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SCALACRONICA: 

BY  SIR  THOMAS  GRAY  OF  HETON,  KNIGHT. 

A  CHRONICLE 
OF   ENGLAND   AND    SCOTLAND 

FROM  A.D.  MLXVI  TO  A.D.  MCCCLXII. 

NOW  FIRST  PRINTED  FROM  THE  UNIQUE  MANUSCRIPT. 
WITH  AN  INTRODUCTION  AND  NOTES. 


EDINBURGH: 

PRINTED  FOR  THE   MAITLAND   CLUB. 
MDCCCXXXVI. 


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EDINBURGH  PRINTING  COMPANY. 


At  a  Meeting  of  the  Council  of  the  MAITLAND  CLUB, 
held  June  4,  1834, 

Resolved,  That  the  Chronicle,  of  which  a  unique  manuscript 
is  preserved  in  the  Library  of  Corpus  Christi  College,  Cambridge,  known 
as  the  Scalacronica,  be  printed  for  the  use  of  the  Members;  and  that 
Joseph  Stevenson,  Esquire,  be  entrusted  with  obtaining  a  correct 
transcript  of  the  Chronicle,  superintend  as  Editor  the  printing  of  it,  and 
supply  Preface,  Notes,  and  Indices,  in  terms  of  his  offer,  engrossed  in  the 
Minutes  of  the  Club. 

John  Smith,  Ygst.,  Secretary. 


THE    MAITLAND    CLUB. 

DECEMBER  M.DCCC.XXXV. 


THE    EARL    OF    GLASGOW, 
PRESIDENT. 


HIS  ROYAL  HIGHNESS  THE  DUKE  OF  SUSSEX. 

ROBERT  ADAM,  ESQ. 

JOHN  BAIN,  ESQ. 

ROBERT  BELL,  ESQ. 
5  SIR  DAVID  HUNTER  BLAIR,  BART. 

BERIAH  BOTFIELD,  ESQ. 

SIR  THOMAS  MACDOUGALL  BRISBANE,  K.C.B. 

WALTER  BUCHANAN,  ESQ. 

THE  MARQUIS  OF  BUTE. 
10  ALEXANDER  CAMPBELL,  ESQ. 

ARCHIBALD  CAMPBELL,  ESQ. 

LORD  JOHN  CAMPBELL. 

JOHN  DONALD  CARRICK,  ESQ. 

LORD  COCKBURN. 
15  JAMES  DENNISTOUN,  ESQ. 


JAMES  DOBIE,  ESQ. 

RICHARD  DUNCAN,  ESQ.  [Treasurer.] 

WILLIAM  JAMES  DUNCAN,  ESQ. 

JAMES  DUNLOP,  ESQ. 
20  JOHN  DUNLOP,  ESQ. 

JAMES  EWING,  ESQ. 

KIRKMAN  FINLAY,  ESQ. 

THE  REV.  WILLIAM  FLEMING,  D.D. 

WILLIAM  MALCOLM  FLEMING,  ESQ. 
25  JOHN  FULLERTON,  ESQ. 

JOHN  BLACK  GRACIE,  ESQ. 

RIGHT  HONOURABLE  THOMAS  GRENVILLE. 

JAMES  HILL,  ESQ. 

LAURENCE  HILL,  ESQ. 
30  GEORGE  HOUSTON,  ESQ. 

JAMES  IVORY,  ESQ. 

JOHN  KERR,  ESQ. 

ROBERT  ALEXANDER  KIDSTON,  ESQ. 

GEORGE  RITCHIE  KINLOCH,  ESQ. 
35  JOHN  GIBSON  LOCKHART,  ESQ. 

ALEXANDER  MACDONALD,  ESQ. 

WILLIAM  MACDOWALL,  ESQ.  [Vice  President.] 

THE  VERY  REV.  PRINCIPAL  MACFARLAN,  D.D. 

ANDREW  MACGEORGE,  ESQ. 
40  ALEXANDER  MACGRIGOR,  ESQ. 

DONALD  MACINTYRE,  ESQ. 

JOHN  WHITEFOORD  MACKENZIE,  ESQ. 

GEORGE  MACINTOSH,  ESQ. 

ALEXANDER  MACNEILL,  ESQ. 
45  JAMES  MAIDMENT,  ESQ. 

THOMAS  MAITLAND,  ESQ. 

WILLIAM  MEIKLEHAM,  ESQ. 

WILLIAM  HENRY  MILLER,  ESQ. 

WILLIAM  MURE,  ESQ. 


50  ALEXANDER  OSWALD,  ESQ. 

JOHN  MACMICKEN  PAGAN,  ESQ. 

WILLIAM  PATRICK,  ESQ. 

EDWARD  PIPER,  ESQ. 

ROBERT  PITCAIRN,  ESQ. 
55  JAMES  CORBET  PORTERFIELD,  ESQ. 

HAMILTON  PYPER,  ESQ. 

PHILIP  ANSTRUTHER  RAMSAY,  ESQ. 

JOHN  RICHARDSON,  ESQ. 

WILLIAM  ROBERTSON,  ESQ. 
60  ANDREW  RUTHERFURD,  ESQ. 

JAMES  SMITH,  ESQ. 

JOHN  SMITH,  ESQ. 

JOHN  SMITH,  YGST.  ESQ.  [Secretary.] 

WILLIAM  SMITH,   ESQ. 
65  MOSES  STEVEN,  ESQ. 

DUNCAN  STEWART,  ESQ. 

SIR  MICHAEL  SHAW  STEWART,  BART. 

SYLVESTER  DOUGLAS  STIRLING,  ESQ. 

JOHN  STRANG,  ESQ. 
70  THOMAS  THOMSON,  ESQ. 

WILLIAM  B.  D.  D.  TURNBULL,  ESQ. 

PATRICK  FRASER  TYTLER,  ESQ. 

ADAM  URQUHART,  ESQ. 

SIR  PATRICK  WALKER,  KNT. 
75  WILSON  DOBIE  WILSON,  ESQ. 


INTRODUCTION. 


Those  who  have  attempted  to  investigate  the  early  history  of 
Scotland,  at  almost  any  period  from  the  time  of  Malcolm  the 
Third  to  the  Union,  must  soon  have  experienced  the  melan- 
choly truth,  that  the  documents  upon  which  such  investigations 
ought  to  be  founded  are  neither  numerous  nor  satisfactory.  The 
Chronicles  of  Melrose  and  Holyrood,  the  works  of  Fordnn, 
Wyntown,  Barbour,  and  Bower,  are  indeed  the  only  credible 
histories  which  can  be  named  as  the  productions  of  Scottishmen; 
and  there  is  no  reason  to  believe  that  any  unknown  writings  of 
a  similar  nature  lie  hid  in  the  recesses  of  manuscript  libraries. 
The  English  Chronicles,  upon  the  whole,  present  a  body  of  mat- 
ter from  which  we  can  collect  more  important  materials  for  the 
general  history  of  Scotland,  and  are  entitled  to  much  credit,  if 
used  with  moderate  caution  in  those  parts  where  their  testimony 
is  likely  to  be  prejudiced.  The  Saxon  Chronicle,  Simeon  of  Dur- 
ham, the  work  ascribed  to  Benedictus  Abbas,  Newbury,  Hove- 
den,  Matthew  Paris,  Hemingford,  Trivet,  Trokelow,  Blaneford, 
and  Walsingham,  present  information  which  would  in  vain  be 
sought  in  Scottish  writers.     Nor  are  the  English  libraries  ex- 

(a) 


ii  INTRODUCTION. 

hausted,  since  they  yet  contain  the  productions  of  authors  who 
had  favourable  opportunities  of  knowing  the  transactions  in 
which  the  two  countries  were  engaged,  and  whose  evidence, 
even  though  sometimes  tinged  with  prejudice  and  party-spirit, 
is  worthy  of  being  submitted  to  the  press,  and  of  taking  a  place 
and  filling  a  chasm  in  the  materials  for  Scottish  history. 

Among  these  hitherto  unpublished  chronicles  are  two,  which, 
in  point  of  extent,  value,  and  novelty,  demand  especial  notice. 
The  first  of  these,  the  Chronicle  of  Lanercost,  is  the  produc- 
tion of  a  series  of  individuals,  who,  occupying  a  locality  which, 
from  its  neighbourhood  to  Scotland,  enabled  them  to  acquire 
copious  and  correct  information  relative  to  the  events  of  that 
kingdom,  were  in  the  habit  of  chronicling  these  events  as  they 
occurred.  The  work  thus  produced  depicts  graphically  and  cor- 
rectly our  history  from  the  accession  of  king  John  to  the  battle 
of  Durham.  The  narrators,  in  their  detail,  intermix  observations, 
which,  being  either  of  a  personal  nature  or  the  representatives 
of  temporary  feelings,  stamp  an  individuality  and  characteristic 
peculiarity  upon  the  whole.  The  unique  copy  which  has  reached 
us  is  deposited  in  the  Cottonian  Collection;  and  it  is  singular 
that  no  one  of  the  Editors  of  the  early  English  historians  which 
appeared  in  the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth  centuries,  should 
have  given  to  the  world  a  chronicle  so  curious,  so  superior  to 
many  which  they  have  printed,  so  worthy  of  preservation  as  exist- 
ing in  only  one  manuscript,  and  so  easy  of  access. 

The  other  chronicle  to  which  the  enquirer  into  Scottish  history 
would  wish  to  refer  is  the  Scalacronica,  a  work  hitherto  known 
only,  and  imperfectly,  through  the  abstract  given  by  Leland. 
It  is  also  singular,  that,  possessing  so  much  to  recommend  it, 
and  known,  valued,  and  quoted  as  it  has  been  even  through  that 
imperfect  medium,  this  chronicle  should  have  escaped  publica- 


INTRODUCTION.  iii 

tion  until  the  present  period.3  This  is  partly  to  be  attributed 
to  the  peculiar  laws  to  which  the  Corpus  Christi  library  at  Cam- 
bridge, where  the  unique  manuscript  is  deposited,  is  subjected 
by  the  will  of  the  venerable  Archbishop  Parker,  to  whom  the 
history  as  well  as  the  church  of  England  is  under  such  incalcu- 
lable obligations.  When  the  Editor  visited  Cambridge  in  the 
spring  of  1834,  for  the  purpose  of  examining  certain  manuscripts 
tending  to  illustrate  the  object  which  he  then  had  in  view,  he 
experienced  numerous  proofs  of  the  willingness  to  promote  and 
assist  a  spirit  of  enquiry,  for  which  that  University  is  so  justly 
distinguished;  and  he  had  no  difficulty  in  obtaining  not  only  ac- 
cess to  the  manuscript,  but  also  permission  to  transcribe  as  much 
as  was  considered  necessary  for  his  purpose.  The  extracts  then 
made  were  enough  to  confirm  his  previous  impressions  of  the 
value  of  the  whole  work;  and  the  patronage  of  the  Maitland  Club 
has  now  rendered  accessible  to  English  and  Scottish  historians, 
and  has  rescued  from  the  danger  of  being  lost,  all  that  is  valuable 
in  the  Scalacronica.11 

In  the  reign  of  Edward  the  Third  lived  a  Northumbrian 
warrior,  whose  military  talents  were  chiefly  employed  against  his 
neighbours  the  Scotch.  It  was  his  fate  to  be  captured  by  them, 
and  to  be  conveyed  a  prisoner  to  Edinburgh.  To  relieve  the 
tedium  which  confinement  naturally  produced  in  an  active  mind, 

a  So  far  as  the  Editor  is  aware,  no  attempt  had  been  made  by  any  one  to  bring  this  work 
before  the  public,  until  the  time  when  Lord  Hailes,  to  whom  the  early  history  of  Scotland 
is  so  infinitely  indebted,  seems  to  have  entertained  such  a  project.  The  correspondence 
upon  the  subject  may  be  seen  in  the  Proofs,  No.  xxviii. 

b  Such  is  the  name  which  the  author  himself  bestows  upon  his  work,  a  name  apparently 
originating  in  the  mystic  ladder  up  which  he  was  conducted  by  his  supernatural  guide, 
but  wherein  we  cannot  fail  to  observe  an  allusion  to  the  cognizance  of  the  Grey  family — the 
scaling  ladder.  It  may  also  be  added,  that  the  idea  of  the  machinery  of  the  prologue  is 
probably  borrowed  from  the  Historia  Aurea,  one  of  the  chapters  of  which  contains  a 
copious  history  of  "  Sibilla." 


iv  INTRODUCTION. 

he  had  recourse  to  the  exercise  of  accomplishments,  which, 
being  of  a  literary  nature,  were  not  commonly  possessed  by  the 
soldiers  of  that  age.  In  the  year  1355  he  commenced  the  com- 
pilation of  the  Scalacronica,  which  appears  to  be  intended  for  a 
general  history,  extending  from  the  Creation  to  his  own  times. 
In  the  formation  of  this  work  he  availed  himself  not  only  of  cer- 
tain written  authorities  which  he  specifies,  but  also  introduces 
into  his  narrative  an  account  of  the  exploits  in  which  his  father, 
another  "preux  chevalier,"  was  concerned,  and  of  those  in  which 
he  himself  had  borne  a  part.  These,  together  with  the  general 
information  which  he  has  recorded  concerning  the  civil  and 
military  transactions  of  the  reigns  of  Edward  the  Second  and 
Third,  obtained,  no  doubt,  either  by  his  own  personal  observa- 
tion, or  from  the  testimony  of  eye-witnesses,  render  this  history 
exceedingly  valuable,  stamp  upon  it  an  individuality  of  character, 
and  draw  a  wide  line  of  distinction  between  it,  the  production 
of  an  observant  and  educated  secular,  and  the  other  historical 
memorials  of  the  same  age,  written  by  men  who,  in  the  language 
of  that  period,  were  styled  "  Pveligious."  From  these  facts  a 
general  idea  of  the  peculiar  character  of  the  Scalacronica,  and  of 
its  author,  Thomas  Gray,  may  be  obtained. 

It  is  important  that  we  should  endeavour  to  ascertain  the 
materials  from  which  this  chronicle  is  composed,  for,  unless  this 
end  be  attained,  it  is  impossible  to  form  a  critical  estimate  of  its 
value  as  historical  authority.  Upon  this  point  the  author's 
prologue  has  furnished  us  with  much  information  ;  and  we  shall 
proceed  to  trace  his  work  through  the  different  writers  to  whom 
he  there  alludes,  until  we  arrive  at  that  period  when  the  Scala- 
cronica becomes  the  production  of  an  independent  and  original 
historian. 

The  first  book,  devoted  to  the  history  of  the  Britons,  is  re- 


INTRODUCTION.  v 

ferred  by  Gray  to  that  popular  work  of  the  middle  ages,  the 
Brute  ;a  the  second  is  stated  to  be  drawn  from  Bede's  Historia 
Ecclesiastica  Gentis  Anglorum,  a  production  too  well  known  to 
require  more  than  a  reference.  This  much,  however,  we  must 
not  fail  to  remark,  that  the  author  has  introduced  a  few  addi- 
tional circumstances  derived  from  other  authorities,  but  not  suf- 
ficiently numerous  or  important  to  warrant  further  extracts  than 
those  given  at  pp.  237-241  of  the  present  volume,  and  which 
have  been  appended  rather  to  gratify  curiosity  than  to  add  to 
history.  The  first  extract,  besides  a  sensible  critique  upon  the 
prophecies  ascribed  to  Merlin,  demands  our  notice  as  containing 
an  allusion  to  those  of  Banister1'  and  Thomas  of  Ercildoun.  The 
second,  giving  an  account  of  Arthur's  expedition  into  Scotland, 
contains  a  few  additional  facts  which  the  Editor  does  not  remem- 

Walter,  archdeacon  of  Oxford  (not  of  Exeter,  as  in  the  Prologue,  p.  2),  was  not, 
as  stated  by  Gray,  the  translator  of  this  tissue  of  absurdities,  miscalled  history;  he  only 
communicated  the  original  British  manuscript  in  which  they  were  contained  to  Geoffrey 
of  Monmouth,  who  gave  them  their  Latin  garb.  No  copy  of  this  original  is  believed  to 
have  survived  except  that  in  the  library  of  Jesus  College,  Oxford. 

By  "ditz  de  Keile,"  a  name  which  has  been  considered  inexplicable,  we  are  probably 
to  understand  the  work  of  Walter  Calenius,  the  individual  archdeacon  of  Oxford  before 
referred  to.  See  Tanner's  Bibl.  p.  147;  Oudin.  Commentar.  de  Script.  Eccl.  vol.  ii.  p. 
1414;  Bale,  c.  ii.  n.  Ixv;  Vossius  de  Hist.  Latin,  p.  401. 

Gildas,  an  author  concerning  whose  age,  authority,  and  writings,  so  many  and  such  con- 
tradictory opinions  have  been  expressed,  is  mentioned  in  the  same  passage  of  the  prologue 
in  an  indefinite  manner;  but  since  this  portion  of  the  Scalacronica  forms  no  part  of  the 
present  volume,  any  extended  notice  of  the  sources  whence  it  is  compiled  is  unnecessary. 

"   When  the  cragges  of  Tarbat  is  tumbled  in  the  sey, 
At  the  next  sommer  after  sorrow  for  ever ; 
Beide's  bookes  have  I  seene,  and  Banister's  also, 
Mervelous  Merling,  and  all  accordes  in  one. 

Collection  of  Ancient  Scottish  Prophecies,  p.  6,  Bannatijne  Edition. 
As  Bertlingtone's  bookes,  and  Banister  vs  tells, 
Merling  and  many  more,  that  with  meruels  melles; 
And  also  Thomas  Rymour  in  his  tales  tells. 

Id.  p.  8. 


vi  INTRODUCTION. 

ber  having  seen  in  any  other  version  of  the  story.  The  legend 
concerning  Conwak,  or  Kenneth  the  Third,  king  of  Scotland, 
is  found  in  Malmesbury;a  and  the  reader  of  Scottish  history 
will  immediately  call  to  mind  the  parallel  fact  recorded  of  Mal- 
colm Canmore.b  The  concluding  extract  is  of  greater  value. 
The  story  of  Siward  may  be  seen  in  BromptonV  Chronicle,  and 
in  an  anonymous  historical  manuscript  in  the  Cottonian  Lib- 
rary,d  where  it  is  introduced  apparently  from  a  legend  or  his- 
tory of  which  Leland  has  given  an  abstract  in  his  Collectanea. 
The  narrative  of  the  manner  in  which  the  family  of  the  Comyns 
gained  a  footing  in  Scotland,  although  probably  fabulous,  is,  as  far 
as  the  Editor  is  able  to  judge,  original;  and  it  is  worth  preserving 
as  a  specimen  of  the  traditions  which  were  current  in  Scotland 
about  the  middle  of  the  fourteenth  century.  From  the  union  of 
the  kingdoms  in  the  person  of  Egbert  to  the  Norman  conquest, 
a  period  of  two  centuries  and  a  half,  the  Polychronicon  of  Ralph 
Higden,  a  monk  of  Chester,  which,  according  to  Gray,  is  com- 
piled from  William  of  Malmesbury,  Henry  of  Huntingdon, 
Roger  Hoveden,  and  Marianus  Scotus,0  is  quoted  as  the  sole 
authority. 

The  reign  of  William  the  Conqueror  is  to  be  referred  almost 
entirely  to  the  Polychronicon;  the  order  of  the  narrative  is,  in- 

Beid  hath  breved  in  his  booke,  and  Banister  also, 
Mervelous  Merling,  and  all  accordes  in  one, 
Thomas  the  trew,  that  neuer  spake  false. 

Id.  p.  17. 

Who  the  individual  here  mentioned  was,  we  have  now  no  means  of  ascertaining.  Tan- 
ner injudiciously  supposes  that  he  might  be  the  same  who  was  prebendary  of  Eston,  41 
Edw.  III.;  he  cites  a  manuscript  of  these  prophecies  as  belonging  to  Henry  Worsley. 
Brian  Twyne  alludes  to  another  copy  as  in  the  possession  of  H.  Mason. —  Tanner,  Bibl. 
p.  72. 

'  Fol.  32.  b.       b  See  the  present  vol.  p.  220.        c  Col.  946.       "  Cleop.  A  i.  fol.  88,  b. 
'  See  Proofs,  No.  xxv. 


INTRODUCTION.  vii 

deed,  almost  always  transposed,  and  in  a  few  instances  a  slight 
deviation  of  expression  may  be  traced,  but  the  information  con- 
veyed is  the  same  in  both  works.  The  only  exceptions  to  which 
it  may  be  necessary  to  allude  are  the  passing  and  unimportant  no- 
tice of  the  "Book  of  Antioch,"a  and  the  list  of  those  who  are  said 
to  have  accompanied  William  into  England,  a  production,  in  the 
Editor's  opinion,  of  doubtful  antiquity,  and  of  no  authority.  Of 
this  document,  usually  known  by  the  name  of  the  Battle  Abbey- 
roll,  there  are  several  copies,  all  more  or  less  incorrect,  since  they 
contain  the  names  of  families  who  are  of  English  origin,  and  of  a 
date  posterior  to  the  Norman  invasion;  and  of  all  these  editions, 
if  such  a  term  be  applicable,  that  in  the  present  volume  is 
most  open  to  scepticism  on  these  points.  The  same  remarks 
are  almost  equally  applicable  to  the  reign  of  William  Rufus, 
through  the  whole  of  which  we  trace  the  Polychronicon  in 
almost  every  sentence.  Upon  one  occasion,'1  where  Gray  quotes 
"  lez  cronicles  de  Escoce"  as  his  authority  for  a  story  rela- 
tive to  Malcolm  the  Third,  we  are,  at  first,  led  to  anticipate 
something  new;  but  the  same  fact,  in  a  slightly  abridged  form,  is 
introduced  by  Higden,c  who  has  it,  probably,  from  Ailred.  In 
the  account  which  he  gives  us  of  the  death  of  Malcolm,  we 
trace  a  deviation  from  the  authority  to  which  he  has  hitherto 
adhered  so  closely,  the  Polychronicon  giving  him  no  warrant 
for  ascribing  Malcolm's  death  to  the  hand  of  Morel  of  Bam- 
burgh,  a  version  of  the  story  which  points  to  Gaimar,  or 
some  other  follower  of  the  Saxon  chronicle,  as  its  prototype. 
Again,  the  Scalacronica  tells  us  that  Queen  Margaret  of  Scotland, 
when  upon  her  death-bed  in  Edinburgh  Castle,  desired  to  be 

*  P.  9.       b  P.  20. 

c  Col.  2365.     Throughout  these  observations  reference  is  made  to  the  Polychronicon  as 
inserted  in  the  Historical  Collection  of  Knyghton,  printed  in  the  Decern  Scriptores. 


viii  INTRODUCTION. 

interred  at  Dunfermline,  and  that  the  attendants,  under  cover 
of  a  dense  mist,  conveyed  the  body,  through  the  hostile 
army,  to  its  final  destination.  This  fact  is  not  in  the  printed 
copy  of  Higden;  but  although  it  is  noticed  by  Fordun,  who 
introduces  it  from  the  legend  which  he  ascribes  to  Turgot,  we 
cannot  state  the  direct  source  from  which  Gray  derived  his 
information,  since  he  may  have  had  access  to  a  copy  of  the 
Polychronicon  similar  to  that  in  the  Harleian  Collection,3  into 
which  this  fact,  and  many  others  relative  to  Margaret  and 
her  daughter  Matilda,  the  queen  of  Henry  the  First,  are  intro- 
duced. The  imperfect  manner  in  which  Gray,  or  the  copy  of 
Higden's  work  which  he  employed,  mentions  the  irruption  made 
by  the  king  of  Norway,  has  been  elsewhere  noticed:  the  printed 
edition  in  the  Decern  Scriptoresb  gives  a  correct  version. 

Under  the  reign  of  Henry  the  First,  our  author  cites  certain 
chronicles,  in  which  a  prophecy,  said  to  have  been  uttered  by 
Edward  the  Confessor,  is  explained  as  alluding  to  the  marriage 
of  Matilda  of  Scotland  with  the  son  of  the  Conqueror;  an  event 
by  which  the  Saxon  and  Norman  lines  were  united.  This  story 
is  mentioned,  in  very  concise  terms  however,  in  the  Polychro- 
nicon ;c  Gray  probably  had  his  information  from  Ailred d  or 
Bromton.6  Be  this  as  it  may,  there  are  indications  that  he  now 
made  occasional  use  of  better  authorities  than  Higden;  since,  in 
giving  an  account  of  those  who  perished  with  Prince  William 
in  his  passage  from  Normandy,  he  mentions  several  names  which 
seem  to  be  derived  from  Simeon  of  Durham,  through  his  co- 
pyist Hoveden.  The  reference  to  Giraldus  Cambrensisf  is  taken 
from  Hiffden. 


MS.  Harl.  3884,  /.  viii.  c.  xiii.  »  Col.  2370.  c  Coll.  2381,  2338. 

d  Col.  400.  '  Col.  955.  '  P.  29. 


INTRODUCTION.  ix 

The  reign  of  Henry  the  Second  proceeds  much  on  the  same 
plan  as  those  to  which  allusion  has  been  already  made.  It  is 
taken  for  the  most  part  from  the  Polychronicon,  interspersed 
with  a  few  passages  introduced  from  other  sources.  Among 
these  we  may  instance  the  list  of  names  of  those  Englishmen 
who  are  said  to  have  accompanied  William  king  of  Scotland 
when  he  returned  from  his  captivity,1  and  to  whom  he  allotted 
lands  in  his  realm.  The  reference  to  "lez  cronicles,"  for  the 
narrative  of  the  death  of  Henry  the  Second,  appears  to  be  un- 
called for,  since  a  passage  containing  the  same  facts  may  be  seen 
in  Higden. 

In  entering  upon  the  reign  of  Richard  the  First,  we  find  that 
the  Polychronicon  is  supplanted  by  either  Benedictus  Abbas,  or 
Hoveden.  It  is  rather  difficult  to  determine  to  which  of  these 
writers  we  must  give  the  preference,  the  latter  having  transcribed 
the  former  almost  verbatim;  but  the  probability  seems  in  favour 
of  Hoveden,  since  his  authority  is  followed  after  that  period 
when  Benedictus  closes  his  work.  From  this  source  we  have 
the  account  of  Richard's  voyage  to  the  Holy  Land  (which  is 
evidently  framed  from  the  journal  of  one  who  attended  the 
lion-hearted  monarch),  of  his  exploits  there,  of  his  captivity 
and  his  release,  of  his  wars  with  the  French  king,  and  of  his 
death.  Most  of  the  minor  details,  it  must  be  owned,  are  to  be 
discovered  in  Hoveden  or  in  Higden,  but  they  are  of  such  a 
nature  as  to  warrant  the  belief  that  they  are  the  additions  of  the 
compiler  of  the  Scalacronica,  who  could,  without  much  bad  faith 
or  violation  of  probability,  introduce  such  passages  as  Richard's 
prayer  before  his  death,  and  the  few  other  unimportant  addi- 
tions to  which  allusion  is  made. 

'  P.  41. 

(B) 


x  INTRODUCTION. 

The  reign  of  king  John  brings  us  a  step  further  on  our  way 
to  that  period  at  which  our  chronicle  becomes  a  work  of  his- 
torical authority,  and  as  we  approach  it  we  have  more  fre- 
quent indications  of  its  vicinity.  Of  these  one  instance  may 
suffice. — Roger  Wendover,  a  contemporary  writer,  whose  autho- 
rity ranks  the  highest  in  every  thing  connected  with  the  affairs 
of  England  during  the  end  of  the  reign  of  John  and  the  com- 
mencement of  that  of  his  successor,  tells  us  that  prince  Louis, 
son  of  Philip  Augustus,  after  being  invited  by  the  English  barons 
to  assume  the  government  of  our  kingdom,  landed  in  Thanet, 
21st  May  1216,  and  finding  no  opposition,  speedily  reduced  that 
part  of  the  country,  and  having  captured  the  castle  of  Rochester, 
arrived  in  London  amidst  the  acclamations  of  the  inhabitants." 
The  Scalacronica  gives  a  more  minute  account  of  his  proceed- 
ings. It  agrees  with  Wendover  in  stating  that  he  arrived  in 
England  on  the  21st  May,  that  Rochester  Castle  surrendered 
on  the  30th,  and  conveys  the  additional  information,  that  he 
arrived  in  London  on  the  2d  of  June.  It  further  tells  us,  that 
upon  the  7th  he  made  himself  master  of  the  castle  of  Rygate, 
on  the  8th  he  took  that  of  Guilford,  and  on  the  10th  that  of 
Farnham;  that  on  the  13th  he  captured  the  city  of  Winchester, 
and  on  the  15th  seized  the  bishop  of  Winchester's  manor  of 
Wallop;  that  on  the  9th  of  July  he  gained  the  castle  of  Ody- 
ham,  and  on  the  18th  went  to  Dover  for  the  purpose  of  be- 
sieging the  castle,  but  that  he  spent  fifteen  days  there  without 
effecting  any  thing  of  consequence.b  Here,  then,  is  minute 
and  valuable  information  which  does  not  exist  in  any  other 
historian,  and,  as  he  agrees  with  Wendover,  the  best  authority, 
in  those  portions  which  they  have  in  common,  Gray  is  entitled 

'  M.  Paris,  p.  195.  "  P.  95. 


INTRODUCTION.  xi 

to  equal  credit  in  regard  to  those  facts  which  rest  upon  his  own 
unsupported  testimony.  A  few  observations  upon  the  remain- 
der of  this  reign  will  suffice.  We  may  first  remark  the  notice 
taken  of  the  various  reports  circulated  concerning  the  share 
which  John  is  said  to  have  had  in  the  death  of  his  nephew, 
Arthur  of  Brittany;  no  other  writer,  with  whom  the  Editor  is  ac- 
quainted, has  preserved  the  tradition  that  the  ill-fated  prince  was 
drowned  by  a  preconcerted  plan.8  The  Historia  Aurea  is  cited 
to  prove  that  John  dispatched  an  embassy  to  the  emperor  of 
Morocco  for  the  purpose  of  offering  him  the  crown  of  England, 
a  story  which  may  be  seen  in  Matthew  Paris,  from  which  source 
John  of  Tynmouth  probably  derived  his  information.  Gray  pre- 
sents us  with  a  minute  narrative  of  the  conversation  which  passed 
betwixt  John  and  the  papal  legates,  Pandulf  and  Durand;  the 
same  may  be  found  in  the  Annals  of  Burton,  Waverley,  and 
Lanercost.  The  Scalacronica  varies  from  the  Polychronicon  in 
the  account  which  it  gives  of  this  king's  death.  The  latter  autho- 
rity states  that  he  died  at  Newark  upon  the  14th  of  October;  the 
former  says,  that,  when  upon  his  way  towards  Lincoln,  he  re- 
mained two  days  at  the  abbey  of  Swineshead,  where  he  was 
attacked  by  a  sudden  disease;  that  he  proceeded  to  Newark, 
and  having  spent  three  or  four  days  in  that  place,  died  there 
upon  the  19th  of  October.  The  Patent  and  Close  Bolls  of  this 
reign,  which  have  recently  been  published  by  Thomas  D.  Hardy, 
Esquire,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Record  Commission,  enable 
us  to  test  the  relative  accuracy  of  these  conflicting  statements.  By 
the  evidence  of  these  unerring  guides  we  know  that  he  reached 
Swineshead  upon  Wednesday  the  12th  of  October,  where  he 
remained  during  the  ensuing  day;  that  Friday  and  Saturday  were 
spent  at  Sleaford;  and  that  on  Sunday,  Monday,  and  Tuesday, 

*  P.  83. 


xii  INTRODUCTION. 

he  was  at  Newark-upon -Trent,  at  which  place  he  expired  upon 
Wednesday,  the  19th  of  October,  1216. 

The  long  reign  of  Henry  the  Third  is  dismissed  in  a  sum- 
mary manner,  ten  pages  embracing  the  events  of  half  a  century. 
Throughout  this  period  the  Polychronicon  is  still  followed,  but 
is  augmented,  in  some  instances,  by  contributions  from  other 
quarters.  With  the  accession  of  Edward  the  First,  we  enter 
upon  a  new  and  more  important  division  of  the  Chronicle.  From 
this  point  it  is  to  be  considered  an  original  production,  and  pos- 
sessing, in  general,  a  high  authority;  but  it  is  impossible  in  this 
place  to  specify  all  the  instances  in  which  its  accuracy  might  be 
demonstrated  by  a  comparison  with  contemporary  documents, 
or  the  novelty  of  its  details  exhibited  by  a  collation  with  other 
historians. 

Having  arrived  at  this  period,  it  becomes  necessary  to  inform 
ourselves,  as  far  as  such  information  can  be  obtained,  of  the  lead- 
ing facts  in  the  biography  of  the  two  Grays,  father  and  son;  for 
the  faith  which  we  may  be  inclined  to  put  in  what  we  may 
designate  the  original  part  of  the  Scalacronica  must,  to  a  certain 
extent,  be  influenced  by  the  opportunities  which  they  enjoyed 
of  acquiring  correct  information. 

The  family  of  Grey,  or  Gray,  was  settled  in  Northumberland 
at  a  very  remote  period,  but  from  which  of  the  Southern  or 
Scottish  possessors  of  the  same  surname  it  is  derived  we  have 
no  means  of  ascertaining.  The  earliest  notice  which  the  Editor 
has  been  able  to  detect  of  the  family  as  connected  with  North- 
umberland, occurs  on  the  Pipe  Roll  for  that  county,  10  Hen. 
III.,  in  which  the  Sheriff  debits  himself  with  six  shillings,  as  the 
amercement  of  Robert  Gray  of  Shotton. 

Dugdalea  states  that  in  20  Hen.  III.  Richard  Grey  of  Cod- 
novre,  in  Derbyshire,  was  constituted  sheriff  of  Northumber- 

"  Baronage,  vol.  i.  p.  709. 


INTRODUCTION.  xiii 

land;  but  as  this  family  appears  to  have  had  no  connexion  with 
the  northern  counties,  it  may  be  doubted  whether  the  indi- 
vidual mentioned  was  connected  with  the  Grays  of  Heton. 

In  30  Hen.  III.  (1246),  a  fine  was  levied  before  the  justices 
itinerant  at  Newcastle,  concerning  four  bovates  of  land,  and 
three  tofts,  in  Killing-worth,  now  in  the  parish  of  Longbenton, 
in  which  Robert  Grey  and  Agnes  his  wife  are  parties  concerned.* 
There  are  no  grounds  for  supposing  that  the  family  which  had 

See  Proofs  and  Illustrations,  No.  i.  In  the  Pipe  Rolls  for  Northumberland,  a  William 
de  Gray  occurs  in  1257,  and  John  de  Gray  and  Stephen  de  Gray  in  1272. 

A  John  Gray  was  mayor  of  Berwick;  he  was  probably  the  individual  mentioned  in  the 
Chronicle  of  Lanercost.  Unfortunately  the  charter  of  Walter  de  Soltre,  burgess  of  Berwick, 
to  which  he  is  a  witness  during  his  mayoralty,  is  without  date,  but  it  is  certainly  anterior  to 
1270.  It  occurs  in  the  Chartulary  of  the  Hospital  of  Soltre,  now  in  the  Advocates'  Library. 

Robert  de  Bernham,  rector  of  the  church  of  Tyningham,  gave  to  the  nuns  of  Cold- 
stream an  annual  rent  of  one  mark  arising  from  certain  land  in  Berwick,  bounded  on  one 
side  by  the  land  of  John  Gray.  The  date  of  this  instrument  is  also  uncertain.  Chart. 
Coldstreme,  MS.  Harl.  6670,  n.  52. 

In  7  Edw.  I.,  Hugh  and  Thomas  Grey,  and  others,  acknowledged  themselves  guilty 
of  the  death  of  Robert  de  Coupland,  whom  they  had  slain  the  year  before  at  Berwick; 
Feed.  vol.  i,  p.  566.  In  21  Edw.  I.,  Robert  le  Grey  and  Margaret  his  wife  held  the  third 
part  of  the  manor  of  Ellingham;  Placit.  de  Quo  warranto,  p.  588,  597.  It  was  found 
at  the  same  time  that  William  le  Grey  held  five  acres  of  land,  with  their  appurtenances, 
in  Bamburgh ;  id.  p.  592. 

Sir  Robert  de  Grey,  knight,  was  in  the  retinue  of  Ralph  de  Monthermer,  earl  of 
Gloucester  and  Hertford,  from  1st  August  to  10th  September,  5  Edw.  II.;  and  from  11th 
September  to  17th  July  next  following  was  in  the  garrison  of  Berwick  in  the  king's  ser- 
vice. Raine,  in  his  pedigree  of  the  family,  conjectures,  with  every  appearance  of  probability, 
that  this  individual  was  a  son  of  Thomas  Grey  of  Heton.  The  names  of  his  retainers, 
such  as  Hagarston,  Goswick,  Cheswick,  Charlton,  and  Bowsden,  all  taken  from  places  in 
the  county  of  Northumberland,  tend  to  confirm  the  supposition ;  see  Proofs,  No.  iv. 

In  a  fine  levied  at  York,  16  Edw.  II.,  are  mentioned  Thomas,  son  of  John  Gray,  and 
John  Gray  of  Denum,  who  are  connected  with  East  Harle  and  West  Wallington,  both 
in  Northumberland ;  Proofs,  No.  x. 

The  family  of  Gray  continued  to  reside  in  Berwick;  for  it  appears  that  in  9  Edw.  III. 
the  custody  of  the  lands  and  tenements  in  the  town  and  county  of  Berwick,  lately  held  of 
the  king  in  capite  by  Andrew  de  Gray  deceased,  was  committed  to  Thomas  de  Gray  the 
elder,  to  hold  during  the  minority  of  the  heir  of  the  said  Andrew;  Proofs,  No.  xvi.  Rot. 
Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  268. 


xiv  INTRODUCTION. 

the  honor  of  producing  the  author  of  the  present  chronicle  is 
of  southern  origin;  on  the  contrary,  the  Editor  is  inclined  to 
believe  that  it  is  to  be  sought  in  a  Scottish  original.  Sir  John 
Gray,  knight  and  burgess  of  Berwick,  after  having  founded  a 
house  of  Friars  Minors  in  that  town,  died  apparently  towards  the 
middle  of  the  reign  of  Henry  the  Third.3  He  left  a  younger 
son,  Thomas,  surnamed  Hugtoun  in  the  Chronicle  of  Lanercost, 
whom  the  Editor  believes  to  be  the  same  as  Thomas  Gray  de 
Heton,  the  undoubted  ancestor  of  the  author  of  the  Scalacronica. 
By  what  means  he  became  possessed  of  property  at  Heton  in 
Northumberland  we  have  no  distinct  proof,  but  that  a  Thomas 
Gray  did  hold  property  there  is  demonstrated  by  the  Hundred 
Bolls,  compiled  3  Edw.  I.b  The  descent  of  the  illustrious 
family  of  Grey  of  Ho  wick  from  that  point  to  the  present  gene- 
ration is  now  easily  traced,  even  at  this  remote  period,  by 
the  frequent  mention  made  of  its  members  in  our  annals  and 

The  property  of  John  de  Grey  in  Berwick  was  forfeited  for  rebellion  in  or  before  1341 ; 
Rot.  Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  615. 

Sir  Robert  Gray  was  settled  at  Lowlin  in  1326;  Raine's  North  Durham,  p.  82;  and  in 
1369  a  John  Grey  of  Lowlin  was  appointed  collector  of  the  customs  in  Berwick;  Rot. 
Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  930,  940. 

In  1368  John  de  Grey,  junior,  who  resided  in  Berwick,  had  licence  to  take  from  Robert 
de  Hodspath  premises  in  that  town,  including  twelve  acres  in  "  la  Snook." 

The  exact  period  of  his  decease,  cannot  be  ascertained ;  the  Chronicle  of  Lanercost 
says  that  it  took  place  many  years  ("annos  plurimos")  before  the  commencement  of  the 
wars  between  England  and  Scotland  under  Edward  the  First.  If  by  this  superlative 
adjective  we  understand  fifty  years,  a  calculation  which  cannot  be  considered  too  liberal, 
Sir  John  Gray  must  have  died  about  1246.  Concerning  him  and  his  son  Thomas,  see 
Proofs,  No.  ii. 

b  Et  dictus  Robertus  de  Hamptone,  vicecomes  tempore  regis  nunc,  cepit  de  Roberto  de 
Heton,  capto  per  appellationem  Johannis  Malfrune,  j  marcam,  ut  potuit  replegiari.  Et  de 
Thoma  Gray  de  Heton,  quern  Johannes  de  Schafthou,  ballivus  dicti  vicecomitis,  cepit 
antiquo  odio,  vij.  s,  ne  imprisonaretur,  tempore  regis  nunc.  Rot.  Hundredorum,  vol.  ii. 
p.  23;  3  Edw.  I. 

The  family  of  Heaton  or  Eaton,  distinct  from  that  of  Gray,  continued  at  the  spot  from 
which  they  derived  their  surname  as  late  as  the  end  of  the  14th  century,  probably  much  later. 


INTRODUCTION.  xv 

records;  but  we  shall  confine  ourselves  to  a  few  observations 
upon  the  more  leading  occurrences  in  the  biography  of  the 
author  of  this  chronicle,  and  of  his  father,  whose  exploits  are 
herein  commemorated. 

In  25  Edw.  I.,  Thomas  de  Grey,  the  elder,  probably  the 
eldest  son  of  the  last  named  Thomas,  being  about  to  accompany 
John  de  Warenne,  earl  of  Surrey,  into  Scotland,  had  letters  of 
protection,11  which  were  renewed  in  the  30th  year  of  the  same 
reign,  when,  together  with  Nicholas  de  Killum,  he  was  em- 
ployed in  Scotland  in  that  king's  service,  acting  in  conjunction 
with  Patrick  de  Dunbar,  earl  of  March.b 

In  the  month  of  May,  1297,  William  Wallace,  having  been 
elected  by  the  commonalty  of  Scotland  to  lead  their  army  against 
the  English,  commenced  his  exploits  by  killing  at  Lanark  the 
sheriff  of  Clydesdale,  William  de  Heselrig,  who  had  been  ap- 
pointed to  that  office  by  Edward.  It  was  Gray's  fortune,  who 
was  in  Heselrig's  company,  to  be  present  at  the  night  attack 
which  Wallace  made  upon  the  sheriff.  He  was  there  severely 
wounded,  stripped,  and  left  for  dead;  but  life  having  been  pre- 
served by  the  heat  of  the  burning  houses,  he  was  found  early  in 
the  ensuing  morning  by  William  de  Lundy,  under  whose  care 
he  recovered.0 

Shortly  after  the  battle  of  Roslin,  in  1302,  in  which  the 
English  sustained  a  signal  defeat,  and  Ralph  the  Cofferer d  was 
slain,  Gray  went  into  Scotland  with  king  Edward,  who,  being 

*  Rot.  Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  47- 

6  Id.  p.  52.  It  is  not  improbable  that  if  the  printed  edition  of  the  Rotuli  Scotioe  had 
been  complete,  further  traces  of  the  military  services  of  Gray  might  have  been  discovered 
on  its  pages.  To  remedy  this  defect  in  one  of  the  most  valuable  publications  connected 
with  Scottish  history  is  well  worthy  the  attention  of  the  Maitland  Club. 

c  Scalacronica,  p.  123. 

d  Concerning  the  errors  into  which  historians,  English  and  Scottish,  have  fallen  as  to  the 


xvi  INTRODUCTION. 

freed  from  the  expense  of  foreign  wars,  had  determined  to  reduce 
that  kingdom  to  subjection.  The  royal  household  rested  at  Dry- 
burgh.  Hugh  de  Audley,  with  sixty  men-at-arms,  proceeded  to 
Melrose,  where  they  expected  to  find  more  ready  accommodation; 
but  this  arrangement  having  been  observed  by  John  Comyn, 
then  governor  of  Scotland,  he  made  a  night  attack  upon  Aud- 
ley,  in  which  the  English,  overpowered  by  superiority  of  num- 
bers, were  taken  prisoners.  Gray  defended  a  house  without  the 
gate,  in  which  he  had  taken  refuge,  until  it  began  to  burn;  he 
then  surrendered.11  His  imprisonment  was  not  of  long  duration, 
probably  in  consequence  of  the  speedy  payment  of  the  ransom 
which  was  demanded,  since  in  1304  we  find  him  in  the  retinue 
of  Henry  de  Beaumont  at  the  siege  of  Stirling  Castle,  where  he 
was  struck  in  the  face  by  a  heavy  cross-bow  bolt,  discharged 
from  one  of  the  numerous  engines  employed  on  that  occasion, 
while  in  the  act  of  rescuing  Beaumont,  who  was  about  to  be 
captured  by  the  garrison.b  To  all  appearance  he  was  dead,  and 
preparations  were  made  for  his  funeral;  but  signs  of  animation 

proper  name  of  this  Ralph,  see  Hailes,  vol.  i.  p.  273,  note ;  Tytler,  vol.  i.  p.  437,  note ;  to 
which  it  may  be  added  that  Wyntown,  vol.  ii.  p.  116,  calls  .him 

"Confrere 
The  kyng  of  Inglandis  tresorere." 

It  does  not  appear  to  have  been  observed  by  any  of  the  enquirers  into  our  history,  that 
this  Ralph  the  Coiferer  is  the  same  Ralph  de  Manton,  clerk  of  the  Royal  Wardrobe,  who 
by  a  writ  printed  in  the  Fcedera,  vol.  i.  p.  948  (dated  20th  Jan.  1303,  about  a  month  be- 
fore the  battle  of  Roslin),  is  directed  to  proceed  into  Scotland  as  paymaster  to  the  English 
troops.  The  Inquisitio  post  mortem,  31  Edw.  I.  No.  140,  would  determine  the  point,  but 
the  Editor  has  not  hitherto  had  an  opportunity  of  inspecting  it. 

°  Scalacronica,  p.  126. 

*  Every  historian  who  mentions  the  siege  of  Stirling  expatiates  upon  the  warlike  engines 
employed  by  the  assailants  and  the  defenders.  Fordun,  vol.  ii.  p.  224,  tells  us  that  the 
lead  was  stripped  from  the  roof  of  the  church  of  St  Andrews,  that  it  might  be  thrown  by 
the  English  machines  against  the  castle.  He  fails  to  state  that  Edward  made  a  com- 
pensation for  this  injury;  and  in  justice  to  a  sovereign,  whose  conduct  towards  Scotland 
cannot  always  find  such  a  satisfactory  apology,  the  Editor  inserts  the  copy  of  a  writ  from 


INTRODUCTION.  xvii 

being  visible  when  he  was  about  to  be  committed  to  the  grave, 
he  escaped  this  premature  fate,  and  recovered.1 

Upon  the  accession  of  Edward  the  Second  his  military  services 
were  speedily  required,  for  within  a  few  months  after  that  period 
a  writ  was  addressed  to  him  ordering  his  attendance  with  horse 
and  arms,  and  his  whole  retinue,  to  suppress  the  hostile  incursions 
of  the  Scotch,  who  were  then  ravaging  the  English  borders ;b 
and  in  the  ensuing  year,  being  still  employed  in  the  same  service, 
he  had  letters  of  protection  granted  to  him.0 

Returning  from  the  Coronation  to  the  castle  of  Coupre  in 
Fife,  of  which  he  was  then  governor,  he  had  timely  intimation 
of  an  ambuscade  prepared  for  him  by  Walter  de  Bickerton,  a 
Scottish  knight;  but  disdaining  to  avoid  the  danger,  although 
much  inferior  in  numbers  to  his  opponents,  he  attacked  his  ad- 
versaries with  such  courage  that  they  were  routed,  and  com- 

the  Liberate  Roll,  ordering  the  payment  of  a  considerable  sum  to  the  prior  of  St  Andrews 
for  the  loss  thus  sustained. 

Rot.  Liber.  33  Edw.  I.,  m.  6. 
4?.  J.  Breghinen  epo  ^        R'  ditto   ctico  suo  Johi   de  Sandale   canlar  suo   Scotie  saltm. 

t  priore  S'ti  And?  j~  Litiate  de  exitibz  Pre  Ere  fJdte  J.  Breghinen  epo  1  priori  S'ti 
And?  quafviginti  t  sexdecim  lib?  't  quindecim  solid,  videft  f?fato  epo  decern  1  septem 
lib?  decern  %  octo  solid  't  quatuor  deii.  't  pMto  priori  sexaginta  1  decern  1  octo  lib?  sex- 
decim solid  t  octo  deii  in  quibz  eisdem  ep  rt  priori  tenem'  ,j>  plumbo  qd  dexfhi  fecim9 
tam  de  eccliis  qa  de  aliis  domibz  ipoTj  epi  1  prioris  apud  Breghyn  t  S'tm  Andrea.  Et  nos 
voti  inde  in  exitibz  f?dtis  ad  sccam  nfm  Angt  debitam  allocacoem  lire  faciem'.  T\  R." 
apud  Wesm  xxxj.  die  Marcii.     P'  bre  de  p'vato  sigillo. 

*  Scalacronica,  p.  127. 

b  Feed.  vol.  ii.  p.  9.  Some  idea  of  the  rank  which  Gray  occupied  may  be  formed  from 
the  list  of  those  who  were  addressed  in  the  same  terms.  They  were,  Humphrey  de  Bohun, 
earl  of  Hereford  and  Essex,  Aymer  de  Valence,  Henry  de  Percy,  John  de  Hastings, 
Stephen  de  Segrave,  Robert  de  Clifford,  Henry  de  Beaumont,  Hugh  le  Despenser,  John 
Botetourte,  Adam  de  Welle,  John  Fitz  Marmaduke,  John  de  St  John,  William  de  Lati- 
mer, Gilbert  Pecche,  and  Richard  Lovel.  With  the  exception  of  Fitz  Marmaduke, 
Pecche,  and  Lovel,  all  these  were  barons,  either  by  tenure  or  summons. 

c  Rot.  Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  58. 

(c) 


xviii  INTRODUCTION. 

pelled  to  take  refuge  in  a  peat-bog,  leaving  nine  score  horses 
a  prey  to  the  English.  Upon  another  occasion,  probably  about 
the  same  period,  he  bravely  opposed  one  hunched  men-at-arms 
who  attacked  the  town  of  Coupre,  and  regained  the  castle,  cut- 
ting his  way  through  the  midst  of  the  enemy.a 

In  4  Edw.  II.  he  was  in  the  retinue  of  Lord  John  de  Segrave, 
warden  of  the  town  of  Berwick-upon-Tweed,  and  the  king  was 
then  indebted  to  him  in  the  sum  of  L.179,  lis.  4d.,  being  the 
arrear  of  his  wages,  and  the  repayment  of  horses  for  men-at-arms 
which  had  been  lost  in  the  king's  service.1"  This  sum  was  not 
paid  until  26  January,  13  Edw.  II.;  and  as  Gray  was  able  to 
support  his  military  attendants  during  the  interval,  we  may 
thence  conclude  that  his  income  was  considerable.  In  the  same 
year  he  presented  a  bay  horse  to  the  king.c 

Upon  the  seizure  of  the  lands  belonging  to  the  Knights  Tem- 
plars, the  manor  of  Thornton,  and  certain  other  lands  in  North- 
umberland, were  committed  to  his  custody,  which  in  6  Edw. 
II.  were  granted  to  John  de  Kyngeston,'1  and  a  writ  was  at  the 
same  time  addressed  to  Gray  to  deliver  them  up  by  indenture." 
Some  of  these  possessions  appear  still  to  have  remained  in  his 
care,  for  in  the  following  year  we  find  a  mandate  enjoining  him 
to  resign  to  Albert  de  Nigro  Castro  and  Leonard  de  Tibercis,  or 
their  attornies,  certain  lands  and  tenements  in  Northumberland 
formerly  belonging  to  the  Templars. 

In  the  year  1314,  being  at  the  disastrous  battle  of  Bannock- 

"  Scalacronica,  pp.  138,  139.  b  Proofs,  No.  iii. 

c  "Urii  garcioni  ducenti  ad  regeni  unum  juuientum  badium,  ex  parte  dotnini  Thomav 
de  Gray."     MS.  Cott.  Nero,  C.  viii.  fol.  84,  b. 

11  Rex  commisit  Johanni  de  Kyngeston  custodiam  nianerii  dc  Thornton,  et  omnium 
aliarum  terrarum  que  fuerunt  quondam  Templariorum,  in  comitatu  Northumbrian  et  quae 
Thomas  de  Grey  nuper  tenuit,  etc.,  habeudam  quamdiu  regi  placuerit,  etc.  Abbrev.  Rot. 
Original,  i.  197.  '  Feed.  vol.  ii.  p.  209- 


INTRODUCTION.  xix 

burn,  apparently  in  the  retinue  of  Henry  de  Beaumont,  he 
remonstrated  with  that  baron  when  instructions  were  issued 
to  give  the  Scottish  troops  further  advantages  than  seemed 
prudent.  "  If  you  are  afraid,"  said  Beaumont,  "  you  may  re- 
treat." "  Sir,"  said  Gray,  "  I  will  not  retreat  this  day,"  and 
striking  his  horse  with  his  spurs,  he  and  Sir  William  Dayncourt 
charged  the  approaching  body  of  the  Scotch.  Dayncourt  was 
slain ;  Gray,  after  having  his  horse  killed  under  him,  was  made 
prisoner.* 

In  9  Edw.  II.,  a  writ  was  addressed  by  the  king  to  John  de 
Sandale,  the  chancellor,  ordering  him  to  prepare  letters  of  pro- 
tection, "  in  especial  and  due  form,"  for  Thomas  de  Grey,  his 
family,  and  his  effects,  to  continue  in  force  for  one  year;b  and 
in  11  of  the  same  reign,  in  consequence  of  good  service  ren- 
dered, and  as  an  aid  in  the  support  of  himself,  his  wife,  and 
children,  he  had  a  grant  from  the  king,  during  pleasure,  of  an 
annual  rent  of  L.20,  which  Eustace  de  Burneby  and  Matilda 
his  wife  paid  into  the  Exchequer,  arising  from  a  messuage  and 
certain  lands  and  rents  in  Watford  and  Synelesworth,  in  the 
county  of  Northampton." 

Continuing  thus  to  merit  the  approbation  of  his  sovereign, 
the  said  Thomas  Gray  presented  a  petition  to  the  king  and 
council  assembled  in  parliament  at  York,  three  weeks  after 
Michaelmas,  12  Edw.  II.'1  praying  that  as  a  recompence  for  long 
and  faithful  service  performed  against  the  Scotch,  he  might 
have  a  grant  amounting  to  forty  marks  per  annum,  arising  from 
lands  and  tenements  in  Howick,  recently  in  the  possession  of 
John  Maitland,  and  others  which  Christiana  his  mother  held 
in  dower  in  Chivington.      The  petition  states  that  those  in 

Scalacronica,  p.  141;  Trivet.  Contin.  p.  15.  'Proofs,  No.  v. 

c  Proofs,  No.  vi.  a  Rot.  Claus.  12  Edw.  II.  m.  28,  d. 


xx  INTRODUCTION. 

Howick  had  escheated  to  the  crown  in  consequence  of  the  adhe- 
rence of  the  said  John  to  the  interest  of  the  Scotch,  then  the 
king's  enemies  and  rebels ;  and  that  after  the  death  of  the  said 
Christiana  those  lands  which  she  held  would  revert  to  the  crown 
in  consequence  of  the  rebellion  of  her  son.8  It  appears  from 
the  extent  made  by  virtue  of  the  king's  writ  addressed  to  the 
escheator,  that  the  said  John  Maitland,  before  his  adherence  to 
the  Scotch,  held  one  hundred  and  eight  acres  of  arable  land, 
and  eight  acres  of  meadow,  in  Howick,  which  were  valued  at  the 
yearly  sum  of  L.7,  10s.  8d.  in  all  their  issues.  The  jurors  more- 
over return  that  Christiana,  the  mother  of  the  said  John  de 
Maitland,  held  in  the  same  place  six  husband-lands,  in  name 
of  dower,  which  in  time  of  peace  are  equivalent  to  L.6  per 
annum;  that  these  lands  and  tenements  are  held  of  the  lordship 
of  Alnwick,  by  the  service  of  the  fourth  part  of  one  knight's 
fee;  and  that  she  holds  nothing  in  Chivington  in  name  of 
dower,  but  is  possessed  of  the  half  of  the  said  town  from  lord 
Robert  de  Lumley,  by  the  annual  service  of  half  a  marc  for 
wardage  at  the  Castle  of  Alnwick.b  In  consequence  of  this 
return,  the  king  issued  his  letters  patent,  dated  at  York,  17th 
May  1319,  in  which  he  recites  that  in  the  parliament  lately 
held  in  that  city,  by  the  assent  of  the  prelates,  earls,  barons,  and 
other  nobles  there  assembled,  he  had  given  to  Thomas  de 
Grey  and  to  his  heirs  for  ever,  in  consequence  of  the  good, 
loyal,  and  long-continued  service  of  the  grantee  against  the 
Scotch,  one  hundred  and  eight  acres  of  arable  land,  and  eight 
acres  of  meadow,  with  their  appurtenances,  in  Howick,  near 
Alnwick,  late  in  the  possession  of  John  Maitland,  and  that  after 
the  decease  of  Christiana  Maitland,  six  husband-lands  which 

"  Proofs,  No.  vii.  b  Proofs,  No.  viii. 


INTRODUCTION.  xxi 

she  held  in  the  same  place  should  remain  to  the  said  Thomas 
and  his  heirs.3  At  this  time  the  priory  of  Holy  Island  was 
indebted  to  him  in  the  sum  of  L.4.b 

In  16  Edw.  II.,  he  was  one  of  the  manucaptors  for  the 
good  behaviour  of  Thomas  de  Fencote,  on  his  discharge  from 
imprisonment  as  an  adherent  to  the  party  of  the  earl  of  Lan- 
caster against  the  king,  and  also  for  the  payment  of  the  fine  of 
L.20  imposed  upon  him;0  and  performed  the  like  good  office 
towards  Henry  de  Beaumont,  whose  extraordinary  conduct 
towards  his  sovereign  at  the  council-board  had  subjected  him  to 
imprisonment.11 

In  the  same  year  the  king,  being  anxious  regarding  the  safe 
custody  of  his  Marches,  which  were  exposed  to  the  hostile  in- 
cursions of  the  Scotch,  directed  a  writ  to  Louis  Beaumont, 
bishop  of  Durham,  ordering  him  to  provide  for  the  security  of 
his  castles  of  Durham  and  Norham;e  in  consequence  of  which 
the  bishop  immediately  appointed  sir  Thomas  Gray  his  sheriff 
of  Norham  and  Islandshire,  and  constable  of  Norham  castle.1 
Nor  was  the  precaution  unnecessary;  for,  the  whole  of  the  north- 
ern counties  of  England  having  been  overrun  by  the  Scotch, 
this  castle  was  attacked  by  them,  and  being  one  of  the  very 
few  which  offered  any  effectual  resistance,  was  exposed  to  a 
close  and  long-continued  blockade.  The  garrison  being  re- 
duced to  great  extremities,  Edward  addressed  a  letter  to  Graj", 
then  the  constable,  enjoining  him  so  to  maintain  his  post 
against  the  Scotch  that  his  conduct  should  redound  to  the 
honor  of  the  crown  of  England,  and  at  the  same  time  sent  by 
Agnes  de  Gray  his  wife  the  sum  of  L.113,  to  be  expended  in 

*  Proofs,  No.  ix.        b  Raine's  North  Durham,  p.  82.       c  Pari.  Writs,  vol.  ii.  app.  p.  208. 
11  The  whole  of  this  transaction  may  be  seen  in  the  Feed.  vol.  ii.  p.  520. 
e  Proofs,  No.  xi.  f  Raine's  North  Durham,  p.  45. 


xxii  INTRODUCTION. 

procuring  the  services  of  more  men-at-arms  in  this  important 
stronghold.  By  this  timely  supply  he  added  twenty  men-at- 
arms  and  fifty  light-armed  horse  soldiers  to  the  ordinary  gar- 
rison of  the  castle  committed  to  his  charge,a  and  the  enemy 
were  compelled  to  raise  the  siege. b  As  a  proof  of  the  impor- 
tance of  this  border  fortress,  and  of  the  anxiety  with  which  the 
king  regarded  its  safety,  it  may  be  mentioned  that  in  the  Fce- 
dera  is  extant  a  writ  addressed  to  upwards  of  forty  of  the  prin- 
cipal nobility  of  England,  commanding  their  attendance  with 
horse  and  arms  at  Newcastle,  to  accompany  the  king,  who  was 
about  to  repel  the  Scotch,  then  besieging  the  castle  of  Nor- 
ham.c 

During  the  busy  period  between  1319  and  1331,  whilst  he 
was  constable  of  Norham  castle,d  occurred  various  feats  of  arms, 
of  which  a  few  are  recorded  in  the  subsequent  pages.  The 
story  of  William  Marmion,  the  knight  of  Lincolnshire,  to 
whom  bis  mistress  gave  a  helmet  of  gold,  bidding  him  make  it 
known  wherever  glory  was  most  difficult  to  be  won,  breathes  a 
spirit  of  chivalry  and  is  narrated  with  a  force  which  competes 
with  the  glowing  pages  of  Froissart.  We  are  told  how  it  was 
agreed  by  the  assembled  knights  that  Norham  "was  the  most 
perilous,  adventurous  place  in  the  country,"  and  that  to  Norham 
he  should  go.  Within  the  fourth  day  after  his  arrival  there 
he  had  an  opportunity  of  celebrating  his  mistress's  gift,  for 
Alexander  de  Moubray  appeared  before  the  castle,  attended  by 
the  most  valiant  of  the  Scottish  chivalry,  and  at  the  head  of 

*  Proofs,  No.  xii.  b  Scalacronica,  p.  147. 

c  Feed.  vol.  ii.  p.  496.  Other  documents  relative  to  the  same  event  occur  on  the  Close 
Roll  for  this  year,  but  the  Editor  refrains  from  inserting  them,  as  they  do  not  illustrate  the 
history  of  the  individual. 

J  Raine's  North  Durham,  p.  45;  Scalacronica,  p.  145. 


INTRODUCTION.  xxiii 

eight  score  men-at-arms.  When  Gray  was  about  to  lead  his 
followers  to  the  attack,  he  saw  William  Marmion  approaching 
on  foot,  splendidly  armed,  and  wearing  his  golden  helmet.  "  Sir 
knight,"  said  the  constable,  "you  have  come  hither  a  knight 
errant  that  you  might  celebrate  this  your  helmet,  and  since  it 
is  more  fitting  that  chivalry  be  done  on  horseback  than  on  foot, 
where  it  is  practicable,  mount  your  courser,  see  there  your  ene- 
mies, spur  into  the  midst  of  them;  and  I  renounce  God  if  I 
rescue  you  not,  dead  or  alive,  or  perish  in  the  attempt."  When 
the  knight,  in  compliance  with  these  instructions,  had  charged 
the  Scotch,  and,  being  surrounded  by  them,  appeared  on  the 
eve  of  perishing,  Sir  Thomas  Gray  and  the  garrison  spurred 
into  the  thickest  of  the  fight,  rescued  and  remounted  the 
stranger  knight;  they  so  conducted  themselves  that  the  Scotch 
were  defeated,  and  pursued  as  far  as  Berwick,  of  which  sir  Philip 
de  Moubray,  Alexander's  brother,  was  then  the  governor;  and  in 
the  conflict  Gray  slew  with  his  own  hand  a  Fleming  named 
Cryne,  who  stood  high  in  the  estimation  of  king  Robert 
Brus.a  Upon  another  occasion  Adam  de  Gordon,  a  Scottish 
baron,  accompanied  by  eight  6core  followers,  attempted  to  carry 
off  the  cattle  which  pastured  under  the  protection  of  the  gar- 
rison of  Norham.  Some  of  the  younger  and  less  experienced 
of  the  soldiers,  having  made  a  hasty  sally,  were  intercepted  by 
the  Scotch,  and  were  compelled  to  defend  themselves  amongst 
some  ruined  houses  at  great  disadvantage.  Gray,  perceiving 
their  danger,  vowed  he  would  drink  of  the  same  cup;  and  as 
his  whole  force  consisted  of  no  more  than  sixty  men,  he  caused 
the  large  mastiffs  of  the  castle  to  be  let  loose,  and  having  at- 
tacked the  invading  party,  who  in  the  meantime  had  drawn  up 

"  Scalacronica,  p.  146. 


xxiv  INTRODUCTION. 

their  whole  force  in  the  open  fields,  he  drove  them  with  con- 
siderable slaughter  across  the  Tweed  into  Scotland.3  Sir 
Thomas  Gray  was  twice  besieged  by  the  Scotch  when  filling 
the  responsible  situation  of  constable  of  this  fortress;  upon 
one  occasion  for  two  months,  upon  another  for  almost  a  whole 
year.  The  enemy  raised  a  fortress  against  him  at  Upsetling- 
ton,  on  the  opposite  bank  of  the  river,  and  another  in  the 
church  of  Norham;  and  he  was  twice  relieved  by  the  lords 
Percy  and  Nevil.  During  his  absence  in  the  south  his  castle 
was  nearly  lost  through  the  treachery  of  one  of  his  own  at- 
tendants, who,  having  killed  the  porter,  admitted  the  Scotch 
into  the  outer  ballium.  The  inner  ward,  however,  and  the 
keep  were  bravely  defended  by  the  English;  and  the  assailants, 
after  having  ineffectually  mined  the  foundations  of  the  principal 
tower  for  three  days,  alarmed  at  the  prospect  of  Gray's  arrival, 
retired  into  Scotland.1* 

In  1322,  he  appears  as  a  witness  to  a  charter  by  which  Matilda 
de  Cornhale  quitclaims  to  John  de  Bradefeld  of  Holy  Island, 
and  Alina  his  wife,  all  her  right  to  the  lands  which  she  pos- 
sessed in  Elwyk  near  Ross,c  in  which  he  is  described  as  con- 
stable of  Norham  Castle. 

For  some  reason  which  is  not  definitely  explained,  Edward, 
by  a  writ  in  the  17th  year  of  his  reign,  directed  Eustace  de 
Burneby  and  Matilda  his  wife  that  they  should  discontinue  the 
yearly  payment  of  L.20,  which  they  had  made  to  Gray,  for 
good  services  rendered  to  the  king.d  In  the  same  year  his 
name  stands  second  on  the  list  of  those  returned  by  Gilbert  de 
Borudon,  sheriff  of  Northumberland,  pursuant  to  a  writ  from 
the  king,  as  summoned  by  general  proclamation  to  attend  the 

*  Scalacronica,  p.  146.  b  Id.  p.  147.  c  Raine's  North  Durham,  app.  dccxxxii. 

d  Abbrev.  Rot.  Original.  17  Edw.  II.  vol.  i.  p.  272. 


INTRODUCTION.  xxv 

great  council  to  be  holden  at  Westminster  on  the  Wednesday 
next  after  Ascension-day,  30  May  1324.a 

In  20  Edw.  II.  he  was  empowered,  in  conjunction  with  Ralph 
de  Nevylle,  John  de  Fenwykc,  and  John  de  Lilburne,  to  com- 
pel the  shipping  of  the  ports  of  Tinmouth,  Dunstanburgh, 
Whiteby,  Alnmouth,  Hartlepool,  Warkworth,  Newcastle-upon- 
Tyne,  Newbigging,  and  Holy  Island,  to  join  the  fleet  under  the 
command  of  John  de  Sturmy,  admiral  of  the  North;b  and  shortly 
after  was,  in  like  maimer,  appointed  to  superintend  the  sailing 
of  the  said  ships  to  the  OrewehV 

The  sum  which  he  received  from  Edward  the  Second  for  the 
increase  of  the  garrison  at  Norham,  to  which  we  have  before 
alluded,  remaining  unaccounted  for  at  the  Exchequer,  in  5  Edw. 
III.,  he  presented  a  petition  to  the  king,  requesting  that  he 
might  be  permitted  to  account  for  the  same,  and  to  be  exone- 
rated. The  petition  was  granted,  and  he  was  acquitted  of  the 
sum,  with  the  proviso,  however,  that  the  Exchequer  should  not 
be  burdened  with  any  sum  beyond  the  L.113  so  advanced.*1 

By  letters  addressed  to  the  sheriff  of  Yorkshire,  6  Edw.  III., 
it  appears  that  Edward  the  Second  had  formerly  granted  the 
sum  of  sixpence  a-day,  to  be  paid  by  the  sheriff  of  Yorkshire 
for  the  time  being  to  the  said  Sir  Thomas;  and  that  Edward  the 
Third  had  commuted  this  payment  for  one  of  L.20  per  annum, 
to  be  continued  during  pleasure.  Moreover,  the  king  directs 
that  the  arrears  of  this  last  grant  be  paid  by  the  sheriff,  and  that 
the  subsequent  terms  of  payment  be  punctually  kept.6 

The  Scotch  having  been  defeated  with  great  loss  at  Halidown 
in  1333,  Edward  the  Third  gained  possession  of  Berwick,  and  in 
the  next  year  he  granted  to  Thomas  de  Gray,  in  consideration 

'  Parliamentary  Writs,  vol.  ii.  p.  i.  p.  649.  b  Id.  p.  757-  c  Id.  p.  759. 

d  Proofs,  No.  xii.  '  Proofs,  No.  xiii. 

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xxvi  INTRODUCTION. 

of  good  services  rendered  by  him,  a  messuage  situated  in  Uddin- 
gate  in  that  town,  formerly  the  property  of  Ralph  de  More.*  On 
the  following  day  he  was  a  surety  to  the  crown  for  payment  of 
the  rents  of  the  castle  mills  of  Berwick,  etc.  which  were  then 
demised  to  William  de  Berington  and  others.b  He  also  had  from 
the  king  a  half  carrucate  of  land,  with  its  appurtenances,  in 
Nesbit,  in  the  county  of  Northumberland,  forfeited  by  John  de 
Trollope.0 

In  the  same  year  a  fine  "sur  done  grant  et  render"  was  levied 
at  York  before  the  King's  Justices,  between  Thomas  Gray,  senior, 
complainant,  and  John  de  Boroudon  and  Alice  his  wife,  defor- 
ciants, of  the  manors  of  Ewart  and  Haukhill,  except  six  marks 
of  rent  in  Ewart,  which  the  said  John  and  Alice  acknowledged 
to  be  the  right  of  the  complainant  by  their  gift,  and  thereupon 
he  restored  the  same  to  them  and  the  heirs  of  the  body  of  Alice, 
at  a  nominal  rent,  provided  that,  in  default  of  her  issue,  the 
manors  should  revert  to  him.d 

In  9  Edw.  III.,  that  king  granted  him  the  custody  of  the 
lands  and  tenements  which  had  belonged  to  Andrew  de  Gray, 
deceased,  which  he  had  held  of  the  king  in  capite,  as  weU  in  the 
town  as  the  county  of  Berwick,  to  hold  during  the  minority 
of  the  heir  of  the  said  Andrew,  together  with  the  marriage 
of  the  said  heir  without  disparagement;  rendering  nothing  to 
the  king  for  the  same."  The  king,  in  the  same  year,  having 
taken  Gray  with  him  to  Perth  in  the  sudden  expedition  which 
he  made  to  that  town,  directed  letters  to  be  issued  by  which 
the  said  Sir  Thomas  was  freed  from  all  pleas  during  his  ab- 
sence/ 

He  occurs  in  1340  as  witness  to  a  deed  printed  in  the  Archae- 

■  Proofs,  No.  xiv.,  Rot.  Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  270.  *  Id.  p.  270.  c  Proofs,  No.  xv. 

i  Proofs,  No.  xxi.  '  Proofs,  No.  xvi.  '  Proofs,  No.  xvii. 


INTRODUCTION.  xxvii 

ologia  iEliana;a  and  in  the  same  year,  "whil  the  King  was  at 
the  sege  of  Turnay,  the  erles  of  Marclie  and  Sotherland  made  a 
rode  yn  to  England,  and  were  discomfitid  by  Thomas  Gray 
there." b 

In  16  Edw.  III.,  he  was  solicited  by  the  king  to  proceed 
against  the  French  in  person,  attended  by  a  proper  retinue,  or, 
if  his  own  attendance  was  inconvenient,  to  send  six  men-at-arms 
and  as  many  archers,  to  be  employed  in  the  same  service.0 

In  18  Edw.  III.,  an  order  was  issued  to  the  escheator  in  Ber- 
wick, ordering  him  to  restore  to  Gray  certain  lands  and  tene- 
ments in  that  town,  which  had  been  seized  in  consequence  of 
a  general  mandate  issuing  from  the  crown ; d  and  in  the  same 
year,  as  a  reward  for  good  service  performed  as  well  at  home 
as  in  the  parts  beyond  the  seas,  he  had  a  grant  of  the  manor  of 
Middlemast-Middleton,  in  Coketdale,  formerly  belonging  to 
Idonea  de  Middleton,  but  escheated  to  the  crown  in  consequence 
of  the  adherence  of  William  de  Middleton,  son  and  heir  of  the 
said  Idonea,  to  the  Scotch.6 

In  19  Edw.  III.,  he  had  a  charter  of  free-warren  in  all  his 
demesne  lands  of  Fenton,  Nesbit,  Doddington,  North  Middle- 
ton,  Middlemast-Middleton,  South  Middleton,  Howick,  Ewart, 
Heddon,  and  HaukhihV  and  appears  to  have  died  about  the 
year  1343,g  for  reasons  which  will  presently  be  stated,  leaving, 
by  his  wife  Agnes,  whom  Raine  conjectures  to  have  been  sur- 
named  de  Beyle,  his  son,  sir  Thomas  Gray  of  He  ton,  knight. 

The  first  appearance  of  this  Thomas  is  in  12  Edward  III., 
when  letters  of  protection  were  granted  to  him,  he  being  about 

a  Vol.  ii.  p.  280.         "  Leland's  Abstract,  Appendix,  p.  299.        c  Feed.  vol.  ii.  p.  1216. 
d  Rot.  Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  647.        e  Proofs,  No.  xviii.  '  Proofs.  No.  xx. 

'  The  Fine  Roll  for  this  year  has  been  examined,  but  his  death  is  not  there  re- 
corded. 


xxviii  INTRODUCTION. 

to  accompany  William  de  Montacute,  earl  of  Salisbury,  to  the 
parts  beyond  the  sea.a  In  18  Edw.  III.,  on  account  of  good 
service  rendered  to  the  king  as  well  at  home  as  abroad,  he  had 
a  grant  of  the  custody  of  the  manor  of  Middlemast-Middleton, 
which  had  recently  been  presented  to  his  father."3  It  appears 
from  the  bishop's  registers  cited  by  Raine,  that  he  performed 
homage  10  April  1343,  and  that  he  was  appointed  constable, 
sheriff,  and  escheator  of  Norham,  8  Jan.  1346,  and  that  his  oath 
of  fealty  to  the  prior  of  Durham  is  dated  on  the  8  Feb.  ensuing. 

He  was  present  at  the  battle  of  Nevil's  Cross,  20  Edw.  III., 
and  letters  were  addressed  to  him  by  the  king,  thanking  him 
for  the  good  service  then  and  there  performed  against  the 
Scotch.0  At  this  conflict  he  captured  David  Graham  and  John 
de  Haliburton,  and  was  required  by  writ,  dated  8  Dec.  in  the 
same  year,  to  surrender  them  at  the  Tower  of  London;  and, 
moreover,  upon  the  10th  of  the  same  month  he  was  requested  to 
repair  to  Westminster,  on  the  morrow  of  the  feast  of  Epiphany, 
there  to  treat  with  the  prelates  and  "magnates,"  and  others 
of  the  council,  concerning  the  furtherance  of  the  Scottish 
war.d 

On  26  Sept.  1347,  with  the  consent  of  the  farmers  of  the  cus- 
toms, he  was  appointed  supervisor  of  the  tronage  and  exportation 
of  wool  from  the  port  of  Berwick,  and  had  the  custody  of  the 
''folium"  of  the  cocket-seal  committed  to  him  as  security  for  the 
issues  of  the  same.e 

In  22  Edw.  III.,  he  and  certain  other  northern  tenants  were 
commanded,  under  pain  of  forfeiture,  to  observe  the  peace  then 

*  Feed.  vol.  ii.  p.  1048.  b  Proofs,  No.xix.  e  Rot.  Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  675.  Foed. 

vol.  iii.  p.  92.  "  Rot.  Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  679;  Foed.  vol.  iii.  p,  97- 

°  Rot.  Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  705.  There  is  reason  to  suppose,  however,  that  the  Thomas  Gra 
here  mentioned  was  a  citizen  of  York,  and  not  of  the  Heton  family. 


INTRODUCTION.  xxix 

recently  concluded  at  Calais  between  England  with  France  and 
Scotland;1  and  by  another  writ  of  the  same  date,  he  is  joined  in 
commission  with  Thomas  de  Musgrave,  Walter  de  Creyk,  and 
Robert  de  Maners,  to  see  that  the  said  peace  be  not  broken,  and 
to  punish  those  whose  conduct  on  the  Borders  may  likely  pro- 
duce a  rupture.b  In  the  same  year  he  was  again  appointed  a 
commissioner,  in  conjunction  with  Henry  de  Percy,  Ralph  de 
Nevill,  William  Heron,  John  de  Coupland,  and  the  individuals 
last  mentioned,  to  treat  with  the  Scotch  as  to  the  renewal  of  the 
truce  of  Calais,  as  far  as  Scotland  is  concerned.0 

He  sat  as  one  of  the  Justices  at  Durham,  25  Edw.  III.,  when 
a  fine  was  levied  before  him  in  the  bishop's  court  there.d 

The  truce  between  England  and  Scotland  having  now  ex- 
pired, the  king,  by  his  writ,  dated  30  Oct.,  27  Edw.  III.,  directed 
the  said  Thomas,  Robert  de  Oggle,  and  the  sheriff  of  Northum- 
berland, to  levy  the  men  of  that  county  for  the  defence  of 
England  against  the  Scotch,  who  are  said  to  be  meditating  an 
irruption.0 

In  29  Edw.  III.,  namely  1355,  the  Scotch,  having  entered 
into  a  confederacy  with  the  French,  commenced  hostilities 
with  England.  In  the  month  of  August,  Patrick  earl  of  March 
made  an  inroad  into  the  Borders,  and  having  placed  an  ambus- 
cade on  the  Scottish  side  of  the  Tweed,  sent  over  Sir  William 
Ramsey  of  Dalwolsey  with  four  hundred  men,  to  ravage  the 
opposite  country.  Sir  Thomas  Gray  seeing  the  booty  driven 
past  Norham  castle,  of  which  he  was  then  constable/  issued  out, 

*  Rot.  Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  713.  *  Ibid.  c  Id.  p.  717.  d  Printed  in  Archaeolog. 

jEliana,  vol.  ii.  p.  276,  where  it  is  erroneously  ascribed  to  25  Hen.  III.,  1241. 

'  Rot.  Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  762. 

'  So  says  Leland's  Abstract,  p.  304,  but  no  proof  that  he  held  such  an  appointment  is  to 
be  found  in  Raine's  list  of  the  officers  for  the  shire  of  Norham.  Wyntown,  vol.  ii.  p.  275, 
also  calls  him  the  warden  of  the  castle. 


xxx  INTRODUCTION. 

attended  by  no  more  than  fifty  men"  of  the  garrison,  pursued 
the  invaders  as  far  as  Nesbit  in  the  March,  where,  being  sur- 
prised by  the  ambuscade,  and  attacked  in  rear  and  front,  the 
English  were  compelled  to  surrender,  after  performing  prodi- 
gies of  valour  which  elicited  the  praise  of  their  adversaries. 
Gray,  together  with  his  son,  also  named  Thomas,b  was  captured; 
amongst  the  slain  was  John  de  Haliburton,  styled  the  scourge  of 
the  English,  probably  the  same  individual  whom  Gray  had  taken 
prisoner  at  the  battle  of  Durham.0  In  his  confinement  in  the 
castle  of  Edinburgh,  he  beguiled  away  the  solitude  of  his  im- 
prisonment by  undertaking  the  compilation  of  the  Scalacronica.'1 

Being  thus  in  captivity,  and  a  heavier  ransom  demanded  from 
him  than  he  was  able  to  pay,  he  presented  a  petition  to  Edward 
setting  forth  his  situation,  in  consequence  of  which  a  writ  was 
issued  by  that  monarch,  permitting  him  to  cause  one  hundred 
sacks  of  wool  to  be  conveyed  from  Norham  to  Berwick,  and  to 
have  the  same  weighed  there  and  exported,  after  payment  of 
the  duty  of  fifty  shillings  per  sack,  thus  freeing  him  from  the 
expense  of  having  them  carried  to  Newcastle  to  be  there 
weighed.6 

His  captivity  was  not  long  protracted;  we  have  evidence  that 
it  did  not  extend  to  5  October,  31  Edw.  III.,  for  on  that  clay 
we  find  that  John,  son  and  heir  of  John  Gray,  one  of  the  twenty 
hostages  who  became  security  for  the  ransom  of  David  de  Brus, 

*  Wyntown  says  he  had  fourscore  men-at-arms  besides  archers. 

*■  The  last-cited  authority  erroneously  calls  this  son  William.  His  description  of  this 
skirmish  adds  nothing  to  the  account  given  by  Fordun,  but  it  is  narrated  in  good  poetry ; 
the  lost  folios  of  the  Scala  would  probably  surpass  them  all. 

c  Fordun,  vol.  ii.  p.  350;  Leland's  Abstract,  p.  304;  Wyntown,  vol.  ii.  p.  275. 

*  See  the  present  volume,  pp.  1,  2. 

'  Rot  Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  798;  Feed.  vol.  iii.  p.  343. 


INTRODUCTION.  xxxi 

king  of  Scotland,  was  delivered  into  the  custody  of  sir  Thomas 
Grey." 

In  the  ensuing  year  he  was  appointed,  together  with  Thomas 
de  Musgrave  and  William  Heron,  an  arbitrator  on  the  part  of 
Edward  III.,  to  discuss  with  the  arbitrators  of  William  de 
Douglas  the  question,  whether  that  baron  had  captured  the 
castle  of  Hermitage  during  the  truce  between  England  and 
Scotland.b 

In  1359,  William  de  Dalden,  lord  of  Dalden,  in  the  bishopric 
of  Durham,  granted  to  him  a  moiety  of  Felkington  and  Aller- 
dean,  in  Norhamshire;c  and  in  the  same  year  he  had  letters  of 
protection,  being  about  to  accompany  the  prince  of  Wales  to 
the  parts  beyond  the  sea,d  during  which  expedition  he  probably 
acquired  that  information  upon  the  French  campaign  which 
occupies  such  a  prominent  place  in  the  latter  pages  of  his  work. 
How  long  he  was  absent  we  have  no  means  of  ascertaining,  but 
in  35  Edw.  III.  a  writ  was  issued,  appointing  him  and  Henry 
de  Percy,  Ralph  de  Nevill,  Richard  Tempest,  and  John  de 
Coupeland,  keepers  of  the  Marches  against  Scotland.e 

In  40  Edward  III.  this  Thomas  Gray,  upon  payment  of  a  fine 
of  ten  marks,  had  a  grant  of  the  fourth  part  of  the  manor  of 
Upsetlington -West,  with  the  appurtenances,  on  the  Scottish  side 
of  the  Tweed,  nearly  opposite  the  castle  of  Norham,  formerly 
belonging  to  Nicholas  Heyden  and  James  his  son,  now  the 
king's  traitors,  to  hold  to  him  and  his  heirs  for  ever.' 

It  appears  by  an  indenture,  dated  41  Edw.  III.,  that  Gray  was 

a   Feed.  vol.  iii.  p.  366;  Rot.  Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  814. 

b  Feed.  vol.  iii.  p.  393;  Rot.  Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  826.        c  Surtees  Durham,  vol.  i.  p.  ii.  p.  6. 
*  Feed.  vol.  iii.  p.  443.  e  Rot.  Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  857. 

'  Abbrev.  Rot.  Origin,  vol.  ii.  p.  291 ;  Letter-book  of  the  Prior  of  Durham,  MS.  Cott. 
Faust.  A.  vi.  fol.  45,  b. 


xxxii  INTRODUCTION. 

appointed  one  of  the  English  wardens  of  the  Eastern  Marches 
against  Scotland  ;a  and  shortly  afterwards  a  writ  was  issued  to 
the  individuals  mentioned  in  the  last  instrument,  directing  them 
to  see  it  carried  into  effect.1'  Being  again  constable  of  Norham 
castle  in  42  Edw.  III.,  he  was  required,0  together  with  the  war- 
dens of  the  castles  of  Berwick  and  Roxburgh,  to  provide  for  the 
observance  of  the  truce  between  England  and  Scotland.11 

Nothing  further  concerning  the  exploits  of  this  Thomas  de 
Gray  has  been  observed;  he  died,  according  to  Raine,  in  1369, 
leaving  by  Margaret,  daughter  of  William  de  Presfen  or  Presson, 
a  son,  sir  Thomas  Gray  of  Heton,  then  aged  ten  years. 

Here  we  terminate  our  inquiries  into  the  history  of  this 
family;  but,  for  the  purpose  of  better  exhibiting  its  progressive 
importance,  it  has  been  thought  advisable  to  append  a  few  ad- 
ditional sources  of  information,  hitherto  unprinted,  which  may 
aid  the  investigations  of  those  who  are  inclined  to  pursue  the 
subject  further  than  the  Editor's  limits  and  subject  permit  him 
to  do.  For  this  purpose  he  subjoins  two  inquisitions  taken 
upon  the  decease  of  Thomas,  the  son  of  the  writer  of  the 
Scalacronica. 

By  the  first  of  these e  it  appears  that  he  died  seized  in  his 
demesne  as  of  fee  of  four  tenements,  with  their  appurtenances, 
without  Pilgrim  Street,  two  tenements  in  Bradechare,  a  tene- 
ment upon  the  Sandhill,  a  tenement  on  the  Netherside,  a  cellar 
in  the  Nether  Flesherrow,  two  waste  tenements  in  the  Nete- 
marketgate,  all  in  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  and  certain  rents  aris- 
ing  from  various  tenements  in  the  same  town.  By  the  second 
of  these,'  the  return  of  the  escheator  of  Northumberland,  we 

a  Rot.  Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  913.  b  Rot.  Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  914.  c  Feed.  vol.  iii.  p.  832. 

"  Rot.  Scot.  vol.  i.  p.  920.  e  Proofs,  No.  xxii.  '  Proofs,  No.  xxiii. 


INTRODUCTION.  xxxiii 

are  able  to  form  a  correct  estimate  of  the  large  possessions 
which  the  family  of  Gray  had  now  acquired  in  that  county. 
The  jurors  state  that  the  deceased  died  seized  of  the  following 
possessions;  namely,  the  castle  and  manor  of  Wark-upon -Tweed, 
with  its  appurtenances,  of  which  he  had  been  jointly  enfeoffed 
with  Johanna  his  wife,  then  surviving;  a  messuage  and  sixteen 
acres  of  land,  called  Straideland,  lying  in  the  fields  of  Bamburgh, 
and  three  burgages  in  the  same  town ;  three  vills  called  Middle- 
ton;  the  manors  of  Doddington,  Ewart,  Howick,  and  Hawkhill, 
with  their  appurtenances;  a  messuage  and  land  in  Alnwick; 
half  of  the  manors  of  Rothbury  and  Yerdill;  the  manor  of 
Hetton;  lands  and  tenements  in  Presson;  the  third  part  of 
Coldmerton;  one  husband-land,  two  cottages,  and  a  place  called 
Bostlees,  held  of  the  lord  Darcy;  one  husband-land  in  Yeverne, 
another  in  Bowsden,  and  a  third  in  Killum.  The  jurors  also 
state  that  he  died  on  the  Thursday  before  or  after  the  feast  of 
St  Andrew  the  apostle,  2  Hen.  IV.  (for  the  two  returns  differ 
on  this  important  point),  leaving  as  his  heir  his  son  sir  Thomas 
Gray,  knight,  aged  nineteen  years.  From  an  inquisition  con- 
cerning the  age  of  this  Thomas,3  it  is  proved  that  he  was  born  in 
Alnwick  castle,  on  the  feast  of  St  Andrew,  8  Ric.  II.,  and  bap- 
tized on  the  same  day  in  the  church  of  St  Michael  in  that  town. 
What  has  here  been  advanced  will  be  better  understood  by 
the  following  genealogical  sketch  of  the  early  part  of  the  family. 
The  reader  is  referred  for  a  most  elaborate  and  valuable  pedi- 
gree to  Raine's  North  Durham — a  work  from  the  appendix  to 
which,  consisting  of  several  hundred  charters  connected  with 
Scotland,  the  inquirer  into  the  early  history  of  that  country 
may  gain  a  fund  of  most  important  information. 

*  Proofs,  No.  xxiv. 


INTRODUCTION. 


Sir  John  Gray  of  Berwick,  =  . 
ob.    circ.    1246,    Introd. 
p.  xiv. 


Sir  Thomas  Gray  of  Heton,  — 
1273,  p.  xiv. 


Sir  Thomas  Gray  of  Heton,  =  Agnes 


knight,  p.  xvii. ;  ob.  circ. 
1343. 


p.  xxi. 


Sir  Robert  Gray,  knight,  p.  xiii.  : 
note ;  temp.  Alex.  III.  had  half 
of  the  mill  of  Lowedre,  and 
certain  tenements  in  Hidegate 
in  Berwick;  Rot.  Scot.  vol.  i. 
p.  268.  In  1322  witnessed  the 
deed  732  of  Raine's  appendix, 
together  with  his  brother  the 
constable  of  Norham ;  died  be- 
fore 8  Edw.  III.;  Rot.  Scot. 
vol.  i.  p.  268.  Raine,  p.  184, 
conjectures  that  he  was  of 
Cornhill. 


Sir  Thomas  Gray  of  Heton,  =  Margaret,  daugh- 


knight,  author  of  the  Sca- 
lacronica. 


ter  of  William  de 
Presfen  or  Pres- 
son,  near  Wark. 


Sir  Thomas  Gray  of  Heton,  =  Johanna 


knight,  born  about  1359, 
constable  of  Norham  castle, 
justice  of  assize  in  Norham, 
and  Island-shire,  1390, 
1396;  Raine,  p.  46.  He 
is  described  as  of  "  Ber- 
wykeincom.  Northumber- 
land," by  Dugdale,  Baron, 
vol.  iii.  p.  193,  and  pro- 
bably had  a  residence  in 
Uddingate  there.  In  1391 
he  is  described  as  late  de- 
puty warden  of  the  East 
Marches ;  Rot.  Scot.  vol.  ii. 
p.  113.  He  was  returned 
for  the  county  of  Northum- 
berland in  1396  and  1399; 
Hutchinson's  Hist,  of  Nor- 
thumberland, vol.  ii.  p.  446. 
The  Inqq.  p.  m.  vary  as 
to  the  date  of  his  death; 
Proofs,  No.  xxii.  xxiii. 


Proofs,  No.  xxiii.; 
but  according  to 
Raine,  Catherine, 
daughter  of  John 
lord  Mowbray ; 
was  alive  2  Hen. 
IV. 


Robert  Gray,  jun.,  son  and  heir,  =  .  . 
was  seized  of  the  tenements, 
&c.  before  specified,  in  1 334 ; 
ob.s.p.m.1338;  .Raine,  p.  184. 

William  Swin-  =  Mary  Gray,  sole  daughter 

hoe ;  Raine,  p.    I      and  heiress. 

184;  hence  the 

Swinhoes      of/;\ 

Goswick    and 

CornhiU. 


Sir  John  Gray,  knight,  =  Johanna,  daugh- 
lord  Powis  jure  uxo-         ter  of  Edward 
lord    Charleton 
of  Powis. 

/\ 
The  Barons  Grey  of  Powis. 


Sir  Thomas  Gray  of  Heton,  =  Alice,    daughter    of 
knight,  beheaded  in  1415.    I      Ralph  lord  Neville 
of  Raby. 

A 
The  Greys  of  Howick  and  Tankerville. 


INTRODUCTION.  xxxv 

The  length  which  these  introductory  remarks  have  somewhat 
unexpectedly  attained  compels  the  Editor  to  confine  himself  to 
a  very  few  observations  connected  with  the  literary  history  of  the 
Scalacronica.  After  what  has  already  been  advanced,  it  is  pre- 
sumed that  no  doubt  as  to  the  individuality  of  the  writer  of 
this  work  can  be  entertained,  and  therefore  the  reader  need 
not  be  delayed  with  an  examination  of  the  claims  which,  ac- 
cording to  Leland,  one  John  of  Oxford  has  to  its  authorship.* 
It  is  singular  that,  of  all  men,  Leland  should  have  committed 
this  egregious  error,  when  it  is  to  him  that  we  are  indebted  for 
the  earliest  notice  of  the  work;  and  he  seems  to  have  arrived 
at  the  inevitable  conclusion  "  that  one  of  the  Greys  of  North- 
umberland was  author  of  it,"  from  observing  that  the  name 
of  the  writer  and  the  blazon  of  his  arms  was  expressed  in  the 
prologue.1'  This  chronicle  was  first  noticed  in  print  by  Dr 
John  Caius  in  his  curious  volume,  "  De  Antiquitate  Cantabri- 
giensis  Academiae,"0  book  i.  chap.  38,  in  which  it  is  ascribed  to 
its  proper  author,  and  afterwards  cited,  but  in  a  very  superficial 
manner,  by  Brian  Twyne,d  Bale,  Pits,  Vossius,  Tanner,0  Jewel/ 
Fuller,*  and  their  copyists.  Besides  these,  it  attracted  the  at- 
tention of  Dr  Nicholas  Wotton,  dean  of  York  and  Canterbury, 
who,  in  the  midst  of  repeated  missions  to  France,  Germany,  and 
Scotland,  during  the  reigns  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  Edward  the 
Sixth,  Mary  and  Elizabeth,  found  leisure  to  amass  copious  his- 

See  Tanner,  Bibl.  p.  568. 
b  He  there  states  that  his  name  is  expressed  by  certain  letters,  which  he  specifies  by 
the  numbers  which  they  occupy  in  the  alphabet;  these  form  "  Thomas  Grai."     The  ac- 
count which  is  here  given  of  his  armorial  bearings  is  too  indefinite  to  be  reduced,  with 
certainty,  to  the  terms  of  modern  heraldry. 

c  London,  1568,  p.  51.  i  De  Antiq.  Acad.  Oxon.  p.  277. 

See  these  writers  under  the  articles  alluded  to. 

'  Apology,  p.  i.  p.  1 1.  e  Church  Hist.  p.  63. 


xxxvi  INTRODUCTION. 

torical  and  genealogical  collections,  of  which  one  volume  is  in 
the  Harleian  Library,*  and  contains  numerous  extracts  from 
the  Scalacronica;  but  he  has  not  given  us  any  intimation  of 
the  depository  of  the  original,  nor  has  Leland  been  more  ex- 
plicit. We  are  therefore  uncertain  whether  any  other  manu- 
script has  existed;  but  this  much  is  certain,  that  if  Leland 
made  his  analysis  from  the  copy  now  in  Corpus  Christi  Lib- 
rary, it  was  then  much  more  complete  than  it  now  is,  for 
we  have  at  present  to  regret  the  loss  of  a  considerable  and  in- 
teresting portion.1"  It  will  be  observed,  that  in  the  prologue, 
the  writer  speaks  with  some  obscurity  of  having  translated  this 
work  from  verse  into  prose.  To  what  original  he  here  alludes, 
or  whether  we  have  now  the  genuine  production  of  Gray,  or 
how  he  happens  to  speak  of  Otterburne,  whose  history  is  gene- 
rally referred  to  a  later  period,  are  questions  which  the  Editor 
is  not  called  upon  to  discuss.  In  such  investigations,  where 
nothing  can  be  advanced  except  upon  conjecture,  and  where 
all  must  rest  upon  supposition  and  probabilities,  he  does  not 
consider  it  necessary  to  intrude  his  own  theories  upon  those 
who  can  exercise  their  ingenuity  as  well  as  he  can.  In  the 
Public  Library  at  Cambridge  is  the  outline  of  the  contents  of 
a  manuscript  which  seems  to  have  agreed  very  closely  with  the 
Scalacronica.  Of  its  fate  nothing  is  now  known,  and  no  por- 
tions of  it  exist  in  the  volume  there  specified;0  it  has  been 
thought  advisable,  however,  to  subjoin  the  abstract  yet  remain- 

a  That  this  volume  was  in  the  writing  of  Wotton  was  unknown  to  Wanley,  when  lie 
framed  the  portion  of  the  Harleian  Catalogue  in  which  it  is  described,  but  the  fact  has 
been  detected  by  the  Editor's  friend,  John  Holmes,  Esquire,  of  the  British  Museum. 

b  The  MS.  now  wants  that  which  formed  the  original  of  Leland's  Abstract,  extending 
from  p.  299,  J.  10,  to  p.  304,  I.  38,  of  the  present  edition. 

c  Proofs,  No.  xxvii. 


INTRODUCTION.  xxxvii 

ing,  that  it  may  be  compared  with  the  corresponding  passages 
in  the  present  volume. 

The  portion  here  printed  commences  with  the  Norman  con- 
quest, and  exhibits  the  whole  of  the  chronicle  from  that  pe- 
riod to  the  end  of  the  volume,  without  selection  or  omission  of 
any  kind.  The  period  anterior  to  the  Conquest,  being  a  com- 
pilation from  works  which  are  either  unconnected  with  the 
history  of  Britain,  or  such  as  exist  in  a  distinct  and  accessible 
form,  was  not  thought  worthy  of  being  printed.  The  text  here 
given  is  a  faithful  representative  of  the  manuscript;  and  in  retain- 
ing the  errors  of  the  original,  the  Editor  has  been  guided  rather 
by  the  authority  of  others  than  his  individual  judgment.  These 
errors  are  numerous,  but  fortunately  they  are  too  gross  to  be 
dangerous.  The  appendix  of  notes  and  illustrations  has  been 
selected  for  the  most  part  from  manuscripts  in  the  British 
Museum.  In  its  formation  it  was  the  wish  of  the  Editor  to 
present  to  his  readers  as  much  information  from  unexplored 
sources  as  was  consistent  with  the  proper  discharge  of  his  duty. 
He  has  terminated  these  notes  with  the  reign  of  Richard  the 
First.  To  have  continued  them  to  the  extent  to  which  they 
might  have  been  carried,  during  the  later  periods,  would  have 
been  an  easy  task;  but  the  commencement  of  the  reign  of  John, 
when  the  regular  and  connected  series  of  the  Chancery  Rolls 
begins,  was  considered  the  most  advisable  opportunity  of  dis- 
continuing these  notes,  both  because  our  history  from  that  era 
becomes  comparatively  lucid  by  the  recent  publication  of  a  con- 
siderable portion  of  these  rolls  by  the  Record  Commission,  and 
because  the  Scalacronica  at  that  period  becomes  more  authen- 
tic and  valuable. 

That  the  present  volume  may  be  more  complete,  it  has  been 


xxxviii  INTRODUCTION. 

resolved,  upon  mature  deliberation,  to  reprint  Leland's  abstract 
of  tbe  work,  since  it  is  through  this  medium  that  the  Scalacro- 
nica  has  hitherto  been  quoted,  and  because  when  he  used  the 
manuscript  it  had  not,  as  has  been  already  observed,  sustained 
the  provoking  mutilation  by  which  it  is  now  deprived  of  so 
much  interesting  matter. 

It  was  the  Editor's  intention  to  append  a  Glossary,  and  one 
was  framed  for  the  purpose  of  insertion  but  withheld,  since 
the  difficulty  which  is  experienced  in  first  reading  this  work 
consists  rather  in  the  disguised  form  in  which  the  words  are 
clothed,  than  in  the  introduction  of  obsolete  phraseology.  After 
the  perusal  of  a  few  pages,  it  will  be  found  that  these  apparent 
obstacles  are  easily  surmounted;  and  the  words  which  are  really 
archaisms  may  be  found  in  the  glossaries  of  Cotgrave  or  Ro- 
quefort. 

In  conclusion,  the  Editor  begs  to  offer  his  thanks  to  the 
Reverend  Dr  Lamb,  Master  of  Corpus  Christi  College,  for  per- 
mission to  transcribe  and  collate  the  manuscript  of  the  Scala- 
cronica,  and  for  the  facilities  which  he  so  liberally  afforded  in  the 
accomplishment  of  this  task;  to  Henry  Petrie,  Esquire,  and 
to  Sir  Francis  Palgrave,  Keepers  of  the  Records  in  the  Tower 
and  Chapter  House,  for  leave  to  make  copies  of  the  documents 
in  their  respective  offices,  illustrative  of  the  family  of  Gray; 
to  John  Smith,  Esquire,  youngest,  Secretary  to  the  Maitland 
Club,  for  the  interest  which  he  took,  and  the  important  assist- 
ance which  he  rendered  in  the  present  volume;  and  to  Robert 
Pitcairn,  Esquire,  for  the  accuracy  with  which  the  press,  under 
his  direction,  executed  a  work  attended  with  more  than  ordi- 
nary difficulties. 

JOSEPH  STEVENSON. 

London.  December,  1835. 


THE  FOLLOWING  CONVENTIONAL  MARKS  HAVE  BEEN  ADOPTED. 

Interlineations  are  placed  between  accents,  v     '. 

Words  of  which  the  reading  is  doubtful,  or  apparently  wrong,  have  ||  prefixed. 

Words  decidedly  erroneous  are  distinguished  by  |. 

W'ords  inserted  are  placed  between  brackets,  [     ]. 

The  cancelled  words  of  the  original  are  inserted. 


PROOFS  AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 


No.  I. 

Ex  orig.  in  Recept.  Cur.  Scaccarii. 

Hec  est  final  concordia  fta  in  cur  ctni  regf  apd  Novu.  Castru  in  c^stino 
S'ti  Jacobi  anno  regii  regf  Henf  fit  regf  Jon  t'cesimo  coram  Rogro 
de  Thurkilby  Gilbto  de  Preston  magro  Simoe  de  Wauton  "I  Johe  do 
Cobbeha  Justic  itinlantib3  "t  aliis  dni  regf  fidelib3  tuc  ibi  p,sentib3. 
Inr  Robtum  Grey  ~t  Agn  ux  ej9  Adam  de  Hawardyn  1  Matilt  ux  ej9 
petii.  "t  Ricm  de  S'to  Petro  ten  de  q^tuor  bovatis  tre  ~t  t'b3  thoftis  cu 
ptin  in  Killigwurth.  Ufi  ass  mortis  ancessoris  sum  fuit  inr  eos  I  eadem 
cur.  Scitt  qd  p^dti  Rob  "t  Agn  Ada  "t  Matilt  recogn  pMtam  ?ram  "t  thofta 
cu  ptin  esse  jus  ipius  Rici.  Et  p  hac  rec  fine  1  concordia  idem  Ric  con- 
cessit pdtis  Robto  1  Agn.  Ade  "t  Matilt  duodeci  ac^s  tre  1  unu  thoftu  cu 
ptin  de  eadem  tra  1  thoftis  "t  unu  croftu  qd  est  de  ptin  ejusdem  tre.  scitt 
quatuor  acras  t  unam  rodam  que  jacent  in  campo  qui  vocatur  Estfeld 
vs9  oriente.  duas  acras  "t  dim  que  jacent  in  campo  qui  vocatur  Hyppelawe 
vs9  aquilone.  q'nq,  acras  It  unam  rod  que  jacet  in  campo  q'  vocatur 
Horchestres  "t  Bereacres.  vs9  occidente.  et  iltd  thoftu  "t  croftu  que  Humfrid 
de  Pykeden.  aliqii  tenuit  in  eadem  villa.  Habii  It  ten  eisdem  Robto  t  Agn 
Ade  "t  Matilt  "t  bedib3  ipa^  Agii  1  Matilt  de  capital^  dnis  feodi  illi0 

(F) 


xlii  PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

inppetuu.  faciendo  in  omia  svic  que  ad  pdtas  duodeci  acras  tre  thoftu 
1  croftu  ptinet.  et  supplusagm  toti9  p\tte  tre  t  thofto^  cii  ptin  remanebit 
cidem  Rico  ~t  fiedib3  suis  quieJ  de  jMtis  Robto  t  Agri  Ada  T:  Matill  1 
hedibj  ipav  Agn  1  Matilt  inppetuu. 

Northumb' 


No.  II. 

CHRON.  DE  LANERCOST,  AD  AN.  M.CC.XCVI. 

Quoniam  hie  mentio  occurrit  de  patrocinio  Sancti  Francisci  fidutialiter 
invocato,  tangam  hie  duo  quae  acciderunt  ad  tres  annos  ante  destructionem 
Bervvici,  qua?  in  ipso  burgo  contigerunt.  Ipsa  civitas  quondam  adeo  po- 
pulosa  ac  negotiosa  extiterat  quod  merito  altera  Alexandria  dici  poterat, 
cujus  divitiae  mare  et  aquae  muri  ejus.  Illis  diebus  cives  praepotentes 
effecti  et  Deo  devoti  largas  erogabant  eleemosinas;  inter  quas  ob  amotem 
et  reverentiam  Sancti  Francisci  ordini  providere  volentes,  statuerunt  de 
communi  area  annuatim  sumere  quandam  certam  expensarum  summam 
pro  utroque  festo  Beati  Francisci  honorifice  procurando,  insuper  et  pro 
indumento  pauperum  fratrum  apud  se  habitantium  praeparando,  quo  et 
geminum  misericordia;  implerent  officium,  et  sancto  ex  mercatore  con- 
verso  devotum  exhiberent  servitium,  sperantes  pro  impensa  pietate  etiam 
in  praesenti  consequi  ex  hoc  majus  mercandi  lucrum.  Non  eos  fefellit 
opinio  nee  spes  frustravit,  quin  omnibus  florerent  opibus,  donee  appro- 
pinquante  eorum  exterminio,  ad  suggestionem  quorundam  mente  cor- 
ruptorum,  qui  non  solum  burgensibus  his  immo  toti  terrae  illi  reperti 
sunt  causa  confusionis,  edocti  fuerunt  primo  eleemosinam  statutam  dimi- 
nuere,  postea  dimidiare.  Quia  vero  hujus  devotionis  inventor  extiterat 
dominus  Johannes  Gray,  tam  miles  quam  burgensis,  qui  ante  annos 
plurimos  ex  hac  luce  subductus  fuerat,  praemunivit  Deus  plebem  adversus 
imminens  periculum,  hoc  modo.    Anno  praecedente  guerram  Scotia?  visum 


PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS.  xliii 

fuit  Thomae  Hugtoun,  dicti  militis  juniori  filio,  quod  in  loco  quodam  de- 
liciarura  inter  catenas  sanctorum  fratrum  cerneret  patrcra  suum  dudum 
mortuum,  habitu  ac  gestu  cseteris  Minoribus  conformem.  Cumque  perso- 
nam patris  recognosceret,  sed  gradum  ejus  miraretur  mutatum,  suspensa? 
cogitationi  ipsius  tale  dedit  responsum;  "  quod  ante  non  vidisti,  fili,  mi- 
raris  me  in  habitu  Minorum  constitutum,  sed  per  hoc  a  Deo  doceris  me 
in  eorum  numero  computatum  quorum  pra?cipuum  adamavi  consortium. 
Vadas,  igitur,  vice  mei  ad  vicinos  Berwici,  et  eis  ex  parte  Dei  publico 
denuncies  ut  caritatem  impensionis  quam  ceperam  erogare  in  beati  patris 
Francisci  honorem  resuscitent  ac  restaurent;  sin  autem  cito  sentient  non 
tantum  dilapidationem  temporalium  quin  etiam  dehonestationem  corporum 
suorum."  Excussus  somno  statim  detexit  civibus  revelationem  sibi  fac- 
tam,  suasit  emendam.  Non  curantibus  corrigere  acciderunt  per  ordinem 
quae  verificaverunt  visionem;  dum  primo  mercatus  defioeret,  demum  gla- 
dius  desseviret. 


No.  III. 

MS.  Cott.  Nero,  C.  viii.  fol.  44,  b. 

T.  de  Grey)         Debenf  in  garder  ctni  regis  dno  Thome  de  Grey 

Miles.      /    militi  moranti  in  comitia  dni  Johis  de  Seg^ve  cuflodis 

ville  Ber  sup  Twedam  anno  q^rto  tam  p  arr  vadio^  fuo^  q^m  p  reftauf 

q°^dam  equoT/  fuoi^  ad  arma  pdito^  in  svicio  dti  dni  regis  ibidem  anno 

eodem  p  comp  sec  Urn  apud  Eboi;.  xxvjt0  die  Januar  anno  xiij. 

clxxix  lj.  xj.  s.  iiij.  d. 
fit  billa. 


xliv 


PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS. 


No.  IV. 

MS.  Cott.  Vesp.  C.  xvj.  fol.  1. 

Domino  Robto  de  Grei  militi  commoranti  ad  vad  dni  firi  rf  in  comi- 
tiva  dti  domini  Radulphi  de  Montenmerij  capienti  p  diem.  ij.  s.  pro  va- 
diis  suis  Wirhni  de  Prendergeste  Jonis  de  Kyle  t  Ade  de  Cnletoii  scuti- 
ferorum  suof  Alani  le  Forester  Robti  del  Hulle  1  Edwardi  Tinctoris 
hobellarioT;  suotj  quolibet  scutifero  capiente  p  diem  xij.  d.  1  quoibt  ho- 
bellaf  per  diem  .vj.  d.  a  p'mo  die  Augusti  anno  presenti  quinto  usqj  in 
decimu  diem  Septembr  anno  eodem  utroque  computato  p.  xlj.  dies — 
xiij.  ti.  vj.  s.  vj.  d.  Eidem  domino  Robto  Grey  comoranti  ad  vad  rf  ut 
sup'1'  ||  1  municone  ville  Berwici  sup  Twedam  capienti  p  diem.  ij.  s.  p  vad 
suis  Robti  de  Hagarstone  Thome  Rybaud  Patricii  de  Gosewykf  Roberti 
de  Chesewykf  Walteri  de  Chesewykf  Ade  de  Cnlton  Plii  de  Hagar- 
ston  Thome  de  Bollesdoue  Nicfti  de  Baddeby  Johis  de  Mertokf  Robti  de 
Daliel  Rici  Grey  Patr  de  Chesewykf  1  Hugonis  Grey  scutifero^  suo-^ 
quolibt  capiente  p  diem.  xij.  d.  1  trium  hobellar  suo-^  quolibt  capiente  p 
diem  vj.  d.  ab  undecimo  die  Septembris  anno  supradto  uso^  in  septi- 
mum  diem  Julii  anno  eodem  finiente  ut°que  computato  p  ccc.  "t  .j.  dies 
quia  bisextus — cclxiij  ti.  vij.  s.  vj.  d. 

Sm""  cclxxvj.  li.  xiiij.  s. 


No.  V. 
Breve  de  Private  Sigillo,  9  Edw.  II. 


Edward  par  la  g"ce  de  Dieu  roi  Dengleterre  sign'  Dirlaunde  1  dues 
Daquitaine  a  iire  ch  clerc  "t  foial  Johan  de  Sandale  fire  chaunceller  saluz. 


PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS.  xlv 

Nous  vous  mandoms  q  pr  fire  bien  amez  Thomas  de  Grey  sa  meignee 
1  ses  choses  facez  faire  fres  de  ptection  souz  fire  graunt  seal  en  especiale 
t  convenable  forme  a  durer  par  un  an.  Dofi  souz  fire  p've  seal  a  On- 
estofi  le  .xv.  jour  de  Marz  Ian  de  fire  regne  nevisme. 


No.  VI. 

Breve  de  Privato  Sigillo,  11  Edw.  II. 

Edwardus  Dei  gra  rex  Angl  dfis  Hibn  1  dux  Aquit  vcn'abili  in  Xpo 
patri.  J.  eadem  gfa  epo  Wintofi  cancellaf  firo  saltm.  Cum  p  bono 
svicio  quod  dittus  nobis  Thomas  de  Grey  nobis  impendit  ac  in  subven- 
coem  sustentacois  sue  uxoris  ~t  liftoff  suot;  concessimus  ei  illas  viginti  li- 
bras  quas  Eustachius  de  Bumeby  t  Matitt  ux  ejus  nobis  ad  scc^um  firm 
p  uno  mesuagio  sexdecim  virgatis  tre  sexdecim  acris  p'rti  "I  decern  Tt  no- 
vem  solidatis  redditus  cum  ptinenciis  in  Watford  v  "t  Synelesworth '  in  com 
Norht  solvunt  annuatim  henda  eidem  Thome  q'rm  diu  nobis  placuerit. 
Vobis  mandam9  qd  eidem  Thome  tras  sub  magno  sigillo  firo  de  conces- 
sione  firo  hujusmodi  in  forma  debita  here  facialis.  Daff  sub  p'vato  sigillo 
firo  apud  Wyndesore.  xij.  die  Febf  anno  regni  firi  undecimo. 


No.  VII. 

Inquis  ad  quod  Damn.  12  Edw.  II.,  n.  64. 

Edwardus  Dei  gfa  rex  AngI  dfis  Hibfi  "t  dux  Aquit  ditto  "t  fideli  sno 
Rado  de  Crophilf  escaetori  suo  citra  Trentam  salfm.  Supplicavit  nob 
dittus  "t  fidelis  fir  Thomas  de  Gray  p  peticoem  suam  coram  nob  ~t  confilin 
firo  exhibitam  ut  ob  diutinu  sviciu  quod  nob  in  guerra  fira  Scocie  hacten" 
impendit  de  tris  1  tenementis  que  Johannes  Mautalent  qui  nup  a  fideli- 


xlvi  PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

tate  nra  recedens  Scotis  inimicis  t  rebellib3  nris  adhesit  tenuitin  Houwykf 
in  comitatu  Northumbf  et  que  occone  inimicicie  t  rebellionis  pdta^  ad 
man9  iiras  tanq^mi  escaeta  nra  devenerunt  et  de  tris  1  ten  que  Cristiana 
mat  petti  Jonis  tenet  in  dotem  in  Chyuyngton  1  que  post  morte  ejusdem 
Cristiane  ad  nos  "t  heredes  nros  rone  inimicicie  "t  rebellionis  petti  Johis 
reverti  deberent  dare  velim9  \  concedere  pfato  Thome  v  usq,  ad  valore 
quadraginta  marca^  p  annu  '  habend  1  tenend  sibi  "t  heredib3  suis  de 
capitalibg  dnis  feodi  illius  p  svicia  inde  debita  t  consueta  imppetuu.  cui 
quidem  supplicacoi  duxim9  annuendu.  Propt  quod  volentes  ctiorari  sup 
valore  rra^  1  ten  pdtOT;  quanta  videlicet  valeant  p  annu  ut  in  dnicis 
homagiis  sviciis  redditibg  villenagiis  t  aliis  exitib3  tre  juxta  veru  valore 
eo^dem  et  si  nos  donacoem  ~t  concessions  hujusmodi  face  possim9  sine 
pjudicio  1  dampno  alrius  cujuscuq,  necne.  Vob  mandam9  qd  p  sacfm 
^botj.  "t  leg  holm  de  balliva  vra  p  quos  rei  Veritas  melius  sciri  potit  tras 
"t  ten  pdta  in  forma  pdta  extendi  It  inquisicoem  super  pmissis  diligentem 
fieri  fac  et  extentam  "t  inquisicoem  inde  distincte  "t  apte  ftas  nob  sub 
sigillo  vro  t  sigillis  eoi;  p  quos  fte  mint  sine  dilone  mittatis  "t  hoc  bfe. 
T'  me  ipo  apud  Ebo^  xxvij.  die  Novembf  anno  f  n  duodecimo. 

p  peticoem  de  consilio. 
Dorso, 

Brevia  refnabilia. 


No.  VIII. 


Extent  fta  apd  Novii  Cast"1  sup  Tynam  vicesimo  q"Tto  die  Marc  anno 
regni  regf  Edwardi  duodec  cor  dno  Rado  de  Crophult  esch  dni  regf 
cnV  Trent  p  Henf  de  Aketoune.  Robm  de  Setoune.  Johem  de  Setoune. 
Antoniu  de  Eryntoune.  Ricm  de  Ogyll.  Johem  de  Trewykf.  Henf  de 
Trewykf.  Johem  de  Plesis.  Wiltm  de  Inghow.  Robm  de  Milnebuf. 
Rogm  Cticu.  "t  Ricm  de  Cramlyntoune.  Qui  dicut  sup  sacfm  suu  qd 
Johes  Mautaliid  anteq^m  adhesit  Scotis  limicis  t  rebellib3  dni  regf  tenuit 
in  villa  de  Howykf  juxa  Alnewykf  q'nqj  vigintf  "t  octo  acf  tre  arrabii  "t 


PROOFS   AND  ILLUSTRATIONS.  xlvii 

octo  acf  p*ti  et  solebant  valere  p  anu  in  oibj  exii  tre  septe  lib?  dec  solid 
t  octo  denar.  Et  qd  C'stiana  mat  pdti  Johis  tenet  in  eadm  noie  dotis 
sex  rras  husbandcy  "t  valere  solebant  tepe  pacis  in  oib3  exit  ere  sex  libr. 
Et  dta  tre  ~t  ten  tenenf  de  ||  dno  de  Alnewykf  p  svic  q^rte  ptis  feodi  uni° 
militf  et  qd  dta  C'stiana  nichil  tenet  noie  dotis  in  Chyuyntoune  set  tenet 
rone  v  cujusd  '  feoffamti  medietate  ville  pdte  de  dno  Robto  de  Lumley  p 
svic  dirnid  marc  p  anu  ad  ward  cast'  de  Alnewykf  p  oi  svicio  v  cuj9  revcio 
spctat  dno  regi  foe  iimicicie  t  rebellionis  dti  Johis. '  Et  valere  solebat 
tepe  pacis  in  omnib3  exit  tre  tresdeci  libf  sex  solid  t  octo  denar.  In 
cuj9  rei  testimoniu  pdti  jur  huic  extente  sigilla  sua  apposuerunt. 


No.  IX. 

Rot.  Pat.  12  Edw.  II.,  p.  ii.,  m.  12. 

P  Thoma"!  Rf  oifiib3  ad  quos  "tc  faltm.  Sciatis  qd  in  pliamento 
de  Grey./  firo  nup  apud  Ebojj  covocato  de  afienfu  prelatoz  comitu 
baronu  t  alioij  pcum  regni  iiri  tuc  ibidem  exiflenciu  p  bono  t  laudabili 
ac  diutino  svicio  quod  diltus  et  fidelis  fir  Tbomas  de  Grey  nob  in  guerra 
fira  Scoc  hactenus  impendit  et  impendet  in  futur  dedimus  et  coceflim?  j> 
nob  et  ned  firis  eidem  Thome  centu  et  octo  acras  tre  et  octo  acras  \> ti 
cu  ptifi  in  Howykf  juxta  Alnewykf  in  corn  Northumbf  que  fueriit  Johis 
Mautalent  qui  Scotis  inimicis  "t  rebellibj  firis  cont'r  nos  nup  adhefit  t 
que  rone  inimicicie  "t  rebellionis  ipius  Johis  ad  manus  firas  tanq^m  ef- 
caeta  fira  devenerunl  que  eciam  tempore  pacis  valere  solebant  p  annu 
fepte  libr  decern  folid  ~t  octo  denar  licut  p  inquincoem  inde  de  mandato 
firo  ftam  "t  in  cancellaf  fira  retornata  eft.  comptu.  H'end  It  tenend  ei- 
dem Thome  1  hedib3  fuis  imppetuu.  faciendo  inde  nob  et  aliis  sVicia 
que  de  eifdem  tra  et  p"io  debebanf  ante  q^m  ad  manus  firas  devenerunt 
imppetuu.  falvo  jure  cujuflibet.  Conceflim9  ecia  p  nob  et  hedib3  5"s 
eidem  Thome  qd  fex  tre  hufebandojj  cu  ptifi  in  dta  villa  de  Howykf  quas 
Criftina  Mautalent  mat  pdti  Johis  tenet  in  dote  de  hereditate  que  fuit 


xlviii  PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

ejufdem  Johis  "t  que  rone  ||  It  inimicicie  1  rebellionis  ipius  Johis  ad  nos  t 
hedes  firos  poll  morte  ipius  Criftiane  revti  deberent  que  ecia  fex  libf 
tempore  pacis  valere  folebat  p  annu  ficut  p  dtam  inquificoem  fimilit  eft 
coptum  poft  morte  ejufdem  Criftiane  remaneant  pfato  Thome  et  hedib3 
fuis  tenend  fimul  cu  dtis  tra  et  p^to  p  svicia  que  inde  ante  tempus  pdlm 
debebanf  imppetuu.  salvo  jure  cujullibet  ficut  pdtm  eft.  in  ptem  fatif- 
faccois  quadraginta  marcatai  tre  p  annu  quas  eide  Thome  p  svicio  fuo 
fxtto  fibi  "I  hedib3  fuis  fiend  conceffim^  pvidere.  In  cuj9  "tc.  T'  R'  apud 
Ebo£  xvij  die  Maij. 

p  ipm  regem  et  confiliu. 

Et  mand  eft  Rado  de  Crophull  efc  rf  cita  Trenta  qd  eidem  Thome 
dtas  centu  1  octo  acras  tre  "t  octo  acras  p^ti  cu  ptifi  libet  hend  in  forma 
pdta.     T'  ut  sa. 


No.  X. 

Ex.  orig.  in  Recept.  Cur.  Scaccarii,  16  Edw.  II. 

Hec  est  finalis  concordia  facta  in  curia  dni  regis  apud  Eboi;.  a  die 
pascn  in  quindecim  dies  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  filii  regis  Edwardi 
sextodecimo,  coram  Willmo  de  Bereford  Johne  de  Mutford  Wiltmo  de 
Herle  Johne  de  Stonore  1  Johne  de  Bousser  justic  "t  aliis  dni  regis 
fidelib3  tunc  ibi  presentibus.  Int  Thomam  filiu  Johis  Gray  "t  Emmam 
uxem  ejus  quer  p  Johem  de  Eringtoii  custodem  ipius  Emme  p  bre  dni 
regis  ad  lucrandum.  "t  Johnem  Gray  de  Denum  deforc.  de  duobus  molen- 
dinis  cum  ptin  in  Estherle  "I  Westwalyngton  1  medietate  manerii  de 
Westwalyngtoii  cum  ptin.  Unde  pltm  convencionis  suiii  fuit  int  eos  in 
eadem  curia  scitt  qd  pdtus  Johnes  concessit  pdtis  Thome  ~t  Emme  pdta 
ten  cum  ptin  et  ilia  eis  reddidit  in  eadem  curia.  Habend  1  tenend  eisdem 
Thome  "t  Emme  ~t  her  de  corpib3  ipo-^  Thome  "t  Emme  exeuntib3  de 
pdto  Johne  "t  her  suis  irappm.     Reddendo  inde  p  annii  unam  rosam  ad 


PROOFS    AND   ILLUSTRATIONS.  xlix 

festum  nativitatis  S'ti  Joftis  bapte  p  omni  svicio  cons  1  exaccone  ad  fjdtm 
Joftnem  1  her  suos  ptinente  et  faciendo  inde  capit  dnis  feodi  illius  p  pMto 
Joftne  t  her  suis  omnia  alia  s vicia  que  ad  pdtta  ten  ptinent  imppm.  Et  si 
contingat  qd  iidem  Thomas  "t  Emma  obierint  sine  her  de  corpibus  suis 
exeunte  tunc  post  decessum  ipo-^  Thome  1  Emme  pdte  ten  cum  ptin 
integre  revertentur  ad  p'dtm  Joftnem  "t  her  suos  quiete  de  aliis  her  pMtov 
Thome  1  Emme.  tenend  de  capif  dnis  feodi  illius  p  svicia  que  ad  pdta 
ten  ptinent  imppm.  Et  p  hac  concessione  reddicione  fine  "t  concordia 
iidem  Thomas  1  Emma  dederunt  pdto  Jofti  centum  libras  sterlingoT/. 

Nothumbr'. 


No.  XI. 
Rot.  Claus.  16  Edw.  II.,  m.  2. 

D'  caflris  in  ptib3"i  Rf  venabili  in  Xpo  pri  L.  eadem  gra  epo  Dunohn 
borialib3  muniend.J  faltm.  Licet  fufferencia  guerre  X  treuga  int  nos 
et  Scotos  inite  fint  1  firmate  p  trefdecim  annos  duratur  volum9  tamen 
qd  caftra  tam  nra  qam  alioij  in  ptib3  Marchie  Scoc  in  oinem  eventu 
fufficient  muniant  t  falvo  1  fecure  cuflodianf.  Et  ideo  voft  mandam? 
fub  forifftura  oim  que  nob  forifface  potitis  firmit  injungentes  qd  caftra 
vra  de  Norham  "t  Dunofm  ita  fufficient  muniri  "t  falvo  "t  fecure  cufto- 
dire  fac  qd  dampnu  vel  piculu  caftris  illis  feu  ptib3  adjacentibs  aut  po- 
pulo  iiro  ibidem  occone  defectus  municois  feu  cuftodie  caftroij  hujufmodi 
non  eveniat  quovis  modo  qm  fi  quod  abfit  dampnu  vel  piculu  caftris 
ptib3  aut  populo  hro  j?cttis  occone  eveniret  ad  vos  non  inmito  gavit  ca- 
piem9.     T'  R'  apud  Hathelfay  xxvj.  die  Jun. 

p  ipm  regem. 


(G) 


1  PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

No.  XII. 

Rot.  Claus.  5  Edw.  III.,  p.  2,  m.  9. 

■)?  Thomaf  Rf  thes  1  baronib3  suis  de  sccio  saKm.  Supplicavit 
Grey,  j*  nobis  diltus  1  fidelis  fir  Thomas  Grey  nup  conftabulaf 
caflri  de  Norham  qd  cum  dfis  E.  nup  rex  Angl  pat  fir  p  bre  suu  sub  pri- 
vato  sigillo  l'uo  dum  caftrum  fMtm  p  Scotos  tunc  inimicos  1  rebelles  dti 
pris  firi  hoftilit  obfeiTu  fuit  mandafi'et  fjfato  Thome  qd  ipe  in  cuftodia 
caftri  petti  ita  fe  neret  qd  ad  ipius  pris  firi  cederet  honorem  "t  idem  pat1 
fir  pfato  Thome  centu  "t  trefdecim  libras  ad  h5ies  ad  anna  p  salva  "t  fe- 
cura  cuftodia  ejufdem  caftri  retinend  p  Agnetem  ux'em  ejus  misiffet 
dtuscjj  Thomas  viginti  holes  ad  arma  "t  quinquaginta  hobelarios  virtute 
mandati  pdti  in  caftro  pdto  a  primo  die  Septembr  anno  regni  dti  pris 
firi  fextodecimo  ufq,  ad  tcium  diem  Maij  px  seqfi  retinuiffet.  velim?  cu 
pfato  Thoma  de  pdt.is  centu  1  trefdecim  libris  facere  comput  "t  ipm  de 
eifde  put  juftum  fuit  exonfari.  Nos  supplicacoi  ejufdem  Thome  in  hac 
pte  annuere  "t  sibi  gram  volentes  face  in  ftmiffis  vobis  mandam?  qd  ipm 
Thomam  de  pdtis  centu  1  trefdecim  libris  ad  seem  firm  exonlari  "t  quietu 
efte  faciatis.  Recipientes  a  pfato  Thoma  bre  ipius  pris  firi  fup'rdtm.  Ita 
qd  ult'r  jJdtas  centum  "t  trefdecim  libras  rone  retinencie  p  ipm  Thomam 
virtute  mandati  dti  pris  firi  in  hac  pte  fte  de  aliqua  fuma  nullaten9  sim? 
oniati.     T'.  Rf  apud  Weftm  xviij  die  Octobr. 

p  ipm  f  "t  cons. 


No.  XIII. 
Rot.  Claus.  6  Edw.  III.,  m.  14. 
<P  Thoma  de\      Rf  eide  vie  [Ebo^]  fattm.     Cum  dfis.  E.  nup  rex 


! 


Grey.      /  Angt  pat  fir  p  Iras  fuas  patentes  conceflerit  ditto  nob 


PROOFS  AND   ILLUSTRATIONS.  li 

Thome  de  Grey  sex  denaf  p  diem  gcipiend  p  manus  vie  sui  Eboij  qui  p 
tempore  foret  de  exitib3  bailie  sue  in  subildiii  suftentacois  ipius  Thome 
It  uxis  sue  ac  libo^  suoi/  q'mdiu  eide  pri  iiro  placet  ~t  nos  poflmodu  loco 
§&toi{  sex  dena-y  p  die  conceffimus  eide  Thome  viginti  libr  pcipiend  sin- 
gulis annis  ad  rminos  Pafch  t  S'ti  Michis  p  equales  porcoes  p  manus  vie 
firi  com  jJdti  qui  p  tepore  fuit  de  exitib3  bailie  sue  in  subfidiu  suftentacois 
fue  1  uxis  fue  ac  libo-y  suo^  qu^mdiu  nob  placuit  put  in  fris  firis  fMtis 
plenius  continet*  tibi  pcepim9  qd  eide  Thome  id  quod  ei  a  retro  eft  de 
jfcttis  viginti  libf  de  tmino  Pasch  px  prrito  "t  eciam  eafde  viginti  libr  p 
annu  extunc  ad  rminos  pdtos  q^mdiu  vie  fir  ibide  fuis  de  exitibs  bailie 
tue  solvas  juxta  tenore  tra^  fira^  §dtai}.     T'  ut  supa 

[apud  Weftin.  xij  die  Sept] 


No.  XIV. 

Breve  de  Privato  Sigillo,  8  Edw.  III. 

Edward  p  la  g^ce  de  Dieu  roi  Dengletre  seignr  Dirlande  t  dues 
Daquit  a  lonurable  piere  en  Dieu  I.  p  la  meisme  g^ce  ercevesqj  de 
Cantbirs  primat  de  tut  Engletre  iire  chaunceller  salutz.  Come  pr  le 
bon  s  vice  q  fire  en  1  foial  monf>  Thomas  de  Grey  no9  ad  fait  eoms  donez 
a  lui  un  mees  od  les  apptenances  q  fust  a  Randolff  de  More  en  Uddyn- 
gate  en  nre  ville  de  Berewykf  le  quel  mees  est  devenuz  en  Sre  meyn  p 
la  forfefe  le  dit  Randolff  a  av  "t  tenif  au  dit  monf>  Thomas  "t  ses  heirs 
de  no9  "t  de  noz  heirs  p  les  svices  duz  du  dit  mees  avant  qil  devynt  en 
nre  mein  a  touz  jours  Vo9  mandoms  q  sr  ce  facez  av  au  dit  mon£ 
Thomas  Ires  souz  fire  g'rnt  seal  en  du  forme.  Dofi  souz  fire  prive  seal 
a  Noef  Chastel  sr  Tyne  le  xj.  jour  de  Juyn  Ian  de  fire  regne  oitisme. 


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No.  XV. 

Breve  de  Privato  Sigillo,  8  Edw.  III. 

Edward  p  la  g^ce  de  Dieu  roi  Denglerre  seignr  Dirlaunde  t  dues 
Daquit  a  lonurable  piere  en  Dieu  R.  p  la  meisme  g^ce  evesq,  de  Dureme 
fire  chauncel!  salutz.  Come  no9  eoms  done  a  fire  ch  1  foial  monf?  Thoma 
de  Grey  le  piere  une  demy  charue  de  tre  od  les  apprtenances  en  la  ville 
de  Nesbit  en  contez  de  Northumbf  la  quele  tre  est  en  fire  meyn  p  la 
forfefe  Joh'n  de  Trollop  a  av  "t  tenif  au  dit  Thomas  t  ses  heirs  de  no? 
1  de  noz  heirs  p  les  s vices  ent  duz  1  acustumez  a  touz  jours  Vo9 
mandoms  q  sr  ce  facez  av  au  dit  Thomas  Ires  souz  fire  gant  seal  en  due 
forme.  Don  souz  fire  p've  seal  a  Rokesburgh  le.  vj.  jour  de  Jan.  Ian  de 
fire  regne  oitisme. 


No.  XVI. 

Breve  de  Privato  Sigillo,  9  Edw.  III. 

Edward  p  la  g^ce  de  Dieu  roi  Engletre  seignr  Dirlaunde  t  dues  Da- 
quif  a  lonurable  piere  en  Dieu.  I  p  la  meisme  g^ce  ercevesq,  de  Can- 
?birs  prymat  de  tote  Engletre  fire  chancel!  salutz.  Come  de  fire  g^ce 
especiale  eoms  donez  a  fire  ch  "t  foial  moid5  Thomas  de  Grey  leysne  la 
garde  des  ¥res  1  ten  q  furent  a  Andreu  de  Grey  q  est  a  Dieu  comande 
1  q  tint  de  no9  en  chief  aussibien  de  ceux  trs  It  tefi  queux  le  dit  Andreu 
tint  en  la  ville  de  Berewykf  come  en  contez  de  Berewykf  "t  les  queux 
?res  t  ten  p  reson  du  meindre  age  leir  le  dit  Andreu  sont  devenuz  en  fire 
meyn  a  av1  tantq,  au  plein  age  le  dit  heir  ensemblemet  od  le  mariage  de 
meisme  leir  sanz  despagement  sanz  riens  ent  don)  a  no9.  V09  mandoms 
q  sr  ce  facez  av*  au  dit  monf>  Thomas  Ires  souz  fire  g^nt  seal  en  due 


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forme.    Don  souz  fire  p've  seal  a  Berewykf  le.iiij.  jour  de  Octobf  Ian  de 
fire  regne  noefisme. 


No.  XVII. 

Breve  de  Privato  Sigillo,  10  Edw.  III. 

Edward  p  la  g^ce  de  Dieu  roi  Dengleterre  seignr  DirlancT  "t  due?  Da- 
quit  a  iire  en  elerc  mestre  Willem  la  Zousche  saluz.  Pr  ce  q  nous  avoms 
p's  ovesq,  nous  en  Escoce  nre  en  "t  foial  monf>  Thomas  de  Grey  leisnez 
a  demrrer  illoeqs  a  fire  voluntee  en  voloms  q  en  cas  q  nul  pie  soit  mew 
vs  le  dit  monf5  Thomas  en  sa  abscence  qil  eit  nre  pteccion  de  iire  g'rnt 
seal  Vous  mandoms  q  saunz  nulle  mane  de  delai  vous  x  facez  '  faire  Ires 
de  iire  p've  seal  au  .  .  chauncell  ou  au  gardein  de  iire  g^nt  seal  de  lui 
faire  nre  pteccion  souz  iire  dit  seal  v  de  la  date  de  cestes'  en  due  fourme. 
Don  souz  le  seal  monl5  Will"m  de  Montagu  a  la  Ville  de  Seint  Johan  p 
reson  q  no9  ne  avioms  mie  iire  seal  ovescjj  no9  illoeqs  le  xx.  jour  de  Juyn 
Ian  de  nre  rejme  dismes. 


No.  XVIII. 

Rot.  Pat.  18  Edw.  III.,  p.  1,  m.  13. 

Pro  Thoma)  Rf  oniib3  ad  quos  tc  faltm.  Sciatis  qd  de  gra  iira 
de  Gray.  /  spali  ~t  p  bono  "t  g'rtuito  svicio  qd  diftus  t  fidelis  nr  Tho- 
mas de  Gray  nob  tam  in  t^nfmarinis  q'rm  cifmarinis  ptibs  impendit  dedim9 
1  concefsim9  p  nob  "t  heredib3  firis  eidem  Thome  manful  de  Middelmail 
*  Middeltori'  in  Cokedale  in  com  Northumbr  cu  ptifi  quod  fuit  Idonie  de 
Middeltofi  1  quod  p  eo  qd  Witts  de  Middelton  confanguineus  t  heres 
pdte  Idonie  qui  manliu  illud  poft  mortem  ejufdem  Idonie  jure  heredi- 


liv  PROOFS  AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 

tario  ingreffus  fuit  Scotis  inimicis  "t  rebellib3  dni  E.  nup  rf  Angl 
pris  firi  conte  dtm  prem  firm  adhefit  ficut  p  inquifcoem  inde  p  dittos  t 
fideles  firos  Wiftm  de  Feltofi  Thomam  de  Hetofi  t  Jofiem  de  Coupland 
de  mandato  firo  ftam  "t  in  cancellaf  fira  retornatam  eft  comptum  p  forif- 
fim  ipius  Witti  ad  manus  firas  tanq^m  efcaeta  fira  devenit  fiend  1  ten- 
end  eidem  Thome  ~t  heredib3  fuis  de  nob  t  heredibs  firis  feu  aliis  capi- 
talibj  dnis  feodi  illius  p  eadem  svicia  p  que  man?iu  illud  tenebat'  ante- 
q""m  ad  manus  firas  sic  devenit  inppetuu  falvo  jure  cujuflibet.  In  cujus 
\c.  T'.  R'  apud  Weftni.  xx.  die  Aprilis 

p  ipm  regem  t  p  bre  de  privato  fig°. 


No.  XIX. 
Rot.  Pat.  18  Edw.  III.,  p.  1,  m.  28. 

le  fitz.  /  gra  nf a  fpali  1  p  bono  svicio  quod  dittus  "I  fide- 

lis  fir  Thomas  de  Grey  le  fitz  nob  tam  in  t^nfmarinis  q""m  cifmarinis  ptib^ 
impendit  concefiimus  ei  cuftodiam  manii  de  Middelmaft"  Middeltofi  in 
Cokedale  in  coin  Northumbf  quod  fuit  Idonie  de  Middeltofi  1  quod  p 
eo  qd  Wilts  de  Middeltofi  confanguineus  1  heres  |?ctte  Idonie  qui  man'iu 
illud  poll  mortem  ejufdem  Idonie  jure  hereditario  ingreffus  fuit  Scotis 
inimicis  t  rebellib3  dni.  E.  nup  regis  Angt  pris  firi  conf"  dtm  prem 
firm  adhefit  ficut  p  inquificoem  inde  p  dittm  t  fidelem  firm  Wiltm  de 
Feltofi  vie  firm  com  p\tti  Thomam  de  Hetofi  et  Jofiem  de  Coupland  de 
mandato  firo  ftam  1  in  cane  fira  retorfi  eft  comptu  p  forifftm  ipius 
Willi  captu  eft v  in '  manu  firam  fiend  q""mdiu  nob  placuit  abfq,  aliquo  nob 
inde  reddendo.  In  cujus  "tc.  T'  R'  apud  Turrim  Londofi  xxviij.  die 
Marc. 

p  ipm  rege  et  p  bre  de  privato  figillo. 


PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS.  Iv 

No.  XX 

Rot.  Chart.  19  Edw.  III.,  n.  16. 

P  Thoma  de")  Rf  [archiepis  1c]  saitm.  Sciatis  nos  de  gfa  fira  spali 
Grey.  J  concessisse  "t  hac  carta  fira  confirmasse  dilto  "t  ficleli  Bro 
Thome  de  Grey  qd  ipe  1  heredes  sui  imppetuu  neant  libam  warennam  in 
oinib3  dnicis  tris  suis  de  Fentoii  Nesbit  Dodyngtofi  Northmiddeltofi  Mid- 
delmastmiddeltofi  Southmiddeltofi  Howykf  Ewortft  Heddofi  "t  HaukhiH  in 
com  Northumbr  dumtamen  tre  ille  non  sint  infra  metas  foreste  fire  ita 
qd  nullus  intret  eras  illas  ad  fugand  in  eis  vel  ad  aliquid  capiend  quod  ad 
warenna  ptineat  sine  licencia  "t  voluntate  ipius  Thome  v  vel  heredii  suot;  ' 
sup  forisfturam  firam  decern  librae.  Quare  volum9  "t  firmit  fjcipim?  p 
nob  ~t  heredib3  firis  qd  pdtus  Thomas  *t  heredes  sui  imppetuu  neant 
libam  warenna  in  ofiiibs  dnicis  tris  suis  pdtis  dumtamen  tre  ille  non  sint 
infra  metas  foreste  ita  qd  nullus  intret  eras  illas  ad  fugand  in  eis  vel 
ad  aliquid  capiend  quod  ad  warenna  ptineat  sine  licencia  "r  voluntate 
ipius  Thome  vel  heredum  suo^  sup  forisfturam  firam  decern  libf  sicut 
pdtm  est.  Concefsim9  ecia  t  licencia  dedim9  p  nob  t  heredib3  nris 
quantii  in  nob  est  pfato  Thome  qd  ipe  boscum  suii  de  Middelmastmid- 
dletofi  in  coiii  pdto  includere  1  pcum  inde  face  t  boscum  ilium  sic  in- 
clusum  t  pcum  inde  ftm  ten  ere  possit  sibi  1  heredib3  suis  imppetuu  sine 
occone  vel  impedimento  iiri  vel  heredum  firo?/  justic  forestarioi;  viridario^ 
1  alio^  ballivoi/  seu  minstro^.  nroi/  foreste  ac  alioi/  quo^cuq,  duta- 
men  boscus  ille  non  sit  infra  metas  foreste  fire.  Hiis  testib3  \en1abilib3 
v  prib3  '  I.  archiepo  Cantuaf  tocius  Angf  primate.  R  Cicestf  1  R  Lon- 
don epis  Henf  de  Lancastf  comite  Derb  Rico  comite  Arundett  Thoma 
Wakf  de  LydeH  Robto  de  Sadyngtofi  cancellaf  firo  Witto  de  Edyngtofi 
thes  firo  Rico  Talbot  senescallo  hospicii  firi  t  aliis.  Dat  p  manu  firam 
apud  Eltham  xvj.  die  Maij. 

p  bfe  de  p'vato  sig. 


Ki  PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

No.  XXI. 

Rot.  Pat.  22  Edw.  III.  p.  3,  m.  22. 

Pko  Jofte  de  Boroudon')  Rf  oinib3  ad  quos  tc  fattm.  Infpeximus 
1  Alicia  vx'e  ejus.  /  tenorem  pedis  eujufdam  finis  coram  juftic  firis 
de  banco  levati  in  hec  vba.  Hec  eft  finalis  concordia  fta  in  cur  dni 
regis  apud  Ebo£  a  die  S'ti  Joftis  Baple  in  quindecini  dies  anno  regni  regis 
Edwardi  ttij  a  conqueftu  octavo  coram  Wilto  de  Herle  Jofte  de  Stonore 
Jofie  de  Cantebrigg0  Jofte  Inge  t  Jofte  de  Shard elowe  juftic  et 
poflea  in  craftino  S'ti  Martini  anno  regni  ejufdem  regis  Edwardi  sup'r- 
flto  ibidem  concefla  t  recordata  coram  pfatis  Wilto  de  Herle  Jofte  de 
Stonore  WiHo  de  ShareshuH'  Jofte  de  Cantebrigg5  Jofte  Inge  Jofte  de 
Shardelowe  T:  Jofte  de  Trevaignou.  juftic  t  aliis  dni  regis  fidelib3  tunc 
ibide  pfentib3  int  Thomam  Gray  seniorem  quef  t  Joftem  de  Boroudon  ~t 
Aliciam  vxDem  ejus  deforc  de  maniis  de  Ewortft  "t  Haukhirl  cum  pertifi 
exceptis  sex  marcatis  redditus  in  eodem  maniio  de  Ewortft  unde  ptitum 
eonvencois  sum  fuit  int  eos  in  eadem  cur  scitt  qd  pdti  Joftes  ^t  Alicia 
recogii  pdta  mania  cu  ptin  sicut  pdtm  eft  effe  jus  ipius  Thome  ut  ilia 
que  idem  Thomas  net  de  dono  pdtoz  Joftis  t  Alicie.  Et  p  hac  recogii 
fine  t  concordia  idem  Thomas  concefiit  pfatis  Jofti  t  Alicie  pdta  maniia 
cum  ptin  sicut  pdtm  eft  et  ilia  eis  reddidit  in  eadem  cur  ftend  1  te- 
nend  eifdem  Jofti  \  Alicie  ^t  heredib3  ipius  Alicie  de  corpore  fuo  pcreatis 
de  pdto  Thoma  "t  heredibs  fuis  imppm.  Reddendo  inde  p  annu  unam 
rofam  ad  feftum  Nativitatis  S'ti  Joftis  bapte  p  omi  sJvicio  cons  t  exac- 
tione  ad  pdtm  Thomam  "t  heredes  fuos  ptinente.  et  faciendo  inde 
capii  dnis  feodi  illius  p  pdto  Thoma  "t  heredib3  fuis  oiiiia  alia  svicia 
que  ad  pdta  mania  ficut  pdtm  eft  ptinent  imppetuu.  Et  fi  contingat 
qd  eadem  Alicia  obierit  fine  herede  de  corpore  suo  pcreato  tunc  poft  de- 
ceffiim  ipojj  Joftis  "t  Alicie  pdta  man'ia  cu  ptin  ficut  pdtm  eft  integre  re- 
vtentr  ad  pdtm  Thomam  t  heredes  fuos  quiete  de  aliis  her  pdtoa  Joftis  ~l 
Alicie  tenend  de  capit  dnis  feodi  illius  p  sVicia  que  ad  pdta  maniia  ficut 


PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS.  lvii 

jjdtm  eft  pertinent  imppm.  Henr  de  Bilton  1  Elizabeth  ux  ejus  appon 
clam  fuu  Northumbr.  Nos  autem  tenorem  finis  pdti  tenore  pYentiii  duxi- 
raus  exemplificand.     In  cujus  tc.   T'.  R'  apud  Westni  xxij.  die  Nov. 


No.  XXII. 
Inquis.  post  Mortem,  2  Hen.  IV.,  n.  50. 

Henricus  Dei  gra  rex  Angt  1  Franc  "t  dns  Hibn  majori  ville  Novi 
Castri  sup  Tynam  ~t  escaetori  suo  in  eadem  villa  saltm.  Quia  Thomas 
Gray  chivaler  qui  de  nob  tenuit  in  capite  diem  clausit  extremu  ut  accepim9 
tibi  pcipim9  qd  omia  tras  "I  ten  de  quib3  pfatus  Thomas  fuit  seisitus  in 
dnico  suo  ut  de  feodo  in  balliva  tua  die  quo  obiit  sine  dilone  capias  in 
manu  nram  "t  ea  salvo  custodiri  fac  donee  aliud  inde  j?cepim9  Et  p  sacrm 
pbo^  1  leg  hoim  de  dta  balliva  tua  p  quos  rei  vitas  melius  sciri  pot.it  di- 
ligent inquiras  quantum  tra^  "t  teii  idem  Thomas  tenuit  de  nob  in  capite 
tarn  in  dnico  q""m  in  svicio  in  eadem  balliva  tua  dto  die  quo  obiit  ~t  quan- 
tum de  aliis  "t  p  quod  s  viciu  1  quantum  tre  1  ten  ilia  valeant  p  annu  in 
omibs  exitib3  ~t  quo  die  idem  Thomas  obiit  1  quis  ppinquior  heres  ejus  sit 
t  cujus  etatis.  Et  inquisicbem  inde  distincte  It  apte  ftam  nob  in  cancel- 
laf  nram  sub  sigillo  tuo  ~t  sigillis  eo^  p  quos  fta  fuit  sine  dilone  mittas  1 
hoc  bre     T'  me  ipo  apud  Westih  xviij.  die  Decembr  anno  f  h  scdo. 

Hertilpole. 
Dorso, 

Respons  Rog^i  de  Thornton  majoris  ville  Novi  Castri  sup  Tynam  t 
escaetoris  dni  regis  in  eadem  villa  patet  in  inquisicbe  huic  bri  an- 
nexa.  Et  ultius  ego  pfat9  esc  cepi  in  manu  dni  regis  omia  rras  ~t 
ten  de  quib3  Thomas  Gray  chivaler  infra  noiat9  fuit  seit9  in  dnico 
suo  ut  de  feodo  in  balliva  mea  die  quo  obiit  put  hoc  bre  requirit. 

Inquis  capB  apud  villam  Novi  Castri  sup  Tynam  quintodecimo  die 
Februaf  anno  regni  dni  regis  Henrici  quarti  post  conquestu  scdo  coram 

(H) 


lviii  PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Rog'o  de  Thornt[one]  majore  ville  Novi  Castri  sup  Tynam  1  esc  tini 
regis  in  eadem  villa  virtute  bf is  dni  regis  eidem  esc  directi  1  huic  inqui- 
sicoi  consut  p  sacrm  Willi  Gardyfi  Jonis  de  Careton  Je-fiis  de  Tyndale 
Willi  de  Norh'm  Stephi  de  Wrefilt  Robti  Blythe  Henr  Jonsofi  Barbor 
Hugonis  Grene  Rici  Pinch  Willi  Ellerby  Pet?  Brounfeld  1  Joriis  Crawe 
jur.  Qui  die  sup  sacfm  suu  qd  Thomas  Gray  chivaler  in  bri  noiat? 
obiit  seisitus  in  dnico  suo  ut  de  feodo  die  quo  obiit  de  quatuor  tenemen- 
ts cu  ptin  in  dta  villa  Novi  Castri  ext*  Pilgrymstreteyate  duob3  ten 
cum  ptin  in  le  Bradecher  in  eade  villa  Novi  Castri  uno  ten  cum  ptin 
sup  le  Sandhill  in  eade  villa  in  quo  Thomas  Candeler  inhabitat  uno  ten 
cum  ptiii  in  le  Nethirsyde  in  eade  villa  in  quo  Elias  Porter  inhitat  de 
uno  selario  subtus  ten  Johis  de  Careton  sup  le  Nethir  Fleffhwer  Rawe. 
et  de  duob3  ten  vasl  cu  ptin  in  le  Nete  Marketgate  in  dicta  villa  et  de 
quadraginta  sex  solidatis  "t  octo  denaratis  redditus  exeunt  de  ten  Samp- 
sonis  Hardyng  in  Pilgrymstret  in  eade  villa  de  viginti  solidatis  redclitV 
exeunt  de  ten  Johis  ||  Carleton  in  le  Nether  Fleflhwer  Rawe  in  eade  villa 
viginti  sex  solidatis  redditus  exeunt  de  duob3  ten  cu  ptin  in  Pampden 
in  eade  villa  in  tenura  WiHi  de  Norh^m  sex  solidatis  1  octo  denaratis 
redditus  exeunt  de  uno  ten  prioris  de  Tynemouth  in  Beremarketgate  in 
eade  villa  in  quo  Wills  Litster  inhitat  1  de  sex  solidatis  1  octo  denaratis 
redditus  exeunl  de  uno  ten  WiHi  de  Fulthorp  chr  in  Skynnergate  in 
eadem  villa  que  ipe  tenuit  de  dno  rege  in  libo  burgagio  reddendo  inde 
ctno  regi  p  annu  duos  solidos  qui  sunt  pcella  centu  librae  feodi  firme 
qd  ||  ht  ||  in  ||  villa  Novi  Castri  et  dicunt  qd  pdta  tenementa  cum  ptin 
ult'r  annuos  redditus  pdtos  valent  p  annu  in  omib3  exitibs  ult'r  repris  1 
redditus  forinsecos  triginta  t  sex  solidos.  Et  die  qd  pMtus  Thomas 
Gray  nulla  alia  ?ras  seu  ten  tenuit  infra  villa  Novi  Castri  sup  Tynam  de 
dno  rege  neq,  de  aliis  in  dnico  nee  in  §vicio  die  quo  obiit.  Et  die  qd 
idem  Thomas  Gray  obiit  die  Jovis  px  post  festu  S'ti  Andree  apli  ult  pm 
Et  qd  Thomas  Gray  chivaler  Alius  ^dti  Thome  Gray  eft  Alius  1  heres 
dti  Thome  Gray  ppinquior  1  etatis  decern  1  novem  anno^  In  cujus  rei 
testimoniu  jur  ^dti  huic  inquisicoi  sigilla  sua  apposuerunt  die  anno  It  loco 
sup^dtis. 


PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS.  lis 

No.  XXIII. 

Inquis.  post  Mortem,  2  Hen.  IV.,  n.  50. 

Henricus  Dei  gf  a  rex  AngI  ~t  Franc  t  diis  -Hibn  escaetori  suo  in  com 
Northumbf.  saHm.  Quia  Thomas  Gray  chivaler  qui  de  nob  tenuit  in 
capite  diem  clausit  extremu  ut  accepim9  tibi  f?cipum9  qd  omia  Eras  "t  ten 
de  quib3  idem  Thomas  fuit  seisitus  in  dnico  suo  ut  de  feodo  in  balliva 
tua  die  quo  obiit  sine  ditone  capias  in  manu  nram  "t  ea  salvo  custodiri 
fac  donee  aliud  inde  pcepim9.  Et  p  sacfm  .pbo^  1  leg  holm  de  eadem 
balliva  tua  p  quos  rei  vitas  melius  sciri  potit  diligent1  inquiras  quantum 
tre  It  ten  idem  Thomas  tenuit  de  nob  in  capite  tarn  in  dnico  q^m  in  §vicio 
in  dta  balliva  tua  die  quo  obiit  ~t  quantu  de  aliis  1  p  quod  sviciu  ~t 
quantu  tre  "t  ten  ilia  valeant  p  annu  in  oniib3  exitib3  "t  quo  die  idem 
Thomas  obiit  "t  quis  ppinquior  heres  ejus  sit  "t  cujus  etatis  Et  inquiscbem 
inde  distincte  It  apte  ftam  nob  in  cancellaf  iiram  sub  sigillo  tuo  It  sigillis 
eo^  p  quos  fta  fuit  sine  ditone  mittas  1  hoc  bre.  T'  me  ipo  apud  Westm 
xviij.  die  Decembr  anno  f  n  scdo. 

Stanley. 
Dorso, 

Respons  Sampsonis  Hardyng  escaet  dni  regf  in  com  Northumbf-  pa£ 
in  inquisicbe  huic  bfi  consut. 


Inquisicio  capta  apud  Morpeth  die  Mortis  px  post  #m  S'ti  Trinita?  a° 
r  r  Henf  q^rti  post  conquest  scdo  coram  Sampsone  Hardyng  tuc  escaet 
dni  regf  in  com  North  virtut  cuj9&  bf  is  die?  dni  regf  eid  f  esca?  direct  huic 
inquisicbi  cosuet  p  sacrm  Robti  Lille  Henf  de  Boyntorl  milit  Rob  Swyn- 
how  Job  Heron  Th  Hesylryge  Job  Fox  Wirii  Lylbme  Nichai  Turpyn 
Tho  Sayntpolle  Wyland  Mawdite  WiHi  Benet  "fc  Gylbti  Glanton.  Qui 
die  sup  sacfm  suu  qd  Tb  Gray  in  bfi  n5Iatus  obiit  seisitus  f  conl  de  cast? 
1  manio  de  Warkf  sup  Tweda  cu  ptiri  cojuncti  feoffai  cu  Joha  ux  sua 


lx  PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

adhuc  supstite  habenct  eisd  Thoe  It  Jofie  "t  tiedib3  de  corpof  eo^de  legitie 
pcreatf  "t  p  defect  tiedm  de  corporib3  eo^d  legit  pcreatf  f  dtam  cast?  1 
maniii  rem  hedib3  de  corpe  ipius  Thoe  legit  pcreatf  et  p  defect  her  de 
corpe  ipius  Thoe  rectf  Rerdibj  ipius  Thoe.  Et  qd  pdta  castf  "t  maniii 
tenet'  de  dno  reg  in  capit  p  svico  militaf  "t  n1  valent  p  am  ppt  destruccoe 
Scotoi;.  Ii  qd  obiit  seissit  de  uii  mes  "t  xvj.  acf  tf  voc  Straideland  jacent 
infa  camp  de  ||  Badembught  p  q'b3  tenenf  ||  solev  facer  ferra  p  aratris  ad 
cast?  de  Bamburght  ~t  m°  reddt-t  p  eadem  feura  iiij.  s.  vj.  d.  solved  p  man 
vie  Nortn  qui  p  tepof  fuit  "t  qd  tenet,  de  dno  reg  in  capif  p  svic  an  diet  "t 
vat  p  annii  in  5ib3  exit  ult*  repris  x.  s.  It  die  qd  obiit  seit  de  t'b3  burgag 
in  dta  vilt  de  Bamburgn  que  ten  de  dno  reg  in  capit  1  libii  burgag  redd 
dno  iiij.  s.  p  am  "t  nichirl  vat  p  am  hiis  dieb3  ppt  distrucom  Scotoi;.  It 
qd  obiit  seit  de  t'b^  vilt  die  Midilton  cu  suis  pten  in  dnico  suo  ut  de  feod 
que  tenet  de  dno  Henf  Pcy  coiii  Northumbf  ut  de  baronia  de  Benley  p 
svic  militaf  "t  redd  eid  corn  ~l  heredib3  suis  p  am  quiq,  m^rc  t  p  truncag 
x  ad '  castf  de  Bamburght  trigint  *t  novem  f  solod  v.  d  q^  vi3  p  cariacoe 
focat  "t  reddend  ad  reddit  voc  Cudbert  ferme  p  am  vij.  s.  vj.  d.  p  man  vie 
Northumbf  qui  p  tepe  fuit  t  n1  vat  p  a™  hiis  dieb3  ppt  distf  Scotoi;. 
It  qd  obiit  seit  de  manio  de  Dodyngton  cu  pterl  in  dnico  suo  ut  de  feod  qd 
tenef  de  dco  corn  ut  de  baron  de  Alnewykf  p  svic  milit  redded  f  reddend 
p  ward  castf  xiij.  s.  iiij.  d.  "t  nichirl  vat  p  causa  s^dta.  It  qd  obiit  seit 
de  manio  de  Ewortti  cu  ptinec  ut  de  feod  qd  tenetr  de  eod  coih  p  svic 
milit  ut  de  baronia  jMta  de  Alnewykf  "t  reddit  p  am  p  ward  castf  xiij.  s. 
iiij.  d.  "t  nichirl  vat  p  am  in  oib3  exit  ult*  repris  hiis  dieb3  in  causa  pdta. 
It  obiit  seit  in  feod  de  manio  de  Howykf  cu  pten  qd  tenef  in  capt  p 
IVic  milit  de  dto  coin  ut  de  baf  ail  diet  "t  vat  p  am  ult*  repris  in  oib3  exi! 
xx.  m^rc.  It  obiit  seit  de  manio  de  Hawkytt  cii  pten  qd  tenef  f  ad  eod 
com  in  cap  p  svic  milit  ut  de  baf  |5dicf  "t  vat  p  am  ult^  repric  x.  m^rc. 
It  obiit  seil  de  un  mes  t  un  acf  tf  in  virl  "t  in  campo  de  Alnewykf  que  ten 
de  eod  com  redd  p  am  eid  coiii  xij.  d.  It  vat  p  am  ulF  repric  viij.  s.  K 
obiit  seit  de  mediat  mani  de  ||  Roubey  in  feod  que  tenef  de  heredib3  Alan 
de  Hetoii  cbr  p  svic  milit  ut  de  manio  de  Angram  t  n1  vat  p  am  causa 
srdict.  It  obiit.  seit  de  mediet  manli  de  Zerdilt  in  feod  que  tenef  p  svic 
milit  de  due  Lancastf  ut  de  baf  de  Stamford  t  nichirl  vat  p  am  causa 


PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS.  Ixi 

s^dta.  It  obiit  seit  de  manio  de  Hettou  cu  ptinet  in  feod  qd  tenef  de 
Ric  Arondett  cnr  p  ^svic  milit  ut  de  bar  de  Musco  Campo  1  n1  vat  p  am 
ca  s^dta.  It  obiit  seit  de  ctis  tr  "t  ten  in  Preffeii  que  tenef  de  eod  Ric 
p  svic  milit  ut  de  baron  an  diet  "t  n1  vat  p  am  causa  s^dict.  It  obiit  seit 
in  feod  de  tcia  pt  de  Caldmertoii  tet  de  Job  Folbur  p  svic  militar  ut  de 
manio  de  Folbur  "t  n1  vat  p  am  ca  s^dta.  It  obiit  seit  de  ufi  tr  husb  cu 
duob3  cotag  cu  un  plac  voc  le  Bostlees  que  tenef  de  dno  Darcy  ut  de 
baron  de  Musco  Campo  p  socag  "t  n1  vat  p  a™  ca  s^dta.  It  obiit  seit  de 
un  tr  husband  in  Zeverne  que  tenef  de  p\lco  Ric  de  Arowndett  ut  de 
baron  de  Musco  Campo  p  socag  ~t  n1  vat  p  ara  ca  s^dta.  It  obiit  seit  de 
un  9f  husband  in  Bollesdeii  tent  de  dnio  de  Lowykf  in  socag  *t  nl  vat  ca 
^dict.  It  obiit  seit  in  feod  de  tr  husband  in  Kyllum  "t  duobs  cotag  que 
tenef  de  Ric  Arondatt  ut  de  manio  de  Kyllum  p  socag  ~t  redd  iij.  s.  p 
am  1  n1  vat  p  am  ult'r  repris  ca  pdta.  Et  die  qd  ^dts  Thoiii  Gray  obiit  die 
Jov  px  aii  I'm  S'ti  Andree  apli  ult  prit  ^t  qd  no  obiit  seit  de  aliquib  aliis 
?r  seu  ten  in  dnico  vl  in  feod  infJ  com  pdict  et  qd  Th  Gray  cnr  e  fit  suus 
1  ej9  her  ppinquior  It  est  etatf  octodeci  anno^  "t  amplius.  In  cuj9  rei 
testium  huic  inquis  diet  jur  sigirl  sua  apposuer.  Dat  die  loco  "t  a0 
s^dtis. 


No.  XXIV. 

Inquis.  post  mortem,  8  Hen.  IV.,  n.  87- 

Henricus  Dei  gra  rex  Angt  "I  Franc  ~t  dns  Hibf  escaetori  suo  in  coni 
Northumbr  saltm.  Quia  Thomas  Gray  chivaler  fit  "t  heres  Thome 
Gray  chivaler  defuncti  qui  de  nob  tenuit  in  capite  dicit  se  plene  etatis 
esse  ~t  petit  a  nob  tras  1  ten  que  sunt  de  hereditate  sua  in  custodia  Sra 
usq,  ad  legitima  etatem  heredis  pdti  sibi  reddi  p  quod  volum9  qd  idem 
Thomas  fit  qui  apud  Alnewykf  in  coni  pdto  natus  It  in  ecctia  ejusdem 
ville  baptizatus  fuit  ut  dicif  etatem  suam  pbet  coram  te.  Et  ideo  tibi 
p,cipim9  qd  ad  ctos  diem  "t  locii  quos  ad  hoc  pvideris  pbacoem  illam  p 


lxii  PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

sacrm  pbo£  "t  leg  hoim  de  com  pdto  p  quos  pbacio  ilia  capi  \  Veritas 
etatis  pdte  melius  sciri  potit  "t  inquiri  et  pbcoem  illam  sic  captam  nob  in 
cancellar  iiram  sub  sigillo  vro  distincte  "t  apte  sine  dilone  mittatis  "t  hoc 
bre.     T'  me  ipo  apud  Westm  xxviij.  die  Novembf  anno  f  n  sexto. 

Dorso, 

Responsio  Willi  de  Carnaby  esc  dni  regis  in  com  Northumbf  put 
patet  in  Inquis  huic  bre  consut. 


Inquis  capt  apd  Alnewyke  coram  WiHmo  de  Carnaby  chr  esc  dni  regf 
in  com  Northumbf  die  Lime  xviij.  die  Appritt  anno  f  r  Henrici  quart! 
post  conquestu  AngI  octavo  virtute  bre  dni  regf  eidm  esc  direc!  p 
sacrm  Johis  Midlame  Johis  Clerkf  de  Nesbet  With  Aspliou  Johis 
Etatt  Thome  Clerkf  Johis  Holand  Willi  Midlame  Johis  Hyndley 
Robti  Soppath  Robti  BurnegyH  Robti  Lawe  ~t  Henrici  de  Chester  juf . 
Qui  [die]  sup  sacrm  suu  qd  Thomas  Gray  chivaler  fit  *fc  heres  Thome 
Gray  chivaler  defuncti  est  etatis  viginti  duo^  anoi;  t  amplius.  Et  die 
qd  idm  Th  natus  fuit  in  castro  de  Alnewyk  in  festo  S'ti  Andree  appli  a" 
r  r  Heft?  Rici  scdi  post  conquest  AngI  octavo  "t  baptizat?  fuit  in  ecclia 
S'ti  Michis  ejusdm  ville  in  eodm  festo.  P  quod  f?d  Johes  Midlam  etatis  lv. 
annoT^  1  amplius  v  die  '  qd  ipe  fuit  in  eadm  ecctia  tempe  baptizaciois  sue. 
Et  pdts  Johes  Clerkf  etatis  lvj.  annoi?  1  amplius  die  qd  ipe  videb  ipm 
port  ad  eccliam  eodm  die.  Et  pdtus  Wilis  etatis  lvij.  anno^  It  amplius  die 
qd  ipe  fuit  in  castro  jJdto  eod  die  quo  nat9  fuit.  Et  f&  Joh  Etall  etatf 
Iviij.  annoTf  t  amplius  die  qd  ipe  videbat  pdtm  Th  filiu  ligat  in  una  zona 
deaura?  eod  die  baptisaciois  sue.  Et  pd  Th  etatis  Ix.  anno^  It  amplius  die 
qd  ipe  fuit  in  villa  de  Alnewyk  tepe  baptisaciois  sue  et  |?d  Joh  Holand 
etatis  1.  anno^  ~t  amplius  die  qd  ipe  vid  Thoma  Watton  compatre  suu 
equitfit  vfi  villa  de  Werkworth  eod  die.  Et  p\t  Witts  Midlame  etatf  liij. 
anno^  1  ampliu9  die  qd  ipe  videbat  f?d  Th  filiii  involut  in  uno  pano  rubio 
tepe  baptis  sue.  Et  j5d  Joh  Hyndley  etatf  xl.ix.  anno^  t  amplius  die  qd 
ipe  v  eod  die  '  videb  Thoma  de  Ilderton  milite  compatf  ejusd  Th  equitaJ; 
f>  Dunstanburgh.  Et  fJd  Rob  Soppath  etatis  lx.  anno^  1  ampli9  die  qd 


I 


PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS.  Ixiii 

pdtus  Tft  filius  nat9  fuit  in  le  Midy^athouse  ejusdm  castri  N  eod  die  qr 
tunc  psens  fuit  ibm.  '  Et  Rod  Burnegyl  etatis  lxiij  a-nno^  anno^  1  ampliQ 
die  qd  ipe  fuit  in  abbathia  de  Alnewyk  tepe  baptis  sue  et  j?d  Rob  Lawe 
etatf  lvj.  anno^  "t  amplius  die  qd  ipe  equitavit  eodm  die  vf>  Morpatfi. 
Et  j?d  Hen?  de  Chester  etatf  lix.  anno^  ~t  ampliu9  v  die  '  qd  ipe  equi- 
tavit eodem  die  vfi  Rugley  ^p  quod  bene  recolivit  qd  id  Th  fit  est  etatf 
xxij.  annoi;  1  ampl '  In  cui9  rei  testloniu  jMti  juf  huic  inquis  sigitt  sua 
apposuer.    Dat  apd  Alnewyk  die  It  anno  sup^dtis. 


No.  XXV. 


The  mention  here  made  of  the  Chronicle  of  Marianus  Scotus  presents 
an  opportunity  of  offering  a  few  observations  upon  that  work,  of  which  the 
Editor  more  willingly  avails  himself  for  the  purpose  of  removing  an  erro- 
neous impression  which  prevails,  namely,  that  the  publication  of  this 
work  would  contribute  to  illustrate  the  more  obscure  periods  of  Scottish 
history. 

The  following  outline  of  this  Chronicle  may  not  be  unacceptable.  It 
need  only  be  premised  that  it  is  taken  from  the  exceedingly  fine  copy 
in  the  Cottonian  MS.,  Nero,  C.  v.,  which  appears  to  have  been  written 
in  Germany  shortly  after  the  period  in  which  the  author  lived. 

After  some  tables,  of  a  chronological  nature,  at  fol.  27  we  have  the 
rubric,  "  Incipit  hie  Mariani  Scotti  Cronica  clara."  It  is  divided  into 
three  books: 

"  Primus  liber  incipit  ab  Adam  usque  ad  Christum." 

"  Secundus  liber  continet  ab  incarnatione  Domini  usque  in  ascensio- 
nem  ejus." 

The  third  book  brings  the  history  down  to  the  period  in  which  the 
author  lived.  Its  character  may  be  judged  by  the  rubrics  of  the  conclud- 
ing chapters,  which  are  as  under : 

Cap.  xc.  De  Ottone  imperatore,  filio  Ottonis  [A.D.  973-983]. 

xcj.  De  Ottone  tertio  imperatore,  filio  secundi  [A.D.  983-1002]. 


lxiv  PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Cap.  xcij.  De  Henrico  pio  imperatore  [A.D.  1002-1024]. 
xciij.  De  Counrado  imperatore  [A.D.  1024-1039]. 
xciiij.  De  Heinrieo  imperatore,  fllio  ejus  [A.D.  1039-1056]. 
xcv.  De  Heinrieo  imperatore,  filio  hujus  [A.D.  1073-1085];  de 
Hildebrando  papa  et  decretis  ejus  [A.D.  1056-1105]. 

It  is  obvious  from  these  rubrics  that  German,  not  English  or  Scottish 
history,  forms  the  bulk  of  the  Chronicle  of  Marianus.  The  following 
extracts  will  show  the  manner  in  which  our  domestic  affairs  are  treated : 

A.D.  1050.  Rex  Scottia?  Macbethad  Roma?  argentum  spargendo 
distribuit. 

A.D.  1053.  Aed,  clericus  barbosus, clericorum,  puellarum  et 

laicorum  magnam  scolam  habebat,  puellasque  more  clericorum  tondebat; 
propter  quod  etiam  de  Hibernia  projectus  est. 

A.D.  1066.  Hewardus  rex  Anglorum  obiit  viij.idus  Januarii;  Haraldus  ei 
in  regnum  successit.  Haraldus  Harfager  autem,  rexNordmannorum,  minus 
mille  navibus  venit  in  Angliam  regnaturus,  et  in  urbe  Eburaci  plusquam 
mille  laicos  centumque  presbiteros  occidit  de  Anglis.  Haraldus  vero,  rex 
Anglorum,  cum  septem  legionibus  superveniens  et  eum  Haraldum  impa- 
ratum  invenit  et  occidit,  mense  Octobris.  Hoc  anno  stella  cometis  visa 
est.  Willelmus  dux  Normannorum  cum  Francis intravit  in  Angliam;  qui 
cum  statim  bello  occidisset  Haraldum  regem  Anglorum,  rexit  Anglos. 

A.D.  1080.  Willelmus  rex  Anglorum  fecit  describi  omnes  totius 
Angliae  possessiones,  in  agris,  in  hominibus,  in  animalibus  omnibus,  in 
mansionibus  omnibus  a  majori  usque  ad  minimam,  et  in  omni  censu  qui  ex 
omnium  terris  posset  reddi ;  et  vexata  est  terra  multis  cladibus. 

A.D.  1087.  Willelmus  rex  Anglorum  obiit  5  idus  Septembris,  Willel- 
mus filius  ejus  [successit],  unctusque  est  in  regem  3  nonas  Octobris. 

The  following  notices  concerning  Marianus  are  extracted  from  his 
Chronicle : 

A.D.  1028.  Hoc  anno  natus  est  Marianus  Hibernensis  probabilis 
Scotus;  cujus  studio  et  labore  heec  cronica  prsecellens  de  diversis  libris 
est  coadunata. 

A.D.  1043.  Animchadus  Scotus  monachus  et  inclusus  in  Fulda  obiit, 
super  cujus  sepulchrum  visa  sunt  lumina,  et  psalmodia  audita  est.  Super 


PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS.  lxv 

cujus  sepulchram  Marianus,  hujus  chronica?  auctor,  decern  annis  ad  pedes 
ejus  stans  inclusus,  missara  cantavit 

A.D.  1052.  Marianus  chronographus  seculum  reliquit. 

A.D.  1056.  Marianus  peregrinus  factus  pro  coelesti  patria,  venit  Co- 
Ioniam,  ibique  in  monasterio  Scotorum  sancti  Martini,  quinta  feria, 
kalendis  Augusti,  monachus  factus  est. 

A.  D.  1058.  Ipsis  vero  statim  diebus,  feria  secunda  post  octavis  paschse, 
[27  April],  exiens  de  Colonia  causa  claudendi,  cum  abbate  Fuldensi  ad 
Fuldam,  super  mattam  supra  quam  combustus  est,  ego  oravi.  Ha?c  ait 
Marianus  Scotus  inclusus. 

A.  D.  1059.  Marianus  inclusus  cum  Sigefrido  Fuldensi  abbate,  juxta 
corpus  Sancti  Kiliani  in  Wirziburh  consecratus  est  presbiter,  sabbato 
media?  quadragesimop,  tertio  idus  Martii  [13  Marc],  et  feria  sexta  post 
ascensionem  Domini,  secundo  idus  Maii  [14  Maii],  inclusus  est  in  Fulda 
per  annos  decern. 

A.D.  1069-  Marianus,  post  decern  annos  sua?  inclusionis  in  Fulda, 
jussione  episcopi  Moguntini  et  abbatis  Fuldensis,  in  nonis  Aprilis,  feria 
sexta  ante  palmas,  Moguntiam  venit,  et  vj.  idus  Julii,  feria  quoque  sexta, 
in  natale  sanctorum  septem  Fratrum,  in  eadem  urbe  juxta  monasterium 
principale  includitur. 

It  appears  from  bis  continuator,  Dodecbinus,  that  Marianus  died  in 
1082.  This  chronicle  is  frequently  cited  by  the  early  historians.  Matthew 
of  Westminster  says  that  he  was  born  in  A.D.  1028;  that  he  wrote  a 
book  of  chronicles  from  the  time  of  the  emperor  Octavian  to  1131;  that 
he  is  more  explicit  upon  English  affairs  than  all  other  writers;  and  that, 
"  servatis  annis  dominicis,"  he  continued  his  history  to  Henry  the  elder, 
by  which  he  probably  means  the  death  of  Henry  the  First. 
•  In  the  "  Magnus  Rotulus  Scotia?"  the  "  Cronica  Mariani  Scoti"  is 
frequently  cited  in  confirmation  of  the  feudal  superiority  exercised  over 
that  kingdom  by  England,  by  which  references  we  are  to  understand 
Florence  of  Worcester,  in  whose  annals  a  considerable  part  of  the  prior 
labours  of  Marianus  is  inserted. — See  Fcedera,  vol.  i.  p.  796. 

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lxvi  PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS. 


No.  XXVI. 

The  high  encomium  passed  upon  the  history  written  by  John  of  Tyn- 
mouth,*  to  whom  Gray  is  directed  by  his  supernatural  guide  to  look  for 
historical  instruction  from  that  period  of  his  narrative  at  which  the  present 
volume  commences,  namely,  the  arrival  of  William  the  Conqueror,  renders 
it  imperative  that  a  few  observations  upon  the  Historia  Aurea  should  here 
be  offered  to  the  reader;  and  these  remarks  will  be  the  more  acceptable, 
since  copies  of  that  voluminous  production  are  by  no  means  common  or 
easy  of  access.  The  Editor  is  not  aware  of  any  perfect  copies  except 
those  preserved  in  the  Lambeth  library  (Nos.  10,  11,  12),  in  that  of 
Corpus  Christ!  College,  Cambridge  (Nos.  5,  6),  and  in  the  Bodleian 
(Nos.  240=2469).  A  brief  notice  of  the  Lambeth  and  Cambridge  ma- 
nuscripts is  appended;!  the  Bodleian  demands  a  more  detailed  exami- 
nation. 

*  Grey  in  the  prologue  erroneously  calls  him  vicar  of  Tilhnouth. 

|  Lambeth  MSS.  n.  10,  11,  12,  folio,  upon  vellum,  written  in  the  fourteenth  century,  contain- 
ing respectively  302,  292,  and  255  leaves.  The  first  volume  extends  from  the  Creation  to  the 
death  of  Nero,  the  second  from  the  death  of  Nero  to  A.D.  605,  the  third  from  that  date  to  the 
capture  of  Calais  in  1367. 

The  Corpus  Christi  manuscripts  are  of  the  fifteenth  century.  The  first  volume  extends  from 
the  Creation  to  the  era  of  Dioclesian;  the  second  from  that  date  to  the  year  1377,  although  there 
is  reason  to  believe  that  all  there  found  after  1347  is  the  addition  of  a  more  recent  chronicler.  A 
satisfactory  account  of  these  volumes  will  be  found  in  Nasmith's  Catalogue  of  that  Library,  pp.  2, 
3;  and  Parker's  Preface  to  Matthew  of  Westminster  (p.  5),  edit.  1570. 

The  Bodleian  MS.  is  a  large  folio  in  double  columns,  written  in  a  very  minute  and  close  hand. 
It  extends  from  the  era  of  Constantine  to  1347;  the  remainder  of  the  volume  consisting  of  a  refac- 
ciamento  of  the  lives  and  miracles  of  different  saints  by  different  scribes,  very  similar,  however,  to 
those  legends  published  by  Capgrave,  which  may  be  seen  in  the  "  Nova  Legenda  Anglian."  This 
MS.  being  merely  a  detached  volume  has  no  preface,  but  at  p.  582  is  the  following  note  at  the 
bottom  of  the  margin  in  a  hand  somewhat  more  recent  than  the  text  itself: — "  Explicit  Historia 
Aurea  Johannis  Anglici," — then  in  another  hand,  "  vel  potius  Guidonis  Dionisiani  abbatis  Gallici;" 
but  these  words  are  placed  immediately  before  the  legends  above  mentioned,  as  if  intended  to  apply- 
more  peculiarly  to  them.  After  the  alphabetical  index  follows  this  note  in  a  more  recent  hand : 
"  Liber  monachorum  Sancti  Edmundi,  in  quo  continetur  secunda  pars  Historian  Aurea?,  quern 
>cribi  fecit  dompnus  Rogerus  de  Huntedone,  sumptibus  gratiarum  suarum." 

The  Cottonian  roll,  xiii.  2,  contains  an  abridgement  of  this  history,  extending  to  the  year  1346. 
At  the  end  is  the  following  note :  "  Expliciunt  excerptiones  Johannis  de  sua  Historia  Aurea,  ad 
■rdificationem  legentium  diligenter  extractse." 


PROOFS   AND  ILLUSTRATIONS.  Ixvii 

The  most  interesting  period  of  this  Chronicle,  as  of  every  other,  is  that 
which  refers  to  the  period  within,  or  near,  which  the  author  lived;  and 
a  comparison  of  this  portion  of  the  work  (that  is,  from  the  death  of  Ed- 
ward the  First  to  the  end  of  the  volume)  with  other  authorities  led  the 
Editor  to  the  unexpected  conclusion  that  he  had  already  printed  its  most 
curious  passages  in  a  volume  presented  to  the  Maitland  Club  by  Moses 
Steven,  Esquire,  entitled,  "  Illustrations  of  Scottish  History."*  When 
these  passages  were  printed  the  Editor  was  not  aware  that  they  were 
selections  from  the  "  Historia  Aurea,"  and  he  described  this  portion  of 
the  Harleian  manuscript  as  an  anonvmous  chronicle,  containing  no  evi- 
dence, internal  or  external,  enabling  us  to  form  any  conjecture  as  to  its 
author.  An  abstract  of  the  whole  of  this  period,  distinguishing  the  por- 
tions which  respectively  are  in  Higden,  and  the  Maitland  volume,  is  sub- 
mitted for  the  information  of  the  reader. 

A.D.  1307-  "  Rex  Edwardus  post  conquestum  primus  obiit  die  trans- 
lationis  Sancti  Thomee  in  finibus  Northimbria3,  et  apud  Westmonasterium 
sepultus  est;  cujus  obitum  Robertus  Cantuariensis,  apud  ecclesiam  Ro- 
manam  exulans,  in  somniis  eodem  die  vidit.  Cui  successit  Edwardus 
filius  suus  post  conquestum  secundus,  vir  quidem  corpore  elegans,  viribus 
praestans,  sed  moribus  si  vulgo  creditur  plurimum  discrepans;"  Higden, 
col.  2531,  to  col.  2532,  "  ceetera  sibi  satis  infausta  fuerunt,"  which  is 
thus  continued: — "  Hie,  Edwardo  sepulto  patre  suo,f  statini  misit  in 
Franciam,  usque  Crescy  in  Pontunio,  pro  Petro  de  Gavirstoun,  qui  du- 
dum  Angliam  abjuraverat ;  qui  Londoniis  veniens  in  festo  Assump- 
tions Beata?  Maria?  thesaurum  regis  tam  apud  Turrim  quam  apud 
Westmonasterium  multipliciter  dissipavit,  ad  regem  in  Scotia  iter  dirigit, 
et  comes  Cornubia?.  factus  cito  post  filiam  comitis  Glovernia?  et  Johanna? 
de  Accon  duxit  in  uxorem.    In  festo  Purificationis  Beata?  Maria?  rex  Ed- 

Collections  from  the  Historia  Aurea  are  in  the  MS.  284  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin;  in  the 
Hail.  MS.  258,  f.  36-58,  b. ;  and  in  the  same  library,  n.  692,  fol.  216,  are  some  short  extracts  (ap- 
parently transcribed  from  the  excerpts  made  by  Josseline,  the  learned  secretary  of  Matthew  Parker, 
contained  in  the  Cottonian  MS.  Vitell.  E.  xiv.  fol.  262,  b.),  which  profess  to  have  been  taken 
from  an  original  in  King's  College,  Cambridge. 

'  P.  2,  et  seqq.  t  Hie  namque  Edwardus  certificatus  de  morte  patris Harl.  MS. 


lxviii  PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

wardus  apud  Boloniam  filiam  regis  Francorum  Philippi,  Ysabellam,  duxit 
in  uxorem.  Occasionem  autem  hujus  matrimonii  ac  sepulturae  Edwardi 
primi,  nobiles  Angliae  de  Scotia  se  retraxerunt,  post  quorum  reccssum 
Robertus  Brus  in  brevi  castra  et  munitiones  fere  omnes  totius  Scotia?,  magis 
cautilis  quam  laboribus  bellicis,  adquisivit.  Nee  ex  tunc  rex  Edwardus, 
discordia  Anglorum  prsevalente,  Scotis  resistere  potuit  nee  praevalere. 
Petrus  de  Gavirstoun  proceres  tense  parvipendit,  ejusque  contemplatione 
rex  reginam  suam  Ysabellam  neglexit.  Quamobrem  indignitati  magnates 
Petrum  ipsum  prius  usque  in  Hiberniam  proterminant,  ubi  et  regii  thesauri 
illuc  transmissi  petulanter  sunt  absumpti.  Deinde  sub  spe  pacis  uberioris 
liabendae  ad  Angliam  revocatur,  sed  regio  ut  prius  thesauro  absumpto 
proceres  terra?  insurgunt,"  Higden,  col.  2532,  to  "  efflaret  auram."  It 
then  proceeds — "  Edwardus  tertius,  filius  Edwardi  secundi,  die  Sancti 
Bricii  natus  est,  et  a  quodam  cardinale  in  die  Sancti  Edmundi  archie- 
piscopi  de  sacro  fonte  est  levatus." 

A.D.  1312.  Tit.  "  Quod  sicut  Angli  a  Scotis,  et  Scoti  ab  Hiber- 
nensibus  vincuntur.     Cap.  xxix. 

"  Rex  Edwardus  et  proceres  sui,  excepto  Thoma  Lancastria?,"  Illustr. 
of  Scottish  Hist.  p.  2,  to  "  caput  vero  Edwardi  abscisum  in  stipite  est 
illatum,"  p.  3,  where  the  Bodleian  MS.  supplies  "  Dublina?"  before  "  in 
stipite." 

A.D.  1316.  Tit.  "  De  eventibus  illius  temporis,  et  qualiter  Cardinales 
deprsedati  sunt.     Cap.  xxx. 

"  Circa  festum  Sancti  Gregorii." — Illustr.  p.  3. 

A.D.  1317-  After  a  chapter  entitled,  "  De  eventibus  illius  temporis,"' 
showing  how  "  Circa  festum  Sancti  Martini  Goscelinus  Deyville,  miles, 
cum  Roberto  fratre  suo,  Johane  Page,  et  aliis  circiter  ducentis,  cucullas 
fratrum,"  etc.,  we  have  the  account,  "  qualiter  urbes  Berwici  et  Edin- 
burgi  capta?  sunt,"  commencing,  "  Circa  ad  vincula  Sancti  Petri,"  printed 
in  the  same  volume,  p.  5. 

A.D.  1318.  Tit.  "  De  Anglis  et  Scotis,  et  peste  animalium.  Cap. 
xxxiij.  Mensi  Augusti  rex  Edwardus,  exercitu  congregato,  Berwicum 
obsedit." — Illustr.  p.  6. 

Tit.  "  Qualiter  nobiles  Angliae  a  rege  occisi  sunt.     Cap.  xxxiv.     Post 


PROOFS   AND  ILLUSTRATIONS.  lxix 

hsec  in  festo  Sancti  Michaelis  rex  magnum  congregavit  exercitum  ad 
obsidendum  castrum  de  Ledes.  Quo  quidem  tempore  comes  Herfordia>, 
duo  Rogeri  de  Mortuo  Mari,  Johannes  Moubray  et  alii  magnates,  apud 
Kingstoun,  cum  manu  forti,  ut  obsidionem  solverent,  appropinquarunt," 
etc. 

Tit.  "  De  morte  Andrese  de  Harkeley.  Cap.  xxxv.  Hoc  anno  tertio 
die  Januarii,  Andreas  de  Herkley,  comes  Carlioli,"  etc. — Illustr.  p.  8. 

Tit.  "  Qualiter  anima  Guidonis  uxorem  vexavit.      Cap.  xxxvj."* 

A.D.  1324.  "  Circa  hunc  annum  Willelmus  de  Soulis,  Patricius  de 
Grame,"  etc. — Illustr.  p.  9. 

"  De  Edwardo  tertio  et  eventibus  illius  temporis.  Cap.  xlii.  Edwardus 
igitur  post  conquestum  tertius,  annos  xiv.  in  festo  Sancti  Brieii,"  etc. 
see  Hemingford's  Chronicle,  edit.  Hearne,  p.  267,  which  the  manuscript 
follows  verbatim  to  "  evasit,"  on  the  following  page,  and  then  accom- 
panies it,  in  some  places  contracting,  in  others  extending  the  narrative, 
until  we  arrive  at  p.  357,  where  a  leaf  is  lost,  extending  to  the  middle  of 
the  document  commencing  on  p.  365,  and  so  following  Hemingford  to 
its  abrupt  termination,  to  which  it  supplies  these  additional  chapters: 

Cap.  lxxv.  Tit.  "  De  victoria  regis  Edwardi  habita  apud  Cressy. 

*  Copies  of  this  absurd  legend,  written  apparently  to  strengthen  belief  in  the  doctrine  of  the 
Real  Presence,  are  not  uncommon  in  a  detached  form;  see  Cotton.  MSS.  Vesp.  A.  vi.  fol.  138,  and 
E.  i.  fol.  219,  b.  It  was  printed  at  Dellft,  in  4to.  1486;  see  Rodd's  Catalogue,  1836,  p.  i.  No. 
1281. 

It  seems  probable  that  it  is  to  this  Guy,  and  not  the  hero  of  romance,  that  allusion  is 
made  in  the  following  passages  in  Dunbar's  poems — 

"  The  larbar  lukis  of  thy  lang  lene  craig, 

Thy  pure  pynit  thrott,  peilit  and  owt  of  ply, 
Thy  skolderit  skin,  hewd  lyk  ane  saffrone  bag, 

Garris  men  dispyt  thai'  flesche,  thow  spreit  of  Gy: 
Fy,  feyndly  front!  fy,  tykis  face,  fy,  fy!" 

Vol.  ii.  p.  72,  edit.  Laing. 


Again — 


'And  yit  gif  this  be  nocht  I, 
I  wait  I  am  the  spreit  of  Gy  ; 
Or  ellis  go  by  the  sky 
Licht  as  the  lynd." 

P.  37. 


lxx  PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

"  Hoc  anno  circa  idus  Julii,  rex  Angliae  Edwardus  cum  suo  exercitu  apud 
Hegg  in  Normania  applicuit,  ac  spoliata  et  combusta  circumquaque 
patria." 

Cap.  lxxvj.  Tit.  "  De  bello  de  Dunelmio  facto  apud  Dunelmum. 
Hoc  anno  Scoti  pluries  Marchias  boreales  cum  manu  valida  intrantes." 

Cap.  lxxvij.  Tit.  "  De  victoria  contra  Gallicos  Thomas  de  Dagword 
divinitus  collata.  Anno  Domini  M.ccc.xlvj.  miles  quidam  nobilis,  Thomas 
de  Dagworth  nominatus,  cujus  nomen  probitasque  fama." 

Cap.  lxxviij.  Tit.  "  Qualiter  papa  post  victoriam  regi  Edwardo  scrip- 
sit." 

Cap.  lxxix.  Tit.  "  Responsio  Edwardi  regis." 

Cap.  lxxx.  Tit.  "  De  captione  Caroli  de  Bloys.  Dominus  Carolus 
de  Bloys,  congregato  magno  exercitu  m.cc.  militum  et  scutiferorum." 

Cap.  lxxxj.  "  Eodem  anno  nunciatum  est  magnatibus  Anglorum,  in 
obsidione  Calesii." 

The  length  to  which  these  remarks  have  extended  prevents  the  Editor 
from  appending  a  few  observations  which  he  intended  to  have  made  upon 
the  extent  to  which  Grey  seems  to  have  gleaned  information  from  the 
Historia  Aurea,  but  the  means  of  forming  his  own  conclusions  are  now 
before  the  reader,  and  the  investigation  is  worth  pursuing. 


No.  XXVII. 

MS.  Trin.  Coll.  Camb.  R.  14,  7- 


Puis  de  la  defconfiture  a  Dunbarre. 

Puis  coment  li  roys  out  pris  tuz  les  cheuentains  de  Efkoce,  et  puis  par 
fa  curteyfie  les  deliura. 

Puis  coment  les  Elkoz  fe  herent  as  ceus  de  Fraunce  par  le  fol  abbet 
Willam  Waleys,  ki  full  fait  meintenur  de  lur  fecounde  guerre ;  e  coment 
li  roy  meimes  cele  houre  ala  en  Flandres 


PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS.  Ixxi 

Puis  coment  Willam  Waleys  fill  tuer  fire  Hue  de  Creilingham  au  pount 
de  Eftriuelyn  tantke  li  roys  full  ale  en  Flaundres. 

Puis  coment  li  roys  a  fa  reuenue  hors  de  Flandre  fe  confeylla  a  ces 
barons  pur  ces  felouns  de  Efchoce. 

Puis  de  la  bataylle  a  Faukyrke. 

Puis  du  derrainer  manage  miffire  Edward,  et  de  fa  tierce  alee  en 
Efchoce. 

Puis  coment  li  roys  fift  ordiner  les  noueaus  puyns,  ke  font  apellez  les 
articles  de  Traylebaftoun. 

Puis  coment  Willam  Waleys  fuft  pris,  traynez,  penduz,  fes  bueaus  arz, 
e  pus  decollez  e  defmembrez. 

Puis  coment  les  Eikoz  fe  vnt  obligez  venir  au  roy  a  Loundres  pur  oyr 
les  condiciouns  de  lur  peis,  en  quele  manere  il  lui  dufient  appeyfer  le 
trefpas  de  lur  tierce  guere. 

Puis  coment  fire  Roberd  le  Brus,  fi  toft  cum  il  fuft  reuenuz  en  Efkoce, 
fill  affembler  fon  parlement  al  abbeye  de  Skone,  pur  enquere  ky  tendra 
ou  lui  et  ky  noun,  pur  ceo  ke  il  mift  chalenge  au  reaume. 

Puis  coment  le  commun  confayl  de  Efkoce  fe  affenti  a  fire  Robert  le 
Brus  kil  ferroyt  roys,  e  coment  le  abbe  de  Skone  lui  prefenta  le  raunt- 
zoun  pur  defendre  la  tere  contre  fire  Edward. 

Puis  coment  fire  Johan  le  Comin  de  Badenak  comenza  defdire  le  co- 
ronement  le  Brus  al  abbeye  de  Skone,  et  dill  ke  iammais  ne  fe  affentiroit 
ne  ne  ferroyt  contre  le  ferment  kil  out  fayt  a  lire  Edward. 

Puis  coment  le  Brus  e  le  counte  de  Atheles  ordeinent  vn  autre  afiemblee 
a  Dunfris  pur  parfournir  foun  coronement. 

Puis  coment  fire  Robert  le  Brus  maunda  fes  ij.  freres  pur  fire  Johan 
le  Comin,  fi  lui  prie  venir  a  luy  parler  a  les  Cordelers  de  Dounfrys  de  vn 
confail  pur  honur  de  tote  la  tere. 

Puis  coment  Johan  le  Comyn  les  contrepleyda  derechef  a  Dounfrys  kil 
ne  aflentiroyt  au  coronement  le  Bruz  auaundit. 

Puis  coment  Roberd  le  Brus  tuwa  fire  Jon  le  Comin  en  leglife  de 
Dunfrik,  pur  ceo  ke  il  ne  uoleyt  a  fa  trayfoun  acorder. 

Puis  coment  Roberd  le  Brus  fuft  coronee,  e  coment  il  comentza  tan  toft 
ardoir  e  dettruire  kantke  auowait  a  fire  Edward. 


lxxii  PROOFS   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Puis  coment  fire  Edward  fift  addubber  xiiij.xx  chiualers  auaunt  fa  quarte 
alee  en  Efcoce. 

Puis  coment  Robert  le  Brus  et  Simoun  Frifel  furent  defconfyt  en  ba- 
taylle  deleez  la  uile  faint  Johan. 

Puis  coment  le  efuelke  de  Saint  Andreu,  le  euefke  de  Glafkou,  e  le 
abbe  de  Skone,  fount  pris  en  bataylle. 

Puis  coment  Symoun  Frifel  fu  pris,  trainez,  penduz,  ars,  et  decollez. 

Puis  coment  le  cunte  Datheles  full  pris  et  ferui  de  memes  le  iugement, 
fauue  kil  neftoyt  mie  traynee,  pur  ceo  kil  clama  eftre  du  parente  le  roy. 


No.  XXVIII. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  CORRESPONDENCE    RELATIVE  TO  A  TRANSCRIPT 
FROM  THE  SCALACRONICA,  PROCURED  FOR  LORD  HAILES.     1777-1778. 

Transcribed  from  the  originals,  by  Thomas  Thomson,  Esquire,  Deputy-Clerk  Register. 


DR  WILLIAM  COOKE,  PROVOST  OF  KING'S  COLLEGE,   CAMBRIDGE,   TO 
LORD  HAILES. 

My  dear  Sin  David,  6th  May  1777. 

It  must  be  a  satisfaction  to  you  to  be  assured 
that  your  papers  are  come  safe,  and  I  the  rather  give  it  you,  as  I  am  able, 
at  last,  to  answer  one  of  your  enquiries.  It  happens  very  luckily  for  you, 
that  a  new  and  very  particular  catalogue  of  Archbishop  Parker's  library 
is  published  with  us  this  very  morning;  a  handsome  quarto  of  430  pages, 
in  which  the  contents  of  all  the  volumes  are  distinctly  specified.  As  it 
is  greatly  superior  to  all  former  catalogues,  and  probably  may  be  of 
much  use  to  you,  you  will  kindly  accept  of  one  from  me  as  my  ftm/tommyi 
and  in  that  confidence  I  will  take  the  liberty  to  order  you  a  copy  im- 
mediately.    I  find  in  it,  as  you  will,  p.  207?  your  Scala  Chronica,  with  a 


PROOFS  AND   ILLUSTRATIONS.  lxxiii 

note  subjoined  by  the  editor,  in  which  he  ingeniously  resolves  the  enigma 
of  the  author's  name,  and  adds,  "  Ex  hinc  apparet  authorem  fuisse 
Thomam  Gray,  Anglum,  et,  ut  ipse  testatur,  apud  Edinburgum  captivum, 
ubi  haec  quae  in  quodam  invenerat  poemate,  eadem  lingua,  Gallica  scilicet, 
soluta  oratione  contexuit;  continet,  historiam  Anglise  a  mundo  condito 
ad  a.d.  1362."  This  scarce  promises  well  for  being  of  the  consequence 
you  seem  to  conceive  of  it.  The  Leonine  art  of  poetry  has  not  yet 
occurred,  but  I  have  barely  opened  the  book.         ..... 


THE  SAME  TO  THE  SAME. 

July  1777- 

I  had  in  my  hands  the  Scala  Chronica,  and  have  found,  I  think,  the  pas- 
sage you  want,  at  least  what  tallies  with  this  in  Leland :  "  After  that 
the  hole  Englisch  hoste  had  faught  with  the  Scottes,  and  had  so  great 
victory,  the  toune  of  Berwick  was  gyven  up  to  the  king."  If  you  should 
not  mean  this  passage  (and  possibly  you  may  not,  for  I  do  not  observe 
the  word  Haledown  in  it,  which  you  make  the  scene  of  action),  you  will 
tell  me  so,  and  I  will  endeavour  to  make  further  inquiry.  But  should  I 
be  right,  the  transcript,  I  fear,  will  be  attended  with  difficulty,  being  in 
very  old  French,  and  with  such  abbreviations  as  I  could  scarce  make 
out  two  lines  together.  I  have  hopes,  however,  of  help  from  Mr  Nas- 
mith,  the  editor  of  the  catalogue,  though  he  has  left  the  college,  and 
only  comes  in  occasionally,  and  but  seldom ;  and  the  fact  is,  that  I  am 
now  soon  leaving  Cambridge  myself,  for  two  or  three  months.  Having 
the  convenience  of  another  envelope,  I  enclose  you  Nasmith's  proposals, 
and  have  taken  care  that  he  should  know  your  wishes  for  the  publication 
of  the  chronicle;  if,  with  any  good  effect,  you  shall  hear  as  I  hear.  De- 
pend on  me  for  doing  my  best,  whatever  you  call  me  to,  and  accept 
my  best  wishes. 

I  am,  my  dear  Sir, 

Your's  most  faithfully, 

Wm.  Cooke, 
(k) 


Ixxiv  PROOFS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

THE  SAME  TO  THE  SAME. 

1 5th  July  1777. 

I  have  reason  to  give  you  some  hopes  that  the  transcript  of  the  Scala 
may  possibly  be  soon  sent  to  you,  having  left  your  address  at  Ben'et 
College  for  that  purpose;  and  if  it  reaches  you  'twill  give  me  satisfac- 
tion to  hear  of  it. 

Mr  Nasmith  shall  know  the  encouragement  you  promise  him. 

Adieu,  &c. 

THE  SAME  TO  THE  SAME. 

3d  July  1778. 

Mr  Nasmith  ....  in  the  most  obliging  manner  engaged  for  the 
transcript  of  the  Scala  Chronica,  which  I  hope  you  received  last  summer. 
and  that  it  proved  to  your  satisfaction. 


SCALACKONICA. 


PROLOGUE. 


QE  eit  delite  ou  voet  fauoer  coment  le  ifle  del  Graunt  Bretaigne  (iadys 
Albeon,  tere  de  geaunz,  ore  Engleter),  fuft  primerment  enhabite,  et  de 
quel  gent,  et  de  lour  naiffaunce,  et  de  la  proceffe  du  ligne  de  rois  qe  y 
ount  efte,  et  lour  conuerfacioun,  folunc  ceo  quy  cell  cronicle  emparla,  et 
de  la  maner  auoit  troue  en  efcript  en  diuers  liuers  en  Latin  et  en  Ro- 
maunce,  pull  il  conoiftre  en  party  par  cell  eftoir  fuaunt  la  proceffe  de 
eaux.  Et  fy  ne  voet  pas  au  plain  nomer  foun  noune,  qe  cell  cronicle 
tranflata  de  ryme  en  profe,  mais  prifoner  eftoit  pris  de  guer  al  hour  qil 
comenfa  cell  tretice. 

Si  eftoit  del  ordre  enlumine  de  bons  morez, 

As  veues,  as  pucelis,  et  a  faint  eglife  fuccours ; 

Soun  habite,  fa  droit  vefture, 

Eftoit  autre  tiel  de  colour, 

Com  eft  ly  chape  du  Cordeler, 

Teynt  en  tout  tiel  maner. 

Autre  cote  auoit  afoebler, 

Leftat  de  foun  ordre  agarder, 

Qe  de  fieu  refemble  la  colour ; 

Et  defus,  en  purturature, 

Eftoit  li  hardy  beft  quartyner 

Du  ligne  teynt  de  la  mere ; 

Enviroun  palice  un  mure, 

De  meifme  peynt  la  colour. 

Soit  viij.  ioynt  apres  xixme, 

Si  mettez  xij.  apres  xiiijme, 

A 


2  PROLOGUE. 

Vn  et  xviij.  encountrez, 

Soun  propre  noun  enfauerez, 

Vij.  a  xvij.  y  mettez, 

Le  primer  vouel  au  tierce  aioignez, 

Soun  droit  furnoun  entrouerez, 

Solunc  lalphabet. 
Le  noun  propre  et  furnoun  portoit, 
Qe  deuaunt  luy  foun  piere  auoit. 
Le  plus  clerement  le  voit  fauoir, 
Dautre  qe  de  moy  leftut  auoir. 
Sortez  iettez  et  diuinez, 
Sy  ymaginez  qe  vous  poez. 

Et  coment  ly  furueint  corage  de  cefl  matir  atreter,  leftoir  deuyfe  qe 
com  il  fuft  prifoner  en  le  opidoun  Mount  Agueth,  (iadys  Chaftel  de 
Pucelis,  ore  Edynburgh),  furueift  il  liuers  de  cronicles  enrymaiez  et  en 
profe,  en  Latin,  en  Fraunceis,  et  en  Engles,  de  geflez  dez  aunceftres, 
de  quoi  il  fe  meruailla ;  et  durement  ly  poifoit  qe  il  nuft  hu  deuaunt  le 
hour  meillour  conifaunce  du  cours  du  fiecle.  Si  deueint  corious  et  pen- 
fiue,  com  geris  nauoit  en  le  hour  autre  chos  afair,  a  treter  et  a  tranflater 
en  plus  court  fentence  lez  cronicles  del  Graunt  Bretaigne,  et  lez  geftez 
dez  Englefiez.  Et  com  eftoit  du  dit  bofoigne  plus  penfiue,  ly  eftoit  auys 
vn  nuyt  en  dormaunt  qe  Sebile  la  fage  ly  furueint,  et  li  did  qel  ly  mouftra 
voi  a  ceo  qil  eftoit  en  penfe ;  et  ly  fuft  auys  qel  ly  amena  en  vn  verger, 
ou  encountre  vn  mure  haut,  fur  vn  peroun,  trouerent  vn  efchel  de  v. 
baftouns  adreflez,  et  fur  le  peroun  defoutz  lefchel  ij.  liuers  au  cofte,  et 
vn  frer  Cordeler  fuppuoillaunt  od  fa  main  dextre  le  dift  efchele.  "  Moun 
amy,"  ceo  difoit  la  viel  Sebile,  "  veiez  cy  fen  et  foly,  le  primer  liuer  la  foi.  1.  b. 
bible,  le  fecounde  la  geft  de  Troy,  queux  ne  greuerount  a  toun  purpos 
a  furueoir."  Et  com  ly  fuft  auys  ele  ly  amena  outre,  fi  mountrerent 
lefchel,  qe  au  boute  du  primer  baftoun  du  dift  efchel  au  main  dextre 
permy  le  mure  trouerent  vn  bele  entree  ou  entrerent  vn  graunt  cite,  ou 
dedenz  vn  manoir  en  vn  fale  trouerent  efcriuaunt  vn  meftre  bien  furre. 
"  Beaux  amy,"  ceo  dift  Sebille,  "  veez  ycy  Gauter  erchedeken  de  Ex- 


PROLOGUE.  3 

ceftre,  qe  le  Brut  tranflata  de  Bretoun  en  Latin  par  ditz  de  Keile  et  de 
Gildas,  de  ditz  de  qi  poez  auoir  enfampler  com  de  le  Bruyte,  lez  geftz 
de  Bretouns,  le  primer  liuer  de  cronicles  fe  cell  ifle."  Puis  ils  fez  real- 
erent  et  remounterent  le  fecound  baftoun  du  dill  efchel,  au  bout  de  quoi 
trouerent  au  tiel  entree  com  deuaunt ;  ou  dedens  vn  priori,  com  ly  fuft 
auys,  trouerent  vn  moigne  noir  efcriuaunt  en  vn  eftudy.  Si  difoit  Sebille, 
"  cefli  eft  Bede  en  Wermouth,  le  reuerent  doclour  qefcrit  le  liuer  De 
geftis  Anglorum,  de  quoi  doiez  auoir  a  toun  purpos  graunt  enfenfement, 
com  de  geftis  Saxouns,  le  fecund  liuer  du  dit  cronicle."  Ils  fez  realerent, 
com  fuft  auys,  et  remonterent  le  tierce  baftoun  du  dit  efchel,  ou  par  tiel 
entree  y  trouerent  vn  autre  moigne  noir  et  chanu  efcriuaunt  en  vn  cloiftre. 
"  Moun  amy,"  fefoit  Sebille,  "  cefti  eft  le  moigne  de  Ceftre  qi  efcript  le 
Polecronicon,  de  qoi  doiez  prendre  graunt  auifement  du  tierce  liuer  de 
ditz  cronicles,  ceo  eft  afauoir  de  la  vniment  qe  le  roy  Egbright  fill  de  les 
vij.  realmes  Saxouns,  com  par  ditz  dez  autours  auoit  troue,  cell  afauoir 
per  Willam  de  Malmelbery,  Henry  de  Huntingdoun,  Roger  de  Houe- 
dene,  et  Mariotus  le  Efcot,  entrepretours  Engleffes."  Ils  fez  realerent, 
com  fuft  auys,  et  remounterent  le  quart  baftoun  du  dift  efchelle,  ou  au 
bout  du  dift  baftoun  trouerent  meifme  vn  tiel  entree,  ou  en  vn  chambre 
dedenz  vn  vilette  deuaunt  vn  fort  chattel  trouerent  vn  chapelain  efcriuaunt 
fure  vn  lettroun.  "  Douce  amy,"  ceo  difoit  Sebille,  "  cefti  eft  le  vikeir 
de  Tilmouth,  qe  efcript  le  Yftoria  Auria,  de  ditz  de  qy  tu  poez  auoir 
graunt  enformacioun  du  quart  liuer  de  ditz  cronicles,  cell  du  primer  venu 
Willam  le  conquerour  en  fa ;  et  beu  fire,"  fefoit  la  viel  Sebille,  "  tu  es 
ore  mounte  lez  qatre  baftouns  de  lefchel,  la  droit  voi  as  croniclis  de  ceft 
ifle,  ft  bien  lez  voillez  pour  fuyre.  Mais  le  fcinkifme  baftoun  ne  poez 
mounter,  qar  il  fignify  lez  auenementz  futurs  qe  dez  afcuns  eft  ymagine 
dez  auncienz  ditz,  com  en  la  vie  feint  Edward  eft  troue  le  ditz  de  vn 
faint  hom  qe  dift, — '  Non  folum  de  gente  Francorum  fed  Scottorum  quos 
Anglici  viliffimos  reputant,'  etc. — Et  auxi  par  ditz  du  Bruyt  en  Engles, — 
'  ]>at  Cadwaladre  fal  on  Conan  cal,'  etc. — per  ditz  de  Merlyn.  Mais  puf- 
fol.  27.  que  les  futures  cheauncez  ne  fount  pas  en  certain  a  determiner  fors  foule- 
ment  au  fen  deuyn,  leffoms  a  lez  deuynes  lez  chofis  celeftiens,  les  hours 
et  les  momentz  qe  a  eel  puffaunce  fount  referuez.     Et  fi  eft,"  fefoit 


4  PROLOGUE. 

Sebille,  "  le  Cordeler  qe  vous  vetoes  fuppuoillaunt  lefchel  Thomas  de 
Otreburn,  vn  meftre  de  diuinite  et  del  ordre  de  Frers  Menours,  qi  dez 
cronicles  de  cell  ifle  fe  entremift,  qe  fi  tu  puffes  en  caf  ateindre  toutes 
houres  a  les  propretes  de  ditz  baflouns  du  dill  efchel,  li  cerchez  lez 
cronicles  du  dill  Thomas,  qe  bien  te  moullrerount  ta  droit  voy;  et  li  bien 
puillez  acomplir  cell  tretice  tu  les  doys  appeller,  Scalacronica. 
•  Cefti  qi  cellz  foungez  auoitl  founge  fouenoit  bien  de  toz  lez  propretez 
deuifez,  par  enfamplere  de  queux  comenfa  et  purfuyll  cell  tretice  en  Ian 
de  grace  mille  ccc.l.  et  fynk.  Et  en  le  noun  du  Pier  et  Fitz  et  Saint 
Efpirit  comenfa  leftoir  de  cell  cronicle  au  comencement  du  fiecle  a  noftre 
primer  pier  Adam,  et  al  ligne  de  ly  tanque  al  temps  Enneas  le  proail 
Brutus  le  primer  roy  qe  cell  ifle  poepla,  la  gell  de  qi  et  de  fez  fucceffours 
il  voet  rementoyner  del  hour  qe  la  genealogy  veigne  a  ly. 


SGALACRONICA. 


Lan  de  grace  mille.66.  arryua  le  conquerour  Willam  en  Engleter,  ou 
primer  pee  qil  y  mill  il  chey  a  tere,  de  quoi  fez  ouertours  de  visage  et 
fez  mains  furount  plains  de  tere,  qi  difoit,  qe  fa  duche  fe  tourneroit  en 
vn  regne.  Qi  apres  la  batail  de  Haltings  fe  trei  a  Loundres,  qi  dez  ci- 
tezeins  fuft  honourablement  refceu,  et  le  iour  de  Nowel  corone  de  Aired 
erceuefque  Deuerwik,  qi  en  audience  du  poeple  iuraft  fur  faintes  qil  gar- 
deroit  lez  droitures  du  realm,  de  lefpiritualte  et  del  temperaulte,  en  lour 
droit  couflom.  II  fe  reenala  en  Normendy  et  procheignement  reueint  en 
Engleter,  qi  tres  grant  tribute  prill  de  fa  tere.  II  affifl  Exceflre  et  la 
conquifl  et  la  abaty  pur  riotes  comencez  encountre  ly  par  couyn  de  la 
counteffe,  efpoufe  Godwyn,  mere  Harald,  qe  de  la  dit  vile  fe  mill  en  fuit 
en  Flaundres.  Cel  ane  le  roy  Willam  fill  encoroner  fa  femme  Maude  le 
iour  de  la  Pentecoll.  II  fill  faire  lez  chattels  de  Notingham,  de  Nichol, 
et  de  Euirwik.     II  departy  la  tere  a  fez  chiualers. 

Markfwyn  et  Cofpatrik  od  pliifours  grantz  de  Northumbreland  qi  dou- 
terent  la  ferete  du  conquerour,  com  plufours  firent  de  la  tere ;  fez  mitlrent 
en  Efcoce,  oue  Edgar  fitz  Edward  fitz  Edmound  Irnside,  od  Agas  fa 
mere  et  od  fez  ii.  feilles,  Margaret  et  Crilliane,  en  nefe  hors  de  Hombre; 
ou  full  marye  Margaret  au  roy  Mauncloun. 

Le  roy  Willam  le  conquerour  dona  Northumbreland  au  count  Robert 
Comyn,  qi  entra  leuefchee  de  Dorefme  et  par  force  enprift  la  vile  de 
fol.  145.  b.  Dorefme,  qi  foeffri  fez  gentz  faire  ceo  qe  lour  pluft  de  rauyne.  Lez 
Northumbrois,  qe  autre  feignourye  meutz  voloint  auoir,  trenuyterent  fure 
ly  en  Dorefme,  et  ly  tuerent  od  lez  foens  en  loflell  leuefque  qi  honour- 
ablement ly  auoit  refcieu.  Meifme  la  fefoun  Harald  et  Knout,  fitz  le  roy 
Swayn  de  Denemark,  arriuerent  en  Hombre;  ou  Edgar  fitz  Edward  fitz 
Eadmound  Irnfide,  et  Walteu,  et  Markfwin,  et  Cofpatrik  le  count,  od 


6  SCALACRONICA. 

tout  le  poair  de  Northumbreland,  les  encountrerent  en  eide  countre  lez 
Normaunz.  Ceaux  de  Normaunz,  qi  le  roy  Willam  auoit  affigne  la 
o-arde  du  chattel  Deuerwik  qil  auoit  de  nouel  edifie,  firent  ardre  lez  me- 
founs  aioinauntz  au  chaftell  pur  dout  dez  Danoys;  pur  dout  de  quoi  ler- 
ceuefque  Aired  moruft  fcieu  lez  nouelis;  de  quel  fieu  la  cite  ardoit  et 
leglis  de  faint  Pier.  Qeu  la  hour  enueindrent  les  Danoys  et  furpriftrent 
les  Normaunz  hu  chaftel,  qe  nul  ne  efchapa  mais  Willam  Mallet,  vif- 
count,  od  fa  femme  et  fez  enfauntz,  et  Gilbert  de  Gaunt,  od  poy  dez 
autres.  Lez  Danoys  et  lez  Northumbrois  repairerent  en  lour  pays.  Wil- 
lam le  roy  entra  Northumbreland,  qi  tout  le  yuer  y  ieuft  deftruyaunt  le 
pays,  ou  il  y  auoit  taunt  famyne  entre  lez  paifens,  qe  chefcun  mangea 
autre  pur  mefchief;  qi  voiderent  le  pays,  iffi  qentre  Euerwik  et  Dorefme 
nef  aunz  ne  fuft  vile  ne  mefoun  enhabitez,  ou  taunt  de  ponour  de  caroine 
noun  fouez  qe  rien  y  pooit  manoir  fors  vermes  foulement,  fors  foulement 
en  le  fee  faint  Johan  de  Beuerlay,  et  ceo  pur  vn  miracle  qaueint  dun  dez 
chiualeris  le  roi  qi  comenfa  illoeqes  a  robber,  fi  roumpy  le  cole,  le  vifage 
beftourne.  En  quel  temps  le  corps  faint  Cuthbert  fuft  reaporte  a  Hali- 
eland,  et  apres  iij.  moys  reaporte  a  Dorefme.  Le  roy  Willam  departy  du 
pays  procheinement. 

Le  roy  Manclom  Defcoce  parmy  Combreland  entra  Engleter,  deftruyt 
Clifland  et  leuefche  de  Dorefme,  ou  fez  gentz  arderent  leglis  de  Wer- 
mouth  et  autres  eglis  od  touz  qe  y  enfurount  deftruerent.  Edgar  le  fitz 
Edward,  fitz  Edmound  Imfide,  arryua  od  lez  foens  en  mefme  la  porte  de 
Were  tancom  Mancloun  y  eftoit,  qi  honourablement  lour  refceut  et  lour 
o-raunta  fa  pefe  et  refcet  en  fa  tere.  Meifme  le  temps  Cofpatrik  le  count 
de  Northumbreland  entra  Combreland  en  oft,  qe  al  hour  eftoit  foutz  la 
feignoury  le  roy  Mancloun,  occupie  entorfenoufement,  qi  enmena  en 
Northumbreland  grantz  prays;  pur  quoy  le  roy  Mancloun  comaunda  lez 
foenz  a  efparnir  nul  Engles,  qe  del  hour  en  auaunt  nefparnirent  femme 
nenfaunt,  ne  lez  petitz  letauntz,  qi  od  tiel  vengeauns  fen  trey  en  Efcoce,  fbl.  146. 
et  fi  amena  oue  ly  en  Efcoce  tauntes  dez  prifouners  captiues  qe  apayn 
ny  auoit  mefoun  hu  pays  qe  y  ny  out  hom  ou  femme  Engles  en  feruitude. 

Meifme  le  temps  le  roi  Willam  le  conquerour  fill  tenir  vn  general 
counfail  a  Winceftre  en  la  vtafe  de  Pafche,  ou  plufours  euefqes,  abbes 


SCALACRONICA.  7 

et  priours  furount  oftez  et  Normaunz  enz  mys;  et  fi  eft  recorde  qe  le 
conquerour  voroit  auoir  fet  depofer  Wolftan  leuefque  pur  ceo  qe  bien 
ne  fauoit  parler  Latin  ne  Fraunces;  qi  Wlftan  enficha  foun  baftoun  paf- 
turel  en  le  marbre  du  toumbe  faint  Edward  par  qi  il  deueint  euefque,  fi 
difoit  au  conquerour,  "  vn  meilliour  de  toy  le  me  dona,  a  qi  ieo  le  re- 
bail,"  quel  baftoun  nuls  ne  pooit  ofter  du  marbre  tanque  meifme  le 
Wlftan  lenprift  au  prier  du  dit  roy  et  conquerour,  par  qy  Wlftan  Dieux 
auoit  plufours  foitz  mouftre  miracle.  Et  fi  auoit  grantement  a  faire  le 
roy  Willam  en  plufours  pays  od  lez  gentilis  horns,  qe  il  auoit  lour  tere 
done  a  lez  foens  qi  guerriours  encharnys  eftoient  ou  lez  autres  ne  enfa- 
uoint  riens,  pur  quoi  par  hufe  de  experience  de  temps  fount  forbaniz. 

En  le  13.  an  de  foun  regne  mouoit  en  grant  oft  par  tere  et  mere  en 
Efcoce,  qi  grant  deftruccioun  enfift,  tanque  Mancloun  le  roy  se  peifa  od 
ly,  et  a  Abirnethi  ly  fill  homage,  qi  en  foun  repair  depriua  Cofpatrik  du 
countee  de  Northumbreland  et  enmyft  Walteu.  Meifme  le  houre  le  roy 
Willam  fift  fair  le  chaftel  de  Dorefme  en  quoi  lez  euefqes  fez  purroint 
od  le  lour  sauuer.  Par  enticement  de  fez  Normaunz  le  roy  comaunda 
trois  de  fez  preftres  ouerer  la  toumb  faint  Cuthbert  pur  veoir  la  certain 
de  chos  qe  hom  enparla,  qi  od  le  comaundement  deueint  si  abayez  de 
poour  qe  leez  eftoit  a  reapeller  le  comaundement,  qi  ne  fceffa  a  fereir 
chevale  dez  efperouns  tanque  il  full  paffe  Tefe,  qi  touz  iours  mes  honoura 
faint  Cuthbert  et  enfraunchea  leglis  en  feignury  real,  et  endona  Billing- 
ham  et  Houden  Ian  fuaunt.  Edgar  le  fitz  Edward,  fitz  Edmound  Irn- 
fide,  full  peife  od  le  roy  Willam  de  soun  droit;  et  meifme  le  hour  Wal- 
teu count  de  Northumbreland  full  pris  et  decole  a  Wynceftre  et  enterez 
a  Croland,  le  xj.  ane  du  regne  le  roy  Willam.  Mancloun  le  roy  Defcoz 
recomenfa  a  guerroier,  si  deftruyt  Northumbreland,  pur  couyne  de  quoi 
Egelwyne  leuefque  de  Dorefme  full  enprifoune,  qi  moruft  de  doel,  lez 
countis  de  Merche  et  de  Northumbreland  fuez,  et  Walcher  full  fait 
euefque. 

Lane  fuaunt  Walcher  Lotring,  le  euefque  de  Dorefme,  full  tue  dez 

foi.  146.  b.   Northumbroys  en  leglis  de  Gatifheued,  en  vengeanz  dun  Lucy  qe  full 

amene  a  Dorefme  en  cautel  pur  corouce  dez  Normaunz,  pur  vengeaunce 

de  quel  euefque  le  roy  deftruyt  Northumbreland  meifme  la  fefoun;  et  en 


8  SCALACRONICA. 

Ian  fuaunt  enuoya  foun  fitz  Robert  en  Efcoce,  qi  graunt  deftruccioun  y 
enfift  et  en  foun  repair  enfift  faire  le  Noefchaftel  sur  Tyne. 

Lan  fuaunt  Willam  le  roy  foutzmift  a  fa  seignourye  par  force  le  prince 
de  Galis,  et  a  foun  reuenir  fifl  extendre  tout  la  valu  de  Engleter  et  la 
mettre  en  efcript  en  fa  treforie,  fours  de  lufage  de  lefcheker. 

Vn  foitz  com  le  roy  Willam  auoit  a  faire  de  guer  en  Normendy  et  fuft 
naufre  parmy  le  braz  et  full  abatu  de  foun  cheule,  qi  au  cbeier  cria,  foun 
fitz  Robert  qi  la  voice  du  pier  conifoit,  defcendy  a  pee  entre  lez  enemys, 
remounta  foun  pier,  pur  quoi  touz  iours  mes  ly  auoit  le  plus  chere.  En 
quel  temps  Willam  Kariles  fuft  euefque  de  Dorefme,  qi  primes  reamena 
lez  moignes  a  Dorefme,  et  ofta  lez  chanouns  cathedrals,  qeftoint  apellez 
noriys  des  moignes.  En  eel  temps  paffa  Edgar  par  counge  le  roy  en 
Apuil  oue  iij.  centz  cheualers,  et  enfift  fa  fore  Crifliane  nonayn  en  Ruffy. 
Willam  le  roy  par  counfail  Roger,  count  de  Herford,  lilt  enporter  touz 
lez  trefors  qe  muffez  eftoint  en  eglif  dez  Engles  pur  dout  de  foy,  et  lilt 
faire  nouelis  abbays  poeplez  de  Normaunz.  II  eftably  foun  fitz  Robert 
duk  de  Normendy,  et  Willam  foun  fitz  roy  de  Engleter,  et  Henry  voufilt 
il,  qe  hull  efte  euefque,  qi  ly  deuifa  grant  party  de  fa  trefore ;  Aude  fa 
feille  fuft  marye  a  le  count  de  Bloys.  Willam  fe  trey  en  Normendy  pur 
fours  de  guer  du  roy  de  Fraunce,  qi  bien  fe  contenoit  encountre  ly,  fe 
teint  en  peife  od  le  foen  tout  coy,  pur  quoy  le  roy  de  Fraunce  ly  moka  entre 
fes  priues,  qi  difoit  qe  le  roy  Willam  auoit  longment  ieu  en  gefyn.  Quel 
parol  enueint  au  roy  WTillam,  pur  quoi  il  en  moua  guere  et  fill  enluminer 
taunz  dez  viles  en  Fraunce  en  flaumbe  a  fes  releuailles  qe  bien  empefoit 
au  roy  de  France;  et  fi  fen  forcea  le  roy  Willam  a  faire  ardoir  la  vile  de 
Mauntis  qy  du  chalour  enprift  enfirmete,  et  apres  qil  auoit  deuisez  fez 
teres  et  departy  fez  trefors  a  faint  eglis  et  comaundes  qe  touz  fez  prifo- 
ners  fuffent  delyuers,  fe  leffa  morir. 

II  fu  fage,  hardy,  et  bon  julticers,  riche  et  couaitous;  il  fuft  entere  a 
Chame,  la  fepulture  de  qy  vn  cheualer  defendy  de  par  Dieux,  qe  nul  ne 
ly  tolly  foun  heritage,  qe  de  aunceftri  ly  apurtenoit  le  lieu  de  la  fepulture, 
pur  quoy  Henry  le  fitz  fill  faire  gree  au  chiualer  de  c.  li.  Robert  foun  fitz 
fuft  en  la  tere  faint;  Willam  en  Engleter.  Willam  le  conquerour  regna  fol.  U7. 
xxij.  aunz. 


SCALACRONICA.  9 

En  quel  temps  Godfray  de  Boloin  conquift  la  Surry,  la  tere  de  pro- 
miffioun,  par  eide  dez  autres  seignours  entreacoumpaignez.  Et  fait  a 
fauoir  qe  le  dit  Godfray  auoit  dieus  foitz  proue  a  fair  eel  faintifme  veage 
et  failly,  et  gafly  en  vain  tref  graundifme  trefor  qil  auoit  pris  de  taillage 
de  fez  gentz,  qe  fez  pleinderent  de  extorfioun,  a  quoi  il  aretta  fa  mefoeur, 
pur  quoi  au  tierce  foitz  il  engagea  fa  duche  au  colege  de  Liege,  qe  ore 
eft  leuefche  ceft  a  fauoir  Albany,  et  acomply  le  faintifme  veage  par  eide 
dez  autres  grauntz  aflbciez  au  dit  enprise,  qe  lour  chemyn  tyndrent  parmy 
Hungry  et  le  Bulgery,  pafierent  le  bras  faint  George.  En  quel  chemyn 
maynt  auenture  lour  aueint  deuaunt  qils  vindrent  au  fege  de  Antioche, 
com  en  le  lyuere  de  Auntiage  horn  puft  oyer,  de  ou  ils  conquiftrent  la 
tere  faint.  Godfray  deueint  par  elecioun  roy,  qi  bien  lateint  foun  viu- 
aunt,  et  apres  qy  foun  freir  Baudewyn  autrefi.  Lez  cronicles  dient  qe 
Robert  Courthofe  duk  de  Normendy,  fitz  Willam  le  conquerour,  refufa 
a  Jerufalem  la  elecioun  du  roi  qe  touz  lez  grantz  du  veage  luy  efluerent 
pur  le  plus  fuffifaunt,  qi  en  nul  maner  voloit  remanoir,  pur  quoi  apres 
fuft  arette  fa  mefoeur,  en  vengeaunce  de  quoi  en  defaute  de  qy  la  elec- 
cioun  cheoit  seur  Godfray. 

En  le  temps  Willam  le  conquerour  comenfa  le  debate  entre  lez  erc- 
euefques  de  Cantorbirs  et  Euerwik  pur  le  porter  de  lour  croitz  en  autrv 
dyocys.  Cefty  Willam  le  conquerour  fift  examyner  lez  loys  vfez  en  le 
terns  Saint  Edward,  lez  trouoift  foundez  de  refoun  et  droiturelis,  fi  lez 
fift  eftablir  et  en  plefaunce  du  poeple  lez  fift  tenir ;  mais  ordeyna  qils 
fulTent  pledez  en  Fraunceis  patoys  Normaund.  Si  fift  enfourmer  lez 
enfauntz  en  Latine  par  Frances,  pur  ceo  qe  volountiers  vft  mue  le  lan- 
gage,  mais  ne  pooit  pur  la  multitude  del  comune.  II  ordena  qe  lez 
countis  ne  lez  barouns  ne  huffent  lour  poffeffiouns  ioynauntz  en  femble, 
mais  difleuere  en  diuers  countees.  Et  fait  a  fauoir  qe  cefti  Willam  le 
conquerour  auoit  iij.  mouementz  pur  quoi  il  fentremift  au  conqueft  Den- 
gleter;  vn  fuft  pur  venger  la  mort  Elfred  fon  cofyn,  freir  faint  Edward, 
qi  Godwyn  le  pier  Harald  auoit  fait  murdrir  a  Ely,  qi  Harald  ly  auoit 
aflure  par  ferement  de  ly  eyder,  qil  enfuft  roys  au  deuife  faint  Edward 
com  difoit,  qeft  la  fecound  caufe.  La  tierce  fuft  pur  corous  qe  Godwyn 
et  Harald  foun  fitz  auoint  faint  exciler  defpitoufement  euefques,  countis, 


10  SCALACRONICA. 

et  barouns,  qi  du  nacioun  de  Normendy  eftoint,  qi  par  le  roy  Edward  fol.  U7.  b. 
eftoint  auauncez. 

Afcuns  cronicles  deuifent  qe  faint  Edward  deuifa  vn  foitz  en  fa  iuuent 
la  fucceffioun  de  foun  realme  a  ceili  Willam  duke  de  Normendy,  foun 
cofyn  depar  fa  mere,  pur  ceo  qe  puffaunt  eftoit  a  countre  efter  la  malice 
dez  fitz  Godwyn  de  quoi  il  fe  doutoit  pufque  Edgar,  le  fitz  Edward,  fitz 
Edmound  Irnfide,  foun  droit  heire  de  faunk,  full  de  fi  tendre  age  et  hors 
du  pays,  nounpuffaunt  hu  tems  a  derener  foun  droit ;  et  ceo  eftoit  afcun 
foitz  fa  volounte  tanque  peifez  eftoit  od  Godwyn  et  oue  fez  fitz.     Cefti 
roy  Willam  le  conquerour  auoit  en  fez  darains  iours  nouelis  qe  le  roy 
Knout  de  Denemark,  od  leide  Robert  count  de  Flaunders,  fe  addreffoit 
dauoir  arriue  en  Engleter,  encountre  qoy  il  fefoit  grant  aray  de  gens  de      * 
Normendy  et  de  tous  fez  amys  et  bien  uoillauntz  et  enerdauntz,  pur  quoi 
le  dit  roy  Danoys  guerpi  le  emprife.     En  quel  houre  le  dit  conquerour 
donaft  a  Glouceftre  a  fez  trois  chapleyns  trois  euefches,  Nichol,  Tetforth, 
et  Ceftre.     Et  fi  auoit  cefti  roy  Willam  le  conquerour  le  mainz  a  faire 
entour  fa  conqueft,  pur  ceo  qe  la  comune  de  bons  viles,  et  du  pays,  et 
du  poeple,  eftoint  fi  enfaulez  et  si  alafez  de  grants  riotis  et  coilles  de 
oueres  qauoint  efte  entour  debate  du  realm,  quoy  dez  Danoys,  quoi  dez 
a  at  res  qi  miftrent  clayme,  qe  ils  ne  enfefoient  force,  qe  enfuft  lour  roys, 
mais  qils  purroint  auoir  peife  et  tranquillite.     Pur  ceo  enherderent  ils 
par  lour  attournement  le  plus  toft  au  dit  conquerour  pur  ceo  qe  puffaunt 
eftoit  de  foun  eftat,  com  penfoient  de  eaux  fuftener  en  lour  droitz  com 
en  couenaunt  lour  eftoit,  pur  ceo  ne  emyftrent  cure  a  maintener  par 
guere  lez  heritages  dez  seignours,  qi  plufours  fez  eftoient  extorfionoufe. 
Et  fi  eftoint  ceaux  as  queuz  cefti  Willam  le  conquerour  auoit  done  lez 
feinourages,  gentz  de  parage  qe  nauoint  autre  part  heritages,  pur  quoi 
continuelment  occupierent  la  poffeffioun  de  ceo  qe  lour  eftoit  done, 
chefcun  fuppuoillaunt  autre.     Qi  par  counfail  lour  roys  les  plufours  par 
mariage  priferent  a  lour  defus  od  lours  aduerfairs,  ou  de  lez  meifmes 
ou  de  lour  fitz,  od  lez  feilles  ou  sores  heyres  du  fank  com  plufours  eftoint 
en  le  hour,  chos  qe  moult  eftablift  la  conqueft,  od  la  feblefce  de  eaux  en 
le  hour  qy  hu  realme  y  clamerent  accioun.    Qi  Conquerour  houmblement 
fe  conteint  au  clergie  et  au  comune  en  foun  comencement ;  tanque  le 


SCALACRONICA.  11 

fbl.  148.  pays  auoit  eftably,  mais  del  hour  en  auaunt  chargea  le  pays  de  grantz 
taxaciouns,  et  fill  ofter  en  plufours  lieus  moignes  Engles  de  lour  mefouns 
et  einz  mettre  autres  moignes  Normauns. 

En  le  temps  le  roi  Willam  le  conquerour  full  Hildebrand,  qi  ell  dill 
Gregoir  le  7,  pape  xj.  auns,  iadiz  priour  Cluniacenfis,  puis  ercedeken  de 
Rome.  Celli  Hildbran  ordena  qe  nul  preflre  aueroit  famme,  si  defendy 
qe  nuls  oyaft  meffe  de  prellre  efclaundre  de  fornicacioun.  En  le  temps 
qil  full  cardenal  et  full  enuoyez  en  Fraunce  pur  chattier  lez  prelates 
entrez  par  fymony,  qi  difoit  a  vn  euefque  qi  efclaundrez  eltoit  de  eel 
point,  "  puifque  les  iugementz  humeins  fount  afcun  foitz  faillables,  fi  de 
cell  chos  es  cupables,  puifque  les  euefques  doint  auenir  deuinement,  tu 
as  trefpaffe  encountre  le  Saint  Efpirit,  et  fi  noun  fi  ditez — Gloria  Patri  et 
Filio  et  Spiritui  Sanclo — en  audience,"  qe  ne  pooit  de  ceo  mote  soner, 
pur  qoi  full  degradez.  Celli  pape  full  enprifone  le  iour  de  Nouell  de 
Creffens  fitz  dun  senatour  de  Rome,  mais  toll  deliuers  par  lez  autres  sene. 
II  efcomengea  lemperour  Henry  pur  fez  extorfiouns  et  fez  enherdaunz, 
qi  eflute  deuaunt  le  dit  pape  sure  la  glas  nu  pee  bon  pece  pur  auoir  ab- 
folucioun.  Apres  quoi  le  dit  emperour  affill  Rome,  deftruyt  lez  Romains, 
et  enprifona  le  pape,  qetloit  autrefoiz  deliuers  par  Robert  duk  de  Poile. 
Apres  qe  le  dit  emperour  auoit  eftably  Wibert,  qi  fe  apella  Clement 
pape,  qi  full  en  chacez.  Quel  hour  le  cours  du  folail  et  de  la  lune  full 
acoumply  en  meifme  le  conftellacioun  com  full  en  le  xv.  ane  de  Tyberius 
Cefar.  Celli  papa  Hildebrand  reioift  deuant  sa  mort  a  vn  de  fez  car- 
dynalis  qil  auoit  meu  defcord  entre  lemperour  et  lez  grauntz  de  la  Crifti- 
anete,  fi  moruft  de  doel.  Apres  qi  full  Viclor  le  3US  pape  vn  ane  et  5 
moys,  qy  full  enpufone  en  le  chalice.  Apres  qi  Vi6lor  Vrban  le  2US 
fu  pape  13  aunz,  qi  deuaunt  out  a  noum  Odo,  qauoit  grant  persecu- 
cioun  de  vn  Clement  erceuefque  de  Rauennen.,  qi  fe  difoit  pape  et  par 
introifoun. 

Meifme  Ian  qe  le  conquerour  Willam  moruft  eftoit  grant  mortalite  de 
feuir  en  Engleter,  et  grant  ruyn  de  belles,  et  ayre  defatempre,  et  foudre 
de  fieu  qardoit  lez  principalis  eglis  et  apoy  Loundres  tout.  Lez  Danoys 
tuerent  lour  roys  en  vn  efglis  par  murdre.  Plufours  meruailles  y  enuyn- 
drent  meifme  Ian  en  diuers  regiouns  de  trois  prinfis,  vn  full  arace  et 


12  SCALACRONICA. 

eitrangle  de  soricez,  vn  autre  tue  du  mors  dun  lepard,  le  tierce  deftruyt 
dez  poilles.  Cefti  Willam  le  conquerour  fill  mettre  en  efcript  touz  lez 
viles  oue  touz  lez  fees  de  cheualers  en  Engleter,  et  com  bien  dez  charues 
de  tere.  En  quel  hour  hom  auoit  hount  deftre  apelle  Engles,  taunt 
furount  surmountez  dez  Normauns. 

Et  fait  a  fauoir  qe  toutz  cefles  gentez  dount  lour  fournouns  y  fount 
efcrit ;  vindrent  oue  Willam  le  conquerour,  a  deprimes  : — 

Aumarill  et  Deyncourt, 
Bertrem  et  Buttencourt, 
Biard  et  Biford, 
Bardolf  et  Ballet. 
Deyuill  et  Darcy, 
Pigot  et  Percy, 
Gurnay  et  Greilly, 
Tregos  et  Treilly, 
Camoys  et  Cameuill, 
Hauteyn  et  Hauuill. 
Warenne  et  Wauncy, 
Chauent  et  Chaunci, 
Loueyn  et  Lafcy, 
Graunfoun  et  Trafcy. 
Mohaud  et  Mooun, 
Bigot  et  Boown, 
Marny  et  Maundeuil, 
Morley  et  Moundeuil, 
Vipount  et  Vmfreuil, 
Baillolf  et  Boundeuil, 
Eftraunge  et  Eftoteuil, 
Moubray  et  Moruil. 
Veer  et  Vinoun, 
Audel  et  Aungeloun, 
Walleneys  et  Wauill, 
Soucheuil, 


SCALACRONICA.  13 

Coudrey  et  Colleuil, 
Ferers  et  Foleuil, 
Briaunfoun  et  Bafkeuil, 
Neuers  et  Nereuil. 
Chaumberlayn  et  Chaumberoun, 
Fitz  Wauter  et  Werdoun, 
Argentem  et  Auenele, 
Ros  et  Ridele. 
Hading  et  Hawley, 
Meneuil  et  Mauley, 
Burnel  et  Butteuilain, 
Malebranche  et  Malemain, 
Mortein  et  Mortimer, 
Comyn  et  Columber. 
Saintcloys  et  Saintcler, 
Otyuel  et  Saint  Thomer, 
Gorgeife  et  Gower, 
Bruys  et  Difpenfer. 
Lymefey  et  Latymer, 
Boys  et  Boteler, 
Fenes  et  Felebert, 
Fitz  Roger  et  Fitz  Robert. 
Mufe  et  Martin, 
Quincy  et  Saynquintyn, 
Lunguilers  et  Saint  Lygier, 
Griketot  et  Greuequer. 
Power  et  Paynel, 
Tuchet  et  Truffelle. 
Pecche  et  Peuerell, 
Daubenay  et  Deuerell, 
Saint  Amaund  et  Adriel, 
Ryuers  et  Ryuel. 
Loueday  et  Louel, 
Deuyas  et  Druel, 


14  SCALACRONICA. 

Mountburgh  et  Mountforel, 
Trufbutt  et  Mount  Morel, 
Maleuil  et  Malet, 
Newmarche  et  Neubet. 
Corby  et  Corbet, 
Mounfey  et  Mounfichet. 
Gaunt  et  Garre, 
Maleberge  et  Marre, 
Geneuil  et  Giffard, 
Somery  et  Houard, 
Perot  et  Pikard, 
Chaundoys  et  Chaward. 
Delahay  et  Haunfard, 
Muflegros  et  Mufard, 
Mayngun  et  Mountrauers, 
Fouecourt  et  Femers, 
Vefcy  et  Verders, 
Brabafoun  et  Beuers, 
Challouns  et  Challeys. 
Merkingfeld  et  Mourreis, 
Fitz  Phelip  et  Filiot, 
Takel  et  Talbot, 
Lemas  et  Leuecote, 
Tourbeuil  et  Tipitot. 
Saunzauer  et  Saunford, 
Mountagu  et  Mountford, 
Forneux  et  Fornyuaus, 
Valence  et  de  Vaus. 
Clereuaux  et  Clarel, 
Dodingle  et  Darel, 
Mautalent  et  Maudut, 
Chaupes  et  Chaudut, 
Chauntelew  et  Coumbray, 
Saintefe  et  Sauuay. 


SCALACRONICA.  15 


Braund  et  Braibof, 
Fitz  Alayn  et  Gilebof, 
Mauuys  et  Meulos, 
Souley  et  Soules, 
Bruys  et  Burgh, 
Neuil  et  Newburgh. 
Fitz  Willam  et  Wateruile, 
De  la  Laund  et  Del  Ifle, 
Sorel  et  Somery, 
Saint  Johan  et  Saint  Jori. 
Waruil  et  Warley, 
De  la  Pole  et  Pinkeny. 
Mortiuaus  et  Mountchenfy, 
Crefly  et  Courteny, 
Saynt  Leo  et  Lufcy, 
Bauent  et  Bufcy, 
Lafcels  et  Louein, 
fol-  149-  Thays  et  Touny. 

Hurel  et  Hufee, 
Lunguil  et  Longefpe, 
De  Wake  et  De  la  War, 
De  la  Marche  et  De  la  Mare, 
Conftable  et  Tally, 
Poince  et  Paueley, 
Tuk  et  Tany, 
Mallop  et  Marny. 
Paifrer  et  Plukenet, 
Bretoun  et  Blundet, 
Maihermer  et  Mufchet, 
Bayns  et  Bluet, 
Beke  et  Biroun, 
Saunz  pour  et  Fitz  Symoun. 
Gaugy  et  Gobaud, 
Ruget  et  Fitz  Rohaut, 


16  SCALACRONICA. 

Peueril  et  Fitz  Payn, 

Fitz  Roger  et  Fitz  Alayii. 

Dakeny  et  Dautre, 

Menyle  et  Maufe, 

Maucouenaunt  et  Mountpinfoun, 

Pikard  et  Pynchadoun, 

Gray  et  Graunfoun, 

Difeney  et  Dabernoun. 

Maoun  et  Maynard, 

Banefter  et  Bekard, 

Bealum  et  Bewchaump, 

Louerak  et  Lungchaump. 

Baudyn  et  Bray, 

Saluayn  et  Say, 

Ry  et  Rokell, 

Fitz  Rauf  et  Rofel, 

Fitz  Bryan  et  Bracy, 

Playce  et  Placy. 

Daraary  et  Deueroys, 

Wauafour  et  Warroys, 

Perpount  et  Fitz  Peris, 

Sefee  et  Solers. 

Nairmer  et  Fitz  Nele, 

Waloys  et  le  Vele. 

Chaumpeners  et  Chaunceus, 

Malebys  et  Mounceus, 

Thorny  et  Thornill, 

Wace  et  Wyuill. 

Verboys  et  Waceley, 

Pugois  et  Payteny, 

Galofer  et  Gubioun, 

Burdet  et  Boroun, 

Dauerenge  et  Duylly, 

Souerenge  et  Suylly. 


SCALACRONICA.  17 

Miriet  et  Morlay, 
Tiriet  et  Turlay, 
Fryull  et  Frefel, 
De  la  Ryuer  et  Ryuel, 
Deftranges  et  de  Latoun, 
Perrers  et  Pauillioun, 
Valoins  et  Vernoun, 
Grimward  et  Geroun, 
Hercy  et  Heroun, 
Vendour  et  Veroun. 
Glauncourt  et  Charaount, 
Baudewyn  et  Beaumount, 
Graundyn  et  Gerdoun, 
Blundet  et  Burdoun, 
Fitz  Rauf  et  Filiol, 
Fitz  Thomas  et  Tibol. 
Onacule  et  Cheyny, 
Maulyuerer  et  Mouncy, 
Querru  et  Coingers, 
Mauclerk  et  Maners, 
Warde  et  Werlay, 
Mufteys  et  Merlay. 
Barray  et  Breteuil, 
Tolimer  et  Treuile, 
Blount  et  Bofeuile, 
Liffard  et  Ofeuile, 
Benny  et  Boyuile, 
Courfoun  et  Curteuile, 
Fitz  Morice  et  Saint  Moor, 
Broth  et  Barbedor. 
Fitz  Hugh  et  Fitz  Henry, 
Fitz  Aruiz  et  Efturmy, 
Walangay  et  Fitz  Waryn, 
Fitz  Raynald  et  Rofcelyn. 


18  SCALACRONICA. 

Baret  et  Bourt, 
Heryce  et  Harcourt, 
Venables  et  Venour, 
Hayward  et  Henour, 
Du  Lee  et  De  la  Laund, 
De  la  Vale  et  Veilaund, 
De  la  Plaunche  et  Puterel, 
Loring  et  Loterel, 
Fitz  Marmaduk  et  Mountriuel. 
Kymarays  et  Kyriel, 
Lifours  et  Lunguale, 
Bingard  et  Bemeuale. 
La  Muile  et  Lownay, 
Damot  et  Damay, 
Bouet  et  Barry, 
Auenel  et  Saint  Amary, 
Jardyn  et  Jay, 
Touris  et  Tay. 
Auneris  et  Aueneris, 
Vilain  et  Valeris, 
Fitz  Euftace  et  Euftaci, 
Mauches  et  Mafcy, 
Brian  et  Bidyn, 
Mouet  et  Saint  Martin, 
Surdeuale  et  Sengryn, 
Bufcel  et  Beuery, 
Duraunt  et  Doreny. 
Dyfard  et  Doyuell. 
Malekake  et  Mauncel. 
Berneuile  et  Breteuile. 
Hamelyn  et  Hareuile, 
De  la  Hufe  et  Howell, 
Tingez  et  Gruyele, 
Tynel  et  Trauile, 


SCALACRONICA.  19 

foi.  149.  b.  Chartres  et  Cheuil. 

Belew  et  Bertyn, 
Maugifir  et  Mauueyfyn, 
Aungers  et  Aungewyn, 
Tolet  et  Tyfoun, 
Fermband  et  Frifoun, 
Saint  Barbe  et  Sageuile, 
Vernoun  et  Wateruile, 
Wermerlay  et  Wameruile, 
Broi  et  Brumeuile, 
Bleyn  et  Breicourt, 
Tarteray  et  Chercourt, 
Oyfel  et  Oliffard, 
Maulouel  et  Maureward, 
Kanceis  et  Keuelers, 
Liolf  et  Lymers, 
Ryfers  et  Reyneuile, 
Bufard  et  Beleuile, 
Ryuers  et  Rypers, 
Pereehay  et  Pereris, 
Fichent  et  Triuet. 

En  lan  de  grace  mill.  87.  Willam  Rous,  fitz  Willam  le  conquerour, 
full  corone  a  Weltmoulter  de  Larafraunc  le  euefque,  de  ou  il  fe  mill  a 
Winceflre,  et  acoumply  le  teftament  foun  pier  en  dellribucioun  de  trefor 
as  eglis  et  as  pouers  et  touz  prifbners  fill  deliuerer  par  tout  Engleter. 
En  meifme  la  maner  fill  le  duke  Robert  foun  freir  en  Normendy,  de  ou 
furount  deliuers  Edulf  fitz  Harald  le  roy  de  Engleter,  et  Donald  fitz 
Mauncloun  le  roy  Defcoce,  qe  deuindrent  chiualers.  Apres  quoi  mouoit 
corouce  entre  cefti  roy  Willam  et  foun  frer  Robert,  qi  au  mort  le  pier  fufl 
en  Allemayn  pur  faire  alliaunce  encountre  foun  pere,  pur  quoi  grant  de- 
ftruccioun  enueint  en  Engleter  et  Normendy,  com  lez  vns  dez  grantz  en- 
herderent  al  vn  afcuns  a  lautre,  mais  procheignement  furount  acordez  et 
lour  enerdauntz,  sur  laffirmacioun  de  quoi  xij.  de  plus  grantz  de  lour 


20  SCALACRONICA. 

counfail  furount  iurez,  ifli  qe  qi  deuyeroit  faunz  iffu  qe  lautre  seroit  fuc- 
ceflbur,  qar  cefti  Willam  certifia  a  foun  freir  Robert  qil  ne  penfa  my  a 
regner  roi  faunz  gree  de  ly  qi  foun  eyne  efloit. 

Procheignement  Edgar,  fitz  Edward,  fitz  Edmond  Irnfide,  full  enchace 
hors  de  Normendy  de  teres  qe  le  Conquerour  ly  auoit  affigne.  En  qel 
temps,  le  moys  de  Maij,  Mancloun  le  roy  Defcoce  degafta  Northumbre- 
land,  pur  quoi  le  roi  od  foun  freir  Robert  duk  de  Normendy  mouerent 
en  grant  oft  en  Efcoce,  ou  en  lour  oft  y  auoit  grant  froide  et  famyn,  ou 
Mancloun  qi  oue  li  auoit  li  dit  Edgar  ueint  en  oft  en  Lownays,  au  Ro- 
bert duk  de  Normendy  reapella  a  foy  Edgar,  par  eide  de  qy  lez  ij.  roys 
furount  acordez  en  maner  qe  Mancloun  obeyeroit  ou  roy  Willam  com 
auaunt  auoit  fet  a  foun  pier,  et  qil  aueroit  lez  poffeffiouns  qil  auoit  hu  en 
Engleter,  rendaunt  par  ane  12.  marcz  dor,  et  auxi  Edgar  peife  au  roy. 
Lez  cronicles  de  Efcoce  deuifent  qil  eftoit  defcouert  a  cefti  roy  Maun- 
cloun  qun  dez  grantz  seignours  de  foun  realme  eftoit  par  afcent  dez 
autres  grantz  coumpaflaunt  de  ly  deftruyer  par  puyfoun,  qi  fift  somoundre 
cefti  qi  li  fuft  accufe  et  plufours  autres  de  grantz  qils  venifeent  oue  ly 
chacer;  et  quant  furount  venuz  Mancloun  le  roy  lour  affignaft  lour  trift-  foi.  150. 
ris,  reteint  foul  oue  ly  cely  qi  ly  fuft  accufe,  et  quant  furount  aloignez  hu 
boys  de  tout  gent  le  roy  ly  dift,  "  Treitris,  mouftrez  a  ore  voftre  felouny 
cheualeroufement  et  efez  voftre  quer,  qautre  foitz  ne  vous  foit  furmys 
mordre,  qe  a  moy  defendre  fu  aparaillez  qe  conus  voftre  counpaffement." 
Cely  chey  au  peis  le  roy  qi  ly  agagea  tiel  furete  de  foun  bon  port  com  le 
roy  uoufift.  En  le  repair  Defcoce  de  cefti  roy  Willam  le  rous  refill  faire 
le  chattel  de  Cardoil  qe  lez  Denoys  auoint  deftruytz  cc.  auns  adonqes 
paffez.  En  quel  temps  nul  riche  hom  fe  ofa  clamer  Engles  pur  hount, 
taunt  eftoint  en  feruitude;  lez  feignurs  Normaunz  qi  de  Dieux  eftoient 
predeftene  de  lez  chaftier,  furount  fi  couaitous  qe  a  tort  et  a  trauers  ils 
priftrent  lez  biens  de  le  comune  faunz  juftice,  lez  vifcountes  furount  rob- 
beours;  le  roy  le  plus  extorfiounous  vendy  lez  euefches,  qe  de  droit  ny 
out  cure.  II  deueint  tre  maladez,  par  doute  de  quoi  il  promift  a  Dieux 
damendre  fa  vie,  en  quel  houre  il  dona  lerceueche  de  Cantorbirs  a  An- 
felin,  et  leuefche  de  Nichol  a  Robert  Bloete.  Et  meifme  le  hour,  fuft  le 
nouel  eglis  de  Dorefme  comence;  le  roy  Manclom  Defcoce,  et  Willam 


SCALACRONICA.  21 

Garilef  le  euefque,  et  Turgot  li  priour,  y  miftrent  le  primer  pere.  Ly 
abbe  de  faint  Alban,  Paulus,  prift  Tynemouth  du  doune  le  count  Robert, 
qi  par  violenz  auoit  ofte  lez  moignes  de  Dorefme. 

En  quel  temps  le  roy  Mauncloun  Defcoce  et  Edward  foun  fitz  furount 
tuez  a  Alnewyk,  et  (com  eft  dit)  par  engyn,  qe  le  coneftable  du  chattel 
encountrefift  a  rendre  le  chattel,  qi  veint  armez  a  cheual  lez  clefes  pen- 
dauntz  au  poynt  de  fa  launce,  enfift  countenaunce  a  bailie  lez  clefes  au 
roy  Mancloun,  enclina  la  launce,  fery  le  roy  au  quer  mort,  et  autres  des 
soens,  tuerent  le  fitz  le  roy,  pur  quel  affray  touz  furount  defcounfitz  com 
ils  eftoint  venuz  pur  deftruyer  Northumbreland,  et  plufours  de  foun  oft 
noez  en  Alne  de  vn  fodeyn  crefcine  de  pluy  le  iour  faint  Brice ;  Man- 
cloun fuft  entere  a  Tynemouth.  La  royne  Margaret  fa  feme  moruft  de 
doel  le  iij.  iour  qel  auoit  les  nouelis,  en  le  chattel  de  Edinburgh,  com 
ele  eftoit  affege  de  Donald  le  freir  foun  feignur,  qi  la  defiroit  a  femme  del 
hour  qil  aparfceuft  la  mort  foun  frere.  Mais  aunces  qel  moruft  ele  co- 
maunda  qe  hom  enportaft  foun  corps  hardiement  a  Dunfermelyn,  qe  dez 
enemys  ne  aueroint  dout,  qi  ceo  forsent  et  la  enporterent  a  fa  deuys  par 
la  port  du  chaftel  deuers  la  weft,  qi  neftoient  aparsceu  pur  vn  fi  grant 
bruyne  obfcure  qe  sureueint.  Agas  le  mere  la  royne  Margaret  et  Criftian 
fa  fore  deuiudrent  nonayns  au  Noefchaftell  sure  Tyne.  Cefti  roy  Maun- 
cloun veint  a  Glouceftre  au  roy  Willam  le  rous  pur  auoir  peife  riote  co- 
mence  par  lour  futzgiz  sure  marche,  de  quoy  le  dit  roy  Willam  ne  fe  vp- 
loit  acorder  fi  ne  fuft  qe  Mancloun  fe  voufift  agreer  deftre  iuge  en  fa 
court  foulement,  qi  ne  fe  uoroit  afcentir,  pur  qoi  fuft  recomenfe  la  guer 
en  quoi  il  moruft.  Lez  Efcotz  enfirent  lour  roy  Donald  le  freir  Man- 
cloun, enchacerent  lez  Engles  qi  od  Mancloun  eftoint.  Dunkan  le  fitz 
Mancloun,  qi  oue  le  roy  Willam  eftoit,  demaundoit  eyde  qi  fe  atourna  a 
ly,  fe  mift  en  Efcoce  od  grant  oft  dez  Engles  et  Normaunz  qi  illoeqes 
apoy  touz  perirent,  qe  apayn  efchapa  meifmes;  mais  nepurquant  lez 
Efcocez  apres  ly  refceurent  com  roys,  fur  couenaunt  qil  namenaft  nym- 
plus  lez  Engles  ne  lez  Normaunz.  Mais  Ian  fuaunt  ly  tuerent  et  choife- 
rent  autre  foitz  Donald  en  lour  roy. 

En  meifme  la  fefoun  Robert  de  Moubray  count  de  Northumbreland, 
et  Willam  de  Ow,  et  autres,  entre  aflurerent  de  couyne  de  ofteir  le  rov 


11  SCALACRONICA. 

Willara  pur  fa  iniquite,  et  a  fair  regnere  Efteuen  de  Blankmorl  foun 

neuew,  quel  couyne  fuft  defcouert  au  roy,  qi  fift  fomoundre  le  dit  count 

a  fa  court,  qi  ne  voroit  venir  mais  fe  alya  au  roy  Defcoce.  Le  roy  Willam 

fe  moua  en  oft  sure  ly,  affegea  foun  chaftel  sure  la  port  de  Tyne,  en  quoi 

il  prill  le  freir  le  dit  count;  il  conquift  auxi  le  chaftel  de  Noefchaftel,  ou 

il  enprifona  lez  meillours  du  counte;  il  affift  le  dit  count  en  Baumburgh, 

fift  adreffer  la  deuaunt  vn  chaftel  et  la  fift  nomer  Mauveifyn,  y  en  myft 

lez  meilliours  de  fez  cheualers,  fe  trey  vers  le  sue  ou  fuft  nounce  au  count 

Robert  qe  lez  gaites  de  Noefchaftel  ly  renderoint  le  chaftel  fi  priuement 

vouftft  venir,  qe  foy  trentifme  de  cheualeris  trenuyta  laudroitez,  quoi  fuft 

aparfceu  de  gentz  le  roy  hu  chaftel  de  Mauueifyn  qe  ifferent  et  futz  prift- 

rent  le  count  qi  fuez  eftoit  en  vn  eglis,  lez  foens  naufrez  et  defcoumfitz. 

lis  ly  reamenerent  deuaunt  Baumburgh,  manacerent  de  ly  creuer  lez  oils 

fi  fa  femme  et  Morel  foun  cofyn  ne  rendafent  le  chaftell,  qen  le  hour  le 

firent.    Cefti  Morel  reioy  qe  ceo  eftoit  fa  couyne;  le  count  eftoit  amenez 

a  Wyndefore  au  roi  et  perpetuelement  enprifonez.    En  meifme  le  temps 

furont  vieus  tauntz  eftoils  cheoir  du  ciel  qe  nuls  ne  les  pooit  noumbrer. 

Le  roy  Willam  enuoya  Edgar,  fitz  Edward,  fitz  Edmound  Irnlide,  en 

Efcoz  oue  grant  poair  pur  enmettre  Edgar  foun  cofyn,  fitz  Mancloun,  hu 

realme  qe  foun  vncle  Donald  occupia.   Quel  temps  apparuft  leftoil  comete 

en  fourme  dun  croice.     En  eel  hour  fourdy  difcord  entre  le  roy  et  An- 

celvn  lerceuefque,  qi  paffa  au  pape  Vrban  pur  ceo  qil  ne  pooit  pur  le 

roy  fair  punycement  de  tortis  en  feint  eglis.     Adonqes  comenfa  lordre     fol.  151. 

de    Sifteaux   par   vn    Engles,    Harding,    qi   deuaunt   eftoit   moigne   a 

Schirebum. 

Le  xj.  ane  de  Willam  rous  sank  fourdi  dun  fountayne  a  Finghamftede 
en  Barkfchire,  et  le  ciel  fuft  vieu  ardant ;  Tenys  mounta  outre  mefure 
qe  plufours  viles  od  lez  homs  noierent.  Cefti  Willam  le  rous  fift  faire 
la  grant  fale  a  Weftmoufter,  qi  la  teint  trop  petit.  II  enlargy  la  nouel 
foreft  qe  foun  pier  auoit  fait  comencer,  et  hors  botez  lez  paifyns,  mais 
cefty  fift  gafter  lez  parodies  et  voider  plufours  manfiouns  de  religiouns ; 
qi  tant  y  mift  fa  cure  par  fi  dure  loys  qe  hom  ly  apelloit  priuiement 
paftour  de  fauogin  et  forefter  du  boys. 

II  foungeoift  vn  nuyte  qil  eftoit  feigne  du  bras  dextre  et  qe  foun  fank 


SCALACRONICA.  23 

reaft  au  ciel ;  meifme  la  nuyte  vn  moigne  de  labbey  ou  le  voy  eftoit  al 
hour  foungeoift  qil  vift  le  roy  defoler  vn  crucifix  de  fez  pees,  et  puis  en- 
racer  le  bras,  et  vift  ifTer  du  bouche  le  roy  vn  flaurab  de  fieu  dount  tout 
le  pays  eftoit  enrougez,  quel  auifioun  fuft  mouftre  au  roy  le  matine  com 
il  voloit  auoir  ale  au  boys,  pur  quel  auifioun  et  ceo  qe  meifmes  auoit 
founge  le  defporta  il  deuaunt  manger  mais  apres  noun  ne  fe  voloit  il 
defporter  mais  fen  ala  chacer,  qi  com  il  fe  apoa  a  foun  triftre  vn  de  fez 
cheualers,  qy  auoit  a  noum  Walter  Tirell,  voroit  auoir  treyte  vn  cerfe,  (i 
fery  le  roy  au  quer  de  vn  sete  mort,  trebouche  au  tere  en  meifme  le  lieu 
ou  foun  pere  auoit  fait  gafter  vn  eglis.  II  eftoit  enfeueille  a  Winceftre. 
Saint  Anfelin  veint  de  Rome  a  Cluny  en  meifme  le  hour,  ou  labbe  ly 
recountoit  qil  auoit  meifme  la  nuyte  founge  qe  ly  fuft  auys  qe  le  roy 
Willam  le  rous  eftoit  amenez  deuant  le  fouerayn  iuge  et  condempnez  a 
perpetuel  prifoun. 

Cefti  Willam  deteint  la  tribute  de  leglis  de  Rome.  II  fuft  mauueis, 
defpluft  tout  bounte,  irous,  couaitoufe,  delikat,  luxurious  ouertement. 
II  regna  xiij.  auns  et  vj.  mois.  En  le  temps  cefti  Willam  le  rous  fuft 
Goldingham  done  au  colege  faint  Cuthbert  de  Dorefme  du  roi  Edgar 
Defcoce,  qe  vn  de  fez  chef  maneris  eftoit.  En  le  temps  cefti  Willam  le 
rous  fuft  Rees  le  roy  de  Galis  tuez  en  batail  pres  Blachenok,  apres  qi 
nuls  portoit  noums  dez  roys  mes  dez  prinfis. 

Pafchal  le  2US  fuft  pape  apres  Vrban  18  aunz  et  5  mois,  et  fuft  en- 
prifone  oue  fez  cardinalis  del  emperour  Henry  le  4.  a  qi  lauaunt  dit  pape, 
deuaunt  qil  pooit  eftre  deliuers,  iura  feaute,  et  ly  granta  priuilege  qil 
pooit  et  fez  fucceflburs  ordener  euefqes,  et  qe  nul  pape  efcomengeroit 
nul  emperour ;  quel  priuileges  le  dit  pape  dampna  Ian  fuaunt  en  general 
counfil  a  Rome, 
foi.  loi.  b.  Cefti  roy  Willam  fuft  fage,  queynt  en  parol,  lecherous  et  trop  couait- 
ous,  qi  vendift  les  euefches  molt  fouent,  et  en  temps  de  fa  mort  plufours 
euefches  auoit  retenu  en  fa  mayn,  et  priories. 

En  quel  temps  de  fa  mort  Robert  Curthofe,  duk  de  Normendy  et  frere 
eyne  cefty  roy  Willam  le  rous,  fuft  en  le  feintifme  veage  de  Antioche  et 
du  conqueft  de  la  Surry  od  Godfray  de  Bullyoun  et  od  les  autres  seign- 
ours  qe  y  eftoient.     Pur  quel  veage  il  auoit  engage  fa  duche  a  cefti  roi 


24  SCALACRONICA. 

Willam  le  rous,  foun  freir,  pur  vn  tref  grant  fome  dargent,  quel  foume 
le  dit  roy  Willam  fill  toller  de  fertres  dez  faintes  et  de  croyces  et  autres 
ymages  par  tout  Engleter  hors  de  fayntuair.  Qi  Robert  refufa  la  elec- 
cioun  du  roy  de  Jerufalem  pur  ceo  qe  biaunt  elloint  et  taunt  defiroit  a 
eftre  roy  Dengleter  apres  foun  frier,  pur  quoi  il  gerpift  le  fentifme  veage, 
reueint  a  loftel  od  la  ferrime  qe  il  auoit  nouelment  efpofe  en  Cefille. 
Mais  deuaunt  fa  venu  foun  frier  Henri  eftoit  corone,  com  apres  ferra 
recorde,  et  fi  eft  dit  qe  vnqes  ne  ly  efchuft  bien  apres  le  hour,  et  qe  il 
nauoit  vnques  vi6toir. 

En  le  temps  cefti  Willam  le  rous  fuft  le  roy  de  Norwai,  qi  full  fitz 
Holain  le  graunt,  tuez  dun  sete  com  auoit  conquys  lez  ifles  de  Orkany, 
et  com  les  autres  ils  voroit  auoir  foutzmys,  et  fi  full  enterez  salopie.  Lez 
cronicles  deuiffent  qe  lez  ifles  Defcoce  doient  de  droit  eftre  tenuz  du  roy 
de  Norway  com  apurtenaunt  a  foun  realme. 

Apres  cefti  Willam  le  rous,  pur  ceo  qil  nauoit  mil  enfaunt,  foun  freir 
Henry  le  beau  clerk  regna  apres  ly,  et  fuft  corone  a  Loundres  le  iour 
apres  la  mort  foun  freir,  celt  affauoir  lez  nones  de  Auguft.  Si  toft  com 
lerceuefque  de  Cantorbirs,  Ancelin,  auoit  oy  nouels  de  la  mort  le  roy 
Willam  le  rous  il  veint  en  Engleter,  et  le  roy  ly  refcent  a  grant  honour. 
Le  primer  ane  qe  cefti  roy  Henry  fuft  corone  il  efpofa  la  bele  pufcele 
Maude,  la  feile  Margaret  la  royne  de  Efcoce ;  lerfceuefque  de  Cantor- 
birs, Anfelyn,  lez  efpofa,  quel  mariage  du  dit  roy  Henry  et  du  dit  Maude 
fuft  le  remedy  et  eftaunchement  (com  deuifent  lez  cronicles)  du  mal 
predeltine  qe  lez  ij.  faintes  homs  difoint  a  faint  Edward  en  foun  exile  en 
Normendy,  qe  remedy  ne  ferroit  dez  aduerfite  cheables  fure  le  poeple 
Dengleter  pur  lours  pecchez  et  la  trefoun  dez  grantz  prelates  et  autres, 
tanque  larbre  verdifaunt,  qe  foit  coupe  de  trounk  et  aloigne  per  lefpace 
de  iij.  iuges,  reaueyne  a  foun  trounk  faunz  eide  nul,  et  repreigne  moifture 
et  reioyne  au  racine  et  face  fruyt,  donqes  eft  a  efperer  remedy  de  cez 
maus.  Lez  cronicles  fuppofent  qe  larbre  eftoit  coupe  et  du  racyne  dif- 
feuere  par  lefpace  de  trois  iuges,  qant  le  realm  eftoit  diffeuere  du  droit 
ligne  reale  par  efpace  du  regne  de  iij.  roys  as  queux  il  ne  apart enoit  my;  f0i.  152. 
ceo  eft  a  dire,  cefti  faint  Edward,  Harald,  et  Willam  le  conquerour  od 


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foun  fitz  Willam  le  rous,  tanque  cefti  Henri  le  primer  de  frank  volounte 
reamenafl  larbre  coupe  au  trounk  qant  il  efpofa  Maude  la  feile  faint 
Margaret  du  droit  racyne  et  femail  real  qe  fefoit  fruyt. 

Cefti  fuft  apelle  Henry  le  beau  clerk  pur  ceo  qe  foun  pier  Willam  le 
conquerour  penfoit  dauoir  fait  de  ly  vn  euefque,  et  com  eftoit  ionc  ly 
apella  le  beau  clerk.  Cefti  roy  engendra  de  fa  femme  Willam,  et 
Richard,  et  Maude  qe  puis  fuft  emperice.  Et  le  fecounde  ane  qil  auoit 
regne  foun  freir  Robert  Curthofe,  duk  de  Normendy,  veint  od  grant  nauy 
pur  chalanger  le  regne  de  droit  com  eyne  freir,  mais  par  counfail  dez 
fagez  homs  ils  furent  acordez  en  ceft  fourme,  qe  le  roy  durroit  par  ane 
iij.  mil  lyuers  al  duk  foun  freir,  et  le  quel  de  eaux  viueroit  plus  longment 
ferroit  autre  heire  ills  ne  huffent  iffu.  Et  puis  retourna  le  duk  Robert 
en  Normendy.  Henry  auoit  reles  de  le  droit  Edmound  Irnfide,  oue  fa 
famme  Maude. 

Qaunt  le  roy  auoit  regne  xiiij.  aunz  vn  grant  difcorde  fe  leua  entre  ly 
et  lerceuefque  Anfelin  pur  ceo  qe  il  ne  voloit  graunter  au  roy  qil  poait 
prendre  dez  eglis  taillage  a  fa  volounte,  et  fen  ala  autre  foitz  a  Rome 
et  demurra  oue  le  apoftoil.  En  meifme  eel  ane  le  duk  de  Normendy 
reueint  en  Engleter  parler  od  le  roy  foun  freir,  et  entre  autres  chos  qils 
parlerent  entre  eaux  le  duk  pardona  au  roy  iij.  m1.  lyuers  queux  il  deuoit 
rendre  par  ane,  et  en  grant  amour  le  duk  retourna  en  Normendy.  Mais 
puis  apres  lez  ij.  aunz  paffez  per  enticement  du  deable  et  par  enuy  dez 
mauues  homs  felounous,  vn  trefgrant  difcord  fourdy  entre  le  roy  et  le 
duk  foun  frere  iffi  qe  le  roy  meifmes  paffa  la  mere,  et  tretouz  lez  grantz 
feignours  de  Normendy  tournerent  a  ly  et  lefferent  le  duk  lour  seignour 
et  renderent  au  roy  treftouz  lours  cheftelis  et  viles  de  la  tere.  Et  toft 
apres  fuft  duk  Robert  Curthofe  pris,  et  le  roy  foun  freir  ly  amena  od  ly 
en  Engleter,  le  Auft  fuaunt  apres  ly  mift  en  perpetuel  prifoun.  Caus 
pur  quoi  lez  Normaundez  guerperont  cefti  Robert  lour  duk  et  enherderent 
a  cefti  roy  Henry  Dengleter  foun  frere  fuft  pur  defordene  taillage  qe  il 
enmift  sure  foun  poeple  et  autres  extorfiouns  qe  acouftomez  eftoit  a 
faire  au  comune.  Et  ceo  fuft  la  droite  vengeaunce  noftre  Seignour, 
qar  qant  il  fuft  en  la  tere  faint  Dieux  ly  dona  tel  honour  qil  fuft  eflieu 
dauoir  efte  roy  de  Jerufalem,  et  il  ne  le  voloit  eftre  mais  refufa  le  grant 

D 


26  SCALACRONICA. 

honour,  et  pur  ceo  auoit  il  la  prifoun  a  defhonour.  Dunqes  feify  le  roy 
tout  Normendy  en  fa  mayn  et  la  teint  touz  iours  de  fa  uie.  Et  meifme 
eel  ane  lerceuefque  reueint  en  Engleter  de  Rome  et  fuft  acorde  al  roy. 
Afcuns  croniclis  tefmoignent  qun  robe  full  taille  trop  court  et  trop  eftroit 
a  cefli  roy  Henry,  pur  quoi  il  la  fill  aporter  a  foun  freir  Robert  qil  auoit 
en  prifoun,  pur  ceo  qe  de  meindre  eflature  eftoit  de  ly,  qi  outriement  la 
refufa,  qi  difoit  qil  nauoit  cure  de  fez  veutz  draz ;  pur  quel  parol  le  roy 
li  fid  creuer  les  oils,  qi  difoit  qil  ly  ofteroit  de  foun  orgoillous  quer  le 
choifer  de  veutz  drapz  de  nouels. 

Ranulpus  euefque  de  Durefme  fe  efchapa  de  la  prifoun  le  roy  Henry, 
qi  fe  mid  au  duk  Robert  de  Normendy,  et  par  afcent  dez  plufours  grantz 
Dengleter  encounfaillant  a  mouer  guer. 

En  eel  temps  furount  lez  femmes  de  preftres  defenduz,  et  maunde  au 
roy  Henry  depar  le  papa  qe  il  feift  punicer  lez  preflris  fomicatours,  qi 
rien  nenfill  fors  enprift  lour  argent.  Cefli  roy  Henry  fill  encloir  le  park 
de  Wodllok  ;  il  ordena  punicement  sur  lez  fauxours  de  monoi.  En  eel 
temps  aueint  vn  fy  trefgrant  yuer  qe  apoy  le  glas  enroumpy  plufours  dez 
pount.es  Dengleter,  11  enfuyt  grant  famyn  et  grant  mortalite  dez  homs  et 
beftis  et  oyfeaux. 

Lane  procheigne  fuaunt  apres  vn  defcorde  fe  leua  entre  le  roy  Phelip 
de  France  et  le  roy  Henry,  par  quoi  il  retourna  en  Normendy,  et  full  la 
gucre  cruele  entre  eaux  tancom  il  demura  en  la  tere,  mais  donqes  morull 
le  roy  Phelip,  Lowys  foun  fitz  regna  apres  ly;  et  donqes  retourna  le  roy 
Henry  en  Engleter,  et  donqes  marya  il  Maude  fa  feile  a  Henry  lemper- 
our.  Et  qant  cefli  roy  Henry  auoit  regne  xvij .  aunz  vn  trefgrant  defcord 
fourdy  entre  ly  et  le  roy  Lowys  de  France,  par  la  refoun  qe  le  roy  auoit 
maunde  en  Normendy  a  fez  gentz  qils  fuffent  aidauntz  al  count  Thebaud 
de  Bleyns  en  fa  guere  encountre  le  roi  de  France,  et  qe  ils  fuffent  auxi 
prefles  a  ly  com  a  foun  corps  demeyn,  pur  ceo  qe  le  count  Thebaud  auoit 
efpofe  Aude  fa  sore;  et  par  cell  enchefoun  le  roy  de  France  Lowys  fill 
grantz  maus  en  Normendy,  par  quoi  le  roy  Dengleter  fe  coroufa  dure- 
ment  et  paffa  la  mere  od  grant  poair  et  veint  en  Normendy  pur  defendre 
la  tere  et  countreefler  la  malice  le  roy  de  France.  Et  durra  la  gerre 
entre  eaux  ij.  auns  et  plus,  et  puis  fentrehurterent  et  donerent  trefort  ba- 


SCALACRONICA.  27 

tail  entre  eaux,  mais  le  roy  de  France  fuft  defcomfift  et  efchapa  a  grant 
payne  et  fen  fuy,  mais  tout  le  plus  de  fez  gentz  furount  pris.  Et  le  roy 
Dengleter  fill  de  eaux  fa  volounte,  lez  vns  leffa  il  aler  franchement,  lez 
vns  mill  il  en  prifoun,  et  lez  vns  fift  il  mettre  a  la  mort,  puis  furont  lez  ij. 
roys  acordez.  Et  qant  le  roy  Henry  auoit  toute  peifez  la  tere  de  Nor- 
mendy  et  bien  daunte  fez  enemys  de  France  il  retourna  en  Engleter  od 
grant  ioy  et  honour;  et  fez  ij.  fitz  ly  uoloint  fuer,  Willam  qauoit  efpofe  la 
feile  le  count  de  Aungeou,  et  Richard,  et  entrerent  la  mere  od  grant 
coumpaigny  de  belis  genz,  mais  auaunt  qils  ueniflent  a  tere  la  neif  hurta 
a  vn  roche  et  depefla,  et  noerent  tretouz  qe  leinz  furent  fors  vn  foul  horn 
de  la  neif  qi  efchapa,  et  ceo  fuft  le  iour  de  la  Katerine.  Cez  furent  lez 
noblis  gents  qe  perirent,  Willam  le  fitz  le  roy,  Richard  foun  freir,  et 
Richard  le  count  de  Ceftre,  Otiuel  foun  freir,  Gaufrid  Ridel,  Walter  de 
Euurcy,  Godfri  ercedeken  de  Heiford,  la  feile  le  roy  la  countes  de 
Perches,  Lucete  la  feile  le  roy  counteffe  de  Ceftre,  et  plufours  autres. 
Et  fi  eftoit  murmur  qe  eel  vengeaunce  enueint  pur  le  orde  peche  de  fo- 
domy  qe  regna  en  le  hour,  sure  quoy  lerceuefqe  Anfelin  auoit  grant  penfe 
pur  y  mettre  amendement.  Quant  le  roy  et  lez  autres  seignours  de  la 
tere,  qe  primes  furent  aryuez,  fauoint  ceft  nouel  ils  furent  trefdolentz  et 
ne  fauoint  qe  dire  et  tout  lour  ioy  fuft  donqes  tourne  en  anguife  et  en 
dolour  com  Dieux  le  voloit.  Apres  lez  ij.  aunz  pafiez  qe  le  roy  auoit  ore 
a  ceft  foitz  demure  en  Engleter  le  veil  count  de  Melent  fen  party  de  le 
roy  et  comenfa  gerroier  countre  ly,  et  fill  grantz  maus  en  fa  tere  de  Nor- 
mendy  sure  luy  et  sure  fez  gentz,  par  quoi  le  roy  fe  coroufa  qant  il  oy  la 
nouel  et  haftiement  pafTa  la  mere  et  reueint  en  Normendy,  et  prift  le 
chaftel  le  dit  count  qe  fuft  apelle  le  chaftel  de  Pounte  Audomer,  et  de- 
mura  tout  eel  ane  en  Normendy. 

Et  donqes  ly  vindrent  nouels  qe  Henry  lemperour,  qauoit  efpofe  Maude 
fa  feile,  eftoit  mort  et  qe  ele  ne  voroit  plus  longement  demurrer  en  Alle- 
main  mais  voloit  retourner  en  Engleter  a  foun  pier.  Et  qant  ele  eftoit 
a  ly  reuenu  il  la  prift  ouefqe  ly  et  reueint  en  Engleter,  et  le  roy  fift  af- 
fembler  deuaunt  ly  touz  lez  grantz  seignours  de  Engleter  et  lez  fift  fere 
ferement  de  feaute  al  emperice.  Primes  fift  le  ferement  Willam  lerceuefqe 
de  Cantorbirs,  puis  Dauid  le  roy  Defcoce  a  qy  il  auoit  done  la  counte  de 


28  SCALACRONICA. 

Hunlyngdoun,  et  puis  tretouz  lez  countis  et  barouns  de  la  tere  fefoint 

feaute  al  emperice  et  as  fez  heyres.     Meifme  la  fefoun  cefti  roy  Henry 

fill  faire  vn  nouel  euefqe  a  Cardoil;  et  toft  apres  dedenz  eel  ane  le  noble 

bier  Gaufray  Plauntegeneth,  count  de  Aungeow,  noble  cbiualere  et  vail- 

launt,   maunda  au  roy  Dengleter  qil   ly  voufit  doner  Maude  fa  feille 

lemperiz  a  femme.     Et  pur  ceo  qil  fuft  fi  noble  hom  et  de  fi  graunt 

bounte,  le  roy  la  ly  graunta  et  la  prift  ouefqe  ly,  fi  la  amena  en  Normendy 

et  veint  illoeqe  le  noble  hom  count  de  Aungeow,  Gaufrid  Plauntegeneth, 

et  la  efpofa  a  graunt  honour.     Et  puis  engendra  vn  fitz  de  ly  qauoit  a 

noume  Henry  fitz  lemperice,  pius  demora  le  roy  Henry  tout  eel  ane  en  foi.  153.  b. 

Normendy. 

Et  grant  pece  apres  en  le  xxx.  ane  qil  auoit  regne  vn  grefe  maladv  ly 
prift,  et  donqes  moruft.  Cefti  bon  roy  Henry  regna  playnement  xxxv. 
aunz  et  quatre  moys,  puis  moruft  en  Normendy,  et  foun  quer  fuft  entere 
en  la  grant  eglis  noftre  dame  a  Rome  deuaunt  la  haut  auter,  et  foun  corps 
folempnite  fuft  porte  en  Engleter  a  Reding,  et  la  gift  enterre  en  labbay 
dount  il  eftoit  foundeour,  et  la  fift  faire  le  xxij.  an  de  foun  regne.  En 
Ian  du  regne  cefti  Henry  le  beauclerk  4.  en  le  moys  de  June  furount 
vieus  cerclis  meruaillous  et  blankis  entour  le  folail.  Meifme  la  fefoun 
full  le  corps  faint  Cuthbert  tranilate,  qe  trouez  eftoit  enterez  od  la  teft 
faint  Ofwald. 

Meifme  eel  fefoun  fuft  vieu  le  ftella  infolita  par  plufours  iours,  et  auxi 
furount  vieus  dieus  lunes  deuaunt  le  iour,  lun  en  lorient  et  lautre  en  loc- 
cident  touz  dieus  playnes.  En  quel  fefoun  fourdy  grant  debat  entre 
Henry  lemperour  et  foun  fitz  Henry,  le  fitz  enprifona  le  pier. 

Meifme  la  fefoun  moruft  Edgar  roy  Defcoce,  apres  qy  regna  Alexander 
foun  freir.  Et  meifme  Ian  le  roy  Henry  eftably  par  eftatut,  prelates, 
countes  et  barouns  prefentes,  qe  de  eel  hour  en  auaunt  nul  dignite  efpi- 
rituel  enuendroit  en  mayns  dez  rois  ne  dez  nuls  autres  lays,  et  fy  defift  il 
touz  lez  maimers  couftoms  qe  foun  freir  Willam  auoit  eftably. 

En  le  x.  ane  de  foun  regne  moruft  Anfelyn  lerceuefqe,  et  leuefche  de 
Ely  primerment  ordene,  ou  deuant  neftoit  fors  vn  priour.  Leftoil  comet 
aparuft  en  cil  ane  et  grant  teremote  y  fuft  par  la  tere.  La  ryuer  de 
Trent  a  Notyngham  lefpace  dun  lieu  fuft  enfeche  de  matine  a  tierce  qe 


SCALACRONICA.  2g 

chefcun  y  pooit  pafler  faunz  moiller,  et  la  ryuer  de  Medeway  qe  nul  ne 
pooit  pafler ;  Temys  auxi  a  Loundres,  entre  la  pount  et  la  toure,  full  fi 
petit  qun  enfaunt  le  pooit  pafler  tout  le  iour  entier.  Maude  la  royne,  la 
femme  cefti  roy  Henry,  moruft  cell  ane.  Lordre  dez  Templers  a  donqes 
comenfa.  Vn  fofle  full  fait  entre  Nichol  a  Torqefay,  qe  lez  nefes  pur- 
roint  pafler  de  Trent. 

En  meifme  le  temps  fuft  Lowys  le  fitz  Phelip  roy  de  France;  et  Johan 
Gaitenus,  ou  Gelafius,  fuft  vn  ane  et  dimy  pape  apres  Pafchall  par  elec- 
cioun  de  la  college  en  le  Mount  Cafyne,  ou  lez  cardinalis  furount  fuys 
pur  poour  de  lemperour  Henry,  qi  emperour  fift  choifer  vn  autre,  Maurin, 
fi  ly  fill  nomer  Gregoir,  qi  eftoit  deuaunt  efcomenge  du  pape.  Mais 
Kalixt  le  2US,  qi  fuft  choife  pape  par  le  colege  apres  Johan,  regna  5  aims 
et  6  moys,  et  par  poair  enprifona  le  dit  Mauryn,  li  fift  mettre  defure  vn 
fol.  154.  kamyle,  le  vifage  tourne  au  cou  du  kamil,  fi  ly  fift  doner  en  mayn  la  cou 
du  dit  camille  en  lieu  du  frien.  Cefti  Kalixt  auoit  refignement  du  em- 
perour Henry  de  qanqe  il  auoit  debate  od  fez  predeceflburs.  Vn  cardinal 
de  Rome,  qi  out  a  noum  Johan,  fuft  enuoye  en  Engleter  pur  ofter  lez 
femmes  de  preftres,  qi  egrement  le  purfuyft,  qi  meifmes  fuft  troue  coupablis 
ouertement  od  vn  femme  delee  ly  meifme  la  nute  qe  lez  autres  auoit  con- 
dempne.  Honorius  fuft  pape  le  2US  apres  Calixt  5  aunz  et  2  moys;  en 
quel  temps  lemperour  Henry,  qauoit  efpofe  Maude  la  feille  roy  Henry, 
moruft,  et  folonc  afcuns  croniclis  gift  a  Sper  en  Allemayn.  Mais  Geralde 
recount  qil  guerpift  pur  penaunce  foun  pays  et  veint  en  Engleter  et  de- 
ueint  eremyte,  et  gift  a  Ceftre.  Apres  qi  Lothoir,  duk  de  Saxfoun,  fuft 
fait  emperour;  en  quel  temps  afcuns  croniclis  dient  qe  le  count  de 
Flaundres  deueroit  auoir  efte  de  droit  faunk  au  roy  Henry  le  primer. 
Apres  Honorius  le  pape  fuft  Innocens  le  4US  choife  pape  de  plufours  de 
colege,  qy  regna  13  aunz  et  7  moys;  mais  Anaclitus,  qi  fuft  dit  Petre 
Lions,  auoit  voice  dafcuns,  fi  entra  par  entroifoun  et  enprift  lez  trefores 
de  lefglifis  od  quoi  il  peifa  lez  princes  de  Rome.  II  enchafa  Innocens 
od  fez  cardenalis  au  roy  de  France,  mais  puis  reueint  et  encorona  lem- 
perour Lothair,  par  eide  de  qi  il  enchafa  Roger  le  duk  de  Puille  et  de 
Cefille  qy  luy  eftoit  en  contrair. 

Vn  poi  deuaunt  la  difcefle  cefti  roy  Henry  le  beau  clerk  il  eftoit  fi 


30  SCALACRONICA. 

affraye  pur  vn  auifioun  qe  ly  aueint  en  Normendy,  qen  foun  repair  en 
Engleter  il  releffa  pur  7  aunz  le  tribute  Danoys,  et  premifl  a  Dieux  a 
garder  fa  terre  en  juftice.  Meifme  le  hour  eftoit  en  France  taunt  defaut 
de  eau  qe  lez  ryuers  et  lez  fountains  apoy  feccherent  touz.  Fieu  entra 
lez  creuices  foutz  tere,  qe  par  nul  art  longement  ne  pooit  eflre  exteint. 

Apres  cefti  roy  Henry  le  primer  regna  foun  neuew,  fitz  de  fa  sore, 
Efleuen  count  de  Bleynes,  qi  fe  difoit  le  plus  procheyne  heire  mal,  qe  fi 
toft  com  il  auoit  oy  nouels  de  la  mort  foun  vncle  il  pafl'a  la  mere  et  veint 
en  Engleter.  Et  par  counfail,  force  et  eyde  de  plufours  grantz  feignurs 
de  la  tere,  encountre  lour  sermentz  de  feaute  qils  anoint  fait  a  Maude 
lemperice,  il  enprift  le  regne  et  fe  fill  coronere.  Et  lerceuefque  Willam 
de  Cantorbirs,  qi  primes  fill  la  ferment  de  feaute  al  emperice,  il  mill  la 
coroune  en  la  chefe  et  le  enoynt  et  ly  dona  la  beneifoun.  Et  Roger 
leuefqe  de  Salifbirs  mainteint  la  partie  le  roy  en  taunt  com  il  fauoit.  Et 
fi  eft  dit  qe  com  lerceuefqe  Willam  aporta  le  corps  noftre  Seignour  au  roy 
Efteuen  il  cheoit  hors  de  fez  mayns  et  enuanift.  Le  dit  roy  fill  enprifoner  fol.  154.  i>. 
leuefque  Roger  de  Salifbirs  tanqe  il  ly  auoift  done  fez  ij.  chaftels  de  Vife 
et  de  Schirburne;  leuefqe  de  Nichol  enprifona  il  auxi  tanqe  il  ly  auoit 
rendu  le  chaftel  de  Newark.  Par  afcent  de  afcuns  dez  grantz  et  de 
plufours  de  comunes  cefti  Efteuen,  qi  eftoit  fitz  de  la  sore  le  roy  Henry 
le  beau  clerk,  qe  feile  eftoit  Willam  le  conquerour,  fe  fill  roys  et  fill  fez 
regautes  faunz  countredit  de  nuly,  qar  Gaufryd  Plaungeneth,  count  de 
Angeow,  qauoit  efpofe  Maude  lemperice,  ne  fe  voloit  meller  pur  ceo  qe 
veutz  eftoit  en  le  hour,  qi  difoit  a  fa  femme  toutdiz  qe  bien  la  coueignast 
od  les  foens. 

Le  roy  Efteuen  le  primer  ane  qil  comenfa  a  regner  il  afiembla  grant 
oft  et  fe  mill  vers  Efcoce  pur  auoir  gerroie  le  roy  Dauid,  mais  il  veint 
encountre  le  roy  en  peife  et  en  bon  maner  et.  fe  acorda  a  ly,  mais  il  ne 
fill  pas  homage  pur  ceo  qil  lauoift  fait  al  emperice,  mais  foun  fitz  ly  fill 
homage.  Le  roy  alaft  parmy  la  tere  Dengleter  et  prill  treftouz  lez 
chatlelis  et  lez  bons  viles  en  fa  main ;  et  le  qart  ane  de  foun  regne  veint 
Maude  lemperice  en  Engleter  et  comenfa  contyk  et  eftrif  au  roy  Efteuen. 
Et  plufours  grantz  seignours  de  la  tere  tyndrent  od  lemperice  encountre 


SCALACRONICA.  31 

le  roy  et  fez  miftrent  en  la  cite  de  Nichol,  mais  le  roi  y  veint  et  affegea 
la  vile,  et  ceaux  qi  furent  dedenz  efchaparent  quayntement  faunz  mal 
auer,  et  donqes  prill  le  roy  la  vile  et  demura  illoeqes  iefqes  a  la  purifica- 
cioun  nollre  dame.  Et  donqes  maintenant  apres  la  purificacioun  vindrent 
illoeqes  lez  barouns  qi  tindrent  encountre  le  roy  od  lemperice  et  donerent 
batail  au  roy,  et  le  roy  full  pris  en  cell  batail  et  mene  al  emperice  et  mys 
en  garde  en  la  tour  de  Brillow.  Le  count  Randulf  de  Cellre,  le  count 
Robert  de  Glouceftre,  Hugh  Bigot,  et  Robert  de  Oyly,  ceaux  furount 
lez  grauntz  seignours  qi  tindrent  od  la  emperice  oue  taunt  poair  et  eide 
com  ils  poeint  procureir.  Qaunt  le  roy  elloit  pris  et  mys  en  gard  a 
Brillow,  en  la  tour  le  count  Robert  de  Glouceftre,  lemperice  elloit 
maintenaunt  refcieu  dame  de  tout  Engleter,  et  treftouz  la  tyndrent  pur 
dame  de  la  tere  fors  ceaux  de  Kent,  ou  la  royne  la  femme  le  roy  Efteuen 
et  Willam  de  Ipre  et  lour  gentz  tyndrent  contek  al  emperice.  Et  toll 
apres  le  roy  Defcoce  veint  a  eaux  od  graunt  noumbre  de  gentz,  et  donqes 
alerent  a  Wynceftre  ou  lemperice  elloit  et  la  voloint  auoir  pris  et  lez 
Loundres  auxi,  pur  ceo  qe  lemperice  ne  lour  voloift  graunteir  lez  loys 
faint  Edward  pur  ceo  qe  dures  lour  refembloient  lez  loys  foun  pier  Henry. 
Mais  le  count  Robert  de  Glouceftre,  qi  freir  baftard  elloit  au  dit  emperice, 
par  counfail  de  qi  el  comenfa  fa  guere,  en  qi  chaftel  le  roy  Efteuen  full 
tenu  en  gard,  et  le  poair  qil  auoit  oue  ly,  fe  combaty  oue  le  roy  Defcoce 
et  oue  lez  autre  lour  enemys.  Et  lemperice  efchapa  de  illoeqe  tanqe  eel 
melle  dura  et  fen  ala  a  Oxfenford  et  illoeqe  fe  teint,  qar  le  count  Robert 
de  Glouceftre  elloit  pris  en  eel  defcounfiture  et  autres  afleitz  oue  ly.  Et 
pur  fa  deliueraunce  et  ceaux  qi  furount  od  ly  full  le  roy  Efteuen  deliueis 
et  ceaux  qi  furount  pris  oue  ly;  et  illy  full  lun  deliueis  pur  lautre.  Le 
roy  fi  toft  com  il  full  deliuere  il  prill  foun  poair  et  fen  ala  a  Oxfenford 
et  affegea  lemperice,  et  dura  laffege  del  faint  Michel  iefqes  al  aduent.  Et 
adonqes  vn  poy  deuaunt  le  nowel  lemperice  fa  fill  vefter  tout  en  blaunche 
vellure  de  lyntheaux,  qel  ne  pooit  ellre  conu  ne  aparceu  pur  lay  nayfe 
qeftoit  fi  tregrant,  qar  lun  colour  fembloit  al  autre,  et  iffi  efchapa  par 
Temys  qe  full  englafe,  qe  vnqes  neftoit  aparfcieu  de  fez  enemys,  et  fen 
ala  a  Walingford  et  la  fa  tenit.  Le  roy  la  voloit  auoir  allege  mais  il  ne 
pooit  entendre,  taunt  auoit  a  faire  en  droit  del  count  Randulf  de  Ceftre  et 


32  SCALACRONICA. 

Hugh  Bigot  qy  taunt  ly  gerroient  de  touz  partz  qil  ne  fauoit  qe  dire ; 
et  le  count  Robert  de  Glouceftre,  qi  lez  aida  od  tout  foun  poair.  Le 
roy  ala  a  Wiltoun  et  voloit  illoeqes  faire  vn  chattel,  mais  ly  fureueint  le 
count  Robert  od  grant  poair  et  auoit  apoy  pris  le  roy  mais  il  efchapa  a 
grant  payn,  et  Willam  Marcel  fu  pris  illoeqes,  pur  qy  deliuerance  le  roy 
vendy  au  count  Robert  le  chattel  de  Schirburn  qil  auoit  pris.  Qant  ceo 
fuft  fait  le  count  Robert  et  tretouz  lez  enemys  le  roy  aloient  a  Farendoun 
et  comencerent  a  fermer  illoqes  vn  trefort  chattel ;  mais  le  roy  ala  haftie- 
ment  oue  grant  poair  et  lez  enchafa.  Et  meifme  cell  ane  le  count  Ran- 
dulf  de  Ceftre  fuft  acorde  au  roy  et  pius  veint  a  la  court  le  roy  a  foun 
maundement,  et  quidoit  fauuement  eftre  venu,  mais  le  roy  ly  fift  prendre 
et  mettre  en  prifoun ;  et  vnqes  ne  pooit  ifler  tanqe  il  huft  rendu  au  roy 
le  chattel  de  Nichol  qi  auoit  pris  a  force  fure  le  roy.  Lemperice  fa 
retrey  en  Normendy. 

En  le  xv.  ane  de  le  regne  le  roy  Efteuen  Gaufrid  le  count  de  Aun- 
geow  rendy  a  Henry  foun  fitz  tout  Normendy,  et  Ian  fuant  moruft  le 
count  foun  pier  et  il  ala  maintenaunt  en  Aungeow  et  fuft  curtoifement 
refcieu  et  a  grant  honour  des  horns  de  la  tere,  et  ly  fefoient  [feaute]  et 
homage  comunement  tretouz.  Dunqes  fuft  cefti  Henry  fitz  lemperice 
count  de  Aungeow  et  duk  de  Normendy.  Et  meifme  eel  ane  la  deuorz 
fu  fait  entre  le  roy  Lowys  de  France  et  ly  royne  fa  femme,  qe  fuft  droit  fol.  155.  b. 
heyre  de  Aqitain,  pur  ceo  qe  troue  fuft  par  bons  gentz  de  religioun  et 
par  autres  qils  eftoient  procheyns  parentz  qi  ne  acorderent  pas  enfemble  ; 
et  donqes  la  prift  Henry  fitz  lemperice  et  la  efpofa  a  grant  honour.  Et 
ifly  eftoit  il  count  de  Aungeow,  duk  de  Normendy  et  de  Aquitayn. 

Et  donqes  en  le  xviij.  ane  del  regne  le  roy  Efteuen  cefti  Henry  fitz 
lemperice  veint  en  Angleter  od  grant  poair  et  od  grant  nauy  de  gentz  et 
comenfa  guerroier  le  roy,  fi  prift  le  chattel  de  Malmefbery  et  fift  dure- 
ment  grantz  mans  au  roy  Efteuen,  et  fu  la  guere  entre  eaux  fi  trefort  qe 
le  roy  ne  fauvoit  quel  part  tourner,  mais  au  darayn  furount  ils  acordez 
par  lerceuefqe  Theobaud  de  Cantorbiris  et  par  autres  bons  gentz  de  la 
tere  en  cede  fourme,  qils  departyroint  le  realme  Dengletere  entre  eaux 
ifii  qe  Henry  fitz  lemperice  aueroit  la  moyte  parmy  et  par  tout  a  la  vie 
le  roy  Efteuen,  et  apres  fa  mort  Henry  enioyeroit  tout  entierement  le 


SCALACRONICA.  33 

regne  et.  la  coroune;  et  iff!  finift  la  gere  entre  eaux.  Le  roy  deueint  ft 
tredolent  qil  auoit  perdu  la  moyte  de  Engleter,  et  qant  pees  full  crie 
parmy  tout  la  tere  qil  chey  en  vn  grant  malady  et  deuoit  murir.  II  regna 
xix.  aunz,  et  xx.  semayns,  et  xx.  iours,  tot  en  gere  et  en  contek,  et  puis 
moruft  et  gift  al  abbey  de  Fauersham,  qil  fill  faire  le  vi.  ane  de  foun 
regne. 

Le  roy  Efteuen  dona  an  roy  Defcoce  Dauid  lez  chaftels  de  Carleil  et 
de  Noefchaftel  a  lour  primer  acorde  en  pefc  fefaunt,  lez  queux  il  auoit 
vfurpe  en  le  mene  temps  de  ceft  gere,  et  ly  conferma  la  vile  de  Huntyng- 
doun  et  la  counte  qe  done  lour  full  du  roy  Henry.  Le  roy  Efteuen  paffa 
la  mere  fi  fe  alya  od  le  roy  de  France,  fill  foun  fitz  Euftace  fare  homage 
pur  Normendy,  repaira  en  Engleter,  affift  le  chattel  de  Bedford,  fi  le 
gaigna,  fe  mift  en  oft  deuers  Efcoce  pur  ceo  qe  Dauid  le  roy  enclinoit  au 
ferement  qil  auoit  fait  al  emperice  fa  cofyne  qi  comaunda  fez  gentz  qile 
eydafent  fa  cofyne,  queux  firent  grant  cruaute  a  lez  enherdauntz  le  roy 
Efteuen,  tuerent  lez  petites  letauntez,  preftres  decollerent,  miftrent  lour 
teftes  sure  lez  teftes  dez  crucifixs,  pur  quoy  le  roy  Efteuen  deilrut  la 
marche  Defcoce,  retournat  en  Engleter  pur  ceo  qe  Robert  count  de 
Ceftre  et  autres  grantz  eftoient  releuez  encountre  luy.  En  quel  houre 
Dauid  roy  Defcoce  entra  Engleter  od  grant  oft,  ou  le  count  de  Aumarell 
od  autres  norays  ly  defcounfirent  iouft  Allertoun  par  sarmoun  de  Turftin, 
erceuefque  Deuerwyk,  qi  lour  souenoit  de  pruefce  de  lour  aunceftres, 
en  moneftaunt  a  coumbatre  pur  lour  pays.  II  eft  dit  qe  lez  Efcoces  fu- 
rount  illoeqes  defcounfitz  dez  noyfe  en  potes  foutz  tere.  Apres  quoi  le 
roy  Efteuen  entraft  Efcoce  meifme  la  fefoun  deftruyaunt  le  pays,  tanqe 
autre  foitz  furount  entrepeifetz,  ifli  qe  pur  affuraunce  auoir  le  roy  Efteuen 
fift  Henry,  le  fitz  le  roy  Dauid  Defcoce,  count  de  Northumbreland,  qi 
prill  en  efpoufe  la  countaffe  iadiz  femme  Willam  count  de  Warayne,  qi 
cheualeroufement  enueint  oue  le  roy  en  Engleter. 

Le  roy  Efteuen  achataft  Cuftaunce,  la  sore  le  roy  Lovvys  de  France,  a 
foun  fitz  Euftaz  od  le  trefor  qil  auoit  enpris  de  Roger  efuefqe  de  Salif- 
birs;  qi  Euftas  moruft  procheignement,  de  qi  le  roi  de  Fraunce  prift  ho- 
mage pur  Normendy,  la  mort  de  qy  eftoit  graunt  caufe  du  pees  entre  le 
roy  Efteuen  et  Henry  count  de  Aungeow,  pur  ceo  qil  nauoit  cngendrure. 

E 


34  SCALACRONICA. 

Lez  gentz  le  roy  Efleuen  priilrent  Geffray  de  Grauntvile,  qi  plufour 
chafteaux  auoit  en  garde  depar  lemperice,  qi  pur  fa  deliueraunz  rendy  au 
roy  la  Tour  de  Loundres  et  lez  chafteaux  de  Walden  et  de  Pleciys,  fe 
mill  a  boys,  et  hors  boty  lez  moynes  del  abbay  de  Ramefay,  illoeqes  fift 
rescet  de  robbeours,  pur  ceo  qe  il  nauoit  dount  viure  pur  qoy  il  moruft 
cheitifement. 

En  eel  temps  veint  Henry  fitz  lemperice  au  roy  Dauid  de  Efcoce,  qi 
de  ly  a  Cardoil  full  fait  chiualer;  et  procheignement  apres  moruft  Henry 
fitz  Dauid  le  roy  Defcoce,  qi  count  eftoit  de  Northumbreland,  et  Ian 
fuaunt  moruft  le  roy  Dauid;  apres  qy  regna  en  Efcoce  Mauncloun  le  fitz 
Henry  count  de  Northumbreland.  En  le  temps  cefti  roy  Efteuen  fu  vn 
enfaunt  Criftien,  qi  out  a  noume  Willam,  crucifie  a  Norwiche  de  Jewis  en 
defpit  de  Criftien  loy.  Lez  cronicles  deuifent  qe  cefti  Henry  fitz  lem- 
perice full  defendu  de  foun  pier  Gaufrid  Plauntegeneth,  count  de  Aun- 
geow,  en  qanqe  pier  pooit  defendre  fitz,  qil  ne  touchaft  Elianor  qe  full 
lefpoufe  Lowys  le  roi  de  France,  et  qil  ne  la  preift  en  moiller  en  nul  ma- 
ner,  pur  ceo  qe  conu  lauoit  tanqe  il  eftoit  fenefchal  le  roy  de  France, 
mais  pur  ceo  ne  le  leffa  qe  pur  couaitife  ne  la  efpofa.  En  le  temps  le  roy 
Efteuen  Conrard  le  duk  de  Beyuer  et  neuew  le  emperour  Henry  le  qart 
full  emperour  apres  Lothair  15  aunz,  qi  par  predicacioun  Bernard  ala 
noblement  en  la  terre  faint. 

Celeftinus  le  2US  full  pape  apres  Innocens  5  mois;  apres  qy  Lucius  qi 
out  a  noume  Egerardus  full  pape  ij.  moys;  apres  qy  Eugenius  le  3  full 
pape  8  aunz  et  5  moys,  qy  full  le  difciple  faint  Bernard  et  puis  abbe  de 
faint  Anaftays,  qi  par  expiracioun  full  choife  dez  cardenalis  mais  facre 
hors  de  la  cite  pur  doute  de  lez  fenatours  de  Rome.  En  quel  temps 
Conrard  lemperour,  et  Lowys  le  roy  de  Fraunce,  et  le  count  de  Flaundres, 
et  plufours  grantz  Dengleter,  furent  croifez.en  la  tere  faint,  meutz  uo- 
loient  aler  par  tere  qe  par  mere,  fi  pafTerent  par  la  Bulgary  ou  par  trei- 
foun  de  lemperour  de  Conftantinnoble  furount  les  plufours  perrys  par 
faryne  qil  lour  fift  doner  melle  od  cray;  ceux  qy  sureuiuerent  furount  lez 
plufours  tue  defpey  pur  lour  luxure  et  lour  rauyne.  Lowys  le  roy  de 
France  fentrey  vers  loftell,  mais  enchemynaunt  deueint  maladez,  qi  full 
counfaillez  de  fez  mires  dauoir  compaigny  de  femme,  qi  meutz  amoit 


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morire  qe  faire  auoutry.  Apres  qy  regna  en  France  foun  fitz  Phelip. 
Anaftatius  le  iij.  fuft  pape  apres  Eugenius  ij.  auns,  en  quel  temps  moruft 
faint  Bernard. 

Apres  cefli  roy  Efteuen  regna  Henry  fitz  lemperice,  et  full  corone  a 
Weftmoufter  del  erceueuefque  Theobaud  de  Cantorbirs  par  vn  dymange, 
le  vi.  iour  deuaunt  Nowel.  Et  meifme  eel  ane  Thomas  Beket  de  Londres, 
arcedeken  de  Cantorbirs,  fu  chaunceler  de  roy. 

Le  fecound  ane  apres  qe  le  roy  fuft  corone  il  fill  abatre  tretouz  lez 
nouelis  chaftelis  qe  le  roy  Efteuen  auoit  fait  faire;  et  reprift  en  fa  mayn 
burghs,  viles  et  chafteaux  qe  parteindrent  a  la  coroune,  lez  queux  le  roy 
Efteuen  auoit  done  as  diuers  horns  et  lez  auoit  fet  countes  et  barouns 
pur  tenir  od  ly  de  ly  eider  encountre  Henry  fitz  lemperice.  Si  reapella 
lez  auncienes  cuftoms  et  defift  quanqe  le  roy  Efteuen  auoit  de  nouel 
eftably,  com  fouent  eft  vieu  et  com  eft  dit  en  prouerbe — "  veigne  nouel 
roys  et  face  nouel  loys." — Et  puis  qaunt  cefti  Henry  fuft  corone  il  lez 
enchafa  tretouz  de  la  tere,  et  nomement  lez  Flemynkes  qi  od  Efteuen 
eftoint  grantz  meifters.  Et  fait  afauoir  qil  auoift  bele  engendrure  de  fa 
femme,  cell  afauoir,  Willam  qi  moruft  ioen  enfaunt,  Henry,  Richard, 
Gaufray,  qi  pius  fuft  count  de  Bretaigne  depar  fa  femme,  Maude,  et 
trois  autres  feilles,  lun  eftoit  royne  de  Chattel,  et  lautre  countefie  de  To- 
loufe,  la  tierce  royne  de  Cefile;  et  Johan  qi  puis  fuft  roy  Dengleter  qi  a 
fournoune  out  Johan  faunz  tere.  Et  en  meifme  cell  fecound  ane  de  foun 
regne  nafqy  foun  fitz  Henry. 

Le  tierce  ane  de  foun  regne  il  pafTa  la  mere  et  purchafa  touz  lez 
chaftels  qe  furount  au  Gaufrid  Plaungeneth  foun  pere.  En  cell  ane  naf- 
quift  Maude  fa  feile. 

Le  quart  ane  de  foun  regne  il  foutzmift  a  fa  feignourye  Oweyn  le  roy 
de  Wales.  Et  en  meifme  Ian  le  roy  Defcoce  ly  rendy  quanque  il  auoift 
de  fa  demeyne,  cell  afauoir,  la  cite  de  Carleil,  le  chaftell  de  Baumburgli, 
le  Noefchaftel  fure  Tyne,  et  le  countee  de  Langcaftre,  horpris  Huntyng- 
doun  qil  ly  confermaft.  Et  en  meifme  cell  ane  le  roy  ala  en  Wales  od 
graunt  poair,  et  fill  abatre  boys,  et  fill  fare  chemyns,  et  fill  affermer  le 
foi.  157.    chaftel  de  Rothelan  et  de  Baffingwerk.     Et  entre  ceaux  ij.  chaftels  il  fill 


36  SCALACRONICA. 

vn  mefoun  del  temple.  En  cell  ane  nafquift  Richard  foun  fitz  a  Oxen- 
ford. 

Le  quint  ane  de  foun  regne  nafquift  foun  fitz  Gaufryd,  qi  puis  full 
count  Bretaigne.     Et  en  eel  ane  chaungea  il  la  monoy. 

Le  vj.  ane  il  amena  grant  oft  a  Touloufe  et  la  affift. 

Le  vij.  ane  de  foun  regne  Henry  foun  fitz  efpofa  la  feile  le  roy  Lowis 
de  France  od  grant  honour  et  a  grant  nobley. 

Le  viij.  ane  de  foun  regne  moruft  lerceuefque  Theobaud  de  Cantor- 
birs ;  et  la  cite  de  Cantorbirs  fuft  pur  poy  tot  arfe  et  deftruyt  par  mef- 
chaunz  de  fodeine  fieu. 

Le  ix.  ane  de  foun  regne  Thomas  Beket  foun  chaunceler  fuft  eilieu 
erceuefqe  de  Cantorbirs  et  facre  le  iour  faint  Barnabe  le  apoftle.  Et 
meifme  eel  ane  nafqy  Elianor  la  feile  le  roi. 

Le  x.  ane  de  foun  regne  le  bon  roy  faint  Edward  fuft  tranflate  a 
Weftmoufter  oue  grant  folempnite. 

Le  xj.  ane  de  foun  regne  il  teint  foun  parlement  a  Norhamptoun,  et 
de  illoeqe  fenfuy  lerceuefque  Thomas  tout  de  nuyt  pur  le  grant  difcorde 
qeftoit  pareutre  le  roy  et  ly,  qar  fil  uft  efte  troue  lendemayn  gentz  del 
hoftel  le  roy  ly  huflent  occis.  Et  fen  ala  en  tapinage  od  iij.  compaign- 
ouns  foulement  tout  a  pee  pur  aler  plus  priuement  qil  ne  full  aperceus, 
et  fen  ala  outre  mere  al  apoftoil  de  Rome. 

Le  xij.  an  de  foun  regne  nafqy  Johan  fa  feile. 

Le  xiij.  ane  de  foun  regne  moruft  Maude  lemperice  fa  mere.  Et 
meifme  eel  ane  nafqy  Johan  foun  fitz. 

Le  xiiij.  ane  de  foun  regne  le  duk  Henry  de  Saxfoyne  efpofa  Maude 
fa  feile,  et  engendra  de  ly  iij.  fitz,  Henry,  Othes,  et  Willam. 

Le  xv.  ane  de  foun  regne  moruft  luy  bon  Robert  count  de  Laiceftre, 
qy  founda  labbey  de  Gerendoun,  et  labbey  de  Layceftre,  et  la  mefoun 
de  noneyns  a  Etoun.  Et  meifme  eel  ane  Almarich  roy  de  Jerufalem 
conqift  Babiloyn. 

Le  xvj.  ane  de  foun  regne  il  fill  coroner  Henry  foun  fitz  a  Weftmouftre 
de  Roger  lerceufqe  Deuerwik  en  preiudice  de  la  dignite  del  eglis  de 
Cantorbirs,  pur  quoy  lerceufque  Roger  eftoit  efcomenge  del  apoftoil. 
Et  la  caufe  pur  quoy  cefti  roy  Henry  fill  encoroner  en  fa  vie  foun  eyne 


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fitz  Henry  fufl  pur  ceo,  qil  voroit  qe  foun  fitz  preifl  tiels  cufloms  qe 
meifmes  pooit  amendre  fi  autres  fuflent  qe  bons,  et  qe  il  veift  qil  hull  la 
atournement  de  barouns  pur  doute  de  clayme  qe  afcun  du  fank  le  roy 
Elleuen  qi  par  auenture  purroint  debatre  en  nouel  tempz  du  chaunge- 
mentz  dez  roys,  pur  ceo  voloit  il  qe  foun  fitz  pud  en  fa  vie  plener  pofl'ef- 
fioun  del  homage  dez  barouns  taunt  doutoit  chaungement  et  variatioun 
foi.  157.  b.  dez  corages  dez  comuns  par  enfaumple  dez  ploufours  lour  cufloms;  et 
auxi  pur  ceo  qil  amaft  molt  fa  demure  en  Normendy  et  en  Aungeovv 
commill  il  la  gouernail  Dengleter  a  foun  fitz  a  iullicer  le  poeple,  qe 
diuers  lez  tenoit  de  maner  iffi  qil  pooit  auoir  fa  counuerfacioun  en  tran- 
quillite.  Ou  meuz  voufifl  hors  de  curiofete  et  occupatioun  de  chos  qe 
ly  nuyoill,  iffi  qe  foun  fitz  hud  le  trauail  et  le  cure  et  il  meifmes  le  profit. 
Mais  enfy  ne  aueint  y  my,  qar  del  hour  qe  foun  fitz  full  corone  neftoit 
vnqes  bon  vie  entre  le  pier  et  le  fitz,  qil  nauoit  fors  le  noun  one  le  trauail, 
et  le  pier  le  profit  et  lez  comaundements  ou  lexecutioun  real.  En  le 
temps  cefli  roy  Henry  fitz  lemperice  comenfa  lordre  dez  Ofpitulers  et 
de  Templers  dauoir  pofleffiouns  en  Engleter ;  queux  Templers  furount 
foundez  a  viure  fur  lez  remyfails  dez  Ofpitulers.  En  le  temps  cefli  roy 
Henry  fitz  lemperice  apparufl  nollre  Seignour  Jefu  Crifti  pendaunt  en 
la  croice  en  le  ayre,  quoi  full  vieu  a  Dunftable  de  moultz  de  gentz  de 
le  hour  de  tierce  tanqe  a  vefpre.  En  quel  temps  vn  grant  tempefl  de 
ayre  par  foudre  tua  plufours  belles  et  oyfeaux  et  homs  le  iour  de  la 
Magdeleyn. 

En  eel  temps  fill  le  roy  Henry  ferchere  le  corps  Arthur  et  le  troua  a 
Glallinbery  en  vn  farcu,  et  le  corps  Geynor  fa  compain,  par  enfeigne- 
ment  dun  miniflral  Bretoun  qi  difoit  qil  full  foue  plus  parfound  qe  lez 
autres  gentz  pur  doute  qe  lez  Saxfouns  ne  ly  trouaffent.  Et  ii  ell  dit 
qe  la  play  apparall  en  le  frount  deuaunt  dount  il  morufl.  II  lez  fid 
autre  part  en  leglis  feueiller  plus  noblement. 

II  enuoya  procheignement  apres  cela  fount  fitz  Johan  en  Irland,  qi 
illoeqes  fe  demena  cheualeroufement.  Cefli  roy  Henry  fe  gouerna  plus 
par  counfail  de  clerks  qe  de  chiualers,  qe  touz  iours  auoit  delee  ly  dieus 
euefqes  ou  troys.  Le  roy  Henry  le  pier  pafla  outre  en  Normendy  et 
marrya  Elianore  fa  feile  a  Alfouns  roy  Defpavne.     Et  le  vij.  ane  apres 


38  SCALACRONICA. 

qe  faint  Thomas  auoit  demure  outre  mere  en  exile  le  roy  de  France  ly 
acorda  au  roy  Henry,  et  donqes  retourna  il  en  Engleter  a  fa  eglis  de 
Cantorbirs  en  le  comencement  del  aduent,  et  puis  fuft  martirize  le  v. 
iour  de  Nowel,  com  apres  playnement  fera  recordez,  et  ceo  fuft  apres 
le  incarnatioun  noftre  Seignour  mil,  cent,  et  lxxj.  aunz.  Et  toft  apres 
Henry  le  nouel  roy  corone  prill  contek  et  guerre  encountre  foun  pier  et 
fez  freirs  enfement,  iffi  qi  a  vn  foitz  le  roy  de  France  et  touz  fez  fitz  et 
le  roy  Defcoce  et  touz  lez  plufours  dez  grantz  feignours  Dengleter  leue- 
rent  encontre  ly,  mais  au  darain  com  Dieu  le  voloit  il  venqy  touz  fez  fol.  158. 
enemys  et  auoit  la  vicloir  de  aux,  et  le  roy  de  France  et  ly  furount 
acordez  et  entrebeifez.  Donqes  maundaft  le  roy  Henry  efpecialement 
al  roy  et  ly  pria  pur  lamour  de  ly  qil  ly  maundaft  par  lettre  lez  nouns  de 
ceaux  par  qy  fa  gere  fuft  comence  et  mew,  et  le  roy  ly  remaunda  lez 
nouns  et  primes  noma  Johan  foun  fitz,et  puis  Richard,  et  foun  fitz  Henry 
le  corone.  Donqes  fuft  le  roy  dolent  et  nuyez  et  maudift  le  temps  qe 
vnqes  engendra  il  fitz.  Et  vnqor  eel  guere  duraunt  Henry  foun  fitz  le 
coroun  moruft  moult  repentaunt,  et  cria  foun  pier  merci  od  grant  contri- 
cioun  de  quer.  Le  pier  auoit  pite  de  ly  et  ly  pardonat,  com  apres  ferra 
rementoine.  En  temps  cefti  roy  Henry  fu  lu  grant  batail  en  la  tere  faint 
entre  lez  Crifliens  et  les  Sarazins,  mais  lez  Templers  et  lez  Ofpitulers 
et  touz  les  Criftiens  furount  occis,  et  ceo  fuft  par  le  treifoun  le  count  de 
Tripe  qi  voroit  auoir  hu  a  femme  la  royne  de  Jerufalem  qi  iadice  fuft 
femme  le  roy  Baudewyn,  mais  ele  ly  refufa  et  prift  vn  vaillaunt  cheualer 
a  feignour  qy  out  a  noun  Gy,  par  quoi  le  count  de  Tripe  fe  coroufa  et 
maintenaunt  ala  al  Soudan  et  deueint  foun  hom  iurez  et  reneya  le  loy 
Criftien  et  deueint  Sarazin,  et  lez  Criftienes  ne  aparfceurent  my  ne 
rien  ne  fauoint  de  cell  affaire  mais  quidoint  auoir  hu  grant  eide  de  ly 
ficom  deuaunt  foloint  auoir ;  et  qaunt  veint  a  la  batail  il  tourna  toute  de 
boute  encountre  lez  Criftiens.  Iffi  furount  lez  Criftienes  trayez  et  mys 
al  mort,  et  treftouz  lez  chaftels  de  la  tere  furount  pris  et  la  cite  de  Jeru- 
falem deftruyt.  Maulcoum  le  roy  Defcoce,  fitz  Henry  count  de  North- 
umbrelond,  fift  au  roy  Henry  fitz  lemperice  homage  a  Ceftre,  tot  au  tiel 
gife  com  le  roy  Dauid  foun  ayel  auoit  fait.  En  quel  temps  le  dit  roy 
Henry  fill  faire  le  chaftel  de  Werk ;  puis  com  le  dit  roy  pafla  outre  mere 


SCALACRONICA.  39 

pur  riote  qe  foun  fitz  Gaufray  auoit  moue,  Maucloun  le  roy  de  Efcoce 
paffa  od  ly,  ou  al  allege  de  Tolous  il  deueint  cheualer  dez  mains  le  roy 
Henry.  Au  venu  a  loftel  de  quel  Maucloun  vj.  de  fes  countis  Defeoce 
ly  voroint  auoir  furrecurry  en  la  ville  de  Perth,  pur  ceo  qe  taunt  eftoit 
enherdant  as  Engles,  mais  ils  faillerent  de  lour  emprife.  Cefti  Maun- 
cloun  guerroya  iij.  foitz  Galeway  en  graunt  oft,  qi  au  darayne  lez  venqy 
a  fa  fubieccioun.  Cefti  Maucloun  efpofa  fa  for  Margaret  a  Conan  count 
de  la  petit  Bretaigne  et  feig[n]ur  de  Richemound,  feille  de  qy  Gaufray 
fol.  158.  b.  le  fitz  cefti  roy  Henry  auoit  efpofe.  Mauncloun  dona  fa  autre  fore  a 
Adam  count  de  Warain,  pur  quoy  apres  Florens  foun  heir  chalanga  la 
fucceffioun  Defeoce  apres  la  mort  Alexandre,  pur  quoy  Johan  de  Baillofe 
ly  dona  graunt  fome  dargent  a  refigner  foun  droit.  En  le  temps  cefti 
Maucloun  furount  defleuerez  lez  euefqes  Defeoce  del  obedience  et 
meftirapolonite  del  erceuefque  Deuerwyk,  qi  vnqes  ne  obedierent  puis 
mil  fors  foulement  cely  de  Galeway. 

Meifme  le  temps  faynt  Thomas  de  Cantorbirs  fuft  exile,  qi  grant  re- 
pair- fift  a  Pountenay  a  grant  freife  del  abbey,  qi  au  departir  difoit  al  abbe 
qe  vn  uendroit  apres  li  qi  tout  aquitera,  quel  parole  fuft  pufcedy  fuppofe 
de  la  demore  qe  Edmound  erceuefqe  Cantorbirs  y  fift  en  le  temps  le 
tierce  Henry,  et  illoeqes  gift,  qeft  apelle  faint  Edmound  de  Pountenay. 

Manclom  le  roy  Defeoce  moruft  a  Jedworth  et  fuft  enterez  a  Dun- 
fermelyn;  Willam  foun  freir  regna  en  Efcoce  apres.  En  quel  temps  ap- 
parurent  ij.  eftoillis  cometis,  vn  deuers  le  folail,  le  autre  deuers  fepten- 
trioun.  Cefti  Willam  roy  Defeoce  enueint  a  Wyndefore  ou  foun  frer 
Dauid  count  de  Huntingdon,  qi  deueint  chiualer  de  maines  le  roy  Henry. 
En  meifne  le  temps  lez  cheualerous  grantz  feignours  Dengleter  con- 
quiftrent  Ireland  au  feignoury  Dengleter,  quoi  le  pape  Adrian  conferma, 
et  en  lieu  de  chartre  ly  enuoya  foun  anel;  auxy  eftably  la  reaule  de  lef- 
piritualte  al  vfage  Dengleter.  Thomas  de  Cantorbirs  full  martrize  en 
eel  temps,  et  nounpas  au  gree  le  roy,  mes  ia  le  mainz  grant  vengeaunce 
ly  enfuyt  procheignement,  qe  fez  fitz  propres  ly  guerroierent.  Lez  mi- 
niftres  le  roy  ly  vindrent  compleindre  qils  ne  purroient  faire  execucioun 
de  lour  office  a  fa  profite  pur  lerceuefque;  et  fi  nauoit  rien  fait  fors  qil 
lour  auoit  amonefte  a  furfeir  de  tortes  a  faint  eglis.    Le  rov  difoit  iroufe- 


40  SCALACRONICA. 

ment,  "  si  mez  gentz  vaillafcent  riens  ils  ne  me  foeffrent  auoir  teel  vileny 
dun  vilain  clerk."  Jones  chiualers  et  fauuages,  qy  entoure  ly  eftoient  al 
houre  ou  le  roy  eftoit  en  Normendy,  Willam  de  Tracy,  Hughe  de 
Moruill,  et  Randulf  fitz  Ourfe,  od  autres,  vindrent  outre  mere,  fez 
miftrent  a  Cantorbirs,  arefonerent  lerceuefque  defpitoufement  com  il 
feoit  a  manger,  qi  courtement  lour  refpoundy.  Le  tier  iour  de  Nouel  qi 
fen  alerent  en  la  vile  au  tauerne  fez  rementinoint  du  refpouns  lerceuefque, 
furent  fomoundre  lez  comuns  de  la  vile  pur  aler  oue  eaux  com  auoint 
commiflloun,  retouenerent  au  palais  de  ou  lerceuefqe  efloit  alez  al  eglis 
pur  doute  de  eaux.  Ils  li  fercherent  et  ly  trouerent  en  leglis,  facherent 
lour  efpeis,  ly  detrencherent  mort,  quoi  com  eft  dit,  neftoit  pas  lour  pur-  fol.  159. 
pos  mais  del  enticement  du  deable  pur  lour  encoumbreir,  et  com  Dieux 
le  voloit  a  ly  glorifier  de  martir  lour  fureueint  eel  penfe,  qi  toft  reconift- 
rent  lour  maufait.  Qi  fez  miftrent  en  exile  pur  dout  de  vengeaunce,  qe 
reconuftrent  lour  coup ;  qar,  com  tefmoignent  lez  cronicles,  del  hour  qils 
auoint.  tue  le  dit  faint  erceuefque  ils  deuindrent  h"  defcounfitz  qils  per- 
derent  tot  countenaunz,  ne  fefoient  nul  demore  en  la  cite  de  Cantorbirs, 
fez  treyerent  a  Storey,  vne  manoir  del  erceuefque  iouft  la  cite,  deuefterent 
lour  haubreiouns  fure  lez  tables  dormauntz  en  vn  chaumbre  du  dit  ma- 
noir, lez  queux  tablis  dormauntz  croulerent  et  tremblerent  a  la  gyfe  qe 
lez  haubreions  ne  purroient  sure  iefure,  mais  touz  iours  enietterent  a  tere, 
pur  quoi  ils  fez  mifterent  a  lour  penaunz. 

Procheinement  apres,  com  le  roy  Henry  full  en  Normendy  pur  la  guere 
de  Fraunce  et  de  fez  fitz,  Willam  roy  Defcoce,  entraft  Engleter  od  grantz 
soudiers  de  Flaundres,  gaigna  lez  chaftelis  de  Appilby  et  Burgh,  affift 
Cardoil,  lez  citizeines  ly  difoint  qils  ly  renderoint  la  vile  a  vn  certain  iour 
fi  ils  nuffent  refcous  par  batail.  De  ou  le  roy  Willam  fe  remua  au  chaftel 
de  Prodhow  qi  le  conquift,  fe  mift  a  Alnewyk  qi  le  affift.  Les  barouns 
du  counte  de  Euerwik,  qi  hount  auoint  qe  Is  Efcoces  fefoient  tiel  riote, 
fez  muftrent  a  Noefchaftell.  Robert  de  Stoteuill,  Randoulf  de  Graunt- 
vill,  Bernard  de  Baillof,  pur  quoy  Bernard  chaftel  port  le  noune,  Willam 
de  Vefcy,  oue  poy  de  gentz  a  regarde  trenuterent  sur  le  roy  Willam,  qi 
aflurez  ly  teint  de  touz  Engles  pur  labfens  du  roy,  qi  fez  gentz  auoit 
enuoye  a  forayer  le  pays.     Ceftez  gentz  cheierent  sur  luy  en  laube  du 


SCALACRONICA.  41 

iour  fi  efloit  bruyne,  qi  luy  priflrent,  detrencherent  et  defcoumfirent  lez 
autres,  qi  a  lour  venu  quiderent  qe  ceo  vft  eft  lour  gentz  propres.  La 
iourne  finy  en  Ian  de  grace  mil.  c.  78,  3  ide  de  Juile,  lez  ditz  seignurs 
fez  remiftrent  meifme  la  nuit  a  Noefchaftel,  amenerent  le  roy  Willam  a 
Loundres  au  roy  Henry  qi  reuenuz  eftoit  de  Normendy,  qi  procheign- 
ment  retourna  et  reamena  od  ly  le  roy  Willam  Defcoce,  ly  fift  metre  en 
prifoun  a  Roen;  et  auxi  le  count  de  Laiceftre  et  autres,  qi  le  roy  auoit 
fait  prendre  prifoners  pur  lour  trefpas.  En  quel  hour  fez  fitz  fez  mift- 
rent  en  fa  grace  fez  atournerent  a  ly  de  homage  pufque  fi  pres  fangui- 
nite  ne  pooit  valoir.  Le  count  de  Flaundres  fift  faire  reftitucioun  de  ceo 
qe  au  roy  full  fait  de  mal  de  fez  Flemyns.  Lez  prelates  et  lez  vns  dez 
seignours  Defcoce,  et  nomement  les  euefqes  de  faint  Andrew  et  de  Dun- 
fol.  159.  b.  keldin,  pafTerent  la  mere  en  Normendy,  treiterent  pur  la  deliueraunce  du 
roy,  acorderent  od  le  roy  Henry  qi  procheignement  reueint  en  Engleterre; 
ou  a  Euerwik  le  roy  Willam  full  deliuers  pur  raunfoun  de  xl.  mille  liuers, 
ou  il  fift  homage  au  roy  Henry;  et  fi  reioierent  lez  prelates  et  countes 
Defcoce  par  lour  lettres  la  fouerayn  seignoury  Defcoce  au  roys  Dengle- 
terre,  qoi  full  conferme  par  lez  bulles  le  pape  Gregoire,  pur  quoi  lez 
autres  qy  y  neftoint  my  fez  defagreeroint  lez  queux  nelloint  pas  penibles  au 
deliueraunce  de  lour  roy.  Pur  quoi  il  enprift  od  ly  en  Efcoce  plufours 
dez  fitz  pufnes  dez  feygnours  Dengleterre  qi  ly  eftoient  beinuoillauntz, 
et  lour  dona  lez  terres  dez  autres  qy  ly  eftoient  rebelis.  Si  eftoint  ceaux 
dez  Baillolfs,  de  Bruys,  de  Soulis,  et  de  Mowbray,  et  les  Saynclers;  lez 
Hayes,  lez  Giffardis,  lez  Ramesays,  et  Laundels;  lez  Bifeys,  les  Berkleys, 
lez  Walenges,  lez  Boyfis,  lez  Mountgomeris;  lez  Vaus,  lez  Coleuyles, 
lez  Fryfers,  lez  Grames,  lez  Gourlays,  et  plufours  autres;  au  quel  venu  en 
Efcoce  le  roy  Willam  fift  founder  le  abbay  de  Abirbrothocke,  en  le  honour 
de  saint  Thomas  de  Cantorbirs.  Cefti  Willam  dona  en  oftage  plufours 
grauntz  feignours  Defcoce,  countis,  barouns;  et  lez  chafteaux  de  Edyn- 
burgh,  de  Roxburgh,  et  de  Berewik,  au  roy  Henry,  qi  puis  bailla  aii  dit 
roi  Willam  le  chattel  de  Edinburh  oue  fa  coufine  Hermeger  en  efpouf, 
quel  royine  foundaft  labbay  de  Balmorinagh.  Ly  quel  roy  Willam  veint  a 
le  parlement  a  Northamton,  et  puis  enueint  au  roy  en  Normendy. 

F 


42  SCALACRONICA. 

Le  roy  Henry  pafia  en  Normendy,  foun  fitz  Henry  recomenfa  a  rebeller 
encountre  foun  pier,  qi  procheinement  fe  lefTa  morir,  qe  au  departir  du 
fiecle  auoit  confcience  de  fa  mal  port  deuers  foun  pier,  si  comaunda  qe 
hom  aportaft  foun  corps  a  foun  pier,  et  qil  ne  enfuft  entere  deuaunt  qil 
vit  pardoun  du  roy  foun  pier.  Quele  comaundement  acomply,  le  roi  trill 
du  mort  foun  fitz  pitoufment  ly  fid  aflbudre  et  ly  fill  entereir  a  Rohan. 

Meifme  le  temps  uindrent  nouele  du  perde  de  la  Surry  et  de  Jerufalem 
et  de  la  deftruccioun  dez  Criftienes,  pur  quels  nouels  par  mocioun  de 
faint  pere  lez  roys  de  France  et  Dengleter  furount  autre  foitz  peifez,  et 
refcieurent  touz  dieus  la  croice  pur  aler  la  faintifrae  veage,  et  iurrez  au- 
trefy  a  lour  acorde  pres  de  Gifors;  Richard  fitz  le  roy  Henry  prill  al  houre 
le  croice  au  dit  veage.  Le  roy  fen  pafla  en  Engleter,  ou  procheignement 
debate  refourdy  entre  lez  ij.  roys  par  mocioun  des  fitz  le  roy  Engles,  et 
nomement  par  Johan  qil  plus  amaft,  purquoi  le  veage  nenprift  point  al 
hour,  le  maner  pur  quoi  eft  rementoyne  apres.  Cefti  roy  et  fez  enfauntz 
furont  de  meruaillous  condiciouns  qe  chefcun  abbetoit  corouz  as  autres; 
en  le  Policronicon  eft  affigne  la  cause  de  lour  deuerfete,  en  quoy  eft  dit 
qe  vn  dez  proails  Gaufrid  Plauntegeneth,  count  de  Aungeow,  pier  cefti 
roy  Henry,  encountraft  vn  bele  mefchene  com  aloit  chacer,  fi  la  prill  et 
la  efpofa  foulement  pur  fa  beaute,  fi  ne  fauoit  nuly  de  ou  el  eftoit  extreit. 
Ele  ne  venoit  my  volountiers  as  eglis,  et  qaunt  ele  y  veint  ele  ne  voroit 
demoreir  tanque  au  leuacioun,  de  quoi  le  count  et  lez  chevaleres  priftrent 
malencoly,  et  la  retindrent  vn  iour  par  le  mauntele  de  ermyn.  Ele  auoit 
iiij.  fitz,  lez  ij.  eftoient  ouefque  ley  dedenz  le  mauntel  au  may[n]  deiftre 
lez  autres  au  mayn  seneftre,  et  au  point  qe  le  preftre  leua  le  corps  Iefu 
Crift  ele  leffat  le  mauntel  et  enuola  par  les  feneftres,  et  amena  od  ly  ij. 
de  fez  fitz  et  enlefia  autree  ij,  de  queix  eftoit  extreit  le  dit  count  Gaufrid. 
Pur  quoy  faint  Bernard,  com  full  enfaunt  en  la  court  le  roy  de  France,  pro- 
phetiza  de  cefti  roy  Henry,  qi  dyfoit  qe  de  mal  arbre  mal  frut.  Auxi  en 
meifme  lez  cronicles  eft  fuppofe  qe  viuaunt  lemperour  Henry,  marry  cell 
emperice,  la  mere  cell  roy  Henry  eftoit  efpofe  a  cefti  Gaufrid  Plaunte- 
geneth foun  pier,  qe  tot  enueint  ele  de  Allemayne  ou  el  full  vergoyne, 
difaunt  foun  marry  eftre  mort. 


SCALACUONICA.  43 

Lez  entrepretours  tefmoignent  qe  lemperour  Henry  gerpifl  foun  empire 
de  gree  et  fe  mift  en  hermitage,  en  penaunce  de  fez  tyrannys  qil  auoit 
fait  a  foun  pier  charnel  et  au  pape  Pafclial.  Autres  ij.  eaufes  fount  af- 
fignez  a  fez  fitz  depar  lour  mere,  vn  qel  eftoit  efpofe  a  cefli  Henry  en- 
countre  defens  de  foun  pier  par  ioust  caufe,  vn  autre  qe  le  pier  cefti 
Elianour  quy  fuft  duk  de  Gyene  rauift  la  femme  dun  vifcount  de  fon  pays 
et  la  efpofa,  pur  quoy  fuft  dit  dun  faint  horn  qe  ia  de  eaux  nauendroit 
bon  iffu.  Cedes  eaufes  furount  conuz  au  pier  et  as  fitz,  com  bien  eft 
proue  par  Gaufrid  count  de  la  Petit  Bretaign,  fitz  cefti  Henry,  qi  moue 
eftoit  de  guere  encountre  foun  pier,  qi  difoit  au  meffager  soun  pier  qi  ly 
venoit.  parler  de  peife,  "  Quidez  tu  de  nous  ofter  noftre  nature,  qe  propre 
nous  eft  a  chefcun  mal  uoloir  a  autre?"  Meifme  ceo  reconuft  le  pier 
Henry  qi  fill  paynter  vn  egle  en  fa  cliambre  a  Wynceftre  od  x.  ioens 
eglenceaux,  dez  queux  trois  enracerent  od  lour  vngles  lez  oyles  lour  mere, 
pur  qoy  le  dit  roy  difoit,  "  enfi  fount  mez  fitz  ouefqe  moy,  et  nomement 
cely  Johan  qi  plus  amoy  le." 
fol.  160.  b.  II  en  troue  en  lez  cronicles  qe  com  cefti  roy  Henry  enueint  vn  foitz  de 
Ireland,  ou  il  auoit  fes  loys  eftably,  com  il  uoloit  auoir  mounte  foun 
palefrais  en  le  chaftel  de  Cardif,  luy  venoit  vn  auncien  horn  chanu  od 
blankes  dras,  lez  peez  nuys,  nouncier  depar  faynt  Johan  le  baptiste  et 
depar  faynt  Pere,  en  lang  Ties,  qil  amendaft  fa  vie,  et  qil  defendaft  en  foun 
realme  marchies  le  iour  de  dimange  fors  des  chofes  touchauntz  mangers 
et  boyres.  Le  roy  difoit  a  vn  de  fez  chiualers  en  Fraunceys,  "  demaun- 
dez  le  vileyn  fil  le  foungea,  ou  noun."  Le  prudhom  ly  refpoundy,  "  fi 
ieo  le  foungeay  ou  nemy,  fi  tu  cell  chos  ne  faces,  tu  nouels  deuaunt  liffu 
del  ane  oyrez  de  queux  tout  ta  vie  aueras  perfecucioun."  Autre  foitz 
fuft  il  garny  par  vn  Irroys  damendre  fa  vie  par  fi  priuez  enfeigns  qe  nul 
ne  conifoit  qe  ly  meifmes.  La  tierce  foitz  fuft  garny  par  vn  chiualer,  qi 
out  a  noune  Philip  de  Eftderby,  ly  venoit  fomoundre  de  foy  amendre  de 
7  articles,  qe  fi  ceo  fefoit  qil  viueroift  vij.  aunz  honourablement,  et  qil 
gaigneroit  la  faint  croice  Jefu  Crist  hors  dez  mains  dez  mefcreauntz,  et 
fi  noun  qe  dedenz  le  7  ane  murreroit  cheitiuoufement.  II  ne  fift  rien,  ne 
ne  tient  rien  a  quoi  il  fuft  iurrez  a  foun  encorounement,  pur  quel  garnife- 
ment  il  ala  pelerinage  nuys  peez  au  toumbe  faynt  Thomas  de  Cantorbirs. 


44  SCALACRONICA. 

Richaurd  priour  de  Douir  fuft  eflieu  erceuefque  de  Cantorbirs,  qi  ne 

fuft  pas  dignes,  par  maundement  cefli  roy  Henry,  pur  quoy  bon  pece 

apres  noflre  Seignour  apparufl  en  auifioun  au  dit  erceuefque,  qi  li  difoit 

qil  auoit  degafle  fez  biens  de  faint  eglis,  pur  quoy  il  ly  deftruyeroit,  pur 

quoi  il  moruft  fodeignement.    Cefti  roy  Henry  perdy  Aluern,  et  lez  cites 

qen  Latin  fount  ditz  Beturicha,  Cenomenia,  et  Turonen  en  peife  fefant. 

Le  dit  roy  Henry  auoit  en  garde  le  feille  le  roy  Lowys  de  France  par 

tretice  qil  la  maryaft  a  Richard  foun  fitz,  count  de  Peitow,  mais  il  la 

conyfoit  meifmes  et  la  teint  pur  fa  amy  del  hour  qe  Rofamond  la  bele 

mefchene  de  Clifforde  efloit  pufoune  par  la  royne,  com  fuft  dit ;  la  quel 

Rofamound  le  dit  roy  teint  fycher  a  Wodftok,  com  eft  recorde,  la  quel 

gift  a  Goddeftow  enterrez.    Richard  le  fitz  le  dit  roy  refufa  le  dit  mariage 

del  hour  qil  aperfcieu  la  maner,  qunqes  apres  neftoit  bon  acorde  entre 

le  pier  et  le  fitz.     Le  dit  roi  Henry  enuoya  au  court  de  Rome  pur  deuors 

entre  ly  et  la  royne  Elianor,  qil  pooit  efpofer  la  dit  feile  le  roy  de  Fraunce, 

dauoir  defherite  fez  fitz,  mais  ne  pooit  purchacer  difpenfacioun.     En 

quel  houre  le  roy  Defcoce,  et  le  count  de  Ceftre,  et  le  count  de  Layceftre, 

et  plufours  autres,  leuerent  encountre  cefti  roy  Henry,  plufours  dez  queux     fol.  161. 

murrerent  procheignement. 

Lan  del  incarnacioun  Jesu  Crift  mile,  cent,  qatre  vintz  et  vij,  et  en 
meifme  le  temps  cefti  roy  Henry  fitz  lemperiz,  Saladyn  soudan  de  Damas 
auoit  conquis  plufours  reaulmes  Sarazins  en  parties  del  orient,  si  enprift 
purpos  a  deftruyr  treftouz  lez  Criftiens  de  la  tere  faint,  de  Egypt  et  de 
Surry,  et  auxi  treftoz  les  autres  reaumes  qen  Jhefu  treerent,  au  fyn  qe 
par  vfurpacioun  et  pruefce  de  fa  perfoune  fe  pooit  eftille  nomer  roi  dez 
roys  et  seignour  dez  sires.  Et  fi  paffa  le  Hum  Jordan,  et  la  terre  de 
promiffioun  gafta,  et  quanqe  il  troua  countreefteaunt  sa  volounte  fift 
deftruyere  et  mettre  en  flaumbe ;  le  meiftre  du  temple  de  Jerufalem  et 
lx.  freirs  ou  grant  fuyfoun  des  Criftiens,  qi  ly  encountrerent  a  defendre 
loys,  fift  tuer.  Le  roy  Gy  de  Jerufalem,  qi  oift  les  deftrucciouns  qe 
Saladin  auoit  feft  au  poeple  Dieux,  affemblaft  graunt  poair,  et  fi  entre- 
combaterent  en  plaine  chaump.  Lez  Criftiens  eftoint  defcoumfitz,  et  le 
roy  Gy  pris  oue  la  faint  croice  par  lez  Sarazins.  Le  dit  meiftre  du 
temple  fut  tuez  od  cc.  et  xxx.  freirs,  et  vint  mile  de  gentz  darmes,  oue 


SCALACRONICA.  45 

grant  noumbre  dez  comuns.  Apres  ceo  Saladyn  paffaft  a  la  cite  de 
Acres  la  quel  ly  eftoit  renduz,  et  de  illoeqes  paffa  deuers  Jerufalem, 
gaftaunt  le  pays,  et  fi  affegea  la  vile  et  la  gaigna,"et  xiiij.  mille  des  horns 
et  femmes,  qi  ne  point  payer  la  truage  qi  sure  eaux  full  mys,  fill  lier  et 
mettre  en  perpetuel  seruitude ;  et  tiels  mefchiefs  et  plufours  autres,  com 
lez  liuers  de  cronicles  tefmoignent,  fill  Saladyn  au  poeple  Dieux.  Les 
nouels  dez  oppreffiouns  et  agreuaunces  qe  Saladyn  auoit  fait  vindrent  a 
lapoftoill,  sur  queux,  par  mediacioun  Dieu,  iour  eftoit  pris  par  entre 
Phelip  roy  de  Fraunce  et  Henry  roy  Dengleter  pur  finer  la  quere  qi 
taunt  auoit  dure  entre  eaux,  dount  touz  les  Criftiens  eftoint  muez.  Et 
pur  le  faintifme  veage  enprendre  a  deliuerer  la  faint  croice  et  le  faint 
sepulcre  Jhefu  dez  mains  de  mefcreaunz,  et  a  reuenger  lez  chetiuetez 
dez  Criftiens,  lez  ditz  ij.  roys  vindrent  as  chaumps  entre  Trie  et  Gifors, 
et  treterent  et  acorderent  finalement  de  toutez  debates,  et  fez  entrecroif- 
erent  au  dit  veage.  Et  Richard,  count  de  Aungeou,  fitz  au  roy  Henry, 
enfemblement  od  euefqes,  dukes,  countis  et  barouns,  et  plufours  de 
seignours  et  chiualeris,  et  plufours  autres  gentz  a  grant  fuyfoun,  fez 
croiferent  vers  Jerufalem,  et  apres  certayn  iour  mys  et  affigne  pare  fere- 
ment  et  mys  en  efcript  foutz  lez  feals  dez  roys  et  de  autres  seignours, 
fol.  161.  b.  chefcun  fe  retourna  en  foun  pays  ioyaunt,  et  fe  dreffa  chefcun  encountre 
le  dit  paffage.  Mais  cil  qi  tot  ad  a  iufticer  ne  voloit  fuffreir  le  dit  Henry 
perfournyre  qil  auoit  enpris,  et  ne  pur  qant  apres  le  limitacioun  du  dit 
veage  paffe  veint  Heraclius,  patriarch  de  Jerufalem,  au  roy  Henry, 
portaunt  lettres  de  touz  lez  Criftiens  orientalis  demaundaunt  eide  vers 
lez  pagenes,  qi  taunt  de  defpit  fefoient  a  notre  Seignour,  et  fi  porta  pur 
enfeigne  lez  clefs  de  la  cite  de  Jerufalem  et  du  faint  sepulcre,  enfemble- 
ment od  le  baner  royal  et  lez  lettres  Lucy  lapoftoil,  queux  il  porta, 
fefaunt  mencioun  du  ferment  qil  auoit  fait  a  parfomir  le  dit  veage, 
amoneftaunt  foun  ferement  tenir.  A  qy  le  roy  refpoundy,  qe  fez  terres 
faunz  sure  garde  ne  purroit  leffer,  ne  countre  la  malice  dez  Franceys  ne 
fe  fauoift  ordeigner  fil  ferroint  en  eftraunge  terre,  mais  a  ceaux  qi  vou- 
drent  eel  ueage  enprendre,  grant  partye  de  foun  auoir  largement  durroit ; 
fure  quoy  le  dit  patriarch  difoit  qe  fuccours  de  gentz  queroit  et  nounpas 
dauoir,  et  nomement  roy  ou  autre  graunt  seignour  qi  Criftiens  defyrauntz 


46  SCALACRONICA. 

eel  veage  poat  raener  et  iufticer;  fi  fen  departy  tout  de-lent  et  irrez, 
qeraunt  fuccours  aliours  com  cely  qi  defefperez  eiloit,  et  outriement  foun 
purpos  auoit  failly.  Le  roy  Henry  conuia  le  dit  patriarch  tanque  a  Can- 
torbirs,  en  efpoir  qe  par  blaunches  parolis  le  dit  patriarch  ly  aueroit  ex- 
cufe,  qi  au  departir  ly  difoit  qe  fez  fitz  fez  contenoint  a  ly  gyfe  encountre  ly 
qe  bouger  ne  cyfoit  hors  de  foun  realme.  "  Voir,"  fefoit  ly  patriarc,  "  de 
mal  pier,  mal  fitz ;  ceo  eft  droit  qe  du  deable  vindrent,  et  au  deable  fen 
irrount."  "  Coment !"  fefoit  ly  roy,  "  es  tu  fi  hardy  a  parler  enfi  a  moy 
en  ma  terre  ?" — "  Si  fu  ieo  afleitz  hardy,"  fefoit  il,  "  a  refceyuer  pur 
cely  qi  ieo  serue  ceo  qe  aueiz  fait  faire  a  Thomas  de  Cantorbirs,  et  fi 
ayme  ieo  taunt  a  morir  de  tez  mayns  com  dez  Sarazins;  veiez  moy  cy 
preft  a  fuffrir  martir ;"  fi  boutalt  auaunt  fa  teft.  Le  roy  fen  departift  qi 
plus  ne  enteint  refoun.  II  enuoya  ail  court  de  Rome  dauoir  efte  afibus 
du  vow  a  la  terre  faint,  mes  ne  la  poait  purchacer  pur  premefle  qil  fefoit 
a  foundere  mefouns  de  religioun. 

Le  dit  roy  Henry  del  hour  qe  foun  fitz  Richard  auoit  refufe  le  mariage 
de  la  feil  le  roy  de  France,  la  quel  il  auoit  en  garde,  enuoya  fez  lettres 
a  Phelip  le  roy  de  France  pier  la  damoyfel,  fi  la  demaunda  al  ops  foun 
fitz  Johan,  et  il  lez  doeroit  lez  countes  de  Peytow  et  de  Aungeow,  de 
quoy  le  dit  roy  de  Fraunce  auoit  defpite,  enuoya  meifmes  lez  lettres  a 
Richard  le  fitz  le  dit  roy  Henry  Dengleter,  fours  de  mortel  heyn  entre  le 
pier  et  le  fitz,  qe  touz  iours  mes  dura.  La  gere  recomenfa  entre  le  dit 
roy  et  le  roy  Phelip  de  France;  le  roy  Henry  pafla  en  Normendy  ou  il 
degafta  le  trefor  coillez  au  feintifme  veage.  Le  dit  roy  Henry  fe  herbifa 
en  vn  cite  qen  Latin  eft  dit  Senomannica,  on  par  couyn  le  roy  de  France 
et  de  Richard  le  fitz  le  dit  roy  Henry,  feu  eftoit  einz  bote  en  le  fuburb 
de  la  cite  de  quoi  tout  la  cite  ardoit,  pur  quoi  le  dit  roy  Henry  couenoit 
remuer,  qi  a  foun  departir  difoit,  "  Tu  Dieu,  qi  mauez  tollu  la  cite  qe 
ieo  plus  amoy,  ieo  te  toudray  chos  en  moy  qe  plus  amez." 

Le  dit  roy  Henry  deueint  feuerous  et  moruft  apres  ceo  qil  auoit  regne 
xxxv.  aims,  x.  moys,  et  iiij.  iours,  et  gift  a  Pountheurard.  Lez  cronicles 
deuifent  qen  foun  moriaunt  lez  gentz  entour  ly  enprift  chefcun  lour  part 
de  tapitez,  qi  despeintez  et  fuerez,  fi  lefierent  soun  corps  nue  tanqe  vn 
juuencel  de  maindre  eftature  de  ly  ly  couerift  de  foun  mauntele,  mais  fez 


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peez  neftoint  pas  couertz,  et  adonqes  auoit  il  a  droit  foun  surenoun,  Henry 
od  le  court  mauntel,  qi  primes  lez  aporta  de  Aungeou.  II  eft  auxi  re- 
corde  de  ly,  qe  com  Richard  foun  fitz  venoit  viliter  foun  corps,  tout  le 
temps  qe  le  fitz  eftoit  en  la  mefoun  le  neife  du  pier  seignoift.  Meifme 
le  hour  lez  peflbuns  dun  grant  lay  en  Normendy  liferent  du  lac  par  nuyte 
au  terre  fek  od  tiel  noys  qe  touz  lez  veifines  enveillerent,  fez  alerent  veoir 
le  meruail.  Cefti  roy  Henry  fitz  lemperice  fuft  le  plus  grunt  sires  de  pof- 
feffioun  de  teres  qe  deuaunt  ly  neftoit  nuls  roys  Engles. 

En  foun  temps  eftoit  Adrian  le  4.  pape  apres  Anaftas  4  aunz;  il  eftoit 
Engles  et  naif  labbe  de  faint  Alban,  pur  quoy  fuft  illoeqes  refufe  a  eftre 
moigne,  pafla  la  mere,  deueint  euefqe  Alban,  il  conuertift  la  prouince  de 
Womacian,  puis  deueint  pape.  Entredift  la  cite  de  Rome  pur  le  nawerer 
de  vn  de  fez  cardinals.  II  conftreint  le  roy  Ficulorum  par  fentence  a 
fubieccioun.  II  eftoit  le  primer  pape  qi  comenfa  le  primer  demure  du 
pape  et  de  cardinaux  en  la  veutz  cite  de  Rome;  il  grante  plufours  priui- 
lages  al  abbey  de  faint  Alban. 

Fredrik  le  2.  fuft  emperour  de  Rome  sure  lez  Allemauns  37  aunz,  qi 
mainteint  encountre  le  pape  Alexandre  le  fifmatici,  encbafa  le  pape  en 
France  par  eyde  dez  Danoys  et  de  Babaynouns,  mais  par  le  roy  Fraun- 
ceys  et  leide  du  roy  Henry  Dengleter  fuft  rebote;  puis  fuft  acorde  od  le 
dit  pape,  emprift  le  faintifme  veage  deuers  la  terre  faint  par  Conftantin- 
noble,  il  noya  en  la  goule  de  Sathany  com  fe  uoroit  auoir  bayne,  et  folonc 
lez  autres  chey  de  foun  cheual  en  leau,  et  fuft  enterez  a  Tyre.  Soun 
fitz  teint  auaunt  le  veage  qi  au  fege  de  Aeon  moruft  com  venoit  de 
Acres  de  le  roy  Phelip  de  France  et  du  roy  Richard  Dengleter.  Soun 
freir  pufne  Henry  fitz  Frederik  regne  emperour  8  aunz,  qi  foutzmift  a  fa 
seignoury  Puyle  et  Cefile.  II  auoit  en  fa  prifoun  le  roy  Rechard  par 
liuere  le  duke  de  Oftris.  En  quel  temps  labbe  Joachim  difoit  qe  le  hour 
neftoit  pas  uenuz  du  recouerer  de  la  tere  de  promiffioun. 

Alexandre  le  3.  fuft  pape  apres  Adrian  22  aunz,  qi  furmountoift  la 
fcifmatici  maintenuz  par  Fredrik,  qi  Fredrik  fefoit  grant  honour  a  Thomas 
de  Cantorbirs  en  foun  exile.  En  le  temps  cefti  Ale[xa]nder  le  pape  furount 
lez  trois  roys  orientalis  emporte  de  Melan  a  Coloigne,  lez  queux  furount 
primerment  emportez  de  Perse  en  Conftantinnoble,  et  de  illoeqes  a  Me- 


48  SCALACRONICA. 

Ian  par  le  pape  Sergius,  qi  la  eftoient  tanqe  la  cite  eftoit  deftruyt  par 
Fredrik. 

Lvcius  le  3.  full  pape  apres  Alexandre  4  aunz  et  3  moys,  apres  qi 
Alexander  Vrban  le  3.  full  pape  vn  pece,  et  moruft  de  doel  del  houre 
qil  auoit  nouelis  qe  lez  Sarazins  auoint  pris  la  cite  de  Jerufalem.  Apres 
qi  Vrban  Gregoir  le  8.  fuft  pape  4  moys;  cefti  mouoit  par  fez  lettres 
plufours  roys  Criftiens  de  diuers  naciouns  en  eide  de  la  tere  de  promiffioun. 
Apres  qi  Gregoir  Clement  le  3  fuft  pape  3  aunz.  Apres  qi  Celeftin  le 
3.  fuft  pape  6  aunz  et  8  moys,  qi  le  fecound  iour  de  fa  confecracioun  co- 
rona Henry  le  5,  fitz  Frederik,  en  emperour,  qi  prift  ferement  de  ly  qil 
mainteindroit  et  reftoraft  le  patronage  faint  Pier.  Le  dit  pape  feaunt 
en  fa  chaier  teint  la  coroune  del  emperour  entre  fez  dieus  peis,  et  enfi  la 
mill  sure  la  teft  du  dit  emperour  qi  enclinez  deuaunt  ly  eftoit,  et  com 
lauoit  mys  la  ferift  del  vn  pee  a  la  tere,  en  fignifiaunce  qil  eftoit  de  poair 
a  faire  lez  emperours  et  de  lez  defaire  qant  ferrount  noun  dignez.  Lez 
cardinalis  fufpriftrent  la  coroune  et  la  miftrent  sure  la  tell  lemperour. 

Richard  le  fitz  Henry  fitz  lemperice,  roy  de  Engleter,  fuft  corone  a 
Weftmoufter  de  Baudewyn  ercheuefque  de  Cantorbirs,  le  tierz  calendis 
de  Septembre,  lane  del  incarnacioun,  mil,  c.  iiijxx  et  x.  Et  fi  eftoit  la 
folempnete  fi  grant  qe  fi  lem  deuifat  horn  le  tendroit  a  meruail.  II  fift 
deliuereir  touz  lez  prifoners  de  tout  le  realme  de  fa  grace  general,  et  en 
folempnite  de  foun  nouel  regne,  ou  le  roy  Willam  Defcoce  eftoit  prefent,  fol.  163. 
et  ou  il  fefoit  au  roy  Richard  homage.  A  quel  encoronement  eftoit  grant 
occifioun  de  Juys,  com  uoloint  auoir  entree  le  palays  le  roy  entre  lez 
Criftiens.  II  donoit  a  Johan  foun  freir  Cornewaille  et  Deuenfchir,  et 
plufours  autres  countreis.  Cefti  roy  Richard  regna  noblement,  qi  prus 
eftoit  en  armes  et  droiturel  iuge,  pur  quoy  doutes  eftoit  de  fez  veifynes, 
qi  bien  fe  auoit  proue  encountre  lez  Fraunceis  tancom  il  eftoit  count 
Daungeowe.  II  fe  remembra  du  vieu  a  la  tere  faint,  fe  peifa  od  le  roi 
Phelip  de  Fraunce,  com  apres  ferra  dit,  a  quoi  il  purchafa  par  toutez 
voyes  le  trefor  qil  pooit.  II  vendift  au  roy  Willam  Defcoce  lez  chaftelis 
de  Berewik  et  de  Roxburghe,  qe  oftages  eftoint  a  foun  pier,  od  le  aryuail 
del  eaw  de  Twede.     II  vendift  a  Hugh  Pifas,  euefqe  de  Dorefme,  lez 


SCALACRONICA.  49 

countees  de  Northumbreland  et  de  Sadbyres,  pur  quoi  il  difoit  en  bour- 
daunt  qil  auoit  dun  veutz  euefqe  fait  vn  iouen  count.  II  auoit  difpen- 
facioun  de  la  court  de  Rome  a  releffer  lez  vows  a  la  terre  feint  a  ceaux 
qe  ly  fembloit,  de  quoy  il  acquift  grant  trefor  dez  veutez  gentz,  dez 
maladez,  et  de  nonfuffifauntz.  II  vendit  boys  et  plufours  terres,  lez 
queux  il  reprifl  autre  foitz.  Hugh  Pifas,  euefque  de  Dorefme,  fe  teint  fi 
noble  qil  fifl  debrifer  lez  chartres  de  toz  fez  futzgis  et  lez  fift  reprendre 
lours  terres  de  foun  doune  par  fa  chartre  de  nouel ;  il  eftoit  chaunceler 
le  roy  mais  fu  ofte  au  paffage  le  roy  deuer  la  terre  faint,  et  Willam  euef- 
que de  Ely  fuft  eftably  chainceler  et  procuratour  le  roy  Richar,  fi  fuft 
legat  par  commiffioun  le  apoftoil,  qi  en  abfence  du  Toy  fift  grantz  oppref- 
fiouns  au  clergy,  as  seignours,  et  au  comune,  pur  quoy  ils  ly  heyerent 
mortelement.  II  atacha  Hugh  Pifas,  euefque  de  Dorefme,  noun  pas 
com  euefque  mais  com  chaunceler,  fi  ly  reteint  tancom  il  auoit  rendu  lez 
chaftels  le  roy.  Meifme  cefti  Willam  deftourba  la  facree  du  freir  le  roy 
qy  eftoit  eflieu  erceuefque  de  Euerwyk.  Meifme  cefti  Willam  le  chaun- 
celer, par  counfail  Hugh  euefque  de  Ceftre,  mouoit  querel  encountre 
lez  moignes  de  Couyntre,  lez  filt  ofter,  {[  en  lour  lieu  ordeigna  prouendres 
feculeris,  pur  quoi  lez  moignes  plederent  au  court  de  Rome  longment. 
Mais  deuaunt  lour  venu  la  court,  la  court  eftoit  enfourme  encountre  eaux 
par  le  dit  Hugh,  qils  ne  poaint  auoir  refoun.  Le  dit  Hugh  fe  leffa  morir 
qi  ne  fauoit  trouer  nully  qi  ly  fauoit  ioyndre  penance,  fi  ly  auigea  meifmes 
au  peyne  de  purgatori  tanque  au  iour  de  juys.  Vn  dez  ditz  moignes  de 
fol.  163.  b.  Couyntre  prefla  lez  portes  de  la  palaice  le  pape  fi  continuelment  matin 
et  foir  qe  le  pape  enprift  malencoly,  qi  ly  difoit,  "  Cheitif,  pur  quoy 
preffez  noz  portz  fi  affiduelment?" — "pur  ceo,  faint  pier,  qe  ieo  agait 
votre  mort,  qun  droiturel  par  auenture  vendra  apres  toy,  qi  nous  fera 
refoun."  Le  pape  auoit  concienz,  lour  filt  auoir  droiture.  Johan  le 
freir  le  roy  Richard  par  couyne  de  plufours  de  la  terre  enchafa  le  dit  Wil- 
lam leuefqe  de  Ely,  chaunceler,  qi  fen  fuyft  hors  Dengleter  en  draz  de 
femme. 

En  quel  temps  eftoit  vieu  a  Dunftable  vn  baner  en  leyre  depeynte  du 
crucifix,  ou  toft  apres  full  vieu  le  crucifix  defcender  du  baner  vn  grant 
efpace.     En  quel  temps  lez  Juys  furount  robbez  et  affegez  en  plufours 

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50  SCALACRONICA. 

liens  Dengleter;  Rabby  le  meiftre  dez  Juys  Deuerwic  detrencha  fez  veyns 
propres,  et  dez  autres  fez  veifyns,  et  la  gorge  fa  femme,  qe  lez  Crifliens 
ne  lez  tuaffent. 

Puis  le  roy  Phelip  de  France  et  le  roy  Richard  firent  eftablire  vn  peife 
entre  lour  ij.  reaumes,  et  firent  enfealler  et  affirmir  par  bons  ferementz 
dun  part  et  dautre  en  la  fell  faint  Hillair;  et  tiel  eirt  la  fourme  de  pes  qe 
chefcun  de  eaux  honour  dautre  garderoit  et  foi  a  autre  porteroit,  et  qe 
nul  de  eaux  a  autre  failleroit  en  fez  befoignes,  et  qe  le  roy  de  France 
eideroit  au  roy  Dengleter  a  defendre  fa  terre  auxi  loialment  com  il  de- 
fendroit  Parys,  et  le  roy  Dengleter  eideroit  le  roy  de  France  a  defendre 
fa  terre  auxi  auant  com  il  defendroit  Roan.  Et  touz  les  countis  et 
barouns  iurerent  qils  ferrount  foials  et  loiaux  chefcun  enuers  autre  en 
enuers  foun  roy  faunz  departir  en  nul  poynt,  et  qils  ne  moueroint  guerre 
ne  fuffiroint  eflre  muez  en  nul  de  lez  terres  endementire  qe  lez  ditz  roys 
ferrount  en  lour  pelerin[a]ge.  Et  touz  lez  ercheuefqes  et  euefqes  iure- 
rent de  doner  la  grant  fentence  deuers  chefcoun  trefpafler  encountre 
chefcoun  article  du  dit  acorde.  Auxi  lez  ditz  roys  eftablierent  qe  fl  lun 
de  eaux  mureroit  en  le  dit  pelerinage  qe  lautre  viuaunt  aueroit  fez  biens 
en  femblement  od  touz  fez  gentz  a  parfournir  le  dit  veage,  et  qe  toutez 
gentz  qe  cell  faint  pelerinage  dufTent  aler  fufient  a  VefTelay  a  le  natre 
faint  Johan  donqes  procheigne.  Le  dit  roy  Richard  ofteaunt  en  Nor- 
mendy  fen  departy  a  Aungeowe,  et  ordeyna  fez  amyrails  dez  niefes,  cell 
a  fauoir  Gerard  erceuefque  de  Awge,  Bernard  euefque  de  Bayouns, 
Robert  de  Sabillule,  Richard  de  Cauuille,  et  Willam  de  Forz  de  Vlle- 
roun,  et  lez  bailla  fa  chartre  en  cell  fourme ; — 

"  Richard,  par  la  grace  Dieux  et  cta.,  a  touz  fez  horns  a  alers  a  Jeru- 
falem,  falutz.  Sachez  nous  par  comune  counfail  dez  plus  vaillauntz  et 
fages  de  noilre  coumpaigny  auoir  faitz  cellez  noz  leys;  cell  afauoir,  fi 
nul  tue  autre  en  neif,  foit  lye  au  mort  et  gette  en  la  mere ;  et  fi  nul  tue 
autre  fure  terre,  foit  lye  au  mort  et  fowe  dedenz  la  terre ;  et  fi  nul  treyt 
foun  coutel  pur  ferir  et  feirt  autre  fi  qe  fank  foit  efpandu,  et  de  ceo  foit 
atteint  par  loials  profes,  perde  le  poyn ;  et  fi  nul  feirt  autre  du  palnie 
fanz  fank  treir,  foit  trois  foitz  mys  en  plonge  dedenz  la  mere ;  et  fi  nul 
raumpoyn  autre  ou  lendenge,  taunt  foitz  com  de  ceo  foit  atteint  tauntz 


SCALACRONICA.  51 

dez  ounzes  dargent  duera.  Et  fi  nul  foit  atteint  de  larcyn,  foit  tounduz 
a  la  gife  dun  champioun,  et  pice  boillaunt  sur  fa  tell  uerfe,  et  la  plume 
dun  oreillere  mys  adefus  pur  ly  conoiftre,  et  au  primer  arryuail  foit  hors 
du  nefe  rue.     Done  a  Chinon"  et  cta. 

Auxi  le  dit  roy  comaunda  par  foun  bref  qe  touz  lez  gentz  qe  furent  a 
prendre  le  dit  veage  ferroient  obeyfauntz  as  comaundementz  dez  ditz 
amerailles  faunz  countredit.  Et  ceo  fait  le  dit  roy  Ricbard  pafla  a 
Tourres,  et  illoqes  a  grant  deuocioun  priil  le  bailoun  de  foun  pelerinage 
de  lerceuefque  de  lieu,  et  com  il  fe  apoa  au  dit  bafloun  il  debriffa  en 
dieux  peces ;  et  le  dit  roy  Richard  fen  ala  a  Vefielay  et  illoeqes  eneoun- 
tra  le  roy  de  France,  com  ils  efloint  acordez.  Et  y  eftoint  affemblez  a 
eel  houre  plufours  de  vaillauntz  homs  qi  ceft  veage  auoint  enpris,  et 
apres  la  demure  de  ij.  ours  paffez  en  lez  vtas  de  faint  Johan,  fi  drefferent 
les  royns  lour  chemyn  enfemblement  oue  lour  grantz  routis  vers  Lyouns 
sure  Roan,  et  com  ils  pafTerent  le  pount  oue  grant  multitude  de  gentz  le 
dit  pount,  qi  tant  eirt  charge  de  gentz,  roumpift,  et  leau  defoutz,  qe  tant 
eirt  redde,  refceuft  dez  homs  plus  qe  mille,  qeftoient  chaiez;  mais  cely  en 
qi  befoigne  ils  elloient  lez  garaunta  qe  de  touz  lez  cheyez  nefloit  noiez 
si  dieus  noun.  Apres  ceo  les  ditz  roys,  penfauntz  qe  nul  pays  purroit 
fuffir  a  fi  granz  ofles,  department  lour  chemyns. 

Leflbms  du  roy  de  Fraunce,  et  parloms  du  roy  Richard  et  de  fez  nefes 
coment  il  afTembla  fez  gentz  et  veint  a  Marcile  et  y  demurra  par  viij. 
iours,  efperaunt  fa  nauy  encountreir  qeftoint  ifl'uz  de  diuers  portz,  mais 
tempeft  lour  deftourboit  venir  au  temps  et  porte  aflignez.  Le  roy,  qi  ne 
voloit  plus  attendre,  fill  alower  x.  grauntz  dromoundes  et  xx.  galays  bien 
garnys,  et  fill  fez  gentz  moult  irrez  et  dolentz  pur  fez  nefes  qi  taunt  de- 
murroint,  et  fi  fe  milt  en  vn  galey  et  department  du  porte  de  Marcile  le 
vij.  iour  de  Auguft,  et  pafferent  par  le  Ifle  faint  Efleuen,  et  par  Legle, 
et  par  le  Noyre  Mounte,  par  Lile  faint  Honorat,  et  par  la  cite  de  faint 
Nices,  et  par  la  cite  de  xx.  Mille,  entre  queux  ij.  cites  eft  la  deuis  entre 
Itaille  et  Arragoun,  de  illoeqes  par  feint  Marie  de  Funtz.  Le  xiij.  iour 
de  Auft  pafTa  le  roy  par  le  chaftel  de  Suwene,  et  meifme  le  iour  veint  a 
Geneues,  ou  il  troua  le  roy  de  Fraunce  maladez.  Le  xiiij.  iour  Dauft 
pafla  le  roy  au  port  Delfyn,  et  ceo  eftoit  la  vel  del  aflumpcioun  noftre 


52  SCALACRONICA. 

dame,  et  la  demura  par  v.  iours.     Le  roy  de  Fraunce,  qi  fauoit  de  fa 

demore,  ly  manda  priaunt  paramours  qil  ly  apreftat  v.  de  fez  galays;  mais 

le  roy  Richard,  coment  qil  eftoit  defgarry  de  fez  nefes  et  nauoit  galays 

qe  dallowance  noun  et  ceo  au  mainz  qe  ly  poeint  fuffire,  si  offry  au  roy 

de  Fraunce  trois  galays,  queux  il  ne  deigna  refceyuer  fil  ne  vft  hu  fa 

demaunde.      Le  roy  Richard  fen  departy  du  port  Delfyn  le  xix.  iour  de 

Auguft  et  veint  au  port  Venus,  et  lendemain  au  port  de  Pife,  et  illoeques 

lerceuefque  de  Roan  et  leuefque  de  Yuerois  vindrent  deuers  fa  feignoury. 

Le  xxj.  iour  de  Auguft  paflaft  le  roy  par  lifle  de  Gurgoun,  lendemain  au 

port  de  Bareth,  et  lendemain  a  la  vile  faint  Berthun  fill  le  roy  allower  dez 

cheueaux  et  cheuaucha  par  terre  ij.  lieus  et  vindrent  au  port  pres  du 

chaftell  de  Plumlin  encountre  lez  galays  et  entra  vn  galey,  autre  qil 

neftoit  pas  deuaunt,  et  pafla  le  ifle  Ferair  et  lifle  Argentair  et  lifle  Genuft 

et  veint  a  le  port  Talamount.     Le  xxiiij.  iour  de  Auguft  veint  le  roy  a 

Portekers  qeft  en  my  lieu  entre  Marcile  et  Meffane.     Et  a  eel  temps  la 

veoil  de  la  galoy  le  roy  debrifa,  et  le  roy  entra  vn  autre  galoy,  et  pafla  la 

cite  de  Corne  et  Senes  la  vele  et  la  cite  de  Lanne  et  vn  lieu  qeft  apelle 

le  Far  de  Roume,  et  pius  entra  Tyberie.     A  quel  entree  il  y  auoit  vn 

tour  tre  bele,  mais  molt  fembla  defert,  et  la  perlaft  le  roy  au  cardenal 

Octouean,  euefque  Doftiens,  qi  ly  veint  veoir  et  honourer.     Mais  le  roy 

li  refona  et  reproua  de  plufours  chofis  meffeauntes,  cell  a  fauoir  de  sy- 

mony  dez  Romayns.    Le  xxvj.  iour  de  Auguft  pafla  le  roy  par  my  le  boys 

de  Silueden  fure  vn  chemyn  de  marbre,  qe  auntiel  eftoit,  par  my  le  boys 

de  xxiiij.  lieus  de  longure,  ou  i  ly  ad  grant  plente  dez  belles  fauagis;  et 

en  meifme  le  iour  il  paffat  par  vn  chattel  qe  lem  appelle  Bettoun,  ou  vn 

port  eftoit  couert  de  cupre,  et  fi  auoit  y  veflelet  qe  foleit  amener  or  et 

argent  a  Rome  de  toutes  eels  parties  coillez.    Le  xxvij.  de  Auguft  le  roy 

pafla  le  roche  extendu  en  mere,  qe  eft  apelle  Cappe  de  Cercel,  le  ifle 

Parmerol,  lile  Punce,  et  pius  lile  Palmer  en  chief  du  mond.    Sure  Cappe 

de  Cercel  eftoit  vn  chattel  qeftoit  grant  refcet  et  priue  as  larouns,  qi 

fefoint  grantz  deftrefle  as  paflauntz.     Pius  veint  a  la  cite  de  Tarafene,     foi.  165. 

et  illoeqes  eirt  vn  port  couert  de  cupre,  pius  veint  a  Garille,  puis  au 

chattel  de  Cape  del  Efpourn,  la  eft  la  diuifioun  de  Romain  et  de  Cefile, 

cell  a  fauoir  en  eel  partie  qeft  principal  de  Cappow.    De  ceo  pafla  il  lifle 


SCALACRONICA.  53 

de  Panteth,  qefl  xl.  lieus  de  la  cite  de  Gaite  Pantee,  qefloit  iadys  la  terre 
Pilat,  et  y  auoit  la  tierce  port  couert  de  cupre.  Pius  paffa  le  roy  lile  de 
Stele  maior  qeft  touz  iours  fumaunt,  et  ceo  par  chalour  dun  foum  veifin 
Wlkane,  lile  qe  touz  iours  arde  mere  et  peffoun,  iettaunt  feu  sure  toutez 
chofes  procheynes,  com  le  liuer  dit.  Lile  de  Irom  ou  y  ad  bon  chattel, 
et  port  ankes  loinz  du  chattel  qe  feu  de  y  ceo  ne  ly  poet  greuer;  de  il- 
loeqes  pafTa  le  roy  lile  de  Pateroun,  et  le  port  du  Bay,  ou  Virgil  fift  lez 
baignes,  qeft  x.  lieus  de  Naplis.  Pius  il  pafTa  Capri,  qeft  en  mylu  entre 
Naples  et  Salerne.  Et  le  xxviij.  iour  de  Auguft  le  roy  veint  a  Naples, 
et  demurra  illoeqes  en  labbay  de  faint  Januer  tanque  la  natre  noftre 
dame,  et  la  vift  il  lez  fitz  Namound  mortez,  qeftoint  touz  enterrez  en  vn 
cribbe,  en  pele  et  offez :  et  a  meifme  le  iour  fill  le  roy  allowere  cheueaux 
et  veint  a  Salern  et  y  demurra  grant  pece.  Mes  Bawdewgh  erceuefque 
de  Cantorbirs,  et  Hugh  euefque  de  Salifbirs,  et  Randolf  de  Glaumuil,  qi 
vindrent  en  fa  compaignye  tanque  a  Marcile,  entrerent  en  nefes  qant  le 
roy  entra  en  galey,  et  leuerent  veilles,  et  vent  lez  ferift  en  mere  fi  red- 
dement  qe  de  auaunt  Acres  venoient  en  poy  de  hour;  et  Johan  euefque 
de  Norwiche  leffa  la  croice  et  retourna  en  foun  pais  par  counge  lapoftoil. 
Et  com  le  roy  le  oyft  dire  moult  fuft  corouce,  et  fi  prift  mile  marcz  du 
dit  euefque  pur  foun  trefpas.  Ataunt  teift  le  cronicle  a  parler  du  roy 
Richard,  et  deuife  la  maner  et  lez  contenementz  de  fez  amerails  de  fa 
nauy  enuenaunt  deuers  ly. 

Procheignement  apres  la  Pafch  touz  lez  nefs  le  roy  Richard  fez  adref- 
ferent  vers  Jerufalem  hors  de  diuers  portez  Dengleter,  Normendy,  Bre- 
taigne,  et  Paitow ;  dez  queux  lun  partye  fez  affemblerent  a  Dertmoth, 
dez  queux  x.  couenoint  veillaunz  en  la  mere  Defpayne  le  iour  del  af- 
fencioun,  fi  grant  tempeft  leua  en  mere  qe  fodeignement  eftoint  les  niefs 
departis  chefcun  dautre  par  fortune.  Et  qant  le  tempeft  eftoit  greignour 
si  apparutt  faint  Thomas  de  Cantorbirs  trois  foitz  a  iij.  perfouns  qeftoint 
en  vn  neif  de  Loundres,  et  difoit,  "  amys,  ne  vous  doutez,  ieo  fu  Thomas 
de  Cantorbirs,  faint  Edmound  et  faint  Nicholas  ouefque  moy,  qi  fumes 
ordeinez  par  Dieux  a  fur  veoir  touz  lez  niefs  Dengleter  qi  cy  alez  en  fez 
comaundementz  et  gardez  fez  loys,  et  de  voz  pecchez  conufez  facez  due 
fatiffaccioun,  et  Dieux  vous  dura  profperite,  et  ieo,  en  ceft  veage."    Lez 


54  SCALACRONICA. 

ditz  feintes  enauerent  et  tauntoft  cefla  la  dit  tempeft,  et  bien  toft  vindrent 
lez  ditz  neifes  a  la  cite  de  Vllifibone  parmy  le  flume  apelle  Tage,  la  ou 
le  corps  faint  Vincent  gift.  Mais  auaunt  qils  vindre  a  la  vile  fi  pafla 
lemperour  Daufric  et  Defpayne  Sarazin  le  flume  de  Tage  par  vn  guyde 
le  iour  faint  Johan  le  baptift  et  fe  mift  deuaunt  vn  chaftel  le  roy  de 
Portingalle,  et  le  gaigna,  et  puis  vn  autre.  Le  roy,  qi  moult  eftoit  def- 
confaillez,  maunda  as  nefes  Engles  priaunt  fuccours,  et  ils  ioyauntz  de 
lez  nouelis  inherent  dez  niefes  od  v.  cent  homs  armez,  et  vindrent  a  faint 
Herene,  ou  le  roy  eftoit  tout  defgarry,  ou  poy  dez  gentz,  et  ceaux  queux 
il  auoit,  eftoint  de  mal  couin.  Mais  qant  lemperour  oy  la  venu  dez 
Criftiens  fi  fe  abay  durement,  et  maunda  au  roi  de  Portingalle  qil  ly 
deliueroit  Suyle,  qe  Criftiens  nadgaires  auoint  conquys,  et  il  ly  renderoit 
fez  chattels  et  peife  pur  vij.  aunz,  et  fi  repaireroit  en  foun  pays;  et  fi 
cell  voi  ne  voloit  il  afiegeroit  faint  Herene  ou  le  roy  eftoit.  Et  lende- 
main  faunz  plus  tarier  le  roy,  qi  taunt  de  fuccours  auoit  dez  pelerins,  ne 
cremoit  rien  fez  manacez,  fi  fift  arayer  fez  gentz  et  bailla  fez  gentz  lez 
toures  et  forterefces  de  la  vile  a  defendre.  Lez  pelerins  qi  rien  ne  cre- 
moint  si  Dieux  noun,  qi  afleitz  auoint  le  quere  sure  et  hardys,  lez  plains 
rues  et  lez  aunciens  mures  cheiez  par  ruyn  ou  nuly  du  pays  ofaft  attendre, 
countre  lez  Sarazins  choiferent  a  defendre ;  et  lendemain  qant  chefcun  fe 
drefla  foun  lieu  defendre  nouelis  vindrent  au  roy  qe  lemperour  qi  ly  vft 
enpris  afleyer  fodeignement  fuft  mort,  fi  mercia  moult  lez  peleryns  et 
priaft  qils  meneroint  lours  neifes  a  Vllufibone  et  il  fen  irroit  par  tere,  qe 
neftoit  de  illoeqes  fors  dieus  iournes,  et  il  lour  feroit  guerdoun  pur  lour 
trauail.  Ils  alerent  a  lours  neifes  et  feglerent  deuers  la  dit  cite,  mes 
auaunt  qils  uenoient  Robert  de  Sabillulle  et  Richard  de  Camuille,  oue 
lxiij.  grantz  nefes  od  gentz  darmes  et  vitaillis  a  grant  fufoun,  dez  queux 
plufours  efpaunderent  parmy  la  cite,  mouerent  difiencioun  entre  lez  gentz 
quoi  par  males  parlois,  quoi  par  femmes  et  feiles  dez  citezeins  efforcer, 
quoy  par  deftruccioun  dez*  Jues  et  Sarazins  enhabitauntz  party  de  la  cite, 
derobbaunt  lours  biens,  ardant  lour  mefouns,  et  toutez  chofez,  dount  pro- 
fit purroint  auoir  et  debt,  menerent  a  nefes.  Le  roy  de  Portingal,  qi 
eftoit  venu  a  la  cite  pur  gerdoun  faire  as  pelerins,  oift  de  tortz  qe  furent 
faitz  a  fez  gentz,  si  veint  oue  grant  fuifoun  de  gentz  darmes  et  coment 


SCALACRONICA.  55 

qe  a  pooit  auoir  areflu  lour  malice  fi  fe  remembra  del  honour  qe  lez  pe- 
lerins  ly  auoint  fait,  veint  as  ditz  Robert  et  Richard  et  lour  offrift  peife, 
lez  tortz  et  lez  outrages  a  ly  et  a  fez  gentz  faitz  uoluntriuement  fuften- 
aunt.  Lez  vns  del  nauy  lendemayn  leuerent  nouel  debat  dount.plufours 
eftoint  mortz  de  lun  part  et  de  lautre;  lez  portz  de  la  vile  furent  clofez, 
et  vj.  centz  de  gentz  qeftoint  dedenz  pur  lour  achater  vitaillis,  nient  fa- 
chauntz  eel  debate,  eftoint  pris,  tanqe  le  roy  autre  foitz  offrift  la  pes,  iffi 
qe  chefcun  party  remendroit  a  autre  chefcun  trefpas,  et  gentz  et  armes, 
et  qanque  eftoit  pris  ou  perdu  dun  part  et  dautre  full  rendu  as  Engles, 
et  enfi  fill  lacorde.  Et  pius  la  veile  faint  Jakes  departirent  lez  nefes 
enuers  la  graunt  mere,  et  en  le  lieu  ou  leaw  de  Tage  defcende  en  la 
mere  fi  encountrerent  xxx.  et  trois  grantz  nefes  au  roy  Richard,  iffint 
auoint  ils  en  noumbre  affemblez  en  vn  lieu  cent  et  v.  grantz  nefes  de 
gentz  darmes,  archiers,  et  vitails  touz  playnes.  Lendemayn  de  faint 
Jake  veint  la  nauy  a  vne  haute  mounte  et  long  dedenz  la  mere  qad  a 
noun  Cappe  faint  Vincent,  puis  a  la  port  del  cite  de  Suyle,  qe  adonqes 
eftoit  la  plus  loinz  cite  dez  Criftiens  en  Efpaigne.  Puis  par  faint  Marie 
de  Heroun,  de  illoeqes  deuaunt  la  mount  Alije,  et  pius  deuaunt  vn  terre 
arrenoufe  loinz  en  la  mere,  nome  Abmylan,  pius  deuaunt  le  port  de  Salez, 
pius  au  port  de  Sebille,  qe  lem  appele  Wondelkeker,  et  entre  Sebille  et 
le  port  y  ad  vne  chaftel  en  my  lieu,  qe  ad  a  noun  Captal.  De"  illoeqes 
vindrent  lez  neifes  a  lez  eftroytes  de  Aufrik,  qe  nous  appelloms  lez 
eftroitz  de  Marrok.  Le  primer  iour  Dauguft  la  comence  la  mere  Me- 
ditaran,  qe  nous  appelloms  la  grant  mere,  et  Meditaran  eft  nome  pur 
ceo  qe  la  terre  lenclofe  par  tout  faue  en  dieus  lieus,  lun  as  ditez  eftroitCs 
Marrok  et  lautre  en  brace  faint  George  qeft  pres  de  Conftantin  noble ; 
et  del  entree  des  ditz  eftroites  tanque  pres  Alkalon  eft  terre  payen  a 
dextre,  et  a  feneftre  du  dit  entree  tanque  a  le  grant  mount  de  Muffian 
eft  Efpaigne  Sarazine,  les  queux  eftroites  ne  fez  extendunt  pas  a  viij. 
lieus  en  leour  del  vn  entree  tanque  a  lautre,  et  del  lun  et  lautre  party  y 
ad  vn  grant  mountayne,  lun  en  Efpaigne  qeft  appelle  Calpes,  et  lautre 
en  Aufrik  qeft  appelle  Atteles.  Et  al  entree  de  lez  eftroites  en  Aufrik, 
iouft  la  mere,  font  v.  cites;  et  en  Efpaigne  de  autre  part  fount  qatre  cites 
et  chaftels,  et  en  lile  de  Baltarye,  Marcels,  Wail,  chaftel  de  Maure,  et 


56  SCALACRONICA. 

au  pee  del  mount  en  Beraltare  fount  dieus  noblis  cites,  dount  lun  eft  foi.  166.  b. 

apelle  Alence,  et  la  autre  Jubelar.     Queux  com  la  nauy  le  roy  auoit 

purpaffe  fi  paffa  deuaunt  la  cite  de  Salamanettre,  et  puis  deuaunt  la  cite 

de  Vilages,  entour  quel  cite  fount  cent  et  feffaunt  toures  de  pere.     Puis 

paffa  par  vn  mount  haut  et  noyr,  qad  a  noune  Cappe  de  Mellik.     De 

illoeqes  par  Almarie  la  bone  cite,  ou  lem  fait  le  bon  foy,  de  illoeqes  par 

vn  mount  haut  et  graunt  en  mere  extendu  qad  a  noun  Cappe  Dalmarie, 

et  de  illoeqes  par  Cartage  la  bon  cite  sur  la  ryue  du  mere,  puis  par  vn 

graun  sabuloun  en  mere  qad  a  noun  Cappe  Martyne,  et  puis  deuaunt  la 

cite  de  Denie,  et  puis  au  porte  de  Valence,  et  puis  par  vne  mount  graunt 

et  haut  en  mere  qad  a  noun  Muffian,  qe  deuife  terre  paiens  et  terre  de 

Criftiens,  et  la  comence  la  terre  Darragoun,  et  au  pee  de  le  mount  y  ad 

vn  chaftelle  affys  qad  a  noun  Ampoft,  ct  iouft  ly  il  ad  vn  flume  de  eaw 

douce  qad  a  noune  Ebre,  sur  qy  il  y  ad  vn  cite  qad  a  noune  Tyntufe, 

qad  trent  lieus  del  entre  de  la  port.     Puis  paffa  la  nauy  par  la  noble 

cite  Tarracount  sur  la  mere,  pres  de  qy  gift  la  grant  mountaigne  qe  ad 

a  noune  Cappe  de  Salyke,  puis  deuaunt  la  cite  de  Barfalon,  puis  a  la 

cite  de  Emparife,  puis  par  vn  grant  mount  qeft  appelle  Cappe  Caftilun 

ou  y  ad  vn  bon  port,  pius  par  vn  fabulon  tendu  en  mere  qad  a  noun 

Cappe  Lewgat,  et  pres  de  ly  y  ad  la  cite  de  Nerbone.     Puis  paffa  par 

vile  Noef  pres  de  qy  eft  le  port  de  Mount peffulan,  qe  eft  appelle  Lates, 

de  illoeqes  par  Edur,  lile  qeft  al  entree  de  Roan.     Puis  veint  a  Marcil 

qeft  xx.  lieus  de  la  dit  entree,  et  la  eft  vn  abbe  de  noyres  moignes  qe 

ount  plufours  de  reliqes,  cell  affauoir,  le  corps  faint  Victor  et  lez  verges 

dount  Dieux  eftoit  efcourgiez.     Et  fait  afauoir  qe  horn  puft   aler   de 

Marcil  tanque  a  Acres  en  xv.  iours,  fil  eyt  bon  vent  et  paffe  par  le  haut 

mere,  qar  fil  teint  foun  cours  tout  droit  il  ne  verra  ia  terre  tanque  il  veit 

Surry  quant  il  auera  perdu  la  vieu  de  montz  de  Marcil ;  et  fait  a  fauoir 

qe  plufours  fount  dez  ifles  Sarazins  entre  lentree  en  mere  a  lez  eftroites 

et  Marcil. 

Mais  qant  lez  nefes  furent  venuz  a  Marcil  al  vtas  del  affumpcioun 
noftre  Dame  ils  ne  trouerent  pas  lour  roy,  qe  il  eftoit  alez  deuaunt,  et 
ne  purqant  ils  fez  repoferent  par  viij.  iours  et  fez  redrefferent,  qar  moult 
eftoint  trauillez.     Puis  fez  drefferent  au  mere  et  vindrent  a  Meffane  en 


SCALACRONICA.  57 

Cefille  en  la  fefl  del  exaltacioun  del  faint  croicez ;  et  le  dymange  fuaunt 
le  roy  de  Fraunce  veint  illoeqes,  qi  fuft  herbife  en  loftelle  le  roy  Tan- 
kered  de  Cefile.  Le  roy  Richard  qi  taunt  ad  penfe  de  fez  nefes,  qant  il 
oift  qels  eftoint  venuz  a  Meflane  fi  ne  fait  pas  a  demaundre  fil  eftoit  leez,  fi 
fe  dreffa  en  efteaunt  et  rendift  graces  a  Dieu,  fi  departift  le  roy  de  Salern 
le  xiij.  iour  de  Septembre,  et  le  xviij.  iour  veint  a  vn  cite  qe  ad  a  noun 
Efkale,  pres  de  qy  y  ad  vn  petit  ifle  ou  Lucan  le  grant  clerk  foleit  tenir 
fez  efcolis,  ou  il  y  ad  vn  chaumbre  trebele  defoutz  la  terre  ou  il  foleit 
meifmes  eftudier.  De  illoeqes  pafi'a  le  roy  od  vn  foul  cheualer  par  vn 
petit  vilete,  fi  oift  vn  efpereuer  crier  en  vn  mefoun,  dount  il  eftoit  moult 
counfortez  et  comenfa  penfer  dez  enueifours  de  foun  pays ;  fi  fe  ferift 
dedenz  la  dift  mefoun  et  prift  lefpereuer  et  le  myft  courtoifement  au 
poigne,  dount  moult  fuft  leez.  Mais  lez  vileins  de  la  vile,  qant  ils  fa- 
uoint  qil  vft  lefperuer  afporte,  fi  auoint  ils  grant  defpite  et  ifferent  de 
chefcun  part  od  baftouns,  et  ly  efcrierent,  et  ly  donerent  grantz  coupes, 
dez  queux  vn  treit  foun  cotel  et  voloit  auoir  feru  le  roy,  mais  le  roy  qi 
moult  eirt  hardyz  faillift  dun  part  et  dautre,  et  treit  le  bon  beane,  et  ferift 
au  dextre  et  au  seneftre  qe  nul  dez  vileyns  lez  pooit  suftener  einz  lour 
coueint  treboucher  a  la  tere.  Le  roy  taunt  ferift  de  lefpey  qil  le  debrifa 
par  force,  fi  eft  taunt  irrez,  qe  apoy  fenrage  dez  ditz  vileins3  fi  prift  grantz 
peres  et  rendift  lez  vileins  fi  fort  eftour  qils  cheierent  a  la  tere  defcoun- 
fitz,  mais  plufours  fez  fuerent  faunz  defence  faire.  Le  roy  prift  lefperuer 
et  departift  de  illoeqes  tanque  a  la  graunt  eaw  de  Far  dez  Mefchines  et 
la  pafTa  a  poy  en  lentree,  ou  y  li  auoit  vn  grant  tour.  Et  fait  a  fauoir 
qe  leau  fufdit  depart  Calabre  et  Cefile;  al  entree  de  quele  eau  pres  de 
Baynar  eft  le  grant  peril  du  mere  qad  a  noun  Silla,  qe  refceit  lez  eaws 
par  grauntz  habundaunz  faunz  rien  reounder,  et  al  ifl'u  du  meifme  leau  y 
ad  vn  autre  peril  qad  a  noun  Kirildis,  qe  nul  eau  voet  refceyuer,  einz  la 
gette  et  la  vomift  par  fi  graunt  force  qil  fait  lez  nefes  perire,  tauntez  qe 
a  eel  aprochent.  Mais  plufours  uoillauntz  eel  peril  efchuer  le  genchent 
trop,  et  fi  cheient  en  lautre  peril  faunz  recouerer.  Le  xxiij.  iour  de  Sep- 
tembre veint  le  roy  de  Meflane  en  Cefil  od  grantz  dromoundes,  nefes  et 
galays,  fi  grant  plente  qe  il  fembloit  qe  tout  leaw  eftoit  couert  dez  veils. 
Le  roy  de  France  fe  meruaillail  de  le  grant  poair  qe  le  roy  Dengleter 

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58  SCALACRONICA. 

auoit  amene,  qi  taunt  eirt  le  noyfe  dedenz  lez  nefes  dez  bumes,  symbalis, 
et  dautrc  menoflralcies,  qentre  fonayent  chefcun  en  fa  gife,  qoy  dez 
cheualers  et  efqiers  karoulauntz  a  grant  deduyt,  qoy  dez  noyfes  dez  fol.  167.  b. 
marineres  qe  touz  lez  gentz  de  la  cite  sez  efmayerent,  tant  qils  quidaffent 
touz  eftre  deftruytz,  quar  tiel  noys  ne  tel  uew  nauoint  ils  vnqes  oi  ne  vieu. 
Le  roy  aryua  et  parla  au  roy  de  Fraunce,  puis  reprifl  fez  nefes  a  meifme 
le  iourne  faunz  plus  demure,  fe  hafaunt  deuers  Jerufalem,  mais  il  neftoit 
qe  poy  aloigne  hors  du  port  qant  le  vent  ly  tourna  en  contrair  qe  ly  fift 
retourner  a  Meffan  tout  dolent,  et  fe  herbifafl  en  le  fuburbe  entre  lez 
vins.  Si  fe  remembra  de  vn  fa  fore  Johan,  naidgares  royne  de  Cefile,  a 
qy  le  roy  Tankered  fefoit  grant  tort,  et  la  auoit  tenu  en  garde  puis  la 
raort  le  roy  foun  baroun  qeftoit  freir  a  Tanqered ;  si  ordena  le  roy 
Richard  certains  grantz  meffagers  daler  au  roy  de  parly,  priaunt  qil  deli- 
ueroit  fa  sore  hors  de  fa  garde.  Le  roy  Tanqered  refceufl  lez  ditz 
meffagers  lionourablement  et  lour  deliuera  la  dit  royne,  et  ils  la  amene- 
rent  deuers  le  roy  foun  freir.  Le  xxviij.  iour  de  Septembre  oift  le  roy 
Richard  qe  fa  sore  venoift,  fi  cheuacha  pur  ly  encountreir  od  grant  com- 
painy  et  la  refceufl  od  graunt  honour.  Le  roy  de  Fraunce  et  plufours 
dez  grantz  seignours  vindrent  la  dame  vifiter.  Puis  le  roy  Richard  pafla 
leau  de  Far  et  prill  par  force  vn  lieu  trefort  qe  lem  apelle  Bayuer,  et  le 
primer  iour  Doclobre  il  amena  illoeques  sa  sore  oue  cheualers  et  ferge- 
auntz  a  grant  fuifoun,  et  qant  ele  y  eiloit  surement  herbigez  rien  ne  ly 
faillifl  de  gentz  ne  dez  vitaillis,  fi  retournaft  a  Meffane  et  lendemain  il 
priil  vn  abbey  treffort  qeft  en  my  lieu  del  eau  entre  Meffane  et  Calabre 
bien  pres  del  lieu  ou  fa  sore  eftoit ;  et  labbey  fid  il  bien  adreffer  et 
garnir  de  gentz  et  fez  nefes  fill  defcharger  dez  vitails  qefloient  venuz  de 
totes  parties,  et  lez  fill  mettre  hu  dit  abbey,  et  fe  retourna  a  Meffane. 
Lez  citezeins  de  Meffane,  qant  ils  fauoint  qe  le  roy  auoit  ij.  fi  fortez 
lieus  gaignez,  fi  auoint  ils  le  roy  et  fez  gentz  en  agait  par  mauueife  fuf- 
pecioun ;  penfaunt  qil  gaigneroit  la  cite  et  le  ifle  ouefque,  et  lez  ferroit 
enhabiter  dez  eftraungers  fil  purroit.  Si  comencerent  mouer  debat  entre 
loll  et  eaux,  et  taunt  eirt  le  debat  qe  de  lun  part  et  de  lautre  lez  vns 
elloint  feritz  et  naufres  et  lez  vns  mortz,  iffent  qe  lez  gentz  de  la  cite  fez 
armerent  et  mounterent  lez  mures,  et  fez  adrefferent  pur  la  cite  defendre 


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deuers  lez  gentz  del  oft  qe  lez  aflailerent  fi  afprement  qe  plufours  eftoint 
naufres  et  mortz  del  vn  part  et  de  lautre,  iflint  qe  la  nouel  veint  au  roy 
Richard,  qi  mounta  vn  cheual  curraunt  parmy  loft,  bataunt  od  vn  baftoun 
fol.  168.  qanque  il  poait  atteindre  pur  la  melle  eftauncher.  Mais  ceo  ne  poait 
valoir,  qar  ceaux  dehors  eftoient  taunt  efchaufez  qe  rien  ne  attendount 
mais  a  laflaut  de  la  vile  et  ceaux  dedenz  pur  eaux  defendre ;  fi  retourna 
le  roy  a  foun  oftel  tout  irrez  et  demaunda  fez  armurs,  et.  qant  il  eftoit 
armez  fi  aflaya  autre  foitz  pur  appefer  le  debat  maif  il  ne  le  purroit  faire, 
puis  prift  vn  batew  et  nagea  au  roy  de  France  pur  counfailler  qe  ly  fem- 
bloit  a  fair  de  eel  debat,  et  tauncom  ils  eftoient  counfaillauntz  lez  meiftres 
de  la  cite, — qi  auoint  vieu  qe  le  roy  Richard  auoit  taunt  mellez  pur  le 
debat  peifer  et  ne  poait  fez  gentz  retrayer  tanque  cils  dedenz  fez  defen- 
doient,  et  fauoint  bien  qe  la  melle  eftoit  comence  par  ceaux  dedenz, 
penfauntz  qe  lez  Engles  prendroint  la  cite  par  force  si  laflaut  aukes  en- 
durroit, — fi  fez  afforcerent  a  faire  peife,  et  fefoint  lez  gentz  aualer  lez 
mures.  Dunqes  ceaux  dehors,  qi  ne  virent  plus  de  defence  et  auoint 
poour  de  lour  seignour  le  roy  qi  taunt  full  irrez  pur  lour  affair,  chefcun 
fe  treit  deuers  foun  oftel,  et  fe  defarma  coyment.  Lendemain,  le  quart 
iour  Dodlobre,  Richard  erceuefque  de  Meftane,  Willam  erceuefque  de 
Montreal,  et  Willam  erceuefque  de  Rife,  et  Margaret  ly  amiralx,  et 
plufours  de  la  meyne  le  roi  de  Cefile,  vindrent  au  roy  Dengleter  pur 
treter  dez  chofez  parlez.  Le  roy  de  France  one  ij.  euefqes,  le  duk  de 
Burgoyn  oue  plufours  dez  grantz  seignurs  de  fa  coumpany,  y  veint  en 
fauour  dez  citezeins,  et  comencerent  a  treter  de  peife ;  lez  gentz  de  la 
cite  fez  armerent  par  tout  et  iflerent  la  cite  a  grant  fuifoun  et  adreflerent 
vn  fort  eftal  qi  fez  arraiercnt  sure  vn  mountaigne  bien  pres  lez  roys  ou 
ils  treiterent,  tancom  lez  autres  comencerent  afl'ailer  lez  oftelis  dez  grantz 
seignours  par  tout  la  ou  le  roy  gefoit.  Le  noyfe  leua  parmy  lez  ruys  qe 
il  veint  a  lez  oreilles  le  roy  Richard  la  ou  il  eftoit  entre  lez  seignours, 
tretaunt  du  peife,  qi  leffa  la  parol  le  roy  de  Fraunce  et  de  touz  autres  et 
comanda  fez  gentz  armer,  et  il  meifmes  se  arma  et  afcendift  le  mount  od 
poy  de  gentz,  et  qant  il  veint  al  hautefce  au  mil  qidoit  qil  poait  auoir 
afcendu,  fi  ferift  entre  eaux  par  fi  grant  pruefce  qe  mil  qe  de  sa  main 
coup  refceuft  nauoit  miller  de  mire.     Taunt  fill  entre  eaux  pruefce  qil 


60  SCALACRONICA. 

lour  fift  a  force  lour  lieu  gerpir  et  fen  fuerent  a  la  vile,  lez  roy  et  fez 

gentz  lez  enchacerent  toutdiz  tuaunt  touz  qils  poeint  atteindre,  qe  poy 

de  eaux  efchaperent  viues.     Ceaux  qi  efchaperent  entrerent  lez  portez 

et  lez  fermerent,  et  afcenderent  lez  mures  et  ietterent  lez  peres.    Le  roy 

et  fez  gentz  aflailerent  par  grant  force,  et  plufours  foitz  mounterent  lez   fol.  168.  b. 

mures,  et  alafoitz  entrerent  lez  portez  par  force,  mais  toutditz  eftoient 

mys  dehors  par  lez  rudes  coupes  qe  eaux  dedenz  lour  donoient.     Taunt 

endurraft  cell  affaut  qe  le  grant  oft  du  roy  Richard  eftoit  aflemblez,  qe 

ne  furent  pas  ouesque  li  a  le  mountaigne,  einz  venoint  bataunt  par  lez 

rues  ou  la  greignour  party  dez  citezeines  eftoint  affaillauntz  et  lefflauntz 

lez  hoftelis  des  Engles,  et  lez  tuerent  tretoz  faunz  nul  efchaper.      Puis 

vindrent  au  roy  et  eiderent  pur  allailer  lez  mures,  et  taunt  firent  qe  lez 

portis  debriferent  et  lez  mures  monterent,  et  priftrent  la  vile  par  grant 

force  et  y  miftrent  lez  enfeignes  le  roy  Richard.     Dont  le  roy  de  France 

fe  coroufa  qar  il  voloit  qe  fez  enfeignes  y  huffent  efte  mys,  et  nepurqant 

il  ne  fez  gentz  ne  fefoint  rien  mais  fez  tindrent  loinz  et  regarderent.    Le 

roy  Richard,  voillaunt  parler  au  roy  de  France,  ofta  fez  enfeignes,  et 

bailla  la  cite  as  Hofpitelers  et  Templers  a  garder  tanqe  le  roy  de  Cefile 

auoit  fait  foun  gree,   de  qanqe  il  ly  fauoit  refonablement  demaunder. 

Le  viij.  iour  de  06tober  lez  rois  de  France  et  Dengleter  aflemblez  a 

lour  counfail,  firent  rehercer  et  affermer  touz  les  couenauntz  entre  eaux 

faitz,  et  iuererent  qe  chefcun  garderoit  autre  et  foun  oft  en  lour  pelerin- 

age  auxi  fiablement  com  il  garderoit  le  foen,  et  eftablirent  entre  eaux  qe 

chefcun  qi  deuieroit  en  dit  pelerinage  purroit  deuifer  la  moyte  de  touz 

fez  poflefiiouns,  et  qe  touz  clercz  ofteaunt  en  dit  veage  a  lour  chapeles 

liuers  et  touz  lours  autres  neceffaires  a  lours  chapels  apendauntz  puffent 

fair  difpoficioun  a  lour  volounte;  et  qe  lautre  moyte  dez  biens  de  y  ceaux 

qen  le  dit  veage  murrerount  fuft  ordene  pur  defpendre  sure  la  guerre  de 

la  tere  faint.     Et  a  ceaux  biens  coiller  et  miniftrer  furount  ordenez  ij. 

erceuefqes,  le  meiftre  du  Temple,  le  duk  de  Burgoyn,  et  autres  v.,  auxint 

acorde  fuft  qe  nul  en  lez  oftes  iueroit  a  lez  dicez,  ne  a  nul  autre  ieu  pior 

rien  gaigner  hors  pris  chiualers  et  clers,  et  qe  eaux  ne  perderoint  par  vn 

nuyte  et  vn  iour  si  xx.  foutz  noun,  et  fi  nul  paffe  la  dit,  a  tauntz  foitz 

com  il  paflera  cent  foutz  payera  as  ditz  erceuefqes  et  autres  coillours 


SCALACRONICA.  (il 

auaunt  ditz  en  maintenaunce  de  la  gere  de  Jerufalem.  Lez  roys  iuerent 
a  lour  volounte,  et  lour  feruauntz  en  lour  hoftelis  tanqe  a  xx.  foutz,  com 
deuaunt.  Et  feruauntz  euefqes,  dukis,  countis,  et  barouns,  par  comaun- 
dement  de  lour  seignours  puffent  iuer  tanqe  a  xx.  s.,  et  il  efquier,  ser- 
uaunts,  ou  mariner,  ou  autre  de  meindre  degree,  foient  trouez  iuauntz 
fid.  169.  hors  de  la  prefence  lour  seignurs,  foient  defpoillez  et  par  iij.  iours  batuz 
tout  nuez  parmy  loft,  fi  ils  ne  volent  rendre  a  la  volente  deiz  seignours, 
coillours  du  dit  auoir.  Et  11  mariner  foit  troue  iuaunt  et  fe  ne  voet  rendre 
par  iij.  iours  apres,  foit  mene  a  plus  haut  del  nefe  et  iette  en  leau,  chefcun 
iour  foitz ;  et  fi  nul  feruaunt  de  quel  condicioun  qil  foit,  fauue  clerk  ou 
cheualer,  depart  de  foun  meiftre  eftre  foun  gree,  cely  qi  ly  refceuft  et  le 
feruaunt  foient  puniz  par  defcrecioun  des  seignours  auaunt  ditz.  Et  a  celis 
loys  tenir  touz  lez  euefqes  centence  defcomaungement  ount  donez  sure  lez 
contrariaunz.  Auxi  defendu  eft  qe  nul  dedenz  le  oft  achate  payn  ne  farine 
a  reuendre,  ne  blee,  ill  ne  face  payne  de  y  cele,  ou  damener  outre  mere; 
et  qe  laffife  du  payne,  qant  au  gaigne  du  paftour,  foit  acordaunt  a  laffife 
Dengleter,  et  qe  marchand  gaigne  de  marchandy  plus  qe  vn  dener  de  diz. 
Et  qe  nul  ne  achat  chare  mort  a  reuendre,  et  qe  nul  vende  vine  a  plus  haut 
pris  qe  la  proclamacioun  sure  ceo  fait.  Ceftes  chofes  faites  chefcun  seign- 
our  ala  a  foun  hoftel.  Le  tierce  iour  apres  la  dit  cite  pris,  lez  citezeynes 
maunderent  au  roy  Richard  et  ly  baillerent  bones  oftages  pur  la  peife  et 
pur  la  cite  a  ly  deliuerer,  et  de  lui  et  de  fez  heires  a  touz  iours  tenir;  si 
le  roy  Tanqered  haftiement  ne  redrefferoit  deuers  le  roy  Richard  qanqe 
il  fauoit  duers  ly  refonablement  demaunder.  Le  roy  Tanqered  apres  ceft 
nouel  oy  graunt  poour  auoit  de  la  fierte  le  roy  Richard,  et  par  mediacioun 
dez  grantz  seignours  taunt  fuyt  qils  eftoient  acordez,  et  dona  vint  mile 
ounces  dore  pur  la  dower  Johan  fa  sore  et  pur  autres  demaundez  relefler; 
et  autres  vint  mile  ounces  dore  pur  sa  feile  marrier  a  Arthure  le  duke  de 
Bretaigne,  neuew  le  roy  Richard,  iffi  qe  fi  le  dit  Arthur  murreroit  ou  la 
feile  auaunt  le  dit  matremoyn  celebre,  ou  faillerent  par  le  cupe  Arthur, 
le  roy  Richard  ferroit  reftitucioun  au  roy  Tanqered  dez  ditz  vint  mile 
ounces  dore,  et  qe  il  le  roy  Richard  enfrenderoit  la  peife  entre  eaux  af- 
ferme  leglis  de  Rome  aueroit  poair  de  ly  reftreindre  en  Engleter  et  foun 
tort  conuftre  et  iufticer.    Mais  auaunt  qe  ceo  peife  eftoit  parfourny  entre 


62  SCALACRONICA. 

le  roy  Richard  et  le  roy  Tanqered,  Margaret,  admirail,  et  Jurdan  del  Pyn, 
familiers  au  roy  Tanqered,  as  queux  il  bailla  la  dit  cite  a  garder,  fen  de- 
party  de  illoeqes  par  nuyte  oue  tout  lour  meynee,  et  amenerent  ouefqes 
eaux  touz  lour  biens  qils  auoint  en  ore  et  en  argent.  Et  qant  le  roy 
Richard  auoit  oy  de  cell  chos  fi  flit  feifer  en  fa  mayn  touz  lour  mefouns, 
galays,  et  touz  lour  autres  poflefiiouns  qe  furent  de  grant  valu,  et  ende-  foi.  169.  b. 
mentres  qe  laffirmaunce  de  la  peife  entre  le  roy  Richard  et  Tanqered  efloit 
taryez  et  delayez,  le  roy  Richard  fill  affermer  vn  fort  chaftelle  sure  la 
hautefce  dun  mountaine,  bien  pres  de  lez  mures  de  la  dit  cite  de  Meflane, 
et  le  fill  appeller  Mategriffun,  qar  auaunt  fa  venu  lez  Griffouns  eftoint 
lez  plus  puffauntz  gentz  qeftoint  en  fa  regioun  et  grantz  deftrefce  fefoint 
as  ceaux  qi  outre  lez  mountaignes  enhabiterent.  Mais  pufqe  le  roy  auoit 
fet  taunt  de  pruefce  en  eel  pais,  com  vous  auez  oy,  fi  cefia  lour  malice  et 
eftoint  dauntez  et  matez.  Et  pur  ceo  qe  le  roy  voloit  qe  fa  conqueft  pur- 
roit  auoir  remembraunce  de  perpetuel  memoir,  fi  fift  faire  le  dit  chaftel 
et  Mategriffun  apeller.  Puis  le  roy  fift  trere  fez  nefes  a  la  terre  et  amender, 
qe  moult  eftoient  enpirez  par  mordre  dez  vermes  efpecialement  qe  lez 
auoint  perciez  en  plufours  lieus,  dount  y  lad  graunt  plente  en  leau  de 
Far,  qe  fount  longes  et  greles  et  maungeount  voluntiers  tout  maner  de 
futh.  Et  tancom  lez  nefes  furent  en  amendaunt  le  roy  fift  apparailler  et 
redrefler  fez  engynes,  efcheles,  et  touz  autres  chofis,  dount  miftier  auoit 
pur  mures  affaller.  Puis  le  roy  fift  touz  fes  euefqes  en  vn  chapelle  en- 
treir,  et  tout  nue  foun  corps  cheaft  a  lour  pees,  et  fe  confefta  tout  ouerte- 
ment,  enploraunt  de  touz  fez  pecchez,  et  la  penaunce  qils  ly  donerent 
refceus  humblement,  et  pius  crema  Dieux  par  tout  fa  vie  plus  qil  nauoit 
fait  deuaunt.  Le  roy  oift  counter  dun  prodhom,  qeftoit  abbe  de  CurafTe, 
qauoit  vn  efpirit  enclos  et  fauoit  countier  touz  chofes  auenires,  fi  maunda 
apres  ly  qi  vient  au  roy,  et  luy  mouftra  et  declara  la  faint  efcripture  et 
lapocaliplis  faint  Johan,  et  dill  qe  Criftienes  nauoint  vncor  deferui  la  tere 
faint  conquer.  "  Alias,"  fefoit  le  roy,  "  donqes  pur  quoi  fu  mus  taunt 
trauaillez  qant  Dieu  fa  terre  dez  mayns  dez  mefcreaunz  ne  voet  deliuerer 
a  ceux  qi  pur  foun  noun  et  fa  loy  enhaunfer  trauaillount?"  Et  a  ceo  re- 
fpoundiit  labbe,  qauoit  a  noun  Jonathan,  "  Lefiez,  sire  roy,  tiel  affaire, 
qar  ta  venu  moult  preift  a  Dieu,  et  molt  de  bien  te  vaudra  en  corps  et  en 


SCALACRONICA.  63 

alme,  qar  Dieux  te  dorra  vicloir  de  tez  enemys  et  toun  noun  enhaunfera 
sure  touz  lez  princes  qi  fount,  ou  ferrount,  en  terre  tancom  tu  viueras." 
Puis  dona  le  roi  as  cheualers  et  efquiers  li  larges  dounes  qe  chefcun  ly 
teint  follarge.  Puis  ala  a  la  cite  de  Catinenze,  et  y  vifita  la  toumbe 
faint  Agaz,  et  le  roy  Tanqered  qeftoit  donqes  illoeqes  ly  refceut  moult 
foi.  170.  honourablement,  et  ly  dona  iiij.  grantz  nefes  et  xv.  galeys  bien  garnys,  et 
le  roy  Richard  ly  mercia  et  ly  dona  Calibourne  le  bon  efpey  qy  full  au 
roy  Arthur.  Puis  le  roy  Tanqered  bailla  vn  bref  au  roy  Richard,  qe  le 
roy  de  Franz  ly  auoit  maunde  countenaunt  qe  le  roy  Richard  eftoit  faux 
et  treiture,  et  qil  enfreindroit  la  peife  et  lez  couenauntz  entre  eaux  faitez, 
et  retendroit  foun  auoir  a  tort,  et  sur  ceo  ly  promifl  eyde  encountre  le  roy 
Richard  pur  ly  affailer  de  nuyte,  et  ly  et  fez  gentz  deftruyer.  Qant  le 
roy  Richard  auoit  oy  cez  chos  il  eftoit  moult  coroucez,  sy  treit  vn  grant 
fufpire  et  dill,  "  Treitour  neftoit  ieo  vnqes,  ne  ne  fu,  ne  ne  ferray,  et  la 
peif  entre  nous  fait  tendray  a  touz  iours,  et  croier  ne  pufe  qe  le  roy  de 
France,  moun  seignur  de  quoi  ieo  teigne  parcel  de  mes  terres  et  a  qy 
ieo  fu  counpaignoun  en  eel  veage,  ferroit  de  moy  tiels  lettres  pur  moy  et 
mes  gentz  deftruyer  par  treifoun."  A  qi  le  roy  Tanqered,  "  Eiez  sire 
lez  lettres,  qe  le  roy  de  France  me  maunda  par  le  duk  de  Burgoygne." 
Le  roi  Richard,  qi  taunt  full  enmeruaillez,  prill  foun  counge  et  departy, 
et  qanque  il  auoit  vieu  mouftra  au  count  de  Flaundres,  et  ly  chargea 
daler  au  roy  de  France  et  ly  mouftreir  foun  bref.  Quel  quant  le  rov  de 
Fraunce  auoit  vieu,  et  le  paroles  du  count  entendu,  fi  eftoit  taunt  efbayez 
qil  ne  purroit  parler;  mais  au  darayn  dit,  "  ore  fay  de  voir  qe  le  roi 
Dengleter  quert  enchefoun  de  moy  aduerfer  par  malice  et  ad  fait  tiels 
lettres  ymaginez  par  faufyn,"  et  fe  mefla  tant  pur  poour  qil  auoit,  qe  la 
peife  entre  eaux  full  refourmez  par  mediacioun  de  touz  lez  nobles  qe  y 
eftoient,  et  ce  fait  fen  departy  et  foun  oft  et  fa  nauy  le  tierce  kalends 
Daueril,  et  fe  efploita  tant  en  fez  iournes  qil  veint  au  fege  de  Acres  le 
xxij.  iour  procheyn  fuaunt  et  demura  illoeqes  fanz  rien  faire  tanqe  le  venu 
le  roy  Richard,  qi  departift  de  Meftane  le  qart  iour  deuaunt  la  cene 
noftre  feignour,  le  fecound  ane  de  foun  regne,  od  grant  fuyfoun  dez  nefes 
et  de  galeys,  c.  et  1.  grantz  nefes  et  liij.  de  galays,  qe  pafferent  par  la 
graunt  mere  od  grant  deduit  touz  pleins  de  gentz  et  de  vitails  tanqe  le 


64  SCALACRONICA.      . 

penous  vendredy,  a  qel  iour  leua  fi  grant  temped  en  mere  qe  lez  nefes 

defparplierent.     Le  roy  Richard  oue  vn  partye  de  fez  nefes  arryua  en 

lifie  de  Creit,  et  de  illoeqes  paffa  en  lifle  de  Rodys.     Et  vn  grant  drom- 

ound  en  quel  la  royne  de  Cefile  et  la  feile  au  roy  de  Nauern  efloint,  et 

dieus  autres  grantz  dromoundes  en  queux  le  chaunceler  le  roy  et  autres 

eheualers  et  efquiers  eftoint,  noierent  deuaunt  le  port.     Et  Zacheus,  qi 

fe  fid  nomer  emperour  de  Cypre,  fill  feifer  touz  lours  biens  en  fa  main, 

et  ceaux  qi  efchaperent  viues  il  fid  enprifoner,  et  le  dromound  en  quel  la   fol.  170.  b. 

royn  edoit  ne  voloit  fuffre  ellre  en  la  port;  dount  le  roy  Richard  eftoit 

moult  corouce.     Et  fi  enuoya  au  dit  emperour  priaunt  qil  voloit  deliuerer 

lez  pelerins  oue  lours  biens,  et  lez  biens  dez  mortez  remaunder  pur  faire 

diftribucioun  pur  lour  almes.    Et  lemperour  refpoundifl  qe  cele  qil  auoit 

pris  il  le  tenderoit,  et  fi  drefia  lemperour  deuers  la  ryue  du  mere  pur  fa 

tere  defendre  oue  graunt  fuifoun  de  fez  gentz.    Le  roy  Richard  lefia  fez 

grantz  nefes  et  entra  fez  galays  et  bateaux  et  fe  drefia  enuers  fez  enemis 

oue  graunt  noumbre  dez  gentz  darmes  et  archiers,  qi  seterent  lez  setes  fi 

efpeflement  qe  nul  dez  enemys  ofaft  la  ted  leuer,  einz  tindrent  enclyne 

lour  vifages,  fez  couererent  dez  targes,  tanqe  le  bon  roy  Richard  oue  fez 

gentz  darmes  arriuerent  sure  la  terre  et  faillerent  entre  lour  enemys  et 

fererent  fi  grantz  coupes  de  lour  efpeys  et  tuerent  si  grant  fuifoun  de 

lour  gentz  qe  fi  hom  noumbreroit  lez  perfouns  lem  le  tendroit  pur  men- 

foin.     Lemperour  qi  vift  la  defcounfiture  de  fez  gentz  fuyft,  et  la  nute 

fuaunt  fe  herbegea  v.  lieus  de  illoeqes  oue  touz  fez  gentz  fuauntz,  a 

lentent  qil  purroit  relier  fez  gentz  oue  le  eyde  de  gentz  du  pays  enuyroun. 

Le  roy  Richard  purfuift  tanqe  il  fouoit  ou  ils  eftoient  herbifez,  et  veint 

sur  eaux  al  aube  du  iour,  et  tua  tretouz  fauue  lemperour  qi  efchapa 

tout  nue  oue  poy  dez  gentz ;  et  la  troua  le  roy  grant  trefor,  armurs,  che- 

ueaux,  et  autres  richefce  a  moult  grant  plente,  et  lez  plus  riches  tentes 

qil  auoit  vieu,  et  fa  baner  emperial  moult  richement  aourne  dor  et  de 

peres  precious,  la  quel  il  fid  enuoyer  a  faint  Edmound  le  roy  Dengleter. 

Le  tierce  iour  apres  vindrent  au  roy  Richard  Gy  roy  de  Jerufalem, 

Godfray  de  Liftman  foun  freir,  Rennound  prince  de  Antioche,  et  Beu- 

mound  foun  fitz  count  de  Tripol,  et  deuindrent  fez  horns,  et  ly  iuerent 

foy  et  feaute  encountre  touz  gentz.     Lemperour  de  Cipre  fe  fentid  tot 


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defcounfaillez,  fi  maunda  au  roy  Richard  priaunt  fa  peife,  et  ly  offrift  xx. 
mile  marcz  dor  et  dargent,  et  touz  lez  prifoners  qil  auoit  pris  rebailler  od 
touz  lour  biens,  et  ly  ferroit  homage  et  tendroit  de  ly  foun  empire,  et 
irroit  meifmes  ouefque  ly  a  la  terre  faint  oue  cent  chiualeris,  qatre  centz 
efquiers,  et  cynk  centz  gentz  a  pee  a  fez  collages.  Ceftez  chofis  acordes 
lemperour  veint  al  roy  et  ly  fid  feaute,  et  iura  lez  couenauntz  tenir.  Mais 
il  eltoit  faux,  qar  il  embla  de  illoeqes  et  remaunda  au  roy,  qe  de  sa  peife 
ne  de  ly  nauoit  cure.  Le  roy  Richard  bailla  party  de  foun  oft  au  roy 
fol.  171.  Gy  et  as  autres  seignours  de  Jerufalem  pur  gerroyer  le  ifle  dun  part,  et 
deuifa  fez  galeis  en  dieus  partis  pur  enuyrouner  lifle,  et  priftrent  nefes  et 
galais  par  force  qils  trouerent  oue  touz  lez  biens,  et  le  roy  meifmes  oue 
party  de  fez  gentz  paffa  dautre  part  par  tere,  et  fi  toft  com  nuls  gardeyns 
dez  cites,  chattels,  et  dez  portis,  oyerent  de  fa  venu,  ils  leflerount  lours 
lieus  et  biens  et  fuerent  as  mountaignes,  et  qant  en  lour  seignour  fuccour 
ne  trouerent  ils  deuindrent  lez  homs  au  roy  Richard  et  de  ly  tindrent  lour 
terres.  Vn  iour  aueint  qe  vn  seignour  de  la  terre  dona  counfail  a  lem- 
perour purfuir  la  peife  en  faluacioun  de  ly  et  de  fa  gent,  fi  fe  irra  lem- 
perour par  graunt  orgoil  tancom  a  manger  eftoit,  et  coupa  la  neife  du 
dit  seignour  par  foun  counfail,  qi  fen  departift  de  le  emperour  oue  touz 
lez  autres  seignours  qi  y  eftoient  et  vindrent  au  roy  Richard  et  deuin- 
drent fez  homs.  Puis  veint  le  roy  oue  fa  gent  a  la  cite  de  Nicholie  et  la 
prift  par  affaut,  et  puis  a  chattel  de  Chirin  et  la  prift,  ou  il  troua  la  feile 
de  lemperour,  qe  cheift  a  fez  peez  pur  pooure  qel  auoit,  et  le  roy  la  feifift 
par  la  mayn  et  li  la  dreffa  et  la  fift  enuoyer  a  fa  sore  la  royne,  et  erra 
taunt  par  fez  iournes  qe  touz  lez  viles  et  forterefces  de  la  terre  ly  eftoint 
renduz.  Lemperour  cheitif  et  defcounfaillez  se  voloit  muffer  en  vn  ab- 
bey, mais  qaunt  il  oyft  de  la  venu  le  roy  li  ne  fauoit  qe  faire,  tant  fuft 
chayez,  mais  com  cheitif  difcounfift  veint  au  roy  Richard  et  fe  mill  as 
genoils,  criaunt  mercy  et  mettaunt  en  fa  feignoury  vie  et  membre.  Le 
roy  ly  refceuft  et  fornift  fa  prier,  et  ly  comaunda  eftre  manicle  dez  ma- 
nicles  dore  et  dargent.  Puis  prift  tot  foun  auoir  et  la  moite  owelement 
de  touz  lez  biens  moebles  de  touz  gentz  del  ifle  de  Cipre,  dount  il  fill 
charger  touz  lez  galeis  et  nefes  qe  furent  gaignez  illoeqes.  Le  qart  iour 
en  le  semayne  de  pentecoft,  apres  ceo  qil  auoit  ordene  pur  leftablifement 


66  SCALACRONICA. 

de  la  tere,  fen  departy  de  Cipre,  et  en  poy  de  houre  vifl  deuaunt  ly  vn 
trefgrandifme  veflel  od  trois  voils  eflenduz  oue  plufours  signalis  du  roy 
de  France.  Si  maunda  a  eaux  vn  galay  pur  fauoir  dount  ils  venoient,  et 
ils  refpounderent  qe  de  Antioche  et  fen  alerent  au  roy  de  France  lour 
seignour  au  feige  de  Acres.  Et  com  les  Crifliens  lour  pria  attendre  et 
parler  au  roy  il  comencercnt  gettre  fieu,  launces,  feites.  Le  roy  qi  ceo 
vifl  lez  comaunda  prendre,  fi  lafTaillerent  et  priflrent  qanque  ils  auoint, 
qar  Sarazines  efloint;  et  en  eel  nefe  trouerent  tout  maner  darmurs  et 
autres  trefors  a  fi  grant  fumme  qe  a  meruail.  De  illoeqes  veint  le  roy  a 
Acres  au  fiege,  le  samady  de  pentecofl,  et  y  troua  le  roy  de  France  qi  fol.  171.  b. 
rien  ne  fifl  tanqe  le  venu  le  roy  Richard,  puis  le  roi  Richard  dona  au  roy 
de  Fraunce  et  as  ditez  dukes  et  barouns  de  fa  counpainy  touz  lez  pri- 
soners qil  auoit  prif  dedenz  la  grant  nefe,  qefloint  richis  durement.  Pius 
toutz  lez  Pifauns,  Geneuois,  vindrent  au  roy  Richard  et  ly  iurerent  feaute 
countre  toutz  gentz,  et  il  lez  dona  grauntz  fraunchis  a  Jerufalem,  et  con- 
ferma  par  fa  chartre  ceaux  qe  ils  auoint  deuaunt.  Puis  lez  dieus  roys 
cheierent  en  vn  grant  malady  dount  ils  efloint  en  peril  de  mort,  qar  lour 
cheueaux  cheierent  nettement,  et  qant  ils  efloient  reuigourez  le  roy  Gy 
de  Jerufalem  fifl  fa  pleynte  as  dieus  roys  qe  Coraud  luy  markis  ly  auoit 
dhTeify  de  droit  de  foun  realme,  et  fez  rentes  auoit  tollu  a  tort ;  dount 
Godfray  de  Lifynan  ietta  foun  gage  deuaunt  lez  roys  et  appella  Coraud 
de  foi  mentu,  treifoun,  et  pariury  faitz  ou  roy  Gy  foun  freir,  et  as  oftes 
des  Crifliens  de  Jerufalem.  Coraud,  qi  fen  fenti  enteche,  refufa  de  eflre 
as  iugementz  dez  rois,  et  leffa  le  gage  et  fen  departy  com  defcoumfifl,  et 
tout  le  poeple  ly  fuerent  criauntz,  "  veez  la  Coraud  ly  treitre,  qi  droit 
refufa,"  et  de  illoeqes  ala  a  la  cite  de  Tyre.  Le  roy  de  Fraunce  co- 
mencea  a  maintener  Coraud,  et  le  roy  Richard  le  roy  Gy,  dount  defcord 
leua  fouent  entre  lez  roys.  Puis  Coraud  reueint  et  le  roy  de  France  ly 
fifl  senefchal  de  foun  hoflel  et  foun  chief  counfailler,  par  qi  counfail  taunt 
fifl  countre  Dieu  qe  hount  feroit  a  countier,  qar  Coraud  des  dounes  Sa- 
ladyn  auoit  pris  et  foun  amy  eiloit  en  qanque  il  fauoit.  Le  roy  de 
Fraunce  demaunda  de  roy  Richard  la  moite  de  Cipre  et  de  qanqe  il 
auoit  gaigne  par  chemyn,  et  le  roi  Richarde  demaunda  la  moite  dez  teres 
et  moebles  le  count  de  Flaundres  qi  morufl  a  laffege,  et  dautres  qi  mu- 


SCALACRONICA.  67 

rerent  par  chemyn,  et  la  moite  de  Tyre  qe  Coraud  ly  auoit  graunte.  Mais 

lez  peticiouns  eftoient ,  et  nepurqant  acorde  fuft  entre  eaux  qe 

touz  chofes  gaignes  sure  chemyn  owelment  fuffe[n]t  departiz,  quels 
chofes  par  chartre  et  serementz  confermerent.  Lez  myneours  ne  cef- 
ferent  a  myner  puis  qe  le  roy  Richard  y  veint.  Dedenz  la  cite  vn  prud- 
hom  eftoit  qi  Criftien  eftoit  celement  pur  poour  dez  payens,  qi  fouent 
iettoit  lettres  de  Greu,  Hebreu  et  Latin  par  engyn  entre  lez  Criftiens, 
mouftraunt  le  purpos,  la  couyne,  et  toute  le(la[t]  de  la  vile,  par  quoi  lez 
Criftiens  fez  ordeynerent  plufours  foitz  le  meutz  et  maint  peril  efchuerent. 
Lez  Criftiens  enuirounerent  lour  hoftels  dun  fofle  parfounde  pur  fodeyn 
fol.  172.  affray  dez  Sarazins.  Lez  minours  le  roy  Richard  ount  tant  trauaillez  qe 
toft  apres  la  fell  faint  Johan  ils  vffent  foutzfowe  lez  mures,  et  miftrent 
fieu  dedenz  lez  pertues  qe  lez  fuppouails  dez  mures  cremirent  et  cheierent 
grant  partie,  qe  la  terre  qe  lez  fupportoit  eftoit  foundu.  Le  roy  de 
France  oue  fez  gentz  et  Templers,  Pifaners  et  Geneuoys,  alerent  pur 
affailler  lez  mures,  et  ft  perccrent  ils  lez  mures  par  force  pres  du  tour 
Maudit  et  y  voloint  auoir  entree,  mais  lez  Sarazines  lour  arefterent  ft 
fort  qe  ils  tuerent  grant  partie  dez  Fraunces,  et  ft  bien  garderent  lez 
mures  par  tout  qe  mil  ne  y  poat  entreir.  Le  roy  Richard  garda  la  foffe 
dehors  enuers  loft  Saladin,  qi  preft  gifoit  dauoir  aflemblee  sure  eaux 
adereir  si  le  roy  Richard  null  efte,  qi  ly  garda  et  ofta  par  force,  com 
acorde  fuft  entre  lez  Criftiens,  qe  com  lun  roy  irroit  as  mures  pur  affailler, 
lautre  gardoit  lez  foflez  pur  Saladyn  qi  pres  gifoit;  et  com  lun  garderoit 
les  fofles,  lauter  irroit  pur  affailler  la  vile.  Le  roy  Richard  alaft  pur  af- 
failler lez  mures,  et  tant  fill  par  pruefce  qe  le  mure  paffa  en  plufours 
lieus  et  grant  party  abatift  par  engine;  mais  taunt  eftoit  plente  dez  bones 
gentz  dedenz,  qils  defenderent  si  noblement,  qe  nul  Criftien  purroit  en- 
treir, et  fi  tuerent  dez  Sarazins  tauntz  qe  graunt  serroit  a  counter.  Au 
soir  ceffaft  laffaut,  et  lendemain  vn  party  de  lez  mures  pres  de  la  tour 
Maudit  cheit,  qe  fi  grantz  coupes  refceuft  dez  peres  de  mangounelis  qil 
ne  poat  plus  endurer  lez  coupes.  Lez  Fraunceis  veauntz  cela  fez  hafterent 
laundroites  pur  auoir  entree;  mais  lez  Sarazins  lez  baterent  ft  durement 
dez  grofes  peres  qils  tuerent  a  la  primer  venu  dez  bons  gentz  plus  qe  lx., 
et  ceaux  qi  remaindrent  retoumerent  a  lez  oftes.     A  meifme  laffege  de 


68  SCALACRONICA. 

Acres  veint  Coraud,  fitz  a  Fredrik  lcmperour  de  Rome,  apres  la  decefe 
de  foun  pier,  oue  moult  grant  fuifoun  dez  gentz,  et  tantoft  apres  fa  verm 
tiel  famyn  y  eftoit  qe  le  payn  qeftoit  vendu  pur  vn  dener  auaunt  sa  venu 
fu  vendu  pur  lx.  s.  apres,  et  la  charge  dun  cheual  de  farin  de  furment 
eftoit  venduz  pur  lxv.  marcz  de  la  mone  Dengleter.  Et  tant  encruft  le 
famyn  qe  plufours  gentz  y  perirent.  Si  veint  le  clamour  du  people  a 
Hubert  euefque  de  Salifburs,  et  as  autres  euefqes  qi  y  eftoint,  et  ils  firent 
vn  collecte  dez  deners  entre  lez  princes  et  lez  seignours  a  grant  fome  pur 
doner  a  les  poures  gentz.  Et  le  tierce  iour  apres  qe  lez  deners  furent 
coillez  et  donez  as  pours,  ft  vindrent  nefes  moult  plentiuousment  vitaillez, 
qe  furent  enuoyez  hors  de  France,  Dengleter,  et  autres  pays;  et  tantoft 
a  lour  venu  encruft  bon  marche  dez  vitails  fi  qe  la  mefure  de  furment 
qeftoit  venduz  deuaunt  lour  venu  pur  cc.  befaunz,  fuft  vendu  apres  pur  fol.  172.  b. 
vi.  befaunz.  Puis  le  qart  iour  de  Juil,  qant  lez  Criftiens  aflailerent  la 
vile  de  Acres,  lez  princes  et  lez  autres  feignours  Sarazins  qeftoint  dedenz 
offrerent  as  roys  la  dit  vile  et  touz  lour  moebles  pur  lour  fauuer  vie  et 
membre.  Lez  roys  refpounderent  qe  ft  la  terre  de  promiftloun,  et  la  faint 
croice,  et  touz  lez  prifouns  Criftiens  efteauntz  en  lour  poair,  voleint  fuf- 
rendre,  vie  et  membre  aueront,  et  ft  ceo  noun  nul  de  eaux  od  la  vie 
efchapera.  Ils  dedens  difoint  qe  si  haut  couenaunt  noferent  emprendre 
faunz  lafcent  Saladyn  lour  seignour,  si  prierent  trewes  pur  iij.  iours  pur 
foun  affent  requier,  et  il  qi  ia  ne  quidoit  eftre  fuppris  taunt  doner  ne 
voloit  pur  lez  vies  dedens  fauuer.  La  nuyte  apres  entour  my  nut  Saladyn 
od  fount  grant  oft  affailla  la  grant  foffe  la  ou  le  roy  Richard  gifoit,  fi  co- 
mencerent  lez  vns  le  foffe  empler  tancom  lez  autres  launces,  dartz,  fieu 
Grek,  et  gros  piers  getterent  en  loft.  Lez  autres  oue  arkes,  arbleftiers, 
feterent,  et  ceaux  de  la  vile  en  le  mene  temps  voloint  auoir  efchape,  tan 
com  lez  Criftiens  a  la  melle  entendoient.  Mais  ils  qi  de  lour  couyne 
fauoint  par  vn  lettre  qe  le  prodhom,  qe  ieo  vous  ay  deuaunt  dit,  entre  eaux 
gettoit  le  iour  deuaunt,  fefoint  garder  lez  mures  tot  la  nuyte  qe  nul  Sa- 
razin  pooit  iffer  fi  mort  neftoit.  Le  roy  Richard,  qauoit  eel  nuyte  la  gard 
del  foffe,  fi  le  defendoit  trenoblement  de  Saladyn  et  de  fez  gentz,  et  pafla 
le  fofi'e  la  ou  ils  le  auoint  emple  et  ferift  entre  eaux  fi  hardiement  qil  tua 
eel  nuyte  de  fa  mayn  meruailloufement  dez  enemys,  qi  tant  fill  et  fez  gentz 


SCALACRONICA.  69 

de  pruefce  qe  lez  Sarazins  furent  defcounfitz.  Le  roy  Richard  lez  fuyft 
graunt  pece,  mais  ils  qi  conuftrerent  le  pays  enuiroun  fuerent  do  nuyte, 
qar  li  iour  vfl  efte  nul  nuft  efchape.  Le  roy  Richard  od  fez  gentz  re- 
toumerent  as  odes.  Lendemain  touz  fez  seignurs  alerent  pur  veoir  lez 
mortz  es  chaumpes,  et  ne  quidoint  qe  tauntz  de  gentz  vfl'ent  efte  en  loft 
Saladyn  com  ils  trouerent  mortz.  Lendemain  apres  le  roy  Richard  alaft 
a  lez  mures  pur  affailer,  et  tant  fifi  de  pruefce  qe  grant  party  dez  mures 
eftoit  abatuz  qoi  par  myneours  qoi  par  engine,  et  plufours  gentz  furent 
tuez,  et  ils  dedenz  veauntz  qe  la  vile  deuers  ly  ne  purroient  longment 
garenter  fi  firent  enfeignes  de  peife,  et  le  roy  od  fez  gentz  fe  retreift 
tauntoft  et  alerent  a  lour  tentes  pur  repofer.  Lez  princes  de  la  cite  par 
counge  de  lez  rois  alerent  a  Saladyn  et  luy  mouftrerent  lour  mefcheffes. 
Saladyn  maunda  fez  meffageres  as  roys  et  lour  offrift  la  cite  de  Jerufalem, 
foli  173.  la  faint  croice,  et  touz  lez  cites  et  chattels  qe  il  auoit  conquys  del  main 
Gy  le  roy,  et  lez  redrefferoit  auxi  bien  com  ils  eftoient  qant  il  lez  prift, 
sur  condicioun  qe  lez  roys  ly  apreftaffent  x.  mile  gentz  darmes  et  vint  mile 
gentz  a  pee  pur  fa  tere  fauuer  encountre  le  seignour  de  la  Muce,  et  lez 
fitz  Voradin,  qe  Tekadin  foun  vncle  auoint  fouent  venqu  et  tout  fa  terre 
occupie  par  meiftrie,  et  qils  lefferount  touz  lez  gentz  de  la  vile  de  Acres 
paffer  quites.  Mais  qant  Saladin  fauoit  qe  lez  roys  ne  voloint  a  eel  prof  re 
acorder,  il  fift  tantoft  arder  touz  lez  viles,  cites,  vines,  et  arbres  portauntz 
fruit  tout  enuiroun  en  le  pays  pres  de  Acres;  et  touz  lez  cites,  viles,  et 
chattels  qe  furent  si  febles  qe  ne  purroient  eftre  tenuz  encountre  lez 
Criftiens.  II  fift  ofter  ent  lez  gentz  et  touz  lours  biens,  et  puis  lez  mures 
abatre,  et  lez  mefouns  mettre  a  fieu.  La  nute  apres  la  tretice,  tanqe  lez 
Criftiens  veillerent  deuaunt  le  tour  Maudit,  fi  virent  ils  grant  lumer.du 
ciel,  dount  ils  furent  trop  efmaiez,  tanqe  noftre  dame  faint  Marie  bele- 
ment  parla  et  dift,  "  Beaus  amys,  ne  vous  dotez,  qe  pur  falu  Monfieur 
moun  fitz  mad  cy  enuoyez;  fi  dirrez  a  lez  roys  depar  Jhesu  moun  fitz, 
qils  ceffent  deformes  lez  mures  abatre  de  la  cite,  qar  dedenz  le  quart  iour 
fuaunt  el  ferra  done  en  lez  mains  dez  Criftienes:"  et  cela  dift  fen  vanift. 
Et  tanque  noftre  dame  parla  as  Criftiens,  la  tere  dedenz  la  cite  fremift 
et  trembla,  et  taunt  de  tempeft  entre  eaux  cheoift  qe  nul  Sarazin  fe  pooit 
tenir  as  pees  et  voloint  plus  volountiers  morir  qe  viuer.     Graunt  fu  la 


70  SCALACRONICA. 

ioy  au  matin  entre  lez  Criftiens  pur  nouelis  qils  auoint  oy,  et  demurerent 

ioyauntz  et  loyantz  Dieux  tanqe  al  quart  iour  fufdit,  qeftoit  Ie  xij.  iour 

de  Jail.     A  quel  iour  lez  meftres  de  la  cite  la  renderent  a  lez  Criftienes 

od  touz  lez  biens  dedenz,  enfemblement  od  v.  c.  dez  Criftiens  qi  dedenz 

eftoint  enprifonez,  et  fiauncerent  a  lez  roys  qils  lour  ferroint  delyuerer  la 

faint  croice,  et  mile  et  v.  c.  prifoners  Criftiens,  et  ij.  centz  dez  chiualers 

lez  queux  lez  roys  voudrent  eflier  de  touz  lez  prifouns  qi  Saladin  auoit  en 

fa  gard,  et  donerent  as  roys  dieus  centz  mile  befaunz  dor,  et  demurrerent 

touz  en  oftage  par  xl.  iours  a  la  volounte  dez  roys  11  lez  couenauntz  ne 

purroint  parfournir.     Si  fefoint  lez  roys  eflier  cent  de  plus  nobles  et  plus 

richis  Sarazins  et  lez  firent  mettre  en  vn  tour  trefort  foutz  bone  garde,  et 

lez  autres  firent  garder  dedenz  la  vile  tanque  au  iour  affys,  et  touz  ceaux 

qen  le  mene  temps  fe  voloint  baptifer  lefferent  qites  aler,  et  pur  ceo 

plufours  fez  baptizerent  par  fauxe  couyne,  et  puis  pafierent  a  Saladin  et  fol.  i73.b. 

reneierent  lour  loy;  quel  chos  qant  lez  rois  auoint  aparceu  defenderent 

Sarazins  baptizere.    Puis  lez  roys  departirent  entre  eaux  la  cite  et  touz 

lez  biens,  et  monfire  Hughe  de  Goumay,  oue  cent  cheualeres  ouel  y, 

eftoint  affignez  depar  le  roy  Richard  pur  fa  part  refceyuer,  et  depar  le 

roi  de  France  a  tauntz.     Puis  Saladine  offrift  as  roys  tout  la  terre  de 

Surry  hors  pris  Bragh  de  mount  real,  qeft  dela  la  Hum  Jordan,  au  fin  qils 

ly  apprefteroient  dieus  mile  dez  gentz  darmes,  et  mille  et  v.  centz  dez 

seruauntz,  a  demurer  en  foun  feruice  pur  vn  ane  pur  la  guerre  entre  ly 

et  le  fire  de  Muce  et  lez  fitz  Voradyn,  mais  lez  roys  ne  fez  voloint  acor- 

der.    Puis  le  fire  de  Muce  et  lez  fitz  Voradyn  demanderent  dez  rois  fuc- 

cours  countre  Saladyn,  et  offrerent  grant  mafe  dor  et  dargent,  qel  lez 

roys  refuferent.     Apres  lez  countis  et  barouns  par  comune  affent  voloint 

auoir  pris  counge  dez  roys  pur  ceo  qils  tenoient  deuers  eaux  lauoir  qils 

auoint  conquys  faunz  eaux  reguerdoner.    Mais  les  roys  promiftrent  large- 

ment  et  lez  vns  poy  dona,  parount  plufours  pur  mefchief  departirent  en 

lour  pays.     Le  xxi.  iour  de  Juil,  apres  ceo  qe  le  roy  Richard  full  entree 

en  la  cite  et  fe  herbifa,  le  roi  de  France  maunda  a  ly  qil  penfa  daler  en 

foun  pays.    Le  roy  Richard  refpoundift  qe  grant  hount  ferroit  a  tiel  roys 

fi  toft  de  ycy  aler  faunz  plus  del  bofoigne  a  cheuir  pur  quel  nous  fumes 

venuz,  nepurqant  fil  fe  fceut  maladez,  ou  fe  dout  morir  en  cell  pays,  face 


SCALACRONICA.  71 

fa  volounte.  Le  count  de  Champaigne,  qauoit  defpendu  qanqe  il  auoit, 
a  qi  le  roi  de  France  ne  voroit  rien  apreftre  fanz  Champaigne  engager, 
veint  au  roy  Richard  et  il  ly  aricha  de  foun  auoir  largement.  Puis  grant 
defcorde  leua  entre  lez  dieus  roys  pur  ceo  qe  le  roy  de  France  a  dona 
Coraud,  marchiz  de  Mountferard,  la  moite  de  la  cite  de  Acres  et  la  moite 
de  touz  lez  cites  qe  furent  a  conquer,  ly  penfaunt  faire  roy  de  la  terre 
faint,  pur  ceo  qil  eftoit  marie  a  la  feile  le  roy  Almarice,  sore  a  la  femme 
le  roy  Gy  de  Jerufalem,  qe  mort  eftoit.  Et  le  roy  Richard  mouftra  par 
droit  qe  le  roy  Gy  deueroit  auoir  reftitucioun  du  realme  dount  il  eftoit 
oftez,  qi  a  tant  gentz  de  fez  enemys  ne  poout  countre  eftre,  einz  full  pris 
com  prodhom  od  la  croice  faint  et  fez  horns  prilis  et  tuez,  "  pur  quoy  me 
femble  qe  tort  ferroit  autre  roy  a  coroner  qi  tant  ad  fuffert  de  paine  pur 
la  loy  Criftiene."  Puis  par  leide  du  roy  Richard  acorde  fut  qe  le  roy  Gy 
fol.  174.  aueroit  le  realme  a  tout  fa  vie,  et  pius  a  Sebille  la  femme  Coraud  de- 
fcenderoit  par  heritage.  Autre  foitz  le  roy  de  Fraunce  prift  foun  counge 
pur  alere  en  foun  pays,  le  roy  Richard  le  confcenty,  li  iura  le  roy  de 
France  veauntz  lez  seignours  qi  la  eftoient  qil  garderoit  bien  et  loyal- 
ment  touz  fez  terres  et  fez  homs,  faunz  damage,  tort,  ou  greuaunce  faire 
ou  foeffre  eftre  fait  a  nuls  de  eaux  tanqe  a  fa  venu  en  foun  pays.  Le 
xxi.  iour  de  Juil  departift  le  roy  de  France  de  Acres  et  fen  ala  a  la  cite 
de  Tyre,  et  meifme  le  iour  le  roy  Richard  dona  al  prince  de  Antioche  v. 
grofes  nefes  chargez  de  touz  maners  dez  vitaillis  et  armurs,  pur  ly  de- 
fendre  encountre  lez  Sarazins.  Puis  Saladin  maunda  au  roy  Richard 
trefriches  dounes,  priaunt  qil  eloigneroit  le  iour  qe  lez  gentz  de  Acres 
auoient  pris  ouefque  ly  pur  la  faintifme  croice  a  deliuerer,  et  autres  coue- 
nauntz  pur  quex  ils  demurerent  en  hoftage,  et  fi  lez  gentz  voleit  mettre 
al  mort  faunz  defport  il  ferroit  au  tiel  de  touz  lez  Criftiens  qil  auoit  en 
foun  poair.  Le  roy  Richard  refufa  fez  dounes,  et  remaunda  qe  au  iour 
affys  il  ferroit  tuer  touz  fez  hoftage  si  lez  condiciouns  entre  eaux  taillez 
ne  teniffoient.  Saladyn  ly  cruel,  qi  de  pite  nauoit  cure,  fill  mener  deuaunt 
ly  touz  lez  Criftiens  qeftoint  prifouns  en  foun  poair,  et  fill  couper  lour 
teftes  le  xviij.  iour  de  Auguft.  Et  meifme  le  iour  fi  toft  com  le  roy 
Richard  oft  la  nouel,  moua  fez  hoftz  enuers  Saladyn,  et  fez  entre  hurte- 
rent  dez  efpeis  et  launces  si  trefdurement  qe  plufours  cheierent  mortz 


72  SCALACRONICA. 

dun  part  et  dautre,  et  entrecombaterent  durement,  qe  lez  Criftiens  tue- 
rent  dez  Sarazins  a  graunt  fuifoun.  Saladyn  qi  vift  qe  fez  gentz  ne  pur- 
roint  countreporter  la  pruefce  dez  Engles,  guerpift  le  chaump  et  fen  fuift 
ignelement.  Et  le  roy  Richard  toft  apres,  ceft  a  fauoir  le  xx.  iour  Dau- 
guft,  fift  prendre  touz  lez  Sarazins  de  la  cite  de  Acres  et  lez  fill  amener 
en  vn  lieu  bien  pres  ou  Saladyn  auoit  relye  fez  gentz  et  aflemble  foun 
oft,  et  fift  couper  touz  lour  teftes,  veauntz  touz  lez  Sarazins,  et  furent 
mortz  v.  mile,  qe  furent  tretouz  efcorchez  et  troue  fu  dedens  lours  corps 
graunt  fome  dez  florins  dore,  et  entre  eaux  eftoint  trefgrant  seignours  et 
richis  qi  donerent  au  roy  vn  trefgrandifme  fome  dore  pur  lours  vies  fauuer. 
Puis  le  xxvi.  iour  de  Auguft,  le  roy  Richard  ala  sure  la  ryue  du  mere  od 
tout  foun  graunt  oft  enuers  Joppen,  et  fez  nefes  alerent  encountre  ly  par 
mere,  et  Saladyn  od  tout  foun  oft  fe  teint  bien  pres  pur  lour  chemyn  de- 
ftourber,  nepurqaunt  le  roy  pafia  od  fort  mayn  tanqe  a  lez  eftroites  du 
mere;  et  la  prift  le  roy  le  primer  efchel,  et  le  duk  de  Burgoin  le  tierce. 
Et  qant  le  roy  eftoit  eirt  paffe  fi  defcendift  Saladyn  od  foun  oft  de  la 
mountaigne  ou  il  eftoit,  et  ferift  entre  lez  gentz  le  duk  de  Burgoigne  et 
lez  comenfa  tuer  a  grant  fuyfoun,  tanque  lez  nouelis  vindrent  au  roy 
Richard  qeftoit  deuaunt,  et  il  retouma  ignelement  et  fift  refcoufe  au  duk 
et  tuerent  de  fez  gentz  en  areft  plus  qe  v.  mile,  faunz  ceaux  qi  sure  la 
chace  eftoint  tuez.  Et  ceo  fait  retourna  le  roy  en  foun  chemyn  qil  auoit 
enpris,  fi  veint  a  Joppen  et  lafferma,  et  puis  fen  ala  a  Alkaloun,  et  puis 
au  chaftelle  de  Planis,  et  au  chaftel  de  Mahew,  lez  queux  viles  et  chaftelis 
Saladyn  auoit  abatu  a  la  terre,  et  le  bon  roy  Richard  lez  fift  redreffer  et 
affermer;  et  demurra  a  Joppen  tanque  a  le  Nowel,  et  apres  Nowel  prift 
purpos  pur  aler  a  Jerufalem  pur  lafleger.  Mais  le  duk  de  Burgoin  et  toz 
lez  autres  Frances  fez  excuferent,  et  difoint  qe  fi  il  ne  lour  voloit  touz  lour 
collages  trouer  ils  ne  irroint  mees  ouefque  ly,  qar  le  roy  de  France,  lour 
seignour,  lour  auoit  comaund  haftier  en  lour  pays.  Et  pur  ceo  qe  le  roy 
Richard  ne  ceo  voloit,  ne  ne  pooit  faire,  touz  lez  Fraunceis  fez  alerent  hors 
de  fa  counpaigny.  Et  en  le  qarrefme  procheyn,  ceft  a  fauoir  Ian  de  noftre 
Seignour  mile,  c.  iiij.xx  et  [x]ij.,  le  roy  Richard  afferma  le  Blanc  warde, 
Galafie,  et  Gafer,  qeftoit  le  iij .  ane  de  foun  regne.  Et  apres  le  pafche  il  che- 
uaucha  el  pais  enuyroun,  et  fift  coiller  toz  lez  bleez  qe  mures  eftoint  es  lez 


SCALACRONICA.  73 

chaumps  a  eel  temps,  et  fift  vitailler  fez  viles  et  chattels  qil  auoit  afferme, 
et  demura  en  Alkalon  tanque  al  Pentecoft,  et  donqes  il  ala  a  vn  chattel 
qad  a  noun  Daron,  qe  eft  trefort  et  bien  aflys  sure  le  flume  de  Eufratyn, 
et  y  demurra  v.  iours,  et  gaigna  le  chaftel  par  affaut  et  troua  dedenz  mile 
et  v.c  dez  Sarazins  viuauntz.  Et  en  foun  chemyn  laundroites  il  prift 
xxiiij.  richis  Sarazins  et  vn  renoyez,  li  quel  il  fift  lier  a  vn  arbu  et  fetter 
a  la  mort.  Et  puis  il  dona  le  chaftel  de  Daron  a  Henry  count  de  Cham- 
payn  foun  neuew,  qauoit  efpofe  la  femme  Coraud  ly  marchis,  qeftoit 
tuez  par  ij.  homs  qeftoient  venuz  du  roy  Daflaffis  qi  moult  priuez  eftoient 
enuers  le  dit  Coraud,  et  fi  eftoint  ils  pris  pur  eel  treifoun  et  lun  auoit  la 
tefte  coupe  et  lautre  tout  viue  efcorche :  et  reconuftrerent  oiaunt  tout  le 
poeple  qe  la  mort  Coraud  auoit  le  roy  Daflaffis  purchacee  par  long 
temps,  et  nepurqaunt  le  [roy]  de  France  difoit  et  touz  les  Fraunces  qe 
ceo  eftoit  par  counfail  du  roy  Richard,  et  enfy  counta  le  roy  de  Fraunce 
fol.  175."  al  apoftoil  et  as  touz  lez  cardinalis,  et  difoit  auxi  as  eaux  qe  le  roy 
Richard  eftoit  trop  faux  et  trefmauueys,  et  qil  ly  fift  aler  de  la  terre  faint 
et  pria  lapoftoil  abfolucioun  du  ferement  qe  il  auoit  freint.  Mais  le 
pape,  qi  bien  fauoit  qe  le  roy  de  France  difoit  par  enuy,  ft  ne  ly  voloit 
aflbudre.  Le  count  de  Chaumpayn,  qauoit  efpofe  la  femme  Coraud, 
eftoit  eilieu  roi  de  Jerufalem,  et  le  roy  Gy  ly  rendift  fus  foun  eftat  a  la 
requeft  le  roy  Richard,  qi  ly  dona  la  terre  de  Cypre  a  terme  de  fa  vie  a 
tenyre  de  ly,  et  qe  apres  fa  mort  la  terre  remeindreroit  au  roy  Richard 
et  as  fez  heyres  a  touz  iours,  et  sure  ceo  ly  mill  en  peifible  pofleffioun. 
Apres  ceo  qe  ly  roy  Richard  fe  adreffa  vers  Jerufalem  et  veint  a  Betnoble 
et  fift  vn  cheuauche  deuers  Jerufalem,  fi  encountra  sodeignement  xij. 
mile  dez  Sarazins  eflieuz  pur  mener  vitailles  deuers  Jerufalem,  fi  veint 
entre  eaux  et  la  vile  et  lez  aflTailit  et  prift  de  eaux  qanqe  ils  auoint  et  lez 
tua  tretouz,  si  nauoit  en  fa  coumpaigny  qe  v.  mile  de  tout  maner  de 
gent,  et  il  auoit  illoeqes  iiij.  mile  dez  camailles  chargez  dez  vitails,  et 
iiij.  mile  dez  cheueaux  et  mules;  si  rendift  gracez  a  Dieux  et  fe  retour- 
naft  a  Betnoble  ou  il  trouaft  le  duk  de  Burgoyne  et  touz  lez  Fraunces 
qeftoient  departis  de  ly  a  Joppen,  et  ceo  pur  hount  dez  iournes  qe  le  roy 
auoit  hu  puis  lour  departir.  Si  fe  counfailla  le  roy  entre  touz  fez  gentz 
daffeger  Jerufalem,  et  fe  offrift  iurer  sure  faintes  euangelis  iammes  de 

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74  SCALACRONICA. 

laffege  departir  tancom  il  auoit  cheual  ou  autre  bed  a  manger  fi  la  vile 
ne  fuft  auaunt  rendu  ou  gaygne  par  force,  et  pria  as  Franceis  qils  fefoient 
autre  tiel,  et  ils  difoint  qe  certaynement  ils  ne  voloint,  fi  fen  retournerent 
enuers  lour  pays  et  fen  alerent  a  Tire,  et  la  moruft  le  duk  de  Burgoigne 
et  plufours  dez  grantz  seignours  dedenz  lez  viij.  iours  apres  lour  venu. 
Le  roy  Richard  qi  trop  poy  de  genz  auoit  pur  la  vile  affeger  fi  fe  retourna 
a  Acres.  Et  Saladyn  defcendift  dez  mountez  et  enfegea  Joppen,  qe  ly 
eftoit  rendu  pur  vie  et  membre  as  Criftiens  fauuer.  Le  roy  Richard, 
qant  celt  nouel  auoit  oy,  fi  bailla  foun  ofl  a  Henry  de  Champayn,  roy  de 
Jerufalem,  de  y  aler  par  terre,  et  il  meifmes  od  vij.  galays  ala  par  eau 
et  la  tierce  nuyte  veint  a  Joppen  et  entra  en  le  chattel  qe  neftoit  pas 
vnqor  renduz,  et  fe  repofa  vn  poy  et  conforta  fez  gentz,  et  fift  ouerer  lez 
portez  et  iffift  erraument  encriaunt  fez  enfeignes,  et  ferifl  en  le  oft  Sala- 
dyn qen  le  vile  eltoit  herbifez,  et  tuerent  tretouz  qi  eaux  voloint  attendre, 
et  lez  autres  fen  fuerent  de  la  vile  et  nepurqant  grant  fuyfoun  de  richis 
gentz  fez  renderent.  Et  enfi  fuft  la  cite  deliuers  dez  mains  dez  Sarazins  fol.  173  b. 
et  moult  enrich  ez  dez  biens  qe  la  leffoint,  et  dedenz  trois  iours  apres 
Saladyn  maunda  au  roy  Richard  qil  voloit  combatre  ouefque  ly  et  a  foun 
iour  affis  il  fe  retreoit,  et  maunda  au  roy  Richard  derechief  qil  ly  rendroit 
touz  fez  defpens  qil  auoit  fait  pur  redreffer  Afkalon  et  sure  ceo  il  voloit 
doner  ferme  pefe  as  Criftiens  pur  iij.  auns  et  demy,  pur  aler,  venir,  et 
demurrer  en  la  terre  de  promiffioun  faunz  vile  prendre  ou  embler  en  le 
mene  temps  sil  ly  rendroit  la  dit  cite  de  Afkalon  en  tiel  plite  com  il  la 
troua.  Le  roy  Richard,  qi  ankes  fe  fentift  maladez  et  fez  gentz  moult 
trauaillez  et  lauoir  qil  auoit  eftoit  defpendu,  prift  lez  condiciouns  qe 
Saladyn  ly  ofhift.  A  vij.  iours  apres  lez  trewes  prifes  fe  feift  Saladyn, 
et  apella  deuaunt  ly  plufours  dez  grantz  seignours  et  parla  de  la  gere 
qe  tant  auoit  durre,  et  difoit  qe  le  roy  Richard  eftoit  fi  prus  et  fi  vail- 
launt  de  foun  corps  qe  fi  vn  bon  roi  auoit  tiels  mile  cheualers  il  con- 
queroit  et  mettroit  en  fubieccioun  tout  le  mound ;  et  difoit  qen  ly  nauoit 
vice  ne  teche  mil  de  mal,  fi  noun  largefce  et  hardiement,  dount  il  auoit 
trop  a  ceo  qe  li  eftoit  auys.  A  meifme  eel  nuyte  alaft  le  roy  Richard 
[et]  1.  dez  cheualers  vifiter  vn  faint  heremit  qi  demurra  en  vn  roche  sure 
la  mount  faint  Samuel,  qi  auoit  vn  efpirit  de  propheci  et  vnqes  nauoit 


SCALACRONICA.  75 

iflu  de  (bun  cauerne,  ne  manger  fi  noun  herbes  et  racyns,  et  rien  bull  fi 
eau  noun,  ne  autre  couertour  auoint  a  foun  corps  11  noun  fa  barbe  et  fez 
cheuex  pufque  lez  Sarazins  auoint  entree  la  terre  de  promiffioun  et  la 
feintifme  croice  feife.  Si  parla  benignement  au  roy,  et  difoit  qe  vnquor 
neftoit  pas  le  terme  venu  qe  Dieux  voloit  foun  poeple  taunt  fanclifier  qe 
la  faint  terre  et  la  feintifme  croice  voroit  refeyfer  en  lez  mains  dez  Crif- 
tiens,  pius  ofta  vn  pere  de  fa  caue,  et  treit  vn  croice  de  futh  hors  dun 
partus  qeltoit  vn  party  de  la  faint  croice,  et  la  bailla  au  roy  Richard,  et 
difoit,  "  huy  a  viij.  iours  me  coueint  paffer  du  fiecle,  et  pur  ceo  noltre 
Seignour  voet  qe  vous  eiez  cefl  relique,  qi  moult  auez  fuffert  peyn  et 
trauail  pur  famour."  Le  roy  fe  mill  as  genolis  et  prill  la  croice  reuer- 
entement  et  menaft  ly  prodhom  a  foun  oft,  et  ly  gardait  tanqe  a  le  vij. 
iour  en  quel  il  moruft,  ficom  il  auoift  deuaunt  counte. 

Apres  ceo  le  xx.  iour  Dodlobre,  qant  le  roy  Richard  auoit  oy  dez 
mauuetez  qe  le  roy  de  France  parla  de  ly  et  de  foun  chaunceler  engetu 
de  foun  office,  et  de  Johan  foun  freir  qi  plufours  de  fez  chaftellis  auoit 
pris  par  vfurpacioun,  et  tout  fa  tere  enforcea  prendre  et  tenir, — fi  leffa 
fol.  176.  tout  foun  oft  oue  le  roy  de  Jerufalem  pur  amener  en  Engleter  fa  femme 
Berenger,  la  feil  le  roy  de  Nauern,  qe  fa  mere  Elianor  ly  auoit  amene, 
la  quel  il  efpofa  en  eel  faintifme  veage,  et  il  meifmes  entra  vn  grant  nefe 
et  comenfaft  pafler  en  foun  pays,  iffi  qe  au  fine  du  moys  aryua  en  lifle 
de  Couerfew  et  la  entra  il  vn  petit  nefe  et  naugea  tanqe  il  vift  trois 
galays  en  Romayn,  queux  il  allua  pur  cc.  marcz  tanque  a  Ragufe,  en 
queux  il  fill  fez  gentz  entreir.  De  illoeqes  aryua  a  Ragufe  et  illoeqes 
fe  tient  coyement  et  auoit  le  barbe  et  cheueux  longis  et  veftu  eftoit  a  la 
gyfe  de  peleryne,  et  lez  gentz  du  pays  auoint  fufpecioun  qil  eftoit  le  roy 
Richard  par  caufe  de  fez  grantz  defpens,  et  si  counpafierent  entre  eaux 
de  ly  prendre  et  amener  al  emperour  qi  ly  heioit  moult,  et  fure  ceo  le 
roy  eftoit  garny  et  comaunda  fez  gentz  a  demurrer  illoeqes  par  iiij.  iours 
et  defpendre  plus  largement  qil  nauoint  deuant,  et  il  foul  oue  vn  cheua- 
lere  mounterent  cheueaux  et  au  nuyte  prill  foun  chemyn,  et  tant  erra 
par  fez  iournes  qe  il  vient  a  vn  villete  pres  de  Viene  en  Oftrik,  ou  il  fe 
repofa  et  dormift  sure  vn  lyte  tanqe  foun  bacheler  ala  pur  viaunde 
achatre,  qeftoit  conu  par  vn  dez  seruauntz  le  duk  qi  ly  fill  prendre  et 


76  SCALACRONICA. 

amenere  deuaunt  foun  seignour  qi  pres  eftoit,  et  puis  enfercherent  la  vilet 
ou  grant  fuifoun  dez  gentz  11  trouerent  le  bon  roi  dormaunt  et  ly  priftrent 
et  renderent  al  duk  Humbald,  qi  ly  teint  tanque  lemperour  Henry  ly 
achata  pur  feffaunt  mile  liuers  dargent  del  poys  de  Coloigne  et  ly  co- 
maunda  mettre  en  fauf  garde  en  la  cite  de  Tranans  ou  il  eltoit  grant 
pece,  tanqe  Willam  foun  chaunceler  et  labbe  de  Cluny  fuerent  pur  fa 
delyueraunz.  La  caufe  pur  quoi  le  duke  de  Oflris  fill  prendre  le  roy 
Richard,  lez  cronicles  deuifent  qe  a  laffaut  de  Acres  le  ditt  duk  fuoit 
pres  le  roy  Richard  pur  conquer  pris,  ou  al  entree  dez  mures  la  baner 
du  dit  duk  eftoit  aracez  et  abatuz,  le  quel  ceo  full  par  auenture  ou  par 
comaundement  le  roy  ne  full  pas  fcieu,  pur  quoy  et  pur  autres  parolis 
fources  entre  le  dit  roy  et  ly  il  fen  departift  deuers  foun  pays,  penfaunt 
de  foy  venger  si  iammes  verroit  houre  ou  temps.  Eftoit  vn  iour  amene 
deuaunt  lemperour  et  plufours  dez  grantz  seignours  de  Allemayne,  ou 
lemperour  ly  arefona  du  tort  qil  auoit  fait  a  foun  cofyn  de  Cypre,  et  du 
roy  de  Cefile,  et  de  la  mort  Coraud  ly  marchis,  et  de  treifoun  et  mau- 
ueys  port  enuers  le  roy  de  Fraunce  counpaffaunt  fa  mort.  Le  roy 
Richard  refpoundift  a  qanqe  ly  grant  fires  auoit  dit  et  fe  excufa  fi  fage- 
ment  qe  tretoz  lez  seignours  ly  tindrent  nettement  pur  excufe,  et  lem- 
perour meifmes  fe  meruailla  moult  du  grant  fauoir  et  eloquence  qe  le 
roy  auoit  en  taunt  aduerfite,  fi  ly  teint  moult  a  honourer:  fi  fe  dreffa  en 
efteaunt  et  prill  le  roy  par  la  mayn  et  ly  bayfa  fouent  et  ly  fill  seer  pres 
de  ly  et  moult  ly  honoura.  Apres  ceo  le  roy  Dafiafis  maunda  fez  lettres 
as  plufours  grantz  seignours  Criftiens  excufaunt  le  roy  Richard  de  la 
mort  Coraud  ly  marchis,  tefmoignaunt  qil  meifmes  ly  auoit  fait  tuer  pur 
vn  foun  freir  qi  Coraud  auoit  tue  deuaunt  en  la  cite  de  Tire  et  robbe  de 
grant  auoir.  Apres  ceo  le  roy  Richard  pur  fa  deliueraunce  haftier,  dount 
il  eftoit  defefpoirez,  par  le  counfail  Elianor  fa  mere  fe  deueftill  de  foun 
realme  et  le  rendift  es  mains  de  lemperour,  et  lemperour  ly  redona  par 
vn  double  croice  dor  lez  reams  de  Irland  et  Dengleter,  rendaunt  pur 
Engleter  cinqant  mile  liuers  par  ane  en  noun  de  tribut,  quel  chos  full 
releiTe  deuaunt  la  mort  lemperour. 

Lane  du  regne  le  roy  Richard  quart  Johan  foun  freir  fill  homage  au 
roy  de  France  pur  Normendy  et  autres  terres  qe  le  roy  Richard  auoit  en 


SCALACRONICA.  77 

le  realm  de  Fraunce,  et  veint  a  Loundres  et  demaunda  feruice  Dengleter 
com  roy,  qar  il  difoit  qe  foun  freir  eftoit  mort ;  mais  les  Engles  ne  fe 
uoroint  eroier.  Apres  la  deliueranz  du  roy  Richard,  qeftoit  taillez  en  ceft 
fourme,  cell  a  fauoire,  qe  le  roy  durroit  cent  mile  marcz  del  poys  de 
Coloigne,  et  troueroit  al  emperor  1.  galeis  od  tout  lour  apparail,  et  cc. 
cheualers  daler  en  foun  feruice  per  vn  ane  entier,  ou  il  doroit  pur  eel 
feruice  1.  mile  marcz.  Quel  chos  com  le  roy  de  France  oift  maunda  fez 
lettres  a  Johan  le  freir  le  roy  Richard  qil  fe  garderoit  bien  qar  le  deable 
eftoit  deliez.  Puis  maunderent  amdeaux  a  lemperour  qil  voloint  encieffer 
la  fome  qe  le  roy  Richard  durroit  daffeitz,  au  fin  qil  ly  voloit  tenir  en 
perpetuel  prifoun,  ou  vendre  foun  corps  au  roy  de  France,  quel  chos  lem- 
perour refufa.  Puis  remaunderent  lours  lettres  al  emperour,  qils  voloint 
doner  qatre  vintz  mile  marcz  pur  tenir  le  roy  en  prifoun  tanque  a  la  saint 
Michel,  ou  cent  mile  liuers  pur  luy  tenir  en  prifoun  par  vn  ane.  Lem- 
perour eiloigna  le  iour  tanque  al  purificatioun  noltre  dame,  a  quel  iour 
il  prift  lez  lettres  et  mefi'ageirs  le  roy  de  France  et  de  Johan  foun  freir, 
et  meifmes  lez  lettres  il  bailla  au  roy  Richard  pur  lire,  lez  queux  lieus  et 
entenduz  fi  fe  abayft  le  roy  moult  et  fe  defefpoira  de  sa  deliueraunce. 
Mais  lez  seignurs  Dalmayne,  qi  fez  auoint  melle  de  fa  deliueraunce, 
blamerent  moult  lemperour  pur  la  couaitife  qil  penfa  faire,  si  firent  ils 
taunt  qe  le  roy  eftoit  deliuers,  et  leffa  en  oftage  le  erceuefque  de  Rowan, 
leuefque  de  Bath,  Baudewyn  Wake,  et  plufours  dez  fitz  dez  countis  et 
barouns  de  foun  pays,  et  grant  fome  de  deners  paia  qe  ly  eftoint  enuoye 
hors  Dengleter,  qar  lez  euefqes  auoint  fait  leuer  de  chefcun  fee  de  che- 
ualer  a  fa  raunfoun  xx.  s,  et  la  qart  partie  dez  laies  gentz,  et  touz  lez 
chalices  et  trefors  de  faint  eglis,  et  le  quart  partie  de  touz  lez  rentis  de 
faint  eglis,  et  les  anelis  dez  euefqes,  et  tout  la  layn  dez  gris  moignes,  et 
de  touz  lez  terres  qeftoint  demurez  en  la  feyfine  le  roy  Richard,  dount  il 
eitoit  durement  enrichez.  Si  departift  hors  de  prifoun  lemperour  le  iour 
deuaunt  les  nones  de  Feuerer,  ou  il  auoit  demure  par  vn  ane  et  vi.  se- 
mains  et  iij.  iours.  Si  veint  al  Swyn  en  Flaundres,  qauoit  apoy  efte 
repris  par  lez  gentz  lemperour,  qi  moult  poifa  qil  ly  auoifl  fi  legerement 
leffe  pafler.  Vn  cheualer  de  Allemayn,  qy  oue  le  roy  Richard  veint  en 
Engleter,  aparfu  la  noblefce  de  la  terre  et  la  grant  taillage  qe  la  comune 


78  SCALACRONICA. 

auoint  grante  au  deliueraunce  le  roy,  si  dit  au  roy  qe  li  le  emperour  auoit 
conu  la  maner  qil  null  pas  elle  delyuers  fi  legerement.  Si  veint  en  En- 
gleter,  et  ofta  Johan  foun  freir  de  touz  lez  terres  et  honours  qil  ly  auoit 
done,  et  eltablilt  fa  terre  en  pees  par  bons  loys  et  jugementz  qil  fefoit, 
mellaunt  tout  foitz  mercy  od  droiture ;  li  elloit  coronez  de  nouel  a  Win- 
cellre,  ou  le  roy  Willam  Defcoce  full  prefent. 

En  meifm  le  temps  Dauid  count  de  Huntyngdoun,  le  freir  le  roy  Wil- 
lam Defcoce,  prill  en  efpous  la  feil  Hugh  count  de  Cellre.  Efteuen, 
vn  qi  full  procuratour  et  lieutenaunt  le  roy  en  Aungeow,  fe  fill  fire  du 
pays,  en  efpoir  qe  le  roy  Richard  ne  venift  de  la  terre  faint,  par  counfail 
dun  nigremancien  et  du  deable,  qe  luy  promift  la  gouernail  du  pays  par 
fa  vie,  et  qil  ne  murrerafl  deuaunt  qil  venift  en  vn  certain  lieu  ly  full 
nome  en  fallace,  par  qoi  il  full  defcieu  fi  moruft  cheitiuement. 

Apres  le  roi  fill  affembler  a  Portefmothe  cent  nefes  grantz  et  les  fill 
bien  adreffer  de  toutez  chos,  et  entra  dedenz  a  grant  fuifon  dez  gentz 
darmes,  et  arriua  a  Barflet ;  et  fi  toft  com  le  roy  de  France,  qelloit  au 
fiege  de  Vernoun,  oyll  de  sa  venu,  fen  fuy  ignelement,  et  lalla  qanqe  il 
auoit  dez  tentes  et  vitails.  Mais  poy  apres  maunda  au  roy  Richard  es 
champs  ou  il  gefoit  qil  ly  voroit  viliter.  Et  le  roi  Richard  remaunda  qil 
ly  attendroit  com  cely  qi  sa  venu  moult  defiroit,  et  fil  ne  veufift  au  iour 
affys  qil  ly  vendroit  viliter  lendemain  faunz  taryer.  Au  iour  aflys  le  roy 
de  Fraunce  ne  veint  pas,  et  le  roy  Richard  qi  meutz  voroit  murrir  qe 
failler  de  ceo  qil  auoit  dit,  fi  fe  drefla  deuers  le  roy  de  France  erraue- 
ment,  qi  fuift  com  de  fa  venu  oill ;  nepurqant  plufours  de  fez  gentz  furent 
tuez  et  foun  treforer  et  touz  lez  cariages  prifes.  Si  retourna  le  roy  fol.  i77.b. 
Richard  a  foun  lieu,  et  troua  dedens  vn  huche  qil  auoit  pris  tous  lez 
lettres  et  couenauntz  de  toz  fez  gentz  qe  aliaunce  auoint  fait  encountre 
au  roy  de  Fraunce.  Johan  le  freir  le  roy  veint  au  roy  Richard  com  il 
elloit  en  fa  gere  en  Normendy,  fe  humilia  a  ly  enqiraunt  fa  grace  et 
pardoun  de  fez  trefpafes ;  a  qy  le  roy  refpoundy,  "  beau  freir,  ceo  qe  tu 
as  trefpafe  qant  a  moy  foient  mys  en  vblie,  iffi  qe  deuers  vous  foint  en 
memoir,"  et  del  hour  en  auaunt,  le  dit  Johan  fe  conteint  cheualeroufe- 
ment  en  la  gere  le  roy  foun  freir.  En  eel  temps  vengeauns  de  Dieu 
cheift  sure  le  duke  de  Ollriz  et  fez  gentz  par  famine  et  pellilence,  fi 


SCALACRONICA.  79 

perdy  le  duk  foun  pee  par  mefchaunz,  puis  moruft  de  mal  mort,  auaunt 
reioy  foun  peche,  et  toz  lez  oftages  qil  auoit  pur  la  fome  de  raunfoun  le 
roy  Richard  neint  pave  leffa  quitement  paffer.  Puis  le  roy  de  France 
maunda  xv.  gentz  Hauntafifez  dauoir  tue  le  roy  Richard  par  treifoun, 
mais  le  roy  de  ceo  aperfu  lez  fift  decoller. 

Le  ix.  ane  du  reyne  le  roy  Richard  le  roy  de  France  cheuaucher  fus 
la  terre,  tanque  le  roy  Richard  luy  encountra  en  plain  chaumpe,  et  fez 
entrecombaterent  iffint  qe  grant  party  dez  Franceis  furent  mortz.  Le 
roy  de  France  fuift,  et  fe  mid  dedenz  vn  foun  chattel  qe  fores  eftoit.  Le 
roi  Richard  ly  fuift  iefqes  a  lentre  et  ia  nuft  iffu  fi  par  faux  trewes  noun. 
Apres  ceo  entrecoumbaterent  oue  lour  oftes,  ou  plofours  cheierent  dez 
Franceis  et  le  roy  de  France  fe  retrey  ignelement  vers  Gifors,  et  com  il 
afcendi  le  pount  od  tantz  dez  gentz  qe  ly  enfuerent  fi  brifa  et  chey  en 
leau,  ou  furount  noiez  plus  qe  ieo  ne  vous  fai  counter,  et  le  roy  meifmes 
pur  poi  noie  si  lez  gentz  de  la  vile  ne  luy  huffent  hors  treit  qe  a  graunt 
mefchief  ly  treierent  hors  del  eau  demy  mort.  A  eel  iournee  tua  le  roy 
Richard  meifmes  iij.  cheualers  dun  launce ;  et  furent  prifis  illoeqes  dez 
grantz  seignurs  xliiij.,  et  c.  cheualers,  et  cent  cheueaux  couerez  de  fere 
qi  auoint  leffe  lour  meiftres  gefant  es  champes,  et  fi  grant  fome  dez 
comunes  eftoint  tuez  qe  nul  nel  croierent  bien.  Apres  ceo  le  roy  Richard 
acheua  deuers  lez  Franceis  plufours  batailles,  poynies  de  gere,  cheuau- 
ches,  refcous,  affautes  dez  viles  et  chaftelis,  et  tout  plain  dautres  noblis 
faites  darmes,  qe  fount  efcriptz  en  lez  geftes  Dengleter,  lez  queux  nomer 
et  diuifer  ferroit  trop  long  acountre.  Mais  courtement  aparler,  le  roy 
de  France  tout  foitz  qant  il  auoit  a  faire  ouefque  le  roi  Richard  de  gere 
il  full  defcounfift  et  fuift,  et  tout  enfi  fefoient  toz  lez  Franceis  qe  nul  de 
eaux  ne  ly  ofaft  encountrere.  Cefti  roy  Lowys  de  France  getta  par  totes 
fol.  178.  lez  vois  qil  fauoit  ymaginer  a  damager  le  roy  Richard,  si  enuoya  fes  mef- 
fagers  au  roi  de  Denemark  en  demaundant  fa  feille  en  mariage  od  le 
droit  auncien  qe  lez  Danoys  claimerent  en  Engleter,  la  quel  pucel  ly  fuft 
enuoye  od  grant  foume  dargent,  et  en  efpoir  de  eel  relef  auoir  apres  la 
prift  il  a  femme,  mais  apres  la  primer  nuyte  la  gerpift  il  pur  caufe  qil  la 
surmift,  et  la  recnuoya  en  foun  pays.  En  quel  temps  le  roy  Richard  ger- 
roya  le  roy  de  France  fortement,  com  auaunt  eft  dit,  qi  bien  eftoit  en- 


80  SCALACRONICA. 

chamy  sure  lez  Fraunceis,  qar  maint  beal  ioume  auoit  acheuy  deuers 
eaux  endementiers  qil  eftoit  count  Daungeou.  Apres  ceo  maunda  le 
roy  de  France  au  roy  Richard  priaunt  qe  la  gere  qauoit  durre  fi  longe- 
raent  entre  eux  purroit  le  droit  eftre  derenez  par  batail  de  v.  cheualers 
Fraunces.  Le  roy  Richard  fe  afcenty  bien,  sur  condicioun  qe  le  quynt 
cheualer  Fraunceis  fuft  le  roy  meifmes  et  le  roy  Richard  le  quynt  che- 
ualer  Engles;  mais  le  roy  de  Fraunce,  qi  moult  doutoit  lez  coupes  du 
roy  Richard,  refufa  lez  couenauntz  qil  auoit  fait. 

Apres  ceo  com  le  roy  Richard  auoit  allege  le  chattel  de  Caluz,  et 
cheuaucha  vn  iour  entour  le  chaftel  defarmez  pur  ly  auifer  de  foun  eftre, 
qar  il  penfa  toft  afTailer  pur  grant  trefor  qil  quidaft  dedenz  trouer,  qe  le 
fire  du  chaftel  auoit  troue  grant  fome  foutz  la  terre  et  auoit  maunde  au 
roi  Richard  beal  partie,  et  pur  ceo  qe  lentier  ne  ly  auoit  maunde  fi  voet 
foun  chaftel  afTailler,  si  auoit  dedenz  vn  arbilafter,  qi  Bertram  de  Gur- 
doun  auoit  a  noun,  qi  vift  le  roy  cheuaucher  entour  lez  mures,  fi  trei  vn 
sete  vers  le  roy  et  ly  ferry  deinz  lefpaul  et  ly  dona  play  qe  de  medicine 
n  auoit  miftre.  Si  fe  trei  le  roy  vers  sa  tent,  fez  gentz  alerent  a  laffaut 
et  gaignerent  li  chaftel,  et  touz  qi  dedenz  trouerent  es  fourches  penderent 
fauue  Bertram  qi  le  roy  ferift,  quel  le  roi  comaunda  mener  deuaunt  ly, 
li  ly  arefona  de  fa  mort.  Bertram  refpoundy,  "  Tu,  roy,  qi  tauntz  dez 
maus  as  fait  en  fiecle  et  meintz  dez  gentz  tuez  en  plofours  terres,  moun 
pier  tuaftez  de  ta  main  et  mez  dieus  freirs,  et  moi  huflez  tue  fi  tu  vef- 
quifes,  ore  te  ay  rendu  qe  as  forfait  et  fu  ore  en  toun  baundoun,  facez 
de  moy  qe  te  plerra,  fi  fachez  qe  touz  lez  tourmentz  qe  tu  fceis  ordener 
pur  moy  mettre  a  mal  mort  moult  delit  ay  a  foeffreir,  puifque  ieo  me  fu 
taunt  reuenge  qe  tu  murras  du  play  qe  ieo  te  ay  done."  Le  roy,  qi  de 
fa  uie  eftoit  defefperez,  ly  pardona  fa  mort,  et  ly  fill  delier  fi  ly  dona 
cent  marcz  defflings  et  ly  leffa  pafler  quitez ;  mes  Marcadins,  qi  moult 
amaft  foun  seignour,  ly  fift  prendre  neint  fachaunt  le  roy,  et  apres  la  mort 
le  roi  ly  fill  efcorcher.  Puis  le  roy  fift  apeller  deuaunt  ly  iij.  abbes  et 
lour  reioya  fez  pecches  moult  deuotement,  et  pria  penaunce,  et  difoit  en 
pluraunt,  "  TrepufTaunt  et  trefnoble  Seignour  Dieux,  en  qi  toutez  chof  fol.  178.  b. 
fount  a  ta  plefaunz  et  volounte  mif,  attendaunt  ta  benigne  mifericord  qe 
pafTe  touz  les  maufaites  qe  nul  pecheour  puft  faire,  ieo  conus  ourtement 


SCALACRONICA.  81 

qe  moun  cheitif  corps  qe  tu  as  fuffert  viuer  en  cell  fecle  mefcheaunt,  ou 
nuls  ne  pud  ellre  lil  ne  peche  soi  ad  fi  ledement  et  li  faufement  contenu 
deuers  ta  seignoury,  fefaunt  par  delit  ceo  qe  tu  as  defendu  et  leffaunt  qe 
tu  as  comaunde,  qe  11  ta  mercy  ne  full  moult  fouent  ettoit  periz  pur 
pecche.  Si  pri  toun  ferf  cheitif  et  dolent  a  toun  merciable  poair,  qe  ceo 
qe  moun  corps  ad  maufait  en  terre  qe  ma  cheitif  alme  le  pufle  a  comparir 
en  purgatori  per  recompenfacioun  de  peyne,  a  y  demoreir  folem  ta  ple- 
faunz  tanque  au  iour  de  iugement,  ou  toutez  gentz  uendrount  lour  iuge- 
mentz  oyer  deuaunt  ta  face,  si  auaunt  ne  te  deignez  merciablement 
vifiter  toun  ferf  par  difpenfacioun ;  iffint,  trefpuflaunt  pier,  qen  afcun 
temps  la  deignez  ioyer  et  toy  loer  od  toutes  saintes  en  par  durable  gloire, 
qi  vifes  et  regnes  entierement  en  trois  perfouns  faunz  fin,"  et  ceo  dill  od 
grant  contricioun  finifl  la  vie.  Qi  alme  faint  Edmond,  erceuefqe  de 
Cantorbirs,  vift  pafler  a  ioy  hors  de  peyne  enfemblement  ouefqe  lalm 
Elleuen  erceuefqe  de  meifm  le  lieu,  et  lalme  dun  chaplein  leuefque,  et 
meifme  la  uilioun  vift  Henry  leuefqe  de  Rowceflre.  Richard  le  roy 
moruft  le  x.  ane  de  foun  regne  et  full  enterrez  a  Pountheurard ;  en  quel 
temps  moruil  Reys  prince  de  Galis,  qi  dez  foens  elloit  tenuz  vn  de  plus 
vertuous  dez  Criltiens. 

Innocens  le  3,  qi  full  dit  Lothair,  full  pape  apres  Celeflin  18  aunz, 
5  moys ;  qi  durement  full  grant  clerk.  II  fill  lez  liuers  qe  fount  ditz  en 
Latin,  De  miferia  humane  condicionis,  et  Speculum  milTe.  II  dampna 
les  liuers  Joachim  faitez  encountre  Piers  le  Lumbard ;  il  proua  la  doc- 
trine Almary  pur  erefy. 

Apres  la  mort  lemperour  Henry  le  5  lez  princes  de  Allemayn  defcor- 
derent  en  lour  eleccioun.  Les  vn  choiferent  Otus,  lez  autres  choiferent 
le  freir  Henry,  Phelip,  qi  Phelip  full  procheignement  murdre.  Otus  con- 
quill  sure  Fredrik  Poille,  et  gerroia  lez  Romains  pur  ceo  qils  ne  ly 
voroint  obeir,  pur  quoi  full  efcomenge  du  pape  Innocens.  Lez  princes 
de  Allemain  leuerent  Fredrik  en  emperour,  quy  venquifl  Otus.  Lordre 
dez  freirs  precheours  comenfa  en  eel  temps  en  Tholoufan,  en  Ian  6  de 
Innocent,  mais  ne  furount  pas  conferme  tanque  le  primer  ane  Honorius 
le  pape. 


82  SCALACRONICA. 

Lan  de  grace  mile  99>  Johan  le  freir  Richard  prill  la  coroun  Dengleter  fol.  179. 
de  lallignement  Richard  foun  freir  en  teftament,  et  full  corone  dez  mains 
Hubert  erceuefque  de  Cantorbirs.  Mais  Arthure,  count  de  Bretaigne, 
le  deueroit  auoir  hu  de  droit,  com  fitz  Gaufray  freir  le  dit  Johan  eyne. 
Johan  deueint  meruaillous,  si  feify  Normendy,  y  leffa  foun  lieutenaunt, 
reueint  en  Engleter,  encountra  le  roy  Willam  Defcoce  a  Nichol,  ou  par 
grant  tretice  le  dit  Willam  li  fill  homage,  au  vieu  du  poeple  iura  deftre 
feaux  et  loyaux  sur  la  croice  Hubert  arceuefqe  de  Cantorbirs  en  prefenz 
Roger  Bigot,  count  de  Northfolk.  Afcuns  cronicles  deuifent  qe  cefti 
roy  Johan  auoit  efpofe  la  feile  et  heire  le  count  de  Glouceftre,  oue  qei 
il  auoit  la  counte  et  de  qei  il  auoit  engendrure  maflis  qe  furent  countis 
de  Glouceftre  apres,  mais  qant  il  deueint  roys  si  departy  oue  eel  efpoufe 
par  caufe  faint  qe  tout  eftoint  parenz,  vnquor  auoint  difpenfacioun.  Et 
com  il  elloit  en  Normendy  le  count  de  la  Marche,  qi  fires  eftoit  de  vn 
pays  pres  de  Paitow,  fe  auoit  aliez  par  mariage  oue  le  roy  de  Fraunce, 
et  auoit  amene  la  feile  le  dit  roy  en  foun  pays  pur  efpofer.  Qi  count 
requill  par  fez  lettres  au  roy  Johan,  qen  le  hour  eftoit  en  Normendy,  qil 
ly  voufifl  fair  le  honour  de  ly  acoumpaigner  a  fez  nupcz.  Qi  roi  Johan 
enueint  fi  fort  de  gentz  au  did  fell  qe  au  venir  de  la  dill  pufcele  deuers 
mouller  pur  eltre  efpofe,  le  dit  roy  Johan  la  prill  de  force  et  la  rauyft  et 
la  enmena  en  Normendy  et  la  efpofa,  la  quel  out  a  noun  Blaunche,  qe 
depar  fa  mere  full  heyre  du  counte  de  Pontif.  Quel  Blaunche  apres  la 
mort  le  dit  roy  Johan  fa  reenala  en  Paitow  au  dit  count  de  la  Marche, 
qi  tout  le  temps  fe  teint  faunz  femme  efpofe,  de  qi  ele  auoit  bel  engen- 
drure. Quel  Blaunche  apres  le  houre,  enuoya  a  foun  fitz  Henry  roy 
Dengleter  foun  fitz  pufne  qei  auoit  du  dit  count,  com  foun  freir,  qi  auoit 
a  noun  Willam  de  Waleys,  de  qi  ly  roy  Henry  fill  count  de  Penbrok. 
Le  dit  roy  Johan  par  tretice  fen  ala  a  Parys,  fen  peifa  od  le  roy  de 
France,  quel  acorde  ne  teint  my  longement,  qar  le  roy  de  Fraunce  eida 
Arthur  de  Bretayne  encountre  le  roi  Johan  et  ly  fill  feifer  de  Normendy; 
quelis  nouelis  fceus  de  roy  Johan  il  fe  mill  en  Normendy  et  defcounfift 
lez  Franceys  qen  eide  de  Arthure  eftoient,  qe  ly  meifmes  enchafa  en  vn 
chattel  et  le  affift  et  le  prift,  enuoya  le  dit  Arthur  foun  neueu  a  Rohan 


SCALACRONICA.  83 

en  prifoun,  ou  il  moruft.  Afcuns  cronicles  deuifent  qe  les  Galeys  firent 
murrir  ceili  Arthure  en  la  vie  le  roy  Richard  en  le  chattel  de  Mirable, 
fol.  179.  b.  et  fi  deuifent  afcuns  qe  le  roy  Johan  enuoya  le  dit  Arthur  de  Rohan  en 
Engleter,  et  com  deueroit  pafler  dun  nef  a  vn  autre  vn  mariner  par  com- 
paffement  le  dit  roy  milt  vn  plaunche  fi  defceyuablement  par  engyne  qe 
le  dit  Arthur  chey  en  mere  entre  lez  nefes  c6m  enmyft  le  pee,  et  noia, 
et  lez  autres  dez  foens  en  diners  lieus  Dengleter  enprifonez.  Pur  quoi 
le  dit  Johan  full  fomounez  au  court  de  France  pur  refpoundre  du  mort 
Arthur  foun  neuew,  vn  de  xij.  piers  de  France,  qi  ne  voloit  venire;  pur 
quoi  et  par  perefce  dez  autres  finguleris  delicz  ne  voloit  en  temps  meller, 
perdy  Normendy  et  Aungeou,  et  moult  eidaunt  la  trefoun  Willam  de 
Human  qi  le  dit  Johan  auoit  lefle  foun  lieutenaunt  dez  ditz  terres. 

En  quel  temps  le  roy  Johan  fen  trey  en  oft  deuaunt  Berewik,  voroit 
auoir  edifie  vn  chaftel  de  nouel  del  autre  part  Tuede,  mais  aunces  le  roy 
Willam  fe  peifa  od  ly  de  riotis  comenfez,  a  quoi  il  enmift  oftages.  Au 
repairer  le  roy  Johan  auoit  vn  parlement  a  Loundres,  ou  il  demaundoit 
du  comune  et  de  la  clergie  vn  grant  fubfide  en  eide  de  fa  gere  a  recon- 
quer Normendy,  qi  outriement  ly  refpounderent  qe  lour  ercheuefque 
efloit  mort,  qe  faunz  lour  meiftre  apolitan,  et  le  plus  grant  pier  Dan- 
gleter  nen  ferroint  mil  grante  del  clergie.  Lerceuefque  Hubert  mort  vn 
poy  deuaunt.  La  college  de  Cantorbirs  choiferent  Efteuen  de  Lang- 
toun  en  erceuefque  encountre  gree  le  roy,  qi  voufift  auoir  vne  dez  soens, 
leuefqe  de  Norwiche.  Qi  Efteuen  full  facre  del  apoftoil,  pur  quoi  le 
roy  fe  corofa  outre  mefure,  fill  feifer  lerceuefche  en  fa  mayn,  fill  enchacer 
le  priour  et  lez  moignes  de  Criftechurche  de  Cantorbires  en  exil,  fill 
general  proclamacioun  qe  nuly  emprift  amoneftement  par  lettre  lapoftoil 
en  fa  terre  sur  payn  del  arde.  Si  bailla  lez  terres  du  dit  eglis  en  garde 
de  Reynald  de  Cornhille  et  de  Founk  de  Cantelu.  Le  pape  maunda 
fez  meffagers  au  roi,  enpriaunt  honourablement  qil  voufift  refceyuer  ler- 
ceuefque et  la  college  duement  a  lour  eglis,  qi  rien  ne  voloit  faire  au 
prier.  La  pape  maunda  fez  bulles  a  quatre  euefqes,  cell  afiauoir,  a 
Willam  euefque  de  Loundres,  a  Euftace  euefque  de  Ely,  a  Walter  euef- 
que  de  Worceftre,  et  a  Gauter  euefque  de  Herforde,  en  vertu  de  obe- 
dience, qe  fi  le  roy  Johan  ne  voloit  refceuyer  lerceuefque,  le  priour,  et 


84  SCALACRONICA. 

fez  moignes  de  Cantorbires,  a  fauf  proteccioun  au  comune  loy  de  la 
fraunchis  de  faint  eglis,  qils  pronounciafent  general  entredit  partout  En- 
gleter ;  quel  amoneftement  fuft  ficche  priuiement  sure  lez  hufes  de  lours 
eglifes  cathedralis.  Lez  ditz  euefqes  vindrent  au  roy,  ly  mouftrerent  la 
bofoigne,  enpriaunt  oue  lermes  a  efchuer  la  mefchief  qil  uoufift  ferre  la  fol.  180. 
requelt  du  pape,  qi  rein  ne  deignall  a  faire,  pur  quoi  le  dimange  la  veile 
de  noftre  dame  en  Marce  prochein  les  dites  euefqes  firent  pronouncier 
comune  entredit  par  tout  Engleter  generalment,  iffint  qe  graunt  pece  lez 
hufes  de  lez  eglis  par  tout  Engleter  furount  fermez.  En  defpite  de  quoy, 
com  tefmoign  le  Hiftoria  Auria,  le  roy  Johan  maunda  au  Soudan  par 
fez  cheualers  et  vn  clerk  meffagers,  qe  111  ly  voulit  eider  enco'untre  le  pape 
a  fa  deuife  qil  ordeigneraft  qil  deuendroit  de  sa  loy  et  ly  ferroit  homage 
pur  foun  realme.  Lez  meffagers  furrount  du  Soudan  trelhonourablement 
refceus,  qi  lour  demaunda  le  eftre  et  la  maner  de  lour  roy,  et  de  foun 
age,  et  de  commodites  de  foun  realme,  et  du  poeple,  qi  ly  recounterent 
lez  profites  sureuenauntz  chefcun  ane,  et  qe  lez  gentz  eftoint  amyables, 
qi  bien  lour  gouerneroit,  et  qe  lour  roys  eftoit  pafle  I.  auns.  "  Voir," 
fefoit  li  Soudan,  "  bien  eft  mefchaunt  qi  tiel  bone  terre  uoroit  mettre  en 
fubieccioun,  et  plus  foux  qi  de  vn  autre  loy  fe  uoroit  entremettre  en 
affuraunce  de  eide  dun  horn  de  foun  age  qi  taunt  ad  uefqy  en  vn  loy 
auncien  qi  toft  lefferoit  la  nouel,  qar  fi  ieo  fuffe  a  choifer  loy  ieo  choi- 
feray  la  voftre  pur  la  meilliour  de  toutz  honeftetez.  Ditez  ly  qil  fe  taille 
a  gre  de  foun  poeple  et  viue  com  fez  aunceftres  ount  fait,  qar  nous  ne 
uous  uolloms  meller."  Si  lour  fift  doner  richis  dounes,  de  quoi  ne  voloit 
plus  tretire. 

En  celt  mene  temps  Alexander  fitz  eyne  le  roy  Willam  Defcoce  veint 
a  Loundres,  ou  il  refceuft  lordre  de  chiualer  dez  mains  le  roy  Johan. 
En  quel  temps  de  cefti  roy  Johan  lez  Franceis  priftrent  la  cite  de  Cof- 
tantin  noble,  et  conftituerent  Baudewin,  count  de  Flaundres,  en  emperour, 
lez  queux  entrerent  le  mure  ou  le  aungel  eftoit  painte,  figne  dun  auncien 
propheci  da  perde  de  la  cite.  Meifme  la  feifoun  eftoit  taunt  de  pluy, 
foudre,  et  greil  dez  peres  qarrez  du  graundour  dez  ofes  qe  abbaterent 
arbres  et  vines,  et  tuerent  lez  horns.  Lez  corbins  enporterent  fieu  en 
lour  bekis  et  ardrerent  mefouns ;  quel  ane  moruft  faint  Hughe  le  euefque 


SCALACRONICA.  85 

de  Nichol.  Cel  ane  furent  vieus  en  ciel  ij.  lunes  pleynes  a  vn  foitz,  en 
quel  ane  le  yuer  efloit  durement  fort,  et  le  vent  fi  grant  qe  abatift  lez 
mefouns.  Le  roy  Johan  fill  tuer  touz  lez  maftines  par  touz  lez  foreiles 
Dengleter.  Lez  eretiqes  Abigenfos  vindrent  en  Engleter,  lez  qels  plu- 
fours  furount  ars.  Meifme  la  feifoun  lez  Sarazins  vindrent  de  Aufrik, 
et  durement  conquerent  en  Efpayne.  Le  dit  roy  Johan  enprill  lez 
charters  a  poy  de  touz  lez  religious  de  Engleter  qi  apres  lour  fill  nouelis, 
fol.  180.  b.  pur  quoi  enprill  grantz  trefores.  Le  count  de  Flaundres  veint  en  En- 
gletere,  et  rift  au  roy  Johan  homage  pur  fa  terre.  Le  roi  Johan  co- 
maunda  a  prendre  en  fa  mayn  totez  lez  poffeffiouns  dez  euefqes,  et  de 
parfouns,  et  dez  clerkes,  et  dez  gentz  de  religioun  parmy  Engleter,  et 
fift  mettre  certains  gardains  par  tout,  qe  deliuererent  as  euefqes  et  as 
clers  et  a  gent  de  religioun,  taunt  foulement  doUnt  ils  poount  viuer,  et 
tout  le  remenant  remift  vers  le  roy;  par  qoi  lez  euefqes  comunement 
efcomengerent  touz  y  ceaux  qi  miftrent  ou  mettroient  mayn  en  biens  de 
faint  eglis,  nul  part  parmy  la  tere  encountre  la  volounte  dy  ceux  a  qi  lez 
biens  furount.  Et  qant  le  roy  ne  voloit  ceffer  en  nul  maner  de  ceft 
malice  lez  euefqes  de  Loundres,  et  de  Ely,  de  Wynceftre,  et  de  Herford, 
pafferent  la  mere  et  alerent  al  arceuefque  de  Cantorbires,  et  ly  mouftiv- 
rent  ceft  chos,  et  il  le  mouftra  al  apoftoil.  Qant  le  roy  fauoift  qils 
eftoint  pafiez  la  mere  il  maunda  tauntoft  as  abbes,  priours,  et  les  euef- 
qes auauntditz  qils  reueinfent  pur  tretir  de  la  pees  et  de  acorde  entre 
eaux,  et  qils  venifent  a  Cantorbirs,  qar  la  vendroit  il  encountre  eax  : 
ou  il  enuoieroit  certains  perfounes  en  foun  noun  qi  ferroint  tant  com 
fi  il  mefmes  y  fuft.  Qant  ceft  maundement  veint  as  euefqes  par 
counfail  et  par  volounte  lerceuefque  ils  retoumerent  en  Engleter  et 
vindrent  a  la  cite  de  Cantorbirs.  La  nouel  full  porte  au  roy  qils  furent 
venuz,  et  il  meifmes  ne  pooit  aler  a  ceft  foitz  mais  enuoya  en  foun  noun 
eueqes,  countis,  et  barouns,  et  des  plus  grantz  seignours  de  la  terre, 
et  treterent  iffi  entre  eaux  du  pees  et  del  acorde,  qe  le  roy  refceyueroit 
lerceuefque  Efteuen  a  fa  eglis  de  Cantorbirs,  et  li  priour  de  Cantorbirs, 
et  lez  moignes.  Et  qil  iammes  prendroit  en  fa  main  ne  ferroit  prendre 
lez  biens  de  faint  eglis  encountre  le  gree  dy  ceaux  as  queux  lez  bien 
ferroint,  et  qil  ferroit  plener  reftitucioun  dez  biens  de  faint  eglis,  et  qe 


86  SCALACRONICA. 

faint  eglis  ioyeroit  fa  fraunchife  auxi  plainement  com  einz  foleit  en  temps 
faint  Edmound  le  confeffour.  Qant  ceft  fourme  dacorde  fuft  fy  puruew 
et  ordene  el  fuft  efcript  en  vn  efcript  endente,  et  miftrent  lours  seals  dun 
part  et  dautre.  Et  lez  qatre  auaunt  ditz  euefqes  priftrent  lun  party  del 
endenture  vers  eaux,  et  lez  autres  porterent  lautre  party  pur  mouftreir  au 
roy.  Et  qaunt  le  roy  lentendy  il  fu  bien  apayne  de  qanque  fuft  ordene 
faufe  de  la  reftitucioun  dez  biens,  a  eel  point  ne  fe  voloit  aeorder.  Et 
remaunda  a  les  auaunt  ditz  euefqes  fils  voufiffent  eel  point  ofter,  mes  ils 
refpounderent  qe  iames  vn  foul  mote  del  auaunt  dit  fourme  ne  chaunge-  fol.  181. 
rent.  Donqes  mande  le  roy  al  ercheuefqe  par  meifmes  lez  qatre  euefqes 
auauntditz,  qil  venift  meifmes  od  ly  parler  a  Cantorbirs,  et  ly  maunda  fa 
lettre  patent  de  fauuement  venir  et  retourner,  et  eftre  ceo  il  ly  troua  bons 
pleges  de  fauf  conduyt,  ceft  affauoir,  fez  juftices  Gerard  le  Peitewin, 
Willam  de  la  Bruer,  et  Johan  le  fitz  Hugh,  qil  en  lour  conduyt  faufe- 
ment  vendroit  et  retourneroit  a  fa  volounte.  Et  en  ceft  maner  veint  lerc- 
euefque  Efteuen  a  Cantorbirs.  Et  qant  le  roy  fauoit  qil  eftoit  venus  il 
meifmes  veint  a  Chilham,  qar  plus  pres  ne  voloit  il  venir,  mais  maunda 
al  erceuefque  leuefque  de  Winceftre,  qil  voloit  ofter  la  reftitucioun  dez 
biens  prifes  de  faint  eglis  del  endenture  auant  nome.  Et  lerceuefque 
iura  qe  iames  vn  foul  mote  ne  chaungeroift  de  lour  ordinaunce,  et  iffi  re- 
tourna  lerceuefque  a  la  court  fanz  plus  faire.  Le  roy  fe  coroufa  donqes 
plus  qe  deuaunt,  et  fift  vn  comune  crie  par  tout  Engletere  qe  treftouz 
ceaux  qe  rent  de  faint  eglis  auoint  et  furent  outre  mere  qils  veniflent  en 
Engletere  a  lour  rentis  par  vn  certain  iour,  ou  11  ceo  noun  ils  perderoint 
lour  rentes  a  remenaunt.  II  maundaft  a  chefcun  vifcount  par  my  fa  terre 
fa  lettre  qils  enquiffent  fi  nul  euefque,  abbe,  priour,  ou  autre  prelat  de 
faint  eglis  de  eel  iour  en  auaunt  refceuffent  nul  maundement  del  apoftoil 
par  lettre  ou  par  bulle  ou  en  nul  autre  maner,  qils  enperniffent  lours  corps 
et  les  amenaflent  deuaunt  le  roy,  et  enporteroint  Iuys,  et  qils  preiffent  en 
fa  main  totz  lez  rentes  de  faint  eglis  qe  furrount  donez  par  lerceuefque 
Efteuen  de  Langtoun,  ou  par  le  prior  de  Cantorbirs  apres  la  eleccioun  ly 
auaunt  dit  erceuefque  Efteuen;  et  comanda  qe  touz  lez  boys  lerceuefque 
furent  venduz  et  deftrutz. 

En  eel  temps  lez  Irroys  comencerent  leuer  encountre  le  roy  Johan, 


SCALACRONICA.  87 

par  quoi  il  fe  adrefTa  daler  en  Ireland,  et  prifl  raunfoun  dez  Jues  par  my 
Engleter  deuaunt  foun  aler;  ceft  affauoir  vi.  foitz  lx.  cent  marcz.  Et 
pria  auxi  as  moignes  de  Silleaux  qils  ly  eidaffent  dun  certain  noumbre 
de  pecone,  mais  ils  difoint  qils  ne  lofoient  faire  faunz  lour  chief  abbei  de 
Sifteux,  pur  quoi  il  fe  coroufa  as  eaux  fi  qe  a  foun  reuenir  de  Ireland  il 
lez  fill  taunt  de  anguys  qils  ne  fauoint  quel  part  tournire  et  lez  reuit 
greuoufement,  qar  il  prifl  si  grefe  raunfon  de  chefcun  mefoun  qe  la  fom 
total  amounta  a  iij.  foitz  a  xxx.  mile  et  iij.  cent  marcz,  iffi  qils  furount 
deftruitz  et  lefferount  lour  mefouns,  si  furent  refceuz  en  autres  mefouns 
de  religioun.  Et  labbe  de  Wawerley  doutaft  taunt  la  malice  le  roy  qe 
il  leffa  playnement  fa  mefoun  et  fen  ala  de  nuyt  en  tapinage,  et  fe  mift 
outre  mere  et  demurra  a  Sifleus.  Qant  le  nouel  veint  a  lepoftoil  de 
taunt  de  malice  et  crualte  del  roy  il  efloit  durement  anuyez,  et  enuoya 
Engleter  al  roy  ij.  legatis,  Pandulf  et  Durand,  qils  ly  deiffent  de  la  part 
lepoftoil  qil  ceffaft  de  fa  perfecucioun  a  faint  eglis  et  as  gentz  de  reli- 
gioun, qil  amendat  le  tort  qil  auoit  fait  al  erceuefque  et  al  prior  de  Can- 
torbirs  et  a  tout  la  clergie  de  la  terre,  et  qil  feifl  plener  reflitucioun  dez 
biens  qil  auoit  pris  de  eaux  encountre  lour  volounte,  ou  fi  noun  qils  ef- 
comengeaffent  le  roy  par  noune.  Et  a  cell  chos  confermer  lour  bailla  fa 
lettre  en  bulle.  Lez  ij.  legatis  vindrent  en  Engleter  et  alerent  au  roy  a 
Northamtoun,  ou  il  teint  parlement  od  foun  barnage,  et  ly  faluerent  et 
difoient,  "  Sire,"  fount  ils,  "  nous  fumes  venuz  del  apoftoil  pur  refourmer 
la  pees  de  faint  eglis  et  de  la  terre,  et  vous  amonefloms  tout  au  comence- 
ment  depar  le  apoftoil  qe  vous  facez  plener  reflitucioun  dez  biens  qe 
vous  auez  rauy  de  faint  eglis,  et  qe  vous  refceyuez  lerceuefque  Efteuen, 
et  qil  pufie  faufement  a  fa  eglis  venir  et  la  dignete  gouerner  com  erc- 
euefque en  doit  faire;  et  qe  vous  refceiuez  le  priour  de  Cantorbirs  et  fez 
moignes,  et  rendez  al  erceuefque  et  as  ceaux  touz  lours  terres  fanz  rien 
retenir;  et  qe  vous  facez  entier  reflitucioun  as  eaux  de  lours  biens  qe 
vous  auez  rauy,  detenu,  et  defpenduz  par  voz  miniflres."  Donqes  difl 
le  roi,  "  endroit  del  prior  de  Cantorbirs  et  fez  moignes  ferray  ieo  volun- 
tiers  qanque  auez  dit  et  ordeigne,  mes  endroit  del  erceuefque  ieo  vous 
dirray  qe  me  gift  au  quer  ieo  voil  qil  renouncy  lerceuefche  plenerment, 
et  qe  le  apoftoille  me  pri  pur  ly  et  ieo  ly  durra  par  auenture  afcun  euefche 


88  SCALACRONICA. 

en  ma  terre,  et  en  ceil  maner  ly  refceyueray  ieo  volountiers.  Mais  fil 
ne  reueygne  en  ma  tere  com  erceuefque  ia  fi  bon  conduyt  ny  auera  qe 
ieo  ne  ly  ferra  pendre."  Dunqes  dift  li  legat  Pandulf  a  le  roy,  "  saint 
eglis  ne  foloit  vnqes  degarder  erceuefque  faunz  refonable  enchefoun,  mais 
il  foleit,  et  vnqor  doit,  reprendre  princes  qi  fount  rebelis  et  nient  obei- 
fauntz  a  Dieux  et  a  faint  eglis."  "  Coment!"  fait  ly  roy,  "  me  manacez 
vous?"  "  Nenil!"  feit  Pandulf,  "  mais  vous  nous  auez  defcouert  aparte- 
ment  la  volounte  de  voftre  quer,  nous  vous  defcouerons  ore  apartement 
la  noftre  volounte.  Sachez  qe  le  apoiloil  vous  ad  efcomange  pur  moultz 
des  trefpas,  greuauncez,  et  damagez,  qe  fait  auez  a  faint  eglis  et  a  la 
clergie,  nomement  as  euefqes,  abbes,  priours,  et  autres  gentz  de  religioun, 
as  parfouns  et  as  autres  miniftres  de  faint  eglis ;  et  pur  ceo  qe  vous  demo- 
rez  vnqor  en  voftre  malice,  ne  ne  voillez  a  fatiffaccioun  venir  ne  eftre 
obedient  a  Dieu  ne  al  apoiloil  qi  tout  faint  eglis  ad  a  gouerner,  fachez  qe 
de  ceil  iour  en  auaunt  la  fentence  qen  vous  eil  done  tient  lieu  et  effedle. 
Et  ceaux  qi  ount  comunee  od  vous  auaunt  cez  hours,  countis,  barouns, 
cheualers,  efquiers,  et  touz  autres,  qi  qils  foient,  nous  lez  affbilloms 
quitement  tanque  en  ceil  iour.  Mais  touz  ceaux  qi  comounerount  od 
vous  de  ceil  iour  en  auaunt,  de  quel  condicioun  qe  ils  foient,  nous  lez 
efcomengeoms  apertement,  et  affoilloms  quitement  countis,  barouns,  che- 
ualers, clerkes  et  lays,  Franceis  et  Engleis,  dez  homages,  feutes  et  feruys 
qe  ils  vous  doyuent.  Et  a  ceil  chos  pronouncier  parmy  Engleter  nous 
donoms  playn  poair  as  efuefqes  de  Wynceilre  et  de  Norwiche,  et  en 
Efcoce  as  euefqes  de  faint  Andreu  et  de  Glafcow,  et  en  Wales  a  le 
euefqe  de  faint  Dauid  et  de  Landath  et  de  faint  Affath.  Et  par  tout 
Criiliante  maunderoms  as  euefqes  qi  fount  de  la  la  mere  qils  facent  touz 
ceaux  qi  eide  ou  counfail  vous  ferrount,  ou  dorount,  en  mil  bofoigne  qe 
vous  eiez  a  faire  en  nul  part  del  mounde,  et  qils  affoilount  quitement  de 
lour  pecchez  touz  ceaux  qi  voudrent  leuer,  counter  vous  de  guere.  Et 
nous  lez  affoilloms  enfement  par  auclorite  del  apoiloil,  et  qils  vous  gre- 
uent  et  gerroient  en  totez  lez  maners  qils  fauerount  en  remiffioun  de  lour 
pecchez  com  cely  qefl  lenemy  Dieu  et  faint  eglis."  Donqes  dit  le  roy, 
"  quoi  poez  vous  plus  faire  ?"  "  nous  vous  dioms,"  fet  Pandulf,  "  in 
verbo  Dei,  qe  vous,  ne  heire  qi  auer  poez,  outre  ceil  iour  purra  eftre 


SCALACRONICA.  89 

corone."  Donqes  dift  le  roy,  "  par  cely  qefl  roy  sure  toutez  roys  fi  ieo 
pus  entendu  a  uoftre  primer  venu  qe  vous  me  puffez  porte  tiels  nouelis 
com  vouz  auez  porte,  ieo  vous  vf  fait  cheuaucher  vn  ane  entierment." 
Donqes  refpoundy  Pandulf,  "  nous  quidams,"  fid  il,  "  a  noftre  primer 
venu  qe  vous  voudriez  auoir  efte  obedient  a  Dieu  et  a  faint  eglis,  et 
auoir  fait  folonc  le  maundement  le  apofioil,  mais  nous  vous  auoms  troue 
rebel  en  totes  chofis,  par  quoi  nous  vous  auoms  mouftre  et  pronouncie 
la  volounte  del  apoftoil,  dount  il  nous  chargea.  Et  pur  ceo  ditez  vous, 
qe  vous  nous  volez  auoir  fait  cheuauche  vn  an  entierment,  auxi  bien  poez 
vous  auoir  dit  qe  vous  nous  vouderez  auoir  fait  pendre  vn  an  entierment. 
Mais  pur  la  mort  fuffreir,  a  quel  vous  nous  fauerez  mettre,  nous  ne  leffer- 
oms  qe  nous  ne  vous  dirroms  plenerment  noftre  meffage  dount  nous 
fuoms  charge."  Donqes  comaunda  le  roy  au  forefters  et  a  autres  bailies 
qi  ia  furount  prefentz,  qils  amenaffent  deuaunt  ly  touz  ceaux  qi  furent 
liez  en  prifoun,  et  maunda  qils  fuffent  mys  a  la  mort  deuaunt  Pandulf, 
pur  ly  efpounter,  et  quida  par  taunt  qe  Pandulf  volount  pur  poour  re- 
peller  qanqe  il  auoit  dit  et  pronouncie  encountre  le  roy.  Et  qant  lez 
prifouns  furount  amenez  deuaunt  le  roy  il  fift  pendre  lez  vns,  et  afcuns 
fifl  creuer  lez  oiles  de  la  teft,  entre  queux  y  auoit  vne  clerk,  faufeour  de 
la  money,  et  le  roy  comaunda  qil  full  treyne  et  puis  pendu.  Et  qant 
Pandulf  oilt  le  comandement  il  faillift  fus  maintenaunt  et  demaunda  lyuer 
et  chaundel,  et  voloit  efcomenger  touz  ceaux  qi  miitrent  mains  en  ly,  et 
il  meifmes  ala  auaunt  quer  le  chaundel  et  le  roy  ly  fua,  fi  ly  deliuera  le 
clerk  par  la  mayn  qil  enfift  fa  volounte  de  ly,  iffi  full  le  clerk  deliuers  fi 
fen  ala.  Et  Pandulf  et  foun  compaignour  Duraunt  fen  partirent  del  roy 
et  retournerent  al  apofioil,  et  luy  counterent  qe  le  roy  ne  fe  voloit 
amendre  mais  demora  efcomenge.  Le  apoftoil  graunta  parmy  Engleter 
eel  ane  qe  "hom  pooit  priuiement  chaunter  meffe  en  cathedralis  eglis  pur 
faire  eukarifl  de  doner  as  maladez  qi  deuient  paffer,  et  qe  hom  pooit  par 
tout  baptizer  enfauntz.  Qant  le  apoftoil  entendy  et  fauoit  qe  le  roy  ne 
fe  uoloit  nul  maner  amendre,  il  maunda  par  fa  lettre  au  roy  de  France 
qil  en  remiffioun  de  fez  pecchez  preift  ouefque  ly  tout  foun  poair  de 
Fraunce  et  alaft  en  Engleter  pur  deftruyer  le  roi  Johan  et  ly  mettre  a 
hount.     Et  qant  ceft  nouel  veint  au  roy  donqes  fe  douta  il  malment 


90  SCALACRONICA. 

perdre  foun  regne  et  eftre  mys  a  la  mort,  et  maunda  certains  mefl'agers 
al  apoftoil  qil  fe  voudroit  iufticer  et  venir  a  fatiffaccioun  en  totes  chofis 
a  fa  volounte.  Lez  meffagers  vindrent  al  apoftoil  et  ly  counterent  la 
volounte  le  roy  et  qil  fe  amendroit  en  toutes  chofis  et  ferroit  fatiffaccioun 
as  toutez  gentz  folonc  fa  ordenaunce.  Le  apoftoil  ly  maunda  ouefqes 
fez  meffagers  autre  foitz  Pandulf  en  Engleter  au  roi  Johan,  qi  vindrent 
a  Cantorbirs  ou  le  roy  auoit  attendu  vn  qindezein  et  plus,  et  le  xiij.  iour 
de  May  le  roy  dona  caucioun  deftre  a  lez  maundementz  ly  apoftoil  de- 
uaunt  le  legate  Pandulf  sure  toutez  chofis  pur  quelis  il  eftoit  efcomenge, 
et  qil  ferroit  reftitucioun  as  toutz  gentz  de  faint  eglis  dez  biens  qil  auoit 
pris  de  eaux  encountre  lour  gree.  Et  tretouz  lez  grantz  seignours  de 
Engleter  iurerent  fure  faintez  qe  ft  le  roy  ne  voloit  foun  ferement  tenir 
ils  ly  ferront  faire  de  force.  Donqes  offrift  le  roy  al  court  de  Rom  et 
rendy  fus  al  apoftoil  foun  regne  Dengleter  et  de  Irreland  pur  ly  et  pur 
touz  fez  heires  qi  vindrent  apres  ly,  iffi  qil  le  reprendroit  de  la  main  le 
apoftoil  et  le  tendroit  de  ly  com  a  fee  ferme,  rendaunt  par  ane  pur  toz 
chofis  al  court  de  Rome  mile  marcz  dargent.  Donqes  prift  le  roy  la 
coroune  de  fa  teft  et  famift  as  genoils  et  dift  cez  parolis,  oiauntz  toutz 
gentz  qe  la  furount  dez  grantz  seignurs  Dengleter,  "  Ieo  refigne  icy  la 
coroune  et  le  regne  Dengleter  et  le  renk  fus  en  la  mayn  le  apoftoil  In- 
nocent, et  me  mette  tout  en  fa  merci  et  en  fa  ordenaunce."  Donqes 
refceuft  Pandulf  la  coroune  et  la  tient  v.  iours  ouefqe  ly  en  foun  poair 
en  le  noun  del  apoftoil,  auxi  com  pur  feifin  prendre  del  regne  Dengleter. 
Et  tout  ceft  chos  afferma  le  roy  et  conferma  par  fa  chartre  en  ceftes 
parolis.  "  A  touz  Criftiens  generalement,  Johan,  par  le  grace  de  Dieu 
roy  Dengleter,  et  c.a,  salutz.  A  voftre  uniuerfite  conu  chos  faceoms  par 
ceftez  noz  lettres  prefentes,  qe  com  nous  auoms  offendu  Dieu  et  noftre 
faynt  mere  eglis,  pur  ceo  auomes  meifter  de  la  grace  noftre  Seignur,  et 
nous  ne  pooms  my  chos  dignement  offrir  pur  competente  fatiffaccioun 
faire  a  Dieu  et  a  faint  eglis,  ft  y  ne  foit  de  noftre  corps  et  noz  regnes 
Dengleter  et  de  Ireland;  adonqes  par  la  grace  del  Saint  Efpirit  nous 
voloms  humilier  nous,  et  pur  lamour  cely  qi  fe  humilia  a  la  morte  en  la 
croice,  par  le  counfail  dez  noz  nobles  countis  et  barouns  et  franchement 
grauntoms  a  Deu  et  al  apoftoil,  faint  Pier  et  faint  Poel,  et  a  noftre  faint 


SCALACRONICA.  91 

mere  eglis  de  Rome  et  al  seignour  ly  apoiloil  Innocent  le  tierce,  et  as 
fez  fucceflburs,  tout  le  droit  del  patronage  qe  nous  eioms  hu  realme 
Dengleter  et  de  Ireland.  Od  tout  le  droit  et  od  touz  lez  apurtenaunces 
pur  remiffioun  auoir  de  noz  pecchez,  et  pur  falu  dez  almes  de  toz  noz 
aunceftres  et  dez  almez  de  touz  Criftiens;  iffy  qe  deformes  nous  re- 
teneroms  et  tendroms  de  Dieux  et  de  noilre  faint  mere  eglis  de  Rome 
com  a  fee  ferme,  fefauntz  de  ceo  feaute  au  seignur  lapoftoil  Inno- 
cent le  tierce,  et  a  toz  fez  fucceflburs,  folonc  la  fourme  auaunt  dit 
en  la  prefence  ly  fage  bere  Pandulf  futz  dekne  ly  apoftoil,  et  fi  deuaunl 
ly  purroms  eflre  ferroms  toutes  ceftez  chofes  auaunt  nomez.  Et  nous 
nous  obligeoms  et  nos  fucceflburs  et  noz  heires  pur  touz  iours,  qi  en 
meifme  la  maner  reconiffent  et  facent  homage  liege  et  feaute,  faunz 
countredit,  al  apoftoil  qi  pur  le  temps  ferra,  et  qe  nous  enfement  pardoms 
aremenaunt  la  garde  dez  eglifis  vacauntz  adoners  enfeigne.  Et  en  per- 
petuelte  de  chel  chofe,  et  de  noftre  perpetuel  obligacioun  et  conceflioun, 
nous  uoloms  et  eftablifoms  qe  noz  propres  efpecials  rentes  de  noz  auaunt- 
ditz  regnes,  fauue  le  dener  faint  Piere  en  toutes  chofis,  la  noftre  mere 
eglis  de  Rome  refceyuez  par  ane  mile  marcz  dargent  a  dieus  termes  pur 
toutez  couftoms  qe  faire  deuoms  pur  lez  auaunt  ditz  regnes;  ceo  eft  a 
fauoir,  a  la  faint  Michel  v.  cent  marcz,  et  a  la  palk  d.  marcz,  ceft  afla- 
uoir,  vij.  cent  marcz  pur  le  regne  Dengleter,  et  iij.  centz  pur  le  realme 
de  Ireland.  Sauue  a  nous  et  as  noz  heires,  noz  juftices,  noz  francheis, 
et  nos  autres  regautes  qappendount  a  la  coroune.  Et  toutez  ceftes 
chofis,  com  auaunt  eft  dit,  voloms  qe  touz  iours  permainent  fermes  et 
eftables,  et  a  ceo  obligioms  nous  et  noz  fucceflburs  en  ceft  fourme,  qe  H 
nous,  ou  nul  de  noz  fucceflburs  auaunt  nomez,  ou  nul  de  eaux,  par  fole 
prefumpcion  veigne  encountre  nul  point  de  ceftes  chofis  auaunt  efcriptz, 
et  foit  amonefte  et  ne  fe  voet  maintenant  amender,  perde  le  regne  et  le 
droit  du  regner  pur  touz  iours.  Et  qe  ceft  noftre  chartre,  noftre  obliga- 
cioun, et  noftre  graunt,  pur  touz  iours  foit  eftabli,  si  fill  feaute  par  ceftez 
parolis. — Ieo  ferray  de  ceft  iour  en  auaunt,  feal  et  leal  a  Dieu,  et  a  faint 
Pere,  et  al  eglis  de  Rome,  et  al  seignour  ly  apoftoil  Innocent  le  tierce, 
et  as  fez  fucceflburs,  et  le  patremoigne  faint  Piere;  efpecialment  le  regne 
Dengleter  et  de  Irland  loialment  maintendray  et  defendray  encountre 


92  SCALACRONICA. 

tout  gent  a  moun  poair,  si  me  eide  Dieux  et  lez  seintes, — Tefle,  etc." 
Qant  ceft  chartre  fuft  enfi  fait  et  enfealle  le  roy  refceuft  areir  fa  coroune 
del  main  Pandulf,  et  maunda  maintenaunt  al  erceuefque  Efteuen,  et  as 
touz  lez  autres  qe  il  auoit  exille  de  fa  terre,  qils  reueniffent  en  Engleter 
a  receyuoir  lour  terres  et  lour  rentes,  et  qe  il  lour  ferroit  reflitucioun  dez 
biens  qil  auoit  pris  de  eaux  countre  lour  gree.  Le  roy  meifmes,  et  Pan- 
dulf, et  countis  et  barouns,  fen  alerent  touz  a  Winceftre  encountre  ler- 
ceuefque,  qe  pur  attendre  fa  venu  et  lez  autres  euefqes,  et  qant  lerceuef- 
que  y  eftoit  venuz  le  roi  ly  ala  encountre  et  chei  en  croice  a  fez  pees,  et 
dift,  "  beau  pier,  vous  foiez  bien  venuz,  et  vous  cri  mercy  de  qanqe  ieo 
ay  trefpaffe  encountre  vous."  Lerceuefque  fe  prifl  entre  fez  braz  et  li 
baifa,  et  puis  ly  amena  par  la  main  al  huis  faint  Swithun  a  Wynceftre, 
et  ly  affouft  de  la  fentence  et  luy  recouncila  a  Dieu  et  a  faint  eglis,  et 
ceo  fuft  le  iour  la  virge  faint  Margaret.  Et  le  erceuefque  alaft  mainte- 
naunt la  meffe  chaunter  et  le  roy  le  oy,  fi  offrift  vn  marc  dore;  et  main- 
tenaunt apres  la  meffe  tretoz  refceurent  lour  terres  et  lour  rentez  et  <°l-  184. 
menerent  eel  iour  en  grant  ioy.  Mais  unqor  ne  fu  pas  lendredit  releffe, 
pur  qe  le  apofloil  auoit  maunde  par  ces  lettres  qe  lendredit  ne  fu  point 
releffe  tanque  le  roy  oft  feft  plener  reflitucioun  dez  biens  qil  auoit  rauy 
de  faint  eglis,  et  tanque  il  meifmes  auoit  fait  homage  al  apoftoil  par  vn 
certain  legat  qil  enuoieroit  en  Engleter.  Donqes  fen  partift  Pandulf 
del  roy  et  del  erceuefque  et  retourna  a  loftel  al  apoftoil.  Lerceuefque 
fift  toft  apres  affembler  lez  prelates  treftouz  de  faint  eglis  a  Ridynges, 
pur  traiter  et  counfailler  quel  chos  et  combien  ils  demaunderoint  del  roy 
pur  la  reflitucioun  faire  dez  biens  qil  auoit  pris  et  rauy  dez  prelatez  de 
faint  eglis.  Et  iffi  ount  trete  et  counfaille  entre  eaux  qe  le  roy  dona  al 
erceuefque  pur  fa  reflitucioun  iij.  mile  marcz,  et  as  tretouz  apertire  co- 
munement  entre  eaux  folonc  lordinaunce  et  la  difcrecioun  lerceuefque 
xv.  mile  marcz.  Et  meifme  celle  ane  Nicholas  euefque  de  Tufcane, 
cardinal  et  penitauncer  de  la  court  de  Rome,  veint  en  Engleter  par  co- 
maundement  le  apoflol,  le  v.  kalends  Dodtobre,  pur  refceyuer  le  homage 
le  roy  Johan,  qe  il  et  fez  fucceffours  et  fez  heires  faunz  countredit  et 
feintife  et  faunz  trechery  tenderoint  perpetuelement  lez  regnes  Dengleter 
et  de  Ireland  de  Dieux  et  faint  Piere  et  del  auaunt  dit  apoftoil  Innocent 


SCALACRONICA.  93 

et  de  fez  fucceffours,  rendaunt  par  ane  mile  marcz,  ficom  auaunt  eft  dit. 
Et  fi  toft  com  il  auoit  fait  foun  homage  le  legat  ly  mouftra  la  lettre  ly 
apoftoil  qil  rendifaft  a  Berenger,  qe  fu  fem  le  roy  Richard  foun  freir,  la 
tierz  party  de  toutes  fez  rentes  Dengleter  qil  auoit  detenu  puis  fa  mort. 
Qaunt  il  auoit  cell  chos  oy  il  eftoit  durement  greue,  et  lentredit  ne  pooit 
en  nul  maner  eftre  releffe  par  comaundement  ly  apoftoil  tanqe  le  roy  out 
fait  le  affeitz  Berenger  de  fa  demaunde.  Luy  legat  tourna  areir  al 
apoftoil  apres  Nowel.  Et  le  roi  Johan  maunda  certains  meffageres 
outre  a  Berenger  pur  auoir  fa  grace  et  releffe  de  ceo  qel  demaunda, 
mais  il  ne  pooit  grace  trouer.  Au  darain  aueint  qel  moruft  toft  apres  la 
pafche,  et  iffi  demora  le  roy  quit  de  eel  tempeft.  Et  donqes  maintenant 
a  la  natre  faint  Johan  le  baptift  fuaunt,  lerceuefque  et  tout  la  clergie 
Dengleter  tindrent  vn  grant  counfail  a  Loundres,  et  par  mandement  le 
apoftoil  illoeqes  fuft  lentredit  Dengleter  releffe,  le  fecound  iour  de  Juli 
le  vij.  ane  de  eel  entredit.  Et  lendemain  hom  fona  et  chaunta  meffe 
par  toutes  lez  eglifes  de  Loundres,  et  iffi  de  iour  en  iour  par  tout 
Engleter. 

Lan  prochein  fuaunt  vn  graunt  defcord  fourdift  entre  le  roy  et  lez 
barouns,  par  la  refoun  qil  ne  uoloit  fuffrir  lez  loys  eftre  tenuz,  lez  queux 
le  bon  roy  faint  Eduuard  le  confefibur  auoit  eftabli,  et  furount  tenuz  et 
vfez  iefqes  a  eel  temps,  qil  lez  auoit  enfreint  et  conumpu  qar  il  ne  voloit 
nul  loy  tenir,  mais  fill  fa  volounte  en  toutes  chofez  qe  ly  vindrent  au 
quer.  II  delherita  afcuns  gentz  faunz  refoun  ou  iugement  de  lour  peres; 
et  le  bon  count  Randulf  de  Ceftre  uoloit  auoir  defherite,  pur  ceo  qil  ly 
reprift  fouent  de  fa  malice,  et  nomement  pur  ceo  qe  il  ly  blama  et  dit 
qil  fefoit  graunt  hount  a  Dieu  et  a  faint  eglis  qil  haunta  la  femme  foun 
freir  demein,  le  count  de  Bretaigne,  la  qel  il  meifmes  Randulf  auoit 
efpofe  et  oue  qey  il  eftoit  departy  par  counfail  du  dit  roy,  pur  quoi  fuft 
fuppofe  qil  moruft  faunz  engendrure  tout  prift  il  a  fem  Clemence  le  feile 
le  count  de  Ferers.  Qy  Randulf  ly  reprocha  quit  purieuft  plofours  autres 
femmes  et  feilis  dez  bons  gentz  de  la  terre,  qar  il  ne  efparnia  nul  dez 
queux  il  auoit  talent.  Lez  barouns  fez  coroucerent  malement  et  ly  uo- 
loint  gerroyer,  fi  fez  muftrent  comunement  a  Loundres  et  priftrent  afcent 
a  peifer  eel  defcord.     Ly  roy  et  lerceuefque  et  lez  grantz  seignours  de 


94  SCALACRONICA. 

la  terre  deuaunt  la  fell  faint  Johan  en  vn  pre  pres  de  Stanes,  qeft  ap- 
pelle  Rynimede,  et  fift  illoeqes  as  eaux  le  roy  vn  chartre  dez  plufours 
franncheis  tiels  com  ils  voloint  demaundre.  Et  par  taunt  fez  furount 
adonqes  entreacordez,  roais  eel  acorde  ne  durra  geris  qar  le  roy  toft 
apres  veint  encountre  lez  pointes  del  chartre  qe  il  meifmes  auoit  graunte, 
par  qoy  la  greignour  partye  dez  grantz  seignours  de  tout  Engleter  fez 
aflemblerent  et  comencerent  leuer  countre  le  roy,  et  arderent  fez  maners 
et  lez  robberent  et  ly  furent  lez  damages  qils  fauoint,  et  fez  afforcerent 
en  toutes  maners  qils  pooint  de  ly  ofter  Dengleter  et  fair  Lowys  fitz  le 
roy  Phelip  de  France  roy  de  celt  terre.  Et  le  roy  maunda  outre  mere 
et  fift  venir  taunt  de  poair  dez  Normauntz,  Picardez,  et  Flemyngs,  qe  a 
grant  peyne  Engleter  lez  pooit  refceiuer  et  fuftener.  Entre  queux  y  on 
vn  Normaund,  qe  out  a  noun  Faukes  de  Breute,  vn  deable,  vn  tyraunt; 
cefti  et  fa  gents  ne  efparnirent  ne  mefoun  de  religioun,  ne  efglifes,  qils 
ne  robberent  nettement  et  enporterent  qanqe  ils  pooint  trouer;  ifTi  qe  en 
poy  de  hour,  qe  par  entre  lez  gentz  le  roy  dun  part  et  lez  barouns  dautre  fol.  185. 
part,  tout  la  terre  fuft  deftruyt.  Lez  barouns  eftuerent  dez  plus  fages 
et  de  meutz  parlauntz  dez  grantz  seignours  de  la  tere  de  lour  confidera- 
cioun,  fi  lez  enuoierent  outre  mere  a  le  roy  Phelip  de  Fraunce  et  luy 
prierent  qil  voulift  envoier  en  Engleter  foun  fitz  Lowys  pur  eftre  roy  et 
refceyuer  la  coroune.  Qant  le  roy  ceft  chos  auoit  oy  et  entendu  il  fefoit 
certain  alliaunce  entre  eaux,  qi  Lowys  foun  fitz  irroit  ouefqes  eaux  en 
Engleter  et  ferroit  roy  par  lour  comune  eleccioun,  et  enchacerount  le  roy 
Johan.  Et  touz  ceaux  qe  furount  la  prefentz  fefoint  maintenant  homage 
a  Lowys  et  deuindrent  fez  horns,  et  lez  barouns  fez  tindrent  en  la  cite 
de  Loundres  iefqes  la  venu  Lowys,  et  ceaux  qi  ly  aloient  quer.  Et  fait 
a  fauoir,  qe  le  famady  prochein  deuaunt  laffencioun,  le  xij.  kalends  de 
Juny,  cefti  Lowys,  fitz  et  heire  le  roy  de  France,  veint  en  Engleter  od 
grant  poair.  Et  pur  ceo  qe  le  roy  Johan  auoit  bailie  touz  lez  chattels 
de  la  terre  en  la  garde  dez  alienes,  Lowys  veint  a  Rowceftre  et  aflegea 
le  chattel,  fi  le  prift  par  force  le  Lundy  del  pentecofte,  et  fift  pendre  lez 
aliens  qy  y  furount.  Et  le  Judy  apres  vint  il  a  Loundres  ou  il  eftoit 
noblement  refcieus  dez  barouns  qi  illoeqes  luy  auoint  longement  attenduz, 
et  ly  fefoint  homage  tretouz,  et  lez  Loundreis  auxi  qi  furent  de  lour 


SCALACRONICA.  95 

alliaunce.  Et  puis  le  mardy  apres  la  trinite  il  prift.  le  chaflel  de  Ray- 
gate,  et  lendemain  le  chaftel  de  Gildford,  et  le  vendredy  apres  le  chaftell 
de  Farnham.  Et  le  lundy  de  la  semayn  procheyn  apres  la  cite  de  Wyn- 
ceftre  ly  full  rendu,  et  lendemain  de  le  faint  Johan,  le  maner  del  euefque 
de  Welpey.  Et  le  samady  apres  le  vtas  dez  apoftels  faint  Pere  et  faint 
Poel  il  prift  le  chattel  de  Odeham.  Et  la  lundy  apres  la  faint  Margaret 
il  fe  mid  vers  Douer  od  grant  oft  pur  affeger  le  chaftel,  et  demura  illoeqes 
plus  de  xv.  iours  mais  rien  ne  efploita,  et  donqes  fen  party  de  illoeqes  et 
veint  a  Loundres,  et  la  tour  de  Loundres  luy  fuft  renduz.  Et  meifme 
le  temps  qe  ceo  fu  ly  apoftoil  enuoya  Engleter  vn  legate,  Gwalo,  foun 
preftre,  cardinal  faint  Martin,  pur  maintener  la  party  le  roy  encountre  lez 
barouns;  mes  lez  barouns  auoint  fi  grant  poair  par  Lowys  et  fa  gent  qe 
le  roy  ne  fauoit  quel  part  tournir. 

En  quel  temps  Alexander  fitz  le  roy  Willam  Defcoce,  foun  pier  mort, 
fifl  grauntz  deftrucciounz  au  roi  Johan,  de  qi  il  auoit  refcieu  lordre  de 
fol.  185. b.  cheualerie.  II  affift  le  chaftel  de  Mitteford,  et  puis  le  chaftel  de  Norham, 
prift  lez  homages  dez  plufours  grantz  seignours  de  Northumbreland  et 
du  Counte  de  Euerwik,  et  lour  refcetta  countre  le  roy  Johan,  pur  quoi  le 
roy  Johan  lift  deftruyer  lour  terres.  En  quel  temps  le  chaftel  de  Mor- 
peth fuft  abatu  et  tout  Lownes,  et  la  marche  de  Efcoce  ars,  au  repair  du 
roy  Johan.  Le  dit  roy  Alexander  affift  Cardoil  et  la  prift  oue  le  chaftel, 
de  ou  il  fe  muyft  od  grant  oft  parmy  Engleter  tanque  a  Douyr  pur  auoir 
encountre  Lowys  le  fitz  le  roy  de  France,  com  acorde  fuft  de  tretice 
auaunt  le  hour;  mais  ne  encounterent  my  a  eel  foitz,  mais  firent  autre 
foitz  autre  part  a  la  venu  Lowys,  ou  Alexander  ly  fift  homage  au  gife 
dez  autres,  pur  quoi  fez  terres  encourerent  la  fentence  del  entredit  com 
lez  autres  firent  qencountre  le  roy  Johan  rebellerent,  par  le  pronounce- 
ment de  Gwalo  le  legate  du  pape  qi  fuppuail  y  mift  au  roy  Johan  com 
en  foun  vaffail.  Et  aueint  iffi  qe  le  roy  Johan  uoloit  eftre  al  a  Nichol, 
et  veint  encheminaunt  al  abbey  de  Swinyfheued,  et  herbifa  illoeqes,  et 
demura  ij.  iours,  et  par  cas  la  ly  prift  vn  fodeigne  malady,  et  puis  fen 
party  de  illoeqes  et  veint  a  Newark,  et  la  malady  ly  greua  taunt  qil  ne 
poait  auaunt  aler,  mais  ieuft  illoeqes  iij.  iours  ou  iiij.  et  moruft  lendemain 
de  faint  Luk  leuangelift.    II  auoit  bele  engendrure,  ceft  affauoir,  Henry 


96  SCALACRONICA. 

foun  fitz  qi  regna  apres  ly,  et  Richard  qi  puis  fuft  count  de  Cornewail, 
Ifabel  qe  full  emperice  de  Rome,  Elianor  qe  puis  full  done  a  Lewlin,  et 
Johan  royne  Defcoce.  Cefti  Johan  qant  il  auoit  regne  xvij.  aunz,  v.  moys 
et  v.  iours,  il  moruft,  com  deuant  eft  dit,  en  le  chattel  de  Neuark,  et  gift 
enterre  a  Winceftre.  Les  vns  cronicles  dient  qe  com  le  roy  feoit  a  man- 
ger a  Swinisheued  qe  il  demaundoit  vn  moigne  de  leens  quoi  valufl  vn 
pain  qeftoit  sure  la  table  deuaunt  ly;  le  moigne  refpoundift  qil  valufl  vn 
dener.  "  Si  ieo  vife,"  fefoit  le  roy,  "  vn  ane,  il  vaudra  x.  s.,"  pur  quel 
parole  le  moigne  ly  fill  empufoner  dun  hanope  de  feruoife  qil  ly  aporta, 
qi  ly  fifl  entendre  qe  ceo  eftoit  bon  qi  enfift  la  credence,  de  qoi  il  moruft 
procheignement.     Le  roy  enmaladift  et  moruft  a  Newark. 

En  quel  temps  apres  le  roy  Johan  eftoit  Honorius  le  8.  pape  apres  In- 
nocent 10.  aunz  et  8  mois,  qi  conferma  lordre  de  precheours,  quy  dout- 
able  eftoit  a  foun  predeceffburs.  Saint  Fraunces  fift  comencer  lordre  fol.  186. 
dez  freres  menours  pres  de  la  cite  de  Affys  meifine  la  fefoun.  Cefti  pape 
Honorius  corona  Frederik  le  2.  en  emperour,  qi  regna  33  aunz.  Le  dit 
Frederik  eftoit  au  comencement  humble  et  obeifaunt  a  faint  eglis  mais 
puis  enfift  tregraunt  violence,  pur  quoi  eftoit  efcomenge  du  dift  pape 
Honorius,  quel  fentence  foun  fuccefTour  Gregoir  renouela.  Le  dit  Fre- 
derik enprifona  foun  fitz  propre  Henry  roy  de  Allemayn  en  vile  prifoun 
a  la  mort,  pur  quoi  le  pape  affbila  lez  barouns  del  empire  du  charge  de 
lour  feaute  et  homage  au  dit  Fredrik.  Afcuns  croniclis  deuifent  qe  nuly 
no  ly  oifaft  pronouncier  la  fentence  tanque  vn  freir  Jacobin  lenprift  engi- 
noufement,  qi  veint  au  prefence  du  dit  Frederik  qi  ly  difoit,  "  Sire," 
fefoit.  il,  "  il  y  auoit  iadiz  vn  lioun  fi  fort  et  fiers  qe  nul  bell  fe  pooit  gar- 
der  de  ly  a  qy  il  auoit  corage.  Aueint  enfi  qen  vn  chaude  iour  de  efte 
vn  mouche  venoit  fere  entre  fez  dieus  oilles  qe  ly  mordift  ferement."  "  Qy 
es  tu,"  fefoit  ly  lioun,  "  qe  me  ofez  mordir?"  "  Ieo  fu  vn  mouche," 
fefoit  lautre.  "  Vn  mouche?"  lefoit  ly  lioun,  "  qeftez  le  plus  cheitif  befl 
qe  foit,  mordez  auaunt,  qe  fi  tu  ne  fuffez  le  plus  cheitif  beft  qe  foit  tu  le 
acomparez,  qar  de  toi  ne  me  deigne  venger."  "  Et  fire,"  difoit  ly  Ja- 
cobyn,  "  ieo  face  comparifoun  de  ta  seignourye  au  lioun,  et  de  moun 
petit  eftat  au  mouche,  qi  te  pronounce  depar  noftre  faint  pier  ly  apoftoil 
la  fentence  en  quoi  tu  es  encorru  pur  ta  rebellete  encountre  faint  eglis.'' 


SCALACRONICA.  97 

"  Voir,"  fefoit  lemperour,  "  fi  ne  full  la  comparifoun,  et  vous  fuffez  dautre 
eflat  tu  la  fenteres."  Le  di[t]  emperour  pafia  a  la  terre  faint  mes  rien  ne 
•  efploita,  fi  reueint  et  full  depofe  par  Innocent  le  4,  qi  com  affiil  vn  chaf- 
tel  en  Itail  perdiil  foun  trefor,  pur  quoi  et  pur  nouelis  qil  auoit  du  pape 
fen  fuy  en  Apolia,  qi  tout  fa  vie  efloit  en  debate  od  lez  papes. 

Apres  cefti  roy  Johan  Henry  foun  fitz,  enfaunt  de  ix.  aunz,  full  corone 
le  iour  faint  Symound  et  faint  Jude  a  Glouceftre,  del  legat  Gwalo,  par 
counfail  dez  afcuns  grantz  seignours  qi  touz  iours  fez  tindrent  od  foun 
pier  le  roy  Johan.  Et  ceaux  furount  le  count  Randulf  de  Ceftre,  Willam 
le  Marfchal  le  count  de  Penbrok,  le  count  de  Ferers,  Willam  de  la  Bruer, 
Sauery  de'  Mail.  Et  le  temps  cefti  Henry  en  foun  comencement  full 
comence  le  nouel  oueray  de  Weftmoufter,  en  quel  hour  aueint  le  iour 
foi.  168.  b.  faint  Luci  vn  fi  trefgrant  vent  du  northe  qe  plufours  mefouns,  arbres  et 
clocheris  abatift,  et  furount  vieus  mauueis  efpiritz  volauntz,  et  dragouns 
ardauntz.  Les  autres  countis  et  barouns  de  la  terre  fuerent  Lowys.  II 
v  auoint  auxi  a  foun  coronement  lez  euefqes  de  Winceflre  et  de  Bath. 
Toft  apres  lencorounement  le  legate  Gwalo  teint  vn  counfail  a  Briftow 
a  la  feft  faint  Martin,  ou  il  y  auoint  xj.  euefqes  Dengleter  et  de  Wales, 
et  autres  prelatis  de  faint  eglis  a  grant  noumbre,  et  countis,  barouns,  et 
cheualeris  a  graunt  fufoun  qi  la  furont  venuz ;  et  tretouz  ceaux  par 
counfail  et  par  comaundement  del  legat  iurerent  feaute  al  nouel  roy 
corone  Henry  le  tierce.  Et  pius  tantoft  le  legat  entredift  tot  Walis,  pur 
ceo  qils  tindrent  od  lez  barouns,  et  tretouz  ceaux  qi  lez  eiderent  ou 
counfail  donerent  de  tenir  gere  encountre  le  roy  Henry.  Et  tout  an 
comencement  mift  en  la  fentence  Lowis  le  fitz  le  roy  de  France. 
Nenne  pur  ceo  il  ala  maintenant  et  prift  le  chattel  de  Berkhamftede  et 
de  Herford  apres  la  feft  de  faint  Lucie,  et  de  eel  hour  en  auaunt  lez 
barouns  fefoint  fi  grauntz  maus  parmy  la  terre,  et  nomement  lez  Franceis 
qi  furent  venuz  od  Lowys,  qe  lez  grantz  seignours  de  la  terre  et  tout  le 
poeple  comunement  fez  entre  aflurerent  par  ferement  pur  enchacer  Lowys 
et  fez  gentz  hors  de  la  terre.  Et  vn  grant  party e  dez  barouns  et  dez 
Fraunceis  fes  auoint  mys  a  Nichol  et  pris  la  vile  et  la  tindrent  et  tenir 
la  voloint  a  Lowis.     Mais  la  vindrent  lez  gentz  le  roy  Henry  od  grant 

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98  SCALACRONICA. 

poer,  cell  affauoir,  le  count  Randulf  de  Ceftre,  Willam  le  Marefchal,  et 
Willam  de  la  Bruer,  et  autres  grantz  seignours,  et  donerent  fort  batail 
as  barouns  qi  la  furrount.     Et  illoeqes  full  occis  le  count  de  Perches,  et 
tout  la  defcoumfiture  tourna  foure  lez  barouns.    Et  y  furrount  pris  grantz 
seignours,  cell  a  fauoir,  Caer  de  Qincy  count  de  Wynceflre,  et  Hounfray 
de  Booun  count  de  Herforde,  et  Robert  fitz  Waulter,  et  moultez  dez 
autres  barouns  qauoint  mue  la  gere  encountre  le  roy  furount  y  pris  et 
menez  au  roy,  et  mys  en  prifoun.     Qaunt  la  nouel  de  eel  defcoumfiture 
veint  a  Lowys  il  alaft  maintenaunt  a  Loundres,  et  la  teint  il  et  fifl  fermer 
toutez  lez  portez  forfqe  vn.     Et  toll  apres  vindrent  les  gentz  le  roy  od 
grant  poair  et  taunt  firent  a  Loundres  qils  renderent  la  vile  al  roy  ifli  qil 
lour  graunteroit  toutez  lez  fraunchies  qils  auoint  ou  folaient  auoir  et  les 
confermeroit  tout  de  nouel  par  fa  chartre  del  grant  feal.     Et  meifme  eel 
feifoun  vn  grant  seignour  qauoit  a  noun  Euftace  le  moigne,  od  autres 
grantz  seignours  de  France,  uoloint  eftre  venuz  en  eel  terre  od  grant 
poair  pur  eyder  Lowys.    Mais  Hubert  de  Burgh  et  lez  v.  portez,  od  viij. 
nefes  foulement,  lez  encounterent  en  la  mere  et  lez  affailerent  egrement, 
fi  lez  conquiftrent  et  couperent  lez  teftez  Euilas  le  moygne,  et  priltrent 
dez  grantz  seignours  de  Fraunce  et  lez  miftrent  en  prifoun,  et  tretouz 
lour  nefes  furount  pris  ou  noez  vnqes  ne  efchaperent  fors  xv.     Qant 
Lowys  fauoit  la  nouel  de  celt  mefcheaunce  il  fe  douta  durement  eftre 
defcounfift  et  confoundu.     Et  donqes  fuft  iffi  ordene  et  purparle  entre 
le  roy  et  ly  par  le  legat  et  par  lerceuefque  de  Cantorbirs  et  par  autres 
grantz  seignours  de  discrecioun,  qe  tretouz  lour  prifouns  dun  part  et 
dautre  ferrount  delyuers  et  irrount  quites.     Et  qil  meifmes  aueroit  pur 
fez  defpenses  et  pur  fez  damages  mile  liuers  dargent  et  qil  voideroit  la 
terre  faunz  iames  retourner.     En  cell  maner  prill  la  acorde  entre  le  roy 
Henry  et  Lowys,  et  donqes  fuft  il  maintenaunt  affous  par  le  legate  et  par 
lerceuefque  de  Cantorbirs  de  la  fentence  dount  il  eftoit  efcomenge,  et 
lez  barouns  auxi.     Et  puis  alerent  tretoz  a  Mertoun,  li  legat,  ly  roy,  et 
Lowys,  et  touz  lez  grantz  seignours  Dengleter,  et  toutz  ceaux  de  France 
qestoint  venuz  od  Lowys,  et  la  fuft  pees  conferme  et  eftably  entre  le  roi 
Henry  et  Lowys.     Pius  retourna  Lowys  de  illoeqes  a  Loundres  et  prill 
foun  counge,  et  fuft  conueye  a  la  mere  a  graunt  honour  del  erceuefque 


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et  des  autres  euefqes,  et  dez  countis  et  barouns,  et  iffi  paffa  il  areir  en 
France;  et  en  ceft  maner  finift  ceft  guere. 

En  Ian  del  incarnacioun  noftre  seignour  mile  cc.  x.,  a  la  pentecoft,  le 
roy  Henry  efloit  derechief  corone  a  Loundres  del  erceuefque  de  Cantor- 
birs, de  qe  counfail  le  roy  enuoya  par  tout  le  realme  enfigne  de  pees  qe 
chefcun  alme  de  quel  condicioun  qel  fut  ou  de  quele  age  par  iij.  iours 
fuauntz  rendroit  iij.  chapletis  dez  flures  a  lours  seignours.  A  quy  roy 
Henry  Dieu  dona  bon  peif  et  quyet;  tanque  a  fes  dareyns  iours,  ceft  a 
dire  1.  aunz  et  plus. 

Puis  apres  en  la  an  noftre  feignour  mile  cc.  xxi.  Alexander  roy  Defcoce 
efpofa  Johan  la  feille  le  roy  Johan  Dengleter  a  Eboracum.  Meifme  eel  ane 
Margaret,  feile  le  roy  Willam  Defcoce,  full  done  en  mariage  a  monfire 
Hubert  de  Burghe  par  comune  counfail  de  ambedieus  lez  realmes. 

En  le  ane  apres  Lowys  roy  de  France  countre  foun  ferement  qil  auoit 
fait  au  roy  Dengleter  fill  grantz  damages  en  lez  parties  de  France  et  de 
Gafcoyne. 

En  Ian  de  noftre  seignour  mile  cc.  xxviij.  Johan  feile  le  roy  Johan 
fol.  187.  b.  Dengleter,  qe  eirt  femme  le  roy  Alexander  roy  Defcoce  moruft.  Pius 
apres  le  roy  et  lerceuelque,  countis  et  barouns,  fez  affemblerent  a 
Loundres  a  la  faint  Michel  procheigne  fuaunt,  et  tinderent  parlement  et 
illoeqes  furount  renouelez  toutes  lez  fraunchies  qe  le  roy  Johan  auoit 
graunte  et  par  fa  chartre  conferme  as  lez  barouns,  queux  fount  vnqor 
tenuz.  Et  donqes  prift  le  roy  de  chefcun  charu  de  terre  de  Engleter  ij. 
s.  Et  Hubert  de  Burghe  full  fait  adonqes  chief  juftice  de  tout  Engleter; 
et  ceo  full  le  qart  ane  du  reyne  le  roy  Henry.  Et  meifme  ceft  ane  full 
faint  Thomas  de  Cantorbirs  tranilate,  le  1.  ane  apres  fa  paffioun,  ou  de 
Londres  a  Cantorbirs  chefcun  auoit  pain,  vine,  et  prouendre,  qe  lez  de- 
maundoit  del  erceuefque  Efteuen.  Et  puis  full  purueu  par  comune 
counfail  de  tout  le  barnage  qe  touz  lez  aliens  fuflent  deietuz  de  la  terre, 
et  qe  le  roy  preift  touz  lez  chafteaux  en  fa  main  queux  foun  pier  le  roy 
Johan  auoit  bailie  en  garde  as  aliens,  et  iffi  full  fait.  Mais  ly  eftut  li 
orgoillous  Faukes  de  Breute,  fill  richement  garnir  et  eftoffer  foun  chaftel 
de  Bedford  qil  auoit  del  doune  le  roy  Johan  et  le  teint  a  force  encountre 
le  roy  Henry,  et  il  veint  la  od  grant  poair,  li  la  fill  afleger,  et  lerceuefque 


100  SCALACRONICA. 

Efteuen  de  Langtoun  y  veint  od  grant  compaigny  dez  vaillanz  cheua- 
lers  et  efquiers  pur  eider  le  roy.  Et  durra  laffege  del  pentecofl  iefqes 
lafiumpcioun  noftre  dame,  et  donqes  full  le  chaftel  pris  et  le  roy  fill 
pendre  touz  lez  horns  qi  leinz  furount  entrez  de  lour  volontez,  cell  afa- 
uoir  lxxx.  horns;  et  toft  apres  Faukes  meifmes  full  troue  en  vn  eglis  a 
Couyntre,  et  illoeqes  foriura  il  la  terre.  En  temps  cefti  roy  Henry,  Ed- 
mound  de  Habindoune,  treforer  de  Sarifbiris,  full  facre  erceuefque  de 
Cantorbirs.  Cefti  roy  Henry  maunda  au  count  de  Prouince  qil  ly  en- 
uoyaft  Elianor  fa  feile  et  il  la  prendroit  a  femme,  iffi  qel  ueint  en  Engle- 
ter  toft  apres  le  Nowel.  Et  lendemain  de  faint  Hillair  lerceuefque  Ed- 
mound  lez  efpofaft  enfemble  a  Cantorbirs,  et  as  vtas  de  faint  Hillair  full 
el  corone  a  Weftmoufter  oue  graunt  folempnete  dez  erceuefqes,  euefqes, 
abbes,  priours,  countis,  et  barouns,  clerks  et  lays,  a  grant  honour.  II  y 
out  entre  eaux  bele  engendrure,  cell  a  fauoir,  Edward  qi  regna  apres  ly, 
Edmound  foun  frer  vaillaunt  cheualer  et  flore  de  largefce  et  curtoifv, 
Margaret  qe  puis  full  royne  de  Efcoce,  Beatrice  la  counteffe  de  Bre- 
taigne,  et  Katarine  qe  moruft  virgine  en  religioun. 

En  quel  hour  Johan  la  femme  le  roy  Alexandre  Defcoce  et  feile  Johan 
le  roy  et  fore  a  Henry,  moruft  faunz  engendrure.  Le  dit  Alexandre  prift 
a  Roxburghe,  le  iour  del  pentecoll,  autre  femme  de  outre  mere  extrait 
dez  Couucys,  qe  auoit  a  noun  Marie,  de  qey  il  engendra  vn  fitz  qi  out 
a  noune  Alexandre,  li  quel  Alexandre  efpofa  la  primer  feile  cefti  roy 
Henry,  Margaret,  a  Noefchaftel  sur  Tyne,  com  le  roy  Henry  y  eftoit 
venuz  oue  grant,  oft  pur  auoir  guerroie  Alexandre  le  pier  qi  au  Noef- 
chaftelle  enueint  sure  bon  conduyt  au  roy  Henry,  ou  furount  peifez  et 
alliaunce  de  lour  enfauntz  par  mariage  fait,  qi  al  hour  neftoient  paffez 
iiij.  aunz  de  age.  En  quel  hour  le  fitz  le  roy  Henry,  Edward,  eftoit  de 
vi.  aunz  de  age.  Prochemeint  moruft  Alexander  roy  Defcoce  le  pier 
com  en  alaunt  eftoit  deuers  les  iles  de  gerroier  Orkeny,  et  full  aporte  et 
enterre  a  Melros:  soun  fitz  Alexandre  corone  au  gyfe  du  pays  de  age 
de  8  aunz.  Cefti  Alexandre  le  fitz  engendra  de  Margaret  fa  femme, 
feile  le  roy  Henry  de  Engleter,  ij.  fitz,  Alexandre  et  Dauid,  qi  touz 
dieus  murerent  deuant  le  pier.  II  auoit  auxi  del  dit  Margaret  vn  feile 
qe  autrefy  out  a  noune  Margaret,  qe  pius  full  royne  de  Norway,  qe  royne 


SCALACRONICA.  101 

de  Norway  auoit  de  foun  seignour  vn  feile  foulement  qe  out  a  noun 
Margaret,  la  maner  de  qey  serra  apres  rementoyne. 

Meifme  le  temps  le  ordre  dez  freirs  menoures  vindrent  en  Engleter, 
qe  toft  eftoint  enhabitez.  Aueint  iffi  qe  le  barnage  voloit  auoir  afcuns 
addiciouns  en  la  chartre  dez  frauncies  qils  auoint  del  roi  Johan,  et  par- 
lerent  taunt  entre  eux  qe  le  roy  lour  granteroit  fraunchement  qanque  ils 
voloint  demaunder  par  refoun,  et  lour  fift  donqes  chartres.  La  vn  qeft 
apelle  la  grant  chartre  dez  fraunchies,  et  lautre  la  chartre  del  foreft.  Et 
pur  la  graunt  de  ceaux  ij.  chartres  erceuefqes,  euefqes,  abbes,  priours, 
countis,  barouns,  cheualeris  et  efquiers,  et  fraunkes  horns  de  la  tent', 
donerent  au  roy  la  quindezifme  part  de  touz  lour  moebles,  et  les  moyns 
del  ordre  de  Cifteux  pur  auoir  la  bon  uolointe  le  roy  et  pur  auoir  lez 
fraunchies  grauntz  as  autres  ils  ly  donerent  meifme  eel  temps  v.  mile 
marcz  dargent.  Et  qant  le  roy  Henry  auoit  regne  xliij.  aunz  meifme 
eel  ane,  il  et  tout  le  barnage  Dengleter  par  lour  comune  afcent  ordein- 
erent  en  la  vile  de  Oxenforde,  ou  ils  tindrent  lour  parlement,  afcuns  pur- 
uiauncez  pur  amendement  del  realme.  Et  iurerent  tretoz  entre  eaux 
comunement,  primes  le  roy  et  pius  tretouz  lez  autres,  qils  tendroint  eels 
puruiaunces  pur  touz  iours,  et  qi  lez  enfrendroit  feroit  mauuys  et  de- 
ftruyt.  Mes  le  fecound  ane  fuant  apres,  le  roy  par  mauueis  counfail  qil 
fol.  188.  b.  auoit  de  foun  fitz  et  de  Richard  foun  freir,  count  de  Cornewail,  et  dez 
autres,  fen  repenti  del  ferement  qe  il  auoit  fait,  et  maunda  par  certains 
meffagers  al  apoftoil,  et  fuft  affous  del  serment  qil  auoit  fait. 

Et  Ian  fuaunt  apres  y  auoit  fi  grant  cherete  parmy  la  terre  qe  le 
quarter  de  furment  ualoit  xxiiij.  i.  Et  donqes  y  auoit  11  grant  defaut  de 
manger  qe  lez  poures  mangerent  vrtics  et  autres  herbes,  et  emfleyrent  de 
feyme  qils  murrerent  efpeffement  par  tout. 

Et  le  xlviij.  ane  del  regne  le  roy  Henry  comenfa  la  guere  entre  ly  et 
les  barouns,  pur  ceo  qil  enfreint  les  couenauntz  auaunt  ditz,  pur  quoi 
plufours  euefqes  et  barouns  enerdauntz  au  roy  furent  enprifonez  par  les 
barouns.  Et  meifme  eel  ane  en  quarefme  fuft  la  cite  de  Northamptoun 
pris,  et  lez  Jues  de  Loundres  occis  a  graunt  multitude,  pur  ceo  qils 
auoint  purueu  fieu  Gregeoys  pur  auoir  ars  la  vile  de  Loundres. 


[02  SCALACRONICA. 

Et  en  le  May  fuaunt  apres  le  iour  faint  Pantaleon  full  la  batail  a 
Lewys,  cell  affauoir  le  mekerdy  deuaunt  la  faint  Dunftane.  Et  illoeqes 
iiirount  pris  ly  roy  meifmes,  et  foun  fitz  Edward,  et  le  count  de  Corne- 
wail  foun  freir  et  lite  del  empire,  et  moultz  autres. 

Et  Ian  fuaunt  apres,  Edward  le  fitz  le  roy  efchapa  hors  de  la  garde 
Symound  de  Monforth  a  Herforde,  com  il  auoit  compaffe,  qe  vn  qeftoit 
de  fa  couyne  ly  feift  amener  vn  courfeir  pur  achatre,  si  demaundoit 
counge  de  fez  gardeins  pur  affaier  le  cheual,  qi  ne  fez  priftrent  garde 
luy  ottrierent  counge.  11  mounta  le  courfer,  fen  ala  foun  chemyn  a  lez 
barouns  marchis,  qi  ly  refceurent  od  grant  ioy.  Et  del  hour  qil  eftoit 
efchape  ils  lefferent  au  large  le  roi  foun  pier;  Roger  de  Mortimer  eftoit 
du  couyne  del  efchape  le  dit  Edward.  Le  countee  de  Ceftre  fuft  done 
a  Symound  de  Mounforde.  Et  toft  apres,  cell  affauoir  le  samady  pro- 
chein  deuaunt  la  goule  de  Auft,  fire  Edward  defcounfift  Symound  de 
Mounford  le  ioen  a  Kells,  et  a  grant  payn  efchapa  il  meifmes,  mais  lez 
grauntz  seignours  qi  furount  ouefque  ly,  cell  affauoir,  Baudewyn  Wake, 
Willam  de  Monchenfy,  Adam  de  Newmarche,  et  autres  grantz  seignours, 
furrount  pris.  Et  le  mardy  apres  fuft  la  batail  de  Euefham,  et  illoeqes 
furount  le  count  Symound  de  Mounforde,  Henry  foun  fitz,  Hughe  Def- 
penfer,  Peris  de  Mounforde,  Rauf  Baffet,  et  plufours  autres  grantz 
seignours  mortez,  et  moult  par  trefoun  le  count  de  Glowceftre,  qi  deuaunt 
lour  eftoit  enerdaunt.  Apres  cell  batail  moutz  dez  barouns  et  cheualers 
et  dez  autres  gentilis  homs,  qauoint  efte  od  le  count  Symound,  furont  fbl.  189. 
defheritez;  et  fez  ioindrent  enfemble  et  fefoint  grantz  maus  en  plufours 
lieus  parmy  la  terre  et  arderent  mefouns  et  maners  de  lour  enemys,  et 
lour  biens  robberent. 

Lan  fuaunt  apres  en  May,  le  qart  iour  deuaunt  faint  Dunftan,  fuft  la 
defcounfiture  a  Cheftrefield  de  les  defheritez,  ou  il  auoit  moltz  de  eaux 
occis,  et  Robert  le  count  de  Ferers  fuft  pris  illoeqes,  et  Baudewyn  Wake, 
Johan  de  Neuyl,  et  Johan  de  la  Hay  a  grant  payn  efchapa.  Et  mainte- 
naunt  la  veile  faint  Johan  le  baptift  apres  fuaunt  comenfa  laffege  de 
Kenilworth,  et  durra  iefqes  la  veil  faint  Thomas  lapoftle  deuaunt  Nowel ; 
a  quel  iour  Henry  de  Hailing,  qi  auoit  le  chaftel  en  garde,  le  rendy  au 


SCALACRONICA.  103 

roy  en  ceft  fourme,  qil  et  tretouz  lez  autres  qi  leinz  furount  od  ly  auerount 
vie  et  raembre,  cheueaux,  armurs,  et  hernoys,  et  qanque  il  auoint  leinz. 
Et  auoint  trois  iours  refpite  pur  deliuerer  le  chattel  nettement.  Le  roy 
entra  le  challel.  Symound  de  Monford  le  iuuen  oue  fa  mere  hurount 
condicioun  a  uoider  le  realme,  fi  fen  alerent  en  France. 

En  Ian  de  grace  mile  cc.  52.  Edward,  le  fitz  et  heir  le  roy  Henry,  auoit 
laduche  de  Giene  du  doun  foun  pier;  en  quel  temps  la  terre  full  taunt 
broille  du  folail  faunz  pluy  qe  apain  ne  portoit  fruyt.  Qi  Edward  prill  a 
femme  la  feile  le  roy  Defpayne,  et  la  efpofa  en  leglife  de  Burges  en 
Efpayne,  et  com  il  venoit  deuer  leglis  a  cheual,  com  ell  la  coullom  du 
pays;  leglis  ell  en  vn  pendaunt,  ou  la  terre  del  vn  coutle  del  eglis  ell 
plus  haut  de  lx.  peez  par  degres  pendant,  qe  nell  le  pauement  de  leglis 
ou  toutes  gentz  defcenderent  al  hufe  de  leglis.  Ly  dit  Edward  ferill  le 
deilreir  dez  efperouns,  faillill  einz  outre  le  pendaunt  dez  greez,  vn  li 
tremeruaillous  faut  faunz  quarter  de  ly,  ou  de  foun  cheual,  qe  a  iour  de 
huy  y  eft.  memoir  hu  pays.  Celti  Edward  full  reueillous  de  peife,  et  de 
guere  hauntoift  lez  armes  en  eftraunges  terres,  et  en  iouftes  et  tournays, 
qi  grant  renoune  conquift.  En  eel  temps  apparufl  leftoille  comete  no- 
tourment.  Le  cardenal  Ottobon  enueint  de  Rome  en  Engleter,  qi  plu- 
fours  conllituciouns  enmill  en  faint  eglis  en  Engleter,  par  mediacioun  de 
qi  lez  countis  et  barouns  qenherdaunz  eltoint  au  count  Symound  de 
Mounford  elloint  peifez  au  roy  pur  gref  raunfoun,  pur  quel  raunfoun  lez 
terres  le  count  de  Fereirs  fount  vnqor  engagez.  Le  dill  roy  Henrv 
rumpy  as  comunes  ceo  qe  deuaunt  auoit  graunte  en  fa  grant  chartre, 
foi.  189.  b.  fours  del  auaunt  dit  guere  dez  barouns.  Lez  barouns  qi  elloint  leuez 
oue  Lowys  de  France  nefloint  my  delheritz  par  condicioun  taille  en  pefe 
fefaunt  oue  celli  roy  Henry,  mais  toz  lez  clerks  qi  enherdauntz  elloient 
ou  obeifauntz  au  dit  Lowys  elloint  depriuez  de  lour  beneficez,  ou  enuoiez 
au  faint  pier  lapoftoil  a  punire  solon  la  qantite  de  lour  trefpas.  La 
peife  full  fait  entre  Lewlin  et  le  roy  en  maner  qils  fez  appelleroint 
princes,  noun  pas  roys;  et  qe  lez  seignours  de  Galis  ferroint  homage 
auxi  bien  au  roy  com  au  prince,  et  pur  raunfoun  de  30000  marcz,  et  la 
peife  trete  par  06lobon  le  legate,  et  pur  mifericord  qe  le  roy  auoit  de 
Dauid  le  fitz  Lewelin  qe  fe  mill  de  toute  en  fa  grace.    En  le  temps  celli 


104  SCALACRONICA. 

roy  Henry,  fitz  le  roy  Johan,  full  vn  clerk  attaint  an  counfail  de  Oxfen- 
forde,  qil  auoit  ymagine  par  engine  sure  foun  corps  lez  plais  du  Sauueour, 
pur  quoi  full  iuge  au  mort.  En  quil  temps  Johan,  fitz  Dauid  de  Efcoce, 
engendre  de  la  fore  Randulf  count  de  Ceftre,  efpofa  la  feile  Lewlin 
prince  de  Galis,  eltaunchement  de  la  guer  entre  le  dit  prince  et  le  dit 
count  Randulf.  Qi  count  apres  foun  repaireir  de  la  terre  faint  morufl 
faunz  heire  de  foun  corps.  La  counte  de  Ceftre  remainoit  a  Johan  foun 
iieiirw  Defcoce,  qi  Johan  fitz  Dauid,  le  count  de  Huntingdoun  et  del 
Geruyagh,  morufl  faunz  heire  de  foun  corps;  pur  qoi  la  counte  de  Ceftre 
enueint  au  main  le  roy,  mais  ia  le  mainz,  le  roy  fift  faire  gree  as  fores  le 
dit  Johan  pur  ceo  qe  tiel  regaute  ne  deuoit  eftre  departiz  entre  femmes, 
le  iffu  dez  quelis  fores  eft  apres  rementinez.  En  meifme  le  hour  veint 
Johan  le  roy  de  Jerufalem  en  Engleter,  a  demaundre  fuccours  de  la  terre 
de  promiffioun.  Quel  temps  Galis  fuft  tout  entredit.  Lez  grauntz 
Dengleter  graunterent  a  celli  roy  Henry  le  garde  de  lours  heyres  dedenz 
age  de  xxi.  ane.  Qy  roy  Henry  primes  prift  le  efcuage,  et  plufours  autres 
taillages.  II  uoloit  alafoitz  fere  perfonalment  en  baunk  entre  fez  juftices 
en  fez  iugementz.  En  quel  temps  Willam  de  Brewes  fuft  accufe  a 
Lewlyn  prince  de  Galis  de  auoutry  de  fa  femme,  pur  quoi  il  ly  fift  pendre 
et  enprifoner  la  princeffe,  pur  qoy  enfourdy  grant  guere  entre  le  roy 
Henry  et  le  dit  Lewelin.  Otho,  vn  legat  de  la  court  de  Rome,  fuft  chace 
et  allege  en  le  clocher  de  Ofeney  dez  efcolers  de  Oxfenforde,  pur  debat 
mieu  entre  fez  gentz  et  eaux  compaffbit  parmy  la  cite;  pur  qoi  la  vni- 
uerfite  full  entredit  taunque  touz  lez  regentz  del  vniuerfete  vindrent 
defchaucez  parmy  la  cite  de  Loundres  a  quer  pardoun.  Vn  clerk  uoloit 
auoir  mordri  cefti  roy  Henry  en  fa  chaumbre  a  Wodftok,  qi  full  defcouert 
au  crie  dun  faint  femme,  pur  qoy  le  dit  clerk  fuft  trayne  a  Couyntre.  En 
eel  temps  les  Tartries  firent  grant  deftruccioun  en  Hungry  et  enuiroun, 
pur  quoi  lez  paifenes  mangerent  de  mefchef  lour  enfauntz  et  terre  de 
mountains.  Cefti  roy  Henry,  fitz  le  roy  Johan,  releffa  au  roi  de  Fraunce 
Normendy,  et  plufours  terres  outre  mere.  En  eel  temps  fuft  la  coroune 
dez  efpinis  au  Sauueour  aporte  en  France.  En  quel  temps  eftoit  tiel 
ofcurete  en  Loundres,  ou  foudre  fi  terrible,  qe  le  poeple  voiderent  leglis 
faint  Poel  de  poour  com  le  euefque  chauntoit  la  meffe,  ou  nuls  ne 


SCALACRONICA.  105 

demura  fors  qe  lez  miniftres  entour  le  auter.  Meifme  la  feifoun  lez  Jues 
eftoint  amenez  deuaunt  le  dit  roy  Henry  pur  ceo  qils  auoint  circumcife 
vn  enfaunt  a  Norwiche  et  pius  crucifie,  et  le  auoint  muffe  vn  an,  qi  par 
miracle  full  defcouert.  Le  auaunt  dit  Edward  prift  le  veage  en  la  terre 
faint,  et  od  ly  Johan  de  Bretaine,  Johan  de  Vefcy,  Thomas  de  Clare, 
Roger  de  Clifford,  Othes  de  Garaunfoun,  Robert  de  Bruys,  et  Johan  de 
Nerdon.  II  menaft  od  ly  fa  femme,  qe  ount  a  Acres  vn  feile  en  lour 
demore,  qe  puis  fuft  countefle  de  Glouceftre.  Vn  haut  affife  fuft  enuoye 
du  soudane  pur  auoir  mordry  le  dit  Edward,  qi  en  totez  fines  voloit  auoir 
parle  foul  oue  le  dit  Edward  ou  il  elloit  amene  en  fa  chaumbre,  et  qaunt 
touz  furount  uoidez  ly  mauueys  uoroit  auoir  feru  le  dit  Edward  en  droit 
du  quer,  qi  genchi  le  coupe  fi  ly  fery  hu  quyfe,  quel  play  ne  fuft  vnqes 
fors  surefainez.  Edward  ly  aracha  le  cutele,  fi  ly  tua,  ly  fift  hors  getter. 
En  quel  temps  de  fa  demore  en  Acres  foun  pier  le  roy  Henry  fe  lefla 
morir  a  Londres  apres  ceo  qil  auoit  regne  lvj.  aunz,  xix.  iours,  le  iour 
faint  Edmound  le  roy  [et]  martyr,  en  Ian  de  grace  mile,  cc.lxxij.,  pur  quoy 
foun  fitz  Edward  enueint  de  la  terre  faint.  Si  enleffa  foun  freir  Edmound 
count  de  Langcaftre  et  de  Laiceftre  en  Acres.  Cefti  Henry  fuft  peifible, 
benigne,  et  innocent  de  couftom,  il  y  out  peife  en  foun  temps  xlvj.  aunz, 
tanque  au  darain  par  excitement  de  foun  fitz  Edward,  et  counfail  de  foun 
freir  count  de  Cornewail,  qauoit  la  eleccioun  del  empir  et  auoit  refcieu 
vn  de  fez  corouns  a  Ake. 
foi.  190.  b.  En  le  temps  cefti  roy  Henry  fuft  Gregoir  le  9-  pape  14  aunz  apres 
Honorius,  qi  pape  fift  pronouncer  la  fentence  sure  le  emperour  Fredrik; 
qi  Frederik  auoit  efpofe  Ifabelle  la  fore  cefti  roy  Henry  Dengleter.  La 
sene  du  Rome  furount  corrumpuz  par  lauoir  du  dit  emperour  encountre 
le  dit  pape,  qi  emperour  fift  prendre  plufours  prelatis  et  dieus  cardinalis 
com  pafferent  par  mere,  et  auxi  Otho  ly  legat,  com  venoit  Dengleter; 
affift  le  pape  en  Rome,  tanque  par  miracle  lez  queris  dez  Romains  fur- 
ount enmolluez  par  le  proceffioun  du  dit  pape,  qi  porte  en  fez  mains  de 
faint  Laterain  a  faint  Pier  lez  teftes  dez  apoftles  faint  Pier  et  faint  Poel, 
pur  qoy  le  dit  emperour  fen  fuy.  Le  dit  pape  Gregoir  prift  les  difmes 
de  faint  eglis  en  Engleter.  II  fift  freir  Reimound,  vn  Jacobin,  compiler 
plufours  liuers  de  decretailles.     Apres  qi  Gregoir  le  9.  fuft  Celeftin  le 


106  SCALACRONICA. 

4.  pape  vn  mois.  Apres  qi  la  see  fuft  voide  vn  ane.  En  quel  temps 
moruft  faint  Edmounde  lerceuefque  de  Cantorbirs.  Innocens  le  4.  full 
pape  apres  Celeftin  xi.  aunz  et  6  moys.  II  fill  freir  Hugh  Jacobin  vn 
eardenal,  qi  compila  lez  concordauntz  du  Bible.  Celti  pape  fill  canonicer 
Edmound  de  Pounteney,  et  fill  notirement  publier  la  rebelete  de  Fredrik 
lemperour.  En  quel  temps  en  Thollet,  en  Efpayne,  vn  Jeu,  com  foua 
en  foun  gardyn,  troua  defoutz  terre  vn  celt,  dedens  quoi  eftoit  vn  lyuer 
efcript  dez  lettres  de  Grec,  Hebreu,  et  Latin,  plufours  notabilites  du  tri- 
nite;  pur  quoi  il  deueint  Critlien.  Apres  Fredrik,  Manifredus,  foun  fitz, 
od  la  trefour  de  Cefile  mainteint  lempire,  tanque  Charlis  le  freir  le  roy 
de  Fraunce  luy  enchafa.  Le.  dit  pape  Innocent  procura  lez  princes  de 
Allemayn,  elifours  del  emperour,  a  choifir  le  dit  Charlis.  Mais  lez 
vnes  choiferent  le  duk  de  Thuringe,  autres  le  count  de  Holand,  lez  vns 
choiferent  Richard,  count  de  Cornwall,  freir  le  roy  Henry  Dengleter.  En 
quel  temps  Lodowyk  roy  de  Fraunce  fuft  pris  dez  Sarazins;  et  Willam 
Longefpey,  le  uaillaunt  cheualer,  mort.  Lez  paftours  a  noumbre  15.0000 
vindrent  a  Parys  crucifie  a  la  terre  faint,  firent  grant  rumour  en  la  cite 
et  hu  realme,  pur  quoi  la  vniuerfete  eftoit  durement  troeblez  et  plufours 
dez  efcolers  tuez.  En  quel  temps  moruft  faint  Robert  Grolteft  euefque 
de  Nichol,  qi  Robert  fuft  somouns  au  court  de  Rome  pur  ceo  qil  countre- 
difoit  en  maner  lez  charges  surmys  a  lez  eglifes  de  Engleter  par  le  pape 
Innocent:  qi  Robert  pur  meifme  la  caufe  en  plain  conftoir  du  dit  pape  a 
Rome  apella  de  eel  court  au  tribunal  de  Crift,  fe  reueint  en  foun  euefche 
et  moruft.  A  quel  hour  fuft  oy  vn  voice  a  Rome  difaunt,  "  veignez  cheitif 
au  iugement,"  ou  meifme  la  nuyt  le  dit  pape  Innocent,  com  fuft  dit,  full 
troue  mort  od  vn  play  au  coufte,  bote  com  de  vn  baftoun.  Apres  qy  In- 
nocent, qauoit  defordeines  taxfis  de  faint  eglis  grante  au  roy  Henry,  fuft 
Alexandre  le  4.  pape  7  aunz  et  4  moys.  Vrban  le  4.  apres  Alexandre 
apoy  4  auns.  II  eftoit  primerment  patriarch  de  Jerufalem,  et  puis  par 
eide  des  pelerins  enchafa  lez  Romains  qentroifoun  auoint  fait  en  le  patre- 
moigne  faint  Pier,  par  Manfredus  fitz  Frederik.  II  fift  Charlis,  le  freir 
le  roy  de  Fraunce,  roy  de  Cefile,  en  defherifoun  du  dit  Manfredus.  En 
quel  temps  le  soudane  Babiloine  degafta  Hermony  et  prift  Antioche. 
Apres  Vrban  fuft  Clement  le  4.  pape  4  aunz,  apres  qe  la  see  auoit  efte 


SCALACRONICA.  107 

voide  3  aunz  et  2  moys.  Cely  Clement  auoit  efte  hom  ei'pofe  et  coun- 
faillour  le  roy  de  France;  sa  femme  mort,  fuft  euefque  de  Pediens,  et 
puis  erceuefque  de  Nerboun,  et  puis  cardenal,  et  legat  enuoye  en  Engle- 
ter.  Et  com  la  eftoit,  eftoit  choife  en  pape.  Cefti  eftoit  benigne,  et 
exteint  plufours  tribulaeiouns  de  faint  eglis.  II  iugea  la  querelle  de  Con- 
radyn  a  nient,  qi  guerroya  Lowys  de  Cefille.  Apres  qi  Clement,  Gregoir 
le  10.  fuft  pape  4  aunz,  qi  Gregoir  en  le  tierce  ane  de  foun  papee,  pur 
profit  de  faint  eglis  et  de  le  faint  veage  a  la  tere  faint,  quoi  meifmes  pur- 
pofoit  a  faire,  auoit  foun  counfail  a  Lugdoun  en  France,  ou  lez  melTagers 
dez  Greus  et  de  Tartris  enfurount.  Lez  Gregeoys  prometterent  a  re- 
turnir  al  vnite  de  faint  eglis,  les  Tartres  fez  abaundonerent  a  eftre  bap- 
tizes. Au  quel  counfail  fuft  ordene  qe  touz  lez  cures  fuflent  preftres,  et 
qe  touz  lez  difmes  fuffount  doweris  a  faint  eglis,  ou  fu  defenduz  pluralitez 
as  currez.  Procheinement  apres  eel  hour  Lowys  le  roy  de  France  od  2. 
fez  fitz,  et  le  roy  de  Nauerne,  et  plofours  prelatis,  et  le  legat  le  pape 
ameneour  dez  peleryns,  mouerent  deuers  la  tere  faint,  ou  en  chemynaunt 
moruft  le  dit  roy  et  le  legat  et  plufours  del  oil  Criftien,  pur  qoy  faillift  le 
dit  veage.  Cefti  pape  Gregoir  depofa  afcuns  religions;  il  quaffa  la 
eleccioun  del  erceuefque  de  Cantorbirs  du  priour  qi  full  choife,  et  auaunfa 
Robert,  de  Kilwardby  en  erceuefque. 

En  lan  de  grace  mile,  cc.lxxiiij.  Edward,  fitz  Henry,  od  fa  femme 
Elianor,  furount  corounez  et  enoyntez  a  Weftmoufter  de  freir  Robert  de 
Kilwardby,  erceuefque  de  Cantorbirs,  al  affumpcioun  de  noftre  Dame.  La 
grant  rue  de  Chep  et  lez  autres  par  ou  cefti  Edward  cheuaucha  deuers 
foun  encoronement,  furont  couertz  dez  tapitez  et  dez  draps  de  fay.  Lez 
citezeins  ietterent  lore  et  largent  hors  dez  feneftres  a  prendre  qi  enuoroit. 
Le  conduyt  en  Chepe  coruft  del  vn  coufte  de  vine  blonk,  et  del  autre 
part  de  vine  vermaille.  Le  roy  Alexandre  Defcoce,  et  le  duk  de  Bre- 
taigne,  qelloit  le  primer  duk  apres  lez  countis  qe  y  eftoint,  et  touz  dieus 
lour  femmes  lez  sores  le  dit  Edward,  y  furount,  et  la  royne  la  mere.  Lez 
queux  seignours  od  tout  plain  dez  autres  countis  Dengleter,  furount  ap- 
parez  en  aparements  dore  et  soy  od  grantz  routes  dez  cheualers,  qy  a  lour 
defcendre  lefferent  aler  lour  cheueux  a  prendre  qy  en  uoroit,  en  noblefce 
del  encorounement  de  cefti  Edward,  qi  al  hour  eftoit  de  xxx.vj.  aunz  de 


108  SCALACRONICA. 

age.  Alexandre  le  roy  Defcoce  ly  fill  al  hour  homage,  fe  trey  deuers 
foun  pays,  ou  procheignement  Margaret  fa  femme,  la  fore  Edward,  rao- 
ruft;  qauoit  dieus  fitz,  Edward  et  Dauid,  et  vn  feille  Margaret,  qe  puis 
full  royne  de  Norway.  Lez  ij.  fitz  morerent  de  age  de  xx.  aunz,  viuant 
lour  pier. 

Procheignement  en  Ian  fuaunt  cell  encoronement,  Lewlin  prince  de 
Galis  enuoya  outre  mere  par  la  feile  le  count  de  Mounforth  dauoir  a 
femme,  qe  enuenaunt  deuer  Snawdoun  full  pris  en  mere  dez  mariners  de 
Britlow  et  amenez  au  roy  Edward,  qauoit  fufpeffioun  pur  cell  alliaunce 
de  mariage  qe  Lewlin  ne  ly  efloit  bien  voillant,  et  auxi  pur  ceo  qil  ne 
enueint  a  foun  encor[on]ement  si  ly  fill  fomoundre  pur  homage,  qi  enout 
defpit,  moua  guere.  Le  roy  fe  trey  en  Galis,  conquifl  le  ehaflel  Rodolan, 
enchafa  le  dit  Lewlin  par  force  a  fa  grace,  qi  fe  acorda  au  roy  pur  1. 
mile  marcz  et  condicioun  deflre  liege  du  roy.  Sy  enamena  lauaunt  dit 
damoyfel. 

Lan  fuaunt  le  roy  ly  fift  fomoundre  par  bref  a  foun  parlement,  qi  fure- 
iift,  et  derechef  mouoit  guere,  mais  nauoit  dure,  mais  autrefoitz  full 
acorde  au  roy  sure  condicioun  qil  ne  enferroit  del  hour  en  auaunt  nul 
contempt  sure  le  peril  qe  apartenoit.  Dauid,  le  freir  Lewlin,  prince  de 
Galis,  efloit  du  meynee  le  roy  a  qi  il  auoit  done  Frodilham  heritable- 
ment,  qi  Dauid  efloit  enginous,  efpiaunt  le  counfail  le  roy,  gayta  foun 
temps;  fen  alafl  ly  Galoys  qi  vnqor  od  foun  frer  recomencerent  guere. 
Le  roi  fe  moua  en  graunt  oft  deuers  Galis,  qi  dez  barges  enfifl  faire 
pounte  outre  vn  bras  de  mere  deuer  Snaudoun,  pur  ceo  qe  lez  eftroitz 
du  boys  et  mountaignes  eftoint  mauues  autre  part  a  paffer,  lez  queux 
lez  Galoys  auoint  purpris.  Lez  gens  le  roy  priflrent  le  dit  paflage  fole- 
ment  deuaunt  qe  tout  le  array  du  paffage  full  adrefle,  qe  furount  recoillez 
des  Galoys  qe  del  autre  part  etloient  enbuffez  en  batail,  ou  noyerent 
Roger  de  Clifford,  Willam  de  Lindezey,  Johan  le  fitz  Robert,  Lucas  de 
Towny,  et  plufours  autres  pererent  au  preffer  de  lour  recoiller.  La  mere 
retreit  Johan  de  Vefcy,  qi  nouelement  efloit  venuz  de  outre  mere,  pafia 
outre  en  Snaudoun  od  baskles  et  brigauns  de  Arragoun  qil  auoit  amene, 
qi  le  pays  deflruierent  defpitoufement.  Dauid  le  freir  Lewlin  fe  mill  au 
fuyt,  pur  quoi  le  prince  foun  freir  fe  taunt  affraya  qil  fe  milt  a  defcoun- 


SCALACRONICA.  109 

fiture,  fen  ala  od  poi  de  gentz,  qi  sodeinement  encountra  Johan  Giffard 
et  Edmond  de  Mortimer  od  lour  coumpaignyes,  qi  hors  del  oft  le  roy 
eftoient  mouez  pur  auenture  quere,  qi  ly  tuerent  et  les  foenes  et  fa  teft 
prefentes  a  le  roy,  qe  sure  la  toure  de  Loundres  fuft  mys.  En  meifme 
le  temps  fuft  freir  Johan  de  Peccham  pur  le  pape  facre  en  erceuefque  de 
Cantorbirs.  Et  Roger  de  Mortimer  teint  la  Roundtable,  fe  centifme  dez 
chiualers  a  Kenlynworth;  a  quel  reuel  darmes  de  peife  vindrent  lez 
cheualers  errauntz  de  plufours  eftraunges  pays.  Meifme  le  temps  co- 
menfa  la  roingne  dez  berbiz  en  Engleter,  com  cheualers  venantz  hors  de 
la  terre  faint  amenoient  berbiz  oue  gros  cowes  hors  de  Cipre  qenporterent 
primerent  la  dit  roingn.  Meifme  le  temps  fuft  chaunge  la  monoy,  qe 
furrount  appellez  pollardes.  Procheinement  apres  fuft  Dauid  la  freir 
Lewlin  pris  pres  de  Denbigh,  et  par  iugement  le  roy  penduz  et  treynez, 
fes  quarters  departez  en  diuers  lieus.  Le  roy  dona  lez  feignourges  de 
Galis  as  diuers  feignours  Dengleter  en  condicioun  qils  demurafient,  qi 
ceo  firent,  si  demena  iolife  vie  et  molt  amaft  deduyt  dez  chenys  et  oyfe- 
aux,  et  coure  et  faultz  dez  cheueaux,  et  principalment  a  tuer  cerfs  au 
coure  dez  cheueaux. 

En  Ian  de  grace  mile,  cc.lxxxiiij.,  Edward  foun  fitz  nafqy  en  le  chattel 
de  Carnaueran  en  Galis,  et  meifme  Ian  moruft  foun  autre  fitz  Alfouns  a 
Wyndefor,  qi  eynez  fitz  eftoit  du  roy;  et  Mary  fa  feile  deueint  nonayne 
a  Aumifbery.  Le  roy  Alexandre  Defcoce  prift  la  feile  le  count  de 
Flaundres  a  femme  apres  la  mort  la  fore  le  roy,  de  qei  il  nauoit  mil  en- 
gendrure.  I  cefti  roi  Edward  fift  exciler  lez  Juys  hors  de  foun  realme; 
pur  quoy  il  enprift  le  xv.me  dez  lays,  et  le  x.me  de  la  clergie.  Le  roy 
paffa  en  Gafcoigne  pur  peifer  la  guere  entre  le  roy  de  Arragoun  et  le 
prince  del  More,  qi  tout  lour  debat  auoint  mys  en  foun  agarde.  Le  count 
de  Cornewail  remift  gardein  Dengleter,  tantom  le  roy  eftoit  par  dela. 
Ryfeapmeraduk,  vn  seignour  de  Galis,  mouoit  guere  pur  outrage  qe  Payn 
Tiptoft  ly  auoit  fait  par  orgoil  et  defpite ;  qi  Rifeapmeraduk  ne  le  voloit 
foeffreir  pur  maundement  le  roy,  pur  quoi  apres  fuft  penduz  et  trainez  a 
Euerwyk  del  hour  qe  le  roy  eftoit  venuz  de  outre  mere.  En  quel  temps 
de  fa  abfence  il  troua  tiel  defaute  en  fez  juftices  et  officeris  qe  lez  vns 
fift  exiler,  com  Thomas  de  Weland,  Rauf  de  Engham,  et  Hughe  del 


110  SCALACRONICA. 

Chauncelery,  Adam  de  Strattoun  enraunfonez,  lez  droiturelis  demurez 
en  lour  officez,  com  Elys  de  Ethingham  et  Johan  de  Mechingham.  En 
quel  hour  full  Acres  perdu  hors  dez  mains  dez  Criftiens.  La  royn 
Elianor  moruft  auxi  eel  ane.  Le  roi  Alexandre  Defcoce  venoit  en  vn 
nuyt  cheuauchaunt  deuers  fa  femme  auaunt  dit,  fi  chei  de  foun  palefray 
pres  de  Kinkorne  et  roumpy  foun  cole,  a  grant  encoumbreir  de  lez  ij. 
realmes;  fez  fitz  furount  mortz  et  nauoit  iffu  fors  la  feile  fa  feile  Mar- 
garet royne  de  Norway.  Lez  seignours  Defcoce,  prelates,  countis  et 
barouns,  et  la  comune,  virent  mouement  de  grant  diftaunce  du  chalange 
du  realme ;  maunderent  en  Gafcoyn  a  le  roy  Edward  Dengleter  qe  il  fe 
voufifl  agreer  qe  foun  fitz  eynez  Edward  de  Carnaueran  preifl  a  femme 
Margarete,  la  feile  Margaret  royne  de  Norway,  feile  le  dit  Alexandre  qi 
roumpy  le  cole,  pur  peife  auoir.  A  quoi  furount  acordez  lez  counfaillis 
dez  ij.  realmes  en  tiel  gife  qe  le  dit  Edward  de  Carnaueran  demureroit 
en  Efcoce  viuaunt  foun  pier,  et  apres  fa  mort  qil  demureroit  touz  iours 
vn  ane  en  lun  realme  et  lautre  ane  en  lautre  realme,  et  qil  leroit  tout- 
diz  fez  officers  et  miniftres  del  vn  realme  al  entree  des  marchis  del  autre 
realme,  iffint  qe  foun  counfail  enfuft  tot  dice  du  nacioun  du  realme  en 
quoi  il  demurroit  pur  le  temps.  Quel  afcent  au  venu  le  roi  a  loftel 
acordez  full  et  enuoiez  au  court  de  Rome  pur  difpenfacioun,  et  meffagers 
en  Norway  pur  quere  la  dit  Margaret.  Qi  meffager  full  vn  clerk  Def- 
coce meiftre  Weland,  qi  peryfl  od  la  dit  pucel  en  reuenaunt  deuers 
Efcoce  sure  lez  coflres  de  Boghane.  En  cell  mene  temps  Edward  roy 
Dengleter,  qi  faunz  femme  eftoit,  nauoit  fitz  fors  vn,  oifl  parler  de 
Blaunche  la  feile  le  roi  Phelip  de  France,  fi  la  demaunda  a  femme,  qe 
full  acorde  qe  le  roy  Dengleter  fefferoit  le  roi  de  Fraunce  de  Gafcoyn 
de  ly  refeffer  od  fa  feile  en  mariage,  qi  ceo  fifl.  Et  fi  ne  voloit  le  dit 
rov  de  Fraunce  refeifer  le  dit  roy  Engles  de  fa  terre  de  Gafcoyne,  mais 
la  reteint  a  foun  ops  demeyne,  ne  auxi  ne  ly  voloit  doner  fa  auaunt  dit 
feile  mais  feigna  somouns  sure  le  roy  de  Engleter  a  uenir  a  foun  parle- 
ment  pur  forfaitz  qe  lez  Fiportz  auoint  fait  sur  mere  as  Normauntz,  coum- 
pafTaunt  encontre  couenauntz  a  foriuger  ly  dit  Edward  de  fa  terre  de 
Gafcoin  par  proceffe  en  fa  court.  Sure  quoy  le  dit  Edward  fe  adreffa 
de  grant  aray  deuers  Gafcoin,  fufrendy  foun  homage  de  Gafcoigne  au 


SCALACRONICA.  Hi 

roy  de  France  par  Willam  de  Gaynefburgh,  Cordeler,  et  Hugh  de  Man- 
ceilre,  Jacobyn;  lez  queux  freirs  le  count  de  Artoys  fiil  longement  en- 
prifoner,  qi  lez  fill  prendre  com  venoint  pafTauntz  par  foun  pays  en  lour 
meffage.  Le  roy  Edward  fe  adreffa  od  grant  poair  deuers  Gafcoyn,  et 
full  venus  a  Portifmouth  sure  foun  palTage  qant  nouelis  ly  vindrent  qe 
Maddok  et  Morgan  auoint  leuez  lez  comunes  de  Galis  de  guere  encountre 
ly,  qy  le  quiderent  en  le  hour  eftre  pafl'e  la  mere,  pur  quoi  le  roy  leffa 
foun  veage  pur  le  temps  et  trey  in  Galis,  mais  aunces  auoit  enuoye  en 
Gafcoyne  plufours  barouns  de  fa  terre  qi  a  lour  arryuail  ne  auoint  en 
Gafcoyne  taunt  de  terre  al  obeifaunce  le  roy  lour  seignour  sure  quoy  ils 
purroint  arriuer.  Mais  procheignement  ceaux  de  Burdeux  fez  releuerent 
et  enherderent  oue  eaux,  enchacerent  lez  Franceys  qi  depar  le  roy  Lowys 
de  France  enfuront  mys.  Lez  Engles  recouererent  hu  pays  grant  terre 
al  ops  le  roy,  pur  quoi  toutdiz  apres,  com  full  dit,  y  cefty  roy  Edward 
enclina  du  chief  a  touz  lez  chiualers  qen  eel  veage  de  Gafcoyn  eftoint. 
Lez  auauntditz  barouns  Engleffes  fez  coumbaterent  od  Charlis  de  Valoys 
oue  le  poair  de  France,  a  Belgard,  ou  plufours  dez  Engles  furount  mortz 
et  prifez,  mais  noun  pas  outriement  defcounfitz,  qi  tout  le  iour  tindrent 
les  chaumps,  mais  dedenz  la  nuyt  fez  departerent  a  lour  refcet,  ou  lez 
Fraunceis  demurerent  en  la  place  as  chaumpes  tout  la  nuyte,  pur  qoi 
ils  difoint  qils  auoient  venqu,  et  pur  voir  dire  lez  Engles  auoint  le  greig- 
nour  perde,  qar  la  furount  pris  monfire  Johan  de  faint  Johan  le  pier  et 
le  fitz,  monfire  Rauf  de  Touny,  et  plufours  autres,  qi  pur  deftrefce  de 
vilein  defpitoufe  prifoun  ne  auindrent  les  plufours  a  bien.  En  cell  mene 
temps  le  roy  auoit  dellruyt  et  defcounfifl  les  Galoys  rebellis,  et  auoit  fait 
prendre  Maddok  et  Morgan  et  lez  fill  pendre  et  treyner,  et  fe  adreffa  a 
refcoure  fez  gentz  en  Gafcoyne,  y  enuoya  foun  freir  Edmound,  qi  illoeqes 
morufl  de  bele  mort.  Si  paffa  meifmes  en  Flaundres  en  eide  du  count 
Robert,  qy  guere  auoit  as  Franceis.  Le  dit  roi  Edward  enuoya  meillre 
Johan  de  Glantoun,  archedeken  de  Richemound,  al  apofloil  pur  pleindre 
de  la  deloialte  du  roy  de  France  et  de  coumpaffement  de  ly  toller  foun 
heritage.  II  fill  par  autres  meffagers  alliaunce  od  le  roi  de  Allemayn, 
et  oue  le  roy  de  Arragoun,  oue  lerceuefque  de  Coloyne,  et  od  le  count 
de  Burgoyn,  od  le  count  de  Sawoy,  et  od  plufours  princes  de  Allemayne, 


112  SCALACRONICA. 

qi  touz  ly  faillerent  au  bofoyn;  mais  com  cely  qi  ceo  aparceiuoit  fe  peifa 
od  le  roy  de  France  hu  mene  temps  qi  ly  bailla  fa  fore  Margaret  a 
femme  pur  la  iuuenefce  sa  feile  Blaunche,  et  fufrendy  grant  party  de 
Gafcoyn  en  peife  fefaunt.  Taunt  com  le  roy  Edward  ieufl  a  Gaunt  lez 
comunes  de  la  vile  comencerent  riot  et  debate  as  genz  le  roy.  Lez 
Galoys  qy  y  eftoient  noerent  outre  Lefchaud,  robberent  mefouns,  enfirent 
grant  mal.  Le  roy  Edward  enuoya  quer  le  count  Robert  de  Flaundres, 
qi  ly  did,  "  fire  count,  peifez  ta  comune,  ou  ieo  ferray  eflre  dit  qe  cy  full 
Gaunt,"  pur  quoy  la  riote  full  eftaunche.  Endementres  qe  le  roy  Ed- 
ward efloit  a  Gaunt,  vindrent  meffagers  honourables  depar  lez  comunes 
Defcoce,  dez  prelates,  countis,  et  barouns,  certifiauntz  qe  Margaret  la 
feile  la  royne  de  Norway,  qe  feile  elloit  lour  roys  Alexandre,  ettoit  pery 
en  mere  en  venaunt  deuers  Efcoce,  enpriaunt  a  fa  seignoury  qil  fe  voufifl 
entremettre  pur  quiete  du  pays,  a  veoir  qils  vffent  a  roy  qi  meutz  par 
droit  le  dull  ellre;  qar  ils  fez  doutoint  de  grant  debate  de  diuers  seign- 
ours  qi  enclaymerent  la  fucceffioun  qi  puffauntz  eiloint  du  realme,  et 
autre  part,  et  auxi  pur  diuers  riotis  comencez  hu  pays,  qar  chefcun  grantz 
siris  fe  fill  com  roys  en  foun  pays.  Le  roy  lour  refpoundy  par  fez  lettres 
qil  vendroit  en  foun  realme  et  treieroit  vers  la  marche,  et  fe  auiferoit  de 
lour  requefl. 

Et  fait  afauoir  qe  solonc  lez  cronicles  Defcoce  neftoit  vnqes  tiel  diffi- 
coulte  qi  enferroit  lour  roys  de  droit  ligne,  qe  outrement  elloit  failly  en 
le  hour  de  troys  roys  fucciement,  chefcun  fitz  dautre.  Et  pur  ceo  voet 
cell  cronicle  toucher  la  originaute  dez  roys,  et  la  proceffe  de  eaux  qen 
Efcoz  ount  regne.  En  la  vie  faint  Brandane  ell  troue  qen  le  pays  de 
Attenys  en  Grece  efloit  vn  noble  cheualer,  qi  ount  vn  fitz  qy  auoit  a 
noun  Gaidel,  qauoit  en  efpoufe  la  feile  Pharao  le  roy  de  Egypt,  qe  out 
a  noune  Scota,  de  qey  il  auoit  bel  engendrure.  Gaidel  elloit  cheualer- 
ous,  fe  purchafa  lez  juuinceaux  de  foun  pays,  fe  mill  en  mere  en  nefe  od 
fa  femme  Scota  et  fez  enfauntz,  fe  quill  manfioun  al  auenture  en  biaunce 
de  la  conquer,  arryua  en  Efpayne,  ou  sure  vn  haut  mountayn  au  coufler 
de  la  mere  Hiberyme  fill  edifier  vn  fort  chatlel,  et  le  noma  Brigans;  il 
viuoit  od  lez  foens  de  rauyn  sure  lez  paifens  du  pays.  Sez  pefcheours 
furount  chacez  vn  iour  par  tempefl  parfound  en  la  mere,  qi  ly  reuindrent 


scalacronica:  113 

renouncier  qils  auoit  aparfceu  par  voler  dez  flores  dez  chardouns  et  autres 
enfeignes  qe  il  y  out  terre  pres  de  outre  mere.  Gaidel  od  fez  fitz,  qi  a 
surnoun  auoient  Scoti  apres  lour  mere  Scota,  fe  mift  en  mere  en  trois 
naueaux,  feglerent  aual  la  mere,  trouerent  vn  ille  grant,  mounterent  a 
terre,  trouerent  le  pays  herbous  et  plefaunt  de  boys  et  reueres,  mais 
nounpas  bien  poeple  dez  gentz.  Et  com  eft  ymagine  et  fuppofe,  pro- 
cheignement  deuaunt  auoit  Gurguyns  le  fitz  Belin  roy  de  Bretaigne 
affigne  eel  ile  as  gentz  extretiz  Defpayne,  queux  il  troua  en  Orkany  com 
venoit  de  Denemarc,  com  auaunt  eft  efpecifie.  Gaidel  repaira  a  foun 
chaftel  de  Brigauns  ymaginaunt  de  realer  al  ile  troue,  mais  ly  surueint 
vn  trefgref  malady  dount  ly  coueint  murrir;  fi  deuifoit  a  fez  fitz  qils 
alafent  a  eel  ile  et  y  demurafent  com  a  vn  pays  faunz  grant  defens,  leger 
a  conquere.  Eberus,  le  eyne  fitz  Gaidel  et  de  Scota  la  feile  Pharao,  fe 
adreffa  od  fez  freirs  al  auaunt  dit  ile,  qi  le  feify  et  tuerent  et  foutz  mi- 
ftrent  a  lour  obeifaunce  ceaux  qe  ils  y  trouerent,  et  pius  appellerent  le 
ile  Iberniam,  apres  lour  freir  eyne  Eberus,  ou  apres  la  mere  Eberiaco 
qe  nomez  eftoit  enfi  dez  Efpaynolis;  mais  le  surenoun,  Scoty,  demura  od 
l<?z  autres  freirs  et  od  lour  iffu  bon  pece  en  eel  ile,  qe  entre  nous  eft 
apelle  Irrelande.  En  quel  ile  apres  arryua  Symound  Brec,  le  fitz  pufne 
du  roy  de  Efpayne,  qi  od  ly  aporta  vn  pere  sur  quoi  lez  roys  Defpayne 
foleient  eftre  coronez,  qi  foun  pier  ly  bailla  en  fignifiaunce  qil  enfult  roys, 
com  cely  qil  plus  amaft  de  fez  enfauntz.  Cefty  Symound  deuient  roy 
du  pays  de  Ireland  depar  vn  feile  extreit  de  Scoty,  qi  enmyft  le  auaunt 
dit  pere  en  le  plus  fouerain  bele  lieu  du  pays,  qe  au  iour  de  huy  porte  le 
noune  li  Lieu  Real.  Apres  qoi  veint  vn  dez  fitz  de  vn  dez  roys  de  Ire- 
land extreit  de  Scota,  qy  out  a  noun  Fergous  fitz  Ferthairy,  en  le  plus 
lointifme  pays  outre  Bretaine  deuers  septentrioun,  et  de  coft  lez  Bretouns 
occupia  la  terre  deuer  Cateneys  outre  la  laund  Porry,  et  y  endemurerent, 
fol.  194.  b.  et  tout  eftoit  il  du  nacioun  de  Ireland.  Et  lez  foens  touz  vnqor  lez  firent 
nomer  Scoty,  et  la  terre  Scocia  apres  Scota  la  feile  Pharao  roy  de  Egypt, 
de  qei  enuindrent  lez  Scotois,  mais  lour  propre  pays  eft  Ireland.  Lour 
couftom  et  patoys  acordaunt,  qi  puis  furount  mellez  od  Pices,  com  apres 
ferra  recordez.  I  cefti  Fergus  aporta  hors  du  Ireland  la  pere  real 
auaunt  nomez,  et  la  fift  mettre  ou  ore  eft  labbai  de  Scone,  sure  quoy 
p 


114  SCALACRONICA. 

furount  faitez  affife  et  eftablis  les  roys  Defcoce  touz  pufcedy  tanque 
Edward  le  primer  roy  Dengleter  apres  la  conqueft  lenfifl  aporter  a 
Loundres  a  Weftmouftre,  ou  ore  le  fege  du  preftre  a  le  haute  auter. 

Et  fait  afauoir  qe  Fergus  fitz  Ferthair  de  Ireland,  extrait  de  Scota, 
eitoit  le  primer  qi  se  difoit  roy  Defcoce,  fi  regna  iij.  aunz  outre  Dunbre- 
taine  en  Ynchgalle.  Dungal  fitz  Fergus  regna  v.  aunz.  Congal  fitz 
Dungal  xxij.  aunz.  Conftan  fitz  Doengard  xxij.  aunz.  Edhan  fitz 
Godfray  xxxiiij.  aunz.  Conel  fitz  Congelle  xiiij.  aunz.  Cokebrid  xvj. 
aunz.  Kynather  fitz  Conel  iij.  moys.  Ferthair  fitz  Ewyne  xvj.  aunz. 
Fercarfod  xxj.  aunz.  Dopnaldebrec  Cokebrid  xiiij.  auns.  Maldun  fitz 
Dopnaldebrech  xvj.  aunz.  Corhetinen  Danel  fitz  Donengard  fitz  Donald 
Brec  iij.  aunz.  Armelech  fitz  Findan  j.  ane.  Congan  fitz  Findan 
xvj.  ans.  Moredath  fitz  Arnikelec  iij.  ans;  en  le  temps  de  qy  eftoit  le 
primer  batail  entre  lez  Bretouns  et  lez  Pices  qi  eiderent  les  Efcoces. 
Selnach  fitz  Cogan  xxiiij.  aunz.  Ergheche  fitz  Achfin  xxx.  aunz. 
Donald  fitz  Sealnech  vij.  aunz.  Alpyn  fitz  Beghach  iij.  aunz.  Cefly 
full  tue  en  Golovvay,  com  il  le  auoit  deftruyt,  de  vn  foul  horn  qi  ly  gayta 
en  vn  efpeffe  boys  en  pendaunt  al  entree  dun  ge  de  vn  ryuere  com  che- 
uaucheoit  entre  fez  gentz.  Cely  eftoit  le  darain  de  Efcotoys  qi  al  hour 
regna  procheynement  deuaunt  lez  Pices.  La  sum  dez  aunz  du  regne 
dez  Efcotois  auaunt  lez  Pices  ccc.  et  v.  aunz  et  iij.  moys.  Lez  cronicles 
tefmoignent  qe  lez  Pices  vindrent  de  Syke,  et  entrerent  Albanye,  qor  eft 
Efcoce,  procheinement  apres  le  mort  cefti  Alpin.  Et  entrerent  Bretaigne, 
qor  eft  Engleter,  en  le  temps  Vafpafian  le  Romayn,  et  en  le  temps 
Maurius  fitz  Aruiragoun  roy  de  Bretaigne.  Si  eftoint  lez  Pices  vn  na- 
cioun  bataillour,  norriz  et  charniz  toutditz  en  gere,  qi  fez  acompaignerent 
oue  Roderik  al  auenture  pur  terre  conquere.  Qi  Rodrik  fuft  tue  de 
Maurius  le  roy  de  Bretain  en  batail  pres  de  Cardoille,  plufours  de  fez 
Pices  fuerent  au  boys,  reenuoyerent  au  roy  Maurius  requeraunt  sa  merci,  f0i.  195. 
qi  lour  graunta  fa  peife,  lez  affigna  pur  lour  homage  vn  pays  outre  Al- 
bany qe  de  gentz  Irroys  eftoit  en  parti  comenfe  a  habiter,  qi  Efcocez 
fez  appellerent.  Lez  queux  Pices  qi  counbatauntz  eftoient  suremoun- 
terent  lez  Efcoces  Irroys,  lez  tindrent  en  fubieccioun.  Lez  queux  Pices 
ne  auoint  my  moillers;  et  par  caufe  qe  lez  Bretouns  ne  voloint  my  marier 


SCALACRONICA.  115 

od  eaux  fez  qiftrent  femmes  hors  de  Ireland,  sure  condicioun  qe  lour  iil'u 
parlafcent  Irrays,  quel  patois  demurt  a  iour  de  huy  hu  haute  pays  entre 
lez  vns,  qeft  dit  Efcotoys. 

Cruthene  Kenek,  deboner,  fuft  le  primer  qi  fe  fill  nomer  roy  du  monarc 
du  regne  dez  Picis,  qi  regna  1.  auns.     Gede  cl.  aunz.     Taren  c.  aunz. 
Dinortecheft  xx.  aunz.     Dugil  xl.  auns.     Gamaldebold  ix.  aunz.     Ver- 
pempnet  xxx.  aunz.     Fiachua  le  blank  xxx.  aunz.     Calnatuhel  vj.  aunz. 
Deuornach  Lecdales  i.  ane.    Stradach  Fingel  ij.  aunz.    Garnard  le  riche 
lx.  aunz.    Talarg  le  fitz  Ke6ter  xxv.  aunz.     Druft  fitz  Irb  c.  aunz,  et  fy 
conquift  c.  batails.     Talarg  fitz  Amil  ij.  aunz.     Neclane  Celtaniech  x. 
aunz.     Drufl  Gortinoch  xxx.  aunz.     Galan  xv.  aunz.     Druft  fitz  Gi- 
gurnus  1.  aunz.     Druft  fitz  Hidrofigus  viij.  aunz.     Autrefoitz,  le  primer 
Druft  iiij.  aunz.     Garnarde  fitz  Gigurnus  vj.  ans.     Kyburcan  foun  freir 
vj.  auns.     Talarg  fitz  Mendeleghe  xj.  ans.     Druft  fitz  Menech  i.  ane. 
Talagach  iiij.  aunz.     Druft  fitz  Methor  xxx.  aunz;  saint  Columbe  et 
Paladius  conuerterent  cefti  a  la  foy  Criftien.     Et  fait  a  fauoir,  qe  ceil 
nacioun  neftoit  vnqes  eonuerty  fors  vn  foitz,  qe  tanque  en  fa  ount  perfe- 
uere,  et  pur  ceo  ne  vflent  lours  preftres  point  defpaulers  a  lour  aubes  ou 
lez  preftres  Engles  ount  dieus,  pur  ceo  qe  dieus  foitz  ount  efte  eonuerty. 
Garnald  fitz  Dompnach  xxx.  aunz;  cefti  edifia  leglis  de  Abirnithin,  cc. 
aunz,  et  xxv.  aunz,  et  xj.  moys  deuaunt  qe  leglis  de  Dulkedin  fuft  edifie 
du  roy  Conftentin  roy  dez  Picis.     Kenech  fitz  Sugthen  xxiiij.  aunz. 
Ne6lan  fitz  Fode  viij.  aunz.    Bride  fitz  Fathe  v.  aunz.    Druft  foun  freir 
vj.  aunz.    Druft  fitz  Hole  xx.  aunz;  en  foun  temps  fuft  faint  Edmonane. 
Tharan  fitz  Amfodech  iiij.  aunz.    Brude  fitz  Dergert  xxxi.  ane;  en  quel 
temps  ueint  faint  Seruaunus  en  Fiffe.     Jaclan  frer  Brude  xviij.  aunz. 
Garnarde  fitz  Feradhegh  xxiiij.  aunz.     Denegul  fitz   Fergufa  °-in  xvi. 
aunz.     Nectan  fitz  Fergaleg  ix.  moys.     Fergus  fitz  Frude  vn  moys. 
Alpin  fitz  Eferadheche  vi.  moys  a  vn  foitz,  qi  fuft  enchace,  mais  puis 
fol.i95.b.   regna  xxx.  aunz.     Brude  fitz  Tenegus  ij.  aunz.     Alpin  fitz  Tenagus  ij. 
auns.     Druft  fitz  Talargbin  vn  ane.     Talargan  fitz  Druftane  iiij.  aunz. 
Talargan  fitz  Tenagus  v.  aunz.     Coftantin  fitz  Fergufa  xl.  aunz;  cefti 
fill  edifier  Dunkeldyn.     Hungus  fitz  Fergufa  x.  aunz;  cefti  edifia  Kelri- 
moneth,  ore  faint  Andrew,  quel  temps  veint  faint  Fegulus  od  fez  difci- 


116  SCALACRONICA. 

pies  al  eglis  de  faint  Andrew.  Duf  Tolorg  iiij.  auns.  Egganus  fitz 
Hungus  iij.  aunz.  Feradagus  fitz  Badoghe  iij.  ans.  Brud  fitz  Ferad- 
hach  i.  moys.  Kenech  fitz  Feredhach  i.  ane.  Brude  fitz  Fochel  ij. 
auns.  Druft  fitz  Feradhach  iij.  ans;  cefti  fuft  le  darain  roy  dez  Picys, 
fi  fuft  tue  a  Scone  par  treifoun.  Qe,  com  les  cronicles  tefmoignent,  vn 
fitz  dun  roy  de  Ireland,  qi  out  a  noun  Redda,  arryua  en  Galeway,  et 
ankes  par  pruefce  et  affinite  du  sank  Yrois,  de  quoy  lez  Pices  furount 
mellez,  occupia  eel  pays  et  auxi  Ergeille  et  autres  dez  iles,  le  iffu  de  qy 
qi  fez  nomerent  Scoty,  coumpafferent  toutdice  encountre  lez  Picys;  iffi 
qen  le  temps  cefli  Druft  fitz  Feradhach  lez  Efcoces  ietterent  couyne  et 
a  vn  counfail  general  eftoient  priuement  armez,  et  dedenz  la  mefoun  du 
counfaille  tuerent  ly  auaunt  dit  roy  et  lez  grantz  seignours  dez  Picys 
touz,  qi  ne  penfoient  fi  bien  noune.  Si  enuoierent  apres  autres  qi  lour 
pluit,  et  com  ils  venoient  toutdice  lez  tuerent,  tanque  ils  auoint  fait  ceo 
qils  defiroint;  et  de  eel  hour  en  auaunt  failly  le  regne  dez  Picys,  qauoit 
durre  mile,  c.lxxxvij.  aunz,  et  recomence  le  regne  Defcoce,  quel  regne 
comenfa  deuaunt  lez  Pices,  cccc.xliij.  aunz  deuaunt  le  incarnacioun. 

Les  Picys  deftruytz  a  la  maner,  Kynet  fitz  Alpin  regna  sure  lez  Efcoce, 
et  fuft  le  primer  roy  Efcotoys  apres  lez  Picys.  II  foutzmift  a  fa  feignoury 
la  terre  tout  a  Twede,  enfift  enchacer  lez  Engles  et  Bretouns  qe  y  enha- 
biterent,  fift  nomer  la  terre  Efcoce.  II  eitably  lez  loys  qe  vnqor  en  Efcoce 
durent,  et  ceo  eftoit  en  le  temps  toft  apres  qe  Egbriht  auoit  vny  les  vij. 
realmes  dez  Saxfouns  en  Bretaigne;  qe  taunt  auoint  a  faire  lez  roys 
Engles  en  lour  terre  demeyn  a  eftablir  lour  conqueft  qils  ne  fez  entre- 
miftrent  rien  deuers  Albany,  si  longement  tanque  lez  Efcotz  auoint  pris 
tie!  reaul  faunz  empediment,  qe  affeitz  le  tenoient  eftable  et  droiturel. 
Kynet  fitz  Alpin  regna  xvi.  aunz,  et  moruft  a  Ferteuyoth  et  fuft  enterrez 
en  le  ifle  de  Yona,  pres  de  Hert,  Loem,  et  Fergus,  trois  frers  qy  amenerent 
lez  Efcotz  en  Archady  sure  lez  Picys.  Donald  fitz  Alpin  regna  iiij.  aunz. 
Coftantin  fitz  Kynache  xvj.  aunz,  qeftoit  tue  dez  Norways  en  batail. 
Athe  mak  Kinath  i.  ane,  qi  full  tue  de  Tirg  fitz  Dungald.  Tirg  Mac 
Dungald  xij.  auns.  Lez  croniclis  Defcoce  tefmonent  qe  cefti  Tirg 
foutzmift  a  fa  seignoury  tout  Ireland  et  grant  party  Dengleter,  cefti  dona 
primerment  franchiz  as  eglis  Defcoce,  qauaunt  le  hour  eftoint  en  feruitude 


SCALACRONICA.  117 

dez  lays  as  vfages  de  Picys.  Donald  Mac  Dunftan  ij.  aunz.  Edraound 
freir  Athelftan  dona  a  cefti  Donald  roy  Defcoce  tout  Combirland,  pur 
quoi  lez  Efcoces  ount  fait  clayme  tanque  al  Reir  croiz  de  Staynmore, 
mais  eel  doune  ad  efte  fouent  conquys  pufcedy  et  releffe  en  maint  peife 
fefaunt.  Conftantin  mac  Edha  xl.  aunz  regna,  qi  guerpy  foun  realme,  fe 
rendy  en  religioun  et  full  abbe  de  faint  Andrew  v.  aunz,  et  illoeqe  full 
enterrez.  Malcolme  mac  Donald  xxi.  ane  regna,  qi  full  tue  par  treifouh 
dez  Norways,  et  ceo  full  en  le  temps  le  primer  Edward  pier  Athelftan. 
Indel  mac  Coftantin  regna  x.  aunz,  et  full  tue  dez  Norwais.  Duf  mac 
Mancloun  iiij.  aunz  et  vi.  moys,  qi  full  mourdri  a  Forays,  et  muffe  de- 
foutz  le  pount  de  Kinlos,  et  tancom  il  ieuft  la  le  folail  ne  fe  aparuft,  li 
full  troue  et  aporte  al  ile  de  Yona  ou  touz  fez  aunceftres  de  Kinek  mac 
Alpin  furount  enterrez,  fors  cely  qi  abbe  eftoit  de  faint  Andrew.  Culen 
mac  Indolf  iiij.  aunz  regna  et  vij.  moys;  il  full  tue  de  Amthar  fitz  Donald 
pur  fa  feile  qe  full  tue  en  Lownes.  Kinec  fitz  Malcol  xxiiij.  aunz  et  ij. 
moys,  et  full  tue  de  fes  homs  par  treifoun  de  Fumel  la  feile  Cunithar, 
zayn  de  Angus,  fitz  de  qi  Kinak  auoit  deuaunt  fait  tuer.  Coftantin  mac 
Culen  i.  ane  et  vi.  moys,  et  full  tue  de  Kynnech  fitz  Malcolm.  Grige 
mac  Kyneth  mac  Douf  viiij.  aunz,  et  full  tue  de  Malcolme  fitz  Kynech; 
cefti  Malcolme  regna  xxx.  aunz  noblement  et  full  uiclurous.  Dunkan 
mac  Kryn  de  Dunkeldy  et  de  Betowe,  fitz  Malcolme  mac  Kynech,  vi. 
aunz,  et  full  tue  de  Macbeth  mac  Sinley,  qi  regna  xvi.  aunz,  et  full  tuez 
de  Chalcolme  mac  Duncan.  Lulach  le  fole  regna  i.  mois  et  full  tue  en 
Strabolgy.  Toutz  ceaux  roys  furount  enterrez  en  lile  de  Yona.  Malcolm 
Kenmour  mac  Duncan  regna  xxxvij.  aunz  et  vij.  moys,  et  full  tue  a 
Alnewyk  et  enterrez  a  Tynmoth ;  cefti  eftoit  le  marry  faint  Margaret 
de  Dunfermelin.  Donald  foun  freir  mac  Dunkan  regna  primerment  vi. 
moys,  qi  full  enchacez  de  Dunkan  fitz  Mancloun  qi  regna  vi.  moys,  qi 
full  tue  de  Malpedre  mac  Loern,  count  del  Meiernys,  et  gift  en  lile  de 
Yona.  Donald  mac  Dunkan  regna  autre  foitz  iij.  aunz,  qi  full  enuoegle 
et  mort  par  Edgar  fitz  Mancloun,  et  full  enterre  a  Dunkeldin  et  puis 
tranflatez  en  le  ille  de  Yona.  Edgar  regna  ix.  aunz  et  iiij.  moys,  et  gift  a 
Dunfermelyn.  Alexandre  foun  freir  et  fitz  Mancloun  regna  xvij.  aunz  et 
iij.  moys  et  demy,  et  gift  a  Dunfermlyn.     Dauid  foun  freir  regna  xxxix. 


118  SCALACRONICA. 

aunz  et  iij.  moys  et  moruft  a  Cardoil,  et  gift  a  Dunfermelin.  Mancloun 
le  fitz  Henry,  count  del  Garnyaghe,  de  Huntingdoun,  et  de  Northumbre- 
land,  qi  fuft  le  fitz  Dauid  le  roy,  regna  xij.  aunz  et  vij.  moys  et  xx.  iours, 
qi  moruft  auaunt  la  pier  a  Jedworth,  et  gift  a  Dunfermelin.  Willam 
foun  freir,  et  fitz  meifme  cely  Henry  count  de  Northumbreland  du  doune  le 
roy  Efteuen,  regna  1.  aunz,  et  moruft  a  Streuelyn,  et  gift  a  Abirbrothock 
qe  meifmes  edifia.  Alexandre  foun  fitz  regna  xxxvij.  aunz,  qi  moruft  a 
Ivenbray  en  Orkany  et  gift  a  Melros.  Alexandre  le  fitz  Alexandre,  qi 
de  viij.  aunz  de  age  comenfa  a  regner,  regna  xxxvij.  aunz,  qi  roumpy  le 
cole  a  Kinkorn,  fours  de  quoy  enueint  grant  mal.  La  foume  dez  aunz 
entre  Kenach  fitz  Alpin  et  cefti  Alexandre  fount  cccc.xxx.  aunz,  vn  moys, 
et  vij.  iours.  Et  fi  eft  la  sum  dez  aunz  de  touz  lez  roys  Picys  et  Efcotes 
mille,  d.cccc  lxxvij.  aunz  et  ix.  moys  et  viij.  iours,  tanque  lencorounement 
Johan  de  Baillolf.  Et  fait  a  fauoir,  qe  y  ny  out  nul  gere  entre  ceaux  ij. 
realmes  qe  foit  a  countier  lxxx.  auns,  deuaunt  qe  par  Joban  de  Baillolf 
fuft  comenfe.  Mais  pur  ceo  qe  y  ny  out  point  de  iflu  de  lez  ij.  roys 
Alexandres,  couenoit  retourner  al  iflu  de  Dauid  count  de  Huntingdoun, 
freir  Willam  le  roy  Defcoce,  fitz  le  roy  Dauid.  Qy  Dauid,  count  de 
Huntingdoun,  auoit  vn  fitz  Johan  qy  moruft  faunz  engendrure,  et  trois 
feilles,  la  primer  fuft  Margaret  qe  Alayn  feignur  de  Galeway  auoit  en 
efpoufe;  la  fecund  fuft  Ifabelle,  qe  Peris  de  Bruys  auoit  en  efpoufe;  la 
fierce  Ade,  qe  Johan  de  Haftinges  auoit  a  feme.  De  la  primer  Margaret 
ne  vefqy  nul  iflu  fors  vn  feile,  qe  out  a  noun  Dorworgul,  qe  fuft  marie  a 
Johan  de  Baillolf.  De  Ifabelle,  la  fecound  feille  le  count  Dauid  de  Hun- 
tingdoune,  marye  a  Peris  de  Bruis,  nafqy  Robert  de  Bruis  le  eyne.  De 
la  tierce,  Ade,  feile  le  dit  count  Dauid,  marye  a  Johan  de  Haftinges, 
nafqy  Johan  de  Haftinges,  pur  quoi  fourdi  grant  debat  qi  enferroit  roys,  foj.  197. 
chefcun  voroit  qe  foun  amy  le  vft  efte,  pur  quoi  par  comune  afcent  lez 
prelatez,  countis,  et  barouns,  oue  la  comune,  enuoierent  au  roy  Edward 
Dengleter  a  la  maner  auaunt  dit. 

Enuiroun  eel  hour  chey  le  pount  de  Berewik  outre  lew  de  Twede  de 
grant  cretyne  de  eaw,  pur  ceo  qe  lez  archis  eftoient  trop  baflez,  quel 
pount  nen  dura  fors  ix.  aunz  apres  ceo  qil  fuft  parfourny.  Toft  apres 
eel  hour  Willam  de  Vefcy  dona  lonour  de  Alnewyk  a  Antoyn  de  Bek 


SCALACRONICA.  119 

euefque  de  Durefme,  qi  pur  chaudez  paroles  de  Johan,  fitz  baftard  le 
dit  Willam,  le  vendy  a  Henry  de  Percy. 

Del  hour  qe  le  roy  Edward  Dengleter,  le  primer  apres  la  conquest, 
auoit  perfourny  ceo  qil  auoit  a  fair  en  Flaundres,  a  la  maner  auaundit,  il 
repaira  en  Engleterre,  fen  trey  fure  la  marche  Defcoce,  ou  a  Norhani 
il  fill  faire  fomouns  de  parlement;  ou  lez  grauntz  touz  Defcoce  y  enuyn- 
drent,  requiraunt  le  dit  roy  qil  voufifl  fere  trier  qi  ferroit  lour  roys  de 
droit  com  fouerain  seignour,  qy  rien  fi  uoufift  entremetter  tanque  ils  lv 
auoint  fufrendu  touz  lez  forterefcez  Defcoce  com  a  lour  fouerayne,  qy 
ceo  firent,  et  il  enmifl  fez  miniitres  et  officers.  Quel  fouerainete  reco- 
nuftrerent  touz  les  grauntz  Defcoce  per  ouert  declaracioun,  et  touz  v 
ceaux  qui  droit  enclaimerent  hu  realme  Defcoce  fez  miftrent  de  tout  en 
fez  iugementz,  a  quoi  ils  miftrent  touz  lours  seals  en  affermaunce  de  chos 
purparle.  Cell  parlement  de  Norham  full  apres  la  pafche,  Ian  de  grace 
mille,  cc.  xci.,  de  quel  lieu  ils  auoient  iour  tanque  le  vtas  de  faint  Johan 
en  vne  ane;  qe  qi  clamoit  droit  en  Efcoce  uenilt  a  Berewik  au  dit  iour  et 
aueroit  droit  iugement.  Le  roy  Edward  fe  trey  deuers  le  sue,  ou  en  le 
mene  temps  il  enuoia  a  tour  lez  uniuerfitez  de  la  chriflianete  par  fez 
honourables  meffageres  pur  ent  fauoir  lez  opiniouns  et  lez  difcreciouns 
de  cell  matier  de  touz  les  fages  del  lay  ciuille  et  canoun.  Le  dit  roy 
Edward  reueint  au  dit  iour,  et  au  iour  nome  ou  touz  lez  grauntz  de  lez 
dieus  realmes  furount  affemblez  par  fomouns,  ou  veindrent  a  chalanger 
plufours  le  droit  du  realme  Defcoce,  per  diuers  caufes;  ceft  affauoir, 
Florens  counte  de  Holand,  Johan  de  Baillof,  Robert  de  Bruys,  Johan  de 
Haftinges,  Johan  de  Comyn,  Patrik  count  de  la  Marche,  Johan  de  Vefcy, 
Nichol  de  Sowlis,  William  de  Ros,  et  Patrik  Galightly.  Toutz  ceftis  y 
fol.  197.  b.  emueftrent  clayme  per  diuers  chalange  par  peticioun  deuaunt  le  dit  roy 
Edward.  Si  eftoit  ordine  depar  le  dit  roy,  qe  xx.  perfouns  de  plus  fuffi- 
fauntz  Dengleterre,  et  autres  xx.  perfouns  Defcoce,  meutz  fuffifauntz  et 
auifez,  per  comun  eleccioun,  duffent  treir  lour  chalange;  qi  furount  elieus, 
nomez,  triez,  et  iurez,  et  auoint  iour  de  eaux  auifer  tanque  la  faint  Michel 
procheigne  enfuaunt.  Le  roi  Edward  se  retourna  en  Engleterre,  qi  re- 
ueint a  la  faint  Michel  a  Berewik,  ou  en  leglis  de  la  Trinite  fuft  iuge  le 
droit  du  fucceffioun  du  realme  Defcoce,  foulement  al  iffu  de  iij.  feils  le 


120  SCALACRONICA. 

count  Dauid  de  Huntyngdoun,  qi  freir  eftoit  le  roy  Willam,  lez  autres 
foriugez;  mais  graunt  difRculte  y  eftoit  au  mainz  del  iffu  de  lez  ij.  primers 
i'eilles  le  dit  count  Dauid,  ceft  afauoir,  entre  Johan  de  Baillof  qeftoit  fitz 
la  feille  Margaret,  eyne  feile  le  dit  count,  et  Robert  de  Bruis  le  eyne, 
qeftoit  fitz  Ifabel  la  fecound  feile  le  dit  Dauid  count  de  Huntingdoun; 
entre  queux  eftoit  graunt  plee.  Le  droit  Johan  de  Haftings  ofte  de  tout, 
iffu  de  la  feile  pufne.  Gilbert  de  Clare,  count  de  Glouceftre,  maintenoit 
grantement  la  querel  Robert  de  Bruys,  pur  ceo  qe  fa  sore  auoit  efpofe. 
Le  count  de  Garain,  et  Antoin  leuefque  de  Dorefme,  la  party  Johan  de 
Baillof.  Lez  pledours  et  auoketz  difoint  pur  Robert  de  Bruys  qil  eftoit 
le  plus  procheine  eyre  mal,  qi  fitz  eftoit  de  Ifabele  feile  le  dit  count 
Dauid  de  Huntingdoun,  vn  degre  plus  pres  le  dit  count  qe  Johan  de 
Baillof  neftoit,  qi  eftoit  le  fitz  Derworgule,  feil  Margaret,  la  feile  le  dit 
count  de  Huntingdoun,  efpous  Alayn  de  Galeway;  pur  quoi  com  le  plus 
prochein  heir  demaundoit  il  droit  real.  Lez  countours  Johan  de  Baillof 
difoient,  qe  pufqe  fa  mere  ne  pooit  regner,  qe  il  demaundoit  le  droit  fuc- 
ciement  de  foun  aunceftre  linialcment  com  droit  heir  defcendaunt,  et 
folonc  la  loy  lour  iuge,  a  qoi  ils  eftoint  acordez,  obligez,  et  entreaffurez. 
Si  eftoit  avvardez  par  lez  xl.  perfouns  de  touz  ij.  lez  realmes,  sure  lour 
serement,  le  droit  a  remeindre  a  Johan  de  Baillof,  com  al  iffu  del  eyne 
feile  le  count  Dauid  de  Huntingdoun.  Au  fentence  de  quel  verdit  le 
roy  Edward  Dengleter  iugea  le  droit  du  realme  a  Johan  de  Baillof,  ou 
en  prefentz  le  dit  roy  Edward  toutz  lez  grantz  Defcoce  atournerent  au 
dit  Johan  de  Baillof  par  ferement  et  homage,  fors  Robert  de  Bruys  le 
eyne,  qi  enmitl  clayme,  qi  en  audience  du  roy  Edward  difoit  qil  ne  ly 
ferroit  ia  homage;  qi  fufrendift  fa  terre  qil  out  en  Efcoce,  le  Vale  de 
Anand,  a  foun  fitz  Robert  de  fecound,  et  fitz  la  feile  le  count  de  Glou- 
ceftre; qi  Robert  ne  voloit  plus  faire  atournement  au  dit  Johan  de  Baillof 
qe  fon  pier  ne  fefoit,  si  difoit  a  foun  fitz  Robert  la  tierce,  qi  eftoit  fitz  la 
feile  et  heire  le  count  de  Carrik,  qi  puis  fuft  roy  Defcoce,  "  preigne  tu 
noilre  terre  Defcoce,  fi  encoueignez,  qar  iamez  ne  ferroms  fez  horns." 
Qi  Robert  le  tierce,  qi  al  hour  eftoit  ioen  bacheler  du  chaumbre  le  roy 
Edward,  enfift  homage  au  dit  Johan  de  Baillof;  qi  Johan  fuft  corone  au 
gife  du  pays  a  Scone,  le  iour  de  faint  Andrew,  Ian  de  grace  mile,  cc.xc.ij. 


SCALACRONICA.  121 

Qi  Johan  de  Baillof  auoit  iij.  sores,  la  primer  Margaret,  la  dame  de 
Gillifland,  la  fecond  full  dame  de  Counfy,  la  tierce  auoit  Johan  Comyn 
a  marry,  pier  cely  qi  Robert  Bruis  tua  a  Donfres;  et  fi  nauoit  le  dit  Johan 
de  Baillof  fors  vn  fitz  qi  out  a  noun  Edward. 

Cefti  Johan  de  Baillof,  roy  Defcoce,  au  Nowel  prochein  apres  foun 
encorounement  veint  a  Noef  chaftel  sur  Tyne,  fi  enfift  homage  real  au 
roy  Edward  le  primer  apres  la  conqueft,  pur  le  realme  Defcoce,  fi  eftoit 
refeify  de  touz  lez  fermetez  Defcoce  qe  furount  feyfez  en  la  main  le  rov 
Dengleterre.  Proeheignement  apres  eftoit  comenfe  vn  appele  dun  gentil 
hom  Defcoce  a  la  court  le  roy  Dengleterre  de  ceo  qil  ne  pooit  auoir 
droit,  com  ly  fembloit,  en  la  court  le  roy  Defcoce  de  vn  de  fes  veifins; 
pur  qoi  le  roy  Johan  Defcoce  full  somouns  par  bref  le  roy  Dengleterre 
a  fair  droit  au  dit  hom,  pur  qoi  le  counfail  Defcoce  eftoit  tot  troeble. 

Meifme  le  temps  fourdy  la  guere  derechief  entre  le  roy  Dengleterre  et 
le  roi  de  France,  per  comencement  dez  Baiounais  et  Fyportes,  mariners 
a  faint  Mahu,  encountre  la  nauy  de  Normendy,  pur  quoi  le  counfail 
Defcoce  ordenerent  iiij.  euefqes  et  iiij.  countis  et  iiij.  barounis  a  reauler 
la  terre  Defcoce,  per  counfail  dez  queux  fuft  coumpaffe  a  rebeller  en- 
countre le  roy  Dengleterre.  Si  enuoierent  meflagers  au  roy  de  Fraunce, 
Johan  de  Sowlis,  et  autres,  qi  od  ly  firent  allyaunce  encountre  le  roy 
Dengleterre;  qi  roy  Dengleterre  neftoit  pas  de  tout  affurez  de  les  Efco- 
tez,  maunda  le  euefque  Auntoin  de  Dorefme  pur  tretir  od  eaux,  a  quel 
tretice  a  Jeddeworth  per  melle  pur  combatre  dez  petitz  cheuetez,  fuft  tne 
vn  dez  cofyns  le  dit  euefque  de  Dorefme,  vn  qi  out  le  fournoun,  Bufcy. 
Qi  euefque  de  Dorefme  demaunda  de  lez  Efcotz,  depar  le  roy  Dengle- 
terre, oftagis  de  quatre  chafteaux,  Berewik,  Roxburgh,  Edinburgh,  et 
Striuelyn,  qil  poet  eftre  affurez  de  eaux  duraunt  la  guerre  de  Fraunce, 
sure  quoi  il  prefenta  lez  brefs  le  roy  de  fomouns  de  lour  roi  Johan  de 
perfondement  aparir  a  Noef  chaftel  sur  Tyne  au  parlement  le  roy  Den- 
gleterre, au  my  qarrefme,  au  quel  lieu  au  dit  temps  ny  enuient  le  roy 
Defcoce  ne  nully  pur  luy.  Pur  quoi  le  roy  Edward  de  Engleterre  fe 
adreffa  vers  Efcoce  od  graunt  oft,  teint  la  felt  de  pafche  a  Werk,  de  quel 
chaftel  Robert  de  Ros  qi  enfuft  fires  fen  fuy  del  obeifaunce  le  dit  roi 
Dengleterre  dedens  le  tierce  iour  deuaunt  la  venu  le  roy  et  leffa  le  chaftel 
Q 


122  SCALACRONICA. 

voide  et  fen  trey  a  Senewar,  vn  petit  chattel  qil  auoit  en  Efcoce,  tout 
pur  paramours  qil  ama  Crifliane  de  Moubray,  qe  apres  ne  ly  deigna 
auoir.  Quel  tens  vij.  countis  Defcoce,  de  Boghan,  de  Meneteth,  de 
Strathern,  de  Lynaux,  de  Ros,  de  Athetle,  et  de  Marre,  od  Johan  Co- 
myn,  et  plufours  autres  barouns,  entrerent  Engleterre  en  oft,  ne  efpar- 
nirent  nuly,  arderent  la  fuburbe  de  Cardoil,  et  la  affiftrent.  Le  roy 
Edward,  qi  ceo  auoit  oy,  fe  trey  deuaunt  Berewik;  et  le  primer  iour  qe 
il  enueint,  co  le  roy  feoit  a  maunger  en  fa  tent,  vn  nief  de  fez  vitaillers 
pur  mefconifaunce  de  fez  maryners  fecchift  sur  terre  Defcoce  par  deuers 
la  vile,  qe  al  hour  nefloit  pas  murez  mais  enuyroune  de  haut  foffe.  Lez 
comuns  de  la  vile  encurreirent  a  la  nief,  enmyftrent  fiew,  decouperent 
lez  horns.  Huyn  sourdy  en  loft  le  roy,  chefuns  as  armes,  ferrerent  cheue- 
aux  dez  efperouns,  lez  fauuages  iuuens  gentz  mounterent  lez  foffes  tout 
a  cheual,  et  par  ou  lez  gentz  de  la  vile  auoint  fait  vn  centre  au  longur 
de  la  foffe  fi  entrerent  teftoufement  od  eaux  a  cheual,  qi  en  pooift  plus 
toft  enuenire;  ou  furrount  dedenz  mortz  graunt  noumbre  dez  comuns  de 
Fvffe  et  de  Foritherik,  qen  garnifoun  de  la  vile  eftoient.  Meifme  la 
nuyt  conquift  le  dit  roy  Edward  la  vile  od  le  chaftel  tout,  ou  il  lift  fa 
demure,  et  ou  ly  ueint  vn  frer  Menour,  gardein  dez  Freirs  de  Roxburgh, 
depar  le  roy  Johan  de  Efcoce,  qi  ly  emporta  lettres  de  fufrendre  del 
homage  le  roy  Defcoce  par  lettres  pupplis  du  roy  et  de  la  comune  Def- 
coce, quelis  lettres  le  roy  Dengleterre  accepta  et  lez  fill  regiftrer  noture- 
ment.  Meifme  le  hour  lez  auauntditz  countis  Defcoce  reentrerent 
Engleterre,  et  arderent  la  priory  de  Hexham,  et  enfirent  hu  pays  graunt 
mal.  Le  count  de  la  Marche,  Patrik  od  le  noire  barbe,  qi  foul  eftoit 
demurez  de  touz  fes  feignours  Defcoce  al  obeifaunce  le  roy  Dengleterre, 
qi  od  le  roy  eftoit  au  pris  de  Berewyk,  uenoit  nouncier  au  roy  qe  fa 
femme  auoit  enfpris  en  foun  chaftel  de  Dunbarre  lez  enemys  Defcoce 
fez  parentz,  qauoint  enbote  fez  miniftres  et  tenoit  le  chaftel  encountre 
ly;  si  prioit  au  roy  eide,  qe  meifme  la  nuyt  uoroit  aler.  Le  roy  ly  bailla 
les  countis  de  Garain  et  de  Warwyk,  od  graunt  eftuffe  par  mere  et  terre, 
qe  deuaunt  folail  leuaunt  lendemain  auoit  affys  le  chaftel  de  Dunbarre. 
Les  seignours  Defcoce  qeftoint  affemblez  oyerent  de  laffege,  trenuyte- 
rent  laundroit,  enueindrent  matin  a  Spout,  ou  entre  le  dit  lieu  et  Dun- 


SCALACRONICA.  123 

barre  fez  combaterent  od  lez  ditz  Engles  de  laffege,  ou  furount  defcoun- 
fitez  lez  Efcocez,  la  primer  batail  de  eel  guer,  ou  en  le  chaflel  furount 
pris  lez  countis  de  Menteth,  Athedle,  et  de  Ros,  et  vij.  barouns,  Johan 
Comyn  le  iouen,  William  de  faint  Clere,  Richard  Syward  le  eyne,  Johan 
de  Ynchemartin,  Alexander  de  Murref,  Edmound  Comyn  de  Kilbride, 
oue  xxix.  chiualeris,  lxxx.  efquires,  les  queux  furrount  enuoiez  en  prifoun 
en  diuers  lieus  Dengleterre.  Le  roy  Defcoce,  Johan  de  Baillof,  maunda 
au  roy  pur  peife,  fe  mift  en  fa  grace,  fe  rendi  au  roy  od  foun  fitz  Edward, 
qi  il  ly  profry  en  oflage  soure  foun  bon  port,  qi  touz  dieus  furont  prifes  et 
enyouez  a  Loundres,  et  defenduz  qils  ne  paflafent  xx.  lieus  entour  la  cite. 
Le  roy  Edward  Dengleterre  enprift  lez  chafteaux  touz  Defcoce  et  cheuau- 
cha  la  terre  parmy,  tanque  il  enueint  al  Stokforthe,  et  enuift  fez  miniftres, 
et  en  foun  repairir  il  enfift  enporteir  del  abbay  de  Scone  la  pier  sur  quoi 
lez  roys  Defcoce  folaint  eftre  surmys  a  lour  nouel  regnement,  et  la  enfift 
aporter  a  Loundres  a  Weilmoufter,  et  la  ordeina  le  fege  du  preflre  al 
haut  autier.  Le  roy  Edward  Dengleter  fift  fomoundre  foun  parlement  a 
Berewik,  ou  de  toutz  lez  grauntz  Defcoce  il  prift  homage,  sur  quoi  il 
auoit  lour  fealis  pendauntz  en  perpetuel  meroir,  et  de  illoeques  repaira 
en  Engleterre,  ou  al  abbay  de  Newmoufter  il  bailla  la  garde  Defcoce  au 
count  de  Garayn,  et  vn  feal  du  gouernail  de  ycel,  si  ly  difoit  en  bour- 
daunt,  "  bon  bofoigne  fait  qy  de  merde  fe  deliuer."  Le  roy  ordeigna 
Hugh  de  Creffingham  foun  chaumberlayn  de  Efcoce,  et  William  de 
Ormefby  juftice,  fi  lour  comaunda  qi  toutez  gentz  outre  xv.  auns  Defcoce 
feiffent  homage,  et  qe  lour  nouns  fuffent  efcriptz,  lez  clers  priftrent  de 
chefcun  vn  dener,  de  qoy  ils  deuindrent  richis  gentz.  Le  roy  ordeina  qe 
touz  lez  seignours  Defcoce  demourfcent  outre  Trent  tanque  fa  guer  dur- 
raft  de  France.  Quel  ane  de  grace  mille,  cc.xc.vij.  il  prift  de  chefcun 
fak  de  layn  Dengleterre  et  Defcoce  vn  demy  mark  delterlings,  ou  deuant 
ne  douerent  fors  iiij.  d.,  pur  quoi  eftoit  apele  "  la  mal  tol."  Le  roy  fe 
adreffa  en  Gafcoine. 

En  quel  temps,  hu  moys  de  Maii,  Willam  Walays  eftoit  choife  de  la 
comune  Defcoce  deftre  cheuetain  a  mouoir  gere  as  Engles,  qi  au  co- 
mencement  tua  Willam  de  Hefilrig  a  Lanark,  qeftoit  vifcount  de  Clidif- 
dale  depar  le  roy  Dengleterre.     Le  dit  Willam  Walais  trenuta  sure  le 


124  SCALACRONICA. 

dit  vifcount  et  luy  fuprift,  ou  Thomas  de  Gray,  qen  la  coumpaignie  du 
dift  vifcount  efloit  illoeqes,  fuft  lefle  defpoille  pur  mort  a  la  melle,  com 
lez  Engles  fez  defenderent.  Le  dit  Thomas  ieuft  tout  la  nuyt  defpoille 
entre  ij.  mefouns  ardauntz,  qe  les  Efcotez  auoint  enzmys  le  fieu,  chalour 
dez  queux  tenit  fa  vie,  ou  en  laube  du  iour  il  efloit  conu  et  emporte  par 
Willam  de  Loundy  et  ly  fill  garrir.  Et  le  prochein  yuer  ly  dit  Willam 
Walays  ardy  tout  Northumbreland.  Le  count  de  Garayn,  qi  la  gard  Def- 
coce  auoit  depar  le  roi  de  Engleterre,  efloit  deuers  le  sue,  fe  dreffa  de- 
uers  Efcoce,  ou  al  pount  de  Striuelin  il  fuft  defcounfift  de  Willam  Walais, 
qi  pres  efloit  en  batail,  qy  leffoit  paffer  le  dit  pount  a  tauntz  dez  Engles 
com  ly  plefoit;  qi  a  foun  point  les  sourecurroit,  fift  roumper  le  pount,  ou 
furount  plufours  dez  Engles  mortz,  [et]  Hugh  de  Creffingham,  le  treforer 
le  roy,  et  fuft  dit  qe  le  Efcotez  ly  firent  depeller,  et  de  foun  pele  en  defpite 
lour  firent  layniers.  Le  count  de  Gareine  fen  fuy  a  Berewic.  Willam 
Walais,  a  qi  lez  Efcotez  enherderent,  fodeignement  apres  ceft  defcoun- 
fiture  fuyft  le  dit  count  de  Garain  od  graunt  oft,  fl  enueint  decofte 
Berewik  a  Hotoun  More  en  bataile,  qi  quidoit  lez  Engles  eftre  araiez 
pur  combatre  od  luy,  pur  quoy  il  nen  ueint  plus  pres  de  Berewyk  mais  se 
retourfia  et  fe  herbifa  en  le  park  de  Duns.  Le  dit  count  de  Garain  fen 
departy  de  Berewik,  lefla  la  dit  vile  gaft,  au  procher  qe  Willam  Walays 
fift,  et  fen  ala  au  fitz  le  roy,  qeftoit  prince  de  Galis,  pur  ceo  qe  le  roy 
efloit  en  Gafcoyn;  pur  quelis  nouelis  le  dit  roy  fen  trey  en  Engleterre. 
Leuefque  de  Glafgou  et  Willam  feignur  de  Douglas  fez  vindrent  excufer 
au  primer  venu  le  dit  count  de  Garain  en  Efcoce  qils  neftoient  con- 
fcentaunt  au  riote  de  Willam  Walays,  tout  eftoint  ils  deuaunt  enher- 
dauntz ;  pur  quoi  le  dit  count  lez  fift  mettre  en  prifoun,  leuefque  en  le 
chaftelle  de  Roxburgh,  Willam  de  Douglas  en  le  chaftelle  de  Berewik, 
ou  de  mifchef  il  moruft.  Willam  Walays,  qi  aperceuft  le  departir  le  dit 
count  de  Garain,  enuoya  Henri  de  Haliburtoun,  cheualer,  pur  feifer 
Berewyk;  et  ordeina  autres  de  graunt  aray  de  afieger  Robert  de  Haftings 
en  le  chaftel  de  Roxburgh.  Robert  le  fitz  Roger,  qi  al  hour  efloit  fires 
de  Wercworth,  od  Johan  le  fitz  Marmaduk,  od  autres  barouns  du  coun- 
teez  de  Northumbreland  et  de  Cardoil,  fez  aflemblerent  fodeigniement 
et  trenuyterent  a  Roxburgh,  qe  fi  priuement  surcurrerent  lez  Efcotez  qe 


SCALACRONICA.  125 

deuaunt  qils  auoint  aparceiuaunce,  lez  Engles,  qe  furuenuz  eftoint,  auoint 
tuez  lez  enginours  com  auoint  en  mains  lez  dikes  de  lez  engines  a  trier 
pur  getter  au  chattel;  pur  quoi  eftoint  mys  a  defcounfiture,  plufours  morz. 
Henry  de  Haliburtoun,  od  autres  qe  y  eftoient  en  Berewyk,  qi  de  ceft 
defcounfiture  oyerent,  fez  departirent  fodeignement,  lefferent  la  dit  vile 
voide.  Lez  ditz  seignours  Engles  refceyuerent  la  dit  vile  de  Berewik, 
et  la  tindrent  tanque  la  venu  le  roy,  qy  repairez  de  Gafcoyne  enueint 
deuers  Efcoce  de  graunt  aray,  entra  par  Roxburhe,  fe  trey  a  Tempil- 
liftoun  et  a  Lithcou,  et  puis  deuers  Streuelyn,  ou  encheminaunt  Willam 
Walays,  qi  tout  le  poair  Defcoce  auoit  afiemble,  se  adrefla  a  combatre 
od  le  dit  roy  Dengleterre,  ou  de  sa  le  Fawkirk  ils  fez  entre  combaterent, 
le  iour  de  la  Magdelin,  en  Ian  de  grace  mille,  cc.lxxx.  et  xv.,  ou  les  Ef- 
cotez  furount  defcounfiftz.  Pur  quoi  fuft  dit  graunt  temps  pufcedy  qe 
Willam  Walays  lour  auoit  amene  au  karole  dauncent  fds  uolount.  Waul- 
ter  le  freir  le  Senefchal  Defcoce,  qi  defenduz  eftoit  a  pee  entre  lez  co- 
munz,  fuft  mort  od  plus  de  x.  mille  dez  comuns.  Willam  Walays,  qy  a 
cheual  eftoit,  fen  fuy  od  lez  autres  seignours  Defcoce  qi  y  eftoient.  A 
quel  batail  Auntoyn  de  Beke,  euefque  de  Dorefme,  eftoit  od  le  roy  Ed- 
ward Dengleter  fi  eftuffe  dez  retenauntz  qe  en  fa  batail  eftoint  xxxij. 
baners,  fe  tiercifme  dez  countis,  le  count  de  Warwyk,  le  count  de  Oxfen- 
ford,  et  le  count  Dangus.  En  quel  hour  fuft  deftruyt  la  vile  de  faint 
Andrew.  Le  roy  remift  fes  officeris  en  Efcocez,  fe  trey  en  Engleterre, 
ferchaunt  les  corps  faintz  en  pelerinage,  enmerciaunt  Dieu  de  sa  vidloir, 
com  acouftomez  eftoit  apres  tielis  affairs. 

En  Ian  fuaunt,  Ian  de  grace  mille,  cc.lxxx.  xjx.,  vindrent  legatis  de  la 
court  de  Rome,  le  iour  de  la  tranflacioun  faint  Thomas,  au  roi  Edward 
a  Cantorbirs,  en  priaunt  et  en  moneftant  le  roy  qil  leffaft  Johan  de 
Baillof,  iadiz  roy  Defcoce,  en  la  garde  du  faint  pier,  de  pusque  il  eftoit 
rendu  au  grace  de  ly.  Le  roy  le  graunta,  iffi  qil  ne  entraft  Efcoce,  quoi 
fuft  affure  et  ly  dit  Johan  deliuers,  qe  fe  trey  en  la  terre  de  Baillof  foun 
fol.200.  b.    heritage  en  Picardy,  qy  y  endemurraft  tout  fa  vie. 

Lan  fuaunt  vindrent  lettres  du  pape  Boneface,  par  procurement  et  in- 
formacioun  de  ceaux  Defcoce  par  toutes  lez  euidentez  qils  fauoint  deui- 
fere,  au  roy  Edward  Dengleter,  purportauntz  qe  la  terre  Defcoce  eftoit 


126  SCALACRONICA. 

tenuz  de  la  court  de  Rome,  et  qe  il  auoit  fait  introifoun  en  defheritaunce 
de  legatis  Romayne,  empriaunt  et  enamoneftaunt  a  ofter  la  mayne.  Le 
rov  fid  fomoundre  parlement  general  a  Nichol,  ou  full  defclarez  par  toutis 
[oys  emperialis,  ciuilis,  canouns,  et  regalis,  et  par  le  vsage  de  lyel  de 
Bretaigne  en  tot  temps  puis  le  hour  Brutus,  qe  la  fouerainte  Defcoce 
apartenoit  au  regaute  Dengleterre,  quoi  full  nouncie  au  pape.  Le  dit 
rov  Edward  fe  trey  en  Efcoce,  affift  le  chaftel  de  Carlauerok  et  le  prill, 
apres  quel  allege  Willam  Walays  full  pris  par  Johan  de  Mentethe  pres 
de  Glalkovv  et  amienez  au  roy  Dengleterre,  qi  ly  fill  treiner  et  pendre  a 
Loundres.  Le  dit  roi  fill  enelore  la  vile  de  Berewik  de  mure  de  pier,  fe 
trey  en  Engleterre,  lefla  Johan  de  Segraf  gardeyn  Defcoce.  Les  Efcotez 
recomencerent  a  rebeller  encountre  le  roy  Edward  Dengleterre,  et  efta- 
blirent  Johan  de  Comyn  lour  gardein  et  cheuetaine  de  lour  querel.  En 
quel  temps  auindrent  grauntz  pointz  de  guerre  entre  lez  marchies,  et 
nomiement  en  Teuydale,  hors  du  chaftel  de  Roxburhe,  entre  Ingram  de 
Houmframuyle,  Robert  de  Kethe,  Efcotoys,  et  Robert  de  Hallang, 
Engleis,  gardein  du  dift  chaftel.  Johan  de  Segraf,  le  gardein  Defcoce 
depar  le  roy  Edward  Dengleterre,  mouoit  en  oft  en  Efcoce  od  plufours 
grauntz  dez  marchies  Engleis,  et  od  le  count  Patrik  de  la  Marche,  qen- 
herdaunt  elloit  au  roy  Engles,  fenveint  a  Roflelyn,  fe  herbifa  en  la  maner, 
fa  batail  entour  ly,  foun  auaunt  garde  fuft  herbife  vn  lieu  loinz  en  vn 
vilet.  Johan  Comyn  od  fez  enherdauntz  trenuyterent  sure  le  dit  Johan 
de  Segraf  et  ly  defcounfirent  sur  la  nuit;  et  foun  auaunt  gard,  qe  herbifez 
elloit  de  ly  vn  lieu  loinz,  aparfceurent  fa  defcounfiture,  fez  vindrent  au 
matin  en  counray  de  batail  au  meifme  le  lieu  ou  a  foire  lefferent  lour 
eheuetain  penfaunt  a  faire  lour  deuoir,  ou  furount  outriez  et  defcounfitz 
par  force  Defcotois,  et  Rauf  le  Coffreir  illoeqes  mort. 

Pur  quelis  nouelis  meifme  Ian  fuaunt  le  roy  Edward  fe  trey  en  Efcoce, 
qi  au  primer  entree  fe  herbifa  a  Driburgh.  Hugh  de  Audley  od  lx.  horns 
darmys  11  efiement  ne  purroient  my  eftre  herbifez  de  lee  le  roy,  fen  alerent  a 
Melros,  fenherbiferent  en  labbay.  Johan  Comyn,  adonqes  gardein  de 
Efcoce,  elloit  entre  la  foreft  de  Etrik  od  grant  rout  de  genz  darmis;  apar- 
ceyuoit  lerbigage  du  dit  Hugh  de  Melros  a  la  maner,  trenuyta  sure  luy,  fift 
mumper  lez  portes,  et  endementiers  lez  ditz  Engles  dedenz  labbay  efloient 


SCALACRONICA.  127 

araiez  et  mountez  lour  cheueaux  en  my  la  court  firent  gettere  ouertz  lez 
portez,  lez  Efcotes  entrerent  a  cheuaul  graunt  noumbre,  enporterent*  a  tere 
lez  Engles  qi  poy  furount,  les  priflrent  et  tuerent  toutz.  Thomas  Gray, 
cheualer,  del  hour  qi  eftoit  abatu  enprift  la  mefoun  outre  la  port,  qy 
la  teint  en  efpoir  de  refcoufe  tanque  la  mefoun  comenfa  ardoir  sure 
fa  teft,  qi  od  autres  fuft  pris.  Le  roy  Edward  fe  trey  auaunt,  teint  la 
fell  de  Nowel  a  Lynlithcow,  pius  cheuaucha  par  tout  la  terre  Defcoce, 
fen  trey  a  Dunfermelin,  ou  Johan  Comyn  qi  aperceyuoit  qil  ne  pooit 
countre  efler  le  poair  le  roy  Dengleterre  fe  mift  au  grace  le  roy,  sure 
condicioun  qil  reaueroit  od  touz  fez  enherdauntz  lour  droitz  poffeffiouns 
qi  redeuindrent  fez  gentez  lieges;  sure  quoi  nouelis  inftrumentz  publie- 
ment  furrount  notez.  Johan  de  Soulis  ne  voloit  lez  condiciounes,  voida 
Efcoce,  fen  ala  en  France,  ou  il  morult.  Willam  Olifart,  vn  iouen  ba- 
cheler  Defcoce,  fill  garnir  le  chattel  de  Striuelyn,  ne  deigna  confcentir 
as  condiciouns  Johan  de  Comyn,  mais  fe  clamoit  a  tenir  du  Lioun.  Le 
dit  roy  Edward,  qi  le  atournement  auoit  a  poy  de  touz  ceaux  Defcoce  et 
pofieffioun  de  lez  fermetez,  fe  muyft  deuaunt  le  chaftel  de  Stryuelyn 
et  laffift  et  laffailla  par  diuers  engynes,  et  le  prill  par  force  et  par  allege 
de  xix.  femains.  A  quel  affege  Thomas  de  Gray,  cheualer,  fuft  fern 
dun  garot  dun  efpringal  parmy  la  teft  defoutz  lez  oilles,  treboucha  a 
terre  com  mort  defoutz  lez  barriers  du  chaftelle  com  auoit  refcous  foun 
meiftre,  Henry  de  Beaumound,  qi  pris  eftoit  as  ditz  barriers  de  vn  tenail 
enmys  par  engine,  et  aunces  apoy  outre  lez  barreirs  qaunt  le  dit  Thomas 
ly  arasa  hors  del  mefchief.  Le  dit  Thomas  eftoit  emporte  et  le  aray 
attourne  de  ly  auoir  enterrez,  sure  quel  point  il  comenfa  a  mouoir  et 
regardir,  et  garry  apres.  Le  roy  enuoia  le  chaftelain,  Willam  Olyfart,  a 
Loundres  en  prifoun,  si  fefoit  ioufter  lez  cheualers  de  foun  oft  deuaunt 
lour  departir  au  remuer  de  laffege.  II  enmift  fez  officeris  par  tout  Ef- 
coce, fen  treyt  en  Engleterre  et  leffa  Eymer  de  Valoyns,  count  de  Pen- 
foi.  201. b.  brok,  gardein  Defcoce;  a  qi  il  dona  lez  forelles  de  Selkirk  et  de  Etryk, 
ou  a  Selkirk  le  dit  Eymer  fill  afermer  vn  piele,  enbota  graunt  garnifoun. 
En  quel  hour  full  le  count  de  Flaundres  pris  a  Betoyn  et  retenu  en  pri- 
foun du  roy  de  France,  pur  quoi  lez  comunes  de  Flaundres  fez  mouoint 
en  guere  as  Fraunceys,  ou  le  iour  de  faint  Johan  en  my  efte  ils  conbate- 


128  SCALACRONICA. 

rent  od  le  poair  de  Fiance  a  Courteray,  ou  le  count  Dartoys  oue  plufours 
autres  countis  et  barouns  Fraunces  furount  mortez  par  orgoil  et  lour 
fuquydery,  qe  lez  Flemens  furcurerent  a  cheual  en  lour  foflez,  pur  corouce 
de  qoi  le  roy  de  France  od  tout  foun  poair  affift  Liile.  Les  Flemens 
enuoierent  au  roi  Edward  Dengleter  en  reqeraunt  fuccours,  qi  roi  eftoit 
enueillez  et  malaious  et  foun  trefor  efpendu  en  fez  gueris  Defcoce,  en 
quoi  fez  gentz  furount  enlacez,  iffint  qe  bonement  ne  fe  pooit  meller. 
Qe  volountiers  fe  entremift  de  lour  eider,  fe  queifl  engyn,  fid  forger  vn 
lettre  depar  lez  efkeuinis  de  Gaunte  directe  a  ly  meifmes,  qe  parlerent 
enfy. — "  A  lour  trefdoute  seignour,  roy  Dengleter,  fez  pouers  feruauntz 
de  Gaunt,  toutes  honours  et  feruices.  Pur  ceo  qe  nous  qidoms  qil 
agreeroit  a  la  noblefce  de  vous  de  fauoir  ioyous  nouellis  du  bien  eftre 
noftre  seignour  le  count  de  Flaundres,  uoftre  alye  fi  vous  plest,  pleife  a 
la  hautefce  de  vous  a  entendre  qe  nous  auoms  purchace  pur  le  noftre 
affeitz  largement  couyne  de  gentz  priuez  et  puffauntz  dedens  loft  le  roy 
de  France,  qi  nous  ount  en  couenaunt  par  surete  fuffifaunt  a  prendre  le 
10 v  dedenz  cez  xv.  iours  hors  de  fa  tent;  et  de  nous  ly  enuoya  a  certain 
lieu  limite  a  faire  efchaunge  od  noftre  dit  feignour.  Si  pleife  a  la  tref- 
excellent  seignoiure  de  vous  a  tenir  cell  chos  en  ferre,  et  eider  et  main- 
tener,  fuftener  et  gouerner  voz  fimples  enherdauntz  fils  enbofoignent  de 
fuccours  lez  bofoignes  acompliz  fufditz,  qe  grantement  ferrount  en  en- 
creflement  de  uoftre  eftat,  qe  bonement  ne  poount  failler.  Lez  queux 
nous  efperoms  efcheuez,  qe  fils  ne  foint  faitez  vn  iour  ne  purra  failler  vn 
autre,  taunt  sumos  en  certain." — Le  roy  Edward  prift  cell  lettre,  et  vn 
iour  com  il  fen  leua  du  lite  la  royne  fa  femme,  qe  fore  efloit  le  roy  de 
Fraunce,  qe  al  hour  efloit  en  Kent,  fe  feigna  a  fercher  sa  bours  apres 
lettres,  fi  lefiaft  cell  lettre  gefire  sure  le  lit  fa  femme,  fen  ala  en  vn  chapel 
a  oyer  meffe.  La  royne-aparfu  la  lettre,  qe  la  prift  et  la  hiyft  et  la  re- 
mit!:. Le  roy  en  my  la  meffe  reueint  haftaunt  en  la  chaumbre  la  royne 
demaundaunt  irroufement  et  fodeignement  ft  nul  trouoit  vn  lettre,  fen 
alaft  au  lite,  troua  la  lettre,  fi  ly  hafta  de  la  prendre,  qi  ioyoufement  la  fol.  202. 
happa  et  fodeignement  reala  faunz  plus  dire.  La  royne,  qe  auoit  lieu 
la  lettre,  aparceu  le  countenaunce  le  roy,  auoit  grant  doute  et  dolour  qe 
foun  freir  ferroit  enfy  trahi  dez  vileins,  fill  faire  en  le  hour  priues  lettres 


SCALACRONICA.  129 

au  roy  de  France  foun  freir  de  tout  la  fentence  du  dit  lettre,  engarnifaunt 
qil  fe  agardaft.  Ceftes  lettres  furount  haftez,  et  del  hour  qe  le  roy  de 
Fraunce  auoit  aparceu  la  maner  dez  lettres  fa  sore  il  fe  delogea  de  laf- 
fege  meifme  la  nuyte;  et  enfi  eida  engyn,  qe  molt  vaut  maint  foitz 
qant  force  y  faut.  Ceocy  aueint  apres  la  faint  Michel.  Et  meifme  lefte 
apres  le  roy  de  France  aflembla  oft,  reentra  Flaundres,  et  meifme  le  iour 
de  faint  Johan  en  vn  ane  prochein  de  la  batail  de  Courtray  furount  lez 
Flemyns  defcounfitz  a  Mouns  en  Paiwer,  et  lour  cheuetain  mort  Willam 
de  Juleris,  qi  freir  elloit  du  count  de  Juleris.  Apres  qoi  fuft  le  count 
Robert  deliuers  de  prifoun  en  maner  qe  lez  trois  viles  de  Flaundres  sure 
la  marche  de  Fraunce  demurafent  au  roy  de  France,  Doway,  Lile,  et 
Betoyne. 

En  cell  mein  temps  Robert  de  Bruis,  count  de  Carrik,  qi  fort  fe 
tenoit  de  gentz  de  fanguinite  et  de  alliaunce,  efperaunt  toutditz  al  ac- 
cioun  de  foun  droit  du  chalange  du  fucceffioun  du  realme  Defcoce,  en 
Ian  de  grace  mille,  ccc.  vj.,  4.  kalendas  de  Febr'.,  enuoya  fez  ij.  freires, 
Thomas  et  Neil,  de  Loghmaban  a  Dalfcuentoun,  a  Johan  Comyn; 
empriaunt  qil  ly  voufift  encountreir  a  Dromfres,  au  friers  Menours,  qils 
purroint  entreparler.  Si  auoint  couyne  od  fez  ij.  auaunt  ditz  freirs  qen 
chemynaunt  ils  tuafent  le  dit  Johan  Comyne.  Lez  queux  furount  si 
amiablement  refceus  du  dit  Johan  Comyn  qils  ne  fez  purroint  aflenter 
de  ly  fair  nul  mal,  mes  fez  acorderent  qe  lour  freir  en  feift  meifmes  foun 
meillour.  Le  dit  Johan  Comyne,  qi  nul  mal  penfoit,  fe  mift  od  lez  dieus 
friers  le  dit  Robert  de  Bruys  a  Dromfres  a  parler  od  ly,  fe  veint  au  freirs 
ou  troua  le  dit  Robert,  qi  luy  uenoit  a  lencountre,  sy  lui  amena  al  haute 
auter.  Lez  ij.  freirs  le  dit  Robert  ly  difoient  en  fecre  "  fire,"  fefoint  ils, 
"  il  nous  fift  fi  bele  acoil,  et  od  fi  larges  dounes,  et  taunt  fe  affura  de 
nous  par  fi  ouert  countenaunce,  qen  nul  maner  ly  purrioms  maufaire." 
"  Voir,"  fefoitil,  "  bien  eftez  leclous,  lefl'ez  moy  conuenir."  l\  prift  le 
dit  Johan  Comyn,  fez  appoerent  al  autere;  "  sire,"  ceo  difoit  le  dit  Robert 
de  Bruis  au  dit  Johan  Comyne,  "  cell  terre  Defcoce  eft  de  tout  foutz 
mys  en  feruitude  dez  Engles,  par  perrefce  du  cheuetain  qe  soun  droit  et 
la  fraunchife  du  realme  ad  leffe  perdre;  choifez  de  ij.  voys,  lun  ou  preig- 
fol.  202.  b.   nez  moun  heritage  et  me  eidez  a  eftre  roys,  ou  baillez  moi  le  toun  si  te 

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130  SCALACRONICA. 

eideray  a  ceo  eftre,  pufque  tu  es  de  foun  fank  qi  lad  perdu,  ou  ieo  qe  le 

efpoir  par  fucceffioun  de  mez  aunceftres  qi  droit  claimerent  a  auoir  qe 

par  lez  voz  eftoient  deftourbez,  qar  ore  eft  temps  en  veillefce  de  cefty  roy 

Engles."     "  Certis,"  ceo  difoit  ly  dit  Johan  Comyne,  "  ieo  ne  fauferay 

iaraes  a  mon  seignour  Engles  de  ceo  qe  ieo  ly  su  atourne  de  ferement  et 

homage  en  chos  qe  me  purra  eftre  surmys  tresoun."     "  Non?"  fefoit  ly 

dit  Robert  de  Bruys,  "  ieo  auoy  en  vous  autre  efpoir,  par  promef  de  toi 

et  toiens,  si  mas  defcouery  au  roy  par  tes  lettres,  pur  quoi  viuaunt  toy  ne 

pufTe  efcheuer  moun  voloir,  tu  aueras  toun  guerdoun!"    ft  ly  fery  du 

cutel,  autres  lui  decouperent  en  my  leglis  deuaunt  le  auter.   Vn  chiualer, 

foun  vncle,  qi  prefent  eftoit,  fery  le  dit  Robert  de  Bruys  dun  efpey  hu 

pice,  mais  armez  eftoit  qe  ne  ly  greua;  qy  vncle  full  illoeqes  tue.     Le 

dit  Robert  fi  fill  coroner  en  roys  Defcoce  a  Scone  en  la  fell  del  annunci- 

acioun  notre  Dame,  de  la  counteffe  de  Boghan,  pur  abfence  du  count 

foun  fitz,  qi  adonqes  demura  en  Engleterre  a  foun  maner  de  Vituik  iouft 

Layceftre,  a  qi  loffice  del  encorounement  dez  roys  Defcoce  apartenoit 

heritablement,  abfcent  le  count,  de  Fiffe,  qi  al  hour  eftoit  en  garde  le  roi 

en  Engleterre.     La  dit  countefle  full  meifme  eel  ane  pris  dez  Engleis 

et  amenez  a  Berewik,  et  par  comaundement  le  roy  Edward  Dengleterre 

mys  en  vn  mefounceaux  de  full  en  vn  tour  en  le  chaftelle  de  Berewyk, 

lez  parrays  efcheqerez  qe  touz  la  porroint  agarder  pur  meruail.     Le  roy 

Edward  Dengleterre,  qi  aparceuft  la  riote  qe  Robert  de  Bruis  fefoit  en 

Efcoce  od  fez  enherdauntz,  y  enuoya  Eymer  de  Valoins,  count  de  Pen- 

brok,  od  autres  barouns  Dengleterre  et  od  plufours  Defcoce  extraitz  du 

fank  Johan  Comyne,  qi  touz  fez  adrefferent  encountre  le  dit  Robert  de 

Bruys.     Le  dit  counte  de  Penbrok  fe  mill  a  la  vile  de  Saint  Johan,  y 

endemurra  vn  pece.     Robert  de  Bruis  auoit  aflemblee  tout  le  poair  de 

Efcoce  de  fez  enherdauntz,  et  dez  fauuages  ionez  gentez  legers  a  mouoir 

countre  Engles,  enueint  deuaunt  la  vile  de  Saint  Johan  en  dieus  grauntz 

bataillis,  proferaunt  batail  au  dit  count  et  as  Englis  qi  y  endemura  de- 

uant  la  dit  vile  de  matin  tanque  apres  haut  noune.     Le  dit  count  de 

Penbrok  fe  teint  tot  coy  tanque  a  lour  departir,  qe  par  counfail  dez 

seignours  Defcoz  dez  bien  voillauntz  Johan  Comyn,  qi  as  Engles  furount 

enherdauntz  et  od  ly  en  la  dit  vile,  lez  fires  de  Moubray,  de  Abernethin, 


SCALACBONICA.  131 

de  Brighen,  et  de  Gordoun,  od  plufours  autres,  fen  iffift  en  ij.  batailles. 
Lour  enemys  Defcoce  efloient  demouez,  auoint  enuoye  lours  herbifours 
de  lour  herbiger  a  Methfen,  relierent  com  purroint,  fen  vindrent  com- 
batre  tout  a  cheual  od  la  did  iffu,  mais  furount  defcounfitz  lez  Efcotz,  ou 
full  arene  le  dit  Robert  de  Bruys  et  lefle  efchaper  par  Joban  de  Hali- 
burtoun  del  hour  qil  apereeuft  qil  eftoit,  qy  nauoit  point  de  cote  armur 
mais  vn  chemys  blaunk.  Thomas  Randolf,  neueu  le  dill  Robert  de 
Bruys,  qi  apres  full  count  de  Morref,  full  pris  a  meifme  cell  batail  de 
Methfen,  et  au  prier  Adam  de  Gordoun  full  deliuers,  et  dcmora  Engles 
tanque  autre  foitz  full  repris  de  lez  Efcotez.  Robert  de  Bruys,  lez 
plufours  dez  foens  mortz  et  pris  a  cell  bataille  de  Methfen,  full  enchacez 
en  Kentire  par  lez  Engles,  qi  affillrent  le  chaflelle  hu  dit  pays  qe  ly  dit 
Robert  y  vll  elle,  qi  ne  ly  trouerent  point  au  pris  du  dit  chaftelle  mais  y 
trouerent  fa  femme,  la  feile  le  count  de  Hulfler,  et  Neil  foun  freir,  et 
procheignement  full  le  count  de  Athelis  pris  qi  [au]  le  dit  chattel  full  fuys. 
Le  dit  Neil,  freir  le  dit  Robert  de  Bruys,  od  Alain  Duruard  et  plufours 
autres,  furount  penduz  et  treynez  par  iugement  a  Berewik,  et  la  femme 
le  dit  Robert  enuoyez  en  garde  en  Engleterre.  Le  count  de  Athelis, 
pur  ceo  qe  cofyn  eftoit  le  roy  Dengleterre,  fitz  Maude  de  Doure  fa 
aunte,  full  enuoyez  a  Loundres;  et  pur  ceo  qe  du  sank  eftoit  le  roy, 
full  penduz  sure  plus  hautis  fourches  qe  autres  de  xxx.  pees.  Meifme 
Ian  le  roy  fill  foun  fitz  Edward,  prince  de  Galis,  cheuauelier  a  Weft- 
moufter,  od  graunt  noumbre  dez  autres  juuenceaux  noblis  de  foun  realme, 
et  ly  enuoya  de  graunt  aray  en  Efcoce  od  touz  ceux  noueaux  cheualers. 
Thomas  count  de  Lancaftre  et  Houmfray  de  Bouhun  count  de  Herforde, 
qi  pafferent  lez  mountez  Defcoce,  affillrent  le  chaftel  de  Kyndromy  en 
Marre  et  le  gaigna,  en  quel  chaftel  fu  troue  Criftofre  de  Setoun  od  fa 
femme  la  sore  Robert  de  Bruys,  qi  com  Engles  renoye  full  enuoie  a 
Dunfres  et  illoeqes  penduz,  trainez,  et  decollez;  ou  deuaunt  auoit  fait 
tuer  un  cheualer,  vifcount  du  pays  mys  depar  le  roy  Dengleterre.  Lez 
euefqes  de  Glafcow  et  de  Saint  Andrew,  et  labbe  de  Scone,  furount  pris 
meifme  la  feifoun  en  enuoyez  en  Engleterre  en  gard.  Peris  de  Gauir- 
ftoun  full  accufe  au  roy  de  diuers  crimes  et  vices,  pur  quoi  nen  full 
dignes  a  eftre  pres  le  fitz  le  roy,  pur  quoi  il  full  exilez  et  foriurrez. 


132  SCALACRONICA. 

En  Ian  de  grace  mille,  ccc.  vj.,  le  roy  Edward  eftoit  venuz  a  Dumfer- 
melin,  foun  fitz  Edward,  prince  de  Galis,  eftoit  reuenuz  de  outre  lez  fol.  203.  t>. 
mountz,  y  endemora  od  graunt  oft  a  la  vile  de  Saint  Johan;  et  ende- 
menters  Robert  de  Bruys  eftoit  reentrez  hors  dez  iles,  fe  auoit  acoilly  vn 
rout  en  lez  eftroitez  de  Athelis,  enuoya  meffagers  pur  auoir  tretice  od  le 
dit  fitz  le  roy,  qi  auoit  conduyt  a  venir  tretre,  qi  enueint  a  le  pount  de 
la  vile  de  Saint  Johan,  fi  entra  en  tretice  a  tafter  fil  empoait  nul  grace 
auoir,  quel  parlaunce  fuft  lendemain  nouncie  au  roi  a  Dunfermelin.  II 
eftoit  a  poy  enrage  qant  il  oy  de  le  tretice,  qi  demandoit,  "  qi  en  fuft  si 
hardy  de  attamere  tretice  od  noz  traitours  faunz  fcieu  de  nous,  qi  ne  vo- 
loit  oyer  parler?"  Le  roy  et  foun  fitz  fez  treierent  sur  marches  Dengle- 
terre.  Eymer  de  Valoins  fuft  demurre  lieutenaunt  le  roy  en  Efcoce. 
Robert  de  Bruys  recomenfa  graunt  couyn,  enuoya  fes  ij.  frers,  Thomas 
et  Alexandre,  deuers  Niddifdale  et  le  vale  de  Anande  pur  attreier  lez 
queres  dez  gentz,  ou  furount  fuppris  dez  .Englis,  et  pris,  et  amenez  par 
comaundement  le  roy  a  Cardoil,  illoeqes  penduz,  treynez,  et  decollez. 
Robert  de  Bruys  fe  auoit  affemble  fez  enherdauntz  en  Carryk.  Eymer 
de  Valoins,  qi  ceo  auoit  oy,  fe  trey  deuers  ly,  ou  a  Loudoun  le  dit  Ro- 
bert encountra  oue  le  dit  Eymer  de  Valoins,  et  ly  defcounfift,  et  ly  en- 
chafa  au  chattel  de  Are;  et  dedenz  le  tierce  iour  le  dit  Robert  de  Bruys 
defconfift  Rauf  de  Monhermer,  qi  fuft  dit  count  de  Glouceftre  par  caufe 
qe  Johan  la  feile  le  roi  et  countelle  de  Glouceftre  ly  auoit  pris  par  amours 
a  marry,  si  ly  enchafa  au  chattel  de  Are,  et  illoeqes  ly  affift  tanque  loft 
Dengleterre  ly  refcourent,  qi  enboterent  le  dit  Robert  de  Bruys  a  tiel 
mefchef  qil  ala  a  pee  par  lez  mountez,  et  de  ile  en  ile,  et  alafoitz  a  tiel 
mefchief  qe  aufcun  foitz  ne  auoit  nuly  od  ly.  Qar,  com  tefmoignent  lez 
croniclis  de  fez  geftis,  il  enueint  en  eel  houre  a  vn  paffage  tout  foul  de 
ij.  jllis,  et  com  il  eftoit  en  le  batew  od  ij.  mariners  ils  ly  demaunderent 
nouelis,  fi  rien  auoit  oy  parler  ou  Robert  de  Bruys  eftoit  deuenus? 
"  Nenyl,"  fefoit  il.  "  Certis,"  fefoint  ils,  "  nous  vodroms  qe  nous  ly 
teniffims  en  le  hour,  si  murreroit  de  noz  mains;"  "  et  pur  quoi?"  fefoit 
il,  "  pur  ceo  qe  il  enmourdit  Johan  Comyn,  noftre  seignour."  Ils  ly 
miftrent  a  terre  ou  ils  ly  auoint  en  couenaunt,  qi  lour  diit,  "  beaux  seign- 
ours,  vous  auez  sueide  qe  vous  tenicez  Robert  de  Bruis,  \eiez  moy  cy 


SCALACRONICA.  133 

qe  vous  plerra,  et  fy  ne  full  qe  vous  mauez  fet  curtofy  qe  mauez  rnvs 
outre  cell  eftroit  paffage,  vous  encomparez  uotre  voloir;"  si  fen  ala  foun 
chemyn,  qi  a  tiel  mefchief  eftoit  enchace. 

Ly  auauntdit  roy  Edward  Dengleter  auoit  en  ceft  meine  temps  grante- 
ment  demore  maladiz  a  Lanercoft,  qe  de  illoeqes  rernua  de  chaungier 
leire  et  pur  attendre  foun  oft  qil  auoit  fomouns  a  reentreir  Efcoce.  Si 
enueint  a  Burch  sure  le  Sabloun,  et  illoeqes  moruft  en  le  moys  de  Juyl, 
en  Ian  de  grace  mile,  ccc.  vij.,  et  de  illoeqes  enporte  et  enterre  follemp- 
nement  a  Weftmouftre  delee  fez  aunceftres,  apres  qe  il  auoit  regne 
xxxiiij.  aims,  vij.  moys  et  xi.  iours,  et  en  Ian  de  foun  age  lxviij.  aims  et 
xx.  iours.  I  cefti  roy  Edward  nauoit  de  fa  primer  femme,  la  feile  le  roy 
de  Cafteil,  fors  vn  fitz  qi  vefqy.  De  la  fecound  efpous,  la  sore  le  roy  de 
France,  auoit  il  ij.  fitz,  Thomas  et  Eadmound.  A  Thomas  dona  il  la 
counte  de  Northfolc  et  de  Southfolk,  oue  la  marfchalfy  Dengleter,  quel 
countee  od  lofnce  apartenoit  de  heritage  a  Roger  Bigod,  qi  nauoit  point 
dengendrur,  qi  fift  le  roy  foun  heir  en  party  pur  doute  qe  le  roy  ne  ly 
surmeift  mal  port  qentre  ly  et  autres  comencerent  vn  foitz  a  Nicol  couyn 
encountre  ly.  A  Emound  foun  fitz  pufne  deuifa  il  en  foun  teftament 
qatre  mile  marche  de  terre,  et  pur  eftre  acomply  de  Edward  foun  fitz  et 
heire  sur  fa  benifoun.  Qi  heir  puis  dona  au  dit  Edmound  la  counte  de 
Kent  od  party  de  la  terre  a  ly  deuyfe,  mais  tout  ne  ly  eftoit  my  parfourny 
deuaunt  le  temps  le  tierce  Edward.  Cefti  Edward  lc  primer  apres  la 
conqueft  auoit  plufours  feilles,  vn  eftoit  efpofe  au  count  de  Glowceftre, 
vn  autre  au  duk  de  Braban,  la  tierce  au  count  de  Baris,  la  quart  au 
count  de  Holand,  apres  mort  de  qi  el  fuft  autrefoitz  efpofe  au  count  de 
Herforde,  la  quint  fuft  nonayne  a  Aumefbery. 

Innocens  le  5.  fuft  pape  apres  Gregoir  le  10.  5  moys.  Cefti  eftoit 
apelle  Petrus  de  Tarent,  il  fuft  de  lordre  de  prechours  et  meiftre  en  di- 
uinite.  Apres  qi  Innocens  fuft  Adrian  le  5.  pape  2  mois.  II  auoit  efte 
enuoie  du  pape  Clement  en  Engleter,  pur  peifer  debat  entre  le  roy  et 
lez  barouns.  Apres  qi  Adrian  Johan  le  5.  fuft  pape  8  auns;  il  eftoit 
primes  nome  Petrus  qi  affeitz  plus  faint  eftoit  deuaunt  qe  apres  qant  il 
auoit  foun  eftat.  II  auaunfa  volountiers  lez  grantz  clerks,  il  efperoit  long 
vie  mais  fodeignement  treboucha  de  vn  chambre  qil  auoit  edifie  a  Ve- 


134  SCALACRONICA. 

tourbe  et  moruft.  Apres  qi  Johan  le  ij.  Johan  le  3.  full  pape  3  aunz. 
Apres  qi  Johan,  Nicholas  fufl  pape,  qi  ordena  Robert  de  Kilwardby  en 
cardenal,  et  freir  Johan  de  Pecham,  del  ordre  dez  menurs  et  meiftre  de  fol.  204.  b. 
diuinite,  en  erceuefque  de  Cantorbires.  Apres  qi  Nicholas  le  3.  Hono- 
rius  le  4.  fufl  pape  7  aims;  cefli  chaungea  labit  de  freirs  carmes,  qe 
deuaunt  efloit  pale.  Apres  qi  Honorius  le  4.  Nicholas  le  4.  fufl  pape  6 
aunz;  il  efloit  de  lordre  de  freirs  menours,  il  declara  lordre  dez  freirs 
raenours;  en  temps  de  qy  aueint  vn  tiel  tempefl  la  veil  faint  Margaret 
en  Engleter  de  foudre  yuernail  qe  defifl  lez  blez,  de  quoi  enueint  grant 
cherete,  qe  apoi  durra  la  vie  Edward  le  primer  apres  la  conquefl.  En 
quel  temps  lez  taxfis  dez  eglis  furoun  chaungez  a  plus  haut  valu.  Ce- 
leflin  le  5.  fufl  pape  3  aunz  apres  Nichol;  cefli  Celeflin  efloit  vn  pouer 
eremyt  en  defert  pres  de  Rome,  qi  innocent  efloit  de  maner,  noun  pas 
iettre,  ne  fage,  ne  aparaunt.  Vn  cardinal  qi  defiroit  la  gouernail  du  court 
ou  a  eflre  pape,  qi  fe  doutoit  qe  la  colege  ne  ly  choiferoint,  feigna  caufe 
et  fifl  entendre  a  fez  autres  freirs  cardenalis  apres  la  mort  le  dit  pape 
Nichol  en  lour  eleccioun  du  papee  qun  voice  ly  efloit  venu  en  auilion 
par  trois  foitz  qils  choiferoint  en  pape  le  dit  fimple  ermyt,  de  qi  il  auoit 
premefie  qil  ne  ferroit  rien  faunz  li.  Les  autres  quiderent  qe  ceo  vfl  efle 
lexpiracioun  de  Dieu,  ly  choiferent  en  pape  qi  rien  ne  fauoit  gouerner 
foun  eilat,  de  qoy  la  court  fufl  tout  troeble  et  ly  meifmes  enfaule.  Le 
auant  dit  cardinal,  qe  apres  auoit  a  noun  Boneface,  ly  leffa  foleier,  qi  rien 
ne  fe  entremifl  de  foun  bon  gouernement  tanqe  il  efloit  tant  foruoie  qe 
bonment  ne  pooit  eflre  amende,  et  adonqes  ly  counfailla  et  preffa  de  re- 
figner  foun  eflat  a  ly  et  il  prendroit  garde  qil  viueroit  honourablement; 
a  qoy  il  fe  confcentifl.  La  college  fez  concenterent  pur  fa  foly,  en- 
miflrent  lautre  et  ly  apellerent  Boneface,  qe  del  hour  qe  il  auoit  pris 
foun  eflat  ne  prifl  rien  garde  de  Celeflin,  mais  ly  lefTa  repairer  a  foun 
primer  eflat,  a  foun  pouer  hermitage.  Qy  Celeflin,  del  hour  qil  aperceufl 
qil  elloit  engine,  prophetiza  de  Boneface  foun  fucceffbur,  qi  ly  difoit,  "  tu 
y  enuenifles  com  vn  gopille,  tu  regneras  com  vn  lioun,  fi  mureras  com  vn 
chien;"  qoi  y  en  aueint,  qar  ly  dit  Boneface  regna  orgoilloufement,  defifl 
cardinalis  de  greignour  ligne  de  Rome  extreitis  de  Columpna,  graunt- 
ment  trauerfa  le  roy  de  France,  pur  quoi  conueinerent  enfemble,  priflrent 


SCALACRONICA.  136 

foi.  205.  le  dit  pape,  ly  amenerent  hors  de  Rome  fa  face  tourne  au  cue  de  foun 
cheuall  a  vn  chaitel  pres  ou  il  murruft  de  feyme.  Apres  qi  Boneface 
Benet  le  3.,  de  lordre  dez  prechours,  full  pape  vn  an,  de  qi  full  parle  de 
vn  Gullyurdas  en  Latin, 

"  A  re  nomen  habe,  benedic,  benefac,  benedic~le; 
Aut  rem  perverte,  maledic,  malefac,  malefadle." 

Auntoin  de  Beke,  euefque  de  Durefm,  full  eftably  patriarch  de  Jeru- 
falem,  mais  vnqes  nen  veint  en  le  patriarche  mes  durement  full  noble 
en  foun  pays.  Clement  le  5.  full  pape  apres  Benet  12  auns;  il  deueint 
durement  riche  de  trefors,  purchafa  grauntz  terres,  fill  edifier  fortis  chaf- 
teaux,  il  amena  la  court  de  Rome,  en  foun  temps  furount  lez  Templers 
defaites,  il  fill  defaire  afcuns  dez  decretalis  qe  meifmes  auoit  ellably,  lez 
queux  Johan  foun  fucceffour  renouela.  Cefli  Johan  le  ij.  full  pape 
apres  Clement  plus  de  xx.  aunz,  qi  grant  clerk  eltoit  en  Grec,  Ebreu,  et 
Latin.  II  fill  coiller  grantz  treforis  enfemble,  il  mainteint  grauntz  gueres 
en  Lombardy,  il  auaunfa  uolontiers  le  grantz  clers,  il  dampna  lez  plura- 
lites,  il  referua  lez  primers  fruytes  apres  la  mort  dez  prelatis  a  fa 
chaumbre,  il  fill  les  matynes  de  la  croice,  il  vefquill  tout  le  temps  le  fe- 
cound  roy  Edward  apres  la  conquefl  et  apres  en  le  temps  foun  fitz  le 
tierce  Edward. 

Au  fine  du  regne  Edward  le  primer  apres  la  conquefl,  et  au  comence- 
ment  du  regne  de  foun  fitz  Edward  le  fecound,  Henry  count  de  Luffem- 
burh  full  roy  de  Allemain  et  emperour,  qi  vaillaunt  et  nobles  efloit, 
refceult  honourablement  fez  dignetes  de  fez  'troys  corouns.  II  dona  le 
realme  de  Bahayne  a  foun  fitz  Johan  od  la  feile  le  roy,  qi  Johan  conquill 
le  dit  realme  et  prift  la  cite  de  Prag  de  affaute  sure  ceaux  qi  claimerent 
droit  par  autre  fucceffioun  made.  Le  dit  emperour  Henry  fentremill 
cheualeroufement  en  Tufkane  et  en  Lombardy  a  reconqer  lez  droitez  del 
empir,  pur  quoi  com  il  gefoit  deuaunt  Brife  il  elloit  enpufoune  en  refceit 
du  corps  Dieu  par  foun  confeffour,  vn  Jacobin,  qy  alowes  elloit  par  lez 
Gelfes  qi  durement  eftoint  efpountez  de  fa  pruefce.  Sez  philiciens,  qi 
bien  aperfceurent  la  maner,  ly  voroint  auoir  deliuers,  mais  ne  voloit  ofter 
foun  creature,  mais  difoit  qe  pur  poour  a  murrir  ne  departeroit  od  le  corps 


136  SCALACRONICA. 

Dieu.  Apres  mort  de  qy  eftoit  graunt  debat  pur  la  eleccioun  del  empire. 
Le  duk  de  Oftrik  auoit  voice  dafcuns  dez  elifours,  Lowys  duk  de  Bayuer 
auoit  autrefy  eleccioun  du  remenaunt  dez  elifours,  pur  quel  debate  lez  foi.  205.  b 
auaunditz  feignurs  fez  entrecombaterent  od  lour  poair  en  Swawe.  Le 
Bayuer  auoit  la  victoir  par  eide  du  Joban  roy  de  Bahayne.  Le  dit  Bayuer 
enprift  leftat  del  emperour,  refceuft  fez  trois  corouns,  mais  le  pape  et  le 
court,  de  Rome  li  elloint  en  contrair,  pur  quoi  a  foun  encoronement  a 
Rome,  par  afcent  dez  Senatours  et  de  ceaux  de  la  college  qendemura- 
fcent  en  le  hour  entour  leglis  faint  Pere  et  faint  Poel,  enchoiferent  vn 
nouel  pape,  vn  cordeler,  qi  out  a  noune  Nichol,  aleygerent  cause  pur  ceo 
qe  la  court  fufl  a  Auynioun  ou  dud  eftre  a  Rome  par  auncien  conftitu- 
cioun  canonife.  Cefti  Nichol  ne  perfeueryft  my  longment  en  foun  eftat, 
mais  del  hour  qe  le  auaunt  dit  emperour  eftoit  repairez  en  Bayuer  fe  mid 
en  la  grace  du  pape  Johan  qen  le  hour  demurra  en  Auynioun,  pur  quoy 
la  court  de  Rome  ne  accepta  ia  mes  le  dit  Bayuer  par  emperour,  qi  touz 
iours  mes  vefquift  en  fentence.  II  vefqy  bon  pece,  mais  poi  fill  qe  foit 
a  counteir  darmis.  II  fufl  durement  artillious  de  sa  mayn,  il  dona  a  foun 
fitz  eyne  le  markis  de  Brandefburgh  com  droit  efl  de  le  empire,  qe  tieux 
feignourages  fount  al  difpoficioun  del  emperour  qant  heir  y  faut  mafle. 
11  dona  a  meifme  cely  de  Brandefburgh  la  duche  de  Carentane  oue  la 
counte  de  Tyrol,  oue  la  feile  et  heir  du  duk.  II  dona  a  foun  pufne  fitz, 
qil  auoit  engendre  del  eyne  feile  Willam  count  de  Henaw,  lez  countez 
de  Seland,  Holand,  et  de  Henaw.  Vn  autre  de  fez  fitz,  le  Romer,  de 
meifme  fa  efpoufe  fefoit  efpofer  la  feil  le  roy  de  Crakow  et  foun  heir.  II 
vefqyll  bien  longement  en  le  temps  le  tierce  roy  Edward  Dengleter  apres 
la  conqueft,  com  apres  ferra  recordez. 

Apres  la  mort  le  primer  Edward  apres  la  conqueft,  regna  le  fecond 
Edward  foun  fitz,  en  grant  tribulacioun  et  aduerfite,  qi  ny  eftoit  pas 
oeurous  ne  amez  dez  grantz  de  foun  realme,  ia  le  mainz  il  eftoit  large 
et  amyable  trop  outre  mefure  as  ceau  qil  amoit,  et  mult  coumpaignable 
a  fez  priuez.  Et  fi  fufl  de  foun  corps  vn  dez  plus  fortz  horn  de  foun 
realme.  II  prift  a  femme  Ifabelle,  la  feile  le  roy  Phelip  de  France  ly 
beaux,  qi  la  efpofat  a  Amyas  et  la  amena  en  Engleter,  ou  furount  coronez 


SCALACItONlCA.  137 

a  Loundres  od  grant  folempnete.  Le  roy  od  fa  dit  femme  Ifabelle  autre 
fol.  206.  foitz  paffa  en  France  a  Parys  pur  treter  de  fez  bofoignes  de  Gafcoyne, 
ou  le  dit  roy  Edward  a  faint  Germayn  en  Prees  feftia  le  dit  roy  de 
France;  de  quel  felt  efloit  en  le  hour  graunt  renome.  En  quel  hour 
full  counte  au  dit  roy  Phelip  de  France  qe  lez  femmes  de  fez  fitz  fez 
auoint  malment  porte, — dount  il  auoit  trois,  et  vn  feile  meifme  cell  Ifa- 
belle royne  Dengleter,  Phelip,  Lowys,  et  Charlis,  de  fa  efpoufc  la  feille 
le  roy  de  Nawar,  del  heritage  de  qei  il  eftoit  roy  de  Nawar;  la  mere  de 
quel  efpous,  Edmond  le  freir  le  primer  Edward  Dengleter  apres  la  con- 
quer! auoit  efpofe,  de  qei  il  engendra  Thomas  et  Henry  puis  countis  de 
Lancaftre, — ceil  affauoir,  qe  lez  ditiz  dames  auoit  paramours  faitz  auoutry 
od  cheualeris  de  fa  court,  qoi  grantement  ly  gifoit  au  quer.  Pur  qoi 
apres  departir  du  dit  roy  Dengleter,  le  dit  roy  de  France  demaundoit 
de  Phelip  Dawnay,  vn  auncien  cheualer  de  foun  counfail,  quoi  ferroit 
a  faire  de  ceaux  qauoint  parieu  lez  femmes  dez  fitz  le  roy  et  realis  de 
France.  "  Sire,"  ceo  difoit  ly  prodhom,  "  ils  fount  dignes  a  eftre  efcor- 
chez  toutz  vifes."  "  Tu  as  done  le  iugement,"  ceo  difoit  ly  roys,  "  ces 
foun  voz  fitz  lez  dieus  qi  porterount  le  coup."  Lun  full  dampne  en  le 
hour,  lautre  efchapa  en  Engleter  qi  full  pris  a  Euerwyk  et  reenuoye  au 
dit  roy  de  France,  de  quoi  le  dit  roy  Dengleter  de  murmure  dez  comunes 
enportoit  blame,  depuifque  le  dit  chiualer  eftoit  venuz  pur  fuccours  en 
foun  realme.  Le  dit  chiualer  full  efcorche  tout  vyue,  lez  ij.  dames 
furount  mvs  a  vileyn  mort,  la  tierce  fuft  enuyrone  dun  haut  mure  faunz 
manger  ou  boire,  ou  moruft.  II  efloit  dit  de  parol  du  comune  qe  ceft 
efclaundre  fuft  defcouert  au  roy  de  France  par  fa  feille  Ifabelle  royne 
Dengleter,  quoy  eftoit  fuppofe  de  plufours  qe  neftoit  pas  uerite.  Pur 
quel  crualte  dez  comunes  fuft  arrette  et  notifie  qe  le  pier  ne  lez  fitz  ne 
auoint  dure,  le  pier  murruft  procheignement.  Sez  trois  fitz  auaunt 
nomez  eftoint  roys  de  France,  chefcun  apres  autre,  court  fefoun.  Le 
eyne  de  eaux,  qi  roy  eftoit  de  Nawar  viuaunt  le  pier,  nauoit  engendrur 
fors  vn  feile  qe  puis  fuft  marie  au  count  de  Euerus,  qi  apres  de  heritage 
fa  dit  femme  deueint  roy  de  Nawar.  Ly  autre  freir  fecound  auoit  de  fa 
efpouf  la  feile  le  count  de  Artoys  trois  feilles,  qe  puis  departerent  leritage 
de  Artoys.  Le  duk  de  Burgoin  auoit  vn,  le  count  de  Flaundres  vn 
s 


138  SCALACRONICA. 

autre,  la  tierce  puis  prill  paramours  le  fire  de  Faucony.  Charlis  le  tierce 
freir  et  darain  roys  moruft  faunz  engendrur.  pur  quoi  le  droit  del  heritage 
de  Fraunce  de  droit  deueroit  defcendre  a  Edward  Dengleter,  fitz  Ifabelle,  fol.  206.b. 
sore  lez  ditz  trois  freirs  et  roys  com  al  plus  prochein  heire  mafle,  qar  en 
le  houre  les  feiles  de  lez  dieus  auaunt  ditz  freirs  et  roys  nauoint  point 
dengendrur  mafle  au  difceffe  le  dit  Charlis  le  darein  roy  de  iij.  freirs  lour 
vncle.  Pur  quoi  le  dit  Edward  fitz  Ifabel  Dengleter  efloit  le  plus  pro- 
chein mal,  tout  ne  mifl  il  point  de  chalenge,  com  apres  ferra  recorde,  au 
mort  foun  dit  vncle  Charlis  pur  defaut  de  bon  counfail,  com  eltoit  iones 
et  entagles  dautres  bofoignes,  tanque  vn  autre  collateralle.  Le  fitz  del 
vncle  le  auaunt  dit  Charlis  efloit  corone  pur  roys  par  eide  de  fez  aliez, 
principaument  de  Robert  de  Artoys,  a  qy  apres  efloit  le  greniour  enemy, 
puifque  nul  autre  en  droit  fefoun  ne  enmiflrent  a  droit  chalange  tanqe 
bon  pece  pufcedy,  com  apres  ferra  recorde,  qe  bien  eft  et  doit  eflre 
notable  chos  et  memorial  par  tout. 

Thomas  de  Gray  efloit  en  le  hour  gardein  du  chaftel  de  Coupir  et  de 
Fif,  depar  le  roy  Dengleter,  et  com  uenoit  hors  Dengleterre  del  enco- 
rounement  le  roy  vers  le  dit  chaflelle,  Waulter  de  Bickirtoun,  chiualer 
Defcoce,  qenherdaunt  efloit  a  Robert  de  Bruys,  auoit  efpie  la  reuenu  du 
dit  Thomas,  efloit  enbufTe  od  plus  de  iiij.c  horns  par  ou  le  dit  Thomas 
couenoit  pafTer;  quoy  fuft  nouncie  au  dit  Thomas  geris  plus  dun  dimy 
lieu  pres  del  enbuflement.  II  nauoit  od  ly  fors  xxvi.  horns  darmes,  il 
aparceufl  qil  ne  pooit  fanz  mefchief  efchapier,  qi  par  affcent  dez  foens 
emprift  le  chemyn  deuers  lenbuffement,  fifl  bailler  vn  eflandard  a  fez 
garfouns,  lez  fifl  comaunder  qils  venifent  en  rout  par  dereir  eaux  et  qe 
ils  ne  fuaffent  trop  toft.  Lez  enemys  mounterent  a  cheual,  vindrent  en 
batail,  penfauntz  qe  ils  ne  lour  purrount  efchaper.  Le  dit  Thomas,  od 
lez  soens  qe  tres  biens  eftoient  mountez,  ferry  deflreir  dez  efperouns, 
alafl  affembleir  en  my  la  route  dez  enemys  par  my  eaux,  portoit  en  foun 
aler  plufours  a  terre  de  hurt  du  cheual  et  de  fa  launce,  si  tourna  la  rein, 
reueint  en  meifme  la  gife  et  reenala  et  autre  foitz  reueint  parmy  le  plus 
graunt  route,  quy  taunt  enbaudifl  lez  soens  qe  toutz  ly  fuerent  a  la  gyfe, 
qy  tauntz  auoint  abatuz  des  enemys,  lour  cheueaux  corauntz  en  routes, 
eaux  meifmes  releuez  de  terre,  aparceuerent  les  garfouns  le  dit  Thomas 


SCALACRONICA.  139 

uenauntz  en  aray,  fez  comencerent  fuer  en  vn  fek  marras  tourberis  qe  y 
ount  pres,  pur  qoy  touz  comencerent  a  fuer  a  Ie  marras,  lefferent  lour 
fol.  207.  cheueax  pur  poi  touz.  Le  dit  Thomas  od  lez  foens  ne  lour  purroit  apro- 
cher  a  cheual,  pur  quoi  fill  chacer  enfemble  lour  cheueals  en  rout  deuaunt 
ly  au  dit  chaftel,  ou  a  nuyt  auoint  ix.x*  cheueaux  felez  en  botyne. 

Autre  foitz  Alexander  Frifel,  qenderdaunt  elloit  a  Robert  de  Bruys, 
od  cent  horns  darmes  eftoit  enbuflez  vn  demy  lieu  pres  le  dit  challelle, 
vn  iour  de  Marche,  la  vile  plein  dez  veifines,  et  auoit  enuoiez  autres  de 
fez  genz  de  lautre  part  le  chaftel  a  ryffler  vn  vilet.  Le  dit  Thomas  oy 
la  hue,  mounta  vn  beau  deftreir  deuaunt  qe  lez  foens  purroint  eftre 
adreffez,  fen  alaft  veoir  qe  ceo  full.  Lez  enemys  du  dit  enbufiement 
ferreirent  cheueaux  dez  efperouns  deuaunt  lez  portez  du  dit  chaftel,  quy 
bien  ly  fauoint  iflli  pur  quoy  ils  ceo  firent.  Ly  dit  Thomas  qi  ceo  aper- 
ceuft  reueint  le  petit  pas  parmy  la  vile  de  Coupir,  en  la  bout  de  quoy 
eftut  le  chaftel,  par  ou  couenoit  a  cheual  entreir  ou  la  ru  auoint  purpris 
tout  outre,  il  fery  cheueaux  dez  efperouns  com  venit  pres  de  eaux,  lez 
primers  qi  fez  auauncerent  a  deuaunt  il  abaty  de  eaux  lez  vns  de  sa 
launce  autres  de  hurt  du  chiual,  fe  paila  parmy  eaux  toutz,  defcendy 
deuaunt  la  port  ens  chafa  foun  cheual,  fe  trei  meifmes  dedenz  lez  bar- 
rens ou  troua.  lez  soens  iflliz. 

Cefti  roy  Edward  le  fecound  apres  la  conqueft,  ietta  grant  affeccioun 
viuaunt  foun  pier  a  Peris  de  Gauirftoun,  vn  ioen  hom  nee  de  Gafcoyn, 
de  quoi  le  pier  prift  malencoly  qil  fe  douta  qil  amenaft  foun  fitz  defor- 
deinement,  qy  luy  fift  exiler.de  foun  realme  et  fift  meifme  foun  fitz  y 
cefty  Edward  et  foun  neuew  le  count  Thomas  de  Lancaftre  et  autres 
grantz  du  realme  iureir  le  exillement  du  dit  Peris  faunz  recouncillement 
pur  touz  iours;  qe  procheynement  apres  la  mort  le  pier  le  fitz  fift  reapel- 
ler  le  dit  Peris  fodeinement  et  ly  fift  prendre  a  femme  la  feil  fa  sore,  vn 
dez  feiles  de  Glouceftre,  et  luy  fift  count  de  Cornewail.  Qy  deueint 
trefnoblis,  largis  et  gentil  de  maner,  mais  orgoillous  et  fourqidrous  en 
party,  de  quoi  lez  vns  dez  grantz  du  realme  enpriftrent  grant  defpit;  qy 
coumpafferount  fa  deftruccioun  com  il  fuft  en  Efcoce  a  la  guer  le  roy, 
qauoit  fait  afermer  la  vile  de  Dundee,  qi  trop  apertement  fe  auoit  porte 
illoeqes  au  plefauns  dez  gentilis  homs  du  pays  qe  ly  couenoit  retourner 


140  SCALACRONICA. 

au  roy  pur  debate  dez  barouns.     Qen  foun  reuenir  ly  fuppriftrent  a 

Scarthburgh,  raes  sure  condicioun  full  rendu  a  Eymer  de  Valoyns  de  luy 

auoir  amenez  au  roy,  des  gentz  de  qy  il  eftoit  repris  iouit  Oxfen forth  qy 

luy  amenerent  au  count  de  Lancaftre  qi  ly  fid  decoller  pres  de  Warwyk, 

pur  quoy  fourdift  mortiel  heyn  du  roy  qe  toutz  iours  mes  dura  entre  eaux.   fol.  207.  b. 

Adam  Banaflre,  vn  bacheler  de  la  counte  de  Lancaftre,  mouoit  ryote 

countre  le  dit  count  par  couyne  le  roy,  mais  il  ne  pooit  endureir  mais  fuft 

pris  et  de  collez  par  coraaundement  du  dit  count  apres  grantz  iournes  qil 

auoit  hu  sure  fez  gentz. 

Durant  ceft  debat  entre  le  roy  et  le  dit  count  reuigura  Robert  de 
Bruys  en  Efcoce  qi  ia  eftoit  leuez  vivaunt  le  roi  le  pier,  qi  clamoit 
accioun  du  realme  Defcoce,  qi  conquift  tauntz  dez  pays  en  Efcoce  qef- 
toient  a  deuaunt  conquys  et  foutzmvs  al  obeifaunce  du  roy  Dengleterre; 
et  moult  par  caus  de  mauues  gouernail  dez  miniftres  le  roy,  qi   trop 
afprement  lez  gouernoient  pur  finguler  profit.     Lez  chaftellis  de  Rox- 
burgh et  de  Edynburgh  emblez  et  abatufe,  lez  queux  chaftelis  eftoint  en 
garde  dez  aliens;   Roxburgh  en  la  gard  Gillemyng  de  Fenygges,  che- 
ualer  et  Burglioun,  sure  qi  James  de  Douglas  embla  le  dift  chattel  la 
nuyt  de  quarrem  pernaunt,  le  dit  Gilmyng  fuft  mort  dun  sete  com  teint 
la  graunt  tour.     Peres  Lebaud,  chelauer,  vn  Gafcoyne,  fuft  vifcount  de 
Edenburgh,  sure  qi  lez  gentz  Thomas  Randolf,  count  de  Murref,  com  le 
dift  chaftel  eftoit  affis,  le  emblerent  a  le  plus  haut  du  roche  a  quoi  il  ne 
fe  dotoit.     Le  dit  Peris  deueint  Efcotoys  a  la  foy  Robert  de  Bruys,  qi 
puis  apres  ly  surmift  trefoun,  ly  fift  pendre  et  treyner;  com  fuft  dit  pur 
ceo  qil  fe  doutoit  de  ly  pur  ceo  qe  trop  eftoit  apert  penfaunt  toutdice  qil 
eftoit  Engles  qe  quer,  agaitaunt  foun  meillour  point  de  ly  greuer.     Ly 
dit  roy  Edward  couenoit  treier  celvs  partyes,  ou  al  refcous  du  chaftel  de 
Stryuelin  il  fuft  defcomfift  et  graunt  noumbre  de  fez  gentz  mortz;  le 
count  de  Glouceftre,  et  autres  trefnoblis  gentez,  et  le  count  de  Herford 
pris  a  Botheuille  com  tanque  la  eftoit  retreit,  ou  du  chaftelayu  fuft 
traye,  qi  puis  fuft  deliuers  pur  la  femme  Robert  de  Bruys  et  pur  le- 
uefque  de  feint  Andrew.      Et  coment  eel  defcoumfiture   enaueint  lez 
croniclis  deuifent  qe  apres  ceo  qe  le  count  de  Athelis  auoit  emble  la 
vile  de  faint  Johan  sure  William  Olifart,  capitayn  depar  le  roy  Dengle- 


SCALACRONICA.  141 

terre,  al  vfe  Robert  de  Bruys,  com  cely  qenhcrdaunt  eftoit  a  ly  al 
hour  mais  toft  ly  guerpy,  qi  Robert  fe  trey  en  oft  deuaunt  le  chaftel 
de  Striuelyn,  ou  Philip  de  Moubray,  cheualer,  qauoit  le  chaftel  de  Stn- 
uelyn  agarder  depar  le  roy  Dengleterre,  auoit  pris  condicioun  od  le 
dit  Robert  de  Bruys  du  rendre  le  dit  chaftel  com  lauoit  affys,  qe  fil  ne 
fuft  refcoufe,  ifti  qi  loft  Dengleterre  venift  a  trois  lieus  pres  le  dit  chaftel 
foi.  208.  dedenz  viij.  iours  apres  le  faint  Johan  en  efte  adonqes  procheine  auenir, 
qi  ly  renderoit  le  dit  chaftel.  Le  dit  roi  Edward  Dengleterre  y  enueint 
pur  la  dit  caufe,  ou  le  dit  cbaftelain  Phelip  ly  encountra  trois  lieus  du 
chaftel,  le  dymange  la  viel  de  faint  Johan,  qi  ly  difoit  qe  y  nenbofoignoit 
my  qil  uenift  plus  pres  qil  fe  tenoit  refcous,  si  luy  counta  coment  lez 
enemys  auoint  fovvez  lez  eftroitz  chemyns  du  boys.  Lez  ioenes  gentz 
ne  arefterent  my  tindrent  lour  chemyns;  lauaunt  garde,  dount  le  count 
de  Glouceftre  eftoit  gouernour,  entrerent  la  voi  dedenz  le  Park,  ou  toft 
furount  recoillez  par  lez  Efcotez,  qauoint  purpris  la  voy,  ou  fu  tue  Peris 
de  Mountforth,  cheualer,  dez  mains  Robert  de  Bruis  dun  hache,  com  fuft 
dit.  Endementiers  qe  le  dit  auaunt  garde  fez  adrefterent  eel  chemyn, 
Robert  seignour  de  Clifford  et  Henry  de  Beaumound,  od  iij.  centz  horns 
de  armis,  enuironerent  le  boys  del  autre  coufte  deuers  le  chaftel,  demur- 
rerent  as  beaux  chaumps.  Thomas  Randolf,  count  de  Murref,  neueu 
Robert  de  Bruys,  qi  duftre  eftoit  del  auaunt  garde  Defcoce,  auoit  oy  qe 
foun  vncle  auoit  rebote  le  auauntgarde  dez  Engles  al  autre  part  du  boys, 
penfa  qil  voufift  auoir  fa  part,  iilift  du  boys  od  fa  batail,  enpriftrent  le 
beau  chaumpe  deuers  lez  dieus  feignours  auant  nomez.  Monfeur  Henry 
de  Beaumound  difoit  as  foens,  "  retreyoms  nous  vn  poy,  leftez  lez  uenir, 
donez  lez  chaumps;"  Thomas  Gray,  cheualer,  ly  difoit,  "sire,  ieo  me 
dout  qe  taunt  lez  dorrez  en  le  hour  pur  quoi  tout  auerount  trop  toft." 
"  Voir,"  fefoit  le  dit  Henry,  "  li  tu  eiez  poour,  fuez."  "  Sire,"  fefoit  lv 
dit  Thomas,  "  pur  poour  ne  fueray  ieo  buy,"  si  fery  cheual  dez  efperouns 
entre  ly  et  Wi  lam  Dayncourt,  cheualer,  affemblerent  en  my  lieu  dez 
enemys;  Willam  fuft  mort,  Thomas  fuft  pris,  foun  cheual  tue  dez  launces, 
ly  meifmes  tyre  od  eaux  a  pee,  qi  fen  alerent  defcounfire  le  auaunt  dit 
route  de  ij.  seignours  outriement.  Lez  vns  dez  queux  fuerent  au  chaftel, 
autres  al  oft  le  roy,  qy  ia  auoint  guerpy  la  voy  du  boys,  eftoint  venuz  en 


142  SCALACRONICA. 

vn  plain  deuers  leau  de  Forth  outre  Bannokburn,  vn  mauueis  parfound 
rufcelle  marras,  ou  le  dit  oft  dez  Engles  detruflerent,  demurrerent  tout 
nuyt,  durement  auoint  pardu  countenaunce,  et  eftoint  de  trop  mal  couyne 
pur  la  iournee  pafle. 

Lez  Efcotez  hu  boys  penferent  qe  affeitz  auoint  ils  bien  fait  quant  a 

la  iourne,  eftoient  tout  en  point  de  auoir  deloge,  et  auoir  dedenz  la  nuyt 

trey  dedenz  lez  Leuenaux,  plus  fort  pays,  quant  Alexander  de  Setoun, 

cheualer,  qi  a  la  foy  Dengleter  eftoit  et  uenuz  illoeqes  ouefque  le  roy, 

fen  departift  priuement  hors  del  oft  Engles,  fen  ala  a  Robert  de  Bruys   fol.  208.  b. 

hu  boys,  qe  ly  difoit,  "  fire,  ore  eft  temps  fi  iamais  mes  empenfez  a  entre- 

menter  a  Efcoce  reconquer,  lez  Engles  ount  perdu  lour  quers  et  fount 

defcounfitz,  ne  attendent  rien  fors  vn  fodein  apert  affaut."     Si  ly  counta 

lour  couyn,  qi  ly  difoit  sure  fa  teft  et  fure  pain  deftre  penduz  et  traynez, 

qe  fil  lez  uoloit  furrecour  le  matin  il  lez  defcounfiroit  legerement  faunz 

perde.    Par  excitement  de  qy  ils  empriftrent  a  combatre,  et  au  matin  au 

folail  leuaunt  ifierent  le  boys  en  trois  bataillis  a  pee,  tindrent  reddement 

lour  chemyn  deuers  loft  dez  Engles,  qi  tout  la  nuyt  auoint  efte  armez, 

lour  cheueaux  freinez,  qi  mounterent  a  cheual  od  graunt  affray,  qi  nef- 

toint  my  acouftomez  pur  defcendre  a  coumbatre  a  pee,  ou  lez  ditz  Efcotez 

auoient  pris  enfaumpler  a  lez  Flemenges,  qi  deuaunt  auoint  a  Courtray 

defcounfift  a  pe  le  poair  de  France.     Lez  auaunt  ditz  Efcotez  uindrent 

de  tot  aleyn  en  fchiltrome,  affenblerent  sur  lez  bataillis  dez  Engles,  qi 

entafiez  eftoint,  qi  rien  remuerent  deuers  eaux  tanque  lours  cheueaux 

eftoient  enbuaillez  dez  launcez  lez  gentz  dereir  dez  Engles,  recoillerent 

hu  foile  de  Bannokburne,  chefcun  cheoit  sur  autre.     Lez  batails  dez 

Engles  defaroutez  par  bouter  dez  pointez  dez  launces  sur  lez  cheueaux 

comencerent  a  fuyre,  ceaux  qeftoint  affignez  au  freyn  le  roy  aperceurent 

le  mefchief,  treierent  le  roy  auaunt  par  le  reyn  hors  du  chaumpe  deuers 

le  chaftel  maugre  qil  enhuft  qi  enuyte  fen  departift.     Qe  com  lez  che- 

ualers  Defcoce  qeftoient  a  pee  penderent  od  lour  mains  fure  la  couertour 

du  deftreir  le  roy  de  ly  auoir  areftu,  il  ferift  dereir  ly  fi  reddement  od  vn 

maflu  qe  y  neftoit  nul  qil  confceuft  qil  ne  ly  abatift  a  terre.    Com  ceaux 

qauoint  fa  reyne  ly  tyrerent  toutdiz  auaunt,  Gilis  de  Argenten,  vn  de 

eaux,  vn  cheualer  renome  qi  nouelement  eftoit  uenux  de  outre  mere  de 


SCALACRONICA.  143 

gueres  lemperour  Henry  de  Luffemburg,  difoit  au  roy,  "  fire,  votre  reyne 
me  fufl  baillez,  ore  eflez  a  fauuete,  veiz  cy  voflre  chaftel  ou  voftre  corps 
purra  eftre  faue.  Jeo  nay  pas  efte  acouftome  a  fuyre,  ne  plus  auaunt  ne 
voil  ieo  faire,  a  Dieux  vous  comaunde."  Si  fery  cheual  dez  efperouns, 
fi  reenala  afembler,  ou  fufl  mort.  Le  deftreir  le  roy  fuft  enbuaille,  qe 
plus  auaunt  ne  poaift,  il  fufl  remounte  sur  vn  courfeir  qi  tout  enuyroun 
le  boys  de  Torre  fuft  amene,  et  par  lez  playnes  de  Lowneffe;  ceaux  qi 
fen  alerent  od  ly  furount  fauuez,  tout  lez  autres  auoient  mefcheif.  Le 
roy  efchapa  a  graunt  payn,  de  illoeqes  fe  trey  deuers  Dunbarre,  ou  le 
count  Patrik  de  la  Marche  ly  refceut  honourablement  et  ly  bailla  foun 
chaftel,  et  voidy  meifmes  la  place  et  touz  lez  foens  pur  ceo  qe  nul  ne  vft 
doute  ne  fufpefibun  qil  feifl  a  foun  seignour  rien  fors  foun  deuoir,  qar  il 
eftoit  al  hour  foun  homager.  De  illoeqes  fen  departy  le  roy  par  mere  a 
Berewyk,  et  pins  deuers  le  sew. 

Edward  de  Bruys,  freir  au  Robert  le  roy  Defcoce,  defiraunt  a  eftre 
roy,  paffa  en  Ireland  od  graunt  poair  hors  Defcoce  en  efpoir  de  le  auoir 
conquys,  qi  demoura  illoeqes  ij.  aunz  et  demy,  qi  fifl  illoeqes  meruailles 
darmys  par  grauntz  mefchiefs  et  de  vitailis  et  dez  autres  auenementz,  et 
grauntz  pays  conquift,  qe  serroit  vne  graunt  romaunce  a  rementyner  tout. 
II  fe  clama  roy  de  roys  de  Ireland,  il  fufl  defcounflfl  et  mort  a  Dundalg 
par  lez  Engles  du  pays,  qy  pur  surquidery  ne  voroit  attendre  foun  poair, 
qe  procheynement  eftoint  arryuez  et  pres  de  ly  a  vi.  lieus. 

En  meifme  le  temps  le  roy  Dengleter  enuoya  le  count  de  Aroundel 
cheuetayn  sur  la  marche  Defcoce,  qi  fufl  rebukez  a  Lintelly,  en  la  foreft 
de  Jedeworth,  par  James  de  Douglas,  et  mort  Thomas  de  Richemound; 
ly  dit  count  fe  retrey  deuers  le  sew  faunz  plus  faire.  Le  dit  James  def- 
counfifl  autre  foitz  la  garrifoun  de  Berewike  a  Scaithmor,  ou  furrount 
mors  toutes  playnes  de  Gafcoins.  II  auoit  vn  autre  foitz  par  couyne  dez 
faus  traitres  des  marchies  vn  defcounfiture  a  Be[re]wyk  sure  lez  marchies, 
ou  fufl  mort  Robert  de  Neuylle,  qy  Robert  auoit  tue  procheignement 
deuaunt  Richard  le  fitz  Marmaduk,  qe  cofyn  efloit  Robert  de  Bruys,  sure 
le  veutz  pount  de  Dorefme  pur  coroucefours  entre  eaux  par  enuy  qi  en- 
feroit  le  plus  graunt  meiftre;  pur  quoi  pur  gree  conquer  du  roy  a  fa  peife 
auoir  de  cell  forfait,  comenfa  il  de  trauailler  en  la  guerre  le  roy  ou  mo- 


144  SCALACRONICA. 

ruft.  Meifme  la  fefoun  le  dit  James  de  Douglas,  par  eide  du  cont  Pa- 
trik  de  la  Marche,  embla  Berewyk  hors  dez  mayns  dez  Engles,  par 
couyne  de  trefoun  de  vn  de  la  vile,  Perys  de  Spalding;  le  ehaltel  fe  te- 
noit  xi.  semains  apres,  et  adonqes  fe  rendy  a  lez  Efcotez  pur  defaut  dez 
refcous,  com  neftoit  pas  vitaille.  Roger  de  Horfley,  le  chaftelein,  perdy 
illoeqs  le  vn  oyl  dun  sete. 

Eymer  de  Valoins,  count  de  Penbrok,  enchemynaunt  deuers  la  court 
de  Rome  fuft  pris  par  Johan  de  la  Moiller,  vne  Burghoun,  et  amenez  en 
lempire  et  raunfone  pur  xx.  mille  lyuers  dargent,  pur  ceo  qe  le  dit.  Johan 
difoit  qe  il  auoit  feruy  le  roy  Dengleterre,  et  qe  le  roy  ly  deuoit  fez 
gages. 

Y  cefty  James  de  Douglas  auoit  tres  graunt  couyne  en  Northumbre-  foi.  209.  b. 
land.  Robert  de  Bruys  fid  abatre  toutez  lez  chafteaux  Defcoce,  hors 
pris  Dunbretaigne.  Cefly  Robert  de  Bruys  fid  prendre  Willam  de  Sowles, 
et  ly  fill  murrer  en  le  chaftel  de  Dunbretaigne  a  fa  penaunz  en  prifoun, 
sure  mettaunt  a  ly  qil  auoit  enbrace  couyne  od  autres  grauntz  Defcoce  a 
ly  defair,  a  qi  ils  eftoint  attournez  foutzgiz  quoi  le  dit  Willam  reioy  pur 
quel  reconifauns.  Dauid  de  Breghen,  Johan  Logy,  Gilbert  Malherb, 
furount  penduz  et  treinez  a  la  vile  de  feint  Johan,  et  le  corps  Roger  de 
Moubray  foriugez,  qaporte  eftoit  mort  sure  vn  lettre  ad  parlement  de 
Scone  deuaunt  lez  iuges.  Quel  couyne  full  defcouert  par  Muryogh  de 
Menteth,  qy  puis  illoeqes  fuft  count,  qi  longement  auoit  demore  en 
Engleterre  a  la  foy  le  roy,  qi  pur  defcouerer  eel  couyne  fen  ala  a  loftel 
et  deueint  count  de  Menteth  par  reles  fa  nece,  feile  de  foun  freir  eyne, 
la  quel  autre  foitz  apres  sa  mort  eftoit  countays. 

Le  roy  Dengleterre  ne  fe  entremift  gens  plus  rien  deuers  Efcoce  tanque 
il  auoit  perdu  per  perefce  tanque  foun  pier  auoit  conquys,  et  auxi  tot 
plain  dez  fortereffes  dedens  fez  marchis  Dengleterre,  et  auxi  tout  plain 
de  Northumberland  leuez  encountre  ly  Gilbert  de  Middiltoun,  qy  en  le 
euefche  de  Dorefme  robba  ij.  cardinalis  qi  vindrent  pur  facreir  leuefque, 
et  prill  leueque  de  Dorefme  Lowys  de  Beaumound,  et  foun  freir  Henry 
de  Beaumound,  par  caus  qe  le  roy  auoit  fait  arefter  Adam  de  Swynburne, 
a  qy  il  eftoit  cofyn,  qi  ly  auoit  parle  trop  rudement  de  leftat  dez  marchies. 
Y  celli  Gilbert,  par  enherdaunce  dez  autres  dez  marchies,  cheuaucheoit 


SCALACRONICA.  145 

de  guere  en  Cleueland  et  fifl  autres  grantz  deflrucciouns,  qauoit  apoi 
tout  Northumbreland  a  fa  couyne  hors  pris  lez  chafteaux  de  Baumburgh, 
Alnewyk,  et  Norham,  ou  lez  ij.  primers  nomez  furrount  en  tretice  oue 
les  enemys,  lun  par  oflages  lautre  par  affinite,  qant  le  dit  Gilbert  full 
pris  en  le  chaflelle  de  Mitteford  par  couyne  de  fez  genz  propres  par 
Willara  de  Feltoun,  Thomas  de  Hetoun,  et  Robert  de  Hornclif,  et  pen- 
duz  et  trenez  a  Loundres.  Od  tout  ceo  cy  lez  Efcocez  furount  deuenuz 
fi  prus  qils  foutzmiflrent  lez  marchez  Dengleter,  et  abaterount  lez  chal- 
telis  de  Werk  et  Herbotle,  qe  a  pain  ne  ofat  nul  Engles  lez  attendre,  qe 
tout  Northumbreland  auoint  ils  fouzmys  par  mauueys  couin  dez  faus 
gentz  du  pays;  qe  geris  trouerount  ils  a  faire  nul  part  en  ceaux  marches 
fors  a  Norham,  ou  vn  cheualer,  Thomas  de  Gray,  oue  fez  charneaux 
amys  furount  en  garnifoun,  qe  trop  prolinqefl  matier  ferroit  a  rementiner 
fol.  210.  leZ  punyes  et  lez  faitz  de  armys  et  lez  mefchefes  de  defaut  dez  vitailis  et 
dez  affegis  qe  ly  auindrent  lez  xi.  aims  qil  demura  en  tiel  mauueife 
mefoeuerous  temps  as  Engles.  Et  ia  le  meinz  afcuns  de  fez  iournes  en 
le  dit  chaflel  enuoit  lefloir  deuifer.  Voir  fufi  qe  apres  qe  la  vile  de 
Berewike  full  traye  hors  dez  maynes  dez  Engles,  lez  Efcocez  efloint 
tant  a  defus  et  fi  furqiderous  qe  apain  rien  ne  acounterent  lez  Engles, 
lez  queux  ne  fez  entremiftrent  de  la  quer  mais  le  lefferent  perire.  En 
quele  hour  a  vn  graunt  fed  dez  feignurs  et  dames  en  le  counte  de  Nichol, 
vn  damoifel  faye  aportoit  vn  healme  de  guere  od  vn  tymbre  de  vn  eel 
endorez  a  Willam  Marmyoun,  cheualer,  od  vn  lettre  de  comaundement 
de  fa  dame  qil  alail  en  la  plus  perillous  place  de  la  graunt  Bretaigne  et 
qil  feifl  eel  healme  eftre  conuz.  II  y  eltoit  awardez  illoeqes  dez  chiualers 
qil  alafl  a  Norham  pur  le  plus  perillous  auenturous  lieu  du  pais.  Le  dit 
Willam  sen  ala  a  Norham,  ou  dedenz  le  quart  iour  de  sa  venu  monfire 
Alexandre  de  Moubray,  freir  monsire  Phelip  de  Moubrai,  adonqes  gar- 
dein  de  Berewik,  veint  deuaunt  le  chaflelle  de  Norham  od  le  plus  apert 
cheualery  de  la  marche  Defcoce,  od  plus  de  viij.™  horns  darmis  arreflerent 
deuaunt  le  chaflelle  a  hour  de  noune.  Huyne  comenfa  hu  chaflel  com 
feount  a  manger.  Thomas  de  Gray,  le  chaflelain,  fen  ala  od  fa  garny- 
foun  deuaunt  fez  barreirs,  vifl  lez  enemys  arefluz  pres  en  batail,  regarda 
deuir  ly,  vifl  uenir  a  pee  le  dit  cheualere  Willam  Marmioun  tout  relu- 

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146  SCALACRONICA. 

faunt  dor  et  dargent,  fi  aparaille  qe  ameruail,  le  healme  a  tell.  Le  dit 
Thomas  auoit  bien  entendu  la  maner  de  fa  venu,  fi  ly  dift  en  haute,  "  fire 
cheualer,  vous  y  eltez  venuz  cheualer  erraunt  pur  faire  eel  healme  eftre 
conuz,  et  fi  eft  meutz  feaunt  chos  qe  cheualery  en  foit  fait  a  cheual  qe 
a  pee,  ou  couenablement  ceo  purra  faire,  mountez  uoftre  cheual,  veez  la 
voz  enemys,  si  ferrez  cheual  dez  efperouns,  va  affemblere  en  my  lieu  dez 
eaux,  si  renay  ieo  Dieux  fi  ieo  ne  refcouroi  toun  corps  viue  ou  mort,  ou 
ieo  murreray."  Le  cheualer  mounta  vn  bel  deftreir,  fery  cheual  dez 
efperouns,  affembla  en  my  lieu  dez  enemys  qi  ly  frapperent,  ly  naufrerent 
hu  vifage,  ly  tirerent  a  terre  hors  de  la  seil.  En  quel  point  le  dit  Thomas 
veint  od  tout  fa  garnifoun,  lour  launcez  enbeffez,  ferrerent  lez  cheueaux 
hu  buaillis  qen  getterent  lour  meyftres,  recoillerent  lez  enemys  mountez, 
fufteuerent  le  cheualer  abatuz,  ly  remounterent  meisme  foun  cheual,  en- 
chacerent  lez  enemys,  a  quel  primer  auenuz  furount  leffetz  mortz,  pris  1. 
cheualx  de  pris.  Lez  femmes  du  chaftelle  enamenerent  lez  cheueaux  a 
lours  horns,  qi  mounterent,  firent  la  chace,  abaterent  ceaux  qils  purroint 
ateindre.  Thomas  de  Gray  fill  tuer  en  le  Yarforde,  Cryn,  vn  Flemyng,  fol.  210.  b. 
vn  amyrail  de  la  mere,  vn  robbour,  qi  grant  meiftre  eftoit  od  Robert  de 
Bruys,  lez  autres  efchapez  furount  enchacez  as  noneyns  de  Berewik. 

Autre  foitz  Adam  de  Gordoun,  vn  baroun  Defcoce,  fe  auoit  affemble 
plus  de  viij.""  horns  darmis,  veint  deuaunt  le  dit  chaftelle  de  Norham  en 
penfe  dauoire  foutzpris  lez  beftes  qe  pafturerent  hors  du  dit  chaftel. 
Joefnes  gentz  de  la  garnifoun  courerent  teftoufement  au  plus  loinz  boute 
de  la  vile,  qe  al  hour  full  gaft  decheu,  qi  comencerent  le  efkirmouche. 
Lez  enemys  Defcoce  lez  enuironerent.  Lez  ditz  gentz  del  ifiu  fez  tin- 
drent  dedenz  veutz  mures,  fez  defenderent  apertement.  Au  quel  poynt 
Thomas  de  Gray,  le  dit  chaftelain,  od  fa  garnifoun,  iffift  du  chaftel, 
aperceuft  lez  foens  en  tiel  daunger  dez  enemys,  se  difoit  a  foun  foutz 
coneftable,  "  jeo  te  bail  ceil  chaftelle,  qoy  qe  aueigne  a  moy  le  gardez 
al  ops  le  roy,  qe  verraiemen  ieo  beueray  de  meifme  le  hanope  qe  mes 
gentz  illoeqes  beyuent."  Si  fen  alaft  dez  grantz  alurers,  qi  dez  comunes 
et  autres  il  ne  auoit  my  plus  de  lx.  en  toutis  gentz,  lez  enemys  ly  apar- 
ceurent  venaunt  en  le  maner,  gerperent  lez  efkirmoucheours  en  lez  veutz 
mures,  fez  treierent  as  beaux  chaumps.     Lez  gentz  qe  enuyronez  eftoint 


SCALACRONICA.  147 

hu  fofiez  virent  lour  cheuetain  venir  a  la  gife,  launcerent  outre  lez  foffez, 
currerent  as  chaumps  sur  lez  ditz  enemys  qe  de  force  lour  couenoit  re- 
tourner,  fi  fererent  cheueaux  dez  efperouns  areir  sur  eaux.  Od  quoy 
enueint  le  dit  Thomas  od  lez  foens  ou  veifiez  lez  cheueaux  treboucher, 
lez  gentz  a  pee  tuerent  lez  cheueaux  com  gefoint  a  terre,  relierent  sur  le 
dit  Thomas,  currerent  sur  lez  enemys,  lez  enchacerent  hors  dez  chaumpes 
outre  leau  de  Twede,  priflrent  et  tuerent  plufours,  plufours  cheueaux 
giferent  mortz,  qe  fds  vflent  hu  cheueaux  apain  ny  vft  efchape  nul.  Le 
dit  Thomas  de  Gray  eftoit  ij.  foitz  allege  hu  dit  chattel;  vn  foitz  apoy 
vn  ane,  lautre  foitz  vij.  moys.  Lez  enemys  affermerent  forterefces  de- 
uaunt  ly,  vn  a  Vpfedelingtoun,  vn  autre  a  leglis  de  Norham.  II  fu  vi- 
taille  dieus  foitz  par  les  feignours  de  Percy  et  de  Neuil  en  grant  refcous 
du  dit  chattel;  queux  deuindrent  sagis,  noblis  et  richis,  qi  graunt  eide 
firent  as  marches.  Le  auaunt  bail  du  dit  chaftelle  fuft  vn  foitz  tray  la 
veille  de  la  Katerine  en  foun  temps  dun  dez  foens,  qi  tua  le  poreus,  lefla 
ens  lez  enemys  embufTez  deuaunt  la  port  en  vn  mefoun,  le  deuzifme 
garde  od  la  dounioun  fe  teint.  Lez  enemys  ny  ettoint  fors  trois  iours, 
fol.  211.  le  guerperent  et  le  arderent  apres  ceo  qils  anoint  failly  du  myner,  com 
ils  fez  douterent  de  la  sureuenu  le  dit  Thomas,  qi  adonqes  reueint  du 
sue  ou  auoit  en  le  hour  efte.  Maintz  beaux  faitz  darmyg  auindrent  au  dit 
Thomas  qen  ceftes  ne  fount  pas  recorde.  Entour  quel  hour  Goflelyn 
Daiuel  fift  enforcer  le  maner  de  Allertoun,  le  tenoit  com  de  gerre,  y  ly 
out  tiel  ryot  par  caufe  qe  lez  barouns  ne  obeyerent  pas  a  droit  le  roy, 
qe  chefcun  fefoit  qe  ly  pluft.  En  quel  houre  Johan  le  Irroys  rauift  la 
dame  de  Clifforde;  lez  maufefurs  ettoint  appellez  schaualdours.  Lez 
barouns  vindrent  en  eel  hour  a  vn  parlement  a  Loundres,  lour  gentz 
veftuz  de  sute  ou  cotis  efquartelez,  ou  comenfa  le  mortiel  heyne  entre 
eaux  et  le  roy.  En  quel  temps  apparuft  leftoil  comete,  et  auxi  eftoit 
vn  char  ane  dez  blez  et  tiel  defaut  de  viaunde  qe  la  mere  mangea  le 
fitz,  et  par  qoy  lez  poueres  murrerount  touz  apoy.  Le  roy  auauntdit 
demurraunt  deuers  le  sew,  ou  il  fe  delita  tout  en  niefes  od  marineres  et 
trop  en  autres  defordenez  labours,  viles  a  foun  eftat,  qi  geris  ne  fentremift 
dautre  honour  ou  profite,  par  qoi  il  perdy  bienuoillaunce  de  fez  gentz. 
En  meifme  eel  temps  veint  vn  hom  difaunt  foy  eftre  de  droit  roy  com 


148  SCALACRONICA. 

cely  qi  fuft  ofte  du  berce,  et  cefti  Edward  adonqes  roy  remys.  I  cely 
full  pendu  a  Northamton,  reioyaunt  qe  le  deable  en  femblaunce  dun 
chate  li  auoit  fait  ceo  dire.  Qy  roy  fuft  acorde  par  mediacioun  dez 
granz  du  realme  oue  Thomas  count  de  Lancaftre,  par  debate  du  mort 
Peris  de  Gauerftoun,  qe  bon  pece  auoit  dure  entre  eaux,  et  apres  toft 
renouely.  Cefti  roy  Edward  eftoit  vn  foitz  deuaunt  Berewik  od  tout 
foun  poair  real,  et  auoit  affife  la  vile,  qe  procheignement  deuaunt  eftoit 
perdu  de  ly  par  treifoun  de  Peris  de  Spalding,  com  il  la  auoit  baily  en 
rnaynz  dez  burges  de  la  vile  pur  efparnier  lez  grantz  frefes  a  qil  auoit 
deuaunt  mys.  Meifme  le  hour  lez  Efcocez  entrerent  par  Cardoille  et 
cheuaucheront  parfounde  en  Engleter,  ou  a  Mitoun  comuns  dez  burges 
et  de  gentez  de  feint  eglis  fez  relierent,  qeftoient  illoeqes  defcounfitz 
com  gentz  mefconifauntz  de  guere  hors  de  array  encountre  gentz  darmis 
encharniez.  Pur  quel  caufe  le  roy  fe  delogea  de  foun  affege  en  purpos 
dauoir  hu  afere  oue  fez  enemys  dedenz  foun  realme,  lez  queux  tindrent 
lez  gaffes  pays  deuer  Efcoce  del  hour  qils  fauoint  lafiege  roumpu,  la  caus 
de  lour  veage.  Le  roy  leffa  fez  marchies  en  grant  tribulacioun  faunz 
refcous  et  fe  retrey  deuers  le  sewe,  ou  de  rrouel  lez  grantz  de  foun  realme 
rebellerent  encontre  ly,  le  dit  count  Thomas  de  Langcaftre  et  autres,  qi 
affiftrent  fez  chafteaux  de  Tykhille.  Le  chattel  de  Knarefburgh  fuft  fid. ail.  b. 
foutzpris  par  Johan  de  Lilleburn,  qi  puis  se  rendy  sure  condicioun  au 
roy.  La  royne  affift  le  chattel  de  Ledys,  a  qei  il  eftoit  renduz,  qe  lez 
barons  ne  le  voroint  refcoure  pur  reuerence  de  la  royne  Ifabel.  Lez 
ditz  barouns  uindrent  en  oft,  baneris  defploiez,  encountre  le  roy  au  pount 
de  Burtoun  sur  Trent,  ou  ils  furount  defcounfitz,  qy  fes  treierent  deuers 
Efcoce,  com  fuft  dit,  pur  auoir  hu  refcouf  et  fuppuail,  ou  au  pounte  de 
Bur<dibrig  Andreu  de  Herkeley  et  autres  cheualeris  et  efquyers  du  north, 
qeftoient  deuers  le  roy,  aparceurent  qe  lez  barouns  vindrent  a  la  maner, 
fi  priftrent  lun  boute  del  auaunt  dit  pount,  lour  chemyn,  par  ou  lour 
conuenoit  patter;  ou  lez  countis  et  barons  furount  defcounfitz,  mortz,  et 
prifis,  le  count  de  Herford  tuez,  le  count  de  Lancaftre  pris  et  lez  plufours 
des  barouns,  et  amenez  au  roy;  ou  a  Euerwyk  furount  penduz  lez  fires 
de  Moubray  et  de  Clifforde  en  cotis  efquartelez,  com  lour  gentz  eftoint 
veftuz  a  Loundres.     Le  count  Thomas  de  Lancaftre  eftoit  decollez  a 


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Pountfret  en  vengeaunce  de  Peris  de  Gauirftoun  et  dez  autres  vilenies 
qil  auoit  fouent  et  couftumablement  fait  au  roy,  et  en  meifme  la  place 
ou  il  auoit  vn  foiz  hue  et  fait  huer  sure  le  roy  com  il  cheminot  deuers 
Euerwik.  Andrew  de  Herkeley  fu  fait  count  de  Cardoil,  qi  geris  ne 
dura,  qi  par  orgoil  voroit  auoir  chace  le  roy  dauoir  hu  peifee  oue  lez 
Efcocez  en  autre  maner  qil  nefloit  charge,  com  difoit  le  counfail  le  roy. 
Quel  Andrew  full  tray  dez  plus  grantz  de  foun  counfail  a  Cardoil,  et 
illoeqes  treynez  et  penduz.  Andrew  de  Herkeley  fe  auoit  maintz  foitz 
bien  porte  sur  lez  Efcocez,  alafoitz  a  bon  chef  et  afcun  foitz  a  mefchief 
en  maintz  beaux  faites  darmes,  ou  fuft  pris  de  eaux  et  durement  raun- 
fonez.  Le  roy  apres  la  mort  le  count  de  Lancaftre  fe  dreffa  od  trefgrant 
oft  deuers  Efcoce,  ou  il  auoit  de  chefcun  vile  Dengleter  vn  horn  arme  a 
pee  hors  pris  fez  cheualeris  et  efqiers.  Quelis  comunes  combaterent  au 
Noefchaftelle  od  les  comunes  de  la  vile,  ou  tuerent  Johan  de  Penreth, 
cheualer,  et  autres  efquiers,  qi  seruauntz  eftoient  au  coneftable  et  au 
marefchalle,  sure  le  pount  do  fa  dit  vile,  qi  voroint  auoir  attache  lez  mef- 
fefours  pur  auoir  eftaunche  la  riot,  tant  eftoint  lez  comunes  en  lour  aler 
orgoillous.  Le  dit  roi  fe  trey  deuers  Edynburgh,  ou  a  Lethe  y  auoit  taunt 
de  malady  et  de  famyne  entre  lez  comunes  en  eel  grant  oft  qe  de  force 
lour  couenoit  retourner  pur  mefchief  de  vitail,  qe  del  hour  qe  lez  hoblours 
le  roy  furount  defcoumfitz  a  Melros  en  foraier  par  James  de  Douglas  nuls 
ne  bogaft  hors  del  oft  pur  quere  vitail  de  fure;  taunt  eftoint  lez  Engles 
rebukes  et  mefchamys  de  guerre  qe  deuaunt  lour  venu  al  Noefchaftel 
eftoit  vn  tiel  morin  en  loft  pur  defaut  de  vitail  qe  de  neceffite  lour  coue- 
noit departir.  Le  roy  fe  retrey  od  lez  grantz  de  foun  realme  deuers 
Euerwyk,  qant  Robert  de  Brus  auoit  fait  affembler  tout  le  poair  Defcoce, 
dez  iles,  et  dez  autres  pays  hautz,  qi  touz  iours  purfuy  le  roy  qeftoit 
aparfu  de  fa  venu,  si  fe  trey  en  Blakhowmore  oue  le  poair  qil  pooit  fo- 
deignement  affembler,  qi  priftrent  vn  forterefce  dun  mountaigne  pres  de 
Bilaund,  ou  lez  gentz  le  roy  furount  defcounfitz  et  pris  le  count  de 
Richemond  et  le  fire  de  Sully,  vn  baroun  de  France,  et  tout  plain  dez 
autres  qe  apain  efchapa  le  roy  de  Ryuauls  ou  il  eftoit  meifmes,  penfaunt 
qe  nuls  gentz  vflent  pris  le  pafe  sure  lez  foens.  Mais  lez  Efcocez  fi  en- 
charnys  et  si  enparuauntz  lez  chefetains  et  lez  Engles  fi  rebukez,  qe  y 


150  SCALACRONICA. 

ny  auoit  entre  eaux  mais  com  du  leuer  deuaunt  leuereres.     Lez  Efcoces 

cheuaucherount  outre  le  Walde  et  deuaunt  Euerwyk,  et  firent  damage  a 

lour  plefer  faunz  countre  eftre  de  nully,  tanque  bel  lour  full  de  retourner. 

Dc  eel  hour  en  auaunt  prill  le  roy  trewys  oue  lez  Efcoces  pur  xiij.  aunz, 

qi  fe  tenoit  tout  coy  en  pefe  qi  rien  ne  fe  entremift  de  honour  ne  pruefce 

mais  foulement  par  counfail  Hugh  le  Defpenfer  a  deuener  riche,  qi  re- 

teint  deuers  ly  qanqe  il  pooit  happer  dez  terres  dez  auaunt  ditz  barouns 

forfaites.     Lez  comunes  de  foun  realme  furont  en  foun  temps  riches  et 

maintenuz  en  reudes  loys,  mes  lez  grantz  ly  auoint  countre  quer  pur 

crualte  et  defordene  vie  qil  menoit,  et  par  caufe  du  dit  Hugh,  qi  al  hour 

il  amoit  et  creoit  tout.     Et  ia  le  mainz  le  dit  Hugh  fuft  mys  par  lour 

counfail  a  vn  parlement  Deuerwik  entour  le  roy,  encountre  uolounte  la 

roi  adonqes  et  autres  de  fez  priuez  qil  amoit,  remuez  par  eaux,  qi  puis 

par  lour  counfail  ly  firent  baneir  du  realme,  ou  en  foun  exile  il  robba  fure 

mare  dieus  carrices  plains  dauoir  de  pois  qoy  coufta  le  realme  Dengleter 

grantement  apres.     Le  roy  le  fift  recounfiller  procheignement  faunz  gre 

de  eaux,  apres  qi  il  fift  tout  qi  tout  ly  defcounfailloit  a  cheualery,  delitaunt 

foy  en  auarice  et  en  delitz  du  corps,  defheritaunt  fez  gentz  qe  auoint  re- 

bellez  encountre  ly,  et  a  deuenir  meifmes  riche  dez  grantz  poffeffiouns  de 

terres.     Et  en  le  meifme  temps  furdift  guerre  en  Gafcoyne  du  roy  de 

France,  entour  quoy  le  roy  Dengleter  defpendy  grant  trefor  com  pur  terre 

et  nacioun  qil  plus  amoit.     Si  enuoya  foun  freir  le  count  de  Kent  et  foi.2i2.b. 

autres  grauntz,  qi  geris  ne  efploiterent  mais  perderent  grant  terre,  com 

en  temps  mefoeurous  as  Engles,  qe  tout  le  temps  auoit  dure  de  ceft  roy. 

Le  roy  dona  la  duche  de  Gyane  a  foun  fitz  eyne,  count  de  Ceftre,  mais 

lez  barouns  de  la  duche  ne  voroint  atourner  a  ly,  ne  a  nully  viuaunt,  fors 

a  la  coroune  Dengleter.     II  enuoya  foun  ditz  fitz  a  Parys,  oue  fa  mere 

la  royne  Ifabel,  la  sore  le  roy  de  France,  pur  faire  foun  homage  a  foun 

vncle  et  pur  eftauncher  la  guer  de  Gafcoigne.     Qe  qant  ils  uindrent  en 

France  la  mere  et  le  fitz,  ils  ne  voroint  repairer  en  Engleter,  mais  en- 

bracerent  autre  couyne  encountre  lour  seignour,  marry  et  pier,  qi  par  en- 

herdaunz  dez  gentz  banyes  hors  Dengleter,  le  seignour  de  Mortymer  et 

autres,  et  par  afcent  du  count  de  Kent,  le  freir  le  roy,  qi  repairaft  de 

Gafcoyne  a  Parys  pur  ceft  couyne,  qi  leffa  Ia  gerre  foun  freir,  et  par 


SCALACRONICA.  151 

tretice  de  alyaunce  entre  le  count  de  Henaunde  et  la  royne,  du  mariage 
foun  fitz  et  de  Phelip,  feile  du  dit  count,  qi  puis  fa  prift.  La  dit  royne 
od  fes  enherdauntz  fa  trey  en  Seland;  qe  fi  ele  vft  demurre  viij.  iours  en 
le  realme  de  France  plus  longment  qel  ne  fift,  ele  vft  efte  reenuoye  od 
toz  lez  autres  enbraceours  de  eel  couyne  au  roy  Dengleter,  tant  auoit 
Hugh  de  Defpenfer  enbrace  le  counfail  de  France  par  foun  auoir,  qe  par 
colour  qe  el  eftoit  venuz  en  meffage  fon  seignour  au  gre  le  roy  de  France 
et  sure  foun  conduyt,  et  la  dit  bufoigne  guerpy,  la  caufe  de  fa  venu,  et 
autres  riotis  enbracez  dedenz  le  dit  conduyt,  le  roy  foun  freir  la  vft 
reenuoye  a  foun  marry,  de  quoi  el  full  garny  pur  quoy  fa  trey  en  le 
seignourye  le  count  de  Henawd,  qi  count  enuoya  foun  freir  Johan  de 
Henaude  ou  tout  plain  des  gentz  darmes  od  eaux,  qe  arryuerent  a  Her- 
welle  au  furre  de  guere  faunz  damage  refceyuoir  du  grant  nauy  le  roi 
ordeyne  encountre  eaux  preft  arayez  a  Yarmouth.  lis  gaignerent  Engle- 
ter  faunz  coup  fereir,  qe  touz  lez  feignours  et  comunes  leuerent  od  eaux 
encountre  le  roy,  qi  lors  a  lour  arryuail  eftoit  a  Loundres,  qi  fe  trey 
deuers  Galis  ou  Hugh  le  Defpenfer  quidoit  refcouce  et  fuppuaile,  qe 
touz  ly  faillerent.  A  Schipftow  le  roy  gerpy  fa  meine  et  fe  mift  fo- 
deignement  en  leaw  de  Wye,  qi  par  mere  fe  uoroit  auoir  departy  oue 
Hugh  le  Defpenfer  en  eftrange  tere,  pur  ceo  qe  lez  foens  ly  guerperent, 
mais  vent  et  marray  ly  eftoint  fi  contrair  qe  xv.  iours  entiers  il  ne  pooit 
bouger  hors  de  Seuerne  pur  tempeft.  En  le  mene  temps  veint  la  royne 
et  foun  fitz  et  Roger  de  Mortimer,  adonqes  gouernour  de  eel  counfail, 
quel  Roger  eftoit  adeuaunt  del  acorde  le  count  Thomas  de  Lancaftre  et 
dez  barouns  mais  il  lour  gerpy,  qi  fe  mift  en  la  grace  le  roy,  le  primer 
mefcounfort  de  lour  mefchief.  II  full  nays  par  counfail  Hugh  le  Defpen- 
fer en  la  tour  de  Londres,  tanque  grant  pece  apres  il  efchapa  de  prifoun, 
qi  fe  trey  en  France,  vn  dez  plus  graunt  embraceour  de  ceft  veage.  lis 
vindrent  od  lez  eftrangers  et  od  touz  lez  grantz  seignours  Dengleter  a 
Briftow,  ou  fuft  pris  Hugh  de  Defpenfer  le  pier,  count  de  Wynceftre,  et 
treinez  et  penduz  illoeqes.  Donal,  count  de  Marre,  eftoit  en  le  hour  od 
le  roy  Dengleter  et  nurry  oue  ly,  qi  auoit  la  garde  du  chaftel  de  Briftow 
du  bailie  le  roy,  qi  le  rendy  a  la  royne,  fe  trey  en  foun  pays  en  Efcoce. 
Tretouz  le  mene  le  roy  vindrent  de  Scheppiftow  a  Briftow  a  la  royne  et 


152  SCALACRONICA. 

a  foun  fitz,  tenaunt  loftel  le  roy.  Gentz  darmis  del  acorde  la  royne  fez 
adrefferent  par  nief,  la  temped  failly  a  courer  sure  le  roy,  qi  vncor  ieuft 
en  nief  deuaunt  eaux  en  Seuerne.  Le  roy  aparceyuant  toutes  ceftes 
aduerfetez  qe  ly  suruindrent,  fe  mift  a  terre  en  Glaumorgane,  ou  il  fift 
couenaund  oue  vn  galay  du  pays,  en  qy  Hugh  le  Defpenfer  fi  affioit,  pur 
grant  garnifoun  a  mufl'er  le  dit  Hugh,  qi  ne  eftoit  pas  trop  cheualerous, 
depufque  ils  anoint  failly  ij.  foitz  ou  trois  le  paffage  de  la  mere.  Ly  quel 
galays  rendy  faufement  le  dit  Hugh  a  la  royne,  qi  a  Glouceftre  fuft  pen- 
duz  et  treynez.  Le  count  de  Arundelle  full  decolle  en  la  marche  de 
Galis  en  cell  temps,  qeftoit  du  counfail  le  roy.  Le  roy,  qi  rien  fe  douta 
de  foun  corps,  enuoia  a  la  royne  fa  femme  qil  fe  voroit  amendre  de  ceo 
qil  fe  auoit  mefporte  deuers  ly  et  deuers  touz  lez  foens  par  bon  ordi- 
naunce,  et  qil  ferroit  troue  en  vn  certeyn  lieu,  penfaunt  qe  ele  vendroit  a 
ly  com  efpoufe  duft  a  foun  marry.  Mais  ly  aloift  qere  le  count  Henry 
de  Lancaftre,  qi  ly  amena  a  Kenylworth,  a  dire,  com  prifoner.  La  royne 
fift  fomoundre  vn  parlement  a  Loundres,  ou  par  affent  dez  prelates, 
countis,  barouns,  et  comunes  et  cytezeins  de  Loundres,  queux  Loundrais 
a  le  arryuail  la  royne  en  my  lieu  de  Chepe  decollerent  le  treforeir  le  roy, 
leuefque  de  Exceftre.  Le  roy  fuft  depofe  par  lour  comune  affent,  et  fi 
renderent  fus  lour  homagis  par  efcript  defoutz  lours  sealles  par  leuefque 
de  Hertforth,  qi  fill  eel  meffage  a  Kenylworth  au  roy  depofe,  qi  ly  nouncia 
defpitoufement  lez  articles  qe  lez  comunes  fez  foutzgis  ly  surmiftrent 
caufe  de  fa  depoficioun,  com  cely  qi  ly  heoit  de  quere  pur  finguler  du-  f0l.  2i3.b. 
refce  qe  le  roy  ly  auoit  fait.  II  prill  tout  ceft  affaire  en  pacience,  qi 
dona  a  foun  fitz  la  beneifoun  de  Dieu  et  la  foen,  qi  prioit  a  Dieu  qe  il 
ly  feift  prodhom  et  lui  donaft  meilliour  grace  et  gree  du  poeple  qil  na- 
uoit  hu.  II  fuft  remue  de  Kennilworth  a  Bercelay  ou  il  moruft,  la  maner 
coment  ne  fuft  pas  fcieu,  mais  Dieux  le  fceit.  II  fuft  enterre  a  Glou- 
ceftre, et  regna  xix.  aunz.  II  full  fagis,  douce,  et  amyable  en  parole ; 
mais  mefoeurous  en  fait.  II  eftoit  artilious  en  quoi  il  fe  delita  de  fa  main 
propre.  II  fuft  compaignable  trop  as  fez  priues,  as  eftrangis  foleyn,  et 
trop  amaft  vn  foul  perfoun  fingulerement.  Soun  fitz  fuft  coronez  a  ceft 
auauntdit  parlement,  viuaunt  foun  pier,  par  comune  afcent,  qi  prift  lez 
homages  dez  grantz  et  les  obeifauns  de  toutz  lez  comunes,  qi  ioyous 


SCALACRONICA.  153 

eftoint  de  nouelle  gouernail,  pur  le  mefoeure  du  pier,  et  pur  lour  chaunge- 
able  coftome,  com  par  condicioun  de  vn  coillet  de  diuers  naciouns.  Pur 
ceo  uoloint  afcuns  genz  dire  qe  la  diuerfete  dez  corages  dez  Engles  eft 
la  caus  qe  moue  lez  chaungementz  du  iiecle  entre  eaux  qe  plus  eft 
muable  en  la  Grant  Bretaigne  qen  autres  pays,  qar  en  temps  de  chefcun 
roy  pins  Vortiger  ount  aliens  efte  grantement  auauncez  illoeqes  de  toutz 
naciouns,  qe  diuers  ount  condiciouns,  par  quoy  lour  eftuyt  defa  corder  en 
voloir  chefcun  enuoroit  eftre  fires,  pur  ceo  qe  lez  seignurages  illoeqes 
ne  fuount  pas  nature  mes  fortune.  Pur  ceo  defirent  ils  le  mouement,  qe 
chefcun  quide  le  fort  le  foen,  tout  foit  ceo  dit  qe  eau  curaunt  eft  la  plus 
fort  chos  qe  foit,  vncor  eft  ele  fuefe,  mole  de  nature,  mais  pur  ceo  qe  touz 
lez  parcelis  del  eau  butount  lour  part  en  lour  cours  owelement,  pur  ceo 
perce  el  la  dure  pere.  Tout  enfi  eft  il  dun  nacioun  qe  dun  corage  met- 
tount  la  mayn  a  maintener  leftat  lour  siris  qi  ne  defirent  fors  le  bien  eftre 
du  comune,  ne  ne  tirent  autre  acorde  fingulerement.  Entre  tiel  gent  eft 
moult  rerement  vieu  chaungement  du  fiecle,  au  mainz  muement  de  leftat 
lour  firis  le  greindre  defhonour  a  le  poeple. 

Cefti  Edward  le  fecond  apres  la  conqueft  auoit  ij.  fitz  et  ij.  feilles.  La 
primer  fitz,  Edward,  full  eitably  roy  viuaunt  foun  pier;  lautre  fitz  auoit  a 
noun  Johan,  fi  fuft  count  de  Cornwall  et  moruft  a  la  vile  de  faynt  Johan, 
fi  nauoit  engendrure.  La  primer  feile,  Ifabel,  fuft  puis  marye  au  count 
de  Geller,  qi  puis  fuft  duk,  la  fecound  feile,  Johan,  fuft  puis  marye  a 
Dauid  fitz  Robert  de  Bruis,  roy  Defcoce. 

Cesti  Edward  le  tierce  apres  la  conqueft  neftoit  fors  de  xiiij.  aunz  a 
foun  encoronement  en  la  feft  de  la  chaundelour,  qi  de  tout  eftoit  gouerne 
et  foun  realme  par  fa  mere  et  par  Roger  de  Mortimer,  al  hour  count  de 
la  Marche.  Le  primer  ane  de  foun  regne  lez  Efcotez  firent  graunt  def- 
truccioun  par  diuers  foitz  en  fa  terre.  Lez  countis  de  Lancaftre  et  de 
Kent,  one  lez  seignurs  de  Wake,  Ros,  Moubray,  et  Beaumount,  et  autres 
grauntz  barouns,  od  mille  horns  darmes,  furount  enuoyez  al  Noefchaf- 
telle  fure  Tyne,  pur  enforcer  la  marche ;  ou  James  de  Douglas  veint  per 
deuaunt  eaux,  a  iiij.  lieus  pres,  ardaunt  et  deftruyaunt  le  pays  au  plain 
vieu  de  eaux  toutz,  qe  nuls  de  eaux  ne  voroit  iffer  taunt  eftoint  ils  mef- 
charnys  et  noun  empernauntz  de  guere.  Toft  apres  eel  hour  furent  af- 
u 


154  SCALACRONICA. 

femblee  tout  la  cheuelery  Dengleterre,  et  tout  plain  dez  alienes,  lez  queux 
eftrangers  fez  combaterent  a  Euerwyk  oue  comunes  dez  countes,  qi  furent 
illoeqs  graunt  party  mortz,  qi  par  yueroyne  curerent  sure  Ies  eftraungers, 
qi  pres  de  eaux  eftoient  loges  en  lez  fuburbes  de  la  dit  vile.  Cel  melle 
ellaunche  par  afcent  du  counfail,  pur  ceo  qils  eftoint  eftraungeris  et  remiz 
en  lour  eyde,  fi  mouerent  touz  deuers  lez  enemys  Defcoce,  qi  ia  eftoint 
de  rechief  entres  la  terre  Dengleterre.  Lc  dit  jouen  roy,  od  foun  graunt 
oft,  teint  le  chemyn  deuers  Stanhop,  ou  ly  fuft  dit  qe  fez  enemys  Defcoce 
eftoient  logez,  ou  encheminaunt  les  defcouerours  de  foun  auaunt  garde 
ly  venoient  nouncier  qe  lez  enemys  fez  alerent  defcounfitz  et  fuauntz,  et 
ii  neftoit  pas  enfy  ne  ne  firent  rien  mais  delogerent  et  lour  choiferent 
meillour  place  pur  attendre  de  combatre.  Lez  gournours  del  oft  le  dit 
roy  quyderent  qe  lez  defcouerours  auoint  dit  verite,  leflerent  le  chemyn 
deuers  Stanhop,  fez  hafterent  par  counfail  dez  afcuns  dez  marchies  da- 
uoir  forclos  lez  enemys,  penfaunt  qils  auoint  tenu  lour  chemyn  deuers  lour 
pais  en  fuaunt,  cheuaucherent  tout  le  iour  de  efte  bien  xxvj.  lieus  od  tout 
eel  graunt  oft  parmy  Anandredalle  et  Tyndalle,  fez  herbigerent  a  Hay- 
denbrig,  demurrerent  illoeqs  viij.  iours,  ne  auoint  mils  nouelis  dez  enemys. 
Fuft  crie  en  loft  qe  qy  porteroit  au  roy  certain  dez  ditz  enemys  aueroint 
cent  lyuere  de  terre.  Thomas  de  Rokeby  aportoit  lez  nouelis  quils  ef- 
toient tout  coy  a  Stanhop,  ou  ils  auoint  leile,  qy  enioy  le  dit  guerdoun  et 
deueint  cheualer.  Le  roy  fe  delogea,  fe  trey  arier  deuer  eaux  od  tout 
foun  graunt  oft.  En  le  mene  temps  Archibald  de  Douglas,  oue  lez  for- 
reiours  dez  enemys,  auoint  curry  apoi  tot  leuefche  de  Dorefme,  encha- 
cerent  a  lour  oft  grauntz  prays,  encountrerent  a  Derlingtoun  vn  graunt 
route  dez  comunez  deuers  loft  dez  Engles,  les  tuerent  apoy  toutz.  Ceft 
graunt  oft  dez  Engles  trouercnt  lours  ditz  enemys  prestes  iouft  Stanhop,  en 
trois  bataillis  en  beaux  champs,  et  fi  neftoint  qe  poy  dez  gentz,  trois  cheue- 
tains  foulement,  lez  countis  de  Murref,  de  Marre,  et  James  de  Douglas. 
Le  roy  fe  logea  deuaunt  eaux  sure  leau  de  Were  trois  iours,  en  la  quart 
nuyte  fez  delogerent  lez  Efcotez  et  remuerent  vn  petite  lieu  de  illoeqes 
dedenz  le  park  de  Stanhop,  qi  illoeqs  attenderent  vj.  iours  deuaunt  ceft 
graunt  oft  dez  Engles,  Allemauns,  et  Hanueris,  qi  rien  ne  firent  de  armis, 
fors  lez  Efcocez  oue  Jamys  de  Douglas  fererent  vn  nuyt  dedenz  loft  al 


SCALACRONICA.  155 

vn  bout  dez  loeges,  qi  tuerent  dez  comunes  dcs  countes  graunt  party  et 
departerent  faunz  damage.     La  tierz  nuyt  apres  ceftez  punyes  fez  de- 
logerent  lez  Efcocez  et  fen  alerent  en  lour  pays,  qi  graunt  damage  auoint 
fait  en  Engleterre,  si  encountrerent  meifme  le  iour  de  lour  departire  od 
Patrick  count  del  Marche  et  od  Johan  le  Senefchal,  qi  fe  defoit  count 
Dangous,  od  v.  mil  horns  dez  gentz  Defcoce,  qi  venoit  en  refcous  de 
eaux  qi  lez  auoint  oy  dire  afTegez;  qe  fils  vffent  hu  vitaillis,  com  fuft 
dit,  ilf  vfient  retournez  taunt  eftoint  encharnys  guerriours.     Le  roy,  vn 
innocent,  plora  dez  oils,  qi  fe  delogea  et  fe  retray  deuers  Euerwyk,  qi 
plus  ne  fe  entremift  de  eel  guere  dorant  la  gouernail  qil  auoit  de  fa  mere 
et  del  auaunt  dit  Roger  de  Mortimer,  count  de  la  March.    Qar  ou  Robert 
de  Bruys,  adonqes  roy  Defcoz,  auoit  affys  le  chaftel  de  Norham  ou  Ro- 
bert de  Maners  eftoit  coneftable  adonqes,  qi  iffiil  od  foun  garnifoun  def- 
counfift  vn  iour  le  gayt  dez  enemys  Defcotais  deuaunt  la  port  du  chattel, 
ou  vn  baners  Defcoce,. Willam  Mouhaud,  full  tue.    Le  cheuetain  du  gait 
[pur]  cretyn  del  eau  ne  voloit  fuffrire  qils  fufTent  refcous,  qe  nul  en  la  vile 
ne  lour  aprochafent.    Le  count  de  Murref,  od  James  de  Douglas,  auoint 
afTege  adonqes  le  feignour  de  Percy  en  Alnewyk,  ou  eftoient  grantz 
iouftes  de  guere  par  couenaunt  taille,  queux  seignours  ne  tindrent  pas 
laffege  mais  treyerent  a  Robert  lour  roys  au  fege  de  Norham.    En  quel 
hour  le  fieur  de  Percy,  od  lez  marchies,  flrent  vn  cheuauche  en  le  coftere 
de  Teuydal,  ne  demurerent  my  x.  lieus  de  voy,  et  vncor  fuft.  ceo  nouncie 
a  James  de  Douglas,  qi  fodeignement  de  Norham  fe  mill  od  soens  entre 
le  dit  seignour  de  Percy  et  foun  chaftelle  de  Alnewyk,  qi  luy  fill  treir 
deuers  le  Noefchaftel  de  nuyt,  taunt  eftoient  lez  Engles  mefcharnis  en  le 
hour  de  guer.     Le  counfail  auaunt  dit  du  dit  roy  Dengleter  enuoierent 
au  dit  Robert  de  Bruis  a  Norham,  Willam  de  Denoun,  vn  horn  de  ley, 
pur  pefe,  et  taillerent  vn  manage  du  fitz  le  dit  Robert  Dauid  et  de  Johan 
la  sore  le  roy  Dengleter,  qi  pius  fe  prill  a  Berewyk.     Au  parlement  de   , 
Euerwik,  ou  cefti  roi  Edward  Dengleter  prill  a  femme  Phelip  la  feile  le 
count  Willam  de  Henaud,  full  peife  cell  guer  Defcoce  et  renduz  lez  re- 
liqes  et  lez  endentures  del  obeifaunz  dez  seignours  Defcoce,  lour  fealis 
pendauntz,  qe  hom  appelloit  Ragman,  qe  le  roy  Edward  le  primer  apres 
la  conqueft  auoit  conqueys,  en  tiel  tail  qe  le  roy  Dengleter  quitclameroit 


156  SCALACRONICA. 

foun  droit  Defcoce,  et  pur  le  mariage  fa  sore  xl.  mile  marcz  dargent;  et 
qe  touz  fes  enherdauntz  perdeffent  lour  heritage  en  Efcoce  hors  pris  lez 
seignours  de  Wak,  Percy,  Beaumound,  et  la  Sowche,  qi  de  lour  condi- 
ciouns  riens  neftoit  tenu,  de  quoy  puis  enaueint  grant  mal.  De  tot  cell 
tail  neftoit  acordaunt  le  roy,  mais  pur  foun  ioen  age  la  royne  et  le  Mor- 
timer le  firent  tout,  vn  dez  caufis  de  lour  deffefauns  apres.  A  meifme 
cefti  parlement  vindrent  nouelis  de  la  mort  le  roy  de  France,  Charlis  le 
vncle  de  cefti  roy  Edward  Dengleter  depar  fa  mere,  qi  trefpafia  faunz 
heyre  de  foun  corps,  et  pur  ceo  le  droit  du  realme  de  France  folonc  def- 
cret  de  afcuns  defcendy  a  cefti  Edward  Dengleter  foun  neuew,  fitz  de  sa 
sore,  corn  a  plus  procheyne  heire  mafle,  mais  pur  le  ioen  age  de  le  roy  et  le 
mauueis  parfoufe  necligent  counfail  par  qoy  il  eftoit  de  tout  gouernez,  ne 
eftoit  point  en  le  hour  a  droit  chalange  mys  du  coroun  de  France  tanque  le 
fitz  del  vncle  de  le  aunceftre  fuft  corone,  Phelip  de  Valoys,  pur  ceo  qil  eftoit 
nee  du  realme,  et  tantz  auoit  dez  amys  et  dez  alyes  qe  faunz  regard  auoir 
au  droit  de  nuly,  par  affinite  ly  priftrent  au  roy,  de  quoi  pius  enfourdift  grant 
guer.  Le  dit  Phelip  defcounfift  lez  Flemyngs  a  Caflelis  en  le  primer 
ane  de  foun  regne.  Puis  eel  hour  bon  pece  ne  fuft  rien  parle  de  cell 
chalange  du  droit  de  coroune  de  France  du  roy  Dengleter.  La  royne 
Ifabelle  et  le  Mortimer  gouernerent  tout  Engleter,  en  la  maner  qil  def- 
pluyt  as  plufours  grantz  du  realme,  qi  fenherderent  enfemble  le  count  de 
Lancaftre  et  autres  de  eel  couyn  qi  comencerent  a  mouer  riote  en  purpos 
dauoir  ofte  eel  gouernement,  mais  ceaux  del  acorde  la  royne  fez  auoint 
faitez  11  fortis  dez  alies  et  dez  enherdaunz  qe  lez  autres  neftoient  de  poair 
a  riotre  [encountre]  eaux,  com  lour  fuft  auys.  Si  peiferent  cell  debat  par 
tretice  en  maner  qils  fez  mettroint  en  la  grace  le  roy  qe  tout  ne  rebellerent  fol- 213- b- 
41s  my  encountre  ly,  vncor  fefoint  ils  le  roi  partie  com  ceaux  qi  ly  auoint 
tout  en  gouernail.  Cell  obeifaunz  fuft  fait  a  Bedforde,  ou  toutz  furent 
refcieus  a  la  grace  le  roy  hors  pris  les  feignours  de  Wak  et  de  Beau- 
mound,  et  Thomas  Roffelin,  qi  voiderent  le  realme  et  embracerent  lour 
amys  de  par  dela  pur  auoir  ariue  en  Engleter,  mais  deuaunt  le  temps  de 
lour  empris  le  fiecle  eftoit  chaunge.  En  meifme  le  temps  de  cell  riote 
dez  barouns  vindrent  cheualers  et.  efquiers  en  eide  del  acorde  le  roy  hors 
de  Northumbreland  a  Rothewel,  ou  ils  auoint  vn  graunt  puynez  au  fure 


SCALACRONICA.  157 

de  guere  od  lez  payfens  enuyroun,  qi  furount  illoeqes  mortz  et  defcoun- 
fitz  par  ceftes  auaunt  ditz  marchies.  Apres  eel  hour  grant  pece  y  auoit 
grant  reuel  dez  iouftes  et  tournays.  La  royne  oue  le  counfaille  du  count 
de  la  Marche  auoit  tout  en  gouernail.  Vn  de  fez  priues  fill  entendre  a 
le  count  de  Kent,  le  vncle  le  roy,  qe  foun  freir  le  roy  le  pier  viuoit,  et  qe 
si  il  luy  voroit  eider  qe  il  ly  purroit  remettre  en  foun  eftat,  qy  eftoit  leez 
de  la  vie  foun  freir,  si  ly  difoit  qe  a  murrir  il  luy  eideroit;  et  full  gette  cell 
compaffement  pur  aflaier  la  volounte  du  dit  count.  Tout  quanque  il  ly 
auoift  did,  lautre  ala  nouncier  a  la  royne.  A  vn  parlement  a  Wynceftre 
le  dit  count  full  attache  et  areynez  de  ceil  bofoigne.  II  graunta  deuaunt 
le  coroner  del  oftel  le  roy  qil  voroit  auoir  eide  foun  freir,  ill  vft  vefqu,  de 
luy  auoir  mys  en  foun  eftat  a  foun  gree.  lis  ly  suremiftrent  qe  ceo  eftoit 
treifoun,  qar  refefaunz  du  pier  vft  efte  defefaunz  du  fitz,  a  qi  il  eftoit 
atournez  com  a  foun  feignour  liege,  pur  qoi  en  reuerence  de  foun  haut 
fank  ils  ly  pardonerent  le  haut  iugement,  fi  li  firent  decoder  al  hour.  Le 
roy  comenfa  de  crefcre  de  corps  et  de  fen,  qy  defplefoit  la  gouernail  de 
la  royne  fa  mere  et  heoit  le  count  de  la  Marche,  apres  qi  la  royne  fill 
tout.  Le  roy  enbrafa  couyne  oue  lez  ioenes  gentz  entour  luy  a  remuer 
cell  gouernail  et  a  deftruyer  le  dit  count ;  si  priuiement  ne  ietterent  ils 
my  cell  chos  qils  neftoint  defcouerez,  qe  a  Notingham  a  vn  counfail  le 
roy  et  touz  ceaux  de  cell  couyne  furont  arefonez  de  ceil  purpos,  feauntz 
toutz  en  counfail,  qi  toutz  le  dediflbient  qils  nenfauoit  rien  com  chefcun 
full  arefone  aparfoy,  hors  pris  Willam  de  Mountagow  qi  fe  adreflbit  en 
foun  efteaunt,  difaunt  qe  qy  ly  suremettroit  si  bien  non  ou  autre  couyne 
qe  foun  deuoir,  qil  ly  ferroit  haut  refpons,  et  fe  pafia  par  tiels  parolis, 
nul  ne  ly  repoundy  fors  en  general.  Le  counfail  failly,  le  dit  Willam 
difoit  au  roy  qe  meutz  serroit  a  mangier  de  le  chien  qe  chien  de  eaux,  fi 
ly  counfailloit  a  parler  au  coneilable  du  chaftel  en  ly  chargeaunt  par 
serement  et  legeaunce  de  celer  le  counfail,  et  qil  leflbit  vn  pofterne  ouert 
deuers  le  park  meifme  la  nuyt,  et  qe  ill  ne  le  fefoit  qil  ly  ferroit  pendre 
a  quel  hour  qil  uenoit  a  defuys.  Le  dit  Willam  coueyna  oue  fes  coum- 
paignouns  dencountreir  dedenz  la  nuyt  en  le  park  a  vn  certain  bufibun 
qe  vindrent  touz,  mais  ils  faillerent  le  lour  triilre,  hors  pris  le  dit  Willam 
de  Mountagow  et  Johan  de  Neuyl  oue  xxiiij.  homs,  qi  tyndrent  bien  lour 


158  SCALACRONICA. 

signal.  lis  fez  douterent  qe  lour  compaignouns  lour  faillerent,  et  ils  ne 
oferent  faire  noys  pur  lez  gaytes  du  chaftel,  fi  difoint  qils  affaieroint  le 
auenture  meifmes  pufque  la  chos  eftoit  sy  auaunt  alez,  com  ceaux  qi 
eftoint  apertz  et  empernauntz.  Ils  fen  alerent  et  trouerent  le  pofterne 
ouert,  com  le  roi  auoit  comaunde ;  ils  entrerent  le  chaftel  et  mounterent 
lez  degrees  du  deuzifme  bayl  faunz  encountreir  de  nuly,  qar  il  eftoit  bien 
anuyte,  et  lez  comunes  de  gentz  voidez  le  chaftel  a  lour  ofteaux.  La 
royne,  le  Mortimer,  et  lour  priuez  enherdaunz  furent  en  counfail  pur  or- 
dener  encontre  ceft  couyne  qe  lour  eftoit  defcouerez.  Ils  entrerent  la 
fale  ou  la  royne  eftoit  en  la  chambre  en  counfail.  Le  vffeir  fift  noys  a 
lour  entree ;  Hugh  de  Turpintoun,  qi  fuft  senefchal  del  oftel  le  roy, 
qeftoit  de  couyne  la  royne,  launcea  hors  du  counfail  et  lez  encountra  en 
my  la  sale,  difaunt,  "  treiturs,  pur  nient,"  qi  quidoit  auoir  ferru  le  primer 
dun  cotele  qant  Johan  de  Neuyl  ly  ferift  parmy  le  corps  mort,  et  vn  ef- 
quier  qi  fefoit  debat.  Si  pafferent  outre  en  la  chaumbre  et  priftrent  le 
Mortymer  et  ceaux  qils  voroint  auoir,  qe  deuaunt  la  iournaunt  nuls 
neftoint  remys  en  la  vile  fors  ceaux  du  couyn  le  roi,  qi  fe  auoit  arme  a 
lour  entre  hu  chaftel.  II  fift  ordener  pur  fa  mere,  et  prill  le  Mortimer 
one  ly  a  Layceftre  ou  il  penfoit  dauoir  fait  murrir,  mes  il  prift  autre 
counfail,  qi  fift  fomoundre  vn  parlement  a  Loundres  ou  le  Mortimer  fuft 
lievnez  et  penduz,  par  caufe  del  aflent  du  mort  le  roy  le  pier,  et  pur  la 
mort  de  le  count  de  Kent,  et  pur  la  defherifoun  du  droit  Defcoce,  et  pur 
la  deftruccioun  du  trefor  le  roy  qe  ly  eftoit  remys  de  foun  pier,  et  dez 
autres  articles  qe  hom  ly  surmyft.  Lez  feignurs  qi  furent  baniez  furount 
recounfaillez.  De  eel  hour  en  auaunt  grant  pece  fuft  ly  roy  counfaillez 
de  Willam  de  Mountagow,  qi  touz  iours  ly  mouoit  a  bien  et  honour  et 
darner  lez  armes,  et  fi  demenerent  iolyfe  ioen  vie,  en  attendaunt  greig- 
nour  sefoun  de  greignour  affair.  Le  roy  Phelip  de  France  chafoit  de  fol.216.  b. 
apres  dauoir  le  attournement  de  le  roy  pur  la  duche  de  Gyene.  Le 
counfail  le  roy  regardaunt  le  noun  age  de  ly,  le  temps,  et  le  noun  poair 
de  trefor,  ly  firent  priuement  pafiea  la  mere  et  faire  foun  homage  a 
Amyas,  de  quoi  ils  porterent  pius  blame,  et  pur  quoy  lez  Fraunces  di- 
fount  qe  le  atournement  du  roy  conferma  leftat  foun  feignour  al  hour 
qant  a  foy.    Mais  le  noun  age  d[e]  ly  donoit  le  efcufement.     I  cefti  roy 


SCALACRONICA.  169 

demenaft  galiard  vie  dez  iouftes  et  tournays  et  a  feftoier  lez  dames; 
tanque  lez  feignours  qeftoint  defheritez  pur  ly  et  pur  fes  aunceftres  en 
Efcoce  ly  firent  fupplicacioun  qil  lour  voroit  reflorier  lour  heritage  qils 
auoint  pur  ly  perduz,  ou  lez  leffer  couenyr.  Le  roy  maunda  tout  ceft 
fupplicacioun  au  count  de  Murref,  adonqes  gardeyn  Defcoce  pur  le  noun 
age  le  roy  Dauid,  mort  le  pier  le  roy  Robert  qi  mort  eftoit  de  lepre  vn 
poy  deuaunt.  Qy  count,  au  roy  refpoundy  honourablement  par  fez  lettres 
requeraunt  qil  lour  leffoit  couenyr  et  le  pellot  aler.  Ceft  meffage  en- 
tendu,  lez  seignours  defheritez  en  Efcoce,  le  seignour  de  Beaumounde, 
lez  countes  de  Athelle  et  Dangus,  Richar[d]  Tallebot,  Henri  de  Fereirs, 
Johan  de  Moubray,  et  tout  plain  dez  autres  par  enbracement  le  fenieur 
de  Beaumounde,  fez  enherderent  a  Edward  de  Baillof,  fitz  Johan  de 
Baillof  iadiz  roy  Defcoce  par  eleccioun  de  touz  dieus  lez  realmes,  qeftoit 
tenuz  hors  de  Efcoce  plus  de  xxx.  aunz;  qi  efchipperent  a  Rauenlhere 
et  arryuerent  a  Kyncorn,  poy  dez  gentz,  a  regard  qe  neftoint  pas  pafle 
iiij.  cent  homs  de  armys.  Le  primer  jour  ne  lour  aryuail  ils  coumbater- 
ent  od  le  count  de  Fyf  et  ly  defcounfirent,  ou  fut  tuez  Alexander  de 
Setoun  le  fitz.  Ils  tindrent  lour  chemyn  a  Dunfermelyn,  ou  ils  trouerent 
et  priftrent  tauntz  dez  baftouns  ferrez  nouelement  faitez,  qe  le  count 
Thomas  de  Murref  auoit  fet  faire,  qi  procheignement  eftoit  mort  dedenz 
lez  viij.  iours  de  lour  aryuail.  Ils  tindrent  lour  chemyn  deuers  la  vile 
de  faint  Johan,  ou  al  eau  de  Erne  ils  trouerent  vn  graunt  oft  dez  enemys 
deuaunt  eaux,  qar  lez  seignours  Defcoce  eftoint  aflemblez  a  lour  arryuail 
pur  lour  choifir  vn  gardeyn,  qy  choiferent  le  count  de  Marre,  qy  auoit 
fait  affembler  ceft  graunt  oft,  et  pris  le  graunt  tertre  sure  le  gee  del  eau 
de  Erne  deuaunt  ceftez  gentz  aryuez,  qeftoint  en  la  valey  dautre  part 
leau,  qi  ne  refemblerent  qun  petit  chos  a  regard  dez  autres.  Ceftez 
gentz  del  oft  le  count  de  Marre  difount  qe  lez  autres  eftoient  regettez 
com  vn  leuer,  si  getterent  qe  lendemayn  ils  enuoyerent  vn  graunt  poair 
foi.  217.  enviroun  de  eaux  pur  lez  affailer  de  toutes  couftes,  qe  touz  iours  lour 
encrefoit  lour  poair.  Ceftes  feignours  defheritez  eftoint  fi  efpountez  du 
graunt  multitude  dez  enemys  qils  comencerent  a  raumponer  le  seignour 
de  Beaumound  en  point  de  courfers,  surmettaunt  qil  les  auoit  treye  et 
qil  lour  auoit  fet  entendaunt  qils  aueroint  graunt  couyne  en  Efcoce ; 


160  SCALACRONICA. 

"  certes,  seignours,"  fefoit  il,  "  nounyle,  mes  puifque  lez  chofis  fount  fi 
auaunt  alez,  pur  Dieux,  eidoms  nous  nous  meifmes,  qe  nuls  ne  fceit  qoi 
Dieux  ad  ordene  pur  nous,  et  penfoms  de  notre  graunt  droit,  a  mouftreir 
qe  nous  fumes  extraclez  dez  bonz  cheualeris,  et  du  graunt  honour  et 
profite  qe  Dieu  nous  ad  deiftene,  et  du  graunt  hount  qe  nous  auendroit 
fi  en  cefl  graunt  bofoigne  nous  ne  mouftroms."  Apartice  iffi  qe  par  les 
bons  motes  du  prodhom  et  le  efpirement  de  Dieu  ils  fez  acorderent  qen 
la  nuyt  ils  pafferoint  le  gee,  et  enuyrouneroint  lez  enemys,  et  mounteroint 
le  tertre  defus  eaux,  et  prenderoint  lour  auenture  dedenz  la  nuyt.  Ils 
pafferent  leau,  ou  Roger  de  Swenarton  full  noez.  Lez  enemys  par  le 
refoun  de  lour  paffage  fi  aualerent  a  pee  qi  deuaunt  qe  ils  purroint  au 
gee  ateindre  lez  autres  furount  paffez,  qi  enuirounerent  le  tertre  et 
clieierent  fodeignement  sure  lez  garfouns  et  cheuaux  de  lour  enemys,  qi 
les  defcomfirent,  penfaunt  qils  vfl'ent  ellre  le  poar  del  oil  lours  enemys, 
et  lez  enchacerent  sa  et  la  qen  la  ioumaunt  ne  eftoint  enfemble  xl.  de 
eaux,  mais  par  clarete  dun  fu  dun  mefoun  qe  prill  a  ardoir  ils  relierent 
com  perdricis,  et  com  le  iour  comenfoit  a  efclareir  ils  aperfceurent  lez 
enemys  en  dieus  grauntz  batails  qi  venoint  a  pee  pres  de  eaux,  qi  tout  la 
nuyt  auoint  elle  enfemble,  qe  a  pain  fez  purroint  boter  en  aray  quaunt  lez 
enemys  vindrent  affembleir.  Lour  auaunt  fen  arefly  vn  poy  au  fcentir  dez 
pointz  dez  launcis  et  fetis  quaunt  lour  areirgard  aflembla  fi  defarayment, 
qen  en  lour  haftif  affembleir  ils  porterent  a  terre  tout  playne  de  lour 
auauntgard  entre  eaux  et  lez  enemys,  qi  venoient  si  afprement  sur  eux 
qe  lez  autres  fez  recoillerent  chefcun  fure  autre,  qe  en  vn  petite  hour 
vous  veiflez  crefcre  vn  mount  dez  corps  dez  boms,  com  ceft.es  gentz 
aryues  lez  enuirounoint,  fi  furent  en  cell  maner  par  miracle  de  Dieux 
defcounfitz,  et  mortz  le  count  de  Marre,  Alexander  Frifel,  Robert  de 
Bruys  fitz  bailard  le  roy  Robert,  et  touz  plain  dez  barouns,  cheualers,  et 
efquiers,  qe  toutz  plains  efloient  eftuffez  de  alayn,  com  chefcun  iefoit 
foutz  autre  et  mortz  a  la  maner  deuife  faunz  coup  darme  nul.  Cell  iourne 
acoumply  ils  tindrent  lour  chemyn  a  la  vile  de  faint  Johan,  ou  ils  trouer-  fol.  217.  b. 
ent  bein  eftoffez  de  touz  eftoffers,  fi  enfermerent  la  vile  en  reperaillaunt 
lez  veutz  foffez,  qe  chefcun  reperailla  fa  gard  de  bretage.  Dedenz  lez 
viij.  iours  de  la  batail  vindrent  deuaunt  eaux  vn  tiel  multitude  dez  gentz 


SCALACRONICA.  161 

de  touz  lez  pays  Defcoce  qe  a  meruail,  ils  iurent  deuaunt  eaux  viij.  iours, 
qe  pur  defaut  de  vitail  ils  delogerent  chefcun  en  foun  pays.  Celt  affege 
leue  lez  seignours  arriuez  firent  coroner  Edward  de  Baillof  pur  roi  a 
Scone,  et  departerent  de  la  vile  de  feint  Johan  parmy  Coil  et  Conyng- 
ham  deuers  Galeway,  ou  ceaux  par  de  sa  leau  de  Cree  leuerent  oue  eaux. 
De  illoeqes  ils  priflrent  lour  chemyn  par  Craufordmore  deuers  Roxburgh, 
ou  pres  de  Jeddeworde  Archebald  de  Douglas  eftoit  enbiuTez,  qeftoit 
defcouert  et  defcounfit,  et  Robert  de  Lowedre  le  fitz  pris  et  autres.  Le 
roy  Edward  de  Baillof  full  herbife  a  Kelfow,  et  foun  oft  en  Roxburh,  qe 
meifme  le  iour  pur  dout  de  cretyn  de  eau  remua  foun  berbigage  en  Rox- 
burgh. Andrew  de  Murref,  adonqes  gardein  Defcoce  depar  le  roy  Dauid 
de  Bruys,  auoit  efpie  lerbigage  du  dit  roy  Edward  de  Baillof  a  Kelfow, 
et  aparceuft  le  crefcre  del  eau  de  Twede,  fy  efloit  pres  oue  graunt  poair, 
fi  fe  mift  fodeignement  au  boute  du  pount  de  Roxburh  et  comenfa  a 
roumper  le  dit  pount,  en  penfaunt  dauoir  fuppris  le  dit  roy  Edward,  quant 
huyn  comenfa  en  la  dit  vile  en  loft  et  touz  a  armys  a  cheual  et  a  pee,  fi 
priflrent  le  pount  sine  lez  enemys  et  cheueaux  noyerent  outre  leaw  et 
defcounfiterent  ceftez  genz,  ou  full  pris  le  cheuetain  Andreu  de  Murref. 
Proucheinement  apres  auoit  le  roy  Dengleterre  foun  parlement,  ou  lez 
plus  grauntz  del  oft  Edward  de  Baillof  fez  alerent,  a  quel  parlement 
meffagers  del  acorde  Dauid  de  Bruys  vindrent,  fefaunt  fupplicacioun  au 
roy  qel  eydaft  lour  seignour  com  alye  duft  faire,  depuifque  il  auoit  fa 
sore  a  femme.  Saunz  tretice  de  autre  condicioun  full  auys  a  counfail  le 
roy  qil  neftoit  pas  tenuz  a  ceo  faire  encontre  fez  gentz  propres,  qeftoient 
deflieritez  par  caus  de  ly  et  de  fez  aunceftres,  qi  gracioufement  auoint 
comenfez  a  reconquer  lour  heritage.  En  cefte  mene  temps  du  parlement 
auaunt  dit  le  roy  Edward  de  Baillof  Defcoce  fe  delogea  a  Roxburgh  et  fe 
trey  deuers  le  weft  marche  a  Anand,  ou  en  vn  aube  de  iour  Archebald  de 
Douglas  oue  vn  poair  dez  enemys  trenuyta  sure  ly  et  ly  defcounfift,  qe  a 
graunt  payn  efchapa  meifmes  a  Cardoil,  et  graunt  plente  de  fez  gentz 
mortz,  et  toutz  les  foens  enchacez  hors  Defcoce  a  recomencer  de  nouel 
tout  lour  conqueft.  Al  hour  comencea  Edward  de  Baillof  a  treter  oue 
le  roi  Dengleterre,  a  quel  roi  eftoit  auys  et  a  foun  counfail  qe  il  eftoit 
fraunk  a  faire  foun  profite,  depuifque  en  la  pefe  fefaunt  a  Robert  de 


162  SCALACRONICA. 

Bruys  efloit  hors  pris  et  efpecifie  qe  la  aliaunce  de  Fraunce  fe  tendroit 
od  lez  Efcocez,  et  qe  le  roy  Dengleterre  ne  fuft  loyez  as  eaux  de  nul 
enherdaunce,  de  puifque  par  counfail  le  count  Thomas  de  Murref  lez 
Efcocez  ne  voloint  lefler  la  alyaunce  de  Fraunce,  enemys  apparauntz 
a  le  roy  Dengleterre,  ne  autre  condicioun  efpecifie  fors  qe  le  roy  Dengle- 
terre quitclaimeroit  le  droit  qe  il  auoit  en  Efcoce,  qe  efloit  efchue  au 
coroune  Dengleterre  en  le  temps  foun  ayel  pur  forfeiture  Johan  de 
Baillof,  a  donqes  roy  Defcoce,  qi  difclaimoit  a  tenir  de  ly  depuifque  il 
meifmes  ly  auoit  atome  par  foun  homage  de  le  haut  feignourie  Defcoce, 
et  par  condicioun  taille  de  foun  clefement  deueint  foun  horn  quant  debat 
elloit  du  dit  realme  entre  le  dit  Johan  de  Baillof  et  Robert  de  Bruys,  le 
ayel  cefti  Robert  qe  fe  clama  roy  Defcoce,  et  Johan  de  Haftings,  le  quel 
Johan  de  Baillof  rendy  foun  homage  par  dieus  Jacobyns  oue  vn  efpey 
fourby  en  difclaymaunt  a  rien  tenir  de  ly,  par  quoy  full  auys  au  dit  roi 
qe  pur  nouel  mocioun  nouel  guer.  Icelli  Edward  de  Baillof  dona  au  roy 
Dengleterre  la  vile  de  Berewik  oue  v.  countees,  lez  vifcountes  de  Bere- 
wic,  de  Roxburgh,  Dedinburghe,  Peblis,  et  Dunfres,  et  qe  il  ly  ferroit 
homage  pur  le  remenaunt  Defcoce,  et  qe  le  roy  ly  fuppuelleroit,  mainten- 
droit,  et  ly  remetteroit  en  foun  eftat. 

Le  roy  desirant  lez  armys  et  honors,  et  foun  counfail  enpemauntz  et 
coveitaunz  lez  gueres,  qy  toft  fez  acorderent  a  ceft  conditioun,  et  le 
plus  toft  pour  defire  a  reconquer  lour  pris  fur  eaux  par  queux  ils  le 
auoint  perduz.  Dez  plus  priues  du  counfail  le  roy  mouerent  oue  Ed- 
ward de  Baillof,  qi  en  le  fecound  femayn  de  quarrefme  afiiftrent  la 
vile  de  Berewyk  par  mere  et  terre,  et  procheynement  deuaunt  la  pente- 
coil  le  roy  Dengleterre  y  veint  meifmes  et  aflailerent  la  vile,  mais  ne 
la  priftrent  point,  mais  reappaillerent  meutz  lour  horduz  pour  reaflail- 
ler  la  dit  vile.  En  le  mene  temps  ceaux  dedenz  la  vile  parlerent  de 
condiciouns,  qe  fils  ne  vffent  refcous  deuaunt  vn  certain  iour  qe  ils  ren- 
deroint  la  vile ;  et  fur  ceo  baillerent  hoftages.  Deuaunt  quel  temps 
limitez  tout  le  poair  Descoce,  un  fi  graunt  multitude  dez  genz  qi  a  mer- 
vail,  paflerent  leau  de  Twede  en  vn  aube  de  iour  a  le  Yarforde,  et  fez 
mouftrerent  devaunt  Berewik  del  autre  Twede  deuers  Engleter  au  plain 
vieu  du  roy  et  de  foun  oft,  et  bouterent  gentz  et  vitails  dedenz  la  vile,  et  foi.  2i8.b. 


SCALACRONICA.  163 

demourerent  la  tout  le  iour  et  la  nuyt,  et  lendemain  a  haut  hour  deloge- 
rent  et  moverent  parmy  la  tere  le  roy  en  Northumbreland,  ardauntz  et 
deftruyauntz  le  pays  au  plain  vieu  del  oil  as  Engles.  Cefles  gentz  de- 
partys  a  la  maner  le  counfail  le  roy  al  aflege  demanderent  la  vile  felonc 
lez  condiciouns,  le  terme  paffe  de  lours  refcous,  ceaux  dedenz  difoint  qils 
eftoint  refcous  et  dez  gentz  et  des  vitails,  si  mouftrerent  nouvelis  gardeins 
de  la  vile,  et  cheualers  eynz  butes  de  lour  oft,  dount  Willam  de  Keth 
eftoit  un  od  autres.  Fuft  avys  au  dit  counfail  qe  ils  avoint  perduz  lour 
oftages,  si  firent  pendre  le  fitz  Alexandre  de  Setoun,  gardeyn  de  la  vile. 
Ceft  oftage  mort  a  la  maner,  lez  autres  dedenz  la  vile  par  tendrefce  de 
lour  enfauntz,  qeftoient  oftages,  renouelerent  condicioun  par  afi'ent  dez 
cheualers  einz  boutes,  as  queux  eftoit  auys  qe  lour  poair  Defcoce  fur- 
mountoit  le  oft  le  roy  Dengleterre.  Si  priftrent  tiel  nouel  condicion  qe 
devaunt  lez  xv.  jours  ils  butroient  ij.  centz  boms  dannis  par  force  par  fek 
tere  dedenz  la  vile  entre  loft  dez  Engles  et  la  haut  mere,  ou  qe  ils  fez 
combateront  au  plain.  Willam  de  Keth,  Willam  de  Prendregeft,  et 
Alexander  Gray,  chevalers,  qeftoient  einz  boutez  dedenz  la  vile,  avoient 
conduyt  a  paffer  parmy  loft  deuers  lour  gentz  Defcoce,  od  ceft  condicioun 
qe  furent  amenez  par  conduyt  parmy  Northumbreland,  qi  lour  oft  Def- 
coce trouerent  a  Wittoun  Undrewod  et  lez  reamenerent  a  Berewik  a  per- 
forner  lour  refcous,  ou  ils  vindrent  combattre,  et  ou  ils  furent  defcounfitz. 
Archebald  de  Douglas,  al  hour  gardein  Defcoce  depar  le  roy  Dauid  de 
Brus,  fuft  la  mort,  lez  countis  de  Roff,  de  Murref,  de  Meneteth,  de  Leve- 
naux,  et  de  Sotherlande,  furent  la  mortz.  Le  feignour  de  Douglas,  fitz 
James  de  Douglas,  qi  moruft  en  le  frounter  de  Gernate  fure  lez  Sarazins, 
qavoit  enpris  ceft  faint  veage  od  le  quere  Robert  de  Bruys  lour  roys,  qi 
le  auoit  deuife  en  foun  moriaund,  et  touz  plain  dez  barouns,  dez  cheualers, 
et  dez  comunes,  furent  illoeqes  un  tres  graunt  noumbre  mortz.  La  vile 
fe  rendy  fur  condiciouns  taille.  Le  count  de  la  Marche,  qavoit  le  chattel 
de  Berewik  a  garder,  deueint  Engles,  qi  nauoit  my  graunt.  gree  de  nul 
cofte,  qi  en  le  mene  temps  fill  affermer  par  fuffraunce  le  roy  foun  chaf- 
tell  de  Dunbar,  qi  puis  fill  grant  mal. 

Ceft  batail  finy  le  roi  Dengleterre  fe  trey  deuers  le  sew,  ou  il  haun- 
toift  curioufement  lez  faitz  darmes  de  pefe.  Edward  de  Baillof,  roy 
de  Efcoce,  fe  trey  a  la  vile  de  feint  Johan,  ou  il  auoit  foun  parle- 


164  SCALACRONICA. 

merit  a  Scone,  et  le  atournement  de  plufours  Defcoce.  Tretout  Ef-  foi.  219. 
coce  eftoit  en  foutzieccion  du  roy  Dengleterre  et  de  luy,  hois  pris  le 
chaltel  de  Dunbretain,  de  011  le  roy  Dauid  de  Bruys,  qeftoit  iofnes 
adonqes,  full  remue  en  France  au  Chaitel  Galiard,  ou  il  demura  grant 
pece  et  sa  femme  la  sore  le  roi,  tanque  il  full  parcruz  qil  fe  poit 
ariuer.  Le  fecound  ane  apres  le  batail  de  Berewyk  Edward  de  Bail- 
lof  reueint  a  Noefchallel  sure  Tyne,  et  fill  foun  homage  au  roy  Den- 
gleterre pur  la  terre  Defcoce,  folonc  lez  condiciouns  auaunt  parlez,  et 
puis  fe  retrey  areir  en  Efcoce  pur  ceo  qe  lez  vns  de  la  tere  elloint 
releuez  encountre  luy,  oue  le  count  de  Murref,  vn  enfaunt  par  cru. 
Le  dit  Edward  eiloit  a  Streuelyn  oue  foun  poair,  ou  comenfa  vn  poi 
de  corouce  par  enuy  entre  afcuns  de  foun  counfail,  qi  fodeignement 
fez  departerent  de  ly  a  lours  refcettis,  pur  qoi  le  dit  Edward  fe  re- 
trey en  Engleterre.  Henry  de  Beaumond,  adonqes  count  de  Boghan 
depar  le  heritage  fa  femme,  fe  trei  a  Dundarg,  vn  chailel  qil  auoit 
de  nouel  enferme  en  Boghane.  Le  count  de  Athelis  fe  retrey  en  foun 
pays,  lez  autres  a  lour  refcettes.  Richard  Tallebot  eiloit  per  dela  lez 
montes  en  lez  terres  del  heritage  fa  femme  la  feile  Johan  de  Comyn, 
quaoit  lez  nouelis  de  cell  deputifoun,  fe  trey  deuers  Engleter,  ou  en 
Lounes  il  full  pris,  et  Johan  de  Striuelyn,  dez  gentz  qeiloint  a  la  foy 
Edward  de  Baillof,  qi  fauferent  lour  fay  pur  couatife  du  pris  de  eaux. 
Henry  de  Beaumound  full  allege  en  Dundarg,  ou  il  rendy  le  chailel  sure 
condicioun  a  departire  hors  du  pays.  Le  count  de  Athelis  fe  atourna  a 
la  foy  Dauid  de  Bruys  et  guerpy  la  foy  Edward  de  Baillof,  qe  de  force 
ly  couenoit  ceo  faire  ou  murreir,  et  touz  playn  dez  cheualers  Engles  en  fa 
compaigny,  qi  en  autre  maner  ne  lez  pooint  fauuer.  A  eel  hour  nelloit 
remys  dedenz  Efcoce  nul  de  lez  enherdauntz  le  roy  Dengleter  qi  fufient 
acounteir,  fors  le  count  de  la  Marche,  qi  veint  au  maundement  le  roy 
Dengleterre  a  ly  a  Noefchallel  sur  Tyne,  qi  en  foun  realer  a  lollelle  ef- 
toit gayte  dez  maufefours  de  Northumberlond,  pur  coueitys  de  argent  qe 
le  roy  ly  auoit  done  a  foun  departire,  et  en  point  dauoir  elle  mourdry. 
II  fill  mouftreir  foun  compleint  au  roy  Dengleterre,  qi  ia  eftoit  venuz  a 
Roxburgh,  ou  il  fill  enfermer  le  chailel  en  yuer,  qeftoit  emblez  et  abatuz  en 
le  temps  foun  pier.  Le  counfail  adonqes  entour  le  roy  ne  ly  vorroint  fair 
auoir  tiels  amendez  de  les  ditz  mefTfefours,  com  refoun  vorroit  demaunder, 


SCALACRONICA.  165 

com  luy  full  auys,  en  enfaumple  de  tieux  mefprifiouns,  fi  rendy  fus  foun 
homage  a  le  roy  par  lettre  com  il  veint  pres  de  Dunbarre  dun  cheuauche 
foi.  219.  b.  qil  auoit  de  Roxburgh  fait  en  Lownes  en  tres  mauueys  temps  de  yuer, 
fifaunt  en  lez  ditz  lettres  fuggeftioun  qe  plus  ne  fe  poit  affurier.  Meifme 
le  temps  fuft  Edward  de  Boune,  cofyn  le  roy,  noez  en  leau  de  Anand, 
com  il  voufift  auoir  refcouz  vn  vadlete  du  cretyn  del  eau,  et  ly  enbrafa  par 
lez  efpaulis,  qi  ly  trey  hors  de  la  sele  defoutz  ly,  le  cheualer  pery,  le  vadlet 
fu  fauue.  Le  dit  chaftel  de  Roxburgh  afferme  le  dit  roy  de  Engleterre  fe 
trey  deuers  Loundres,  qi  fe  dreffa  countre  le  prochein  efte,  fi  repaira  en 
Efcoce  oue  trefgraunt  poair;  il  enuoya  od  Edward  de  Baillof  lez  countis  de 
Garayn,  Daroundelle,  de  Oxflnford,  et  de  Angous,  lez  fires  de  Percy,  de 
Neuil,  de  Berkelay,  et  de  Latimer,  od  vn  graunt  oft,  qentrerent  par  Berwic. 
Ly  meifmes  entra  par  Cardoille  oue  tout  la  fure  plus  de  fa  cheualery,  qi 
auoit  od  ly  le  count  Gelleris,  qi  pius  fuft  markys  et  apres  duk,  oue 
grant  coumpaigny  dez  Alemaunz.  Lez  ij.  oftes  vindrent  pres  enfemble 
sure  leau  de  Clide,  le  roi  Dengleterre  en  vn  lieu,  Edward  de  Baillof  oue 
foun  oft  a  Glafcow,  ou  il  auoit  vn  graunt  chaud  melle  en  loft  pur  vn  ef- 
quyer  qi  portoit  le  suronoun  de  Gournay,  qi  lez  marchies  tuerent  pur 
caus  qe  furemift  fuft  qe  vn  qi  portoit  eel  surnon  fuft  affentaunt  a  la  mort 
le  roy  le  pier.  Lez  ij.  oltes  encountrerent  a  la  vile  de  faint  Johan,  ou 
en  lour  chemynaunt  laundroitz  eftoit  gaynez  par  affaut  le  chaftel  de  Com- 
brenald.  A  la  dit  vile  de  feint  Johan  reuindrent  a  la  peife  le  roy  le 
count  de  Athelis,  Godfrai  de  Roffe,  et  Alexander  de  Moubray,  oue 
autres;  et  fi  fuft  comence  illoeqes  tretice  du  Senefchal  Defcoce.  A 
meifme  le  hour,  tancom  le  roy  ieuft  a  la  vile  de  faint  Johan,  veint  le  count 
de  Nemure  a  Berewik,  et  autres  cheualeris  Dengleterre  qi  neftoint  pas 
preftis  al  entre  le  roy,  fi  enpriftrent  folement  apurfuir  le  roy  dauoir  ale  a 
ly  par  tere  a  la  vile  de  faint  Johan ;  ou  a  Edinburgh  ils  furent  fuppris  du 
count  de  Murref,  qi  de  force  lour  couenoit  prendre  la  roche  du  chaftel 
abatuz,  ou  ils  fes  defenderent  vn  nuyt,  et  lendemain  tanque  ils  hurent 
condicioun  qi  le  dit  count  de  Nemure  periureroit  deftre  arme  del  hour 
en  auaunt  encountre  la  querel  Dauid  le  Brus,  et  qe  lez  Engles  illoeqes 
fuffent  touz  prifoners  pur  vn  some  de  argent.  Le  dit  count  de  Nemure 
reueint  a  Berewyk,  de  ou  il  veint  par  mere  en  la  coumpaignye  la  rovne 


166  SCALACRONICA. 

Dengleterre  au  roy  a  la  vile  de  feint  Johan.     Meifme  le  hour  full  pris 

le  count  de  Murref  a  vn  punyes  sure  marchis  de  Willam  de  Preffen. 

Meifme  la  feyfoun  full  murdri  le  count  de  Hulfter  de  fez  gentz  propres 

en  Ireland,  le  quel  count  full  fitz  et  heire  a  vn  dez  feilles  de  Glouceltre 

et  pres  cofyn  le  roi  Dengleterre,  feille  et  heyre  a  qi  Lionel,  fitz  au  roy     fol.  220. 

cefli  Edward  le  tierce  apres  la  conqueft,  auoit  efpofe  pufcedy.     Le  roi 

Dengleterre  fe  delogea  de  la  vile  de  faint  Johan  et  fe  trey  a  Edynburgh, 

ou  il  fill  enfermer  le  chaftel;  ou  veint  a  la  pefe  Robert  le  Senefchal 

Defcoce,  qi  full  fitz  la  feile  Robert  de  Bruys,  et  apoy  touz  lez  comunes. 

Le  roy  y  fifl  mettre  hu  chaftel  graunt  garnifoun,  et  repaira  en  Engleterre. 

Le  yuer  apres  full  tue  le  count  de  Athelis,  qi  eftoit  remys  depar  le 
roy  gardein  depar  dela  la  mere  Defcocz,  qi  fe  combatay  oue  Andreu  de 
Murref,  et  oue  le  count  de  la  Marche,  et  oue  Willam  de  Douglas,  et  oue 
gentz  reliez  du  couin  Dauid  de  Bruys;  et  full  auxi  tuez  Thomas  Rof- 
felyn  a  vn  autre  punyez  meifme  la  fefoun  com  il  arryua  hors  de  mere 
pres  de  Dunotre,  mais  lez  foens  auoint  la  victoir. 

Le  prochein  elte  apres,  le  roy  Dengleterre, — qy  auoit  enuoye  a  la  vile 
feint  Johan  en  eide  de  Edward  de  Baillof  dez  plus  grauntz  de  foun  realme, 
foun  frer  Johan  count  de  Cornewail,  qy  morruft  illoeqs  de  bele  mort, — auoit 
oy  dire  qe  lez  Efcocez  eftount  afl'emblez  pur  combattre  oue  fez  gentz  iouft 
la  vile  de  faint  Johan,  fi  veint  fodeinement  sure  la  marche  Defcoz  oue  geris 
plus  de  1.  horns  de  armys,  qi  prill  lez  marchies  qefloint  remys  a  loftel  pur 
garder  le  pays,  et  fy  enprift  ceftoufement  a  aler  a  la  vile  de  faint  Johan,  qy 
nauoit  oue  ly  outre  v.xx  horns  darmys,  fi  veint  fi  fodeinement  a  la  dit  vile  qe 
touz  fez  meruaillerent  de  sa  venu,  et  qi  ly  ofall  counfailler  a  ceo  faire  a  la 
maner.  De  illoeqes  il  cheuaucha  outre  les  mountes,  ou  il  refcouy  la 
countais  de  Athelis,  qeftoit  aflege  en  Loghindorm,  ou  il  y  auoit  en  foun 
oft  pur  vn  temps  graunt  defaut  de  vitail,  mais  toft  furent  counfortez  par 
foraier  de  Robert  de  Ogle  et  autres  marches,  fi  repaira  a  Striuelin  ou  il 
fifl  enfermer  le  chaftel,  et  de  illoeqes  fi  trey  a  Botheuille,  ou  de  yuer  il 
fifl  enfermer  le  chaftel  autre  fy  et  y  fill  mettre  bon  garnyfoun.  Le  feig- 
nour  de  Berclay  condufoiet  lez  vitaileris  de  Edynburgh  a  Botheuille,  ou 
vn  nuyt  il  defcomfifl  Willam  de  Douglas,  qy  gifoit  en  agait  de  ly.  Le 
roi  perdy  procheignement  touz  les  chaftelis  et  viles  qil  auoit  fet  enfermer 


SCALACRONICA.  167 

en  Efcoce,  par  defaut  de  bon  reaule  du  purfuyt  de  fa  conqueft.  Le  dit 
roy  repaira  a  Loundres  a  foun  parlement,  ou  foun  fitz  eyne,  count  de 
Ceftre,  full  fait  duk  de  Cornewal,  Henry  de  Langcaftre  fuft  fait  count 
de  Derby,  Willam  de  Boune  de  Northamtoun,  Willam  de  Mountagovv 
de  Salifbirs,  Hugh  de  Audeley  de  Glouceftre,  Robert  de  Vfforthe  de 
Southfolk,  Willam  de  Clyntoun  de  Huntyngdoun.  As  queux  countis  et 
fol.  220.  b.  autres  fes  bons  gentz  le  roy  departv  fy  largement  de  fez  poffeffions  qe 
apain  reteint  il  rien  deuers  ly  de  terres  apurtenauntz  a  fa  coroune,  mais 
ly  couenoit  viure  de  sureuenous  et  fubfides  a  graunt  charge  du  poeple. 
II  auoit  bon  pece  le  difme  de  faint  eglis,  la  quindezifme  dener  dez  lays, 
et  de  chefcun  sak  de  layn  xlvij.  I  viij.  d'.  Cell  fubfide  ly  fuft  graunte  du 
comune  pur  vn  temps,  mais  plus  dura  qe  le  temps  limyte.  II  auoit  ij. 
auns  la  neofifme  garbe  de  foun  realme.  A  meifme  cell  parlement  eftoit 
auys  au  counfaille  le  roy  par  auyfement  du  clergie,  qe  plus  longment  ne 
ferroit  a  surefer  de  foun  droit,  ne  du  clayme  du  coroune  de  Fraunce,  si  en 
fuft  en  pris  la  guere  ou  plain  et  fufrendu  le  homage  du  roy  de  Fraunce, 
Phelip  de  Valoys,  qi  deteint  le  droit  le  roy,  et  defialis  auxi  enuoyez.  Mef- 
fagers  enfurent  tramys  en  Allemain  depar  le  roy  Dengleter  pur  faire 
alyaunce  del  emperour  le  Bayuer,  qauoit  lautre  sore  efpofe  du  count  de 
Henau,  et  retenu  dez  seignours  illoeqes  qe  cofta  trefgrandifme  trefor 
faunz  profite,  et  furent  mefiageris  Henry  de  Borewafe,  euefque  de  Nichol, 
lez  countis  de  Salifbirs  et  de  Huntyngdoun,  qi  reuindrent  au  parlement 
de  Loundres  od  refpounz  de  lour  mefiage.  Toft  apres  en  eel  hour  An- 
drew de  Murref,  gardein  Defcoce  de  par  le  roy  Dauid,  qy  toft  se  letf'a 
morir  apres,  fill  graunt  deftruccioun  en  la  counte  de  Cardoille,  qi  fen 
ala  de  illoeqes  et  alfift  le  chaftel  de  Edinburgh,  adonqes  en  main  dez 
Engles.  Lez  marchies  fez  adreflerent  al  refcous,  oy  de  lour  venu;  lez 
Efcocez  fez  delogerent  et  lour  vindrent  a  lencountre  a  Clerkintoun 
et  lez  Engles  a  Krethtoun,  ou  entre  eaux  a  Krethtounden  y  auoit  vn 
graunt  punyes,  gentz  mortz  dampartz,  mais  plus  perderent  lez  Engles, 
lez  Efcocez  fez  delogerent  de  illoeqes  fefaunt  countenaunce  de  trier  en 
Engleterre,  et  fez  herbiferent  a  Galufchelle.  Lez  Engles  fez  logerent 
deuaunt  eaux  outre  leau  de  Twede,  ou  ils  demurrerent  ij.  iours,  et  la 
tierce  nuyt  lez  Efcocez  fez  delogerent  et  fen  alerent  lour  chemyne. 


168  SCALACRONICA. 

Procheinement  apres  le  count  de  Salifbirs,  qeftoit  vn  dez  plus  priuez  du 
counfail  le  roy  al  hour,  eftoit  auys  (je  lour  enbracement  de  lour  alyaunce 
dez  Allemaunz  nefloit  pas  refemblaunt  a  treir  a  profitable  iflu,  et  qe  le 
roy  ne  ferroit  pas  de  poair  a  foeffrer  lez  collages  dez  condiciouns  qils 
ly  demaunderent,  en  aparfceyuaunt  lour  couaityfe,  foun  charge  mouftre 
a  le  parlement  enchoif  au  roy,  se  trey  deuers  Efcoce  pur  foy  excufer 
de  cell  counfail ;  qi  fen  ala  od  lez  countis  de  Aroundel  et  de  Glou- 
celtre,  lez  fires  de  Percy  et  de  Neuille  a  laflege  de  Dunbarre,  ou  le 
roy  Dengleter  lour  aprocha  a  le  Whitekirk  pur  prendre  lour  purpos 
de  fez  affaires,  pur  queux  il  ne  pufl  al  hour  a  laffege  demurrer.  lis 
ieferoint  a  eel  affege  tot  le  quarrefme  et  tanque  la  pentecoft,  tanque 
leuefque  di  Nichol,  et  le  count  de  Northamtoun,  et  autres  qauoint  con- 
tenuz  lez  treticez  dez  alyaunz  des  Allemauns  eftoint  reuenuz  a  Loun- 
dres,  qauoint  efcheue  vn  bele  auenture  darmys  in  lour  paffage  de  cell 
meffage,  qi  defcounfirent  lez  Flemens  en  lile  de  Ragent,  ou  full  pris 
Gy  de  Flaundres  par  gentz  Wauter  de  Mauney.  Dez  queux  meflagers 
a  lour  reuenir  afcuns  difoient,  com  full  dit,  as  ceaux  qi  eftoint  entour  le 
roy  adonqes,  qe  qy  endeftourbaft  le  paflage  le  roy  en  acomplicement  de 
lour  tretice  qils  serrount  vnqor  tenuz  traiters,  et  qe  il  ne  amenoit  oue  ly 
fors  Giliot  de  la  Chaumbre,  qil  ferroit  afleitz  fort  de  fez  alyez  depar  dela 
pur  conquer  foun  heritage  de  Franz.  Ceftes  nouelis  oyez  a  Dunbarre 
oue  lez  seignours  illoeqes  qeftoint  sure  le  point  du  rendre  du  chattel  fez 
delogerent  oue  trewis,  qy  noferent  plus  demurreir  pur  blame  qe  hom  lour 
suremettroit  qils  deftourbaflent  le  paflage  le  roy  depuifque  lez  chofis 
eftoint  li  auaunt  alez.  Le  roy  par  counfail  de  ceaux  qy  auoint  cell  aly- 
aunce au  fin  enbrace,  pafla  la  mere  et  aryua  a  Andewerp,  ou  il  gifoit  xv. 
moys  faunz  rien  faire  de  guerre  fors  a  ioufter  et  a  demener  iolif  vie,  ou 
nafqy  Lyonel  le  fitz  le  roy.  En  quel  temps  lez  marchies  dez  Engles,  qi 
furent  lefl'ez  pur  garder  la  marche  dereir  lez  gardeyns  et  cheuetains  qi 
furent  cheuauche  en  oft  en  Efcoce,  furent  defcounfitz  a  Preffen,  Robert 
de  Maners  pris,  et  touz  playn  mortez  et  prifoners,  qy  pur  noun  couena- 
blis  irous  parolis  alerent  hors  de  aray  enuyoufement  aflembler  en  lieu 
noun  couenable.  Le  roy  dedenz  lez  ij.  primers  moys  de  foun  aryuail  fe 
trey  al  emperour  Lowys  a  Couelens,  ou  il  teint  couftoir  plener,  ou  full 


SCALACRONICA.  169 

pronouncie  en  playn  couftoir  le  droit  le  roy  Dengleter  du  coroune  de 
France  et  accepte  en  eel  court,  qe  tout  auoint  ils  ij.  sores  efpofe,  vnqor 
le  roy  nauoit  illoeqes  autre  eide  fors  com  de  gentz  qe  ia  ne  serrount 
enfaule  de  foen  ils  ly  feruiroint  volountiers,  mais  ceo  eftoit  pur  vn  tiel 
demefure  some  qe  impoflible  ferroit  a  luy  a  chef  venir.  Meifme  la  fei- 
foun  qe  cefti  roy  Edward  eftoit  en  Brabane,  lez  Fraunces  aryuerent  hors 
dez  galeys  a  Hamtoun  et  la  vile  priftrent  de  affaut  et  la  deftruyerent,  qi 
ne  firent  pas  grant  demore.  Lez  galeys  de  Fraunce  priftrent  meifme  la 
fefoun  de  iouft  Middilburgh  iiij.  dez  greignours  nefes  Dengleter,  qe 
gifaunt  eftoint  illoeqes  pur  egarder  la  plefanz  le  roy  fi  rien  vofift  de  eaux, 
qen  le  hour  gifoit  a  Andwerp.  Le  roy  Dengleter  auoit  commiffioun, 
com  vikair  general  del  empire,  et  qe  toz  ceaux  del  empire  ly  fuflent 
obeifaunz.  Le  roy  repaira  a  Andewerp,  penfaunt  eide  de  fez  alyes, 
tretaunt  toz  iours  oue  eaux,  qe  rien  ne  ly  vailli  tanque  pur  mefchief  de 
long  attend  talent  ly  surueint  qe  plus  longment  ne  voroit  attendre.  Si 
enuoya  a  le  duk  de  Brabham,  foun  cofyn  germain,  et  au  duk  de  Gellire, 
qauoit  fa  sore  efpofe,  et  au  markeis  de  Jolers,  foun  freir  en  ley,  et  as 
autres  fez  alyes  qauoint  pris  de  foun,  qe  a  vn  certain  iour  il  serroit  sure 
marches  de  France,  ou  il  prendroit  fez  auentures,  si  lour  fift  somouns 
com  vikair  lemperour  a  eftre  preftez  au  dit  iour.  Ou  lez  vns  dez  alyes 
le  roi  vindroient,  qi  ne  fez  purroint  detenir  pur  hount,  quy  cheuacherent 
oue  ly  en  France  deuaunt  faint  Quyntyn  et  en  Terrage,  ou  en  quel  veao-e 
lez  Engles  oue  lez  Allemaunz  affailerent  la  vile  de  Honycourt,  mais  ils 
ne  la  priftrent  my.  A  quel  affaute  Thomas  de  Ponyngis  fuft  mort  et 
autres  bons  gentz  Engles.  Le  roy  Phelip  de  France  veint  a  Berenfos 
fodeinement  a  procher  le  dit  roy  Dengleter  de  vn  lieu  pres,  faunz  fcieu 
del  oft  le  roy.  Le  dit  roy  ly  attendy  lendemayn  en  beaux  chaumps  apoy 
tot  le  iour,  qencountre  le  vefpre  fe  trey  a  Auaynes  pur  ceo  qe  loft  neftoit 
pas  vitaille,  ou  ils  demurrerent  lendemain  tot  le  iour.  Le  roy  Phelip  de 
France  ne  purfuift  plus  auaunt.  En  la  vefpre  surdift  de  ceft  Auainis  vn 
tiel  chaud  melle  en  loft  le  roy  Dengleter  entre  lez  archers  Engles  et 
afcunz  dez  Allemaunz  qe  tout  la  nuyte  lez  gentz  de  armys  dez  Eno-les 
eftoint  armez  en  batail.  Lez  vns  dez  Allemaunz  cheierent  defus  vne 
pane  de  loft  dez  Engles  en  vn  vilet  dehors  loft,  qi  tuerent  touz  plain  dez 

Y 


170  SCALACRONICA. 

comunes  dez  Engles,  et  robberent  cheueaux  et  harnoys,  et  fez  departer- 
ent  chefcun  foun  chemyn.  Le  roy  fe  trey  en  Brabaun  a  Andewerp,  ou 
le  counfail  de  Flaundres  treterent  oue  ly  et  fez  atournerent  a  ly  par  lour 
homages  et  ferementz  com  a  lour  souerain  feignour  roy  de  France,  qi 
par  lour  counfail  il  prill  le  noune  et  lez  armes  du  roy  de  Fraunce  a 
Gaunt,  ou  nafqy  Johan  fitz  le  roy,  count  de  Richemound.  II  fe  trey  en 
Engleter  pur  foi  meutz  arayer,  ou  en  foun  paffer  de  la  mere  eftoit  en 
grant  perille  de  tempeit,  si  leflaft  les  countes  de  Salifbirs  et  de  Soutlifolk 
gardeins  de  Flaundres,  qi  par  lour  noun  auifement  de  vn  fole  cheuauche 
furent  fuppris  deuaunt  Lile  et  prifoneris,  et  menez  au  chaflelet  de  Parys. 
Le  count  de  Wanvik  full  fait  gardein  de  Flaundres  depar  le  roy  Engleis. 
Lez  autres  countis  prifes,  le  roy  de  Fraunce  aflift  le  chaflelle  de  Tunis 
en  Cambrefy,  qe  les  Engles  auoint  fuppris,  ou  le  duk  de  Braban  et  les 
comunes  de  Flaundres,  et  le  count  de  Henaw,  qauoit  defye  le  roy  de 
France  nouelement  pur  outrage  qil  ly  auoit  fait  faire,  alerent  a  refcous; 
ou  ils  priftrent  hors  du  chattel  lez  Engles  qi  auoint  done  lour  oftagez  qi 
lez  perderent,  fi  arderent  le  chattel  au  vieu  le  roy  de  France.  En  cell 
mene  temps  qe  ceftez  gentz  furent  as  champs  entour  ceft  refcous,  le  roy 
Edward  Dengleter  eftoit  sure  foun  paflage  a  Erwelle  od  foUn  oft  deuers 
fez  alies,  qauoit  fait  efchipper  fez  cheueaux,  qant  nouelis  ly  vindrent  qe 
le  amerail  de  Normendy  od  tout  la  nauy  le  roy  de  France  Phelip  eftoint 
deuaunt  Lefclufe  pur  afieger  Flaundres  par  mere,  qe  nuls  vitails  ne  mar- 
chaundys  lour  venifleint  par  eaw,  et  pur  auoir  deftourbe  le  paflage  le  roy. 
Ceftez  nouelis  entenduz  il  fill  remettre  fez  cheueaux  a  terre,  et  mounta 
od  fez  gentz  del  oft  sur  mere,  qy  la  veil  de  faint  Johan  en  efte  veint 
deuaunt  Lefclus  en  la  mere,  et  lendemain  le  iour  faint  Johan  fen  ala 
combatre  od  ceft  grant  nauy  de  France,  qi  par  grace  de  Dieux  lez  def- 
comfift;  ou  furount  lez  nefs  touz  conquys  et  le  amerail  mort,  Hugh 
Keret,  et  tiel  multitude  dez  Franceis  qe  a  meruail  outre  mefure.  Le 
[roy]  aryua  a  Lefclus,  ou  ly  vindrent  lez  seignours  de  Braban,  de  Gelir, 
de  Juleris,  et  de  Henaw,  et  le  counfail  de  lez  bons  viles  de  Flaundres; 
ou  par  lour  counfail  le  roy  fe  trey  a  Gaunte,  de  ou  dedens  lez  viij.  iours 
il  remua  de  illoeqes  deuaunt  Tournay,  qi  laflift.  II  departift  loft  de 
Flandres  en  dieus,  ceaux  de  Gaunte  prift  il  od  ly  a  Tournay,  ceaux  de 


SCALACRONICA.  171 

Bruge  et  de  Ypre  enuoya  il  a  Robert  de  Artoys,  qeftoit  al  hour  de  fa 
enherdaunce,  qi  pur  tort  qe  Phelip  de  Valoys  qi  fe  clamoit  roi  de  France 
li  auoit  fait  du  counte  de  Artoys  qil  clamoit  de  heritage,  qi  Robert  auoit 
fa  sore  en  efpoufe,  qi  fe  atourna  au  dit  roy  Dengleter  com  au  droit  roi 
de  France.  Le  roy  enuoya  fez  lettres  au  Phelip  de  Valoys  le  ly  proferv 
chois  ou  de  batail  areft  poair  en  lieu  couenable  et  iour  affigne,  ou  de 
cent  cheualers  encountre  cent  sur  bons  affuraunz,  ou  perfonal  darrein  de 
lour  ij.  corps.  Le  counfail  de  France  difoint  qils  ne  auoint  conyfaunce 
a  qy  les  ditez  lettres  alerent,  de  puifque  eles  firent  menfioun  de  Phelip 
de  Valoys  et  ils  ly  tyndrent  roy  de  France,  feignant  excufacioun  du 
refpouns  du  terminacioun  du  point  efpecifie.  Ly  dit  Robert  fen  alaft 
deuaunt  faint  Thomer  od  touz  plain  dez  Engles  et  od  cedes  auaunt  ditz 
gentz  de  Flaundres,  ou  le  count  de  Ermynak  et  le  duk  de  Burgoyn 
eftoint  dedenz,  qi  fen  iflerent  en  dieus  bataillis.  Robert  de  Artoys  od 
lez  Engles  et  ceaux  de  Brige  fen  alerent  defcounfire  la  batail  au  duk  de 
Burgoin,  et  apoy  vffent  entrez  la  dit  vile  ouefqes  eaux,  fi  pres  lez  cha- 
ceroint.  Le  count  de  Ermynak  od  fa  route  fen  ala  defcounfire  la  reir- 
garde  le  dit  Robert,  ceaux  de  Ypre,  qi  lez  enchafa  durement  loinz.  Au 
repairer  Robert  de  Artoys  en  la  vefpre  le  count  de  Ermynak  fe  repaira 
deuers  faint  Thomer  et  encountrerent  enfemble,  mais  ceo  efloit  dedenz 
la  nuyt  qe  chefcun  fe  garda  de  autre  faunz  plus  faire.  Au  repairer  le 
dit  Robert  as  fez  loeges  ils  trouerent  lour  autre  batail  de  Ypre  defcoun- 
fitz  et  fuys,  pur  quel  chos  ils  fez  delogerent  touz  meifme  la  nuyt,  qe  len- 
demain  fen  alerent  a  Tournay  au  roy  Dengleter  qauoit  affys  la  vile,  ou 
efloient  dedenz  lez  countis  de  Ew,  coneftable  de  France,  et  le  count  de 
Foys,  od  mille,  d.  horns  darmis  de  ertraungers.  Le  roy  auoit  iue  a  eel 
affege  xi.  semains,  qant  le  roy  Phelip  de  France  veint  od  foun  grant  oft 
vn  lieu  pres  de  Tournay,  ou  comencerent  tretice  qe  lez  alies  le  roy  ly 
chacerent  a  ceft  tretice  pur  ceo  qils  ne  voroint  plus  demurreir,  fi  fez  de- 
parterent  od  vn  trew  de  vn  ane;  lez  prifouners  de  toutis  coftes  delyueres 
pur  le  temps,  lez  countis  de  Saliibirs  et  de  Southfolk  dez  Engles,  ly 
fires  de  Mountmaracy  et  autres  dez  Fraunceis  qi  furent  prifis  iouft  Tour- 
nay. La  fentence  od  lez  grantz  obligatoirs  as  queux  lez  Flemenges 
eftoient  lyes  en  la  court  de  Rome  au  pape  en  le  temps  le  roy  Philip  de 


172  SCALACRONICA. 

France  ly  beaux,  sure  payn  qils  ne  leuerount  iames  encountre  la  coroune 
de  France,  lour  eiloint  releffez  au  fuyte  de  cefti  Phelip  de  Valoys,  qi  al 
hour  fe  difoit  roy  de  France,  par  condiciouns  taillez  au  pris  de  trewys 
deuaunt  Toumay  pur  touz  iours. 

En  quel  temps  du  sege  de  Toumay  Benet  eftoit  pape  prochein  apres 
Johan,  qeftoit  nome  deuaunt  le  Cardenal  Blaunk,  et  eftoit  del  ordre  de 
Sifteux.  II  eftoit  durement  de  bon  confcience.  II  reftreynoit  plus  lordre 
de  Sifteux  par  fez  conftituciouns,  qil  neftoit  deuaunt  foun  temps.  II 
fentremift  durement  de  la  pefe  par  mediacioun  dez  cardinaux  entre  cefti 
roy  Edward  le  tierce  apres  la  conqueft  et  le  roy  de  France,  Phelip  de 
Valoys,  mais  ne  poait  a  chief  venir,  si  ne  eftoit  enherdaunt  as  nuls  dez 
parties.  En  le  mene  temps  de  ceft  aflege  a  Tournay  lez  countes  de  la 
Marche  et  de  Sothirland  Defcoce  vindrent  prendre  pray  dedenz  lez  mar- 


de  France  par  trefoun,  feaunt  a  manger,  com  ly  daufyn  de  Vien,  le  fitz  fol.  223. 
eyne  le  roy  adonqes,  li  auoit  prie  a  manger;  le  count  de  Arcourt  et 
autres  feignours  de  Normendy  decollez  furmettaunt  a  eaux  couyne  de  fa 
defefauns.  Et  fait  a  fauoir,  qe  a  eel  hour  le  fitz  eyne  du  roy  de  France 
eftoit  daufyn  de  Vien,  le  quel  daufyn  Phelip  le  pier  cefti  Johan  de  France 
auoit  achate  au  coroune  de  France,  pur  quoy  cefti  roy  Johan  le  dona  a 
foun  fitz. 

En  Ian  de  grauce  mile,  ccc.lv.,  et  du  regne  le  roy  Edward  le  tierce 
Dengleter  apres  la  conqueft  xxx,  Edward  le  eyne  fitz  du  dit  roy  Deng- 
leter  et  prince  de  Galis,  qi  tretout  Ian  auoit  demurre  en  Gafcoigne  sur 
la  gerre  foun  pier,  com  auaunt  eft  efpecefie,  mouoit  en  oft  deuers  Fraunce 
hors  de  Burdeaux,  le  yj.  iour  de  Juylle;  qy  teint  foun  chemyn  a  la  Rule, 
et  parmy  Agenoys,  et  Paragor,  et  Lymofyne,  et  en  Berry,  ou  plufours  for- 
terefces  ly  furont  renduz.  II  enueint  a  Remorentyne,  vn  vile  en  Saloigne; 
ou  ly  firis  de  Croun  et  monfire  Burfigaud,  vn  chiualer  trauaille,  y  furount 
enuoyez  du  roy  de  France,  qi  pres  eftoit,  pur  sureueoir  le  poair  et  la 
maner  del  oft  au  prince.  La  quel  vile  le  dit  prince  prift  par  afiaut.  Le 
fire  du  Croun  et  monfire  Burfigaud,  la  vile  gaigne,  fez  enmiftrent  de- 


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denz  vn  toure  fort  qe  y  auoit,  qi  la  tindrent,  hors  de  quoy  et  de  la  vile 
ils  eftoit  renduz,  lour  lx.me  dez  cheualeris  et  efquiers  en  la  grace  du  prince, 
de  ou  il  fe  remua  deuers  la  ryuer  del  Leyre  pur  la  auoir  paffe  en  biaunce 
dauoir  encountree  le  roi  foun  pier,  qil  quidoit  qenfuft  aryuez  en  lez 
colliers  de  France  ou  de  Normendy  sure  la  conquer!  de  foun  heritage  de 
Franz,  ou  qe  le  duk  Henry  de  Lancaftre  poait  auoir  trait  deuers  ly,  le 
quel  duk  de  Lancaflre  auoit  la  garde  de  Bretaigne,  qi  enuoiez  eftoit  du 
roy  Dengleter  meifme  lefte  fi  paffage  vft  troue  ou  de  ge  ou  de  pount, 
ou  touz  furrount  rountis  de  Orliens  a  Touris  ou  il  teint  foun  chemyn 
pardeuaunt  Touris.  En  quel  veage  en  le  hour  eftoint  pris  gentz  darmes, 
pres  ij.  centz  horns  darmis  de  ceux  de  France,  dez  afcuns  dez  queux  le 
prince  auoit  nouelis  verrays  qe  le  roy  Johan  de  France  ly  aprochoit  pres 
od  foun  oft  real,  qy  paffa  Leire  a  Bloys.  Le  cardenal  Peregor  aprocha 
au  prince  enpriaunt  de  tretice,  qi  courtoifement  fuft  refpoundu  qe  touz 
iours  serroit  preft  a  prendre  et  a  faire  refoun.  Le  dit  prince  fe  trey  par 
fez  iournes  outre  la  ryuer  de  Viane,  qauoit  nouelis  par  prifoners  qe  le 
roy  de  France  pafleroit  la  dit  ryuer  procheinement  deuers  Payteris,  qe 
del  hour  qe  ly  dit  prince  auoit  fait  paffer  tout  la  nuyte  du  chaftelle 
fol.  223.  b.  Arraud  le  Sumail,  fe  trey  en  grant  haft  od  fes  trois  efchelis  en  batail  a 
trailers  du  pays  pur  auoir  auaunt  venu  le  paffe  du  roy  de  France  de  la 
dit  riuer  au  pount  de  Chaueny,  mes  bon  pece  deuaunt  qil  pooit  le  dit 
lieu  aprocher  il  aparfceuft  qe  le  roy  eftoit  paffe,  mais  vn  grant  route  dez 
Frances  eftoit  a  dereir  et  acofte,  o  queux  lez  gentz  le  dit  prince  anoint 
afaire,  qe  lez  defcounfirent,  ou  furount  prifes  dez  Frances  lez  countis 
de  Anfoir  et  de  Juny,  et  od  eaux  plus  de  cent  homs  darmis,  cheualeris  et 
efquieris,  lez  autres  rechacez  a  Chaueny ;  ceft  iourne  eftoit  le  samady,  le 
xvij.  iour  de  Septembre,  le  difme  semain  de  ceft  veage.  Le  dymange 
fuaunt  le  prince  fe  trey  deuers  Payteris,  ou  en  chemynaunt  fez  defcouer- 
ours  ly  vindrent  nouncier  qe  loft  le  roy  de  France  en  counray  dez  batails 
eftoit  pres  venuz  a  vn  lieu  Engles,  ou  en  le  hour  le  dit  prince  defcendy 
a  pee,  araya  fez  bataillis.  En  quel  lieu  le  auaunt  dit  cardenal  reueint 
autre  foitz  au  prince,  enpriaunt  pur  Dieux  qil  arefta  fez  gentz  tanque  il 
auoit  parle  od  le  dit  roy  de  France  pur  faufete  du  fank  Criftien,  et  qe 
oue  leide  du  souerain  il  luy  ferroit  auoir  pefe  refonable  a  foun  honour ; 


171  SCALACRONICA. 

qi  ly  refpoundi  qe  refoun  prendroit  il  treuolountiers.  Le  cardenal  fen 
ala,  qi  toft  reueint,  qi  troua  le  prince  remue  a  pee  en  batail  plus  pres 
dun  qarter  dun  lieu,  iffy  qe  geris  y  auoit  plus  dun  demy  lieu  Engles 
entre  lez  ij.  oftes.  Le  dit  cardenal  ly  pria  qe  ordeiner  voroit  ix.  dez 
soens  pur  treter  en  my  lieu  dez  ij.  oftes  de  vn  voy  refonable  de  pefe  en- 
countre  autres  ix.  de  le  lour,  quoy  fuft  ottroie  et  parfourny,  mais  rien 
nen  priil  a  affecle,  mais  ceo  ne  fuft  fait  com  aparaunt  fuft  mais  pur  taller 
le  purpos  de  ly  prince  et  pur  aloigner  la  bofoigne  au  damage  du  dit 
prince  en  defaut  de  vitail  et  autres  eftofferis  et  en  encreffement  de  lour 
poair  qe  touz  iours  enuindrent,  tout  enfift  le  cardynal  pur  bien.  La 
tretice  fuft  proloigne  tout  la  nuyte,  londemain  au  folail  leuaunt  reueint 
ly  cardynal  touz  iours  curious  a  deftourber  la  batail,  enpreffaunt  longs 
trewis,  en  queux  pooit  eftre  trete  final  pefe.  Ly  prince  luy  difoit  touz 
iours  qen  ceo  qil  auoit  poair  il  fe  acorderoit  uoluntiers,  et  ceo  ne  pafferoit 
il  my.  Ly  cardynal  difoit  qil  reirroit  au  roy  de  France  et  ly  lefferoit 
fauoir  en  le  hour  a  quoi  il  le  puroit  attreiie.  Qi  toft  remaunda  au  prince 
qe  la  bofoigne  ny  aloit  en  autre  gife,  mais  qe  chefcun  enfeift  foun  meil- 
liour.  Le  prince  qi  preft  eftoit  en  counray  de  batail  fift  mounter  a 
cheual  touz  lez  foens;  fes  as  coftes  deuaunt  lez  batails  du  roy  de  France, 
pur  choifer  meilliour  place  a  combatre,  ou  lez  Frances  quidoint  qe  ils 
fez  vffont  fuys,  qi  fortement  fez  hafterent,  et  nomiement  lour  auaunt 
garde  de  dieus  marefchals  party  en  enuy,  com  fuft  dit,  qi  meutz  enuail- 
leroit  pur  parolis  fours  entre  eaux.  Le  auaunt  gard  du  prince  et  foun 
reirgard  affemblerent  od  lez  marefcheals,  qe  lour  defconfirent.  La  batail 
du  daufyn,  fitz  eyne  du  roy  de  Fraunce,  affembla  od  la  batail  du  prince, 
qi  bien  toft  furount  areir  botez.  Et  auxi  la  bataille  du  duk  de  Orliens, 
freir  au  roy  de  France,  qi  a  lour  recoiller  encontrerent  oue  la  batail  le 
roy  qi  defcenduz  eftoit  a  pee,  qi  ala  cheualeroufement  pur  affembler  sur 
la  batail  le  prince,  del  hidoufe  vieu  de  qoi  tot  plain  dez  gentz  de  la  ba- 
tail le  prince  fez  retreierent  as  autres  batails  qauoint  defcounfitz  lez 
lours,  outre  vn  hay  en  vn  autre  chaumpe,  lez  qeux  aparceurent  la  areft, 
la  couyn,  et  le  combatre  de  la  batail  le  prince,  fez  hafterent  deuers  ly; 
qy  affemblerent  au  cofte  oue  tiel  efcry  qe  moult  reuygoura  lours  amys, 
en  grant  affray  des  enemys,  ifii  qe  par  la  efpecial  grace  du  Souerayne 


SCALACRONICA.  175 

la  vicloir  demurra  od  le  auaunt  dit  prince.  A  quel  batail  de  Payteris  le 
roy  Johan  de  France  fuft  pris  prifoner,  et  foun  fitz  Phelip,  et  xiij.  countis, 
et  vn  erceuefque,  et  de  barouns  et  de  baneretis  lxvi.,  la  noumbre  de 
gentz  darmys  prifis  ij.  mile  :  et  furount  mortez  le  duk  de  Bourboun,  et  le 
duk  de  Attenys  adonqes  conellable  de  Fraunce,  et  le  marefcballe  de 
Cleremount,  et  vn  euefque,  et  vifcountis  plufours,  barons  et  baneretz,  et 
enuyroun  iij.  mile  horns  darmis  a  la  chace  et  a  la  batail.  Si  eftoit  la 
noumbre  dez  gentz  darmis  od  cotis  armours  en  loft  de  France  viij.  mile; 
et  en  le  oft  le  prince  fors  mile  ix.  c,  et  mile  et  d.  archiers.  Willam 
seignour  de  Douglas,  qi  voloit  faire  pelerinage  outre  mere,  pafla  hors 
Defcoce,  enueint  en  France  en  le  hour  qe  le  roy  Johan  de  France  fe 
adrefla  en  oft  deuers  le  dit  prince  en  Gafcoigne,  fen  ala  od  le  dit  roy, 
deueint  cheualer  de  fez  mayns,  efchapa  de  la  batail,  reueint  en  foun  pays, 
afcuns  dez  fez  chiualers  mortz  a  la  bataille.  Qy  Willam  deueint  count 
de  Douglas  procheignement  apres  la  deliueraunce  le  roy  Dauid  Defcoce. 
Qi  Dauid  de  Bruys  en  le  hour  fill  Willam  de  Ramyffay  deuenir  count  de 
Fif,  moult  par  enchefoun  de  fa  femme  qil  amaft  paramurs,  com  len 
difoit.  Quel  countee  le  roy  dyfoit  foun  droit  a  doner  pur  vn  forfeiture, 
com  difoit,  qe  Dunkan  le  count  de  Fif  auoit  fait  en  le  temps  le  roy 
Robert  de  Bruys,  foun  pier,  de  la  mort  dun  efqier  qi  out  a  noun  Michel 
fol.  224.  b.  Betoin,  qil  auoit  fait  tuer  en  yre  a  la  ryuer,  pur  quoy  le  dit  [roy  Dauid] 
suremift  qe  le  dit  count  pur  pefe  auoir  du  roy  pur  la  forfet  auoit  ordene 
par  endenture  la  reuerfioun  du  countee  a  foun  dit  pier  le  roy  en  cas  qil 
deueyoit  faunz  heir  mail,  qi  ceo  fefoit,  mais  auoit  le  dit  count  vn  feile 
de  sa  femme,  la  feile  le  roy  Dengleter,  la  countaife  de  Glouceftre,  quel 
feile  eftoit  en  Engleter  et  deueroit  auoir  efte  vendu  a  Robert  Senefchalle 
Defcoce,  qe  prift  par  amours  a  marry  Willam  de  Feltoun,  vn  cheualer 
de  Northumbreland,  qi  la  auoit  en  garde  en  le  houre,  la  quel  claym  droit 
hu  countee,  qe  dedit  celle  taille.  Ceft  batail  de  Payteris  auenu  a  la 
gyfe,  la  sureveile  de  faint  Matheu  Ian  auaunt  nome,  le  dit  prince  fe  trey 
a  Burdeux  od  le  dit  roy  de  France,  prifoner,  et  od  lez  autres,  pur  lez 
mettir  en  fauf  gard  tanque  le  roy  foun  pier  aueroit  fait  de  eaux  foun 
pleifer,  qi  bien  deueroit  mercier  Dieux  de  fa  grace,  qe  a  vn  foitz  il  auoit 
et  en  le  hour  prifoners  ij.  roys  coronez,  le  roy  de  France  le  plus  puftaunt 


176  SCALACRONICA. 

dez  Criftienes,  et  le  roy  Dauid  Defcoce,  qen  eel  hour  auoit  demurre  en 
Engleter  x.  aunz  prifoner.  Meifme  la  feifoun  dedenz  ij.  moys  apres  ceft 
batail  de  Payters,  fuft  la  cite  de  Bafille  rue  tout  a  terre  par  terremote, 
et  graunt  noumbre  dez  comunes  de  la  cite  mortez  au  cheyer,  et  plufours 
chatleaux  abatus  enuyroun.  Meifme  Ian  le  duk  Henry  de  Lancaftre,  qi 
gardeyn  eftoit  de  Bretaigne  en  le  hour  depar  le  auaunt  dit  roi  Edward 
Dengleter,  affift  la  cite  de  Renis,  de  la  faint  Michelle  tanque  apres  la 
faint  Johan  le  Baptifte  en  my  efle,  de  ou  il  fe  delogea  par  vertu  de 
trewis  prifis  en  Gafcoigne  entre  le  dit  prince  de  Galis,  fitz  le  dit  roy 
Dengleter,  et  le  counfail  de  France;  lez  trewes  adurreirs  ij.  aunz.  Mais 
le  duk  de  Lancaftre  auoit  vn  grant  foum  dargent  de  ceaux  de  Bretaigne 
dez  enherdauntz  Charlis  de  Bloys  pur  fes  cottages  du  dit  allege.  Ly 
dit  prince  de  Galis  amena  le  dit  roy  Johan  de  France  en  Engleter  a  foun 
pier,  qi  roy  Johan  de  France  fuft  bon  pece  a  Loundres  et  puis  remue  a 
Wyndefor.  Le  roy  Dauid  Defcoce  fuft  a  la  faint  Michel  fuaunt  deliuers 
pur  raunfoun  de  c.  mile  marcz  dargent,  fez  oftages  furount  entrez  a 
Berewyk.  Le  count  de  Sothirland,  et  le  fitz  le  dit  count  qi  fitz  eftoit  la  fol.  225. 
sore  le  dit  roy  Dauid,  Thomas  le  Senefchal  qi  dez  Efcotz  eftoit  nomez 
count  Dangous,  Thomas  de  Murref  baroun  de  Botheville,  od  autres  xx. 
fitz  dez  seignurs  Defcoce,  eftoint  oftages.  Entour  quel  temps  vn  che- 
ualer  nee  du  Lang  de  Oke,  qi  fe  fill  nomer  le  Erchepreftre,  fe  affembla 
juuenceaux  gentz  darmes  de  plufours  naciouns,  mouerent  guerre  en 
Prouince,  gaignerent  chaftelis  et  viles  enuyroun  Auinioun,  du  quoi  la 
court  du  faint  Perre,  qy  adonqes  y  endemura,  eftoit  durement  troeble. 
La  quels  ryot  fuft  grantement  mefe  par  lez  dounes  du  pape  Innocent. 
La  royne  Defcoce  et  fore  le  dit  roy.  Edward  Dengleter  veint  meifme  la 
fefoune  a  Wyndefore  a  parler  od  le  roy  foun  freir  et  de  boter  en  par- 
launce  greignour  tretice,  et  fuft  de  lee  sa  mere  la  royn  Ifabelle  qe  moruft 
a  Herforthe  meifme  la  fefoun,  qe  ne  lauoit  pas  vieu  xxx.  aunz.  A  quel 
lieu  de  Wyndefore  le  dit  roy  Edward  teint  fa  grant  feft  de  jouftes  et 
reuelle  le  iour  faint  George,  com  acouftomez  eftoit,  ou  le  roy  Johan  de 
France  eftoit  en  le  hour  en  prifoun,  et  ou  le  duk  Henry  de  Lancaftre 
fuft  naufre,  com  ioufta  oue  vn  chiualer  vn  autre  a  trauers  ly  fery  de  fa 
launce  hu  cofte  moult  perilloufement,  de  quoy  il  gary.     As  qeux  iouftes 


SCALACRONICA.  177 

veint  le  duk  de  Braban  et  de  Lenburgh,  qi  freir  eftoit  al  emperour  Charlis 
de  Bahayn,  pur  demaunder  eyde  encountre  le  count  de  Flaundres,  qi  bon 
pece  ly  auoit  guerroie  pur  la  vile  de  Malyns  et  autres  debatis  entre  eaux, 
qauoint  efpofe  ij.  sores  feilles  Johan  duk  de  Braban,  qi  nout  nul  fitz. 
Mais  le  dit  duk  de  Lenburhe  auoit  leyne  la  countas  de  Henaw,  efpouf 
Johan  qy  moruft  en  Frife,  qy  duk  auoit  la  douche  du  doune  foun  freir 
lemperour  par  couflom  del  empir.  La  fefoun  deuaunt  vindrent  dieus 
cardineaux,  Peregor  et  Vrgen,  en  Engleter  pur  treter  de  la  deliueraunce 
du  roy  Johan  de  France  et  de  pefe  entre  lez  roys,  qi  bon  pece  demur- 
rerent  en  Loundres,  qe  a  vn  voy  de  pefe  treterent  quoi  fuft  affentu  du 
counfail  le  roy  en  maner  qil  agreaft  au  comune  de  fa  terre,  par  counfail 
dez  queux  le  chalange  de  foun  droit  de  France  fuft  comencee  et  perfe- 
uere;  quelis  comunes  defagreerent  en  playn  parlement  a  Loundres  ou 
tail  du  dit  tretice,  fi  enfy  ne  full  qe  autre  addicioun  ne  fuft  aioulte.  Ceo 
fuft  qe  le  pape  releiflalt  pur  ly  et  fez  fucceffours  tout  le  contra6le  qe  le 
roy  Johan  auoit  fait  par  endenture  et  par  attournement  au  patronage  le 
apoftoil  en  le  temps  Innocent ;  et  qe  le  feint  pier  ceffaft  de  chos  qen  le 
hour  fentremilt  peniblement.  Quoy  com  lez  genz  de  lay  Engles  difoint 
eftoit  grantement  countre  la  coroun,  qar  meifme  le  hour  lez  jullices  le 
roy  eftoint- perfonelement  efcomengez  pur  procefle  de  vn  iugement  qils 
auoint  fait  en  le  bank  le  roy  encountre  Thomas  de  Lile,  euefque  de  Ely, 
qe  del  ordre  dez  Jacobins  eftoit,  qi  ne  refpoundy  my  fourmelement  dun 
felouny  qe  ly  fuft  par  enditement  surmis  par  fez  aduerfairs,  le  counfail 
fol.  >25.  b.  la  dame  de  Wake,  pur  quoy  lez  ditz  juftifes  agarderent  vn  content  folonc 
lour  loys,  pur  quoy  le  roy  feifift  lez  temparautes  le  dit  euefque,  qy  fen  ala 
a  Auinioun  del  hour  qil  fuft  attache  et  bailie  al  erceuefque,  enfilt  dure  pro- 
cefTe  iffint  qe  le  pape  fentremilt  du  temparaulte,  com  difoint  lez  auauntditz 
gentz  de  lay  en  defefaunce  du  regaute  le  roy.  Quel  peticioim  enuoye 
eftoit  au  faint  pier,  sure  quel  tretice  od  autres  obltacles  lez  ditz  cardy- 
naux  departerent  hors  Dengleter,  qi  defefparez  eftoint  du  tretice,  ia  le 
mainz  fi  pres  lauoint  chacez  qe  lez  ij.  roys  eftoint  entrebaifez  sure  con- 
dicioun  dun  fourme  de  pefe,  qe  a  vn  terme  limite  del  aparfournicement 
ne  pooit  eftre  tenu  du  part  dez  Fraunceis.  Meifme  la  fefoun  lez  plu- 
fours  dez  gentz  Engles  qe  vefqerent  sure  la  guere,  lez  treuis  prif,  com 
z 


178  SCALACRONICA. 

auaunt  ell  dit,  fez  miftrent  en  Normendy,  emblerent  chafteaux,  afforcerent 
raanoirs,  mouerent  tiel  riote  de  guere  hu  pays  par  fuppuail  dez  gentz  de 
comune  Dengleter  qi  lez  vindrent  de  iour  en  autre  contre  defens  le  roy, 
enalerent  efpeflement  a  meruail  tout  faunz  cheuetain  de  lour  tell  demene, 
qi  grantz  mellries  firent  hu  pays.     Truagerent  apoy  tout  Normendy  et 
lez  coflers  dez  plufours  pais  enuyroun,  fez  purchacerent  bons  forterefces 
en  Paitou,  Aungeou,  et  en  Humein,  et  deuers  toute  France  a  vj.  lieus 
de  Parys.     lis  elloint  efparplis  en  tantz  dez  lieus  en  diuers  pais  qe  nuls 
ne  pooit  rementiner  lez  punyes  ne  lez  faitz  darmis  qe  lour  aueindrent  hu 
men  temps,  mais  tant  firent  qe  toutz  gens  Criftiens  fez  meruaillerent.    Et 
fi  nelloint  fors  comunes  de  coillet,  ioens  gentz  qe  deuaunt  le  houre  nef- 
toint  fors  de  poy  acount,  qi  durement  deuindrent  puflauntz  dauoir  et  fa- 
chauntz  de  eel  guere,  pur  quoi  lez  ioens  de  plufours  pays  Dengleter  fen 
alerent.     Lez  comunes  dez  vileins  et  lez  laborours  de  France  fez  afiem- 
blerent  en  routes  apres  ceo  qe  lour  roy  Johan  efloit  pris  a  Pauteris,  def- 
piferent  lez  gentilis  horns  et  lez  defolerent  ceaux  qils  pooint  ateindre, 
abaterent  lour  mefouns,  surmettaunt  qe  lez  gentilis  gentz  ne  ualoint  rien 
fors  par  extorfioun  a  reyndre  la  comune  et  lez  poures  gentz.    lis  tuerent 
afcuns  partz  lez  femmes  et  lez  enfauntz  dez  gentilis  homs,  pur  quoy  lez 
gentilis  homs  fez  affemblerent,  et  lez  defcounfirent,  et  lez  enchacerent, 
et  ameferent  eel  riote.    Meifme  la  fefoun  lez  comunes  de  Parys  fez  firent 
vn  chevetain,  ly  nomerent  Prouotl  dez  marchaundes,  leuerent  fodeigne- 
ment,  fen  alerent  au  palays  le  roy  ou  le  fitz  le  roy,  qi  dit  full  duk  de  Nor- 
mendy et  daufyn  de  Vien  efloit  en  counfail,  roumperent  lez  hufes  de  fa 
chaumbre,  tuerent  deuaunt  ly  le  marefchal  de  Cleremont  le  freir  cely  qi 
muruft  a  Paiteris,  detrencherent  illoeqes  plefours  autres,  furemettaunt  a 
eaux  qils  anoint  degaile  par  gifer  en  bons  viles  la  trefors  de  France  de 
eaux  pris  faunz  autre  apertice  faire  darmys  encountre  les  enemys,  ia  le 
mainz  le  dill  marefchal  auoit  hu  meifme  la  fefoun  vn  defcounfiture  sure 
lez  Engles  en  Normendy,  ou  Godfray  de  Harcourt  efloit  mort,  qautre 
foitz  auoit  enherde  as  Engles.    Le  dit  Prouoll  dez  marchaundez  enmyll 
vn  chaperoun  de  fa  suyte  sure  la  tell  le  fitz  le  roy,  ly  amena  deuant  la 
comune,  ou  il  lour  full  en  couenaunt  de  foy  contener  apres  lour  counfail, 
quel  promefle  il  ne  teint  point,  fe  aloigna  a  plus  toft  qil  pooit,  enbrafa 


SCALACRONICA.  179 

poair  encountre  eaux,  pur  qoy  lez  ditz  comunes  retindrent  le  roy  de 
Nauern  et  afcuns  Engles  qi  demurraunt  eftoint  en  Normendy.  Qy  roy 
de  Nauern  elloit  enprifone  de  le  roy  de  France,  com  deuaunt  ell  dit,  qi 
meifme  la  fefoun  full  delyuers  par  le  seignour  de  Pynkene  et  de  fez 
autres  amys,  qi  de  nuyt  emblerent  le  lieu  ou  le  dit  roy  full  enprifone  et 
ly  amenerent  en  Normendy.  Le  dit  roy  od  plufours  Engles  fe  enherda 
au  dit  comune  de  Parys,  eftoint  dedenz  la  cite,  de  ou  lez  Engles  ifferent 
et  foutz  priftrent  vn  pount  qe  le  daufyn  auoit  fait  adreffer  dez  bateaux 
de  nouel  outre  Seyn  a  dieus  liens  de  amount  Parys,  pur  deftourber  la  vi- 
tail,  ou  au  gaite  foun  marefchal  full  pris,  fe  iiij.me  dez  cheualers,  et  amenez 
a  Parys  dez  ditz  Engles,  ou  bien  furount  refceus  et  cheris  tanque  ils 
mouerent  defordeinez  riotes  dez  extorliouns  en  la  cite.  Pur  quoi  lez 
comunes  leuerent  sure  eaux,  lez  enchacerent  horf  de  vile,  fuerent  qi  ef- 
chaperent  as  chaumps  en  batail.  Lez  Engles,  qauoint  purpris  et  enforce 
Poify  et  autres  forterefcez  enuyroun,  eftoint  iffus  deuers  faint  Clow; 
oyerent  la  rumoure,  encountrerent  lez  fuauntz,  enpriflrent  le  chemyn 
deuers  ceaux  de  Parys  qi  iffus  eftoint,  currerent  sure  eaux  et  lez  defcoun- 
firent,  lez  reboterent  defpitoufement  dedenz  lour  cite,  plufours  de  eaux 
mortez  et  noez  en  Seyne.  Le  roy  de  Nauar  efchapa  hors  de  Parys,  pur 
quel  riote  lez  ditz  comunes  reenherderent  meifme  la  nuyte  a  daufyn  le 
fitz  le  roy  qi  pres  eftoit  en  oft.  Ils  detrencherent  en  le  houre  lour  Prouolt 
dez  marchaundes  qils  auoit  leue  en  lour  cheuetyn,  et  od  ly  plufours  autres 
de  fez  mayntenours,  pur  quoi  le  dit  roy  de  Nauern  od  lez  auaunt  ditz 
Engles  demurrauntz  en  Normendy  fez  miftrent  en  oft  deuaunt  Parys, 
demaundaunt  la  batail  de  daufyn  qi  ne  voroit  iffer.  En  lour  aler  de 
illoeqes  ils  priftrent  de  affaut  la  vile  de  Creel.  Le  roy  de  Nauern  auoit 
couyn  dez  gentz  de  Amyas,  qauoint  sure  la.  nuyte  purpris  dieus  ou  trois 
portz  de  la  vile  et  lez  auoint  leffe  ouertz,  en  penfe  qe  au  foun  dun  clarion 
le  dit  roy,  qy  pres  elloit  venuz  la  vile,  vft  entree.  Mais  com  auenture 
de  gerre  le  aportoit,  meifme  la  nuyte  le  count  de  faint  Poel  eftoit  entrez 
la  vile  en  la  vefpre  od  qatre  cent  horns  darmes,  qi  oy  laffray  com  ceaux 
qelloint  de  la  couin  quiderent  le  fodein  entre  du  dit  roy,  qi  ia  neftoit  pas 
prell  ou  nauoit  oy  le  enfeigne,  mouerent  riot,  fez  efparplerent  pur  gayner, 
tanque  le  dit  count  od  lez  foens  fez  miftrent  as  portez,  lez  trouerent 


180  SCALACRONICA. 

ouertz,  lez  cloierent,  currerent  sure  lez  enbraceurs,  lez  defcounfirent.  Le 
dit  roy  failly  de  foun  purpos,  deftruyt  le  fuburbe,  fe  trey  en  Normendy. 
Les  Engles  purpriftrent  plufours  forterefcez,  enmyfterent  gamifoun, 
dount  vn  eftoit  entre  Beaumaifin  et  Pikardy,  qe  out  a  noune  Maucoun- 
fail,  quel  lieu  leuefque  de  Nogoun  et  le  fire  dc  Dawnay  affiflrent,  qatre 
centz  homs  darmes  de  ditz  Engles  et  le  fire  de  Pinkeny  alerent  refcoure 
le  dit  lieu,  enpriflrent  le  dit  euefque  et  od  ly  iiij.  barouns  et  1.  cheualeris, 
defcounfirent  lez  autres.  Maynt  bele  fait  darmes  aueindrent  as  Engles 
eel  fefoun  en  diuers  lieus  hu  realme  de  France,  qe  ne  fount  my  en  ceftz 
recordez  pur  lez  caufis  fufditz.  Queux  Engles  de  lours  tefles  propres 
fez  auoint  mys  en  plufours  lieus  hu  realme  de  Fraunce  puis  cefl  guere, 
qi  gentz  efloint  de  coillet,  ieunes,  mefcounz  de  diuers  countres  Dengleter, 
plufours  fours  dez  archiers  et  puis  deuenus  chiualeris,  lez  vns  capitayns, 
lez  iournes  dez  queux  ne  purrount  pas  touz  eflre  efpecifiez  en  le  hour 
qils  auindrent  pur  diuerfete  deaux. 

Et  pur  ceo  qe  afcuns  iournes  notablis  efloient  vbliez  a  efcrier  en  le 
hour  qils  auindrent  en  profces  du  lyuer  qi  ia  eftoit  par  efcript,  pur  ceo 
autre  part  eft  bon  qils  foient  efpecifiez.  Primerment,  la  iourne  de  Giftres 
en  Gafcoyne,  ou  Hugh  de  Genefe  full  cheuetain  de  la  guere  depar 
meifme  le  dit  roy  Dengleter,  Edward  le  tierce  apres  la  conqueft,  en  Ian 
de  grace  mile  ccc.xxxiij.,  au  comencement  de  la  guere  de  foun  chalange 
de  France,  ou  lez  senefchals  de  diuers  pays  depar  le  roy  de  France 
auoient  afiys  labbe  de  Giftres,  le  qel  lez  Gafcoynes  Engles  auoint  en- 
force. A  refcous  de  quoy  le  dit  Hugh  oue  afcuns  autres  barouns  Gaf- 
coines  Engles,  enuiroun  iiij.  c.  homs  darmes  et  viij.  c.  seriauntz  et 
archiers,  vindrent  adeuant  lez  Fraunceis,  qi  plus  furont  de  mile  homs 
darmes,  qi  bataillez  eftoint  as  champes,  la  ryuer  de  Ille  eftoit  entre  eaux, 
lez  Engles  eftoint  bataillez  sure  le  gee  de  la  dit  ryuer.  Ceaux  qeftoint 
affegez  en  lauaunt  dit  forterefce  Englois  ifferent  et  efkirmygerent  fi  tref- 
abaundounment  al  aflaute  sure  lez  ditz  enemys,  qe  faunz  afTent  ou  uolente 
dez  cheueteins  dez  ditz  Englois  lours  seruauntz  apoi  touz  faunz  regard 
auoir  pafferent  pres  a  lour  efpaulis  la  dit  ryuer,  launcerent  ouefqes  lez 
autres  de  fi  tremeruaillous  apert  couyn  et  enpris.  Lez  Franceys,  quy  trop 
pres  dez  hayes  lour  fembloit  auoir  tenu,  remuerent  et  retreierent  pur  pren- 


SCALACRONICA.  181 

dre  plus  large  chaums,  oue  quoy  lez  auaunt  ditz  Engles  qi  ceo  uirent  en- 
priftrent  a  pafTer  le  dit  riuer.  Lez  ditz  seruauntz  dez  Englois  aparceurent 
la  venu  lours  seignours  et  la  retreir  dez  Franceis,  li  crierent  dun  voice  et 
curage,  "  alour,  alour,  ils  fount  defcounfitz;"  oue  qoi  lez  ditz  Franceis 
fen  alerent  defcounfiz  tant  com  cheueaux  purroint  courer.  Et  puis  apres 
eel  hour  bon  pece,  enuyroun  xij.  aunz,  autres  gros  iournes  auyndrent 
en  Gafcoigne  apres  departir  le  duk  de  Lancaitre,  qi  lieutenaunt  eftoit 
du  roi  Dengleter  illoeqes,  com  auaunt  ell  dit.  Et  deuaunt  la  venu  du 
fitz  le  roy,  le  prince  de  Galis  en  la  dit  paijs,  com  de  la  iourne  de  Lyme- 
loinge  au  refous  de  Lifhinyane,  ou  Thomas  Cok,  cheualer  Englois,  fuft 
senefchal  apres  departir  le  dit  duk,  qi  Thomas  od  lez  barounes  Gafcoines 
Engles  furount  v.  centz  glayues,  ou  enchemynaunt  lour  vindrent  adeuaunt 
mile  et  v.  centz  glayues  dez  Franceis,  senefchalis  du  pays,  en  bataillis, 
fodeignement  a  cheualle:  lauauntgard  as  Franceis  efchuerount  au  point 
dez  launces  le  about  aflembler,  glafferount  a  reys  dez  Engles  qi  defcen- 
duz  eftoient  a  pee,  coftauntz  fi  pres  qe  chefcun  Engloys  qi  voufift  ferrir 
ferry  cheuealle  mort  oue  la  launce,  les  Franceis  hors  dez  selles  trebou- 
chez  a  terre.  Lautre  batail  fecound  as  Franceis  affemblerent  a  cheual 
parmy  lez  Engles,  plufours  dez  Engles  abatuz  releuerent  et  fez  relierent 
a  pe,  qi  plufours  dez  cheueaux  as  Fraunceis  auoint  mortz  au  paffer, 
queux  Franceois  efcheus  dez  cheueaux  oue  lez  autres  lour  coumpaignons 
primes  abatuz  de  lour  auaunt  garde  alerent  as  cheueaux  dez  Englois, 
lenpriftrent  a  poi  touz  et  monterent.  Lez  Engleis  priflrent  vn  baf  more 
de  Antais  as  genolois.  Lareirgard  dez  Franceis  fes  arefterent  deuaunt 
eaux,  et  y  endemurrerent  tout  le  iour  a  cheualle,  et  a  la  nuyt  fez  depar- 
terount.  Lez  Englois,  qe  plus  nauoint  a  faire,  alerent  a  pee,  lez  launces 
en  lour  mains  iiij.  lieus  longes  du  pays  a  vn  forterefce  Englois;  hors  de 
quel  chaltelle  de  Liffinyan  efloint  auenuz  maint  bel  fet  darmes  au  sires 
de  Mountferount,  tancom  capitain  y  eftoit  apres  ceo  qil  eftoit  gaine  de 
aflaute  dez  Engles,  quel  chattel  fuft  apres  traiez  de  lour  mains  par  vn 
chaftelain.  Et  puis  autre  foitz  com  de  la  iourne  de  feint  George  au  refcous 
de  feint  Johan  le  Angelin,  ou  Johan  de  Cheuerftoun,  cheualer  Engles 
et  senefchal  de  Gafcoigne,  ou  lez  barouns  du  paijs,  ix.c.  horns  darmes,  fez 
combaterent  od  lez  Franceis,  qi  xij.c.  horns  darms  eftoint,  qe  venoint 


182  SCALACRONICA. 

de  lafiege  encountre  eaux;  defcenderent  a  pee,  fez  entreaffemblerent 
apertement  qe  bon  pece  dura  la  melle.  Lez  Franceis  oue  grant  pain 
eftoint  defcounfitz,  lez  marefchallis  de  Neel  et  de  Oudenam,  qi  cheue- 
tains  eltoint  de  Franceys,  y  eftoint  prifis,  et  plufours  dez  autres  mortez 
et  prifes.  Qi  marefchalle  de  Neel  fuft  procheignement  apres  tue  dez 
Engleis  en  batail  en  la  guere  de  Bretaigne,  a  Mauroun,  pres  boys  de 
Onglis,  ou  plufours  barouns  de  Bretaigne  murerent,  vn  de  meruaillous 
iournes  qaueint  en  la  guere  de  Bretaigne,  hors  pris  la  iourne  de  Lan- 
kaderet  ou  Thomas  de  Dagworth,  cheualer  Engles,  defcounfift  meruail- 
loufement  lez  barouns  de  Bretaigne.  Plufour  iournes  y  aueindrent  de 
ceft  gere,  dont  touz  ne  poount  eftre  recordez.  Mais  puis  qe  lez  trewes 
furount  prifis  en  Gafcoigne  par  le  prince  de  Galis,  fitz  le  dit  roy  Dengle- 
ter,  les  auaunt  ditz  Engles  des  comunes  continuerent  la  guerre,  com 
deuaunt  en  party  eft  efpecifiez,  en  diuers  pays  hu  realme  de  France.  Qe 
tout  ne  font  lez  iournes  recordez  linielement  en  le  hour  qils  aueindrent, 
vncore  foun  a  efpecifier  quels  gentz  fez  coillerent  par  caufe  dez  ditz 
trewes,  qils  le  fefont  en  la  querel  du  roy  de  Nauern  qi  ia  eftoit  deliuers 
de  prifoun  du  chaftel  de  Greuequer,  qy  par  caufe  fufdit  auoit  guere  as 
Franceis.  Qi  roy,  com  auaunt  eft  plus  plainement  dit,  deftruyoit  plu- 
fours pays  en  Fraunce,  moult  par  force  dez  ditz  Engles,  par  ou  lez  ditz 
Engles  recouererent  plufours  forterefces  plufours  partz  en  France,  raun- 
fonerent  lez  pays  par  parodies,  auoint  lez  punyes,  la  foitz  en  perde  autre 
foitz  en  gaign.  Pres  de  Neneuers  Johan  Waldbouf,  Engleis,  hors  du 
chaftelle  de  Courveu  ly  Orglious  coumbaty  fez  cyncqantifme  horns  darmes 
Engloys,  oue  Lerchepreftre  qe  capitain  eftoit  du  pays  de  Nenevers,  fol.  22* 
qauoit  cc.  horns  darmes,  et  lez  defcounfirent,  priftrent  le  dit  Archepreftre 
et  plufours  autres.  Qi  Archepreftre  fuft  leflez  aler  a  large  sure  fa  foy,  et 
a  eftre  Ioial  prifoner  au  dit  Waldbouf,  qi  mil  temps  apres  ne  fe  voloit 
entreir,  teint  toutdiz  autre  tretice  oue  le  dit  Waldebouf,  qi  voloit  en  con- 
dicioun  enherder  au  roy  Engleis  et  qil  bailleroit  au  dit  Waldbouf  vn  bon 
forterefce  qil  auoit,  mais  ne  voloit  apres  aprochier  a  luy  faunz  oftages 
duraunt  ceft  tretice.  Le  dit  Waldebouf  cheuaucha  sure  autres  enemys, 
ioufta  de  guere  od  vn  Fraunces  hors  du  chaftel  de  noftre  dame  de  Cuchie 
a  le  demande  dez  Franceis,  qi  puis  entrecoumbaterent  dez  efpeis  et  coul- 


SCALACRONICA.  183 

teaux.  Le  dit  Waldbouf  [venqui]  le  Fraunceois,  ly  enamena  prifoner.  Qi 
Waldbouf  fei  afllira  tant  en  lez  lofengeous  parolis  du  dit  Archepreflre  qil 
fe  mill  en  afluraunce  de  fa  bon  foy,  et  a  fa  penible  requefl  dedenz  vn  foun 
chaftelle  a  prendre  oue  ly  la  souper,  quel  chaftel  il  luy  auoit  en  couenaunt 
a  bailler  sure  lez  condiciouns  taillez.  Waldbouf  full  traye  et  retenu 
illoeqes  prifoner  bon  pece  et  apres  murdry  en  prifoun,  surmettaunt  sur  ly 
qil  voloit  auoir  fuppris  le  dit  chaltelle  par  couyne  dez  autres  prifoners 
Engleis,  lez  oflages  qeiloint  mys  pur  le  dit  Archepreflre  qeftoint  retenuz 
prifoners  en  meifme  la  gife.  Deuaunt  Troyes  meifme  la  fefoun  elloint 
lez  Engles  par  lour  defaray  defcoumfitz  par  le  count  de  Wadmound,  qi 
iflift  de  la  cite  deuaunt  quel  lez  ditz  Engles  eftoient  enbuflez,  auoint 
enuoiez  lour  defcouerours  a  lez  barreirs  de  la  cite,  ne  millrent  pas  fage- 
ment  lour  defcouerours  tanque  faunz  aparceiuaunce  de  eaux  lez  enemys 
venoient  chacer  curreours  en  my  lieu  lour  enbufiement  en  vn  villet  ou 
efloint  en  mefouns  defparplez,  pur  quoi  relier  ne  purroient  mais  chefcun 
a  fauuere  foy.  Lez  vns  furount  prifes;  Johan  de  Daltoun,  cheualer,  et 
autres  fez  departerent  bien  en  maner,  lez  plufours  des  quelis  Englois 
oue  autres  garnifouns  fez  reaffemblerent  hors  de  Bretaigne  et  de  Nor- 
mendy  et  dez  autres  forterefces  qils  auoient  hu  paijs,  priftrent  de  nuyt  la 
cite  Danfoir,  y  entroueroint  trefgrandifmes  auoirs,  y  endemurrerent  bon 
pece.  Lez  citezeins  oue  le  acorde  dez  seignours  du  pays  treiterent  od 
eaux  qils  lour  doneroint  graunt  foume  dargent  a  voider  la  dit  cite  saunz 
ardoir  de  y  eel,  qi  fez  acorderent,  firent  ruer  a  terre  grant  party  de  le 
fol.  228.  mure  et  fez  departerent  a  lour  forterefces  enuyroun,  qe  plus  efeez  lour 
femblerent  qe  la  cite,  puifque  bonement  ne  purroint  demurreir  enfemble, 
chefcun  vorroit  eftre  meiftre,  pur  quoy  ils  priftrent  afluraunce  del  argent. 
Et  del  hour  qils  eftoint  departez  a  la  maner  lez  gentz  du  pais  et  de  la 
cite  allouerent  genz  darmes  dez  Allemaunz  et  dez  eftrangers  pur  meifme 
largent  qils  auoint  fet  faire  coiller  et  leuer  des  comunes  pur  la  dit  padl 
as  ops  dez  ditz  Englois,  qi  fodeignement  enboterent  vn  grant  poair  dez 
gentz  de  armes  et  firent  reparailler  la  dit  cite  par  meifme  largent,  plus 
fort  qe  deuaunt  faunz  rien  paier  as  ditz  Engles.  Autre  foitz  c.  glayues 
dez  Engleis  defcounfirent  en  Burgoun  au  refcous  du  chaftel  de  Brien,  qen 
mains  dez  Engleis  eftoit,  vn  grant  poair  dez  gentz  darmes  du  paijs,  v. 


184  SCALACRONICA. 

centz  boms  darmes,  qen  vn  chaump  efpefle  du  bleez  plufours  foitz  affem- 
blerent  apee,  oue  lez  Franceis  a  cheual.  Johan  de  Foderinghay  hors  de 
la  vile  de  Crael,  oue  autres  capitaines  Engleis,  affailerent  vn  forterefce 
en  vn  abbey  qe  Franceis  auoint  enforcez  entre  la  dit  Crael  et  Cumpyn, 
gaignerent  la  pail  et  lez  foffez  oue  la  baffe  court,  ceaux  dedenz  treterent 
de  condicioun  oue  ceaux  dehors  a  lour  fauuer  lez  vies.  Le  capitain  de- 
denz veint  hors,  fe  rendy  au  penoun  dun  dez  cheueteins  Engleis,  de  quoy 
lez  vns  dez  autres  Engleis  auoient  enuy,  debaterent  pur  part  de  fa  raun- 
foun,  en  quel  eftrif  il  full  murdry  entre  lour  mains.  Cely  a  qi  il  elloit 
renduz  fen  departy  fodeignement  bien  marry,  lour  difoit  qe  bien  lour  en- 
couenoit.  Ceaux  dedenz  lez  forterefcez  virent  qe  a  mureir  lour  couein- 
droit,  defcenderent  dun  couyn  auale  vn  degrez  voitez  oue  tiel  bruyt,  cry, 
et  noys  de  chaier  dez  targes  et  baflouns  oue  autre  rumour,  criauntz  diuers 
efcries  dez  cheuetains  du  pays,  qe  lez  Engles  qeftoint  demurrez  enprift- 
rent  tiel  trefodeyn  affray  penfauntz  qils  efloint  traiez,  quoi  pur  la  retret 
du  dit  capitain  qi  fen  alaft  en  la  maner  en  curouce,  quoi  pur  la  appertice 
du  contenaunce  et  couyn  dez  enemys,  fez  recoillerent  defcounfitz,  chefcun 
cheiez  sure  autres,  en  lez  perfoundes  foffes  del  eaw  v.  ou  vj.  cheualeris 
Englois  noyerent  et  plufours  autres  gentz.  Lez  autres  qe  purroint 
eteindre  a  cheual  fuerent,  et  enfi  lez  gentz  de  la  forterefce  efloint  ref- 
cous,  qe  nefloint  lez  plufours  fors  brigauntz  et  gentz  du  comune  et  du 
couyn  Jakes  Bonhom.  Hors  de  Efpernoun,  la  forterefce  qe  James  de  foi.  no. 
Pipe,  Engles,  auoit.  gaigne,  chiualers  et  efquiers  Engleis,  Johan  Griffith, 
cheuetain,  cheuaucherent  de  guere  pres  de  Cherres,  ou  Bek  dez  vileins 
Franceis  oue  lxxx.  homs  darmes  et  xl.  archers  vindrent  affailer  vij.  horns 
darmes  et  xij.  archers  Engleis,  qaloignez  eftoint  de  lour  coumpaigni. 
Lez  ditz  Engleis  defcounfirent  lez  ditz  Fraunceis,  priflrent  le  dit  Bek  et 
xx.  cheualers  et  efquiers  Franceis  par  eide  de  afcuns  lour  compaignouns 
qefloient  aloignez,  qi  lour  suruindrent  en  le  hour  com  les  enemys  efloint 
defcounfitz.     Le  dit  Bek  efloit  plufours  foitz  pris  duraunt  cell  guere. 

Meifme  la  fefoun,  Ian  de  grace  mile,  ccc.lix.,  lez  Engles  auoint  enforce 
et  gaigne  la  vile  de  faint  Wallery,  et  la  perderent  par  affege  du  count 
de  faint  Poel  et  du  fire  de  Feyns,  qi  coneflable  efloit  de  Fraunce  en  le 
houre,  et  dez  seignours  du  paijs,  monfire  Phelip  de  Nauere,  frer  du  dit 


SCALACRONICA.  185 

roy  de  Nauere,  qi  homageres  eftoit  du  roi  Dengleter,  ou  vj.  centz  glayues 
dez  Engleis  dez  garnyfouns  Engleis  venoient  de  Normendy  et  dautre 
part  pur  refcoure  le  dit  feint  Wallery,  qi  la  trouerent  perduz;  cheuau- 
cherount  en  Vermandys,  ou  pres  de  feint  Quintyn  le  count  de  feint  Poel 
oue  lez  seignours  du  dit  affege  qi  neftoint  pas  defparpliez,  oue  mile  et 
v.  centz  glaiues,  trois  mile  comunes  armes  vindrent  a  deuaunt  lez  ditz 
Engles  fi  pres,  geres  plus  loinz  dun  tretre  dun  aublaftre,  demurrerent 
tout  le  iour  deuaunt  eaux  faunz  coumbatre,  et  a  vefpre  lez  ditz  Engles 
fez  herbiferent  en  vn  villet  pres,  qi  lendemain  a  haut  hour  fez  departer- 
ent  vers  Saffoun,  ardauntz  le  pays  faunz  nul  deftourber  dez  ditz  Franceis. 
Meifme  la  fefoun  vn  compaigny  dez  Engles  enforcerent  la  vile  de  Veillye 
en  la  vale  de  Seflbun,  de  ou  ils  gaignerent  la  vile  de  Pountarfy,  hors  de 
quoi  com  cheuaucherent  a  refcoure  le  chaftel  de  Saffoun,  ou  lour  coum- 
paignouns  Allemauns  eftoint  affys,  encountrerent  fodeignement  c.  horns 
darmes  Bretouns,  defcenderent  a  pee  de  toutz  partz.  Lez  Bretouns 
eftoint  defcoumfitz,  lez  Engles  plufours  nawrez,  afcuns  dez  queux  Eng- 
leis fez  arefterent  a  cheueaux  faunz  rien  eider  a  lour  coumpaignouns 
tanque  la  bofoigne  full  defcomfift.  Lez  ditz  Engleis  ne  tindrent  pas 
purpos  de  la  refcous,  pur  quoi  le  dit  lieu  fuft  rendu.  Plufours  foitz 
aueint  duraunt  ceft  guere  qe  lez  Franceis  vindrent  adeuaunt  des  Englois, 
fol.  229.  b.  qe  fentredeparterent  faunz  coumbatre.  Vn  foitz  en  Auverne,  pres  noftre 
dame  de  Puy,  lez  Franceis  eftoint  xx.  mile  combatauntz,  dount  iiij.  mile 
eftoint  cheualers  et  efquiers.  Thomas  de  la  Marche,  cheuetain,  vindrent 
deuaunt  ix.  centz  glaiues  Engleis;  Hugh  de  Caluerley,  cheuetain,  fez 
departerent  fanz  coumbatre,  et  lendemain  les  fuerent  et  lour  envindrent 
autrefoitz  adeuaunt  eaux  li  pres  qe  horns  enruerent  lez  peres,  fez  ende- 
parterent  autre  [foitz]  faunz  auoir  afair  enfemble  fors  en  skirmuche. 
Apres  ceft  hour  procheignement,  pur  ceo  qe  lez  counfaillis  dez  ditz  roys 
Dengleter  et  de  Nauare  ne  purroint  acorder  en  tretez,  le  dit  roy  de  Nauare 
eftoit  peife  oue  le  duk  de  Normendy,  qi  dit  fuft  daufyn  de  Vien,  et  fitz 
le  roy  Johan  de  France,  qen  abfence  de  foun  pier  fuft  dit  regent  du  paijs, 
et  molt  par  caufe  de  refcoure  la  royne  Blaunche,  la  sore  du  dit  roi  de 
Nauarre,  qaffegez  eftoit  du  dit  daufyn  en  Millein,  la  quel  auoit  efte 
femme  le  roy  Phelip  de  France  foun  vncle,  et  auxi  pur  reauoir  fez  for- 
2  a 


186  SCALACRONICA. 

terefces  qe  ly  eftoient  detenuz  et  par  chaunge  de  auoir  plus  eifes,  tout 
auoint  ils  autre  foitz  efte  acordez  sure  condicioun  adeuaunt  Parys,  en- 
treiurez  fure  le  corps  Dieu  et  rount  par  le  dit  regent,  com  difoit  li  dit 
roys.  Par  caufe  de  quel  acorde  Poify  fure  Seyn,  qenforce  eftoit  et  tenu 
dez  Engleis,  et  plufours  autres  forterefces,  eftoint  voidez  et  guerpis  dez 
Engles  plufours  partz  hu  reame  de  Fraunce.  Ja  le  meinz  le  dit  roy  de 
Nauarre  nauoit  geris  greue  as  Engleis  tout  le  meifme  temps  de  eel  fefoun 
fuaunt.  Pur  caufe  de  meifme  lacord,  Thomas  de  Holand,  cheualer,  qe 
en  Normendy  eftoit  depar  le  roy  Dengleter,  fill  enforcer  vn  bon  forter- 
efce  al  eglife  de  Barflu,  et  endemurra  illoeqes  pur  conflreindre  Coftentyn. 
Qi  Thomas  moruil  hu  paijs  apres,  lieutenaunt  le  roy  Dengleter  de  terres 
conquis,  eftoit  count  de  Kent  del  heritage  fa  femme.  Qi  roi  de  Na- 
uarre auoit  vn  poy  deuaunt  eidez  a  deftruyer  vn  grant  riot  et  couyn  dez 
vileins  comunes,  qe  leuez  eftoint  oue  Jakes  Bonhom,  de  qy  ils  auoint  fet 
lour  cheuetain  pur  auoir  guerroie  lez  gentils  homs,  com  firent,  com  plus 
pleinement  eft  deuaunt  efpecifie.  Renaud  de  Gulioun,  cheualer  Franceis 
et  capitain  de  Parys,  fuft  defcounfift  et  pris  pres  de  Staumpes  meifme  la 
feifoun  par  lez  Engleis,  Gilbert  de  Rodom  lour  cheuetain,  qi  moruft  a 
la  iourne.  Lez  Engleis  neftoint  fors  liij.  glaiues,  lxxx.  archiers;  lez 
Fraunceis  eftoint  vij.  centz  homs  darmes  et  iiij.  centz  brigaunz  et  archers 
armez.  Qi  Renaud  de  Gulion  fe  difoit  eftre  deliuers  deuaunt  qil  auoit 
perpaie  fa  raunfoun  pur  ceo  qe  soun  gardein,  vn  faus  Englois,  fen  ala  foi.  230. 
oue  li,  pur  qoi  le  dit  Renaud  eftoit  apelle  de  batail;  li  quel  Renaud 
eftoit  autre  foitz  pris  prifoner  pres  de  Paiters,  ou  eftoit  capitain  en  le 
hour,  la  fefoun  vn  poy  deuaunt  la  batail  del  dit  lieu,  par  vn  feruaunt  de 
Gafcoigne,  qi  oue  xxx.  compaignouns  defcounfirent  cc.  homs  darmes 
Franceis  au  pris  du  dit  Renaud. 

Meifme  Ian  del  incarnacioun  mile,  ccc.lix.,  lauaunt  dit  roi  Edward 
Dengleter,  la  tierce  puis  la  conqueft,  od  toutez  lez  grantz  de  foun  realme 
fe  adrefla  hors  Dengleter,  fes  meflagers  reuenuz  del  apoftoil,  et  fuft  a 
Sandwiche  sure  foun  paflage  deuers  fa  guere  de  France  a  la  natiuite  de 
noftre  Dame,  qi  durement  fuft  tarie  pur  defaut  dez  niefes,  par  qoi  ne 
purra  aryuer  a  vn  foitz,  ne  ou  il  auoit  enpenfe,  pur  qoi  departi  le  paflage, 
enuoia  le  duk  de  Lancaftre  oue  fa  retenu  a  Calais  pur  hors  treir  de  la 


SCALACRONICA.  187 

vile  le  markeis  de  Mife  oue  tout  plein  des  Allemaunz  qi  illoeqes  efloint 
venuz  en  eide  du  dit  roi,  qi  ceo  fill,  oue  queux  il  fe  trei  as  chaumps. 
Cheuaucherent  outre  leau  de  Soumme,  aflailerent  la  vile  du  Dray  ou  ils 
paflerent  lez  foflez  parmy  leau  as  reis  dez  mures  outre  lours  efpaulis  en 
graunt  defoul  de  eaux,  faillerent  du  pris  de  la  dit  vile,  cheualers  de  lours 
mortz  a  laffaute,  fez  reenalerent  deuers  Calays  pur  ent  fauoir  du  venu 
du  dit  roi.  Le  count  de  la  Marche,  qi  pafle  eiloit  la  mere  vj.  iours 
deuaunt  le  dit  roi,  fill  vn  cheuauche  outre  Boloyne,  ardy  Leftapelis  et 
repaira.  Le  roi  arriue  a  Calais  le  lundy  procheine  deuaunt  la  Toufz 
feintz,  ou  demurra  viij.  iours,  departi  foun  holt  ea  iij.  vn  party  reteint 
oue  foi,  vn  autre  party  bailla  a  foun  fitz  eifne  le  prince  de  Galis,  le  tierce 
party  deuifalt  au  duk  de  Lancaftre.  Sen  departi  de  Calays  le  lundv 
deuaunt  la  feint  Martin,  ou  le  dit  duk  de  Lancaftre  li  encountra  le  di- 
mange,  qi  v.  simains  party  en  mefchief  de  pain  et  de  vin  auoit  iu  as 
chaumps.  Les  iij.  holies  alerent  diuers  chemins.  Le  dit  roy  tient  le 
chemyn  de  feint  Thomers,  pres  de  Arraz,  et  delee  Cambrefi,  par  Ter- 
rages,  par  Loignes,  par  Chaumpein,  a  deuaunt  de  Reyns.  Le  prince,  le 
fitz  du  dit  roi,  tient  le  chemyn  de  Mouflrol,  de  Hedyn  par  Pountiue  et 
Pikardy,  outre  leau  de  Soumme,  par  Neel,  par  Haan,  en  Vermendas, 
pres  de  ou  Baudewyn  Daukyn,  cheualer,  meiftre  dez  arblafteris  de 
France,  full  pris  en  le  hour,  et  autres  cheualers  Fraunceis  dez  gentz  du 
retenu  le  prince,  com  surecour  vorroit  de  nuyt  dez  loeges  le  count  de 
Stafford,  qi  bien  fe  defendy.  Entour  quel  hour  le  vifcount  de  Benoge, 
qi  dit  eftoit  capitain  de  Bufche,  Gafcoyn-Englois,  vient  hors  de  foun 
pays  de  garnifoun  en  garnifoun  Englois,  paffa  la  ryuer  de  Seyn  par  con- 
fol.  230.  b.  duyt  le  roi  de  Nauarre,  vient  a  Crael  adonqes  tenuz  dez  Englois,  hors 
de  quel  vile  il  efchalla  de  nuyt  le  chaftel  de  Clermont  en  Beauuaifin, 
quel  vile  de  Crael  Johan  de  Foderinghay,  cheualer  Englois,  auoit  du 
bailie  du  roi  de  Nauarre,  et  sure  condicioun  hire  a  la  fufrendre  au  mo- 
neftement  du  dit  roy,  qi  fouen  auoit  lez  fomouns,  qi  ne  le  uoloit  faire 
faunce  vn  grant  foume  dargent  qy  difoit  qe  le  dit  roy  li  deuoit,  quel 
argent  il  prill  dez  Franceis  en  allouaunce  du  dit  dett  et  lour  bailla  la  dit 
vile.  Ly  dit  Johan  de  Foderinghay  enferma  en  le  hour  vn  autre  bon 
forterefce  au  pount  de  Seyntmenfeus,  sure  la  ryuer  de  Efe,  ou  il  ende- 


188  SCALACRONICA. 

murra.  Le  prince  tient  foun  auaunt  dit  chemyn  par  Seint  Quyntin  et  par 
Retieris,  ou  lez  enemys  meifmes  arderoint  lour  vile  pur  deflourber  lour 
paffage,  lez  gentz  de  qi  conquiftrent  pafiage  au  chaftel  Purcien,  ou  pafla 
par  Champain,  aprocha  loft,  foun  pier  adeuaunt  de  Reyns.  Le  duk  de 
Lancaftre  tient  le  chemyn  entre  le  roi  et  foun  fitz;  aprocherent  enfemble 
le  trois  holies  par  deuaunt  de  Reyns,  iefoint  tout  enuiroun  la  cite  en  vil- 
letes  vn  moys  en  temps  de  Noel  hors  de  loft  du  dit  prince;  full  la  vile  de 
Curmoufle  efchale  et  le  chaftel  gaigne,  la  toure  rue  a  terre  par  myne  par 
lez  gentz  du  prince.  Bartholomeu  de  Burgherfche,  cheuetein  en  loft  du 
duk  de  Lancaftre,  y  auoit  iouftes  de  guere  par  couenaunt  taille  a  de- 
maund  dez  Franceis  hors  de  Reyns,  ou  full  mort  vn  Franceis,  et  autres 
dieus  naufrez  de  fere  de  glaiue.  Hors  del  oft  le  roy,  le  duk  de  Lan- 
caftre, lez  countis  de  Richemound  et  de  la  Marche,  gaignerent  dieus 
viles  marches  enforcez,  Otry  et  Semay,  sure  leau  de  Ayne  et  la  marche 
de  Lorrein.  Seignours  et  cheualers  hors  del  oft  le  dit  roy  firent  de  Reyns 
vn  cheuache  pres  de  Parys,  fes  enbuflerent  et  enuoierent  lours  difcour- 
reours  pres  lez  portes  de  la  cite,  firent  romour  dedens  lez  fuburbes,  qe 
countenaunce  ne  firent  ceaux  dedenz  de  ifter  de  la  cite.  Lez  routes  dez 
Engles  furrount  efparpliez  en  diuers  lieus,  ceaux  qauoint  demurrez  de 
lour  teftez  deuaunt  la  venu  du  roy  eftoint  en  diuerfis  routis.  Vn  rout 
eftoit  appelle  la  grant  coumpaigny,  qe  tout  Ian  auoint  iu  as  champes  en 
Burgoin,  en  Brie,  en  Chaumpein,  et  en  Dairres,  et  ou  meilliours  trouerent 
lez  viures;  quel  grant  coumpaigni  auoient  efchallez  la  cite  de  Chalouns 
en  Chaumpein  de  nuyt,  mais  ceaux  de  la  dit  cite  fez  relierent  en  my  lieu 
de  lour  vile  a  pount  de  la  ryuer  de  Mairel,  qe  court  parmy  la  cite,  et  lez 
tindrent  de  force  hors  du  meilliour  de  la  cite,  pur  qoi  lour  couenoit  de- 
partir,  voiderent  fodeinement  qe  plus  ne  purroint  demurreir,  quel  com- 
paigny  fez  defparplerent  toft  apres  la  venu  du  dit  roi  et  lour  quiilrent 
refcet.  Autres  routes  eftoient  dez  Englois,  afcuns  dez  queux  efchalleroint 
la  vile  de  Attinye  en  Chaumpayn  en  le  hour  du  venu  du  dit  roi  deuaunt 
Reyns.  Le  dit  roy  de  Engleter  fe  delogea  depres  adeuaunt  de  Reins, 
fe  trey  pardeuers  Chalouns,  ou  il  auoit  tretice  oue  ceaux  de  Baires,  lez 
queux  faillerent,  le  roy  alloigna  lour  paijs.  James  de  Audeley,  cheualer 
Englois,  prift  daflaut  la  forterefce  de  Chancu  en  la  vale  de  Saxfoun,  sure 


SCALACRONICA.  189 

Bretouns,  Huwen  Trebidige  capitein.  Le  dit  James  vient  de  foun  chaftel 
de  Ferte  en  Bry  al  hoft  du  dit  prince  pres  de  Chalouns,  en  compaigne 
de  le  capitain  de  Bufche,  qi  uenoit  de  Cleremount.  Le  dit  roy  fift  re- 
parailler  pount  outre  la  riuer  de  Mairel,  et  outre  autres  grandifmes  riuers, 
se  trey  pres  de  Troies,  de  ou  le  markiz  de  Mice  et  le  count  de  Nidow  et 
autres  feignours  Dalraaiyns,  qi  oue  le  roi  eftoint  venuz,  fez  departerent 
vers  lour  pays  en  parti  pur  deftrefce  dez  viures  et  dout  de  qarefme 
aprochaunt,  as  queux  eftoit  fait  duz  allouaunce  de  lour  coftagez.  Le 
roy  pafia  la  ryuer  de  Seyn  pres  de  Mariz,  tient  foun  chemyn  pres  de 
Ceins  et  par  Pounteny  et  en  Burgoin,  foun  fitz  le  prince  li  fuyfl,  et  le 
duk  de  Lancaftre  auxi,  mais  pur  defaute  de  fourre  as  cheuaux  soun 
dit  fitz  genchi  la  voy  foun  pier,  fe  logea  a  Eggliny  pres  de  Anfer,  ou  loft 
le  dit  prince  fuft  plus  damagez  dez  enemys  qe  nul  autre  part  deuaunt  de 
tout  eel  veage,  ou  afcuns  de  fez  cheualers  et  efquiers  furount  mortz  de 
nuyt  en  lour  herbigages  et  lez  vadletez  forraiers  prifes  as  chaumps,  qe 
deuaunt  toutez  parties  le  paijs  lour  eftoit  abaundounez,  qe  apain  ne  vie- 
rent  horn  de  guer  hors  de  forterefces.  Pres  de  Regentz,  vn  forterefce 
qe  lez  Englois  tenoient,  iouft  Anfoir,  v.  efqiers  Englois,  afcuns  del  oft 
le  dit  prince,  qi  defarmez  eftoient  fors  lour  bacynetz  et  efcuez,  qi  nauoint 
qe  vn  foul  haubergeon  et  iij.  archiers,  eftoient  en  vn  molyn  pur  moldre 
bleez,  lour  vindrent  surecour  1.  boms  darmes,  la  route  et  penoun  le  fires 
de  Hanget,  lez  queux  v.  defcounfirent  lez  1.,  enpriftrent  xi.,  pur  quoi  lez 
Fraunceis  meifmes  dez  autres  garnifouns  le  difoient  la  iourne  de  1.  contre 
v.  en  mokerie.  Le  dit  roy  demurra  a  Golion  en  Burgoun  pres  de  Mount 
Real,  pur  treitez  du  duche  de  Burgoun,  ou  Roger  de  Mortimer,  count  de 
la  Marche  et  marfchal  del  hoft  et  le  plus  fecre  du  dit  roy,  fe  lefia  morir 
de  feuir,  le  xxiiij.  iour  de  Feuerer.  Trewes  de  iij.  aunz  fez  priftrent  de 
Burgoin,  rendaunt  au  iij.  termes  au  dit  roi  Dengleter  dieus  centz  mile 
fol.  231.  b.  floreins  motouns,  le  florin  a  iiij.  s7  defterlinges.  La  vile  de  Flauenv  en 
Burgoun,  fort  et  bien  ferme,  qe  pris  eftoit  par  Arleftoun,  Englois,  fu  re- 
baillez  dez  mains  Nichol  de  Dagworth,  pur  ceo  qe  fuppris  eftoit  deins  le 
hour  du  comencement  du  tretice  dez  ditez  trewes.  Pres  de  quel  vile  de 
Flaueny  le  dit  Dagworth  auoit  a  faire  la  fefoun  paflez  fe  trefzifme  dez 
Englois  countre  lxvj.  glaiues  Fraunceis.     Lez  Englois  auoint  pris  vn 


190  SCALACRONICA. 

eftroit  reu  au  bout  de  vn  villet,  fifl  treire  charettes  outre  la  voi  deuaunt 
et  dereir,  inherent  a  lour  pleifer  de  lour  forterefces,  naufrerent,  tuerent,  et 
priftrent  dez  Franceis;  Norman  Leffelyn,  qi  hors  Defcoce  uenoit  en  eide 
dez  Fraunceis,  il  full  pris,  lez  autres  defcounfitz.  Meifme  le  hour 
Willam  de  Aldeburgh,  capitain  de  Honyflu  en  Normandy,  full  pris  dez 
Franceis  a  vn  iffu,  et  fez  gentz  defcounfitz.  Thomas  Fog,  cheualer  En- 
glois,  qi  pres  fuft  a  vn  foun  forterefce,  oy  de  la  iourne,  fe  milt  dedeinz 
la  dit  Honyflu,  la  troua  defgarny  des  vitaillis,  cheuaucha  od  autres  gar- 
nifouns  Englois  enuyroun,  forria  le  pays  pur  vitailler  la  dit  vile,  encountre- 
rent  fodeignement  ij.  centz  et  1.  horns  darmes,  ij.  centz  archiers  et  arb- 
lafters  Franceis,  qi  en  agait  dez  Englois  furont  afiemblez,  monfire  Louys 
Darcourt  et  Baudreu  de  la  Hufe,  cheuetains  dez  Fraunceois.  Lez 
Englois  efloient  xl.  horns  darmes  et  centz  archiers,  auoint  forterefces  de 
hay,  defcenderent  a  pee  de  tout  part,  affemblerent  apertement.  Lez 
Franceis  furount  defcounfitz,  lez  dieus  cheuetains  prifes  et  od  eaux  pluf- 
ours  cheualers  et  efquiris,  et  plufours  mortz  a  la  melle.  Lowis  Darcourt 
fuft  procheignement  deliuers  par  meifmes  lez  Englois,  qi  li  prift,  qi  oue 
ly  deueint  Fraunceis.  A  Fregeuil  sure  la  marche  de  Beauxs,  vn  forterefce 
Englois,  vn  chiualer  Franceois,  qauoit  a  noun  le  Cheualer  Blaunche, 
demaunda  du  coneftable  du  dit  lieu  batail  perfonel  de  dieus  Englois 
countre  ij.  Franceis,  la  batail  ottroie  au  lieu  acorde,  le  cheualer  oue  foun 
efquier  furrount  defcounfitz  par  lez  ij.  Englois  qi  armez  eftoient  tout 
vermail,  et  amenez  prifoners  ens  fufdit  forterefce  Englois.  Entour  quel 
hour  Johan  de  Neuil,  chiualer  Englois,  oue  xiij.  glaiues,  defcounfift  pres 
de  Staumpes  1.  horns  darmes  Franceis,  de  quels  furount  prifez  plufours. 
Outre  le  Heere  en  Berry,  Gafcoignes  et  Englois  du  garnifoun  de  Dau- 
beny  firent  vn  defcounfiture,  dount  plufours  demurerent  prifouneris  dez 
Franceis.  En  quel  temps  cheualers  Franceis,  Normaunz,  et  Pikardz, 
oue  autres  comunes,  as  collages  dez  bons  viles  de  France,  iij.  mile  com- 
batauntz,  firent  vn  arme  en  Engleter,  en  countenaunce  a  y  demoreir  en 
maner  pur  auoir  retreit  le  dit  roy  Dengleter  hors  de  France,  pur  refcoure 
fa  terre;  lez  queux  Franceis  arriuerent  pres  Wynchelse  le  dymaunge  en 
my  qarrefme,  Ian  fufdit,  y  endemurrerent  en  la  dit  vile  vn  iour  et  vn  nuyt,  foi.  232. 
a  lour  departir  la  arderent,  et  au  retreir  en  lour  niefs  perderent  dieus  niefs 


SCALACRONICA.  191 

qe  fecchez  eftoint  a  terre,  enuyroun  iij.  centz  horns  par  comunes  qe  lour 
furcurrerent.  Pres  de  Parys  Robert  Lefcot,  cheualer  de  la  parti  Englois, 
fuft  pris  et  fez  gentz  defcomfitz  par  lez  Franceis,  et  fes  forterefces  perdu 
en  le  houre  quel  il  auoit  enferme.  Le  prince  de  Galis,  fitz  du  dit  roy  de 
Engleter,  com  tient  foun  chemyn  parmy  Gaftinoys,  v.  cheualeris  du  pays 
oue  lx.  horns  darmes  et  centz  autres  gentz  du  comunes  auoint  de  nouel 
enforce  vn  fort  baftide  adeuaunt  de  Fournelis,  vn  forterefce  qe  les  Eng- 
lois tenoient,  deuaunt  queux  cheualeris  le  dit  prince  fe  miil  fodeignement 
tot  enviroun,  fe  logea  as  chaumps  hu  boys,  fift  adrefier  engins  et  affautz, 
pur  quoi  lez  ditz  cheualeris,  monfire  Jakes  Degreuille  et  Hagenay  de 
Bouille  oue  lez  autres  toutz  fez  renderent  de  tout  au  dit  prince.  Le  dit 
roi  Dengleter  venaunt  de  Burgoun  perdy  de  foun  oft  ij.  cheualers  ou  iij. 
Almaunz  qi  tuez  eftoint  de  nuyt  en  lours  loeges  par  Ivve  de  Vepount, 
cheualer  Fraunceois,  et  fa  counpaigny.  Et  com  le  dit  roi  paffa  parmy 
Beaux,  pres  de  Tuny,  le  chattel  fe  prift  a  ardre  par  fieu  de  eaux  meifmes 
de  fortune,  pur  quoi  ceaux  dedenz  enfaillerount  lez  plufours,  fez  mifterent 
en  la  grace  du  dit  roi,  le  chaftelain  tient  la  dungeoun  ij.  iours  et  puis  fe 
rendy  au  dit  roi,  qi  fefoit  abatre  lez  mures  du  dit  chattel.  Meifme  la 
fefoun  lez  Englois  du  garnifoun  de  Nogent  en  Bry,  xxx.  glayues,  def- 
counfirent  sure  la  ryuer  de  Marel  cent  horns  darmes  dez  Fraunceis  du 
garnifoun  de  Terry,  et  empriftrent  lx.  Entour  le  nowel  deuaunt  James 
de  Pipe,  cheualer  Englois,  fuft  fuppris  en  la  tour  de  Efpernoun  quel  il 
auoit  dez  Franceis  gaigne,  ne  fift  pas  mettre  bon  gayt  tant  fe  aflura  du 
force  et  hautefce  de  le  dungeoun,  et  ou  il  auoit  fait  eftopper  vn  feneftre 
bas,  par  couyn  dun  mafoun  Franceois  qi  la  enmora  faintement  fuft  la 
forterefce  perdu  parmy  la  dit  feneftre,  et  le  dit  James  pris  en  foun  lite,  ct 
Thomas  de  Beaumond,  cheualer,  auxi,  qi  venoit  la  nuyt  pur  herbifer  oue 
ly  com  venoit  dun  pays  en  autre  fure  conduyt,  toutz  dieus  eftoient  et  lour 
biens  foutz  conduyt  du  regent,  fitz  le  roy.  Le  dit  James,  par  caufe  qil 
nauoit  my  parpaie  fa  raunfoun  de  lautre  foitz  qe  il  eftoit  prifoner  la  fefoun 
pafie,  com  pris  eftoit  pres  de  Graunfoures,  entre  ly  et  Otis  de  Holand, 
cheualer  Englois,  conuenoint  de  Euerufe  du  roi  de  Nauern,  ou  le  dit 
Otis  eftoit  naufrez,  dount  moruft.  De  quel  primer  pris  le  corps  du  dit 
James  eftoit  deliuers  hors  dez  mains  dez  enemys  par  lez  Engles  fez  bien 


192  SCALACRONICA. 

voillantz,  qi  demurrerent  en  garnifoun  hu  pays,  qauoint  efpiez  qil  efloit  foi.  232.  b. 
acouftomez  vne  certain  hour  du  iour  daler  abatre  hors  du  chattel  de 
Dauneuyle  ou  full  demurraunt,  fez  enbufierent  pres,  ly  trouerent  au  point 
et  ly  amenerent,  et  ly  difoint  refcous.  Ceaux  qi  ly  auoint  pris  et  en 
garde  as  queux  il  efloit  prifoner  difoint  qe  cell  refcous  neltoit  pas  couen- 
able,  mes  encountra  fa  fiaunce,  depuifque  il  lour  auoit  allure  de  tenir 
loial  prifoun  faunz  fraud,  collufioun,  ou  mal  engine,  et  ly  suremiflrent  et 
ly  purfuerent  apertement,  et  luy  difoient  qe  a  fa  couyne,  informacioun, 
procurement,  maundement  et  deuife,  lez  ditz  Engles  auoint  fait  eel  agait 
countre  couenaunt  de  loial  cheualerie,  pur  qor  apres  acorderent  dun 
foume  de  raunfoun,  la  quel  il  auoit  grant  purueu  et  troue  oue  ly  en  la 
dit  toure.  Meifme  la  fefoun,  entour  la  chaundelour,  Robert  Herle, 
cheualer  Engles,  qi  gardein  efloit  de  Bretaigne  depar  le  roy  de  Engle- 
ter,  full  as  chaumps  countre  lez  Bretouns  Gallows  pres  de  Dowle,  ou  y 
auoit  vn  ryuer  entre  ly  et  fez  enemys;  et  com  lez  Engles  analerent 
quidaunt  de  auoir  troue  pount,  qetloit  rount  et  cretyne  de  eau,  Robert 
de  Knollis,  cheualer  Engles,  qi  del  autre  part  oue  fa  route  uenoit  hors 
de  Bretaigne  au  maundement  du  dit  gardein  de  fez  forterefces,  efloit 
defcouerour  dez  foens,  ferry  tretleiloufement  cheual  dez  efperouns  foi 
feptifme  dez  coumpaignouns  faunz  fcieu  dez  autres  dez  foens,  qidaunt 
pur  la  aualer  qil  vill  dez  Engles  qe  le  dit  gardein  full  la  ryuer  paffe,  fi 
full  abatuz  et  pris  dez  enemys.  Mais  en  le  houre  full  refcous  dez  foens 
qi  uenoient  apres,  qe  aragiez  elloint  del  houre  qils  aparceurent  le  mef- 
chief  de  lour  cheuetain,  qe  oue  lour  apart  abaundone  aflembler  defcoun- 
firent  lez  enemys,  refcuerent  lour  meillre.  Lez  auentures  touz  darmes 
qe  auindrent  a  lez  Engles  toutz  partz  duraunt  cell  guere,  pur  diuerfite 
de  els  ne  ne  rementif  pas  cell  cronicle,  mais  foulement  lez  plus  notables, 
qe  trop  prolinxt  matir  ferroit  a  tout  countier.  Fait  afauoir  qe  le  dit  roi 
Dengleter  vient  la  semain  penoufe  meifme  la  fefoun  fufdit  parmy  Beaux, 
ou  lez  mouflers  furount  apoy  toutz  enforcez  et  eftuffes  dez  vitailles  du 
pays,  dez  queux  lez  vns  furrount  gaignez  par  affaute,  afcuns  renduz  com 
lez  engins  furrount  adreffetz,  par  queux  tout  loll  dez  viures  full  grant- 
ment  refreifcez.  En  quel  temps  le  capitain  du  Dufch  par  congie  du  dit 
roi  Dengleter  fen  ala  deuers  Normendy  oue  xx.  glaiues  Englois  et  Gaf- 


SCALACRONICA.  193 

fol.  233.  couns,  pur  parler  ou  le  roi  de  Nauarre  a  qi  eftoit  bienvoillaunt,  encountra 
pres  de  Drewes  fodeignement  ou  xxiiij.  horns  darmes,  cheualers  et 
efquiers  Franceois,  qenbuffez  eftoient  pur  autres  garni founs  Englois,  de- 
fcenderent  a  pee  de  toz  partz,  fentrecombaterent  apertement,  lez  Franceis 
furrount  defcomfitz,  et  Bek  de  villeins  lour  cheuetain  pris,  foi  quart  dez 
cheualeris,  lez  autres  prifes  et  mortz. 

Le  dit  roi  Dengleter  fe  logea  adeuaunt  Parys  le  mekerdy  en  la  semayn 
de  pafch,  Ian  de  grace  mile,  ccc.  lx.,  en  lez  procheyns  villetes  dehors  lez 
fuburbes  de  Seintclou,  atrauers  al  eau  de  Seyne  paramount  de  Paris,  v 
endemora  v.  iours,  et  a  foun  departir  fe  mouftra  en  batail  pardeuaunt  le 
fitz  du  roi  de  France,  qi  regent  eftoit  du  pays,  qi  dedenz  la  cite  eftoit 
oue  grant  noumbre  des  gentz  darmes.  Le  prince  de  Galis,  le  fitz  eyne 
du  dit  roi  de  Engleter,  qauoit  lauaunt  garde,  et  le  duk  de  Lancaftre  en 
autre  batail,  tindrent  pres  deuant  lez  forburs  de  folail  leuaunt  iefqes 
mydi,  enfirent  buter  le  fieu.  Lez  autres  batails  du  roy  tindren  vn[t]  poy 
plus  loinz.  Pilerin  de  Vadencourt,  cheualer  Franceis,  full  pris  as  bar- 
rens de  la  cite,  com  foun  cheual,  qe  naufrez  eftoit  dun  fete,  ly  engetta. 
Cheualers  nouelis  dubbez  la  iourne  du  retenu  le  dit  prince  fez  enbuffer- 
ent  defoutz  lez  fuburbes  au  departir  dez  ditz  batails,  ou  fez  tenoint 
tanque  lez  vns  ifferent  de  la  cite,  ferrerent  cheueaux  dez  efparouns, 
ioufterent  de  guere;  Richard  de  Balkiruille  le  fitz,  cheualer  Englois, 
full  porte  a  terre,  failly  en  peez,  naufri  de  foun  efpey  dez  cheueaux  dez 
Fraunceys,  fe  defendy  apertement  tanque  refcous  eftoit  et  foun  cheual 
dez  autres  fez  compaignouns,  qi  abaundounement  enbuterent  lez  Fraun- 
ceis  ifthz  dedenz  lour  forterefces.  Le  count  de  Tankiruille  enueint  hors 
de  la  cite  en  le  houre,  requift  tretice  du  counfail  le  dit  roy  Dengleter,  qe 
ly  full  refpoundu  qe  lour  dit  feignour  prendroit  toutdiz  refoun  toutez 
houres.  Le  dit  roy  fen  departy,  le  fieu  enbote  par  tout  enuiroun  foun 
chemyn;  fe  logea  pres  de  Mounthery  et  foun  hoft  enuiroun.  Le  dy- 
mange  le  xiij.  iour  Dauerille,  pur  defaute  de  feur  as  cheueaux  couenoit 
faire  vn  trefgrandifme  iourne  deuers  Beaux,  le  temps  eftoit  fi  trefmer- 
uaillous  mauueis  de  plu,  de  greil,  et  de  neggie,  oue  tiel  freidour  qe  plu- 
fours  feblis  vadletz  et  cheueaux  periroint  mortz  as  chaumps,  enlefierent 
plufours  chariotis  et  fomaille  com  en  vn  fortune  du  pier  temps  de  frokl, 
2  B 


194  SCALACRONICA. 

vent,  et  de  moil,  qe  en  eel  fefoun  auoit  efte  vieu  de  memoir.  Entour 
quel  temps  lez  gentz  monfire  James  Daudele,  dez  garnifons  de  Ferte  et 
de  Nogent  en  Bry,  efchallerent  le  chaftelle  de  Huchi  en  Valoys  pres  de 
Seflbn,  apres  folail  leuant,  com  lez  gaites  eftoient  aualez,  le  quel  effti  W.  233.  b. 
trebien  vitaille  et  plein  dez  gentils  femmes  yndz  homs  darmes,  chiual- 
ers,  et  efquyers,  et  viij.  archiers  Galois  du  retenu  le  fires  de  Spenfer 
auoint  vn  bele  poignez  en  Beaux  com  loft  le  dit  roy  eftoit  herbigez  en 
villetez,  qe  warderent  lez  moliners  en  vn  molyn  pur  moldir  blez  dehors 
loft,  pres  de  Bonevaille,  qeftoient  efpiez  dez  garnifouns  Franceis  enuy- 
roun  qe  lour  uindrent  furcour  xxvi.  glaiues,  xij.  archiers  dez  Bretouns- 
Franceis,  defcenderent  a  pee  de  touz  partz,  fentre  combaterent  aparte- 
ment,  lez  Franceis  furount  defcounfitz,  iij.  homs  darmes  de  lour  mortz 
et  ix.  prifes  prifoners,  toutz  naufres  pres  de  mort  de  touz  dieus  parties. 
Afcuns  des  ditz  Englois  furount  fiauncez  a  lez  ditz  enemys  duraunt  la 
melle,  qe  refcous  eftoint  dez  ditz  Galois,  qi  trebien  illoeqes  firent.  Le 
dit  roy  Dengleter  demurra  en  Beaux  pres  Orliens  xv.  iours,  pur  tretice 
de  pes  qe  le  counfail  de  France  ly  emparlerent ;  labbe  de  Cluny,  monfire 
Hugh  de  Genef,  le  meffager  du  pape,  mediatours.  Lez  Engles  del  oft 
du  dit  roy  auoint  lez  punyes,  lez  vns  en  perd  lez  autres  en  preu.  Che- 
ualers  en  la  compaignie  du  duk  de  Lancaftre  countrefirent  lez  pilours, 
vadletz  forraiours  faunz  glaiues,  currerent  difaraiement  pur  treyn,  en- 
charnicement  et  corage  doner  a  lez  enemys  dauoir  a  faire  oue  eaux, 
puifque  ils  auoint  plufours  de  lour  foraiours  pris  lez  ioures  paflez.  Lez 
vns  dez  queux,  Eadmound  Pirpount,  Baudewyn  Malet,  cheualers,  outre 
mefure  countrefirent  la  dit  countenaunce  en  tiel  daunger  dez  Franceis 
qe  y  ne  pooit  autrement  eftre  qe  a  mefchief  ne  lour  couenoit  eftre  fup- 
pris,  fi  furent  prifis  et  fiaunces.  Cbeualers  del  hoft  du  prince,  du  retenu 
du  count  de  Salifbires,  monfire  Brian  de  Stapleton  et  autres,  com  war- 
derent lez  forreiers,  auoint  afair  oue  lez  Franceois  pres  de  Yanville,  et 
les  defcounfirent,  priftrent  lez  vndz.  En  vengeaunce  del  ariuail  qe  lez 
Franceis  firent  a  Wenchelfe,  lez  admiraux  dez  Fipportez  et  du  North 
nauy  Englois,  od  mile  homs  armez,  mile  v.c  archiers,  arriuerent  en  lifle 
de  Dans  dedenz  xv.  iours  apres  la  pafche  meifme  la  fefoun,  afiaillerent  et 
gaignerent  la  vile  del  Lure  et  larderent,  et  plus  vffent  fait  fi  nuflent  eftez 


SCALACRONICA.  195 

deftourbez  par  maundement  le  roy  lour  seignour  par  caus  de  trewes. 
Lem  doit  fauoir  qe  le  vij.  iour  de  Maij,  Ian  fufdit,  pres  de  Chartres  tail 
de  pes  full  treite  et  affentuz  du  dit  roy  Dengleter  et  de  foun  counfail 
entour  ly  dun  part,  et  de  le  fufdit  regent  et  del  counfail  de  France  et  de 
la  comune  dautre  part,  en  maner  sub  compendio.  Toutis  acciouns,  de- 
maundes,  et  querelis  leffeitz  exteintes  et  releffez,  lez  auaunt  ditz  coue- 
nauntes  acompliez,  qe  le  auaunt  dit  roi  Dengleter  aueroit  la  duche  de 
Gien  entier  a  lez  aunciens  merches,  et  le  paijs  de  Roergus,  lez  countees 
de  Pountyne,  de  Gienes,  ou  lez  apurtenaunces,  Calays  oue  la  seignourye 
enuyroun,  quitement  faunz  appendaunce,  entendauntz,  appeles,  refortes, 
demaundes,  ou  fubieccioun  nul  au  coroune  de  France,  franchement  oue 
toutez  regaltes  regauls  pur  touz  iours,  et  qil  aueroit  pur  raunfoun  du  roi 
de  Fraunce  trois  miliouns  dor,  et  qe  lez  auaunt  ditz  roys  ferrount  par 
comune  afcent  countre  toutez  gentz  entrealliez  sure  fenfures  ferementz, 
afiurauntes  toutz  qe  purrent  eltre  douifez  a  tenir  lez  auauntditz  coue- 
nauntes,  et  qe  laccioun  et  la  querel  de  Bretaigne  entre  Montfort  et 
Charlis  de  Bloys  ferroit  a  iuge  par  lez  bons  defcreciouns  dez  ditz  roys, 
et  fi  fe  ne  agre  as  ditz  parties  qe  lez  roys  ne  lour  heires  ne  fentremet- 
trount  de  eide  ne  fuppuail.  Le  roi  de  France  leffera  la  liaunce  de  ceaux 
Defcoce  outriement,  et  le  roi  Dengleter  oftera  mayn  de  ceux  de  Flaun- 
dres,  et.  serrount  lez  ij.  roys  affous  del  apofloil  de  lour  serementz  du  dit 
alliaunce,  al  parfournifement  dez  quelis  couenauntes  fuft  treite  qe  les  fitz 
eifnez  dez  ditz  roys,  le  prince  de  Galis  dun  part  et  le  duk  de  Normandy 
dautre,  en  lez  almes  lour  piers  serroient  iurez  sur  le  corps  Dieu.  Et  le 
roy  de  Nauarre  et  xx.  autres  perfouns  de  France,  et  le  duk  de  Lancaflre 
et  autres  xx.  Dengleter,  a  la  choife  dez  auauntditz  counfeils,  ferrount 
auxi  iugez.  Lez  ij.  eifnez  fitz  dez  ditz  roys  affermarent  lez  tretices 
affentuz,  comprifez,  et  efcriptz,  par  lour  ferementz  sure  le  corps  noftre 
Seignour  facre.  Le  duk  de  Normande  et  regent  de  France,  qe  maladez 
eftoit  denpoflym,  le  iura  a  Parys  en  prefence  de  vaillaunz  cheualeres 
Englois  pur  ceo  y  enuoyez,  par  queux  le  dit  regent  tramift  au  dit  prince 
de  Galis  trefnoblis  precious  reliqes  du  feintifme  croice,  de  la  coroune  des 
efpines  de  quoi  Dieux  fuft.  corone  en  la  croice,  oue  autres  noblis  iueaux, 
en  fignifiaunce  qe  sure  la  croice,  la  dit  coroune  a  teft,  noftre  Seignour 


196  SCALACRONICA. 

fill  pees,  falut,  et  tranquillite  pardurable,  au  lygne  humain.    Le  dit  prince 

de  Galis  fift  meifme  le  ferement  en  la  grant  moultier  de  Louiers,  le  xv. 

iour  de  Maij,  Ian  fufdit,  en  prefence  dez  noblis  cheualeris  Fraunceis  pur 

la  cause  y  enuoiez.     Le  roy  de  Nauarre  ne  voloit  faire  le  ferement,  mes 

vient  parler  ouefque  le  roi  de  Engleter  pres  de  Nemburgh,  de  ou  le  dit 

roy  Dengletere  prill  foun  chemyn  deuers  Huniflu  ou  fe  mill  sure  mere 

deuers  Engleter,  fez  fitz  et  plufours  feignours  one  ly,  lefla  le  count  de 

Warwyk  en  Normendy  gardein  dez  trewes.     Le  duk  de  Lancaftre  et  le 

count  de  Stafford,  oue  le  remenant  del  hod  dez  Englois,  paflerent  Seyn    fol.  234.  b. 

au  pount  de  la  Arche  deuers  Calays,  qen  partye  eftoient  enfaulez  del 

aimyoufe  trauail  de  eel  veage,  qe  auoit  dure  ix.  moys,  ou  auoint  enuyr- 

ounez  le  plus  de  France  en  qanque  en  lour  full,  queraunt  batail  dauoir 

derenez  le  droit  lour  firis,  qe  ne  trouerount  mil  part  countenaunce  a  ceo 

faire  mais  uefquerent  le  temps  fure  le  paijs,  alafoitz  meutz  autre  foitz 

com  purroint  trouer,  com  en  paijs  deflrut  et  cheuauchez  auaunt  lour  venu 

dez  Englois  auaunt  nomez,  qe  de  lour  teftes  propres  auoint  contenuz  la 

guere  meruailloufement.     Et  enfi  lez  trois  holies  dez  Englois  en  efpoir 

du  pes  tretez  oue  trewes  adurer  tanque  la  feint  Michel  procheyn  a  vn 

ane,  dedenz  quel  temps  la  pes  purparlez  ferroit  affermez,  et  enfi  la  guerre 

ellanche  le  iour  et  Ian  fufditz,  quel  guere  auoit  en  le  hour  duree  vint  et 

qatre  aunz. 

Meifme  la  fefoun,  Ian  de  grace  mille,  ccc.  Ix.,  entour  la  feint 
Johan,  Katarine  de  Mortymer,  vn  damoifel  de  Loundres,  eftoit  fi  priue 
de  monsieur  Dauid  de  Bruys,  qe  dez  Efcotis  fu  dit  roy,  par  aquaintaunce 
qe  il  auoit  de  lye  tancom  prifoner  eftoit,  qe  il  ne  pooit  defporter  fa  pre- 
fence en  abfence  de  fa  moillier,  la  fore  le  roi  Dengleterre,  qe  en  le  hour 
demurra  oue  foun  dit  frere;  cheuaucha  toutdiz  enuyroun  oue  ly,  quel 
efpecialte  defplefoit  as  afcuns  feignours  Defcoce.  Vn  vadlet  Efcotois, 
qe  out  a  noun  Richard  de  Hulle,  al  abette  dez  afcuns  grantz  Defcoce, 
fe  feigna  a  parler  oue  la  dit  Katerine  des  bufoignes  deuers  le  roy,  com 
ils  cheuaucherent  de  Melros  pres  de  Soltre,  la  ferift  de  vn  cotel  parmy 
le  corps  mort,  trebucha  a  terre  du  cheual,  qi  Richard  eftoit  bien  mountez 
et  efchapa.  La  chos  fait  a  la  gife  le  dit  roy,  qe  deuaunt  eftoit  en  la 
route,  reuient  au  cry,  fefoit  grant  doel  du  defpite  et  perd  qil  auoit 


SCALACRONICA.  197 

de  fa  amy,  la  fifl  aporter  a  Neubotil,  ou  apres  honourablement  la  fift 
enterrer. 

Entour  quel  temps  le  roi  Defpayn,  qe  fitz  full  du  bon  roy  Alpho[u]fus, 
efloit  gouerne  par  Jues,  ne  amoit  pas  fa  mulier,  amoit  par  amours  vn 
Jueffe,  pur  lamour  de  qei  il  fefoit  Juys  cheualers  et  compaignouns  de  la 
Bend,  la  quel  compaigny  foun  pier  auoit  ordene  pur  encharnycemcnt 
doner  a  cheualery,  car  en  foun  temps  mils  ne  portaft  la  Bend  li  ne  full 
cheualer  efproue  sure  Sarazins,  pur  quoi  afcuns  cheualeres  Criftiens  de 
la  dit  compaignie  auoint  defpit  qe  lez  Jues  efloint  enfy  chirrez  en  pari- 
gaute  as  Criftiens,  et  penfoient  qe  ceo  eftoit  encountre  lour  paternalis 
cuftumes;  li  difoient  au  dit  roy  qe  ceo  eftoit  defordene  chos  qe  tiels 
fol.  235.  maftius  ferroint  compaignouns  de  tiel  honeft,  honourable,  et  digne  com- 
paigny. Le  roy  lour  refpoundy  en  curous,  et  difoit  qils  eftoient  horns 
com  autres  et  noun  pas  maftius,  mais  fount  piers  de  eaux;  "ceo,"  di- 
foient lez  cheualeres,  "  et  ceo  fumez  nous  preftez  par  noz  corps  en  le 
hour  a  prouer."  "  Depar  Dieux,"  fefoit  ly  roy,  "  et  foit,  li  verroms  qe 
vous  le  ferrez."  Lez  Criftiens  eftoint  xxx.,  lez  Juys  lxij.,  qe  oue  gree 
du  dit  roy  oue  bones  efpeis,  launceroint  enfemble  defarmez  en  vn  pleyn, 
prefent  le  roy.  Lez  Criftiens  decouperent  lez  Juys  mortz  toutz,  qi  roy 
eftoit  moult  fauuage,  fe  delitoit  de  tout  en  foly  de  juuent,  pur  quoi  plu- 
fours  dez  foens  fez  enherderent  a  foun  freir  baftard  a  qy  il  auoit  guerre, 
et  fi  auoit  fait  tuer  autres  de  fez  tiels  freirs.  Le  dit  roy  Defpaygne 
auoit  hu  guerre  oue  le  roy  de  Arragon,  la  quel  full  peife  entre  eaux  par 
tail  de  pees,  qi  roy  Defpayne  fe  trei  en  foun  pays,  vefqi  defordeinement, 
quel  guere  de  Arragoun  faunz  aparceiuaunce  de  ly  ly  full  renouele  fo- 
deinement  plus  fere  qe  deuaunt.  Et  pur  ceo,  tout  foit  pes  par  fen,  la 
proprete  terrien  plus  a  voloir  en  toutis  delires  refonablis,  com  la  fouerayn 
benefice  du  liecle  et  chos  amoneftement  du  fouerayn,  vncor  la  maner 
fait  molt  a  confydereir,  qe  ou  le  foundement  et  delires  de  pes  fourd 
fraunchement  de  vertu  en  plefaunce  de  Dieu  faunz  encharnifement, 
norifement,  ou  conftreinement  de  nul  accidence,  particuler  de  nul  ple- 
faunt  defire  ne  voloir  charnel,  mais  vertuoufement  et  droiturelement  au 
profite  du  comune,  eel  pefe  ne  purra  eftre  qe  ne  foit  profitable  et  bon : 


198  SCALACRONICA. 

mais  ou  le  defioint  foit  duble  et  le  point  pris  en  contrair  lez  ditz  vertuez, 
la  neft  pas  taunt  a  preifere  mais  grauntement  a  douter  le  effecte  de  la 
matire,  com  qi  fent  foun  droit  et  le  leffe  a  purfuire  pur  perrefce  et  a 
efchuer  defefe  en  defir  et  efpoir  autre  part  greindre  plefaunce  a  auoir, 
ou  le  leffe  pur  defaute  de  trefor,  ou  pur  pefaunce  dez  cuers  dez  gentz  a 
laffeitz,  ou  enveillez,  eel  eftancifement  de  guere  ne  eft  pas  fouent  trop 
profitable  al  iffu,  qar  plufours  fez  qident  chaufer  qe  lez  ardrent,  qe  lez 
cafueletes  du  fiecle  font  ft  muables  qe  plufours  foitz  horn  quide  efchuer 
vn  pefaunce  li  engift  en  vn  greindre.  Et  fi  neft  pas  vieu  qe  par  trefor 
foulement  foient  efchuez  lez  guerres,  quel  trefor  en  fuffifauntye  ne  doit 
eftre  defefparez  en  roys?  ne  fi  de  vn  ne  foit  eidez  qe  y  ne  trouera  autres 
qe  ly  eidera,  fi  defaute  de  vertu  ne  le  deftourbe.  Ceo  eft  a  dire,  com 
defaut  de  fen,  hardement,  et  de  largefce;  defaut  de  fen,  qe  qi  ne  voet 
pas  fi  Dieux  luy  mouftre  fa  grace  en  auauncement  de  fa  querel,  et  ne  le 
purfu  pas  en  mefure  par  refoun  oue  douce  acoil  del  foens,  oue  tiel  har- 
dement qe  ne  foit  exteint  au  point  pur  dout  de  mefchief,  ou  defplefaunce 
lez  propretes  duraunt  guere,  fuffraunce  dez  queux  en  maner  appert, 
honour,  profit,  et  ioy,  iffi  qe  la  main  foit  ouert  a  doner  as  ceaux  qe  le  fol.  235.  t>. 
deferment  en  encharnicement  as  autres  de  ceo  faire,  chos  terrien,  plus 
eidable  a  guerroier.  Qe  qi  chace  eftauncicement  de  guerre  autrement 
fors  com  a  Dieu  plerra,  ne  nenpenfez  ia  qe  la  iette  ne  beftoumera,  qant 
meutz  auoir  le  quidera.  Et  fi  purra  eftre  qe  Dieux  ne  vouchera  fauf 
pur  ordefce  de  pecchie  qe  hom  eyt  fez  beneficez  en  maner  com  il  tollift 
a  Moyfes  la  entre  de  la  terre  de  promiffioun,  pur  ceo  qen  vain  gloir  il 
prift  louga  du  poeple  de  Ifrael,  qe  furemiftrent  en  fa  puffanz  lez  miracles 
qe  lour  mouftra  en  fez  mains,  de  quoi  il  fe  glorifia,  pur  quoi  perdi  la  dit 
entree,  chos  qe  plus  defirat.  Et  pur  ceo  bien  doient  les  roys  arrettier 
lour  bienfaitez  a  Dieu,  et  au  bon  executione  de  lour  poeple,  le  bien  eftre 
dez  queux  eneft  lour  trefor,  le  qel  tient  en  due  gouernail  dez  roys  com 
del  execucioune  du  gouernement  de  la  comune;  qar  fouent  le  poeple 
port  coup  dez  pecchez  dez  roys,  pur  quoi  bien  fez  doient  engarder  qe 
lour  fingulertez  ne  face  deftruccioun  general  et  comune,  com  maint  foitz 
y  ad  efte  vieu,  iffi  qe  lour  eftat  foit  gouernez  deuers  Dieu  par  vertu  et  au 
poeple  par  moralite. 


SCALACRONICA.  199 

Horn  doit  fauoir  qe  meifme  Ian  del  incarnacioun  mile,  ccc.lx.,  entour 
la  feint  Michel,  le  dit  roy  Johan  de  France  full  deliuers  a  Calays  hors 
de  prifoun  le  roy  Dengleter,  sur  lez  condiciouns  einz  parlez.  Qi  roi 
auoit  demurre  prifouner  trois  aunz  en  Engleter,  a  Loundres,  a  Wyndefor, 
et  a  Somertoun,  paya  a  foun  pafler  vn  milioun  dor,  lefia  honourablis 
hoflages  pur  le  aparfournicement  du  remenaunt  dez  ditz  couenantez 
treitez.  Celt  ailauoir  fez  dieus  fitz,  lez  countis  Daungeow  et  de  Paiteris; 
foun  freir,  duk  Dorliens;  foun  cofyne,  duk  de  Burboun;  lez  countis  de 
Bloys,  de  Alafoun,  de  faint  Poelle,  de  Harcourt,  de  Porcien,  de  Valen- 
tinoys,  de  Brein,  de  Waddemound,  de  Fores,  et  le  vifcount  de  Beau- 
mount  ;  lez  feignours  de  Coucy,  de  Fenis,  de  Preux,  de  Saintvenaunt, 
de  Garenfers,  de  Mountmaracy,  de  Haunget,  le  daufyn  Daineryne  ;  me 
lires  Peres  de  Alenfoun,  Willam  de  Cinoun,  Lowys  de  Harcourt,  Johan 
de  Ligny.  Et  full  outre  acorde  qe  li  lez  xvi.  prifoners  prifis  a  Paiters 
ouefque  le  dit  roy  de  France  voufiffent  demurrer  en  hollage  pur  la  dit 
caufe,  qils  fullent  quitz  deliuers  fure  la  dit  treit,  et  fi  noun  ils  demura- 
fcent  a  raunfouner,  et  autres  couenablis  ens  mys;  lez  nouns  dez  queux 
prifoners  fount  Phelip  fitz  du  dit  roi,  count  de  Berry;  lez  countis  de 
Longuille,  de  Tankeruille,  de  Juny,  de  Poncien,  de  Saucer,  de  Dawmar- 
tyn,  de  Ventatour,  de  Salebruch,  Daucer,  de  Vendom;  lez  fires  de  Cy- 
noun,  Derualle,  le  marfchal  de  Oudenam,  et  le  fire  de  Aubigny.  Et 
auxi  acorde  full  qe  dieus  des  greignours  burgeis  de  chefcun  vile  dez 
meillours  cites  de  France  demuraflent  en  hoftage  a  le  roi  Dengleter, 
tanque  a  le  parfournifement  de  la  dit  treit,  ceil  affauoir  de  Parys,  Amyas, 
Saintomer,  Arras,  Tournay,  Lille,  Doway,  Beauvoys,  Reynes,  Chalouns, 
Troys,  Chartres,  Orliens,  Tullous,  Liouns,  Tours,  Roan,  Came,  et  Com- 
pyn.  Cell  tail  et  condiciouns  et  maner  de  peife  a  la  gife  treitez,  full 
acordez  et  affermez  par  aflent  general  dez  grantz  de  toutz  dieus  lez 
realmes  et  en  parlement  publy  et  au  uoloir  de  lez  dieus  roys  a  ceo  en- 
treiurez,  a  la  execucioun  de  le  aparfournicement  de  quel  treit  Johan  de 
Chaundos,  cheualer,  full  enoyez  depar  le  roy  Dengleter,  eiaunt  commif- 
fioun  fuffifaunt  a  deliuerer  lez  chafteaux  et  fermetes  conquyfis  diuerfis 
partz  hu  realme  de  Fraunce,  qi  ceo  fid  com  comaunde  ly  full  loyalment 
du  roy  de  Engleter,  folonc  lez  condiciouns  acordez.     Lez  Engles,  qe  de 


200  SCALACRONICA. 

lour  teftes  propres  auoint  contenu  ceft  guere  de  France,  fez  affocierent 
enfemble  oue  diuers  naciouns,  eftoint  appellez — La  grant  compaigny, 
voiderent  France  au  comaundement  le  roy  Dengleter,  gaignerent  la  vile 
de  faint  Spirit,  mouerent  guere  en  Prouynce,  vefqerent  de  prai  meruail- 
loufement. 

Le  duk  Henry  de  Lancaftre  moruft  en  Marce,  et  enterrez  a  Layceftre, 
Ian  de  grace  mile,  ccc.lxi.;  qi  Henry  efloit  fage,  glorious,  et  prus,  et  en 
fa  iuuent  reuaillous  en  honour  et  armys,  et  deuaunt  foun  decefle  dure- 
ment  bon  Criftien.  II  auoit  asheyres  ij.  feilles;  le  duk  Willam  de  Beyuer 
et  count  de  Henaw,  de  Seland,  et  de  Holand,  qe  pius  deueint  franctik, 
auoit  la  primer;  Johan  fitz  du  dit  roy  Dengleter,  count  de  Richemound, 
auoit  la  fecound.  Le  dit  roy  Dengleter  fill  edifier  de  nouel  vn  chattel 
en  lentre  sur  Temys,  meifme  eel  ane,  en  le  ifle  de  Schiphey.  En  meifme 
Ian  fufdit  fuft  le  roy  de  Lettow  pris  par  lez  feignours  de  Spruz,  qe  par 
enbufl'ement  ly  fuppriflerent  al  iffu  qe  loft  dez  Criftiens  ifferent.  fa  terre 
apres  la  pafche,  com  teftoufement  il  lour  purfuy.  Cel  ane  aueint  vn 
general  mortalite  dez  gentz  en  Engleter,  qe  plus  qe  par  tout  Ian  durra 
afcun  part,  la  fecound  peililence  de  mortalite  dez  genz  qaueint  en  le 
temps  cefty  roy  Edward  la  tierce.  Le  roy  de  Cypre  prift  de  affaute,  le 
iour  de  feint  Bartholomeu  en  Auft  meifme  la  fefoun,  la  vile  de  Satally  fbl.  236.  b. 
en  Turky,  et  la  garny  dez  Criftiens.  Lionel  count  de  Hulfter  del  heri- 
tage fa  femme,  et  fitz  du  dit  roy  de  Engleter,  paffa  en  Ireland  meifme 
la  fefoun,  a  deftreindre  les  Irroys,  qe  durement  greuerent  lez  Englois  du 
pays  a  lour  gife.  Ly  roy  de  Denemark  guerroya  lez  Eftirlings  durement 
sure  mere  eel  fefoun,  qauoit  reconquys  Scon  et  mout  de  Swetherik  sure 
le  roy  de  Norway.  Edward  eyfne  fitz  de  roy  Dengleter,  et  prince  adonqes 
de  Galis,  prift  meifme  eel  an  en  efpoufe,  par  difpenfacioun,  la  feil  le 
count  de  Kent,  le  vncle  foun  pier.  Ele  auoit  efte  autre  foitz  mariez,  ele 
eftoit  durement  gentil  femme,  et  richiz  heire  foun  pier  et  de  foun  vncle 
le  feignour  de  Wake.  En  my  Jeneuer  meifme  Ian  de  grace,  mile,  ccc.lxi. 
chey  en  plufours  countees  entour  Loundres  vn  tempeft  de  vent,  qe  abatift 
moufters  et  cloichers,  les  arbres  hu  boys  et  gardyns,  defcouery  lez  mef- 
ouns  meruailoufement,  leftoil  comata  aparull  eel  fefoun.  Le  auant  dit 
roy  de  Lettow  efchapa  meifme  la  fefoun  de  prifoun  par  myne  et  par 


SOALACRONICA.  201 

couyn  dun  renegat  Lettow,  qe  norriz  eftoit  od  lez  ditz  feignours  de 
Spruce,  par  enchefoun  de  quel  efchap  la  fefoun  procheigne  lez  ditez 
feignours  firent  vn  grant  arme  par  nefe  en  Lettow,  affiftrent  le  chaftel  de 
Coun  sure  le  Memil,  le  priftrent  de  affaute  par  beaux  fetz  darmis.  Meif- 
me  la  fefoun  vn  rout  de  La  grant  coumpaigny,  qe  comence  efloit  duraunt 
la  gerre  le  roy  Dengleter,  defcounfirent  en  Auuern  le  poir  de  Fraunce, 
lez  plufours  feignours  reprifis  qe  autrefoitz  prifoners  eftoint  au  roi  Dengle- 
ter. Jaqis  de  Burboun  mort,  et  le  count  de  Salbrog  et  plufours  autres 
a  la  iourne.  Meifme  la  fefoun  en  qarrefme,  vn  rout  dez  Bretouns,  coum- 
paignouns  de  la  grant  route,  furount  defcounfitz  en  Limofin  a  la  Garet 
par  Willam  de  Feltoun,  cheualer  Englois,  fenefchal  adonqes  du  pays 
depar  le  roy  Dengleter. 

La  fefoun  fuaunt,  Ian  de  grace  mile,  ccc.lxij.,  vn  rout  de  Gafcouns, 
compaignouns  de  La  grant  rout  qe  efparpliez  eftoient,ou  meutz  trouerount 
a  viure,  efloient  defcounfitz  en  Auuern  par  le  baftard  Defpayn;  le  gouer- 
nour  de  Bloys  defcounfit  vn  autre  rout  de  Gafcouns  de  meifme  la  coum- 
paigny en  Berrye.  Vn  rout  dez  Englois,  oue  Robert  Dyer,  furount 
defcounfiz  par  Bertrem  de  Glenkin,  Bretoun,  pres  de  Ho  en  Normendy, 
meifme  la  fefoun.  Entour  quel  temps  chey  la  duche  de  Burgoyne  od  le 
counte  a  Johan,  roy  de  France,  del  heritage  fa  mere,  qe  sore  eftoit  a  le 
duk,  mort  le  iffu  foun  freir.  Le  dit  roy  de  France  fift  treiter  oue  Le  grant 
rout,  qauoint  riote  en  fa  terre  puis  la  guere  peife  de  roy  Dengleter,  pur 
fol.  237.  grant  foume  dargent  a  voider  foun  realme,  qe  ceo  firent,  treierent  en  di- 
uers  pays  ou  trouoint  lez  gueres,  plufours  de  eaux  au  roi  de  Arragoun 
encountre  le  roy  Defpayne  qe  guere  auoint  enfemble.  Cel  fefoun  dona 
le  dit  roy  Dengleter  a  Edward  foun  fitz,  prince  de  Galis,  la  duche  de 
Gyene,  a  tener  de  ly  par  haute  feignourye,  homage,  refortz,  et  appelis 
regalis.  Entour  la  feint  Michelle,  meifme  Ian  de  grace,  ccc.lxij.,  moruft 
a  Auynion  Innocent  le  pape,  apres  mort  de  qi  y  out  grant  diffencioun 
entre  le  college  de  cardinalis  pur  la  eleccioun  de  papee;  qe  grant  temps 
ne  purroient  acorder  pur  enuy,  qe  mils  ne  vorroit  qe  autres  y  full  pape. 
Qe  au  darayn  choiferent  vn  moyne  noir,  vn  pouer  abbe  de  feint  Vieloir 
pres  de  Marcil,  qe  quidoit  qe  lez  mefiagers  qe  ly  porterent  lez  nouels  de 
fa  eleccioun  vfient  bourde  od  ly,  taunt  fe  meruailla.  II  fuft  facree  et 
2  c 


202  SCALACRONICA. 

nome  Vrban;  il  fift  conftitucioun  qe  mil  auaunce  de  feint  eglis  paffaft 
c.  li.  de  extent,  fors  ceaux  qe  vffent  eftat  en  efcolis,  et  ceaux  a  cc.  li;  et 
lez  doclours  de  ciuile,  de  decretz,  de  diuinite,  ne  paffafent  ccc.  li.  Johan 
royn  Defcoce,  et  sore  le  roy  Dengleter,  efpous  Dauid  de  Bruys,  moruft 
meifme  la  fefoun,  et  enterrez  a  Loundres  a  freirs  Menours  iouft  fa  mere. 
Apres  meifme  la  faint  Martyne,  le  dit  roy  Dengleter  auoit  general  parle- 
ment  a  Loundres,  ou  ordene  eftoit  par  eftatut  qe  lez  loys  de  foun  realme 
fuffent  pledez  en  Engles,  ou  deuaunt  eftoient  en  Franceis,  puis  le  temps 
le  conquerour  Willam.  Au  meifme  le  parlement  enfift  le  dit  roy  fez 
dieus  fitz  dukis;  Lionel  count  de  Hulfter,  qe  adunkes  eftoit  en  Ireland, 
duk  de  Clarrens,  ly  autre,  Johan,  duk  de  Lancaftre,  et  a  lours  heyres 
malls,  soun  tierce  fitz  Eadmound,  count  de  Kauntbrige.  Ordeyna  le 
stapille  de  Laynes  a  Calays,  ou  meifme  le  iour  de  feint  Brice,  le  fef- 
fauntifme  ane  de  fa  natiuite,  pardonoit  de  fa  grace  as  toutz  fez  fuzgis 
qanque  ils  ly  eftoient  duyes  toutes  dettes  et  arrerages  apurtenauntz  a  fa 
regalte,  faunz  fuyt  de  party,  trefoun,  et  homycid,  en  fignifiauns  de  grace 
temperele,  com  eft  Ian  de  grace  efpirituel  chefcun  fynkquantifme  ane  del 
incarnacioun.  Deuaunt  Nowel  meifme  la  fefoun  chey  vn  grant  iourne 
de  batail  en  Gafcoigne  entre  le  count  de  Foys  et  le  count  de  Hermynak, 
le  count  de  Foys  auoit  la  vidtoir  par  eide  de  vn  route  de  La  grant  com- 
paignye  plufours  Engles,  le  count  de  Hermynak  et  le  firis  de  la  Bret 
prifis,  plufours  mortz  et  pris  du  party  de  Hermynak. 

Le  roy  Dauid  Defcoce  affiil  meifme  la  fefoun  le  chaftelle  de  Kynd- 
romy  en  Marre,  pur  extorfiouns  qe  le  count  de  Marre  et  lez  foens  auouit 
fait  enuiroun  au  poeple,  com  luy  surmift  le  roy;  quel  chattel  ly  eftoit  ren-  foi.  237.  b. 
duz  et  pius  engagez  oue  la  countee  pur  mille  liures  du  dit  count  au  dit  roy 
apaier  al  iffu  de  v.  auns,  soure  peine  de  lez  perdre.  Quel  mouement  mult 
fourdy  pour  vn  apel  de  batail  qe  William  de  Keth  appella  le  dit  count 
en  la  court  le  dit  roy,  fure  quoy  furent  armez  en  lices  a  Edinburgh,  la 
querel  illoeqes  pr...n  mayn  du  roy,  qi  plus  fembloit  bien  uoillaunt  au  dit 
William  qe  au  dit  count,  tout  eftoit  il  fon  cofyn  prochein.  Prochein- 
ment  meifme  la  fefoun  fourdy  vn  debate  entre  le  dit  roi  Dauid  Defcoce 
et  William  count  de  Douglas,  qauoit  la  fore  le  count  de  Marre  en  efpoufe, 
pur  diuerfis  mouementz  qe  au  dit  count  fembloit  qe  le  dit  roy  ne  ly 


SCALACRONICA.  203 

mouftra  pas  fi  bon  feignoury  com  voroit;  enbrafa  couyne,  fill  graunt  re- 
tenu,  prifl  le  chattel  de  Driltoun,  en  mill  garnifoun,  quel  challel  full  au 
roy  par  voi  de  garde.  Le  dit  count  par  afcent  du  Senefchal  Defcoce  et 
du  count  de  la  Marche,  lour  feaux  pendauntx  au  peticioun  maundez  au 
dit  roy,  fill  fa  querel  qe  le  dit  roy  lour  auoit  fait  vouutre  lez  condiciouns 
as  queux  elloient  iurez  sur  le  corps  Dieux  au  roy  Dengleterre  pur  paie- 
ment  du  raunfoun  du  dit  roy  lour  feignour,  qoi  full  leuez  du  fubfide  des 
comunes  et  degafte  per  mauuais  counfail,  amendiz  de  quoi  demaunderent 
et  gouemail  de  meillour  counfail.  Pur  quoi  le  dit  roy  cheuaucha  sure  le 
dit  count,  et  com  le  roy  eltoit  en  vn  pais  le  dit  count  cheuaucha  en  vn 
autre  fure  ceaux  qeftoient  entour  le  roy,  emprifona  lez  gentz  le  roy  ou 
lez  poafl  prendre.  Trenuta  a  Ethirkenyn,  prifl  le  vifcount  Dangous  oue 
vn  rout  de  gentz  darmys  venauntz  deuers  le  roy,  lez  maunda  en  diuers 
lieus  en  prifoun.  Le  dit  roy  trenuta  de  Edinburgh,  vft  apoy  suruenuz  le 
dit  count  de  Douglas  a  Lanerc  ou  auoit  la  nuyt  iu,  mais  efchapa  a  graunt 
pain,  afcuns  des  foens  prifes.  Le  Senefchal  Defcoce  fe  peisa  oue  foun 
feignour  le  roy  faunz  fu  ou  gre  de  fez  alliez,  le  count  de  Douglas  autre 
fy  a  par  ly,  le  count  de  la  March  fefoit  auxi.  Et  cell  riot  pur  le  temps 
enfi  enmefez,  le  dit  Dauid  prift  en  efpoufe  dame  Margaret  de  Logy,  vn 
dame  qautre  foitz  auoit  efte  marie,  qe  oue  ly  auoit  deuaunt  demurrez; 
cell  matrimoigne  fuft  fait  foulement  per  force  damours,  qe  toutz  veint. 


NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 


NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 


. .  le  roy  Willamfist  encoroner  sa  femme  Maude  le  iour  de  la  Pentecost. — p.  5. 

There  are  very  few  notices  of  the  wife  of  the  Conqueror;  she  has  not  made  herself 
remarkable  by  an  eminence  in  good  or  evil.  Her  virtues  are  celebrated  by  a  cotemporary 
poet,  Serlo,  and  his  lines  are  worthy  of  being  recorded. 

DE  MATHILDA  REGINA. 
Consilii  virtus,  decor  oris,  gratia  verbi, 

Gloria  regnorum,  posteritatis  honor, 
Te  regina,  laetant;  rex,  dux,  comes,  amplius  ille, 

Composuit  capiti  qui  diadema  tuo. 
Germanos  maritosque  duces  a  patre  trahebas, 

Regis  Francorum  dat  tibi  mater  avos. 
Rex  hostes  bellando  suos,  tu  pace  tenebas, 

Et  tua  pax  bello  constitit  utilior. 
De  sibi  arreptam  flebit  regn . . .  [c]  apud, 

Morte  tua  lapsi  dives  inopsque  simul. 
Istius  vitae  lux  ultima  prima  Novembris, 

Alterius  vitae  prima  secunda  tibi. 

MS.  Cot.  Vitell.  A  xii.  fol.  128.  b. 


The  following  lines  are  less  natural,  and  consequently  less  pleasing;  they  are  the  com- 
position of  the  last  named  poet,  and  are  from  the  same  manuscript. 

DE  REGINA  MATHILDI. 
Septem  majores  numeramus  in  aethere  stellas, 

Siderei  numerus  ordinis  impar  erit. 
Addimus  octavam,  nee  partes  inferiores 

Haec  tenet,  in  summo  pra>minet  orbe  poli. 


208  NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Ilia  diu  latuit  nebulis  obducta,  sed  idem 

Erumpens  nebulas  dividit  oppositas. 
Et  tanto  solem,  quanto  sol  astra  minora, 

Excedit,  tantum  luminis  ilia  trahit. 
Haec  adeo  Celebris,  tanto  praelata  nitore; 

In  solio  regni  praesidet  huic  patriae. 
Quae  quoniam  mira  praecellens  alternitatem, 

Sic  viget  in  terris,  fulget  apud  superos. 
Imperii  gravitas,  sceptrum,  vel  caetera  regni 

Instrumenta  favent  convenienter  ei. 
Invidiant  hostes,  et  quivis  detrahat  illi, 

Fama  per  invidiam  nescit  honesta  premi. 
Filia  regis  erat,  meruit  quoque  nubere  regi, 

Conjugio  matrem  debuit  ilia  sequi. 
Quid  mihi  cum  causis  ultra?  sine  crimine  regnat, 

Filia  reginae,  filia  regis  erat. 
Haec  est  ergo  decus  Anglorum,  gloria  regni, 

Vere  consiliis  excelebrata  Dei. 
Quae  simul  Augusto  legali  fcedere  nupsit, 

"  Lex  injusticiae,  rex  bone,  cesset,"  ait. 
Exaudivit  earn  Caesar,  depressit  iniquas 

Leges,  suscepit  publica  cura  bonas. 
Fortunata  viro  mulier,  vir  conjuge  felix; 

Longaevus  fama  vivat  uterque  sua. 


ou  Edgar  fitz  Edward  Irnside,  et  Walteu,  et  Markswin,  et  Cospatrik  le  count. — p.  5. 

Waltheof,  the  famous  earl  of  Northumberland,  was  the  son  of  earl  Siward  by  Alfleda, 
daughter  of  earl  Aldred.  It  appears  from  Leland  that  William  of  Ramsey,  a  monk  of 
Croyland,  wrote  a  legend  of  the  earl,  which  unfortunately  has  not  reached  us,  and  probably 
contained  matter  abundantly  curious.  A  short  abstract  in  English  is  preserved  in  the  Harl. 
MS.  530,  and  it  seems  that  an  original  was  in  the  hands  of  the  celebrated  Glover,  for  Dug- 
dale,  Baron,  i.  55,  cites  some  facts  relative  to  the  earl  from  what  seems  to  have  been  this 
or  a  similar  legend. 


Qcn  la  hour  enueindrent  les  Danoys  et  surpristrent  les  Normaunz  hu  chaste/. — p.  6. 

In  the  early  part  of  the  Conqueror's  reign  Northumbria  was  harrassed  by  the  irruptions 
made  by  the  Danes  at  the  instance  of  Godwin,  Edmund,  and  Magnus,  sons  of  the  late  king 
Harold.     William  employed  the  services  of  Ailsi  abbot  of  Ramsey,  who  proceeded  into 


NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS.  209 

Denmark  to  prevent  Swain  from  invading  England  to  revenge  his  nephew's  death ;  and  of 
this  mission  there  is  a  curious  account  preserved  in  a  poetical  version  of  the  history  of  the 
Old  and  New  Testaments,  styled  the  Cursor  Mundi,  which  is  for  the  first  time  printed  in 
Sir  Henry  Ellis's  Introduction  to  Domesday,  vol.  ii.  p.  99-104.  When  I  furnished  that 
transcript  and  the  observations  upon  the  work  from  which  it  is  extracted,  I  was  not  aware 
of  any  further  notices  of  the  poem  of  Wace,  of  which  it  probably  is  a  translation,  than  those 
contained  in  the  notes  to  the  "  Specimens  "  of  the  late  Mr  George  Ellis,  and  in  the  La  Val- 
liere  Catalogue,  torn.  ii.  p.  247,  to  which  reference  is  there  made.  Additional  and  fuller 
information  may,  however,  be  found  in  Roquefort's  "  Memoire  de  l'etat  de  la  poesie  Fran- 
chise dans  les  xii.  et  xiii.  seicles,"  8vo.  Paris,  1821,  pp.  96,  97,  306-309,  where  extracts  are 
given  from  a  manuscript  at  Paris. 

The  following  letter  illustrative  of  the  Danish  invasions  furnishes  additional  evidence  of 
their  frequency.  It  is  addressed  to  Walcher,  the  unfortunate  bishop  of  Durham,  by  Lan- 
franc,  archbishop  of  Canterbury,  during  William's  absence  in  Normandy,  and  is  written  for 
the  purpose  of  warning  the  bishop  of  the  expected  irruption  of  the  Danes,  and  advising  him 
to  provide  for  the  safety  of  the  north  of  England.  Hence  we  may  naturally  conclude  that 
it  is  to  be  referred  to  the  year  1076  or  1077,  during  which  period  William  was  absent  in 
France,  and  the  county  of  Northumberland  was  entrusted  to  the  care  of  Walcher.  Hoved. 
f.  262. 

Lanfrancus  peccator  et  indignus  antistes  venerabili  fratri  et 
co-episcopo,  Walchero,  salutem. 

Laetatus  sum  in  his  quse  dicta  sunt  niihi  a  vobis,  pacem  vos  vestris  letteris  habere  didici- 
mus,  quam  procul  a  vobis  multis  multorum  relationibus  triti  credebamus.  Nos  vero,  ex- 
pulsis  Britonibus  et  sedatis  omnibus  bellis,  in  tanta  tranquilitate  vivimus,  ut  postquam  rex 
mare  transiit  tranquillius  nos  vixisse  nequaquam  meminerimus.  Res  domini  nostri  regis  in 
summa  prosperitate  esse,  et  eum  ad  praesens  ad  nos  transire,  certissime  sciatis.  Dani,  ut 
rex  nobis  mandavit,  revera  veniunt ;  castrum  itaque  vestrum  et  hominibus,  et  armis,  et  ali- 
mentis,  vigilanti  cura  muniri  facite.  Omnipotens  autem  Dominus  ab  omni  malo  vos  de- 
fendat.    MS.  Cott.  Nero,  A  vii.  fol.  27. 


....  fors  soulement  en  le  fee  saint  Johan  de  Beuerlay,  et  ceo  pur  vn  miracle  qaueint  dun 
dez  chiualeris  le  roi  qi  comensa  iloeqes  a  robber,  si  roumpy  le  cole,  le  visage  bestoume p.  6. 

Upon  observing  that  no  notice  of  this  incident  was  taken  by  Hoveden,  Malmesbury, 
Huntingdon,  or  the  other  writers  to  whom  our  author  is  in  general  indebted  for  this  por- 
tion of  his  history,  reference  was  naturally  made  to  the  legend  of  St  John  of  Beverly  in 
the  collection  of  Capgrave  (which,  it  may  here  be  noticed,  is  only  a  condensed  abstract  of 
the  prior  labours  of  John  of  Tynmouth),  but  no  allusion  is  there  made  to  any  miracle  re- 
sembling that  described  in  the  text,  nor  does  the  legend  in  the  Lansd.  MS.  436,  aid  our  en- 
2  D 


210  NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 

quiries.  The  narrative,  however,  was  found  in  accidentally  turning  over  the  leaves  of  the 
Cottonian  MS.  Cleopatra  A  i.,  and  is  here  given,  it  is  believed,  for  the  fast  time  in  print. 
After  speaking  of  the  revenge  which  the  Conqueror  took  upon  the  inhabitants  of  Northum- 
bria  for  the  murder  of  the  inhabitants  of  York,  the  legend  proceeds  thus: — 

Nam  ab  homine  usque  ad'  pecus  periit  quicumque  repertus  est  ab  Eborum  usque  ad  orien- 
tale  mare,  prater  illos  qui  ad  ecclesiam  gloriosi  confessoris,  beatissimi  Johannis  archispis- 
copi,  Beverlacum  quasi  unicum  confugerant.  Erat  enim  prataxata  ecclesia  miraculis  glo- 
riosa,  pro  pacis  tuitione  ab  incolis  frequentata.  Cum  autem  in  exercitu  regis,  qui  a  Bever- 
laco  fere  vij.  miliariis  tentoria  fixerat,  divulgatum  fuisset  omnem  regionis  illius  populum 
illuc  ad  pacem  sancti  venisse  et  omnia  preciosa  sua  secum  detulisse,  quidam  milites  rapinis 
assueti  Beverlacum  armati  petierunt,  ingressique  villain,  cum  neminem  resistentem  invenie- 
rent,  ad  septa  coemiterii,  quo  territa  totius  populi  multitudo  confluxerat,  ausu  temerario 
progrediuntur.  Quorum  primicerius,  Turstinus,  cum  vidisset  quendam  veteranum  precio- 
sius  Lndutum,  auream  in  brachio  ai'millam  ferentem,  properancius  ad  ecclesiam  tendentem, 
extracto  quo  erat  praecinctus  gladio  per  medium  plebis  attonitae  super  emissarium  furens 
senem  insequitur.  Sed  quia  eum  extra  ecclesiam  apprehendere  nou  potuit,  nee  dedit  ho- 
norem  Deo,  sed  infra  valvas  ecclesia?  jam  pene  fugiendo  insequitur  extinctum,  cum  ecce! 
equus  quo  insidebat,  fracto  collo,  corruit,  et  ipse  jam  faciei  deformi  post  tergum  versa, 
manibus  pedibusque  retortis,  velud  monstrum  informe  omnium  in  se  mirancium  ora  con- 
vertit.  Stupefacti  vero  et  exterriti  socii  ejus,  projectis  armis  et  deposita  ferocitate,  ad 
impetrandam  sancti  Johannis  misericordiam  convertuntur. — fol.  100. 

The  legend  then  proceeds  to  narrate  that  the  companions  of  the  deceased,  upon  their 
return  to  their  encampment,  narrated  the  whole  story  to  William,  who,  having  had  an  in- 
terview with  the  "  majores"  of  the  church,  confirmed  under  his  seal  the  grants  made  by 
his  predecessors,  and  became,  himself,  a  benefactor  to  the  foundation. 

It  seems  evident  that  this  notice  of  the  miracle  was  introduced  into  our  chronicle,  either 
directly  or  at  second  hand,  from  the  Polychronicon  of  Higden,  a  compilation  in  which  the 
bulk  of  the  early  portion  of  our  chronicle  may  be  traced.  I  give  it  from  the  translation  of 
Trevisa. 

Also  pe  lond  pat  lip  bitwene  York  and  Durham  was  ix  5ere  wip  oute  tylier  and  wonyer, 
out-take  onlich  Seynt  Joones  lond  of  Beverley.  For  pere  fil  a  wreche  vppon  oon  of  pe 
kynges  kny^tes,  for  his  hors  nek  was  to-broke,  and  his  face  turned  bacward — Harl.  MS. 
1900,  fol.  265. 


le  Conquerour  voroit  avoir  fet  deposer  Wolstan  leuesque  pur  ceo  qe  Men  ne  sauoit 

parler  Latin  ne  Fraunces. — p.  7. 

It  is  probable  that  political  reasons  rather  than  those  assigned  in  the  text  were  the  cause 
of  tin'  intended  expulsion  of  Wolstan,  who  contrived  in  an  age  when  miracles  were  not  un- 


NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS.  211 

common  to  have  one  introduced  for  his  own  especial  interest.  He  exerted  himself  with 
some  zeal  in  the  cause  of  William  the  Second  at  a  period  when  his  services  were  valuable ; 
and  seems,  even  although  ignorant  of  Latin  and  French,  to  have  been  a  faithful  subject  to 
the  new  dynasty.  The  encomium  written  upon  him,  after  his  death,  by  Serlo,  a  poet  to 
whose  sketches  we  are  so  often  indebted,  is  a  pleasing  one,  and  not  destitute  of  feeling  or 
good  taste. 

DE  WLSTANO  WIGORNENSI  EPISCOPO. 
Vixisti  semper,  semper,  venerande  sacerdos, 

Non  moreris  vivens,  nee  moriens  moreris. 
Tu  semper  puer  atque  senex,  Wlstane,  fuisti ; 

Relligione  senex,  simplicitate  puer. 
Contemptor  laudis,  laudando  sequenda  beatus, 

Ecclesia?  sanctae  tutor  amicus  eras. 
Pra?sul  officio  pastoris  honore  levat[us], 

Subjectis  socius,  inferior  sociis. 
Bis  denos  tres  hauserat  Urceus  ignes, 

Cum  supra  Stellas  aurea  Stella  salit. 

MS.  Cott.  Vitell.  A  xii.  fol.  129. 

Wolstan  was  consecrated  in  the  year  1062,  and  died  in  1095,  at  the  age  of  ninety.  The 
meaning  of  the  last  couplet  probably  is,  that  he  died  on  the  23d  of  November ;  Mathew  of 
Westminster,  ii.  17,  places  it  on  the  eighth  of  the  calends  of  April. 


....  tanque  Maucloun  le  roy  se  peisa  od  ly  et  a  Abirnethi  ly  fist  homage p.  7. 

Our  chronicle  places  this  event  in  the  thirteenth  year  of  the  reign  of  William  the  Con- 
queror, an  error  in  clironolgy  contradicted  by  all  historians,  who  date  this  expedition  into 
Scotland  in  1072.  Much  has  been  said  and  written  upon  the  subject  of  the  early  homage 
of  the  kings  of  Scotland,  but  a  late  acute  writer  has  satisfactorily  placed  the  subject  beyond 
the  possibility  of  further  controversy.  I  will  here  adduce  the  account  given  of  this  expe- 
dition by  Mathew  Paris,  copied,  not  from  his  printed  history,  but  from  the  autograph  of 
the  author  in  the  Royal  Library,  14,  C.  vii.,  a  manuscript  which  was  not  collated  in  this  part 
of  the  history  by  Watts,  and  which  varies  so  much  from  his  edition  as  to  assume  the  appear- 
ance of  a  distinct  version,  and  a  version,  too,  which  in  many  points  is  fuller,  stronger,  and 
better  than  that  already  given  to  the  public  by  archbishop  Parker  or  Watts.  I  shall  avail 
myself  of  frequent  opportunities  of  quoting  from  this  literary  curiosity,  which,  singularly 
enough,  has  escaped  investigation  and  notice ;  and,  in  this  instance,  for  the  purpose  of  prov- 
ing how  much  it  varies  from  the  printed  text,  each  shall  be  given  in  opposite  columns. 


NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 


PRINTED  TEXT. 

Anno  Domini  M.lxxii.  rex  Willielmus 
Scotiara  hostiliter  adiens,  speravit  aliquos 
ibi  ex  suis  hostibus  invenire.  Sed  cum  re- 
gionem  illam  perlustrasset,  et  nullum  penitus 
invenisset,  aceepto  tandem  regis  Seottorum 
cum  obsidibus  homagio,  ad  Angliam  renie- 
avit — p.  5,  edit.  1644. 


MANUSCRIPT. 

Anno  Domini  m.lxxij.  rex  Willelmus 
Scotiam,  eo  quod  nobiles  Angliae  indomitos 
recupaverat,  hostiliter  impetens,  speravit 
ibidem  aliquos  de  hostibus  suis  invenire. 
Sed  ipsis  in  locoruni  desertis  latitantibus, 
et  quandoque  impetum  in  Normannos  rap- 
tim  facientibus  cum  non  posset  ipsos  pa- 
tenter convenire,  licet  omnia  perlustrasset, 
in  regem  irruere  proposuit  hostiliter.  Sed 
idem  Scotorum  rex,  regis  Willelmi  feroci- 
tatem  timens,  quia  jam  innumeris  tam  An- 
gloruni  quam  Normannorum  agminibus 
stipabatur,  quae  pacis  erant  rogitabat.  Cui 
providus  rex  Willebnus,  malens  pacem  quam 
Martis  ambigua  fata  in  locis  ignotis  et  pa- 
lustribus  experiri,  laetus  adquievit  ad  horam. 
Aceepto  igitur  regis  Scotorum  cum  obsidi- 
bus homagio,  prudens  triumphator  ad  An- 
gliam remeavit. 

. . .  Nota  homagium  regis  Seottorum. 
MS.  Reg.  14,  C.  vii.  fol.  11. 

Besides  what  has  been  said  about  the  homage  made  by  Malcolm  to  William  at  Abernethi, 
in  a  note  to  the  Chronica  de  Mailros,  p.  56,  edit.  1835,  we  may  add  the  early  and  valuable 
authority  of  the  unpublished  chronicle  of  Gaimar,  who  gives  the  name  in  another  form. 

Apres  ico,  en  eel  tempoire, — 
Si  com  nus  dit  la  verai  estoire, — 
Li  reis  Willame,  e  si  baron, 
Mainent  grant  ost  sur  Malcolumb. 
Malcolumb  resembla  son  ost, 
En  contre  vint  tut  prest  e  tost ; 
A  Alberin  sentre  encontrerent. 

MS.  Reg.  13,  A.  xxi.  fol.  143.  b. 

The  chronicle  of  Radulfus  Niger,  under  the  year  1070,  says,  "  Malcolmus  rex  Scotorum 
terrain  regis  Willelmi  ferro  et  flammis  devastare  cepit,  qui  regi  postmodum  occurrens  in 
loco  qui  dicitur  Abernith  ei  homagium  fecit." — MS.  Reg.  13,  A.  xii.  fol.  2".  b. 

But  this  is  merely  the  echo  of  earlier  authority. 


NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS.  213 

. . .  Watcher  Lotring,  le  euesque  de  Doresme,  fust  tue  dez  Northumbroys  en  /eg/is  de 
Gatisheued,  en  vengeaimz  dun  Lucy p.  7- 

The  printed  edition  of  Hoveden,  fol.  263.  b.,  calls  him  Liulfus,  and  this  reading  is  the 
correct  one,  as  it  is  supported  by  the  authority  of  every  manuscript  which  I  have  examined, 
and  by  Simeon  of  Durham.  The  author  of  the  Scalacronica,  as  will  elsewhere  be  remarked, 
had  not  access  to  original  manuscripts  of  those  authors  whom  he  followed  in  this  part  of  his 
work.  It  will  also  be  observed  that,  a  few  lines  further  down  the  page,  he  incorrectly 
writes  Kariles  instead  of  Karilef,  the  celebrated  bishop  of  Durham.  These  being  the  ear- 
liest errors  which  have  occurred,  it  has  been  considered  proper  to  mention  them  to  show 
that  they  did  not  pass  unobserved,  but  such  will  not  in  future  be  noticed  or  corrected. 

This  Walcher  is  spoken  of  in  terms  of  commendation  by  Serlo,  the  poet  whose  verses 
afford  so  many  important  illustrations  to  our  chronicle.  Every  contemporaneous  document 
of  that  early  portion  of  our  history  is  valuable,  and  no  apology  is  necessary  for  introducing 
into  these  pages  the  following  lines. 

DE  WALCHERO  DUNELMENSI  EPISCOPO. 
Cor  sapiens  justique  tenax,  et  gloria  morum, 
Mortis  causa  tuse,  praesul  venerande,  fuerunt. 
Invidit  tibi  barbaries,  quia  dispare  longa 
Vivebas  vita;  quia  morum  inhonesta  suorum 
Virga  justiciar,  vero  dictante,  premebas. 
Virtus  est  odiosa  malis,  correctio  nequam, 
Disciplina  gravis  semper  nolentibus  illam, 
Nullus  apud  sordes  mentis  respectus  honesti. 
Ergo  tibi  nocuit  fortemque  bonumque  manere, 
Si  nocuit,  dico,  quod  te  super  astra  levavit. 
Agni  paschalis  celebrabas  gaudia  festa, 
Cum  tu  per  gladios  moriens,  sed  vivus,  abisti. 

The  poet  then  proceeds  to  lash  the  murderers  of  the  prelate. 

INVECTIO  IN  EOS  QUI  EUM  OCCIDERUNT. 
Scotte,  ubi  lex?  ubi  fas?  facies  et  forma  pudoris? 
Pastorem  dum  c»dit  ovis,  dum  filius  intras 
Ense  profunda  patris,  Domini  per  viscera  servus; 
Dum  ferrum  duras,  loca,  tempora,  foedera  pacis, 
Sanguine  dum  maculas,  leges  et  jura,  refringis; 
Omnia  confundens,  et  tu  confunderis  ipse. 
Interimens  patrem  desisti  filius  esse, 
Pastorem  caedens  scis  te  pastoris  egere. 


214  NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Quodque  tibi  gravius,  venise  venamque  viamque 

Obstruis  ipse  tibi,  venias  pereunte  ministro. 

Res  miranda  nirnis  quando  concordia  fraudem 

Educit,  pax  insidias,  et  gratia  mortem, 

[D]ampna,  pericla,  necem,  dum  splendida  facta  rependit; 

[D]um  premitur  virtus  odiis  calcata  malorum, 

[Dum]  cadit  innocuus,  ruit  insons,  praecipitatur 

Et . . .  teritum  gladii  perit  ore  saeerdos. 

Sp  . . .  caret  venia,  veniam  donare  suetus; 

. . .  am  donare  solet,  moritur  sine  culpa. 

banc  culpam  contagia  prima  tulerunt, 

. culpa  recens  scelerum  vindicta  priorum, 

leo  rapidorum  prada  leonum, 

qua?  fama  canit,  quae  praedicat  unum 

Virtute  Herculea  reges  trivisse  superbos; 
Qui  retulit  patriae  bello  de  mille  triumphos; 
Hie  pater  pacis,  tutor  fidissimus  aequi, 
[Jus]titias  virtus  in  quo  secura  quievit. 
Willelmus  rex  regis  opus  sullimiter  ornans, 
. . .  festos  orbi  vos  toto  toilet  ab  orbe. 

MS.  Cott.  Vitell.  A.  xii.  fol.  128.  b. 

II  estably  saunjitz  Robert  duk  de  Norme/idy,  et  Willam  sown  Jitz  roy  de  Engleter,  et 
Henry  vousist  il  qe  hust  este  euesque. — p.  8. 

In  this  enumeration  of  the  sons  of  the  Conqueror  our  author  makes  no  mention  of 
Richard,  who  appears  to  have  been  older  than  William  Rufus.  The  fullest  account  of  him 
is  in  Malmesbury,  f.  62.  b,  who  ascribes  his  death  to  the  effect  of  a  blast  of  foul  air  while 
hunting  in  the  New  Forest.  I  have  found  the  following  lines  upon  his  death,  writteii  by 
Serlo,  a  contemporary,  and  gladly  present  them  to  the  reader. 

[DE  RICARDO]  WILLELMI  REGIS  FILIO. 
Magnanimo  spes  laudis  eras,  Ricarde,  parenti, 

Et  supra  fratris  gloria  dulcis  eras. 
Te  mores  animosque  suos  intrasse  canebat, 

[Adque]  suos  actus  effigiare  queas. 
[In]vidit  niisere  vobis  fortuna  duobus, 

Te  tenerum  florem  dum  rapit  aura  necis. 
. .  iscebas  cervos  fragili  terebrare  sagitta, 

[M]ors  ausa  est  forti  figere  te  jaculo. 
[V]irgineum  sidus  Septembris  transiit  idus, 

[C]uni  tu  mane  novo  morte  novaris  homo. 

MS.  Cott.  Vitell.  A.  xii.  fol.  129. 


NOTES    AND    ILLUSTRATIONS.  215 

It  is  singular  that  Malraesbury,  in  his  account  of  this  Richard,  should  have  adopted 
words  and  expressions  exactly  similar  to  those  employed  in  these  lines.  He  begins  thus, 
"  Ricardus  magnanimo  parenti  spem  laudis  alebat ;"  he  speaks  of  "  primaevi  floris  indolem ;" 
and  says  he  met  his  death  while  he  was  "  cervos  in  Nova  Foresta  terebrantem ;"  similarities 
which  cannot  be  conjectural,  and  which  prove  that  Malmesbury  was  acquainted  with  these 


. . .  ilfust  entere  a  Chame,  la  sepulture  de  qy  vn  cheualer  defendy  de  par  Dieux,  qe  nul 
tie  ly  tolly  soun  heritage,  qe  de  awncestri  ly  apurtenoit  le  lieu  de  la  sepulture p.  8. 

A  striking  instance  of  the  instability  of  human  grandeur!     The  circumstance  is  thus 
narrated  by  Wace,  from  whom  we  ascertain  the  name  of  the  knight  who  forbid  the  funeral. 

Endementres  qe  len  faiseit 
Le  sai'keu,  ou  giser  deueit; 
Et  li  euesque  et  li  baron 
Esteient  Hoc  enuiron; 
Eis  uos  un  uauasor  errant, 
Qi  la  presse  uint  derompant, 
Acelin  out  non  fitz  Artur, 
Par  la  presse  uint  asseur. 
Sor  une  pierre  en  haut  monta, 
Deuers  la  biere  se  torna, 
Clere  et  euesques  apela, 
Enhaut  sestut,  enhaut  parla. 
Chronicle  of  the  Dukes  of  Normandy,  MS.  Reg.  14,  C.  xi.  fol.  274. 

See  also  Camden's  Collection  of  Historians,   p.  34,  edit,  fol.,  1603,  and  William  of 
Newbury,  p.  687,  edit.  8vo,  1610. 


. . .  deuaunt  qils  vindrent  au  sege  de  Antioche,  com  en  le  lyuere  de  Auntiage  horn  pust 
oyer. — p.  9. 

It  is  by  no  means  certain  to  what  authority  reference  is  here  made.  At  first  sight  it 
might  appeal'  probable  that  the  Antiochesis  of  Joseph  of  Exeter  (more  generally  known  as 
Josephus  Iscanus)  is  alluded  to ;  but  it  will  be  remembered  that  our  author  here  speaks  of 
the  exploits  of  the  leaders  of  the  first  crusade,  and  that  the  subject  of  that  poem  (according 
to  Camden,  Remains,  p.  407)  was  the  exploits  of  Richard  the  First  in  the  Holy  Land.  It 
is  certain,  however,  that,  during  the  middle  ages,  a  work  bearing  a  similar  title,  but  written 
in  French,  was  frequent  in  England,  and  appears  to  have  been  a  great  favourite.  In  the 
Close  Roll,  1 7th  May,  34  Hen.  HI.,  the  master  of  the  Knights  Templars  is  commanded 


216  NOTES    AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 

to  allow  Henry  of  the  Wardrobe  to  have  for  the  queen's  use  a  certain  great  book  written  in 
French,  wherein  are  contained  the  exploits  of  Antioch.  In  the  library  of  Glastonbury, 
according  to  a  catalogue  drawn  up  in  1247,  was  "liber  de  captione  Antiochiee,  Gallice, 
legibilis." — Hearne's  Johan.  Glaston.,  p.  435.  The  "  Antiochena  bella"  furnished  the  sub- 
ject of  paintings  executed  during  the  time  of  Henry  III.,  which  ornamented  the  walls  of 
the  palaces  at  Westminster  and  the  Tower,  as  we  learn  from  the  Pipe  and  Close  Rolls. 
— See  Walpole's  Anecd.  Paint,  i.  10;  Warton's  Hist.  Poet.  i.  118;  Rot.  Lift.  Claits.  i.  xlv. 


Qi  conqueror,  houmblement  se  conteint  au  clergie  . ...  en  soun  comencement. — p.  10. 

The  historians  of  the  period,  universally  monks  or  churchmen,  have  much  to  say  against 
the  rapacity  and  severity  of  William;  less  prejudiced  writers  woidd  probably  present  us 
with  a  more  favourable  account.  They  admit,  however,  that  he  had  numerous  princely 
qualifications,  and  it  would  be  easy  to  refer  to  many  of  his  actions  which  reflect  honour  on 
his  prudence,  generosity,  and  valour.  An  excuse  for  some  of  his  severities  against  the 
English  may  perhaps  be  found  in  the  repeated  rebellions  and  conspiracies  of  his  subjects. 
A  characteristic  and  illustrative  anecdote  of  him  is  detailed  in  a  manuscript  in  the  Cot- 
tonian  library,  which,  in  the  paucity  and  value  of  all  notices  relative  to  that  remote  period 
of  history,  is  worthy  of  insertion  in  this  place.  It  is  entitled  to  every  credit,  as  the  indi- 
vidual of  whom  it  is  told  was  a  bishop  of  Winchester,  and  the  manuscript  contains  the 
annals  of  that  monastery,  the  compilation  of  successive  monks,  who  were  apparently  in  the 
habit  of  recording  events  as  they  occurred. 

Fertur  regem  concessisse  episcopo  Walkelino  ad  perficiendam  ecclesiam  quam  incho- 
averat  Wintonias  tantum  lignorum  de  Hanepinges  quantum  iij.  diebus  et  noctibus  per  car- 
pentarios  adquerere  poterat.  Carpentariis  igitur  innumerabilibus  congregatis  totum  nemus 
in  prsefixo  termino  solo  dejectum  est  et  ad  Wintoniam  deductum.  Post  hoc  venit  rex  per 
Hanepinges,  et  postquam  respexit  illuc  admirans  quasi  in  extasi  factus  "  nunquid  fascinnatus 
sum  aut  amens  efl'ectus?  ubi,"  inquid,  "sum?  Nonne  hie  juxta  Wintoniam  nemus  habui 
valde  delectabile?"  Agnita  denique  re  gesta  in  furorem  versus  est,  Walkelinus  itaque 
sumpta  circa  se  vetusta  capa  irapetravit  ab  hostiariis  regis  ingressum  usque  in  regis 
cameram ;  ad  pedes  autem  ejus  procidit.  "  Domine,"  inquid,  "  novi  quod  multos  habeas 
clericos  et  capellanos  promovendos,  et  ob  hsec  contra  me  queeris  occasionem.  Accipe  ergo, 
si  placet,  quern  mihi  dedisti  episcopatum,  reservato  mihi  cum  amicicia  tua  officium  quod 
dudum  in  capella  tua  habui."  Quid  multa?  postremo  rex,  "Certe,"  inquid,  "  Walkeline, 
ego  nimis  prodigus  largitor,  et  tu  nimis  avidus  extitisti  acceptor."  Pacificatus  itaque  regi 
cum  amoris  redintegratione  ad  episcopatum  suurn  rediit — MS.  Cott.  Domit.  xiii.  fol.  22.  b. 

In  confirmation  of  this  view  of  the  character  of  William  the  Conqueror,  I  beg  leave  to 
present  the  reader  with  the  following  lines,  written  shortly  after  his  death,  by  one  who  had 
abundant  opportunities  of  knowing  his  merits  and  his  faults,  and  who,  as  the  friend  and 
client  of  Odo,  bishop  of  Bayeaux,  had  no  interested  motive  to  encumber  with  unnecessary 


NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS.  217 

praise  the  memory  of  a  prince  who  had  treated  that  half-ecclesiastic,  half-warrior,  with 
anything  but  indulgence.  These  verses,  now  first  printed,  are  written  by  a  poet  named 
Serlo. 

DE  REGE  GILIELMO. 
Regnum,  forma,  decus,  cor,  dextra,  facetia,  virtus, 

Hsec  douant  vitam,  rex  Gilielme,  tibi. 
Succubuisse  tibi  reges  polosque  coegis, 

Insita  vis  te  mors  succubuisse  tibi. 
Prspollens  opibus  latissima  regna  tenebas ; 

Nunc  opibus  nudum  te  domus  arta  tenet. 
Mcechus,  perjurns,  fur,  raptor,  praado,  tyrannus, 

Te  vixisse  diu,  non,  doluere,  mori. 
Justiciae  facies,  erepto  judice,  marcet; 

Fracta  gemit  virtus,  pax  fugitiva  latet. 
Ipse  novem  de  mense  dies  Septembris  habebas, 

Et  tibi  subtrahitur  quod  decimare  queas. 

MS.  Cott.  Vitell.  A.  xii.  fol.  128.  b. 

To  these  I  add  the  following  homely  lines,  of  the  antiquity  of  which  no  one  who  reads 
them  can  doubt;  they  are  extracted  from  a  singular  miscellaneous  volume  in  the  Cottonian 
library,  marked  Titus  D.  xxiv,  and  are  now  first  printed.  That  they  are  to  be  referred  to 
the  Conqueror  appears  from  the  fact  that  they  are  succeeded  by  three  lines  upon  the  death 
of  queen  Matilda. 

Rex  Willelme,  pax  sit  tibi, 

Cujus  nomen  opto  scribi 

Quo  scribuntur  sancti  rite 

[In  aeternse  libro  vitae].* 

Hoc  fas  mihi  sit  optandi, 

Et  id,  pro  te,  deprecandi; 

Tua  enim  manus  larga 

Nulli  fuit  quani  filarga. 

Dedit  nobis  quod  in  Norfulc, 

Quod  habemus  et  in  Suthfulc. 

Hie  in  pace  requieseas, 

Nee  in  fine  erubescas 

Cum  tremebunt  omnes  rei 

A  prassentis  wltu  Dei. 

Tunc  omnino  sis  securus, 

Et  cum  Sanctis  regnaturus, 

•  A  line  is  here  obviously  omitted  in  the  manuscript,  which  I  have  supplied  by  conjecture 
2  E 


218  NOTES    AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Quo  secundo  coroneris, 
Atque  felix  gratuleris. 
Amen,  Amen. 

fol.  105. 

It  is  of  course  impossible  to  say  to  what  ecclesiastical  establishment  the  author  of  these 
lines  belonged.  He  may  have  been  an  inmate  of  Bury  St  Edmunds,  to  which  William 
gave  lands  in  Norfolk  and  Suffolk. — See  Monast.  Anglic,  vol.  i.  p.  288;  MS.  Cott.  Au- 
ffust.  ii.  21 ;  Cart.  Antiq.  in  Turre,  P.  7,  8,  9. 


El  fait  a  sauoir  qe  toutz  cestes  gentz  dount  lour  sournouns  y  sount  escrit,  vindrent  oue 
Wi  I  lam  le  conquerour — p.  12. 

This  version  of  what  is  usually  styled  the  Battle  Abbey  Roll  varies  from  all  other  copies, 
and  is  more  than  usually  spurious,  in  as  much  as  it  adds  to  the  general  uncertainty  which 
hangs  over  the  whole  by  the  Introduction  of  names  which,  at  the  period  of  the  Norman  in- 
vasion, were  decidedly  not  family  names,  but  peculiar  to  individuals. 


En  Ian  de  grace  mile  87-  Willam  Rotes,  fitz  Willam  le  conquerour  fust  corone  a  West- 
mouster  de  Lamfraunc  le  euesque — p.  19- 

William  the  Conqueror  appears  to  have  been  indebted  in  an  eminent  degree  to  Lanfranc, 
archbishop  of  Canterbury;  William  Rufus  succeeded  to  the  throne  chiefly  by  his  instru- 
mentality. The  piety,  energy,  and  prudence  of  this  worthy  man  appeal'  to  have  escaped 
the  notice  which  they  so  deservedly  merit.  Of  these  qualities  we  shall  have  proofs  in  the 
course  of  these  notes.  The  following  affectionate  lines  written  upon  his  death,  and  perhaps 
intended  as  his  epitaph,  are  worthy  of  being  printed. 

DE  LANFRANCO. 
Vixisti,  venerande  pater,  sapienter  et  aeque; 

Vixisti  vivens,  mors  quoque  vita  tibi. 
Inter  divicias  pauper,  Lanfrance,  fuisti ; 

Diviciis  manans  pauperum  amator  eras. 
Per  te  florentes  artes  valuere  Latinae, 

Graecia  de  vobis,  ecce,  triumphat  ovans. 
Tu  laicos  ortu,  Gallosque  docendo,  levasti: 

Te  sibi  primatem  cardo  Britannus  habet. 
In  terra  degens  ccelestia  Marte  *  petebas, 

Exemptus  terra,  sidera  liber  adis. 

*  The  reading  "  morte,"  instead  of  "marte"  as  in  the  text,  may  perhaps  appear  preferable  to  some;  in  the  manu- 
script it  stands  thus—"  sate." 


NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS.  219 

Sol  Geminos  denis  obsiderat  igne  diebus ; 
Promisit  lima  diem,  nocte  solutus  abis. 

MS.  Cott.  Vitell.  A.  xii.  fol.  128.  b. 
If  I  understand  the  last  couplet  aright,  it  appears  that  Lanfranc  died  early  ou  the  morn- 
ing of  the  eleventh  of  May,  a  date  which  does  not  agree  with  received  authorities.  Flo- 
rence of  Worcester,  an  early  writer,  in  general  very  accurate  in  his  dates,  says  he  died  on 
the  ninth  of  the  calends  of  July,  which  corresponds  to  June  23.  The  Saxon  Chronicle 
does  not  give  the  month  or  day,  and  the  same  remark  applies  to  Eadmer  and  Malmesbury 
There  is  reason,  therefore,  in  the  absence  of  stronger  authority,  to  presume  that  the  poet 
is  entitled  to  credit  in  this  point. 

Since  writing  these  lines  I  have  met  with  another  short  poem  upon  Lanfranc,  also  im- 
printed; it  appears  to  have  been  intended  as  an  epitaph,  and  probably  was  engraved  upon 
his  tomb  at  Canterbury.  It  will  be  noticed  that  in  the  date  of  his  obit  it  agrees  with  that 
given  above. 

Hie  tumulus  claudit,  quern  nulla  sub  orbe  Latino 
Gens  ignoravit,  sunimum  dixere  supremi, 
Fecerat  hunc  tanto  sullimem  littera  sensu, 
Ut  supra  cunctos  spectandum  diceret  orbis. 
Post  urbis  praesul,  primas  quoque  Cantuariensis ; 
Edidit  has  omnes,  quas  circumcernimus,  aedes. 
Quantus  erat  cunctis,  prae  cunctis  quantus  egenis, 
Anglia  testatur;  fit  testis  et  extera  tellus. 
Sol  erat  in  Geminis,  undenum  fecerat  ortuni, 
Cum  felix  obiit,  primo  sub  mane  diei. 
Sacra  fides  librique  sacri,  vos,  denique,  cuneti 
Mundanae  studiis  scolae  quicunque  vacatis 
Lanfrancum,  quia  doctor  erat  praeclarus,  amate ; 
Utque  sibi  detur  requies  orando  vacate. 

MS.  Cott.  Nero,  A.  vii.  fol.  40. 

....  lez  ij.  roxjs  furoimt  acordez  en  maner  qe  Mancloun  obeyeroit  au  roy  Willam  com 
auaunt  auoitfet  a  soun  pier. p.  20. 

This  event,  placed  under  the  year  1090,  is  recorded  in  the  printed  copy  of  Mathew  Paris, 
in  the  following  summary  manner: 

Rex  interea  Scotorum  Malcolmus  nimio  terrore  percussus,  homagium  fecit  regi  Anglo- 
rum  et  fidelitatem  juravit p.  11,  edit.  1644. 

The  manuscript  copy,  already  referred  to,  is  fuller  and  more  explicit. 


220  NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 

REX  SCOTORUM  MALCOLMUS  HOMAGIUM  FECIT  REGI  WILLELMO. 

Rex  autem  Scotorum  Malcolmus  audito  quod  pax  inter  fratres  reformaretur,  cepit  vehe- 
menter  improbos  impetus  Willelmi  regis,  immo  jam  tiranni,  formidare.  Festinavit  igitur 
eidem  Willelmo  antequam  exterminium  in  Scotia  inchoaret  quoe  pacis  erant  suppliciter 
postulare.  Erat  enim  idem  rex  M[alcolmus],  licet  armis  strenuissimus,  vir  circumspectus 
et  modestus,  et  omni  praeditus  sanctitate.  Veniens  igitur  ad  regem  Angliae  Willelmum, 
Immilitate  sua  regis  flexit  ferocitatem,  asserens  se  nullum  suorum  recepisse  vel  receptum 
fore,  nee  tali  intentione  ut  ipsos  dominum  suum  recognoscentes  regi  persecutionibus  suis 
mediantibus  redderet  purificator  et  fideliores.  Mitigato  igitur  regi  Willelmo,  rex  Scotorum 
M[alcolmus]  fecit  homagium  et  fidelitatem.  Et  sic  magnis  honoratus  donativis  ad  propria 
cum  prosperitate  remeavit. — MS.  Reg.  14,  A.  vii.  fol.  14.  b. 

Lez  cronicles  de  Eseoce  deuisent  qilestoit  descouert  a  cesti  roy  Mauneloun  quit  dczgrantz 
seignours  de  soun  realme  estoit  par  ascent  dez  attires  grantz  coumpassount  de  ly  destruyer 
par  puysoun. — p.  20. 

There  is  no  opportunity  of  ascertaining  the  clironicles  to  which  our  author  here  alludes. 
The  story  is  to  be  found  in  Wyntoun,  i.  259,  and  by  Fordun,  i.  255.  It  is  also  related  by 
Aired,  Geneal.  Reg.  Angl.  col.  367,  who  adds  additional  interest  and  authenticity  to  the 
story  by  stating  that  he  had  it  from  the  communication  of  David  the  First,  king  of  Scot- 
land. Higden,  the  compiler  of  the  Policronicon,  has  also  inserted  it;  see  Trevisa's  inte- 
resting translation,  MS.  Harl.  1900,  fol.  272.  Since  it  seems  thus  entitled  to  some  credit, 
I  here  present  the  reader  with  the  account  given  by  Mathew  Paris  in  the  Royal  Manuscript, 
in  which  the  narrative  is  given  with  more  spirit  and  appearance  of  truth  than  in  the  printed 

edition. 

NOTA  REGIS  SCOTORUM  MALCOLMI  MAGNIFICENTIAM. 
Quoniam  de  rege  Scotorum  Malcolmo  tractatum  est,  non  arbitror  alienum  a  materia  ejus 
quandam  enudeare  magnificentiam.  Contigit  ut  quidam  nobiles  contra  ipsum  in  regno  suo 
conspirassent,  ita  ut  in  necem  suam  occulte  conjurassent,  quodam  proditore  qui  omnibus 
videtur  major  ac  fortior  machinante.  Haec  autem  omnia  cum  per  fideles  suos  regi  inno- 
tuissent,  convocatis  cum  ipso  proditore  sociis  et  venatoribus  it  venatum,  et  cum  ad  quon- 
dam saltum  venissent,  omnibus  semotis  ex  industria  sociis  et  venatoribus  excepto  solo  pro- 
ditore, rex  ait ;  "  ecce  ego  et  tu  mecum,  solus  cum  solo,  similibus  equis  et  armis  vecti  et 
communiti,  nullus  nostrum  melior  condicio.  Si  igitur  velis,  audes  et  vales,  ensibus  eductis 
fortunam  duelli  experiamur;  et  redde  hostibus  meis,  complicibus  tuis  me  quern  promisisti 
detruncatum.  Si  enim  me  occidendum  speras  quando  melius,  quando  secrecius,  quando 
virilius?  Si  venenum  paras,  hoc  mulierculae;  si  dormientem  invadere  proponis,  hoc  sica- 
riorum  et  iucalatorum  est:  age  igitur  quod  viri  est  et  militis,  et  solus  cum  solo  dimicandum, 
soli  sumus  confidenter."  Miles  igitur  confusus  hiis  verbis  quasi  fulmine  repercussus  ex  equo 
in  terrain  corruit,  projectoque  gladio  ad  pedes  regis  cadens  cum  mcerore  veniam  de  concepta 
temeritate  et  prodicione  postulans,  quod  peciit  impetravit. 


NOTES    AND    ILLUSTRATIONS.  122 


le  roy  Mauncloun  Descoce  et  Edward  sounfitz  furount  tuez  a  Alnewyk. p.  21. 

A  mystery,  which  probably  will  never  be  removed,  hangs  over  the  death  of  Malcolm ; 
the  story  of  his  being  pierced  in  the  eye  by  a  soldier,  who  afterwards  attained  in  conse- 
quence the  name  Piercy,  is  justly  exploded;  but,  like  most  stories  of  that  character,  seems 
to  have  had  its  origin  in  distorted  truth.  The  early  chronicles  unite  for  the  most  part  in 
stating  that  Malcolm  and  his  son  were  slain  by  treachery,  without  specifying  in  what  the 
treachery  consisted.  It  is  stated  that  he  fell  by  the  hand  of  Morel  of  Bamburgh ;  but  the 
following  passage  from  the  unpublished  chronicle  of  Gaimar,  which  I  must  own  I  do  not 
comprehend  in  every  particular,  divides  the  honour  or  disgrace  with  another  individual, 
not  elsewhere  mentioned  in  history. 

Quant  li  reis  out  sa  curt  tenue, 

La  novele  li  est  venue 

Ke  Malcolumb  estait  oscis, 

Li  reis  ki  ert  ses  enemis. 

Robert  de  Munbrai  laueit  niort, 

Cel  rei  v  fust  adreit  v  fust  a  tort. 

A  Abiewic  fu  la  bataille 

Treis  mil  homes,  trestuz  par  mille, 

J  ount  oscis  od  Malcolum, 

E  de  ambes  parz.  maint  bon  baron. 

Co  fu  Gefrai  en  gule  vent  (?) 

J  le  Morel,  vn  son  parent, 

Ke  Malcolumb  tolurent  vie. 

Quant  la  novele  en  fust  ore 

Li  reis  pur  le  conte  manda, 

Vienge  a  curt  ses  diz  orra; 

E  solum  co  kil  orreit 

Bien  fust  guarniz  de  fere  drait. 

MS.  Reg.  13,  A.  xxi.  fol.  145.  b. 
See  also  M.  Paris,  Additamenta,  p.  129;  Sax.  Chron.  p.  199. 

The  student  of  early  Scottish  history  will  be  glad  to  see  the  account  of  the  death  of 
Malcolm  and  of  his  son  and  wife  extracted  from  the  Royal  MS.  of  Matthew  Paris,  fol.  15. 

MORITUR  REX  MALCOLMUS  SCOTORUM. 
[m.xcii.]  Eodem  anno  pius  rex  Scotorum  Malcolmus,  cujus  actus  in  benedictione  vi- 
vunt  immortales,  cum  non  immerito  contra  tirannum  Willelmum  regem  sibi  injuriantem 
guerram  movisset,  interceptus  est  subito  et,  positis  insidiis,  interemptus.  Quod  ut  audivit 
regina  ejus  Margareta,  qua?  tunc  forte  innrniabatur  duplici  contricione,  ait  orans  ad  Domi- 
num,  "  Domine  mi!  satis  est  quod  vixi,  tolle  animam  meam,"  et  faciens  sacerdoti  demnoi- 


til  NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 

bus  plene  confessionem,  accepto  salutis  viatico,  animam  felicein  Deo  statirn  destinavit.  In- 
terfectus  est  autem  cum  memorato  rege  Malcolmo  ejusdem  regis  M[alcolmi]  filius,  et  heres 
si  supervixisset,  et  hominum  numerosa  multitudo,  quae  omnia  sanctae  reginae  lasthalem  do- 
lorem  adauxerunt.  Tunc  Scotorum  nobiles  elegerunt  Duneeanum,  Malcolmi  regis  fratrem, 
in  regem.  Sed  Dunecanus,  filius  Malcolmi,  qui  obses  erat  in  curia  regis  Willelmi,  auxilio 
ejus  fretus,  superveniens  patruum  suum  aufugavit  et  post  patrem  suum  regnavit. 

La  royne  Margaret  safemme  morust  de  doel  le  iij.  iour  gel  auoit  les  nouelis. — p.  21. 

The  character  which  Margaret  has  earned  for  herself  by  her  piety  and  sincere  and  un- 
affected religion  has  been  placed  in  a  favourable  light  by  Lord  Hailes  (Annals,  i.  33).  The 
eulogetic  and  ambitious  panegyrics  of  professed  writers  of  lives  of  saints  are  always  open 
in  suspicion,  but  in  this  instance  it  appears  from  undoubted  authority  that  any  such  scruples 
would  be  misapplied.  In  addition  to  the  evidence  of  Turgot,  I  will  willingly  contribute  a 
new  and  incontrovertible  testimony  of  the  piety  of  this  excellent  woman,  by  laying  before 
ih  reader  a  letter  addressed  to  her  by  Lanfranc,  the  celebrated  archbishop  of  Canterbury, 
written  in  reply  to  her  request  that  he  would  assume  the  character  of  her  Christian  father, 
and  would  send  her  fitting  individuals  to  be  employed  in  the  conversion  and  civilization  of 
her  subjects.  This  interesting  letter,  decidedly  the  earliest  contemporaneous  written  docu- 
ment connected  with  Scottish  history,  ecclesiastic  or  civil,  has  hitherto  escaped  notice,  and 
is  not  to  be  found  either  in  the  edition  of  the  works  of  Lanfranc  published  by  D'achery,  or 
in  the  Bibliotheca  Patrum.  It  is  now  given  from  a  very  ancient  manuscript  in  the  Cotto- 
nian  collection  in  the  Museum,  the  great  antiquity  of  which  is  observable  in  the  peculiar 
application  of  the  diphthongs. 

Lanfrancus,  indignus  sanctae  Cantuariensis  aecclesiae  antistes,  gloriosae 
Scotorum  regina?  M[argaret8e],  salutem,  et  benedictionem. 
Explicare  non  potest  epistolaris  brevitas  quanta  cor  nieum  laaticia  perfudisti,  lectis  litteris 
tuis  quas  mini,  Deo  amabilis  regina,  misisti.  O  quanta  jucunditate  verba  profluunt  quae 
divino  spiritu  inspirata  procedunt!  Credo  enim  non  a  te,  sed  per  te,  dicta  esse  quse  scrip- 
seras.  Revera  per  os  tuum  locutus  est  Hie  qui  discipulis  suis  ait,  "  discite  a  me  quia  mites 
sum  et  humilis  corde."  De  hac  Cliristi  disciplina  processit  quod  regali  stirpe  progenita, 
regaliter  educata,  nobili  regi  nobiliter  copulata,  me,  hominem  extraneum,  vilem,  ignobilem, 
peccatis  involutum,  in  patrem  elegis,  teque  milii  in  filiam  spiritualiter  habendam  pecaris. 
Non  sum  quod  petas,  sed  sim  quia  putas.  Ne  decepta  remaneas ;  ora  pro  me,  ut  sim  dig- 
nus  pater  orare  Dominum  et  exaudiri  pro  te.  Orationum  et  benefactorum  sit  inter  nos 
commune  commercium ;  parva  quidem  tribuo,  sed  multo  majora  me  recepturum  esse  con- 
fide    Dehinc,  igitur,  sim  pater  tuus,  et  tu  mea  filia  esto. 

Mitto  glorioso  viro  tuo  et  tibi  carissimum  fratrem  nostrum,  dominum  Goldeuuinum,  se- 
cundum petitionem  tuam,  alios  quoque  duos  fratres;  quia  quod  de  servitio  Dei  et  vestro 
fieri  oportet,  solus  ipse  per  se  explere  non  posset.     Et  rogo,  multumque  rogo,  quatinus  quod 


NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS.  223 

pro  Deo  et  pro  animabus  vestris  coepistis  Lnstanter  et  efficaciter  perficere  studeatis ;  et  si 
possetis  aut  velitis  opus  vestrum  per  alios  adimplere,  multo  desiderio  vellemus  hos  fra- 
tres  nostros  ad  nos  redire,  quia  valde  in  officiis  suis  necessarii  erant  fecclesia?  nostra.  Fiat 
tamen  voluntas  vestra,  et  per  omnia  desideramus  obaedire  vobis. 


Walter  Tirell  voroit  avoir  treyte  vn  cerfe,  sifery  le  roy  an  quer  de  vn  sett  mart, 

trebouche  au  tere  en  meisme  le  lieu  ou  sounpere  auoit  fait  gaster  un  eglis p.  23. 

The  following  curious  poem,  which  probably  exists  only  in  the  Cottonian  MS.,  from 
which  it  is  here  printed,  contains  a  romantic  account  of  the  manner  in  which  William  the 
Conqueror  was  made  acquainted  with  the  destiny  of  his  three  sons.  Romantic  though  the 
groundwork  be,  it  exhibits  a  correct  estimate  of  the  characters  of  the  young  princes;  nor 
is  it  devoid  of  spirit  and  poetic  merit,  and  as  a  literary  curiosity  it  must  rank  high  in  the 
list  of  fictions  founded  upon  English  history.  The  manuscript  from  which  it  is  taken  ap- 
pears to  have  been  written  in  the  time  of  Henry  the  Third;  but  we  are  probably  to  ascribe 
the  composition  of  the  poem  to  a  much  earlier  period. 

DE  WILLELMO  BASTARDO  REGE  ANGLLE,  ET  TRIBUS  FILIIS  EJUS. 
Ly  roys  Wily  am  li  conquerur, 
Qui  taunt  auoyt  conquis  honur, 
Ke  roys  estait  corune, 
Du  tens  auenir  ad  mut  pense. 
E  a  pres  ses  wres  quele  sekel  serait, 
E  de  se  tray  fytz  quai  avendrait, 
Mvt  fv  pensiues  pur  enquere, 
A  quele  fyn  il  deueraint  treere. 
Le  grant  clers  de  fylosofye, 
E  le  methers  de  graunt  clergye, 
E  le  sages  houmes  de  son  poer, 
Par  de  sa  e  de  la  la  mer, 
A  vn  parlement  fyt  asemler; 
Ke  par  eus  entendi  sauer 
De  ces  enfaunz  la  destine, 
Que  taunt  auoyt  desire. 
Kaunt  touz  estaient  asemle 
Ly  roys  les  ad  aresune. 
"  Seniurs,"  dit  il,  "  qui  estis  si, 
De  votre  venu  mut  wus  merci ; 
De  votre  sen,  e  votre  sauer, 
Oren  drait  eu  ay  mester. 


224  NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Car  vne  pense  me  eht  ay  quer, 
Ke  ne  me  soyt  repos  auer, 
De  me  rrayz  fytz,  ke  beers  sunt, 
A  quele  fyne  hy  vendrunt. 
Pur  ce  wus  pri,  e  requer, 
Qui  entre  wus  veylez  tretrer 
De  mes  enfaunz  comment  irra, 
E  a  quele  fyn  checun  vendra; 
E  sulum  ce  ke  wus  aueret  troue, 
Ne  me  celes  la  verite." 

Ly  roys  a  taunt  pri  conge, 
E  ly  sages  vnt  en  parle, 
Mot  parlerent  estraystment, 
E  defosterent  clergament 
Le  qualites,  e  le  continaunz, 
E  le  murs  de  les  enfaunz, 
Lvr  colurs  e  lur  afers, 
Mes  en  taunt  eplayterent  gers 
Car  diuers  furunt  lvr  resouns, 
E  diuers  lur  opyniones; 
Ne  poaint  pur  nule  resun 
Tvez  assenter  a  vn. 
Taunt  cum  ile  deposterent 
E  deren  eplaiterent, 
Estes,  vne  mester  de  meur  age, 
Ben  lettere  e  ben  sage, 
Enter  eus  est  sus  leue 
Si  ad  mudutement  parle. 
"  Seniures,  qui  alez  taunt  dotaunt, 
Et  tot  leur  despotaunt, 
Fetez  les  enfaunz  maunder, 
E  surment  o  nus  parler." 
Quant  cile  out  comaunde, 
Les  enfaunz  sunt  tost  maunde. 
Roberd  Curthos,  qui  fu  le  ayne, 
De  vaunt  eus  fu  primes  prisen. 
Quant  le  mesters  Roberd  ad  vew, 
"  Beu  fyth,"  disaint,  "  been  seez  venu : 
Ne  seez  de  ren  espounte, 
De  vaunt  nus  coneses  vne  verite. 


NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS.  225 

Si  Deus,  qui  est  tot  pussaunt, 

De  wus  wt  fest  vne  oysel  volaunl 

De  tuz  hi  ceus  ki  purunt  voler, 

La  quel  voudriet  reseniler?" 

Roberd,  ky  fv  bene  nurri, 

E  de  parler  asez  hardy, 

"  Sires,"  ce  dit  il,  "  a  moun  voler, 

Meus  vodray  estre  esperuer; 

E  la  resun  wus  diray, 

Pur  quay  esperuer  estre  volay. 

Le  speruer  e  gentile  oysel, 

E  la  plus  vyte  qui  vole  de  ele, 

Eu  bosoyn  ben  volaunt, 

A  pray  prendre  ben  fesaunt, 

De  tot  gent  prise, 

De  princes  cheri,  honure. 

Issi  dige  en  drayt  de  moy; 

Curtays  e  quaintes  liester  vodray, 

Cheualer  pruz  e  vaylaunt, 

E  en  bosoyn  ben  fesaunt, 

De  tot  gent  ben  ame, 

E  sur  tuz  honure." 

Roberd  a  taunt  pri  conge, 

Hors  de  la  chaumber  sen  est  hale. 

Ly  avtre  freyer  est  pus  entre, 
Wilyam  le  Rus  sy  nome. 
Curtaisment  les  ad  salue, 
Encontur  ly  sunt  tvz  leue ; 
Ly  sages  mesters  avaunt  nome, 
Wilyam  vunt  aresune. 
"  Bey  fytz,"  ce  dit  vn,  "  ne  nus  celez, 
Mes  verite  nus  diez. 
Si  Deus,  qui  a  plener  pouste, 
E  de  tote  choses  fet  sa  volunte, 
De  wus  vne  oysel  vst  crie, 
La  quel  seriez  a  votre  gre?" 
Wilyam  se  est  purpense,) 
E  pus  respundi  cum  sene; 
"Sbe,"  ce  dit  il,  "je  wus  diray; 
Si  a  mun  voyl  elire  purrai, 
2f 


226  NOTES    AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Wolunters  vne  egel  serray, 
E  la  resun  oyez  pur  quai. 
Le  egel  e  fort  e  pussaunt, 
E  mut  cremu  en  volaunt. 
Des  auters  oyseus  est  il  ray, 
E  curtais  d[e]  sa  prai. 
Issi  dige  ent  drayt  de  moy ; 
Rais  e  sires  ester  solay. 
Sur  tot  gent  auer  poer, 
E  aset  prender,  e  aset  doner." 
Wilyam  a  taunt  conge  prist, 
A  cele  fayt  plus  ne  dyst. 

Ly  terce  frer,  Henri  nome, 
Qui  en  clergy  estait  funde, 
En  la  chaumber  est  pus  venu, 
O  graunt  honur  ly  vnt  recu. 
Le  graunt  mesters  adunc  parla, 
"  Beu  fytz,  entende  sa ; 
Pur  ren  qui  sait  ne  lesses 
Que  verite  nv  diez. 
Si  Deus,  qui  tot  le  mund  fyt, 
Cel  e  terre,  cum  est  escrit, 
E  kauc  qui  est  ad  en  poste, 
De  vus  vne  osel  vst  fiu'me ; 
La  quele  a  voter  gre  vousisez, 
De  tuz  hi  ceus  ke  vn  auez?" 
Henri,  qui  fv  jones  e  poyne, 
Mv  sagment  ad  parle; 
"  Sire,"  ce  dist  Henri,  "  en  verite, 
De  mvn  quer  dirrai  le  pense. 
Si  Deus  me  vst  destine, 
Ke  oysel  serrey  par  son  gre, 
E  je  memes  elyre  purray 
Ester  icele  qui  je  voudray, 
De  tvz  iceus  ke  volent  de  ele, 
Meuus  vodray  ester  estarnel ; 
Si  wus  dirray  ma  resun, 
De  waunt  wus  tuz  en  connnun. 
Ben  sauez  qui  le  starnel 
Est  deboners  e  sinipel  oysel. 


NOTES    AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 

En  graunt  sunder  vot  voler, 
E  tot  le  pais  emviruner, 
Simplement  son  viuer  quere, 
Satin  damage  a  nuly  fere ; 
Ne  ad  ja  cure  de  rauine, 
Ne  de  guere  nule  vaysine. 
E  si  en  kage  sait  nurri, 
Ja  hvme  greue  sera  par  ly, 
Mes  par  parler,  e  par  cheaunt, 
A  tot  jvres  e  solassaunt. 
Issi  wus  di  de  par  mai, 
Deboners  e  simpels  ester  vodray. 
Par  pais  errer  o  grant  mene, 
Dv  men  trouer  les  grant  plente ; 
Ne  woudray  hounim  ja  greuer, 
Ne  par  rauine  quer  auer, 
Si  voudray  en  ma  niesun, 
Av  maunders  ester  compaynun. 
Viuer  en  pes  e  compayunge, 
E  en  salaz  tot  ma  vye." 
Kaunt  Henri  ce  auoyt  dist, 
Sus  leua  e  conge  prist. 

Kaunt  les  enfaunz  vunt  conge  pris, 
Ke  dist  auaimt  lur  avis, 
Le  mesters  se  asemlerent, 
E  de  le  trai  freres  enterparlerent. 
Cil  qui  les  avayt  apore, 
E  les  avayt  aresunne, 
Enter  eus  ad  primes  parle, 
E  sa  resun  mv  ben  mustre. 
"  Senurs,"  ce  dit  il,  "  mut  avum  parle, 
E  de  les  enfaunz  disporte; 
Devaunt  nus  vunt  tot  trays  este, 
E  lvre  voluntes  vnt  mustre. 
Trais  oyseus  les  oy  nomer, 
Le  queus  hi  vodraint  resemler, 
De  queus  en  vaiment  nus  aver  vens, 
Si  av  ray  respunder  voluems. 
De  Roberd  dewum  primes  parler, 
Qui  volait  ester  speruer; 


NOTES    AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Le  speruer  e  pruz  e  honure, 
Ben  volaunt  e  mvt  prise, 
Mes  trop  a  fort  en  cumberer, 
Ke  a  son  voyle  ne  pot  voler; 
Par  le  pes  e  ferm  lye, 
E  tot  sa  vye  enprisune. 
De  Roberd  di  je  auer  taunt, 
Car  pruz  sera  e  valaunt; 
Graunt  los  e  graunt  non  auera, 
E  honure  de  toz  sera, 
Mes  kaunt  auera  tot  here, 
Par  fors  sera  pris  e  amene, 
E  a  drain,  ce  est  la  sume, 
Roberd  murra  en  prisun. 

De  Wilyam  le  Ros  parlum  avaunt, 
Qui  volait  ester  egel  volaunt; 
Le  egel  e  fort  e  pussaunt, 
Mes  mot  est  ord  e  maufesaunt, 
Pur  pruez  ne  pur  sa  prise, 
Ne  cheri,  ne  honure. 
Mau  fyn  ly  e  destine, 
De  latounes  pris  v  sete. 
De  Wilyam  voye  a  taunt  dire, 
Car  roys  sera  e  grant  sire ; 
Riches  sera  e  mot  pussaunt, 
Mot  cruel,  e  maufesaimt; 
Pur  ses  vtrages  mot  dote, 
De  plusures  hay  e  poy  prise. 
Hord  home  sera,  de  mal  vye, 
Malment  murra  pur  vers  wus  die. 

Parlum  de  Henri,  le  pvne  frer, 
Qui  volait  le  stornel  resemler ; 
Le  stornel  e  simpels,  e  deboner, 
E  en  grant  sunder  vot  voler; 
En  pes  vot  viuer  saunz  meprender, 
E  en  solaz  sa  fyn  atender. 
De  Henri  ce  dire  ben  purrum, 
Ki  de  le  stornel  troue  avum ; 
Car  sage  sera,  e  de  bon  afer, 
E  a  son  voyl  ne  mouera  ger. 


NOTES    AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Large  terres  e  rentes  auera, 
E  graunt  mene  par  pais  amenera; 
Souent  graunt  auoy  sentera, 
Mes  aderayn  en  pes  murra. 

De  les  enfaunz  wus  ay  dit, 
Ce  qui  Deu  en  quer  ine  myst. 
Wus  ke  me  resun  sauez, 
Si  ay  rnepris  si  me  amendez." 

Kaunt  Estus  ovt  parle, 
Les  autres  vnt  recunte; 
"  Wus  parlez  resunabelment, 
Nule  ny  pot  mester  amendenient. 
A  voter  dyt  tvz  asentum, 
Suz  leuez,  au  ray  irrum. 
A  ce  ki  ci  dit  auez, 
De  par  nus  tvz  av  ray  mustrez." 
Devaunt  le  ray  sunt  tvz  venu, 
Qui  o  graunt  honur  les  ad  rescu. 
Cile  qui  ben  sauait  parler, 
E  graunt  resun  ben  mustrer, 
Ce  qui  enter  evs  vnt  trove 
Par  order  av  ray  vnt  cunte. 
Cvment  Roberd,  qui  fv  ayne, 
Pruz  serait  e  mot  prise; 
Mes  a  drayn,  ce  est  la  sume, 
Robert  murra  en  prisune. 
Issi  Roberd,  le  bon  barun, 
A  Carduf  niurvt  en  prisun. 
E  de  Wilyam,  ly  auter  frere, 
Qui  serait  de  poer, 
Hord  houm  e  deniesure, 
E  par  mechaunz  a  draym  tve; 
Issi  avint  pur  sun  pecche, 
En  la  Nouel  forest  fu  berse. 
E  de  Henri  qui  fv  pvne, 
Qui,  par  bon  destine, 
Nobel  roys  e  pruz  serait, 
E  a  drain  en  pes  murrait. 

Kaunt  le  ray  ovt  oy  le  mester  dyz, 
Graunt  dol  auayt  pur  se  deuz  fytz. 


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230  NOTES    AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Mes  de  Henri  fv  hete, 
E  de  ce  en  ad  bev  loe, 
Le  mesters  ad  tvz  honure, 
E  riche  dvnes  les  ad  donie ; 
Cile  li  vnt  mvt  mercie, 
E  a  taunt  vnt  pris  conge. 

De  Wilyam  volum  avaunt  parler ; 
Qui  volunters  volait  sauer 
De  Engleterre  la  tenuz, 
E  le  leez,  e  la  longuz, 
Tvz  le  fez,  e  le  tenemenz, 
E  le  seruis  de  tvz  genz, 
Kaunt  de  cuntez  i  sunt  troue, 
E  kaunt  de  viles  en  chescun  cunte, 
Kaunt  de  barunes  en  la  terre  avoyt, 
E  cum  ben  de  tere  checun  tenait, 
Kaunt  de  feez  de  chevalere, 
E  cum  ben  de  franc  fermers, 
Le  sergauntises,  e  les  sochages, 
Le  petisocmen,  e  le  wilenages, 
Cum  ben  de  carues  en  checun  vile, 
E  kaunt  de  boues  en  la  caru, 
Cum  ben  de  terre  checun  houm  avayt, 
E  en  quele  maner  ile  la  tenait, 
E  quele  seruise  devayt, 
E  cumben  sa  terre  valer  purrait ; 
Tvt  ensemble  fyt  enquerer, 
Par  serment  par  my  la  terre. 
O  graunt  diligenz  ce  fyt  escrifer, 
E  de  ce  fyt  vne  grant  liuer ; 
Le  lyuer  e  Domesday  appelle, 
En  la  Tresori  le  roy  huncor  garde. 

Ly  Conquerur,  cum  dient  les  escriz, 
De  Maud  engendra  iiij.  fyz: 
Roberd  Curthos,  qui  fv  le  ayne, 
Richard  le  auter  fv  apelle, 
Wilyam  le  Rose  le  terce  noma, 
Qui  apres  le  primer  aui  regna ; 
Henri  ovt  a  nvne  le  pvsne, 
Qui  de  clergy  fv  fvnde. 


NOTES    AND    ILLUSTRATIONS.  231 

Cync  files  Dev  ly  dona, 

De  Mavd  sa  femme,  ke  mvt  ama ; 

Le  ayne  Cecile  apella, 

Ke  abesse  de  Cham  estait  ja ; 

La  secunde  Costauz  estait, 

Que  Alain  le  Fergaunt  a  femme  avait ; 

Qui  quens  estait  de  Bretayne, 

Que  mvt  e  bon  tere  e  sayne. 

Avd  la  terce  vint  apres, 

Ki  Esteuen,  quens  de  Bayes, 

O  graunt  honure  esposa, 

E  de  ly  devz  fyz  engendra ; 

Le  vue  out  a  nvne  Tebaud,  ce  Cray, 

Le  lauter  Esteuen,  qui  pus  fu  ray. 

Le  deus  drayners,  a  mvn  cient, 

Se  lesserent  murrer  en  Iur  jouent. 

Quant  ly  Bastard  devayt  morer, 

Quant  qui  auayt  fyt  departer 

Soun  heritage,  a  mvn  scient, 

Normundi  o  kaunt  ky  apent 

A  Roberd  sun  ayne  fyce  dona, 

E  dvk  de  Normandi  lapella. 

Tvt  son  conquest  par  de  ca 

A  Wilyam,  son  fyce,  dona. 

A  Henri  dona  son  tresor, 

Dras  de  say,  argent,  e  or. 

Quant  ile  out  fest  son  testement 

De  teres,  de  or,  e  de  argent, 

E  vint  e  vne  ane  sunt  complis 

Pus  ke  Engleter  a  conquis 

A  Cham  se  lessa  murer ; 

E  iloke  ly  fyrent  enseueler. 

Apres  ly  son  fyc  Wilyam  regna, 
E  tvt  Engletere  gouerna; 
E  Roberd,  par  bon  entente, 
Se  myt  dever  la  tere  saynte. 
E  Normendi  myt  en  gage, 
A  Henri  son  frer,  qui  fv  ben  sage. 
Pur  le  tresor  ke  fv  a  son  pere, 
Mot  se  afy  en  son  fiere ; 


232  NOTES    AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Qui  lemunt  se  contentrait, 

E  nvl  mal  ly  guerayt. 

Wilyam  le  Rvs,  qui  rays  fv, 

Malment  se  est  contenv ; 

Ord  hvme  estayt,  e  mal  enteche, 

Mv  cruel,  e  demesure, 

Surquidrus,  e  orgellius, 

E  sur  tot  reue  conaytuus. 

Eveches  e  abbayes 

Tynt  en  sa  maine  plvsures  aunees; 

Pur  prier,  ne  pur  resun, 

Ne  vout  graunter  eus  eleccioun 

De  eweke,  ne  de  abbe, 

Si  par  rauncone  ne  fvt  achate. 

Le  provaundes,  e  les  masters, 

Ke  gadis  auaint  le  clers, 

Ne  vout  doner  sauunz  argent, 

Wender  les  fys  comunement. 

Lay  en  sun  tenz  ne  fv  wse, 

Si  par  auer  ne  fv  plede. 

Or  e  argent,  ses  amys, 

Par  my  la  terre  fvrent  justiz. 

Cil  qui  plus  torcenus  estayt, 

E  le  popel  meuz  rainder  sauayt, 

A  ly  estait  amy  cher, 

E  svn  priue  consayler. 

Pur  ses  vtrages,  qui  fvrunt  si  granz, 

Prit  Dev  [de]  li  cruel  venganz. 

Car  vne  nvste,  caunt  fv  coche, 

Oribel  sunge  ly  est  mvstre; 

Qui  en  vne  eglyse  ad  este, 

E  od  la  croyce  se  est  melle. 

La  croyce  de  denz  avoyt  range, 

E  la  dester  brace  tvt  deworre. 

Av  matyn,  kaunt  fv  leue, 

Le  svnge  a  soues  ad  cunte. 

Dunt  plusures  fvnmt  espunte, 

E  durement  amerevale; 

Mes  vne  sage  home,  qui  fv  present, 

Av  ray  pria  en  curtyment 


NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Qui  se  dust  purpenser, 

E  penaunce  fer  de  bon  quer, 

E  enavaunt  say  amender, 

E  de  se  peches  confesser. 

Car  la  mort  saunz  pyte, 

Ne  permyt  home  de  mere  ne. 

Ly  royes,  qui  fust  de  dur  quer 

Tev  consayl  prist  a  legger ; 

En  hast  maunda  a  diner, 

Au  boys  ce  dit  il  volait  aler. 

Ly  sage  ber  parla  a  taunt, 

"  Sire,  voster  messe  oyez  awaunt ; 

Car  burse  par  aumoune  nerst  amenuse, 

Ne  jurnee  par  messe  ja  desturbe." 

Ly  roys  se  volait  haster, 

En  hayr  se  fiste  a  son  diner. 

Serui  fv  de  venison, 

A  merwale  gris,  e  de  bone  sesun. 

Ly  royes  ad  dunt  parle 

A  li  sage  home  avaunt  nome. 

"  Or  weez  eete  wenisun, 

Ke  mvt  e  gras,  e  de  bone  sesun. 

Svr  seez  e  je  ws  dy, 

Ke  vncke  messe  la  beste  oy. 

la  ne  est  le  maynes  a  priser, 

Ne  maines  deliciws  a  manger." 

Apre  diner  ly  roys  munta, 
E  en  la  Noul  Foreste  entra; 
Vne  cerf  ad  ben  tost  trove, 
Sicum  Deus  avayt  ordine; 
Mvst  belement  passa  awaunt, 
Vnkes  de  pour  ne  fyt  semlaunt. 
Ly  roys  en  hair  comaunda 
A  cil,  qui  son  ark  porta, 
A  vne  vallet  de  Fraunce  ne, 
Wauter  Tyrel  fv  apelle,— 
"  Treez,  le  debel,  ke  de  cy  ne  pase, 
Trop  a  vequi,  e  mvt  e  gras." 
Wauter  vne  sete  a  la  best  tendy, 
E  la  seste  bersa  le  ray  par  my. 
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234  NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Ilok  murrust  par  le  maufe, 

Kaunt  predilock  trais  [xiij.]  avns  avayt  regne. 

Le  sones  ly  vnt  emporte, 

E  a  Vyncester  vnt  enterre. 

MS.  Cott.  Chop.  A.  xii.  fol.  59. 


Cesti  Willam  . .  .fust  mauueis,  displut  tout  bounte,  irous,  couaitouse,  delikat,  luxurious 
ouertement p.  23. 

So  little  of  any  thing  approaching  to  the  semblance  of  good  or  kingly  qualities  has  been 
laid  to  the  account  of  William  the  Second,  that  we  cannot  deny  his  memory  the  insertion 
of  the  following  lines,  even  although  they  contain  no  great  praise.  They  are  from  the  un- 
printed  Chronicle  of  the  Dukes  of  Normandy,  written  by  Wace,  of  which  the  only  known 
copy  is  in  the  British  Museum. 

Li  reis  Ros  fu  de  grant  noblesce, 

Proz,  et  de  mult  grant  largesce, 

Noist  de  cheualier  parler, 

Qe  de  proeise  oist  loer, 

Qui  en  son  brief  escrit  ne  fust, 

Et  qui  par  an  del  soen  neust. 

MS.  Reg.  4,  C.  xi.  fol.  274.  b. 


En  le  temps  cesti  Willam  le  rous  fust  le  roy  de  Norwai,  qi  fust  fitz  Holain  le  graunt, 
tuez  dun  sete  com  auoit  conquys  lez  iles  de  Orkany. — p.  24. 

Haco,  earl  of  Orkney,  intent  upon  the  civilization  and  conversion  of  his  subjects,  having 
consulted  Anselm,  received  from  him  the  following  letter. 

Anselmus  gratia  Dei  archiepiscopus  Cantuariensis  Haconi,  comiti 
Orcadensium,  salutem  et  benedictionem  Dei. 

Audio  quia  propter  indigentiam  doctorum,  minus  quam  expedit,  populus  qui  sub  vestra 
potestate  est  cognoscat  et  colat  Christianum  religionem.  Sed  gaudio  quia  referente  epis- 
copo,  quern  nunc  per  gratiam  Dei  habetis,  dedici  quod  pvudentia  vestra  libenter  suscepit 
verbum  Dei  et  consilium  quod  pertinet  ad  salutem.  Hac  igitur  fiducia  mitto  strenuitati 
vestra?  litteras  monitionis  meae,  quatinus  se  studiose  committat  praedicationi  et  doctrinas 
ejusdem  episcopi;  et,  quantum  in  vobis  est,  studeatis  ut  populus  vester  hoc  ipsum  faciat. 
Nichil  enim  facere  potestis  unde  magis  remissionem  peccatorum  vestrorum  et  vita;  aeternse 
gloriam  adipisci  valeatis,  quam  si  populum  vestrum  ad  cultum  Christiana?  religionis  monen- 
do  et  quibus  cumque  modis  potestis  vobiscum  attrahitis.     Quod  efficaciter,  Deo  dante,  im- 


NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS.  235 

plere  poteritis,  si,  queinadmodum  supra  dixi  vobis,  vos  devote  et  sancta  humilitate  et  pura 
voluntate  episcopo  vestro  subditis.  Si  vero  consilio  nostro  et  exhortationi,  Deo  inspirante, 
acquiescere  volueritis,  oro  Deura  omnipotentem  ut  Ipse  vos  et  totum  populum  vestrum  sua 
gratia  dirigat  et  protegat,  et  suam  benedictionem  et  absolutionem  vobis  attribuat,  et  quan- 
tum in  me  est  meam  benedictionem  et  absolutionem  et  orationes  lmmilitatis  mete  ex  corde 
vobis  mando.  Omnipotens  Deus  sic  vos  faciat  vivere  in  hoc  seculo  ut  in  futuro  iangamini 
beato  angelorum  consortio — MS.  Cott.  Claud.  A.  xi.  fol.  1 57.  b. 


Le  primer  ane  qe  cesti  roy  Henry  fust  corone  il  esposa  la  bele  puscele  Maude,  la  feile 
Margaret  la  royne  de  Escoce. — p.  24. 

The  marriage  of  Henry  the  First  to  Matilda,  the  daughter  of  Malcolm  the  Third,  king 
of  Scotland,  is  a  subject  upon  which  the  ecclesiastical  historians  of  the  middle  a°-es  have 
much  to  advance  in  opposition.  They  assert  that  the  princess  had  taken  the  vows  of  a 
monastic  life,  that  her  marriage  was  attained  by  coercion,  and  that  upon  being  compelled 
to  give  her  assent  to  it,  she  cursed  her  future  issue.  The  manuscript  chronicle  of  Matthew 
Paris  is  explicit,  and  contains  much  more  than  is  inserted  in  the  printed  copy. 

REX  HENRICUS  MATILDAM  DUXIT,  FILIAM  REGIS  SCOTORUM. 
Redeuntes  autem  ad  Anglorum  historiam  de  regis  Henriei  gestis  referamus  in  omnibus 
ad  votum,  nisi  quod  tantummodo  impetus  fratris  sui  R[oberti]  formidavit  prosperantis. 
Habuit  autem  rex  Scotorum  Malcolmus  ex  regina  sua  sanctissima  filiam  elegantissimaa 
speciei,  et,  quod  pluris  erat,  vitae  sanctissimas.  Quae  vere  regis  piissimi  M[alcolmi]  et, 
reginae  Deo  placitae  Mai-garetse  filia  in  omnibus  studuit  tam  patrisare  in  moribus  quam 
matrissare.  Erat  itaque  puella  in  sanctimonialium  claustro  propter  honestatem  educata,  et, 
ut  dicitur,  Deo  sacro  velo  dicata,  ac  jam  professa.  Rex  autem  Henricus  ipsam,  propter 
ipsius  mores  et  faciei  venustatem,  scienter  adoptavit  et  instanter  peciit  in  uxorem.  Quod 
audientes  pater  puella?  et  mater  non  sunt  austi  tam  potentes  viri  instantiam  propellare. 
Accedentes  autem  ad  puellam  de  consensu  tantae  copulas  sciscitabantur,  et  ipsa  precise 
abnegans  asserebat  se  ab  alio  amatore,  scilicet  Christo,  prceveniri;  increpans  patrem  et 
matrem  de  zelotipia?  praesumpcione,  nee  ipsos  debere  de  corpore  suo  fructum  mortalitatis 
exposcere  vel  factum  posteritatis  infructuosum.  Et  sic  pater  tristis  recessit;  sed  matri 
propositum  puellare  complacuit.  Quod  cum  regi  Henrico  nunciaretur  ex  repulsa  cepit 
flagrantis  spiritu  luxuriae  stimulante  exardescere  in  virginialium  amplexuum  illicitam  con- 
cupiscenciam.  Missis  igitur  sollempnibus  nunciis  urgencius  adolescentulam  in  reginam 
expostulans — imperium,  promissa,  preces,  confudit  in  unum.  Rex  igitur  Malcolmus,  nes- 
ciente  regina  sua  quam  noverat  tali  matrimonio  nullatenus  consentire,  abbatissam,  quce 
beatae  virgini  M[atildae]  praeerat  in  curia  pastorali,  fascinavit  ut  cor  virginis  suis  sermo- 
cinacionibus  ad  consensum  matrimonii  prastaxati  caucius  inclinaret,  proponens  utilitatem 
unde  proventuram,  scilicet,  regnorum  foedeia,  regum  mutuam  dilectionem,  pacis  tranquilli- 


236  NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 

tatem,  propagations  posteritatem,  reginalem  dignitatem,  honoris  magnifieentiam.  divitiarum 
affluentiam,  amoris  tlesiderium,  amatoris  pulcliritudinem.  Cum  autem  undique  virgo  cir- 
cumveniretur,  tandem  patris  sui  et  abatissae^et  aliorum  consensit  persuasionibus,  maledi- 
cens  fructui  sui  ventris  afFuturo.  Archiepiscopus  igitur  Anselnius,  qui  jam  vocatus  adven- 
erat,  sollempnia  dispensationis  inter  regem  H[enricum]  et  reginam  Matildam  memoratam 
celebravit — MS.  Reg.  14,  C.  vii.  fol.  37.  b. 

I  subjoin  an  extract  from  the  imprinted  "  Breviarum  chronicorum  Thoniaa  Rudburni. 
monachi  Wintoniensis." 

Anno  Domini  1101,  et  anno  regni  regis  Henrici  primo,  duxit  rex  Henricus  Matildam 
filiam  Malcolmi  regis  Scotios  et  Margaritas  quae  fuit  soror  Edgari  Adelinge,  ut  superius 
dictum  est.  Ha>e  Matildis  fuit  velo  sacro  Deo  dicata  ac  professa,  propter  quam  causam 
voluit  consentire  patri  neque  matri  suadentibus  ut  tarn  excellentissimum  principem  causa 
pacis  reservandae  in  maritalem  thorum  acciperet.  Tandem  ad  ultimum  quia  consideravit 
quod  melior  foret  obedientia  quam  victimae,  abbatissae  hoc  suggerentis  paruit  judicio,  niale- 
dicens  fructui  ventris  sui  affuturo.  Beatus  Anselmus  archiepiscopus  solemnia  despensa- 
tionis  celebravit.  Qualis  vero  vindicta  de  isto  zelotipio,  quia  Christum  de  sponsa  sua  rex 
Henricus  defraudaverat,  similiter  et  ex  maledictione  fructus  per  devotissimam  reginam 
subsequuta  sit  partim  immediate  sequentibus,  partim  cum  de  Henrico  secundo  et  de  matre 
ejus,  filio  istius  nobilissimse  reginaa  nomine  Matildi,  pertractabimus.  Nam  primogenitus 
istius  Henrici  Bevveclark  ex  Matilda  filia  Malcolmi  regis  Scotia?  nomine  Willelmus,  post 
fidelitatem  et  homagium  praestitum  ab  omnibus  magnatibus  et  nobillissimis  et  omnibus  ple- 
banis,  submersus  est  cum  multis  nobilibus  non  longe  a  terra,  mare  existente  tranquillissimo 
quando  absorbebantur,  patrem  in  Angliam  prospere  navigantem  sequi  gestiens.  Anno 
Domini  1120,  anno  regni  regis  Henrici  20,  isti  omncs  qui  submersi  fuerant,  vel  fere  omnes, 
ut  fertur,  Sodomitica  labe  polluebantur.  Iste  Willelmus,  primogenitus  Henrici,  palam 
comminatus  fuerat  Anglis,  quod  si  aliquando  dominium  super  eos  haberet,  quasi  boves  ad 
aratrum  trahere  eos  faceret. — MS.  Cott.  Cland.  B.  vii.  fol.  1. 

In  these  narratives  there  appears  to  be  much  fiction  intermixed  with  some  truth.  That 
which  is  taken  from  Matthew  Paris  savours  of  the  cloister,  and  involves  the  obvious  absurdity 
of  making  Malcolm  and  Margaret  alive  when  Henry  was  on  the  throne  of  England,  whereas 
it  is  notorious  that  they  both  were  dead  anterior  to  that  event.  A  short  comment  appended 
by  a  writer  of  the  early  part  of  the  seventeenth  century  to  the  observations  of  Rudburn, 
given  above,  is  worth  transcribing.  Immediately  beneath  it  Sir  Robert  Cotton  has  affixed 
his  usual  signature,  "  Robert  Cotton  Bruce;"  but  whether  lie  meant  by  doing  so  to  convey 
the  idea  that  lie  was  the  author,  or  only  that  the  volume  was  his  property,  is  not  perfectly 
obvious. 

Quod  haac  Matildis  regina  maledixerit  fructui  ventris  sui  future,  etc.  ut  iste  scribit,  vel 
quod   dixerit,    ut   Matthasus   Parisiensis  scribit,    '  irata  in  mentis  amaratudine,  —  fructum 


NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS.  237 

ventris  mei  diabolo  commendo' — sunt  sorania  monachorum  sua  vota  nimis  extollencium, 
quod  evidentissinie  probari  potest  ex  historia  Edmeri,  qui,  eo  tempore  quo  vixit  Anselmus, 
monachus  erat  Cantuariensis.  Convincitur  etiam  hoc  cominentum  ex  ipsa  epistola  Ma- 
tildis  prsedictse  ad  Anselmum  exulem,  ut  inter  epistolas  Anselmi,  numero  165,  habetur;  et  in 
epistola  etiam  ejusdem  Anselmi  ad  illam,  epistola  167;  et  in  epistola  34,  centuria  tertia,  sic 
rogat,  •  immo  vero  apud  Deum  pro  ipso  et  me  et  commnni  sobole  et  regni  nostri  statu  pium 
vos  intercessorem  exhibeatis.'  " 

The  cleai'est  and  most  probable  account  is  that  of  Eadmer,  a  contemporaneous  writer, 
who  states  that  Matilda  herself,  having  some  doubt  as  to  the  propriety  of  entering  into  the 
married  state,  submitted  her  case  to  the  consideration  of  archbishop  Anselm,  and  furnished 
him  with  the  following  statement: — 

"  Attamen  me  velum  portasse  non  abnego.  Nam  cum  adolescentuta  essem,  et  sub  amine 
meoe  Christiana5,  quam  tu  bene  nosti,  virga  paverem,  ilia  servandi  corporis  mei  causa  contra 
furentem  et  cujusque  pudori  ea  tempestate  insidiantem  Normannorum  libidinem,  nigrum 
panniculum  capiti  meo  superponere,  et  me  ilium  abjicientem  acris  verberibus  et  minium 
obsccenis  verborum  conviciis  saspe  cruciare  simul  et  dehonestare  solebat.  Quern  pannum 
in  ipsius  quidem  praesentia  gemens  et  tremebunda  ferebam,  sed  mox  ut  me  conspeetui  ejus 
subtrahere  poteram,  arreptum  in  humum  jacere,  pedibus  proterere,  et  ita  quo  in  odio  ferve- 
bani,  quamvis  insipienter,  consueveram  desoevire.  Isto,  non  alio  modo,  teste  conscientia 
mea,  velata  fui.  Ac  si  me  oblatam  quisque  dicet,  et  hoc  quale  sit  ex  eo  colligi  potest,  quod, 
sicut  plurimi  qui  adhuc  supersunt  noverunt,  pater  meus  cum  me,  quemadmodum  dixi, 
velatam  forte  vidisset,  furore  succensus,  injeeta  manu  velum  arripuit,  et  dissipans  illud, 
odium  Dei  imprecatus  est  ei  qui  mihi  illud  imposuit,  contestans  se  comiti  Alano  me  potius 
in  uxorem  quam  in  contubernium  sanctimonialium  prsedestinasse." — p.  56. 

Such  evidence  is  more  than  enough  to  set  aside  the  later  tales  of  Paris  and  Rudburn. 
I  may  add  the  testimony  of  the  Winton  Annals,  which,  from  their  antiquity  and  local 
minuteness,  are  entitled  to  credit. 

m.c.  Matildis,  Malcolmi  regis  filia  Scotite,  de  monacha  Wiltonia?,  non  tamen  professa, 
regina  Anglioe  facta  est MS.  Cott.  Domit.  xiii.  fol.  25. 


Meisme  la  sesoim  morust  Edgar  roy  Descoce,  apres  qy  regna  Alexander  sounfreir. 

p.  28. 

The  early  and  respectable  authority  of  Gaimar  adds  weight  to  the  testimony  of  other 
writers,  who  inform  us  that  Edgar  was  seated  on  the  throne  of  Scotland  by  the  aid  of  the 
king  of  England,  with  whom  he  was  on  terms  of  intimacy,  and  to  whom,  it  is  said,  his 
gratitude  induced  him  to  sacrifice  the  independence  of  his  kingdom  by  doing  homage  fur 
it  tu  William  the  Second. 


NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Ore  ad  li  reis  tut  apessez, 
Ainz  ke  cest  ost  seit  repairez, 
De  vers  Escoce  li  regnez. 
Li  reis  Edgar  est  sis  priuez, 
De  lui  son  regne  ad  receu, 
En  franc  seruice  sanz  treu. 
E  li  reis  bien  li  otriad, 
Ke  quant  li  vers  sa  curt  vendrat, 
Seissante  solz  ait  chescon  ior, 
Dunt  serui  seit  par  grant  honour. 
Estre  presenz  e  altres  dons, 
Co  fust  sa  dreite  liueraisons. 


fol.  146. 


In  the  absence  of  almost  all  authentic  information  regarding  Edgar,  the  following  letter 
from  Anselm,  the  learned  archbishop  of  Canterbury,  cannot  but  be  interesting.  It  is  ad- 
dressed to  Alexander  the  First,  upon  his  accession  to  the  Scottish  throne,  and  contains 
admonitions  not  only  as  to  the  future  conduct  of  the  new  sovereign,  but  reflexions  credit- 
able to  the  memory  of  his  predecessor. 

Alexandro,  gratia  Dei,  regi  Scottorum,  Anselmus  servus 
ecclesiae  Cantuariensis,  salutem,  et  fideles  orationes,  et 
benedictionem  Dei  et  suam,  quantum  valet. 
Gratias  agimus  Deo,  et  gaudemus  ego  et  tota  congregatio  ecclesiae  Christi  Cantuariensis. 
quia  Deus  vos  in  regnum  paternum  hereditario  jure  post  fratrem  vestrum  sullimavit,  et 
quia  vos  moribus  dignis  regno  decoravit.  Pro  fratre  vestro,  qui  sancte  vivendo  meruit  ut 
de  hac  vita  bono  fine,  misericordia  Dei,  transiret,  sicut  pro  dileeto  dilectore  nostro,  secundum 
petitionem  vestram  oramus  et  orabimus  ut  Deus  animae  illius  gloriae  suae  cum  electis  suis 
gaudium  seternum  tribuat,  et  aeternam  benedictionem  concedat.  Scio  quod  celsitudo  vestra 
meum  amat  et  desiderat  consilium.  In  primis,  igitur,  oro  Deum  ut  ipse  vos  Sancti  sui 
Spiritus  gratia  sic  dirigat,  ut  in  omnibus  actibus  vestris  consilium  attribuat  ut  ad  regnum 
coeleste  post  hanc  vitam  vos  perducat.  Nostrum  autem  consilium  est  nt  timorem  Dei  et 
bonos  ac  religiosos  mores,  quas  in  adolescentia  et  ab  infantia  cepistis  habere,  ipso  adju- 
vante  a  quo  cepistis  studeatis  tenere.  Tunc  enim  bene  reges  regnant  cum  secundum  vo- 
lentatem  Dei  vivunt  et  serviunt  ei  in  timore,  et  cum  super  se  ipsos  regnant,  nee  se  vitiis 
subjiciunt,  sed  illoruni  importunitatem  constanti  fortitudine  superant.  Non  enim  repugnant 
in  rege  virtutum  constantia  et  fortitudo  regia.  Quidam  enim  reges,  sicut  David,  et  sancte 
vixerunt  et  populuni  sibi  commissum  cum  rigore  justitiae  et  pietatis  mansuetudine,  secundum 
quod  res  exigit,  rexerunt.  Sic  vos  exhibete  ut  mali  vos  timeant  et  boni  vos  diligant,  et  ut 
vita  vestra  semper  Deo  placet  semper  mens  vestra  vindictam  malorum  et  pramiium  bonorum 
post  hanc  vitam  memoria  retineat.     Omnipotens  Deus  vos  et  omnes  actus  vestros  nulli  alii 


NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS.  239 

quam  suae  piae  dispensationi  committat.  De  fratribus  nostris  quos  in  Scotiani,  secundum 
voluntam  fratris  vestri,  qui  de  labore  hujus  vitae,  sicut  credimus,  ad  requiem  transiit,  misi- 
mus,  benignitatem  vestram  rogare  necesse  non  putamus,  quia  bonam  voluntatem  vestram 
non  ignoramus. — MS.  Cott.  Claud.  A.  xi.  fol.  144. 

Et  meisme  eel  ane  la  deuorz  fit  fait  entre  le  roy  Louys  de  France  el  la  royne  safemme, 
qe  fust  droit  heyre  de  Aqitain p.  32. 

Eleanor,  the  repudiated  wife  of  Louis  the  Seventh,  upon  her  marriage  with  Henry  the 
Second  of  England,  brought  as  her  dower  the  duchy  of  Aquitain.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  William  the  Tenth  of  that  name,  duke  of  Aquitain,  and  succeeded  to  the  possessions  of 
her  father  in  the  year  1 137?  he  having  died  when  on  a  pilgrimage  to  the  shrine  of  Saint 
James  of  Compostella.  His  praise  is  recorded  in  somewhat  dubious  terms  in  the  following 
lines. 

EPITHAPHLUM. 
Dux  Aquitanorum,  flos  nobilitatis  avitae, 

Hie,  Gvillelme,  cita  morte  subacte  jaces. 
Alta  palatia,  lata  potentia,  gloria  mundi, 

Non  potuere  tibi  tollere  posse  mori. 
Militias  factus  cum  consule,  cum  duce,  transit; 

Armorumque  perit  irrequietus  amor. 
Pacis  amator,  earn  nunquam  sine  niarte  petebas  ; 

Civibus  ipse  tuis  senior  hostis  eras. 
Hostibus  et  patriae  metus  atque  ruina  fuisti, 

Prsesulibus  terror,  ecclesiaeque  labor. 
Regibus  et  ducibus,  cum  principibus  populorum, 

Factus  es  excidium,  pestis,  et  exitium. 
[N]omine  victa  tuo  virtus  elanguit  orbis, 

Sola  tua  potuit  mors  superare  manus. 
Ad  templum  Jacobi  veniens,  peregrinus,  obisti : 
Sit  tibi  praesidium  sanctus  apud  Dominum. 

MS.  Cott.  Cleop.  C.  i.  fol.  26. 

En  quel  houre  Dauid  roy  Descoce  entra  Engleter  od  grant  ost,  ou  le  count  de  Aumarell 
od  autres  norays  ly  descounfirent  ioust  Allertoun  par  sarmoun  de  Turstin,  erceuesque 
Deuerwyk,  qi  lour  souenoit  de  pruesce  de  lour  auncestres,  enmonestaunt  a  coumbatre  pur 
lour  pays.  T\  est  dit  qe  lez  Escoces  furount  illoeqes  descounfitz  dez  noyse  en  potez  soutz 
terre. — p.  33. 

The  best  accounts  of  the  Battle  of  the  Standard  are  to  be  found  in  the  treatise  of  Ailred 
upon  that  event,  and  in  the  chronicles  of  Richard  and  John  of  Hexham;  all  of  which  are 


240  NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 

printed  in  the  Decern  Scriptores.  The  narrations  of  Huntingdon  and  Hoveden  are  of  in- 
ferior value.  In  none  of  these  accounts  is  there  any  notice  of  the  defeat  of  the  Scottish 
army  by  "  dez  noyse  en  potes  soutz  terre,"  as  mentioned  in  the  text;  an  apparently  improb- 
able and  absurd  contrivance,  to  which  the  English  had  no  need  to  resort,  and  which  would, 
in  all  likelihood,  have  produced  no  such  effect  upon  their  antagonists.  It  is,  however, 
mentioned  in  another  copy  of  the  narrative  Ailred  de  Bello  Standardi,  preserved  in  the 
British  Museum,  which,  although  of  no  great  antiquity,  has  afforded  some  valuable  various 
readings;  and  is  the  more  worth}'  of  notice  since  Twysden  published  his  edition  from  a 
copy  in  Cambridge,  which  he  believed  to  be  unique. 

Non  latuit  proceres  Transumbranos  ejus  adventus,  qui  ammonicione  et  ortatu  Thurstini 
archiepiscopi  et  maxiine  Walteri  de  Espec,  de  quo  postea  dicemus,  in  unum  convenientes, 
ejus  conatui  resistere  decreverunt.  Igitur  parvum  quidem  numero  sed  armis  et  viribus 
robustissimum  exercituin  adunarunt.  Regium  quoque  signum,  quod  vulgo  dicitur  Standerd, 
in  campo  latissimo,  scilicet,  super  Cottewen-more,  juxta  Northaldertone  constituens,  illic 
hostes  excipere  decreverunt.  Ipse  autem  Thurstinus  fieri  jussit  in  viis  subterraneis  quoedam 
instrumenta  sonos  horribiles  reddentia,  quae  Anglice  dicuntur  "  Potroutes,"  quibus  resonan- 
tibus,  ferae  et  caetera  armenta  quae  praecedebant  excercitum  praedicti  David  regis  timore 
stepidus  (?)  perterita  in  excercitum  regis  David  ferociter  resiliebant.  Sed  et  Thurstinus, 
etc MS.  Cott.  Titus,  A.  xix.  fol.  144.  b. 


The  following  notice,  omitted  in  the  printed  editions  of  Matthew  Paris,  is  preserved  in 
the  Royal  manuscript,  and  is  curious  both  to  the  historian  and  philologist: — 

Ex  Anglorum  autem  omnibus  equitibus  frater  Gileberti  de  Lascy  solus  inventus  est  tru- 
cidatus,  et  peditum  admodum  paucissimi.  Et  cum  turpiter  vincerentur  Scoti  suis  celeribus 
maculati,  naevum  opprobrii  exinde  contraxerunt  indelebileni.  [  Cum  enim  illis  satirice  dici- 
tur lingua  sua  propria,  "  yry,  yry,  Standard,"  quasi  obice  telo  confunduutur  repercussi 

MS.  Reg.  14,  C.  vii.  fol.  48. 


....  et  Ian  suaunt  morust  le  roy  David. — p.  34. 

Associating,  as  we  do,  the  name  of  David  the  First  with  the  establishment  and  prosperity 
of  the  Monastic  orders  in  Scotland,  the  introduction  in  this  place  of  the  following  curious 
list  of  ecclesiastical  establishments  in  that  country  seems  by  no  means  unappropriate.  It 
forms  the  concluding  portion  of  a  catalogue,  which  embraces  the  monasteries,  etc.  of  Eng- 
land and  Wales,  divided  into  counties,  at  the  end  of  each  of  which  its  castles  are  enume- 
rated. From  internal  evidence  it  might  be  easy  to  affix  the  date;  the  writing  is  of  the  early 
portion  of  the  thirteenth  century.  Another  list  of  a  similar  nature,  but  imperfect  in  the 
portion  here  printed,  is  contained  in  the  Cotton  MS.  Vesp.  A.  xviii.  fol.  157- 


NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 


241 


LAVDIAN. 

Abbatia,  Newbotle, 

Abbatia,  Mayh-os;  Sanctas  Maria?, 

Abbatia,  Dreyeburgh;  S" 

Abbatia,  Kelzho;  Sancta;  Marise, 

Abbatia,  Rokesburgh;  S" 

Abbatia,  Caldestream ;  S" 

Abbatia,  Edeneburgh;  S* 

Abbatia,  Goddewrthe;  Sa 

Prioratus,  Goldingeham;  S" 

Prioratus,  .    Hadintone;  Sa 

Prioratus,  Suthberewik;  Sa 

Prioratus,  Northberewik;  Sa 

Prioratus,  Eccles;  S" 

IN  SCOTIA. 

Episcopatus  Sancti  Andrea;, 

Abbatia,  Dunfermelin;  Sanctae  Trinitatis 

Abbatia,  Streuelin;  S* 

Prioratus  de  May;  de  Readinge, 

Prioratus  in  insu]a  gancti  Columbaj, 

Abbatia  de  Lundres ;  S a 

Prioratus  de  Pert;  S" 

Abbatia  de  Scone;  Sa 

Prioratus  de  Nostinot;  Sa 

Abbatia  de  Cupre, 

Abbatia,  Aberbrothot, 

f  Episcopatus,  Dunkeldre;  Sancti  Columkille, 

Episcopatus  de  Brethin, 

Episcopatus  de  Aberde, 

Episcopatus  de  Murene, 

Prioratus  de  Hurtard, 

Abbatia  de  Kinlos, 

IT  Episcopatus  de  Ros, 

Episcopatus  de  Glascu, 

Abbatia  Sancti  Kenewinii, 

f  Episcopatus  de  Galeweye, 

Abbatia  de  Candida  Casa, 

Abbatia,  M  .  .  .  .    ■ 


monachi  albi. 

monaclii  albi. 

canonici  albi. 

monachi  nigri  de  Tyrun. 

canonici  nigri. 

moniales  nigral 

canonici  nigri. 

monachi  nigri. 

monachi  nigri. 

moniales  alba;, 
moniales  albae. 
moniales  nigrae. 
moniales  albae. 

canonici  nigri,  Keldei. 

monachi  nigri. 

canonici  nigri. 

monachi  nigri. 

canonici  nigri. 

monachi  nigri  de  Tyron. 
moniales  nigra, 
canonici  nigri. 
canonici  nigri. 
monachi  albi. 
monachi  de  Tyron. 
canonici  nigri,  Keldei. 
Keldei. 

canonici  seculares. 

monachi  nigri  de  Dunfermt. 

monachi  albi. 

Keldei. 

canonici  seculares. 

monachi  de  Tyron. 

monachi  albi. 
monachi  nigri. 


2h 


"  Blank  in  the  original. 


242  NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 

II  Episcopatus  de  Dublin,  Keldei. 

Episcopatus  de  Katenesio,  Keldei. 

Episcopatus  de  Argull,  Keldei. 

Abbatia  in  Insula,  Keldei. 

MS.  Cott.  Cleop.  A.  xii.  fol.  56. 


Apres  cesti  roy  Esteuen  regno,  Henry  fits  lemperice,  etfust  corone  a  Westminister. — p.  35. 

The  accession  of  Henry  the  Second  to  the  throne  of  England  was  exceedingly  popular 
to  the  nation  at  large,  wearied  and  impoverished  by  the  long  and  distracting  wars  between 
Stephen  and  Maud.  Upon  this  occasion  a  poet  of  the  day  addressed  to  the  new  king  the 
following  verses,  now  first  published. 

Dux  illustris  Nonnannorum,  et  conies  Andegavorum, 

Pietavorum  dominator,  Turonoruni  propugnator, 

Cujus  nutu  vibrant  eases ;  populi  Cenomannenses 

Anglorumque  plebs  turbata  gratulatur,  pace  data. 

Tibi  ccetus  cceli  plaudit,  te,  victorem,  Deus  audit, 

Cum  sis  nepos  magni  regis,  per  quern  stetit  summa  legis; 

Rhus  nam  praefers  nonien,  cujus  tibi  ridet  omen. 

Velint  nolint  inimici  heres  ejus  potes  dici, 

Magnitudine  virtutis,  per  quem  crevit  lux  salutis, 

Et  redemptio  multorum  hoc  in  regno  captivorum. 

Erant  ante  venatores,  quorum  tales  scimus  mores, 

Pecudes  baud  ambiebant,  homines  at  capiebant, 

Redimentes  eos  dure,  sine  lege,  sine  jure, 

Donee  Deus  te  reduxit,  per  quem  nova  lux  illuxit. 

Dum  libertas  celebratur  servitusque  profligatur, 

Annus  redit  jubileus,  quo  respexit  regnum  Deus, 

Innocens  ut  glorietur  et  reus  exterminetur. 

Mitibus  es  mitis  agnus  et  tyrannis  leo  magnus, 

Et,  qui  corde  sunt  opaco,  eos  terres  quasi  draco. 

A  supremis  Orchadarum  finibus,  es,  insularum, 

Alpes  usque  divulgatus,  dux  a  Deo  nobis  datus. 

Roma  tibi  gratulatur,  et  Apulia  loetatur, 
Siculaeque  gentes  ovant,  Italique  plausum  novant. 

De  te  gaudet  omnis  mundus,  et  fit,  pro  te,  laetabundus. 
Corruerunt  ut  castella,  soevit  fervens  haud  procella. 
Grates  tibi  fures  multi  delitescunt  jam  sepulti, 


NOTES    AND   ILLUSTRATIONS.  243 

Et  prasdones  exterrentur,  ut  insontes  glorientur. 

Qui  superbi  fremuerunt,  pauperesque  depresserunt, 

Ingimescunt  nunc  afflicti,  et  terrore  tuo  victi. 

Sermo  tuus  pravos  scindit,  et  ut  ensis  illos  findit. 

Qui  justitiam  non  colunt,  et  qui  sponte  flecti  nolunt, 

Ab  elacione  sua  curvat  hos  formido  tua. 

Et  mitescunt  sic  potentes  ut  disperdant  baud  egentes. 

Dives  quondum  gazis  plenus  nunc  plus  gemit  quam  egenus, 

Et  qui  solet  imperare  cogitur  nunc  supplicare. 

Angelusque  cum  sis  Dei  per  te  splendet  lux  diei ; 

Et  quae  regnum  nox  depressit  in  adventu  tuo  cessit. 

Sol  asternus,  radix  Dauid,  tuos  actus  illustravit, 

Et  ubique  manet  tecum,  quia  colis  jus  et  asquum. 

Muri  Jericho  ruerunt  buccinas  dum  sonuerunt, 

Quam  Levitas  circuibant,  sacerdotesque  praeibant; 

Sic  pontifices  egerunt,  qui  de  pace  tractaverunt ; 

Hoc  consilio  pollentes  crudeles  stravere  gentes, 

Quorum  corruerunt  muri,  in  aeternum  perituri. 

Vincit,  regnat,  in  te  Deus,  imperatque  plastes  meus, 

Vivas  ergo  sine  fine,  quia  non  nos  terrent  mines ; 

Nee  ingluvies  raptorum  vorat  escas  orphanorum; 

Sceptrum  regni  consequeris,  beatusque  princeps  eris. 

Cum  in  vertice  suprema  cinget  caput  diadema, 

Tunc  applaudent  coeli  cives,  plaudet  pauper,  plaudet  dives; 

Teque  sanctum  dicent  regem  qui  sectantur  Dei  legem ; 

Reges  Ierosolimorum  te  condecorant  decorum, 

Tui  patruus  et  avus,  quibus  cedit  quisque  pravus; 

Fama  sonat  laude  bona  capta  quod  sit  Ascalona, 

Babylonque  confundetur,  et  Damascus  capietur; 

Hique  proximi  sunt  tibi,  qui  sic  nunc  triumphant  ibi. 

Tribulantur  Sarraceni  immenso  dolore  pleni, 

Et  exultant  Clu-istiani  cultus  casu  jam  prophani. 

Rex  Christus  per  genus  tuum  sic  conservat  locum  suum, 

Sepulchrique  sancti  decus  baud  delebit  error  caeeus. 

Hoc  edoctus  es  exemplo,  ut  ubique  Dei  templo 

Per  te  jam  sit  restauratum,  quod  lugebat  plebs  ablatum. 

Ierusalem  novam  fundas  hocque  regnum  totum  mundas 

A  spurcitiis  eorum,  servi  qui  sunt  idolorum; 


244  NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Et,  argentum  ambientes,  multas  occiderunt  gentes. 
Vir  Oratio  Mecaenas,  amoris  laxans  habenas, 
Suo  tempore  dilexit,  et  in  multus  hunc  pervexit: 
Et  Virgilius  venusto  carmine,  carus  Augusto, 
Auetus  est  mercede  bona,  ampla  satis  sumens  dona. 
Josephus,  spe  non  inani,  filium  Vespasiani, 
Titum,  colens,  liberatur  servitute  qua  gravatur, 
Ergo  manum  clans  Osberto,  hunc  gaudere  fine  certo 
In  afHictione  sua  fac  protectione  tua, 
Ne  ecclesia  gravetur  cui  praeesse  se  fatetur; 
Quam  deprimere  conantur  qui  perverse  malignantur. 
Pax  sit  tecum,  victor  clare,  qui  scis  jam  triumphare, 
Ut  sit  regnum  regnum  pacis  ensis  tui  vi  minacis. 
Christus  auctor  verse  pacis,  per  quern  nobis  finem  facis, 
Tibi  regnum  dans  supernum,  te  conservet  in  asternum. 
Nutrix  mundi,  larga  Ceres,  gaudet  tibi  quod  sit  heres 
Potens,  post  te  qui  regnabit,  et  ex  hoste  tryumphabit; 
Lineaque  styrpis  clarae  nesciet  degenerare, 
Sed,  sicut  processft  a  te,  sic  sequatur  probitate, 
Cujus  honor  genetricis  est  memoria  felicis, 
Quia  nulla  laude  pari  illi  potest  cocequari, 
Tam  prudens  et  generosa,  tarn  est  decens  et  formosa, 
Vincat  omnes  ut  splendore  qua?  in  mundo  sunt  decorae. 
Salvet  Christus  auctor  rerum  speculum  hanc  mulierum, 
Sobolemque  divas  prolis  lustret  splendor  veri  solis. 
Septem  quondam  sapientes,  si  nunc  essent  inter  gentes, 
Magna  de  te  et  de  tuis  intimarent  seriptis  suis. 
Apollo  si  te  videret,  novem  musas  adhiberet, 
Decacordum  temperaret,  tuas  laudes  personaret ; 
Orpheusque  tangens  liram  amoveret  fel  et  iram. 
Faceretque  quercus  sequi  te,  ducem  juris  et  aequi. 
In  te  cunctaque  completa  speculamur  fronte  leeta, 
Qui  brutorum  das  naturam  ut  hoc  fiat  per  figuram. 

MS.  Cott.  Vitell.  A.  xvii.  fol.  143. 

These  verses  were  written  by  Osbert  de  Stoke,  prior  of  Daventry,  who  flourished  about 
the  year  1136,  and  was  the  author  of  various  other  productions  which  are  enumerated  in 
Tanner's  Bibliotheca,  p.  564.  Although  they  do  not  abound  in  historical  information  they 
are  valuable  as  showing  the  state  of  feeling  to  a  certain  extent  at  the  period  of  the  acces- 


NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS.  245 

sion  of  Henry  the  Second,  and  are  worthy  of  preservation  as  one  of  the  very  few  contem- 
poraneous historical  documents  of  that  remote  period  which  do  not  come  within  the  deno- 
mination of  chronicles. 


...  et  nomement  lez  Flemynkes  qi  od  Esteueti  estoient  grantz  meisters p.  35. 

Matthew  Paris  has  preserved  a  picture  of  the  character  of  these  foreign  mercenaries,  and 
joined  with  it  a  rhyme  which  will  appear  valuable  to  those  who  take  an  interest  in  collecting 
early  political  songs.     I  give  both  from  the  Royal  manuscript  so  frequently  referred  to. 

Stipatus  ergo  conies  niilite  copioso  ad  pugnam  proeparato,  scilicet,  tribus  milibus  Fland- 
rensium ;  quos  via?  participes  tunc  habuit,  nee  minimum  in  eisdem  confidebat,  quos  san- 
guinis sitatores  noverat  et  ad  sancta  invadenda  sacrilegos.  Qui  etiam  quando  ad  aliquam 
planiciem,  gratia  pausandi,  diverterant,  choreas  ducentes  propria  lingua  saltitando  cantabant, 

"  Hoppe,  hoppe,  Wilekin;  hoppe,  Wilekin! 
Engelond  is  min  ant  tin." 

MS.  Reg.  14,  C.  vii.  fol.  64,  ad  an.  1 173. 

This  passage  is  omitted  both  in  the  text  and  in  the  various  readings  of  Watts'  edition. 

En  eel  temps  fist  le  roy  Henry  serehere  le  corps  Arthur  et  le  troua  a  Glastinbery  en  vn 
sarcu p.  37- 

Although  this  event  be  recorded  by  many  of  our  early  historians,  none  of  them  give  such 
a  good  account  as  does  Giraldus  Cambrensis  in  that  work  to  which  we  shall  be  indebted  for 
so  many  curious  illustrations.  His  statement  is  that  of  an  eyewitness,  and  will  be  read  witli 
interest.  Unfortunately,  it  is  spun  out  to  such  a  length  that  the  whole  cannot  be  introduced 
here;  the  first  and  more  curious  portion  is  given  from  the  Cotton.  MS.  Julius,  B.  xiii. 

DE  REGE  ARTHURO  NOSTRIS  DIEBUS  INVENTO. 
Arthuri  quoque  Britonum  regis  incliti  memoria  est  uon  supprimenda,  quoniam  monasterii 
Glastoniensis  egregii,  cujus  et  ipse  patronus  suis  diebus  fuerat  praecipuus  ac  largitor  ac 
sublevator  magnificus,  historise  multum  extollunt.  Prae  cunctis  enim  ecclesiis  regni  sui 
sancta?  Dei  genetricis  Mariae  Glastoniensern  ecclesiam  plus  dilexit  et  pros  caeteris  longe 
majori  devotione  promovit.  Unde  cum  vir  bellator  extiterit  in  anteriori  parte  elipei  sui 
beatffi  Virginis  ymaginem  interius,  ut  earn  in  conflictu  prae  oculis  semper  haberet,  depingi 
fecerat,  cujus  et  pedes  quociens  positus  in  congressionis  articulo  fuerat,  deoseulari  cum 
plurima  devotione  consueverat.  Hujus  autem  corpus  quod  quasi  fantasticum  in  fine  et 
tanquam  per  spiritus  ad  longinqua  translatum,  neque  morti  obnoxium,  fabulae  confinxerant, 
hiis  nostris  diebus  apud  Glastoniam  inter  lapides  pyramideas  duas  in  cimiterio  sacro  quon- 
dam erectas,  profundius  in  terra  quercu  concava  reconditum,  et  signatum  miris  indiciis  et 
quasi  miraculosis,  est  inventum,  et  in  ecclesiam  cum  honore  translatum,  marmoreoque  de^ 


246  NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 

center  tumulo  commendatum.  Unde  et  crux  plumbea  lapide  supposito,  non  superius  ut 
solet  diebus,  inferiori  pocius  ex  parte  infixa,  quani  nos  quoque  vidimus,  namque  tractavimus, 
litteras  has  insculptas  et  non  eminentes  et  extantes,  sed  magis  interius  ad  lapidem  versas 
eontinebat — "  Hie  jacet  sepultus  inclitus  rex  Arthnrus  cum  Wenneuereia  uxore  sua  secunda 
in  insula  Auallona." 

Occurrunt  hie  autem  notabilia  plurima,  habuerat  enim  uxores  duas,  quarum  ultima  simul 
cum  ipso  sepulta  fuerat  et  ossa  ipsius  cum  ossibus  viri  simul  inventa,  sic  distincta  tamen 
ut  duae  partes  sepulchri  versus  capud,  scilicet,  ossibus  viri  continentis,  deputatse,  tercia  vero 
versus  pedes  ossa  muliebria  seorsum  contineret,  ubi  et  circa  coma?  muliebris  cum  integri- 
tate  pristina  et  colore  reperta  fuit,  quam  ut  monaclius  quidam  avide  manu  arripuit  et  sub- 
levavit  tota  statim  in  pulverem  decidit.  Cum  autem  aliqua  indicia  corporis  ibi  inveniendi 
ex  scripturis  suis,  aliquia  ex  litteris  pyramidibus  impressis,  quanquam  nimia  plurimum  an- 
tiquitate  deletis,  aliqua  quoque  per  visiones  et  revelationes  bonis  viris  et  religiosis  factas, 
maxime  tamen  et  evidentissime  rex  Angliae  Henricus  secundus,  sicut  ab  historico  cantore 
Britone  audierat  anticho,  totum  monachis  indicavit,  quod  profunde,  scilicet,  in  terra  per 
xvj.  pedes  ad  minus  corpus  invenirent,  et  non  lapideo  tumulo  sed  in  quercu  cavata.  Ideo- 
que  tarn  profunde  situm  corpus  et  quasi  absconditum  fuerat,  ne  a  Saxonibus  post  necem 
ipsius  insulam  occupantibus,  quos  tanto  opere  vivens  debellaverat  et  fere  toto  deleverat, 
posset  nullatenus  Luveniri,  et  ob  hoc  etiam  litterse  veritatis  judiees  crucis  impressae,  interius 
ad  lapidem  versae  fuerunt,  ut  et  tunc  temporis  quod  eontinebat  occultarent. — fol.  107- 

The  narrative  then  proceeds  to  give  an  account  of  the  island  of  Avalon,  with  the  etymo- 
logy of  its  name  and  that  of  Glastonbury;  and  passes  on  to  describe  the  wounds  distin- 
guishable on  the  skull  of  Arthur  and  the  superhuman  magnitude  of  the  bones. 

Mcisme  le  temps  saynt  TJiomas  de  Cantorbirs  fust  exile,  qi  grant  repair  fist  a  Pountenay 
a  {/rant  freise  del  abbey. — p.  39. 

It  was  during  his  residence  at  Pountenay  that  the  following  incident,  unnoticed  by  any 
of  the  numerous  biographers,  ancient  or  modern,  who  have  enlarged  upon  the  life  and  death 
of  Becket,  occurred.  I  am  induced  to  insert  it  here  as  an  authentic  anecdote,  not  un- 
worthy of  preservation. 

Beatus  Cantuariensis  archiepiscopus  Thomas  agens  in  exilio,  cum  apud  Pontiniacum 
moram  faceret,  lectioni  pariter  intendens  et  orationi,  cum  moris  haberet  ut  fatigatus  a  studio 
per  singulos  elericos  suos  singula  loca  studii  causa  tenentes  deambularet,  quaerendo  quod 
elegans  dictum  tunc  invenisset.  Veniens  ad  Alexandrum  Valensem,  Bangorensem  arehi- 
diaconum,  qui  in  ejus  obsequiis  tunc  fuerat,  quaesivit  in  quo  libro  studeret,  et  cum  ille 
Marcialem  Cocuni  time  forte  pras  manibus  et  oculis  haberet,  dixit  beatus  Thomas,  quantum 
talem  virum  talis  liber  decebat ;  erat  enim  ille  vir  jocularis  et  lingua?  dicacis.  Qui  statim 
respondit  quod  liber  ille  dignus  erat  qui  ab  ipso  transcriberetur ;  etsi  non  propter  aliud, 
propter  versus  duos  quos  in  adventu  viri  sancti,  quasi  pronostico  quodam,  tunc  legebat  prae- 


NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS.  247 

script os,  scilicet,  qui  fortunae  martins  expresse  conveniebant;  propter  quod  hiis  auditis  et 
librura  a  manibus  ejus  statira  assuineiis,  ipsum  transcribi  fecit.  Hos  quoque  versus  ibidem 
invenies; 

Dii  milii  dent  et  tu  qua?  tu,  Trajane,  mereris, 

Dii  michi  dent  et  tu  quae  volo  si  merui. 

MS.  Cott.  Julius,  B.  xiii.  fol.  92.  b. 

Martial  was  a  greater  favourite  in  the  middle  ages  than  might  have  been  anticipated  from 
his  style  and  mode  of  writing.  He  is  generally  styled  Martialis  Cocus,  as  in  the  passage 
above,  by  John  of  Salisbury,  Policrat.  vi.  3;  by  Richard  de  Bury  in  the  Philobibliou, 
and  by  many  other  writers,  the  reason  for  which  is  not,  I  believe,  correctly  ascertained. 

Mauclom  le  roy  Descoce  morust  a  Jedworth  et  fust  enterez  a  Dunfermeh/n;  Willam 
soun  freir  regna  en  Escoce  apres — p.  39- 

Giraldus  Cambrensis,  in  his  treatise,  "  De  instructione  Principis,"  has  some  observations 
upon  the  Scottish  sovereigns  in  general,  and  upon  William  in  particular,  which  will  be  read 
with  interest;  especially  since  having  been  rejected  in  the  edition  of  Bouquet,  where  alone 
any  part  of  this  work  is  to  be  found  in  print,  they  are  now  for  the  first  time  made  public. 

DE  SCOTORUM  PRINCIPIBUS  RELIGIONE  CONSPICU1S. 
Scotorum  autem  principes,  qui  et  reges  dicuntur,  sicut  et  Hispaniae  principes,  qui  nee  coro- 
nari  tamen  consueverant  nee  inungi,  bonos  quidem  et  sanctos  fuisse  fama  praedicat,  et  quorum 
bonitate  qui  nostris  diebus  praefuit  non  denigi'avit  rex  WiEelmus.  Hie  etenim,  quamquam 
juvenilibus  annis  Lnterdum  juveniliter  agens,  et  motus  trauis[caruis?]  ad  plenum  non  refrae- 
nans,  sensualitatis  insultus  ratione  praavia  et  proevalente  non  cohiberet ;  morum  tamen  maturi- 
tatem  et  venustatem  simul  cum  annis,  processu  temporis,  induens,  et  sic  aetatum  sic  et  virtutum 
gradibus  feliciter  ascendens,  abjecto  veteri  homine,  ex  toto  novus  etfectus  et  in  virum  alterum 
jam  mutatus,  cum  lenitate  simul  et  mansuetudine,  cum  religioue  magna  et  erga  Deum  ec- 
clesiaeque  sacra?  cultum,  grandi  et  jugi  devotione,  ecclesiarum  quoque  in  pauperes  largi- 
cione,  pius,  providus  et  pacificus,  justicia  ubique  cum  aequitate  servata  Scotorum  extitit 
nostris  diebus  rector  felix  et  moderator.  Proinde  totum  regni  sui  decus,  quod  apud  Aune- 
wicense  castrum  simul  cum  opidis  electis  hostili  conflictu  captus  olim  amiserat,  Scotia  qui- 
dem a  tempore  Claudii  Caesaris  usque  tunc  regno  Britannico  non  existente  subjecta,  ab 
Anglorum  rege  tunc  regnante,  Ricardo,  divina  et  justicia  utriusque  principis  uno  in  facto 
merita  pensante,  pretio  pecunios  dato,  praetereunte  felici  sibique  suisque  commercio  quam 
in  Cliristiano  non  tam  inicium  quam  finis  spectari  solet  rem  impreciabilem  yiro  magnanimo 
recuperavit.  Porro  quoniam  nichil  humanis  in  rebus  omni  ex  parte  perfectum  natura  ex- 
polivit,  nichilque  tam  clarum  in  terris  quod  aliqua  menda  vel  naevo  non  denigretur,  vir 
tantus  et  tam  laudabilis  in  multis  totam  gloriam  suam  ab  iueunte  oetate  usque  in  senium, 
proch  dolor!  unica  macula  decoloravit.  Per  totam  enim  terra?  suae  totius  amplitudinem 
in  cathedralibus  ecclesiis  cunctis  nullas  omnino  nisi  ad  nutum  ipsius,  more  tyrannico,  fieri 


248  NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 

permisit  electiones ;  enormes  quidem  Normannicae  t yrannidis  per  Angliam  abusiones,  nimis 
in  hoc  expresse  sequens. — MS.  Cott.  Julius,  B.  xiii.  fol.  111. 

Giraldus  then  argues  at  some  length  upon  the  accusation  here  brought  by  him  against 
William,  of  interfering  with  the  election  of  ecclesiastics,  alluding  to  the  part  which  he  took 
in  the  disputes  relative  to  the  election  of  Hugh  and  John  Scot  to  the  see  of  St  Andrew's. 
Although  not  destitute  of  interest,  I  refrain  from  continuing  my  extract. 

Willam  roy  Descoce  entrast  Engleler  od  grants  soudiers  de  Flaundres. — p.  40. 

During  this  irruption  into  England,  a  portion  of  Henry's  army  advanced  to  Durham, 
and  having  committed  some  excesses,  gave  an  opportunity  to  St  Cuthbert  to  perform  a  mi- 
racle in  defence  of  his  patrimony,  of  which  opportunity,  as  might  be  expected,  he  did  not 
delay  to  avail  himself.  Reginald,  a  monk  of  Durham,  and  then  living,  thus  narrates  the  event. 

Qualiter  miles  qui  ad  cimiterium  equo  descendere  noluit, 
subito  cum  equo  prseceps  corruit. 

Facta  dissentione  inter  primates  terras  et  regem  Angliae,  Willelmus  rex  Scotia3,  collecto 
exercitu,  cepit  fines  circumpositas  Northumbrian  lata  depopulations  strage  vastare.  Ipse 
cnim  favebat  partibus  regi  Henrico  adversantium,  conantes  in  regni  solio  regi  patri  regem 
nuper  creatum  praeferre  filium.  Quod  videntes  australes  Anglia?  principes  cum  multa  ma- 
im militari  constipati  cepere  prsevenire  et  tueri  regni  et  populi  irruptiones.  Unde  Dunel- 
inum  usque  excercitu  Anglorum  veniente,  multi  eorum  cum  oblatione  devota  studuere  beati 
Cuthberti  se  patrocinio  commendare,  et  ipsius  ecclesiam  subituri  discincti  gladio  et  descen- 
dentes  equo  proni  et  supplices  humilitatis  ornatu  sunt  induti.  Inter  quos  quidam  miles 
laude  preciosus,  ore  grandiloquus,  pompa  auctoritatis  et  cordis  elatus,  dum  ad  cimiterii  fines 
ulteriores  equo  spumante  devehitur,  more  coeterorum  pedibus  et  vestigio  humili  ad  ecclesiam 
sancti  confessoris  progredi  vel  ingredi  dedignatur.  Socii  vero  et  multi  alii  ilium  sedulo 
hortati  sunt  ut  equo  descenderet,  et  humili  ad  ecclesiam  gressu  procederet.  Set  ille  quo 
devocior  ex  monitu  multorum  fieri  poterat,  eo  se  rigidiorem  corde,  ore,  et  opere  exhibebat. 
Nempe  equum  ferocem  et  furibundum  calcaribus  stimulabat,  et  se  usque  ad  limina  ecclesise 
cquitaturum  cum  sacramento  multiplici  confirmabat,  etc. — Harl.  3IS.  4843,  fol.  148. 

As  might  be  expected  from  this  exordium,  the  rider,  persisting  in  his  intention,  is  tin-own 
from  his  horse  and  breaks  his  neck ;  but  the  story  proceeding  in  the  regular  and  established 
routine  of  such  stories,  the  reader  will  easily  excuse  me  for  not  continuing  it. ' 

.  .  .  Willam  roy  Descoce  .  .  .  as'sist  Cardoil,  .  .  .  se  remua  au  ckastel  de  Prodhou  qi  le 
conquist,  se  mist  a  Alnewyk  qi  le  assist. — p.  40. 

This  irruption  into  England  was  made  in  the  year  1173;  and  in  Pipe  Rolls  for  that 
year  occur  the  following  memoranda  connected  with  it. 


NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS.  249 


MINARIA  CARLEOLI. 

Et  Roberto  de  Vals,  xx.tj.  ad  tenendum  milites  in  castello  de  Carleot;  per  breve  Rieardi 

de  Luci. 
Et  Odinello  de  Vnfranvilt,  xx.tj.  ad  tenendum  milites  in  castello  de  Prudho,  pro  dampno 

sibi  a  Scottis  illato. 
Et  Rogero  filio  Rieardi,  xx.tj.  ad  tenendum  milites  in  Novo  Castello  super  Tinam ;  per 

breve  Rieardi  de  Luci. — Pipe  Roll,  19  Hen.  II.  in  Carleilschire. 

The  liberality  of  the  Commissioners  of  Public  Records  having  placed  these  invaluable 
documents  in  the  British  Museum,  where  they  are  accessible  to  the  public  without  the  pay- 
ment of  a  single  fee,  it  is  to  be  wished  that  some  competent  individual  could  be  found  to 
undertake  the  examination  of  them  for  the  purpose  of  making  a  judicious  selection  of  pas- 
sages illustrative  of  Scottish  history.  From  a  careful  examination  of  these  rolls  to  the  end 
of  the  reign  of  Richard  the  Second,  I  can  say  that  notices  of  this  nature  are  frequent  and 
valuable;  and  enough  would  easily  be  found  to  fill  a  volume. 


...en  le  Policronicon  est  assigne  la  cause  de  lour  deuersete,  en  quoy  est  dit p.  42. 

The  story  here  quoted  from  the  Policronicon  was  not  found  in  that  history  when  looked 
for  in  more  manuscripts  than  one.  It  is  worthy  of  notice,  however,  that  Fordun  gives  the 
same  legend,  referring  to  the  same  authority.  Shall  we  suppose  that  the  author  of  the 
Scalacronica  cites  his  authority  through  that  medium?  or  that  he  and  Fordun  allude  to 
other  versions  of  the  Policronicon  varying  from  the  common  copies? 


//  en  troue  en  lez  cronicles  qe  com  cesti  roy  Henry  enuient  vnfoitz  de  Irland p.  43. 

This  revelation,  the  prototype  of  the  spectral  figure  which  admonished  James  the  Fourth, 
king  of  Scotland,  to  desist  from  his  headstrong  adherence  to  the  interest  of  France,  appears 
to  have  furnished  Pitscottie,  directly  or  indirectly,  with  his  graphic  and  admirable  narrative 
of  that  event,  now  so  familiar  to  all  classes  of  readers  by  its  introduction  into  the  poem  of 
Marmion.  The  version  in  the  Policronicon,  from  which  our  author  probably  had  the  pre- 
sent notice,  is  an  abridgment;  so  is  that  introduced  into  Brompton's  Chronicle:  it  is  in  the 
treatise  of  Giraldus  Cambrensis  de  Instructione  Principis  that  we  are  to  look  for  the  full 
narrative.  A  future  editor  of  Pitscottie  will  probably  not  fail  to  take  advantage  of  this 
intimation.  The  more  immediate  origin  of  these  stories  recorded  in  the  Scalacronica  is  the 
abridged  narrative  of  Higden,  which  may  be  read  with  advantage  in  the  Harleian  manu- 
script, 1 900,  fol.  288,  in  the  translation  of  Trevisa. 
2  i 


200  NOTES  AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Autre  foitz  fust  il  gamy  par  vn  Irroys  damendre  sa  vie  par  si  priuez  enseigns  qe  nul 
tie  conisoit  qe  ly  meismes. — p.  43. 

The  second  of  these  miraculous  admonitions  is  thus  given  by  Giraldus. 

Post  hanc  revelationem  et  biennalem  quae  secuta  est  persecutionem,  quasi  triennio,  vir  qui- 
dara  simplex,  rectus  et  Justus,  in  Hj -hernia  maneus,  qui  tamen  non  Hybernicus  sed  Anglicus 
erat,  in  sompnis  hanc  vocem  audivit.  "  Vade  ad  Anglorum  regem  et  die  ei  quatinus  jus 
suuni  cuique  reddat,  vitamque  suam  in  melius  emenderet;  alioquin  in  brevi  iram  Dei  in- 
curret  exterminantem."  Cumque  vocem  eandem  audisset  nocte  sequente  et  tertia  quoque 
cum  comminacione,  interjectis  et  intersignis,  regis  dicentem  ad  se  secretissima  nulli  hominum 
nisi  ipsi  soli  cognita  vel  comperata,  statim  iter  arripiens  transcursoque  duplici  maris  brachio, 
tarn  Gallici  videlicet  quam  Hybernici,  ad  regem  in  Aquitannicae  Gallia?  finibuss  in  verba 
pradieta  pervenit.  Sed  rege  per  hoc  non  correcto  nee  commoto,  nuncius  ad  propria,  com- 
plete legatione,  remeavit.  Vir  autem  cum  iter  aggrediens,  transmerso  mari  Hybernico  per 
Galliam  transiret,  episcopum  Sancti  David,  Petrum  nomine,  et  ilium  qui  scripsit  hsc,  archi- 
diaconum  ejus,  in  quodam  monasterio  Cisterciensis  ordinis,  cui  nomen  Alba  Landa,  invenit. 
Qui  statim  episcopo  causam  itineris  sui  secreto  revelavit,  et  episcopus  archidiacono. — MS. 
Cott.Jul.  B.  xiii.  fol.  128. 


La  tierce  foitz  fust  gamy  par  vn  chiualer,  qi  out  a  noune  Philip  de  Estderby,  ly  venoit 
somoundre  de  soy  atnendre  de  7  articles. — p.  43. 

This  warning  is  in  like  manner  to  be  referred  to  the  treatise  De  Instructione  Principis, 
from  which  it  is  introduced  into  the  Polieronicon  in  terms  nearly  similar  to  those  employed 
in  our  chronicle.  The  introductory  passage  of  the  original,  which,  however,  contains 
enough  to  serve  our  purpose,  is  here  given  from  the  Cotton  MS.  Julius,  B.  xiii.  It  is  to 
be  regretted  that  the  length  to  which  the  narrative  is  extended  prevents  the  insertion  of 
the  whole,  for  it  is  exceedingly  curious,  and  would  tend  to  illustrate  the  popular  supersti- 
tions of  the  early  period  of  the  thirteenth  century. 

REVELATIO  MILITI  DE  LINCOLNLE  FINIBUS,  ROGERO  SCILICET 
DE  ESTREBY,  FACTA. 

Circa  haec  eadem  tempora,  sed  paulo  post,  militi  cuidam  de  Lincolniae  partibus,  cui 
nomen  Rogerus  de  Estreby,  revelatio  facta  talis  fuit.  Cum  ivit  in  campo  solus  audivit 
vocem  majorem  et  postea  minorem,  quasi  contestantes  ividem,  et  dicentes  ei  quod  iret 
Londone,  ad  archiepiscopum  Cantuariensem  Baldewinum,  et  Ranulphum  de  Glanuillis  tunc 
Anglise  justiciarum,  et  diceret  eis  ex  parte  Dei  ut  statim  transfertarent  ad  regem  Henricum 
et  dicerent  ei  quod  vij.  mandata  compleret  qua?  ei  mandabant,  et  si  hoc  faceret  honorifice 
per  septennium  viveret,  et  crucem  Christi  de  inimicis  ipsius  perquireret,  et  vitam  feliciter 


NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS.  251 

terminaret,  alioquin  non  ultra  quatuor  annos  viveret,  et  ignominiose  moreretur.  Ipse  vero 
putans  fantasma  esse,  signo  crucis  se  munivit;  et  diabolum,  ut  ab  ipso  discederet,  adjuravit. 
Ipsi  vero,  quorum  voces  audiebantur,  e  contra  dicebant  se  ex  parte  Dei  esse,  et  cum  inqui- 
reret  quinam  essent,  dicebant  quod  Petrus  et  Gabriel  erant.  Multociens  audivit  eos  hoc 
idem  protestantes,  sed  fidem  eis  non  adhibuit. 


. . .  vient  Heraclius,  patriarch  de  Jerusalem,  au  roy  Henri/,  portaunt  lettrcs  de  touz  let 
Cristiens  orientalis  demaundaunt  eide  vers  lez  paganes p.  45. 

The  fullest  account  of  the  unsuccessful  mission  of  the  Patriarch  of  Jerusalem  to  England, 
the  manner  in  which  Henry  contrived  to  extricate  himself  from  a  crusade,  and  the  angry 
conversation  which  passed  at  Dover  when  the  failure  of  the  schemes  of  the  Patriarch  was 
obvious,  are  detailed  with  much  minuteness  by  Giraldus,  in  the  work  from  which  so  many 
illustrations  have  already  been  derived.  These  passages,  having  been  printed  in  the  xviii. 
volume  of  Bouquet,  are  not  here  repeated;  the  reader  who  will  take  the  trouble  of  turning 
to  that  work  will  feel  amused  with  the  narrative,  especially  with  the  chapter  treating,  "  De 
patriarchae  ruonitis  et  commonionibus  in  regem  Henricum,  quasi  prophetieo  spiritu,  ter  pro- 
latis."  It  should  be  borne  in  mind,  however,  that  Giraldus  was  a  party  writer,  and  his 
pictures  of  the  violence  and  rapacity  of  Henry  are  to  be  viewed  with  an  allowance  for  their 
overcolouring. 


//  se  remembra  du  vieu  de  la  (ere  saint,  ....  a  quoi  il  purchasa  par  toutez  voyes  le  tresor 
qil  pooit. — p.  48. 

The  chronicles  are  unanimous  in  their  statement  of  the  anxiety  which  Richard  exhibited 
to  proceed  to  the  holy  war,  and  of  the  modes  which  he  adopted  in  raising  money.  An 
illustration  of  this  occurs  in  the  chronicle  of  Joceline  de  Bracelonde,  a  contemporaneous 
writer,  who,  being  a  party  concerned  in  almost  all  the  events  which  he  relates,  is  deserving 
of  great  authority.     It  may  be  premised  that  he  was  an  inmate  of  Bury  St  Edmunds. 

Abbas  [Sancti  Edmundi]  optulit  regi  Ricardo  quingentas  marcas  pro  manerio  de  Mil- 
denhale,  dicens  illud  manerium  Ix.  libras  et  decern  valere,  et  pro  tanto  esse  rollatum  in 
magna  rolla  de  Wincestre.  Et  cum  ita  spem  voti  sui  concepisset  cepit  res  dilationem  usque 
in  crastinum.  Interim  venit  aliquis  dicens  regi  manerium  illud  bene  valere  c.  libras.  In 
crastino  ergo  abbati  petitioni  sua?  instanti  dixit  rex;  "nichil  est,  domine  abbas,  quod 
quaeris,  vel  mille  marcas  dabis  vel  manerium  non  habebis."  Cum  autem  regina  Alienor, 
secundum  consuetudmem  regni  deberet  accipere  c.  marcas  ubi  rex  cepit  mille,  accepit  a 
nobis  calicem  aureum  in  precium  c.  marcarum,  et  eundem  calicem  nobis  reddidit  pro  anima 

domini  sui,  regis  Henrici,  qui  eum  primo  dederat  Sancto  ^Edmundo Hurl.  MS.  1005, 

fol.  133. 


252  NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Johan — enchasa  le  dit  Willam  leuesqe  de  Ely  chaunccler  qi  senfuyst  hors  Dengleter  en 
draz  de  femme p.  49. 

An  exceedingly  curious  narrative,  written  by  Hugo  de  Nunant,  bishop  of  Coventry, 
giving  an  account  of  the  adventures  of  this  bishop  of  Ely  when  flying  from  England  disguised 
as  a  woman,  is  inserted  in  Hoveden,  fol.  400.  Its  details,  although  somewhat  loose,  are 
ludicrous  in  the  extreme,  and  it  must  have  been  popular.  It  is  quoted  by  Higden  in  his 
Policronicon. 

Lessoms  du  roy  de  Fraunce,  et  parloms  du  roy  Richard  et  de  sez  nefes p.  51. 

One  of  the  most  curious  unpublished  English  chronicles  is  that  of  Ricardus  Divisiensis 
de  rebus  gestis  Ricardi  primi,  which  throws  more  light  upon  the  eventful  and  striking  his- 
tory of  the  lion-hearted  monarch  than  even  that  of  Hoveden.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that 
such  a  chronicle  should  still  be  permitted  to  remain  in  manuscript:  probably  the  period  of 
its  publication  is  not  far  distant.    From  it  I  extract  the  following  account  of  Richard's  navy. 

Naves  quas  rex  in  littore  jam  prsesto  invenit  erant  numero  centum,  et  buccae  quatuor- 
decim,  vasa  magna;  capacitatis  et  mirse  agilitatis,  vasa  fortia  et  integerrima,  quorum  ornatus 
et  ordinatus  hie  erat.  Prima  navium  tria  gubernacula  vacantia  habuerunt  tresdecim  anchoras, 
triginta  remos,  duo  vela,  funes  omnium  generum  triplices,  et  praeter  ista  quibuscunque  na- 
vis  egere  potest  dupla,  prater  malum  et  scapham.  Ascribitur  navis  regimini  rector  unus 
doctissimus,  et  quatuordecim  ei  aemuli  (?)  electi  in  ministerium  supputantur.  Oneratur 
navis  quadraginta  equis  de  pretio,  exercitatis  ad  arma,  et  omni  armorum  genere  totidem 
equitum,  et  quadraginta  peditum  et  quindecim  navigantium,  et  victualibus  per  annum  inte- 
grum tot  hominum  et  equorum.  Una  erat  omnium  navium  depositio.  Singulae  vero  bu- 
tiarum  ordinatus  et  oneris  duplum  receperunt.  Thesaurus  regis,  qui  erat  magnus  nimis  et 
iusestimabilis,  divisus  est  per  naves  et  bucias,  ut  si  pars  una  sentiret  periculum  reliqua  sal- 
varetur.  Quibus  ita  dispositis,  rex  ipse  cum  familia  parva  et  majores  exercitus  cum  sibi 
familiantibus,  relicto  littore,  prcecedunt  classem,  et  per  civitates  maritimas  dietim  hospitantes, 
assumptis  secum  majoribus  maris  illius  navibus  ac  buccis,  prospere  Massanam  applicuerunt. 
— MS.  Cott.  Drnn.it.  xiii.  fol.  72.  b. 

The  information  here  given  in  the  text  of  the  progress  of  Richard's  navy  appears  to  have 
been  obtained  from  the  journal  of  one  who  accompanied  the  expedition.  It  exists  in  a  fuller 
and  more  correct  form  in  the  chronicles  of  Benedictus  Abbas  and  of  Hoveden,  and  has  been 
abridged  by  the  author  of  the  Scalacronica  from  the  last-named  writer.  The  manuscript  of 
Hoveden  used  upon  this  occasion  has  been  corrupt,  or  the  transcriber  of  the  Scalacronica 
has  been  negligent  in  the  performance  of  his  duty,  for,  upon  comparing  the  pages  of  our 
text  with  the  narrative  of  the  original,  errors  in  names  of  places  have  been  detected.  As  a 
protection  against  these,  and  an  explanation  of  the  disguise  which  the  French  dress  throws 
over  many  proper  names,  it  has  been  thought  advisable  to  give  first  the  reading  of  our  ma- 


NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 


nuscript,  and  in  the  opposite  column  the  more  intelligible  form  in  which  the  word  appeal's 
in  Hoveden. 


SCALACRONICA. 
p.  51, 1.  28.  Legle 

29.  par  la  cite  de  saint  Niccs 

30.  la  cite  de  xx.  Mille 

31.  seint  Marie  de  Funtz 
p.  52,  1.  10.  port  de  Bareth 

„    a  la  vile  saint  Berthun 

12.  chastell  de  Plumlin 

13.  lisle  Genust 

14.  a  le  port  Talamount 

17-  la  cite  de  Come  et  Senes  la  vele 

et  la  cite  de  Lanne  et  vn  lieu  — 

25.  vn  chastel  qe  lem  appelle  Bettoun 

33.  au  chastel  de  Cape  del  Espourn 


f.  380,  1.  42. 
43 
43, 

45. 
f.380,b.l.    1. 


p.  53,  1.  1.  lisle  de  Panteth 

29. 

„    la  cite  de  Gaite  Pantee 

„ 

3.  lile  de  Stele  maior 

31. 

5.  Lile  de  Irom 

33. 

7.  Pateroun 

34. 

3.  55,  1.  16.  a  la  port  del  cite  de  Suyle 
18.  la  mount  Alije 

f.381,b.l.49. 
f.  382,  1.  18. 

19.  nome  Abmylan 
„    Salez 

19- 

20.  Wondelkeker 

20. 

27.  Alkalon 

25. 

28.  Mussian 

28. 

34.  et  en  lile  de  Baltarye,  Marcels, 
Wail,  chastel  de  Maure 

37. 

p.  56,  1.  1.  del  mount  en  Beraltare 

38. 

3.  Salamanettre 

39. 

5.  Cappe  de  Mellik 
14.  Tyntuse 
16.  Tarracount 

42. 
f.382,b.l.   5. 

7. 

17-  Cappe  de  Salyke 
18.  Emparise 
20.  Cappe  Lewgat 
22.  Edur 

8. 
12. 
20. 
26. 

HOVEDEN. 

per  Aquilam 

per  civitatem  de  Nices 

per  Wentemile  civitatem 

sanctam  Mariam  de  Funz 

portum  de  Barate 

in  vigilia  sancti  Bartholomcei 

castellum  quod  dicitur  Plumbum 

insulam,  qua?  dicitur  Genit 

portum,  qui  dicitur  Talemunde 

et  Senes  la  veile  civitatem;  et 
locum — 

castellum  quod  dicitur  Lettum 

ad  castellum  quod  dicitur  le  cap 
del  Espurun 

insulam,  qua?  dicitur  le  pantee 

a  Gaeta  civitate 

insulam,  qua?  dicitur  Istellemanie 

De  de  Girun 

Baterun 

ante  portum  SiluEe 
qui  dicitur  Muntalue 

quae  dicitur  caput  Almilan 

Saltis 

Windelkebir 

Scaloniam 

Muncian 

et  Jubaltarie  insula,    Mertell, 

Swail  castellum  Maurorum 
ad  pedem  montis  Jubalariaa 
Salamame 
Caput  de  Melich 
Turtusa 
Taragutie 
Caput  de  Salut 
Empiris 
Caput  Leucare 
Odur. 


254  NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 

...  si  troueret  le  bon  roi  [Richard']  dormaunt,  et  ly  pristrent  et  renderent  al  duk 
Humbald — p.  76. 

None  of  the  printed  chronicles,  as  far  as  I  am  aware,  fix  upon  Richard's  attendants  the 
stigma  of  having  betrayed  their  master  into  the  hands  of  the  duke  of  Austria;  but  in  the 
manuscript  chronicle  of  Winchester  that  accusation  is  advanced  against  one  named  Ioldan 
de  la  Pumerai. 

Ioldanus  de  la  Pumerai  accusatus  est  de  prodicione  regis  post  reversionem  ipsius  de  Ale- 
mannia,  in  crastino  coronationis  suas  apud  Wintoniam.  Ex  regia  igitur  dispensatione  et 
miseracione,  potius  quam  justicia,  dictatur  in  eum  sententia;  videlicet,  ut  abjuraret  terram 
suam,  vel  ut  pateretur  judicium  curiae  suae,  vel  ut  religioni  se  exhiberet.  Quod  audiens, 
magis  habitum  quam  actum  religionis  apud  Fordam  suscepit.  Sed  audito  obitu  regis  non 
diucius  deliberavit  reverti  ad  seculum,  spe  recuperandae  gloriae  pristinae  quam  olim  deliber- 
averat  religioni  se  debere  causa  vitandas  necis  vel  pcene — MS.  Cott.  Domit.  xiii.  fol.  39,  b. 

The  authority  of  these  annals  is  considerable — they  contain  internal  evidence  of  having 
been  continued  from  time  to  time,  and  record  facts  of  the  reign  of  Richard  and  John  in 
such  a  manner  as  to  evince  that,  they  are  contemporaneous  productions.  The  accusation 
and  conviction  of  the  offender  at  Winchester  (the  place  where  these  annals  were  written) 
lends  additional  weight  to  the  story;  and  the  distance  of  the  Cistertian  abbey  of  Ford,  in 
the  parish  of  Thorncomb,  is  not  great  from  the  residence  of  the  writer  of  the  above 
extract.  If  Ioldan  de  la  Pumerai  resided  at  Ford  from  Easter  1194  till  April  1199,  the 
fact  must  have  been  notorious  at  Winchester  and  elsewhere,  and  the  great  marvel  is  how 
the  fact  should  have  escaped  the  notice  of  our  early  chroniclers.  It  is  also  a  curious  fact 
that  in  the  Monasticon  should  be  found  charters  of  Jocelin  and  John  de  Pomerai  granting 
to  Ford  the  vill  of  Tale:  see  vol.  i.  p.  785,  etc.  Upon  the  whole  the  story  seems  worthy 
of  credit. 

Richard  le  roy  morust  le  x.  ane  de  soun  regne,  etfust  enterrez  a  Pountheurard. — p.  81. 

There  is  not  perhaps  a  more  remarkable  instance  of  the  contradiction  observable  in  the 
accounts  given  by  our  early  historians  of  events  which  happened  when  they  were  alive  than 
the  manner  in  which  they  narrate  the  death  of  Richard.  The  place  of  his  death,  and  the 
individual  from  whom  he  received  his  mortal  wound,  are  uncertain.  As  to  the  place, 
Hoveden  and  Diceto,  contemporaneous  writers,  tell  us  that  he  was  killed  at  Chaluz.  Ger- 
vase  of  Canterbury,  also  alive  at  the  time,  says  he  was  killed  at  a  castle  named  Nantrum, 
belonging  to  the  earl  of  Angolesme.  Paris,  Westminster,  Trivet,  and  others,  agree  with 
Hoveden  as  to  the  place  of  his  death.  Hoveden  says  that  he  was  killed  by  Bertram  de 
Gurdon ;  Gervase  of  Canterbury  names  the  individual  John  Sabraz ;  Diceto  and  M.  Paris 
call  him  Petrus  Basileus ;  Westminster,  Trivet,  and  others,  do  not  give  his  name.  The  con- 
temporaneous chronicle  of  Ricardus  Divisiensis,  which  is  probably  very  good  authority, 


NOTES   AND   ILLUSTRATIONS.  255 

differs  from  all  of  these,  by  stating  that  he  was  killed  at  Chahiz  by  Petrus  Basileus.  I  for- 
bear to  insert  the  stories  of  Richard  introduced  into  the  imprinted  Chronicle  of  the  Kings 
of  Jerusalem,  MS.  de  la  Sarbonne  at  Paris,  454,  although  they  are  curious  as  shewing  that 
even  in  the  earlier  half  of  the  thirteenth  century  Richard  had  become  a  hero  of  romance, 
and  his  achievements,  which  surely  did  not  require  the  aid  of  fiction,  had  even  then  been 
mixed  up  with  false  and  absurd  interpolations.  The  reader  will  be  pleased  to  accept,  as  a 
good  substitute,  the  account  of  the  death  of  Richard  as  narrated  in  the  Annals  of  Winches- 
ter, in  the  Cottonian  manuscript. 

1199-  Hoc  anno  Ricardus  rex  Anglice,  totius  miliciae  speculum  speculumque  libertatis, 
apud  oppidum  Chavlev  nomine,  quod  a  quibusdam  interpretatur  "  casus  lupi,"  a  quodam 
milite,  cui  nomen  erat  Petrus  Basilius,  telo  perfossus  est  vij.  kal.  Aprilis,  obiitque  viij.  idus 
ejusdem  mensis,  die  videlicet  Martis  ante  floridam  Pascha;  sepultumque  est  corpus  ejus 
ad  pedes  patris  sui  Henrici  regis  apud  Funt  Ever'.  Cor  autem  ejus,  jussu  ipsius,  extractum 
a  corpore  deportatum  est  Rothomage,  et  juxta  fratrem  suum  Henricum  reconditum. 
Testati  sunt  autem  illi  qui  cor  ejus  viderunt,  quod  extractum  de  corpore  fuit  paulo  majus 
pomo  pini.  Condonavit  ante  mortem  suam  lmic  qui  eum  wlneravit,  sed  Marchadeus  eum 
clam  rege  ad  Johannam  cometissam  Sancti  jEgidii,  sororem  regis,  [misit],  qua;  fecit  ei  evelli 
ungues  pedum  et  manuum  et  oculos,  et  postea  excoriari  et  equis  detrahi.  Scitu  quidem  dig- 
num  est  quod  dictus  rex  sepultus  est  cum  eodem  corona  et  caeteris  insignibus  regalibus 
quibus  praecedenti  quinto  anno  coronatus  et  infulatus  fuerat  apud  Wintoniam. 

Pro  miraculo  habetur  apud  multos,  quod  per  multum  tempus  ante  obitum  regis  solebant 
puellae  Normannicae  canere  in  choris, 

"  In  Limozin  sagitta  fabricabitur 
Qua  tirannus  mo[r]ti  dabitur." 

Sed  mirum  nobis  videtur  quare  tirranus  pronostice  dicebatur  qui  princeps  piisimus,  ut  aesti- 
mabamus,  existebat.  Revera,  quod  mirum  dictum  est,  postremo  ille  telo  occubuit  quod  in 
Limozin  fabricatum  est MS.  Cott.  Domit.  xiii.  fol.  39-  b. 

The  narrative  of  the  text  obviously  follows  Hoveden. 


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APPENDIX. 


p.  509.  NOTABLE    THINGES  TRANSLATED    IN    TO  ENGLISCH    BY  JOHN    LEYLANDE,  OUTE  OF    A    BOOKE, 

CAULLID  SCALA  CHRONICA,  THE  WHICH  A  CERTEIN  INGLISCH  MAN  (TAKEN  YN  1VERRE 
PRISONER,  AND  BROUGHT  TO  EDINGEBURGH  YN  SCOTLAND)  DID  TRANSLATE  OVVTE  OF 
FRENCHE  RYME  YN   TO  FRENCHE  PROSE. 


EX  PROLOGO. 

The  name  of  the  writer  is  obscurely  lefte  in  the  Prologe  to  be  curiusly  soute  oute  by  numbres 
and  conferring  of  lettres. 

Gualter  Archidiacon  of  Excestre  [Oxenford]  did  translate  the  historie  of  Brute  owt  of  Walsch 
yn  to  Latine. 

The  vicar  of  Tillemouth  did  write  an  historie,  thus  intitulid,  Historia  aurea,  wherein  is  much  to 
be  seene  of  kinge  William  conquerors  cumming  yn  to  Englande. 

Thomas  Otterburne  (a  Master  in  Divinite,  and  of  the  religion  of  the  Freres  Minores),  did  write 
an  historie  of  Englande. 

I  gesse,  that  one  of  the  Greys  of  Northumbreland  was  autor  of  it  by  the  imagination  of  the 
dreame  that  he  showith  of  a  ladder  yn  the  prologe. 

The  Graves  give  a  lader  in  their  armes. 

[The  coate  is  barry  of  6.  arg.  &  azure,  a  bend  gobony,  or  and  gueules.] 

If  Vicar  of  Tillemouth. 

The  bookes  of  the  Gestes  of  Lindisfarne,  Chester  and  Derham,  make  much  mention  de  historia 
aurea  Joannis  Eboracensis.     Therefore  loke  wither  they  be  both  one  or  no. 

Tf  Thomas  Otterburn  historiographer. 

The  Chronicle  beginnith  a  creatione  mundi,  and  so  to  the  Grekes  and  Roruaines  to 
bring  it  to  Brutus. 

Owt  of  the  Firste  JBooke. 

The  Britons  foughte  with  the  Saxons  yn  Vortimers  (Vortigers  sunnes)  tyme  iiij.  sundry 
tymes.     Firste  by  the  water  of  Derwente. 

The  seconde  tyme  at  Teforde  in  Lindesey,  wher  Raengeieres  and  Hors  mette  to  gither. 


260  APPENDIX. 

Wherefore  Vortimer  causid  the  forteres  of  Home  castel*  to  be  beten  doune,  and  nerverf 
sins  was  J  refortied:  the  which  castel  was  firste  enstrengthid  by  Hors,  Hengistus  brother  &c. 

William  Banestre  and  Thomas  Ercledoune,  §  whos  wordes  were  spoken  yn  figure,  as  were 
the  propheties  of  Merline. 

Gorloius  erle  of  Cornewalle  in  king  Uthers  tyme. 

Sum  chroniques  say  that  Uther  vanquished  Otta  and  Oza  at  Wyndegate  by  Coquet 
ryver. 

Tintagoil  et  Duvilioc  castelles  kepte  in  Cornewaile  of  the  counte  ther  of  agayne  Uther. 

The  counte  of  Cornewaile  killid  by  Uthers  men  at  Duvilioc  castel  taken  by  force. 

Uther  had  Tintagoil  castel  deliverid  on  to  hym,  and  maried  Igerne  the  counte  of  Cor- 
newalles  wife. 

Arthure  was  crouned  at  Wynchestre. 

Arthure  faughte  with  Colgryne  by  the  water  of  Duglas  now  caullid  Done. 

Arthure  chasid  Cheldrik  in  to  a  greate  woode  by  Barlinges. 

Arthure  lefte  Hoel  of  Litle  Britaine  his  nephew  sike  at  Alcluit ||  in  Scotland. 

Arthure  gave  to  Loth,  If  Anguisel,  and  Urien  (the  3  sunnes  of  Kahu)  more  landes  than 
their  auncetors  had.  He  gave  to  Anguisel  Scotland,  to  Urien  Murref,  to  Loth  Lownes  and 
his  eldest  sister  of  whom  he  engenderid  Gawin  and  Mordrede. 

Arthure  maried  Genouer,  cosin  to  Cador  of  Cornewail,  and  doughter  to  the  king  of 
Briscay. 

Angusel  of  Scotland  and  Gawin  killid  at  Dovar  in  the  batel  agayne  Mordrede. 

Geneur  made  her  self  a  nunne  at  Cairleon. 

IT  Mordred  fled  from  Winchestre  to  Porchester,  and  so  went  by  ship  to  Cornewaile. 

H  Arthure  taried  at  Dovar  wils  Angusel,  Gawin,  and  Cador  were  buried. 

Mordred  taried  the  cumming  of  Arthure  by  the  water  of  Tamar,  wher  Hywain  (to  whom 
Arthure  had  gyven  Scotland  after  the  deth  of  Angusel  as  next  heire)  did  kille  Mordrede, 
in  the  which  bataile  Arthure  was  after  deadely  woundid,  and  cam  to  Avalon  with  Hiwayne. 

A  hole  chapitre  speking  agayne  them  that  beleve  not  Arthure  to  have  beene  king  of  Bri- 
taine, bicause  that  Bede  spekith  nothing  of  hym.  And  emong  other  thing  these  be  sum 
of  the  reasons  that  he  allegith  that  Bede  did  not  speke  of  Arthure: 

Peraventure  he  countid  hym  not  emong  kings,  because  he  was  begotten  in  adultery. 

Or  by  cause  the  things  that  were  writen  of  Arthure  were  greater  then  Bene**  could  wel 
beleve. 

Or  that  Bede  passid  not  to  magnifie  any  Briton,  wherby  the  Saxons  glory  might  be  de- 
facid,  or  a  thinge  impertinent  to  his  bokes  de  gestis  Anglorum. 

Or  that  most  lykelihod  was  that  Bede  had  very  smaul  knowlege  of  Britons  gestes,  whos 
bookes  were  lossid,  burnid,  and  many  caried  owt  of  Britaine,  whereby  knowlege  might 
have  rysen  to  hym.  And  Stoneheng,  so  notable  a  thing  erect  by  the  Brittanes,  is  nothing 
spoken  of  Bede,  and  a  great  many  thinges  beside. 

•  Home  Castelle  in  Lindesey.  t  Sic.  f  Sic.  §  Prophetiers.     William  Banestre.     Thomas  Erceldoun. 

I  Alcluit  in  Scotland.  %  Loth  maried  Anhures  sister.  •*  Sic 


APPENDIX.  261 

Sum  say  that  Mordred  lefte  Wilshire,  Somersetshire,  and  Dorset  to  Cerdik  the  Saxon 
that  began  the  kingdom  of  Westsax. 

Mordrede  had  2.  bastarde  sunnes. 

Sum  say  that  in  Constantine  king  of  Britons  tyme  that  Ethelbright  and  Edelsy  were 
smaul  kinges  under  hym,  where  of  the  first  was  king  of  Norfolk  and  Southfold,*  and  the 
other  of  Lindesay  [Lindesey].  And  these  2.  kinglettes  encresid,  and  Ethelbright  toke  to 
wife  Orwenne,  the  syster  of  Edelsy,  of  whom  he  got  a  doughter  eaullid  Argentile  in  Brut- 
isch,  and  Goldes  burg  in  Saxon.  And  this  Goldeburge  was  after  left  with  her  uncle  Edelsy 
on  this  condition,  that  he  that  yn  feates  of  chevalry  might  be  found  most  noble,  that  he 
shoulde  have  his  doughter.  And  she  was  after  maried  to  one  Havelok,  that  was  sun  to 
a  king  of  Dennemark,  but  conveyid  by  slaite  in  to  England,  and  after,  the  treuth  knowen, 
was  restorid  in  Denmark  as  trew  heire. 

One  Cuaran,  f  sun  to  Grime,  a  strong  and  a  mightty  yong  felow,  cam  to  Edelsy's  court 
in  to  Lindesay,  and  ther  was  first  a  turner  of  broches  yn  the  kechyn,  and  after  by  valiant 
deades  rose  to  greate  name. 

Gryme  had  Haveloc  (by  commaundement  of  the  king  of  Denmark  stuard)  to  be  drounid : 
but  having  pite  on  hym,  he  conveyid  hym  yn  to  Lindesey  in  England  to  a  place,  syns 
eaullid  of  his  name  Grimesby.f  But  this  historie  ys  countid  of  sum  as  but  as  an  acocriphe.§ 
And  sum  say,  that  Sweyn  of  Denmark  (father  to  king  Knut)  first  attemptid  Lindesay  by 
the  firste  cumming  thither  and  mariage  of  Haveloc. 

Octa,  one  of  the  linage  of  Hengist,  recoverid  Twlian  Castel,  refortifying  it,  and  putting 
ther  a  garnison  of  men  kept  it. 

King  Gurmund  seing  that  he  coidd  not  wynne  the  cite  of  Cirecestre,  toke  sparowes,  and 
taying  tier  undre  their  winges  let  them  in  to  the  cite,  and  so  brenned  it.     And  king  Care- 
tius  fled  thens  in  to  Wales, 
p.  512.  Beldrik  lord  Cornewal,  Godwin  of  Northwales,  and  Morgadu  of  Southwales  gave  batail 

to  Ethelfrid,"||  king  of  Kent,  andElfry  of  Northumbreland,  and  discumfited  them.  Ethel  - 
frid  flyid  in  to  Kent,  and  after  dying  was  buried  in  the  abbey  of  S.  Augustines  at  Cantor- 
byri.  Elfry  fled  in  to  Northumbreland.  At  this  viage  was  Beldrik  and  Morgadu  slayne : 
and  Goodwin  of  Southwales  chosen  of  the  Britons  for  king  and  coronid  at  Leyrcester. 

Elfry  of  Northumbreland  had  Edwine  a  sun  and  heire. 

Godwin  king  of  Britons  had  a  sun  callid  Cadwallein. 

Edwine  over  cam  in  bataile  Cadwalein,  that  passed  with  his  host  over  Humbre. 

Cadwalein  fled  first  in  to  Galaway;  then  into  Ireland;  and  thens  into  Litle  Britaine. 

Edwine  founde  at  Winchestre  Brians  sister,  nece  to  Cadwalein,  and  maried  her. 

Brien  toke  Excestre  for  Cadwalein,  and  after  was  there  besigid  of  Penda  king  of  Merces ; 
but  Penda  by  the  cumming  of  king  Salamon  of  Litle  Britaine  was  taken  at  Excestre,  and 
at  the  laste,  promising  to  holde  of  Cadwalein,  was  set  at  liberte. 

*  Sic.  f  Cuian  sum  to  Gryme,  a  poor  fisschar,  not  able  to  keepe  him  for  poverty.         ±  Grimesby  unde.  Sic. 

I  Lineam  sub  hac  voce  ductam  habemus ;  et  e  regione  in  ora  Codkis  scribitur  q  ?  A  manu,  ut  videtur,  Antonii  a  Wood,  non 
vero  ipsius  Lelandi. 


262  APPENDIX. 

And  after  Cadwalein  destroied  at  Helfeld  in  Northumbrelaiid  Edwine,  and  Offrys  his 
cosyn,  and  after  ii.  of  OfFrys  nepheus. 

Ethelfride  king  of  Northumbrelande  discomfitid  Aidan  king  of  Scottes. 

Oswi  over  threw  king  Penda  yn  bataile. 

Penda  had  a  sunne  caullid  Penda. 

Oswy  had  ii.  sunnes.     Alfrid  the  elder  was  a  baster,  and  sent  to  schole  in  to  Scotland. 

Ecfrid  the  yongger  and  legitime  reignid  next  after  his  father  in  Cuthebertes  tyme. 

Elflede,  Oswy's  doughter,  was  made  a  nunne  at  Whitteby.  King  Cadwallein  was  founder 
of  the  college  of  S.  Martine  yn  the  weste  part  of  London. 

The  great  pestilence  that  was  in  Britaine  was  chief  cause  of  the  destruction  of  the  Bri- 
tons, and  losse  of  their  countery. 

The  reigne  of  the  Britons  endid  yn  the  yere  of  our  Lord  700.  after  that  it  had  continuid, 
as  sum  write,  by  the  space  of  a  1815.  yeres. 

Owt  of  the  Secunde  Booke  of  Scala  Chronica. 

Algarus,  one  of  the  kinges  of  Wales,  a  lecherous  felow  lovid  Fredeswide. 

Ecbright  king  of  Westsax  was  the  firste  monarche  of  the  Saxons.  p.  513. 

Gye  of  Warwik  was  in  king  Ethelstanes  tyme. 

Egbalde,  sun  to  king  Ethelberth  of  Kent,  performid  the  monasteri  of  S.  Augustine  that 
his  father  began. 

The  kingdom  of  Essex  conteinid  Estsax,  Midlesex,  and  halfe  Hertefordshire. 

Kinges  of  Estsex. — Reges  Ostrosax. 

Erkenwin.  Gebert  Erkenwine  sunne.  Then  Segebert.  Then  Siberte  that  was  nephew 
to  Ethelbert  king  of  Kent.  He  was  christenid  by  S.  Mellite.  Then  Sexred  and  Sewarde, 
sunnes  to  Sibert,  the  which  both  were  killed  of  the  West  Saxons.  These  ii.  drave  a  way 
S.  Mellite.  Then  reignid  litle  Sigebert,  king  Sewardes  sunne.  He  resignid  his  kingdom 
to  Sichebert.  Then  reignid  Swithelin  his  brother.  Then  Sicherine,  sunne  to  Sigeberth. 
Then  Sebbi  and  Sewarde  junetely  to  gither.  Sebbi  after  the  deth  of  Seward  becam  a  monk. 
His  ii.  sunnes  Segeard  and  Senfredus  reignid  joyntely.  Then  Offa  Sicherines  sunne.  This 
Offa  refusid  Ceneswide  Pendas  doughtter,  and  went  to  Rome  with  S.  Egwine  and  king 
Kinred.  Then  reignid  Selred  sunne  to  Segebert.  Then  Switrede,  at  the  very  same  tyme 
that  Ecbright  king  of  Westsaxons  did  eonquere  Kent,  after  that  there  had  reignid  in  Estsax 
xvi.  kinges. 

Killqes  of  Kente.  Put  this  afore  the  kinges  of  Essex- 

ii.  annis.  34.  20.  10.  th  56. 

Hengist.     Esca  Hengist  sunne.      Octa  Esca  sunne.      Then  Ermenric.     Then  Egelbert 

25. 

his  sunne  christenid  of  Augustine.  Egbald  his  sunne  performid  S.  Augustines  that  his 
father  began  at  Cantorbyri.  Erconbert  his  sunne  reignid  24.  yeres  after  hym.  Ecbertus 
his  sunne  reignid  after  hyin.     Ercomberth  had  2  cosins,  Elberth  and  Egilbright,  that  lyvid 


APPENDIX.  263 

not  long.  Then  Lothair  reignid  9.  yeres  after  them.  Then  Edric  and  Vitred,  that  were 
not  of  the  bloode  royal,  but  by  election  made  kinges,  reignid  a  vi.  yeres.  Wilrede*  reignid 
33.  yeres.  Then  Edbright  his  sunne  xii.  yeres.  Then  Ecfredf  24.  yeres.  Then  Ecbright 
3.  yeres.  Then  Cutrede  his  brother  9-  yeres.  Alfred  1 8.  yeres,  whom  Ecbright  king  of 
Weste  Saxons  drave  owte  of  the  kingdom  of  Kente. 

Kinges  of  Soutlisex,  to  whom  belongid  Southsax,  Slithery,  and  Hamptonskire. 

p.  514.  Ella  primus.     Tissa  the  secunde.     Ethehvold  the  third  convertid  to  the  faith  by  S. 

Birine.    And  this  was  the  first  kingdom  that  cam  by  conquest  to  the  kingdom  of  Westsax. 

Kinges  of  the  Estangles,  to  whom  belongid  Northfolk,  Southfolk,  and  Grantebridgeshire. 

Uffa.  Titul.  Redwalde.  Corpuald.  Then  Sebert  Corpualdes  brother  by  the  mother 
side.  This  Sebert  made  hymself  a  monk,  and  gave  the  kingdom  to  his  cosin  Egrit,  whom 
Penda  killid  yn  bataylle.  Then  reignid  Anna,  killid  also  by  Penda  in  bataylle.  Then 
Ethelher,  killid  with  Penda,  whos  part  he  tooke  with  Oswy  king  of  Northumbreland. 
Then  Ethelwald,  that  resignid  his  kingdom  to  Aldoph,  and  to  Elwald  sunne  to  Edrede. 
Then  Beorna.  Then  Etheldrede.  Then  Ethelbright,  whom  Offa  king  of  Merces  causid 
to  be  slayne.  From  the  which  tyme  to  S.  Edmunde  the  kingdom  in  a  maner  lost  the  name. 
Edmunde  was  killid  of  Hinguar  and  Hubba  16°.  of  his  reigne.  Then  Guthran,  and  then 
Edrike  both  Danes. 

Edward,  king  Alfrede  of  Westsax  sunne,  conquerid  the  kingdom  of  Estangles  50.  yeres 
after  the  death  of  sainct  Edmunde,  after  that  xvi.  kinges  had  reignid  yn  it. 

Kinges  of  Northumbreland. — Subreguli  ante  Idam  in  Northumbria. 

Hengist  having  Kent  sent  his  brother  Octa  and  his  sunne  Jebus  in  to  Northumbreland, 
and  there  they,  and  their  successors,  were  dukes  under  the  king  of  Kent  on  to  such  tyme 
that  by  pride  the  Northumbres  chose  them  self  a  king.  Of  this  realme  was  Hiring  firste 
kinge,  that  begot  Wodnain,  that  begot  Witeglis,  of  whom  cam  Hors  the  king,  that  begot 
Uppa,  that  begot  Heppa,  that  begot  Hermiger,  that  begot  Bernak.  Al  these  were  before 
the  noble  king  Ida.     And  the  gestes  of  them  before  Ida  be  litle  knowen  by  croniques. 

Ida  caussid  the  castel  of  Banborow  %  to  be  uualid  with  stone,  that  afore  was  but  inclosed 
with  woode. 

Ida  reignid  xii.  yeres,  whos  fathers  name  was  Joppe,  and  Esk  was  Joppe  father. 

Alia,  the  next  king  to  Ida,  was  not  Ida  sunne,  but  one  Bfas,  whos  father  was  caullid 
Ursefrea. 

S.  Augustine  cam  in  to  England  anno  D.  182.  a  150.  yeres  after  the  cumming  of  the 
Saxons  yn  to  England. 

Ethelfrid  king  of  Northumbres  sun  to  Alia.  This  Ethelfrid  killid  the  Briton  monkes  of 
Bangor.     This  Ethelfrid  was  killid  of  Redwald  king  of  Estangles. 

*  Forsan  Uchtrede.  t  Forsan  Edbert.  %  Banburge. 


264  APPENDIX. 

Ethelfride  had  of  Acca,  the  doughtter  of  Alia,  and  sister  of  Edwyne,  ii.  sunnes,  Oswald     p.  515. 
et  Oswyne.     Edwyne  their  uncle  was  king  after  Ethelfride. 

Osfrid,  elder  sunne  to  king  Edwine,  was  killid  with  his  father  at  the  batel  of  Hetefelde 
[Hatefelde]. 

Eadfride,  Oswynes  yonger  sunne,  fled  to  Penda,  and  there  was  slayn  agayne  covenant. 

Divisio  regni  Northumbrice. 

Osric,  nephew  to  Edwine,  succedid  in  kingdom  of  Deire,  and  Eanfride,  sunne  to  Elfride, 
reignid  in  Bernisia,  that  is  to  say  from  Tyne  to  Forthe.  These  2.  were  baptisid  in  Scot- 
land, but  after  fel  to  idolatrie,  and  were  killid  in  bataile  by  Cadwalein  king  of  Britons.  Then 
reignid  Oswald,  king  Ethelfrides  sunne.  He  wan  the  victory  at  Henynfeld  by  Hexham 
agayn  Cadwalein. 

Oswald  endid  the  chirch  at  York  that  king  Edwyne  his  uncle  began. 

Oswald  in  the  8.  yere  of  his  reigne  *  at  Maserfelde  of  Penda  the  first  day  of  Auguste. 
His  body  was  caried  to  Berdeney  Abbay,  by  the  commaundment  of  the  quene  of  Mersces 
his  cosyn,  ther  to  be  byried. 

Oswyn  king  of  Northumbreland  [Bernicia]  brother  to  Oswald,  tooke  the  hedde  and 
the  arme  of  his  brother  Oswald  from  the  stakes  that  they  were  set  on  at  Maserfeld,  and 
buried  them  in  Halyeland,  wher  the  hed  afterward  was  buried  with  the  body  of  S.  Cuthberte. 
And  whille  Oswy  reignid  in  Bernicia,  Oswyn,  sunne  to  Osfrid,  was  king  of  Deire.  But 
Oswy  enviyng  hym  caussid  hym  by  strenght  to  fly  to  one  coimte  Humwald,  the  which 
betrayid  hym  to  Oswy.     So  that  he  was  killid  at  GiUingham,  and  buried  at  Tynemouthe. 

Then  reignid  Oswy  both  in  Deira  and  Bernicia,  and  at  the  laste  killid  at  Wounwed 
water  king  Penda  the  pagane  in  bataile. 

Oswy  reignid  38.  yeres,  and  was  buried  in  his  abbay  of  Whiteby. 

Ecfride,  younger  sun  to  Oswy  [but  legitime]  then  reignid.  He  toke  Etheldrede  to 
wyfe.     He  was  killid  of  the  Pictes  in  bataille  16.  regni  sui. 

After  Ecfride  reignid  Alfride,  a  good  clerk,  and  eldest  sun  to  Oswy,  but  he  was  a  basterd. 
He  dyed  yn  the  thyrde  yere  of  his  reigne  at  Drifeld,  and  there  is  buried. 

Osred  his  sunne  reignid  after  hym  9-  yeres,  and  in  Merche  was  killid  in  bataille. 

Then  reignid  Cenred  2.  yeres.     Then  Osrik  all.  yeres.     And  these  4.  kings  immedi-     p.  516. 
ately  afore  were  yn  the  tyme  of  Ine  king  of  Westsax.     Then  reignid  Ceoluulph  8.  yeres. 
He  was  after  monk  of  Lindisfarne,  and  there  buried. 

Then  reignid  Edbright  his  cosin  31.  yeres.  In  whos  tyme  Ethelbold  king  of  Merces  de- 
stroied  Northumbreland.     This  Edbright  folowing  his  uncle  was  made  a  monke. 

Then  Oswold  his  sunne  reignid  that  of  his  mother  was  traiterusly  killid. 

Then  Mol  Edelwald  reignid  all.  yeres,  whom  Alfredef  [Acfrede]  did  sle.  Then  this 
Alfrede  [Acfrede]  reignid  a  x.  yeres,  and  after  driven  away  for  his  ille  ruleing,  the  people  chose 
for  their  king  Ethelred,  sunne  to  Molle  Ethelwald,  and  after  that  he  had  reignid  4.  yeres  he 

•  F.  was  slayne  iu  a  ctuet  batayle  al  Maserfeld,  &c.  1  Sic,  cum  duob.  punclis  sub/,  et  cum  c,  supra  lin.    Nee  aliter 


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was  dryven  away  by  his  barons,  that  did  chuse  Alfwold  to  their  kinge,  that  was  traiterusly 
slayne  of  a  great  man,  and  byried  at  Hexham  after  that  he  had  reignid  1 1 .  yeres.  Then 
Osrede,  that  after  he  reignid  2.  yeres  was  dryven  a  way.  And  then  they  toke  Ethelrede, 
sun  to  Mol  Ethelwold,  to  their  king  agayne.  And  sone  after  Osred,  attempting  to  put 
owte  Ethelrede,  and  reign  agayn  hym  self,  was  taken  and  killid,  and  burid  at  Tinemuthe. 
Ethelrede  after  maried  Osredes  wife :  and  at  the  last  was  killid  of  his  owne  people. 

Eardulph  then  reignid,  whom  Ecbright,  king  of  Westsax,  vanquishid,  putting  Northum- 
breland  to  Westsax  kingdom. 

There  were  after  Ecberght  kinge  of  Westsax  tyme  ii.  kinges  of  Northumbreland.  The 
one  was  Osbright,  the  other  was  Ella. 

The  Kinges  of  Merche. 

Ther  was  a  se  at  Southwel  of  the  Merches,  that  now  longith  to  tharchebishop  of  Yorke. 
Crida  the  first  king  of  Merchis.  Then  Vippa  his  sunne  reignid  2.  yeres.  Then  Ceorlus, 
cosyn  to  Vippa.  Then  Penda,  sun  to  Vippa,  that  was  slayne  by  Oswy,  S.  Oswaldes  brother, 
and  king  of  Northutnbreland,  by  Wynwede  ryvere.  Penda  had  by  his  wyfe  Kineswithe 
Penda*  [Peada]  Wulpher,  Ethelred,  Merewald,  and  Marceline,  sunnes,  and  Kinneburd  and 
Kinesuide,  doughtters.  Then  reignid  Wulphur  a  20.  yeres.  He  overcam  Cenewald,  king 
of  Westsax,  and  got  the  Isle  of  Whight  of  hym,  and  gave  it  Athelwald  [Athelbald],  king 
p.  517.  of  Southsax,  at  such  tyme  as  Athelbald  be  cam  a  christian.  This  Wulwphur,  and  Este- 
wyne,  sunne  to  Ceneuuald,  had  a  sore  bataille  togither.  Wolpher  had  of  Ermenild,  doughter 
to  king  Erconbert  of  Kent,  a  sunne  caullid  Kinred,  and  a  doughter  caullid  Werburg  that 
lyith  at  Chestre.  Then  was  Ethelred,  brother  to  Wulpher,  king,  a  man  meter  for  religion 
than  to  fighte.  And  he,  yn  the  30.  of  his  reigne,  was  made  a  monke,  and  after  abbate  of 
Berdeney.  He  had  by  Ostgidera,  suster  to  Egfride  king  of  Northumbrelande,  a  sunne 
caullid  Ceolred.  Then  was  Kinred  (Wulphurs  sun),  king  5.  yeres,  and  after  made  a  monke, 
and  went  to  Rome,  and  ther  died.  Then  reignid  Ceolred,  sunne  to  king  Ethelred,  8. 
yeres,  and  was  buried  at  Lichefeld.  Then  reignid  Ethelbalde,  cosyn  to  Penda  by  Alwyne 
his  brother,  by  the  space  of  40.  yeres.  He  dispisid  matrimonyni,  otherwise  lecherus,  and 
a  killer  of  his  familiar  servantes.  Then  reignid  Offa  of  the  fyfte  degre  in  bloode  to 
king  Penda.  He  was  a  man  of  no  greate  vertue.  He  reignid  30.  yeres,  and  over  cam  yn 
batel  Kinewolph,  king  of  Westsax,  and  killid  Ethelberth,  king  of  Estangles,  by  treason,  and 
toke  his  kingdom. 

Offa  made  Lichefeld  the  archebishop  see,  and  toke  it  from  Cantorbyri. 

Offa  maried  Ethelburg  his  doughtter  to  Brithric  king  of  Westsax. 

Offa  gave  over  his  kingdom  to  his  sunne  Ecfride,  that  reignid  but  v.  monithis,  and  died 
yn  his  floures. 

Alquine,!  wrytte  to  Osberte  Patrick  of  Merche  that  the  noble  young  Ecfride  died  not  so 
sone  for  his  owne  faughtes,  but  by  cause  his  father  was  a  greate  shedar  of  bloode. 

•  Penda,  sunne  to  Penda,  was  slayne,  but  he  was  afore  christeuid.     Pe.    Sic  in  MS.  Sed  nihil  amplius.  t  Flaccus 

Albinus. 

2  L 


266  APPENDIX. 

Then  reignid  Kenwolp  kyn  to  Penda  in  the  v.  degre.  Kenulph  destroied  Kent,  and 
toke  Ecbright  king  ther  of  prisoner.  Kenelm,  king  Kenwolplis  sunne,  was  foully  murderid 
by  the  mene  of  Quindreda.  Then  reignid  Ooluulph  a  3.  yeres,  and  he  dryven  a  way 
Beornwolph  was  kinge,  with  whom  Ecbright  [28.  regni  sui]  king  of  Essax  fighting  at  El- 
lendune  vanquisshid,  and  he  flying  was  killid  aboute  the  quarters  of  the  Estangles.  Then 
reignid  Ludecan,  the  which  yn  the  2.  yere  of  his  reigne  was  killid,  and  with  him  v.  of  his 
countes. 

Then  Wilak  [  Wiglak]  was  king,  in  the  secunde  yere  of  whom  Ecbright"*  king  of  West- 
sax  conquerid  Merch,  and  drave  hym  a  way.  But  in  the  yere  folouing  he  restorid  hym, 
graunting  to  be  tributarie  to  Westsax.  After  Burherde  was  king,  and  in  the  30.  yere  of 
his  reigne  he  was  dryven  a  way,  and  fledde  to  the  Englisch  schole  at  Rome,  wher  he  died, 
and  was  buried  yn  owr  Lady  chirche.  And  thus  the  kingdom  of  Merches,  that  had  18. 
kinges,  cam  to  the  dominion  of  the  king  of  Westsaxons. 

Kinges  of  Westsax. 

Cerdik  reignid  17-  yens. 

Kenrik  his  sunne  reignid  26.  yeres. 

Cheuling  his  sunne  after  was  king.  He  faught  with  Ethelbright  king  of  Kent,  and  killid 
Oslaf  and  Kenban  his  great  counselars,  and  a  great  numbre  of  his  menne. 

Cuta,  brother  to  Cheuling,  faute  with  the  Britons  at  Bedforde,  and  discomfitid  them, 
taking  4.  castel  there  by,  Lienbering,  Alesbiring,  Benesington,  et  Evesham.  Cuta  died 
about  this  season. 

Chewlin  and  Cutwyn,  suunes  to  Cheuling,  faught  with  the  Britons  in  the  18.  yere  of  the 
reigne  of  their  father.  And  than  they  got  Glocestre,  Cirecestre,  and  Bath.  And  in  the 
25.  yere  of  his  reigne  he  had  a  batel  agayne  the  Saxons,  wher  yn  his  sunne  Cutwyne  was 
slayne. 

Cheuling  died  the  30.  yere  of  his  reyne. 

Ceolrik,  sunne  to  Cuta,  sunne  to  Cheuling,  succedid,  and  died  in  the  5.  yere  of  his  reign. 

Then  Ceolnuup  his  brother  was  king,  and  ever  was  in  batail. 

Then  reignid  Cinigil,  king  Ceolric  sunne,  the  wich  departid  Westsax  with  his  brother 
Chechiling. 

Cinegil  and  Chicheline  [Qhicheline]  receyvid  baptisme  the  22.  yere  of  their  kingdom. 

Chichelin  died,  and  Kinegil  reignid  to  the  numbre  in  all  of  31. 

Sum  say  that  Cinegil  was  the  sunne  of  Chicelin,  and  nat  his  brother:  but  Gul.  of  Malmes- 
byri  and  Huntendune  be  of  contrarie  opinion. 

Then  Cenwald  was  king  31.  yeres,  an  yl  man  at  the  begynning,  but  after  very  good. 
He  despisid  matrimony,  and  drave  away  his  wife,  sister  to  Penda,  of  whom  he  was  discom- 
fitid, and  feldf  to  the  Esteangles;  but  after  he  toke  corage,  and  had  victories  of  the  Bri- 
taines,  and  miitid  the  Isle  of  Wigcht  to  the  Westsaxon  kingdom. 

Rauf  le  Noir  %  in  his  croniques. 

»  Bis  occurrit  in  MS.  t  Sic.  ±  Radulphus  Niger  historiogiaphus  ;  incertum  tamen  an  Anglui. 


APPENDIX.  267 

Cenwald  dyed  in  the  31.  yere  of  his  reigne,  in  the  which  yere  in  his  reaulme  was  a  con- 
flict of  fowles. 

Then  Chelburg  his  wife  reignid  one  yere. 

Eskewin  then  reignid  a  2.  yere,  and  Wulphur  king  of  Merche  bet  him  in  bataille.    And 
p.  519.     sone  after  Wulphur  died  himself. 

Oskwine  [Eskwine]  reignid  3.  yeres  after  the  deth  of  Wolphere. 
Then  Genwine  [Chentwine]  reignid  10  yeres. 

Ecfride,  king  of  Northumbres  did  fighte  by  Trente  water  with  Ethelfride  king  of  the 
Merches,  wher  Alwyne,  the  brother  of  Ecfride,  whom  he  much  lovid,  was  killid. 

Then  reignid  Cedwalle  the  nephew  of  Cuda  that  was  exilid.  He  destroied  the  people 
of  Wigcht  Isle,  the  which,  in  hope  of  help  of  them  of  Merche,  did  rebelle. 

He  killid  Edrik  and  Elwalki  that  began  to  rebelle  in  Westsax.     Wherapon  the  Kentis- 
men  were  displesid.     Wherapon  Cedualle  [3.  anno  regni  sui]  sente  his  brother  Moyle,  a 
puissant  man,  in  to  Kent,  wher  he  was  killid,  and  a  good  peace  of  the  flour  of  the  youth  of 
Westesax.     Apon  this  Cedwalla  hym  self  wen  yn  to  Kent,  and  brenned  it  on  every  side. 
Cedwalle  went  to  Rome,  ther  died,  and  was  buried  in  Sainct  Peters  chirche. 
Then  reignid  Ine  37-  yeres,  and  went  to  Rome,  and  ther  died. 

Athelarde,  cosyn  to  Ine,  then  reignid,  and  yn  his  first  yere  he  fawte  with  Oswald  that 
was  of  the  very  line  of  Cerdik,  and  chalauncid  the  kingdom  of  Westsax,  but  he  was  not 
able  to  countervaile  with  Athelarde. 

Athelard  died  yn  the  18.  yere  of  hys  reigne. 

Then  reignid  Cutrede  his  cosyn  6.  yeres,  and  faute  with  Ethelbald  king  of  Merches,  and 
after  they  felle  to  agrement,  and  faught  both  agayne  the  Britons. 

Ethelbald  apon  pride  after  fought  at  Berford  with  Cudrede,  wher  greate  murder  was 
on  both  partes. 

And  8.  yeres  after  he  faught  with  Cudrede  at  Secandune,  wher  he  beyng  ashamid  to 
fly  was  killid. 

Cudrede  reignid  16.  yeres. 

Then  was  Sigebert  his  cosyn  king,  and  wax  so  proude  that  at  the  laste  he  was  fayne  to 
fly  in  to  Andredeswalde,  and  ther  was  slayn  of  a  suineharde  servant  to  one  Cumbra  that 
Sigebert  slew. 
He  reignid  31* 

Then  reignidf  +  a  Kenewolph,  that  at  the  laste,  causid  Kineard,  brother  to  king  Sigebert, 
to  be  exilid.     Wherefore  Kineard  after  killid  hym,  and  his  men  killid  Kinearde. 
p.  220.  Then  Brithrik,  that  descendid  of  the  lineal  stok  of  Cerdic,  reignid  16.  yeres. 

Brithric  maried  Edburge,  doughter  to  Offa  king  of  Merches. 

Brithrik  after  that  he  had  reignid  16.  yeres  was  poisoynid  by  consent  of  Edburge  his 
wife. 

Then  reignid  Ecbright  sunne  to  Alcmund  of  the  kindred  of  Ine  37-  yeres.     He  was  in 

•  Alias  uno  anno.  1  Haec  nota  est  a  manu  ipsius  Lelandi.     Eademque  habetur  itidem  in  marginc.    Peiinde  ac  si 

quid  inseri  debeat. 


268  APPENDIX. 

his  yoth  dryven  owt  of  England,  and  was  more  than  3.  yeres  with  Charles  the  Great  yn 
his  warres. 

Ecbright  made  the  Britons  of  Cornewal  subject,  and  toke  tribute  of  them.  He  overcam 
Berwolphus  king  of  Merche  at  Hellendune.  He  sent  Alston  bishop  of  Shirburne,  and 
Ethelwolp  his  sunne,  in  to  Kent,  and  there  Baldred  king  of  Kent  submitted  hym  self  to  the 
kingdom  of  Westsax.  He  drave  Witglafe  king  of  Merehes  owt  of  his  reaulme,  and  after 
for  pite  restorid  hym  to  be  a  tributarie  to  Westsax.  He  went  with  his  hoste  into  Nor- 
thumbreland,  and  there  the  Northumbres  made  an  agrement  with  hym  at  the  water  of 
Done. 

Ecbright,  by  the  counsail  of  his  barons,  was  crounid  king  of  al  Britayne  at  Wynchestre. 
And  then  was  the  name  of  Britaine  chaungid  yn  to  England. 

This  Ecbright  *  was  extreit  de  Athilstan,  one  of  the  greatest  dukes  of  the  Saxons,  the 
which  Athelstaf  enfefid  the  chirch  of  S.  Peter  of  York  with  Amundernes  in  perpetual 
almoyne. 

This  Ecbright  J  by  his  mother  side  cam  of  the  line  of  the  kinges  of  Westsax. 

This  Ecbright  causid  the  image  in  brasse  of  Cadwalein,  §  king  of  the  Britons,  to  be  throwen 
doune. 

Sum  ehroniques  say,  that  Ecbright  did  not  conquere  thorough  owt  the  residew  of  the 
Saxon  kingdoms :  but  yet  they  wer  his  tributaries. 

In  the  33.  yere  of  Ecbrighth  the  Danis  arrived  at  Lindisfarne,  and  faught  with  the  Engles 
at  Carham,  wher  ii.  bisshopes,  and  2.  Englisch  countes,  were  slayne,  and  greate  numbre  of 
people.  And  a  2.  yeres  after  the  Danes  arrivid  yn  Westwales,  where  Egbright  over  cam 
them  at  Hengistendon. 

Ecbright  had  ii.  sunnes,  Etheluuolp  the  eldeste,  and  Athelstane  the  younger.  Of  Athel- 
stane  is  no  very  greate  mention  made,  but  that  he,  and  duke  Ealer  faught  with  the  Danes, 
and  wan  the  victory  at  Sandewiche  yn  Kent  the  xvi.  yere  of  king  Ethelwolphes  reigne. 

Helena,  Constantine  the  emperors  mother,  was  translatid  from  Rome  to  S.  Reyns  in 
Fraunce  in  the  tynie  of  pape  Sergius. 

Ethelwolphe  reignid  after  Egbright.     This  Ethelwolp  was  a  bisshop,  as  it  is  written,  and     p.  521. 
yet  after,  because  he  was  lefte  the  only  sunne  and  heire  of  Ecbright,  he  was  made  king, 
and  had  4.  sunnes,  and  reignid  20.  yeres  and  v.  monith.es.    S.  Swithwine  was  yn  his  tyme. 

Then  reignid  Ethelbauld  his  eldest  sunne,  and  gave  Kent  to  his  secunde  brother  Ethel- 
berth,  and  toke  his  mother  yn  law  Judith  to  wife  agayne  the  law  of  the  chirch.  He  reignid 
v.  yeres,  and  was  byried  at  Shirburne. 

Then  was  his  brother  Ethelbert  king  of  Westsex,  and  Kent  also,  reigning  v.  yeres,  and 
also  buried  at  Shirburne. 

Then  reignid  Ethelred  the  3.  brother  v.  yeres,  and  was  byried  at  Wynburne. 

And  about  this  tyme  the  Danes  did  much  hurte  in  Northumbrelande. 

And  Osbright,  king  of  Northumbreland,  ravishid  a  faire  lady  of  his  cuntery,  wife  to 

*  Genus  Ecbrighti.  t  Sic.  $  Genus  Ecbrighti  a  matre.  §  Statua  Caduallouis  detuibata. 


APPENDIX.  269 

Buernbokarde,  the  which  after  defied  Osbright,  and  fled  to  king  Godrine  ynto  Denmark 
his  kinnesman,  by  whose  meanis  he  brought  Hinguar*  and  Ubbe  in  to  England,  and 
arrivid  at  Haly  Iseland,  and  so  cam  to  Yorke,  and  there  was  king  Osbright  slayne. 

At  this  tyme  Ella  was  partiner  with  Osbright  yn  the  kingdom  of  Northumbreland,  and 
approaching  to  Yorke  was  there  killid  by  Hinguar  and  Ubbe,  and  the  place  after  was 
callid  Elcrofte.  After  Hinguar  and  Hubbe  destroyid  Lindissey,  Holand,  Northfolk,  and 
Southfolk,  and  killid  king  Edmunde. 

Hinguar  and  Ubbe  cam  to  Reding,  and  ther  faught  ons  with  Ethelred  king  of  Westsax. 
And  straite  ther  agayne  with  Ethelred,  and  also  his  brother  Alured. 

And  a  non  after  they  faught  at  Essendon,  and  the  Danes  drave  them  to  Wichelade. 

After  they  faughtf  Chipenham  [Chepenham],  and  ther  was  Hubba  slayne,  and  a  great 
hepe  of  stones  layed  coppid  up  where  he  was  buried,  f 

And  a  nother  tyme  they  faught  at  Whitingham,  by  the  helpe  of  the  barons  of  Somerset, 
Wilshire,  and  Dorset,  wher  the  Englischmen  (though  many  of  them  were  slayne)  wan  the 
felde. 

Then  reignid  the  4.  brother,  Alured,  38.  so  sore  chasid  of  the  Danes  in  the  beginning  of 
his  reigne,  that  he  had  but  Hampshir,  Wilshir,  and  Somerset :  but  after  victoriusly  wan  al 
agayne. 

Alured  maried  Egelfled,  doughter  of  counte  Egelrede,  and  had  by  her  Edward  and 
Ethelwarde,  that  was  a  good  clerke,  and  3.  doughters.  Ethelsuuitha  was  marid  to  Balde- 
wine,  cog:  Calvo,  erle  of  Flaunders.  Elflede  was  the  2.  and  was  maried  to  Ethelrede 
erle  of  Marche.     The  3.  was  caullid  Elwine,  and  was  a  nunne  at  Winchestre. 

Alured  devidid  the  shires  of  England  yn  to  hundredes. 

He  was  a  man  greatly  gyven  to  lerning. 

He  departid  24.  howres  of  the  day  thus,  viii.  to  prayer  and  estudie :  viii.  to  eate,  drinke, 
and  slepe :  the  other  viii.  to  the  besines  of  his  reaulme. 

He  had  alway  yn  his  chapel  candelles  brenning,  wherby  he  knew  how  the  tyme  passid. 

He  gave  to  housis  of  relligions  that  he  buildid  half  the  landes  that  he  had  purchasid. 

Alured  was  the  maker  of  the  Universite  of  Oxford. 

He  was  first  buried  in  the  olde  monastery  at  Winchestre,  and  after  yn  the  new. 

Cutrede  was  made  counte  of  Northumbreland  by  Alurede  at  the  admonition  of  S.  Cuthe- 
berth  appering  to  hym  yn  vision. 

Then  reignid  Edwarde  sunne  to  Alurede. 

Eduard  first  wife  was  Elflede.  By  hir  he  had  2.  sunnes,  Athelstan  et  Edwin,  and  vi. 
doughtters.  Elflede^et  Ethelhilde  lye  buried  at  Wilton.  Edive  was  maried  to  Otho  the 
emperour.  The  4.  Edilde  was  maried  to  Charles  king  of  Fraunce.  Edithe  the  5.  was  ma- 
ried to  the  king  of  Northumbreland  that  helde  his  kingdom  of  king  Eduarde:  and  this  was 
the  fairest  of  al.  The  6.  Elfgithe  was  maried  to  Hughe  Chapet,  the  great  sunne  to  Robert 
duke  of  Parys.  Edwarde  2.  wife  was  caullid  Edive.  Of  her  he  begot  Edmonde,  and 
Edrede,  and  S.  Edburge  that  lyith  at  Winchestre. 

*  Caussa  adventus  Angeri  et  Ubbonis.  t   Adde,  at.  ±  Hubbeslaw. 


270  APPENDIX. 

Edwarde  set  his  sunues,  and  also  his  doughters,  to  lerning. 

Edward  and  his  sister  Elfied,  countes  of  Merche,  reedified  many  tounes  destroyed  by 
the  Danes. 

Edward  was  buried  with  his  father  at  Winchestre. 

Elfride  [Edwine],  brother  to  Athelstane,  had  thought  to  have  succeedid  Edward  his  fa- 
ther, by  cause  he  was  legitime,  and  Athelstane  was  a  bastarde ;  but  the  people  chase  Athel- 
stane for  his  valiantnes. 

The  king  of  Northumbreland  stale  upon  Ethelstane  at  Brimandburge,  wylling  to  have 
slayn  hym;  but  Athelstane,  hering  the  noyse,  starte  up  darkeling  to  fynd  his  swerde,  and 
finding  the  scaberd  with  oute  the  swerde  was  greatly  abashid.  And  praying  to  S.  John 
of  Beverley  found  his  swerde,  and  vanquisshid  the  king  of  Northumbreland  his  brother  yn 
law. 

Henry  the  emperor  sent  great  giftes  to  Athelstan,  and  emong  them  many  reliquis,  the 
which  Athelstane  sent  to  Malrnesbiry. 

Athelstane  toke  greate  repentaunce  for  putting  his  brother  Edwyne  to  dethe,  and  made 
abbayes  to  have  hym  praied  for. 

Athelstane  chasid  the  Britons  beyound  yn  to  Cornewalle.  p.  523. 

He  chasid  also  the  Britons  on  the  other  side  over  Wy  yn  to  Wales,  and  had  20.  poundes 
of  gold  and  silver,  and  1000  hunting  dogges,  and  great  numbre  of  hawkos  for  tribute. 

Athelstane  was  buried  at  Malmesbyri. 

Then  reignid  Edmunde,  brother  to  Athelstane. 

Peace  was  made  betwixt  the  king  of  Northumbreland,  Anlaf,  and  king  Edmunde,  that 
Edmunde  should  rule  on  the  west  side  of  Watheling  streate  in  Northumbrelande,  and  Anlaf 
on  the  este. 

And  after  he  chasid  Anlaf  owt  of  Northumbreland,  and  Raynald  Gutfrid  sunne  that 
claymid  after  hym. 

Edmunde  gave  Cumbreland  to  Malcolin  king  of  Scottes  to  hold  it  of  him. 

Edmunde  gave  great  possessions  to  Glasteinbyri. 

Edmunde  was  *  king  by  one  Leof  a  thefe,  and  was  buried  at  Glasteinbyri.  He  had  2. 
sunnes  by  his  wyfe  Elfgive,  Edwyne  and  Edgar. 

Then  reignid  Edrede  3.  sunne  to  Edward. 

The  Northumbres  chase  one  Eirik  a  Dane  \o  their  king.  Wherefore  Edredede  sore 
destroied  Northumbreland  and  brenid  Ripon. 

The  Northunibres  set  apon  Edredes  company  at  Castelforth  by  Yorke.  Wherefore  he 
returnid  sparing  to  destroy  nothing.  Butf  apon  they  clerely  submitted  them  self,  and 
drave  a  way  Eirik  their  new  king. 

Edrede  lyith  at  Wynchestre. 

Then  reignid  Edwine,  sunne  to  king  Edmunde.  He  was  very  lecherows,  and  a  hater  of 
monkes,  and  banishid  S.  Dunstane  yn  to  Flaunders. 


APPENDIX.  271 

The  people  set  up  his  brother  Edgar  for  king,  and  Edwine  was  glad  to  be  king  of  a  peace 
of  this  realme  after  precario  a  bove  the  Tamys,     He  lyith  at  Winchester. 

Edgar  J  be  yong  was  cruel,  and  a  great  lecheor,  and  killid  with  a  darte  in  the  isle  of 
Warwelle  in  huntinge  a  counte,  whos  wife  he  lovid.  This  counte  was  caullid  Ethelwokl, 
and  sent  to  spy  the  beautie  of  Estrild  [Estridel],  doughter  and  heyre  to  Orgar  erle  of 
Cornewalle  [Devonshir]  and  he  returning  sayde  that  her  bewty  was  but  commune,  and 
after  got  the  mariage  of  hyr  of  the  king  for  hym  self,  and  was  erle  after  the  death  of  Orgar, 
and  then  absenting  hym  self  ran  yn  to  suspition  with  the  king  that  he  had  begilid  hym. 
And  the  king  trying  that  she  was  yn  bewty  very  excellent  pursuid  Ethelwokl  to  dethe, 
and  maried  Estrilde.  Sum  say  that  Edgard  sent  Ethelwold  in  to  Northumbreland  to  war 
with  the  Danes,  and  that  he  was  there  slayne. 

Sum  say  that  after  Edgard  had  killid  Ethelwold  in  the  forest,  he  askid  a  bastarde  sunne 
of  Ethelwokles,  how  he  likid  the  venson :  and  he  answerid  seyng,  "  that  it  likith  yow  it  can 
not  not  displease  me."     Wher  apon  the  king  made  much  of  hym. 

Quene  Elfride  made  an  abbey  *  for  the  dethe  of  hir  aforesaid  lord  Ethelwold. 

Edgare  cam  on  De  ryver  to  Chester,  standing  hym  self  at  the  helme,  and  certeyne  kinges 
rowing. 

Kunwak,  king  of  Seottes,  spake  certeyne  wordes  of  reproche  by  Edgare.  Wherforr 
Edgare  got  the  king  of  Seottes  alone  in  a  wood,  and  otferid  to  find  J  hand  to  hand  with 
hym,  and  there  Kunwak  cryid  Edgare  mercy. 

Edgare  was  a  greate  maker  and  restorer  of  abbayes. 

Ailwine,  privy  councelar  to  Edgar,  made  Ramesey  abbay. 

Eilfled,  the  whighte  doughtter  to  Orgar  erle  of  Devenshire,  had  a  sunne,  caullid  Ed- 
ward, by  Edgar,  and  WilfHde  and  Edithe  nunnes  of  Wilton. 

He  had  also  after  by  Elifride,  doughter  to  Orgar  of  Devonshire,  Edmunde  et  Eilrede. 
Edmond  died  vi.  yeres  before  his  father. 

Edgare  saw  in  a  dreame  ii.  pottes  fleting  in  the  water. 

Sum  say  that  Edgare  was  not  in  the  very  solemnite  coronid  on  til  he  was  30.  yeres  of 
age,  and  that  he  livid  not  past  3.  yeres  after. 

Edgare  made  every  yere  shippes  for  defence  of  his  reaulme. 

There  was  a  yerth  quake  thorough  England  in  the  13.  yere  of  Edgars  reigne. 

Edgare  was  as  much  to  be  praysid  of  the  Angles,  as  Charles  the  Great  of  the  Frankes. 

After  reignid  Edward  [3.  annis  &  dim.],  Edgares  sunne,  and  was  killid  by  his  step- 
dames  menes  at  Corfe.     First  buried  at  Warham,  and  then  at  Shaftesbyri. 

Aboute  the  tyme  of  the  deth  of  king  Edwarde  a  great  part  of  London  was  brent. 

Egeked  reignid  after  his  brother  Edward. 

This  Egelred  pissid  yn  the  font  at  his  christening. 

The  Danes  sore  persecutid  England  yn  this  kinges  dayes. 

Oilfrik  capitayne  of  Egelredes  shippes  fled  with  them  to  the  Danes  part. 

*  Sic.  t  Werwel  Abbay.  $  Sic. 


272  APPENDIX. 

Anelaf,  a  Danish  king,  was  convertid  to  the  faith,  and  Egelred  was  his  God  father  at  the 
fonte. 

The  Danes  brent  Excestre.  p.  525. 

The  Danes  brent  and  spoilid  Cantorbyri. 

Egelrede  toke  Emme,  Richarde  duke  of  Normandies  doughter,  in  the  18.  yere  of  his 
reigne,  and  had  ii.  sunnes,  Alurede  and  Edward,  by  her.  But  he  had  afore  Edmunde 
Yrenside  by  an  other  wife. 

About  the  23.  yere  of  his  realme  the  Danes  arrivid  about  Northfolk  shore,  and  burnid 
Norwiche. 

William  bastarde  of  Normandies  mother  was  a  pelters  doughter. 

Sweyn  of  Denmark  made  Egelred  to  fle  to  his  brother  yn  lawe  the  duke  of  Normandy. 

King  Swein  held  a  greate  concile,  or  parlament,  at  Gaynesborow,  and  ther  he  died, 
striken,  as  sum  say,  by  S.  Edmunde  with  a  spere. 

After  the  deth  of  Swayn  king  Egelred  cam  yn  to  England  agayne,  and  died  wil  London 
was  besegid  of  the  Danes,  and  was  biried  at  S.  Paules  in  London. 

Then  reignid  Edmund  Yrenside.  Sum  say  that  he  was  Egelredes  sunne  by  the  doughter 
of  counte  Correde.     Sum  say  that  he  was  a  bastarde:  but  that  is  not  autentique. 

Edmund  faught  vi.  tymes  with  the  Danes  in  one  yere.  And  at  the  vi.  batel  at  Aschedon 
by  Rocheford  in  Essax,  wher,  by  the  meane  of  false  erle  Edrik  of  Marche,  the  floure  of 
Englisch  men  were  slain. 

Edmund  was  slayn  at  Oxford,  the  morow  after  S.  Andrews  day,  by  the  treason  of 
counte  Edrik  of  Lincoln.* 

Knute  had  thought,  by  Edrikes  counsel,  to  have  killid  Edward  and  Edmond,  sunnes  to 
Edmunde  Yrenside. 

Knute  devidid  the  impery  of  England  into  4.  partes.  He  kept  Westsax  to  hymself. 
He  gave  Estangle  to|  countie  Turkille;  the  Marche  to  Edrike,  and  Northumbreland  to 
Irice. 

Knute  put  certein  to  turmentes,  to  know  the  treuth  how  Edmund  Yrensid  was  slayne. 

Knute,  by  il  counsaile,  J  caussid  Edwine,  caullid  king  of  Villanes,  brother  to  Edmunde 
Yrenside. 

Walgare  a  Dane  was  commaundid  by  king  Knute  to  cari  Edward  and  Edmunde,  Ed- 
mund Irenside  sunnes,  to  the  king  of  Sueuen,  there  to  be  killid;  but  he  sent  them  to 
Salamon  king  of  Hungary  ther  to  be  kept. 

Knute  (to  wynne  the  Englische  mennis  and  the  Normans  hartes)  toke  Emme,  the  wife  of 
king  Egelrede,  to  hys  wife. 

Knut  causid  many  chirchis  to  be  made  agayne  that  his  aunceters  had  destroied  in  Eng- 
land. 

At  Ashedon  in  Estsax  he  made  a  fair  chirch. 

Knut  caussid  monkes  to  be  set  at  Bederichworth,  now  caullid  Bury.  p.  526. 

*  Edrik  erte  of  Lincoln,  or  Merche.  t  Sic.  $  Sic. 


APPENDIX.  273 

He  translatid  hym  self  the  body  of  Elphegus  the  bishop  martyrid  from  London  to  Can- 
torbyri. 

Knut  reedified  the  abbay  of  Abbendon,  and  enrichid  the  olde  monastery  of  Winchester. 

Knut  did  3.  notable  thinges.  He  maried  Gunnild  his  doughtter  to  the  emperor  of  Rome. 
He  goyng  to  Rome  made  tolles  and  passages  for  pylgrimes.  And  commaundid  the  flouing 
se  streme  not  to  touch  his  foote,  to  thintent  to  show  that  al  his  pour  was  but  a  vanite. 

After  that  king  Knute  had  bene  at  Rome,  and  ther  redemid  diverse  exactions  (that  were 
wont  to  be  payde  yn  England  to  the  chirch  of  Rome)  and  was  safe  returnid  home,  he  went 
to  Glasteynbyri,  to  se  the  tumbe  of  king  Edmunde  Yrenside,  whom  he  did  accustumably 
caulle  his  brother,  and  there  gave  a  very  riche  paule  to  lay  on  his  tumbe,  embroderid  with 
apples  of  golde,  and  set  with  perles,  and  confirmid  al  the  privilegis  that  his  predecessors 
had  gyven  to  that  monastery. 

Knute  dyid  at  Shaftesbyri,  and  was  buried  at  Winchestre  in  the  olde  minstre. 

Knute  made  his  sunne  Suaine,  (gotten  as  sum  say,  of  a  prestes  wife)  king  of  Norway. 

He  made  Hardiknute  (his  sunne  by  quene  Emme,  that  was  king  Ethelredis  wife  afore) 
king  of  Denmarke. 

He  made  Harald  Harefoote  (his  sunne  by  Elflege,  doughter  to  counte  Alfeline)  king  of 
England.     But  this  Harald  said  hym  self  that  he  was  quene  Emmes  sunne. 

Sum  say  that  Harolde  was  sunne  Suo*  [Sua],  and  that  the  quene  Emme  made  king 
Knut  beleve  that  it  was  his. 

The  Englischrnen  wold  have  had  one  of  Egelredes  sunnes  to  their  king.  But  erle  God- 
wine  made  hym  self  gardian  of  quene  Emme,  and  her  sunnes,  and  of  the  kinges  treasor. 
Wherfore  he  set  up  by  poure  Harald  to  be  king. 

Harald  being  king  exilid  quene  Emme,  the  which  after  taried  3.  yeres  yn  Flaunders  with 
counte  Baldewine. 

After  the  deth  of  Harold,  the  Danes  and  Englischrnen  of  one  acord  sent  for  Hardiknut 
that  was  with  his  motther  yn  Flaunders,  and  made  hym  king.  And  Hardiknute  being 
king,  the  sunnes  of  king  Ethelred,  the  right  heyres  of  England,  were  little  set  by. 

Hardi  Knute  reignid  2.  yeres,  saving  x.  dayes.  He  put  Alurik,  archebishop  of  York, 
yn  prison,  and  also  counte  Godwine  with  other  great  memie.  He  caussid  Haroldes  bodi 
p.  527.  to  be  taken  oute  of  his  tumbe  at  Westminstre,  and  to  be  caste  into  the  Tamise,  wher  a 
fishar  toke  it  up,  and  after  it  was  byried  at  S.  Clementes  by  Temple  Barre.  He  did  it  for 
these  causes :  First  be  cause  he  exilid  his  mother.  Secundly  because  that  he  toke  him  not 
for  his  brother.     Wherfore  he  thought  hym  not  meete  to  be  byried  emong  kinges. 

In  Hardy  Knutes  tyme  Elfrede  and  Edward  (sunnes  to  king  Ethelrede)  cam  oute  of 
Normandie  to  Wynchestre  to  se  Emme  their  mother,  wherof  counte  Godewine  having  pryvi 
envy,  toke  Elfride  on  Gilesdon,  and  killid  a  600.  of  his  companie  at  Gildeforde,  and  sent 
Alfred,  berevid  of  his  yes,  to  the  isle  of  Eley,  wher  for  feble  diete  he  died. 

Emme  seing  this  sent  Edward  again  in  to  Normandie. 


2m 


274  APPENDIX. 

Yet  after  cam  Edward  yn  to  Englande  to  his  brother  Hardiknut,  and  had  great  chere  of 
hym:  but  he  had  no  luste  to  tary,  remembering  Alfreds  deth. 

Godewine  caussid  Alfrede  thus  be  made  out  of  the  way,  be  cause  he  knew  hym  so  wise, 
and  of  so  great  corage,  that  he  should  bere  litle  stroke  with  hym:  And  so  to  mary  his 
doughter  to  Edward  his  yongger  brother. 

And  Godwine  told  the  barons  of  England,  that  Alfrede  had  promisid  the  reaulme  of  Eng- 
land to  the  Normans.     And  therfore  sum  tooku  welle  Goduines  doings  agayn  Alfrede. 

Sum  say  that  Godwyne  caussid  this  outrage  to  be  done  to  Alfrede  yn  the  interreigne  be- 
twixt  Harolde  and  Hardy  Knute,  and  that  Stigand,  archebishop  of  Cantorbyri,  was  of  coun- 
sel of  Godwines  doing. 

Hardy  Kiuit  put  Livinge  oute  of  his  bishoprike  of  Excestre:  but  after,  with  yn  the  yere, 
knowing  hym  onculpable,  he  restorid  hym  to  his  dignite.  And  Hardiknut  commaundid 
cile  Godewin  to  purge  hym  self  of  Alfrid  deth.  But  Godwyne  plesid  the  king  with  a 
ship  ful  richely  furnishid. 

Hardy  Knut  was  a  very  liberal  fester  of  men. 

Hardy  Knut  brent  Wicestre,  by  cause  the  burgesis  there  killid  to  of  his  collectors,  or 
treasorers. 

He  was  buried  at.  Wynchestre,  and  had  no  children  to  succede  hym. 

Hardy  Knute  performid  the  mariage  for  his  sister  Gunilde,  that  his  father  had  begon 
with  the  emperor. 

Edward,  sunne  to  Ethelrede,  was  sent  for  in  to  Normandi,  and  made  king. 

This  Edwarde  made  the  goode  lawes  of  Englande. 

Erie  Godwine  at  this  tyme  was  in  Denmarke  as  a  bannishid  man,  and  had  maried  king 
Knutes  doughtter  by  his  firste  wife  and  half  sister  to  Hardiknut.  He  wel  considered  that 
almost  al  the  right  heires  of  England  were  gone,  and  that  the  title  of  the  corone  might  cum  ] 
to  his  sunnes  by  his  wife,  king  Knutes  doughtter,  after  that  he  was  returnid  in  to  England 
be  ca  to  stere  agayn  king  Edward  for  a  fray,  that  he  was  challengid  for,  made  at  Dover 
apon  the  couute  of  Boleyn  that  had  maryed  king  Edwardes  sister. 

After  this  Godwine  was  banishid.  But  sone  after,  by  meane  of  the  nobils  of  the  reaulme, 
to  whom  he  was  nere  king,  he  was  restorid  to  the  kinges  grace,  after  that  he  had  peacid 
with  great  giftes,  and  friendship  of  Leofrik  erle  of  March,  the  king,  accusing  hym  of  his 
brother  Alfreds  deth. 

Leofrik,  and  a  xi.  countes  with  hym,  brought  the  king  as  much  gold  as  they  could  cary 
I  lit  wen  their  handes  to  purchace  Godwine  grace. 

King  Edward,  by  counsel  of  his  barons,  did  mary  Agatha,  doughtter  to  Goduine;  but  he 
never  knew  her  carnally. 

The  king  gave  the  counte  of  Oxford  to  Harald,  Godwynes  sunne. 

Edward  was  hard  to  his  mother,  by  cause  she  was  harde  to  hym  yn  his  minorite,  and 
because  that  she  was  suspectid  with  Alwin  bishop  of  Winchestre,  whom  he  put  in  prison, 
by  counsel  of  the  bishop  of  London  and  Robert  archebishop  of  Canterbyri.    But  after  that 


APPENDIX.  275 

his  mother  had  purgid  her  self,  Alwin  was  taken  oute  of  prison,  and  Robert  tharchbishop 
conveyid  hym  self  out  of  England. 

King  Eduard  made  fre  England  of  such  tribute  as  Danes  wer  wont  to  have  yn  England 
by  the  surrendre  of  Swayne  king  of  Danes,  whom  lie  holpe  to  recover  his  kingdom  agayn 
Harald  Harfager  king  of  Norwaj'. 

King  Eduard  made  great  war  by  se  apon  the  costes  of  Flaunders  agayne  Balduine. 

Godwyne  accusid  at  the  table  at  Wyndesore  of  Alfride,  king  Edwardes  brothers  deth, 
according  to  his  othe,  was  strangelid  with  a  pece  of  brede,  and  burid  at  Winchestre. 

Godewyn  had  six  sunnes,  Harold,  Sweine,  Costin,  Wolnote,  Gritli,  et  Leofrik. 

Wolnode  dyed  at  Salisbyri  yn  prison. 

Sweyn  (that  ravishid  Edgyve  abbas  of  Leoff:  whom  he  wold  have  had  to  his  wife,  but 
let  by  the  nobles  of  his  owtrages  fledde,  and  after  cumming  agayn  yn  to  England  killid  the 
counte  Beornoun  his  cosyn  by  treason)  dyed  yn  bataile  in  terra  sancta  emong  the  Saracenes. 

Grith  and  Leofrik  were  killid  with  king  Harald  theyr  brother  at  the  batelle  of  Hastinges. 

Edwarde  made  Siuarde  erle  of  Northumbr:  for  his  valiantnes. 

Siuard  killid  Makacta,  king  of  Scotland. 
p.  529.        Then  was  Maklow,  *  king  of  Cumbreland,  made  king  of  Scottes. 

Siuard  sent  his  sunne  to  warre  in  Scotland,  wher  he  dyid  of  the  flux.  Where  he  after 
toke  the  same  decease,  and  dyid  of  it.  But  he,  much  detesting  to  dy  like  a  cow  of  the 
flix,  caussid  hym  self  to  be  armid  at  al  peaces,  and  died  yn  his  armure. 

Walteof  his  sun  was  very  yong,  and  had  few  frendes,  and  the  king  by  procurent  gave 
Northumbreland  to  Costin,  Godwyne  sunne,  the  which  after,  for  his  governing,  was  put. 
owt  of  it,  and  then  he  desirid  Haraldis  help.  But  he  praeferrid  the  peace  of  the  countery 
afore  Costin  promotion.     Then  went  Costin  into  Flaunders. 

Then  was  Malcher,  Edgar  sunne,  made  counte  of  Northumbr : 

Harald  over  cam  Ris  and  Griffyn  brothern  governors  of  Wales. 

About  this  tyme  cam  Edward,  sunne  to  Edmunde  Yrenside,  oute  of  Hungery  in  to 
England,  and  sone  after  dyid,  and  was  buried  at  S.  Paules  yn  London.  This  Edward  was 
father  to  Edgar  Atheling,  and  Margaret,  after  quene  of  Scotland  as  wife  to  Malcolin. 

This  Malcolin  chaungid  the  names  of  the  thaynes  yn  Scotland  on  to  countes. 

Malcolin  caussid  one  of  his  brothers  to  be  behedid,  and  put  out  the  yes  of  a  nother  of 
his  brethern,  and  kept  hym  in  Gedworth  castel  yn  pryson,  fering  lest  they  should  put  hym 
from  his  kingdom.  He  that  was  blynd  got  a  mayd  childe  of  a  launder,  that  wold  never 
leve  on  tyl  he  had  maried  her.  This  doughter  was  after  gyven  with  landes  yn  mariage 
by  Malcoline  on  to  a  sunne  of  the  countie  Comyn  of  Fraunce,  the  which  young  Comyn  at 
that  tyme  duellid  with  king  Malcoline.f 

The  Englisch  men  would  have  had,  after  king  Edwardes  deth,  Edgare,  sunne  to  Edward 
the  exile,  sunne  to  Edmunde  Yrenside,  to  their  king;  but  Godwines  sunne,  namid  Harald, 
with  great  friendship,  was  straight  coronid  king. 

•  Malcolm.  f  Adventus  Cominiorum  in  Scotiam. 


276  APPENDIX. 

Harald,*  yn  tyme  of  his  captivite  in  Noraandie,  did  promise  to  niary  Gul:  Bastarde 
doughter,  and  to  kepe  the  castel  of  Dover  after  king  Edwardes  deth  to  his  use. 

Harold  king  of  England  kill  id  at  Stainforde  by  Yorke,  wher  Olave,  sunne  to  the  king  of 
Norway,  and  Paule  of  Orkeney  fled  to  theyr  shippes,  and  Harold,  brother  to  S.  Olave,  was 
slayne,  and  Costine  king  Haroldes  of  England  brother. 

At  this  bataile  of  Stanford  ther  was  a  Dane,  that  faught  manfully,  and  killid  many  on   p.  530. 
tylle  he,  under  the  bridge,  was  prively  smitten  to  death. 

King  Harold  toke  so  much  of  the  spoile  of  Stanford  bridg  batel  to  his  oune  use,  that 
many  of  his  soldiors  depertid,  and  many  had  but  faint  hartes. 

King  William  Conqueror  at  his  arrival  made  strait  a  castel  at  Hastinges. 

William  Bastard  offend  3.  thinges  to  Harold,  that  other  he  should  take  his  sister,  or  hold 
England  of  hym,  or  finally  to  try  the  quarel  yn  batel. 

The  bataile  was  faught  at  Hastinges  on  S.  Kalixt  day  the  14.  of  Octobre  yn  the  yere  of 
our  Lorde  1066. 

Harald  was  king  but  a  XL.  wekes,  and  yn  the  night  afore  the  feld  the  English  menne 
playid  at  dice,  and  had  ministralcie  almost  al  the  night.  But  the  Normans  were  much  in 
silence  and  prayers. 

William  Bastard  cumming  owt  of  the  ship  to  land  in  England  fletf  with  hondes  and  face 
on  the  grounde. 

King  William  was  crounid  at  Lond }  of  Aired,  archebishop  of  York,  on  Christemes  day. 

King  William  repairid  the  castelles  of  Notingham  and  Lincoln,  and  made  a  castel  at 
York. 

Edgare  with  his  mother  and  his  2.  sisters  fled  by  Humbre,  with  other  nobles,  in  to  Scot- 
lande. 

King  William  gave  the  counte  of  Northumbreland  to  Robert  Comyn:  and  he  enterid  by 
force  in  to  Duresme;  but  for  his  outerages  ther  done  he  and  his  were  slayn  yn  the  bishop 
palace  that  had  hymself  recey vid  hym  honorably. 

Harald  and  Knut,  sunnes  to  king  Swayne  of  Dennemark,  with  Edgar,  Waltheof,  Morkar, 
and  Cospatrik  the  counte,  with  al  the  poure  of  Northumbrelande,  cam  to  York  to  encoun- 
ter with  the  Normanns. 

The  Danes  breiming  the  house  aboute  the  new  castel  at  Yorke  were  causse  that  al  the 
towne,  and  S.  Peters  chirch,  caught  on  fyer. 

At  this  tyme  were  al  the  Normans  slayn,  except  Mallet,  vicount  of  York,  liis  wife  and 
children,  Gilbert  Gaunt,  and  a  few  other.  This  done  the  Danes  and  the  Northumbres 
departid. 

King§  destroy  id  utterly  Yorkshire,  saving  the  liberties  of  S.  John  of  Beverle  by  miracle 
of  a  thefe,  or  spoiler  of  the  Normans,  that  ther  brak  his  nek.  So  was  much  of  Yorkshir 
left  onhabited. 

Malcoline,  king  of  Scottes,  on  the  other  side  cummyng  yn  by destroyid  the   p.  531. 

«  Harold  taken  prisoner  of  the  counte  of  PoMive  at  S.  Waleries.  t  Sic.  $  Sic.  §  It  was  written  first 

"  King  John  destroyid:"  but  "  John"  is  struck  owt  by  Mr  Leland's  own  hand,  and  nothing  added  in  its  stead. 


APPENDIX  277 

bisshop  rike  of  Duresme  almost  to  desolation,  and  also  Cleveland.    And  at  this  tymo  Edgare 
cumming  yn  to  Weremouth  was  honorably  receyvid  of  Malcolin. 

A  non  after  this  tyme  Cospatrik,  erle  of  Northumbreland,  went  yn  by  force  to  Cumbre- 
lande,  that  then  was  under  Malcoline  dominion,  and  ther  toke  great  praye.  Wherfore 
Malcoline  cam  aga}^,  with  out  mercy,  yn  to  Northumbreland,  and  toke  with  hym  so  many 
prisoners,  that  almost  every  house  in  Scotland  had  sum  of  them. 

King  William  gave  Billingham  and  Houden  to  the  chirch  of  Duresme. 

King  Willyam  had  thought  to  have  made  Hery,  his  yongest  sunne,  a  bishop. 

These  were  the  3.  caussys  that  made  king  Wylliam  conqueror  to  cum  yn  to  England. 
Fyrst,  by  cause  erle  Godwyne  caussid  his  nephew  Alfrid  to  be  killid  at  Ely.  Secundly,  by 
cause  king  Edwarde  had  promised  to  make  hym  his  hejTe.  Thyrdly,  by  cause  Godwyne 
and  his  sunnes  had  killid,  and  exilid,  the  noble  men  of  the  Normans  that  dwellid  yn  Eng- 
lande. 

William  counte  of  Herford  counselid  king  Wylliam  to  take  the  treasure  of  the  chyrchis 
of  England  yn  to  his  handes. 

In  the  beginning  of  kinge  William  Rufus  Edgare,  the  trew  heire  of  the  corone  of  Eng- 
land, was*  dispossid  of  the  landes  that  Wylliam  Conquerorf  gyven  hym  there,  and  was 
faine  to  fly  the  countery,  and  to  cum  to  Scotland. 

But  after  Rufus  and  Robert,  being  yn  war  yn  Lodenes  yn  Scotland,  caullid  to  them 
Edgar,  and  by  his  meanes  Malcolin  and  they  agreed. 

King  Malcolin,  Gul :  Garilef  the  bishop  of  Duresme,  and  Turgot  the  prior  ther,  dyd  lay 
the  first  stone  of  the  new  chirch  of  Duresme. 

Edgar  askid  leve  of  king  Wylliam  Conqueror  to  go  to  see  his  syster  Christian  a  nunne 
in  Russy.J 

Leyland.     Yet  after  these  wordes  be  wrytten  yn  the  historie, 

Agas,  mother  to  Margaret  quene  of  Scotland,  and  Christian  her  sister  becam  nunnes  at 
Newcastel  apon  Tyne,  after  that  king  Malcoline  was  killid  at  Alnewik. 

Robert  Moubray,  counte  of  Northumbreland,  and  William  de  Owe,  with  other,  had  con- 
spirid  to  put  down  Gul:   Rufus,  and  to  have  made  his  nephew,  Stephen  Blankmarle,  king. 

Edgar  was  sent  with  an  host  into  Scotland  to  set  his  nephew  Edgar,  king  Malcolincs 
p.  532.    sunne,  yn  to  the  kingdom,  that  Donald  his  uncle  did  occupy. 

King  William  Rufus  caussid  king  Edgar  of  Scotland  to  gyve  Goldingham  [Coldingham], 
that  was  one  of  his  chiefest  maners,  to  the  college  of  S.  Cuthbert  of  Duresme. 

Wylliam  Rufus  caussid  Res  of  Wales  to  be  killid  in  batayle  nere  Brekenok.  And  after 
none  bare  the  name  of  kinges,  but  of  princes,  in  Wales. 

Henry  the  first  had  with  his  wife  Matilde  the  releace  of  the  title  of  Edmondsyde  *  and 
his,  in  the  reaulme  of  Englande. 

These  nobles  were  drownid  cumming  out  of  Normandie,  in  to  England:  Wylliam  king 
Henry  sunne,  and  his  brother  Richarde ;  Richard  counte  of  Chestre,  and  Otinel  his  bro- 

*  Sic.  f  Sic.  $  This  peace  is  set  extra  locum.  §  Sic  in  Autogr.     Sed  in  Excerptis  Galeanis,  "  Edmontt 

Vrenside  and  his,"  &c. 


278  APPENDIX. 

ther,  Gaufrid  Ridel,  Walter  of  Euurcy,  the  kinges  doughter  countes  of  Perches,   and 
Lucece  the  kinges  doughtter  countes  of  Chester. 

Randulph  erle  of  Chester,  Robert  erle  of  Gloceter,  Hugh  Bigot,  and  Robert  Oyly  were 
the  great  men  that  toke  part  with  Mawde  emperes  agayne  king  Stephane. 

King  Stephan  cumniing  to  Wilton,  and  ther  myndeding  to  make  a  castel  was  almost 
taken  by  Robert  erle  of  Glocestre.  Wylliam  Marcel  [Martel]  was  there  taken,  for  whos  re- 
demption Stephane  delyverid  the  castel  of  Shirburn  that  he  had  won  afore. 

King  Stephanes  men  toke  Gerfray  Grauntville,*  that  had  rnany 'castelles  in  keping,  to  the 
use  of  Mawde  emperes. 

Henry,  sunne  to  king  David  of  Scotland,  was  erle  of  Northumbrelande. 

Wylliam,  the  eldest  sunne  of  Henry  the  secunde,  dyed  beyng  young. 

In  the  15.  yere  of  Henry  the  2.  good  Robert,  counte  of  Leircester,  dyed,  the  which 
foundid  the  abbay  of  Gerendon,  the  abbay  of  Leircester,  the  place  of  the  nunnes  at  Eiton. 

King  Henry  2.  causid  the  castel  of  Werke  to  be  made. 

Malcoline,  king  of  Scottes,  maried  his  sister  to  Conan,  duke  of  Bretayn,  and  lorde  of 
Richemont. 

William  king  of  Scottes  enterid  yn  to  England,  having  many  Fleminges  with  hym,  and 
wan  the  castelles  of  Appleby  and  Burgh.     And  after  he  wan  Prudehow  castel. 

Robert  de  Stoteville,  Randolph  de  Grantville  [Mandeville],  Barnard  Bailliol,  of  whom   p.  533. 
Bernards  castel  toke  name,  and  Willyam  de  Vescy  cam  to  New  Castel,  and  after  toke 
king  Wylliam  prisoner,  and  sent  hym  to  London.     And  king  Henry  toke  Wylliam  with 
hym  yn  to  Normandy,  and  also  the  erle  of  Leyrcestre,  and  prisonid  them  yn  Roane. 

King  William  was  after  delyverid  at  York  for  the  raunsum  of  4000  li. 

The  nobilles  of  Scotteland  cam  no  nerer  than  Pembles  yn  Scotland  to  mete  with  theyr 
kinge.  Wherfore  he  toke  with  hym  many  of  the  youngger  sunnes  of  the  nobyl  men  of 
England  that  bare  hym  good  wylle,  and  gave  them  landes  in  Scotlande  of  them  that  were 
rebelles  to  hym.  These  were  the  names  of  the  gentilmen  that  he  toke  with  hym:  Bailliol, 
Breuse,  Soully,  Moubray,  Saintclere,  Hay,  Giffard,  Ramesey,  Laundel,  Bysey,  Berkeley, 
Walenge,  Boys,  Montgomery,  Vaulx,  Coleville,  Friser,  Grame,  Gurlay,  and  diverse  other.f 

King  Wylliam  of  Scotland  made,  in  the  honor  of  Thomas  of  Cantorby,  J  the  abbay  of 
Aberbrothok. 

Among  other  castelles  that  Wylliam  delyverid  to  king  Henry,  was  Edingburg,  the  whiche 
king  Henry  gave  hym  agayne  yn  mariage  with  his  cosyn  Hermeger,  the  which  quene 
after  foundid  the  abbay  of  Balmorinagh. 

Philip  of  Esterby  warnid  Henry  the  2.  to  amend  hym  self  yn  7.  articles. 

Rosamunde,  the  faire  doughter  of  Clifford,  was  concubine  to  Henry  the  2.  at  Wodestoke, 
and  was  poysenid,  as  sum  think,  by  the  quene  Henry  wife. 

After  the  death  of  Rosamunde  Henry  toke  prively  king  Lewys  doughter  of  Fraunce, 
that  was  maryed  to  his  sunne  Richard  counte  of  Petow,  for  his  Ionian. 

*  Geffray  Grandeville  erle  of  Estsax.  t  The  historie  rehersith  thes  names  iu  the  plurale  numbre.  t  Sic. 


APPENDIX.  279 

King  Henry  had  practisid  afore  for  a  dispensation  of  devorce  betwixt  hym  and  his  queue 
Eleanor,  yn  thentent  to  have  had  her  that  his  sunne  Richard  was  after  maryed  onto. 

King  Richarde  gave  to  his  brother  John  Cornewalle,  an  Devonshire,  and  divers  other 
countes. 

Richard  goyng  to  the  Holy  Land  made  wonderful  shiftes  for  mony. 

King  Richard  sold  the  dignite  of  the  county  of  Northumbreland  to  Hugo  Pisas,  bisshop 
of  Duresme.  *  This  bisshop  Hugh  was  cancellare  of  Englande ;  but  at  the  very  going  of 
king  Richard  yn  to  the  Holy  Land  William  bisshop  of  Ely  was  made  cancellar  and  pro- 
curator yn  England  for  kinge  Richarde,  but  for  his  estorsions  he  was  deadly  hatid  of  the 
nobils  of  Englande. 

This  William  put  Hugh  bisshop  of  Duresme  yn  custody,  and  kept  hym  on  tille  he  had 
renderid  up  such  castelles  as  he  had  of  the  kinges. 

John  brother  to  king  Richard  chasid  William  the  cancellar  owt  of  Englande. 

About  this  tyme  was  great  persecution  of  the  Jues  yn  Englande.  And  the  Jues  at  York, 
to  fly  the  ignomy  of  the  Christians,  ther  killid  them  selves. 

King  John  toke  homage  of  Wylliam  king  of  Scottes  at  Lincoln. 

Sum  chroniques  say  that  king  John  did  mary  the  doughtter  and  heyre  of  the  counte  of 
Glocestre,  and  that  he  had  heires  males  be  her,  that  after  *werf  [furent]  countes  of  Glo- 
cester.  But  after  that  John  was  king,  he  was  clerely  devorcid  from  her,  and  yet  had  he 
afore  a  dispensation  for  degre  of  consanguinite  betwixt  them. 

Sum  say  that  Arture,  nepheu  to  king  John,  dyed  yn  prison  at  Roan. 

Sum  say  that  as  Arture  should  passe  from  one  ship  to  a  nother,  to  go  yn  to  England  as 
prisoner,  that  by  the  procurement  of  John,  a  mariner  leyid  a  plank  after  such  a  sorte,  that, 
as  sone  as  Arture  trode  upon  it,  he  fel  yn  to  se,  and  was  drounid. 

King  John,  for  riottes  made  by  Wylliam  king  of  Scotland,  went  to  Berwik,  and  ther  was 
aboute  to  make  a  castel  on  the  hyther  ripe  of  Twede,  but  then  king  Wylliam  delyverid  to 
hym  great  hostages,  and  so  John  returnid. 

A  chronique  caullid  Historia  aurea.J 

King  John  sent  his  justices,  Gerard  le  Peitewine,  William  de  la  Bruer,  et  John  fitz  Hughe, 
pledges  for  the  safe  cumming  of  Stephan  Langton  to  the  tonne  of  his  bisshoprik  of  Cantor- 
bury. 

The  abbate  of  Waverle,  for  fere  of  king  John,  left  his  house,  and  fled  to  Cisteaux. 

King  John  preparing  toward  Ireland  toke  great  taskes  of  the  Jues  yn  England,  and  great 
summes  of  the  White  Monkes. 

Stephan  Langton,  archebisshop  of  Cantorbiry,  kept  a  counsail  [councail]  at  Reding  for 
goodes  to  be  restorid  to  the  clergy  taken  away  by  king  John.  Stephan  had  adjugid  to  hym 
3.  M.  markes.     The  residew  of  the  clergy  1 5.  M.  markes. 

King  John  disenheritid  sum  nobyl  men  withowt  jugement  of  their  peres.  And  he  wold 
have  destroyid  the  good  erle  Randol  of  Chester. 

King  John  used  to  haunt  the  wife  of  his  brother  Geffray,  counte  of  Britaine,  whom 

-  Hugo  dePuleaco  comes  Northumbr:  t  Sic,  cura  asterisco.  ±  Historia  aurea. 


280  APPENDIX. 

Randol,  counte  of  Chestre,  had  maried,  and  from  whom  he  was  devorcid  by  the  counsel  of 
king  John,  for  the  which  it  was  supposid  that  counte.  Randol  dyid  with  owte  issue. 

Then  toke  counte  Randol  Clemence,  doughter  of  the  counte  Ferrars. 

Randol  often  warnid  king  John  for  taking  the  doughtters  of  diverse  nobil  men,  and  de- 
Houring  them. 

The  barons  of  England  made  strong  war  apon  king  John. 

King  John  sent  for  so  many  Pikardes,  Normannes,  and  Fleminges  that  wen  they  cam 
the  cuntery  had  much  a  do  to  fede  them.  Emong  whom  Faukes  de  Brente,  a  great  tyrant, 
that  nother  sparid  to  spoile  house  of  relligion  or  chirche  that  he  could  cum  to. 

Alexander  king  of  Scottes,  sun  to  king  William,  did  entre  yn  to  England,  and  did  muehe 
despite  to  king  John.  He  assegid  the  castel  of  Mitteford  and  Norham,  and  toke  Ho- 
mages of  divers  nobil  men  of  Northumbreland,  and  the  counte  of  York.  Wherfor  king 
John  after  destroied  much  of  theyr  landes,  and  bet  doune  Morpeth  castel. 

Alexander  assegid  Cairluel,  and  toke  it. 

Gualo  the  legate,  by  assistence  of  Randol  erle  of  Chester,  William  le  Marescal  counte 
of  Penbrok,  and erle  Ferrars,   William  Burer,  and  Saverly  de  Mail 

Gualo  anon  after  the  coronation  caussid  a  great  counsel  to  be  kept  at  Bristow,  both  of 
the  clergy  and  temporalite,  and  there  made  them  swere  to  their  new  king  Henry,  and  cursid 
Lowys  the  king  of  Fraunce  sunne. 

After  this  Lowys  toke  the  castel  of  Berkhamsted  and  f  [in]  Herforde  [Hertforde]. 

The  barons  toke  Lincoln,  and  thither  cam  king  Henrys  hoste,  and  discomfitid  them. 
Ther  was  slayne  of  Lowys  parte  the  counte  of  Perches.  Ther  was  taken  Saer  de  Quincy 
erle  of  Wynchester,  Humfre  de  Bourn  counte  of  Hereforde,  and  Robert  Fitz  Walter  baron. 

Lowys  hering  of  that  cam  to  London,  and  shut  up  al  the  gates  savyng  one.  But  the 
Londeners,  at  the  cumming  of  king  Henry  hoste,  yeldid  the  cite  to  hym.  Wherfore  he 
confirmid  al  the  liberties  that  the  Londoners  had,  or  wer  wont  to  have. 

Aboute  this  tyme  cam  a  navy  of  shippes  out  of  Fraunce  to  help  Lowys  with  divers 
nobil  men,  and  Eustace  le  Moigne  J  was  their  admiral,  with  whom  encounterid,  with  help 
of  the  v.  Portes,  Hubert  de  Burgh  having  only  but  viii.  shippes.  p.  53c. 

There  was  Eustace  taken  and  behided,  and  the  other  gentil  lefte  alyve  put  in  prison,  and 
ther  escapid  but  xv.  shippes.     The  residew  were  taken  and  drounid. 

In  the  yere  of  our  Lord  1221.  Alexander  king  of  Scottes  maried  Johan  at  York  dough- 
ter of  king  John. 

And  the  same  yere  Hubert  de  Burgh  maried  Margaret  the  doughter  of  William  late 
king  of  Scotland. 

Hubert  de  Burgh  was  made  chief  justice  of  England. 

Faukes  de  Brente  richely  furnishid  his  castel  of  Bedford  that  king  John  gave  hym,  and 
kept  it  by  force  agayn  king  Henry. 

*  See  Stowe's  Annals  at  the  beginning  of  Henry  Illds.  reigne.  t  Sic.  £  Eustachius  monachus  navarcha. 


APPENDIX.  '281 

Henry  toke  Bedforde  castel,  and  hangid  up  Falkes  men:  and  Faukes  hym  self  was  Bone 
after  founde  yn  a  chirche  at  Coventre,  and  there  he  forsware  the  kinges  lande. 

King  Henry  had  by  Eleonor  his  wife,  doughter  to  the  counte  of  Province,  Edward,  and 
Edmunde  flour  of  al  liberalite  and  curtesy;  Margaret  after  quene  of  Scotland;  Beatrice 
counte  of  Britaine,  and  Katarine  that  died  virgine  in  relligion. 

Johan,  doughter  of  king  John  of  England,  and  wife  to  Alexandre  king  of  Scottes,  died 
with  owt  issue. 

Alexander,  sunne  to  Alexander  king  of  Scottes,  and  Margaret  the  eldest  doughter  of 
king  Henry  the  3.  being  booth  aboute  the  age  of  4.  yeres,  were  promisid  yn  mariage  at 
New  Castel,  wher  king  Henry  had  a  great  host  agayne  the  Scottes,  but  apon  this  alliaunce 
he  returnid. 

This  Alexander  got  after  of  Margaret  2.  sunnes,  Alexander  and  David,  the  which  boothe 
dyid  afore  their  father.  He  begot  on  her  also  a  doughter  caullid  Margaret,  and  she  was 
after  maried  to  the  king  of  Norway,  by  whom  she  had  a  doughter  also  caullid  Margarete. 

King  Henry  kept,  in  the  43.  yere  of  his  reigne,  a  parlament  at  Oxforde. 

In  the  48.  yere  of  king  Henry  reigne  batel  was  begon  betwixt  his  barons,  and  at  the  ba- 
tail  of  Chesterfeld  wer  divers  of  the  barons  slayne,  Rober  counte  Ferras  was  taken,  and 
Bawdewine  Wake,  John  Neville,  and  John  de  la  Hay  had  much  payn  to  escape. 

In  this  xlviii.  yere  of  Henry  the  toun  of  Northampton  was  taken  from  the  barons  by 
force. 

This  yere  the  Jues  of  London  were  slayn,  by  cause  they  had  providid  Grekisch  fier  to 
have  burnid  the  cite  of  London, 
p.  537         Prince  Edward  discomfitid  Simond   Montford  at   Kenilworth,  [Killingworth]  and  he 
[Simon]  had  much  payne  to  escape.     But  Baudewine  Wake,   William  de  Montchensy, 
and  Adam  de  Newmark,  Simons  frendes,  wer  taken.* 

John,  sunne  to  David  the  Scotte  erle  of  Huntingdon,  begotten  of  the  sister  of  Randol 
erle  of  Chestre,§  maried  the  doughter  Lewelin  f  prince  of  Wales.  Wherapon  the  warre 
seasid  bytwixt  Randol  and  Lewelin  prince  of  Wales. 

Randol,  after  his  dimming  home  from  the  Holy  Lande,  dyed  with  owt  heyre  of  his  body 
begotten.  So  that  the  counte  remaynid  to  his  nephew  John,  sun  to  David  erle  of  Hunting- 
don and  of  Gerviagh,  and  this  John  dyed  with  oute  heir  of  his  body  begotten.  So  that  the 
counte  cam  to  the  kinges  handes,  that  greyd  with  the  sisters  of  John  that  the  counte  should 
not  be  disperkelid  emong  women. 

Henry  the  3.  got  by  parlament  the  wardeship  of  noble  mennes  sunnes  tyl  they  cam  to  the 
age  of  21.  yeres. 

William  de  Brewse  was  accusid  of  adulteri  with  the  wife  of  Lewelin  prince  of  Wales. 
Wherapon  the  princes  was  put  in  prison,  and  Gul:  Brewse  j:  was  hangid  by  hym.  Wherapon 
insuid  much  werre. 

Prince  Edward  toke  his  viage  in  to  the  Haly  Lande,  having  these  noble  menne  with  hym, 

•  Gul :  de  Monle  Cauusio.  Adam  de  Novo  Mercato.  §  Genealogia  comitum  Castria.  t  Sic.  $  Gul :  de  Breuse 
suspensus  ob  adulierium. 

2  N 


282  APPENDIX. 

John  de  Britaine  erle  of  Richmunt,  John  Vescy,  Thomas  Clare,  Roger  Clifford,  Othes  de 
Garaunsun,  Robert  de  Bruise,  et  John  de  Nerdon. 

Edward,  hering  of  king  Henry  his  father,  lefte  his  brother  Edmunde,  counte  of  Lan~ 
castre  and  Leircestre,  at  Acres,  and  cam  home. 

Margaret,  king  Edwardes  sister,  quene  of  Scotland  dyed,  leving  2.  sunnes  and  one 
<loughter  by  king  Alexander.  Edwarde  and  David  her  sunnes  booth  dyed  at  the  age  of 
a  20.  yeres,  Alexander  their  father  then  lyving.  Margaret  her  doughtter  was  after  maryed 
to  the  king  of  Norway. 

King  Edwarde  gave  inheritance  to  David,  brother  to  Leweline  prince  of  Wales,  the 
lordship  of  Frodisham. 

Roger  Clifford,  William  de  Liudisey,  John  Fitz  Robert,  Lucas  de  Towny*  went  to  war 
on  the  Walsch  men,  and  John  Vescy  also. 

John  Giffard  and  Edmunde  Mortimer  toke  Lewelin,  prince  of  Wales,  and  sent  his  hed  to 
king  Edwarde. 

Dauid  Lewelines  brother  was  taken  nighe  Denbigh,  and  put  to  deth. 

King  Edward  gave  the  landes  of  Wales  emong  his  gentilmen  to  dwelle  on  them. 

Thomas  de  Welande,  Rauf  de  Engham,  Hugh  de  Chauncelery,  Adam  de  Straiton,  Elys   p.  538. 
de  Ethingham,  and  John  of  Mechingham  sore  punishid  by  the  puree  for  ille  usinge  there 
office  yn  justice. 

The  Scottes  sent  to  king  Edwarde  embassadors,  that  his  sunne  Edwarde  mighte  have  yn 
manage,  by  dispensation  at  Rome,  Margaret,  doughter  to  Margaret,  quene  of  Norway,  and 
heir  of  Scotland,  and  that  Edwarde,  during  the  life  of  his  father,  should  stil  remaine  in 
Scotland,  and  after  his  dethe  one  yere  in  England,  and  a  nother  yn  Scotland. 

One  Master  Weland,  a  clerke  of  Scotlande,  sent  yn  to  Norway  for  Margaret,  f  dyed  with 
her  by  tempeste  on  the  se  cumming  oute  of  Norway  to  Scotland  yn  costes  of  Boghan. 

King  Edwarde,  GuliaJ  de  Gaynesborow  a  Gray  Frere  and  Hugh  de  Maunchester  a 
Blak  Frere  to  make  homage  for  Gascoyne  to  the  French  king,  whom  the  erle  of  Artoys 
toke  going  thorough  his  countery,  and  put  them  yn  prison. 

King  Edwarde  sent  Mr  John  de  Glaunton,  archidecon  of  Richemonte,  to  the  bisshop  of 
Rome  to  showe  the  ontreuth  of  the  Frenche  king  toward  hym. 

Leilandus. 

There  is  in  this  history  a  long  chapitre  of  the  names  and  successions  of  the  kinges  of 
Scotland. 

Ferguse,  sunne  to  Ferthair  of  Ireland,  was  the  fyrste  that  namid  hym  self  king  of  Scottes. 

Ferguse  brought  oute  of  Ireland  the  Stone  Royal,  and  layed  it  at  the  abbay  of  Scone 
[Stone]  in  Scotland,  apon  the  which  the  kinges  of  Scotland  were  coronid  on  til  suche  time 
that  king  Edward  brought  it  thens  to  the  abbay  of  Westminstre  by  London. 

Lelandus. 

Ther  folouith  a  nother  hole  chapitre  of  the  names  and  successions  of  the  kinges  of  the 
Pictes. 

♦  Lucas  de  Toneio.  t  Margaret*  heres  Scolije  na'jfragio  periit.  ±  Sic. 


APPENDIX.  283 

Cruthene  Kenek  the  gentil  was  the  first  king  of  the  Pictes. 
The  kingdom  of  the  Pictes  durid  1 1 87.  yeres. 

Edmund  king  of  England,  brother  to  king  Athelstan,  gave  to  Donald,  king  of  Scotland, 
al  Combreland:  wherfore  the  Scottes  clayme  the  ground  to  the  crosse  in  Stanmore. 

Malcoline,  (sunne  to  Henry  counte  of  Garviagh,  of  Huntendune,  and  Northumbreland, 
that  was  the  sunne  of  kinge  David)  reignid  12.  yere  and  6.  monithes,  the  which  dyed  avant 
le  pier  a  Jedworth,  and  lyith  at  Dorafermeline. 

Wylliam,  sunne  to  the  same  Henry  *  counte  §  of  Northumbreland,  by  the  gifte  of  king 
Stephan,  reignid  50.     He  dyed  at  Stryvelin,  and  lyith  at  Aberbrothok  abbay,  the  which 
he  buildid. 
p.  539.        Alexander  his  sun  reignid  37.  yeres.     He  dyed  at  Kembray  yn  Orkany,  and  lyith  at 
Melros. 

Alexander,  sunne  to  Alexander,  reignid  37.  yeres,  and  brake  his  nek  at  Kinkorn,  of  the 
which  thing  rose  great  strife  for  the  croun  of  Scotlande. 

By  cawse  ther  was  no  issue  lefte  of  the  ii.  aforesaide  king  Alexanders,  it  owte  to  cum  to 
the  issue  of  David,  counte  of  Huntendune,  brother  to  Willyam  king  of  Scotlande,  sunne  to 
king  David. 

The  which  Davy,  counte  of  Huntindon,  had  a  sunne  callid  John,  that  dyid  with  owt 
issue,  and  3.  doughters.     The  first  caullid"  f  Margaret  was  maried  to  Alane  lorde  of  Gala- 
way.     The  2.  Isabella  was  maryed  to  Peter  Bruse.     The  3.  Ade  to  John  Hastinges. 
Margaret  had  only  a  doughtter,  caullid  Doruergule,  that  was  maryed  to  John  Bailliol. 
Isabelle  had  a  sunne  caullid  Robert  Bruse. 
Ade  had  a  sunne  caullid  John  Hastinges. 

Esche  of  these  had  great  frendes,  and  desirid  to  have  the  croune  of  Scotlande. 
The  bridge  of  Berwike  brake  aboute  this  tyrue,  with  great  force  of  water,  by  cause  the 
arches  of  it  were  to  low.     And  after  the  making  of  it  as  it  was  then,  it  durid  scars  ix. 
yeres. 

Antony  Bek,  bishop  of  Duresme,  that  had,  by  the  gifte  of  William  Vescy,  the  dispo- 
sition of  the  honor  of  Alnewik,  sold  it  to  Henry  for  certain  sclaunderus  wordes  that  John 
Vescy,  bastarde  to  William,  spake  by  hym. 

Edward  was  made  judge  of  the  title  of  Scotland,  and  cam,  at  a  day  apointid,  to  here 
the  plee;  where  these  many  men  put  in  theyr  titles:  Florence  counte  of  Holand;  John 
Bailliol,  Robert  Bruse,  John  Hastinges,  John  Comyn  [Scottusj,  Partrik  counte  of  Marche 
[Scottus],  John  Vescy,  Nicolas  de  Sowlis  [Scottus],  William  de  Ros  [Scottus  etiam],  and 
Patrik  Galightly  [ut  opinor,  Scottus.] 

Edward  after  this  returnid  in  to  England,  and  at  Michelmas  folowing  cam  to  Berwik, 
wher  in  the  chirche  of  the  Trinite:  J  wher  the  title  of  the  3.  doughters  of  David,  counte  of 
Huntendune,  was  approvid. 

§  Sic,  cum  asterisco.  t  Hsec  vox  bis  occurrit.  %  Sic. 


284  APPENDIX. 

Gilbert  Glare,  counte  of  Glocestre,  did  greatly  maynteyn  the  quarel  of  Robert  Bruise, 
by  cause  he  had  maried  his  sister. 

The  counte  Waren,  and  Antony  Bek,  bisshop  of  Duresme,  maintenid  thetitle  of  John 
Bailliol. 

Robert  Bruse  allegid  that  he  was  immediately  the  sunne  of  Isabelle  the  secunde  doughter,    p.  540. 
and  that  John  Bailliol  was  but  the  sunne  of  Dorvergule,  doughter  to  Margarete,  the  eldest 
doughter  of  Davy  erle  of  Huntingdon:  so  that  Bruse  saide,  that  he  was  one  degre  nerer 
in  consanguinite. 

Bailliol  said,  that  seing  that  his  mother,*  that  was  the  right  heire,  could  not  reigne,  that 
he  owte  to  have  it  by  lineal  descente. 

To  conclude,  the  right  title  was  adjugid  to  John  Bailliol  by  the  40.  chosen  peres,  xx.  of 
Scotland,  and  as  many  of  England. 

Robert  Bruise,  in  presence  of  king  Edwarde,  denied  to  do  homage  to  Bailliol,  and  apon 
that  gave  up  his  land  that  he  had  in  Scotlande  in  the  vale  of  Anande  to  Roberte  his  eldeste 
sunne,  begotten  by  the  sister  of  Gilbert  de  Clare  counte  of  Glocestre :  and  he  like  wise 
denied  to  do  homage  to  Bailliol.  Then  Robert  Bruise  said  to  Robert  his  secunde  sunne, 
engenderid  upon  the  doughter  and  heire  of  the  counte  of  Carrik,  and  after  king  of  Scot- 
lande, "  take  thow  my  lande  yn  Scotland."  This  Robert  was  a  young  man  of  king  Ed- 
wards chaumbre,  and  toke  it  doing  homage  to  John  Bailliol. 

John  Bailliol,  king  of  Scottes,  had  3.  sisters,  Margaret  lady  of  Gillislande.  The  secunde 
was  lady  Consy.  The  thirde  was  maryed  to  John  Comyn,  father  to  hym  that  Robert 
Bruise  killid  at  Dumfres.     And  this  John  Bailliol  had  but  one  sunne  caullid  Edwarde. 

John  Bailliol,  king  of  Scottes,  cam  to  Newcastel  yn  the  firste  yere  of  his  reigne,  and  did 
homage  to  king  Edwarde. 

The  Scottes  having  7.  countes  in  their  bande  cam  to  Cairluel,  and  brent  al  the  suburbes 
of  it. 

The  same  7.  countes  with  their  bande  brennid  the  priory  of  Hexham. 

Patrik  counte  of  Marche  with  the  blak  berde,  that  alonly  of  al  the  nobles  of  Scotland  re- 
mainid  yn  obedience  of  king  Edwarde,  complainid,  that  the  Scottes  had  taken  his  castel  of 
Dunebar  by  treyne.  Apon  this  king  Edward  sent  from  Berwike  counte  Waren,  and  the 
erle  of  Warwik,  with  great  pour  by  se  and  land  to  Dunbar.  Where  were  taken  yn  the 
castel  the  counte  of  Menteth,  the  counte  of  Athele,  the  counte  of  Ros,  and  6.  barons;  John 
Comyn  the  yong",t  William  Saintclere,  Richard  Siuard  the  elder,  John  de  Ynchemartine, 
Alexander  de  Murref,  Edmunde  Comyn  de  Kilbride.  And  beside  29.  knightes,  and  80. 
esquier,  the  which  were  to  J  prison  in  to  diverse  partes  of  Englande. 

King  Edward  toke  at  his  parliament  at  Berwike  homage  of  al  the  lordes  of  Scotland,    p.  541. 
apon  the  which  he  had  their  writinges  and  their  seales. 

King  Edward  being  at  Newminstre  abbay  gave  the  gardianeship  of  Scoland  to  the 

*  Forsan  intelligit  Maigaretam,  socrum  suam.  t  Mi  Leland  had  first  of  all  wncten  "  yoDgger."  1  Sic. 


APPENDIX.  285 

counte  Waren.  He  made  also  Hugh  Cressingham  his  [treasurer  alias  J  chambrelayn  of 
Scotlande,  and  William  Ormesby  his  justice. 

Robert  Fitz  Roger  lorde  of  Werkworth  castel. 

John  Fitz  Marmaduke. 

Gul :  Waleys  sent  Henry  Haliburton  a  kniglit  to  sease  Berwik,  and  so  he  did.  Hut  after 
this  Henry  hering  of  a  discumfiture  of  the  Scottes,  left  Berwik  as  vo3'de. 

King  Edward  wan  the  batel  of  Fawkirk  yn  Scotland  apon  S.  Maria  Magdalena  day  in 
the  yere  of  our  Lorde  1 295.  where  Wylliam  Waleys  their  capitayne  ran  a  way.  Antony 
de  Bek,  bishop  of  Duresme,  had  this  batail  such  a  retinew,  that  in  his  cumpany  were  32. 
baners.  At  this  tyme  was  the  toune  of  S.  Andreas  destroyed.  The  yere  after  cam  letters, 
by  procurement  of  the  Scottes,  from  Boniface,  bisshop  of  Rome,  that  saide,  that  Scotland 
did  hold  of  the  court  of  Rome.  For  this  cause  king  Edwarde  kept  a  parlament  at  Lyncoln, 
and  there  provid  that  the  king  of  Scottes  oute  to  hold  of  the  king  of  Englande. 

Wylliam  Waleys  was  taken  of  the  counte  of  Mentetli  aboute  Glaskow,  and  sent  to  king 
Edward,  and  after  was  hangid,  drawen,  and  quarterid  at  London. 

Robert  Hastinges,  an  Englisch  man,  capitayne  for  king  Edwarde  of  the  castel  of  Rox- 
burge. 

Hugh  Andeley  cumming  yn  to  Scotland  with  king  Edwarde  having  with  hvm  CO.  men 
of  amies  divertid  for  loging  to  Melros  abbay.  John  Comyn,  gardiane  of  Scotland,  hering 
of  this,  cam  thither  pryvely  in  the  night,  and  brasting  the  gates  killid  divers  of  them. 
Thomas  Gray  knight  fled  over  the  bridge,  and  kept  a  house  on  til  he  saw  it  bren  over  his 
hed.     Then  he  cam  owte,  and  was  taken  prisoner. 

Edward  kept  his  Christemas  at  Linlithcow  in  Scotland,  wher  John  Comyn  submittid 
hyin  self  to  hym,  and  was  taken  to  grace,  and  kept  hys  landes. 

John  de  Sowlys,  not  willing  to  submit  hym  self  to  king  Edwarde,  went  in  to  Fraunce, 
and  there  dyed. 

Olifart,  a  young  bachelar  of  Scotland,  furnishid  the  castel  of  Strivelyn  agayn  king 
Edward.     But  Eduarde  wan  it  by  the  seage  of  19-  wekes,  and  toke  Olifart. 

Thomas  Gray  knight  in  this  seage  of  Strivelin  wil  he  rescuid  his  master  Henry  Beaumont 
p.  542.  from  the  Scottes  was  striken  with  a  garon  under  the  yes  thorough  the  hedde,  and  fel  doun 
for  dede,  and  after,  when  he  was  caryed  to  be  buryed,  he  began  to  stere,  and  after  was 
helid  of  his  sore  wounde. 

King  Edward  made  Eymer  de  Valoyns  counte  of  Penbroke  his  gardian  yn  Scotlande, 
and  gave  hym  the  forestes  of  Selkirk  and  Etrik.  This  Eymer  made  a  pile  in  Selkirk,  and 
put  a  garnison  in  it. 

Robert  de  Bruse  counte  of  Carrik,  that  bare  hym  self  very  bold  of  his  kinsmen  in  Scot- 
land, trusting  to  wynne  his  title  of  the  corone  of  Scotland,  caussid  John  Comyn,  by  send- 
ing to  hym  his  2.  bretherne,*  to  meete  with  hym  at  the  Gray  Freres  at  Dunfres  to  speke 
with  hym.  And  wen  he  cam  thyther,  Bruse  told  hym  hys  mynd,  and  bad  hym,  "  other 
take  hys  enheritaunce  of  Carrik,  and  help  me  to  be  king  of  Scotland,  or  let  me  have  thyne, 

•    Thomas  et  Neil  fracres  R.jberli  Bruse. 


286  APPENDIX. 

and  I  wyl  help  the  to  be  king."  But  John  Comyn  not  consenting  to  this  was  slayn,  and 
his  uncle  also,  that  strake  Bruse  afore  such  a  blow  that  if  he  had  not  been  harnessid  he  had 
slayn  hym. 

The  countes  of  Boughan,  by  cause  her  sunne  was  absent  lying  at  his  maner  of  Witnik 
by  Leircestre,  toke  apon  her  to  corone  Robert  Bruse  at  Stone  in  Scotland. 

This  countes  was  taken  the  same  yere,  and  put  in  a  tour  at  Berwike. 

Edward  caussid  Eymer  Valoyns  to  war  agayn  Bruse.  So  he  went  as  he  was  commaun- 
did,  and  cam  to  S.Johns  Towne,  having  yn  company  the  frendes  of  John  Comyn  late  slayn. 
And  thens  went  to  Methfen,  *  and  wan  the  feld,  wher  John  Haliburton  let  Robert  Bruse 
escape,  after  that  he  knew  hym,  for  he  ware  not  his  kingly  cote  of  armes. 

Thomas  Randolf,  nephew  to  Robert  Bruse,  and  after  counte  of  Morref,  was  taken  at  this 
feld,  and  after,  at  the  prayer  of  Adam  Gordon,  deliverid,  and  bydf  Englisch  on  til  he  was 
taken  at  a  nother  tyme  of  the  Scottes. 

Robert  Bruse  hym  self  fled  in  to  Kentire,  wither  the  Englisch  men  folowid  hym,  and  be- 
segid  the  fortres  of  it,  supposing  that  Bruse  had  beene  in  it.  But  when  they  had  taken  it, 
thei  founde  hym  not:  but  there  they  toke  his  wife,  the  doughtter  of  the  counte  of  Hulster, 
and  Neil,  his  brother.  J  And  a  non  after  was  the  counte  of  Athelis  taken,  that  fled  from 
the  aforesaid  fortres. 

Neil,  brother  to  Robert  Bruse,  with  Alane,  Durnard,  and  divers  other  were  hangid, 
drawen,  and  quarterid  at  Berwik.  And  Robert  Bruse  wife  was  sent  to  prison  in  to  Eng- 
lande. 

The  counte  of  Athelis  (by  cause  he  was  cosyn  to  the  king  of  England,  and  sunne  to   p.  543. 
Maude  of  Doure  his  aunte)  §  was  sent  to  London,  and  there  was  hangid  apon  a  pair  of 
galows  30.  foote  hyer  than  other. 

Thomas  counte  de  Lancastre,  and  Humfrede  de  Bouhun  counte  of  Hereford,  passid  the 
montayns  of  Scotland,  and  assegid  the  castel  of  Kyndronn  yn  Marre,  and  wan  it,  and  there 
toke  Christopher  de  Seton  with  his  wife,  sister  to  Robert  Bruse,  the  wich,  as  an  Englisch 
renegate,  was  sent  to  Dunfres,  and  ther  hangid,  drauen,  and  quarterid:  wher  he  had  afore 
killid  the  viscounte  of  that  cunteri,  sent  thither  by  the  king  of  Englande. 

The  bisshops  of  Glasgow,  and  S.  Andres,  and  the  abbat  of  Stone  wer  sent  in  to  England 
to  be  in  custody. 

Peter  Gavirston  was  accusid  to  the  king  of  many  crymes,  and  as  not  worthy  to  be  about 
his  sunne  prince  Eduarde,  wherapon  he  was  banishid  owt  of  England. 

Brother  [Roberte]  Brusce  returnid  oute  of  the  Isles,  and  hering  that  prince  Edward  was 
at  the  Toun  of  S.  John,  desired  to  have  safe  conducte  to  treate  of  peace  with  hym.  But 
after  king  Eduarde  hard  say  that  they  had  tretid,  he  ragid  that  it  was  done  with  oute  his 
knoulege,  and  sent  word  from  Dunfermelin  that  thei  should  treate  no  farther. 

The  king  and  his  returnid  toward  England,  and  Aimer  Valoyns  was  left  as  the  kinges 
lieutenant  in  Scotland. 

Robert  Bruisce  sent  his  2.  brethern,  Thomas  and  Alexander,  toward  Nidesdale,  and  the 

•  The  bataille  of  Methfen.  t  Sic.  $  Neil,  frater  Robeiti  Bruse.  §  Matildis  de  Doura. 


APPENDIX.  287 

vale  of  Anaund,  to  reise  the  people;  but  the  Englisch  men  toke  them,  and  after  ward 
they  were  sent  to  Cairluel,  and  ther  hangid,  drawen,  and  quarterid. 

Robert  Bruse  repairid  to  the  counte  of  Carrik,  wher  he  reisid  the  people. 

Eymer  de  Valoyns  hering  of  this,  cam  thither,  and  at  Loudon  was  discumfited  by 
Roberte  Bruse,  and  dryven  to  the  chastel  of  Are.  And  a  3.  days  after  he  skirmochid  with 
Rafe  de  Monhermer,*  that  was  caullid  counte  of  Glocestre  (by  cause  that  Johan,  the  kinges 
doughtter,  and  countes  of  Glocestre,  toke  hym  for  love  to  her  husband)  and  over  cam  hym, 
and  drave  hym  also  to  the  castel  of  Are  on  tyl  rescue  cam.  And  then  was  Bruse  so  beten 
with  il  fortunes,  that  he  was  left  alone  to  take  passage  at  the  isles  with  ii.  mariners  in  a 
bote,  that  askid  hym  if  he  could  tel  any  tyding  of  Robert  Bruse. 
p.  544.  King  Edward  had  but  one  sunne  that  ly  vid  by  his  first  wife,  doughter  to  the  king  of  Cas- 
tel. By  his  secunde  wife,  sister  to  the  French  king,  he  had  2.  sunnes,  Thomas  and  Ed- 
munde.  He  gave  to  Thomas  the  countes  of  Northfolk  and  Southfolk,  with  the  Erie 
Marescalship  of  England;  the  which  countes  and  Marescalship  longid  to  Roger  Bigot,  f  the 
which  had  no  issue:  and  apon  that  he  made  the  king  his  heire,  parteley  for  fere  because 
the  king  should  not  give  hym  reporte  of  a  certeyn  disceit  that  he  with  other  wrought  againe 
hym  at  Lincoln. 

And  he  gave  to  his  sunne  Edmunde  yn  his  testament  4000.  markes  by  yere  of  landes,  to 
be  performid  by  his  sunne  Edwarde  apon  his  benediction.  In  party  wher  of  Edmunde 
had  after  the  counte  of  Kent,  but  he  had  not  the  hole  summe  afore  Edwarde  the  3.  dayes. 
King  Edwarde  the  first  had  diverse  doughters.  One  was  maried  to  the  erle  of  Glocester; 
a  nother  to  the  duke  of  Brabant ;  the  3.  to  the  counte  of  Baris ;  the  4.  to  the  counte  of  Ho- 
land,  after  the  death  of  whom  she  was  maried  to  the  counte  of  Hereford.  The  fifte  dough- 
ter was  a  nunne  at  Amesbyry. 

Edwarde  the  secunde  was  maried  at  Amias  to  Isabelle,  the  doughter  of  Philip  the  Fair 
king  of  Fraunce,  and  thens  he  brought  her  to  London,  and  ther  she  was  coronid. 

King  Edwarde  the  secunde  after  this  passid  with  his  wife  agayne  yn  to  Fraunce,  and  at 
S.  Germanes,  hard  by  Parys,  treatid  with  king  Philip  for  maters  of  Gascoyne,  and  riehely 
festid  king  Philip  at  S.  Germanes. 

The  quene  of  Navare,  whos  doughter  and  heyre  was  maryed  to  Charles  the  youngest 
sun  of  king  Philip  of  Fraunce,  didjnary  Edmund,  brother  to  Edwarde  the  first,  by  whom 
she  had  2.  sunnes  Thomas  and  Henry,  after  countes  of  Lancastre. 

King  Philip  of  Fraunce,  knowing  his  doughters  to  be  of  very  light  conversation,  askid 
of  Philip  Dawnay,  an  auncient  knight  and  counselor  of  his,  what'thei  were  worthy  to  have 
that  committid  frequent  adultery  J  with  his  sunnes  wifes?  He  answerid  to  be  burnid  alive. 
Then  said  the  kinge,  they  be  thy  sunnes,  and  shaul  have  thy  jugement.  Wherapon  one 
was  straite  condemnid.  The  other  escapid  into  Englande,  and  was  taken  at  York,  and  sent 
agayne  (with  no  small  murmur  of  the  Englisch  men,  seing  that  he  cam  to  hym  for  socour) 
to  the  French  king,  and  ther  was  brent  alyve.     And  2.  of  the  ladies,  wives  to  the  French 

*  Joanna  de  Acres,  rnortuo  Gilberto  comite  Claudia1,  nupsit  Hodolpho  Monhermerio.  t  Thomas  Broyerton  dooatu-i 

hereditate  Rogeri  Bigotii.  ±  Graviss:   adulterii  supplicium. 


288  APPENDIX. 

kinges  sunnes,  were  put  to  villaine  death.    The  thirde  was  murid  up,  and  dyed  for  hunger. 
This  thing  was  openid  by  Isabelle,  quene  of  England,  to  her  father  Philip:  but  many  be- 
levid  that  the  thing  was  not  trew,  and  that  therapon,  for  vengeance  of  cruelte,  Philip   p.  545. 
sliorteley  dyed,  and  eche  of  his  sunnes  reignid  but  a  wile  after  hym. 

Charles,  the  yongest  sunne  of  king  Philip  that  was  king  of  Navar,  his  father  lyving,  had 
but  one  doughter  by  his  wife  heir  of  Navare,  that  after  was  maried  to  the  counte  of 
Everus,  that  after  was  king  of  Navar. 

Isabel,  doughter  to  king  Philip,  her  3.  brethern  beyng  deade  with  owte  issue  male,  was 
count  id  the  next  heire  to  the  kingdom  of  France,  wher  apon  the  right  cam  to  Eduarde  her 
sun  by  Eduarde  the  secunde  her  husband. 

Thomas  Gray,  warden  of  the  castel  of  Couper  and  of  Fife  of  the  kinge  of  Eglandes  part 
in  Scotland,  dimming  from  Edwardes  coronation  toward  the  aforesaide  castel,  was  layde 
for  privile  by  Walter  Bickirkton,  knight  of  Scotlande,  that  had  prive  intelligence  when,  and 
by  what  wa3r,  he  could  cum,  and  lay  yn  waite  with  400.  menne  of  armes  with  hym.  The 
which  thing  being  told  to  Thomas  Gray  at  hand,  that  had  with  hym  but  26.  men  of  armes, 
wcl  appointid  and  wel  horsid,  causid  his  varlettes  to  cum  yn  sight,  behynd  with  a  baner, 
and  with  his  smaul  band  rood  thorough  the  rankes  of  Scottes  by  force,  and  bak  agayn  by 
liner  thorough  them,  killing  dyvers  of  them.  And  then  they  espying  Grayes  verlettes 
cumming  tow  aid  them,  fledde  alle,  and  levyng  theyr  horses  tooke  the  marresis,  or  bogges. 
And  Thomas  drave  their  horses  a  way  for  his  pray  to  the  castel  of  Couper. 

A  nother  tyme  Alexander  Fresile  a  Scotte,  frend  to  Robert  Bruse,  was  sent  with  in  a 
litle  of  Couper  castel  with  an  embuschement,  and  caussid  certen  of  his  to  pille  a  village 
ther  by,  so  supposing  to  bring  Thomas  Gray  in  to  a  trappe:  the  which  hering  the  cry  went 
to  horse  to  se  what  it  was.  The  embuschement  seying  that,  roode  of  force  to  the  very 
castel  gates.  Thomas  seing  this  returnid  his  horse,  and  cam  faire  and  softely  thorow  the 
toune  of  Couper,  and  then  laying  spurres  to  his  horse,  and  rode  thorough  them,  and  got 
w  it li in  the  barres  of  the  castel,  wher  he  founde  his  oune*  meny  cumming  out  to  help  hym. 
King  Edward  caullid  a  gayn  Peter  Gaverston,  a  yong  man  of  Gascoyne,  afore  exilid  by 
his  father;  caussing  Thomas  erle  of  Lancastre,  with  other,  to  swere  to  the  accomplische- 
ment  of  the  banisehment,  and  caussid  hym  to  take  to  wifef  the  doughter  of  his  sister  and  the 
erle  of  Gloscestre,  and  made  hym  counte  of  Cornewalle. 

Peter  Gaverston  then  became  noble,  liberal  and  gentil  in  summe  facions:  but  after  ful  of 
pride  and  disdayne,  of  the  which  the  nobilles  of  England  tooke  great  despite. 

It  chauncyd  about  this  tyme,  that  Peter  was  in  the  kinges  werres  yn  Scotland,  and  let   p.  546. 
the  toun  of  Dundee  to  ferme,  and  hering  of  debate  of  barons  yn  England  cam  to  Scarburge, 
and  ther  was  taken,  and  delyverid  to  Eymer  Valoyns,  erle  of  Penbrok,  apon  condition  that 
he  should  send  hym  to  the  king  by  them  that  toke  hym :  but  he  was  taken  agayne  by  Ox- 
forde,  and  brought  to  the  erle  of  Lancastre,  that  caussid  hym  to  be  behedid  by  Warwike. 
Adam  Banester,  a  bachelar  of  Lancastreshire,  movid  ryot  agayne  Thomas  of  Lancastre 

»  Sic.  t  Peter  Gaveston  maryed  Johan  of  Acres  doughter. 


APPENDIX.  289 

by  crafte  of  king  Edwarde;  but  he  was  taken,  and  behedid  by  the  commaundement  of 
Thomas  of  Lancastre. 

Robert  Bruse  cam  agayne  in  to  Scotland,  and  wan  such  counterys  agayne  as  Edward 
the  father  had  conquerid:  and  al  by  the  governement  of  Englischmen,  that  usid  their  auto- 
rite  in  Scotland  to  theyr  singular  profite. 

Rokesborow  was  yn  garde  of  one  Gilleminge  de  Fenigges,  ehevaler,  and  Burgonion :  of 
whom  James  Duglas  wan  it,  and  ther  was  Gilleminge  slayn  in  defending  the  great  tour. 

Pers  Lelande  *  knight  a  Gascoyne  was  vicount  of  Edenburge,  apon  whom  cam  the  menne 
of  Randol  counte  of  Murref:  and  Pers  fledde  to  the  kepe  of  the  castel  roche,  and  after  be- 
cam  suoren  to  Bruse :  the  which  after  surmisid  treason  apon  hym,  because  he  thought  that 
he  had  an  Englisch  hart,  and  made  hym  to  be  hangid  and  drawen. 

Edward  the  secunde  cam  to  socour  Strivelin,  aud  ther  his  host  was  discuinfitid,  and  the 
erle  of  Glocestre  slayn. 

Humfrede  de  Bouhun,  erle  of  Hereford,  was  taken  at  Botheville,  and  delyverid  after  for 
the  wife  of  Robert  Bruse  and  the  bisshop  of  S.  Andres. 

Philip  Moubray  knight,  capitayne  of  Strivelin,  for  the  king  of  Englande,  made  promise 
to  Robert  Bruse  to  render  the  castel  if  he  had  no  socour  by  a  certen  day. 

The  counte  of  Glocester  was  capitayne  of  the  vaunt  garde  of  Edwardes  host. 

Bruse  with  his  owne.  handes  killid  Pers  Monfort,  an  Englisch  knight,  in  the  wooddes  by 
Strivelin.  Clifford  and  Henry  Beaumont  with  300.  men  of  armes  closid  the  other  side  of 
the  wodde.  Then  Thomas  Randolf,  counte  of  Murray,  nephew  to  Bruse,  hering  that  his 
uncle  had  vanquishid  the  vantgard  of  the  Englisch  men,  cam  with  his  batel  owt  of  the 
wodde  apon  Clifford  and  Beaumont,  wher  William  Dayncourt  knight  was  slayn,  and  Tho- 
mas Gray  was  taken.  The  residew  of  king  Edwardes  hoste  escaping  the  woddes  to  the 
water  of  Forth  beyond  Banokesburne,  a  deade  depe  water,  and  pitchid  there  by  a  marres. 
p.  547.  Then  one  Alexander  Seton  a  Scotte,  beyng  in  king  Edwardes  hoste,  made  owte  prively  yn 
the  night  hym  self  to  Bruise  being  yn  the  woodde,  telling  hym,  that  if  he  wold  cum 
erly  yn  the  mornyng,  that  he  should  easely  overcum  the  Englisch  menne.  Wherapon 
Bruse  cam  erly  yn  the  morning  with  3.  batelles  on  foote,  taken  esemple  of  the  Fleminges 
that  on  foote  a  litle  afore  had  disconrfitid  the  pour  of  Fraunce  at  Courtray. 

The  Englisch  men,  loden  with  harneys  and  horsemen,  were  not  wonte  to  fight  on  fote. 
And  at  the  laste  in  fightting,  the  Englischmen  were  dryven  yn  to  the  diche  of  Bannok- 
burne  hedelinges  one  apon  a  nother. 

The  king  hym  self  with  a  few  fled  to  Dunbar,  by  the  counsel  of  Giles  de  Argentine,  a 
stoute  warryer,  and  a  late  cum  from  the  werres  of  Henry  Lusenburg  emperor. 

The  king  in  chase  foute  sore,  and  had  his  horse  paunchid,  but  he  got  a  nother. 

But  Giles  Argentein  saide,  that  he  was  not  wont  to  fly,  and  so  returnid  to  the  Englisch 
host,  and  was  slayne. 

Counte  Patrik  of  Marche  ful  gentely  reseivid  king  Edward  in  to  his  castel  of  Dunbar, 
and  thens  the  king  cam  by  water  to  Berwik. 

•  Petrus  Lelandius  vicount  of  Edenburg. 

2o 


290  APPENDIX. 

Edwarde  de  Bruse,  brother  to  Bruse  kinge  of  Scottes,  desyring  to  be  also  a  king,  went 
yn  to  Ireland  with  great  poure,  supposing  to  conquere  it,  wher  he  remaynid  2.  yeres  and  a 
half,  doing  wonderful  feates,  and  proclayming  hyra  self  king  of  kinges  yn  Ireland.  But  at 
the  laste  he  was  slayn  of  the  Englischmen  at  Dundalge  yn  Irelande  by  his  owne  wilfulnes, 
that  wold  not  tary  for  his  ful  cumpany  that  were  almost  at  hand. 

King  Edwarde  sente  the  erle  of  Arundel  as  capitayne  yn  to  the  marches  of  Scotlande, 
where  he  soferid  reproche  by  James  Dugles  at  Lincelly  yn  the  forest  of  Jedworth,  and  ther 
was  Thomas  of  Richemont*  slayne. 

The  same  James  Duglas  discumfitid  the  garnison  of  Berwik  at  Staithmore,  wher  were 
many  Gascoynes  slayne. 

The  same  James  Duglas,  by  treason  of  the  marchers,  discomfitid  the  band  of  Englischmen 
at  Berwike,  wher  Robert  Neville  was  slayn,  the  which  Neville  had  afore  slayn  Richard 
Fitz  Marmaduke  at  the  olde  bridge  of  Duresme  for  despite  who  might  rule  moste. 

The  same  James  Duglas,  by  help  of  Patrike  counte  of  March,  and  Peter  Spalding  f  of 
Berwike,  got  Berwik  owt  of  the  Englischmeimes  handes.  But  the  castel  kept  a  xi.  wekes 
after,  and  then,  for  lak  of  vitaile  and  rescue,  was  gyvin  up.  Ther  Roger  Horseley,  the 
capitayn  of  the  castel  for  the  Englischmen,  lost  one  of  his  yes. 

Eymer  de  Valence,  counte  of  Penbroke,  goyng  toward  the  court  of  Rome,  was  taken  by 
one  John  de  la  Moiller,  a  Burglion  [Burgonion],  and  sent  to  the  emperor,  and  raunsomid 
for  20.  M.  poundes  of  sylver.  By  cause  the  saide  John  allegid,  that  he  servid  the  king  of 
England,  and  had  not  his  wages. 

Robert  de  Bruse  caussid  al  the  castelles  of  Scotland  to  be  beten  doun  saving  Dumbretain, 
wher  William  de  Sowles  was  put  for  treason  and  dyed. 

Gilbert  Midleton  about  this  tyme  made  riottes  in  Northumbreland,  robbing  ii.  cardi- 
nalles,  and  taking  Lewys  de  Beaumont  bisshop  of  Dursme,  and  Henry  Beaumont  his  bro- 
ther, by  cause  the  king  had  arrestid  Adam  de  Swineburne  his  cosyn,  by  cause  he  had 
spoken  of  the  marchers  maters  to  sharpely-  to  the  kinge  hym  self.  This  Midleton,  by  the 
abetting  of  other  marchers,  did  much  harme  in  Cleveland,  and  toke  all  the  castelles  of 
Northumbreland,  excepte  Alnewik,  Baniburg,  and  Northam. 

Gilbert  Midleton  was  taken  yn  his  owne  castel  of  Mitforde,  with  pryvi  intelligence  had 
with  his  owne  men,  by  Gul:  Felton,  Thomas  Heton,  and  Robert  Horneclife,  and  hangid, 
drawen,  and  quarterid  at  London. 

The  Scottes  cam  yn  to  the  marches  of  Engeland,  and  destroyed  the  castelles  of  Werk 
and  Herbotel,  and  over  ran  much  of  Northumbreland  marches. 

At  this  tyme  Thomas  Gray,  and  his  frendes  defendid  Norham  from  the  Scottes. 
It  were  a  wonderful  processe  to  declare  what  mischefes  cam  by  hungre  and  asseges  by 
the  space  of  xi.  yeres  in  Northumbreland.     For  the  Scottes  be  ca  to  be  so  proude,  after 
they  had  got  Berwik,  that  they  nothing  estemid  the  Englischmen. 

Aboute  this  tyme  there  was  a  greate  fest  made  yn  Lincolnshir,  to  which  cam  many  gen- 
til  men  and  ladies.     And  emonge  them  one  lady  brought  a  heulme  for  a  man  of  were,  with 

»  Thomas  of  Richemonte.  t  Petrus  Spalding. 


APPENDIX.  291 

a  very  riche  creste  of  golde,  to  William  Marmion  knight,  with  a  lettre  of  commaundenient 
of  her  lady,  that  he  should  go  in  to  the  daungerust  place  in  England,  and  there  to  let  the 
heualme  to  be  seene,  and  knowen,  as  famose.  So  he  went  to  Norham,  whither,  with  yn  4. 
dayes  of  cumming,  cam  Philip  Moubray,  gardian  of  Berwike,  having  yn  his  bande  140. 
men  of  armes,  the  very  flour  of  men  of  the  Scottisch  marches. 

Thomas  Gray,  capitayne  of  Norham,  seying  this,  brought  his  garison  afore  the  barriers 
of  the  castel,  behynde  whom  cam  William,  richly  arrayed,  as  al  glittering  in  gold,  and 
wering  the  heaulme  his  ladys  present, 
p.  549.  Then  sayd  Thomas  Gray  to  Marmion,  "  Syr  kmght,  ye  be  come  hither  to  fame  your 
"  helmet.  Mount  up  on  yor  horse,  and  ryde  lyke  a  valiant  man  to  yowr  *  even  here  at 
"  hand,  and  I  forsake  God  if  I  rescue  not  thy  body  deade  or  a  lyve,  or  I  myself  wyl  dye 
"  for  it." 

Wlierapon  he  toke  his  cursore,  and  rode  emong  the  throng  of  ennemyes,  the  which  layed 
sore  stripes  on  hym,  and  pullid  hym  at  the  last  oute  of  his  sadel  to  the  grounde. 

Then  Thomas  Gray  with  al  the  hole  garnison,  lette  prik  yn  emong  the  Scottes,  and  so 
wonded  them,  and  their  horses,  that  they  were  over  tlu'owen,  and  Marmyon  sore  beten 
was  horsid  agayn,  and  with  Gray  pursewid  the  Scottes  yn  chace.  There  were  taken  50. 
horses  of  price,  and  the  women  of  Norham  brought  them  to  the  foote  men  to  folow  the 
chace. 

Thomas  Gray  hym  self  killid  one  Cryne,  a  Fleming,  an  admiral,  and  great  robber  on 
the  se,  and  yn  hy  favor  with  Robert  Bruse.  The  resydew  that  escapid  were  chacid  to  the 
Nunnes  of  Berwik. 

Adam  de  Gordon,  a  baron  of  Scotland,  cam  with  160.  men  to  dryve  a  way  the  catel, 
pasturing  by  Norham,  but  the  yong  men  of  the  countery  ther  aboute  encounterid  with 
them,  whom  Thomas  Gray  seeing  to  stande  in  jeopardy,  went  owte  with  onely  60.  men, 
and  killid  most  parte  of  the  Scottes  and  their  horsis. 

This  same  Thomas  was  tuise  assigid  yn  the  castel  of  Norham  by  the  Scottes,  one  tyme 
by  the  space  almost  of  an  yere,  the  other  vii.  monithes. 

His  ennemies  made  forteresses  before  the  castel,  one  at  Upsedelington,  a  nother  yn  the 
chirch  of  Norham.  The  castel  was  tuise  vitailid  by  the  lord  Percy  and  Neville,  that  be 
cam  very  noble  men,  and  riche  and  great  socorers  of  the  marches  of  England. 

The  utter  ward  of  Norhani  castel  was  ons  taken  yn  Thomas  Grays  tyme,  on  the  vigile 
of  S.  Catarine,  but  they  kept  it  but  3.  dayes ;  for  theyr  purpose  yn  myning  fayllid  them. 

About  this  tyme  Gosselyn  Daivelf  caussid  the  maner  of  Allerton  to  be  made  warlike, 
[fist  en  forcer.] 

John  of  Ireland  ravishid  the  lady  Clifford. 

Great  hungre  was  aboute  this  tyme  in  Englande. 

King  Edward  kept  much  the  se  costes,  al  delighting  [in  shippes,  and  to  much  using  the 
vile  company  of  maryners,  wher  by  he  lost  much  favor  of  his  people. 

•  Sic.  t  Gosaelin  Daivel. 


292  APPENDIX. 

Wliil  king  Edward  layid  sege  to  Berwik,  the  Scottes  enterid  by  Cairluel  far  in  to  Eng-    p.  550. 
land,  and  discomfitid  the  Englisch  men  at  Mitton. 

Then  tlie  king  left  of  the  sege  of  Berwik,  supposing  to  have  faught  with  the  Scottes  yn 
his  mine,*  but  they  hering  that  the  sege  of  Berwik  was  left  (for  the  which  they  ragid)  they 
returnid  by  montaynes  and  waste  groundes  in  to  Scotland. 

John  de  Lilleburne  toke  the  castel  of  Knaresburg,  the  which  after  renderid  hym  self  to 
the  king  apon  condition. 

The  quene  Isabel  assegid  the  castel  of  Ledes,  to  whom  it  was  renderid.  For  the  barons, 
in  reverence  of  her,  wold  not  rescue  it. 

Souldiors  of  the  kinges,  going  with  hym  againe  toward  Scotland,  faught  with  the  com- 
munes of  the  toune  of  New  Castel,  at  the  very  bridg,  for  certen  displeasures ;  and  ther 
was  syr  John  Perith  knight  slayne,  and  other  esquiers,  longging  to  the  Conestable  and 
Marescal. 

King  Edward  beyng  at  Leth  to  go  to  Edenburg  was  constraynid  to  recoil  for  lak  of 
vitayle. 

Robert  Bruse  cam  with  a  great  pour  of  Scottes  in  to  Yorkshir,  and  King  Edward  being 
at  York,  and  hering  of  this,  cam  to  Blakehoumore,  with  such  pour  as  he  could  sodenly  ga- 
ther, and  toke  a  hylle  bi  Bylaund  abbay  for  his  fortresse,  wher  the  king  and  his  company 
were  discomfitid,  and  the  counte  of  Richeniont  taken,  and  the  lorde  Sully,  a  baron  of 
Fraunce,  and  many  other:  and  the  king  self  hardely  escapid  to  Rivalles  abbay. 

Then  the  Scottes  did  much  hurt  aboute  York,  and  the  wold  of  Yorkshir. 

Then  toke  Edwarde  peace  for  xiii.  yeres  with  the  Scottes. 

Edward  sent  his  brother  counte  of  Kent  yn  to  Gascoyne,  wher  he  loste  much,  and  wan 
naught. 

King  Edwarde  gave  the  dukedom  of  Gascoin  to  Edwarde  his  sunne,  but  the  barons  of 
Gascoyu  wold  bere  no  homage  to  hym,  but  alonly  to  the  corone,  during  his  father's  life. 

The  erle  of  Kent  left  the  war  of  Gascoyn,  and  cam  to  Parys  to  treate  with  the  erle  of 
Henaude  for  a  mariage  betwixt  Philip  the  countes  doughter,  and  prince  Edward  his 
nephew. 

King  Edward  hering  of  the  cumming  of  his  quene,  his  sunne,  and  Mortimer,  with  theyr 
host,  towarde  hym,  toke  shipping  at  Chepstow:  but  tempest  kept  hym  from  flying  xv.  dayes 
yn  the  Severn  se,  and  after  of  necessite  arrivid  yn  Glamorganshire. 

Many  of  the  kinges  household  cam  from  Chepstow  to  Bristow  to  the  quene. 

Donald,  erle  of  Marre  in  Scotland,  was  made  by  king  Edwarde  gardian  of  the  castel  of  p.  551. 
Bristow,  the  which  he  delyvered  to  the  quene,  and  so  repairid  into  Scotlande. 

Hugh  Dispensar  made  bargayne  with  certen  galays  of  Wales,  but  after  they  had 
attemptid  the  se  ii.  or  iii.  tymes  to  passe,  and  wind  servid  not,  they  delyvered  Hugh 
Dispensar  to  the  quene,  that  after  was  hangid,  drawen,  and  quarterid  at  Glocester. 

King  Edwarde  the  secunde  had  2.  sunnes,  Edwarde  that  was  crounid  king  he  beyng  a 
life,  and  John  f  that  was  after  counte  of  Cornewalle,  and  dyed  at  the  toun  of  S.  John  yn 

•  Sic.  t  Joannes  filius  Eiluardi  2,  comes  Cornub: 


APPENDIX.  293 

Scotlande,  having  no  issue.  Isabelle,  the  elder  doughter  of  this  Ednarde  the  2.  was 
maried  to  the  counte  of  Gelders,  that  after  was  made  duke.  The  secunde  doughter  was 
maryed  *sunne  to  Robert  Bruse  king  of  Scotlande. 

King  Edwarde  the  3.  sent  the  countes  of  Lancaster  and  Kent  with  these  lordes,  Wake, 
Ros,  Moubray,  and  Beaumont  to  Newcastel  apon  Tyne,  to  strenkith  the  marche.  Yet 
James  Duglas  cam  with  yn  3.  miles  of  them,  brenning  the  countery ;  and  they  for  lak  of 
knowlege  of  war,  kept  them  with  yn  Newcastelle. 

After  this  the  king  hym  self  cam  toward  Stanhop  with  a  great  host,  booth  of  Englisch 
men  and  of  estraungers,  and  after  loggid  at  Eiden,  when  they  had  cumpasid  the  bakkes 
of  the  Scottes  in  the  Scottisch  marches,  and  could  see  none  of  them.  Wherapon  proclama- 
tion was  made  yn  king  Edward  hoste,  that  he  that  could  discry  the  Scottish  host  shold  have 
a  100.  li.  land  by  the  yere.  Then  one  Thomas  Rokeby  brought  certein  newis,  that  the 
Scottish  host  was  at  Stanhop.  Wherapon  the  king  went  thither,  and  loggid  his  host  be- 
yond them  to  stop  theyr  flite. 

At  this  tyme  Archibald  Duglas  toke  great  prayes  in  the  bisshopriche  of  Duresme,  and 
encounterid  with  a  band  of  Englisch  men  at  Darlington,  and  killid  many  of  them. 

Shortely  after  the  Scottes  by  covine  fledde  clere  away  from  Stanhop  Park  in  the  night. 
Wherfore  the  yong  king  Edward  wept  tendrely,  and  returnid  to  York. 

Robert  Bruse  king  of  Scottes  had  assegid  the  castel  of  Norharu,  wher  Robert  Maners 
was  capitayne :  wich  with  his  garnison  issuid  oute  one  day,  and  discomfitid  the  Scottes, 
killing  William  Mouhand,  a  baron  of  Scotland. 

The  counte  of  Morref,  and  James  Duglas,  besegid  the  lorde  Percy  in  his  castel  of 
Alnewic:  but  they  sone  depertid  to  Robert  Bruse  theyr  king,  lying  at  the  seage  of  Nor- 
ham. 

The  counsel  of  king  Edward  sent  one  William  Denoun,  a  man  of  law,  to  Bruse  beseging 
p.  552.    Norham,  to  treate  for  a  mariage  betwixt  Johan,  king  Edwardes  sister,  and  David,  Robert 
Bruse  sunne. 

There  was  a  parlanient  set  after  this  at  York,  and  there  peace  was  concludid  betwixt  the 
Englischmen  and  the  Scottes,  and  al  the  wrytinges  of  the  homages  of  Scotland  to  England 
were  deliverid.  But  these  lordes,  Percy,  Wake,  Beaumont,  and  Souche,  wold  not  agre  apon 
this  condition,  that  the  Englischmen  shoulde  lese  such  landes  as  they  had  by  enheritance 
yn  Scotland. 

Henry  counte  of  Lancastre,  and  other  barons,  began  to  make  riottes,  as  not  content  with 
the  governement  of  quene  Isabel  and  Mortymer.  But  after  their  peace  was  made  to  the 
king  at  Bedeford,  saving  that  the  lord  Wak,  and  the  lord  Beaumont,  and  Thomas  Rus- 
selin  were  exceptid,  that  had  avoydid  the  reaulme  to  have  cum  agayn  with  strenkith. 

Ther  was  a  voyce  went  a  brode,  that  king  Edwarde  the  secunde  was  yet  alyve:  and 
with  this  tale  cam  one  of  the  erle  of  Marches  retinew  to  erle  of  Kent,  saying,  that  if  he 
wold  assist  hym,  he  might  be  brought  agayne  to  his  kingely  dignite.  And  the  erle  pro- 
misid  to  help  it  foreward ;  and  so  he  was  apon  thos  wordes  accusid  of  treason  to  Edward 

•  Sic  MS.  "  The  Sunne,"  sine  "  was,"  in  Excerptis  Galeanis, 


294  APPENDIX. 

the  3.  and  therapon,  by  the  meane  of  quene  Isabelle  and  Mortymer,  was  behedid  at  Win- 
chester. 

The  king  being  wery  of  the  governing  that  his  mother  and  Mortimer  had,  caussid  Mor- 
timer,  by  counsel  of  his  nobils,  to  be  taken  in  the  castel  of  Notingham. 

Hughe  Turpington,  stewarde  of  Edward  the  kinges  house,  and  favorer  of  the  govern- 
ment of  Isabelle  and  Mortymer,  was  ther  slayne  by  John  Neville  at  the  taking  of  Mor- 
timer. 

Mortimer  was  jugid  at  a  parlament  at  London  to  be  hangid,  drawen,  and  quarterid,  as 
a  traitor  for  thes  causses,  First,  for  consenting  to  the  death  of  Edward  the  secunde :  for 
caussing  the  erle  of  Kent  to  be  put  to  death :  for  disinheriting  the  king  of  his  homage  to 
be  had  of  the  Scottes;  and  for  destroying  the  kinges  treasor.  Then  the  lordes,  that  were 
banishid,  were  restorid  to  theyr  landes,  and  William  Montacute  was  chefe  of  counsel  with 
the  king,  and  al  way  gave  hym  good  counsel,  and  for  his  honor. 

The  Englisch  lordes  that  were  disinheritid  of  theyr  landes  in  Scotland  made  supplication 
to  king  Edwarde,  that  they  might  be  restorid  to  them.  The  king  sent  this  supplication  to 
the  counte  of  Murrefe,  theu  gardiane  of  Scotlande  in  the  nonage  of  king  Davy,  whos  father 
Robert  Bruse  dyed  of  the  lepre:  and  the  erle  sent  the  king  a  gentil  answer  in  wordes. 
But  for  lak  of  effect,  the  lord  Beaumont,  the  countes  of  Atheles  and  Anguse,  Richard 
Talbot,  Henry  Ferrars,  John  Moubray,  and  many  other:*  so  that  apon  they  found  meanys  p.  553. 
to  send  for  Edward  Bailliol,  (sunne  to  John  Bailliol,  late  king  of  Scotlande,)  the  which 
had  beene  owt  of  Scotland  30.  yeres.  And  he  toke  shipping  at  Ravinsher,  and  landid  at 
Kinkorn,  having  a  400.  men  of  armes  with  hym:  wher  the  counte  of  Fife  was  discomfitid, 
and  Alex:  Seton  the  sun  slain.  And  went  thens  to  Dunfermelin,  and  there  found  a  great 
numbre  of  staves,  wel  heddid  with  yren  of  the  purveying  of  Thomas  erle  of  Murref  dede  a 
xii.  dayes  afore:  and  thens  went  to  the  Toune  of  S.  John,  wher  they  found  a  great  band  f 
the  Scottes.  For  ther  the  lordes,  hering  of  the  arrival  of  Edward  Bailliol,  were  gatherid 
to  chose  a  gardian,  and  appointid  to  that  office  the  counte  of  Marre. 

The  lord  Beaumond,  seying  the  ennemyes  at  hand,  eneoragid  al  the  company,  with 
Bailliol  and  the  disenheritees,  appointing  to  passe,  over  the  water  of  Earne  by  the  night, 
and  manfully  to  sett  apon  the  Scottes,  very  erly  yn  the  morning.  And  yn  passing  over 
Roger  de  Sewarton  was  drownid,  and  they  set  fiersely  apon  the  varlettes  first  that  kept  the 
horsses  of  the  Scottisch  hoste,  and  went  forth,  and,  as  sone  as  any  day  apperid,  stoutely 
set  on  the  batelles  of  the  Scottes,  and  over  cam  them:  wher  were  slayn  the  counte  of 
Marrc,  Alexander  Fresil,  Robert  de  Bruse,  bastard  to  Robert  Bruse  king  of  Scotland,  and 
many  barons,  knightes,  and  esquiers.  Thens  Bailliol  and  the  barons  went  into  S.  Johns 
toune,  and  welle  fortified  it. 

But  with  yn  an  viii.  dajTes  of  the  batel  cam  an  infinite  numbre  oute  of  all  partes  of  Scot- 
land afore  S.  John's  toune,  and  sone  after  for  lak  of  vitayle,  were  constraynid  to  recoyle 
and  disparkle  themselves. 

After  the  barons  coronid  Edward  Bailliol  at  Stone. 

6  Sic  in  MS.  noslro,    Desiderantur  nerope  paucula,  qua;  ex  historicis  sunt  pctenda.  t  L.  "of  the  Scottes." 


APPENDIX.  295 

After  they  goyng  toward  Gateway  were  layd  for  by  Jedworth  by  Archibald  Duglas, 
whom  they  discomfitid,  and  toke  Robert  de  Lowedre  the  sunne,  with  other. 

After  they  went  to  Roxburg,  and  ther  Andrew  Murref,  gardian  of  Scoteland  for  David 
Bruse,  set  apon  them,  but  he  was  ther  taken  prisoner. 

Edward  Bailliol  went  toward  the  vale  of  Anaud,  and  Archibalde  Duglas  lay  by  the  way< 
to  take  prayes,  but  the  Englischnien  drave  hym  a  way,  and  killid  many  of  his  men. 

Embassadors  of  Scotland  cam  to  king  Eduard  to  his  parlament  at  York,  and  theyr  de- 
sirid  the  king  to  help  Davyd  his  brother  yn  law.     But  answer  was  made,  that  the  king 
p.  554.   could  not  help  them  agayn  his  subjectes,  whom  they  had  disenheritid. 

Edward  Bailliol  gave  up  Berwik,  Roxburg,  Dedingburg,  Pebilles,  and  Dunfres,  to  king 
Edward,  and  promisid  to  make  hym  homage  for  the  residew. 

After  that  the  hole  Englisch  hoste  had  faught  with  the  Scottes,  and  had  so  great  a  vic- 
tory* of  the  toune  of  Berwik  was  gyven  up  to  king  Edward.f 

The  secunde  yere  after  the  batel  of  Berwik,  Edward  Bailliol,  king  of  Scottes,  cam  to 
Newcastel  to  do  his  homage  to  king  Edward  of  England. 

Edward  Bailliol  beyng  at  Stryvelyn,  debate  and  envy  fel  emong  his  chief  councelars,  and 
apon  that  every  one  of  them  repayrid  to  theyr  holdes.  And  Edward  hym  self  cam  in  to 
England. 

Henry  Beaumont,  erle  of  Boghan  by  thenheritauce  of  his  wife,  went  to  Dungarg,  a  cas- 
tel  that  he  had  newly  fortyfied  yn  Boghan. 

The  counte  of  Atheles  repayrid  to  his  cuntery. 

Richard  Talbot  was  beyond  the  montaynes  yn  the  landes  of  thenheritance  of  his  wife, 
doughter  to  John  Comyn  of  Scotland,  and  hering  of  these  newes  went  toward  England,  and 
was  taken  in  Lownes. 

Henry  Beaumont  was  assegid  in  Dungarg,  wher  he  surrendred  his  castel  apon  condition 
that  he  might  frely  repayre  in  to  England. 

The  counte  of  Atheles  turnid  to  the  part  of  Davy  Bruse. 

So  that  al  the  Englisch  enheritors  of  Englischmen  in  Scotland  wer  none  left  of  any  great 
reputation. 

The  counte  of  March  held  on  the  Englische  kinges  part,  and  cam  to  hym  to  Newcastel 
apon  Tine,  and  goyng  homeward  agayn  was  sore  hurt  of  ille  people  in  Northumbreland 
for  covetusnes  of  mony  that  king  Edward  gave  hym. 

King  Edward  the  3.  repayrid  the  castel  of  Roxburg,  and  that  in  wynter,  that  was  beten 
doun  in  his  fathers  tyme,  and  after  went  to  London  to  prepare  shortely  to  returne  with  a 
great  host  yn  to  Scotland. 

At  this  tyme  was  Edwarde  de  Bowne,  king  Edwardes  cosyn,  drounid  yn  a  ryver  yn  the 
vale  of  Anande,  whil  he  went  yn  to  save  a  varlet,  that  toke  holde  of  his  shoulders,  and 
pullid  hym  oute  of  his  sadel.     The  varlet  was  savyd. 

King  Edward  sent  with  Eduard  Bailliol  the  countes  of  Warren,  Arundel,  Oxford,  and 

»  Sic.  t  The  balel  of  Berwik. 


296  APPENDIX. 

Angous,  and  the  lordes  Percy,  Neville  and  Latimer,  with  an  hoste  to  enter  by  Berwik  in 
to  Seotlande. 

King  Edward  hymself  went  yn  to  Scotland  by  Cairluel  with  the  flour  of  his  chevalry,    p.  555. 
having  also  with  hym  the  erle  of  Geders,  that  after  was  marquise  and  duke  with  a  greate 
bande  of  Alemayns. 

These  2.  hostes  mette  [cam  nere]  to  gether  about  the  ryver  of  Clude. 

There  was  a  great  trobylle  in  Bailliols  hoste  for  an  esquier  caullid  Gurnay,  whom  tiie 
marchers  killid  apon  a  surmise  that  one  of  name  was  consenting  to  the  deth  of  the  kinges 
father. 

Bailliol  got  the  castel  of  Combrenald  by  assaute. 

At  the  Toune  of  S.  John  yn  Scotland  the  counte  of  Atheles,  Godefray  de  Rose,  and 
Alexander  Moubray,  with  other,  cam  to  the  kinges  peace. 

Whil  king  Edwarde  lay  at  S.  John's  toune  the  counte  of  Nemure  cam  with  his  band  to 
Berwik,  and  so  be  land  thought  to  cum  to  king  Edward  of  England:  but  he  was  constraynid 
at  Edingburg  by  the  counte  of  Murref  to  take  the  roche  of  the  defacid  castel  of  Edingburg ; 
and,  apon  condition  that  after  he  should  not  bere  wepen  agayn  the  quarel  of  Davy  Bruse, 
he  was  soferid  to  returne  to  England.  The  Englischmen  that  were  with  hym  were  taken 
prisoners,  and  tlieyr  ranson  appointid. 

The  counte  of  Nemure  cam  agayn  to  Berwik,  and  in  company  of  the  quene  cam  to  S. 
John  Toune  by  the  se  to  king  Edwarde. 

The  counte  of  Murref,  about  this  same  tyme,  was  by  chaunce  taken  yn  the  marches  by 
one  William  Presfen. 

About  this  tyme  the  erle  of  Hulster  was  killid  yn  Ireland  of  his  own  people  (the  which 
counte  was  sunne  and  heyre  of  one  of  the  doughtters  of  the  erle  of  Glocester,  and  cosynto 
the  king  of  England)  whos  doughter  and  heyre  Lionel,  sunne  to  Eduarde  the  thyrde,  after 
maryed. 

Edwarde  the  3.  cam  from  S.  John's  Tounne  to  Edingburg  and  repayrid  the  castelle, 
whither  cam  Robert,  the  seneschal  of  Scotland  on  to  hys  peace.  This  Robert  was  sunne  to 
the  doughter  of  Robert  Bruse,  king  of  Scotland. 

King  Edward  put  a  great  garnison  yn  the  castel  of  Edinburg,  and  returnid  in  to  Eng- 
land. 

The  wyiiter  after  king  jEdward  sent  the  counte  of  Atheles  to  be  gardian  beyond  the 
Scottisch  se:  and  there  fightyng  with  Andrew  Murref,  with  the  counte  of  Marche,  and 
William  Duglas,  that  were  of  David  Bruse  part,  was  slayne. 

And  about  the  same  tyme  Thomas  Russelin  cumming  from  the  se  was  slayne  at  Dunoter, 
but  his  band  had  the  victory. 

The  somer  after  this  king  Edwarde  sent  his  brother  John  erle  of  Cornewale,  to  S.  John's  p.  556. 
Toune  in  Scotland  to  succurre  Bailliol,  and  after  dyed  ther  of  fayr  death. 

King  Edward,  hering  that  the  Scottes  had  appointid  to  fight  with  his  men  at  S.  John's, 
cam  yn  a  wonderful  spede  thither,  and  disapointid  their  purpose,  and  after  rode  beyond  the 
mountaynes  of  Scotland,  and  there  rescuid  the  counte  of  Atheles  wife,  that  was  besegid  yn 


APPENDIX.  297 

the  castcl  of  Loghindorni:  and  he  having  great  scarcite  of  raeate  in  his  hoste,  but  he  was 
holp  by  foraging  of  Robert  Ogul  and  other  rnarchiers.  Then  he  went  to  Strivelyn,  and 
repairid  the  castel. 

Thens  he  went  to  Botheville,  and  there  repayrid  the  castel  yn  *  wynter",  and  put  a 
strong  garnison  yn  it.  The  lord  Barklay  conveyid  vitailles  from  Edinbnrg  to  Bothe- 
ville, and  descomfitid  apon  a  night  William  Duglas,  that  lay  yn  wayte  to  intersepte  hym. 

King  Eduarde  lost  sone  after  al  the  castelles,  and  tounes,  that  lie  liad  fortified  for  lak  of 
diligent  pursuing  of  his  victory.  King  Eduarde  made  at  his  parlament  at  London  his  eldest 
sunne,  erle  of  Chester,  duke  of  Cornewalle.  *  Henry  of  *  Lancaster  f  was  made  erle  of 
Darby,  Willyam  de  Bowne  erle  of  Northampton,  Willyam  de  Montague  erle  of  Salisbyri, 
Hugh  de  Audeley  erle  of  Glocester,  Robert  Ufford  erle  of  Southfolk,  Guliam  Clinton  erle 
of  Huntingdon.  And  the  king  gave  such  landes  and  possessions  to  these  menne,  that  no 
very  great  surnme  of  landes,  apperteyning  to  the  corone,  was  lefte.  So  that  the  king  was 
fayne  to  ly  ve  of  subsidies,  and  taskes,  to  the  great  payn  of  his  J  people.* 

At  this  parlament  at  London  the  king  was  advisid  by  his  counsel  to  prosecute  his  title 
to  the  coroune  of  France. 

Wherapon  king  Edward  sent  embassadors  to  the  duke  of  Baver,  beyng  emperor,  that  had 
weddid  the  other  sister  of  the  erle  of  Henaude,  for  surety  of  alliaunce,  and  to  retayne  nobile 
men  about  hym  with  no  smaul  coste.  Henry  Burwasche  bisshop  of  Lincoln,  the  countes 
of  Saresbyri  and  Huntendune  were  the  embassadors,  and  returnid  to  the  parlament  at  Lon- 
don with  theyr  answere. 

Andrew  de  Murref,  gardian  of  Scotland  for  David  Bruse,  did  much  hurt  in  the  counte 
of  Cairluel,  and  thens  went  to  assege  the  castel  of  Edinburg,  yet  in  the  Englisch  mennes 
handes. 

The  marchers  of  England,  hering  of  the  sege  of  Edenburge,  cam  to  rescue  it.     So  that 

the  cam  thens  to  Clerkington;  and  the  Englischmenne  cam  to  Krethtoun,  where  betwixt 

p.  557.    them  and  the  Scottes  was  a  great  fighte,  and  many  slayne  on  both  parties.     Then  the 

Scottes  made  as  they  wold  go  yn  to  England,  and  loged  them  self  at  Galuschel,  and  the 

Englisch  went  over  Twede. 

The  erle  of  Saresbyri,  that  was  nere  of  pryvi  counsel  with  king  Edwarde,  tolde  hym,  that 
is  alliaunce  with  themperour,  and  the  Alemayn,  was  very  costely,  and  to  a  smaul  profite  to 
hym.  And  apon  this  the  king  went  toward  Scotland  to  excuse  hym  of  the  farther  intelli- 
gence with  the  Alemayns,  and  toke  the  countes  of  Arundel  and  Glocestre  with  hym, 
and  the  lordes  Percy  and  Neville  to  the  sege  of  Dunbar,  on  til  he  cam  to  Whitekirk,  and 
ther,  for  other  of  his  afieres,  could  not  be  at  the  sege.  But  the  lordes  lay  al  Lent,  and 
to  Pentecoste,  on  tylle  the  bishop  of  Liucollne,  and  the  counte  of  Saresby  wer  cum  again 
from  the  Allemayns.  So  at  the  last  the  alliaunce  with  the  Alemans  was  taken  by  king  Ed- 
warde: and  then  the  lordes  being  at  a  point  of  rendering  the  castel  of  Dunbar,  hering  that 
they,  that  lettid  the  king  passage  in  to  Fraunce  for  prosecuting  his  title  thereof,  shuld  be 

«  Aslericura  supra  hanc  vneem  posuit  Lelandus.  t  Sic  in  MS.  nimirum  cum  aslericis  duob:  uno  in  texu,  altero  in 

margine.  £  Sic,  cum  asteiisco. 

2p 


298  APPENDIX. 

countid  as  traditors,  disloggid  them  self  thens  with  treuues,  lest  they  should  have  bene 
eountid  as  letters  of  the  kingges  passage. 

King  Edward  went  over  to  Antwerp,  keping  great  justes  there:  wher  also  his  sunne 
Lionel  was  borne.* 

The  marchers  of  Scotland,  that  were  left  behind  the  lordes  that  went  in  to  Scotland, 
where  discomfitid  at  Presfen.  Robert  Maners  was  taken,  with  many  other  prisoners,  and 
many  slain :  because  that  for  certen  displesaunt  wordes  emong  them  self,  they  brake  order, 
and  faught  in  an  onconvenient  place. 

King  Edward,  with  yn  2.  monithes  of  his  arrival  yn  to  Fraunce,  went  to  themperor  Lewis 
to  Colayne,  wher  king  Eduardes  title  to  the  corone  of  Fraunce  was  pronouncid  as  good. 
Whil  Edwarde  was  in  Braban  the  Frenche  galays  cam  to  Hampton,  and  toke  the  toune 
by  assaute,  and  destroyed  it:  but  taryid  not  ther;  and  toke  goyng  thens  4.  Englisch 
shippes  lying  be  Midleburge,  tarying  to  know  wither  Edwarde  wold  commaund  them  any 
service. 

King  Eduarde  was  made  vicar  general  of  thempire,  and  they  to  be  at  his  commaunde- 
ment. 

King  Edward  sent  for  the  duke  of  Braban  his  cosyn  germayn,  for  the  duke  of  Gelder 
that  had  maryed  his  sister,  and  for  the  marquis  of  Julcrs  his  brother  in  law  to  mete  with 
hyin  at  a  certen  day  to  enter  into  the  marches  of  Fraunce. 

The  Englisches  and  the  Alraayns  assegid  Honicourt,  but  they  could  not  take  it:  at  the 
which  assaute  Thomas  Poninges  was  slayn,  and  other  good  Englisch  menne.  p.  558. 

The  king  of  Fraunce  cam  to  Berenfos  with  yn  2.  miles  of  the  Englisch  host. 
The  king  of  England  remivid  for  lak  of  vitaile  to  Avayne;  wher  felle  varyaunce  be- 
twixt the  Englisch  men  and  sum  of  the  Almayns,  so  that  in  the  night  the  Almayns  killid 
and  spoillid  certen  Englisch  men  yn  a  litle  village  ther  by,  and  so  departid. 

King  Edward  went  bak  to  Antwarp,  wher  the  lordes  did  hyin  homage  as  the  very  king 
of  Fraunce.  And  he  toke  to  hyin  the  armes  of  Fraunce  at  Gaunt:  and  ther  was  Johnf 
his  sun  borne. 

King  Edwarde  returnid  for  a  tynie  into  England,  and  lefte  the  countes  of  Saresbyri  and 
Southfolk  his  gardians  in  Braban,  which,  by  reason  of  a  folisch  yorney  enterprisid  by  them, 
were  taken  a  fore  Lisle  of  the  French  men,  and  sent  prisoners  to  Paris. 
The  erle  of  Warwik  was  made  gardian  of  Flaunders  for  king  Edward. 
King  Edwarde  having  his  horses  redy  shippid  to  passe  over  at  Orwel  to  his  allies,  hering 
that  the  navy  of  Fraunce,  and  the  admiral  of  Normandy  lay  at  Scluse  to  stop  vitaile,  and 
let  his  passage,  sent  his  horses  to  land  agayn,  and  forth  sailid  to  Scluse,  and  the  morow 
after  S.  Johns  day  in  somer  faught  with  the  French  navy,  and  got  a  glorius  victory. 

King  Edwarde  layed  sege  to  Turnay,  wher  yn  was  the  counte  of  Owe,  conestable  of 
Fraunce,  and  the  counte  of  Foys,  with  xv.c.  men  of  armes:  and  when  he  had  lyen  a  xi. 
wckes  at  the  sege,  Philip  Valoyce,  that  caullid  hym  self  king  of  Fraunce,  cam  with  yn  a  2. 

*  Lionel  borne  yn  Flaunders.  t  Joannes  de  Gandavo. 


APPENDIX.  299 

myles  of  Tumay  with  his  great  hoste,  and  there  began  treatice,  and  there  conclusion  was 
made  for  trewys  for  one  yere,  and  that  prisoners  shoulde  be  delyvered  on  booth  partes: 
wherapon  the  erles  of  Saresbyri  and  Sothfolk  wher  delyvered  to  king  Edwarde,  and  rnon- 
seir  Montruarauncy,  that  was  taken  at  the  sege  of  Turnay,  with  other,  to  Philip  Valoys: 
And  that  the  obligations,  wher  yn  the  Fleminges  were  so  straitly  bounde  yn  the  court  of 
Rome  that  they  should  beare  no  armure  agayn  the  corone  of  Fraunce,  shoul  be  cassate,  and 
utterly  voyde. 

Wiil  the  king  was  at  the  sege  of  Turnay,  the  erles  of  Marche  and  Sothirland  made  a 
rode  yn  to  England,  and  were  discomfitid  by  Thomas  Gray  there. 

Robert  Maners,  and  John  Coplande,  with  the  garnison  of  Roxburg,  then  yn  the  Englisch 

raennes  handes,  but  after  won  by  covyne  of  the  Scottes  on  Ester  day,  at  the  very  hour 

p.  559.     of  the  Resurrextion.    But  al  they  that  were  capitayne  of  this  covyne  dyed  after  an  il  death. 

Alexander  Ramsey,  capitayne  of  this  deade,  dyed  for  hunger,  put  in  prison  for  very  envy 

that  Wylliam  Duglas  bare  hym. 

King  Edwarde  repayrid  into  England,  and  was  in  jeopardy  of  drouning  at  the  Tamys 
mouth,  and  at  his  arrival  caussid  his  treasorers  to  be  arrestid,  by  cause  he  was  so  il  furnishid 
of  rnony:  the  which  was  the  great  cause  of  leving  of  his  sege  at  Turnay. 

The  wynter  after  the  sege  of  Turnay  king  Edward  went  to  Melros,  and  rode  thorough  part 
of  the  forest  of  Etrik  in  a  very  il  season,  and  cam  to  Melros  agayne,  wher  Henry,  erle  of 
Darby,  sunne  and  heyre  to  Henry  counte  of  Laneastre,  justid  with  Wylliam  Duglas  by 
covenaunt  yn  the  kinges  syte. 

The  *  king"  Edward  taking  a  trews  departid  from  Melros  half  in  a  melancholy  with  them 
that  movid  hym  to  that  yornay. 

The  counte  of  Derby  went  to  Berwik,  and  there  were  justes  of  werre  by  covenaunt  with 
yn  the  toune  of  many  knightes  and  esquiers :  and  ther  were  killid  ii.  Englisch  knightes. 

This  season  David  Bailliol  cam  j  out"  of  Fraunce,  and  yn  the.  wynter  after,  about  Candel- 
mas,  made  a  roode  in  to  the  Englisch  marches,  and  brent  much  corne  and  houses:  and  yn 
somer  after  he  made  a  rode  yn  to  Northumbreland  on  to  Tyne. 

The  same  yere  debate  rose  in  Britayne,  by  the  death  of  John  duke  there,  betwixt  the 
counte  Montforte,  brother  by  half  bloode  to  duke  John,  and  Charles  de  Bloys,  that  had  to 
wife  the  doughter  to  the  counte  of  Penthuvir,  brother  to  duke  John  by  father  and  mother. 
Counte  Montfort  escapid  out  of  prison  in  Fraunce,  and  cam  to  king  Edward  as  king  of 
Fraunce,  and  Edwarde  mayntenid  his  quarel,  and  sent  Water  Mauney  yn  to  Britayne ;  and 
after  sent  the  counte  of  Northampton  into  Britayne,  as  his  lieutenant,  with  Robert  of  Ar- 
toys,  that  dyed  ther  on  fayr  death. 

The  counte  of  Northampton!  faught  with  the  barons  of  Britayne  and  great  pour  of 
Fraunce  at  Morlays,  and  discomfitid  them,  wher  Gefrray  de  Charny  was  taken. 

King  Edwarde  cam  yn  to  Bretayne,  and  assailid  the  toune  of  Vanes,  wher  ii.  cardinales 
cam  to  make  treuse  betwene  the  kinges,  and  the  toune  was  delyverid  to  them ;  but  king 
Eduarde  wan  it  afterwarde. 

«   Bis  habelur.  t  Hsec  etiam  vox  bis  occurit,  $  Bohun  comes  Avonia:  Mediterranean. 


300  APPENDIX. 

King  Edwarde  with  great  peril  of  tempest,  and  ther  he  gave  his  eldest  sonne  the  prin-    p.  560. 
cipalite  of  Wales. 

The  countes  of  Saresbyri  and  Southfolk,  that  had  beene  prisoners  yn  Fraunce,  and  were 
deliverid  for  the  counte  of  Murref  in  Scotland,  and  3000.  poundes  sterlinges,  with  many 
other  knightes  of  England,  toke  there  yorney  into  Spayne  to  the  fronter  of  Granate  to  the 
sege  of  Algesirs,*  a  great  toune  of  the  Saracenes  apon  the  straites  of  Marok,  that  the  good 
king  Alphonsus  had  besegid,  and  after  wan  it  by  famyne. 

King  Edwarde  made  a  great  fest  at  Wyndesore  at  Christemes,  wher  he  renewid  the 
Round  Table,  and  the  name  of  Arture,  and  ordenid  the  order  of  the  Garter,  making  Sainct 
George  the  patrone  thereof. 

King  Edward  sent  an  army  yn  to  Flaunders  by  the  meane  of  James  Arteville,  capitayn 
of  the  communes  of  Flaunders,  the  which  when  they  saw  J  the  army  [at  Scluse]  they  [of 
Gaunt]  cutte  of  Artevilles  hed. 

King  Edward  sent  the  counte  of  Derby,  the  erle  of  Lancasters  sunne,  with  many  gentil 
men  yn  to  Gascoyne,  wher  he  discomfitid  his  ennemyes  at  Albaroche.  Ther  the  erls  of 
Lisle  and  Valentinoys  wer  taken,  and  ther  they  did  many  great  feates  of  armes  beside. 

The  baron  of  Staford,  J  that  after  was  erle,  and  many  other  Englisch  men  were  besegid 
yn  Agiloune  yn  Gascoyne  by  John  duke  of  Normandy,  eldest  sunne  to  Philip  king  of 
Fraunce:  but  he  left  the  sege  be  cummyng  of  king  Eduarde  yn  to  Normandy. 

King  Edward  sent  the  counte  of  Northampton  and  Oxford,  with  counte  Montfort  in  to 
Britayn,  that  claymid  to  be  duke  there,  and  that  shortely  after  dyed  there  of  fayr  death. 
The  aforesayd  counte  assegid  the  toune  of  Kemperkaretyne,  and  at  the  laste  toke  it  by 
assaute. 

Charles  de  Bloys  cam  with  great  pour  to  rescue  the  toune,  and  the  aforesaid  erle  cam 
foreward  to  fight  with  them ;  but  yn  dede  they  fought  not  to  gither. 

The  counte  of  Northampton  rode  through  the  cuntery,  and  wan  the  toun  of  Roehedirien 
by  assaut,  and  so  returnid  yn  to  England  with  yeopardy  of  tempest.  Thomas  Dagworth 
sent  warden  yn  to  Brytainne,  anone  after  this  fought  with  Charles  de  Bloyse,  and  put  hym 
to  flyte.  A  nother  tyme  he  layd  wayte  for  Charlys  de  Bloys,  where  he  had  assegid  Roehe- 
dirien, and  toke  hym,  and  sent  hym  prisoner  yn  to  England.  And  at  this  tyme  were  many  p.  561. 
of  the  barons  of  Britayn  slayn.  Abowt  this  season  king  Edwarde  landid  at  Oges  in  Nor- 
mandy, and  wan  the  towne  of  Cane  by  force,  wher  the  counte  of  Owe  [Ew],  the  conestable 
of  Fraunce,  and  Tankerville  the  chambreleyn  wer  taken  and  sent  yn  to  Englande. 

King  Edward  went  up  yn  Lenght  yn  Normandy  apon  the  ryver  of  Sene,  wher  al  the 
bridges  wer  broken,  and  made  the  bridg  of  Pontoyse,  wher  many  French  men  wer  slayn. 

Then  went  king  Edwarde  thorough  Beauvoisin  and  Pykardy  to  the  water  of  Sowme,  wher 
a  great  sorte  of  Frenchmen,  wylling  to  stop  the  passage  were  slayn. 

Philip  Valoyse  cam  with  his  great  hoste  to  have  stoppid  king  Edward  at  the  passage  of 
Soum,  but  he  was  over  or  he  cam. 

«  Algesiers  won  partely  by  the  aide  of  Englisch  men.  t  Sic  in  autogr.     "  The  army  (at  Scluse)  they  cutte  of 

Artevilles  hed,"  in  excerplis  Galeanis.  %  The  first  erle  of  Statfford  of  the  Staffoides. 


APPENDIX.  301 

King  Edward  passing  the  forest  of  Crescy  was  sodenly  beset  with  Philip  Valoys  great 
hoste :  but  yet  he  chase  a  plott  of  ground  equal  to  fight  yn,  and  wan  a  great  victory  of  liym; 
wher  wer  taken  John  king  of  Boheme,  the  duke  of  Loreyne,  the  counte  of  Alaunsun,  the 
brother  of  Philip  Valoys  that  caullid  hym  self  king  of  Fraunce,  the  counte  of  Flaunders, 
and  many  other  countes. 

King  Edward  went  thens  to  Calays,  wher  he  lay  a  whole  yere  at  the  sege. 

King  Davy  of  Scotland,  yn  the  meane  while,  wan  agayne,  part  by  strenght,  part  by  trea- 
son, part  by  famyne,  al  the  holdes  that  king  Eduard  had  yn  Scotland,  saving  the  only  toun  of 
Berwik.  And  the  tyme  of  the  ii.  firste  monithes  of  the  assege  of  Calays,  he  enterid  ons  in 
somer  in  to  the  parties  of  Cairluelshir ;  and  a  nother  by  Sulwath,  and  after  assaylid  the  pile 
of  Lidel,  and  wan  it  by  assaute,  and  then  cut  of  the  hedde  of  Water  Selby  capitayne  there, 
that  afore  had  beene  of  the  covyn  of  Gilbetert  Midleton,  that  kept  Mitford  Castel  and  Hor- 
ton  pile  agayn  king  Eduarde.  Davy  king  of  Scottes  went  forth  in  to  the  bisshoprik,  and 
there  did  much  hurte,  wher  the  archbishop  of  York,  the  counte  of  Angous,  the  lorde  Percy, 
the  lorde  Neville,  and  lord  Moubray,  with  other  marchers  wan  the  batelle,  and  John  Cop- 
lande  toke  hym  prisoner.  The  countes  of  Murref  and  Strathern  wer  killid,  and  also  Mo- 
rice  Murref,  with  many  barons,  banerettes,  and  knightes  wer  killid.  The  counte  of  March, 
and  the  seneschal  of  Scotland,  fled.  The  counte  of  Marche  was  taken,  and  the  counte  of 
Menteth,  that  shortely  afterwards  was  hangid  and  drawen  at  London.  Wylliam  Duglas, 
that  had  greatly  holp  the  quarel  of  king  David,  was  restorid  to  his  castel  of  the  Heremitage, 
apon  conditions  that  he  never  after  should  bere  wepen  agayn  king  Edwarde,  and  alway  be 
ready  to  take  his  part.  This  Duglas  was  sone  after  slayn  of  the  lorde  Wylliam  Duglas  yn 
the  forest  of  Selkirk. 

Many  lordes,  knightes,  and  esquires  of  Scotland,  taken  yn  batayle  with  theyr  king 
David,  wer  sodenly  ransomid,  the  which  after  they  cam  yn  to  Scotland,  made  great  riottes 
agayn.  After  this  batayle  cam  to  the  king  of  Englands  peace  the  countes  of  Berwik,  Rox- 
burg,  Peblys,  and  Dunfres,  with  the  forestes  of  Selkirk  and  Etrik ;  the  valleis  of  Anand, 
Nide,  Esk,  Euwide,  Muffet,  Tevyot,  with  the  forest  of  Jedworth.  The  castelles  also  of 
Roxburg  and  Hermitage  wher  delyverid  in  to  the  Englisch  mennes  handes. 

King  Edwarde  lay  stille  afore  Calays,  and  there  the  counte  of  Flanders  practisid  with 
hym  to  have  his  doughter  Isabelle. 

King  Philip  of  Fraunce  *  to  the  borders  of  Calays  to  remeve  the  sege ;  but  he  prevailid 
not. 

Calays  beyng  over  cum  with  famyne,  the  capitayne  and  burgeses  of  the  toune  cam  with 
halters  about  theyr  nekkes,  submitting  them  self  to  king  Edwarde:  the  which  put  a  right 
strong  garnison  yn  the  toune,  and  so  cam  yn  to  Englande. 

Then  cam  to  king  Edward  messagers  from  Rome  to  treate  for  peace  for  viii.  yeres 
folouing. 

About  this'tyme  the  electors  of  the  empire  sent  to  king  Edward,  offering  hym  theyr  voyces 
to  be  emperor,f  Lowys  of  Bavar  beyng  deade.    But  he  for  his  other  great  afferes  refusid  it, 

•  Sic.  t  Edwarde  the  3.  refuBid  to  be  emper  Jur. 


302  APPENDIX. 

and  then  was  electid  Charles  king  of  Boeme,   sun  to  king  John,  that  was  killid  at  the 
hatail  of  Crescy.     This  Charles  electid  emperor  fled  at  the  batail  of  Crescy. 

Henry  duke  de  Lancastre  chalengid  at  the  coronation  of  Charles  themperor  at  Rome  a 
greate  part  of  Province,  the  which  by  deathe  of  his  auncestors  was  fallen  to  hym,  by  rea- 
son of  his  fathers  mother  quene  of  Navar. 

King  Edward  had  prepared  to  armyes,  one  at  Sandewiche  and  a  nother  at  Orwelle,  to 
go  yn  to  Flounders,  to  thentent  to  help  them  of  Gaunt  and  Ypers,  the  which  wer  at  debate 
with  them  of  Bruges  for  his  quarel.     But  trewse  taken  betwxt  them  brake  this  yorney. 

Kino-  Edward  knowing  a  pryvy  practise  that  a  Genuoyse  of  the  garnison  of  Calays  had 
for  a  great  sumnie  of  mony  with  the  French  king  for  delyveraunce  of  Calays  cam  very 
secretly  thither,  and  caussing  as  many  of  the  French  men  to  be  let  yn  as  might  be  welle 
over  cum,  slew  them,  and  brake  al  their  purpose:  and  there  was  taken  Geffray  Charnay 
very  prive  of  the  French  kinges  counsel,  and  a  great  cause  of  thys  conspiracy. 

Geffray  Charney  delyverid  for  raunsom  toke  in  a  castel  the  aforesaid  Genuoyse,  whom     P-  56T 
king  Edward  had  made  knight,  and  for  he  had  bene  cause  of  his  taking  he  put  the  Genuoyse 
to  great  tormentes. 

King  Edward  faught  with  a  navy  of  the  Spanyardes  cummyng  from  Flaunders  (by  causse 
i  hey  had  *  afore"  done  hys  navy  greate  hurte)  and  vanquishid  them  taking  many  great 
shippes  of  Castelle. 

The  Englisch  men  of  the  garnison  of  Calays  toke  the  castel  of  Gisnes. 

The  Englischmen  toke  a  great  parte  of  the  eounte  of  Bretayne,  wher  Thomas  Dag- 
wort  theyr  capitayne,  a  man  to  hy  a  corage  to  fly,  was  slayne  yn  a  skirmouche  of  the 
French  menne.     This  Thomas  Dageworth  had  often  tymes  over  cum  the  French  menne. 

Gualter  Bente  was  gardian  of  Bretain  after  Dagworth  did  wondrous  feates  yn  Britayne : 
but  after  he  was  put  yn  the  tour  by  fals  suggestion,  as  it  was  said. 

King  Eduarde  and  his  counsel  wher  much  occupied  by  the  space  of  a  peace  of  viii.  yeres, 
procurid  as  it  was  spoken  of  afore  by  the  messagers  of  Rome;  and  for  the  delyveraunce  of 
king  David  of  Scotland,  and  Charlis  de  Bloys  duke  of  Bretayn,  the  which  had  beene,  in  these 
space  of  viii.  yeres,  yn  divers  castelles  on  England  yn  prison.  In  this  tyine  was  a  very  great 
pestilence  yn  England,  and  many  noble  men  dyed  of  it  beside  the  communes.  In  this  sea- 
son at  a  parlament  was  Henry  eounte  of  Lancastre  made  duke,  and  Rafe  Stafford  eounte. 

Henry  duke  of  Lancastre  made  after  a  rode  to  Boloyne.  And  this  Henry  was  at  a  nother 
tyme  yn  wynter  in  Spruce  [Prussia]:  but  his  yorney  faillid  to  fight  with  the  infideles. 
Henry  went  thens  to  Cracow,  whither  the  Tartares  enterid,  and  were  departid  a  litle  afore 
his  cummyng.  Henry,  at  his  cummyng  to  Colayne,  fel,  by  chaunce,  at  hy  wordes  with 
the  duke  of  Brunswik,  that  gave  hym  gage  of  bataile,  and  receyvid  it,  and  had  leve  of  king 
Eduarde  to  try  it.  The  bataille  was  apointid  at  Parise  before  Jolin  king  of  Fraunce ;  and 
there  they  were  armid  an  a  horse  bak  redy  to  fight,  but  king  John  toke  up  the  quarel. 
Henry  laborid  sore  for  the  peace  of  viii.  yeris  afore  spoken  of,  yn  so  much  that  at  the  last, 


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by  great  difficulte,  it  was  concludid  apon  conditions  at  Avinion  afore  certavn  cardinales  and 
the  counsel  of  Fraunce.     But  this  peace  cam  to  right  smaul  effect. 

About  this  tynie  John  Beauchamp,  that  was  capitayne  of  Calays,  was  taken  aboute  Arde 

goyng  owt  of  Calays :  wher  the  syre  Beauin,  capitayne  of  the  French  band,  was  slayn  ; 

p.  5G4.     but  the  French  men,  beyng  iiii.  tymes  doble  as  many  as  the  Englische  men,  had  the  victory. 

Clement  was  bisshop  of  Rome  *  after  Benedict.     This  Clement  was  a  monk  of  Cluny 

ordre,  and  archbisshop  of  Roan,  and  had  beene  before  prior  of  a  celle  of  the  French  ordre  in 

Englande.     He  was  a  good  clerk  in  divinite. 

In  the  meane  whyle  that  king  Davy  was  prisoner,  the  lordes  of  Scotland,  by  a  litle  and 
a  litle,  wan  al  that  they  had  lost  at  the  bataille  of  Duresme :  and  there  was  much  envy 
emong  them  who  might  be  hyest;  for  every  one  rulid  yn  his  owne  cuntery:  and  king 
Eduarde  was  so  distressid  with  his  afferes  beyound  the  se,  that  he  toke  litle  regard  to  the 
Scottisch  matiers. 

At  this  tyme  a  baronet  of  France,  caullid  Garenceris,  cam  with  50.  men  of  armes  yn  to 
Scotland,  and  brought  with  hyin  x.  m  .  niarkes  of  the  French  kinges  treasor  to  be  gyven 
emong  the  prelates  and  barons  of  Scotlande,  apon  the  condition  that  they  should  breke  their 
trewis  with  the  king  of  England,  and  mak  werre  apon  hym. 

About  this  tyme  in  playne  parlament  the  jugement  of  Mortymer,f  that  was  erle  of  March 
by  king  Eduards  gift,  was  revokid  at  London ;  and  so  was  the  sunne  of  the  sunne  of  Roger 
Mortymer  restorid  to  the  therledom  of  Marche,  and  to  al  his  possessions,  by  the  meanes 
of  his  great  frendes,  that  allegid  that  Mortimer  dyed  with  oute  answering  to  such  thynges 
as  were  layid  agayne  hym. 

About  this  tyme  king  Edward  was  long  deteynid,  by  reason  of  a  treatice  of  alliance  be- 
twixt the  king  of  Navar,  that  was  the  sumie  of  the  erle  of  Ewerous  and  hym.  The  which 
alliaunce  by  tretice  afore  was  offerid,  when  Henry  duke  of  Lancastre  was  at  Avinion. 
Apon  the  which  king  Edwarde  was  with  his  navy  apon  the  costes  of  Gascoyn  the  hole 
somer  for  performance  of  this  alliaunce.  But  his  yorney  faillid.  For  the  king  of  Navar 
though  to  have  more  avantage  at  the  French  kinges  hand. 

King  Edward  went  with  his  hoste  to  Calays,  and  rode  thorough  Artoys  and  Pykaidx. 
destroying  700.  paroches.  And  apon  this  king  John  of  Fraunce,  sumwhat  to  redubbe  the 
rebuke  of  king  Eduardes  actes  in  his  reaulme,  sent  his  marescal  to  king  Edwarde,  that  he 
should  apoint  a  day  by  gages.  And  king  Edwarde  assignid  the  place  in  the  marches  of 
Calays;  but  king  John  cam  not  nere  it  by  viii.  lieus. 

At  this  season  Eduard  the  prince  of  Wales  was  sent  by  king  Edward  with  a  1000.  men 
of  armes,  and  the  erles  of  Warwike,  Oxford,  Saresby,  and  Sothfolk,  yn  to  Gascoyn,  the 
p.  565.  which,  with  the  Gascoynes,  rode  over  the  Lilies  of  Langedok  with  yn  2.  dayes  yorney  of 
Avinion,  and  brennid  the  suborbes  of  Narbone,  and  destroyed  Karkason,  and  the  counteries 
about:  and  yn  their  returning  to  Burdeaux  rode  over  the  counte  of  Ermeniak  [Erminak], 
and  cam  to  Burdeaux  with  out  batail. 

of  Marc™"'  bi$Sh°P  "'  R°™  ^  ^^  *  *'""  *"  Eng,amle-  *  RoSer9  MortinsB  heir  was  restorid  to  the  erledom 


304  APPENDIX. 

"  In  the  same  tyrne  the  Englisehmen  that  wer  in  Britayne  vanquishid  the  vicounte  of  Roan, 
and  tlie  syre  Beaumaners.  This  Beaurtianers  had  afore  fought  with  the  Englisehmen  by 
covenant  30.  to  30.  The  Englisehmen  at  the  begynning  had  the  better :  but  at  the  ende 
they  were  vanquishid. 

The  lordes  Percy  and  Neville,  gardians  of  the  Englisch  marches,  toke  trewis  with  the 
lorde  William  Dugles  at  the  tyme  that  he  had  conquerid  the  landes  that  the  Englisch  men 
had  won  of  the  Scottes. 

Patrik  erle  of  March,  that  was  *  patisid  with  Garaunceris  the  baron  of  Fraunce,  king 
John  of  Fraunce  agent  ther,  wold  not  consent  to  this  trews,  and  so  with  other  cam  yn 
roode  to  the  castel  of  Norham,  and  imbuschid  them  self  apon  the  Scottisch  side  of  Twede, 
sending  over  a  banaret  with  his  baner,  and  400.  men  to  forage,  and  so  gathering  prayes 
drove  them  by  the  castelle. 

Thomas  Gray  (conestable  of  Norham,  sunne  to  Thomas  Gray  that  had  beene  3.  tymes 
besegid  by  the  Scottes  in  Norham  eastel  yn  king  Edwarde  the  secunde  dayes)  seing  the 
communes  of  England  thus  robbid,  issuid  out  of  Norham  with  few  mo  the  50.  menne  of  the 
garnison,  and  a  few  of  the  communes,  and,  not  knowing  of  Patrikes  band  be  hynd,  wer  by 
covyn  be  set  both  before  and  behind  with  the  Scottes.  Yet  for  al  that  Gray  with  his  men 
lightting  apon  foote  set  apon  them  with  a  wonderful  corage,  and  killid  mo  of  them  than 
they  did  of  thenglisch  men.  Yet  wer  there  vi.  Scottes  yn  numbre  to  one  Englisch  man, 
and  cam  so  sore  on  the  communes  of  England,  that  they  began  to  fly,  and  then  was  Thomas 
Gray  taken  prisoner.  Patrik  of  Dunbar  counte  of  Marche,  and  Thomas  le  Seneschal,  that 
eaullid  hym  self  counte  of  Angus,  one  and  twenty  dayes  after  this  preparid  them  self  apon 
a  nighte  with  scaling  laders  cumming  to  Berwik,  and  with  yn  vi.  dayes  after  tok  be  assaute 
one  of  the  strongest  toures  of  Berwik,  and  enterid  the  toun. 

This  tydinges  was  brought  to  king  Edwarde  at  his  very  landing  at  Calays  yn  to  England. 
Wherfore  he  taried  at  his  parlanieut  apointid  at  London  but  3.  dayes,  and  with  al  spede 
cam  to  Berwike,  and  enterid  the  eastel,  and  then  the  burgeses  tretisid  with  hym,  and  the 
toune  of  Berwik  was  redelyverid  ful  sore  agayn  the  Scottes  wylle  to  king  Edwarde. 

King  Edward  went  to  Rokesburg,  and  there  the  xxvi.  day  of  January,  anno  D.  1355.  p.  556 
Edward  Bailliol  king  of  Scottes  resignid  his  corone,  and  al  his  title  of  Scotland,  to  king 
Edwarde,  saying,  that  the  Scottes  were  ful  of  rebellion :  and  be  cause  he  had  no  heyre,  nor 
ane  very  nere  of  his  linage,  and  that  he  was  of  king  Edwardes  blode :  wherfore,  he  said, 
he  could  not  telle  wher  better  to  bestow  his  title,  and  the  corone  of  Scotlande,  better  than 
apon  hym.  Apon  this  king  Eduarde  went  be  yond  Lambremore  in  Lownes,  destroying  the 
countery  on  to  Edingburg. 

Then  he  repayrid  yn  to  England,  and  left  the  erle  of  Northampton  gardian  of  the 
marches,  which  toke  a  trews  with  the  Scottes  that  was  not  wel  kept. 

John  king  of  Fraunce  toke  by  covyne  the  king  of  Navar,  that  had  afore  treatid  with  king 
Eduard  for  alliaunce. 

In  the  yere  of  our  lorde  1355.  and  the  3.  yere  of  the  reygne  of  king  Edward,  prince 
Edwarde  went  out  of  Burdeaux  the  6.  day  of  July,  and  went  by  Rule,  and  thorough 


APPENDIX.  305 

Agenoys,  Parragore,  Lyniosine,.  and  Berry,  where  many  fortresses  were  delyverid  to  hym. 
Then  he  cam  to  Remorentyne,  a  toune  in  Saloigne,  where  [whither]  the  syres  Croun,  and 
Bursigaude,  a  knight  wel  travelid,  wer  sent  by  the  French  king,  and  wan  the  toune  by 
assaut.  Then  Croun  and  Bursigaud  toke  a  strong  toure:  but  they  after,  with  50.  knightes 
and  esquiers,  put  them  self  in  prince  Edward  mercy. 

Then  cam  prince  Edwarde  to  the  ryver  of  Loyr,  and  cam  before  Toures  :  and  this  pass- 
ing by  Loyr  he  toke  a  200.  men  of  armes  of  Fraunce,  by  whom  he  knew  that  king  John  of 
Fraunce  was  cummyng  toward  hym. 

The  cardinal  of  Perogor  cam  to  prince  Edward  for  treatice  of  pece:  and  he  answerid, 
that  he  was  ready  booth  to  take  and  to  do  that  should  be  reasonable. 

Prince  Edward  passid  over  the  ry  var  of  Vian,  and  hard  by  prisoners  that  king  John  was 
cumming  toward  Poyters.  Wherfore  prince  Edward  made  great  haste  to  prevent  king  John 
with  passage  over  Pont  Chaneny:  but  when  he  cam  nere  he  perceyvid,  that  king  John  was 
passid,  and  a  great  band  of  French  to  be  left  there  whom  he  vanquishid :  and  there  were 
taken  prisoners  the  countes  of  Ausoir  and  Juny,  and  with  them  an  hunderith  men  of  armes, 
knightes  and  esquiers.  The  residew  wher  dryven  to  Chenany:  and  this  was  on  a  Saturday 
the  17-  of  Septembre,  the  tennith  weke  of  this  yorney.  The  next  day  prince  Edwarde  drew 
toward  Poyters,  and  shortely  harde  that  king  John  was  there  by  redy  in  bataylle.  Then 
p.  567.  prince  Edwarde  light  on  fote,  and  set  his  bataylle  yn  order.  Then  the  cardinal  of  Peregor 
cam  to  treat  agayne  of  peace :  and  after  that  were  ix.  sent  of  eche  party  to  reason  the 
mater;  but  al  cam  to  no  effect.  For  the  French  kinges  purpose  was  to  foode  forth  that 
the  princes  hoste  should  lak  vitayle,  and  by  that,  or  other,  meanes  to  take  hym  at  avan- 
tage. 

To  marescalles  of  the  French  hoste  having  envy,  as  it  was  sayde,  one  to  a  nother  made 
great  haste,  and  set  apon  the  vaunward  and  rerega[r]de  of  the  prince,  and  were  discomfitid. 

The  bataile  of  the  delphine,  eldest  sunne  to  John,  set  apon  the  princes  batel,  and  was 
dryven  bak. 

Then  cam  the  bataile  of  the  duke  of  Orleaunce,  brother  to  king  John,  apon  the  prince. 
The  2.  other  batailes  that  had  won  their  victory  gatherid  toward  the  helping  of  prince  Ed- 
warde, and  wan  emong  them  enterly,  with  the  prince,  the  prince  the  batayle.  There  were 
taken  king  John,  and  Philip  his  sunne,  and  13.  countes,  and  an  archebisshop ;  and  of  barons 
and  banerettes  66.  and  2000.  men  of  armes. 

The  duke  of  Burboun,  and  the  duke  of  Athenis,  then  conestable  of  Fraunce,  and  the 
marescal  of  Clermont,  and  a  bisshop,  with  many  vicountees,  barons,  and  banerettes  and 
about  3000.  men  of  armes,  were  slayne  yn  chace  of  the  batelle.  The  numbre  of  men  of 
armes  with  cotearmours  at  this  feld  on  the  French  party  were  numberid  to  an  8000.  And 
on  the  prince  scant  a  1900.  and  15.  hunderith  archers.  Wylliam  Duglas,  that  at  thys  was 
about  to  go  on  pilgrimage  beyond  the  se,  at  such  tyme  as  king  John  was  preparing  his 
hoste  went  with  king  John  to  the  aforesayde  felde,  and  was  made  knight  of  his  hande, 
fledde  the  bataille  *  beyng/j  and  sum  of  his  men  slayne,  and  returnid  yn  to  Scotland:  and 

»  Sic,  cum  inductions  nota,  pacula  desideraii  cubindicanle. 

2q 


306  APPENDIX. 

this  William  a  non,  apon  the  delyverance  of  Davyd  king  of  Scottes,  was  made  erle  of 
Duglas.  And  this  king  David  Bruse,  about  the  same  tyme,  made  William  Ramsey  counte 
of  Fiffe,  by  the  meanes  of  his  wife,  whom  he  lovid,  as  it  was  sayde :  the  which  counte  king 
David  sayde  that  he  gave  it  of  right  for  a  forfaitur,  that  Duncan,  counte  of  Fiffe,  had  done 
in  king  Robert  Bruse  dayes,  for  killing  of  an  esquier,  caullid  Michael  Betoyn,  whom  he 
killid  for  very  displeasure  in  a  ryvere.  Wherfore  this  saide  William  Ramesey  surmisid, 
that  Dunecan,  for  to  have  pardon  for  his  forfaite,  made,  by  endenture,  Robert  Bruse  king 
of  Scottes  his  heyr  in  reversion;  so  that  he  dyed  with  owt  heyr  male.  But  the  afore  saide 
Dunecan  had  a  doughter  of  his  wif,  doughter  to  the  king  of  Englande,  countes  of  Glocester: 
the  wich  doughter  was  yn  England,  and  should  have  bene  solde  to  Robert  Seneschal  de  p.  568. 
Scotland;  the  which  toke  for  love  to  her  husbande  William  Felton,*  a  knight  of  Northum- 
breland,  the  which  at  that  tyme  claymid  the  counte  of  Fiffe. 
Prince  Edwarde  returnid  with  his  prisoners  to  Burdeaux. 

Two  monithes  after  the  batel  of  Poyter,  the  cite  of  Basile  al  to  shaken  and  rent  with  an 
yerth  quake. 

Duke  Henry  of  Lancaster  lay  a  great  while  at  the  sege  of  Remes,  on  tille  such  tyme  that 
trews  was  taken  for  2.  yeres  betwene  the  kinges,  and  then  he  left  of  his  sege,  having  there- 
fore a  great  sum  of  mony  of  them  of  Britayne,  that  favorid  Charles  de  Bloys  parte. 

The  prince  Eduarde  sent  king  John  to  London  to  his  father,  and  after  a  certen  tyme 
John  was  sent  thens  to  Wyndesore.  At  the  fest  of  S.  Michael  folowyng  king  David  of 
Scotland  was  delyverid  for  a  1000  markes  of  sylver,  and  his  ostages  cam  to  Berwike,  the 
counte  of  Southirland,  and  his  sunne,  that  was  born  of  the  sister  of  king  David,  and  Tho- 
mas Seneschal,  that  was  namid  in  Scotland  counte  of  Angose,  Thomas  de  Murref  baron  of 
Bothevil,  with  other  20.  sunnes  of  nobyl  men  of  Scotlande. 

The  quene  of  Scotland,  sister  to  king  Edward,  cam  oute  of  Scotland  to  Wyndesore  to 
speke  with  hym,  and  after  was  with  her  mother  quene  Isabel  at  Hertford,  and  ther  dyed 
abowt  the  30.  yere  of  her  age. 

King  Edward  kept  his  great  feast  of  Saynct  George  at  Wydesore,  and  there  were  great 
justes,  to  the  which  cam  the  duke  of  Braban,  and  the  duke  of  Luneburge,  brother  to 
Charles  king  of  Bohenie  and  emperor,  desiring  help  agayne  the  erle  of  Flaunders. 

About  this  tymes  the  cardinales  of  Peragor  and  Urgen  cam  yn  to  England  to  treate  of 
peace,  and  for  the  delyverance  of  king  John. 

Thomas  Lisle,  a  frere  preachar  and  bisshop  of  Ely,  answering  not  formally  to  the  law  of 
England,  to  an  enditement  of  felony  surmisid  apon  hym  by  his  adversaries,  the  counsile  of 
the  lady  Wake,  had  the  temporalities  of  his  bisshoprik  seasid  in  to  the  king  handes  by  the 
declaration  of  the  justices  of  the  kinges  benche;  and  he  beyng  attachid,  and  delyverid  to 
tharchbisshop,  went  to  Avinion  to  the  bisshop  of  Rome,  and  made  such  processe  there  that 
the  bisshop  of  Rome  began  to  take  up  this  matier  of  seasing  the  temporalities. 

During  the  tyme  of  trews  by  twist  England  and  France,  many  lusty,  yong  Engilseh 

•  Felton  maried  the  duches  of  Glocester. 


APPENDIX.  So- 

men, that  were  wont  to  lyve  by  warre,  made  such  riotes  yn  Normandy,  by  help  of  yon" 
p.  569.    men,  that  dayly  resortid  out  of  England  to  them,  dyd  very  wonderful  feates,  and  having  no 
hed  or  chief  capitayne,  got  them  self  good  forteresses  bothe  ther,  and  in  count erys  ther  about, 
as  in  Paitow,  yn  Angeow,  and  Humein. 

And  about  this  tyme  the  communes  of  Fraunce,  theyr  king  bej'ng  absent  and  prisoner, 
made  grete  riotes  apon  the  gentilmen  of  Fraunce,  killing  theyr  wifes  and  childerne:  wher- 
apon  the  gentilmen  raysid  an  host,  and  discomfitid  them. 

A  brcfc  rememberaunce  of  feates  done  yn  Gascoync,  not  specied  of  afore 
yn  their  placys. 

In  the  yere  of  our  Lord  a  1333.  in  the  begynning  of  the  clayme  of  king  Eduarde  to  the 
corone  of  Fraunce,  dyvers  provostes  of  the  French  kinges  cam  to  assaute  the  abbay  of  Gis- 
ters,  fortified  by  the  Englischmen  and  the  Gascoynes,  havyng  Hugh  de  Genefe,  capitayne 
for  the  king  of  Englande:  to  the  rescue  wherof  cam  the  aforesaid  Hugh,  with  certeyne 
barons  of  Gascoyne,  with  400.  men  of  amies,  and  an  860.  servientes  and  archers.  And  of 
the  French  men  ther  were  about  a  1000.  men  of  armes.  The  ryver  of  Hie  was  betwixt  these 
2.  bandes.  They  that  were  assegid  in  Gistres  issuid  forth,  with  oute  assent  of  the  capi- 
taynes,  and  so  skirniouchid  with  the  French  band,  that  they  drew  bak  to  be  more  at  lar"e, 
and  seing  the  Englisch  band,  cryed,  "  let  us  go  on,  they  be  discomfitid."  After  this  tyme 
many  greate  feates  and  yorneys  were  in  Gascoyne,  by  the  space  of  about  a  12.  yeres  after 
the  departure  of  Henry  of  Lancastre,  that  was  lieutenant  there  for  the  king  of  England,  and 
afore  the  coming  of  prince  Eduarde  thither.  As  at  the  rescous  of  Lishinyane  [Lishinian 
uc],  wher  Thomas  Cok,  a  knight  of  England,  was  seneschal  after  the  departure  of  Henry  of 
Lancastre,  and  being  abrode  with  500.  glayves  mette  sodenly  with  a  1500.  glayves  of  Fraunce 
on  horse  bak  devided  into  tlu'e  batayles,  and  discomfitid  them. 

The  castel  of  Lisinian  was  after,  by  treason  of  one  in  the  castel,  got  owt  of  the  Englische 
mennes  handes.  And  as  after  apperid  at  the  yorney  of  S.  George  at  the  rescous  of  S.  John 
le  Angelin,  wher  John  Ceverstoun,  knight  of  England  and  seneschal  of  Gascoyne,  and  the 
barons  ther  about,  with  900.  men  of  armes,  faught  with  1 200.  French  men  of  armes,  and, 
with  much  payne,  wan  the  victory  of  them,  and  toke  the  mareschalles  of  Neel  and  Oude- 
nam. 

This  marischal  de  Neele  was  after  slayne  by  the  Englisch  men  yn  Britayne  nere  the 
p.  570.  wod  of  Onglis,  where  many  barons  of  Britayne  were  slayne,  as  in  one  of  the  merveluste 
yorney  that  thenglisch  had  in  Bretayne,  except  the  yorney  of  Lankaderet,  wher  Thomas 
Dagworth,  knight  of  England,  wonderfully  discomfitid  the  barons  of  Britayne. 

The  Englisch  men  did  great  feates  yn  France  for  the  king  of  Navar,  that  had  bene 
there  prisoner  yn  the  castel  of  Grevequer,*  and  therfore  had  warre  with  the  French 
menne. 

*  Crevecure  castel. 


308  APPENDIX. 

Neere  to  Neneuers  John  Waldebeouf,  an  Engliseh  man,  cumming  oute  of  the  pronde 
castel  of  Coruen  with  56.  men  of  armes,  faute  with  a  young  ruffeling  eapitayn  of  Fraunce, 
that  caullid  hym  self  Lerchiprester,  having  200.  menne  of  armes,  and  discomfitid  them, 
taking  Lerchprestre,  but,  apon  conditions,  sufi'erid  hym  to  go  at  large  apon  his  faith  to  be 
trew  prisoner,  and  apon  the  delyveraunce  of  a  forteress  that  Lerchiprester  had,  whither 
Waldbouf  cam  by  the  fayre  wordes  of  hym,  and  there  by  treason  was  detaynid,  and  after 
murderid. 

The  Engliseh  men  were  discomfitid  by  fore  the  cite  of  Troyes  by  counte  Vadimonte, 
that  cam  sodenly  apon  them  disperkelid. 

John  Dault,  knight  of  England,  gathering  men  of  warre  out  of  the  garnisons  of  thenglisch 
men  in  Britayne  and  Normandy,  toke  by  night  the  cite  of  Dansoir.  Then  the  citisens, 
and  the  lordes  of  the  countery  there  aboute,  entretid  with  the  Engliseh  men  for  great 
summes  of  mony,  that  they  shoulde  depart,  not  brenning  *  the.  Apon  this  thinglischment 
pullid  doune  moche  of  the  walles  of  the  toune,  and  taking  of  the  mony  (for  they  could  not 
kepe  welle  to  gither  wher  every  man  wold  be  a  lorde)  and  depertid  thens.  As  sone  as 
the  Engliseh  men  were  f  they  gatherid  this  mony,  and  there  with  hyred  Almayns  and 
estraungers  for  garnison  of  theyre  toune:  and  making  it  far  stronger  then  it  was  afore, 
payde  not  a  penny  to  thenglisch  men. 

A  nother  tyme  a  hunderid  glayves  of  Engliseh  men  cumming  to  the  rescow  of  the 
castel  of  Brien,  that  was  in  the  Engliseh  mennes  handes,  discomfitid  yn  Burgon  500. 
French  men. 

John  Foderingey  cumming  of  the  toune  of  Crael  with  other  Engliseh  capitaynes  assegid 
an  abbay  by  twixt  Crael  and  Compin  that  was  incastellatid,  and  wan  so  much  of  it,  that  the 
eapitayn  ther  of  cam,  and  yelded  hym  selfe  to  one  of  the  Engliseh  capitaynes:  wher  of  the 
other  having  envy,  and  requiring  parte  of  the  prisoner  quarelid.  And  emong  the  French 
capitayne  was  slayne.  Apon  this  J  capitaine,  to  whom  the  prisoner  had  yeldid  hym  self,  p.  571. 
went  away  with  his  band  yn  a  great  displeasure.  They  that  were  with  yn  the  forteres, 
hering  such  a  noyse  emong  the  Engliseh  capitaynes,  cam  doune  ward  toward  them  with 
such  a  brute  and  cry,  that  thenglisch  men  thought  them  self  betrayid,  and  fledde  one  faull- 
ing  apon  a  nother  yn  the  ditches,  wherof  summe  were  drounid,  and  sum  fledde  to  horsis, 
and  made  away.  So  that  by  this  meanis  the  forteres  was  left  stille  in  the  French  mennes 
possession. 

John  Griffith,  capitayne  of  the  forteres  of  Espernoun,  that  that  James  Pipe  an  Engliseh 
man  had  won,  made  a  rode  forth  nere  to  Chres:  wher  one  Bek  cam  with  120.  men  apon  6. 
men  of  armes,  and  1 2.  archiers  of  the  Engliseh  ban  that  §  strgelid  from  theyre  bande.  Yet 
thenglisch  men,  with  help  of  a  few  ||  mof  theyr  company  that  were  behynde  as  wel  as  they, 
and  cam  to  help  them,  discomfitid  the  French  men,  and  toke  Bek  as  prisoner.  This  Bek 
had  bene  afore  that  taken  prisoner  of  thenglisch  men. 

In  the  yere  of  our  Lorde  1359-  thenglisch  men  wan  the  toune  of  S.  Walery. 


APPENDIX.  309 

About  this  season  thenglich  men  enforcerent  the  toun  of  Veylye  yn  the  vale  of  Sessoun. 
And  after  wan  the  toun  of  Pontarsy :  from  whens  they  went  to  rescow  the  eastelle  of  Sassoun, 
(wher  the  Alemayns  theyr  companions  were  besegid)  met  sodenly  with  a  100.  men  of 
armes  of  Britayn  whom  they  discomfitid.  But  they  not  folowing  the  rescow  of  Sauson, 
it  was  gyven  up. 

Apon  a  tyme,  nere  our  Lady  of  Puy  yn  Auvern,  Thomas  de  la  March  cam  with  a 
very  great  band  of  men  ner  to  Hugh  Calverley,  a  capitayn  of  thenglisch  men,  but  900.  with 
hym,  and  yet  de  la  March  set  not  apon  hym. 

After  the  Concorde  was  made  betwixt  the  king  of  Navarre  and  the  dolphin  of  Vyen, 
sunne  to  John  king  of  Fraunce,  many  of  the  forteresses,  that  thenglisch  men  had  wonne. 
were  voyde,  and  delyverid  agayn. 

About  this  tyme  Thomas  Holland  knight,  that  was  in  Normandy,  made  a  strong  forteres 
of  the  chirch  of  Barflu,  and  taried  ther  pur  constreinder  Costentyn.  The  which  Thomas 
dyed  hu  pays  apres  lieutenant  to  the  king  of  England  of  his  landes  conquerid,  and  was 
counte  of  Kent  by  thenheritance  of  his  wife. 

Gilbert  Rodom  having  53.  glayves  with  hym,  and  80.  archers,  faught  with  Reynald  de 

Gilion,  capitayne  of  Parys,  nere  Stampes,  that  had  700.  men  of  armes  and  400.  brigantes 

p.  572.     with  hym.  Gilbert  was  slayn  there;  yet  had  thenglisch  men  the  victory,  and  Reynald  was 

there  taken  prisoner,  but  he,  by  the  help  of  a  false  Englisch  man,  was  convayid  or  ever  he 

had  payid  his  raunsom. 

In  this  yere  of  our  Lord  a  1359.  Henry  duke  of  Lancastre  *  with  his  retinew  to  Calays 
to  bring  forth  with  hym  the  marquise  of  Mise,  with  the  Alemayn  that  taryed  for  tharrival 
of  king  Eduarde :  and  they  to  gither  went  over  the  ryver  of  Soume,  asegyng  the  toune  of 
[B]Dray,  and  passing  behynd  the  walles,  caussid  his  men  to  wade  up  to  the  shoulders 
thorough  the  water,  and  yet  faylid  of  theyr  purpose  of  taking  the  toune,  and  so  returnid  to 
Calays.  The  erle  of  March  arryving  at  Calays  8.  dayes  afore  king  Edwarde,  mad  a  rood 
beyond  Bolayne,  and  cam  to  Calays  agayn.  King  Edward  cam  to  Calays,  and  taryed 
ther  f  8.  deviding  his  host  in  to  3.  parties,  keping  one  to  hym,  delyvering  a  nother  to  his 
sunne  Eduarde,  and  the  3.  to  the  duke  of  Lancastre.  The  king  went,  the  Monday  afore  S. 
Martines  da}',  from  Calays  to  S.  Oniers  by  Arras,  and  Cambray,  and  Champaine  toward 
Reyns. 

Prince  Edward  went  by  Mountroil,  Heding,  Pontive,  and  Pykardy  by  yound  the  water 
of  Soume  per  Neel,  by  Haan,  by  Vermendois,  where  Baudewy'n  Daukyn,  knight,  master  of 
the  arblasteris  of  Fraunce,  was  taken  prisoner,  and  dyvers  other  knightes. 

About  this  tyme  the  vicoun  Benoge,  that  was  caullid  capitayne  de  Busche,  an  Englisch 
Gascoyne,  cam  owt  of  his  counte  from  garnison  to  garnison  of  thenglisch  men,  and  cam 
over  the  ryver  of  Seyne  by  conduct  of  the  king  of  Navar,  and  cam  to  Crael,  then  holden  of 
thenglisch  menne:  from  the  which  toune  he  scalid  in  the  night  the  castel  of  Cleremont  in 
Beauvaisin.     This  Crael  was  kept  by  John  Foderingey,  knight  of  Englande,  by  thassigne- 


310  APPENDIX. 

merit  of  the  king  of  Navarre,  apon  condition  that  he  should  render  it  to  hym  when  he 
shoulde  require:  but  when  *  was  often  required  by  the  king  of  Navar  he  kept  hyt,  saying, 
that  he  wold  not  delyver  it  on  to  such  tyme  as  he  were  payde  such  mony  as  the  king  of  Navar 
owt  hym:  and  after  that  John  Foderingey  had  gatherid  up  this  mony  the  delyvered  the 
tonne. 

Strait  a  pon  this  John  Foderingey  made  hymself  a  sure  fortres  at  the  bridge  of  Sainct 
Menseus  apon  Ese  ryver,  and  there  taryed. 

Prince  Edward  went  forth  by  S.  Quintins,  and  by  Retieris,  wher  the  French  men  them 
self  did  bren  the  toune.     Then  he  passid  by  the  castel  of  Purcien,  and  so  thorough  by   ] 
Champain  to  meate  with  his  fathers  host. 

The  duke  of  Lancastre  kept  the  mide  way  betwixt  the  other  2.  hostes  approching 
toward  them,  and  al  3.  meting  at  Reins,  and  lying  afore  the  cite  at  Clmstmestide. 

Ther  went  this  tyme  a  certen  npmbre  out  of  the  prince  host,  and  scalid  the  toune  of 
Curmousse,  and  wan  the  castel  by  throuing  doun  a  great  tour  with  myning. 

Barptolemew  Burghersch,  a  capitayne  in  the  duke  of  Lancasters  band,  had  justes  of 
warre  by  covenaunt  with  men  of  warre,  that  cam  owt  of  Reins :  wher  one  French  man  was 
slayne,  and  other  ii.  naufrez  de  fere  de  glayve. 

The  duke  of  Lancaster,  the  erles  of  Richmontand  Marche  made  owte  of  the  kinges  hoste, 
and  wan  too  tounes,  Otry  and  Semay,  apon  the  ryver  of  Aine,  and  the  march  of  Lorayn. 

A  nother  band  roode  out  of  the  kinges  hoste  to  the  very  gates  of  Paris,  wher  no  man 
durst  cum  owte  to  fight. 

Ther  was  a  route  caullid  the  great  cumpany,  that  was  al  the  yere  in  Burgoin,  yn  Brie, 
yn  Champeyn,  in  Dairres,  and  the  best  partes  of  the  counteris  there  aboute,  to  seke  vitaile. 
This  route  scalid  the  toun  of  Chalouns  in  Champaine  in  the  night ;  but  they  in  the  toune 
got  them  to  the  bridge  of  Mairel  ryver,  that  rennith  thorough  the  toune,  and  so  they  kept 
the  Englisclimen  owt  of  the  best  part  of  the  toun:  and  so  the  Englischmen  sodenly  de- 
partid. 

A  nother  rout  of  Englisch  men,  at  the  first  cummyng  of  king  Eduard  to  Reins,  went 
and  scalid  the  toun  of  Attinie  in  Chaumpain. 

The  king  left  the  sege  of  Reins,  and  went  by  Chalouns,  wher  he  had  tretice  with  them 
of  Baires. 

James  Audeley,  knight  of  England,  tok  by  assaut  the  forteres  of  Chaven  in  the  vale  of 
Saxsoun  apon  the  Britaynes. 

Huwen  Trevidig,  a  capitayne  of  the  aforesaid  James  Audeley,  cam  from  his  castel  of 
Ferte  in  Brye  to  the  hoste  of  prince  Edwarde  nere  to  Chalouns,  having  yn  his  cumpany 
capitain  de  Busche  that  cam  from  Cleremont. 

King  Edward  f  repayre  the  bridge  over  the  ryver  of  Mairel,  and  bridge  over  other  great 
ry  vers,  and  then  went  toward  Troyes ;  wher  the  marquis  of  Mise,  and  the  counte  of  Midow, 
and  other  lordes  of  Alemaync,  that  cam  yn  his  yorney  with  king  Eduarde,  returnid  home 


APPENDIX.  31] 

in  to  their  countereis,  part  for  lak  of  vitail,  part  for  fere  of  Lent,  that  was  at  hande :  to  whom' 
king  Eduai'd  gave  theyr  costes. 
p.  574.  King  Edward  passid  over  the  ryver  of  Seyne  by  Meriz,  keping  his  way  nere  by  Ceins, 
and  Pounteney:  and  yn  Burgoyne  the  prince  Edward,  and  the  duke  of  Lancaster  followid 
hym:  but  for  lak  of  horse  meate  the  prince  chaungid  the  way  that  his  father  went,  and 
loggid  at  Eggliny  nere  Anser,  wher  the  princes  host  toke  more  damage  then  it  did  in  al 
this  yorney  beside :  and  summe  of  his  knightes,  and  esquier,  and  divers  varlettes,  foragers 
wer  slayn, 

Nere  the  forteres  of  Regentz,  that  the  Englischmen  had  in  custodye  by  Anseir,  v.  esquier. s 
[with  a  few  other]  of  the  princes  band  went  half  on  harnisid  to  a  certen  mille  for  grynding 
of  come,  and  ther  cam  apon  them  50.  of  the  route  of  Moseir  de  Hanget ;  but  the  v.  Eng- 
lisch  esquires  over  cam  them,  and  toke  xi.  of  them.  Wherapon  the  Frenchmen  yn  gest 
caullid  it  the  yourney  of  50.  aga yne  5. 

King  Edward  lay  at  [B]Golion  in  Burgoin  nere  Montreal,  for  tretice  of  the  duche  of 
Burgoin.  Where  Roger  Mortimer,  counte  de  la  Marche,*  mareschal  of  the  kinges  hoste, 
and  one  of  the  most  secretest  with  hym  dyid  of  the  ague  the  24.  day  of  February. 

The  king  toke  trews  with  Burgoyne  for  3.  yeres,  that  should  gyve  to  king  Edwarde,  at 
3.  termes,  2000.  floreyns,  at  4.  shillinges  sterling  the  pece. 

The  toun  of  Flaveny  in  Burgoyii,  that  was  taken  by  Arleston  an  Englischman,  was  de- 
liverid  by  the  handes  of  Nicolas  Dagworth,  by  cause  it  was  taken  in  the  beginning  of  the 
tretice  of  the  aforesaid  trews.  Nere  the  which  toun  of  Flaveny,  Nicolas  Dagworth,  hav- 
ing but  13.  [Englisch]  men  of  armes  with  hym,  faught  with  66.  French  men,  and  vanquishid 
them  by  meane  of  charettes,  that  the  Englisch  men  had  had  sette  abonte  them  for  defence, 
leving  a  way  to  entre  at  pleasure ;  wherby  they  wonddid,  toke,  and  killid  their  ennemys. 
Norman  Lesselin  a  Scot  was  taken  prisoner. 

At  this  tyme  William  Aldeburg,  capitain  of  Honiflu  in  Normandy,  cumrning  oute  to 
make  a  rode  was  taken  prisoner  of  the  Frenche  men,  and  his  bande  discomfitid.  Thomas 
Fogge,  knight,  hering  of  this,  cam  to  Honyflew,  and  finding  it  disgarnishid  of  vitailes, 
foragid  ther  about  to  revitail  it,  having  with  hym  men  of  other  garnisons  there  about,  and 
met  sodenly  with  250.  menne  of  armes,  and  200.  archers,  and  arblasteres  of  the  French  nun 
lyyng  yn  waite  for  them.  The  Englisch  men  were  in  numbre  40.  men  of  armes,  and  an 
p.  5"5.  100.  archers,  and  cam  to  the  French  men  with  their  stakes,  and  discomfitid  them.  Lewis 
Darcourt,  and  Baudren  de  la  Husee,  theyr  [French]  capitaynes,  wer  taken,  with  other 
knightes  and  esquiers.  Lowys  Darcourt  was  shortly  after  delyvered  by  the  same  Englisch 
men  that  tooke  hym. 

A  French  man,  caullid  the  White  j  Knigh,  cam  to  Fregeville,  a  forteres  apon  the  march 
of  Beaux,  that  thenglisch  men  had,  demaunding  of  the  conestable  to  have  batel  ii.  for  ii. 
and  had :  wher  the  Whight  Knight,  and  his  esquier,  were  discomfitid  of  the  ii.  Englisch,  whns 
armure  wer  al  grene,  and  brought  the  ii.  French  in  to  the  forteres  with  them. 

■    Rogerus  Morlimamis,  comes  Marcianus,  febre  obiit  in  Bursundia.  t  Sic. 


312  APPENDIX. 

About  this  tyme  John  Neville,  knight  of  Englande,  with  13.  glayves,  descomfitid  by 
Stampes  50.  Frenche  men,  taking  dy  ver  of  them. 

The  Gascoynes  and  thenglisch  of  the  fortres  of  Daubeny  fought  with  the  French  men  by 
yound  Heere  in  Berry,  discomfiting  them,  and  taking  dyvers  prisoners. 

Thre  thousand  of  the  coste  of  Normandy  went  to  the  coste  of  England  with  countenance 
to  tary  there,  and  so  to  cause  *  king  to  recoile  to  save  his  own  land ;  and  dimming  in  Lente 
to  Winchelsey  toun  taryed  there  a  day  an  a  night,  and  then  brent  the  toune,  and  recoyling 
to  theyr  shippes  left  ii.  behynd,  beyng  fast  in  land,  and  a  3.  hunderith  men  by  the  communes 
that  cam  to  the  socour  of  the  towne. 

Nere  Paris  Robert  Scot,  an  Englisch  knight,  was  taken,  and  his  men  discomfitid  by  the 
French  men,  and  his  forteres  that  he  had  enstrenkid  loste. 

As  prince  Edward  passid  thorowgh  Gastinoys  v.  knightes,  with  60.  men  of  armes,  and 
a  100.  of  the  cummunes,  had  made  a  bastoil  agayn  the  forteres  of  Turnelles,  that  the  Eng- 
lisch men  helde ;  apon  whom  the  prince  cam  sodenly  to  assaut  it :  but  Jakes  de  Greville, 
and  Hageney  de  Boville,  with  al  the  other  renderid  theyr  selves  to  the  prince. 

King  Edward  cumming  out  of  Burgoin  loste  ii.  knightes,  and  3.  Alemayns,  that  wer 
slayne  by  night  in  theyr  loginges  by  Ine  de  Vepount,  a  knight  of  Fraunce,  and  his  com- 
pany. 

As  king  Eduard  cam  thorough  Beaux  nere  Tuny  the  castel  by  fortune  was  a  tier,  and 
they  with  yn  put  them  selves  in  king  Edwardes  mercy.  The  capitayne  kept  the  dungeon  a 
ii.  daies  after,  and  then  renderid  hym  self  to  the  king. 

About  this  season  thenglisch  men  of  the  garnison  of  Nogent  in  Brye,  being  30.  in  num- 
bre,  discomfitid,  apon  the  river  of  Mairel,  an  100.  men  of  armes  of  Fraunce  of  the  garni- 
son of  Terry,  and  toke  60.  of  them  prisoners.  p.  576. 

About  the  Clu'istemes  afore  James  Pipe,  an  Englisch  knight,  was  taken  yn  the  tour  of 
Espernoun,  that  he  had  won  of  the  French  men,  and  toke  no  good  way,  trusting  to  much 
to  the  strenkth  of  his  dungeon,  wher  in  a  mason  had  made  of  purpose  a  sklender  and  fals 
window,  wherby  he  was  taken  in  his  bedde,  and  Thomas  Beaumont,  an  Englisch  knight, 
that  cam  from  a  nother  garnison  as  a  gest  on  to  hym,  and  the  goodes  were  caryid  to  the 
French  king  sun  regent  of  France. 

This  Thomas  was  an  other  tyme  byfore  taken,  and  with  hyin  Otis  de  Holand,  a  knight 
of  England,  about  Graunsoures. 

Robert  f  Her[ke]le,  knight  of  England,  and  gardein  of  Britayne  for  king  Edwarde,  made 
a  rode  agayne  the  Bretons  Galloys  nere  Dowle ;  and  as  they  went,  thinkking  to  finde  a 
bridge  that  was  broken  with  a  great  rysing  water,  Robert  Knolles,  knight  of  England,  that 
cam  on  the  other  side  oute  X  of  at  the  commaundement  of  the  aforesaide  Robert  Herle,  strake 
his  horse  with  spurres,  having  but  17-  of  his  companions  with  hym,  the  residew  of  his  band 
not  knowing  of  it,  and  he  thinkking  that  Herle  had  bene  cum  over  the  ryver  was  sodenly 
entrappid  by  his  ennemyes,  and  taken,  but  sone  rescuid  of  the  residew  of  his  bande  know- 
ing his  distresse:  and  so  the  French  were  discomfitid,  and  Knollys  taken  from  them. 


APPENDIX.  313 

About  the  capitayne*  Busche  askid  leave  of  king  Edward  to  go  in  to  Normandy  to 
spek  with  the  king  of  Navar,  liaving  yn  his  company  20.  glayves  of  Englischmen  and  Gas- 
coyns,  and  aboute  Drewes  ther  mette  sodenly  with  24.  men  of  arnies.  knightes  and  esquires, 
that  lay  in  embuschement  to  waite  for  men  of  Englisch  garnisons:  but  the  French  men 
were  discomfitid,  and  Bek  theyr  eapitaine,  caullid  communely  Capitayne  of  villains,  was 
taken  prisoner. 

King  Eduard  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1360.  logid  hym  self  afore  Parys,  the  Wennesday 
in  Ester  weke,  behynd  the  suburbes  of  Saintclou.  Pilerinde  Vadencourt,  a  French  knight, 
was  taken  at  the  barreis,  where  his  hors  wondid  threw  hym  doun.  The  new  knightes  of 
the  band  of  prince  Edward  set  apon  them  that  issuid  oute  of  the  cite  of  Parise.  Richard 
Baskerville  the  sunne,  an  Englisch  knight,  streken  to  ground,  rose,  and  defendid  hym  self 
ontil  he  and  his  horse  were  rescuid. 

The  counte  Tankerville  cam  oute  of  Parise  to  treate  with  king  Edwardes  counsail:  to 
whom  answer  was  made,  that  king  Eduard  wold  be  conformable  to  reason, 
p.  577.  King  Edward  departid  from  Parise  to  Monthery,  and  his  host  with  hym:  and  the  13.  day 
of  April,  for  lak  of  horse  meate,  he  toke  a  great  yorney  toward  Beaux,  and  the  tyme  was 
ille  what  with  haile,  snow,  and  cold,  with  wynd  and  wete,  that  many  feble  horses  and  var- 
lettes  dyed  by  the  way. 

About  the  wich  tyme  James  Audeleis,  with  the  garnisons  of  Ferce  and  Nogent  in  Brye, 
scalid  the  castel  of  Huchie  in  Valoyse  nere  Sessoun. 

A  xi.  men  of  amies,  and  viii.  archers,  Walsch  men,  of  the  retinew  of  the  lorde  Spensar, 
going  to  a  mille  nere  to  Bonevail  yn  Beaux  were  set  apon  with  26.  glaves,  and  22.  archers 
of  French  Britons :  but  thenglischmen  discomfitid  them. 

King  Edward  taryed  xv.  dayes  in  Beaux  near  Orliaunce  for  treatice  of  peace  that  the 
counsail  of  Fraunce  went  about.  Thabbat  of  Cluny,  and  monseir  Hugh  de  Genefe  wer 
mediators  in  this  treatice. 

Too  knightes  of  the  duke  of  Lancaster  retinew,  Edmund  Purpoint,  and  Bawdewin 
Malet  adventurid  emong  the  French  out  of  reason,  and  therby  wer  taken  et  fiaunces. 

Mounseir  Brian  de  Stapleton  of  the  erle  of  Salisbyri,  and  other  with  hym,  skirmouchid 
in  foraging  with  the  French  men,  and  discomfitid  them  nere  Yanville. 

In  veugeaunce  of  the  arrival  of  Normans  at  Winchelsey  the  navy  of  the  v.  Porthes  and 
the  North  navy,  went  a  1000.  armid  men,  and  1500.  arches  to  the  isle  of  Dans  with  in  15. 
dayes  after  Estre,  and  wan  the  toune  of  Luce,  and  brent  it.  But  this  yorney  was  lettid  to 
procede  by  commandement  of  Edward,  that  was  by  the  French  counsail  meanes  in  treatise 
of  trewes. 

The  peace  betwen  England  and  Fraunce  was  coneludid,  nere  Chartres,  apon  these  covc- 
nauntes  that  king  Eduarde  should  have  Gyen  enterly,  with  al  the  olde  marches,  and  the 
countery  of  Rogerus,  the  countes  of  Pontive  and  Gienes  with  the  appertinaunces,  and  Ca- 
lays  with  the  seignory  there  about,  clerely  with  oute  paying  any  thing  for  it :  And  to  have 


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314  APPENDIX.     ~ 

3.  millions  of  gold  for  the  Frenche  kinges  rannsun.  And  the  title  of  Britaine,  bytwixt 
Mountfort  and  Charles  de  Bloys,  to  be  jugid  by  the  discretion  of  the  2.  kinges.  And  that 
the  prince  of  Wales,  and  the  duke  of  Normandy,  and  the  king  of  Navar,  with  20.  other 
persons  of  *  France";  and  the  duke  of  Lancaster,  with  20.  persons  of  England,  to  be  juges 
in  this  matters  of  counsel  as  suoren  to  it. 

And  apon  this  treatice  were  right  pretius  reliques  sent  by  the  regent  of  Fraunce  to  the 
prince  of  Wales,  as  of  the  corone  of  thorn,  and  the  holy  crosse. 

And  apon  this  the  king  of  Navar  cam  to  Newburg  to  king  Edwarde,  preparing  toward     p.  j7s 
Ilunflew  to  saile  into  England,  and  leving  in  Normandy  the  erle  of  Warwike  gardian  of 
the  treues. 

The  duke  of  Lancastre  and  the  counte  Stafford  cam  with  parte  of  the  hoste  after  home- 
warde,  and  founde  in  the  partes  as  thei  cam  great  scarcite  of  vitaile,  as  in  a  countery  des- 
troied. 

And  thus  partid  owte  the  3.  Englische  hostes  owt  of  Fraunce,  in  hope  of  peace,  after 
that  this  warre  had  endurid  20.  and  4.  yeres. 

About  this  tyme,  in  the  yere  a  13G0.  one  Catarine  Mortimer,  a  damoisel  of  London,  was 
so  belovid  of  Davy  Bruise,  king  of  Scottes,  by  acquaintaunce  that  he  had  in  tyme  of  im- 
prisonement  with  her,  that  he  could  not  forbere  her  companie.  Wher  at  the  lordes  of 
Scotland  were  angry,  and  causid  one  Richard  de  Hulle,  a  varlette  of  Scotland,  to  go  to 
hur  as  for  busines  from  Bruise:  and  he  stikkid  her,  and  killid  her,  ryding  from  Melros  to 
Soltre ;  wherapon  Bruise  toke  great  dolor,  and  causid  her  to  be  burid  honourably  at  New- 
botelle. 

This  yere  1360.  king  John  of  Fraunce  was  deliverid  at  Calays,  apon  the  aforesaide  con- 
ditions, after  that  he  had  bene  at  London,  Windesore,  and  Somerton  prisoner  by  the  space 
of  :i.  yeres,  and  payid  at  his  departure  one  million  of  gold,  and  left  hostages  for  performing 
of  the  residew  of  covenauntes:  that  is  to  say,  his  2.  sunnes,  the  countes  of  Angeow  and  of 
Patiers;  his  brother  duke  of  Orliaunce;  his  cosin  duke  of  Burboun;  the  countes  of  Bloys, 
Alaunson,  Sainct  Poul,  Harcourt,  Pocien,  Valentinoys,  Brein,  Vademont,  Fores,  and  the 
vicount  Beaumont,  seignior  Coucy,  de  Fenys,  de  Preux,  de  Sainct  Venaunte,  de  Garensers, 
de  Mount  Marauncy,  de  Haunget,  the  daufine  Dameryne,  sir  Pers  de  Alaunson,  Wil- 
liam de  Cinoun,  Lou  vs  de  Harcourte,  John  de  Ligny,  and  al  these  to  tary  in  Englande  to 
tin-  final  ende  of  the  treatice.  And  apon  these  treatice  John  Chaundos,  knight,  was  sent, 
witli  sufficient  autorite,  that  j  delyveraunce  of  such  fortresses  and  holdes  as  the  Englisch- 
iii.  -ii  had  there  wonne. 

And  then  divers  Englisch  bandes  (that  had  made  war  of  their  own  adventure  yn  Fraunce, 
and  then  resorting  to  git  her  were  caullid  the  great  bande)  voidid  Fraunce  by  king  Edwardes 
commaundement,  and  after  got  the  toune  of  Sainct  Spirite,  and  made  war  in  Province,  and 
livid  wonderfully  apon  praies. 

In  the  yere  a  1361.  Henry  duke  of  Lancaster  dyed  in  March,  and  was  buried  at  Leices-     p  579. 


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ter.  He  was  wise  and  glorious  in  fortune,  and  in  his  youth  ful  of  honor  in  amies.  He  had 
to  his  heires  2.  doughters.  Duke  William  of  Bavare  and  counte  of  Henaw,  Seland  and  Ho- 
land,  and  after  becam  madde,  had  the  elder,  John  erle  of  Richemont,*  sunne  to  king  Edward 
the  3.  had  the  secunde. 

The  king  Eduard  buildid  of  new  the  castel  in  Tamise  mouth  in  the  isle  of  Shepye. 

About  this  tyme  Lionel,  counte  of  Hulster  by  his  wife,  and  sun  to  king  Edwarde,  went 
yn  to  Ireland  to  recountre  the  Irisch  men  that  vexid  there  the  Englisch. 

Edwarde  prince  of  Wales  toke,  aboute  this  tyme,  to  wyfe,  by  dispensation,  the  doughter 
of  the  counte  of  Kent,  uncle  to  his  father  king  Edwarde.  She  had  bene  maried  afore.  She 
was  a  gentil  lady,  and  right  heire  to  her  father,  and  her  uncle  the  lorde  Wake. 

A  rowte  of  the  great  company  of  the  Englisch  men,  commandid  to  depart  owte  of  Fraunce, 
discomfitid  in  Auverne  the  French  men,  and  toke  divers  prisoners  of  the  nobyles  of  Fraunce, 
that  had  bene  afore  taken  of  the  Englisch  men,  and  there  was  slayne  Jakes  de  Burbon,  and 
the  counte  of  Salbrog.  At  this  tyme  a  route  of  Britons,  part  of  the  great  company  afore- 
saide  were  f  discomtid  in  Limosine  a  la  Garet,  by  William  Felton,  knight  of  England,  and 
stuard  at  that  tyme  of  the  countery  for  king  Eduarde. 

Aboute  this  [1362]  was  a  route  of  Englisch  men,  with  one  Robert  Dyer,  discomfitid  by 
Bertrein  de  [C]Glekin  Briton  nere  Ho  yn  Normandy. 

At  this  tyme  king  Edwarde  gave  to  prince  Edward  the  duchie  of  Gien. 

Johan  quene  of  Scottes,  and  wyfe  to  Davy  Bruis,  and  sister  to  king  Edwarde  the  3.J 
and  was  buried  in  the  Gray  Freres  at  London  by  her  mother. 

King  Edward,  at  his  parlament  at  London,  made  Lionel  §  his  sunne  counte  of  Hulstere, 
then  being  in  Ireland,  duke  of  Clarence,  and  his  sun  John  duke  of  Lanc&stre,  and  the  names 
to  remaine  to  theire  heires  males.     He  made  Edmond  ||  his  sun  counte  of  Cambridge. 

Davy  Bruis,  king  of  Scottes,  toke  to  wyfe,  by  force  of  love,  one  Margaret  de  Logy. 

*    I  .hn  of  Gaunteerleof  Richemont.  t  Sic.  ±  Adde,  dyed.  §  LioneMe  duke  of  Clarence. 


APPENDIX    II. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  EARLY  PORTION  OF  THE  SCALACRONICA. 

On*  fist  mettre  en  memoir  en  escript  lez  parolis  qe  Merlyn  ly  dist,  dez  queux  les  vns 
estoint  oscuris,  com  dites  od  diners  significatiouns.  Pur  quoi  cest  cronicle  de  eaux  touz 
nen  fait  mencioun,  pur  ceo  qe  creables  ne  sount,  verrays,  et  parolis  futures,  dount  nul  defi- 
mnacioun  purra  estre  pris  en  certain,  parlez  en  tiel  maner,  noun  coungeables  au  droit  foy. 
Et  pur  ceo  qe  plusours  estoient  qe  sount  dites  Merlyns  predestinours,  se  passe  cest  croni- 
cle a  parler  dez  ditez  Merlyns;  pur  ceo  qe  en  certain  ny  estoint  sez  parolis,  et  lez  queux 
sount  exponez  diuersement,  aptez  as  cheaunces  du  ciecle,  quant  sount  escheuz  ;  lez  queux 
.stoient  parlez  en  figure  et  pus  comparez  par  ymaginacioun  de  diuers  comentours  diuerse- 
mrm,  com  par  similitude  avenire,  dez  dragouns,  sengleris,  lowys,  egles  et  liouns,  coufles, 
chaielis,  chenys,  anes,  taupes,  cheuyrs,  arbres,  et  russeaux.  Lasignifiaunz  de  queux  tout  fus- 
sent  ils  prophecies,  com  noun  doient  estre  croiables,  pusque  parlez  estoient  de  entendement 
demoniak,  ne  purra  estre  determyne  en  certayne  si  fossent  en  le  hour  de  lescriuer  de  cest 
cronicle  passe  ou  avenir,  pusque  tauntez  des  roys  sount  passez,  tan  com  durerent  lez  regnes 
des  .vij.  reaulmes  Saxsouns,  en  queux  la  Grant  Bretaigne  estoit  deuise,  et  dez  autres  puscedy 
Engles  et  Normandes;  pur  quoy  ne  agreast  a  ledeuissour  de  cest  cronicle  plus  dez  parolis 
de  Merlyn  ede  soy  entremettre,  ne  dez  autres  queux  hom  disoit  en  le  houre  predestinours 
com  de  Willam  Banastre,  ou  de  Thomas  de  Erceldoun.  Lez  parolis  de  queux  farount  ditz 
en  figure  od  diuers  entendementz  aptez  a  lestimacioun  de  les  comentours,  qe  en  casse  pur- 
roint  desacorder. 


Le  KOYf  Arthur,  qi  de  la  descounfiture  de  Nichol  estoit  departy  en  Escoce  pur  destruyer 
sez  enemys,— qe  touz  iours  prest  estoint  a  leuer  od  qi  qe  venoient,  Picis,  Danoys,  ou  Sax- 

t  ftomlfr70m  "" 6''  "'  AftergIvtaB  thC  "iStory  of  MerU"'  as  in  G<*ff«?  "f  Monmouth,  the  author  proceeds  a5  abov 
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318  APPENDIX. 

souns, — oy  lez  nouelis  qe  Ckeldrik  oue  lez  soens  estoit  rearyues,  encountre  couenant  et  lour 
serement,  en  sa  terre  ;  si  fist  al  hour  comander  a  pendre  lour  ostages,  et  lessa  Hoel  soun 
neuew  de  la  Petit  Bretaigne  a  Alclud  en  Escoce  maladez,  qi  ne  se  poat  bouger,  si  se  hasta 
vers  lez  foriurez  quanque  il  poait,  qe  lez  troua  al  auauntdit  assege,  qe  aperceurent  la  venu 
Arthur,  si  estoient  tretz  au  sornet  dun  mountayn  pres  un  grant  forteresce.  Endrementres  qe 
Arthur  se  armoit,  lerceuesque  Drubrice  de  Carlioun  sarmouna  le  poeple  en  monestaunt 
com  par  le  coraaundement  du  souerayn  qils  defendissent  lour  pays,  la  souerayne  charite, 
aumoine,  et  hommesce,  au  proflte  du  comune  generalement  et  singulerement,  si  lour  gamy 
de  le  meschief  aparaunt  si  ils  ne  ceo  feissent  peniblement,  pur  murrir  qe  plus  uaudroit  qe 
viure,  a  ceo  voire  com  quaunt  nul  est  digne  dauoir  honour  qi  ne  le  vaut  a  defendre,  si 
lour  moustra  coment  pur  a  reachater  lygne  humaigne  Dieu  morust  pur  nous.  Pur  quoy  ils 
ses  buteroint  le  plus  de  gree  en  auenture  pur  defendre  sa  loy  encountre  sez  enemys,  qe  ceo 
enuoroint  abatre  et  lez  destruyer  en  captiuison.  Arthur  od  soun  ost  prist  la  forteresce  du 
mountayn,  si  se  auaunsa  deuaunt  touz  en  ticl  maner  qe  a  touz  donoit  baudour  de  tost  as- 
sembler, lez  vns  a  porter  pris,  lez  autres  pm-  eschuer  hount.  Arthur  enlist  de  sa  mayne  tiel 
pruesce  par  qoy  lez  enemys  estoint  touz  desaroutez,  qe  pristrent  a  fuyr,  le  roy  chargea  Ca- 
dor,  soun  freir,  de  Cornewail  a  pursuyr  lez  fuauntz,  qar  il  se  voroit  retreir  deuers  Hoelle, 
soun  neuew,  qe  en  le  hour  ly  veint  message  qil  estoit  assys  de  lez  Escocez.  Cador  sauoit 
vn  plus  pres  chemyn  deuers  lour  nefes,  si  lour  forcloa,  si  lour  encountra  en  my  le  vice,  qe 
touz  lour  fist  decouper  en  pece,  lez  cheuetayns,  et  Colgryn,  et  lez  comuns  touz  ;  et  se  hasta 
deuers  le  roy,  qe  ly  troua  a  Alclud,  qe  deuaunt  ly  estoit  venuz,  ou  il  auoit  troue  Hoelle 
sayn  et  haytez,  lez  enemys  departys  sceu  la  venu  le  roy,  qe  sez  estoient  retreitez  a  Caumfer 
en  Murref,  ou  Arthur  lez  purssuy,  et  outre  en  lisle  de  Dumeloi,  ou  par  autre  noun  Logh- 
lunloc,  vn  grant  estank,  en  qoy  descenderent  xl.  ryueris,  ou  sount  dedenz  1.  isles,  hautes 
roches,  ou  solaient  lez  egles  ayreir,  qe  acoustomez  estoint  a  faire  signes  encountre  guere 
par  queux  lez  gentz  du  pays  enpristrent  grant  signifians  ;  dedenz  quel  isle  Arthur  auoit 
lez  Escocz  assys,  qe  fist  feir  barges,  bateaux  et  notes,  pur  lez  sureoure. 

(Jaunt  nouels  ly  vindrent  qe  Gillemarus,  roy  de  Ireland,  estoit  illoeqes  pres  aryuez  pur  re- 
scoure  lez  Escoces,  Arthur  se  delogea,  se  trey  deurs  ly,  qe  auoit  aparsu  la  maner  dez  ene- 
mys, qe  nestoient  pas  ai'mez,  mais  launsours  des  launces  et  dartez,  mais  grant  poeple  fu- 
rount.  Arthur  fist  mounter  dereire  chescun  de  sez  gentz  darmes  vn  archier,  se  cheuaucha 
le  petite  pas,  et  pres  le  assembler  fist  descendre  lez  archers,  qe  saunz  aparsayuanz  dez  ene- 
mis  lez  lardisoint  dez  setes  qe  ils  ne  sez  pooint  eyder,  et  oue  ceo  qils  sez  meruaillerent  de 
ou  lour  venoit  eel  encombrer,  fery  cheueaux  dez  esperouns  et  touz  al  assembler,  qe  touz  lez 
porterent  a  terre  fiches  oue  launces  par  my  lez  corps  com  gentz  desarmez,  ceaux  qi  purroint 
fuerent  oue  lour  cheuetaigne  as  nefes,  qi  ses  remistrent  en  lour  pays.  Arthure  repaira  a 
lestank,  qi  en  grant  carouce  de  eaux  se  enforsa  par  touz  lez  engynes  qil  poait  de  lez  greuer, 
qe  graut  occision  enfist  faire.  Les  Escocez,  qe  aparsceurcnt  la  descounfiture  dez  Irroys  et 
le  grant  purpos  et  ire  le  roy,  maunderent  a  ly  lour  euesqes  et  prelates,  portantz  lour  corps 
sayntes,  et  od  femmes  et  enfauntz  plurauntz,  qeraunt  sa  mercy ;  qi  lez  resceut  com  horn 
playn  de  pite.     Arthur  enqist  de  eaux  lez  meruails  du  pays,  qe  ly  counterent  dez  isles  qes- 


APPENDIX.  319 

toient  reniuauntz  tie  vn  lieu  en  autre  oue  le  vent  en  le  estank,  et  dez  pessouns  de  diuers 
maners,  lez  vns  saunz  bowail,  qe  conuersoient  en  diuers  lieus  saunz  entreaprocher  dedenz 
lestank;  si  luy  coiuiterent  dun  maner  dez  oyseaux  qe  cressent  sur  arbres  dedenz  lez  roches 
de  mere,  qe  quant  ils  sount  mures  cheount  en  mere,  uolount  auaunt ;  ceaux  qe  cheoint  sui'e 
sek  tere  enuentissount  aveint,  ceaux  oyseaux  sount  appellez  Bernakes.  Hoel,  roy  de  la 
Petit  Bretaigne,  qe  oy  lez  meruailles  du  pays,  enauoit  meruail ;  qi  bien  lez  recorda.  Ar- 
thur prist  lez  homages  de  lez  Escoces,  qe  enuice  le  firent,  com  tesmoigne  Bede,  qe  meutz 
voloint  murrir  qe  estre  sutzgis.  Arthur  repaira  a  Euerwik,  ou  il  fist  redresser  pai-  assent 
dez  prelatez  le  deray  qe  fust  fest  a  saint  eglis  de  ruyne  de  eglis,  qi  bien  lez  fist  reparailler, 
et  fist  rebailler  as  touz  espirituels  et  temperales  touz  lour  possessiouns  droiturelis  et  lour 
bon  auncien  loy  bien  garder  il  fist.  Erceusque  illoeqes,  Adam  Piran  soiui  cosyn,  bon  saint, 
horn  religious  ;  lez  .iij.  freirs,  fitz  Rahu,  Loth,  Anguysel,  et  Vrien,  y  furount  as  queux  le 
roy  rendy  plus  de  terse,  qe  lours  auncestres  nauoint :  a  Anguisel  dona  Escoce ;  a  Vrien, 
Murref;  a  Loth,  Lownesse;  a  cely  dona  il  sa  sore  eyne,  de  qey  il  engendra  .ij.  fitz,  neuews 
le  roi,  Gawayn  ly  prus,  et  Mordret  ly  malerous.     Hoel  se  trey  en  soun  pays. 


Donqes  com*  Conwak  le  roy  Descoce  out  dit  vn  foitz  en  deduyt,  "  ieo  me  meruail  fo- 
ment ceo  pust  estre  qe  tauntz  dez  grautz  seignours  sount  sutzgiz  a  sy  petite  horn."  Et  ceo 
ly  fust  counte.  II  le  teint  longment  en  soun  quer,  mais  au  darayn  se  descouery  en  tiel 
maner.  B  prist  cesti  Kunwak  vn  iour  od  ly  au  boys,  com  pur  chacer ;  et  quant  lez  gentz 
furount  alez  de  eaux  et  ils  estoient  tot  soul,  il  prist  soun  espey  en  sa  mayn  et  vn  autre  qil 
out  porte  de  gree  et  bailla  a  ly,  si  ly  dist,  "  ore  assayomes  si  vous  deuez  estre  sutzget  a  cely 
qi  vous  escharnistez  le  autre  iour  a  la  fest,  ou  il  a  vous ;  qar  lede  chos  est  au  roi  estre  sure 
soun  bank  pur  sez  bobauns,  autres  despisant,  et  quant  il  al  mister  veynt  nul  rien  fesaunt." 
Et  quant  ceo  oyst  le  roy  Descoce  il  auoit  vergoyn,  et  fust  enpooury,  et  cheoit  as  peese  le 
roy  et  cria  mercy,  et  se  excusa  et  dist  qil  le  dist  en  deduyt  et  par  nul  despit  de  ly. 


Il  y  f  out  vn  fort  cheualer  et  prus  hu  pays,  qi  out  a  noun  Siward,  de  qi  cesti  roy  Edward 
enfist  count  de  Northumberland  pur  sa  pruesce.  Cesti  Syward  tua  en  batail  Makacta,  roy 
Descoce,  qi  mouoit  riot  countre  cesti  roy  Edward.  Apres  qi  Makacta,  Mancloun  Gros- 
test,  fit  le  roy  de  Coumbirlande,  deueint  roy  sur  lez  Escoces.  Autre  foitz  Siward  enuoya 
soun  fitz  a  gerroyer  en  Escoce,  ou  il  raurrust  de  fluxs.  Et  quant  le  pier  le  sauoit  si  disoit, 
"  Ha,"  fesoit,  "ne  poast  moun  fitz  finy  dautre  mort?  il  ne  enuailly  rien!"  En  coroucz  de 
qoy  il  se  voloit  venger;  si  mouoit  od  ost  en  Escoce,  ou  meisme  la  malady  ly  surueint  si 
cruel  qe  a  murrir  ly  coueint.     "  Alias,"  fesoit  il,  "  pur  quoy  ne  huse  departy  du  siecle  en 

•  From  fol.  124,  b.    After  mentioning  the  widely-extended  conquests  of  Edgar,  the  above  narrative  is  introduced. 
t  From  fol.  137,  b. 


320  APPENDIX. 

tauntz  de  batails  on  iay  este,  qe  ore  cloy  murrire  com  vn  vache.  Endosez  moy,"  fesoit  il, 
"  moun  hauberk,  si  me  lacez  de  healm,  y  mettez  moy  lesq,  si  me  seinez  de  lespey,  baillez 
moy  la  launce  hu  poyn,  qe  com  vn  fort  chiualer  pius  morir."  Soun  comaundement  acom- 
plye,  il  se  lessa  morir. 

Apres  mort  de  qy,  Walteu,  soun  fitz,  estoit  de  si  trestendre  age  qil  ne  pooit  le  pays  iusti- 
fier,  ne  nestoit  de  grant  parenty,  pur  qoy  la  counte  de  Northumbreland  fu  done  du  roy 
Edward  a  Tostin  le  fitz  Godwyn  et  freir  Harald ;  qi  Tostin  fust  euehace  pur  sez  extorsiouns 
du  poeple,  qi  meutz  voloint  morire  qe  noundroiturelement  estre  gouernez  en  seruitude. 
Quels  extorsiouns  conuz  de  soun  freir  Harald  par  messageres  de  Northumbreland,  qy  venoit 
od  poair,  le  roy  a  rescour  soun  freir  departy  soun  ost,  qi  plus  amast  la  peise  du  pays  qe 
soustenaunz  soun  freir  en  deresoun ;  pur  corouce  de  quoi  Tostin  sen  departy  en  Flaundres, 
et  Malche  fitz  Edgar  deueint  count.  Cesti  Harald  fitz  Godwyn  se  entremist  dez  bosoignes 
le  roy,  qi  chiualerousement  lez  gouernoit.  II  descounfist  deus  Brers  le  roy  de  Galis,  Rys, 
et  Griffin,  et  soutzmist  la  terre  a  gouernement  le  roy  Edward. 

Meisme  le  temps  veint  Edward  fitz  Edmound  Irneside  de  Hungry,  qi  procheignement 
-i  lessa  morir  et  fust  enterre  a  saint  Poel  a  Loundres.  Cesti  fust  pier  Edgar  Atheling,  et 
de  Margaret  qe  puis  fust  roine  Descoee,  espouse  Mauncloun  Gros-test,  de  qey  il  engendra 
Edward  et  Dauid.  Edward,  le  ejroe,  morust  od  soun  pier  en  batail;  Dauid  regna  apres 
sagement  en  Eseoce  en  le  temps  Willam  de  Malmesbery.  Mancloun  auoit  de  Margaret  ij. 
feilles;  Maude,  qe  Henry  le  roy  Dengleter,  fitz  Willam  le  conquerour,  esposa;  lautre, 
Marie,  qe  Eustace  count  de  Boloyn  prist  a  femme.  Lez  cronicles  Descoee  tesmoignent  qe 
ceste  Margaret  fust  enchace  par  tempest  de  mere  en  Eseoce  en  Forth,  com  ele  venoit  deuers 
Engleter,  de  ou  ele  estoit  amene  au  roy  Mancloun,  qi  amarier  estoit,  qi  la  prist  en  espous. 
Lez  cronicles  tesmoignent  qe  cesti  Mancloun  estoit  fitz  bastard  le  roy,  qi  droit  clama  en 
Eseoce,  qauoit  ij.  freirs  moillers,  od  les  queux  il  estoit  en  Engleter  a  nurrir.  En  quel  temps, 
pur  juvenesce  de  ditz  heires,  les  seignours  Descoee  auoint  chescun  lour  pays  a  gouerner 
com  roys;  lez  queux  al  hour  nauoint  my  le  noun  de  countis  mais  de  thayns.  Vn  qi  se  tenoit 
le  plus  grant  meistre,  cely  de  Murref,  fist  somoundre  toz  lez  autres  thayns  qils  fussent 
prestes  od  lour  cariage  pur  aporter  meryme  et  pere  au  edifiaunce  dun  chastel  qe  ly  plesoit 
a  fair  fermer,  qe  toz  vindrent  et  fesoint  le  mandement.  La  charge  du  thain  de  Fyffe  failloit 
au  vieu  de  cely  de  Murref  qi  lour  auoit  somounne,  qi  se  countrefist  lour  souerajiie,  de- 
maundoit  a  qy  la  charge  qe  failloit  apartenoit.  lis  ly  disoient  qe  ceo  estoit  au  thayn  de 
Fyfe.  "  Voir,"  fesoit  il,  "  faitez  ly  venyz,  si  mettez  soun  cole  propre  a  sustener  ceo  qe  ses 
bofes  deueroint  surtreier."  De  quel  comaundement  le  thain  de  FifFe  auoit  despit,  si  se 
aloigna  et  sen  alast  en  Qftimbreland,  ou  lour  droitz  seignours  furount  a  nurrire,  qi  ne  lez 
troua  my  araiez  de  volouute,  poair,  ne  corage  al  hour  de  mettre  claym.  Qy  demaundoit 
Mancloun  lour  freir  bastard,  qi  parcru  estoit,  sil  vousist  venir  et  il  ly  eydroit  a  estre  roys, 
qi  se  assenty,  sen  ala  od  ly ;  par  eide  de  qy  il  endeuint  roi,  destruyt  touz  qi  contrairs  ly 
furount,  si  graunta  a  cesti  count  Macdouf,  [qi]  ly  auoit  ensi  eide,  la  franchise  de  Clacmac- 
dottf,  vn  exempt  priuilage  du  comune  loy,  issint  qe  pur  touz  trespasses  touz  extreitz  de  soun 
lyne  ne  portassent  punisement  for  raunsoun  dun  some  dargent. 


APPENDIX.  321 

Cesti  Mancloun,  qi  esposa  la  dit  Margaret,  fist  chaunger  lez  nouns  dc  thains  en  countis. 
Meismes  les  cronicles  tesmoignent  qe  cesti  Mancloun  fist  puscedy  decoller  lun  de  sez  freirs, 
et  envoegler  lautre,  pui"  ceo  qils  ne  ly  tollacent  soun  estat,  lez  fist  niettre  en  gard  en  le  chas- 
tel  de  Jedworth,  ou  cely  qi  fust  esvoeglez  engendra  vn  feile  de  vn  lauender,  qe  ne  ly  voroit 
lesser  refeter  tanque  il  lauoit  espose.  Quel  feile  lauantdit  roy  Mancloun  donast  a  vn  dez 
fitz  le  count  de  Comynge  de  France)  qi  od  ly  deinuroit,  qi  du  roy  demaunda  la  dist  puscel. 
Vn  iow,  com  le  roi  cheuaucha  pres  de  Jedworde  a  Roul,  la  dit  puscel  en  compaigny  dez 
autres  paisenis  crioit  an  roy,  "  bele  vnkel,  festis  moi  bien,  qe  su  la  feil  toun  freir."  "  Voir," 
fesoit  il,  "  veignez  auaunt ;"  si  la  vist  bel  meschein,  qe  au  prier  del  auaunt  dit  freir  le  count 
de  Comenge  la  dona  od  la  terre  en  quoy  il  cheuauchea,  pur  quoi  auyndrent  lez  Comynes 
Descoce. 


INDEX. 


INDEX. 


A. 


Abigensos,  lez  eretiqes,  85. 
Abirbrothock,  118. 
Abirbrothockc,  le  abbay  de,  41. 
Abirnethi,  7. 

Abirnetbin,  le  sire  de,  130. 
Abirnithin,  leglis  de,  115. 
Abmylan,  55. 
Achfin,  114. 
Aeon,  le  sege  de,  47. 
Acres,  53,  56,  69,  71,  74,  105,  110. 
Acres,  la  cite  de,  45,  68,  71. 
Acres,  le  seige  de,  66,  68,  76. 
Ada,  espouse  de  Johan  de  Hastinges,  118. 
Adrian  iv.,  pape,  39,  47. 
Adrian  v.,  pape.  133. 
Adriel,  15. 

Agas,  la  mere  la  royne  Margaret,  5,  21. 
Agaz,  saint,  la  toumbe  de,  63. 
Agenoys,  172. 
Agueth,  Mount,  2. 
Aiveryne,  le  daufyn  de,  199. 
Aix-la-Chapelle,  v.  Ake. 
Ake,  105. 

Alasoun,  le  count  de,  199. 
Alayn,  seignur  de  Galeway,  118,  120. 
Albany,  levesche,  9. 
Alhanve,  114,  116. 
Albeon,  1. 

Aldeburgb,  Willani  de,  190. 
Alence,  56. 

Alensoun,  Peres  de,  199. 
Alexandre  i.,  roy  d'Escoce,  28,  117. 
Alexandre  ii.,  roy  d'Escoce,  84,  95,  99,  100,  118. 
Alexandre  iii.,  roy  d'Escoce,  100,  107,  108,  109, 
110,  118. 


Alexandre  iii.,  pape,  47,  48. 

Alexandre  iv.,  pape,  106. 

Alfouns,  ;-.  Alphouns. 

Alije,  la  Mount,  55. 

Alkalon,  55. 

Allemayn,  19,  42,  77,  167. 

Allemayn,  lez  princes  de,  81,  106. 

Allemayn,  le  roi  de.  ill. 

Allemayn,  lez  seignurs  de,  79. 

Allemauns,  lez,  47,  154,  165,  168,  169,  183,  185, 

187,  191. 
Allertoun,  33. 

Allertoun,  le  maner  de,  147. 
Almarich,  roy  de  Jerusalem,  36. 
Almarie,  56. 
Almarie,  C'appe  d',  5'i. 
Almary.  81. 
Alne,  21. 

Aluewyk,  21,  40,  117,  155. 
AInewyk,  le  chastel  de,  21,  140. 
Alnewyk,  l'onur  de,  118. 
Alphouns,  fitz  le  roi  Edward  i.,  109. 
Alphouns,  iii.,  roy  d'Espayne,  37. 
Alphouns,  iv.,  roy  d'Espayne,  197. 
Alpin,  116. 

Alpyii,  fitz  Beghacb,  114. 
Alpin,  fitz  Eferadhech,  115. 
Alpin,  fitz  Tenagus,  115. 
Aired,  ercevesque  d'Everwik,  G. 
Alsace,  Phelip  d',  count  de  Flaundres,  66. 
Alvern,  44. 
Amfbdech,  115. 
Amias,  136,  158,  179,  199. 
Amil,  115. 
Ampost,  56. 


I\ 


INDEX. 


Amthar,  fitz  Donald,  117. 

Anachlitus  ii.,  antipape,  29. 

Anand,  161. 

Anand,  l'eau  de,  165. 

Anand,  le  vale  de,  120,  132. 

Anandredalle,  154. 

Anastatius  iv.,  pape,  35,  47. 

Anastays,  Saint,  l'abbe  de,  34. 

Ancelyn,  lerceuesque  de  Cantorbirs,  20,  22,  23, 

24,  25,  26,  27,  28. 
Andrew,  Saint,  leglis  de,  116. 
Andrew,  Saint,  levesque  de,  41,  88. 
Andewerp,  168,  169,  170. 
Angelin,  Seint  Johan  le,  181. 
Angeow,  v.  Aungeow. 
Angous,  le  count  de,  125,  159,  165. 
Angous,  le  viscount  de,  203. 
Angous,  Thomas  le  Seneschal,  count  de,  176. 
Anser,  189. 

Ansoir,  le  count  de,  173. 
Antais.  181. 
Antioche,  9,  23,  66. 
Appilbv,  le  chastel  de,  40. 
Apuil,  8,  97. 
Archady,  116. 
Arche,  le  pount  de  la,  196. 
Archeprestre,  v.  Ercheprestre. 
Arcourt,  le  count  de,  172. 
Are,  le  chastel  de,  132. 
Argentair,  l'isle,  52. 
Argentem,  13. 
Argenten,  Giles  de,  142. 
Arlestoun,  l!>i). 
Armelech,  fitz  Findan,  114. 
Arnikelcc.  114. 

Aroundel,  le  count  de,  v.  Arundelle. 
Arragoun,  51,  56. 
Arragoun,  brigauns  de,  108. 
Arragoun,  le  roy  de,  109.  111.  197.  201. 
Arraz,  187,  199. 
Arthur,  le  roy,  63,  83. 
Arthur,  le  corps  de,  37. 
Arthur,  duk  de  Bretaigne,  61. 
Arthur,  count  de  Bretaigne.  82. 
Artoys,  le  count  de,  111. 


Artoys,  le  counte  de,  171- 

Artoys,  la  feile  le  count  de,  137. 

Artoys,  Robert  de,  138,  171. 

Arundelle,  le  count  de,  143,  152,  165,  167. 

Arviragoun,  114. 

Ascalon,  72,  73,  74. 

Assassins,  73. 

Assasis,  le  roy  de,  76. 

Assath,  Saint,  levesque  de,  88. 

Assys,  la  cite  de,  96. 

Athe,  mac  Kinath,  116. 

Atheles,  55,  132. 

Athelis,  le  count  de,  122,  123,  131,  140,  159,  165, 

166. 
Athelis,  le  countais  de,  166. 
Attenys,  le  pays  de,  en  Grece,  112. 
Attenys.  le  duk  de.  175. 
Attinye,  la  vile  de,  en  Chaumpayn,  188. 
Aubigny,  le  sire  de,  199. 
Aude,  feille  Willam  i.,  roy  de  Engleter,  8,  26. 
Audel,  12. 

Audeley,  Hugh  de,  126. 
Audeley,  James  de,  188,  189,  194. 
Aueneris,  18. 
Aufric,  l'emperour  de,  54. 
Aufrik.  lez  estroytes  de,  55. 
Aumarell,  le  count  de.  32. 
Aumarill,  12. 
Aumesbery,  133. 
Auneris,  18. 
Aungeloun,  12. 

Aungeow.  32,  37.  47,  83,  178. 
Aungeow,  le  counte  de,  46. 
Aungeow,  Gaufred  Plauntegeneth,  count  de.  30. 

32,  34. 
Aungeow,  Henry  count  de,  33. 
Aungers,  19. 
Aungewyn,  19. 
Auntiage,  le  lyvere  de,  9. 
Auveme,  185,  201. 
Avenel,  18. 
Avenele,  13. 

Avinioun,  136,  176,  177.  201. 
Awge,  Gerard,  ercevesque  de.  .'jU. 
Avne,  lean  d< 


INDEX. 


B. 


Babiloyn,  36. 

Babiloyn,  le  soudane  de,  106. 

Badoghe,  116. 

Bahaynouns,  les,  47. 

Baillof,  Bernard  de,  40. 

Baillof,   Edward,   121,    123,   159,   161,    162,  164, 

165. 
Baillof,  Johan  de,  39,  118,  119,   120.   121,  122, 

123,  125,  162. 
Baillolf,  12. 
Baillolfs,  les,  41. 
Baiounais,  121. 
Baires,  188. 

Balmorinagh,  l'abbay  de,  41. 
Baltary,  l'isle  de,  55. 
Banastre,  Adam,  140. 
Banester,  16. 
Bannokbum,  141. 
Barbedor,  17. 
Bardolf,  12. 
Baret,  18. 

Bareth,  le  port  de,  52. 
Barflet,  78. 

Barflu,  l'eglise  de,  186. 
Barkschire,  22. 
Barray,  17. 
Barry,  18. 

Barsalon,  la  cite  de,  56. 
Basille,  la  cite  de,  176. 
Baskevil,  13. 

Baskirville,  Richard  de,  193. 
Basset,  Rauf,  102. 
Bassingwerk,  le  chastel  de,  35. 
Bath,  l'evesque  de,  77,  97. 
Baudewyn,  17. 

Baudewyn,  erchevesque  de  Cantorbirs,  4¥. 
Baudewyn,  count  de  Flaundres,  84. 
Baudewyn,  roy  de  Jerusalem,  9. 
Baudyn,  16. 
Bauent,  15. 

Baumburgh,  le  chaste]  de,  22,  ;>.j.  144.  145. 
Bawdewgh,  ercevesque  de  Cantorbirs,  53. 
Bay,  le  port  de,  .53. 
Baynard,  57. 
Bayns,  15. 


Bayouns,  Bernard  evesque  de,  50. 

Bealum,  16. 

Beatrice,  countesse  de  Bretaigne,  1  oo. 

Beaumaisin,  180. 

Beaumound,  count  de  Tripol,  <>4. 

Beaumound,  Henry  de,  127,  141,  144,  153,  156, 
159,  164. 

Beaumound,   Lowys   de,    evesque   de    Doresme, 
144. 

Beaumound,  Thomas  de,  191. 

Beaumount,  17. 

Beaumount,  le  viscount  de,  199. 

Beauvaisin,  187. 

Beauvoys,  199. 

Beaux,  191,  192,  193,  194. 

Beauxs,  la  marche,  190. 

Bede,  3. 

Bedford,  156. 

Bedford,  le  chastel  de,  99. 

Beghach,  114. 

Bek,  dez  Vileins  Franceis,  184,  193. 

Bek,  Antoin  de,  evesi|iii'  di    ; 
121,  125,  135. 

Bekard,  in. 

Beke,  17. 

Beket,  Thomas,  35.   II  46,47,53. 

Beket,  Thomas,  translate,  99. 
Belevile,  19. 
Belew,  19. 
Belgard,  111. 
Belin,  113. 

Bend,  la  compaignie  de  la.  197. 
Benet  x.,  pape,  135. 
Benet  xii.,  pape,  172. 
Benny,  17. 

Benoge,  le  count  de,  187. 
Beraltare,  56. 
Bercelay,  152. 
Bercelay,  v.  Berkelay. 
Berenfos,  169. 

Berenger,  femme  le  roy  de  Jerusalem,  75. 
Berenger,  femme  le  roy  Richard  i.,  93. 
Berewik,  83,  119,  122,  123.  124,   125 
143,  148,  165,  176. 
ik,  le  batail  de, 


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INDEX. 


Berewik,  le  chastel  de,  41,  48,   121,   124,   130. 

144,  163. 
Berewik,  leglis  de  la  Trinite,  a,  119. 
Berewik,  le  pount  de,  118. 
Berewik,  la  vile  de,  125,  146,  162. 
Berewik,  le  viscounte  de,  162. 
Berkelay,  le  sire  de,  165,  166. 
Berkhamstede,  le  chastel  de,  97. 
Berkleys,  les,  41. 
Bernard  Chastel,  40. 
Bernard,  Saint.  42. 
Bernevale,  18. 
Bernevile,  18. 
Bern,  172,  201. 
Berry,  Philip  count  de,  199. 
Berthun,  la  vile  Saint,  52. 
Bertram,  12. 
Bertyn,  19. 
Betnoble,  73. 
Betoin,  Michel,  175. 
Betoyn,  127,  129. 

Beturicha,  44. 
Bettoun,  52. 

Beverlay,  Saint  Johan  de,  6. 

Beyers,  14. 

Bevery,  18. 

Bewchaump,  16. 

Beyuer,  Conrard  le  duk  de,  34. 

Biard,  12. 

Bickirtoun,  Waulter  de,  138. 

Bidyn,  18. 

Biford,  12. 

Bigot,  12. 

Bigot,  Hugh,  31,  32. 

Bigot,  Roger,  count  de  Northfolk,  82,  133. 

Bilaund,  149. 

Billingham,  7- 

Bingard,  18. 

Biroun,  15. 

Biseys,  lez,  41. 

Blachenok,  23. 

Blakhowmore,  149. 

Blanc  Warde,  72. 

Blankmorl,  Esteven  de,  22. 

Blaunche,  la  royne,  82,  110,  112,  185. 

Bleyn,  19. 

Bloete,  Robert,  20. 


Blount,  17. 

Bloys,  173. 

Bloys,  le  count  de,  8,  199. 

Bloys,  le  governour  de,  201. 

Bloys,  Charles  de,  176,  195. 

Bluet,  15. 

Blundet,  15,  17. 

Boemond  iii.,  prince  de  Antioche,  71. 

Boghan,  v.  Beaumont. 

Boghan,  le  count  de,  122. 

Boghan,  la  countesse  de,  130. 

Boghane,  lez  costres  de,  1 10. 

Boloin,  Godfray  de,  9. 

Boloyne,  187. 

Bonhom,  Jakes,  184,  186. 

Boneface  viii.,  le  pape,  125.  134.  135. 

Bonevaille,  194. 

Boown,  12. 

Bouhun,   Humfray  de,   count  de  Hertforde,  98, 

131. 
Borewase,  Henry  de,  167. 
Boroun,  16. 
Bosevile,  17. 
Botheville,  140,  166. 

Botheville,  Thomas  de  Murref,  baroun  de,  176. 
Boteler,  13. 
Boundevil,  12. 
Boune,  Edward  de,  16.3. 
Bourbon,  le  duk  de,  175,  199. 
Bourt,  18. 
Bovet,  18. 

Boville,  Hagenay  de,  191. 
Boys,  13. 
Boysis,  lez,  41. 
Boyvile,  17- 

Braban,  le  duk  de,  133,  169,  170,  177. 
Brabane,  169. 
Brabasoun,  14. 
Bracy,  16. 

Bragh  de  Mount-real,  70. 
Braibof,  15. 
Brandane,  Saint,  112. 
Brandesburgh,  le  markis  de,  136. 
Braund,  15. 
Bray,  16. 

Brec,  Symound,  113. 
Breghen,  David  de,  144. 


INDEX. 


Vll 


Breicourt,  19. 

Brein,  le  count  de,  199. 

Bret,  le  sire  de  la,  202. 

Bretaigne,  53,  126,  173,  176,  182,  183,  192,  195. 

Bretaigne,  le  count  de,  93. 

Bretaigne,  le  duk  de,  107. 

Bretaigne,  Gaufray  count  de,  35. 

Bretaigne,  Graunt,  1,  2. 

Bretaine,  Johan  de,  105. 

Bretevil,  17. 

Bretevile,  18. 

Bretoun,  15. 

Bretouns,  114,  116,  189,  201. 

Breute,  Faukes  de,  94,  99,  100. 

Brewes,  Willam  de,  104. 

Brian,  18. 

Briaunsoun,  13. 

Bride,  fitz  Fathe,  115. 

Brie,  188. 

Brien,  le  chastel  de,  183. 

Brigans,  le  chastel  de,  112,  113. 

Brige,  171. 

Brighen,  le  sire  de,  130. 

Brise,  135. 

Bristow,  97. 

Bristow,  le  chastel  de,  151. 

Bristow,  la  tour  de,  31. 

Broi,  19. 

Broth,  17. 

Brud,  fitz  Ferahach,  116. 

Brude,  fitz  Dergert,  113. 

Brude,  fitz  Fochel,  116. 

Brude,  fitz  Tenegus,  115. 

Bruer,  Willam  de,  86,  97,  98. 

Bruges,  171. 

Brumevile,  19. 

Brut,  le,  3. 

Brutus,  4,  126. 

Bruys,  13,  15. 

Bruys,  Alexander  de,  132. 


Bruys,  David  de,  161,   163,  164,  165,   196,  202, 

203. 
Bruys,  Edward  de,  143. 
Bruys,  Neil,  131. 
Bruys,  Peris  de,  118. 
Bruys,  Robert  de,  le  eyne,  105,  118,  120. 
Bruys,  Robert  de,  le  second,  120. 
Bruys,   Robert  de,   roy  Descoce,    119,  120,   121, 

129,  130,  131,    132,    138,   139,   140,  141,  142, 

143,  144,  160,  162,  163. 
Bruys,  Robert,  la  femme  de,  131,  140,  143. 
Bruys,  Thomas  de,  132. 
Bruys,  les,  41. 
Bruyt,  v.  Brut. 
Bulgery,  9,  34. 
Bullyoun,  Godfray  de,  23. 
Burboun,  Jaqis  de,  201. 
Burch,  133. 
Burdet,  16. 

Burdeux,  111,  172,  175. 
Burdoun,  17. 
Burges,  l'eglise  de,  103. 
Burgh,  15. 

Burgh,  le  chastel  de,  40. 
Burgh,  Hubert  de,  98,  99. 
Burghersche,  Bartholomew  de,  188. 
Burglioun,  140. 
Burgoyn,  183,  188,  189,  191. 
Burgoyn,  le  count  de,  111. 
Burgoyn,  le  duche  de,  201. 
Burgoyn,  le  duk  de,  59,  60,  74,  137,  171. 
Burnel,  13. 

Bursigaud,  monsire,  172. 
Burtoun  sur  Trent,  148. 
Busard,  19. 
Buscel,  18. 

Busche,  le  capitain  de,  187,  189. 
Buscy,  15,  121. 
Buttencourt,  12. 
Buttevilain,  13. 


( 'adwaladre,  3. 

Calabre,  57,  58. 

Calays,  186,  187,  195. 

Calays,  le  stapille  de  laynes  a.,  202. 


c. 


C'alibourne,  63. 
Calixtus  ii.,  pape,  29. 
Calnatuhel,  115. 
Calpes,  55. 


INDEX. 


Caluz,  le  chastel  de,  80. 

Calverley,  Hugh  de,  185. 

Cambresi,  187. 

Came,  199. 

Camevill,  12. 

Camoys,  12. 

Camwille,  Richard  de,  54,  55. 

Cantelu,  Founk  de,  83. 

Cantorbirs,  20,  40,  46,  83,  86,  90,  99,  125. 

Cantorbirs,  la  cite  de,  36,  40,  85. 

Cantorbirs,  l'eglis  de,  85. 

Cantorbirs,  lercevesque  de,  98. 

Cantorbirs,  lez  ercevesques  de,  9. 

Cantorbirs,  les  moignes  de,  84,  85. 

Cantorbirs,  le  prior  de,  85,  86,  87. 

Cantorbirs,  Willam  lercevesque  de,  30. 

Cappow,  52. 

Capri,  53. 

Captal,  le  chastel  de,  55. 

Cardif,  le  chastel  de,  43. 

Cardoil,  28,  40,   95,  114,   118,    122,    124,    132, 

148,  161,  165,  167. 
Cardoil,  le  chastel  de,  20,  95. 
Cardoil,  la  cite  de,  35. 
Carentane,  la  duche  de,  1 36. 
Carlaverok,  le  chastel  de,  126. 
Carlisle,  v.  Cardoil. 
Carnaveran,  le  chastel  de,  109. 
Cartage,  56. 
Casselis,  156. 
Castilun,  Cappe,  56. 
Casyne,  Mount,  la  college  en  le,  29. 
Cateneys,  113. 
Catinenzie,  la  cite  de,  63. 
Cauville,  Richard  de,  50. 
Ceins,  189. 

Celestine  hi.,  pape,  81. 
Celestin  iv.,  pape,  105. 
Celestin  v.,  pape,  134. 
Celtaniech,  115. 
Cenomenia,  44. 
Cercil,  Cappe  de,  52. 
Cesille,  24,  47,  56,  57,  106. 
Cesile,  le  roy  de,  59,  60,  61,  62,  76. 
Cesile,  la  royne  de,  35,  64. 
Cestre,  29,  38. 
Cestre,  levesque  de,  10. 


Cestre,  le  count  de,  44,  150. 

Cestre,  le  counte  de,  102,  104. 

Cestre,  Hugh,  count  de,  78. 

Cestre,  le  moigne,  3. 

Cestre,  Randulf,  le  count  de,  31,  32,  93,  104. 

Cestre,  Robert,  count  de,  33. 

Chalcolme  mac  Duncan,  117. 

Challeys,  14. 

Challouns,  14- 

Chalouns,  188,  189,  199. 

Chame,  8. 

Chamount,  17. 

Champayne,  Henry  de,  roy  de  Jerusalem,  74. 

Chancu,  la  forteresce  de,  188. 

Charles  de  Bahayne,  lemperour,  177. 

Charles,  roy  de  France,  137,  138,  156. 

Charles,  le  fteir  le  roy  de  Fraunce,  106. 

Chartres,  19,  195,  199. 

Chastel,  la  royne  de,  35. 

Chastel  Galiard,  164. 

Chastel  de  Pucelis,  2. 

Chaudut,  14. 

Chaumberlayn,  13. 

Chaumberoun,  13. 

Chaumbre,  Giliot  de  la,  168. 

Chaumpein,  71,   187,  188. 

Chaumpeners,  16. 

Chauncelerv,  Hugh  del,  1 10. 

Chaunceus,  16. 

Chaunci,  12. 

Chaundos,  Johan  de,  199. 

Chaundoys,  14. 

Chauntelew,  14. 

Chaupes,  14. 

Chavent,  12. 

Chaveny,  le  pount  de,  173. 

Chaward,  14. 

Chep,  le  grant  rue  de,  107. 

Chep,  le  conduyt  en,  107. 

Chercourt,  19. 

Cherres,  184. 

Chestrefield,  102. 

Chevaler,  Blaunche  le,  190. 

Cheverstoun,  Johan  de,  181. 

Chevil,  19. 

Cheyny,  17. 

Cliilham,  86. 


INDEX. 


i.\ 


Chinow,  51. 

Chirin,  le  chastel  de,  65. 

Cinoun,  Willam  de,  199. 

Cinque  Ports,  98. 

Cipres,  berbiz  hors  de,  109. 

Clare,  Gilbert  de,  count  de  Gloucestre,  1 20. 

Clare,  Thomas  de,  105. 

Clarel,  14. 

Clarrens,  Lionel  duk  de,  202. 

Clemence,  la  feile  le  count  de  Ferrers,  93. 

Clement,  11. 

Clement  iii.,  pape,  48. 

Clement  iv.,  pape,  106,  107,  133. 

Clement  v.,  pape,  135. 

Clement,  ercevesque  de  Ravennen',  1 1 . 

Cleremont,  189. 

Cleremont,  le  mareshal  de,  175.  178. 

Clerevaux,  14. 

Clerkintoun,  167. 

Clermont,  le  chastel  de,  187. 

Cleveland,  144,  145. 

Clide,  l'eau  de,  16.5. 

Clidisdale,  Willam  de  Hesilrig,  viscount  de,  123. 

Clifford,  la  dame  de,  147. 

Clifford,  Robert  de,  141. 

Clifford,  Roger  de,  105,  108. 

Clifforde,  Rosamound  de,  44. 

Clifland,  6. 

Clow,  Saint,  179. 

Cluny,  23. 

Cluny,  l'abbe  de,  194. 

Coffreir,  Rauf  le,  126. 

Cogan,  114. 

Coil,  161. 

Coingers,  17- 

Cok,  Thomas,  181. 

Cokebrid,  114. 

Colevyles,  les,  41. 

Collevil,  13. 

Coloigne,  Iez  trois  roys  de,  47. 

Columbe,  Saint,  115. 

Columber,  13. 

Columpna,  134. 

Combreland,  6,  117. 

Combrenald,  le  chastel  de,  165. 

Comete,  22,  28. 

Compyn,  199. 


Comyn,  13. 

Comyn,  Edmound,  123. 

Comyn,   Johan,   119,  122,   126,  127,   129,  130, 
132,  164. 

Comyn,  Johan,  la  dame  de,  121. 

Comyn,  Robert,  5. 

Conan,  3. 

Conan,  count  de  la  Petit  Bretaigne,  39. 

Conel,  114. 

Conel,  fitz  Congelle,  114. 

Congan,  114. 

Congelle,  114. 

Conradyn,  107. 

Conrard,  le  duk  de  Bayuer,  34. 

Conraud,  duk  de  Francoyn,  68. 

Conraud,  marchiz  de  Mountferrard,  66.  71,  73, 
76. 

Constable,  15. 

Constan,  fitz  Doengard,  114. 

Constantin,  mac  Culen,  roy  Descoce,  117. 

Constantin,  mac  Edha,  roy  Descoce,  et  abbe  de 
Saint  Andrew,  117. 

Constantin,  fitz  Fergusa,  115. 
Constantin,  fitz  Kynache,  116. 
Constantinnoble,  34,  47,  55,  84. 
Conyngham,161 . 
Coraud,  v.  Corraid. 
Corbet,  14. 
Corby,  14. 

Corhetinen,  Danel,  114. 
Come,  la  cite  de,  52. 
CornewaiUe,  48. 
Cornewail,  le  count  de,  109. 
Cornewail,  Edward  count  de,  167. 
Cornewail,  Johan  count  de,  166. 
Cornehille,  Reynald  de,  83. 
Cospatrik,  5,  6,  7. 
Costentyn,  186. 
Coucy,  le  seignur  de,  199. 
Coudrey,  13. 
Coumbray,  14. 
Councy,  Marie  de,  100. 
Counsy,  la  dame  de,  121. 
Couper,  le  chastel  de,  138. 
Couper,  la  ville  de,  139. 
Courfew,  l'isle  de,  75. 
Coursoun,  17. 

b 


INDEX. 


Courteny,  15. 

Courtray,  127,  142. 

Courtray,  le  batail  de,  129. 

Courveu  ly  Orglious,  le  chastelle  de,  182. 

Covelens,  168. 

Co  vy  ntre,  100,  104. 

Crael,  la  ville  de,  179,  184,  187. 

Crakow,  le  roy  de,  136. 

Craufordmore,  161. 

Cree,  l'eau  de,  161. 

Creit,  lisle  de,  64. 

Cressens,  11. 

Cressingham,  Hugh  de,  123,  124. 

Cressy,  15. 

Cristiane,  5,  8,  21. 

Cristiens,  42. 

Croland,  7. 


Croun,  ly  sires  de,  172. 

Cruthene  Kenek,  115. 

Cryn,  146. 

Cuchie,  lechastel  de  nostre  Dame  de,  182. 

Culen,  mac  Indolf,  roy  Descoce,  117. 

Cumpyn,  184. 

Cunithar,  Zayn  de  Angus,  117. 

Curmousse,  la  vile  de,  188. 

Curtevile,  17. 

Curthose,  Robert,  duk  de  Normendy,  23. 

Custance,  la  sore  le  roy  Lowys  de  France,  33. 

Cuthbert,  Saint,  6,  7,  28. 

Cuthbert,  le  college  de  Saint,  23. 

Cypre,  l'ile  de,  65,  73,  76. 

Cypre,  le  roy  de,  200. 

Cypre,  Zacheus  emperour  de,  64. 

Cytyn,  le  sire  de,  199. 


D. 


Dabemoun,  16. 

Dagworth,  Nichol  de,  189. 

Dagworth,  Thomas  de,  182. 

Dairres,  188. 

Daivel,  Gosselyn,  147. 

Dakeny,  16. 

Dalscuentoun,  129. 

Daltoun,  Johan  de,  chivaler,  183. 

Damary,  16. 

Damas,  Saladyn  soudan  de,  44. 

Damay,  18. 

Damot,  18. 

Danel,  114. 

Danoys,  6,  10,  20,  47. 

Danoys,  le  tribute,  29. 

Dans,  lisle  de,  194. 

Dansoir,  la  cite,  183. 

Darcourt,  v.  Harcourt. 

Darcy,  12. 

Darel,  14. 

Daron,  le  chaste],  73. 

Dartoys,  le  count,  111,  127. 

Daubenay,  13. 

Daubeny,  190. 

Daucer,  le  count,  199. 

Dauerenge,  16. 


Daukyn,  Baudewyn,  chevaler,  187. 

Daunevyle,  le  chastel  de,  192. 

Dautre,  16. 

David  i.,  roy  d'Escoce,  27, 30, 31,  33,  34,  1 17, 1 18. 

David  ii.,  roy  d'Escoce,  153,  155,  175,  176,  196, 
202,  203. 

David,  fitz  Alexander  iii.,  roy  d'Escoce,  100,  108. 

David,  count  de  Huntyngdoun,  118,  119,  120. 

David,  le  fitz  Lewlin,  103. 

David,  le  freir  Lewlin  prince  de  Gabs,  108,  109. 

David,  Saint,  le  evesqe  de,  88. 

Dawmartyn,  le  count  de,  199. 

Dawnay,  le  sire  de,  180. 

Dawnay,  Phelip,  137. 

Dayncourt,  WiUam,  141. 

De  la  Huse,  18. 

De  la  Launde,  15,  18. 

De  la  Mare,  15. 

De  la  Plaunche,  18. 

De  la  Pole,  15. 

De  la  Ryver,  17- 

De  la  Vale,  18. 

De  Latouu,  17. 

De  Vaus,  14. 

De  Wake,  15. 

Degreville,  Jakes,  191. 


INDEX. 


\i 


Del  Isle,  15. 

Delahay,  14. 

Delfyn,  le  port,  51,  52. 

Denbigh,  109. 

Denegul,  fitz  Ferusagin,  115. 

Denemarc,  113. 

Denemark,  le  roi  de,  79,  200. 

Denie,  la  cite  de,  56. 

Denoun,  Willam  de,  155. 

Derby,  Henry  de  Lancastre,  count  de,  167. 

Dergert,  1 15. 

Derlingtoun,  154. 

Dertmouth,  53. 

Dervalle,  le  sire  de,  199. 

Derworgul,  femme  de  Johan  de  Baillolf,  118,  120. 

Despenser,  Hughe,  102. 

Despenser,  Hugh  le,  150,  151,  152. 

Destranges,  17. 

Devenschir,  48. 

Deverell,  13. 

Deveroys,  16. 

Devornach  Lecdales,  115. 

Devyas,  13. 

Deyncourt,  12. 

Deyvil,  12. 

Dinortechest,  115. 

Diseney,  16. 

Dodingle,  14. 

Doengard,  114. 

Dorapnach,  115. 

Donald,  21,  22. 

Donald,  roy  Descoce,  21. 

Donald,  fitz  Alpin,  116. 

Donald,  mac  Dunkan.  roy  Descoce,  117. 

Donald,  mac  Dunstan,  roy  Descoce,  117. 

Donald,  fitz  Mancloun,  roy  Descoce,  19. 

Donald,  fitz  Sealnech,  114. 

Donengard,  114. 

Dopnaldebrec,  114. 

Doreny,  114 

Doresme,  5,  6,  7,  8,  23,  144,  154. 

Doresme,  lez  moignes  de,  21. 

Doresme,  le  novel  eglise  de,  20. 

Douglas,  Archebald  de,  154,  161,  163. 

Douglas,  James  de,  140,  143,  144,  149,  153,  154. 

155,  163. 
Douglas,  Willam  de,  166. 


Douglas,  Willam  count  de,  202,  203. 

Douglas,  Willam  seignur  de,  124,  175. 

Doure,  Maud  de,  131. 

Dover,  le  chastel  de,  95. 

Dover,  Richard  priour  de,  44. 

Doway,  129,  199. 

Dowle,  192. 

Doyvell,  18. 

Dray,  la  vile  de,  187. 

Drewes,  193. 

Driburgh,  126. 

Driltoun,  le  chastel  de,  202. 

Dromfres,  v.  Dunfres. 

Druel,  13." 

Drust,  fitz  Fathe,  115. 

Drust,  fitz  Feredhach,  1 16. 

Drust,  fitz  Gigumus,  115. 

Drust,  fitz  Hidrofigus,  115. 

Drust,  fitz  Hole,  115. 

Drust,  fitz  Irb,  115. 

Drust,  fitz  Menech,  115. 

Drust,  fitz  Methor,  115. 

Drust,  fitz  Talargbin,  115. 

Drust  Gortinoch,  115. 

Drustane,  115. 

Duf,  mac  Mancloun,  roy  Descoce,  117. 

Duf  Tolorg,  116. 

Dugil,  115. 

Dunbar,  143,  168. 

Dunbar,  le  chastel  de,  122,  163. 

Dunbretain,  114,  144,  163. 

Dundarg,  143,  164. 

Dundee,  la  vile  de,  139. 

Dunfermelyn,  21,39,   117,   118,   127,  131,  132, 

144,  159. 
Dunftes,  121,  129,  131. 
Dunfres,  le  viscounte  de,  162. 
Dungald,  116. 

Dunkan  mac  Kryn  de  Dunkeldyn,  1 1 7. 
Dunkan  fitz  Mancloun,  roy  Descoce,  117. 
Dunkeldyn,  115,  117. 
Dunkeldyn,  l'evesque  de,  41. 
Dunotre,  166. 
Duns,  le  park  de,  124. 
Dunstable,  37,  49. 
Durand,  87,  88,  89. 
Durarit,  18. 


INDEX. 


Duruard,  Alain,  131. 
Dusch,  le  capitain  du,  192. 
Duylly,  16. 


Du  Lee,  18. 
Dyer,  Robert,  201. 
Dysard,  18. 


E. 


Eadmoimd,  v.  Edmound. 

Eberiaco,  la  mere,  113. 

Eberus,  113. 

Eboracum,  v.  Euerwik. 

Ebre,  le  flume  de,  56. 

Edgar  Atheling,  5,  6,  7,  8,  0,  10,  20,  22. 

Edgar,  fitz  Mancloun,  roy  Descoce,  22, 23, 28,  1 1 7. 

Edhan,  fitz  Godfray,  114. 

Edinburgh,  2,  165,  166,  202.  203. 

Edinburgh,  le  chastel  de,  21,  41,  121,  140,  167. 

Edinburghe,  le  viscounte  de,  162. 

Edulf,  titz  Harald  roy  de  Engleter,  10. 

Edur,  56. 

Edmonane,  Saint,  115. 

Edmound,  freir  Athelstan,  117. 

Edmound,  freir  Edward  le  primer,  100,  111,  137. 

Edmound,  l'ercevesque  de   Cantorbirs,   v.  Poun- 

teney. 
Edmound  Imside,  20,  22,  25. 

Edmound,  count  de  Langcastre,  105. 

Edmound,  Saint,  53,  64,  81. 

Edward  i.,  roy  Dengleter,  102,  107,  114,  117, 
118,  119,  120,  121,  122,  123,  125,  126,  128, 
130,  132,  133,  134,  136,  155. 

Edward  ii.,  roy  Dengleter,  109,  131,  132,  135, 
136,  140,  141. 

Edward  iii.,  roy  Dengleter,  135,  136,  153,  161. 

Edward,  fitz  Mancloun,  roy  Descoce,  21. 

Edward,  prince  de  Gabs,  172. 

Edward,  fitz  Alexandre  iii.,  roy  Descoce.  108. 

Edward,  Seint,  3,  7,  9,  10,  20,  22,  24,  36. 

Edward,  Seint,  lez  loys  de,  9,  31. 

Eferadheche,  115. 

Egbright,  3,  116. 

Egelwyne,  levesque  de  Doresinc,  7. 

Egerardus,  pape,  34. 

Egganus,  fitz  Hungus,  116. 

Eggliny,  189. 

Elfred,  freir  Saint  Edward.  9. 


Elianor,  femme  Edward  i.,  107,  110,  133. 

Elianor,  femme  Henry  ii.,  43,  44,  75,  76. 

Elianor,  feile  Henry  ii.,  36. 

Elianor,  femme  Henry  iii.,  100. 

Elianor,  femme  Henri  count  de  Baris,  133. 

Elianor,  l'espouse  Lowys  le  roi  de  Fraunce,  34. 

Elizabeth,  femme  de  Johan  count  de  Holand,  133. 

Ely,  9,  28. 

Ely,  Willam  levesque  de,  49. 

Emound,  fil  de  roy  Edward  i.,  133. 

Emparise,  la  cite  de,  56. 

Engham,  Rauf  de,  109. 

Engles  lez,  20,  21. 

Enneas,  4. 

Ercheprestre,  le,  176. 

Ercheprestre,  le,  capitain  de  Nenever,  182,  183. 

Ergeille,  116. 

Ergheche,  fitz  Achfin,  114. 

Ermynak,  le  count  de,  171. 

Erne,  159. 

Erwelle,  170. 

Esduse,  170. 

Escoce,  1'eglis  d',  116. 

Escoce,  lez  evesques  d',  39. 

Escoce,  la  marche  d',  33,  95. 

Escuage,  le,  104. 

Ese,  la  ryver  de,  187. 

Espayne,  85,  112. 

Espayne,  le  bastard  d',  201. 

Espayne,  la  mere  d',  53. 

Espernoun,  184. 

Esperoun,  la  tour  de,  191. 

Espowin,  le  chastel  de  Cape  del,  52. 

Estapelis,  1',  187. 

Estderby,  Philip  de,  43. 

Esteven,  roy  Dangleter,  30,  31,   32,   34,  35,   37, 
118. 

Esteven,  lieutenaunt  en  Aungeow,  78. 

Esteven,  l'lsle  Saint,  51. 


INDEX. 


Estotevil,  12. 

Estirlings  lez,  200. 

Estraunge,  12. 

Esturmy,  1". 

Ethingham,  Elys  de,  110. 

Ethirkenyn,  203. 

Etoun,  la  mesoun  de  noneyns  a,  36. 

Etrik,  la  forest  de,  126,  127. 

Euerus,  le  count  de,  137. 

Euerwik,  6,  41,  95,  99,  109,  137,  148,  149,  150, 

154. 
Euerwik,  les  barouns  de,  40. 
Euerwik,  le  chaste!  de,  5. 


Euerwik,  lez  ercevesques  de,  9. 

Eugenius  iii.,  pape,  34. 

Eustace,  evesque  de  Ely,  83,  85. 

Eustace,  fitz  le  roy  Esteven,  33. 

Eustas,  le  moygne,  98. 

Eustaci,  18. 

Euurcy,  Walter  de,  27. 

Everuse,  191. 

Evesham,  102. 

Excestre,  5. 

Excestre,  l'evesque  d',  152. 

Ew,  le  count  d',  conestable  de  France,  171. 

Ewyne,  114. 


Far,  l'eau  de,  58. 

Farendoun,  32. 

Fathe,  115. 

Faucony,  le  sire  de,  137. 

Faversham,  l'abbey  de,  33. 

Fawkirk,  125. 

Fegulus,  Saint,  115. 

Felebert,  13. 

Feltoun,  WiUam  de,  145,  175,  201. 

Feniers,  14. 

Fruygges,  Gillemyng  de,  140. 

Fenys,  le  sire  de,  184,  199. 

Feradagus,  fitz  Badoghe.  116. 

Feredhach,  116. 

Feradhegh,  11.5. 

Ferair,  l'isle,  52. 

Fercarfod,  114. 

Feredhach,  116. 

Ferers,  13. 

Fereirs,  le  count  de,  97,  103. 

Fereirs,  Henry  de,  159. 

Ferers,  Robert  le  count  de,  102. 

Feres,  13. 

Fergaleg,  115. 

Fergus,  fitz  FertUairy,  113,  114,  116. 

Fergus,  fitz  Frude,  110. 

Fergusa,  115. 

Fergusagin,  115. 

Fermband,  19. 

Ferte  en  Bry,  le  cliastel  de,  189. 


Ferteryoth,  116. 

Ferthair,  fitz  Ewyne,  114. 

Ferthairy,  113,  114. 

Fiachrea,  115. 

Fichent,  19. 

Fif,  le  chastel  de,  138. 

FifTe,  115,  122. 

Title,  le  count  de,  130,  15!). 

FifTe,  Willam  de  Ramyssay  count  de,  1 75 

Fiff'e,  Dunkan  count  de.  1 75. 

Filiol,  17. 

Filiot,  14. 

Findan,  114. 

Finghamstede,  22. 

Fiportz,  lez,  110,  121. 

Fitz  Alayn,  15,  16. 

Fitz  Aruiz,  17. 

Fitz  Bryan,  16. 

Fitz  Eustace,  18. 

Fitz  Henry,  17. 

Fitz  Hugh,  17. 

Fitz  Marmaduk,  18. 

Fitz  Morice,  17- 

Fitz  Nele,  16. 

Fitz  Ourse,  Randulf,  40. 

Fitz  Payn,  16. 

Fitz  Peris,  16. 

Fitz  Phelip,  14. 

Fitz  Rauf,  16,  17. 

Fitz  Ravnald,  17. 


INDEX. 


Fitz  Robert,  13. 

Fitz  Robert,  Johan  le,  108. 

Fitz  Roger,  13,  16. 

Fitz  Rohaut,  15. 

Fitz  Symoun,  1  5. 

Fitz  Thomas,  17. 

Fitz  Waryn,  17. 

Fitz  Wauter,  13. 

Fitz  WiUam,  15. 

Flaundres,  5,  119,  127,  129,  170,  171,  195. 

Flaundres,  le  count  de,  29,  34,  41,  63,  85,   127, 

128,  137,  177. 
Flaundres,  la  feile  le  count  de,  109. 
Flaundres,  Gy  de,  168. 
Flaundres,  Robert  count  de,  111,  112. 
Flaundres,  soudiers  de,  40. 
Flaveny,  en  Burgoun,  189. 
Flemynkes,  lez,  35,  41,  94,  128,  129,  1  <js;  17). 
Florens,  counte  de  Holand,  119. 
Fochel,  116. 
Fode,  115. 

Foderinghay,  Johan  de,  183,  187. 
Fog,  Thomas,  chevaler,  190. 
Folevil,  13. 
Forays,  117. 
Fores,  le  count  de,  199. 
Foritherik,  122. 


Forneux,  14. 

Fornyvaus,  14. 

Forth,  l'eau  de,  141. 

Forz,  WiUam  de,  de  Ulleroun,  50. 

Foumelis,  191. 

Fovecourt,  14. 

Foys,  le  count  de,  171,  202. 

Fraunce,  77,  127,  167,  168,  169,  171,  174,   175. 

176. 
Fraunceis,  les,  177. 
Fraunces,  Saint,  96. 
Fredrik  i.,  lemperour  de  Rome,  68. 
Fredrik  ii.,  lemperour,  47,  81,  96,  105,  106. 
Fregevil,  190. 
Freirs  Cannes,  134. 
Freirs  Menours,  134. 
Freirs  Menours  de  Dromfres,  129. 
Fresel,  17. 
Frise,  177. 

Frisel,  Alexandre,  139,  140. 
Frisoun,  19. 
Frodisham,  108. 
Frude,  115. 
Frysers,  lez,  41. 
Fryull,  17. 

Fumel,  la  feile  Cunithar,  zayn  de  Angus,  117. 
Funtz,  Seint  Marie  de,  51. 


Gaidel,  112.  113. 

Gaite  Pantee,  la  cite  de,  53. 

Galan,  115. 

Galasie,  72. 

Gateway,  39,  114,  116,  161. 

Galeway,  l'evesque  de,  39. 

Galightly,  Patrik,  119. 

Galioun,  Renaud,  186. 

Galis,  104. 

Galis,  lez  comunes  de,  111. 

Gabs,  Edward  prince  de,  200. 

Galis,  le  prince  de,  8,  176,   181,  187,   189,   191, 

193,  195. 
Galis,  lez  seignours  de,  103. 
Galoser,  16. 
Galoys,  lez,  108,  112. 


Galuschelle,  167. 

Gamaldebold,  115. 

Garain,  le  count  de,  120,  122,  123.  124,  165. 

Garaunson,  Othes  de,  105. 

Garensers,  le  seignour  de,  199. 

Caret,  la,  201. 

Garilef,  Willam,  evesque  de  Doresme,  20. 

Garille,  52. 

Garnald,  fitz  Dompnach,  115. 

Garnard  le  riche,  1 15. 

Gamarde,  fitz  Feradhegh,  1 15. 

Garnarde,  fitz  Gigumus,  115. 

Garre,  14. 

Gascoyn,  99,  109,  110,  111,  123,  124,  125,  137. 

150,  172,  175,  176,  202. 
Gaser,  72. 


INDEX 


w 


Gastinoys,  191. 
Gatisheved,  7. 

Gaufray,  count  de  Bretaigne,  35,  36,  82. 
Gaufray,  titz  roy  Henry  ii.,  39. 
Gaugy,  15. 
Gaunt,  14,  111,  170. 
Gaunt,  Gilbert,  6. 
Gaunte,  lez  eskeuinis  de,  128. 
Gauter,  erchedeken  de  Excestre,  2. 
Gaverstoun,  Peter  de,  148. 
Gavirstoun,  Peris  de,  131,  139. 
Gaynesburgh,  Willam  de,  111. 
Gede,  115. 
Gelasius  ii.,  pape,  29. 
Gelfes,  135. 

Gelir,  le  seignour  de,  170. 
Geller,  le  count  de,  153,  165. 
Gellire,  le  duk  de,  169. 
Genefe,  Hugh  de,  180,  194. 
Geneves,  51,  66. 
Genevil,  14. 
Genolois,  181. 
Genust,  l'isle,  52. 
George,  Brace  Saint,  9,  55. 
George,  Saint,  lajourne  de,  181. 
Gerdoun,  17. 

Gerendoun,  l'abbey  de,  36. 
Germayn,  Saint,  en  Prees,  137. 
Geroun,  17. 
Gernate,  163. 
Geynor,  37. 

Gien,  la  duche  de,  103,  158,  195,  201. 
Gienes,  le  countee  de,  195. 
Giifard,  14. 
Giffard,  Johan,  109. 
Giffardis,  lez,  41. 
Gigurnus,  115. 
Gildas,  3. 

Gildford,  le  chastel  de,  95. 
Gilebof,  15. 

Gillisland,  Margaret  dame  de,  121. 
Gisors,  42,  45,  79. 
Gistres,  l'abbe  de,  180. 
Gistres,  lajourne  de,  180. 

Glantoun,  Johan  de,  archedeken  de  RJcliemouud, 
111. 


Glaskow,  126,  165. 

Glaskow,  l'evesque  de,  88. 

Glastinbery,  37. 

Glaumorgane,  152. 

Glaum vil,  Randolf  de,  53. 

Glauncourt,  17. 

Glenkin,  Bertrem  de,  201. 

Gloucestre,  10,  21,  97,  133,  152. 

Gloucestre,  le  count  de,  102,  140,  141,  168,  175. 

Gloucestre,  la  feile  de,  82. 

Gloucestre,  Hugh  de  Audeley  count  de,  167. 

Gloucestre,  Robert  count  de,  31,  32. 

Gobaud,  15. 

Goddestow,  44. 

Godfray,  114. 

Godfri,  ercedeken  de  Herforde,  27. 

Godwyn,  5,  9. 

Goldingham,  23. 

Golion,  en  Burgoun,  189. 

Gordoun,  le  sire  de,  130. 

Gordoun,  Adam  de,  131,  146. 

Gordoun,  Bertram  de,  80. 

Gorgeise,  13. 

Gortinoch,  115. 

Gourlays,  lez,  41. 

Gournay,  Hugh  de,  70. 

Gournay,  165. 

Gower,  13. 

Grames,  lez,  41. 

Graundyn,  17. 

Graunsoun,  12,  16. 

Graunsoures,  191. 

Grauntvile,  Geffray  de,  34. 

Grauntvill,  Randoulf,  40. 

Gray,  16. 

Gray,  Alexander,  163. 

Gray,  Thomas  de,  123,  124,  127,  138,  139,  141, 

145,  146,  147. 
Gregeoys,  lez,  107. 
Gregeoys  fieu,  101. 
Gregoir  vii.,  pape,  11. 
Gregoir  viii.,  pape,  41,  48. 
Gregoir  ix.,  pape,  105. 
Gregoir  x.,  pape,  107,  133. 
Gregoir,  antipape,  29. 
Greilly,  12. 


XVI 


INDEX. 


Grevequer,  13. 

Grevequer,  le  chastel  de,  182. 

Griffith,  Johan,  184. 

Griffouns,  lez,  62. 

Grige,  mac  Kenneth  mac  Douf,  roy  Descoce,  117- 

Griketol,  13. 

Grimward,  17. 

Grostest,  Robert,  evesque  de  Nichol,  106. 

Gruyele,  18. 


Gubioun,  16. 
Gullyurdas,  135. 

Gurgoun,  l'isle  de,  52. 

Gurguyns,  113. 

Gurnay,  12. 

Gwalo,  cardinal  Seint  Martin,  95,  97. 

Gy,  cliivaler,  38. 

Gy,  roy  de  Jerusalem,  44,  64,  66,  71,  73. 


II. 


Haan,  187. 

Habindoune,  Edmound  de,  tresorer  de  Sarisberis, 

100. 
Haliburtonn,  Henri  de,  124,  125. 
Haliburtoun,  Johan  de,  131. 
Halieland,  6. 
Hamelyn,  18. 
Hamtoun,  169. 
Hanget,  le  sire  de,  189,  199. 
Hanueris,  154. 
Harald,  5,  9,  19,  24. 
Harald,  fitz  Swayn,  5. 
Harcourt,  18. 

Harcourt,  le  count  de,  199. 
Harcourt,  Godfray  de,  178. 
Harcourt,  Lowys  de,  190,  199. 
Harding,  moigne  a  Schireburn,  22. 
Harevile,  18. 
Hastings,  le  batail  de,  5. 
Hasting,  13. 
Hasting,  Henry  de,  102. 
Hastinges,  Johan  de,  118. 
Hastinges,  Johan  de,  le  second,  118,  119,  120, 

162. 
Hastings,  Robert  de,  124,  126. 
Haunget,  v.  Hanget. 
Haunsard,  14. 
Hauntasises,  gentz,  79. 
Hautayn,  12. 
Hauviil,  12. 
Hawley,  13. 
Hay,  Johan  de  la,  102. 
Haydenbrig,  154. 


Hayes,  lez,  41. 

Hay  ward,  18. 

Hedyn,  187. 

Heere,  en  Berry,  190. 

Henaw,  le  counte  de,  136,  151,  155,  167,  170. 

Henaw,  Johan  de,  151. 

Henaw,  la  countas  de,  177. 

Henour,  18. 

Henry  i.,  roy  Dengleter,  8,  24,  25,  26,  28. 

Henry  ii.,  roy  Dengleter,  28,  35,  45,  46,  47. 

Henry  iii.,  roy  Dengleter,  97. 

Henry,  fitz  le  roy  Henry  ii.,  35,  38,  42. 

Henry  iv.,  emperour  DallemajTi,  23,  20,  27. 

Henry  v.,  l'emperour,  29,  42,  43,  47,  48,  81. 

Henry,  roy  Dallemayn,  96. 

Henry,  count  de  Baris,  133. 

Henry,  count  de  Champayn,  71,  73. 

Henry,  fitz  le  roy  David  Descoce,  33,  34. 

Henry,  count  de  Lancastre,  137. 

Henry,  count  de  Lussemburh,  135,  142. 

Henry,  fitz  Henry  duk  de  Saxsoyne,  36. 

Heraclius,  patriarch  de  Jerusalem,  45,  46. 

Hercy,  17. 

Herene,  Saint,  54. 

Herforde,  102,  176. 

Herforde,  le  chastel  de,  97. 

Herforde,  le  count  de,  133,  140,  148. 

Herforde,  Gauter  evesque  de,  83,  85. 

Hereforde,  Roger  count  de,  8. 

Berkeley,  Andrew  de,  148,  149. 

Herle,  Robert,  192. 

Hermeger,  royne  Descoce,  41. 

Hermony,  106. 


INDEX. 


xvn 


Hermynak,  le  count  de,  202. 

Heroun,  Seiiit  Marie  de,  55. 

Heroun,  1". 

Hert,  116. 

Hertforth,  l'evesque  de,  152. 

Heryce,  18. 

Hesilrig,  Willam  de,  123. 

Hetoun,  Thomas  de,  145. 

Hexham,  la  priory  de,  122. 

Hidrofigus,  115. 

Hildebrand,  11. 

Ho,  en  Normendy,  201. 

Holain,  le  graunt,  24. 

Holand,  le  count  de,  106,  136. 

Holand,  Johan  count  de,  133. 

Holand,  Otis  de,  191. 

Holand,  Thomas  de,  chevaler,  186. 

Hole,  115. 

Hombre,  5. 

Honorat,  Lile  saint,  51. 

Honorius  ii.,  pape,  29. 

Honorius  iii.,  pape,  96. 

Honorius  iv.,  pape,  134. 

Honycourt,  169. 

Honyflu,  en  Normendy,  190. 

Hornclif,  Robert  de,  145. 

Horsley,  Roger  de,  144. 

Hospitalers,  60. 

Hotoun  More,  124. 


Houden,  7. 

Houmframvyle,  Ingram  de,  126. 

Hovedene,  Roger  de,  3. 

Howard,  14. 

Howell,  18. 

Hugh,  evesque  de  Cestre,  49. 

Hugh,  freir,  106. 

Hugh,  Johau  le  fitz,  86. 

Hugli,  evesque  de  Salisbirs,  53. 

Hugh,  Seint,  evesque  de  Nichol,  84. 

Hulle,  Richard  de,  196. 

Hulster,  le  count  de,  131,  166. 

Hulster,  Lionel  count  de,  200. 

Human,  Willam  de,  83. 

Humbald,  le  duk,  76. 

Humein,  178. 

Hungry,  9,  104. 

Hungus,  116. 

Hungus,  fitz  Fergusa,  1 15. 

Hunirlu,  196. 

Huntyngdoun,  5,  28. 

Huntyngdoun,  la  vile  de,  33. 

Huntyngdoun,  David  count  de,  28,  39,  78. 

Huntyngdoun,  Henry  de,  3. 

Huntyngdoun,   Willam  de   Clvntoun,  count  de, 

167. 
Hurel,  15. 

Huse,  Baudreu  de  la,  190. 
Husee,  15. 


I.J. 


Jacobins,  lez,  177. 
Jactan,  t'rer  Brude,  115. 
Januer,  l'abbay  de  Saint,  53. 
Jardyn,  18. 
Jay,  18. 

Jedworth,  39,  118,  121,  161. 
Jedeworth,  la  forest  de,  141. 
Jerusalem,  9,  24,  45,  48,  58,  61, 
Jerusalem,  la  cite  de,  38. 
Jerusalem,  le  patriarch  de,  106. 
Jerusalem,  le  perde  de,  42. 
Jerusalem,  le  roy  de,  75. 


Jerusalem,  la  royne  de,  38. 
Jewis,  v.  Jues,  lez. 
Die,  la  ryver  de,  180. 
Inchemartin,  Johan  de,  123. 
Inchgalle,  114. 

Indel,  mac  Costantin  roy  Descoce,  11' 
Inuocens  ii.,  pape,  29,  34. 
Innocens  iii.,  pape,  81,  91,  92. 
Innocens  iv.,  pape,  96,  97,  106. 
Innocens  v,,  pape,  133. 
Innocens  vi.,  pape,  176,  201. 
Joachim,  l'abbe,  47. 


XVH1 


INDEX. 


Joachim,  les  livers,  81. 

Joan,  femme  de  count  de  Glowcestre,  133. 

Johan,  la  vile  de  Saint,  v.  Perth. 

Johan,  roy  de  Bahayne,  135,  136. 

Johan,  cardinal,  29. 

Johan,  count  de  Cornwall,  153. 

Johan  Saunzterre,  roy  Dengleterre,  35,  36, 42,  46, 

48,  49,  75,  76,  77,  78,  82,  99. 
Johan,  fitz  David  de  Escoce,  104,  118. 
Johan  i.,roy  de  France,  175,  176.  177-  185. 
Johan  ii.,  roy  de  France,  198,  201. 
Johan,  count  de  Holand,  133. 
Johan,  roy  de  Jerusalem,  104. 
Johan,  fitz  Marmaduk,  124. 
Johan,  evesque  de  Norwiche.  .j3. 
Johan  xx.,  pape,  133,  134. 
Johan  xxii.,  pape,  135,  136,  172. 
Johan,  fitz  bastard  Willam  de  Vescy,  119. 
Johan,  femme  Alexandre  roy  d'Escoce,  96,  99, 

100. 
Johan,  femme  David  de  Bruce,  153,  155,  202. 
Johan,  royne  de  Cesile,  5S,  61. 
Johan,  countesse  de  Gloucestre,  132. 
Johan,  feille  Henry  ii.,  36. 


Iona,  l'isle  de,  116,  117. 

Jonathan,  l'abbe,  62. 

Jolers,  le  markeis  de,  169. 

Joppa,  72,  73,  74. 

Jordan,  le  flum,  44. 

Ipre,  Willam  de,  31. 

Irb,  115. 

Ireland,  39,  43,  87,  90,91,  113,  115,  116,  143. 

Irom,  l'ile  de,  53. 

Irroys,  lez,  86,  114,  200. 

Irroys,  Johan  le,  147. 

Isabelle,  royne  D'angleterre,  136,  137,  148,   150, 

151,  152,  153,  154,  156,  157,  158.  176. 
Isabelle,  la  sore  Henry  hi.,  105. 
Isabel,  femme  de  count  de  Geller,  153. 
Isabel,  femme  de  Peris  de  Bruys,  118,  120. 
Isabel,  emperice  de  Rome,  96. 
Isles  D'escoce,  24. 
Itailee,  51. 
Jubelar,  56. 

Jues,  lez,  34,  48,  87,  105,  109. 
Juleris,  Willam  de,  129. 
Juleris,  le  seignour  de,  170. 
.Tuny,  le  count  de,  173,  199. 


Kanceis,  19. 

Karilef,  Willam,  8. 

Katarine,  feille  de  Henry  iii..  100. 

Kauntbrige,  Eadmound  count  de,  202. 

Kecter,  115. 

Keile,  3. 

Kelt,  102. 

Kelrimoneth,  115. 

Kelsow,  161. 

Kenech,  fitz  Alpin,  116,  117,  118. 

Kenech,  fitz  Feredhach,  116. 

Kenech,  fitz  Malcolm,  117. 

Kenech,  fitz  Sugthen,  115. 

Kenbray,  en  Orkany,  118. 

Kenlynworth,  la  Round  table  a.  109. 

Kenlynworth,  o.  Kenylworth. 

Kent,  31,  128. 

Kent,  le  count  de,  153,  156.  157.  I 


Kent,  le  count  de,  v.  Ipre,  Willam  de. 

Kente,  la  counte  de,  133. 

Kentire,  131. 

Kenylworth,  152. 

Kenylworth,  l'assege  de.  102. 

Keret,  Hugh,  170. 

Keth,  Willam  de,  163,  202. 

Kethe,  Robert  de,  126. 

Revelers,  19. 

Kilbride,  Edmound  Comyn  de,  1 .'  ; 

Kilwardby,  Robert  de,  ercevesque  de  I 

107,  134. 
Kineth,  v.  Kenech. 
Kiukorn,  110,  118,  159. 
Kinlos,  le  pount  de,  117. 
Kirildis,  57. 
Knaresburgh,  148. 
Knollis,  Robert  de,  192. 


INDEX. 


Knout,  roy  de  Denemarck,  5,  10. 
Krethtoun,  167. 
Krethtounden,  167. 
Kvburcan,  115. 


Kymarays,  18. 

Kynather,  fitz  Conel,  114. 

Kyndromy,  en  Marre,  le  chastel  de,  131,  202. 

Kynnet,  v.  Kenech. 


L. 


La  Muile,  18. 

Lamberton,  Willam,  evesque  de  Saint  Andrew, 

131. 
Lamfraunc,  le  ercevesque  de  Cantorbirs,  19. 
Lanark,  123,  203. 
Lancastre,  le  countee  de,  35. 
Lancastre,  le  count  de,  149,  153. 
Lancastre,  le  duk  de,  181,   186,  187,  188,  189, 

193,  194,  196. 
Lancastre,  le  duk  Henry  de,  173,  176,  200. 
Lancastre,  Johan  duk  de,  202. 
Lancastre,  Thomas  count  de,  131,  140,  148, 152. 
Landath,  1'evesque  de,  88. 
Lanerc,  v.  Lanark. 
Lanercost,  133. 
Langcastre,  v.  Lancastre. 
Langton,  Esteven,  ercevesque  de  Cantorbirs,  81, 

83,  100. 
Lanne,  la  cite  de,  52. 
Lascels,  15. 
Lascy,  12. 
Lates,  56. 

Latimer,  le  sire  de,  165. 
Latymer,  13. 
Laundels,  lez,  41. 
Laycestre,  130,  158. 
Laycestre,  l'abbey  de,  36. 
Laycestre,  le  count  de,  41,  44. 
Laycestre,  Robert  count  de,  36. 
Le  Vele,  16. 
Lebaud,  Peres,  140. 
Legle,  51. 
Lemas,  14. 

Lenburgh,  le  duk  de,  177. 
Lescot,  Robert,  chevaler,  191. 
Lesly,  v.  Lesselyn. 
Lesselyn,  Norman,  190. 
Lettow,  le  roy  de,  200. 
Levecote,  14. 


Levenaux,  lez,  142. 

Lewgat,  Cappe,  56. 

Lewlin,  103. 

Lewlyn,  prince  de  Gabs,  104,  108. 

Lewys,  la  batail  a,  102. 

Leyre,  la  ryver  del,  173. 

Liege,  9. 

Lieu  Real,  113. 

Liffard,  17. 

Ligny,  Lowys  de,  199. 

Lile,  Thomas  de,  evesque  de  Ely,  177. 

Lilleburn,  Johan  de,  148. 

Limosin,  201. 

Lincoln,  v.  Nichol. 

Lindezey,  Willam  de,  108. 

Lintelly,  143. 

Liolf,  19. 

Lionel,  fitz  Edward  iii.,  166,  168. 

Lions,  Petre,  29. 

Lioun,  127,  199. 

Lishinyane,  181. 

Lisle,  128,  129,  170,  199. 

Lisours,  18. 

Lissinan,  Godfray  de,  64. 

Lissinyan,  le  chastelle  de,  181. 

Lithcou,  125. 

Loern,  116. 

Loghindorm,  166. 

Loghmaban,  129. 

Logy,  Johan,  144. 

Logy,  Margaret  de,  203. 

Loignes,  187. 

Lombardy,  135. 

Longchamp,  Willam,  chaunceler,  76. 

Longespe,  15. 

Longespey,  Willam,  106. 

Longville,  le  count  de,  199. 

Loring,  18. 


XX 


INDEX. 


Lorrein,  la  marche  de,  188. 

Loterel,  18. 

Lothair  ii.,  1'emperour,  29,  34. 

Lothoir,  duk  de  Saxsoun,  29. 

Loudoun,  132. 

Loundres,  5,  11,  24,  29,  31,  41,  77,  83,  84,  93, 

98,  99,  104,  105,  123,  126,  127,  131,  136,  145, 

147,  176,  177,  199. 
Loundres,  lez  eglises  de,  93. 
Loundres,  lez  Freirs  Menours  a,  202. 
Loundres,  la  tour  de,  34,  95,  109. 
Loundres,  Willam  evesque  de,  83,  85. 
Loundreis,  lez,  94. 
Loundy,  124. 
Loveday,  13. 
Lovel,  13. 
Loverak,  16. 
Loveyn,  12,  15. 
Loviers,  la  moustier  de,  196. 
Lowedre,  Robert  de,  161. 
Lownay,  18. 
Lownays,  20. 

Lownes,  95,  117,  143,  164,  165. 
Lowys,  duk  de  Bayuer,  136. 
Lowys  vi.,  roy  de  France,  26,  29. 
Lowys  vii.,  roy  de  France,  32,  44. 


Lowys  ix.,  roy  de  France,  94,  97,  98,  99,   103, 

106. 
Lowys,  1'emperour,  168. 
Lucan,  56. 

Lucius  iii.,  pape,  45,  48. 
Lucete,  countesse  de  Cestre,  27. 
Lucy,  7. 
Lugdoun,  107- 

Lulach  le  fole,  roy  Descoce,  117. 
Lumbard,  Piers  le,  81. 
Lungchaump,  16. 
Lungvale,  18. 
Lungvil,  15. 
Lungvilers,  13. 
Lure,  la  vile  del,  194. 
Luscy,  15. 

Lusignan,  Godfray  de,  166. 
Lusignan,  Gy  de,  v.  Gy  roy  de  Jerusalem. 
Luyntin,  Seint,  188. 
Lymeloigne,  lajourne  de,  181. 
Lymers,  19. 
Lymesey,  13. 
Lymosyne,  172. 
Lynaux,  le  count  de,  122.  163. 
Lvnlithcow,  127. 


M. 


Macbetb,  mac  Finley,  roy  Descoce,  117. 

Maddok,  111. 

Mabew,  le  chastel  de,  72. 

Mahu,  Saint,  121. 

Maihenner,  15. 

Mail,  Savery  de,  97. 

Mairel,  la  ryver  de,  188,  189. 

Malcolm,  v.  Mancloun. 

Maldun,  titz  Dopnaldebrecb,  114. 

Maleberge,  14. 

Malebrancbe,  13. 

Malebys,  16. 

Malekake,  18. 

Malemain,  13. 

Malet,  14. 

Malet,  Baudewyn,  194. 

Malevil,  14. 


Malherb,  Gilbert,  144. 

Mallet,  Willam,  6. 

Mallop,  15. 

Malmesbery,  le  chastel  de,  32. 

Malmesbery,  Willam  de,  3. 

Malpedre,  mac  Loern,  count  del  Meiernys,  117. 

Malyns,  177. 

Mancestre,  Hugh  de,  111. 

Mancloun,  mac  Donald,  roy  Descoce,  1 17. 

Mancloun,  fitz  Kynech,  roy  Descoce,  117. 

Mancloun  iii.,  roy  Descoce,  5,  6,  7,  19,  20,  21, 

22,  117. 
Mancloun  iv.,  roy  Descoce,  34,  3£,  39,  118. 
Maners,  17. 

Maners,  Robert  de,  155,  168. 
Manifredus,  fitz  Fredrik,  106. 
Maoun,  16. 


INDEX. 


XXI 


Marcadins,  80. 

Marcel,  Willam,  32. 

Marchaunde,  le  provost  de,  178. 

Marche,  21. 

Marche,  le  count  de  la,  82,  163,  164,  166,  172, 

187,  188,  203. 
Marche,  Patrick  count  del,  155. 
Marche,  Thomas  de  la,  185. 
Marches  Descoce,  119. 
Marcile,  51,  52,  53,  55,  56,  201. 
Marel,  191. 
Margaret,  femme  d'Alayn,  seignur  de  Gateway, 

118,  120. 
Margaret,   femme  d' Alexander  iii.,  roy  Descoce, 

100,  108. 

Margaret,  ly  amiralx,  59,  61. 

Margaret,  femme  de  duk  de  Braban,  133. 

Margaret,  femme  d'Edward  i.,  112,  128,  133. 

Margaret,  d.ime  de  Gellisland,  120. 

Margaret,  femme  de  Mancloun  iii.,  roy  d'Escoce, 

21,  24,  117. 
Margaret,  sor  de  Mancloun  iv.,  39. 
Margaret,  royne  de  Norway,  100,  108,  110. 
Margaret,   feile  de  Margaret  royne  de   Norway, 

101,  110,  112. 

Margaret,  feile  le  roy  Willam  d'Escoce,  99. 

Mariotus,  le  Escot,  3. 

Mariz,  189. 

Markswyn,  5. 

Marmaduk,  Richard  le  Fitz,  143. 

Marmyoun,  Willam,  145,  146. 

Marny,  12,  15. 

Marre,  14,  131,  202. 

Marre,  le  count  de,  122,  154,  159,  160,  202. 

Marre,  Donal  count  de,  151. 

Marrok,  lez  estroitz  de,  55. 

Marschal,  Willam  le,  count  de  Pembrok,  97,  98. 

Martin,  13. 

Martyne,  Cappe,  56. 

Mary,  nonayne  de  Aumesbury,  109,  133. 

Mascy,  18. 

Mategriffun,  le  chastelle  de,  62. 

Matilda,  v.  Maude. 

Mauches,  18. 

Mauclerk,  17. 

Maucounsail,  180. 


Maucovenaunt,  16. 

Maud,  l'emperice,  25,  26,  27,  28,  29,  30,  31,  35, 

36. 
Maud,  femme  le  roy  EsteveD,  31. 
Maude,  femme  de  Henri  i.,  24,  29. 
Maude,  femme  Willam  le  conqueror,  5. 
Maudit,  la  tour,  67,  69. 
Maudut,  14. 
Maufe,  16. 
Maugisir,  19. 
Mauley,  13. 
Maulovel,  19. 
Maulyverer,  17. 
Mauncel,  18. 
Mauntis,  8. 
Maundevil,  12. 
Mauney,  Wauter  de,  168. 
Maure,  chastel  de,  55. 
Maureward,  19. 
Maurius,  fitz  Arviragoun,  114. 
Mauroun,  182. 
Mauryn,  29. 
Mautalent,  14. 
Mauvesyn,  19,  22. 
Mauvys,  15. 
Maynard,  16. 
Mayngun,  14. 

Mechingham,  Johan  de,  110. 
Medeivay,  la  ryver  de,  29. 
Meditaran,  la  mere,  55. 
Melan,  47. 

Melent,  le  count  de,  27. 
Mellik,  Cappe  de,  56. 
Melros,  100,  118,  126,  149,  196. 
Memil,  201. 
Mendeleghe,  115. 
Menech,  115. 

Meneteth,  le  count  de,  122,  123,  163. 
Menevil,  13. 

Menours,  lez  Freirs,  96,  101. 
Mentethe,  Johan,  126. 
Menteth,  Muryogh  de,  144. 
Menyle,  16. 
Merche,  6. 
Merkingfeld,  14. 
Merlay,  17. 


xxu 


INDEX. 


Merlyn,  3. 

Mertoun,  98. 

Messane,  52,  56,  57,  58,  62,  63. 

Messane,  Richard  ercevesque  de,  59. 

Methfen,  131. 

Meulos,  15. 

Middilburgh,  169. 

Middiltoun,  Gilbert,  144,  145. 

Mille,  la  cite  de,  51. 

Millein,  185. 

Mirable,  le  chastel  de,  83. 

Miriet,  17- 

Mise,  le  markeis  de,  187,  189. 

Mitoun,  148. 

Mitteford,  le  chastel  de,  95,  145. 

Mohaud,  12. 

Moiller,  Jolian  de  la,  144. 

Monchensi,  Willam  de,  102. 

Monhermer,  Rauf  de,  132. 

Montagow,  Willam  de,  157,  158. 

Montfort,  195. 

Montforth,  Henri  de,  102. 

Montforth,  Peris  de,  102. 

Montforth,  Symound  de,  102. 

Montforth,  Symound  de,  le  joen,  102,  103. 

Montreal,  Willam  ercevesque  de,  59. 

Mooun,  12. 

More,  le  prince  del,  109. 

Moredath,  fitz  Arnikelec,  U4. 

Morel,  22. 

Morgan,  111. 

Morlay,  17. 

Morley,  12. 

Morpeth,  le  chastel  de,  95. 

Mortein,  13. 

Mortimer,  13. 

Mortimer,  Edmound,  109. 

Mortimer,  Roger  de,  102,  109,   150,   151 

155,  156,  157,  158,  189. 
Mortimer,  Kataryne  de,  196. 
Mortivaus,  15. 
Morvil,  12. 

Morvill,  Hugh  de,  40. 
Moubray,  12. 

Moubray,  Alexander,  145,  165. 
Moubray,  Cristiane  de,  122. 
Moubray,  Phelip  de,  141. 


Moubray,  Robert  de,  count  de  Northumbreland,  2 1 . 
Moubray,  Roger  de,  144. 
Moubray,  le  sire  de,  130,  148,  153. 
Moubray,  lez,  41. 
Mouet,  18. 

Mouhaud,  Willam  de,  153. 
Mounceus,  16. 
Mouncy,  17. 
Moundevil,  12. 
Mounfey,  14. 
Mounfichet,  14. 
Mouns,  en  Paiwer,  129. 
Mount  Agueth,  2. 
Mount  Morel,  14.  ' 

Mount  Real,  189. 
Mountagu,  14. 
Mountchensy,  15. 
Mounthugh,  14. 
Mounte,  le  noyre,  15. 
Mountferount,  le  sire  de,  181. 
Mountford,  14. 
Mountforth,  Peris  de,  141. 
Mountforth,  la  feile  le  count  de,  108. 
Mountgomeris,  lez,  41. 
Mounthery,  193. 

Mountmaracy,  le  sire  de,  171,  199. 
Mountpessulan,  le  port  de,  56. 
Mountpinsoun,  16. 
Mountrivel,  18. 
Mountsorel,  14. 
Mourreis,  14. 
Moustrol,  187. 
Moygne,  Eustas  le,  98. 
Moyses,  198. 

Muce,  le  seignour  de  la,  69,  70. 
Murref,  Alexander  de,  123. 
Murref,  Andrew  de,  166, 167. 
153,      Murref,  Thomas  de,  162,  176. 

Murref,  le  count  de,  131,  154,  155,  159,  163, 164, 

165,  166. 
Musard,  14. 
Muschet,  15. 
Muse,  13. 
Mussegros,  14. 

Mussian,  le  mount  de,  55,  56. 
Musteys,  17. 


INDEX. 


N. 


Nairmer,  16. 

Namount,  lez  fitz,  53.     . 

Naplis,  S3. 

Navere,  monsire  Phelip  de,  184. 

Navern,  le  roy  de,  75,  137,  179,  182,  185,  186, 

191,  193. 
Nawar,  la  feille  le  roy  de,  137. 
Nectan,  115. 

Nectan,  fitz  Fergaleg,  115. 
Nectane  Celtaniech,  115. 
Neel,  187. 

Neel,  le  mareschall  de,  182. 
Neil,  Thomas  de,  129. 
Nemburgh,  196. 
Nemure,  le  count  de,  165. 
Nenevers,  182. 
Nerbonne,  la  cite  de,  50. 
Nerdon,  v.  Verdon. 
Nerevil,  13. 
Neubet,  14. 
Neubotil,  196. 
Nevers,  13. 
Nevil,  15. 

Nevyl,  Johan  de,  102,  157,  158,  190. 
Nevyl,  Robert  de,  143. 
Nevyl,  le  sire  de,  1G5. 
Newark,  95. 

Newark,  le  chastel  de,  30,  96. 
Newburgh,  15. 
Newmarche,  14. 
Newmarche,  Adam  de,  102. 
Newmouster,  123. 
Nices,  Saint,  la  cite  de,  51. 
Nichol,  10,  29,  31,  82,  95,  97,  126,  133. 
Nichol,  le  batail  de,  98. 
Nichol,  le  chastel  de,  5,  32. 
Nichol,  l'evesque  de,  30. 


Nichol,  antipape,  136. 

Nicholas,  Saint,  53. 

Nicholas,  iii.,  pape,  134. 

Nicholas  iv.,  pape,  134. 

Nicholas,  evesque  de  Tuscane,  92. 

Nichosie,  la  cite  de,  65. 

Niddisdale,  132. 

Nidow,  le  count  de,  189. 

Noefchastel  sur  Tyne,  8,  21,  22,  35,  40,  4  1 ,  Kin. 

121,  149,  153,  1-55,  164. 
Noefchastel,  le  chastel  de,  33. 
Nogent,  en  Bry,  191. 
Nogoun,  l'evesque  de,  180. 
Norham,  119,  145,  155. 
Norham,  le  chastel  de,  95. 
Norham,  l'eglis  de,  147. 
Ncrhamptoun,  36,  41,87,  101,  148. 
Norhamptoun,  le  count  de,  168. 
Norhamptoun,  Willam  de  Boune,  count  de,  167. 
Normaunz,  lez,  6,  7,  20,  21,  94,  110. 
Normendy,  5,  8,   9,  10,  19,   20,  24,  25,  2  7,   30, 

32,  33,  37,  40,  41,  46,  47,  50,  53,   . 

104,  121,  170,  178,  183,  192. 
Normendy,  le  duk  de,  178,  195. 
Northumbreland,  5,  6,  7,  8,  20,  21,  49.  124.  141, 

145,  156,  163. 
Northumbreland,  Henry  count  de,  33. 
Northumbreland,  lez  seignours  de,  95. 
Northumbrois,  5,  6. 
Norway,  le  roy  de,  24,  200. 
Norways,  lez,  116,  117- 
Norwiche,  34,  105. 
Norwiche,  l'evesque,  88. 
Notingham,  28,  157. 
Notingham,  le  chastel  de,  5. 
Novel  forest,  22. 


Octovean,  evesque  d'Ostiens.  52. 
Odeham,  le  chastel  de,  95. 
Odo,  11. 


O. 


Ogle,  Robert  de,  166. 
Oke,  Lang  de,  176. 
Olifart,  Willam,  127,  140. 


XXIV 


INDEX. 


Oliffard,  19. 

Onacule,  17. 

Oaglis,  182. 

Orkany,  24,  100,  113. 

Orliens,  173,  194,  199. 

Orliens,  le  duk  de,  174. 

Ormesby,  Willam  de,  123. 

Oseney,  104. 

Osevile,  17. 

Ospitulers,  l'ordre  dez,  37,  38. 

Ostris  le  duk  de,  47,  76,  78,  136. 

Oswald,  Saint,  28. 

Other,  le  fitz  Henry  duk  de  Saxsoyne,  36. 

Otho  iii.,  duk  de  Burgoin,  72,  73. 

Otho,  legat,  104,  105. 


Otinel,  freir  count  de  Cestre,  27. 

Otreburn,  Thomas  de,  4. 

Otry,  la  vile  de,  188. 

Ottobon,  le  cardenal,  103. 

Otus,  81. 

Otynuel,  13. 

Oudenam,  le  mareschall  de,  182,  199. 

Ow,  Willam  de,  21. 

Oweyn,  le  roy  de  Wales,  35. 

Oxsenford,  31,  36,  101,  104,  140. 

Oxsenford,  le  count  de,  125,  165. 

Oxsenforde,  lez  escolers  de,  104. 

Oyly,  Robert  de,  31. 

Oysel,  19. 


Paifrer,  15. 

Paiteris,  le  batail  de,  173,  174,  175. 

Paiteris,  le  count  de,  199. 

Paitow,  53,  82,  178. 

Paiwer,  129. 

Paladius,  115. 

Paloner,  1'ile,  52. 

Pandulf,  87,  88,  89,  90,  91,  92. 

Panteth,  l'isle  de,  53. 

Paragor,  v.  Peregor. 

Parmerol,  l'isle  de,  52. 

Parys,  50,  82,  106,  137,  150,  178,  179,  186,  188, 

191,  193,  199. 
Paschal,  ii.,  pape,  23,  29,  43. 
Pateroun,  l'isle  de,  53. 

Patrik,  count  de  la  Marche,  119,  122,  126,  143. 
Paulus,  abbe  de  Saint  Alban,  21. 
Pauteris,  178. 
Paveley,  15. 
Pavillioun,  17. 
Paynel,  13. 
Payteny,  16. 

Peblis,  le  viscount  de,  162. 
Pecche,  13. 
Peccham,  Johan  de,  ercevesque  de  Cantorbris, 

109,  134. 
Peittewin,  Gerard  le,  86. 
Penreth,  Johan  de,  149- 


Percehay,  19. 

Perches,  le  count  de,  98. 

Perches,  la  countes  de,  27. 

Percy,  12. 

Percy,  Henry  de,  119. 

Percy,  le  seignour  de,  155,  156,  165,  168. 

Peregor,  le  cardenal,  172,  173,  174,  177. 

Pereris,  19. 

Perot,  14. 

Perpount,  16. 

Perrers,  17. 

Perse,  47. 

Perth,  39,  130,  132,  140,  141,  144,  153, 159,  160, 

161,  163,165,166. 
Peverell,  13. 
Peveril,  16. 

Peytow,  le  counte  de,  46. 
Pharao,  112. 

Phelip  i.,  roy  de  Fraunce,  26. 
Phelip  ii.,   roy  de  Fraunce,  35,  45,  46,  47,  48, 

50,  51,  52,  57,  59,  60,  66,  70,  71,  73,  75.  77 
Phelip  iii.,  roy  de  Fraunce,  110. 
Philip  iv.,  roy  de  Fraunce,   121,  128,  129,  134, 

137,  169,  172,  185. 
Phelip,  fitz  Johan  roy  de  Fraunce,  175. 
Phelip,  le  freir  Henry  l'emperour,  81. 
Phelippe,  royne  d'Engleter,  151,  155. 
Picardes,  lez,  94. 


INDEX. 


XXV 


Picts,  v.  Pices. 

Pigot,  12. 

Pikard,  14,  16. 

Pilat,  la  terre,  53. 

Pinkeny,  15. 

Pinkeney,  le  sire  de,  180. 

Pipe,  James  de,  184,  191. 

Pirpount,  Eadmound,  194. 

Pisas,  Hugh,  evesque  de  Doresme,  48,  49. 

Pisauns,  lez,  66. 

Pise,  le  port  de,  52. 

Placy,  16. 

Planis,  le  chastel  de,  72. 

Plauntegeneth,  Gaufray,  count  de  Aungeow, 
30,  34,  35,  42. 

Playce,  16. 

Pleciys,  le  chastel  de,  34. 

Plukenet,  15. 

Plumlinn,  le  chastell  de,  52. 

Poel  Saint,  l'eglis,  104. 

Poel,  Saint,  le  count  de,  179,  184,  185,  199. 

Poille,  81. 

Poince,  15. 

Poisy,  179,  186. 

Polecronicon,  3. 

Pollardes,  109. 

Poncien,  le  count  de,  199. 

Pont  Audomer,  27. 

Pontekers,  52. 

Pontif,  le  counte  de,  82. 

Ponyngis,  Thomas  de,  169. 

Porcien,  le  count  de,  199. 


Porry,  113. 

Portesmothe,  78,  111. 

Portingalle,  le  roy  de,  54. 

Pountarsy,  la  vile  de,  185. 

Pountenay,  39,  189. 

Pounteney,  Edmound,  ercevesque  de  Cantorbirs, 
39,  106. 

Pountfret,  149. 

Pounthevrard,  46,  81. 

Pountyne,  lecountee  de,  195. 

Pountyve,  187. 

Power,  13. 

Prag,  la  cite  de,  135. 

Precheours,  1'ordre  de,  96,  135. 

Prendregest,  Willam  de,  163. 

Presfen,  168. 

Presfen,  Willam  de,  166. 

Preux,  le  seignour  de,  199. 

Prodhow,  le  chastel  de,  40. 

Provost  dez  Marchaundes,  le,  178,  179. 

Province,  176,  200. 

Pudsey,  Hugh,  v.  Pisas. 

Pugois,  16. 

Puille,  Roger  duk  de,  29. 

Punce,  l'ile,  52. 

Purcien,  le  chastel  de,  188. 

Puterel,  18. 

Puy,  nostre  Dame  de,  185. 

Puyle,  47. 

Pynchadown,  16. 

Pynkene,  le  seignour  de,  179. 


Q- 


Qincy,  Caer  de,  count  de  Wincestre,  98. 
Querru,  17- 


Quincy,  13. 

Quyntyn,  Seint,  169,  185. 


Rabby,  le  meistre  dez  Juys  d'Everwic,  50. 

Ragent,  l'ile  de,  168. 

Raguse,  75. 

Ramsay,  1'abbay  de,  34. 

Ramesays,  lez,  41. 


Ramyssay,  Willam  de,  count  de  Fif,  175. 
Randolf,  Thomas,  131,  140,  141. 
Randulf,  count  de  Cestre,  97,  98. 
Randulf,  count  de  Cestre,  la  sore  de,  104. 
Ranulpus,  euesque  de  Doresme,  26. 
d 


XXVI 


INDEX. 


Raufle  Coffreir,  126. 

Ravenshere,  159. 

Raygate,  le  chastel  de,  95. 

Redda,  fitz  d'un  roy  de  Ireland,  116. 

Reding,  l'abbay  de,  28. 

Rees,  le  roy  de  Galis,  23. 

Regentz,  189. 

Reimound,  freir,  un  Jacobin,  105. 

Reir,  117. 

Remorentyne,  un  vile  en  Saloigne,  172. 

Rennound,  prince  de  Antioche,  64. 

Retieris,  188. 

Reynes,  176,  187,  188,  189,  199. 

Reynevile,  19. 

Reys,  prince  de  Galis,  81. 

Richard  i.,  roy  d'Engleterre,  35,  36,  38,  42,  44, 
45,  46,  47,  48,  49,  50,  51,  52,  53,  54,  55,  56, 
57,  58,  59,  60,  61,  62,  63,  64,  65,  66,  67,  68, 
69,  70,  71,  7-»,  73,  74,  75,  76,  77,  78,  79,  80, 
81. 

Richard,  count  de  Cestre,  27. 

Richard,  count  de  Cornewail,  96,  101,  102,  105, 
106. 

Richard,  priour  de  Dovir,  44. 

Richard,  fitz  de  Henri  i.,  25,  27. 

Richard,  le  fitz  Marmaduk,  143. 

Richemond,  le  count  de,  149,  188. 

Richemount,  Johan  count  de,  170,  200. 

Richemound,  Thomas  de,  143. 

Ridel,  Gaui'rid,  27. 

Ridele,  13. 

Rise,  Willam  ercevesque  de,  59. 

Roan,  41,  42,  50,  51,  56,  82,  83,  199. 

Roan,  l'ercevesque  de,  52,  77. 

Robert  i.,  roy  de  Escoce,  146,  149,  155,  159. 

Robert,  count  de  Flaundres,  10. 

Robert  Curtehose,  duke  de  Normendy,  8,  9,  19, 

20,  21,  22,  23,  24,  25,  26. 
Robert,  duk  de  Poil,  11. 
Robert,  le  fitz  Roger,  124. 
Roderik,  114. 


Rodolan,  le  chastel,  v.  Rothelan. 

Rodom,  Gilbert  de,  186. 

Roergus,  le  paiis  de,  195. 

Roger,  l'ercevesque  d'Everwik,  36. 

Roger,  count  de  Heribrd,  8. 

Roger,  duk  de  Puille,  29. 

Rokeby,  Thomas  de,  154. 

Rokell,  16. 

Rome,   11,  23,  47,  52,  90,  125,  126,  134,  135, 

136,  144. 
Romer,  le,  136. 
Ros,  13. 

Ros,  le  count  de,  122,  123,  153,  163. 
Ros,  Willam  de,  119. 
Ros,  Robert  de,  121. 
Roscelyn,  17. 
Rosel,  16. 

Rosse,  Godirai  de,  165. 
Rosselin,  Thomas,  156. 
Rosselyn,  126. 

Rothelan,  le  chastel  de,  35,  108. 
Rothewelle,  156. 
Rowcestre,  94. 

Rowcestre,  Henry  l'evesque  de,  8 1 . 
Roxburghe,  100,  122,  124,  125,  161,  164,  165. 
Roxburghe,  le  chastel  de,  41,  48,  120,  124,  126, 

140. 
Roxburgh,  le  viscounte  de,  162. 
Roys,  lez  troys,  de  Coloigne,  47. 
Ruget,  15. 
Rule,  la,  172. 
Russy,  8. 
Ry,  16. 
Rynimede,  94. 
Rypers,  19. 
Rysers,  19. 

Ryse-ap-Meraduk,  109. 
Ryvauls,  149. 
Ryvel,  13,  17. 
Ryvers,  13,  19. 


INDEX. 


s. 


Sabillule,  Robert  de,  50,  54,  55. 

Sabloun,  133. 

Sadbyres,  le  countee  de,  49. 

Sagevile,  19. 

Saint  Alban,  le  abbe  de,  21. 

Saint  Amary,  18. 

Saint  Amaund,  13. 

Saint  Andrew,  la  vile  de,  115,  125. 

Saint  Andrew,  l'evesque  de,  140. 

Saint  Barbe,  19. 

Saint  Clere,  Willam  de,  123. 

Saint  Johan,  15. 

Saint  Johan,  la  vile  de,  v.  Perth. 

Saint  Jori,  15. 

Saint  Leo,  15. 

Saint  Lygier,  13. 

Saint  Martin,  18. 

Saint  Moor,  17. 

Saint  Thomer,  13,  171,  187,  199. 

Saintcler,  13. 

Saintese,  14. 

Saintomer,  v.  Saint  Thomer. 

Saintvenaunt,  le  seignour  de,  199. 

Saladyn,  soudan  de  Damas,  44,  45,  67,  68,  71, 

74." 
Salamannettre,  56. 
Salebruch,  le  count  de,  199,  201. 
Salerne,  53,  56. 
Salez,  le  port  de,  55. 
Salisbirs,  Roger  l'evesque  de,  30,  33. 
Salisbirs,  Willam  de  Montagow,  count  de,  167, 

168. 
Salisbirs,  le  count  de,  160,  171,  194. 
Saloigne,  172. 
Salopie,  24. 
Salyke,  Cappe  de,  56. 
Salvayn,  16. 
Samuel,  Saint,  74. 
Sandwiche,  186. 

Sarazins,  lez,  41,  48,  74,  85,  106,  163,  197. 
Sassoun,  185. 
Sathany,  la  goul  de,  47. 
Saucer,  le  count  de,  199. 


Saunford,  14. 

Saunzpoor,  15. 

Saunzaver,  14. 

Sauvay,  14. 

Sawoy,  le  count  de,  111. 

Saxsouns,  lez,  37,  116. 

Saxsoun,  la  vale  de,  188. 

Saxsoyne,  Henry  duk  de,  36. 

Say,  16. 

Sayncleris,  lez,  41. 

Sayntcloys,  13. 

Sayntquintyn,  13. 

Scaithmor,  143. 

Scalacronica,  4. 

Scarthburgh,  140. 

Schiphey,  le  isle  de,  200. 

Schirburne,  le  chastel  de,  30,  32. 

Schireburn,  22. 

Scon,  200. 

Scone,  113,  116,  120,   123,  130,  131,  144,  161, 

163. 
Scota,  lafeile  Pharao,  112,  113. 
Scoty,  113. 
Sealnech,  114. 
Sebile,  la  viel,  2,  3. 
Sebille,  femme  Coraud  marchiz  de  Mountferard, 

71. 
Sebille,  la  port  de,  55. 
Segraf,  Johan  de,  126. 
Seintclou,  193. 
Seland,  151. 

Seland,  le  count  de,  136. 
Selkirk,  127. 

Selkirk,  la  forest  de,  127. 
Selnach,  fitz  Cogan,  114. 
Semay,  188. 
Senes,  la  Vele,  52. 

Seneschal  Descoce,  le,  165,  202,  203. 
Seneschal,  Johan  le,  155. 
Seneschal,  Robert  le,  166,  175. 
Seneschal,  Thomas  le,  count  d'Angous,  176. 
Senewar,  121. 
Sengryn,  18. 


XXV111 


INDEX. 


Sennomannica,  46. 

Sergius,  pape,  48. 

Servaunus,  Saint,  115. 

Sesee,  16. 

Setoun,  Alexander,  142. 

Setoun,  Alexandre,  le  fitz,  159,  163. 

Setoun,  Cristofre  de,  131. 

Severne,  151,  152. 

Seyn,  179,  187,  189,  193,  196. 

Seyntmenseus,  le  pount  de,  187. 

Silla,  57. 

Silveden,  le  boys  de,  52. 

Sismatici,  47. 

Sisteaux,  l'abbei  de,  87. 

Sisteaux,  l'ordre  de,  22. 

Sisteaux,  lez  moignes  de,  87. 

Snawdoun,  108. 

Solers,  16. 

Soltre,  196. 

Somertoun,  199. 

Somery,  14,  15. 

Sorel,  15. 

Sores,  79. 

Sotlierlaunde,  le  count  de,  163,  172,  176. 

Souchevil,  12. 

Soudan,  le,  84,  105. 

Soules,  15. 

Souley,  15. 

Soulis,  lez,  41. 

Soumme,  I'eau  de,  187. 

Southfolk,  le  count  de,  1 70,  171. 

Southfolk,  Robert  de  Uffbrthe,  count  de,  167. 

Soverenge,  16. 

Sowche,  le  seignour  de  la,  156. 

Sowles,  Willam  de,  144. 

SomHs,  Johan  de,  121,  127. 

Sowlis,  Nichol  de,  119. 

Spalding,  Perys  de,  144,  148. 

Spenser,  le  sire  de,  194. 

Sper,  en  Allemayij,  29. 


Spout,  122. 

Spruz,  200. 

Stafford,  le  count  de,  187,  196. 

Stally,  la  vile  de,  300. 

Standard,  le  batail  de,  33. 

Stanes,  94. 

Stanhop,  154. 

Stanhop,  le  park  de,  154. 

Stapelton,  Brian  de,  194. 

Staumpes,  186,  190. 

Staynmore,  117. 

Stele  major,  l'ile  de,  53. 

Stella  insolita,  28. 

Stokforthe,  123. 

Storeye,  la  manoir  de,  40. 

Stotevill,  Robert  de,  40. 

Strabolgv,  117. 

Stradach  Fingel,  115. 

Strattoun,  Adam  de,  110. 

Strivelyn,  118,  125,  164,  166. 

Strivelyn,  le  chastel  de,  121,  127,  140,  141. 

Strivelyn,  le  pount  de,  124. 

Strivelyn,  Johan  de,  164. 

Sugthen,  115. 

Sulye,  54,  55. 

Sumail,  Arraud  le,  173. 

Surdevale,  18. 

Surry,  9,  23,  56. 

Surry,  le  perde  de  la,  42. 

Suwene,  le  chastel  de,  51. 

Suylly,  16. 

Swayn,  5. 

Swenarton,  Roger  de,  160. 

Swetherik,  200. 

Swinesheved,  l'abbey  de,  95,  96. 

Swyn,  en  Flaundres,  77. 

Swynburne,  Adam  de,  144. 

Syke,  114. 

Syward,  Richard,  le  eyne,  123. 


T. 


Tage,  le  flume,  54,  55. 
Takel,  14. 


Talagach,  115. 
Talamount,  le  port,  52. 


INDEX. 


Talarg,  fitz  Amil,  115. 

Talarg,  fitz  Kecter,  1 15. 

Talarg,  fitz  Mendeleghe,  115. 

Talargan,  fitz  Drustane,  115. 

Talargan,  fitz  Tenagus,  115. 

Talargbin,  115. 

Talbot,  14. 

TaUebot,  Richard,  159,  164. 

Tally,  15. 

Tankarville,  le  count  de,  1 93,  199. 

Tankered,  roy  de  Cesille,  56,  58. 

Tany,  15. 

Tarasene,  la  cite  de,  52. 

Taren,  115. 

Tarracount,  la  cite,  50. 

Tarteray,  19. 

Tartries,  lez,  104,  107. 

Taxsis  dez  eglis,  134. 

Tay,  18. 

Tekadin,  69. 

Tempest,  134. 

Tempillistoun,  125. 

Templers,  lez,  29,  37,  38,  60,  67,  135. 

Temple,  le  meistre  du,  44,  60. 

Temys,  29,  31,  200. 

Tenagus,  115 

Tenegus,  115. 

Tenys,  22. 

Terrage,  169,  187. 

Tese,  7. 

Tetforth,  10. 

Tevydale,  126,  155. 

Tharan,  fitz  Amfodech,  Hi. 

Thays,  15. 

Theobaud,  count  de  Bloys,  26. 

Theobaud,  l'ercevesque  de  Cantorbiris,  32,  35,  36. 

Thollet,  en  Espayne,  106. 

Thomas,  fil  de  roy  Edward  i.,  133,  137,  139. 

Thomer,  Saint,  v.  Saint  Thomer. 

Thornill,  16. 

Thorny,  16. 

Thuringe,  le  duk  de,  106. 

Tibol,  17. 

Tilmouth,  le  vikeir  de,  3. 

Tingez,  18. 

Tipitot,  14. 

Tiptoft,  Payn,  109. 


Tire,  74,  76. 

TireU,  Walter,  23. 

Tirg,  fitz  Dungald,  116. 

Tiriet,  17. 

Tol,  la  mal,  123. 

Tolet,  19. 

Tolimer,  17. 

Tolorg,  Duf,  116. 

Tolouse,  36,  39,  199. 

Tolouse,  la  countesse  de,  35. 

Torquesay,  29. 

Torre,  143. 

Touny,  15. 

Touny,  Rauf'de,  111. 

Tourbevil,  14. 

Touris,  18,  51,  173,  199. 

Tournay,  170,  171,  172,  199. 

Towny,  Lucas  de,  108. 

Tracy,  Willam  de,  40. 

Tranans,  la  cite  de,  76. 

Trascy,  12. 

Travile,  18. 

Trebidige,  Huwen,  189. 

Tregos,  12. 

Treilly,  12. 

Trent,  28,  29,  123. 

Trevile,  17. 

Trie,  45. 

Tripe,  le  count  de,  38. 

Trivet,  19. 

Troy,  la  gest  de,  2. 

Troyes,  183,  199. 

Trusbutt,  14. 

Trusselle,  13. 

Tuchet,  13. 

Tuk,  15. 

Tunis,  170. 

Turgot,  priour  de  Doresme,  21. 

Turlay,  17. 

Turonen,  44. 

Turpintoun,  Hugh  de,  158. 

Turry,  191. 

Turstin,  ercevesque  Euerwyk,  33. 

Tuskane,  135. 

Twede,  l'eaude,  48,  83,  116,  118,  147,  161,  162 

167. 
Tyberie,  52. 


INDEX. 


Tykhille,  148. 
Tyndalle,  154. 
Tyne,  22. 
Tynel,  18. 
Tynemouth,  21,  117. 


Tyntuse,  56. 
Tyre,  47,  66,  67. 
Tyrol,  la  counte  de,  136. 
Tysoun,  19. 


Vadencourt,  Pilerin  de,  193. 

Valence,  14. 

Valence,  le  port  de,  56. 

Valentinoys,  le  count  de,  199. 

Valeris,  18. 

Valoins,  17. 

Valoins,  Eymer  de,  count  de  Penbrok,  127,  130, 

132,  140,  144. 
Valoys,  158. 

Valoys,  Phelipde,  156,  171. 
Vaspasian,  114. 
Vaus,  lez,  41. 
Veer,  12. 
Veilaund,  18. 
Veillye,  la  vile  de,  185. 
Venables,  18. 
Vendom,  le  count  de,  199. 
Vendour,  17. 
Venour,  18. 

Ventatour,  le  count  de,  199. 
Venus,  port,  52. 
Vepount,  Iwe  de,  191. 
Verboys,  16. 
Verders,  14. 
Verdon,  Johan  de,  105. 
Vermandys,  185,  187. 
Vernoun,  17,  19. 
Vernoun,  le  siege  de,  78. 
Veroun,  17. 
Verpempnet,  115. 


Vescy,  14. 

Vescy,  Johan  de,  105,  108,  119. 

Vescy,  Johan,  fitz  bastard  Willam  de,    119. 

Vescy,  Willam  de,  40,  118,  119. 

Vesselay,  50,  51. 

Vetourbe,  133. 

Viane,  la  ryver  de,  173. 

Victor  hi.,  pape,  11. 

Vien,  le  daufyn  de,  172,  178,  185. 

Viene,  en  Ostrik,  75. 

Vilages,  la  cite  de,  56. 

Vilain,  18. 

Vile  Noef,  56. 

Vincent,  Saint,  le  corps  de,  54. 

Vincent,  Cappe  Saint,  55. 

Vinoun,  12. 

Vipount,   12. 

Virgil,  53. 

Vise,  le  chastel  de,  30. 

Vituik,  la  maner  de,  130. 

Vllusibone,  la  cite  de,  54. 

Vmfrevil,  12. 

Voradin,  69,  70. 

Vortiger,  153. 

Vpsedelingtoun,  147. 

Vrban  h.,  pape,  11,  22,  23. 

Vrban  hi.,  pape,  48. 

Vrban  iv.,  pape,  106. 

Vrban  v.,  pape,  201. 

Vrgen,  le  cardinal,  177. 


w. 


Wace,  16. 

Waceley,  16. 

Wadmound,  le  count  de,  183,  199. 

Wail,  55. 

Wake,  le  seignour  de,  153,  156,  200. 


Wake,  la  dame  de,  177. 

Wake,  Baudewyn,  77,  102. 

Walangay,  17. 

Walays,  Willam,  123,  124,  125,  126. 

Walcher,  evesque  de  Doresme,  7. 


INDEX. 


XXXI 


Waldbouf,  Johan,  182,  183. 

Walde,  le,  150. 

Walden,  le  chastel  de,  34. 

Walenges,  lez,  41. 

Waleys,  Willam,  count  de  Penbrok,  82. 

Walingford,  3 1 . 

Walis,  97,  151. 

Wallery,  Saint,  la  vile  de,  184,  185. 

Walteu,  5,  6,  7. 

Wamervile,  19. 

Warain,  Adam  count  de,  39. 

Wara\Tie,  Willam  count  de,  33. 

Warde,  17. 

Warenne,  12. 

Warley,  15. 

Warroys,  16. 

Warvil,  15. 

Warwyk,  140. 

Warwyk,  le  count  de,  122,  125,  170,  196. 

Wasteneys,  12. 

Watervile,  15,  19. 

Waulter,  seneschal  Descoce,  125. 

Waulter,  evesque  de  Worcestre,  83. 

Waulter,   Hubert,  ercevesque  de  Cantorbirs,  68, 

82,  83. 
Waulter,  Robert  fitz,  98. 
Wauncy,  12. 
Wavasour,  16. 
Wavill,  12. 

Wawerley,  l'abbe  de,  87. 
Weland,  Thomas  de,  109. 
Weland,  meistre,  un  clerk  d' Escoce,  110. 
Welpey,  95. 
Wercworth,  124. 
Werdoun,  13. 
Were,  6,  154. 
Werk,  121,  145. 
Werk,  le  chastel  de,  38. 
Werlay,  17. 


Wermerlay,  19. 

Wermouth,  3. 

Wermouth,  l'eglis  de,  6. 

Westmouster,  19,  22,  35,  36,  48,  114,  123,  131, 

133. 
Westmouster,  le  novel  overay  de,  97. 
Whitekirk,  168. 
Wibert,  11. 
Willam  le  Conquerour,  roy  Dengleter,  3,  5,  6,  7, 

8,  9,  10,  11,  19,  20,  24. 
William  ii.,   roy  Dengleter,  8,  9,  19,  20,  21,  22, 

23,  24. 
Willam,  ercevesque  de  Cantorbirs,  27. 
Willam,  seignur  de  Douglas,  124. 
Willam,  roy  d'Escoce,  39,  40,  41,  44,  48,  78,  82, 

83,  84,  118,  119. 
Willam,  count  de  Henaw,  136. 
Willam,  fitz  roy  Henry  i.,  25,  27. 
Willam,  fitz  roy  Henry  ii.,  35. 
Willam,  le  fitz  Henry  duk  de  Saxsoyne,  36. 
Willam,  crucifie  a  Norwiche,  34. 
Wiltoun,  32. 
Wiseheart,   Robert,   evesque  de  Glascow,   124, 

131. 
Wittoun  Undrewod,  163. 
Wlstan,  o.  Wolstan. 
Wodstok,  44,  104. 
Wodstok,  le  park  de,  26. 
Wolstan,  7. 

Womacian,  la  province  de,  47. 
Wondelkeker,  55. 
Wyncestre,  7,   19,  23,  31,  43,  78,  92,  95,  96, 

157. 
Wyncestre,  l'evesque,  85,  86,  88,  97. 
Wyncestre,  Caer  de  Qincy,  count  de,  98. 
Wynchelse,  190,  194. 
Wyndesore,  22,  39,  109,  176,  199. 
Wye,  151. 
Wyvill,  16. 


Vanvile,  194. 
Yarforde,  146,  162. 
Yarmouth,  151. 
York,  v.  Euerwik. 


Ypre,  171. 
Ystoria  auria,  3. 
Yverois,  l'evesque  de,  52. 


INDEX  TO  NOTES  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS. 


A. 


Aberbrothoc,  abbey  of,  241. 

Aberdeen,  bishoprick  of,  241. 

Abernethi,  Malcolm  the  Third's  homage  to  Wil- 
liam the  Conqueror  at,  212. 

Ailsi,  abbot  of  Ramsey,  200. 

Aired,  abbot  of  Rivaux,  cited,  220,  239,  240. 

Alba  Landa,  monastery  of,  250. 

Alberin,  in  Scotland,   Malcolm   the  Third  does 
homage  to  William  the  Conqueror  at,  212. 

Alfleda,  208. 

Almilan,  caput,  253. 

Alianor,  see  Elianor. 

Alnwick,  Malcolm  the  Third  slain  there,  221. 

Alnwick,  castle  of,  besieged  by  William,  king  of 
Scotland,  249. 

Angolesme,  the  earl  of,  254. 

Ansekn,  archbishop  of  Canterbury ; 

his  letter  of  advice  to  Haco,  earl  of  Orkney, 
234; 


Anselm,  archbishop  of  Canterbury; 

his   proceedings   regarding   the   marriage  of 

Henry  the  First  with  Maud,  236; 
lus  opinion  of  Edgar,  king  of  Scotland,  238 ; 
his   letter  to   Alexander  the  First,   king  of 
Scotland,  238. 
Antiochesis,  a  poem  written  by  Joseph  of  Exeter, 

215. 
Apulia,  242. 
Aquila,  253. 
Aquitain,  duchy  of,  239, 
Argyll,  bishoprick  of,  242. 
Arthur,   king,   his   body  found  at   Glastonbury, 

245. 
Ascalon,  243. 
Avallona,  insula,  246. 
Aud,  daughter  of  William  the  Conqueror,  wife  of 

Stephen,  earl  of  Blois,  231. 
Aurum  Reginae,  251. 


15. 


Babylon,  243. 

Baldwin,  archbishop  of  Canterbury,  250. 

Barate,  253. 

Basileus,  Peter,  kills  Richard  I.,  254,  255. 

Baterun,  253. 

Battle  Abbey  Roll,  218. 

Becket,  Thomas,  anecdote  of,  during  his  exile, 

246. 
Benedictus  Abbas  cited,  252. 


Berwick,  North,  nunnery  at,  241. 

Berwick-on-Tweed,  nunnery  at,  241. 

Beverley,  St  John  of,  miracle  performed  by  him, 

209. 
Brechin,  bishoprick  of,  241. 
Bracelond,  Joceline,  his  chronicle  cited,  25 1 . 
Brompton's  chronicle  cited,  249. 
Bury,  the  abbot  of,  his  transactions  with  Richard 

the  First,  251. 


INDEX  TO  NOTES 


Caen,  Cecile  daughter  of  William  the  Conqueror, 

abbess  of,  231. 
Caithness,  bishoprick  of,  242. 
Candida  Casa,  abbatia  de,  241. 
Canterbury,  Gervase  of,  his  chronicle  cited,  254. 
Cardif  castle,  Robert  Curthose  dies  there,  229. 
( larlisle,  castle  of,  besieged  by  William,  king  of 

Scotland,  249; 
Minaria  de,  249. 
Cecile,  abbess  of  Caen,  daughter  of  William  the 

Conqueror,  231. 
Cbaluz,  Richard  the  First  killed  there,  254,  255. 
( )hristiana,  sister  of  Margaret,  queen  of  Scotland. 

237. 


Clavering,  see  Fitz-Richard,  Roger. 

Cocus,  see  Martial. 

Coldingham,  priory  of,  241. 

Coldstream,  nunnery  of,  241. 

Colme's-Inch,  priory  of,  241. 

Costanz,  daughter  of  William  the  Conqueroi 

of  Alan  earl  of  Britany,  231. 
Cottewen-more,  battle  of,  240. 
Cotton,  sir  Robert,  236. 
Culdees,  see  Keldei. 
Cupre,  abbey  of,  241. 
Cuthbert,  Saint,  miracle  performed  by.  2 -Is. 


1). 


Damascus,  243. 

Danes,  their  invasion  in  Northumbria,  208. 
Diceto,  Ralph  de,  his  chronicle  cited,  254. 
Divisiensis,   Ricardus,   his  chronicle  cited, 

254,  255. 
Dublin,  bishoprick  of,  see  Dunblane. 
Dunblane,  bishoprick  of,  242. 
Duncan,  brother  of  Malcolm  the  Third,  222. 


Duncan,  son  of  Malcolm  the  Third.  222, 
Dunfermlin,  abbey  of,  241. 
Dunkeld,  bishoprick  of,  241. 
252,      Durham,  the  castle  of,  209. 

Domesday-book,  account  of  the  formation  of,  230  : 

see  Winchester,  the  Great  Roll  of. 
Driburgh,  abbey  of,  241 . 


Eadmer  cited,  219,  237. 
Eccles,  nunnery  of.  241. 
Edgar,  king  of  Scotland ; 

extract  from  Gaimar  concerning  him,  238 ; 
Anselm's  estimate  of  his  character,  238. 
Edinburgh,  abbey  at,  241. 
Edmund,  son  of  Harold  the  Second,  208. 
Edward,   son  of  Malcolm  the  Third,   his  death, 
221,222. 


Eleanor,  wife  of  Henry  the  Second,  239: 

her  liberality  to  the  monks  of  Bury,  251 . 
Espec,  Walter  de,  240. 
Estderby,  Roger  de,  250. 
Estes,  [Eustace?]  a  sage,   consulted  by  William 

the  Conqueror  as  to  the  destiny  of  his  sons, 

224,  229. 


Fergaunt,  Alan  le,  earl  of  Britany,  231. 
Fitz-Richard,  Roger,  249. 
Florence  of  Worcester  cited,  219. 


Font-Evraus,  Richard  the  First  buried  there,  255 
Ford,  abbey  of,  254. 
Fordun  cited,  220,  249. 


AND  ILLUSTRATIONS. 


Gaimer,  his  chronicle  cited,  212,  237.  238. 

Galloway,  bishoprick  of,  241. 

Genit,  253. 

Giraldus  Cambrensis,  his  treatise  De  Instructione 

Principis  cited,  245,  246,  247,  249,  250. 
Girun,  253. 
Glanvillis,  Ranulphus  de,  250. 


Glasgow,  bishoprick  of,  241. 

Goddewrthe,  see  Jedburgh. 

Godwin,  son  of  Harold  the  Second,  208. 

Goldewinus,  a  monk  of  Canterbury,  sent  by  Lan- 

franc  into  Scotland,  222. 
Goldingham,  see  Coldingham. 
Gurdon,  Bertram  de,  kills  Richard  I.,  254. 


Haco,  earl  of  Orkney,  letter  from  Anselm  to  him, 

234. 
Hadintone,  priory  of,  241. 
Hanepinges,  a  forest  near  Winchester,  216. 
Henry  the  First,  king  of  England,  226,  227,  228, 
230,  231 ; 
his  marriage  with  Maud,  235,  236,  237. 
Henry  the  Second,  king  of  England,  verses  on 
the  accession  of,  242 ; 


Henry  the  Second,  supernatural  warnings  to 

amend  his  life,  249,  250,  251. 
Hexham,  John  of,  239  ; 

Richard  of,  239. 
Higden's  Polycronicon  cited,  220,  249,  252. 
Hoveden,  Roger  de,  cited,  240,  252,  253,  254. 
Hugh,  bishop  of  St  Andrews,  248. 
Huntingdon,  Henry  of,  cited,  240. 
Hurtard,  see  Urquard, 


I.    J. 


Jedburgh,  abbey  of,  241. 
Jerusalem,  kings  of,  243 ; 

chronicle  of  the,  at  Paris,  255. 
Isles,  bishoprick  of  the,  242. 
Istellemanie,  253. 


Italy,  242. 

James  the  Fourth,  apparition  to,  at  Sterling,  249. 
Johanna,  comitissa  Sancti  Egidii,  255. 
Jubaltarie  insula,  253. 


Keldei,  241. 

Kelso,  abbey  of,  241. 

Kilwinning,  abbey  of,  241. 


Kineweni,  Sancti,  abbatia,  241. 
Kinlos,  abbey  of.  241. 


Lanfranc,  archbishop  of  Canterbury; 

his  letter  to  Walcher,  bishop  of  Durham,  con- 
cerning the  Danes,  209 ; 
his  letter  to  Margaret,  queen  of  Scotland.  222 ; 
verses  in  his  praise,  218; 


Lanfranc,  archbishop  of  Canterbury; 

date  of  his  death  established,  219; 

epitaph,  219. 
Lascy,  Gilbert  de,  slain  at  the  battle  of  the  Stan- 
dard, 240. 


INDEX  TO  NOTES 


Lettum,  253. 
Leucare,  253. 
Limozin,  255. 
Liulfus,  213. 


Longchamp,  William,  bishop  of  Ely,  252. 
Luci,  Richard  de,  249. 
Lundors,  abbey  of,  241. 


M. 


Magnus,  son  of  Harold  the  Second,  208. 
Malcolm  the  Third,  king  of  Scotland ; 

his  homage  to  William  the  Conqueror,  211, 

212; 
his  homage  to  William  Rufus,  219,  220. 
his  conduct  towards  Ins  daughter  Maud,  235, 

237; 
the  account  of  his  death  as  narrated  by  Gai- 

mar,  221; 
the  account  of  his  death  as  given  by  Mathew 
Paris,  221. 
Margaret,  queen  of  Malcolm  the  Third,  221,  236; 
Turgot's  testimony  concerning  her  piety,  222 ; 
Lanfranc's  letter  to  her,  222. 


Malmesbury,  William  of,  cited,  219. 

Martial,  styled  '  Cocus'  during  the  Middle  ages, 

246. 
Matilda,  see  Maud. 

Maud,  wife  of  William  the  Conqueror,  207. 
Maud,  wife  of  Henry  the  First ; 

her  marriage,  235,  236,  237. 
May,  priory  of,  241. 
Melros,  abbey  of,  241. 
Mildenhale,  the  manor  of,  251. 
Morray,  bishoprick  of,  241. 
Munbrai,  Robert  de,  231. 
Muncian,  253. 
Muntalue,  253. 


N. 


Nantrum,  Richard  the  First  killed  at  the  castle      Norfulc,  217. 


of,  254. 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  249. 
New  Forest,  William  Rufus  slain  there,  229,  233. 
Newbotle,  abbey  of,  241. 
Niger,  Ralph,  his  chronicle  cited,  212. 


Normandy,  231. 
Nostinot,  see  Restennet. 

Nunant,  Hugo  de,  bishop  of  Coventry,  his  satire 
upon  William  Longchamp,  bishop  of  Ely,  252. 


o. 


Odo,  bishop  of  Bayeaux,  216. 

Odur,  253. 

Orkney,  bishop  of,  234. 


Orkney,  242; 

earl  of,  see  Haco. 


Paris,  Mathew,  a  manuscript  of,  cited,  211,  219, 
220,  221,  235,  246,  254. 

Perth,  priory  of,  241. 

Pipe  Rolls,  extract  from  the  Chancellor's  dupli- 
cate of  the,  249. 

Pitscottie,  his  account  of  the  apparition  to  King 
James  the  Fourth,  249. 


Plumbum,  253. 
Polycronicon,  see  Higden. 

"Polroutes, "  [from  the  Sax.  hrutan,   stertere,] 
employed  at  the  battle  of  the  Standard, 
240. 
Prudhow,  castle  of,  besieged  by  William,  king  of 
Scotland,  249. 


AND  ILLUSURATIONS. 


Pumerai,  Joldan  de  la,  betrays  Richard  the  First, 
254. 


Pumerai,  Joceline,  254. 
John,  254. 


Q. 

Queen  gold,  25 1 . 
R. 


Ramsey,  William  de,  208. 
Readiug,  241. 

Reginald  of  Durham,  cited,  248. 
Restennet,  priory  of,  241. 

Richard  the  First,  his  anxiety  to  raise  money  for 
the  crusades  exemplified,  251 ; 

his  ships  described,  252 ; 

betrayed  to  the  duke  of  Austria,  254 ; 

his  death,  254,  255; 


Richard  the  First, 
his  heart,  255. 

Richard,  son  of  William  the  Conqueror,  lines  upon 
him,  214. 

Robert  Curthose,  eldest  son  of  William  the  Con- 
queror, 224,  225,  227,  229,  230,  231. 

Ross,  bishoprick  of,  241. 

Roxburgh,  abbey  of,  241. 

Rudburn,  chronicle  of  Thomas,  cited,  236. 


Sabraz,  John,  kills  Richard  the  First,  254. 

Salamame,  253. 

Saint  Andrews,  bishoprick  of,  241. 

Scalonia,  253 

Scone,  abbey  of,  241. 

Scotland  not  subject  to  England,  247. 

Scot,  John,  bishop  of  St  Andrews,  248. 

Serlo,  verses  by,  207,  211,  213,  214,  217. 

Sicily,  242. 

Siward,  earl  of  Northumbria,  208. 


Standard,  battle  of  the,  239. 
Stephen,  earl  of  Blois,  231. 
Stephen,  king  of  England,  231. 
Sterling,  abbey  of,  241. 

Stoke,  Osbert  de,  prior  of  Daventry,  his  poem 
upon  the  accession  of  Henry  the  Second,  242. 
Suthfule,  217. 
Swail,  253. 
Swain,  king  of  Denmark,  209. 


T. 


Tale,  granted  to  Ford,  254, 
Talemunde,  253. 
Taraguise,  253. 

Theobald,  son  of  Stephen  earl  of  Blois,  231. 
Thurston,  archbishop  of  York,  240. 
Trevisa's   translation  of   Higden's   Polycronicon 
cited,  220,  249. 


Trivet,  Nicholas,  his  annals  cited,  254. 
Turstinus,  a  Norman,  slain  at  Beverly,  210. 
Turtusa,  253. 
Tjrel,  Walter,  233. 


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INDEX  TO  NOTES. 


U.  V. 


Unfranville,  Odinell  de,  249. 
Urquhart,  history  of,  241. 


Valensis,  Alexander,  archidiaconus  Bangoriensis, 

246. 
Vals,  Robert  de,  249. 


w. 


Wace,  his  chronicle  of  the  dukes  of  Normandy 

cited,  215,  234. 
Walcher,  bishop  of  Durham ; 

letter  from  Lanfranc  to  him,  209 ; 
lines  in  praise  of  him,  213; 
upon  his  death,  213,  214. 
Walkeline,  bishop  of  Winchester,  216. 
Waltheof,  earl  of  Northumberland,  legend  of,  208. 
Wennever,  wife  of  king  Arthur,  her  body  found 

at  Glastonbury,  246. 
Wentemile,  253. 
Westminster,   Mathew   of,   his   chronicle   cited, 

254. 
William  the  Conqueror,  208,  209; 
grants  privileges  to  Beverly,  210; 
anecdote    concerning    him   and    Walkeline, 

bishop  of  Winchester,  216; 
verses  in  his  praise  by  Serlo,  217; 
verses  in  his  praise  by  an  anonymous  monk, 

217; 
romantic  poem  upon  him  and  his  sons,  223; 


William  the  Conqueror, 

account  of  his  survey  of  England,  230 ; 

lines  upon  his  funeral,  by  Wace,  21.3 ; 

his  children,  230,  231. 
William  Rufus,  225,  226,  228,  229,  230,  231 ; 

his  character,  232,  234  ; 

his  death,  233. 
William,  king  of  Scotland,  sketch  of  his  charac- 
ter by  Giraldus  Cambrensis,  247; 

ravages  Northumberland,  248. 
William,  son  of  Henry  the  First,  drowned,  236. 
William,  duke  of  Aquitain,  his  epitaph,  239. 
Winchester,  234; 

the  new  church  at,  216,  254  ■ 

the  Great  Roll  of,  251. 
Winton,  annals  of,  cited,  237. 
Whitherne,  abbey  of,  241. 
Wolstan,  bishop  of  Worcester,  verses  upon  him, 

211. 
Wyntoun,  chronicle  of,  cited,  220.