit profit, to min I wille pam hoick. • Pei went agein fulle tire, to king R. alle tolde.

WHAN king R. herde sai isaak respons, 4f Turne we piderward, & delyuer our prisons, " & so it mai betide, pci salle dere abie " Mi Pat pei hide, mi men in prison lie. Now he changes his weie, tine Acres may he nouht, Mani perfore gon deie, I schrowe lsaak so wrouht.

. It was Isaiik to wile, title Acres he corn no nerre, Pe skap, o—n him gala• bite, pat R. turned pe werre.

I Whan Isaak had tiPand Emperour of Griffons, Pat It. drove to land with him alle his barons, He did gadre an oste of Cipre & Griffonie, & corn veto pat coste, to waite Richard nauie. R. was perceived, pi were renged redie, & how Per pencels weiued, son he mad a crie : " A r me we vs I rede, & go we hardilie , " & we salle mak Fain schede, & soriare a partie.

De one Cipr

capi- ise.

He was first Fat stirte to lend out of Pe boote, Armed & suerd girte, bot an axe he smote. With pat axe he hewe, Pe Griffons mad him weie. Mani to dede he threwe, & to grounde doun leie. . His marfrners gan vp rive about in stedes seere, pe Griffons Pei gan driue bifor pain alle plenere. Fe king Isaak fieih, his men had no foisons At pat tyme he ne deill, his partie zede doun. It. cried on hie, " Londreis folowes me, rc Loke ze be me nehi, fulle gode giftes Zete ze.

" Take

MO Ricardus Rex. CC Take we Pis Emperour, pat getisPise Griffons, " Falle salle pis honour for hold of our prisons. . Isaak had a spit, Pat warned him ai beforn, To tak Pe mountain hie, & bide per title Pe morn.

II Whan Pe cuen cam, R. dyed tresoun, Agen to Pe water he nam, did set his pauilloun. pe godes, at Pam gan falle geten at pat ionic, Felawes were pei alle, als fortheli as he. isaak sauh his vow ' title & S. Simeoun, What falle per of or how pe morn he said com.doun, With schelde & lance in hand to sane his regioun, To mak pe Inglis fleand, pat had robbed his toun, If he of his mot take ouPer erle or baroun, His prison suld he wake, pat wer deppest clonjoun. For patriarke no Pape, for bulle ne pardoun, Per of suld he not scape, withouten grete ransoun. In tentis R. rested alle Pat ilk night, His men wer web gested 'with brede, wine & light.

Mane ,colt ad eivi Ea-ten' Lymo.. sin.

ON Pe morn he ros, & wait to 1.4mosoun, A cite large in clos, pc folk were fled Pe toun. Griffons Pei it held, Pei wer scaped awai, Vitaile inouh at weld, Pei fond of corn & hay. Isaac did it store, to hold for tun pre. Ariued wer Per bifore dame Jone & Berengerc.

LI 1 F. title Criste & Sime- vowe a dieu & Seint Simounsj

pun. Nam, Isaqe ad fet son I

Gallice. I pat

Ilicardus Rex, 161

I Pat too barges mot lecle, of Pat ware did be fine. Tillie his sipen he Bede, & warned pam fulle stifle In pe morning to rise, pc time at Ix (lair sterne Pe Emperour & hise to seke Pei suld allegeme. His barons enerilkone be Pat time wer light, Pe king formast to gone, Pe wa5, he led Pam right. Was non in tente ne toun behind him durst be, Bot Bernard of BaSroon, Pat was kepand Pe sc.

II It. rode stink neihand pe Emperour, De fuga Isaac

n e gaf a bold crie, whan he bigan his stout. peratoris. pe tentes doun he hew, Isaac to reuile, & for non him knew, askaped he pat while. ' Bare iii serke & breke Isaac away fled, It was not told a leke, Pat non of his Pien led. R. alle ouer ran, & toke alle Pat he fond, A faire ping Per he wan, Pe baner of Pe load. Som of pain were Bode, to R. gaf bataile, Bot alle to dede gode, & lost aile per trauaile. Taken were a partiel bot maste of Pam were slain, Als man Pat wan maistrie R. turned again, To Lkmoson pain led, his fest lie did per crie,

Berenger wild be wcd, & Per soiorne & lie. ' pe Prid (Ink of pc fcst, Sir Bernard of B4oun, Newed eft Per geste, pc queue he gaf Pe coroun.

1 En cheinY50) en brayse terse jour de la feste le Re) Iuaunt eschapait, $..5 chi_ comaundait, Qe Bernard de mils, ses armes al iteSr Ili. chard leissait GalIke. z

Le vol. I.

Ba5roun la dame corounaSq Gall.

To

162

Ricardus Rex.

Eccatotre- To pat sollempnite com lordes of renoun, gen rune e

&dutc

es v

Pat wedding forto se, for grete affectioun. ad nupcias Regis Ri- Of Jerusalem puntre ix gode king GtOottn,. . eardi. Gaufrei his broiler was he, &.Aunfref of Turoun,;

Reimoun of Antioche, of Triple pe erle Burnout], Frere I Ruffin Delmount, & Pe duke Leoun. Pise mad R. homage douhteli, knelanddoun. Agein pe Sarazin linage, pat leues on Mahon% Alle pei same pis same, Pat Marc Pei were & boun To die in Jhesu name with gode deuocioun, Pat for vs suffred schame, & died porgh passioun.. " We trove it is our frame, his resurrectioun. It. said his skille, " lordinges, Pis is resoun, " Bituex vs if ze wile mak obligacioun, • 4C Pat I be sour aller broiler, & se in my bandoun, cc pat non faile oiler, ne consent to resoun. pei granted alle perto, king; erle & baroun, & who Pat wile not so, gaf him Per malisoun.

otvisit tur. mem Gui-doni.

ALSO suiPe R. has acmes did cric, & his oste did parte to Po Pat couch it guye. .

Pe noble king Guyon tok of his clieualrie OPer lordes of renoun, assigned Pam Per partie. Whan Isaac herd seie, what help R. was cornea, 8; how to stop his weic parties had Pei nomen, Of his men most avorPi, at Pam conseile gan take, Pe best he mot go bi, a cord with R. make.

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' Ruffin dez mown Gall. ' P°

Ricardus Rex. 163

po messengers camen, Pe'conseil pat be cbes Bifor R. alle same'', & enformed his pes. cc your wine wille be alle do, & be at sour merck." R. ansuerd perto, " I grante it blipelk.

1 Pan com Fe Emperour bifore king Richard Imperator divt ltegi " Pat I did dishonour, Sir, haf it to no reward. humiliamio

" Pe dede Pat I did ille, my fob', it was, b se a

lime ver- ,

" I praS7e pc with gode wile, foreue me Pat trespas. 44 pi man wille I be bi water & bi land, 44 pis reame to hold of Pe, & bowe vnto Pi hand. ct po men, Pat I did take to prison pe toper morn, " Atnendes I wide make, & bring pam Pe biforn. " Pi godes Pe biken, or pc valow verrak, " pat pi dronklecl men tint pe toper day. " & with pc wille I go als felawes in ferd, 44 A hundreth loqghtes mo, armed & gird with suerd. " & four hundreth to bote, squieres of gode ara5', " & flue hundreth o fote, to viiilk I salle pair " Ilk day per wages to 1x) ilk plenere, " Knight, squier & pages, pc termes of tuo gere. " 1 MST doubter & min l'Ore to lokc bir I pe grante, "pat you be in spe're I salle hold conante.

RICHARD eurteise was, pat saute bede suilk loue, Forgaf idle Pe trespas, wirscbipid himself aboue.

,

Tent & pauillon tille Isaac did be signs, \Virschipped him at reson, right as himself was digne.

I Ma fj,1Ie ekr de mes te. 1 com coe[sive ceo] couenaunt to res to dorajr a garder, Taunt 1 aueraS, fet enteer Codd. Gal.

It 2 4 `Phan

164 Ricardas 1e,e.

De man- ,ione per totum.

Iticardus tijairmeuit

eztceer:

pit .lictioci fit iacn

halm

'

II Whan lye day was ent, to rest men wer ale laid,. Isaac gan repent, pat he to R. said. Folk stifle away he went, Pat was a them braid; A messenger he sent pat pus to R. said :

4 " Isaac wile not grante, to oblige him to Pe, " No to be Pi tenante his body bonden be, 46 Ne to suilk soilage his heirs disherite, " Ne geld at terme & stage rent mikelle no lite. 44 0 deucl," said Pe king, " pis is a foltid many " Whan he with trechetting bi night away so ran. " pei red him alto a misse, Pat conseil gaf perto. " Wenes he our men Inglisse for to trecther so ?.

NOW gos king R. his purueiance to make, How & whider ward he hoped Isaac take. To Po lordes pat camen, als Bumund & Sir Guie, & pe toper alle samen, he toke galeis tuenti, & busses pat were gode o hundreth of Pe most, To fare opon Pe node, to waite welt bi Pat coste.

II Eft bi Cipres side Isaac to aspic, If he toke any tide out of lond to flue. R. south Pe load with gode folk & hardier Pe tonnes Pat Pei fond pei felle to his mercie. ' Roberd of Thornhatn bare'him nobilly, Bi Pe se side he nam, & wan it per maistrie. pan turned he to pe king after his conquest,

, Pei mad Pan a samening, to go toward pe West.

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mere nobiement) Turnham se La tere souz

i marine ad I went Codd.

conquks Gallici.

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nette-

Ft

Ricardus Rex. 165

Pe cite of Nichoci Pei wan, & were Per in, & a noper petbi, a toxin men calk Cherin. Doan of the kastelle mote Isaac doubter cam,. & felle It. tolfote gretand, Pat, doole lain:nem. '‘ Lord lqng," scho sait% " on me you baf mereie, & 4. hand to laid lift .hir curteislie, & sent hit tilde his wife, .& title bis.sister Jone, & Per sclio, led kir life with Iv ladies ilkone. Pe castels &'pe rides tonnes stored wele, Vitale unto per fode R. toke ilk dole. ' Sir Guy & Bumtind Pei coin as pei Bede, pe ne tknd ne fOnd, ue were at no dede. Roberd bisoubt Ix kirne., to time toward Bufnct, & Per over alle ping his sege Per to set. , " In alic Griffonie tie es so strong a toure, " & pat ze wale per lie, it is to.zont: honourc. it. also Snipe to Bufuet he cede, His maistrie gan he kie, engines (light to dede. Whin i)ei were zinc dight, stalworPeli & fast Bope day & night unto Pe toure he kast.

TO white Pat IcSrng R. was kastaud to ix tonic, \ mit tie Statin his stiward spak to Pe Emperoure, Station se-

nescalla Als his mete he sat, & was his serwitoure, , coiniiiando

!raper:um " Fort° amend sour slat I wille conseilourc. rem, &twee

Imperakor am pittavi t —.-- 'lamina

1 GUOUri & RoSimound re.. (pis tore ne tenement in the 5,701::"' uenent unement, Pm. coe French, the' in 0710 of Mr. Au- [sive co) 01 ne ount Lon.. stis'sCopics ne ount /sou/Wog.

'm .3 Sir

166 Ricardus Rex. " Sir king Isakin, I am Pi vauasoure, " MS, nam is Stalin, I wille be no traitoure. •46 I haf kept Pi lance, I se Pat dishonoure " Is now pe nerhand, porch is conquerour, " 1 pat an Inglis king, a %Os werreour. 66 Loke you lese no ping for pi fole erroure, 66 Ne Pe loud be not lorn, Pat pia ancessoure " So wele kept biforn, als noble gouernoure. " Go & mak his pes, or he do Pe more stoure, " & you to pi deses may ha Pe frute & floure. pan said Isaac tile him, "ert you his maSrntenour ? Fulle broPelk & Wi' be kept vp a trencheour, & kast it at.Statin, did him a schamfulle scboure. His nose & his ine he carfe at misauentoure.

STATIN vp he stirte, him Poubt perof grete schame, " Sir Pou has me hirte, Perfor you ert to blame. AL so snipe he zede vino liStig Richard, &schewed him all Pat deduct' Isaac Pe coward. 46 Sir be my socoure, & venge min outrage. R. did him honoure) & he mad him homage. Stalin wele Pan lete, he gal& him ale iv honour Of Baaf & Bufnet, 'Pat he of Is Dicndamour.

Deest es, (i. e. is.) Nam in and Dientiamour. For the Codicibus Gallicis, Qe Itejs French Copies have, Bid& & est des Englaks, 41 sage give_ Buffenet, Candare & Den- rey.our. 3 I. e. Diendamour, that he had of Isaac*. But it should rather read)Candare ,be

darnour, Et totes les citez daunt Isake fu giqour.

Castels

Ricardus Rex. 167

Castels & citez pat he he of Isaac held, Baronies & feez, hezald him ilk a scheld. Pe grete lordes Inglis, pat pe werre had gonnen, titer fulle glad of pis, Cipres so sone was wonnen.

BE side of S. Andrew was an Abbak, Cape Pe name men knew, & Per in herd pei say, Pat king Isaac was priuelj, hid per in, Captus est

Isaac in To R. so pei spak, he went him out to wynne. qua aw

alsbatia ubl Isaac tieing herd, R. corn him to seke, alisconditus

Tait. Agejrn R. he ferd, to fote he felle fulle meke, & said, " Sir mercy, ink life you sane it me, " Do not pat vilani, fettred pat I be. " In prison you me do, but nouht in bondes lqnde, " I pray Sow it be so, for schame of my kj,nde. Said R. " you salle haue at pin oven deqs, " Pi life I salle pc saue," Isaac he did vp rise. :, " 0 dole," said pe king, 46 kiS is a foie Briton. " Ife spak no maner Ping, for regne to gif raunson, " Ne no ring him bisoulit, he was of kknge's blode, " Bot for prison bisould, als foie pat south no gode. " Now cr his anens wroulit, of siluere wele ouer gilt, 44 Diqet pat perof roulit, his was alle pe gilt. Taken is he to loke to Berenger & Jone, &pei him vndirtoke po ladies ewer ilkone. 'ro Statin gaf R. Pe cite in kepkng, & bad him be stiward, als ore was with pe king.

' Et le ReS, Richard ad schal de qpre la garde des ra4ntenaunt clones Al sene. f

citez. I'artaunt corn it estait

m 4 is

168 Ilicardus Rex. For Isaac did him schame, his lord suld be, pei caled him pis toname, Statin Joe nasee.

Cipria con- Now is Cipres lorn fro Isaac & hise, qua•,.:1 eat per negcm & to R. suorn for his valiantise, 1picit:

dunk. pe mene folk (comonly fulle gode men & wise)

Com to his mercir; doand him seruise, . feat bies woule & wine, & sellis with conant. " Do coin," said Staqn, " burgeis & merchant, '' & knight & squierc, & mak 1,am sour tenant,, " Citez & tonnes sere, hosbond & sergant, " & tak of pain homage, as custom is & haunt. " To do Pat ilk seruage," Pe folk said, '; we graunt, 44 & pert() half our ping, for to haf•Po lawes, " pat Samuel Fe gode king gaf bi olde dawes, " & sikred it with skrite, hjrngand set his scale ; & R. gaf it so quite, pat Pdi suld him be leale.

Now has king R. of Cipres Fe seignorie, What with nesshe & hard wonne Fe maistrie. To Stalin Pe nasee did he grete curteisie, Alle Cipres gaf him fre agejrn his vilanie, With a suerd to holde, of R. hdres alle Inglis kiritges tolde, to whom pe chefc salle falle.

t.atin pe renme nam, in pat ilk conaunt, pat Roberd of Thornham, if Pe king wild him graunt, • si vilement majrgnez, Statjrn in one of Mr. "hulls's Copies le nase des ore est surnomez this verse, Statjra le nase des

in the Renck unless it be that ore est surnornez, is wanting. 'With

•Ricaf•Chts R With him forto &mile, to mainten Pe pas; 1)e foles forto kilt, Pat rise wild in res.

Now leues Roberd with Statin nasee, Tulle fiping.bemore herd, or pes better be, WitlisPe kknge's tette pe lond to justise, His emirs to greue, • Pat agejrn him wild riso. His wi1le has R. sped in Cipres fer & nere, & Isaac forth is led with Jone & Berengere At Triple to sojourn, & Per Pei mad a crie, Tulle Acres forto tame alle holy per nauie. Bihind left non of hise, bot alle with him pei nam, Bot he pat was justise, Roberd of •Thornham. Now er alle on llote, God gif Pam grace to spede, With doulitir fo to note, when pei corn to dedo.

A , T none pe toper day Pei saufVfer in Pe se

A grete Busse & gag, folle hie o`f saile was he. Pe wader was folic soft, Pe wirnde held Pam stifle, Pe saile was hie o loft, Pei had no wirnde at wine. In Philip nauie'of France a peucelle pei put oute, His atmes on a lance oucr alle pe schip aboute. So mikelle Was pat barge, it might not lightly saile, & so,heiii of charge, & pe wjrnde gan fade. To wite what Pei were went a marinerel Respons Pei gaf him Pere, "Pei were men of mistere, " Fro Antioche were went vnte king Philip, 44 & for vs has he sent, & his is pis schip.

169ex.

•

Ecce de navi in marl

capto.

' iSic. Said

170 Ricardus Rex.

Said pe king R. " Sir prince if you be, " Bi tine turne to me ward, for I wine speke with Pe. pe prince coin fulle sone., Sir Richard did he calle, " Do dight & mak cow bone, pe schip ere Sarazins alle, " Tile Acres pci pain rape, venom for our men lede, " & if pei vs ascape, pe Cristen may pain dede.

Ecce dicit pan cried Richard on "now batale vs belSme, Rex.

" porgh help of our ladle, pat schip salle alle to gue. 1 Ilk man Pat mak wynne tok to his partie, To set chalange per inne salle no man be hardie. pe !gage's owen Gakie, he cald it Trencthemere, Pat was first onweie, & corn Pe schip fulle nere. Oiler were per inowe, pat Per after drouli, Bot he corn with a suowe, Pat pe schip to rof. pe schip cast trokes out, Pe gold° to pain drouh, pe king stode fulle stout, & many of Pam slouh. Wilde fire Pei least, Pe king to Confound, . His schipmen were fulle wrask, 'els bad he gon to ground. pe kin; abaist him nouht, bot italworthly fauht, Alle to dede be broubt, pat his Guide, ouer rauht. pe galcie Per porght schete, & pe king was gode, Pe schip Pat was so grete, it dronkled in Pe /lode. Pei told fiueten hundred Sarazins, Pat dronkled were, Fourti & sex wer sundred, & alle po were sawed pelt. Pc summe count 110 man telle of gold Pat was per in & over riches to selle, bot alle mot Pei not win.

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1 Et alt [site e5q] chescun saunz altre chalenger Codices

la gwaSrne [vel son wain]I Gallia. i'd

Rieardus Rex. 171

Pe venom alto pei Lent, in Pe se cast it away, Pe folk it mot haf schent, Pat about Acres lair. Armour pei had plente, & god besquite to mete, It sanke son in Pe se, half might Pei not gete. I Richard bade, " hale vp hie sour sailes, per God vs lede, " Our men at Acres He, of help pei haf grete node. Pe date was a Pousand, a hundreth nienti & one, Fro Cipres he was sailand, a toun he wan Acon.

SI Als grace of God wild be, pe winde gan him dryue, Rieardus apidieuie Pe cuen of Pe Trinite under Acres R. gan argue, ad porn=

Dame Jone & Berengere bifor him fond he eft : de Acres.

Isaac Pe Emperere at Triples was left. Pe folk of Griffonie, whan R. was gone, To Statin had envie, a monk Pei ches ilkone, Pat Isaac cosyn was, & corouned him for king. Pei did a foule trespas, it was vnsemli ping. Statin wild Pei greuc, mispaied 'was Roberd, . Ile said, " Pei salle miselTue," \Alan he Pat tilling herd. Night & day pei woke, Roberd & Statin, porgh force Pe monke Pei toke, & brouht him to Chcryn. sit he skaped out, Fe monke of prisoun, 'Pei cried, " has armes about Roberd fro toun to toun. pe folk vvlum Pei were cornea to Statin & Roberd, Eft pe monk° ivi nomen, at Cherin Pei him sperd. Opon pe Prid day pc folk he did somoune, Lered men & lair, fre & bond of tonne.

' Le Reg Richard les sy- hors de la prison noctauntre files comaunde eschaucer, Et est passe, Stat5.n & Robert baster rem Akres, les Cri- of armes ount crye, Gallice. stiens Oder, Gallice. a ou A

172

Ricardus Rex. A quest pan wild he take of pe monke Pat bare Pe coroune, His abite he gan forsake, his ordre lcte alle doune. & zit a noper sawe of bchoues be spoken, Age5rn Pe comon lawe, Pe prison has he broken. Som chcsons pa cast, & som for him said, lot here now at Pe last, what dome was on him laid.

dPeo moen. SAID Sir Roberd, " monk you was wham, reg

suspenso. " For wirschip of Pe werld forsokc you alle & som. " To God you mad a vow in pi professioun. " His traitour crt you now, you did him a tresoun. 4f For pe woride's blisse you left pin habite, " & now you wost for wisse of boPe ert you quite. " We toke pc als robboure in pis ilk mitre, " you reft pe king his honour, pat felle not vnto Pe. " To Cheryn pat ilk toun, eider was you led, " & I) 'r you brak prisomi, &-, away Pon fled. cc Eft we did pe take, in prison we Pe bond, "pat lawe I salle Pe make, Pat is Richard load. " Galwes do ge reise, & hjmg Pis chcitefe. " Better him wer with eise in clostre haf led his life, " Pe scruisc of his song recorded & lered, " Pan chalange with wrong Pat king R. conquered, " & Pi messe songen, & scrued God alle might, " pan to be hongen in pi frendis sight,

, Now of Pis olde monk & pis new king, pat was not worth a fonk, don has his end5rng,

I, "C

Ricardus Rex. 113

Pe folk was alle pesed, to Stali,a wild pei cheue. Of Statirn pat was sesed Roberd toke his leue With ricchesse inoub, Pat be to Acres led, & teld king R. how of alle Pat be had sped, " Pe folk of Grifronie a monk pei chese to king, " Sib Isaak a partie had mad a chalaneng. " In Cipres wer pei comen, per maistrie gan pei kipe, " & we agcyn pam nomen, & tok him als suipe. " To Cheryn we him led, & per be brak prisoun. " Eft we tokc him fled, broubt him agOn to toun, " pc courte opon him sat, Pe quest filed him & schent. " For trespas of pat, he toke jugement. " Allas! for vilenie," said R. pe king, " Pat a king suld so die, hanged for no Ping ! " Roberd eon ert to blame, port did ageka resoun, " Ccrtes you has don schame tille alle Pat here coroun. " Sir," said Roberd, " per of isonot to speke; " Late alle Pis be sperd, on Gode's enmks 1)e wreke. " SiPen Philip hider cam, he gaf timer non assaut " It wer mftelle scham to mak suilk a defaut. " A partie has you sped, Panked be God alle might ; " xit salle Port mak parn dred, or corn a fourten5'ght 4 4 Do reise irp pin cnens, & win of pun vise dikes. " I trove Pe Saraxiirs our coming mislikes.

..„ .itICHARD als suiPe did rcise his eir&s, Pe Inglis wer an blipe, Normans & Peteqns.

It icartitte paravit se ad eastel-

In bargeis & galeis he set milites to go, pc sailes, as men sail, SODA i;ere blak & blo,

'turn.

Som

174

Ricardus Rex.

• Sorn were rode & grene, pe winde about Pam blew, A selli sight to sene, fire pe sailes prewe. pe stones were of Rines, pe noise drcdfulle & grete, It affraied pe Sarni 1,, as leuen pe fire out schete. Pe noise was vnr;de, it lasted alle day, Fro morn title euentide, per of had milk affray. To while Pei had wondryng, of Pis pat pei ne knew Stode R. our king, Pe chine in tuo he hew, & sesid pe Sarazin dikes, maugre Pam euerilkon. Now Pe Sarazins mislikes, to Mahoun mad Pei mono. Our Cristen wer fulle fain, pe saute R. Perin, pe dikes wer all drawen with iren chines prin.

It " Cortes," said Pe Soudan, Pat was in Acres toure, " pis is a king a man, pis is a werrcoure, " Me pink els a wonder, bet he salle do grete wo, " He salle seized vs o sonder, fro Acres salle we go. " If he forth haf grace, as lie now bigynnes, " HiPen salle he vs chace, & alto pis loud he wynneS.

Lamenta- 1 do fada ad

The bisshop of Perouse coin to king Richard, Regem pro fame Chri-stianorion per episco-puna.

" Sir, over meruailuuse our dwelling here is hard ; " Sir, here biforn of men haf we told

" Fourti Pousand torn for hungre & cold. " pe hungre was so grete, & Pe cold so stark, 4t pat a quarter whete was at twenty mark. " For ten mark men sold a litille bulc14n, " Litille lesse men told a bouke of a motoun. • • " Men gaf fiueten schillSrnges for a goos or a hem) " For Pe grete lordirnges bouht to seke men.

sr An

.Ricardus Rex. 175

44 An 4 bi it selue for flue schillynges was bouht, ' " A pere for penes tuelue, or pei had it nouht.

" pe comon of Pe oste bouht Pam hors ileich, " Or mules or assis roste, or haf bien mete lesse. " Mani grete mishappes, many hard trauaile, " Haf comen vs hard clappes, whan pei gau vs assaile. " He told to pe king many hard chance, " Pat tellis here no ping, bot,alle in pe romance.

¶ lie tellis in pe romance, sen Acres wonnen was, Ecce pro- itas How God gaf him faire chance at Pe bataile of ,Caifas. . b „ann Ri-

II Sipen at Nazareth, at Pe AssOmpcion messe, At Assur he did to deth pe Sarazins more & lesse.

i Sipen at Japhet was slain fanuelle his stede, Pe romance tellis grete pas per of his doultti dede. Bat pe bisshop sais unto king Richard, How lam felle oiler wais so mans? woes & hard. " Bot," Sir, " we here wele telle, se ere so trew a king, " Our folk pat here duelle, seilte sour coming. " Otter alle now is said, his coming lank we God, " Our hope is ort him laid, & fulle wele is it trod, " Pat se salle wele speck, to schOrtin our soiorne% " & mend our grete nede, to JO pat it mot tome. " sour wile is ewer so gode, & sour treuth so treist, " sour douittknesse of blode Pe Sarazins salle freist, " Now, Jltesu, for pat croice, you poled on— passioun, " Here our sinfulle voice, & grant sow winne Pe town.

'Phan

176 Ricardus Rex,

WIIAN king R. herd, pc Cristen had suilk pin, Tulle soft he him ansuerd, wepand with his ine, " To Criste for me biseke, Pat he gSrue me pat grace, " pe Cristendom to eke, Pe Sarazins to chase. R. 'also suij'e did set his pauilloun,

His maistrie sone gan tripe, he dight him to pe toun. Now ere Ix dikes wonnen opon Gode's enmis, & sautes has bigonnen, Jorgh whilk he getis prig. So did king Philip with sautes Wpm gan pres, Bot for a forgetilschip R. & he boPe les. Philip left his engines withouten kepyng a night, pat perceiued pe Sarazins, with fire brent Jam doun right. For he com on morne, assaut he wild haf giuen, His Engins fond he lorne, brent & tille askes dryuen. R. said his avis, blamed him for at dede. A wcrrcour pat were WST., desceyt suld euer drede, "%Vele more on Pe night,' pan opon pe day, In mirke withouten sight wille enmis mak affray. IL lent him of hise, Acres for to assaile ; Philip withouten fairntise did alle his trauaile. Pe to sling & pe toper assailed it so hard, pat pe Soudan broiler cried pes opon forward. Alle Pei went to here, what Pe Soudan wild say : pe folk corn alle in fere with po kknges tude.

II Pis was Pe Sarazins sawe, " pe toun geld gow we wille, " If ge grant'vs Pe lawe, I salle say gow pe skille. " Late vs alle out corn, Pis is Pe first we chese. " Pat non be slain ne nom, ne life no !Swine lese;

Ricardus Rex. 111'

" & if Pat we willc take a baron of sour ostc, " & Cristen king him make, to regne bi 1)6 coste, " Him pan wile we sat, who is moste valiant,

De pace tractata secund um formam in-

" If se consent Pat was', Pe marchis of Mounfraunt. ter Reges& Saracen's.

RICHARD was hastif, & ansnerd pat stolid, " Certes you lies cheitif, & as a stinkand hand, " here ere a Pousand mo more worPi haf prisr " pan he you tells fro, Pat ilk traitoure marchis. " It salle auaile him nouht, pat he sour Soudan sent. " I se pat he has bouht pe lond with his present, " & Pis lond is oure, & our right wonitng, " For oure ancessottre hereof was he king, " & se ere our enmts, Pe Cristendam to spine, " & now is pe marchis turned to sour wille. " I rode out of Pis oste Pe marchis go his gate) " Bi God pat might has mosto, be may go to late. " If he Pore) traytorie salle be at sour detqs, g6 I salle do him hang hie, or drawe with runcks.

SAID pe king of France, " It. whi art you wroth, " What is sour distance, pat he is pe so loth? " & he is gentille knight, of ktnge's blode comen, " If he with vnright ouht of pin haf nomen, " He salle at pi wille mak alle Pin amendes, " & late alle be stifle, pat you him Mendes..

1U Said Fe king It. " Sir, at sour honoure, " In pat ilk forward he selde me mt tresoure,

Vol. I. 0 Pat

178 .Ricardus Rex. "pat mk fadere Henry gaf to Pe 'folk lond. " He toke it wikkedlk out of pe Hospitelers hond. " Fourti pousand pounde, & if lie gAde it Inc, " We salle fare & founde als frendes falle to be. Sir Philip stille he stodc, worde ne spak he more, In at same wa5, pci godc, right als it was ore. Richard asked po landcs, pat pe Cristen wan Out of Pe Sarazins handes, & chaced Pe Soudan. Pe Sarazins wild not gelde so monk londes sere, Ne pe 14rnge's no wilde acordc in oper mancrc.

OFT tille our Inglis men was schewed a mervaile grcte, A darte was schot to pem, bot non wist who it schete. In Pe schaft was purtreit, porgh Pe holy gosie trowe I,

Prce mira- In nomine patriscit said, A, jiiii 4. spiritus sands'. culum.

Was neuer Cristen man coupe perccirue Pe certqn, Ne wist what time no whau it passed out eft agekn, It corn fro Pat tureile, Pat R. had doun smirten, Alle Pe Sarazins conseilo in Pc schaft was writcn, & alle per ordinance, king It. it wistc,

It was a fulle faire chance schewcd porgh Jhcsu Cristo. R. mad puking to Jhcsu for Pat solid,. & for Pat schewyng to wirschip him sad he fond.

'TO Philip & Richard Pe Sarazins said Pei wild, In a godc forward, Pe toun to pam zold.

II

13 cite ' A Phelipp & Richard les I Sareckns votaint Souent

• Ricardus Rex. 179

Of Jerusalem Pe land Pei said he suld it haue, Perto tuenti Pousand of Cristpn men to sane. Pei treistid not Per -title, hot pei did it in dede, Pe kknee's with gode wille vnto assaut zede. • It. had minoures, Pat'mkned•vndere Fe wallet Acres ci-

vitas capta A pece with, a grete cours at ons. felle doun all°. at per Ri-

modal% pe Frank's. bare im,m stoute, Ix mined cope & cast Vnto a toure Maudut, & wan it at pe last. • Pe Sarazins sorb pei slouh, & som for drede fled, At Jig time wele iamb Pe Frankis manly sped. pe Inglis at.per triste bifor pain bare alle doun, & R. als hint liste pe way had redy roun. • Now has R. entre, & Acres'taken es, pe Sarazins corn little Ire, 4 offred him grete riches.

UNTO Philip of France Pe Frankis mad a erie, ft IA worschip to anance com,in als king hardie. • " Corn in as lord of fe, for Betides ere pei hopped " & slain alle may you se, Pat pi wait stopped : & now' is Acres taken 1)orgh R. pe conquerour, Iris banere held Pam waken was put of o toure. King Philip did also, his bailer was forth laid, & righ it &lie lYcrio, for no man him withsaid,

11 ' Pc Me of Ostrece cam, & put his banere out, & R. asked Porgh wham Pe erle bare him so stout.

cite reudre & hien promet, taint, Ke la senate tore Je-

chard de ceo se airjra5rtit, Mes de jour en altre al assalt a.

rusalem rendraknt, Et via laknt) in Codd. Gallicis. mille Cristiens qen prisoun ' Le duk de Austrice i anaint. Ne Plielipp ne IL. veent, &baneredesplSre, Gall.

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180 Ricardus Rex.

King R. porght hatie after pe Erle sent, & asked, " of what seignorio holdes you load & rent, 4‘ pat you has put out here Pi barer for maistrie, " Among kimges baneres, withouten auowrie?

" SIR, said pe duke, " I am now comon here, 44 pise Sarazins to rebuke, & slo at mS, powere. " Mir load I hold with right, at no man's dome, 44 Bot of God alle mkgh, & Saint Petir of 'Rome. . ,c : If you to non pat lyues," said R. " you chene ne howe, cc pi loud men salle gift title one ',at may it vowe. Crete scathe afterward in a litille pra.we Corn title 141)4 R. for Pat envios sawe.

lie obsidi- one castri

Now haf Pe Cristen won Acres Pat was Torn, Pilgrim, & de remoci-

pe Sarazins ouer ron with force & doun born. one phi. lippi.

pe folk was mkkelle & strong, of mete pei had grete node, pam bard departe Per Prong,'Pat load mot Pam not fede. pei parted Pe oste in tuo, porgh comon acordance. R. wine was so, so was Philip of France. A castelle was Per biside fro Acres a jorne, Grote scaPe it did bi tide to pe Cristen in Pe cuntre. pe castelle bight Pilgrim, of alle it bare Pe flour : pe Sarazins kept it pat Om for Per cliefe warinstoor,

quin 4- duk Warn irfrain MSS. plane habet. . Gallic. is. Adeo ui apud inter. prctein nostrum idem valeat

' Sire duke, dist le Reis, par le fiz Marie, Si to nas

erle quod duk, id guod paullo sejrgriour, to tere ert altr5re, post air nu lique4 ubi duke Galilee.

pat

Ricardus Rex. 181

Pat castelle was fidle strong, & ille for to wynne, Pe Sarazins kept it long, Pei wer inow Per in. Philip went him Mere, pat caitelle to conquere, Pe Frankis ails togider did nouh whan Pei corn Pete.

11 Richard oste forth ran, & grace bifor him fond, Auht jornes he wan with in pe Sarazins fond. Philip Pat per lay to speck bad he no grace, It was not worpe an ay, his dede no his mbnace. R. herd it say, he dred an oste mot skip Behind, & stop his way bitnex him & Philip, " & if Pe Soudan ros opon Philip of France, " & I wer pan in clos withouten cheuisance, " So myght it in a while pe gode torn tille ilk, " A man salle ay drede gile, Pe gode is not at wile. R. his oste did tune, tresore be had inouh, Nouht wild he soiorne, to Philip fast he drouh.

11 Whan king Philip hard, Pat R. was comand, How faire hap with him ford, so fer wan in Pe land, Pat R. turned agejrn, his marschalle teld him why; & said Philip, " certejrn our dede is not worpi. " Our dede has bene 'Ionia sen we hider camen, " To turne haf I pouht title Acres alle samen. 44 If R. hider cow, wynne it bifor vs alle, tc pat we pis sege nom, schame it wille vs falle. tg pan salle men doute vs lesse, men se we do no dede, gg Fe Sarazins our pruesse not so mykelle wille drede.

N3 Now

182 Ricardus Rex. Now is pe oste Frankis tille Acres allc went, & comen ere Pe Inglis with pauilloun & tent, & loged pam right wele otter and Per Pam pink, Inouh pei had cattle, & plente mete & drink. Whan pei had alle eten, & watches mad alle prate, To gete Pat Pei had geten, IL zede to rests.

Ecer de. I Orely °ripe morn his mcsse be zede to here, Itecacio lticardi per To Jbesu of Mary born Pis was his prakere: totion. " Lord Jlicsu," he said, " als so vermyly

" As my luf is on pe laid, & oil pi moder Mark, " Help me to venge pi Bede of pis Sarazins kind, " Pat gaf conseile & rede, Pe to bete & bind, ." & namlk on Pat blode, Pat corn 'of fats Pilate, " Pat wist sakles Port stoic, whan he on- Pi dome sate: " Jhesu for Pin honour, if it be pi wile, " I ask pe now socoure, my zernkng to fulfillc.

Lecegto dick 10-carclus.

RICHARD at Godcsbord' his mcsse had & his rightes, Item now swilk a word he spak to his koirghtes : " Of Pis kyng Philip haf we no maner of help, " Togidir I rede we kip, pat men of vs zelp. " I vowe to Saint Michael, & title halwcs Pat are,.

•

46 Pat for wo ne wele hiPen ne salle I fare, " Ne title Acres go, title Pe castelle be taken., " pat Philip went fro, for vs has it forsaken. " For his awen defaut with vs he has envie, " Go we to Pe as'saut Pat God vs alle condic.

ne caPei" II one eastri per Rim- , dinu.

Pe dikes were folic wide pat closed Pe castclle about, & dene oil ilk a side, with baukis hie without.

Was.

Ricardus Rex. 183

Was Per non entre, Pat to Pe castelle gan ligge, Bot a streite kauce, at pe end a draulit brigge, With grete duble cheknes drauhen ouer Pc gate & Vti armed sueknes porters at Pat sate. • With slenges & magneles Pei kart to king Richard, Our Cristen hi parcelles kastcd agqnward. ' Ten sergeanz of Pe best his targe gan him bete, Imt, ogre wer & prest to couere him & to were. Himself as a Geant Pe chOnes in tuo hew, Pe targe was his warant, Pat non tille him threw. Right vnto pe sate with pe large pei Bede, Fightand on a gate, vridir him pe slouli his stede. per for ne wild he sesse, alone in to pe castele Jiorgh pam elle wild presse, oii fote fauht he fulle wele. De prohi.

tate t;jus, i & whim he was withinne, & fauht as a wilde leen, quando

pugnavit lie fondred Pe Sarazins °Wynne, & fauht as a dragon. per se in

castro. Withoute Pe Cristen gan cric, " alias! R. is taken, po Normans were sorie, of intenance gan blaken. To slo doun & to stroke, neuer wild pei stint, Pei left for dede no Hoye, ne for no wounde no 40. Pat in went alle Per pres, mangle pe Sarazins alle, & fond R. on des tiglitand, &- wonnc pe bane. No body bot he alone vnto pe Cristen cam, & slayn lie had ilkonc, Pe lordes hot pre lie uam. With Po Pre o lyue his messengers went, Title Acres gan Pei drjrue, to Philip mad present.

' Dis , seriauntz des plus uut le cots le Reis sa large feres, e de melt VaileZ, DI ,a- ount portez, Co id. Gallia.

x 4 Now

184 Ricardus Rex. NOW is grete honour comen to Inglis mai . porgh R. pe conquerour, his doulitines we ken. King Philip of France fulle greteli is he noied, Pat R. had suilk chance, pe castelle had destroyed. porgh spie Pe Soudan wist, Pat Philip was no payed, No gamen him ne list, bot held him alle dismayed. To Philip a letter he sent pc Soudan Saladirn, knoPer to R. went, Pat brouht a Sarazyn. Pus Pan gan he seiey als it wer for Per prowe, Unto pc kirnges tueke, " pc Soudan gretes sow, " & sais for seuen pre God pan were Pe trewe.

•

" If sour God be so elm, & of so grcte vcrtcwe, " As se preche oft tide, for sothe se schew & scic, 46 We Sarazins on our side be pat time salle purucit, " Pat pis loud salle be sours, & we bicome Cristen, 44 Withouten mo stouts or block spilling of men, " & haf alle pat se wan withouten gansaiing. perto ansuer gan Philip pe king, & said, " Per men bcdis skille, skate men ouh to take. " Po Pat wile not Pat talc, skille sallc Pam forsake.

" ALLAS!" said Richard, "pat suer it suld be eolith, " Or spoken efterward said of Cristen mouth; " Pat for a Sarazins saws, contreued of fals qu4ntise, " A Cristen man suld him withdrawe fro Jhesu Criste seruise. " Alle ere we hider comen, Jliesu Cristo to.senie, " pe way for him, we nomen, for him to lyue & steruc. " His childre ere we alle, of God our fader biforn, " Pis lond mild to vs falle, Per our fader was born.

" Jhesn

Ricarchts Rex. 185

"Jhesu was born here, & alle our first linage, " We ere his childre dere, we claime Pis our heritage, 44 Pat rise paen honde,s our ancestre'haf reft, • " &.Porgh hard woundes of ram salle reime it eft. " Bot if pei wile with pes Pis loud geld vs alle quite, 44 Pei salle Pan haf . reles, of faith gode respite. " If pei at no certein wile geld it vs with pes, " We salle wynne it agein, pat pei bifor vs les. " ' Pat dos not his deuere with dede no with rede, " Hasteli Pis gere Palle him Pe feryngcs dede.

PHILIP vnderstode, It. wild not consent, rat ilk conant forth 'ode, Pat Pe Soudan sent.

' Philip held him stile, & bigan to smile, Men sail Pat comes of ille, & pinking son) gile. NoPeles day & °Per he paneled priueli, Of mast, saile, & roper lie dight his schip redi.

I Oft he sent for leue vnto king R. • Philippto

Sekenes gan him so greue, 'pat he mot wendehomward. licen9a pe-tits a RI-

I

M was in point to gelde 1)e gaste, & sone.to die, For end he ne might him welde, in bed behoued him lie, Sen oper wais ne might vale, pan said R. for wo, " Philip now wile me faile, & ale gate wend me fro.

cardo ad Franciaat se Pansvit-

.46 Conant holdes he non, Pat he to Jhesu hight, " With body & souk alon to venge him at his might. 46 Sen Jhesu he wile not venge, ne hold his vowe no ping, 4‘ Ile salle him chalenge pe day of his ending.

' Ke son deuer ne face, prist, [Hastiement 1uST prenge

pur gunk la croice perist, [sive la male mort subit, Codd Gall. 4' If

186

Ricardus Rex. " If he wille go or &elle, as he wille I wile wele, - "pe despite, pat is to telle, to God is don ilk dek.

if Fulle oft biforhand bituex Pam was distance, . For wynnjrng of pe land, pat R. wan porgh chance. Haluendele asked Philip, as for first conant, & for felawschip of Cipres conquerand. Of pat Philip of France, for he suld haf grantise, Mad It. a quite clamanoe fro him & alle bise, & neuer Porgh no destresse suld clayme Per of no right. Philip with grete mekenesse his trouth pato plight, Gas. cqn & Normundie suld gcme at his powere, ',Vithouten vilanie, tille his coming were were. '

PHILIP tok his leue, withouten more essoyne His suld alle to cheue, title Sir Hugh of Burgoyne. Alle Pe Frankis oste Sir, Hugh had in keprng, Now sailes fro Pat costei home wendes Philip pe king. In Pe se sailand he lendes'toward Lumbardie, ' Pe erle of Ostrice wendes with him companie. It. stile he lcues, Pe lond he wild more se, & SaladYrn he rcues pe flour of ' Cisare. At Pat ilk flour Richard gaf bataile, Greuance liad he som, here now of his trauaile. In Antioche, in Acres, in alle Po ilk cuntres, He set wardOns watres, to kepe alle pe entres. Siren toward CaSrfas displaied his banere,

1 , & euer his nauie was in Pe se biside not fere.

' Le Wild.

duk de Austrice 3 Cesaree, sive

Codd. Cesa-

I rye, MSS.Vall. 4 infra.

tam hie pan)

Richard

Ricarclus ,flex. 187

11ICHARD . his his spie on Soudan Saladku, ad De pu

dur gna aeo

Som said he suld lie at Pe town of Jopp5m. Ci6arie,

To Joppkn whin he cam, Pe Soudan was not Pere, Fe flom Pe Soudan nam, It. forto affere. Saladkn priuely was bussed beside pc flom, & spied strete & stie what R. suld com, Fat he suld not pas, ne Imo man of his oste. Pe water stopped was, per passage suld be mote. 3 Saladkn did stoppe Pe dikes 4 kank & bra, Pat non suld ouer hoppe, ne man ne hors suld go Porch Pat enbussement, pat was so priuely, . . It. suld be schent, if Pat wak he coin by.

RICHARD fast him drouli toward Cisare, To witte where or how Pe best passage mot be.

. . Whan It. pider cam, he scull Per was ire gette, Passage non he nam, pe forthes wel withsette. R. beheld abode, of gile he drede him acid, Of Sarazins a grete route, (pe loud was vrabeleid,) & alle Pat suerd mot !Jere, or °per wapen weld, Were sett° R. to dere, enbussed porgh pc fold. Ile said, " Jliesu mercy, & pi modcr dere, " Wherfore we corn & wlik, now we find Jmni here. Whan lie sauh he ne rryglit passe on non wise, In Pre parties to fight his oste lie did devise.

' F. has. % F. no. Nam 3 Salaqu ks hocrs de flunk Codices Gallia, De Richard ad sais3:-e Gallice. 4 F. bank. 4 passe, ne nul de sa partj-e.

Sir

188

Ricardus Rex. •

De Jae. b° SIR James ' of Auenu he had Pe first eschele, An Was non of his vertu in Armes did so wele, Gentille of norture, & noble of lynage, Was non pat bare armure, Pat did suilk vassalage. Of werre & of bataile he was fulle anise, per wisdom suld auaile was non so trewe als he. • Pere had he non in pe land Per he was born, He praied Pe king on one he mot be first biforn, & he gaf him pe vamward, pe Sarazins oste to cleue, & he at king R. for euer Pan take his leue. pe king withoute essqn suld be in Pe midde, ' & Pe erle of Burgoyn he suld haf Pe pridde. With were Pe templers, & per fraternite, Tals in alle matters, so tellis pe stori me.

De turmis ON Pe toper side Pe of Pe Sarazin, Saladini. In Pe vamward suld ride'Pe Soudan Sala4n, Paien most worpi of elle Pe land of his kin,

• So told me pe stori pat I fond writen in. • In pe secund turbe was maister Coradyn Lord of Dames, . his fader was SafadSrn. ' Soudan so curteis neuer drank no wine, Pe same Ix Romans sais Pat is of RichardSw.

...., . ' In the MS, of the Heralds maunde, Et al mestre du

Office 'tis de Aucunes, in one Temple one [sive on, vet oaf) of Mr. Anstis's de Aucune, but sa fraternete, MSS. Gallic& in the other de Auenues. Yet 3 Soldan plus curtqs oe below both of Mr. Anstis's Co. goustait vnkes vin. De 11' pies have Auenues. 2 Al duk terce eschele mestre fu Mel' de Burgoyne la terce est .co. chin, SeIgnour de Bandar, .

1Vielcble

Ricardus Rex. 189

I & ouer pe prid pas was maister Sir Melaka, Lord of Baudas, & Sir Matifaskn, Lord of Gallic, & Pe stede pat Chakn, & Sire of k:It cuntre, Per Abel was sla'n.

1 ' James of Auenue, he was vcrrak pilgrkn, Ile gan first remue pe croice mad on his bryn. Oir per first eschel he smot in Tulle hastif, & Porgh pam ilka del, als grehound or mastif, Tuys witbouten encumbre, with suerd in his hand, He slouh withouten numbre, bifor him mot non stand. Biside corn a Sarazins, bituex him & a bank, Sir Kalaphes Durkns, he smote of James schank.

II Pan spak James, " po a koskn help Richard, " Fulle fer ert you me fro? kart pe now to me ward. . " pi sister sonne am I, you eam & I coqn. 44 2 pi fader kkng lIenrk in Pe castelle Constantkn ' " Mk moder Pan gate he opon dame Auelyn. " Countas of Marche was sche, .`81: or I zit do my fkn 44 Mir dede salle I venge on Kalaphes Duryn. " With a gode suerd of lorenge he smotePorgh pe Sarazin, James lose Per his hand, & died in Pat pyn. Dc morte Oil,— pe morn men him fand, & pe frere Ban win, Jacobi.

Weichifasko, [sive Wetipha. sin) Sekgnour de Gal 'le & del lea on Ca 'n Tua son frere Abel par [vel on] feloun en. gkn Codd. MSS. Gailici.

chimyn] MSS. Gall. a Le Rey Henry ton pere en cha4 stel Coustantkn Engendra ma mere sur dame Aue1S-n, Countesse de la Marche, pur

' Sire Jages de Aucunes, [sive Auenues] verrak pelqn, Se seSrgle de la croice & prent son chem5rn [sire clIjanSTn vel

Dieu & Seint Martkn Venez venger ma morte sur ceo Sa-rackn, Codd. Gallic'.

.

'190 Ricardus Rex. •. A Trere of pehospitalle, Pe erle's sonne Paulin, Was lord of Morian alle & of Mount ' ModStn.

W71-IAN R. herd say, pat James was slain, . lie wend for dole to dek, he com as a wode man, 9 & Salad5Tri saute him cam, per of fulle wele he We, Agqn R. he nam, togidcr gan pci mete, • A king & a Soudan of alle Pe world Pe beste. R. tille him ran, a stroke on him he fest, He smote him in 1:)e helm, bakward he bare his stroupe. Pe body he did ouerwhelm, his hede touched Pe croupe, He Idle doun with pe dint, bot son he ros vp light, HerneSrs notilit nc tint, bot eft on hors fulle wight.

De insulta.. R. at Pat turne pe limn he wan fulle wele, Vt7canerlgis& For Sarnia ne wild he skurne Pat were of his eschele. Saladini. •

Fourti Pousand palm, what drenkled & what slain, & a Pousand Cristcn, so seas Pe tale certdn. For soth Pe Prid cschelc futile hard was bisted, pe templcrs ilk a Mc failed & picn fled. pe 3 erle" bakward was born, & able lie Frankis men

Fullc nere had pei Bien lorn, bot pei cried, help Cristen. • Pe erlc bigan to crie, " turne and help vs Richard, " Or els salle ire die, Pat ere in pis rercward.

g Moryn Codd. Gall. 2 Qaunt SaladS•n IS, vait de

Richard, is stint encountrez, Galilee. 3 Duk de Burgoyne

bone volentez Aproche al Rek Codd. Gail. II

Sir,

91 Ricardus Rex.

S IR" .sald king , • • ng Gujron, " turne agejrn, I retie, " Frankis & Burgoillon, els alle gos to dede. " Pe Soudan Saladjrn has Pam nere conquered, " Pc tempters magre min, fals Pei er & ferd. " If Pei had standee nere, Pe might haf wonnen pris,

C Non dos per deucre, bot Rajrnald Iv marchis. Said pe king R. 44 if pc duke be taken, " It salle be Pam hard, bot pci haf hint forsaken. Pe Flom sone lie left, agekia toke his gate, Pe duke fro Pam he rcft, welnere he com to late. ' pc duke at fat bataile lost sex & gritty kntghtes, Pre hundreth of pcdaile, a hundreth sergeanz at rightes. Pe duke alle pese les, & po pat were olj'uc, R. for alle pe Ares saucljr did pant vp Otte. At pat time It Pere mink a man stout' he, Pe king sonne of Dare he smote in tuo his the. Pe Soudan Saladjrn he was fulle vnfajrn, He fled with mjrkelle pin vntope"mountajrn.

. R. has pe pris at pe flom of Cisare, Pe Sarazin force doti.n. his, Jhesa we Faulk Pe.

1 De Jerusalem le Rey houre chivalers trent & sjrs, Gujroun gentjls Dist al Rey Treis centz de petayle, seri. Richard, Sire tournez le vys, auntz cent e 4s. Et de cel Le disk, e sa eschele stint is eschele, qauntz qe sount re- taunt supris, Le Soldan Sa- mSrs, Fet le Rey passer le ladjrn apok [sive ad pot, vel a poi] les ad conqqs, Codd.

Ilion a [vel ad] lour amjrs, Codd. Gall.

Gall. a Le duk pardist eel

kise

192 Ricardus Rex.

' 1 PISE Sarazins were so fesid, pat fled was Saladj,n, & Cisare has he sesid, Japht & Joppirn, Cades & Ascalon, alle has kyng Richard : Under him king Guyon had pam alle in ward. pe duke was in a cas, his wondes wer so grim, pat his leche was in ille hope of him, & R. was fulledred, pe leche mot him not sane." Title Acres Pei him led, better bele to bane. In Per ways ilk dole Pei fond voide als teethe. pe toun of Mount Carmele, Pe toun of Nazareth, Pe strong castelle Pilrkii, Pat first wounen was, Alle tok Ricardyn, Calqn & Kagas. Ilkon Pise Pei seised, tome alle pei fond, Seke were per heised, holed Pant of wound.

Saldanus venit tra clare pa-

1 Pe Soudan to R. sent, to speke togider in glath, For Pe pes it meat, & of no maner wrath. •

CCM. Ne no Ping suld it greue-vnto pe Cristiente, pe barons said bi leue, welcom mot he be. Saladjrn come eider Pat dak Pat he sette, Pe barons wer togider, pe kknge & Jam he ;retie.

IF " Sir," said Saladyn, " pi God has grete powere, " Er alle Pise Cristen Pin, Pat you kepes here ? " Pise Inglis," said R. " in my liePing Pei are, " Pe Frankis haf oiler ward, wip pe erleof Burgojin Pei fare.

i Richard Reis Engla57s est si male merle: cie lr Si. ad sais5,e Cesare, *Topper' e rogene del duk est desperee, Scalon, Cades & Japhe, Et Et le Rey Richard moat [sit e

• al Rey GuSroun la garde ad milt] desconforte,/l/SS. dull. done. Le duk de Burgque

cc Bot

Ricardus Rex. 193

4, 13ot lei be of pi faith, els do lei wrong, cc lei stand alle to gode graith, whan you ert Fain among, " & you ert comen fro fern, & riche king is of fe, ' 45 If you pes wile zerne, for 1)e & pi mein, cc & trewe for seuen sere, I consent Fedille, " If Pon has Fat manere, to do euenhecle & skille.

CERTES Salaqn, " said Fe king Richere, nespincio Ricardi.

" To mak partie ageSrn min it ha you gode powcre, `c & for pe pes to scke has Pon no mkstere,

4 pertilie to mak me racke, my hate to it in wehere. f4 you has power inouli, wherto askes you pes ?

& my wille wille not bout, to grante pat you chcs. If you Pe lond wile zeld, Perof is to speke,

54 & siPen if pod wild pi lay forsake & broke, ` & take our bapteme of funte, as childre sing, " I salle gkue Fe a reame, & do pe coronn king.

.•

' cc , • •

6m," said Saladjm, "lank I mill sow comic) Salclanto

".Pat you me profers of Fin, & has non enchesonne. dixit. " If I might le pacmie justise Pain ilkone, " & non had seignorie bot I Inc; self alone, " pan I trow ri4 17oulit might acord to pin,

Hot now dar I mold. ' MY broper Safailka

' Sire, dist Saladjin, fire Ses fiz cunt grantez sek. to des' sauer, Ke to saunz .gnours, ne volent lesser Tore desert me vols honourer, ne tenement, pur nulk prech7 Gallice. I Mon frere Saf. fad5rn teent son refine eutere,

Vol. I.

or, Gall.

o ct IQ

194 Ricardus Re.t. ce Is riche of tenement, his sonnes strong & stith, 64 per wiUe Wine not be went, ne lete Per load ne lith. 0 Wild Pe bicom Cristen, fulle eth I were to drawee cc. Bot I dar not for Pam alle one to leue our lawe.

RICE-LARD said, " per fay, go now & conseile pe, " & bi pe Arid day, Pat salle haf certeinte. 46 Bi an I salle pe say, how pat it salle go, " Of pes to haf pe way, or werre, on of Pe tuo. Listen now a Bile of Sir Safadyn, Contreued a yakked wile oil his broiler Safadyn.

¶ Now wendes Sahulkn Per his oste gan lie, His' boiler Safadyn his coming did spic, He sent to king R. a stele for curteisie, On of pe best reward, Pat was in paemie : Bad him bi Pat zere token, ware him for tricherie; Said, 46 Saladin was Hie foen, on him may non affie, " He sais behind Pi bak,' in strange companie, . " Wordes pat er to tali, he darepe wele diffie, " If be & you alone might zow togider alie, " He might withouten mone of pe wynne pe maistrie; 2 te St, Sir, if you be suilk, als men of Pe crie, " Rebuke him for Pat ilk of Pat auauntrie. • " If I may be auaile of hors or armurie, 44 Forsoth I salle not faile, to mende pi parties Bot or Pat day felle to stand, Pat Per acorde suld be, had R. herd tiPand out Normundie.

' Sic 2 Si to sois taunt Iounde

crSre., Rebukez le bien de sa 11.01sui t, corn he p to cur quide6e, Codd. Gallia.

it Pe

Ricardus Ret. 195

¶ " Pe folk out of France to Normundie were cornea, 66 To R. deseeknance his londes haf Pet nOmen. • " Bot he coin right son, Normundie to fende, " His right bes nouht doun soner Pan any wend. 1 Wherfore to som of his he schewed Pam Pe skillet To treus on—alle wise him burl grant Pertille. .

UNDER Pe Mount Thabor, in a faire medue, Bope pe parties wer pore to conseile for pe treue " 1" Sir," said Saladyn, " is it Pi wille to say, De pare

tractata & " pis day is myn & pin, chese Pon now What way. ordinata

per Ricar• For Safadyn's sawe R. had enuie, dum &

Saladinum Wherfore a Bode prawe he stod in a stadie. pat sawe Pat he Per said, so wele it was of kten, In boke it was vp laid, git is it not forgetcn. R. is ansuerd to SaladStu for treu,‘ For po men pat it herd wrote vs Pat word alk new. •

. . " TREUS you askes a prowe, for tuo zere or Pre, " 1,0 nien, Pat Pe knowe, say Pon skornes me.

• " Pe folk of pniemie Pe word Per of fer gos, " Of alle Pat seignorie porgliout pin is pe los ; " In armes is per none, at to pi renouu recites, 66 Wherfor you has gone, & of pi pruesse preclids;

• --- . ' Le Rep Richard as vns ladjm venuz en amour saunz

'la chos certifke) Et a parler boSAie, Et prye al Rey Ri- de trewe al Solari plus se plye, MSS. Gall. 'Est So.

chard; que son plaisir lir dye, Codices Gall.

02 "pat

196 Rieardus Rex. " pat if pou me mot mete bi our seluen tuo, " Alk lif I suld forlete, or ink hede for go. " & if you wile it prone, Pat Pon ert so worPi, " A stede tille our behoue here is on alle redi. " Now for pi grete valow, I ask pe a bone, " Pat or we grante trew, fight we als so sone, " Pan on non oiler side body so bolde to be, " On fote ne hors ride, to socour me no pe. " & wbilk of vs is doun, & mad is recreant, 44 CWme & accioun he lese,, & Pe remanant 4' Of pat ilk land, pat Cristen euer auht, " pat Pei held in per hand of God Pat pam it tauht.

il Pan said SaladSrn, " if Pou find any man, "Cristen or Sarazin, ' pat what time or whan, " I mad auancement with Pe alone to fight, " Bot I to bataile went for my reame's right, " Here I salle Pe gjrue alle min heritage, " & als along as I Ifrue to be in pin ostage.

¶ pe maister of pe Temple corn procurand Pe pes, " No more of Pis to demple, tak Pat Pat ze first des. Saladkn for alle hise hette to hold conaunt,

Seuen gere at his deuise, & R. per to graunt, Pat ilk a Cristen man suld hold & haue cat* Alle Pat lie Per wan, & no Ping zeld agekn. •

....--- ' Id est, that knows or can tell what, 4c.

o i

SO , ,

Ricardus Rex. 197

Now is it in forward alle pesed & wele ent, Now turne king IL tille Acres is he went. After kyng Guyon & for his sonne he sent, . Of Antioche Reimon him also he ment, Aunfrei of Turoin he was Per present, Of Triple erle Bumoun fulle snipe eider glent, Sir ' Ruffin broiler Leoun, alle pise held parlement. King R. his resoun said Pam, "how he was schent, " Philip did him tresoun, destroied his tenement. " For to stanch his foisoun homward bat' I ment. " Normundie alle down, mjrkelle per of is brent " & slain blak & broun of alle pat he 'not hent. " I wille of pat feloun tak vengement, " Pat fo fordos mi coroun, if grace be to me lent.

¶ " Wherfor se lordjrnges, se ere me lefe & dere, " I take in sour kepjrnges pe londes Pat we wonne here. " Pe freres of Pe hospital, & pe,temple also, " Biseke Pam I salle, Pat pei lielp sow perto. " Now haf I don & said, & tauht zow tat I may, " Ali, hope is oiizow laid, lordituges haf gode day-.

THE prince of Antioche, & pc kyng Guyon, Bumunde erle of Triple, & Aunfreir of Turoun, Re: aril Pise had in Per ward cite, kastelle & toun , . baronibus suis & pe-

eiit Ikea- , Pat Pe king R. wan of Sarazin feloun, eiamab els,

& filer ar- & Isaac Pe Emperour takes his liuerisoun, ripuit ver-

With freres mad soioure in temple dominoun. sus A n-gliam,

I So 'Hs also in one of Mr. I other, as also in that of the. Anslies Copies. But in th4 i Heralds Office, 'tis Rtiprn.

0 3 . His

198 . Ricardus Rex. His doubter with Pe quene was for hir warisotin, & so felle it to bene, hir fader lese Pe coroun, & as R. home went toward Pis regioun, Or he were taken .or Lent, or holden in prisoun, He gaf his sistere Pat while veto j,e erle Reintoun. Lord of Saint Gile, aman of grete renown. ' I fond in mi boke, what skille ne for whi, pat he his folk forsoke, & gede so priudi. 2 Aufrice to aspie him were better haf left, per in Porgli felonie was he robbed & reft, Taken with enmis & holden in prisoun, I kan not say Pe pris was gyuen for his ransom . In prison was he bonden, as Pe Romance sais, In deifies & lede wondcn, pat heui was of peis. A noper pine he had, if it mai be trod, With 3 iren miles sad, it sais, his fete was schod.

,., ' Forte, I ne fund. 'eo.. and astonishment of his ene-

tius, Austrice, cun► MSS. Gall. mies) by thrusting his arm into 3 Without all doubt King Ri. hie mouth, and therby Lruis' chard was used very roughly, and not agreeable to his Royal

ing hint so at the heart, that he died. John Rastall is one of

Dignity, after he was impri. those, that speaks of this memo- coned. 'Tis for that rely rot. rabic Action, taking notice, at son, that some Historians tell the same time) of the causes of

us (notwithstanding it be not his being set upon, and ci the mentioned in this chronicle) vast sum of money that was de. that a Lyon was brought to him 'minded and paid for his ran. when he was confined in prisons. At the same time he like.

ton, with an intent to have (by wise observes, that, according that means) destroyed him. lint instead of that, he kill'd the

to some, he was called Cure, de Lyon from this Heroical

Ly9n (to the great confusion. Exploit, but, according to o- thers,

Ricardus Rex. 199

thers, (who take no notice of this his Steps, and were forward to Af fair) from his invincible Cou. encounter Lyons, and were will. rage. Rastall himself seems to ing to have themselves pictured think, this Denomination was ; c. casion'd by his killing the Lyon;

as engaging with them. And, for better remembrance of such

and for that reason, as I take it, it is, that the wooden Cut, which

Adventures, they were often painted in old Halls, just as were

he hath given us of K. Richard, represents him with the Lyon M.

also the Encounters that Gentle. men of Activity in Feats of

ttoecn his Legs, and thrusting his Arms had with any strange right Arm down his Throat. Knights, such as those of the )Tis probable he had seen old Blesells, hinted at by Leland, Pictures that confirned this Re. Itin. Vol. VII. p. 61. Such Pi. presentation. 'Tis also likely, that his Brother•in-law Sit

dares were look'd upon rely justly as great Ornaments to

Thomas More (from whom he Halls, and 'tis pity more care had receio'd so much assistance hails not been taken to preserve in his Historical Enquiries) them. Sometimes there were approved of it. Indeed I have figures in our old Wainscotts . not yet seen (shot I remember) that had Allusion to Heroical any other old Figure, (besides this in Racial!) in which K.

2ctions, and these, therefore, ought also to lie regarded by

Richard is drawn after this curious Persons, who may even manner. And yet I cannot but from thence be capable of illu. think, that he was sirnatned strating some Particulars in our Cure de Lyon from some par. History. I have seen curious ticular Action, rather than from Works cer this nature in some his Courage in general, it being old Houses in Oxford. They usual with our Ancestors to sire were much in vogue in Q. Eli- Sirnamesfrompartieularremark- tabeth's time, as they had been able Accidents, such as diain. also in the Reign of her Father guished them in a peculiar man. K. Henry VII Ilk. when Cabi. ner from other eminent persons. nets were, withal, finely adorn'd And as Richard I. had got a fiery great name for his overcom-

with Pictures of Antiquity, as may appear as well from

wig the Lyon (as well as he had other instances, as from that for abundance of other very art. which had been Leland's Cabi. common Instances of Courage) net in the Bodleian -Library. so others also strived to follow But instead of exspatiating, I

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200 Ricardzis Red. shall give Rastall's own Dyuers causes there were is :cords, as I find them in the wryters reherse I that the Copy of his Chronicle that was Emperour sholde owe grudge lent me by my kind Friend to kynge Richarde I one was Mr. Murray.—This kynge because kynge Rycharde had Rycharde perceyued that the promysed to the Emperour Chrysten people decresyd in an ityde for the wynninge of the holy lande I aswell by in- the kyngdome of Cicyle I fyrmytes as lacke of vytell I whiche the EmperOur claym. toke a truce for. iii. yore and ed as his inheritance I whiche returned whomewarde I and promyse kynge Rycharde as sent the quene his wyfe by he sayd brake. Another the see I and he sayled with a cause was for that the kyng small company into Histra & Itycharde toke from a knyght -there landed I where he was of the duke of Ostryche the

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takyn prisoner by the. duke dukes banner and (rode it 6 kyn of Ostreche and by him put under his fete in dispyte Of p t ibOnCr. in prison I and brought to the duke and of the Empe.

Henry Emperour of Almayne Near his lorde I & therfore I whiche put hym in strange .the duke & the Emperour

prison I and after Ilaunsomtel were gladde to do kynge Ry. by m at c. M. 11 whiche duke charde displeasure. of Ostryche was afterwarde 11 It is sayd that a Lyon therfore accursed of the pope was put to kynge Rycharde for the wronge done to kynge beynge in prison to haue de- Itycharde. uoured hym ( arid when the

I Also for the payment of Lyon was gapynge he put I this sayd Raunsome I after. his Arme in his mouthe and war& the well of all the pulled the lyon by the harte Whyte monkes and chanons so hard I that he slewe the in Englande was solde I and Von. And therfore some say rynges I iewels;,1 of prelates he is called Rycharde Cure and vessels and chalyces of de lyon I but some. say he i0 'all the churches .thorowe the called Cure de lyon because lande I and dyuers and many of his hoMenesse and hardy

.shrynes scraped and spoyled of theyr golde and syluer.

storaake.

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Bicarchis Rex.

terfor Pe :palm of Rome cursed Pam wroterheile, Alle Pat did tat dome, or Perto 'gaf, conseile. His moder dame Alienore, & pe barons of Pis land, Tor him tmuailed sore, & brouht him out of band.

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201

. riche,

Dummodo Rex R. itt. carceratus fuit ultra mare, Jo. hannes Era-ter ejus commislt . muftis in-juriis coo-Era cum.

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THAN he of bond was broulit for raunson pat was His moder so bloat, he argued at Sandwichc. - To Canterbire fulle cuen he souht to haf his bote, Miles he Bede seuen to Saint Thomas on tote. With &He riche offerkng be wirschipped S. Thomas. His praicr did him bring out of his hard cas, tanked God & him so wcic for him had schaped, Pat of his angui's grim so lightlk was escaped.

TO while tat It. was bigond pe se in hold, Jon did him trespas, his rentes tok & sold, His caste's sesed & brak, bigan a grete distance, & neuer no word spak of R. dZliuerance. Bot als a king of loud Jon bare him fulle stoute, Perfor R. web fond with dome to chace him oute, & &whim als a noter, for his vnkknd folie. To king R. his broPer Jon mercy gan crie, ter moder tarn bisouht, for to be at one. Of trespas Pat he bad wrouht It. forgaf it Jon & said, 46 Pi misdede be in Pi mknsyng, !C Euer more to drede, eft to do suilk ping, " 8c I wille neuer more on pi trespas Penk,• " If pou- repent Pe sore, tai you did suilk ttblenk.-

..'_Sic. ,, Ri.

202 ' Ricardus Rex. De parlia. mentoapud Londonias.

IrtICHARD to Londen Ivendes, to hold parlement, For his barons sendes, & Pei alle to him went. At Westminster ilkone parlement pei held, To pam he mad his mono, & pus to ]ram teld.

1 gg Lordknges of my chance wele ge auh to wite, gg & tat N king of France wille me disherite. " For pat I was bistad bisond Pe se in hold, " Perfor Philip is glad, & beres him fulle bold. " Mk castels he takes, & seises ink citez, " Destruction he makes of rentes & feez. 44 Wherfore barons dere, sais me a godc certeyn, " & how & what manere my lond to gete agekn.

Tectomes sapirgreenviL tespondit.

11 Pan spak pe erie Rogere,.as a man fulle w.ks, " Erles with Par powere, barons Pat er of pris, " Knkghtes gode & wight, sergeanz alle in ford, " pise salle alle be dight, & help pe with Per suerd. 66 Bisshopes & persons, 'ourgeis of citez, 44 & rich merchandes eftsons salle help with per 4 mone. 44 Abbak & prioric, & °Per religions, " For vs salle pray & crie in Per afflictions. " Better is.holy bede of man Pat right lkues. " & standes vs in more stede, Pan alle Pe gode he dues.

ii pe comen wele was paied of Pat conseilkng, pat it were not delaied so was IL pe king.

1,

Now yakking IL alle his loud extende, Merschalle & Alward Perfor About dos sends, & homage & feaute he ashes & relcue, Pe barons er Hie fit, to do as to Per chefe. ...--- ....raw&

NOW 1 F. moues. .

Ricardus Rex. 203

Now has pe king wele sped, & comen ageSrn to London, & penies with him led, & spending has he fondon. His barons alle aboute fast title him drowe, With hors & armes stoute, per corn tille him inowe. R. wendes to achip, he wile no lenger duellc, pe boste of king Philip fain Pan wild he fulle.

ARIUED is R. at Depe in Normundie, Transfreta- N it•versns lie lilt per half a gore, estres to aspic. Nonnanni-am & Gas-

& whan he sauh he might, on his folk aflie, ' His werre ordeind & dight to po Pat coupe Pam guye. To Gascoine pat he were fulle smertly he gan hie,

coniameon-tra Regem Franc ite, & cepit Bur-rez St (ii- 8 on.

Cursels a castelle Pere he wan with maistrie. Pe sergeanz pat it held wer in point to die, To prison pei Pam geld, bot mercy gan pei crie. zit he tok a pray, Porgh quayntise & spie, Bum he wan Pat day, hope tyros & seignorie, At Ile dangu pat night he tok fiis herbegerie. To Cursels Philip had tight with alle his companie, lie ne wist it golden was, title he corn so nehi. • Whan he wist, he fled pat pas, to Gisors tok pe stir. R. permitted pis, pat Philip to Gisors fled, He eomanded his Inglis, pat after fast Pei sped. Pei corn Philip so nere, Pat he cried, " tak Pe king," Hot non so hardi were, to smite him for no ping. Ile pouht king Philip inouh was disconfite, 'Whan he & alle his trip for nouht fled so tite. .9"......gro...........p."

' Sa gwere fet ordiner) les 1 dutres establ5v, Deuers A.

quytakne sa banere desp1i7e, I MSS. Gall.

I Pa-

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Ricardus Rat. a Paulllon & tent Philip bihind him left) To R. was it sent, no ping Perof reft. For mikelle lete Pei liggei Perot' mad pei no force, Philip unto pe brigge pci ehaced him of Gisors. On Pe brigge were ilk pc vamward & Pe rere, Under pam pe brigge gan fallc.doun in to pe riuere. Philip & his ineine in Pe water lay,

itarkade sionem regi dixit deri-

Schame him was to fle, & so him com Pat dair,

A Knight a bourdour king R. hade, A doulity man in stoure, his name was Markade.

Francire. He sauh king Philip als he lay in Pe water, " Sir king rise vp & skip, for you has wette pi hater. 44 POU fisshes not worPe a leke, rise & go Pi wags, 44 For you has wette Pi breke, schent is pi hernais. Pe brigge was brodc & long, boPe of tre & stones, When so mikelle prong wad Per on at ones. Sex hundreth mot men' sc; so fele fallen per were, Of wbilk pritti & Pre did Per ending' Pere. R. comanded alle gate, pat Philip suld men same,

For no ring sold Pei late, bot help pat lif mot haue.

Of Mount Morice Mathi a baron renome, Sir Alain of Ruessie, Sir Fou. ke de GelFre,

x Tent e paupioun, ke Al pount de Gysors, qe nest • Phelipp werpist, Sunt al Rey pas petit. En la rere garde

Richard tote saunz countre.." II nes vn Fraunceis remist. dit. Phelipp oue [sive ouf] Molt fit le pople grant, gaunt ses Fraunceys al aler se prist, . . le pount chaist, Le Reis en Riclaird oue [sive oaf] ses la RYuere entre les altres Englat;Ts chacaunt [sive _•ehas. chaunt, vcl chacaunt] les suist

gist, MS'S. gall.

pise

Rk ardus Rex: 205 pise grete were alle taken, &Per knSrghtes 'Pam iii; ' . ' Makade held pam, waken, & tok of Pam tuenti. Pe prisons be had in ward; foi lie was gode & trewe: • Now turns king R. to se his lond.Anjowe. ' Self pis ilk time bifore or afteriard, . ' 4 knowe .no.niore to rime of dedes of king R. Who so wile his decks alle pc soth se, Pe romance Pat men redes Per is the propirte. pis pat I Lai said it is Pers sawe, 4.1s be in romance laid, per after gan I drawe.

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THE fcrth dair.formest next Palmesonendai, Pe tS/me as I gest,. R. Bede to play Pcirgh a cnntre, men'calle it.Lirmosin, De morte

iticardi

Pe caste ple manaced lie Pat Philip had Per in. • bali. per oterium,

R. Corn ouer nere, Pe castelle toitspie, Pat sank an alblastere, a quareile lete he flie, & smote him in pe schank, for pat stroke, allas! It biganio rank, Pe 'querelle envenomed was. Siren on nient dap died king Rickard, He ligges at an abbak men calle Founz Ebrard. He regned then zere, & sex monethes mo, Maugre Pe alblastere; pat pus R. gan slo. . i wene it hate Chahalouns, or it hate Galiard, Ouper pe castelle or pe loan, Per smyten was IL A thousand & a hundred Pe date nienti & lien, Pat R. fro vs hundred, dede he was with pine. se. c...

xe. Ir.

Now

206'

Johannes Rex. Now is king R. dede, & laid in stone; Non heire was afterward, bot his broiler Jon. His broiler erle Geffrek right heire felle to be, (Bot after R. day Jon tok Pe dignite Or Arthure his a sonne,) if he had had his lif. Bot Jon was Ix enchesonne, & moucd per a strif. Tiling here we say, Pat Jon wille wedded be, Pe erle of Aquilejr his douhter takes he, Elizabeth Ile gent, fair lady was sche, Tuo sons of per descent, tuo douhters ladies fre.

Johannes THE Ersbisshop Hubert of Canterbire Pe se Rex cora-nper

atuHs esuh

ter-

Corn with gode hert, to dope solempnite. tuna Arehi- episeopum

At WestmSrnster, Porgh assent of erle & baroun, •

Cautuarite- 1 To Pat I ore ment Hubert gaf Pe coroun, & enOnted he was als lOngporgh resoun. Jon did ay trespas, men fond, in him enchesoun, He lyued in wo & strife, & in tribulacioun. He was of licherous life, porgh what his nacionn Partie agein him ches, & wild haf born him dour. Normundie he Ids at his confusioun, In pe courte of France he was call a feloun For Arthure dede Pat chance, his broiler sonne Geffroun, Eric was of Bretajrn, Pat to Pis lond had right Tor to baf Bien cheflairn. If Jon his dede had dight lily mister nouht he wrote, to write he Inc forbede.

rt NoPeles wele I wok., siPen Pe child was dale,

1 Id est, GetFrey's. 1 A oue [sive Oufj grant detio. Johon le fiz Richard ad done cioun, MSS. Gall.

Jolt la corolla, Enokut est en Reis

. Johannes Rex. 207

Jon bad right Pernik, Pe lond to haf in ward. Pat Arthur suld bi skille haf Bien heire next Richard: Arthure sister sing for dole Pat maiden suete For sorow scho mad ending, hir name was Margarete.

NOW Pe bode is gon to France, Arthure is dede, & somond haf Pei Jon, to Philip courte him dede, To tak his Jugement of pat ' felonse, His dede to him pei went, Arthur's Pe Bretainie. Jon dred pat wending, to France wild he nouht, Wherfor Philip Pe king oii londes soulit, Tolouse & Tolousan seised & Normundie, Jorgh slauhter of pat man Jon les pat seignorie. What dos ke king of France? atires him gode nauie Tille Inglond, ochance to wynne it with maistrie. He wend haf wonnelis loud as he did Tolousan, Pe cuntre sone he fond in his ben', red ran. pe 1Valsch & oiler *now, with ixim of Peuenese, Pe Frankis men pei slow, Philip was fain to fle.

NOW is Philip fled, here wan he bole lite, & Jon Northward him sped, his fond for to visite. Unto Scotlond he sent after king William, To Lincoln William *rent, & Jon agein him cam, Withoute Pe toun a mile, & in Pe wintertide, Pe day of Saint Cecile per parties gun abide. Homage he did him suere, & feaute in fere, Pat faith he suld him bere, at alle his powere.

' L. felonie. Bake

908 Johannes Rex. Boke per was non fette, ne non per after fore, Hubert his croice doun sette, & William Peron snore. pis is Pe same Hubert, pat pe saw of nam, pat trrnslate S. Gilbert in pe hous of SemOngham.

De morte Now Hubert is dede our Sire, & to God is gon, Roberti, & electione conventus, & minaci- one Regis amid con- ventum & nrchicpi-

Pe Prioure of Canterbire sendes to king Jon, Bisouht him of kue, to mak eleccion, To chese Pe suld cheue aman of gode renoun. Jon wrote to pe couent, bisouht pain alle holjrche,

Ilcopum. pat Pei wille make present to pe bisshop of Norwyche. Of som he had grantise his wille forto do, & som said operwise, Pat it suld not be so. Alle pe priour side pe suppriour Pei ches, Oiler for enuie & pride Pe voice of many he Ics. pc priour said, " pis day pe,suppriour chese we, pe toper side said, " 'lair, Pe kjrnge's praier salle be. With him of Norwiche grete partie gan hald, Wherfor boPe holyche to Rome Pe parties cald. Monkes fourtene with him of Norwyche held, In a voice alle bidene unto Pe king Pe teld, & snore him in leaute, how so euer bitid, Norwyche he suld be Ersbisshop sacrid. Pise monkcs stoute & stark, to spede wele Pei wend,. Fe king Pre hundreth mark gaf Pam forto spend.

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Johannes Ran. 209

Now er Pei alle on gate, unto pe conrte Pei cam, Election porgh bate it falles to no fram. To Pe pape of Rome pei mostred Per resoun, Pe pape at his dome Per elites quassed doun, Eft he bad imm chose a man of gode renoun,

pei suld Per voiceiese of alle per eleccioun. .Or Now is per voice alle laid to Norwiche partie, Difor pe pape pei said, Norwiche is most worPie. Pe pape wild not consent, he quassed per elite. Pe monkes alle were schent, suspended pain als cite. Pe pape pei (elle biforn, mercy gan him crie, Unto lie king Pe suorn, to mainten his partie. Pe pape lam assoled, & set !Yam vp at des, So pei were conseiled, of Langton Steven Pei dies. Pise monkes were dismaied for Steucn of Langton, Pe pape per of was paied, mad pe confirmacion. Master Steuen of Latigtone ErsOissliop salle be, Pe king casten (loon. who was wroth bot he ?

• %VIIAN Pe king vnderstod, Pat his clerk was forsaken, For soth Pan was be wode, & maister Steam taken. Pe clergie of Pat schire so euelle he Pain led,

De feritate Pe monkes of Canterbire fro per cloisters I,am fled, Johanuia.

& gaf it to Brabans pe cloister in kepkng. Porgh conseil of Sathans wrouht per Jon Pe king, Pe pape sauh out of cours Pe wikkednes of Jon, Him & his fautours be cursed nerilkon, & enterdited pis iond, Pat messe was non said, • A ded man if men fond, in kirke nerd was non laid.

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Johannes Rex.

He was a fole of lif, & vsed lichorie, Both makden & wif alle wild he ligge bie.

De Anglia int-rdieta What did pe baronage & burgeis of Cite ? & Rege ex-ennnuni- cato.

Distroied & did outrage of castelle, toun & fe. About Pei gan him chace, & hunted him als hire, Long had he no space to duffle no wele fare. blank men of his kynde sauh him so abaucd, Tor him Pei fauht with mknde, & oft so was he sailed.

otftwergut. r

ALS Pis wo was lastand in curskng perilouse, King William of Scotland did his douliter spouse . To pe erle of Bolokn, & whan Jon it wist, Withouten any essokn, North alle gate him list.

• Son he wan Berwik, a castdlle he poidit to reise, He cast Pe groundwalle Pik, his folk he pouh Per eise. William he poulit to greue, for J)at grete despite, pat he withouten leue, his douhter gaf marite. Edenburgh & Rokesburgii vp pat he asked quite, .. & his senile Alisandere for ostage.geld him tite. hot pe kyng William alle pis ageknsaid, In conaunt pat pei nam with pcs alle was it laid.

1 Of William has Jon Pe pris, toward Iv South lie droull, & rennes on his eniqs, & dos Pam schaine inouh,

De llar. nte

colia regili & his enmks on him, & destroSred alle his fez,

& baro- nwn. Ilk . one tille oiler were grim porgh tonnes and citez.

So pat holy kirke, & alle pe ordinez, & hisshop wo he wike, & clerkes of dignitez : ii fel rene Pam prouendes, porgh power pat pci haue, & no man Pam defendes, no wille pam help no sane.

I Of

Johannes Rex. 211

11 Oft was Pe pleynt mad vnto pe pape. Pe manfcsours ateint, & cursed oiler Pe nape. )e pape of Per erroure had tittle grete pite, Ile sent to per socoure tuo legates ouer Pe se. A t Douere Pei gan ariue, Pandolf & Durand, To London gait Pei drive, Pe barons Per Pei fend, porgh Pandolf preching per werre was brouht tulle ende. Pe barons & pe king were mad felauhes & frendes, Asoiled & elle on euen, bot pe king an oth snore, He suld him venge on Steven, wliider so ewer he fore, & of Fo fourtene monkes, where men mot pun finde, Be beten alle fonkes or in prison Jam binde,

t Pandolf & Durand did corn forth pe Ersbisshop, De pace & pe monkes forp Pei fluid, Jon said, Pei suld hedeles hop. Per legator,

Pandolf proued Pe king, in his disputeson, Ile maintend wrongfulle ping, & wild to no reson. Ile proued Porh wisdam in ilk manere cas, • ',at pe 14ng misnam, & did grete trespas. • Alle gate pe king he pesed, so Pat pc werre was ent, & ilk a clerke scsed agein to haf his rent. Pandolf tok his leue, & to Rome went, I trove on him gan cleue mani riche present. Now is Pandolf gone, & Steuen Ersbisshop es, Assoiles king Jone of alle his wikkednes. Jon has sonnes tuo bi Elizabeth pe quene, & tuo doubters also, fairere were non sene.

De filiis & filiabus Regis.

Irenri was eldest, heSTre off' alle his ling, & Richard 3ongest, of Amin chosen king.

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212 Johannes Rex.

Isabelle fair as floure, Pat newer childe had, Frederik Pe Eroperour Emperice home hir lad.

De rnorte Jobannis.

pe erle of Lekestre pe toiler weddid here, & Jon regned in pis estre kyng aubten 3ere. At Pe abbak of St4nesheued per he drank poS7soni At ' Ilauhe his lif he hued, so s4 men of Pat town.

M•. extent s in.. A Pousand & tuo hundred Pe date was & sextette,

Ills tirtne was alle forwondred, & endid alle with terse.

1(12rusicus

coronatus L.A.

AT I WestmSrnstere ewers es Jon laid solempuelir, pe Ersbisshop Stcucn corouncd his sonnc henry, A gode man alto his 4rtte, of pouer men had mercie, Clerkes Pat wild prjme, attanced pain richelie :

What he' says here about Prodhorne fu touz jours, des King John's dying at Naugle pouers aueSi: mercy, Plus ama (which is in Cakeworth hun- seinte Egleyse qe nul I-1e5r dyed in Lincolnshire) is very deuaunt ly. Clers ke chaunter- remarkable, and contrary to ent bien stint tost euricl4r. other Historians, who make.. Eglkses & prouandes ne sunt him die in the castle of New esparnS7, Ke Clerk de la de- ark. But it seems Robert of Brunne (for 'Us apt in the

pole nait porcioun par nik, in the 1l MS. of the Heralds of..

French) had it from tradition ) lice. But in oneof Mr. Anstis's the people of Haughe talking Copies we have, home lem pok frequently of it in his time. sonay t, Egista Wyrcestra and 'It should be rather Worcester, as it is in otherllistorians, and

a little after, plus ama seyntEg- lises, and after that, Eglises

indeed in the French Peter de ne prouaudres. Which ra- Langtoft. En labbeSie de sic:lions are not of so much SwYnheued homnenpusona5rt, .I1 gist a Wircestre, it memos le volait. Ore est le ReS, Jon

consequence as those in the other of Mr. Anstis's Copies, where the wholepassageisread

Thor() e senel5re Lerceuesqe thus : Al Abb4e de la S w57ne• Esteuen ad coroune Ifenr5r. hewed home lenponsonait, II

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Henricus tertius Rex. Kirkes wild he dole prouendis Pat wer worpie, • To clerkes of his chapele, pat wele coup sing & hie.

HENRY king our prince at Westminster kirke Pe erlfrs doubter of Prouince, Pe fairest maSt o lif, Hir name is Helianore, of ' gentille norture, Bisond Pe se Pat wore was non suilk creature. In Inglond is sche corouned at lady', gent, Tuo sonncs, tuo doubteres fre Jhesus has Pam lent, Edward & Edmunde, knight gode in stoure, Of Laicestre a stounde was Edmunde erie & floure. Vnto pe Scottis king was married Margarete, Of BretaSra Beatrice Sing Pe erle had pat maiden suete. _Fake is pe werk & hie in London at Westminster kirke, Pat pe king Henrie of his tresore did wirke. Grace God gaf bim here, Pis lond to kcpe long space, Sex & $ fiftk pre withouten werry in grace; Hot sone afterward failed him Owere, Bot his sonne Edward was his conseilere. Our qucne Pat was Pen dame Helianore his wife, pe gode erle of Warenne 3 Sir Hugh was jinn olife,

gist a Wilecester, it meme le chapelayns et clers de la re.. volait. uestery. Clers ke chauntent

Anno Domini M. cc. xii. ben sunt tost en richi. Egli.. Ore est le Ray Job snort, ses et prouendes ne sunt pas

Pt en senely Lerceueske E. steuene ad corounet Henri.

esparny, Ke clerk de la ha., pele nad porcioun par my.

Prodhome lust tuz Jesus, de ' De gentyl parente MSS. pouers auait mercy, Plus Gall. a &Wilts, fourty, cum ama seint eglise ke nul Rays Codd. Gall. ; Sire Huge deuaunt ly. Deus en sa dia. lespeuser AlISS. Gall. pele fu noblement seruk) Par P 3 Sir ,

213

214 Henricus tertius Rex.

Sir William of Valence, Sir Roger Mortimere, Jon Mauncelle Pe clerke, & an crle Richere, & oiler knightes inowe of bi iond Pe se, To Pe king drove, auanced wild Pei be. Edward suffred wele, his fadere 'hat' his wille, Pe barons neuer a dele said Pe king did ille, Aliens to auaunce wiper in lond or rent. To mak disturbaunce Pci held a parlement. Of Pe aliens ilk taile pe lond voided dere, Of Pe king & his consaile Pei sent a messetagere. pe' king sent pam ageSql, his barons alie pei grette, At Oxenford certein Pe day of parlement sette.

AT Pis parlement rested pat distaunce, For per was it ent, aliens to auaunce. Pe kinge's state here paires, porgli conseil of baroun, To him & his heires grete disheriteson. Of wardes & relefe Pat barons of him held, per ne was ore of chefe, tille him no Ping suld Geld; & oiler pat held of pam, per pe king tulle be vatic; Nouht of Pat suld claim of all Pat seignorie. Tine ilk a lording suld ward & relefe falle, 13ot tille lie king no ping, he was forbarred alle. Pe king permitted nouht of pat ilk desceit, Pe chartre was forth broulit with wittaes euseled streit.

Ps ' Le Reis les respount, [yet, droyt] a Oxenforde la parle-

Le Rays pur respouns] jour menter, [yel, a Oxenford v toot les fet donor, Tut drait [yell parlementer,] MSS. Gall.

* Ne

Henricus terlius Rex. 215 ' Ne no men pat were strange in courte suld haf no might, Ne office to do no chance withouten Pe comon sight. pis Pei did him snore, als he was kYng & knight, pat oth suld he were, & maYnten wele Pat right.

THE king was holden hard, Porgh Pat he had suorn, • His frendes afterward, po pat were next born,

Pe coal to him & said, " Sir, we se pin ille, ‘c pi lordschip is doun laid, & led at °Per wille. 44 We se Pis ilk erroure nouht you vnderstode. 44 It is a disbonoure to pe & to pi Wale, 46 you has so bonden pe, Pei lede Pe ilk a dole. " At Per wille salle Pon be, Sir, we se it wele, " Calle ageYn Pin oth, clrede Pou no manace, cc Nouper of lefe ne loth, Pi lordschip to purchace, 44 Pou may fulle lightly haf absolutioun, " For it was a gilerY, Pou knew not Per tresoun. 44 you has frendis inowe in Eglond & in France, t4 If you turne to Pe rove, Pei salle drede 1)e chance.

I pe king listned Pe sawe, at Pat consail wild do, pe barons had grete awe, whan Pei wist he wild so,

Barones miserunt pro s5r- alone de •

1 Et qe nul estraunge en the other of his Copies the pas- ford ni on te court eyt pussaunce, Ne qe sage is read thus: Ke nut le Rey saunz els de tere nul auaunce, Ne mette en baylle

aliens en curt eust pussaunce, Si noun par assent de commun

saunz lour ordinaunce, in the volkaunce. Et lee la Rays French MS. of the heralds Office. And so also in one of

apres de terres nul auaunce, Si Englays ne sait et de la

111r.4nstis's Copieslunless it be that it bath ey for eyt; but in

nessaance. a Dele.

r 4

Pei

216 Henricus tertius Rex. Pei tok & sent Per sond after Sir Symoun. Pe Mountfort out of lond was, whan pis was don.

•

A message Pei him sent, pe Mountfort son home cam, pe barons witl► on assent to Sir Simon pei nam. pei told him Pe processe of alle per comon salve, & he as fole alle fresse fulle eth per to to drawe. Withouten his conseile, or Pe kynge's witting, To maynten Per tirpeile he suore agein pe king, Pe statute for to hold in werre & in pes, Pe pointes pat Pei him told, perfor his life he les. Ilardely dar I say he did a perte folic, Als wis men pis wag, here ferst pe toper partic.

De guerra inter regem

SIR Simon was hastif, his sonnes & Pe barons & barons Sone pei reised strif, brent Pe kinge's tonnes, & de Mounfort. & his castels tok, held Pam in Per bandoun.

On hislondes Pei schok, & robbed vp & doun. po Pat Per purueiance of Oxen►'ord not held, With scheld & with lance fend him in Pe feld. In alle is barettepe king & Sir Simon Tille a Joking Pam sette, of pe prince suld it be don. An oth suore Pei Pare, to stand to Pe ordinance, Oucr pe se to fare bifor Philip of France, At his dome suld it be, withoutp refusing• Per for went over pe se Sir Henri our king. Pe•quene wild not duelle, to pe king gan hir hie. pus mk boke gan tclle, scho tok grcte vilanie Of Pe Londreis allc, whan scho of London went. %Vhi pat it suld falle I ne wote what it runt ;

Bot

Henricus tertius Rex. 217

Bot whan Pe king of France had knowen certeinli, Pat Pe purueiance disherite king Henri, He quassed it ilk dcle porgh jugement. Pe king was paled wele, & home to Ingloud went. Whan Sir Simon wist2 Pe dome agein pain gon, His felonie forth thrist, samned his men ilkon, Displaied his banere, lift NT his dragoon, Sone salle ge here pe folic of Simoun.

THE crle did mak a chare at London porgli gileri, Himself per in suld fare, & scke be wend to li.

De hello apud Leas.

Sexti pousand of London armed men fulle stoute To pe chare were fondon, to kepe it wele for doute. per pe bataile suld be, to Leans 'xi gan Pam alie, Pe king & his mein were in Pe priorie. Symoun corn to Pe fell, & put vp his banere, Pe king schcwed forth his scheld,, his dragon fulle austere. Pe king said on-hie, " ,Slizon Teo vous defie ; Edward was hardie, pc Londres gan he aserie. He smote in alle pe route, & sesid him pc chare, Disconfited alle aboute Pe Londreis Pat Per ware. Edward wend welc hat' fondon pe erle per in, Disequed ilk a dole, he went & might not win. Towhille Sir Edward was aboute pe chare to take, Pe kinge's side, alias! Simoun did doun schake. Unto pe kknge's partie Edward turned tite, Pan had Fe erle Pe maistrie, pe kin; was disconfite. Pe snth to say & chese, pc cline's gilerie Did Sii Edward lese Pat daj, Pe maistrie.

Fe

218 Henricus tertius Rer. i , •

Pe ' fourtcnd day of May pe batail of Leans was A pousand & tut) hundreth sexti & foure in pas.

Rex Al- marmite captus e‘t,

multi alii.

¶ Ile kyng of AlmaYn was taken to prisoun, Of Scotlond Jon Comyn was left in a donjoun. pe erle of Warenne, I wote, he scaped ouer Pe se, & Sir Hugh Bigote als with Pe erte fled he. Malik faire ladle lese hir lord Pat clay, & many gode bodie slain at Leans lay. fie numbre non wrote, for telle Fain mot no man, Bot he pat alle wote, & alle ping ses & can. Edward, Pat was sing, with his °wen rede, Tor his fader Pe king himself to prison bede. For pe king of Almaku his neuow was ostage, In prison nere a pre was Edward in cage.

' Others say the 12th. of by them of the kynges partes May. See Stowe's Annals, pug. 194. Ed. fol. But not J o

began to drawe backe. But the barons incurrag.

rightly,as hake it. See Dug. ed theyr men in suche wyse dale's Baronage, Tome I. that they nat onely set vpon p.408. Rastall says in his them with fresshe men 1 but Chronicle, that it was fought incurraged so them that gaue

The ha- the 23d. of .1114.—And than backe I that they turned a.. ten at Lcwys. (says 1w) the barons with a gayne & fought so fersly that

great multytnde of the citye of the kynges parte gaue backe I London I and with a great & the kyng lost the fylde. boost of other people came where the kyng hym selfe agaynst the kynge—betwene & the kyng of Romayns & whome the. xxiii. day of lay of Edwarde the kynges son was fought a maruelous cruell were takyn prisoners & many battell at Lewys I and the Lon_ other mo I and. xx. M. men loners that gaue the fyrst as. slayne for this battell conty- sent I by reason of the sharpe nued the more part of the shot of Arowes & strokes gyuen day. 2 .Pra;fige, 4.

Aboute


Aboute with Sir Simoun Pe king went pat pre, Cite, castelle & toun alle was in Pe crle's dangere. It was oda day Edward pouht a wile, He said he wild asai Per hors alle in a mile. He asaied pain bi & bi, & retreied Pam ilkone, Edwardus

evasit de & stoned Pam alle werk, standand stile as stone. earcere

Ilerfordim; 'A suyft stede per was a lady eider sent, Et de eve •

hone ejus. Edward knowe his pas, Pe last of alle him heat, Asaied him vp & dour') stqftest he was of alle. pat kept him in prisoun, Edward did him calk, " Allister haf gode day, soiorne wille no more, " I salle sit, if I may my soiorne, tranaile sore. Pe stede he had asaicd, & knew pat lie was gode, In to Pe watere he straied, & passed wele Pat flode.

II Whan Edward was oucre graciously & wele, He hoped haf recoucre at Wigcmore castele. Edward is wisely of prison scaped cute, Fclaus he fond redk, & mad his partie stoute. pc cries sonnes wer hautejtn, did many folic dede, pat told a kitSrglit certeirn to Fe crle ale poi boj'e gode.

THE erle Bede on a day, to pla)., him with a knight, & asked hint on his plajr, " what haf I be sight?

Fcce die_ t um militia ad comitem

' Fe knightknightansuerd & said, " in zow a faute men qnde, c, & is an ille vpbraid, Pat 3c ere nerc blyndc.

de Shia.

Pc erle said, " nay perde, I may se right wele. Pe knight said, C6 Sir nai') 3e v mitt is any dole. " For you has ilk sonnes, foles & vuwise, " per does you not mones, ne nouht wile pain chastise.

"I

220 Ilenricns tertius Rex. " I rede P011 gyve Bode tent, & chastise pam sone, • " For pam ze may be schent, for vengeance is granted bone. Pe erie ansuerd nouht, he lete pat word ouer go, No ping per on he poulit, tulle vengeance felle on po. Euer were his sonnes hantein, & bold for Per partie, Bope to knight & suekn did Pei vilanic. For lefe ne for loth, folic wild pei not spare, Wherfor wex with Pam wroth Sir Gilbert of Clare. Sir Gilbert herd say of per dedes ille, Of non Pe had ai to stint ne hold Pam stille. Per of Edward herd say, pat Gilberd turned his wile, To Gilbert tok his way, his luf to tak & tile. Sone Pei were at one, with wille at on assent His luf fro Munfort gon Itelle Simon for schent. Treuth togidere Pei plight Edward & Gilbert, Agein Simon to fight, for. ouht pat mot be herd.

De finis Mercy suld non haue Simon no his sonnes, Syrnonis & stultitia eo- No raunson suld Pam sane for`doute of dredc eftsones. trilotintunP.er Schent is ilk baroun, now Gilbert turns grim,

pe Mountfort Sir Simoun most allied oil him. " Alias I Sir Gilbert you turned pin oth, " At Striuelkn men it herd, how God per for was wroth.

THE erie sonnes vp & doun Of parties mad pei bost, Towhils at Northamptoun pise kynges gadred ost. Simon sonnes it left, to Killingworth Pei went, & Per pe soiorned eft, Per iloterie pam schent. Suilk ribaudie pei led, Pei gaf no tale of wham, Towhils Sir Edward bad seisid alle Euesham.

1 pe


If Pe fift day it was after Lammesse tide, De hello de

& writen is in pat pas, at Enesham gan Pei ride. per tot m um

In IT alder next Pat Pe bataik was of Leans, lege..

pe ginning of heruest, as pe stori, scheawes, Corn Simon to fold, & Pat was maugre his, Or euer he lift his sell*, his wist it zed amps. He was on his stede, displaicd his banere, He sauh pat treson gede, doun went his powere. He sauh Sir Edward ride, batailcd him ageim, Gloucestre pe toper side, Pan wist pe erle certOn, His side suld doun falle, title his lie said sone : 44 God haf our sautes alto, our d4es ere alle done, Edward first in rode, & perced alle Pe pros. po Pat him abode per lkues alle Pei les. He mad his fader quite of prison per lie 14,, Deliuerd him ais tite with dint of suerd Pat day. Hard was Pat bataile, & oucr grete Ix folic, So scharply gan Pai assaile, so mykille folk gan die. Stoutly was Pat stoure, long lastand pat fight, Pe day lost his coloure, & mirk was as Pe night. Pe lif of mink man Pat ilk d14 was Torn, Po pat it first bigan wrotherhaile tier poi born.

NOW is Pe bataile smSrten, Sir Simon is Per slain, His sonnes, als ge wilco, died on pat plain. His membres of Pei schare, & bare jam to present Sir Hugh Despenser, pare als he to dede went. Sir Rauf pe gode Basset did Per his ending, Sir Pers of Mountfort fit his dede at Pat samenSrng.

Sir

222 Henricus terlim* Rex.

Sir Guy Baliol died Pore a song knkght & hardy, lie was plekned more Pan oiler tuentk. ' Pise & many mo died in Pat stoure, pe kkng may sauelk go, & maynten his honour. Pris Pan has pe sonne, Pe fadere maistric, per went Northampton, so wild kkng Henri°.

• AT Pe parlement was flemed barons fele, Pe countas of Leicestre, hir sonnes wild no man spele.

De pasha- mento alma

Oiler lordes inowe of cries & barouns, Northam- ptoniam. To Pe wod som drowe, & som left in prisouns.

To say longly or schorte, alle aimes bare. ' Almerik or Mountfort depriued was pare, & Pe tresorie, pat he had in kepkng,

• & gaf pat ilk bailie tor pe Mortimerc sonne sing. DeOctoho- 1 me legato.

A legate Ottobon Pe pape hider sent, To mak pe barons on porgh his prechement. pe gum corn out of France, & with hir alle Po, pat for pe puruciance were exild to go, Saue Jon Pe Maunselle, he died bi7sond Pe se, Als chance for him felle, Pe toper welcom be.

A'. Ne• II collo. r.xve.

A thousand & tuo hundred, & sex & sextil Pat Pat er fled & sundred Po rise agekn Henri. For after Iv takyng of Kiljrngworth castelle, pe flemed ageSrn pc kyng ros eft fulle rcbelle.

' Emerike de Mountfort Seint Pere, de Euerwik nomez, sloges fu pr5ruez De la tresorj,e, Als fiz le Mort5rmer le Rey lad donut fust.estallez En legISrse donez, MSS. Gall. •

For

Henricus tertius Re.r. 223 For Pe men pat were fled disherited of per londes, To purches pain pei sped, now ilk of Pam so fondes. Robert of Ferers he robbed boPe & slouh Bi night in stede sers, & tille his fetawes draft'. Of pam was per .non Pat lufed king Henri, To Chestrefeld ilkon Pe coin vngratiousli. Pp king did Pam spie with gode men of renoun, Com offPara prinelie, assailed Pam in pe toun. Pe barons fault agekn, Pei wist of no socoure, Many, of pam wer slain, & som passed at honour. pat was Pe gode Deiuile, he did wele his deuere, pat stoure he held a while, & passed quite & clere.

I In Pe moning eft bigan a new stoure, Robert Fcrers Per left, Baudewyn Pe vauasoure Lord of Chestrefeld, Pise might not lightly Ile. Per side alle doun held, taken were per 'mine. Robert Wollerton, I trowe for som trespas, He had grete renoun, on Kene'hanged he was.

I pis douhti Deinile his name was Sir Jon, Of Axbolm to pe Ile he scaped himself alon. For to robbe & reue, Per he held his haunt, He wild spare ne leue burgeis no merchaunt. & whan he dred hint ouht, for onercoming of mo Toward pe South he souht, als be were non of Po, Bot as a passand man, felawes forto seke, So often away he wan, & vmwhilo chckc bi chckc. pus did Pe Minile more Pan haf a zere, & gadred him pat while inouh of powere.

Whan

9.2t Henricus terliui Rex.

11 Whan 'Pei wer inowe, on whilk Pei mot afie, De rapaci- To Lyncoln Pei drowe, & per Pei suld relie. tate Judeis-mi aptid Pe tuelft day of Aprile, Whan Per powere was grete, LIIICOI• slam. & went alle at o wile, in to Lyncoln Pei schete.

porghout pe Juerk pei robbed pam & slouh, pe cofres with tresork pe broken & Pc awejr drouh. Pe chartres & Pe scris Pat noied Cristen men, pat lay for vsure in pris clleuen als for ten, Were caster in fire & brent in podels vilairtiljr, Of Jues slajrn & schent a hundred & scxty.

11 Whan Sir Edward herd, Pat pei had Lyncoln takeh, & Pe Juerie misferd, Per tresorie ouerschaken, Be sped him eider in haste, with hilled hors of pris, He com & fond alle waste, away were pc enmks, Pei went to Pe ilde of Helk vnto Sii Hugh Pecche) Pei manned Pam so boldeljr, on Pam had non entre. Edward lete not welt, Pat he with Pam not mettc, To Kiljrngworth castele he went, Pe sege to sette. Fro Midsomeretide to Pe Apostle S. Thomas pc fled ma5,ntestd per side, Pe castelle holden was. For alle Pat eider went, Sir Edward & ilkon,

Untille Pe pape sent his legate Ottobon. Whan Pis legate was comen, of som be was bisoulit, In forward out Pei women, els wild Pei noulit. Sir Henry of Hastjrng he zald it bi his wille, Ouer alle mailer ping life & Iymmes haf stille, & alle per tresorie, Pat Perin iv'as fonden, Withouten vilenie vnto Pe pes benden.

pis

Heriricits tertius Rai. 225

Pis legate Ottobone mad a cursyng hard Of Pam euerilkone, pat brak Pat afterward; & som of per heYres so hard charged wore, &git many it pekres, & som has sailed sore.

If Pan went pis Ottobone Porghout pe cuntre, & quaYnted him with ilkone, leveed & ordine, & many of Pam wer mendid of folies porgh his dome, & he pe better spendid als he went to Rome.

SIR Edward vnto pe ilde he went of fIelk, With many man fulle wilde to bataile redy. Edward alle aboute he spied in to ride, With in had Pei no doute, defendid on ilk side. So ageirn Edward Pei held it half a pre, Pei sauh Pe sege so bard, Pei sent a messcngcrc, pei ilde forto gelde at his oven bidding, If he Pam saue wilde.ageyn Henry our king. Edward was curteYs, & ram fulle of mercy, With hors & herneys he went to king Mark.

I Right in alle Pis fare wex an euel chek, Ageyn Gilbert of Clare Pe king was in contek. Sir Edward was witnes, whi pe wrath suld be, Bot git to me it es forsoth als priuete. Pe men pat were in pe ilde of Pis contek herd, Ile conseiled Pam a while, & siPen to London ferd To Gilbert of Clare, & maYntend his powere. With him bileft Pei pare a quarter of a gere. Men in pert it kast, pat were of gode avis, It m ight not long last suilk werre & vartis,

Vol. I. re

226 Henricus tertius, Rex.. pe partis conseile hent, messengers pei cues, Unto pe king pei sent, for a finalle pes. At Pe last right nede, posed beboned it be, So pat ilk man zede with pes to his cuntre.

-El xaDWARD als so quik toward pe North him sped, Pe castclle of Alnewik he tok, & with him led Pe gode lord Vesck, pat was so trew a knight, To kcpe pat seignork he tok title on pat might.

' Sir Edward com to London, per was his fader Henry. Oirknes lie felle to grounds, & praied for the Vesq. Pe king was fulls curtcis, forgaf him ilk a dole, Pe lord of Kilyngworth als Pat time sped wele. His body did Pe saue withouten prisoun, His londes forto bane, he gaf pc kyng raunson.

'

It Right als Pis m erre was ent, & Pe loud in state, Pe pape his bugle sent hider vnto Pe legate, & comanded him to preche.Porgh alle pe lond, -pe Sarazins do grete wreche, pe Cristen for to schond. Unto Pe king of France was sent an oiler legate, Pat teld him of Pat chance, whan Lowys herd of pate Himself Pe first was croised oil his ulessh. .Porto wend pat pas, his wille was euer fressh, Sir IlenrS, of is loud was Pt ilk wine, His spnne Per to him bond, his fader mot leue stille, Sir Edward toke.pe croice, for his fader to go,

. Jhesu you grant him velce, to venge hini on Pi fo. Anno ne. co..

A pousand tuo hundred mo, & sexti & ten, ime. Sir Edward forto go he padres him douhtk men,

The

lIenricus tertius Rex. 227

THE next Letenes tide Sir Lows went his way, No langere wild be bide, for ping at men mot sag, With cries & barouns, with kngghtes gode of plight, Als suilk prince of renoun felle to haf porgh right. He hied him fulle are toward Pe Grekis se, Pank God his gode fare, •whan he schipped suld be. • Withouten any hime•pe wgnde gan him driuc • Untille Pe lond of ' time, & per lie gan vp ariue.

. Pe Sarazins to destroie fulle nobillg he gan, Pe Cristendam mot it noie Pe dede of suilk a mane s Long dured he !Ionia, sipen Bot Pat God wille haf wroulit

he comen was, els his dede, alias!

THE next heruest folowand Edward was fulle pre, Bi Rome he went Pat land, with pe pape spak he pare. SiPen in Cezile alle pe wgntere he lag, Fe somer com in a while, & he went On his wag, In pe se sailand to 3 time, & whan he corn to lond

Iter arri. puit N e ts ns terrain sanctum.

TiPing com him vntime, Sir Lows dede he fond. Per duelled he no more, title Acres went our king, Pc Cristen pat per wore wer fain of his coming. Grete folk of Frisland, Pat to Acres were corner), Title him Pei were willand, for lord Pei alle him nomen. Pe oste was sprede fulle wide, about Acres pat lag, Alle paemie pat tide was in grete affray. •

. ' Sic MS. Rectius, Tune, (i.e. termina3:-t, MSS. Gall. 3 Sic

Tunes, sloe Thounes, ut in et' ant 4 hoc loco 3IS. nostr. Codd. Gall.) i Mout fa grant Angl. at Tune Fotius legend. damage, qe viuer ne pea5rt, Mort le grist, alias ! sa vie

Nam. Tunes sloe Toms in Codd. Gall.

Of

2S Ilenricus kraus Rex. •Of men of armes bold pe numbre Pei ame, A thousand & tuo hundred told of Cristen men bi name. 1 Pe load Pei suld haf wonne Porgh powere pat Pei had, Bot if treson had gonne, & porgh disccit bien lad. DISrkelle was pe dredc porgh out pacmic, Pat Cristendam at nede mot haf suilk clicualrie. pe Soudan was in wchere Pe Cristen had suilk oste, Sir Edwarde's powere ouer alle he dred moste, Fcrfor day & nkglit he was in grete studio, ' OE what manere he might Edward slo pore' spies

alcsle

is !,ea,,ulot

Cus TIER es a stale of wynne, Pei calle it haul assise,

now I itatis inter Sara-

Men norise childre Per tine, on merveilous wise, cenos, ubi custoditm-

Euer in joy & blisse, in alle pat Pei may do, •

ctt

titrm

pguaeurid io,

nee metuunt mortem,sed

pci wene it sidle newer misse, ne over dede corn to. Pei faire right als dos foles, Pei do as men Pam sag,

FCStimant salver ri-

pe childir of Po scoles, Pei piiik to 1Srue air. my. pe Soudan of Po in elopes of geld him clad,

Tille Edward suld be go, & do as pe Soudan bad. A letter Pis fole tok, bad him for nesslt or hard Peron suld no inaii-loke) bot only Sir Edward.

Envenomed knife he bare also priucly, pat non per of were ware, who so stod himilik., Bi Pain self alone in chambir suld Pei bel So bad Pe Soudone schewe him his priucte.

ii •

. ' La tere fu lour wa5rne lust la meschaunce, qe les par poet sawn desceit, Ne i encombrayt, Gallice. a Sic,

cc &

Ifenricus tertius Rex. 229

" & whan you sees leisere, Pat he ne pereeine pi witte, " With Pe knif him l to with Pe knife him to smite.

1 Comen is pe Sarazin to speke with Sir Edward, Clad in elopes fin, himself is a mosard. He said he wild speke with Pe king pritieli, De vulne- Conseile non. to broke, no tale it alle oil by. racione

Edwardi. Sir Edward granted wele, tille his chambre him brouht,

„ Of treson neuer a dole, no ping Per on he Pouht. Pe Ietter in his hand laid, enselid & in silke bounde, pe envenomed knife out braid, & gaf Edward a woundc. To, I wene, he lauht, als his Romance sais, A trestille Edward rauht, pat heal was of pais. pe Sarazin so he smote in Pe hede with pat treste, Pat brain & blode alle hote & igen alle out gan bre4t.

Now for Edward woundes pe Cristen ere sort, pat with in fo stoundes ere chalices fallen scili. His surgien him tolde, if he suld him saue, & his lif holde, reste behoued him bane. Pat was a mischance, Pat per hede doun Jay, & pe king of France died pat oker clak- A noper zit more stark, Pe pape pat time was dede, & Pe patriark pc legate liggis in laic. pe king of Nailer bight his help to Sir Edward, In Cecile Pe dede him (light, als he was Piderward. 2 To God his fader foundcs mad his testament, Sir Edward of his woundes was in grete tourment.

' Sic um spatio. vziodnans e Gallicis non colligo. 2 Sire veroverbum dcsitrernaculunt, Edward par ses plates est en

grant

230 Henricus lerlius Rex.

• After Pe Marqnmesse Pat he died here, He regned more ne Jesse Pan sex & fifty gere. At Westmknstere he lis toumbed richelk, In a marble bis of him is mad stork. Sen pat he was dede God has &chewed his life. Edward with his rede in his lyue tok a wife, in lqrnge's douhter of Spain da Helianore fulle sing. Of hir fairhede was fain Edward otir gong !Ong. In Acres of hir is born a maiden chide dame Jone, Was non fairer biforn of Inglis als scho one.

Anno. Ike. A pousand & tuo hundred Pe date sexti & tuelue CCIno• LINIM Sir Edward help is sundred,. o lyue is bot him seine.

ii Pe day of Saint Edmound, Pat martir ' is & king, De morte Sir Henry at Londonn in God mad his ending. Ilenrici Regis tertii. Pat time his sonne Edward was in paemie,

His chance felle Per so hard, Pat home bchoued him hie. For alle his help was de&1 als I said beforn, pis lond behoued haf hede, his heritage in born. Pe date of Criste pundred, Pes fele Beres to mene

Anno. A Pousand & tuo hundred sexti & fo ur. ene. 111°. cc°. Lune. grant torment, Le Rey Henry but then others (among whom

son pere ad fet soup testament. is Rastall)observe, that hediecl • Apres le seint Martin kaunt on the day of Saint Edmund

Mala4e luk prent, L. 8,-.. vi. archbishop of Canterbury, annz fu Reis enterement. 1i which is the 16th. of that gist a Wemonsteire en toumbe Month, andthis I look upon as

, [vel en toumbez ] ric-II hement, the truest account, notwith- Sachez ke dieu [vel dens] pur standing theformeris followed ly ouer apertement, MSS. (through mistake) by Dr. Gall. .,

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