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CONTAINING  THE  SECOND  VOLUME  OF 

PETER  LANGTOFT'S  CHRONICLE. 


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PETER 

LANGTOFT S 

CHRONICLE. 

Volume  the  Second. 


1438391 


Edwardus  Rex.  ^5 


N  ]7e  jere  folowand  ]7at  I  rekened  here  Coronacio 

Edward  com  to  land,  als  prince  of  grete  ^w^^rJ. 

dicti  Hen- 

powere.  rici. 

\)e  next  Sonenday  '  after  ]ie  assumpcioun 
Of  Mari  raoder  &  may  Sir  Edward  bad  \e 
coroun. 

In  jje  kyrke  of  Westmynstere,  at  ]iq  abbay  soUempnely, 

I?e  bisshop  of  Canterbere,  Robert  of  Kilwardeby, 

Corouned  Ed\vard  \oxe  biforn  alle  \q  clergy, 

*  &  dame  Helianore  corouned  quene  &  lady. 

Was  neuer  at  Saynt  Denys  feste  holden  more  hy, 

Ne  was  of  more  pris,  ne  serued  so  redy. 

Was  neuer  prince,  I  wene,  |jat  I  writen  of  fond, 

More  had  treie  &  tene,  J^an  he  had  for  his  lond. 

In  Scotlond  &  in  Wales,  in  Gasconie  also. 

If  je  liste  alle  J?e  tales,  ]?is  storie  tellis  jow  to. 

Pray  we  alle  to  God  of  myght,  &  his  modere  Marie, 

Grante  him  conquere  his  right  Gascoyne  &  Normundie, 

jjat  j?e  kyng  of  France  chalanges  falsly. 

Help  him  to  j?at  chance  moder  of  mercy, 

&  Thomas  ]?e  martire,  St.  Jon  of  Beuerle, 

St.  Cutbert  be  J)er  fere,  he  trestres  oifjow  Jjre, 

Towhile  in  Gascoyne  es  })e  pes  jit  alle  certeyn, 

We  salle  leue  })at  pas  vnto  we  com  ageyn. 


*  Others  say  it  was  the  very 
day  of  the  Assumption,  or  the 
15th.  of  August.  »  Ausint  la 
Rayne  Elyanore  sa  amye  Fu 


coroune  le  jour,  vnqes  a 
seint  Dynie  N*?  fu  si  bele 
feste,  ne  si^rantnoblye,  MSS. 
Gall, 


Vol.  II.  B  & 


^Gi  Edx^ardus  Redt, 

&  telle  50W  o)jer  tales  of  Edward  curteisie, 

&  of  Leulyn  of  Wales,  &  his  beryng  hie, 

Of  Dauid  his  brojjere  &  of  his  felonie, 

Resaunraduk  an  o]7ere  how  he  did  folic. 

How  I^e  contek  was  laid  of  Scotload  J?at  first  gan. 

How  eft  ])ei  mad  a  braid,  &  oirlnglond  ran. 

Of  Madok  J^e  Morgan,  of  j^er  nyce  ribaudie, 

Of  Jon  Baliol  no  man,  &  of  his  treccherie, 

&  of  his  duze  pers  togider  ])ei  gan  alie^ 

I  schrowe  alle  J?er  maners,  J^at  lufes  ])er  partie. 

A  |jousand  &  ii°.  hundred  sexti  &  fiftene, 

jje  date  of  Crista  so  pundred  whan  Leulyn  gan  J»is  tene. 

J.  HE  next  ^ere  folowand  of  Edward  coronment, 
Leuiini,  Leulyn  of  Walsland  in  to  France  he  sent, 

Jje  Mountfort  doubter  to  wedde,  hir  frendes  alle  consent, 
Almerik  hir  ledde,  to  schip  now  er  j^ei  went. 
Now  }jei  saile  &  rowe  to  Wales  to  Leulyns, 
A  burgeis  of  Bristowe  charged  was  with  wynes, 
He  ouertoke  ])er  schip,  &  asked  whe}?en  \)ei  ware  ? 
He  said,  with  kyng  Philip  to  Wales  wild  ]>ei  fare. 
What  did  jjis  burgeis  ?  desturbled  his  wendyng, 
l^e  may  &  hir  herncis  did  led  vnto  ]>e  kyng. 
]>e  mayden  Edward  toke,  als  he  was  fulle  curteys, 
In  saufte  did  hir  loke,  &  jjanked  ])c  burgeis. 
5  Whan  Leulyn  herd  say,  to  werre  sone  lie  bigan, 

Movit 

beiium.         For  tcnc  he  wende  to  deie,  |?at  taken  was  his  lemman. 


Ed* 


Edwardus  Rex*  237 

Edward  wex  fulle  grim,  whan  he  wist  he  was  risen. 

Sone  he  hasted  him,  to  mak  j^am  alle  ogrisen. 

J7e  Walssh  wer  alle  day  slayn,  now  rewes  Jjara  Jjer  res, 

&  Leulyn  is  fulle  fayn,  to  pray  Edward  for  pes, 

Gyues  Edward  for  his  trespas  fifti  j^ousand  mark, 

&  \iet  tille  bonden  was  with  scrite  &  oth  fulle  stark, 

To  com  tuys  in  \c  ^ere  vnto  his  parlement. 

j)e  may  oiT  j^is  raanere  with  Leulyn  home  scho  went, 

&  held  his  heritage  in  pes  as  he  did  ore, 

Mad  was  |)e  mariage  at  Snowdon  biside  Bangore . 

JLN  '  \e  jere  seconde  after  his  corounment, 

New  statute  J»ei  fonde,  to  Westmynstere  Jjei  ment. 

J7e  nex  Paske  folowand  Edward  sent  his  brefe 

To  Leulyn  for  his  land,  to  com  als  tille  his  chefe. 

Leulyn  had  despite  of  Edwarde's  sonde, 

Bot  werred  also  tite  oiThim  with  nyth  &  onde. 

Edward  raised  scheld,  after  his  men  alle  sent, 

jjat  seruise  of  him  held,  manly  tille  him  went, 

&  ran  on  Sir  Leulyn,  &  alle  his  folk  him  with, 

&  maugre  bojje  his  bryn  was  fayn  to  com  to  grith. 

Dauid  at  jjat  while  was  with  Edward  ]>q  kyng, 

pt  auanced  he  Jjat  file  vntille  a  faire  Jjing. 

To  Frodesham  with  \q  fe,  &  alle  Jjat  longed  j^er  tille, 

To  Leulyn  forgaf  he  alle  his  euelle  wille. 


'  Le  [an]  secounde  apres 
le  encorounement,  Le  Reis 
a  Wemonstere  tynt  son  par. 
lement.   E  statuz  fist  fere  par 


commune  assent, 

monstere    sunt    dist    propre- 

ment,   Codd.  Gall. 

B  2  Now 


3S8 


Edwardm  Rtx, 


Now  is  Leulyn  bonden  eft  to  Sir  Edward, 

If  he  with  faute  be  fonden,  I  trowe,  it  fallcs  him  hardr 

Now  turnes  Edward  agfeyn  to  London  his  cite, 

&  wille  wile  certeyn,  who  schent  has  his  mone. 

Of  clippers,  of  roungers,  of  suilk  takes  he  questis. 

Olde  vsed  traitoures  ilk  at  o)>er  hand  kestis. 

Ilk  thefe  o]>ei  out  said,  ilk  a  schrewe  oJ>er  greues. 

Of  fele  wer  handes  laid,  &  hanged  ]>et  as  theues. 

Edward  '  did  smyte  rounde  peiiy,  halfpeny,  ferthyng, 

}7e  croice  passed  *  passed"  J?e  bounde  of  alle  |?orghout  ])e  ryng. 


'  See  my  Preface  to  Robert 
of  Gloucester'' s  Chronicle,  p. 
LXiii.  where  I  have  printed 
these  eight  Rhythms  ythat  relate 
io  K.EdwardthefirsCs  altera- 
Hon  of  the  Coyn.  As  I  had  a 
desire  my  self  to  see  how  they 
are  express'' din  the  French, so, 
it  may  be,  some  readers  may 
have  the  same  curiosity, and  for 
that  reason Ishallhere  publish 
them  in  thut  language,  only 
noting,  that  all  that  I  have  in. 
closed  in  Crotchets  or  Hooks  is 
zoanting  in  the  MS.  of  the  He 
raids  Office,  tho^exstant  in  both 
Mr.  Anstis^s  Copies,  and  that 
what  is  put  in  a  parenthesis  is 
a  various  Reading  :  Ester- 
lyug,  maylle,  {vcl  male)  fer- 
thing  (vel  ferlynge)  fet  forger 
roundement,  Et  gros  Tour- 
nais  Englays  qe    valeat  ver 


rayment  Quatre  esteriinges 
en  achate  &  vent,  (vel  ester- 
lyngs  a  chat  e  a  vent)  [De 
ren  (vel  rien)  se  lo  ly  prestre 
ke  le  ofFrande  {vel  offrant) 
atent,  Ne  ly  chaytif  pouers 
ke  ren  nad  (vel  rien  ayd) 
dount  despent.]  En  tote  la. 
moneye  la  croice  par  my  se 
tent,  (vel  sestent)  [Par  quay 
le  ferlynge  (vel  ferthing) 
rounde  est  eommuneraenL 
Offert  V  (vel  ou)  done  pur  deu 
(vel  dieu)  omnipotent,  Le 
sterlynge  et  la  maylle  uie- 
nent  {vel  venent)  rerement, 
Sur  deu  {vel  dieu)  et  sur  les 
sons  chet  len  payrement.]  (vel 
foens  chiet  lempeyrement) 
Mil.  CO.  et  octaunte  (vel  vt- 
taunt)  annz  del  incarnacioun 
Sunt  passez  par  acounte 
kaunt  de  religioun  (vel  del 
Re- 


Edxeardus  Rex» 


239 


J7e  kynge's  side  salle  be  \e  hede  &  his  name  writen. 
\e  croyce  side  what  cite  it  was  in  coyned  &  smyten . 
j?e  pouere  man  ne  \e  preste  \e  peny  prayses  no  jjing. 
Men  gyf  God  J^e  lest,  \>e  feffe  him  with  a  fer]7ing. 
A  |70usand  &  tua  hundred  &  fourscore  jeres  mo. 
On  Jjis  mone  men  wondred  '  fist  whan  it  gan  go. 

VV  AS  mad  an  ojjer  statute,  Jjat  non  erle  no  baroun, 
No  o|?er  lorde  stoute,  ne  fraimkekyn  of  toun, 
Tille  holy  kirke  salle  gyue  *  tenenement,  rent  no  lond. 
Fro  ])o  ]?at  now  lyue  in  to  \q  dedis  hond, 
Without  leue  of  J^e  kyng,  or  of  his  consaile. 
\>e  encheson  of  Jjis  ]?ing  may  raykille  auaile» 
For  freres  of  \e  croice,  &  monk  &  chanoun, 
Haf  drawen  in  ovoice  his  feez  to  J)er  almoyn, 
Jjorgh  whilk  draubt  his  seruise  is  lorn  &  laid  doun, 
]7at  is  tille  him  &  hise  in  disheritsaun. 
Not  for  \\.  he  wille,  J7at  alle  religioun 
Haf  &  hold  in  skille  }?at  gyuen  is  at  resoun, 
})e  londes  J>at  Jjei  haue  now  in  possessioun. 
His  seruise  he  wille  now  saue,  J^at  non  be  Jjorgh  tresoun. 
Ne  no  baron  so  bold,  to  selle  |?am  lond  ne  gyiie. 
For  myght  ]7ei  as  }>ei  wold,  no  man  suld  bi  J?ani  lyue  ; 
Men  here  biforn  haf  gyuen  jjam  out  of  skille. 
It  lies  now  waste  &  lorn,  half  may  jjei  not  tille. 


M°.  CCMO, 
LXXX". 


Regioun)  Est  fet  lestatut,  qe 
counte  ne  baroun,  Ne  seyn- 
gnour  de  tere  par  my  la  Re- 


gioun, 4c.     *  Dele. 
'  Sic,  pro  first.    *  Sic. 


B  3 


240  Edwardus  Rex. 

A  Jjousand  &  tuo  hundred  ]?e  date  fourscore  &  tuo, 

On  Leulyn  has  men  wondred,  no  gynnes  Dauid  to  thro. 

reun^'^'&**^  Jc  OR  now  bigynnes  Dauid  to  wax  a  werreour, 
Dauid.       With  Leulyn  gan  he  kith  to  be  j^e  kynge's  traytour. 
Jjei  mad  a  samenyng,  &  did  als  \ie\  were  wonne. 
To  disherite  ])e  kyng,  &  his  jongest  sonne. 
On  his  londes  ])ei  rais,  &  robbed  ilk  a  toun, 
Brent  &  slouh  ilk  man,  his  kastelle  bette  Jjei  doun. 
Sir  Edward  herd  wele  telle  of  his  grete  misdede, 
Jjer  power  forto  felle,  it  catchis  him  to  spede. 
He  sent  North  &  South  after  his  baronage, 
Sone  it  was  fulle  couth,  ]7at  Leulyn  did  outrage. 
Atired  jjer  wendyng  toward  \q  Marche  right  sone. 
Leulyn  ageyn  ]ie  kyng  &  Dauid  were  alle  bone, 
To  raaynten  forth  ])e  werre,  &  susteyn  j^er  treson ; 
\)c  entres  did  pei  sperre,  &  hold  Jiam  in  Snowdoun, 

XN  Wales  it  is  fulle  strong  to  werre  in  Wynter  tide, 
For  Wynter  is  J^er  long,  whan  Somer  is  here  in  pride. 
J»at  was  to  l^ani  grete  pyne,  J?at  werryng  vndertoke, 
&  Snowdoun  did  Leulyne  wele  to  kepe  &  loke. 
\e  kyng  knowe  no  side,  how  he  mot  com  }?er  inne, 
Noufier  go  no  ride,  ne  how  he  suld  it  wynne. 
A  water  in  Snowdoun  rennes,  Auber  is  the  name. 
An  arme  of  })e  se  men  kennes,  j^e  depnes  may  non  ame. 
|?e  kyng  controued  jjcr  ouer,  a  brigge  forto  make, 
&  of  Leulyn  to  couere,  Snowdoun  forto  take. 


Botei 


Edwardus  Rex, 


^1 


Botes  he  toke  &  barges,  j^e  sides  togidere  knytte, 
Ouer  l^e  water  ])at '  lage  is,  fro  bank  to  bank  rauht  itte. 
I^ei  fleked  j^ani  ouerthuert,  justely  forto  ligge, 
Ouer  Jjcwater  smerte  was  so  ordeynd  a  brigge. 


W  HAN  fe  brigge  was  ent  at  Inglis  men  pay, 
Withouten  auysement,  j^e  brigge  ]?ei  wild  asay. 
Sent  \ie\  non  bifore,  to  wite  how  J)ei  mo  passe, 
j^erfore  had  J7ei  lore,  for  non  avisemeut  wasse. 
Forth  went  knyght  &  sueyn,  &  fote  men  alle  in  fere, 
J7e  Walsch  com  }?am  ageyn,  did  our  men  alle  arere, 
|?at  turnyng  fier  vnthank,  as  heuy  was  ]>e  charge, 
Vnder  Jjam  alle  sank,  bothe  batelle  &  barge. 
J7e  gode  men  Jjat  were  lorn,  on  our  Inglis  partie, 
J>e  Clifford  first  biforn  Sir  Roger  did  folic. 
William  of  Lyndescie  &  Jon  le  fitz  Roberd, 
Sir  Lucas  of  Tame,  jjise  grete  J^er  misferd, 
&  alle  Jjer  squierie,  &  o]?er  j^at  with  }?am  nam, 
Alle  drenkled  Jjorgh  folie,  &  faut  of  wisdam. 
A  man  ]?at  oste  salle  lede,  &  controues  no  quayntise, 
Howe  he  disceit  salle  drede,  scaj^e  vmwhile  salle  rise. 
Had  Jjei  had  a  spie  among  jje  Walssh  oste, 
&  warned  Jjam  priuelie,  jjat  |?ei  were  bi  J?at  coste, 
\iQ\  had  bien  men  lyuand,  ]7at  }?er  to  dede  went, 
|)at  folie  tok  on  hand  withouten  avisement. 


De  ponte 
prasparato 
&  facto. 
Ecce  ruina 
facta  in 
medio  pon- 
tis  super 
gentem  An 
glorum. 


Pro,  large. 
b4 


That 


^42  Edwardus  Rex* 

De  (}omino      X  HAT  tymc  bat  Hs  crie  com  of  bise  barouns, 

Johanne 

Vescy,  ve.       CoHi  Sir  Jon  V"escy  fro  be  kyng  of  Aragouns, 

nit  cum 

baskiis '  &      Brouht  fotc  folk  inouh  of  baskles  &  Gascouns, 

super  Leu- 

linum.  J)at  \e  Walsh  men  slouh  raumpand  as  leouns. 

Jjorghe  mountayn  <fe  more  \ie  baskles  je  ]?er  weie, 

Oure  nescli  &  hard  ]7ei  fore,  &  did  J^e  Walsch  men  deie. 

J?ei  passed  alle  ]>e  Marche,  Snowdoun  jjei  wan  in, 

Of  tonnes  |7ci  mad  j?ara  parclie,  &  souht  after  Leulyn. 

Dauid  couth  non  o]7er,  ]>q  folowed  j^am  so  streite, 

Bot  fled  fro  his  brojjer  skulkand  with  disceite. 

Sir  Roger  \e  strange,  &  Sir  Reynald  J7c  Gray, 

f»ei  ne  wold  turne  ne  change,  bot  spied  J^er  Leulyn  lay. 

Ecce  de-     5  Leulyn  in  a  wod  a  bussement  he  held, 

Leuiini  per     Biside  a  more  a  mod  quayntly  was  he  teld. 

Bod  J?"™       Sir  Roger  lay  biside  with  priue  folk  &  stoute, 
&  spied  tymc  &  tide  whan  he  suld  issue  cute. 
Leulyn  wend  no  gile  had  bien  j^er  so  nere, 
He  went  to  play  a  wile  with  fo  of  his  banere. 
Sir  Roger  was  perceyued  whan  Leulyn  out  cam, 
|7er  pencels  J)ei  weyued,  tille  Sir  *  Leuly  he  nam, 
"  Traitoure,"  said  Rogere,  "  what  salle  J?e  werre  anaile, 
"  Now  I  find  \q  here,  welc  set  is  my  trauaile. 
*'  Tuys  ert  ]>o\\  forsuorn,  &  tuys  \i  feaute  broken, 
"  Tuys  was  Jjou  doun  born,  &  for  pes  eft  spoken, 
**  }jis  is  |)e  ]?rid  tyme,  ]?at  mykelle  {?ou  him  misbede, 
*'  Dayet  who  J^e  kyme,  for  j?ou  has  souht  ]7i  dede. 
"  Salle  }7ou  neuer  jji  lyue  do  Inglis  man  more  wo, 
"  Hastilie  \e  schryue,  jji  hede  ]7ou  salle  for  go. 

'  ^Ic.      '  Sic. 

Sir 


Edwardus  Rex,  243 

Sir  Roberd  Body  a  knyght  his  suerd  best  bote, 

Doun  soiie  he  he  light,  &  Leulyn  hede  of  smote. 

Now  is  Leulyn  forsuorn,  &  his  hede  of  smytefl^ 

His  heritage  is  lorn  fro  his  heyres  je  wyten. 

More  fan  a  jere  beforn  ]7at  he  laiiht  J?is  scharae,^ 

A  doubter  was  him  born,  Wenciliau  hir  name. 

In  hir  cralille  jing  tille  Inglond  scho  cam, 

Jjorgh  conseile  of  J7e  kyng  was  brouht  to  Sempynghara, 

&  ]>ex  was  scho  inne  four  &  fifty  ^ere,  P^  ^."? 

Norised  with  Wynne,  nunne  and  seculere.  monacha  ii 

*'  ^  Serapyng- 

Now  haf  we  new  tateles,  dede  is  Wencilian,  •'^n»' 

Leulyn  doubter  of  Wales,  J^at  on  Inglond  ran. 

Hir  dede  was  mykelle  ment,  for  scho  was  fulle  curteys. 

Among  J?e  ladies  gent,  jje  los  of  hir  so  seys. 

Jje  seuent  day  of  Juny,  Whitson  euen  Jjat  tyrae, 

Died  Jjat  lady,  bituex  vndron  &  prime. 

\ie  date  of  Criste  pundred,  ]7us  many  jeres  euen, 

A  }?ousand  &  |?re  hundred  J^ritty  jere  &  seuen. 

Hir  cosyn  dame  Gladous,  of  Dauid  doubter  born, 

A  Nunne  of  Sixille  hous  died  a  jere  beforn. 

Of  Wencilian  wrote  I  here  next  Leulyn  story, 

Scho  was  his  doubter  dere,  to  bere  him  company. 

JN  O W  skulkes  Dauid  aboute,  to  wynne  it  ilk  a  dele. 
His  heritage  J?at  is  oute,  he  wenes  fulle  wele. 
AUe  Jjat  Leulyn  held  lond  &  tenement. 
Holy  to  haf  Jje  scheld  J^orgh  heritage  descent. 
With  lordes  |7at  were  nehi  he  held  his  parlement 
At  jole  at  Denebeghi,  after  Jam  alle  he  sent. 

To 


«•.  ccc*. 

IXXTII". 


244?  Edwardus  Rex. 

To  fend  J»e  Walschrie  with  him  at  ])er  powere, 
To  him  })ei  gaii  alie,  &  ros  fuUe  austere. 
I  Whan  ])e  kyng  herd  say,  I?at  Dauid  werred  oii  him, 
To  Wales  he  went  his  way  fiille  scharply  &  fuUe  brim. 
Captus  est      Edward  did  him  chace,  fuUe  febilly  he  defendes, 

Dauid. 

To  rest  had  he  no  space,  his  tyme  he  tynes  &  spendes. 
Jje  euen  of  Saynt  Morice  was  taken  Sir  Dauid, 
Als  a  fole  nyce  he  brak  ])e  kynge's  grith. 
His  hede  ])e[  of  smyten,  to  London  was  it  born^ 
J7e  dede  body  ])e  britten  on  four  quarters  corn, 
Jje  quarters  wer  sent  to  henge  at  four  citez, 
So  is  he  worth  be  schent,  who  so  traytour  bez, 
f  Leulyn  &  Dauid  haf  born  grete  honour, 
And  Snowdon  com  to  grith,  ilk  castelle  &  toure 
To  ])e  kyng  is  eschete,  als  to  chefe  of  alle. 
J^e  '  lordes  j^at  er  grete  ]>e  cheued  as  tenauntz  salle. 
\>e  kyng  J^orghout  ])e  lond  he  did  crie  his  pes, 
&  with  ])e  lawe  J^am  bond,  als  skille  wild  he  ches. 
Wardcyns  gode  he  sette,  to  stabille  j^e  lond  &  mende, 
Justise  |)at  ])e  lawe  gette  to  vnkonand  ]?ei  kende. 
Whan  alle  was  don  &  ent,  pat  fellc  to  conqueroure, 
To  London  he  went,  a  while  to  mak  soioure. 
He  sent  to  his  barouns,  a  parlement  to  hold, 
\)ei  com  at  his  somouns,  in  parlement  he  jjis  told  ; 
To  Gascoyn  bihoued  him  go,  &  J?at  hastilie, 
Tijjing  com  him  ])cy  fro,  ])eY  \vas  contek  &  crie, 

'  Qe  fount  les  Waleis,    qe  i  uaunce   al   Reis,     com   a  go- 
sunt  de  valour  ?     Fount  che-  j  uernour,  MSS.  Gall. 

Jjider 


Edwardus  Rex, 


245 


j?ider  bihoued  him  nede,  to  set  jjat  lond  in  pes, 

For  foles  haf  no  drede,  ]7at  long  is  justlseles. 

A  Jjousand  &  tuo  hundred,  &  fourscore  ^ere  &  sex, 

On  Wales  many  on  wundred,  for  more  wo  git  j^er  wex. 


M".  CC». 
LXXX.  VI", 


JliDWARD  wele  has  sped  of  alle  Jjing  |?at  has  bien, 
Tille  Gascoyn  with  him  led  dame  Helianore  our  queue. 
\e  gode  erle  of  Cornwaile  jjis  lond  had  in  kepyng, 
In  luf  &  pes  sanz  faile  went  Edward  our  kyng, 
&  spak  with  j^e  kyng  of  France  at  Paris  as  he  went. 
]?an  felle  a  fair  chance,  }?ei  wer  at  on  assent. 
Forth  he  gan  him  hie,  tille  Gascoyn  is  he  coraen, 
Jje  rightes  he  did  attrie  of  \io  Jiat  wrong  had  nomen. 
RightfuUe  dome  he  gaf  on  foles  for  jjer  misdede, 
No  man  be  ouerhaf,  bot  alle  Jjorgh  lawe  jede. 

5  Towhile  Sir  Edward  gos  to  Gascoyn  forto  apese, 
Wales  to  werre  vp  ros,  J)orgh  conseile  of  a  Resc. 
On*  Reseamiraduk,  of  Wales  a  lordyng, 
Our  Inglis  did  rebuk,  &  werred  on  our  kyng. 
I  kan  not  telle  jow  whi  Jiat  werre  was  reised  olofte. 
Men  said  fe  wrath  &  cri  com  Jjorgh  j^e  lord  Tiptofte. 

f  jje  kyng  herd  jjat  pleynt,  vnto  f^e  Rese  he  sent 
A  letter  enselid  fuUe  quaynt,  for  \e  pes  it  ment. 
He  praied  to  hold  him  stille,  tille  his  tocome  mot  be, 
&  he  suld  do  his  wille,  in  alle  Jjat  skille  mot  se. 
His  pleyntes  he  wild  here  in  skille  at  lordes  siglit, 
&  if  he  baron  were,  he  suld  haf  fulle  gode  right. 


Iter  •  ari- 
puit  versus 
Gasconiara. 


Ecce  de 
Reseamira- 
duk. 


'  Sic.     2  Rees  ameredukej  vcl  Res  admyraduck,  in  Codd.  Gall. 

|jis 


M^  Edttardus  Rex, 

J)is  R^searairaduk,  als  fole  &  vnwise, 

His  letter  gan  rebuk,  sette  it  at  light  prise. 

J?e  ska|?e  })at  he  myght  do  with  slauhter  or  prison  hard. 

Alio  he  brouht  ]?am  to,  J)at  longed  tille  Edward. 

A  J)ousand  &  tuo  hundred  \ie  date  forscore  &  nine. 

Oil  our  men  \ti  wondred,  in  Wales  did  J^am  pyne. 

W  HAN  Edward  had  bien  in  Gascoyn  \xe  ^ere, 
Ageyn  he  &  J?e  quene  on  lond  ryued  vp  here. 
At  his  comyng  he  fond  of  clerkes  &  men  of  pleynt, 
De  falsi-     &  justise  of  Jje  lond  of  falsnes  was  atteynt, 
darioium.  For  giftes  som  justise  lete  ]ie  lowe  go  doun,^ 
&  som  on  ojjer  wise  did  wrong  to  Jje  coroun. 
))e  first  justise  in  benk  Sir  Thomas  of  Weland, 
For  falshed  &  for  wrcnk  he  forsuore  J)e  land. 
He  went  ouer  io  France,  &  com  neuer  ageyn. 
His  '  clerkes  stode  to  chance  passed  for  a  cerleyn, 
|)ei  wer  out  of  J^e  tour  delyuerd  for  mone, 
Jjer  held  Jjei  long  soiour,  bot  penies  mad  ]7am  fre, 
Opon  his  forward,  or  J^ei  wer  out  gon. 
To  serue  kyng  Edward,  neuer  more  suld  \ie\  non. 
Sir  Elys  of  Bekyngham  to  do  lawe  him  was  lefe, 
Sir  Jmi  of  Metyngham  he  left  |?e  justise  chefe, 
Sir  Rauf  of  Heyngham  j^e  wrong  oft  he  ehes, 
He  departed  with  gram,  &  fe  benk  les. 
Sir  Adam  of  Stretton  fulle  hard  was  he  led, 
Nouht  without  encheson,  I  lay  my  gloue  io  wed. 


Ses     compaygnouns     ses  I  ad]  la  tour  de  Loundres,  de- 
clers  sunt  pris  &  mene  A  {^svce  \  liuerez  par  mone,  MSS.  Gall. 

For 


daeorum. 


Edwardus  Rex*  ^7 

For  gold  &  siluer  strong  he  gaf  so  grete  plente, 
Bifor  Ipe  kyng  it  song,  Placebo  dontine. 
With  wrong  alle  it  cam,  with  gile  salle  gyuen  be, 
Dilexit  Sir  Adam  gilerie  &  falste. 

XhISE  justise  er  atteynt  of  falshed  &  folie,' 

Now  comes  a  new  plcynt,  to  dcstroie  J^e  Juerie. 

jje  kyng  was  enquere  of  fer  wikked  dedes,  De  iniifui- 

So  many  j^er  were,  dome  on  |7am  salle  nedes.  misiveju- 

For  |>am  j?e  kyng  was  sette  his  priue  parlemenf, 

J?ei  said,  jjorgh  ]>&  rescette  ]>&  Cristen  men  were  schenf . 

\>e  barons  alle  said,  alle  holy  \q  clergie, 

\e  lond  Jiei  wild  voide  of  j^at  herisie. 

I  wene  \ie  kyng  alegid,  l^ei  were  of  his  tresour, 

Nojjeles  he  wild  haf  briggid,  ])q  fals  leue  &  erroure. 

For  jje  penie  fiftend,  \>e  Jues  wild  he  fleme. 

J^e  clergie  said  at  |?e  end,  "  we  grante  it  as  je  deme. 

|?e  lerid  &  J?e  lay  granted  ))at  ])ei  said, 

&  assigned  a  day,  J^at  taxe  to  be  laid. 

\)e  dettes  |7at  men  jjam  auht,  ]?er  sledes  &  jjer  wonyng, 

Wer  taxed  &  bitauht  to  J^e  escliete  of  j^e  kyng. 

\t  *  Reseamiradie  was  taken  j^at  ilk  gere. 

In  Wales  Jjorgh  a  spie,  for  all  his  powere. 

Whan  ]7e  kyng  herd  it  seie,  to  jork  he  did  him  lede, 

Schames  dede  to  deie,  als  traytour  for  his  dede. 

First  was  he  drawen  for  his  felonie, 

&  as  a  ]7efe  j^an  slawen,  on  gahves  hanged  hie. 

'  Rees  ameraduk,  vel  Rees  admiraduk  sivG  Rees  amereduk, 
in  Codd.  Gall. 

Now 


248 


Edissardus  Redf* 


«r.  cc". 
txxxxi", 


De  capci- 
one  Acres. 


De  morte 
Reginse. 


Et  Marga- 
reta,  filia 
&  lieres 
Alexandri 
Regis  Scot- 
ti)rum,mor- 
tua  est. 


Now  is  non  of  age  of  his  ancestrie 

May  haf  his  heritage,  to  whom  it  salle  alie^ 

A  Jjousand  &  tuo  hundred,  foiir  score  &  elleuen^ 

On  Wales  men  jit  wondred,  J)e  pes  not  git  euen. 

JL  HE  next  jere  folowand  Acres  was  assaled, 
)?e  Cristen  myght  no  stand,  of  help  alle  J^am  failed, 
&  J7e  cite  lorn,  &  alle  don  to  |)e  suerde, 
|?at  were  Cristen  born,  jje  lewed  &  ]>e  lerid. 
Whan  ])e  pape  had  tij^ing,  it  was  in  a  Sarazins  handes, 
He  gaf  Edward  our  kyng,  J?e  tende  of  alle  ]>e  lande&. 
Inglond,  Scotlond  &  Wales,  Ireland  f^erto  was  laid, 
j?an  mot  he  fiUe  his  males,  no  man  him  withsaid. 
Holy  who  salle  spare,  if  it  nede  stode, 
Whan  ]>o  ]?at  hedes  are  do  j^er  to  no  gode  ? 
])sd,  ilk  gere  ])e  quene  died  in  Lyndseie, 
At  Westmynster,  I  wene,  his  body  did  J^ei  leie. 
I  A  litelle  j^er  biforn  died  Margarete, 
Jje  heyr  of  Scotlond  born,  of  Alisander  bigete, 
Wherfor  Sir  Edward,  for  })at  niaiden  dede, 
Hied  him  Northward,  his  barons  he  asked  rede. 
In  ])e  North  at  Norliam,  lie  wamssed  ]>e  castelle, 
]pe  barons  j^ider  cam,  &  conseild  jjat  beste  felle, 
jjei  broiiht  fe  cronykles,'  J)at  wer  in  Scotland, 
J?e  olde  cliartres  &  titles,  j^at  wer  in  Abbays  hand, 
Of  ilk  a  bisshop  se,  &  ilk  a  priourie, 
jjat  were  of  dignite,  of  olde  ancestrie, 
Examend  J)am  &  cast  ilk  amountment, 
jjei  said  alle  at  fie  last  fiorght  of  on  assent, 


Of 


Edwardus  Rex, 


34D 


Of  Inglond  suld  ]7ei  hold  jjorgh  right  &  skille, 

•  F©  wild  ])e  feffementes  aid,  &  I^ei  granted  J^ertille. 

|jis  was  certified,  &  sikere  oiT ilk  side. 

It  myght  not  be  denied,  for  }?ing  })at  mot  betide. 

jjis  conseild  Sir  Antoyn,  ])e  bisshop  of  Durham, 

J7at  non  eft  mad  essoyn,  j^e  kynge's  right  to  clame. 

JN  O W  wex  jje  Scottes  wode,  now  haue  ]?ei  nythe  &  onde, 
Who  of  ])a.t  fals  blode  ouh  to  be  kyng  of  pe  londe. 
Jjat  was  right  heire  is  dede,  on  J^at  side  is  no  mo, 
J>orgh  blode  &  right  rede  to  Dauid  salle  it  go. 
Dauid  of  Huntyngton  was  kynge's  Wiliam  brojjer, 
Tille  his  heires  }>orgh  reson,  of  William  is  non  of>er. 
Of  William  now  is  non,  Dauid  heire  salle  be, 
&  his  heirs  of  him  gon  salle  haf  jje  regalte. 
Dauid  had  douhtres  ])re  were  gyuen  to  jjre  lordynges, 
J)at  claymes  j^e  regalte,  Baliol,  Brus,  Hastynges. 
J?is  ilk  Jre  barons,  J^orgh  descent  of  blode, 
Haf  right  &  resons  to  ])e  coroune  fuUe  gode. 
Jjise  Jjre  jald  ]?er  right  vp  to  Sir  Edward, 
Tille  it  wer  atried  Jjorgh  sight,  whom  it  felle  afterward. 
Sir  Edward  is  seised  in  Scotland  ilk  a  dele, 
jjise  ]>re  barons  pesid,  &  hold  J^am  paied  wele. 
5  Now  com  ])is  barons  eft,  &  ask  jugement. 
To  whom  it  salle  be  left,  J^orgh  coraon  assent. 
|je  kyng  wille  bot  wele,  J?e  lawe  alle  ynderstandcs, 
Jje  hie  folk  ilk  a  dele,  he  did  com  of  bofje  jje  landes 
Scottis  &  Inglis,  he  said  to  ]?e  wisest, 
**  Gyue  now  gode  dome  of  |?is,  whilk  of  J)ise  may  best 


Ecce  ttttsT. 
Biur  factum 
pro  rege 
Scottorum, 


Eccp  AngH 
&  Scotti 
tractant 
pro  regno 
Scociae 


L.to. 


T9 


§50  Edwardus  Rtt. 

"  To  resceyue  I^e  coroune,  Scotlond  forlo  ^fl\<?, 

"  fat  J^e  right  go  not  doune.  &  best  may  jow  alle  ^me. 

What  for  ]je  kynge's  sawe,  &  skille  fei  tnderstode, 

&  l^orgh  l^e  londe's  la  we,  &  descent  of  blod, 

\)e  triours  alle  ]7at  caste,  &  put  ]?er  saw  tille  on. 

"  We  say  with  word  stedfaste,  we  chefe  Baliol  Jon. 

**  Sir  Jon  \e  Baliol  es  a  man  J^e  reame  may  saue, 

"  &  nere  of  blode  &  flessh,  J^e  heritage  to  hane, 

"  For  euer  we  vnderstond,  tille  him  &  alle  hise, 

**  Holdand  of  Inglond,  for  homage  &  seruise. 

Our  kyng  Sir  Edward  held  him  wcle  payed, 

He  did  })am  no  more  hard,  ne  langer  was  delayed. 

Disseised  him  self  of  alle,  jald  it  to  Sir  Jon, 

Bot  Jon  his  homage  salle  mak  or  he  be  gon. 

Saynt  Steuenday  it  felle,  |7at  Jon  mad  his  homage. 

At  J^e  Newe  castelle,  listnes  J^e  langage. 

LTj-"  ''  'My  lord  Edward  I^e  kyng  Inglis, 
itSsis'l^:  "  ^  *^^^f«  lo^'^  of  I'c  Scottis, 

*'  I  bicom  ]>{  man  for  Scotlond  Jjing, 


'  This  form  is  thus  expressed 
(but  not  in  Rhythm)  in  the 
Homagiiim    French   Copies:    Moun  sey- 
Ballol.  gnoure    Sire     Edward,    Reis 

Dengleterre.  8c  souerayne 
seignour  du  realme  descoez, 
[yel  de  Escoce  site  descoce] 
Jeo  Jon  de  Balyol,  Rey  de- 
scoce,  deuenk  yostre  home 
llge  de  tut  le  realme  descoce, 


oue  les  \yel  ouf  tuz  les]  apur- 
tenaunces,  e  ou  qaunt  qe 
apent,  [yel  ouf  kauncke  apehlj 
le  quel  ioe  \tel  io,  sive  ieo] 
tenk  de  dreit  e  [yel  et]  clayme 
a  tenir  [yel  tenir,  absque  a] 
heritablement  de  vous  &  de 
vos  heyrs  r6is  de  Engleter- 
re,  de  vie  &  de  membre,  e  de 
terrien  honour  en  countre  qe 
[yel 


Edwardus  Rex, 


251 


"  With  alle  |?e  purtenance  jjerlille, 
**  jjat  to  ])e  rearae  longes  with  skille, 
"  ]>e  whilk  I  hold,  &  salle  ]>orgh  right 
*'  Clayrae  to  hald,  at  alle  my  rayght, 
*'  Heritagelik  of  j^e, 
"  &  of  jjin  heires  ]7at  after  J)e  be. 
Of  Inglond,  with  lif  &  lymrae, 
For  erthly  worschip  Jjat  I  nymrae, 
Ageyn  alle  J?o  may  lyiie  &  deye, 
&  with  J)am  hold  in  luf  &  eye. 


KJN  |?is  maner  J»e  kyng  it  toke, 

His  right  forto  saue  &  loke. 

I^is  was  at  ]>e  Nevve  castelle, 

On  Saynt  Steucn's  day  it  felle. 

A  jjousand.  cc°.  fourscore  &  J?re 

}je  jers  o  Jhesu  wer,  whan  jjis  felle  to  be. 


M*.  CC". 


Our  kyng  gode  Edward  fiorgh  Scotlond  ferd, 
As  he  com  '  ho  ward  he  souht  S.  Cutberd, 
&  mad  jjer  his  offryiig,  si|?en  com  to  Beuerlay, 
&  offred  J^er  fair  J^ing,  to  London  his  way. 


[yel  honour  countre  totes 
genz  ke,  sive  honur  encontre 
genz  qe]  pount  viuer  ou  mo- 
rir.  Et  le  Key  le  rescent 
lyel  rascent,  sive  receyt]  en 
la  fourrae  saune  son  dreit  & 
autry.     Cest  homage  fu  fet  a 

Vol.  ir. 


Noue  chustel  sur  Type  le 
iour  \_vel  sur  Tyne  en  Engle- 
terre  le  iour]  Sent  Esteuen, 
le  an  [_vel  lanj  tie  grace.  M. 
CC.  xc.  secound,  e  du  regne 
la  Rey  Edward.  xxi°. 
'  L.  homward. 
c  On 


Anno  do- 
mi  lii  31". 
cc°.  no  ■  a- 
g'sijao  M\ 


252  Edwardus  Rex, 

On  fele  fringes  he  |7ouht,  &  wex  heiiy  als  lede, 
How  chances  on  him  souht,  &  \>3.i  ]>e  quene  was  dede. 
His  solace  was  alle  reft,  Jjat  scho  fro  hira  was  gon, 
Ne  no  Sonne  him  left,  bot  jing  Edward  alon. 
He  was  tendre  &  jing,  of  him  had  he  no  speyre, 
Himself  in  ille  likyng,  &  had  no  waxen  heyre, 
f>at  mot  kepe  \>e  coroune,  if  he  of  lond  went, 
He  drouped  Jjerfore  donne,  &  said  \e.  lond  were  schent, 
If  '  he  tille  Acres  ^ede,  in  perile  sulle  allc  be, 
Of  J>e  child  wer  drede  \>q  lond  als  wele  as  he. 
De  beiio     5  j^  Tjinkenff  of  alle  bis,  be  batailed  in  be  se, 

inter  Porti-  r  &  r    J   r  r         7 

CO.,  &  Nor-     Normans  &  Inglis  were  slayn  grete  plente. 

mannos. 

])e  Normans  jjat  day  les,  for  I^er  powere  was  nouht, 
J)e  portes  had  als  ]?ei  ches  schippes  inow  j^am  brouht. 
To  Doner  &  *  Germne  cam,  &  vnto  Wynchilse, 
To  Romeneye  &  Schorham,  &  to  Peueneshe, 
To  Gipwiche  &  Sandwiche,  &  to  Southamptoun, 
3  Alle  ])e  portes  were  riche,  Irays  &  Bayou n. 
\fe  fine  portes  ]?orgh  powere  jje  se  liad  so  conquerd, 
J7at  Normans  alle  j^at  jere  durst  not  be  sene  for  ferd. 
Jjorgh  |7e  loud  of  France  was  said  fulle  sone, 
Philip  herd  ]?at  chance,  how  j^e  Inglis  had  done, 
&  alle  how  it  bigan,  &  alle  |?e  skille  why, 
]7at  |7ei  togider  ran,  &  we  had  Jje  raaistrie. 


'  Et  si  le  Reis  Edward 
vers  Akres  fust  ale,  Mult 
serreyt  en  perylle  regne  &  re- 
galte,  MSS.  Gall.  a  Gerne- 
meue,  vel  Gernemue  sive  Ger- 


newe,  BISS.  Gall.  « Irays  & 
Baonays  [yel  Bayonays) 
ount  grant  partye  waygne, 
Codd.  Gall. 

Sir 


Edwardus  Rex* 

OlR  *  Edward  God  him  saue,  he  is  in  grete  longyng 
A  where  he  mot  haue,  jjat  auenant  is  &  jing 
|jat  wer  of  hie  perage,  suilk  on  wild  he  take 
His  euenhed  in  mariage,  gentille  gendrure  to  make. 
His  herte  gaf  tille  dame  Blanche,  if  hir  wille  wer  J^erto, 
&  holy  kirke  wild  stanche  sibred  bituex  J^ara  tuo, 
Hire  }?an  wild  he  wedde,  forto  saue  J^e  pes 
In  luf  |)at  \iei  j^am  ledde,  in  werire  Jjat  noujjer  les. 
For  Blanche  his  cosyn  he  sent  how  it  mot  be. 
To  mak  a  mariage  fyn,  Philip  sister  was  sche. 
&  als  vnto  J^e  pape,  for  to  wite  ])q  certeyn, 
What  ]>e  clergie  wild  schape,  whan  ])c  courte  were  pleyn, 
?  Edward  *  messengers  vnto  j^at  raayden  sent, 
To  wite  of  hir  maners,  to  se  hir  body  gent. 
]>Qi  com  vnto  J>at  may,  &  sauh  hir  contenance, 
So  fair  lady  J^at  day  was  not  in  alle  France. 
Whan  Jjei  had  sene  J^at  sighl,  ]>d  com  &  teld  our  kyng, 
Creature  non  myght  be  fayrer  bi  no  Jjing. 


253 


De  Blan- 
chia  sorore 
llegis 
Francies. 


*  Ly  Reis  sir  Edward  ad 
grant  volente,  Esposer  gen. 
tyl  femme  de  halt  parentee, 
Dount  auer  engendrure  piir 
son  herite,  Pur  refourmer  la 
pees,  e  norir  amiste,  Codd. 
Gall.  *  Sire  Edward  en 
Fraunce  ad  messagers  maun- 
de,  De  vere  la  damoy. 
sele  enqtiere  de  sa  bounte. 
Les  messangeres  \_vel  bounte, 
Si  elesait,  sive  E  si  ele  soyt, 
auenaunte   en    face,    ea    cors 


taylle.  Les  messagers]  i 
vount,  e  le  ount  refigure  En 
cors,  en  facoun,  en  mayn,  en 
iaumbe,  &  pe.  [yel  en  pe]  Al- 
Reis  sunt  reuenuz,  e  le  ount 
nouncye.  Plus  bele  creature 
est  nule  part  troue.  Sire  Ed- 
ward, alias !  dcueent  en  a- 
moure,  Et  a  la  daraoysele  par 
lettre  ad  monstre,  [yel  admu- 
stre,  sive  ad  mustre]  Et  al  Rey 
Phelipp  son  quoer,  &  sa  pen- 
se,  MSS.  Gull. 


C  2 


Fro 


254  Edvcardus  Rex. 

Fro  Rome  liidorward  fayrer  nou  was. 

Enamoured  bicom  Edward  of  dame  Blanche,  alias ! 

Blanche  did  write  stiUe,  a  letter  Philip  sent, 

Hir  herte  Si,  hir  wille  alle  wist  he  what  scho  went. 

A  )7ousand  &.  cc.  fourscore  &  fourtene, 

jit  salle  Edward  be  encombred  J^orgh  dame  Blanche  schenc. 

FormR  ma-  (JfT  ]?ad  \>e  parties  spoken  of  \h  mariage, 
Ktiwardum  &  (eld  bo]7e  J^cr  avis  to  messengers  of  passage, 
ciiiam.        PJiilip  &  dame  Blanche  granted  ])e  aliance, 

No  |?e  les  of  a  branche  jjer  was  a  disceyuance. 

How  \)e  granted  ]>e\  tille  ))ei  tald  bi  a  messengere, 

l^e  fourme  of  ]7er  skille  |?ei  said  on  jjis  raanere. 

*'  Edward  Avithut  essoyn  salle  gyue  Philip  ]>&  kyng 

"  Alle  holy  Gascoyn,  withouten  disturblyng. 

"  After  |?e  forty  dayes  of  }>at  feffement, 

"  Philip,  without  delayes,  salle  gyue  ])at  ilk  tenement 

"  Tille  Edward  &  tille  Blanche,  &  ]>ex  heires  of  j^am  comcn. 

"  If  it  be  so  no  branche  in  wedlaike  of  fjara  be  noraen, 

"  If  Blanche  ouer  lyue  Edward,  scho  salle  haf  hir  lyue 

*'  '  Goscoyn  afterward,  ageyn  |?at  non  salle  stryue  ; 

**  &  after  Blanche  desces,  withouten  gaynsaying, 

*'  Salle  turne  to  J^e  heires  in  pes  of  ]7e  Inglis  kyng, 

To  ]7at  ilk  scrite  Edward  set  his  scale, 

})at  his  gift  was  perfite,  &  with  witnes  leale. 

Whan  alle  was  spoken,  wist  not  Sir  Antoyn, 

Fulle  sone  it  had  bien  broken,  &  Philip  fro  Gascoyn, 

Philip  spysed  Burdews,  |)orgh  Sir  Edward  scrite, 

\g  to]7er,  as  so  say  deus  !  ^ald  ]7am  also  tite. 


Edwardus  Rex* 


255 


TV  HAT  did  kyng  Philip,  whan  alle  j^is  was  ent  ? 
To  Paris  gan  he  skip,  &  held  his  parlemcnf, 
&  Charles  his  brojjer  with  him  corn  he  j^idere, 
])e  erle  of  Artous  ]?c  toj^cr,  fre  fals  men  togidere. 
]?ise)7re  ageyn  Edward  mad  a  compassemcnt. 
For  Normand  &  Pikard  to  courte  after  Jjam  sent. 
\<o  Jjat  were  in  ])e  bataile,  J^at  on  J^e  had  lorn, 
]?at  portes  gan  assaile,  as  I  told  biforn, 
Edward  j^ei  cald  &  teld,  ]?at  he  was  mayntenoure, 
jje  robbed  he  alle  held,  as  a  resceynour. 
Of  suilk  felonie  Edward  in  courte  ])e  cald, 
Did  non  ])at  curteisie,  J^at  j^er  for  him  wild  hald. 
Of  ]7at  fals  controueyiig  gaf  ])ei  jugement, 
Depriued  j^ei  our  kyng  of  alle  J)e  tenement 
Of  londes  of  Gascoyn,  ]>i\t  neuer  more  suld  he, 
For  no  maner  essoyn,  eft  chalange  Jjat  fe, 
Bot  of  ]>e  kyng  of  France  holden  suld  it  be. 
Edward  kepe  |ii  chance,  ]?ci  haf  bitraised  Jje. 


De  tradi- 
tione  Ka- 
roli  &  co- 
tnitis  de 
Artous. 


jyi.EN  sais  in  jje  courte  of  France,  among  J^e  dcze  pers, 
With  right  he  leses  his  chance,  J^orgh  faut  |?at  not  apers. 
})er  may  ne  write  be  brouht,  to  wynae  ageyn  his  right, 
Bot  ])orgh  force  be  souht,  Jjorght  dynt  of  suerd  &  fight. 
Edward  sore  it  ment,  whan  he  wist  Jjat  tirpeil, 
For  Sir  Antoyn  he  sent,  to  com  to  his  conseil, 
&  for  ])o  barouns,  ]>at  were  his  wele  willand, 
For  conseil  &  resons,  &  chance  ]?at  was  comand. 


c3 


Sir 


256  Edwardus  Rex* 

Sir  Antoyn  first  bigan,  spak  hastily  &  wilde, 
'^  Sir  kyng  j^ou  was  a  man,  be  not  now  bold  a  childe. 
''  J)ou  suld  do  right  nouht  vvithout  jje  comon  sight, 
**  Jjat  may  of  scaj^e  be  wrouht  agcyn  ]ie  reame's  right. 
Ece  dicta      *^  Do  ^it  be  be  consaile,  j^ou  salle  not  it  repent, 

Antonii. 

"  Bot  som  l^at  may  not  auaile,  pi  wille  to  suilk  es  went. 
*'  Yi  roanace  drede  j^ei  more,  in  hastynes  suorn, 
"  ]7an  if  J^i  reame  aile  wore  in  poynt  forto  be  lorn. 
'^  Sir  Antoyn,"  said  ]>e  kyng,  "  I  wite  l^is  no  man, 
*^  Bot  myn  vnconyng,  Jjis  folic  ray  self  bigan. 
5  ''  Sen  J70U  has  don  '  araysse,  at  j^in  vnconyng, 
''  We  may  not  faile  at  |7is,  to  help  \)Q  in  alle  J^ing, 
"  &  if  l^ou  jjink  to  wynne  Gascoyn  ageyn  |)i  lond, 
"  Hastily  bigjnne  Philip  to  folow  j^ou  fond. 
'*  \io\x.  may  not  ligge  &  slepe  as  monke  in  his  dortoure, 
*'  fiou  salle  rise  vp  &  lepe,  &  stirre  vnto  Jje  stoure, 
''  &  geie  J?e  frendcs  fele,  }7orgh  gifte  of  mone, 
"  Tresore  may  ]?ou  non  spele  of  lordes  bi^ond  }7e  se. 
*'  \>e  kyng  of  Almayn,  &  j^e  duke  of  Boloyn, 
*'  jje  to  help  were  fayn,  &  ]>e  erle  of  Burgoyn, 
'*  \>e  kyng  of  Aragoun,  &  ]>e  eric  of  Sanuay. 
*'■  ]>\se  er  redy  boun,  to  help  Jje  nyght  &  day. 
* '  Whan  \)o\x  of  fiise  ert  sikere  to  |?e  j^orgh  aliance, 
*'  J7an  is  tyme  to  bikere  with  |7e  kyng  of  France. 

*  Said  fe  bishop  addenda  sunt,  si  Codices  Gallicos  sequamur. 


Whan 


Edwardus  Rex,  25T 

Vt  HAN  Antoyn  his  resons  to  be  kyns:  said  bus.  Consilium 

}jan  spak  '\ie  barons,  '*  Sir  kyng  listen  tille  vs. 
'*  Forsoth  ilk  lordyng,  wliilk  Sir  Aiitoyii  has  said, 
**  Disherited  is  j^orgh  )7e  kyng,  chalanges  })am  of  neid. 
**  He  has  spared  non,  \)ex  he  mot  fynd  encheson, 
**  })at  he  disherites  ilkon  of  castelle  &  of  toun. 
*'  ]7erfore  we  rede  je  sende  to  \e  kyng  of  Almayn, 
**  &  jour  londes  to  defende,  &  reue  Philip  his  wayn. 
"  &  to  ])c  kyng  of  Aragoun,  &  tille  alle  J^e  to})er, 
"  Be  calle  }?am  of  tresoun,  Philip  &  Charles  his  broj^er. 
"  Bynd  jow  alle  togider,  to  lyue  &  to  deie, 
'^  We  se  noujjer  whidere  \o\\  may  haf  sikerer  weie. 
"  Siluer  may  ])o\\  non  spare  of  \o  ]>?ii  with  ])e  be, 
**  For  Philip  is  euer  jare,  &  has  so  grete  pouste. 

X  O  J^at  ilk  consail  J?e  kyng  acorded  to,  Antonius 

factus  est 

Sir  Antoyn  wille  trauail^  Jje  message  forto  do.  mmcius. 

'  \ic  ersbisshop  of  Deuelyn  he  was  chosen  his  pere, 

A  baron  bold  &  fyn,  Sir  Hugh  Despensere, 

Of  Krawecombe  Sir  Jon,  a  clerke  gode  &  wys. 

Now  is  Antoyn  gon  to  procure  J^e  partys, 

l^e  Almanz  alle  wer  lefe  be  suorn  to  Jje  Inglis, 

&  ]7er  kyng  was  chefe  in  wille  to  do  alle  Jjis, 

&  bisshop  &  baron  alle  ]ie\  had  gode  wille. 

With  obligacion  J^e  Inglis  suore  jjei  tille 


'  Par  commune  counsaylle 
Antoyne  est  alez,  Et  luy  \yel 
ly]  erceuesque  de  Diuclyn  sa- 
crez,  Hug  le  Despensere  ba- 


roun  renomez,  Et  Jon  de 
Cracoumbe  clerk  bien  auy- 
sez,  MSS.  Gall. 

c4  Be 


258  Edwardus  ReT, 

Bo  lielpancl  |je  Almanz  in  alle  maner  of  nedd* 
BoJ^e  to  bold  couenaz  with  scrite  enselid  J^e  dede. 
Now  Anioyn  is  of  lond,  God  saue  him  &  his  pers, 
Edward  sendis  his  soiid,  to  France  mfssengers, 
Frere  *  Hugh  of  Malmcestre  was  a  Jacobynj 
&  William  of  Gaynesburgh  was  a  Cordelyn. 
Alle  jjise  passid  \q  se,  so  com  ]ie  erle  of  Artoys 
In  prison  did  })am  be  a  seuenyght  in  Caleys. 
To  Paris  sij^en  j^ei  cam,  &  j^er  fond  \c\  \e  kyiig, 
\>e  letter  forth  }^ei  nam,  to  trowe  ]?er  sayng; 
J7is  letter  of  credance  \>e\  schewcd  in  his  present, 
Here  now  f'e  acordance,  what  J^er  say ng  raent. 


P'lofrafres      feiR  Hugh  was  man  of  state,  he  said  as  I  salle  rede, 
'  To  prince  &  to  prelate  men  salle  loute  &  drede, 


filcti  sinU 
nrnicii  ad 
Regeni 

Fianciae.         a  &  f^r  lord  dere  his  biddy ng  salle  men  do. 


"  To  lesse  &  more  in  fere  haf  fayth  &  treuth  also, 
"  &  for  our  lord  Edward,  *  j^at  God  him  saue  &  se, 
"  We  tok  J)is  trauaile  hard,  his  bode  to  bere  to  J^e. 

S  "  He  settes  \e  terrac  &  stage  bi  vs,  Avhan  &  wliy 
*'  jjat  he  has  don  homage  for  Gascoyn  plenerly, 
*'  In  forward  formed  in  pes,  as  was  ]?er  acordance, 
*^  As  jour  anccstres  ches  of  Inglond  &  of  France, 
*'  J^ei  mad  a  pes  final  aftere  ])er  contek, 
"  ]>o\\  has  broken  it  alle,  &  don  him  many  ille  chek. 

f  "  Now  at  his  last  goyng,  whan  he  to  Gascoyn  went, 
"  ge  sette  a  certeyn  J'ing,  at  jour  boj^e  assent, 

'   Hugh     de     Mauncestre,  I  Codd.  Gall.      *  Qe    dieu    de 
vel  Huge  de  Maumecestre,  in  \  raal  defcnt,  Gall. 


& 


Edwardus  Rex,  259 

"  &  ]7at  suld  liolden  be,  euer  withouten  ende, 
"  ]70u  brak  ]7at  certeynte  wikkedly  &  vnhende. 

f  "  jit  he  biddes  \e  se,  how  wrong  ])o\\  wilt  him  lede, 
*'  Bituex  him  «&  ])e  was  mad  a  priiie  dede, 
*'  Of  Gascoyn  certeyn  was  )7at  fefFement, 
"  Forto  fcfFe  him  ageyn  in  ]7at  tenement. 
"  J)i  seisyn  is  wele  knowen,  ])e  days  has  ]7ou  plenere, 
**  To  restore  him  his  owen,  he  sent  to  ]>&  duzepers, 
"  As  lawe  wild  &  right,  &  couenant  was  in  scrite. 
*'  jeld  it,  })ou  has  no  right,  with  wrong  holdes  it  in  lite, 
*'  Ageyn  alle  maner  skille,  &  jit  ]7ou  ert  so  grefe. 
**  For  whilom  l^ou  wrote  him  tille,  &  cald  him  in  ]7i  brefe* 
*'  ]){  kynde,  faythfuUe  &  leale  of  Gascoyn  noble  duke, 
*'  l^erto  J70U  set  ]?i  scale,  J^at  right  wilt  ])on  rebuke. 
*^  Neuer  sijjen  hiderward  suilk  speche  vnto  him  touched, 
*'  Werfore   our  kyng  Edward  in   fiouht  fulle  wele   has 

souclied. 
"  J70U  holdes  him  not  ]>{  man,  no  J^ing  holdand  of  ]7e, 
"  Ne  he  }?inkes  neuer  for  j^an,  to  mak  \>e  more  feaute. 
•'  He  hopes  to  wynne  j^at  land  with  dynt  of  douhty  '  kyght, 
"  Of  God  he  claymes  holdand,  &  neuer  of  no  right. 

f  'f  At  \\s  tyme  is  not  els  of  Sir  Edward  to  seye, 

**  Bot  of  Edmunde  Jjat  duellis  with  him  als  brej^er  tueye, 

*'  Forbi  any  o]7er  with  him  wille  hold  &  be. 

*'  He  is  his  lord  &  broj^er,  he  certifies  ]7at  to  J?e, 

*'  ]7at  no  man  in  j^is  werld  he  lufcs  so  mykelle  no  dredis, 

"  Ne  with  him  is  non  herd  so  mykelle  may  help  at  nedis. 

"  For  he  sees  so  wele  gour  grete  controued  gile, 

**  Ageyn  his  broj'er  ilk  dele  compassed  in  a  while, 

'  F.  knyght.  "  Keft 


260  Edwardus  Hex. 

'^  Reft  him  his  heritage,  sais  on  him  felonie, 
*'  He  jeldes  vp  his  homage,  forsakis  |?i  companie, 
*'  &  f>crto  all  ])Q.  londes,  ]7at  he  held  of  jje, 
*'  &  jeldes  vp  alle  ]>&  bondes  of  homage  &  feaute, 
*'  Saue  jje  right  J^at  may  falle  of  ancestres  olde, 
*'  Unto  fier  heires  alle  to  haf  &  to  holde; 
**  We  er  pouer  freres,  ]7at  haf  nought  on  to  lyue, 
'*  In  stede  of  messengeres,  saue  condite  vs  gyue. 
*'  })orgh  Yi  lond  to  go  in  }  in  auowrie, 
*"  Jjat  non  vs  robbe  ne  slo,  for  J)i  curteysie. 

ifeg'ir"^"*    X  HE  respons  were  redy,  Jjat  Philip  did  j^am  bere, 
A  knyght  fulle  anerty  gaf  J^am  jjis  ansuere. 
"  '  }'3  conantz  })at  wer  sette  in  nessh  &  in  hard, 
^''  Kyng  Philip  has  jjam  gette  fro  Jjat  tyme  hiderward. 
**  Bot  f'orgh  \q  kyng  Inglis,  &  |7orh  his  raaryners, 
*'  \e  conantz  ere  gan  mis,  in  many  stedes  sers. 
*'  Homage  vp  to  geld,  lordschip  to  forsake, 
*'  So  Philip  it  wild,  on  ]7at  wise  we  it  take, 
*'  As  ge  haf  mad  present,  j^e  kyng  vouches  it  saue. 
jje  messengers  went,  condute  he  did  jjam  haue, 
jjei  hed  redy  wendyng,  at  Douer  J^ei  toke  lond, 
&  sped  ]7am  to  J)e  kyng,  at  London  ])ei  him  fond. 


'  Lour  dist  ke  les  coue- 
naunce  fet  de  sea  \_sive  sa]  en 
arere,  Sunt  tenuz  en  touz 
poyntz,  saunz  rien  violer,  Par 
le  Rey  de  Fraunce,  &  par  luy. 
xii.  peer,  Et  par  le  Reis  En. 
.glays    e  luy  mariner  Rumpi 


sunt  couenaunce  par  tere  & 
par  mere.  Paroles  ke  sunt 
dites,  de  teres  resigner,  Des 
homages  rendre,  de  seygnour 
refuser,  Le  Reis  Phelipp 
resceyt,  en  meme  la  maner, 
MSS.  Gall. 

Whan 


Edwardus  Rex,  261 

W  HAN  Edward  jjer  respons  knowe,  &  what  \iq\  ment,     Peticio  Ed- 
For  clerkis  &  barons  son  after  he  sent,  barones. 

&  eft  Jjam  alle  biforn  teld  |)ani  alle  ]>e  chance, 
How  Gascoyn  was  lorn  fiorgh  ]>ex  gilerie  of  France. 
"  Withouten  help  of  jow  wyn  it  may  I  noubt, 
*«  To  saue  J?e  londe's  prow,  to  ask  J^is  haf  I  J^ouht : 
*'  I  ask  half  ]7e  godes  to  haf  of  })e  clergie, 
"  &  saue  gour  o]?er  fodes,  to  maynten  ray  partie. 
*'  Marchaut  &  burgeis  to  j^e  sext  be  laid. 
He  wild  on  no  weis,  }jat  it  were  geyn  said. 
\>e  barons  alle  plenere  in  j^e  tende  him  seised, 
So  in  }}at  self  jere  it  suld  be  pnyed  &  reised. 
f  Jje  lond  fulle  hard  was  sette  in  J^at  ilk  laying, 
No  jjeles  we  ere  in  dette,  at  nede  to  help  J^e  kyng. 
&  praye  God  for  his  right  bo]?e  foles  &  wys, 
To  saue  him  day  &  nyght  ageyn  his  enmys. 
If  jjei  jjat  tyme  had  wonnen,  &  venquised  Sir  Edward, 
&  ]7orgh  jiis  lond  wonnen  Normanz  &  Pikard, 
Jie  kirke  of  Inglond  fulle  ille  jjci  suld  haf  said, 
&  had  alle  gon  to  schond,  \)e  clergie  ille  bisted, 
Jjat  neuer  bisshop,  ne  person,  ne  riche  perronendere, 
Ne  erle,  ne  baron,  ne  knyght,  ne  squiere, 
Ne  burgeis  of  cite,  merchant  ne  Frankeleyn, 
\?A  euer  had  bien  fre,  bot  seruage  leyn . 
For  alle  ]?is  )>raldam,  |?at  now  on  Inglond  es, 
jjorgh  Normanz  it  cam,  bondage  &  destres, 
&  if  J'ei  now  powere  had  of  vs,  wite  ge  wele, 
Streiter  we  suld  be  lad  bi  J)e  tend  dele. 

Better 


262 


Edwardiis  Rex, 


Dc  adven- 
tu  Antonii, 


Better  vs  is  to  giue,  &  sane  vs  fro  disceile, 
J^an  with  our  fo  men  lyue  in  seruage  so  streite. 

X  HE  kyng  J^is  pay  has  nomen,  &  in  cofres  has. 
Sir  Antoyn  home  is  cornen  fro  Almayn  \ex  he  was. 
\e  bisshop  of  Deuelyn  don  has  his  enclyns-, 
Sir  Hugh  gode  hele  is  in,  &  comcn  is  to  j^e  kyng. 
Jje  crsdeken  of  Richemunde  to  ]>e  pape  is  sent, 
Sir  Jon  of  Crawecombe  with  him  is  he  went, 
jje  paps  forto  telle  ]>c  sothe  how  it  was, 
&  in  his  dome  to  duelle,  who  did  most  trespas. 
Toward  Portesmouthe  Jjc  kyng  fast  drouh, 
To  werre  as  he  wele  couthe,  he  ordeynd  whilk  «&  how, 
First  to  be  cheftayn,  to  Gascoyn  forto  go, 
Sir  Jon  of  Brefayn  forraast  on  of  j^o. 
Sir  Jon  Sayn  Jon  he  ktiewe  wele  |?at  cuntre, 
'  Roberd  Tiptoft  an  oj^er,  on  his  sonne  salle  with  him  be ; 
Sir  Laurence  of  Sauueye,  also  he  was  J^are. 
\e\  aryued  alle  o  weye  at  Burgh  sur  la  Mare. 
J^iderward  *  as  als  he  went,  Sir  Henry  |7e  Lacie, 
\>Q  kyng  eft  for  him  sent,  I  salle  telle  jow  whi. 


An  Wales  is  a  schreward  to  werre  risen 


on. 


duk  itenim 

hImTn  \Vai- For  he  wend  Sir  Edward  oner  ]?e  se  wer  gon, 
Ija. 


'  Robert  de  Tiptoft,  e 
son  fizaynez,  MSS.  Gall.  *Le 
Count  de  Nichole  fu  laun. 
dreit  aprestez,    Par  maunde- 


nient   le    Reis   le    Count    est 
retoumez,     La     rpsoun      pur 


quay,    vous    dirray 
MSS.  Gall, 


escotez, 


Snow* 


Edwardus  Rex,  ^^ 

'  Sfiowdon  gan  he  liald,  als  his  heritage, 

&  prince  \ei  him  cald,  ]?at  bastard  outrage. 

\>e  Inglis  men  he  slouh,  &  robbed  alle  Jjer  j'ing, 

\)&  castelles  doun  drouh,  Jjat  longed  tille  j^e  kyng. 

})is  ti}7ing  com  him  eft,  how  Wale  him  bitrayed, 

J^erfor  is  Gascoyn  left,  &  j^erat  werre  delayed. 

Schortly  forto  say,  to  *  Snowdon  has  he  tight, 

&  in  Abretonway  a  castelle  vp  he  dight, 

&  \ex  he  held  his  jolc  with  fele  of  his  baronage, 

Of  Gascoyn  was  dole  ]iat  he  left  j^at  viage. 

Fro  jole  vnto  J>e  Pask  werred  Sir  Edward, 

Grete  trauaile  it  askes,  colde  &  greuance  hard. 

I^orgh  pite  mykelle  he  les,  &  reufulhed  of  herte, 

For  ]>e  folk  he  with  him  ches  wer  first  auster  &  smerte, 

flat  Wales  mot  haf  bien  wonnen,  if  he  had  done  )jam  tille, 

&  Jjorgh  out  Gascoyn  ronnen,  if  he  had  don  |)am  skille. 

If  he  had  don  so  wele,  gyuen  J^am  alle  j^er  lyue, 

Ipci  wynnyng  ilk  a  dele,  J^at  J?ei  mot  reyme  &  gyue, 

Iloldand  in  warantie,  of  him  &  of  his  heyres, 

Chef  of  |iat  seignorie  to  J)am  &  to  J^eirs, 

For  soth  Wales  had  bien  wonne  at  jjat  dynt, 

&  Gascoyn  had  bien  seen  wonne  |)at  is  tynt. 

For  ]7e  pes  to  haue,  he  mad  so  long  a  trayne, 

Jje  knyghtes  mot  jjam  not  saue,  ]7at  were  in  Aquitayne. 

For  Charles  wan  Riouns,  ]?orgh  fio-Iit  had  he  ]>q  pris, 

&  fettred  J^e  Gascouns  led  |)am  to  Paris. 


'  Saa%yedoun  ad  saysie, 
cum  ses  heritez,  Se  fet  apel- 
lere  prence,  par  noun  de  pa- 
rentez,  Codd,  Gall.      *  Et  de 


youz  \yel  South}  Snawe- 
doun  en  Gales  est  entrez,  En 
Abreco'.iwaye  chastel  afier- 
mez,  MSii>  Gull. 

Saynt 


2^  Edwardm  Rea^: 

Saynt  Seuere  was  golden  jjorgb  force  in  couenant. 

Burdens  wild  ])e\  no  wolden,  had  Frankis  &  Normant. 

J?an  jede  ilk  a  Pikard,  scornand  &  makand  ryrae, 

Lorn  is  now  Edward,  Gascoyn  in  alle  his  fyme. 

f  ])e  Inglis  wend  haf  help  of  ])e  kyng  of  Aragonne, 

Of  Edward  had  ])d  mad  jelp,  &  his  broj^er  Ednioun, 

&  of  jje  erle  of  Lincoln,  j^ei  wend  ]7ei  suld  com  |?ider, 

Bot  alle  l^ei  were  forholn,  &  failed  Jora  alle  togider. 

To  while  our  Inglis  alle  wer  in  tribulacioun, 

t)e  Mad-        Wales  (wo  mot  it  fldle!)  ros  eft  borgh  tresoun. 

dok  &  ^  /  '     ^ 

MorgaK.         Bot  after  j^e  Task  tide  ]>e  kyng  so  on  J?am  ran, 

Maugre  alle  j)er  pride,  Snowdon  on  fiam  wan. 

SiJ?en  in  Angleseie  did  set  his  pauilloun, 

Romand  in  his  weie,  cried  pes  in  ilk  a  toun. 

Tille  alle  ]7at  pes  wild  haue,  pes  he  wille  gyue. 

&  lyue  &  lymme  suld  saue  Jjo,  \)ai  in  pes  wild  lyue. 

Bot  \e  erle  of  Gloucestre  so  had  him  misborn, 

Southwales,  jjat  was  his  estre,  j^orgh  Morgan  had  he  lorn. 

I  ne  wote  whi  it  was  bituex  him  &  Morgan, 

Ne  how  com  jjat  trespas,  J^at  Morgan  on  him  ran. 

Tille  Edward  our  kyng  wild  Morgan  not  be  gode, 

Bot  Maddok  mad  werryng,  &  cald  him  prince  of  blode. 

Was  taken  Jjorgh  consaile,  &  led  to  Londoun, 

Now  is  Maddok  wrojjerhaile  don  in  |7er  prisoun, 

jjorgh  Edward  long  tray  ne  Gascoyn  is  born  doun, 

Non  defendes  his  chayne,  bot  only  Bayoun. 

If  he  bi  tyme  had  gon  j^orh  help  of  bis  Gascons, 

J^cr  suld  haf  standen  non,  Philip  no  Charlons, 


He 


Edxssardus  Rex* 

He  siild  haf  wonnen  Saynt  Seuer  &  Rions, 
Tolouse  &  Tolousan,  Burdeus  with  his  soraons. 


365 


VV  ALES  wo !  Jje  be,  j^e  fende  \q  confound. 
Scotland  whi  ne  mot  I  se  be  sonken  to  Helle  ground  ? 
Was  neuer  in  jjam  both  terme  set  ne  stounde, 
Jjat  J?ei  discorded  wroth,  f»e  pes  tion  in  J?am  founde. 
In  Wales  said  beforn  alle  day  is  mischance, 
&  Gascoyn  now  is  lorn,  jjorgh  treson  of  France. 
What  did  Jon  Baliol,  J)at  Edward  did  auance, 
Bot  falsly,  as  a  fole,  bigan  a  disceyuance  ? 
Jjorgh  conseile  of  hise  he  sent  vnto  |7e  pape, 
&  controued  a  quaintise,  a  new  falsnes  did  schape, 
&  said  Scotlond  suld  be,  |?orgh  right  &  olde  setnesse, 
Holden  of  his  se,  &  of  non  els  ]7at  es, 
&  Edward  of  Inglond,  J^orgh  force  &  myght, 
In  his  homage  him  bond,  ageyn  his  wille  &  right. 
*'  We  ask  50 w  grace  of  |}is,  assoyle  him  of  j?at  othe, 
*'  ]7at  he  did  maugre  his,  to  wrong  was  him  lothe, 
**  Bot  he  mot  quitely  go  in  world  where  he  fore, 
*'  &  frely  passe  him  fro,  fro  whom  J?at  he  to  suore. 
'  jje  pape  Celestyn,  of  non  avisement, 
With  letter  bulled  fyn  assoyled  to  Scotlond  sent. 
Whan  j^is  bulle  was  brouht  home  bi  messengres, 
A  vileyine  ]?ami  Jjouht,  to  mak  jjam  duze  pers. 


De  Wallia 
&  Scocia, 
&  falsitat* 
eoriun. 


*  Le  pape   Celestine  trop  desauise  Assolt  le  Rey  descoce 
par  lettre  enbulle,  Gall. 

Desbe- 


266  Edwardus  Rex: 

Desherite  Edward  of  alle  his  seignorie, 

'  Of  Jon  Baliol  musard  suilk  was  his  curteysie. 

For  Edward  ffode  dede  >  .,      ,  , 

.      ,  >    a  wikked  bounte. 

}7e  Baliol  did  him  mede  5 

Turne  we  affeyn  to  rede         >       ,,,,,,     t  /v 

"  -^  J   a  Maddok  per  left  we. 

&  on  our  geste  to  spede         5 

JN  O  W  is  Morgan  golden,  &  Maddok  he  bendes, 

\)e  kyng  conien  to  London,  bi  consail  of  his  frendes. 

Tuo  Cardenalles  of  Rome  ])e  pape  hider  sent, 

To  Paris  bo|)e  ]>ei  come,  to  J^e  parlcment, 

Jiei  said  luf  to  make,  jje  pape  wild  entermet, 

}?at  non  ageyn  o]7er  take,  tille  tyme  jjat  he  had  set. 

Jjise  cardinals  so  bond  Edward  «&  Philip, 

NouJ?er  suld  werri  bi  lond,  no  in  water  bi  schip, 

Bot  hold  ]?am  stone  stille  in  pes  at  \>ex  cuntre, 

J)at  nouj^er  of  jjam  did  ille,  ])e  pape  wild  justisc  be. 

})ise  kynges  stille  \iq\  left  at  ])e  pape's  request, 

Jje  Normanz  com  now  eft,  &  mak  a  newe  gest. 

Kormanni    ./\.LS  pes  was  mad  of  partie  Jjorgh  cardinals  J^at  com  ouer, 
insnituin  lid  be  folk  of  Normuudie  aryued  vp  at  Doner, 


'  Pur  le  grant  honour,  qe  Edward  le  sene 
Fist  a  Jon  Baliol,  tel  est  la  bounte. 
DountleReys  Edward  j    Est  reguerdone.  * 

Du  Reys  Jon  musard  3 

Descoce  seyt  cum  poet  ^    La  gest  auaunt  parle,   MSS. 

Parfourmir  nous  estoet  3    Gol^' 

& 


1138391 


Edwardus  Rex,  267 

&  men  of  Caleis  camen  with  fiam  wele  I  wene, 

To  brenne  }?e  toun  alle  saraen,  &  slouh  men  Jrittene. 

\ie  wardejn  herd  it  telle  of  ]ie  castelle  biside, 

A  monke  of  a  Celle  bare  him  wele  jj^at  tide. 

|>ei  sette  so  wele  \iex  wardes,  &  stiflj  samen  stode, 

J)at  Norraanz  &  Pikardes  left  bo]?e  bede  bode. 

A  monke  jjer  was  I  wene,  he  slouh  tuenti, 

J?er  hedes  quyte  &  clene,  he  laid  j^am  bi  &  bi. 

A  monk  was  of  j?at  celle,  Jjei  slouh  him  danz  Thomas, 

A  saynt  he  men  telle,  with  Normanz  slayn  he  was. 

I  wene  fiat  Jiei  jede,  mykelle  not  \e\  wonnen, 

J)e  Frankis  Jjat  mot  spede,  to  schippes  fast  ronnen. 

After  alle  ]?is  fare,  J?e  cardinals  went  J^er  weie, 

What  ansuere  J^ei  bare,  }?e  sojje  can  I  not  say. 

No  Jje  les  of  fele  }?is  was  Jje  comon  sawe, 

jjcr  folk  alle  sulle  {?e  spele,  &  fro  werryng  |)am  drawe 

Edward  &  Philip,  &  late  ]>e  folk  ouer  wend 

&  passage  haf  in  schip,  to  londes  forto  lend. 

In  \ie  sufferance  of  pes,  tille  }?e  acorde  wer  ent, 

\e  Inglis  l^erto  ciies,  if  Almanz  wild  consent. 

X  O  while  Jjise  cardinals  trauaild  for  \>e  pes,  De  tradici- 

Here  of  a  wikhals  how  he  bigan  a  res.  Ciie.  ^^  ^ 

'  Thomas  Turbeuile  was  taken  at  Rions, 
At  Paris  he  duelte  a  while  in  hold  with  6\per  prisons. 


*  Thomas  de  Turbeuyle, 
qe  a  Riouns  fu  pris,  Ea 
taunt  ad  parle  al  prouosf  de 
Parys,  Ke   {yel  Qe]   fet  ad 


son  homage,  &  hostages  mys 
Les.  ii.  fiz  en  garde,  &  sure- 
ment  promys,  A!er  en  En- 
gleterre,  espyer  le  pays,   Et 


Vol.  II.  0  dire 


268  Edisardus  Rex, 

To  )>e  prouest  he  spak,  &  bed  him  his  homage^ 

His  oth  jjat  he  ne  brak,  he  left  in  his  ostage 

&  hise  childre  tuo,  &  suore  him  his  leaute, 

Tille  Inglond  suld  he  go,  to  spie  ilk  a  cuntre, 

Tille  \ie  kyng  suld  he  say,  |7at  he  of  prison  fled, 

He  wist  non  sifcerer  way,  fot  socotir  tille  him  sped. 

fe  prouest  als  tite  to  Thomas  Jjerfdr  him  bond, 

&  granted  him  with  scrite  tuo  hundreth  pounde  of  lond, 

&  Thomas  trouht  him  plight,  &  suore  on  J7e  messe, 

Of  Inglond  alle  J7e  right,  &  Wales  more  &  lesse, 

&  of  Scotlond  alle  Jje  men,  fat  were  of  pris, 

Suld  enclyn  &  falle  to  Philip  fitz  Lowys. 

Now  gos  Jjis  Thomas,  his  treson  to  purchace, 

Bot '  how  Edward  was  warned  |)orgh  •  Code's. 

Thomas  tille  Inglond  com  to  kyng  &  said, 

Bi  nyght  he  skapid  of  bond  of  prison  J^er  he  was  laid^ 

For  his  luf  to  haue,  suilk  perille  on  him  drouh, 

&  J?at  he  vouched  saue  for  his  luf  wele  inouh. 

)?e  kyng  tille  him  J^erfore  did  grete  curteysie, 

Wynnyng  for  his  lore  he  gaf  him  largelie, 

JN  OW  gos  Turbeuile,  &  serchis  day  bi  day^ 
To  do  f>e  kyng  a  gile,  how  &  whan  he  may. 
He  serchis  alle  J)e  coste,  where  were  best  comyng, 
To  bring  in  Frankis  oste,  forto  tak  our  kyng. 


dire  al  Reis  Edward,  qil 
•veent  futyfs,  Eschape  de  pri- 
Mun    par    my    ses    enemys, 


MSS.  Gall. 

'  Id  est  J  lo !  how.    *  Jdde, 
grace. 

Whan 


Edtssardus  Hex,  269 

Whan  be  had  serched  alle,  &  knew  ilk  a  coste, 
His  man  with  f>e  cardinalle  he  sent  to  ]>e  prouoste. 
jfe  prouest  mad  grete  joye  for  jjat  ilk  sond. 
It  turnes  hot  tille  ])e  bo|?ej  if  Code's  grace  may  stond. 
\)e  clerke  jjat  wrote  ])e  lettere  to  Thomas  Tarbeuile, 
He  Jjouht  forto  do  bettere,  j^an  kyng  Edward  to  gile, 
Tille  oiTJjat  was  priue  ])e  kynge's  conseiloure, 
J)e  clerk  lete  him  alle  se  jje  dede  of  ]7at  traytoure. 
Whan  Thomas  was  perceyued,  his  lettres  wer  away, 
jje  kynge's  courte  he  weyned,  for  he  dred  to  deie. 
A  seruant  jjer  was,  \)a.t  wist  whan  Thomas  fled, 
Fulle  sone  after  Thomas  better  pas  he  sped. 
Opon  ])e  jjrid  day,  at  a  toun  haraelet, 
Thomas  was  his  pray,  as  he  to  mete  was  set. 

JN  OW  Thomas  taken  esj  &  to  London  brouht : 
Grete  was  J^e  wikkednes,  ])at  T.  had  wrouht. 
To  |?e  justise  he  said,  he  wild  speke  with  ]>e  kyng, 
Of  his  traytours  neid,  to  warn  him  of  a  Jjing. 
T.  Jjerfor  was  don  to  prison  eft  ageyn, 
To  ])e  kyng  als  son  |?e  sent  bode  certeyn. 
At  Malmesbirie  j^e  kyng  with  his  moder  was. 
Whan  him  com  tiyng  of  Turbuile  Thomas. 
He  teld  ])e  kyng  ilk  dele,  Thomas  wild  speke  with  him, 
&  warn  him  he  suld  wele,  whilk  wer  his  traytours  grym.    consilium 
f  His  moder  Helianore  abated  ]>er  grete  bale.  ^iJ'"*  ^^ 

"  Sonne,"  said  scho,  "  neuer  more  trowe  ^e  traytours  tale, 
'^  Suilk  traytours  als  he  for  hate  wille  mak  a  lie, 
"  jjorgh  Jjc  whilk  mot  be  vengeance  &  felonie. 

D  2  'f  Sanne, 


270  Edwardus  Rex, 

"  Sonne,  on  my  blissyng,  trowe  ^ou  not  his  sawe, 

"  Bot  late  him  haf  endyng,  als  a  traytour  ]?orgh  lawe. 

f  \>e  kyng  wrote  bis  lettere  agayn  to  jje  Justise, 
J)at  he  wist  non  bettere,  bot  do  liim  to  Jiiwise, 
For  alle  J?at  he  has  said  he  don  vnder  fote 
Tille  |)is  werld  be,  it  it  jit  no  tyine  to  mote. 

f  Now  j)e  Turbeuile  has  his  jugement, 
Drawen  is  a  while  on  London  pauiment, 
&  si]?en  was  he  hanged  as  thef  for  treson, 
Faire  grace  Edward  fanged  in  his  tribulacion. 


IN  OW  is  Yis  wlkhals  dede  |'orgh  vengeance, 
&  jje  Cardinals  gon  er  in  to  France. 
Oft  for  jje  pes  with  Philip  mad  bergayn, 
Unto  I'at  conseil  ches  fje  kyng  of  Almayn, 
Cierkis  bituex  ))am  sent  hidir  to  Edward, 
What  jjer  conseil  ment,  J?e  distance  so  hard. 
\>e  wraih  was  so  grete  bituex  j^ise  kynges  tuo, 
Unnethis  acorde  j^ei  schete,  bot  fjus  with  mykelle  wo. 
?  To  Kaunbray  suld  J^ei  send  men  J^at  were  of  Gode, 
J^at  Jjer  greuance  kend,  ])e  distance  vnderstode. 
Cierkis  &  lewed  men  suld  deme  at  Kaunbray, 
&  trie  J)e  soth  &  ken,  in  whom  jje  wrong  lay : 
To  what  manere  of  pes  J?e  parties  wille  descend, 
&  who  ])c  wrong  first  ches,  j^at  partie  suld  amend. 
To  ]<o  ilk  resons  jje  luglis  wer  assent, 
Bisshopes  &  barons  were  gode  of  ]>o  Jjat  went. 


To 


Edwardus  Rex, 

X  O  while  our  men  were  out,  for  to  mak  \q  pes, 
Men  of  armes  stout  \ie  kyng  to  Gascoyn  cbcs. 
Sir  Edmound  his  bro]jer  J-^e  first  was  redy, 
'  Of  Lyncoln  \q  erle  a  nojjer,  Sir  Henry  \e  Lacy, 
Sir  William  \)e  Vescy  wys  man  &  bold  baroun, 
&  o])er  lordes  worjji,  J^at  were  of  gode  renoun. 
Sex  &  tuenty  baners  of  Inglond  alder  best, 
Of  armes  })at  knewe  Jje  maners,  to  werre  were  alle  prest, 
If  In  Inglond  were  left  als  doubty  as  \)o, 

Of  Jjam  Jje  kyng  toke  eft,  to  Scotlond  wild  he  go, 
]?e  Scottis  *  kyns  withsaid,  he  auht  him  non  homage, 
Now  jjenkes  he  mak  a  braid,  for  j^at  grete  outrage. 
Of  Marche  ]?e  first  day  at  ]>e  New  castelle 
Our  kyng  l^er  he  lay,  his  purueiance  so  fel, 
To  Scotlond  for  to  go,  to  wite  whi  «&  what  wise, 
Jjer  kyng  &  ojjer  mo  withsaid  him  his  seruise. 
A  ]70usand  &  tuo  hundred,  fourscore  &  sexten, 
On  Jje  Scottes  has  many  wondred,  J^at  blgan  his  tene. 


371 


Milicia 
versus  A- 
quitaniam. 


Anno  M* 
cc.  xc*. 
*  1111°. 


biR  Roberd  Roos  of  Werk  with  ]>&  Scottis  fled, 
He  set  so  ille  his  merk,  ))at  neuer  eft  he  ne  sped. 
fe  kyng  his  castelle  sesis,  &  held  j^er  his  Pask  day. 
Him  &  his  Jjer  esis,  &  alle  |?at  feste  |7er  lay. 
|)e  Scottis  did  first  mys,  f>ei  wakend  alle  |?at  wouh, 
Tuo  schippis  of  our  Inglis,  ])e  folk  Jjer  in  J^ei  slouh. 
Sir  Edward  herd  it  telle,  &  dight  him  to  Berwik, 
No  stounde  wille  he  duelle,  bot  seged  it  also  quik. 

'  Le  Counte  de  Nichole, 
oue  tote  [pel  of  tut]  son  me- 
nage,  Sire  William  de  Vescy, 


chiualer  pruz   &  sage,   MSS. 
Gall.     *  Sic^  pro  kyng.  '  Sic, 


De  capci- 
one  Berwik 
per  totum 
dieVeneris, 


D   3 


What 


273  Edwardus  Rex. 

What  did  fan  Sir  Edward  ?  pere  he  had  non  like, 

Opon  his  stede  bayard  first  he  wan  ]>e  dike. 

In  Pask  weke  it  was,  \iq  Friday  J^ei  it  wan, 

In  ])e  non  tyme  felle  fiis  cas,  fiat  slayti  was  ilk  a  man, 

}»at  were  in  Berwik  *  fourti  ]70usand  &  mo, 

Was  non  of  }7am  left  quik,  bot  alle  to  dede  jede  JJO. 

Of  ])e  Inglis  sanz  faile  bot  o  knyght  dede  I  wote, 

Sir  Richard  of  Cornwaile,  a  Flemmyng  him  smote. 

Right  out  of  l^e  rede  haule  schot  was  a  quarelle, 

Fire  jjei  fest  onii  alle,  &  brent  it  ]?at  it  felle. 

J7e  wardeyn  of  \e  castelle  sauh  Jjer  chance  fulle  hard, 

Untille  mercy  he  felle,  &  ^alde  him  tille  Edward. 

William  of  Duglas  jalde  him  also  tite. 

Symon  Freselle  jjer  was,  he  wild  haf  don  dispile. 

He  wend  haf  had  fulle  light,  Edward  at  his  wille, 

Bot,  J>anked  be  God  alle  myght,  his  prisoun  leues  he  stille 

Jje  erle  of  \q  Marche  Patrik,  lord  of  next  cuntre, 

He  did  no  maner  wik,  jje  kyng  gaf  him  his  gre. 

Sir  Gilberd  Umfrey vile  wholom  was  with  ]7e  kyng. 

Sir  Robert  Brus  J?at  while  ageyn  him  did  no  |?ing. 

(jfolde  &  sillier  \q\  fonde,  &  ojjer  raetalle  plente. 

Now  has  J?e  Baliol  a  stounde  lorn  issu  &  entre, 

&  on  ]>e  fairest  toun,  ]?at  was  in  his  pouste, 

Of  ricchesse  it  had  renoun,  J^at  felle  to  a  cite. 

Now  is  Berwik  born  doun,  abaist  is  j^at  cuntre, 

Jon  gete  j^i  coroun,  |7ou  losis  J?i  dignite. 

Now  dos  Edward  dike  Berwik  brode  &  long, 

Als  jjei  bad  him  pike,  &  scorned  him  in  ]7er  song. 

'  '7V«  only  four  thousand,  actor  ding  to  the  French  Copies. 

Pikit 


Edwardus  Rex.  ^'^3 

Pikit  him,  &  dikit  him,  on  scorne  said  he,  Cpuwe. 

He  pikes  &  dikes  in  length,  as  him  likes,  how  best  it  may  be, 
&  Jjou  has  for  ]?i  pikyng,  mykille  illelikyng,  jjesoj^e  is  to  se, 
Without  any  lesyng,  alle  is  }?i  he]?ing,  fallen  opon  J^e. 
For  scatred  er  J>i  Scottis,  &  hodred  in  ]7er  hottes,  neuer  Jjei 

ne  tlie. 
Right  als  I  rede,  J)ei  tombled  in  Tiiede,  fat  woned  bi  J^e  se. 

Now  is  fldward  left  Berwik  forto  dike,  Fecit  fossM 

^  '  circa  Ber- 

jjc  Scottis  er  risen  eft,  Inglond  to  bisuike.  ^'^^' 

jje  gadjred  jjam  an  oste,  fourti  jjousand  &  mo, 
})at  com  bi  an  ojjer  coste,  ]?e  Inglis  forto  slOf 
fiise  were  hede  &  meste,  \aX  led  ]?at  meyne, 
Rosse  8z  Meneteste,  Assetelle  Jjise  erles  Jrp. 
Corbrigge  is  a  touij,  ]?e  brent  it  whan  j^ei  cam, 
Tuo  hous  of  religioun,  '  Leynertofte  &  Hexham. 
Jiei  chaced  }?e  chanons  out,  J)er  godes  bare  away, 
&  robbed  alle  about,  ]>&  bestis  tok  to  pray. 
Whan  J)ei  had  slayn  &  brent,  robbed  toun  &  feld, 
To  Dunbar  alle  \e\  went,  als  j^er  ynhap  wild, 
\)Q  *  castelle  sone  j^ei  toke,  &  ]?er  ]?ar  pauilloun 
\>e  erle  Patrik  men  schoke,  it  was  his  owen  donjoun, 
Edward  herd  it  say,  fiat  Dunbar  w£is  so  taken. 
His  folk  was  sone  on  away,  with  sege  to  hold  J?ain  waken. 
5  In  alle  bis  ilk  goyng  so  com  be  Cardinalle  Pe  Car- 

dinali. 

Fro  Kaunbray  to  J)e  kyng  with  ansuere  of  alle, 


'  They  commonly  call  it, 
Lanercost.  *  Le  chastel  ount 
pris,      estendeut     pauyllouns 


Al  count  de  la  Marche,  estoy- 
ent  les  mesouns,  MSS.  Gall. 

D  4  & 


274 


Edwardus  Rex* 


De  combu- 
stione  Hex- 
ham &  La- 
nertoft  per 
Scottos. 


Dp  religa- 
cione  Scot- 
torum  apud 
Dunbare. 


&  fro  jje  kyng  of  France  here  after  salle  ge  here, 
})ise  men  raette  him  o  chance,  &  com  with  him  in  fere. 
Sir  Amys  of  Saueye,  an  erle  of  grete  renoun, 
An  ojjer  com  in  his  weye,  Sir  Otes  de  Grauntsoun, 
]7ise  fro  Cipres  cam,  &  tille  our  kyng  j^am  sped, 
Whan  Jje  Sarazins  Acres  nam,  passand  away  j^ei  fled. 
How  of  l^ise  ilk  traytours,  J^at  holy  kirke  had  schent, 
Felle  misauentours,  or  \ei  fro  Dunbard  went. 
In  \ie  raoneth  of  May  at  Berwik  was  Edward, 
\>e:  first  Tuesday  com  him  ti]?inges  hard, 
jjat  ])e  erics  of  Scotlond  had  reysed  baner  oloft, 
&  brent  «&  slayri  with  hond  Exham  &  Lanertoft, 
&  Dunbar  had  ]7ei  seised,  |7at  standes  on  \)e  se. 
J?e  erle  Patrik  was  fesed,  J^at  tyme  \>et  in  was  he. 
Edward  also  quik  sent  J^e  erle  of  Warenne, 
&  J?e  erle  of  Warwik,  an  oste  did  J)ara  bikenne. 
A  douhty  erle  in  stours.  Sir  Hugh  Despensere, 
Barons  &  vavasours,  knyghtes  &  squiere, 
&  fote  folk  inowe,  \^i  wele  couth  of  barete, 
To  Dunbar  J^ei  j^am  drowe,  \>e  sege  J^er  to  sette, 
J^ei  tirede  J^am  to  kest  smertly  to  J^e  assaute, 
|7er  to  Jjei  were  alle  prest,  in  }»am  was  no  defaute. 
\e  Scottis  J?at  were  with  inne,  \e  hoped  of  socoure, 
\g  Baliol  suld  j^am  wynne  out  of  J)at  soioure. 
1  \ic  Scottis  now  ]>e\  j^enk  of  gile  &  quaintise, 
How  J?ei  mot  do  a  blenk  tille  Edward  &  hise. ' 
A  knyght  was  ]?am  among,  Sir  Richard  Seward, 
Tille  our  faith  was  he  long,  &  wilh  kyng  Edward. 


Till. 


Edwardus  Rex. 


%lb 


*  TiUe  our  men  he  com  tite,  &  said,  "  \t  Scottis  wilde 
"  Jjre  dayes  haf  respite,  &  ]?an  \e  eastelie  jelde* 
"  To  jje  Baliol  suld  jjei  send,  jjer  eastelie  to  rescue, 
"  Bi  J?at  bot  he  vs  mend  with  for  30W  to  reraue, 
"  Jje  eastelie  je  salle  haue,  without  any  delay. 
Ostegers  je  to  haue  our  Inglis  toke  |?at  day, 
A  messengere  J^ei  sent,  to  telle  alle  jje  ^  maners. 
To  Jje  Scottis  he  went,  &  said  as  je  may  here, 
f  He  com  to  Baliol  Jon,  &  tille  alle  Jje  oste, 
Bifor  J^am  euer  ilkon,  he  spak  j^ise  wordes  boste, 
Right  as  Sir  Richard  tauht  him  forto  say. 
*^  \ii  men  er  biseged  hard  in  Dunbar  with  grete  aye, 
"  Whan  }jei  fro  Ingland  cam,  Dunbar  jje  toke  tille  hold, 
"  To  Berwik  ti]?ing  nam,  &  tille  Sir  Edward  told. 
*'  Edward  Jjider  sent  folk  a  grete  partie, 
*^  Doun  Sir  Richard  went,  &  spak  to  Jjam  lufly, 
*'  Many  of  Jjam  he  knewe,  so  fair  spak  &  so  suete. 
**  For  ]7re  days  trewe  \>e  Inglis  him  hete. 
**  Whan  our  company  wist  of  trewe  certeyn, 
*'  Tille  50W  }jei  bad  me  hie,  ilka  knyght  &  sueyn, 
**  fis  bod  word  to  telle,  vn  to  jje  treus  is  bote, 
**  I?at  je  ne  rest  ne  duelle,  for  jit  no  man  wote. 


Nuncius 
venit  ad 
Regem 
Scottorum. 


*  Cil  les  Tint  &  dist,  qe 
mult  treuolenter  Les  fra  le 
chastel  rendre,  si  il  Toillent 
graunter  Treis  lours  de  re- 
spit,  qil  [yel  ke  11]  pussent 
conseyller  Luy  Reis  de  Baliol 
k  lour  estat  maunder.  Et  si 
eel  houre  ne  yeygne  le  sege 


remuer,  Le  chastel  rendrount 
saunz  plus  par  la  targer. 
Hostage  par  taunt  1  mette, 
&  fet  nouncier  Al  hoste  des 
Escotz  en  meme  la  maner, 
Com  vous  orrez  apres,  le 
fet  recorder,  MSS.  Gall.  *F. 
manere. 

"To 


ni6 


Edwardus  Rex, 


Couwe. 


De  multi- 

tudineScot- 

torum  ad 

bellum 

prseparan- 

ciiim,  &  de 

ruina 

eoiumapud 

Duubar. 


**  To  morn  in  J^e  none  tide,  whan  jjei  ere  at  Jje  mete,, 
*'  }?icler  je  alle  salle  ride,  a  faire  pray  salle  je  gQie. 
**  Whan  jjei  of  \>q  castelle  se,  J^at  je  com  so  stoute, 
*'  f)at  ere  of  wille  fuUe  fre,  to  issue  on  }7am  oute. 
*'  ]7e  Inglis  wille  not  wene,  |7at  je  be  comand  now, 
**  Of  ])o  je  salle  mak  clene,  lap  fiam  bituex  50W, 
**  Jjat  jjei  neuer  eft  rise,  to  do  50W  more  trauaile, 
^'  I  knowe  non  ojjerwise,  what  way  may  50W  auale. 
"  Armes  now  jow  alle,  jjat  non  him  withdrawe. 
"  How  it  may  best  falle,  I  haf  50 w  said  jje  sawe. 
S  "  Whan  je  haf  })e  pris  of  jour  enmys,  non  salle  je  saue, 
"  Srayte  with  suerd  in  hand,  alle  Northumberland  with 

right  salle  je  haue, 
**  &  Inglond  jit  alle,  for  werre  salle  be  tint  for  I?is  drede. 
"  Scotte  neuer  bigan  vnto  Inglis  man  to  do  so  douhty  dede, 
*'  ]7er  on  j^at  grene,  })at  kynrede  keue,  gadred  als  \e  gayte, 
**  Right,  als  I  wenCj  on  som  was  it  sene,  J?er  j^e  bit  bayte. 

J^  OR  Jjis  manne's  sawe,  }?e  route  of  rascaile, 

Tille  armes  gan  drawe,  &  dight  J^am  to  bat^iile, 

Richard  })at  first  gaf  rede  to  Jjat  consaile, 

He  sauh  )?ara  rif  &  raf  comand  ilka  taile. 

Also  suifje  he  jede  doun  to  ])e  Inglis  men, 

"  I  se  an  oste  to  spede  comand  bi  batailes  ten, 

"  &  jit  me  Y\nk  j^er  mo,  j)at  er  neghand  nehi. 

**  If  je  wille  I  wille  go,  &  do  jjam  hold  o  drehi. 

*'  Nay,"  said  \e  Inglis  men,  "  we  trost  not  on  Jji  tunge, 

*'  \q  castelle  we  salle  biken  Sir  Umfrey  Bonn  \)q  jonje. 


l^at 


Edwardus  Rex.  ^77 

^*  ]?at  non  salle  passe  out,  noujjer  \e  ne  |)ou. 
}7e  Inglis  armed  stout  toward  f'e  Scottis  drouli, 
J^er  stedes  broched  Jjei  fast,  Jiat  myght  formast  he  jede. 
Jje  Baliol  was  agast,  for  he  stode  tille  no  dede, 
For  sojje  at  Jje  first,  in  poudre  as  dos  Jje  chaf, 
Fleand  fast  Jjei  Jurist,  &  fled  bo]?e  rif  &  raf . 
Was  neuer  non  of  J^am,  jjat  bode  wik  no  gode, 
Bot  Sir  Patrik  Graham  a  while  to  bataile  stode. 
He  was  a  man  douhty,  bot  slayn  he  was  fulle  sone, 
Ten  Jjousand  &  fjfti  &  four  ]>qx  were  so  done. 
Was  neuer  in  no  bataile  so  mykelle  folk  misferd. 
With  so  litelle  trauaile,  J?at  man  sauh  ne  of  herd. 
5  J?e  Scottis  had  no  grace,  to  spede  in  J?er  space,  for  to  mend  Couwe.; 
I^er  nisse, 
}jei  filed  ^ex  face,  |?at  died  in  ]7at  place,  J?e  Inglis  ryraed  Jjis. 
*'  Oure  fote  folk  put  j^am  in  jje  polk,  &  nakned  J^er  nages, 
**  Bi  no  way  herd  I  neuer  say  of  prester  pages, 
•*  Purses  to  pike,  robis  to  rike,  &  in  dike  j^ara  schonne, 
.**  jjou  wiffin  Scotte  of  Abrethin,  kotte  is  J?i  honne. 

hmSE  erles  Jjat  I  of  red,  \a.i  in  jje  castelle  were, 
Sauh  f»er  folk  not  sped,  bot  slayn  alle  J»er  here.  De  ruina 

Whan  our  men  out  caraen  to  \o  J)at  left  jjer  stille, 
jjei  com  out  alle  samen,  &  jald  Jjam  tille  our  wille. 
Opon  j?e  tojjer  dai  Edward  ]7ider  cam, 
J7e  prisons  of  })er  pray  alle  |?at  euer  ]7ei  nam, 
Were  brouht  him  bifore,  |7re  erles  jjre  barons, 
&  mo  be  fine  score  kynghtes  &  lordes  of  touns, 

'  L,  thise. 


Scottorum. 


278  Edwardus  Rex, 

}?ise  wer  in  his  wardes,  &  auht  &  tuenti  mo, 
Tuo  clerkes  tuo  Pikardes  jit  were  among  \>o. 
I  To  \)Q  toure  of  London  Jje  |)re  erles  were  sent, 
&  Jje  barons  bondon  also  jjider  went. 
Tille  oj^er  castels  about  jjei  sent  tueye  &  tueye 
In  anens  for  doute,  ilk  on  on  his  hakneye. 
In  kartes  ojjer  were  sent  with  anens  on  |?er  fete, 
J)us  in  sorow  it  ent,  J^er  gamen  turned  to  grete. 
|jorgh  out  Inglond  men  said  of  jjam  schame, 
&  Jjer  J7ei  were  in  bond  men  scorned  Jjam  bi  name. 
Couwc.      f  J^e  Scottis  '  I  telle  for  soltis,  &  wrecchis  vnwar, 
Unsele  dyntis  to  dele  |7am  drouh  to  Dnnbar. 

JM  OW  is  tyme  to  telle  of  \)q  duze  pers, 
J>at  in  Scotlond  duelle,  wiUe  mak  j^er  parti  fers. 
jit  held  \)e  kyng  of  France  Gascoyn  with  outrage. 
For  Jjat  mischance  of  Blanche  mariage. 
For  j?at  abatement  he  chalenges  it  f>orgh  right, 
Edward  ]?idir  had  sent  many  a  hardy  knyght, 
})at  while  l^ei  were  werand  in  Gascoyn  euer  ilkon, 
De  cieio        ]>e  clcrgi  of  Scotland  egged  ber  kyng  Jon. 

Scociae. 

His  barons  did  also  for  \)q  comon  prow, 

To  France  suld  he  go  J)e  bisshop  of  S.  Andrew, 

J^er  nedes  forto  mone,  to  procure  an  aliance 

Of  \)e  Baliol  sonne,  &  Charles  douhfer  of  France. 

&  if  it  myght,  })at  weys  he  brouht  to  certeynte, 

Jie  Scoltis  &  Franceys  togider  suorn  suld  be, 

'  See  my  Glossary  to  Robert  of  Gloucester'' s  Chronicle,  p.  737. 

In- 


Edwardus  Rex.  ^79 

Inglond  to  destroye  fro  Tuede  vnto  Kent. 
|je  Frankis  withouten  noye  hauen  mot  fjei  hent 
In  Tuede  at  jjer  wille,  wan  ]>ei  wild  com  or  go, 
Northumberland  to  spille,  J^e  folk  to  robbe  &  slo. 
Right  sone  afterward  ]>e  stiward  of  Scotland 
Com  to  kyng  Edward,  &  brouht  vntille  his  hand, 
Erles  &  barons,  bisshopes  plenerly, 
Knyghtes,  lordes  of  tounes,  &alle  com  to  his  crie. 
Kyng  Jon  &  his  sonne  withouten  lond  or  rent 
Er  now  led  to  London,  to  bide  Jjer  jugement. 
Now  is  Scotland  hole  at  our  kynge's  wille, 
&  Jon  ])e  Baliol  at  London  leues  stille. 
Right  as  Merlyn  spak  had  Edward  j^e  kyng 
Scotlond,  als  Albanack  had  at  ]>e  gynnyng.  Couwe. 

f  ])e  Walsh  &  jje  Irish,  tille  our  men  Inglysh,  halp  douhtily, 
[)at  we  J?e  Scottis  had,  &  to  prison  lad,  &  com  tille  our  crie. 
Now  es  alle  ent,  &  home  ere  Jjei  went,  j^e  Iris  &  Wals, 
God  gyue  at  ]7e  parlemenl,  ]?e  Scottis  be  alle  schent,  & 

hanged  bi  ])e  hals. 
Edward  now  jjenk,  J^ei  did  J^e  a  blenk,  brent  Hexham. 
|je  croice  &  ]>e  rode,  brent  jjer  it  stode,  or  ])ei  jjien  nam. 
Now  has  J70U  myght,  gyf  J?i  dome  right,  }?er  dede  is  wele  sene. 
Els  wille  jjei  eft,  on  ])o  ])sxt  er  left,  bigynne  newe  tene. 
Men  may  merci  haue,  traytour  not  to  saue,  for  luf  ne  for 

awe, 
Atteynt  of  traytorie,  suld  haf  no  raercie,  wij?  no  maner  lawe. 
Jon  \>e  Baliol,  no  witte  was  in  {)i  pol,  whan  |7ou  folic 

]7ouhtis. 
To  leue  ]>e  right  scole,  fiou  did  als  a  fole,  &  after  wrong 

wrouhtis. 

For 


Edvsardus  Uex, 

For  boiite  bred  in  '  his,  whan  he  tynt  fat  he  toke,  alle  his 

kyngdome, 
For  he  has  ouerhipped,  his  tippet  is  tipped,  his  tabard  is 

tome. 


plumt 


Hii  stmt 
custodes 
Scociae. 


Jr  RIUE  pride  in  pes  es  hettilJe  in  terbere*, 

Jje  rose  is  myghtles,  I^er  nettille  spredis  ouer  fefj 

|7e  Baliol  so  ferd  with  f>e  du2e  pers, 

His  reame,  as  je  herd,  he  lost  jjorgh  conseilerS. 

First  he  was  a  kyng,  now  is  he  *  soudioure, 

&  is  at  ojjer  spendyng  bonden  in  ]?e  toure. 

Edward  now  he  wille,  ]7at  Scotlond  be  wele  gemed,- 

&  streitly  in  skille  |?orgh  wise  men  demed, 

Jjat  non  slo  ne  brenne,  ne  eft  ageyn  him  rise. 

Sir  Jon  of  Warenne  he  is  chef  jwstise, 

Sir  Henry  Percy  kepes  Galweye, 

jjise  tuo  had  baly  of  j?is  londes  tueytf. 

To  Berwik  cam  \e  kynge  eschekere, 

3  Sir  Hugh  ♦of  of  Cressyngham  he  was  ctancelere, 

Walter  of  Admundesham  he  was  Tresorere. 

For  justise  with  him  nam,  to  mak  j^e  la  we  clere. 


'  Lege^  ad  Jidem  Codicum 
Gallicorum,  his  boke,  whan. 
*Soiorner,  vel  soiourner,  in 
Codd.  Gall.  JEt  Hug  de 
Cressyngham  iloqes  est  Tre- 
sorer,  Et  luy  Amundesham 
Walter  est  chaunceler.  Ly 
Reis  pur  pees  norir  baunk 
i  fist  [yel  ifet]  cryer,  Et  ju- 


stices. V.  la  ley  a  gouern^r. 
Vescountz  &  bayliffs  sunt 
mys  a  ly  mester.  Des  En- 
glays  qi  seuent  &  volent  dreit 
iuger  La  garde  est  establye, 
si  bon  e  [yel  et]  si  enteer, 
Qe  Flemyng  ne  Fraunceys 
des  ore  auera  poer,  &c. 
MSS.Gall,    *Sic. 

Forto 


Edwardus  Rex.  281 

Forto  norise  pes,  his  benk  he  did  Jjer  crie. 

Shireues,  balifes  he  ches,  jjat  office  cou]7e  guye. 

Of  Inglis  men  trewe,  J?at  lufed  alle  Jje  right, 

He  mad  wardeyns  newe,  &  gaf  }?am  alle  his  myght^ 

fat  Frankis  no  Flemmyng  power  suld  non  haue, 

Bot  forto  selle  ]jer  j^ing,  merchandise  to  saue. 

\dX  to  J7e  pes  jjam  toke,  &  com  vnto  his  mercy, 

He  did  Jjara  suere  on  J>e  boke,  to  com  vnto  his  crie. 

Homage  &  feaute  mad  him  with  Jjer  hand, 

At  his  wille  to  be,  bi  se  &  bi  land. 

\o  Jiat  ]7e  werre  bigan,  &  kid  it  so  couth, 

Were  taken  ilk  a  man,  &  sent  in  to  ]?e  South. 
1  Oure  men  ere  in  Gascoyn,  to  werre  on  Jter  enmys. 

J)e  gode  bisshop  Antoyn  jjer  he  bare  J?e  pris. 

His  dedes  ere  to  alowe,  for  his  hardynesse. 

He  did  many  on  bo  we  in  ]7at  lond  J^orgh  stresse, 

His  boldhede  did  j^am  wynne,  &  com  vnto  his  crie. 

Were  it  now  to  gynne,  we  wan  it  not  lightly. 
f  ]7ise  duze  pers  com  to  jje  freres,  |?am  for  to  schriue,  Couw« 

Jje  jugement  ageyn  ]?am  went,  to  schorte  j^er  line. 

*  Cambinhoy  beres  him  coy,  bat  fende's  whelp,  De  Cam- 

binhoy. 

J7er  with  craft  he  has  Jjam  raft,  it  may  not  help. 
\q  Trulle  \e  drenge  on  se,  {jei  lenge  Jje  fendes  tueye, 
Jje  hold  J)am  fer,  &  dar  no  ner,  })an  Orkeneye. 
Andrew  is  wroth,  J^e  wax  him  loth,  for  Jjer  pride. 
He  is  {jam  fro,  now  salle  J)ei  go,  schame  to  betide. 


'  Kambyn  hoye  se  teent 
tut  coye,  ne  Tolt  eyder.  La 
sorcerye  de  Albanye  ne  put 


valer.     Andreu  se  dort,    Sfc. 
MSS.  Gall. 


Edwardus  Rex, 

J)ou  scabbed  Scotte,  \i  nek  Jji  hotte,  J7e  deuelle  it  breke, 
It  salle  be  hard  to  here  Edward,  ageyn  ])e  speke. 
He  salle  ])e  ken,  our  lond  to  bren,  &  werre  bigynne, 
J7ou  getes  no  J'hig,  but  ]ji  riuelyng,  to  hang  jjer  inne. 
\)e  sete  of  |7e  Scone  is  driuen  ouer  Done,  to  London  led, 
A  hard  wele  telle,  ]?at  bagelle  &  belle  be  filchid  &  fled. 

J^  OW  tels  Pers,  on  his  raaners,  a  grete  selcouth, 
He  takis  witnes,  J^at  it  soth  es,  of  Merlyn  mouth. 
A  wondere  were,  tuo  watres  \iex  er  togidir  gon, 


De  unione 
Scociae  & 

Angiiae,     ^  ^^Q  kynsjdames,  with  tuo  names,  now  er  on. 

secundum  ^    o  ^  j 

'^&*B^d'"  J^e  ildes  aboute  alle  salle  loute  vnto  ^at  lond, 
lingtone.     Qf  whllk  Edward  is  justise  hard,  ]7at  so  Jjan  bond. 

He  sais  he  has  wonen,  &  Jjorgh  ronnen,  many  landes. 

Alle  salle  ]?ei  loute  tille  him  for  doute,  &  dede  of  handes. 

He  sais  Scotland  is  in  his  hand  for  now  &  ay, 

At  myn  inwitte  it  is  not  jit  alle  at  our  fay. 

He  sais,  Merlyn,  in  his  deuyn,  of  him  has  said, 

]7at  ]7re  regions,  in  his  bandons,  salle  be  laid, 

Scotland  &  Wales,  \he  er  his  tales,  J?is  lond  al  on 

Was  Brutus  wayn,  &  cald  Bretayn,  first  Albion, 

I  calle  ]:'erto,  it  is  no  so,  jjei  er  o  sundere. 

f»at  he  has  spoken,  it  is  now  broken,  with  mykelle  wondere. 

A  prophecie  sais  he  salle  die,  &  whan  he  is  ouere, 

After  )7at  day  Scotlond  may  haf  gode  recouere. 

ge  haf  wele  herd,  \e  Brus  Roberd  was  Scottis  kyng, 

Wele  tuenti  gere  in  gode  powere  mayntend  jjat  J7ing, 

Als  he  it  left  jit  wille  jjei  eft  rise  fulle  austere. 

It  is  not  alle  brouht  to  stalle  for  no  powere, 


L.  de.  jjat 


Edwardus  Rex,  283 

\)Qi  Pers  said,  me  |?ink  it  is  laid,  |7e  pes  so  trewe, 
Now  ilk  ^ere,  bi  tymes  sere,  Jjei  gynne  alle  newe. 
Jhesu  so  raeke,  I  ])q  biseke,  oq  croice  })at  was  wonded, 
Grante  me  |jat  bone,  \>q  Scottes  sone  alle  be  confonded. 

xxTTE  Seynt  Edmond  toun  ]?e  Parlement  was  sette,  De  pariia- 

n-     1  n    1  1        1        •       11     1  mentoapud 

iJissnop  &  baroun,  pc  clergie  alle  per  mette.  Sanctum 

jje  baronage  holy  j^er  \>zi  gan  alle  samen,  dum, 

\)Q  kyng  alle  }?e  clergie  praied  |7am  bi  name. 

If  jjei  wild  at  J)er  myght  help  him  bi  j^at  weye, 

Als  J7ei  bifore  hight  in  Westmynster  abbeye. 

*'  Of  help  I  haf  grete  nede,  my  werre  is  not  alle  ent 

*'  To  wite  what  je  me  rede,  I  set  |?is  parlement. 

**  J)is  lond  forto  saue,  my  were  to  raayntene, 

*'  ]>e  tuelft  penie  to  haue,"  ]?ei  granted  alle  bidene, 

&  of  raerchandie  jje  seuent  penie  to  haue 

Vnto  his  tresorie,  jje  barons  vouched  saue. 

'  Forto  gyue  ansuere  Roberd  of  Wynchelse 

Studied  how  he  mot,  were  alle  his  primaute. 

He  sent  to  jjc  kyng  tuo  bisshops  of  renoun, 

&  schewed  jjat  spiritualle  j?ing  Jjorgh  pouert  jede  alle  doun. 

Afterward  he  jede  himself  to  \q  kyng,  Archiepi- 

&  said,  "  Sir,  God  forbede,  to  greue  jje  ony  Jjing.  ad  Regem. 

"  Sir,  I  schewe  ]?e  here,  for  alle  holy  kirke, 

'*  jjat  no  man  has  powere  ]7er  of  to  deme  no  wirke, 

"  Withoute  Jje  pape  of  Rome,  Gode's  vicarie. 

"  He  salle  at  his  dome  set  it  lowe  &  hie, 

*  Et  luy  Erceuesqe,  qe  te-  .  Caunterbire,     sure     respouns 
ent  la   primacye    Du   se    de  j  estudye,  MSS.  Gall. 

Vol.  n.  E  '« H« 


284  Edwardus  Rex, 

"He  has  mad  a  statute,  Jjat  vs  hard  byndes, 

"Of  forfeture  of  frute,  &  rent  Ipat  vs  fyndes, 

**  J)at  tende  ne  tuende  half  no  partie 

"  Jjorgh  gift  to  non  salle  lende,  bot  in  his  aiiowiie. 

"  Opon  f»at  he  gifFes  a  solernpne  cursyng, 

"  Tille  J>o  ])ai  J»er  on  lifFes,  without  his  wittyng. 

Responsio  olR  cleike,"  said  Jie  kyng,  "  hou  has  said  folic, 

Regis. 

"  Hote  is  dettc  j^ing,  |7er  treuth  has  maistrie. 
*'  Bot  if  l^e  bulle  vnfolden  were  red  among  vs  here, 
"  jour  hote  salle  be  holden,  als  dette  in  J?at  manere. 
"  ]7ou  &  alle  l^in  salle  help  me  as  je  hight. 
*'  jour  hette  wille  I  not  tyne,  bi  Jhesu  in  Marie  light. 
Archiepi-    f  '*  Sir,"  l^e  bisshop  said,  "  fuUe  gladly  we  wille, 

Scopus 

dixit.  "  ]7at  our  godes  be  laid  jow  to  help  at  skille, 

* '  Jjorgh  leue  of  ]>e  pape,  J^at  has  of  vs  powere, 

"  jour  clerke  je  l^ider  rape  with  our  raessengere. 

"  Whan  \>ei  had  schewed  him  alle  our  state  &  jour  askyng, 

*'  With  his  leue  we  salle  help  jow  at  his  biddyng. 

Responsio   f  "  Certls,"  Sir  bisshop,  "  terme  ne  wille  I  sette, 

"  To  conseile  with  J^e  pope  for  J^ing  |)at  j^ou  me  hette. 

"  Bot  if  ]?ou  wilt  haf  now  respite  in  jjis  cas, 

**  Of  jour  hote  conseile  jow  with  J?e  clergie  ]?at  j^ou  has. 

*'  For  jour  hote  is  dette  als  to  me, 

"  At  Saynt  Hillarimesse  at  Westmynster  salle  be, 

*'  No  leriger  may  I  lette,  me  comes  on  ilk  half  werre, 

"  Of  ]7at  jjat  je  me  hette  gyues  me  |7an  ansuere. 


"  Sir, 


Regis. 


Edwardus  Rex, 

Sir,"  J^e  bisshop  said,  "  of  J?is  we  pray  J)e, 
"  J)at  no  wikked  braid  of  minystres  l^at  be, 
"  Tille  vs  ne  non  of  ours,  ne  nouht  of  our  lay  fe 
**  Be  taxed  with  non  of  jour's  grante  it  per  charite. 

f  "  Sir  bisshop  drede  J)e  nouht,  ])o\\  salle  no  }?ing  tyne, 
"  Scajje  salle  non  be  wrouht  jjorgh  no  man  of  myne. 
"  Sir  bisshop  I  pray  J7e,  &  jjou  alle  holelyche, 
**  jjat  je  pray  for  me  ])orghout  gour  bisshopriche. 
Ilk  bisshop  tille  his  se,  whan  it  was  don  |7ei  went, 
For  jje  kyng  &  his  meyne  forto  pray  jjei  sent. 

f  Jjider  to  Saynt  Edmoun  com  ])e  tresorere, 
Walter  of  Langtoun,  J)at  had  bien  messengere 
With  jje  Cardinalle  forto  enforme  ]>e  pes. 
Noujjer  of  som  no  alle,  ne  wist  what  ])e\  ches, 
Bot  J7o  J>at  were  priue,  o]>ex  myght  not  wifen, 
Tille  ray  maister  no  me  was  not  told  no  writen. 

5  jit  com  afterward  of>er  messengers 
Tille  our  kyng  Edward,  with  luf  &  faire  maners, 
J)at  contek  suld  not  skip  eft,  J^orgh  no  treson, 
Bituex  him  &  Filip  for  \e.  lond  of  Gascon. 
\>e  cardinalle  was  wys,  ordeynd  how  it  suld  be : 
j)e  kyng  at  his  auys  sent  messengers  Jjre, 
Sir  Waltere  of  Langton,  Sir  Hugh  Despensere, 
Jon  of  Berwik  was  boun  j^e  jjrid  messengere. 
j?ise  wist  \e  certeyn  of  alle  j^e  kynge's  wille, 
God  bring  jjam  wele  ageyn,  &  saue  f^am  fro  ille. 

i  Of  \)c  barons  of  Scotland  at  J?e  parlement 
Were  non  had  jit  in  hand,  no  gyuen  jugeraent. 


Archiepi- 

scopus 

dixit. 


Thesanra- 
rius  venit. 


e2 


J-o 


286  Edwardus  Rex. 

]>o  J)at  ]7orgh  right  dede  were  worj^i, 
&  atteynt,  \oxg\\  ]ie  kyng  did  |7am  merci. 
With  Wales  did  he  so,  «&  j^ei  were  iieuer  trewe, 
Whan  he  had  most  to  do,  Jjei  mad  hira  sorow  newe. 
De  parlia-  ?  ]>Q  day  of  Saynt  Hillari  )7e  kyng  set  jjam  bituen, 
London!^"       At  Londoii  ccvteynli  his  parlement  io  haf  bieri. 
Was  brouht  him  |?is  i\\>{ng  comen  fro  Kaunbray, 
Of  pes  to  speke  no  J'ing,  bot  werre  fro  day  to  day. 
Where  for  J7e  kyng  wille  fonde,  forto  purueie  him 
Trewe  men  bi  water  &  londe,  for  doute  of  treson  grim. 
He  sent  his  day  to  hold  of  parlement  Jjat  he  sette, 
Jjo  certeyn  wite  he  wold,  what  Jje  clergi  hira  hette. 
Responsio    '  I'^  blssliop  of  Canterbire  fulle  bold  his  ansuere  was, 
rJopi  ad"         Fo**  ^1^"*  &  alle  his  schire  he  vouwed  to  S.  Thomas, 
Kegem.  a  ^^^  ^^  kirke  of  hise  tallage  suld  non  gyue, 

**  Ne  do  to  non  seruise,  tovvhile  Jjat  he  mot  lyne, 
"  Witliout  j^e  pape's  leue,  jjat  has  of  vs  powere. 
Tille  his  partie  gan  cheue  \e  bisshop  Oliuere, 
He  turned  not  forbi  for  leue  nc  for  loth, 
jje  kyng  vnto  J^e  clergi  was  ]?erfor  fulle  wroth, 
Rex  dixit.      ^  ^^^^  ^^^*'*  ^^^^  ^'^'^'  *'*  <5^spite  he  suld  hira  do. 
Archiepi-        ^^  bisshop  Said  fer  tille,  '<  I  am  redi  Jjerto. 
SCOPUS^  "  Nay,  Sir,'*  said  ]>e  kyng,  «  Jjou  ert  not  so  worf*!, 

*'  Ne  I  wille  for  no  Jjing  be  so  fole  hardi. 
Tille  \io  was  lie  so  hard  out  his  pes  did  J?am  deme, 
Bot  sone  afterward  som  gan  him  qucme. 
Som  of  \e  bisshops  said,  "  l^at  help  behoued  him  hauc, 
'*  At  skille  J?ei  wild  be  laid,  his  right  forto  saue. 


Edwardus  Rex.  287 

"  &  holy  kirke  defende,  saue  it  &  vs  fro  schame. 
J^e  bisshop  of  jork  so  kende,  &  wild  do  }7at  same, 
He  granted  for  to  gyue  ]je  fifte  penie  to  ])e  kyng, 
In  his  werre  wele  to  lyue,  &  saue  J^er  o}?er  ]>ing, 

XN  alle  ])k  grete  gram  of  .|)e  clergi  &  ])e  kyng,  Venerunt 

Of  Flandres  be  erle  William  sent  him  a  tibins:,  mitis  Fian- 

driafi  ad 

jjorgh  his  conseilers  &  sauhtillyng  wild  he  schewe,  Regem. 

With  Jjre  lordes  pers  of  Blankmonte  &  of  '  Kewe, 

]>e  ])rid  messengere  a  lord  of  grete  honoure, 

J^at  was  }je  tresorere  of  Flandres  resceyuoqre. 

Of  Hanaud  ]>e  erle  first  bigan,  &  alle  his  Henners, 

]>e  duke  Jon  of  Braban  with  ]?e  Holanders, 

})ise  praied  ])e  erle  William,  for  ]?er  aller  sake, 

^at  Jjei  tille  Edward  nam  ]>e  aliance  to  ma^e. 

)?ise  sent  j^is  men  &  said,  "  J?at  ])er  conseile  so  ches, 

*'  J?ei  wild  tille  ys  be  laid,  in  gode  lufe  &  pes, 

*'  ))at  our  merchantz  mot  go  forto  bie  &  selle, 

**  With  luf  withouten  wo,  &  at  gour  h^uens  duelle. 

**  If  he  wild  ageyn  France  r,eise  werre  &  baners, 

*'  ])e  Flemmynges  wild  J^at  chance  to  be  his  souders, 

"  Ageyn  kyng  Philip  &  hi?  duze  pers, 

»*  ]7at  with  wrong  wild  skip,  &  reue  him  J^o  raaners, 

*'  ]7at  ]?e  kyng  *  Arthu  gaf  Sir  Beduers, 

"  In  Gascoyn  alle  ]?oru  to  his  botlers, 

"  ])e  whilk  kyng  Henry,  &  now  his  sonne  Edward, 

*'  His  ancestres  holy  haf  had  it  afterward. 

•  Ken  Codd.  Gall.      *  Pro,  Arthur. 

E  3  «  |)ise 


288  Edwardus  Rex, 

]7ise  tekl  to  Jje  kyng  alle  })er  lorde's  wille, 

&  for  Jjis  tijjing  leue  jit  Jjc  prisons  stille. 
f  For  jiise  ilk  chances,  ))at  I  haf  of  tolde, 

Was  no  deliuerance  of  jje  Scottis  bolde. 

Nouj^er  '  as  Saleberi,  no  at  Saynt  Edmunde*s  touHj 

Was  non  jit  at  \iq  wiri,  ne  jolden  for  raunsoun. 

Of  many  foule  mischeue  com  him  tij^ing  jjikke, 

Bot  on  jjer  was  oure  greue,  &  jjat  him  Jjouh  most  wikke. 
f  Jie  ti))ing  is  so  nowe,  his  courte  it  dos  to  blaken, 

be  soth  ilk  on  j^ei  knew>  Sir  Jon  of  Saynt  Jon  is  taken. 

He  kept  his  castels,  his  vitaile,  his  mone, 

Undere  ]>&  kyng  scales,  Jje  chance  listnes  me. 
De  cap.     5  ]?e  Wednesday  next  at  euen  befor  Kandilmesse 
mini  Jo-         A  spie  did  Sir  Jon  leue,  ]7at  Frankis  oste  non  was. 

hiinnis  de  ,  ii-iii 

Sancto  Jo-      Namely  in  pat  pas,  pat  he  suld  lede  pam  bi, 

hanne  apud  i  i         t     i  i 

Beigaide.       He  lied  pat  Judas,  ten  pousand  were  redi. 

Sir  Jon  mad  him  prest,  he  trost  [jat  losengere, 

His  bataile  was  formest,  displaied  his  banere, 

&  passed  alle  \e  pas,  ]7at  j^ei  alle  so  dred, 

Biside  enbussed  was  fiften  hundred  sped. 

In  foure  grete  escheles  alle  to  batail  sette, 

])e  first  he  disconfet  wele,  jje  tojjer  with  him  so  mette. 

Sir  Jon  fulle  hardely  to  fight  did  his  peyn, 

&  bad  Sir  Henry  Lacy,  j^at  he  suld  turne  ageyn, 

"  )7is  oste  is  grete  biforn,  I  rede  jjat  je  fle. 

|jer  vitaile  was  alle  lorn,  herneis  &  ]>cr  mone. 

Sir  James  of  Beauchamp  wonded,  &  may  not  stand. 

In  a  water  stampe  he  was  dronkled  fleand. 

•  Pro,  at. 

Sir 


Edwardus  Rex, 


Sir  Jon  J7orgh  J^am  brast,  bifore  je  herd  me  neuen, 
Was  taken  at  J^e  last  &  his  knyghtes  elleuen, 
&  of  his  squierie  gentille  men  auhtene. 
\)et  pride  &  J?er  folic,  I  trowe,  on  ]?ani  was  sene. 

XjOSTE  &  deignouse  pride  &  ille  aviseraent 

Mishapnes  oftentide,  &  dos  many  be  schent. 

Jje  proude  kyng  Pharaon,  J^at  chaced  Israel, 

Dronkeld  euerilkon,  &  Code's  folk  went  wel. 

Sodom  &  Gomor  fulle  vile  synne  Jiat  stank, 

Bo|7e  for  euer  more  doun  tille  helle  Jjei  sank. 

Dauid  jjat  simple  was,  slouh  he  grete  Golie, 

Jacob  Sonne  Judas  solde  Josep  for  envie. 

Lucius  Jje  emperour  was  slayn  for  couetise, 

Arthur  had  dishonour  for  wronges  many  wise. 

Modred  a  fole  aperte  was  slayn  licherie, 

Cadwaldre  for  pouerte  fled  fro  Bretanie. 

Harald  ]7is  lond  les,  for  he  was  forsuoren, 

Leulyn  brak  ])e  pes,  his  hede  he  lost  J^erforn. 

Alias !  non  with  o]?er  chastised  jit  wille  be, 

Edward  do  turne  J?e  ro|?er,  &  fare  ouer  j^e  se, 

&  socoure  ]io  J)at  are  jit  in  Gascoyn  left, 

Ne  late  J^ara  not  misfare,  ne  ]>qx  powere  be  reft. 

'  Saynt  Thomas  salle  be  ]7i  help  &  Jji  socoure, 

St.  Jon  of  Beuerle,  Cutbert  ]>q  confessoure. 

Bot  jjou  haf  help  of  God  ]?orgh  praiere  of  som  Saynt, 

I  telle  not  worj^e  a  cod,  for  alle  j^i  faire  is  faynt. 


Exempla 
vicionim, 
quibus  gra- 
tia extin- 
uitur. 


'  Et  Thomas  de   Kent,    e 
Jou  de  Beuerlye,    Et  Cuth- 


bert  de  Dureme  te  vendrount 
en -aye.  MSS.  Gall, 

E  4  Oa 


2m 


Edwardus  Rex, 


On  \o  l^at  God  lufes  lest  mishappenyng  salle  falle, 
J?at  kepe  not  his  bihest,  \q\  ere  vngraciouse  alle, 
Machabae-  5  It  sais  in  a  storie,  J)e  bible  may  not  lie, 

oriin). 

}7at  *  God  God  gaf  |7e  maistrie  to  ]?e  childre  of  Mathatie. 
\ie  bible  sais  bot  seuen  jje  were,  &  no  rao, 
Scuen  thousand  euen  ageyn  alle  durst  ]7ei  go. 
\l'v  wer  stedfast  &  traist,  lufed  God  &  held  his  lawe, 
Fplie  wild  ]7ei  no  fraist,  ne  to  no  falshede  drawe. 
God  lufed  ]7am  &  ]?ei  him,  he  halp  ]?am  at  )7er  nede, 
Ensample  I  rede  je  nym,  jjat  je  may  so  wele  spede, 
f  |?e  date  was  a  J^ousand  Jre  hundred  alle  bot  |?re, 
Edward  tok  on  hand  Flandres  forto  se. 


De  parlta- 
mentoapud 

W'estmona- 
sterium. 


j^FTER  *  \e  haly  Jjorsday  \q  kyng  sent  his  sond. 
Messengers  of  way,  for  barons  of  j^e  lond. 
For  bisshopcs  ]7at  \e\  ker^de,  &  ojjer  |7at  jjei  found, 
l^at  ilk  jere  mot  dispende  of  londcs  tuenty  pound, 
Suld  com  j?er  he  was,  &  with  him  mak  \ex  frette, 
Or  with  his  body  pas  tille  Gascoyn  als  he  sette. 
•i  ]>e  barons  &  of  hise  said,  '*  ]7ei  suld  not  so, 
**  Suilk  a  new  seruise  to  reise  ne  to  do, 
**  For  our  state  it  apeires,  without  any  rcson, 
*'  &  tille  alle  our  heires  gretc  disheriteson. 


'  Apres  la  seinte  feste  del 
Assensioun,  Maunda  ly  Reis 
[yel,  le  Roy]  Edward  par  my 
sa  regioun,  Aerceuesqe,  [vely 
l^erctucskj  euesqe,  count  & 
a  laaroun  Et  a  touz  luy  al. 
tie,    que  ount  pur  garysoun 


yint  liuere  de  tare  en  posses- 
sioun,  Venir  a  sa  court,  a  fere 
redenipciouii,  Ou  passer  oue 
sou  cors,  sur  ly  P'raunceis 
feloun,  Ke  atort  luy  defor- 
cent  la  tere  de  Gascoun,  MSS. 
Galh  *  Sic, 


be 


Edwardus  Rex* 


291 


jje  barons  were  alle  in  ire,  &  spak  for  )>at  tirpeile, 
])e  bisshop  of  Canterbire  }?ei  praied  him  of  conseile. 
Jje  bisshop  knewe  jje  right,  ])e  wille  of  hojpe  what  ment, 
Ak  holy  kirke's  knyght,  he  com  to  }?e  parleraent. 

X  HE  '  kyngspak  for  his  prow,  whan  |?ei  were  allesette, 
"  I  am  castelle  for  50W,  toure,  hous,  &  rescette, 
*'  ^  5®  3^^s  naked  berd  loken  in  pauilloun, 
*•  })at  to  fight  is  ferd,  or  jate  j^at  first  is  doun. 
*'  My  lond  of  Gascoyn  is  lorn  ])orgh  tresons, 
^  I  may  not  cast  essoyn,  bot  felow  my  somons. 
"  I  haf  mad  a  vowe  to  leue  for  wele  ne  wo, 
''  At  my  nede  now  with  me  behoues  50W  go. 
**  Salle  non  finde  encheson  Jjorgh  quaintise  to  say, 
"  Bot  |7at  je  be  alle  boun  with  me  to  wende  ]7at  way. 
f  J)en  ansuerd  Sir  Roberd,  bisshop  of  Canterbire, 
**  Sir,  ert  J)ou  not  ferd  of  wreche  of  Code's  ire, 
"  Jiat  J70U  wilt  werre  bigynne,  without  amendment, 
"  Ageyn  God  don  sjnne,  ageyn  holy  kirke  has  went  ? 
"  I  rede  Ipou  mak  araendes  of  ]?at  grete  misdede. 
*'  Praye  God  jjat  alle  defendes  als  holy  kirke  wille  rede, 
**  &  bot  J)ou  do,  Sir  kyng,  as  I  conseile  jje, 
"  I  salle  mak  cursyng  on  alle  J)at  passe  with  J^e. 


Responsia 
archiepi- 
scopi  Canr 
tuariac. 


*  Luy  Reis  lors  les  parle, 
&  dist  en  son  scrmoun,  I  eo 
5u  chastel  pur  yous,  &  mur 
&  mesoun,   £t   yous    la  bar- 


becane,  &  porte  &  pauyllioun. 
Ma  tere  de  Gascoygne  est 
pardue  par  tresoun,  S(c.  MSS, 
Gall. 


After 


292  Edwardus  Rex, 

Dixit  CO-        jflLFTER  Jje  ersbisshop  \)e  erle  Marschalle  Rogerc 

mes  Mar- 
schalle. Bifor  J7e  kyng  ros  vp,  &  spak  tille  him  austere, 

*'  Of  |?is  we  ask  respite,  oure  conseile  to  take, 

"  No]7eIes  also  tite  I  say  for  J^e  coraon  sake. 

He  said  for  jje  barons,  J^at  nori  of  Jjcr  homage 

Suld  passe  for  somons,  bot  at  ])e  kynge's  costage ; 

Ne  non  of  \)ex  powere  to  passe  ]?e  se  suld  grante, 

Without  conseile  of  pere  &  costage  in  conante. 

Rex.  H  ]?e  kyng  his  wordes  toke  wraj^efully  tille  herte, 

For  ire  nere  he  quoke,  &  ansuerd  him  fuUe  smcrte. 

*'  Sir  Erie,  I  comand  \>ey  J^at  ]?ou  be  |?e  ton, 

*'  For  jjou  salle  wende  with  me,  whedere  Jjou  wille  or  non, 

*'  Or  J)in  office  for  go  of  J^e  marschalcie, 

*'  Respite  I  gyue  no  mo,  but  mak  alle  redie. 

Comes.        '  f*^  *  ^^^^i  '*  wend  I  nouht  so  sone  myn  office  lete, 

"  I  haf  not  jit  so  wrouht,  to  haf  maugre  \e  grete. 
Out  of  \>e  courte  he  went,  duellid  he  no  while, 
J^e  kyng  for  on  sent,  Sir  Geffrey  Geneuile, 
&  of  jje  marschalcie  presented  him  ]?e  jerde, 
*  Bad  arme  him  priuelie,  &  priues  alle  herde 
Now  tille  armes  ]>ai  may,  als  ])ei  suld  lyue  or  deie, 
}jei  hoped  \q  to]7er  day  J^e  barons  resteie. 
J)e  erle  wist  it  sone,  in  him  was  no  defaute, 
l^e  barons  were  alle  bone,  to  mak  \e  kyng  assaute. 

i,pi>(op<is   f  Right  als  be  parties  togider  suld  haf  smyten, 

Diinelini  ^  j      »  n  j         i 

Ant(Miius.        Sir  Antoyn  was  wys,  he  did  ]^e  kyng  to  witen. 


*  Subintellige^  said,  vel, 
answer'd.  *  Et  sur  ceo  co- 
maiinde   ses  priuez   gentz  ar- 


mer,  Et  bye  lendemayne 
les  barouns  arester,  ^c-  MSS. 
Gall. 

What 


Edwardus  Rex. 


293 


What  perille  salle  betide,  if  |)ei  &  his  barons 
■  &  werre  togidere  ride,  als  enmys  felons. 
To  \e  barons  he  jede,  &  praied  |?am  to  bowe, 
*'  \>Q  kyng  to  50W  has  nede,  help  him  if  je  mowe. 
*'  If  him  com  any  sca]je  tinselle  of  seignorie, 
Tille  50W  it  wille  be  wa}je,  leues  alle  jjis  folic. 

X  HE  barons  at  Jje  last  tille  Antoyn  gaf  ansuere, 
Of  |)ing  jjat  J?ei  wild  ask  bad  him  \e  copie  here, 
8(0  said  to  Saynt  Alban's,  jjider  wild  ])c\  com, 
To  parleraent  alle  at  ans,  &  stand  to  right  dome. 
If  he  &  his  conseile  to  jjam  wild  him  meke, 
\>e  wild  him  auaile,  &  do  }jat  he  wild  biseke. 
Sir  Antoyn  turned  ageyn,  &  schewed  him  Jjcr  assent, 
If  he  wild  hold  eerteyn  Jje  day  of  parlement. 
J)e  kyng  wild  not  j^ider,  ouer  Jje  se  wild  he  fare, 
To  wite  where  &  whidere  ]ie  ferd  his  frendes  )jare. 
Withouten  rede  of  mo  in  schip  to  Flandres  went, 
Non  erle  M'ild  with  him  go,  for  baron  non  he  sent. 
His  folie  was  f»e  more,  fjar  he  non  with  him  toke, 
Suilk  tiding  sauh  he  jjore,  fulle  fayn  fro  Brigges  schoke. 

J3I OW  is  Edward  ariued  in  Flandres,  bot  with  fo. 
With  his  barons  he  striued,  with  him  wild  non  go. 
A  kyng  jjat  striues  with  hise,  he  may  not  wele  spede, 
Whore  so  he  restis  or  riues  he  lyues  ay  in  drede. 
His  vitaile  he  has  purueid  in  Brigges  forto  be. 
His  wynes  were  |7er  leid,  &  warnised  |?at  cite. 


Re<ponaio 
arooum. 


Rex  traniy 
fretavit  in 
Flandriam. 


F.  in  werre. 


I 


God 


294^  Edwardus  Rex, 

God  }7at  wote  alle  }>ing,  what  is  don  or  wlii, 
He  saue  Edward  our  kyng  ]?ore  ]?orgh  his  merci. 
adicio     I  Bituex  ])Q  kyng  of  France  &  \>e  erle  William 

andro- 

tn.  W  as  pat  tyme  a  distance,  a  wrath  bituex  pam  nam. 

Jjeprouest  of  j^e  toun,  a  wik  traytour  &  cherle, 
He  Jjouht  to  do  tresoun  vnto  his  lord  ]7e  erle. 
To  Philip  priuely  a  letter  did  he  make, 
If  he  had  oste  redy,  Brigges  mot  he  take. 
Com  what  tyme  he  wild,  J^e  toun  suld  he  wynne, 
}pe  comon  he  suld  him  jeld,  &  Edward  j^erinne. 
Edward  mot  he  haue,  if  he  wild  him  rape, 
J?e  toun  he  suld  so  saue,  })at  he  suld  not  ascape. 
Of  j^is  whan  Philip  herd,  oste  he  did  sone  jare, 
j?at  tyme  ]?at  he  forth  ferd,  he  herd  not  of  his  fare. 
t  ])e  preuest  with  ]?e  burgeis  Jjat  day  to  conseile  gede, 
Edward  herd  it  say  of  gilerie,  as  som  drede. 
&  o|7er  were  perceyued,  )7at  j^er  jede  disceite, 
Bot  git  was  it  not  reyued,  so  Edward  j^ouht  him  streite. 
A  child  of  |?at  land,  J^at  knew  not  Sir  Edward, 
Edward  sauh  him  stand,   '  ]7e  Flem"  jje  Flemmynges  to 

reward. 
Fast  he  gan  behald  ])e  samenyng  of  Flemmynges. 
Edward  child  cald,  &  asked  him  ti})inges. 
*'  Sonne;  what  hers  ])o\\  say  of  burgeis  of  cite? 
He  said,  "  Sir  grete  aye,  J^at  j^e  Inglis  here  in  be, 
*'  &  for  J^e  Inglis  sake  tille  it  wille  falle  hard. 
^'  For  ])e  Frankes  hope  take  ]?e  toim  &  Sir  Edward. 
Sir  Edward  also  sone  |?er  gile  gan  he  knowe, 
Dight  him  to  bataile  bone,  his  trumpes  did  he  blowe. 

i  '    ;  '  Dele.  Je 


Edwardus  Rex,  295 

\e  Fleramynges  vndirstode,  \e  kyng  warned  was, 

Jje  cheynes  &  gates  gode  jjei  sperd,  }?at  non  mot  pas. 

|?e  Walsch  without  \>q  toun  euerilkon  J^ei  lay, 

}jat  was  Jje  enchesoun  for  fight  &  for  affray. 

Whan  \>e\  ]7e  trampes  herd,  ]7at  he  to  bataile  blewe,  fut^Rex 

&  saw  ]>e  gates  sperd,  j^an  gamened  jjam  no  glewe.  Uas.^**^'' 

Ouh  !  for  Saynt  Dauy  !  \>e  Flemmyng  wille  him  gile, 

Jje  kest  alle  suilk  a  crie,  |7at  men  mot  here  a  myle. 

Fire  &  brondes  J)ei  nam  in  houses  of  |)er  gatis, 

&  ouer  ]?e  water  suam,  &  set  fire  on  Jje  jatis. 

Maugre  \ie  Flemmynges  on  }?am  J>e  gatis  ])ei  brent, 

Cheynes  J>ei  hew  &  rynges,  &  tille  Sir  Edward  went, 

&  fond  him  alle  redy  armed  on  his  stede. 

Was  no  cheyne  so  hie,  |?at  he  ne  sprong  ouer  als  gledc, 

&  comandid  ilk  man,  to  schip  sui]?e  to  go, 

Jjorgh  jje  Fleramynges  he  ran,  &  many  on  did  slo. 

His  stede  was  blak  as  rauen,  J?ei  kald  his  name  Feraunt, 

He  rode  vnto  j^e  hauen,  &  said  he  wild  to  Gaunt. 

Unnejjis  fro  ))at  felons  ascaped  he  }7at  wo. 

If  he  had  had  his  barons,  he  had  not  gyuen  of  \io, 

\>e  kyng  of  Almayn  had  hight  him  his  help, 

He  mad  a  fals  trayn,  of  him  is  not  a  gelp. 

He  sent  Edward  to  say,  help  him  mot  he  nouht, 

Werrand  on  ilk  a  way  his  enmys  on  him  souht. 

Alias !  fat  a  kyng  es  fals  ageyn  his  pere  ! 

Edward  dred  him  no  jjing,  bot  was  ay  glad  of  chere. 


An 


S96  Edwardus  Rex, 

An  erie  jjer  was  of  Bare,  he  werred  fast  on  France, 
])e  Walsh  with  him  war  ^ere,  forto  do  mischance. 
]>ei  markettis  &  J?er  faires  &  ]7er  castels  reft, 
Now  alle  j^e  cuntre  peires,  vnnej?is  ouht  jjei  left. 
Philip  on  his  partie  did  \)q  erle  grete  tene, 
Alle  ])at  he  mot  com  bie,  he  robbed  alle  bidene. 
J)e  bisshop  of  Durhem  trauailed  day  &  nyght, 
Of  strife  to  felle  j^e  stem,  ])e  pes  to  mak  alle  right. 
Bot  Philip  was  ay  hard,  his  ansuer  eucr  so  light. 
His  wist  J?at  Edward  had  bot  litelle  myght. 
Has  he  had  his  erles,  his  barons  with  him  lad, 
Of  alle  ])Q  Frankis  cherles  ]>e  maistrie  suld  he  haf  had. 
5  A  man  ]?at  beris  him  stoute,  whan  }?at  he  suld  bowe, 
In  chance  if  ]?at  he  loute,  he  findes  foos  inowe. 
Listnes  now  |7is  pas,  why  ]7at  I  \ws  said. 
In  wham  defaut  was  Jjat  l^ertille  may  be  laid. 

Exempiuui      (jfESTES  bat  er  olde  writen  of  many  man, 
J)ritti  reames  men  tolde,  }>at  kyng  Arthur  wan. 
He  parted  his  wynnyng  tille  his  men  largely, 
]7at  noujjer  erle  ne  kyng  wille  withsitte  his  cry. 
Jjei  were  at  his  wille,  were  he  neuer  so  hie, 
Bojje  of  gode  &  ille  at  alle  his  nede  redie, 
5  Oure  kyng  Sir  Edward  ouer  litille  he  gaf, 
Tille  his  barons  was  hard,  ouerhipped  J?am  ouerhaf. 
He  wild  not  be  so  hende,  so  large,  no  so  fre, 
}?erfor  j?ei  lete  him  wende  alon  ouere  jje  se. 
]?orgh  )7at  wendyng  alon,  nere  he  had  bien  schent, 
It  was  to  mak  of  mone,  |?at  non  erle  with  him  went. 

I  jjorgh 


Edwardus  Rex. 


f  J?orgL  tijjing  brouht  bi  tide  j?e  Scottis  wist  of  }>is, 
Ilk  Scotte  on  his  side  mad  jjerof  joy  &  blis. 
Jje  rascail  of  J?er  route  bigan  to  werre  alle  newe, 
Now  Edward  is  oute,  f»e  barons  be  not  trewe. 
jje  suffred,  as  it  sais,  |7e  Scottis  eft  to  rise, 
&  William  fe  Walais  J^er  hede  «&  }?er  justise. 
Jjorgli  fals  concelement  William  did  his  wille, 
Our  castels  has  he  brent,  our  men  slayn  fulle  ille. 

f  Sir  Hugh  of  Crissengham  he  did  nycely  &  mys, 
Jje  tresore  with  him  he  nam,  sperd  it  in  his  coffris, 
&  wild  gif  no  wages  to  jje  folk  ]>ex  ware, 
J)erfor  joraen  &  pages  home  gan  alle  fare. 

5  Whan  Sir  Jon  of  Warenne  J^e  soth  vnderstode, 
J7at  jje  Waleis  gan  brenne,  an  oste  he  gadred  gode, 
&  went  to  Striuelyne  agayn  Waleis  William, 
Bot  jjeerle  with  mykelle  pyne  disconfite  away  nam. 
&  jjat  was  his  folie,  so  long  in  his  bed  gan  ligge, 
Untille  \e  Waleis  partie  had  vnibilaid  ])e  brigge. 
With  gauelokes  &  dartes  suilk  ore  was  non  sene, 
Myght  no  man  |jam  departe,  ne  ride  ne  go  bituene. 
jjore  first  ]7am  tauht,  how  j^ei  did  fawe  kirke. 
Alle  gate  Jje  brigge  he  rauht,  of  iiouht  our  men  were  irke. 

5  Whan  jje  erle  herd  say,  ]?e  brigge  how  William  toke. 
He  douted  to  die  )7at  day,  }jat  bataile  he  forsoke. 
J)e  Inglis  were  alle  slayn,  JTe  Scottis  bare  }?ara  wele, 
Jje  Waleis  had  Jje  wayn,  als  maistere  of  |?at  eschele. 
At  ]?at  ilk  stoure  was  slayn  on  our  side 
God  men  of  honour,  Jjat  wald  to  J^e  bataile  bide. 


De  Hugone 

Cressyng- 

kain. 


De  Striue- 
lyn  &  de 
Domino 
Johanne  de 
Warenne. 


Sir 


Edwardus  llex\ 


Sir  Roberd  of  Soraervile,  &  his  eldest  sonne, 

He  held  |7e  stoure  a  while,  lor  dede  ne  wild  he  schonne, 

&  knyghtes  &  sergeantz,  noble  men  fulle  couth, 

Of  prowes  fulle  valiaiitz,  bojje  bi  North  &  South. 


Demorte    5  «;if  Hugh  of  Cressynghatn  in  armes  nouht  ne  deih, 

brio  Hugo- 
nis  de  Cres- 


ayngham. 


De  probi- 
tate  Mar- 
meduk  de 
Thueiige. 


For  ridjng  lauht  he  skani,  out  of  his  sadelle  he  fleih. 
His  stede  ouer  h'un  ran,  he  lay  vnder  his  fete, 
jjat  sauh  ])e  Scottis  man,  &  J^er  of  wele  he  lete. 
He  &  oJ7er  inowe,  j^at  Sir  Hugh  wele  knewe, 
I  wene  f'ei  quik  him  *  fioub,  &  his  lymmes  to  hewe. 
5  Sir  Marmeduk  of  Thuenge  in  j^e  fclde  bare  ]>e  flour, 
With  ])e  Scottis  gan  he  menge,  &  stifly  stode  in  stoure* 
Fightand  he  couerd  alle  weys  ])e  castelle  of  Striuelyn, 
Maugre  j^e  Waleys,  Sir  Marmeduk  went  in. 


Scoftimise- 
runt  nun- 
ciuin  ultra 
mare  in 
Flandriam 
q.  explora- 
terem. 


jCxFTER  *  jjis  bataile,  jje  Scottis  sent  ouer  ])e  se 
A  boye  of  ]>er  rascaile,  quayut  &  doguise. 
To  Flandres  bad  him  fare,  ]>orgh  burgh  &  cite, 
Of  Edward  whore  he  ware  bring  j^am  certeynte. 
&  whan  he  com  ageyn,  he  tcld  j)am  }?is  tijjing, 
|?at  sothly  &  certeyn  dede  was  Edward  j^e  kyng. 
&  to  )?at  stede  he  ferd,  )7er  he  was  laid  in  graue, 
J^e  Scottis  whan  j^ei  it  herd,  more  joye  ne  bad  Jjei  haue. 
1  To  werre  fan  ros  |?ei  eft,  tilie  God  j^ei  mad  a  vowe, 
}»atno  l^ing  suldbe  left,  J)at  myght  to  Inglond  prowe, 
Mercy  suld  non  haue,  tille  alle  {)ei  suld  do  wo, 
Kirke  suld  no  man  saue,  bot  brenne  j^er  in  &  slo. 


*  Proj  slouh.  »  Mainte- 
naunt  apres  ad  luy  Escot 
maundez    De   la  la  mere  en 


Flaundres  vn    ribaud    deguy- 
sez,    Espier  sire    Edward    en 
viles  &  cytez,  <^c.  MSS.  Gall. 
In 


Edwardus  Rex,  299 

In  Northumberland  jjer  first  Jjei  bigan, 

&  alle  ]7at  com  lille  hand,  j^ei  slouh  &  ouer  ran 

To  Flandres  tille  Edward  tijjinges  men  him  sent, 

|)at  Scdttis  com  in  hard,  ]>e  North  is  nere  alle  brent, 

&  more  salle  jit  be  lorn,  bot  if  we  haf  socoure. 

Nouht  ststndes  Jjam  biforn,  toun,  castelle,  ne  toure. 

\)e  kyng  for  Jjo  ti})ingcs  was  noyed  greuoslie, 

To  conseil  j^e  lordynges  he  cald  jjat  wer  him  bi. 

Whan  bei  had  alle  cast  ber  conseil  vp  &  doun,  De  onr(a 

'^  ,         '^  *^  liberUiis. 

pe  kyng  was  at  ])e  last  avised  on  JjIs  reson, 

}jat  nede  behoued  him  grante  to  clerke  &  baroun, 

&  hold  |?am  j^e  conante  of  ilk  peticioun. 

Bi  letter  he  Jjam  sent,  &  grantid  ])er  askyng, 

Alle  ]?at  reson  ment  of  ilk  raaner  ]>ing. 

Bi  letter  &  bi  mouth  he  praied  ))am  of  socoure, 

&  jjat  he  rayght  &  couth,  jjat  wer  to  ]?er  honoure. 

He  granted  at  ]>er  wille,  if  ]>ei  wild  socoure  him, 

Ageyn  ])e  Scottis  ille,  })at  bcre  j^am  now  so  brim, 

X  HE  bisshop  of  Canterbire  jjerof  payed  was  he, 
For  him  and  alle  his  schire  Jjis  gift  gaf  fulle  fre, 
To  saue  ]?e  pape  statute,  j^at  J?em  bihoued  defende, 
Of  holy  kirke's  frute  he  gaf  J^e  kyng  ]>e  tende, 
Gadred  with  clerkis  hand,  &  kept  to  ]7at  viage, 
Wendand  to  Scotland,  biteched  it  fte  baronage, 
Jje  lond  forto  saue,  &  holy  kirke's  dignite, 
jjjs  grantid  he  ]?am  to  haue  Roberd  of  Wynchelse. 
}?e  clergie  of  \)e  North  ]>e  fifte  peny  suld  gyue, 
Whan  ])e  barons  ferd  forth,  in  pes  fat  })ei  mot  lyue, 

Vol.11.  F  4c 


300  Edxstardus  Rex, 

&  grantid  j^am  self,  at  J^e  first  gynnyng. 
Whan  I^e  kyng  asked  half  of  alle  Iper  moble  J^ing. 
Now  er  at  on  assent  ]>e  barons  &  j^e  clerkis, 
Jje  Scottis  hold  jjam  schent,  of  J)er  conseil  now  herkis 
De  consiiio  1  ])e  Scoltis  vnderstode,  f'at  holy  ])e  clergie 
CO  orum.      ^^^^  ^^^^  -^^  ^-^g  g^jg^  ^q  help  ])e  kjngc's  partie, 

&  J)e  barons  also  in  luf  with  him  wild  dele, 
For  he  had  grantid  jjer  to  ]>e  Chartre  forto  sele, 
&  after  })at^selyng  alle  suld  pei  come 
jje  barons  &  ]>e  kyng,  &  tak  of  Jjam  hard  dome 
What  did  ]>e  Scottis  fio,  bot  ]7is  conseil  J^ei  ches  ? 
To  Striuelyn  suld  j^ei  go,  in  manere  of  pes. 
Sir  Marmeduk  biseke,  his  wrath  forto  asuage, 
&  to  ]>a.m  mak  him  meke,  for  luf  &  for  ostage. 
Jjei '  suore  ])er  Cristendam,  if  }>at  he  wild  com  oute, 
Withoutei;!  any  gram  tille  ]>ei  wild  loute, 
Bo|)e  loude  &  stille,  in  nesch  &  in  hard, 
&  to  pes  with  gode  wille  jeld  J?am  tille  Edward. 
Sir  Marmeduk  out  cam,  he  trosted  on  J)er  fayth. 
To  him  ,&  bis  J^ei  nam,  &  smertly  did  j^am  grayth 
Toward  *  Dun  Bretayn,  &  him  in  prison  J^er  sperd. 
His  frendes  were  vnfayn,  for  non  wist  how  he  ferd. 
jjei  did  J)at  treson,  if  J^am  felle  any  chance, 
For  him  Jjei  mot  eftson  of  Jjers  make  deliuerance. 
Disputacio  f  ]?e  clergie  of  ]?e  South  mad  a  disputesoun, 

&  openly  with  mouth  assigned  gode  resoun, 


'  Et  en  lour  baptesme 
promistrent  &  ioraint,  Si 
hors  volsift   [yel  vousint]   ve- 


nir,  de  pees  ly  parleraynt,  SfC. 
MSS.  Gall.  *Dunbretayn, 
re^Dunbrettayn,  MSS.  Gall. 

\>SLt 


Edwardits  Rex, 


301 


)?at  scajje  ne  mot  bifalle,  ne  forto  wratli  \e  pape, 
Bot  for  him  «&  vs  alle  myght  it  better  schape. 
f  In  alle  f»is  spekyng  com  ]>e  tresorere 
Fro  Edward  our  kyng,  to  schewe  j^e  chartere  here. 
'  He  spak  vnto  |?e  clergie,  "  je  barons  J)at  here  be, 
**  |?e  kyng  fulle  curteislie  gretis  jow  wele  bi  me, 
**  &  sais,  }?at  he  wille  Inglond  alle  ese, 
*'  &  j^atje  ask  in  skille  jour  hertes  forto  pese, 
"  Jje  chartre  of  franchise  conferra  it  jow  he  salle, 
*'  &  of  jje  first  assise  as  his  fader  gaf  it  alle. 
j?e  Chartre  was  red  on  hi,  in  Westmynstere  &  schewed, 
Ilk  poynt  bi  &  bi,  to  lerid  &  io  lewed. 
J7e  bisshop  of  Canterbire  in  comon  alle  o  liche 
Schewed  it  in  ilk  schire,  alle  his  bisshop  riche. 
Whan  |?ei  }?e  Chartre  in  alle  had  schewed  day  bi  day, 
Sir  Roger  ]?e  erle  Marschalle,  of  Herford  J)e  erle  Umfray, 
At  jork  }>ei  tok  on  hand,  ])ex  parlement  to  sette, 
|?e  hie  folk  of  jje  land,  J7er  alle  togidere  mette. 
jje  erle  Jon  of  Surray  com  with  grete  powere. 
Of  Gloucestre  stoute  &  gay  Sir  Rauf  \e  Mohermere, 
•  &  his  wif  dame  Jone,  whilom  Gilberde's  of  Clare, 
J70  banerettis  ilkone  fro  Doner  to  Durham  ware. 


Ecce  The- 

saurarius 

venit. 


'  Gil  vers  la  clergye  co. 
menca  parler,  Et  a  les  ba- 
rouns  issi  [yel  ency]  nouncier, 
A  nous  li  Reis  tos  sires  bee 
de  gentyl  qoer  De  sa  sey. 
gnorye,  tut  Engleterre  eyser, 
La  chartre  des  fraunchises 
Tous  volt  confermer,  De  la 
fyreste  le  assise  [yel   lassise] 


amender,  Cum  jadis  puraist 
le  Rey  Henry  son  peer.  La 
chartre  fu  monstre  &  leu  a 
Wemonster,  S^c.  MSS.  GalL 
'  Oue  Jone  la  Countesse  sa 
lige  mulier,  Et  trestouz  ly 
altre,  qe  portent  baner,  De 
Douer  a  Dureme  i  venent 
volenter,  Sfc.  MSS.  Gall. 
F  2  At 


30^  Edwardus  Rex. 

At  I?e  kirke  of  Saynt  Petir  j^e  day  of  Saynt  Agnes, 

\)Q  bisshop  on  his  mitere  of  Carlele  it  says. 

He  stode  vp  in  pulpite,  J)e  office  forto  do, 

jjer  Chartre  he  red  it  bituex  J^e  erles  tuo, 

&  cursed  alle  ]7o,  Jjat  ^e  Chartre  brak, 

Or  stroied  or  did  ouht  fro  ony  poynt  J^er  in  spak. 

After  jjis  sentence  gyuen,  tille  armes  alle  j^at  myght, 

Was  it  no  lenger  dryuen,  to  Scotlond  alle  fiara  dight. 

In  alle  Northumberland,  j^er  ]>e  Waleis  had  bene, 

Alle  was  in  Jjc  kynge's  hand,  \iq  Scoltis  wer  non  sene* 

In  alle  l^is  nesch  &  hard,  euer  lasted  J?e  distance 

Bituex  kyng  Edward,  &  J?e  kyng  of  France, 

Bot  it  was  delaied  tille  a  day  certeyn 

Of  right  dome  set  &  saied,  how  pes  mot  be  plcyn, 

Jjei  conscntid  bo|7e,  Jjorgh  eonseil  of  jje  pape. 

To  pese  j^am  tuo  wroj^e,  with  sight  he  wild  schape. 

Jjorgh  mariages  was  hopyiig  of  J>e  pes, 

fat  were  certeyn  stages,  jjat  bo))e  parties  ches. 

|)e  kyng  on  suld  haue,  a  may  was  in  spekyng, 

Tille  his  Sonne  suld  men  saue,  Philip  doubter  ^ing; 

Rex  misit    J^|yf  ^lle  bis  ordenance  our  kyn£:  sent  messensjcra 

nuncios  ad  '  o  o 

Romam.     J)at '  kcwc  j?e  greuance,  wyse  men  barons  pers. 

Unto  |?e  courte  of  Rome,  j^e  pape  to  schew  \dX  cas. 
How  wondere  chances  come,  &  who  did  most  trespas, 
Of  Inglis  &  Frankis  who  was  most  culpable, 
In  \)e  pape  leues  alle  ]?is,  to  mak  mende  &  mak  alle  stable. 

'  Proy  knewe. 

5  To 


Edteardus  Rex, 


303 


1  To  while  pape  Boniface  duellid  opon  J)is, 
To  gyue  dome  f^orgh  grace,  to  mende  boj^e  ])er  mys, 
j?e  kyng  tok  his  consaile,  &  home  to  Ingland  went. 
Gode  wynde  in  his  saile  Jhesu  Criste  him  lent. 
j?e  cries  of  Scotlond  |?at  atteynt  wer  of  treson, 
J7e  kyng  him  self  willand,  deliuerd  Jjam  fro  prison. 
}>ise  wer  of  jjer  gest,  as  I  kan  names  fynde, 
J7e  erle  of  Menetest  was  of  Edward  kyn^e, 
Jje  erle  of  Ascetelle,  Sir  Jon  {?e  Corayn, 
Badenauh  sonne  I  telle,  &  Jjretty  of  j?er  couyn, 
Alle  })ise  &  wele  rao  atteynt  of  traytorie, 
Jje  kyng  lete  J?am  go  of  \\h  curteisie, 
Withouten  siluere  or  golde,  or  any  ojjer  treuage, 
Jjer  penance  was,  Jjei  suld  go  in  pilgrimage. 

f  Here  of  }?is  wikked  hals,  |7at  our  kyng  gaf  leue, 
To  France  \>ei  jede  ]io  fals,  to  Philip  wild  }jei  cheiie, 
Bisouht  him  of  soconre  &  auancement, 
To  maynten  J»am  in  stoure,  j^ei  mad  *  hir  }jer  present, 
Scotlond  of  him  to  hold  euer  withouten  ende, 
If  he  in  luf  wold  as  lord  vnto  Jjam  lende. 


llediit  in 
Angliam, 
&  incarce- 
ratis  Scottis 
dedit  licen- 
ciani  &  li- 
hertatem 
exeundi. 


I 


JL  HILIP  gaf  respons,  &  bad  Jjam  go  Jjer  way, 

"  je  ere  foles  Bretons,  disceit  is  }?at  je  say. 

"  jje  pape  me  (defendes  with  bulle  J?at  bindis  hard, 

^*  To  renne  on  jjo  landes,  Jjat  longes  tille  Edward, 

"  To  whils  j^at  oure  trewe  duellis  on  jugement, 

**  For  me  salle  neuer  be  newe  no  fals  corapassement. 

*  There  is  a  little  stroke  over  the  i  in  the  MS.  which  shews 
that  hira  is  to  be  read, 

F  3  Con- 


Ecce  de 

falsitate 
Scottorum. 


304  Edwardus  Rex. 

Confused  \e\  went  away  ]?at  fals  companie, 

Jjei  failed  of  ])ex  pray,  to  hauen  gan  J^ei  hie, 

&  hired  J^am  a  schip,  gaf  siluere  largelie, 

To  Scotlond  gan  ]7ei  skip,  jje  wynde  was  J^am  redie. 

HjiDWARD  vnderstode,  Jjorgh  oft  heryng  say, 
How  jje  fals  blode  compassed  tene  &  tray.  1 

He  mad  his  pilgrimage  to  Saynt  Thomas  of  Kent, 
Silken  North  on  his  viage  to  Beuerley  he  went, 
'  Peri^rina-  Bifor  Saynt  Jon  he  woke  a  nyght  or  he  j^ien  nam, 

tus  est  Rex. 

To  jork  ]>e  gate  he  toke,  &  souht  Saynt  William. 
Saynt  Cutbert  he  souht,  to  help  him  at  his  nede, 
Sijjen  he  died  him  riouht,  Northward  als  he  jede. 
Northward  in  his  weie  he  held  his  parleraent, 
To  speke  &  to  purueie  to  be  of  on  assent. 
To  Scotlond  forto  go,  to  take  vengement 
Of  })am  his  folk  did  slo,  destroied  his  tenement, 
&  how  \e\.  were  alle  lorn,  jjat  com  to  jjat  couent. 
For  ]7ei  were  forsuorn,  vengeance  on  J^ara  went. 
M».  cc".       \>Q  date  was  a  ]?ousand,  Jjre  hundred  alle  bot  one, 

'LXXXIX", 

Beiium       At  Foukirke  in  Scotlond,  Scottis  escapid  none. 

apod  Fau- 
kirk. 

wN  \e  Maudeleyn  day,  a  litelle  bifor  Lararaesse,, 
Of  Scotlond  &  Galway  com  mykelle  folk  alle  fresse, 
Of  \q  Marche  &  ]iq  ildes,  a  sperc  J^ei  suld  bring, 
Jjei  com  ]ie  lond  to  schilde,  to  Faukirke  in  J^e  mornyng. 
Our  Inglis  men  &  j^ci  |7cr  togidere  mette, 
|7er  formast  conrcy,  ]>qx  bakkis  togidere  sette, 

'Sic.    \Sic. 

]?er 


Edwardus  Rex»  305 

J7er  speres  poynt  ouer  poynt,  so  skre  &  so  ]?ikke, 

&  fast  togidere  joynt,  to  se  it  was  ferlike. 

Als  a  castelle  J?ei  stode,  J^at  were  -walled  with  stone, 

Jjei  wende  no  man  of  blode,  ]7orgh  jjara  suld  haf  gone. 

Jjer  folk  was  so  mykelle,  so  stal worth  «&  so  clene, 

Jjer  foyntes  forward  prikelle,  nonhut  wild  jjei  wene. 

J^at  if  alle  Inglond  fro  Berwik  vnto  Kent,  Ad  Fau- 

kirke. 
\>Q  folk  J^erin  men  fond  had  bien  J'ider  sent, 

Stength  siild  non  haf  had,  to  perte  jjam  j^orgh  oute, 

So  wer  j^ei  set  sad  with  poyntes  rounde  abou<e. 

J)e  kyng  sauh  J^am  comand  so  sadly  in  \ie  raede, 

His  folk  he  did  with  stand,  &  dight  j^ara  alle  to  dcde, 

SiJ^en  he  to  |7am  said,  "  go  we  ]?er  God  vs  spede. 

J?er  lances  alle  forth  laid,  &  ilk  man  broched  his  stede, 

jjei  sauh  kynge's  banere,  raumpand  jjre  lebardes, 

per  hors  folk  alle  plenere,  ]7ei  fled  as  fals  cowardes. 

\q  fotefolk  left  alon,  if  j^ei  wild  stand  or  fle, 

Help  had  ]?ei  non,  of  fiam  |?er  hede  suld  be. 

Jjus  \e  Waleis  wroubt,  &  said  j^an  })is  bi  skille, 

"  To  J^e  renge  ere  je  brouht,  hop  now  if  je  wille. 

Jjer  scheltron  sone  was  shad  with  Inglis  J^at  were  gode, 

Pite  of  non  \e\.  had,  bot  alle  to  dede  jode, 

Als  fleihes  doun  ]?ei  fleih,  ten  jjousand  at  ones. 

To  stand  non  ne  degh,  botfelle  doun  als  stones, 

Bituex  prime  &  none  alle  voide  was  ])C.  place. 

J>e  bataile  slayn  &  done  alle  within  jjat  space. 

'  Was  no  man  Inglis  maynhed  no  dede  J^at  day, 

Bot  a  templer  of  pris,   Sir  Brian  ])e  geaj, 

'  Et    nes    vn    des  Englays  |  fu    mort     ne    maygne,     Fors 
r  4  Bryaq 


30^  Edwardus  Rex* 

Maisfer  iemplere  he  was  on  J^is  half  ])e  se, 
He  folowed  J^e  Scottis  pas,  whan  fiebigan  to  fle, 
Fer  in  tille  a  wod,  men  calle  it  Kalenters, 
Jjer  in  a  mire  a  mod,  withouten  help  of  fers, 
Slouh  |?ei  Sir  Brian  alon  wij^outen  mo. 
Alias  !  j?at  douhty  man,  |7at  he  so  fer  suld  go ! 
]>e  Walsch  folk  jjat  tide  did  nouj7er  ille  no  gode, 
l^ei  held  J)am  alle  bi  side,  opon  a  hille  ])ei  stode. 
f»er  ])ei  stode  ]?at  while,  tille  the  bataile  was  don, 
Was  neuer  withouten  gile  Walsh  man  no  Breton. 
For  jjci  were  euer  in  wehere,  men  so  of  Jjam  told, 
Whilk  was  best  bauere,  with  jjat  side  forto  hold. 
Diefa  San-  5  Saynt  Bede  sals  it  for  lore,  &  I  say  it  in  ryme, 

Walsh  man  salle  neuer  more  luf  Inglis  man  no  tymc, 


Expfdivit 
»e  a  !  imp- 
cifi'?  ^eclm- 
dum  man- 
datiim 
papas. 


jf\.FTER  Ip'is  bataile  ]>e  kyng  turned  ageyn, 
Ouer  jjat  fals  pedaile  he  ordeynd  a  wardeyn, 
|)at  held  j^am  in  suilk  awe,  jjei  durst  no  more  rise, 
Jjoigh  smerthed  of  J?e  law  he  did  |)am  justise. 
He  jared  his  '  his"  wendyng,  to  London  gan  him  rape, 
]7ider  him  com  tij)ing,  Icttres  fro  ])e  pape, 
&  bad  fat  he  suld  take  |?e  kyng  sister  of  France, 
For  Gascoyn  pes  to  make  Jjorgh  J)at  aliance, 
Not  dame  Blanche  |7e  suete,  j^at  I  first  of  spake, 
Bot  dame  Margarete,  gode  withouten  lak. 
f  ])c  pape's  maundemcnt  he  resceyued  curtasly, 
13i  tyme  ]?at  it  were  ent  he  dight  j^erto  redy, 

iiryan    de  Jay,    chiiialer  alo-  I  de  ca  mere  assigne,  <^c.  MSS. 
^e,    JJaut    mejilre  du    temple  1  Gall.  '  Dele. 

h 


Ednsardus  Rex: 


307 


In  puruclance  of  alle  as  he  had  most  to  don 

So  com  j?e  erle  Marschalle  baitand  to  London  j 

Of  Herford  j^e  erle  Umfray  also  com  he  Jjidere, 

&  ojjer  barons  of  nobley,  &  alle  samned  togidere, 

\>e  erle  for  |)am  alle  with  luf  bisouht  j^e  kyng, 

Of  poyntis  behoued  falle,  do  jjara  at  J)er  praying. 

^'  Withoute  any  delay  do  mak  |)e  purale 

**  Be  a  certeyn  day,  Sir,  jjat  pray  we  jje. 

jje  kyng  wild  his  myght  delaied  it  were  alle  weys, 

No]?eles  semand  bi  sight  his  ansuere  was  curteys. 

He  schewed  j?e  erle  Rogere  j^e  pape's  mandement» 

He  myght  on  no  manere  do  nouht  or  it  were  ent, 

Bot  he  snore  on  his  fayth,  &  certeynly  |>an  hete, 

Whan  it  were  don  in  grayth  jje  weddyng  of  Margarete, 

To  mak  \)e  purale,  it  suld  not  be  delaied, 

With  suilk  men  suld  it  be,  Jjat  })ei  suld  hald  Jjam  paied. 

So  faire  with  his  respons,  so  faithfulle  pei  bisemed 

Bo})e  erles  &  barons,  his  wordes  alle  J^ei  quemed, 

\e  erle  Umfray  |?at  was,  for  euer  tok  his  leue, 

Jje  dede  him  slouh,  alias !  tille  his  pers  it  gan  greue. 

A  HE  pape  Jjan  sent  his  bulle  '  vnt  Philip  of  France, 
J7e  curte  of  Rome  fulle  has  ordand  aliance, 
})at  Jje  kyng  Edward  suld  wed  Margarete, 
&  in  Jjat  ilk  forward,  ]?er  werryng  suld  \>e\  lete 
For  euer  in  Gascoyn  of  alle  maner  of  skille, 
Without  any  essoyn,  Philip  grantid  J7er  tille. 
Philip  for  }7at  may  mad  purueiance  rcdy, 
With  folk  of  gode  aray  to  Doner  com  in  hy, 
'  Pro^  vnto. 


Fulcra  pro- 
inissioRrgis 
&  vana. 


Bulla 
papae- 


& 


SOS  Edwardus  Rex, 

&  f^er  oure  Inglis  men  resceyued  fuUe  miry. 
Jje  barons  alle  with  blis  brouht  hir  to  Canterbiri, 
&  as  ])e  courte  of  Rome  had  ^rdeynd  |7at  spousale, 
Right  opon  Jjat  dome  he  weddid  fair  sanzfaile. 
De  niipciis  Robert  of  Wynchelse,  J?&t  corseynt  is  verray, 
Marga       Did  J)at  solempnite  opon  a  Wednesday, 
Next  ])e  lattere  fest  }7at  is  of  our  Lady. 
\e  Wednesday  formest  J?e  kyng  had  fulle  grete  hy. 
For  on  jje  morn  he  went  his  way  toward  Scotland, 
With  ille  auisement  he  did,  &  J^at  he  fand. 
Whan  he  was  in  j?e  March e,  he  saraned  his  oste, 
]7an  was  it  bot  a  parche,  &  litelle  with  \e  loste. 
For  him  self  alone  toke  fjat  viage, 
Help  asked  he  none  of  alle  his  baronage, 
l^at  was  for  \e  purale,  J)at  he  had  J?ara  hette, 
He  wild  not  do  \cx  gre,  J^at  terme  }?at  he  sette. 
jje  Scottis  wist  ]7at  wele,  &  schewed  him  \)e  vis, 
]?er  side  was  ilk  a  dele,  in  poynt  to  wynne  Jje  pris. 
Boldely  Jjei  bed  bataile  with  visage  fulle  austere, 
\e  kynge's  side  gan  faile,  for  he  had  no  powere. 
Ferrere  mot  he  nouht,  Scotlond  forto  se, 
pat  tyme  no  J»ing  he  wrouht,  bot  spendid  his  mone. 
\q  marche  vnder  Avardeyn  he  left  als  it  was  ore. 
Unto  ])Q  South  ageyn  he  went,  &  did  no  more. 
Whi  Jjat  he  not  sped,  ]?is  skille  mot  it  be, 
With  hauelon  })am  led,  to  mak  Jjc  purale. 


Prima  ra- 
cio. 


Secunda. 


Edwardus  Rex.  309 

X  HE  kyng  after  j^e  Pask  his  messengere  sent,  menS S 

For  ]je  bisshopes  askis  to  com  to  \iq  parlement,  Londone. 

For  erles  &  barons  at  London  suld  it  be, 
Four  *  knyghtes  be  soraons  chosen  in  ilk  counte. 
1  First  |)e  nemnid  alio  J^e,  J^e  purale  suld  make, 
J»at  jjorgh  jje  reame  suld  go,  j^e  boundcs  forto  stake. 
Whan  it  wer  brouht  tille  ende,  &  stabled  &  sette, 
To  gyue  J^e  penie  tuentende  \q  kyng  j^er  Jjei  hette. 
?  }7is  was  jje  tojjer  reson,  men  j^an  suld  \)e\  jare 
For  J>e  lond  of  Gascon,  to  Rome  forto  fare, 
To  wite  at  {je  pape,  why  he  mad  delay, 
Jje  tyme  he  wild  not  rape,  no  set  a  certejn  day, 
fiat  Edward  suld  haue  j^e  lond  of  Gascoun, 
His  seignorie  to  saue,  als  it  was  resoun, 
f  Now  was  J^is  jje  J?ridde  of  Jjat  parlement,  Tercia, 

For  chance  ]7at  him  bitidde,  jje  kyng  })us  J^am  bisent. 
**  1  praie  jow  in  j^is  nede,  to  help  me  with  jour  oste, 
*'  ]?e  Scottis  on  me  bede,  I  wild  abate  }jer  boste. 
To  maynten  his  par  tie  ]7ei  hete  to  help  liim  wele. 
He  aiorned  jjam  to  relie  in  \e  North  at  Carlele, 

After  Midesomer's  tide  jjorgh  comon  ordinance, 

No  lenger  suld  J^ei  bide,  bot  forth  &  stand  to  chance. 

Norreis  &  Surreis,  |)at  seruise  auht  Jje  kyng, 

With  hors  &  herneis  at  Carlele  mad  samnyng. 

J^e  erle  Marschalle  Rogere  no  hele  J)at  tyme  mot  haue, 

He  went  with  his  banere  Sir  Jon  j^e  Segraue, 

To  do  alle  ]io  seruise  ]7at  longed  ])e  office  tille, 

&  mayntend  alle  ])q  prise,  jjer  he  sauh  lav/e  &  skille. 


P/-0,  knyghtes. 


%^Q 


310  Edwardus  Rex, 

5  fe  quene  Margerete  with  childe  |?aii  was  sclie, 

Thomas*fi       ^^  ^^"^  ^^^  ^^^  "°*  ^^*^'  ^^^  ^^^  ^^  ^^  North  cuntre 
lius  Regie.       Unto  Brotherton,  on  wherfe  J^er  scho  was 

&  lighter  of  a  sonne,  ]?e  child  hight  Thomas. 

Whan  \iQ  kyng  herd  say,  sho  had  so  wele  farn, 

*  j?ider  he  went  way,  to  se  hir  &  hir  barn, 

&  with  hir  he  soiorned,  tille  sho  was  purified, 

Jjan  eft  agayn  he  turned,  &  tille  his  ost  hied. 

J7e  quene  with  hir  sonne  at  Cawod  leues  she, 

Tille  tyme  com  eftson  on  Ouse  fulle  esp, 

Ait  Karlele  is  J^e  kyng  with  erles  &  barons, 

J^er  jjei  mad  spekyng,  to  renne  on  j^er  felons. 

Bot  som  of  jjam  \)dX  ware  conseild  oj^er  manere, 

J)orgh  pastours  forto  fare,  for  bestes  to  lardere. 

Men  said  J^er  were  inowe  in  mores  &  in  medis, 

**  &,  if  je  wille,  we  mowe  of  bestis  do  gode  nedis. 

\>e  cuntre  herd  it  seie,  ]>&  folk  of  ilk  a  schire 

Had  jjer  bestis  awcie  ]7orgh  mede  &  f'orgh  mire, 

J>at  no  strange  man  knewe  ne  myght  so  go, 

J?er  to  ])e  rayiie  bigan,  &  flowand  bank  &  bro. 

Jt  ran  doun  on  ]>e  mountayns,  &  drenkled  ]7e  *playnes, 

Sir  Edward  sauh  ])o  '  paynes,  &  tok  j^e  gate  agayn, 

J7C  more  *  h  forsoke,  |)e  fote  men  ilk  a  flok, 

A  pouere  hamletc  toke,  J^e  castelle  Karelauerok. 


'  Ly  Reis  vers  Escoce 
son  chemyn  rep  rent,  La  Rey- 
ne    one    son    fiz    a    Cawode 


atent  Sure  Owse  la  ryuer 
asscz  esement,  MSS.  Gall.  *  F. 
playn.     ^  Sic.     4  L.  he. 

In 


Edwardus  J^ex,  311 

In  alle  J^is  grete  pres  praied  \ie  kyng  of  France, 

])e  Scottis  suld  haf  pes  |?otgh  Edward  sufferance* 

Vnto  }?e  messengere,  |?at  Philip  to  him  sent, 

He  gaf  \q  treus  a  jere,  &  j^an  to  London  went. 

Feyntise,  \\])i  duellyng,  on  mornes  long  to  lie, 

Surfeyte  in  euenyng,  &  luf  of  licchorie, 

Affiance  of  feloun,  of  enmys  haf  pite,  ' 

AVille  without  resoun,  conseile  of  wise  men  fle, 

Wynnyng  forto  hold,  &  gyue  not  largely, 

|?e  Bretons  men  of  told,  forsoke  suilk  party. 

Of  Arthure  men  say,  jjat  rede  of  him  in  pas, 

Alle  tynies  in  medle  euer  more  first  he  was 

Mornyng  &  euenyng,  sobre  &  honest. 

Felons  Jjat  wild  him  greucj'or  enmys  jjat  mad  chest, 

Als  he  was  worjji  had  he  jugement. 

Had  he  of  non  merci,  for  praiere  no  present. 

At  conseil  &  at  nede  he  was  a  skilfulle  kyng, 

So  curteis  of  non  men  rede,  ne  prince  of  more  praysing 

Was  non  in  Cristendam,  als  he  was  in  his  tyme, 

Ne  suilk  on  jit  non  cam  Jjat  man  may  mak  of  rf  me. 

I  told  50 w  {'is  resoun,  &  for  ensample  sette, 

If  j^e  kyng  wild  haf  don  J)e  purale  als  he  hette, 

Jjorghout  Inglond,  enselid  &  with  scrite, 

Bi  tyme  had  mad  Jjat  bond,  &  drawen  it  not  o  lite, 

It  had  bien  his  heires  prowe,  j^e  lond  had  bien  alle  his, 

Long  tyme  or  now,  j)at  now  in  auenture  is. 

|)e  date  a  })ousand  was,  &  ]ire  hundred  euen, 

At  Lincoln  \)e  parlement  was  in  Lyndesay  &  Kesteuen. 


At 


turn  apud 
Liucolne. 


313  Edwardus  Rex, 

Pariiamen-      At  be  Pask  afterward  his  parlement  set  he, 
\e  gode  kyng  Edward,  at  Lyncoln  his  cite. 
At  Sant  Katerine  hous  \e  erle  Marsclialle  lay, 
In  ]7e  brode  gate  lay  Jje  Brus,  erle  was  he  |jat  day. 
J?e  kyng  lay  at  Netilham,  it  is  ]>e  bisshope^s  touK. 
&  o]?er  lordes  j^er  cam  in  |7e  cuntre  vp  &  doun. 
f  Erles  &  barons  at  J7er  first  samnyng, 
For  many  maner  resons  pleyned  of  J^e  kyng, 
fiat  ])e  purale  did  not  als  he  snld, 
Ne  J?er  chartre  ^af  fre,  \e  poyntes  vse  ne  wuld, 
Ne  suffre  J?am  to  hold,  j^at  \e  chartre  of  spake, 
Jjorgh  mayntenours  bold,  |?e  poyntes  alle  J?ei  brake, 
jit  \ei  said  him  tille,  his  ministres  wasted  ]>&  lond, 
Tak  jjing  out  of  skille,  &  pay  not  with  hond. 
f  &  jit  J)ei  mad  pleynt  of  his  tresorere, 
Jjat  fele  }jinges  atteynt  he  mayntend  porgh  powere, 
Fordos  vsages  olde,  &  lawes  of  J^e  chekere, 
*'  Of  many  has  it  bien  tolde,  to  ]7e  we  pleyn  vs  here, 
*'  Him  for  to  remue  j^orgh  comon  assent. 
*'  Assigne  it  for  more  prow  at  ]>is,  parlement, 
*'  j^at  can  J?at  office  guye,  &  do  jje  right  vsage, 
**  ]7at  no  man  thar  eft  crie,  for  wrong  &  outrage. 
f  ))e  kynge's  ansuere  was  smert,  &  said,  *'  I  se  '  Jjhe  wille, 
"  Jjorgh  pride  of  hert,  reuile  me  with  vnskille, 

Rfsponsio       *'  &  so  lowe  me  to  chace,  myn  officers  to  change, 

"  &  mak  )7ara  at  jour  grace,  Jiat  were  me  ouer  strange. 
"  It  is  non  of  jow,  ]?at  he  ne  wille  at  his  myght 
"  Haf  sergeanz  for  his  prow,  withouten  oj^er  sight, 

•  Sic. 

*'  Salle 


Regis 


Ednsardus  Rex* 


313 


"  Salle  no  man  put  Jjorgli  skille  his  lord  lowere  ]7au  he, 
"  Ne  I  ne  salle  no  wille,  to  while  I  kyng  salle  be. 
*'  If  any  of  mya  mad  strife,  or  tak  }?ing  not  right, 
**  Stiward  or  balife,  schewe  j^er  wrong  J^orgh  sight : 
"  ]7at  wrong  I  wille  so  mende,  if  jjat  it  be  atteynt, 
"  |?at  non  thar  com  no  sende  to  courte  to  mak  eft  pley nt. 
5  '  "  {^e  chartre  I'orgh  resoun  &  ])e  purale 
*'  pei  for  do  my  croune,  if  jjei  granted  be, 
"  ])e  whilk  je  salle  &  ouh,  to  maynten  with  me 
"  To  mak  it  lesse  no  louh,  ne  peired  salle  it  be. 
**  Of  ]7is  I  grant  to  morn,  {)at  je  trie  j^is  jjing 
**  With  sex  &  tuenti  suorn,  if  I  to  jour  askyng 
**  May  acorde  right  wele,  ])e  coroune  forto  saue 
*•  Dismembred  not  a  dele,  jour  askyng  salle  je  haue. 
"  A  no)?er  I  am  withoute  of  penie  in  tresorie, 
*'  In  lond  withouten  doute  salle  help  me  a  partie. 

X  HE  wisest  of  ])e  clergie,  with  erles  &  barons, 
Togider  went  to  trie  of  j^er  peticions. 
Jjo  sex  &  tuenti  jede,  Jjat  were  suorn  Jjer  tille. 
Of  ilk  doute  &  drede  Jjci  said  &  set  j^e  skille, 
Discharged  wille  J^ei  be  of  ])e  grete  oth  j^ei  suore, 
Perille  for(o  fie,  ])e  poyntes  were  so  store. 
Jje  sent  ageyn  &  said  to  kyng,  '^  it  was  no  haunte 
*'  Of  certeyn  sette  &  laid,  to  trechet  J?er  conaunte, 


Consilia 
inter  se  fe- 
ceruflt. 


Dicta  ba* 
roDiuiu 


'  La  chattre  des  fraunchises 
-&  du  puraler  DefFrount  ma 
coroune,  .si  ieo  les  day  graun- 
ter.  La  quele  ouesk  moy  vous 
deuez   en   moy   susporl,   Qele 


ne  soit  blamye  par  prise  ne 
par  prier.  Par  qai  ieo  vous 
graunte,  le  drait  examiner 
Par.  sxvi.  descrez,  qe  voysent 
iorer,  ^c.  MSS.  Gall. 

«'No 


314  Edicardus  Re:t, 

"  No  title  prince  no  kyng  it  is  no  maner  told 
"  To  mak  eft  lokyng,  ne  derae  Jjat  dere  was  soldi 
*'  Sir,  fairere  Jje  wore,  graunte  vs  j^i  curteysie, 
"  }7an  parties  pinched  more,  jje  auantage  set  so  bie^ 
**  J7at  J70U  may  gyue  with  right,  whan  |jou  wille  &  how, 
*'  |?at  salle  not  be  jjorgh  sight  demed  of  lesse  ])an  Jjou. 
"  Put  ])e  not  so  louh,  to  deme  ])i  power  fre, 
**  jeld  vs  Jjat  ]7ou  ouh,  &  we  salle  luf  |je, 
*'  &  serue  \>e  we  wille  alle  at  |)in  avis, 
**  &  help  ]>e  at  skille,  to  renne  on  I^in  enmys. 
Non  vuii     f  He  sent  J?am  bode  ageyn,  schortely  to  say  &  here. 

Rex  adqui-       ,  .  •  •        ±  -i  ' 

escere  per  prayerc  was  in  veyn,  to  ese  pam  in  no  manere ; 

uum?  ^^°'     His  wille  &  his  anise,  Jjat  he  asked  certeyn. 
])ei  5ede  be  partise,  disputed  ])er  ageyn. 
J)e  parties  wer  so  felle  altercand  on  ilk  side, 
J)at  non  ]fe  soth  couth  telle,  whedir  pes  or  werre  suld  tide, 
Bot  God  jjat  is  of  myght,  &  may  help  whan  he  wille. 
For  for  hope  ]>e  parties  dight,  &  put  Jjam  in  ]?is  skille, 
J)at  or  Michelraesse  J^ei  suld  reise  to  Jje  kyng 
}?e  fiftend  penie  no  lesse,  for  jjer  Chartre  selyng, 
&  for  ])e  purale,  set  with  certeyn  bounde, 
Jjorgh  }?e  lond  said  be  delaied  no  lengere  stounde, 
Oir}?at  jjei  grantid,  &  abate(d  alle  Jjer  Jjro, 
Whan  J)e  kyng  wild  ]?am  calle,  to  Scotlond  suld  fei  go. 
?  jit  our  ■  messengrs  for  Gascoyn  were  at  Rome, 
Foure  lordes  fulle  fers,  to  here  ]>e  pape's  dome, 
J)er  foure  at  Rome  ware,  to  areson  j^e  pape, 
)?e  right  forto  declare,  &  for  J^e  parties  so  schape, 

V   '     "  ••        •  •  II  I 

'  Sic. 

To 


I 


Edreardus  Rex,  SI 5 

To  whom  \q  right  suld  be  of  Gascoyn  euer  &  ay, 
&  jjorgh  his  decre  \e  pes  pronunce  a  day. 
\>e  pape  Boniface  tok  Philip  messengers, 
&  oars  in  o  place,  sette  ))am  to  mete  als  pers, 
&  preched  to  I?am  alle,  als  ])ei  sat  in  fere, 
"  Lordyng  |)us  salle  falle,  as  I  salle  say  here. 

JVIEN  say  in  jour  tuo  londes  ere  men  of  grete  resoun,  Ecceq.ae 

papa  dixit 

"  &  wele  vnderstondes,  &  knowes  J?er  enchesoun.  Nunci  s 

Franciae  & 

'•  \o  ilk  men  so  wise  suld  go,  «Sc  enforrae  jour  kynges,        ArgUae. 
'*  Withouten  rao  justise  or  trauaile  of  oj^er  lordynges. 
"  jjerfore  gos  ageyn,  &  tille  jour  kynges  say, 
"  Bot  J»ei  with  luf  certeyn  acorde  in  euen  way, 
"  &  if  ^ei  ne  do,  be  Saynt  Petir  of  Rome, 
*'  Our  courte  salle  ordeyn  so  on  j^am  so  hard  dome, 
*'  At  J?e  next  feste  f'at  comes  of  S.  Andrew, 
"  J?at  |?ei  &  alle  J^er  geste  ]7at  dome  salle  doute  &  rew. 
5  ])a  messengers  \e\  jedc,  bare  J^ei  with  J?ara  no  more, 
I  turne  ageyn  to  rede  of  ])e  parlement  we  spak  ore. 

X  HE  kyng  gaf  his  sonne  at  be  parlement  Rex  dedir 

vY ales  in  to  wonne,  &  Chestre  shire  to  rent.  0iio  suo. 

'  Mustrelle  &  Pountif,  J)at  er  bijond  J?e  se, 

Prince  he  was  vp  rif,  &  erle  also  was  he. 

Of  him  J7at  held  |7er  londes  bei  mad  him  alle  homage, 

To  Scotlond  now  he  fondes,  to  redy  his  viage. 


e  les  homages  prent,  S^c.  MSS. 
Gall. 


•  Et  Pountif  &  Monstroyl. 
le,  one  lonour  qe  apent,  Le 
fiz  &  [yelcsf]  Prince  &  Count, 

Vol.  U.  (s  With 


316 


Edwardus  Rex* 


Nuncius 
papae  ep- 
scopus  de 
Spolete  ve- 
nit  ad  Re- 
gem. 


With  ]>ntti  |?ousand  WalsU  redy  at  his  banere, 

Erles  &  barons  als,  boJ?e  knyght  &  squiere 

AUe  com  to  Carlele,  to  conseil  how  were  best. 

To  passe  ]>e  Scottis  se  wele,  to  tak  to  ward  jje  West. 

His  fader  also  jede,  &  chefe  J?e  Est  side, 

At  Berwik  opon  Tuede,  his  ost  did  })er  bide. 

A.LS  }jei  were  alle  plenere  to  coiinseil  &  to  schape. 

So  com  a  raessengere  fro  Boniface  }?e  pape 

Jje  bisshop  of  Spolete,  with  a  newe  ordinance. 

A  nojjer  him  gan  mete,  coraand  fro  Jje  kyng  of  France, 

I  herd  neuer  telle,  for  what  raancr  discert, 

}jer  on  I  most  nede  duelle,  tille  it  com  out  aperte. 

?  '  J)e  kyng  has  ]>e  letter  in  hand,  to  trowe  J^at  J^ei  said, 
J»e  werryng  in  Scotland  now  is  delaied  &  laid. 
Ho  com  to  Linliscow,  &  did  j^er  crie  his  pes, 
&  teld  his  barons  how,  Jjat  nede  behoued  him  ses. 
SiJ?en  he  &  his  sonne  turned  toward  ])e  South, 
J?e  Marche  als  it  was  wonne,  keped  wardeyns  couth, 

f  ]7e  turned  to  London,  of  J?e  treus  to  speke, 
&  feyj?ly  J)erto  bondon,  on  no  manere  to  breke.' 
Unto  jje  terme  for  told,  of  Saynt  Andrewmesse, 
Jje  pape  did  him  hold,  with  gode  sikernesse. 
]>e  pape  set  |?at  terme,  for  his  hopyng  was, 
Jje  pes  Jjei  suld  afferme,  for  drede  of  hardcre  kas. 


'  Resceu  ad  ly  Reis  la  let- 
tre  de  creaunce,  Et  ly  messa- 
gers  enteudu  la  sustaunce. 
^a  gA\ere  sur  Escoce  ad  mys 


en  suffraunce,  A  Lynliscou 
reuent,  son  fiz  saunz  tari- 
aunce,^c.  MSS.  Gall,  nisi  quod 
saunz  desit  in  Cod,  Anstisiano. 


Edwardus  Rex, 


317 


'KyNG  Philip  of  France  bad  erle  William 
A  cheson  for  a  chance,  I  ne  wote  whi  it  cam. 
Charles  to  William  hette,  he  suld  him  sauely  lede 
Unto  Jje  parlement  sette  ageyn  withouten  drede. 
Whan  William  was  comen,  &  wende  no  trcsoun, 
Sone  was  he  nomen,  &  don  in  prisoun. 
Now  is  JTe  erle  })us  schent,  bondon  in  iren  &  stele, 
Philip  to  Flandres  sent,  &  sesid  it  ilk  a  dele, 
&  mad  suilk  wardeyns  in  his  name  to  be, 
Destroied  at  J7e  geyns,  jjat  }3ei  mot  find  or  se, 
Defoules  J^er  wyues,  ]?er  douhtres  lay  bi, 
Jjer  lordes  slouh  with  knyues,  of  fo  had  })ei  merci. 
f  Jje  tonnes  spak  of  jjis,  |?e  folk  gadred  aboute, 
To  renne  on  jje  Frankis,  ])e\  samned  gret  ronte. 
jjei  folowed  on  }?am  hard  fjorgh  out  f»at  cuntre, 
Jjat  Frankis  &  Pikard  alle  were  fayn  to  fle. 
J>o  Jjat  fleih  jjei  ferd  ynto  })e  kyng  of  France, 
fe  kyng  he  it  herd,  tak  he  wille  vengeance. 
Of  knyght  &  of  burgeis  an  oste  he  did  relie, 
Bitauht  it  }»e  erle  pf  Arteys,  fat  oste  forto  guye. 
He  did  Jier  no  prow,  he  was  first  was  doun> 
*  A  fonle  herlote  \\im  slowc,  trnt  for  his  renoun  ; 
&  o{?er  withouten  numbir,  Jjer  names  I  may  not  telle, 
Alle  ]?ci  jede  tille  eiicumbir,  &  er  went  to  Helle. 


Bellum  in- 
ter Fran- 
ciam  & 
Flandriam. 


'  Luy  quens  Gyllam  de 
Flaundres,  vers  qi  conteUr 
cioua  Ly  Rey  de  Fraunce 
aueit,   par    sodayn   achesoun, 


Vilement  estait  trahy  par 
Charloun,  ^c.  MSS.  Gall. 
*  Un  ribard  !i  tuayt  saunz 
confessioun,  Gall. 

G  2  'Of 


i 


318^ 


Edwardus  Rex* 


Peticio  pro 

>Scottis 

facta. 


'  Of  Huneys  er  I^ei  dene,  Pikard  &  Burgoilloun, 
Of  Bascel  &  Viene,  of  Braban  &  Bretoun. 
I^at  tyme  no  at  a  nojjer  had  \>e  Frankis  no  foisoun, 
j^ei  &  alle  ]>e  fof>er  Jje  Flcmmynges  laid  J^am  doun. 
fiat  schame  has  jit  non  ende,  no  jjat  vpbraidyng, 
|?at  on  France  salle  lende,  for  falsnes  of  \)ex  kyng. 
Now  salle  we  turne  ageyn  tille  our  owen  lessouii, 
Whan  Charles  courte  is  pleyn,  I  gyue  it  my  malisoun. 

f  jje  date  was  euenlik,  a  Jjoiisand  fre  hundred  «fc  too, 
*  Whan  ]?e  erle  of  Karrik  turned  ]>e  Scottis  fro.  . 
Sir  Umfrey  Boun  \>e  kyng  his  wife  wedded  |7at  jerc 
Edward  douhter  j^e  kyng,  Elizabeth  })at  clere. 
In  alle  j^ise  spekynges  men  jede  J^at  wer  wise 
Bituexen  J^ise  tuo  kynges,  Jjat  no  coutek  suld  rise, 
Bot  contene  forth  ])c  trew  vnto  \q  Pnske's  terme 
Fro  l^e  Saynt  Andrew,  so  long  J)e  pes  to  afterrae. 
Of  J7is  j^e  kyng  of  France  praied  Sir  Edward, 
|?at  with  his  sufferance  &  leue  in  forward 
Suffre  |?e  Scottis  to  go,  ]7at  men  fiat  he  for  sent. 
])e  kyng  tille  alle  J)o  gaf  leue,  &  \ie\  alle  went. 

I  For  perille  of  suilk  goynges  ]?e  kyng  purueied  to  go, 
Sir  Jon  of  Hastynges  he  was  first  of  J^o, 
&  Sir  Emery  \e  Brette,  to  '  Goscoyn  forto  wende, 
To  bide  \ie  terme  sette,  Jje  treus  how  it  suld  ende. 


'  Ne  Normaund,  ne  Pi- 
k.ard,  ne  ly  Burgylloun,  Ne 
Vieiiays,  ne  1  ascle,  ne  Bra. 
banj  ne  Bretouns,  t^c  MSS. 
Gall.  *Le  Count  de  Kar- 
jfyk    k'S    Escotz    wcrpist  As 


genz  le  Rey  Edward  de  gre 
se  rendist.  Ly  quens  Vum- 
fray  de  Boune  eel  an  a  fem- 
me  priat  La  fyile  al  Rey 
EdAvard,  Elizabeth  est  dist, 
4-c.  Gall.    J  S;c. 


Edwardus  Rex\ 


319 


"  j^e  Inglis  men  were  wone,  to  wery  long  trayne; 
Of  bataile  better  cone,  lite  was  alle  j^er  payne. 
Dishonour  haf  jjei  ay  of  |?er  long  respite, 
I  spak  Jjis  for  a  day,  ])e  Scottis  assailed  ]7ara  tite, 
f  Oar  men  in  Scotland  with  sautes  sodeynly. 
J!»e  Segraue  myght  not  stand,  Sir  Jon  tok  the  gayn  s(ie. 
His  Sonne  &  his  broj^er  of  bedde  als  ]>c\  woke, 
&  sextene  knyghtes  o]7er,  ])e  Scottis  alle  j^am  toke. 
Sergeantz  wele  [jritty  alle  ;^ald  |)ara  |?at  while, 
On  l^ei  slouh  smertly,  Sir  Thomas  dc  Neuile. 
Sir  Rauf  j^e  Coffrers  I^at  tyme  was  Tresorere, 
He  was  on  of  J^er  pers,  his  life  was  alle  in  wehere. 
He  bed  grete  catelle,  his  lif  forto  saue, 
Sir  Symon  ]>e  Frcselle  Jiat  ilk  catelle  suld  haue. 
Synion  was  austere,  to  Rauf  spak  fulle  grim  : 
"  \>ai  mad  \)e  Tresorere  |?ou  has  desceyued  him, 
**  &  me  &  many  mo,  fro  our  wages  jede  quite. 
*'  Sir  Rauf  ]?ou  resceyued  jjo,  bi  taile  &  bi  scrite, 
"  \io\x  did  vs  more  trauaile,  ilk  man  Jjou  reft  his  wage, 
**  Now  salle  I  wite  ]?e  taile,  &  put  ]>e  in  \>e  Arerage, 
*'  Of  preste  J)ou  has  no  merke,  albe  ne  non  amite, 
*'  Bot  laced  in  a  hauberke,  \b\  is  no  clerkis  abite. 
*'  For  alle  Jjo  clerkes  of  Rome,  J)at  sing  in  kirk  or  rede, 
**  Jjou  salle  haf  \i  dome,  als  Jjou  serued  in  dede. 


De  fuga 
Joh  Liniis 
Segrntie  & 
occisione 
Anglonim. 


'  Nos  Englays  crioums, 
laschesse  sait  maldist,  [f  e/,  soit 
maudit]  Kar  qaunt  al  tnelz 
ferir,  [t)e/,  a  meuz  ferrir,] 
plus  auoms  delit.  Deshonour 
nous  Teent  [vel^  vynt]  &  pert 


par  respit,  Jeo  parle  pur  le- 
scot,  qe  laltrere  assayllist,  Nos 
Englays  en  Escoce  par  as- 
saut  subit.  Sire  Jon  de  Se. 
graue  son  chemyn  reprist,  Sfc. 
MSS.  Gall. 

G  3  'A 


320  Edwardus  Rex. 

'  A  boye  fulle  pantencre  lie  bad  a  suerd  Jjat  bote, 
He  stirtc  vnto  \e  Cofrercj  his  handes  first  of  smote, 
&  fro  J^e  body  his  heued  a  dynt  |)an  did  jjc  cleue. 
His  wcrryng  so  he  ieued,  at  amies  he  tok  leue. 

Contra-      j[]v^  ^lle  bis  mykelle  frape  wex  a  I'rete  distance 

rietas  facta  -^  r  ^  ^  » 

inter  pa-     Qf  Bonifacc  be  pape,  &  be  kyn<;  of  France. 

pam&  Re-  i     r   i    7         i        >    o 

gein  Fran-  jjg  j^yng  said  &  did  crie,  J?e  pape  was  bcretike 
Usure  &  symoiiie,  &  synne  sodoraike, 
Errid  mislyuyng,  haunted  Maumetrie, 
Wastid  kirkis  })ing,  &  lyued  in  bugerie, 
&;  was  worf^i  to  schende  boj^e  soule  &  lyf, 
To  die  withouten  ende,  fis  mad  J^e  kyng  vp  ryf. 
Pape  Boniface  herd  telle  of  }?at  crie, 
He  did  bifor  his  face  com  holy  |7e  clergie, 
To  conseil  what  were  best  for  J'at  vilanie, 
J>at  \iQ\  ageyn  him  kest,  said  on  him  heresie. 
|)is  conscile  alle  ]>d  said,  "  lat  it  jil  rest  &  slepe, 
"  |>is  fame  of  50W  is  laid,  *  ]>o  Avise  men  jjat  were  ^epe, 
*'  Wite,  if  he  wille  avowe  alle  his  wikked  sawe, 
*'  Or  amend  &  bowe,  \qi  on  behoues  vs  drawe. 
Jje  pape  on  }?at  couenaunt,  he  said,  he  wild  so  wirke, 
jje  amendis  if  he  wild  graunt  to  God  &  holy  kirke ; 
&  if  he  wild  nouht  com  to  amendement, 
Alle  France  suld  be  brouht  tille  encumberraent, 
])orgh  comon  enterdite,  &  }?orgh  croiserie, 
Als  lond  ))at  is  alle  quite  fro  God  on  ilk  partic. 

'  Le     Cofrere     vn    riband  I  mayns  ly  copayt,    la  teste  ly 
maintenant        saisist,        Les  |  partistjc^-c.  M/S'/S'.Cra^/. 'JP.JTO. 

After 


Edxscardus  Rex, 


32r 


After  salle  ^e  here  \>e  ende  of  J>is  folic, 
Turne  we  tille  our  matere,  &  on  our  gest  to  bie. 
jjedate  a  }7oiisand  was,  J)re  hundred  mo  bi  |?re, 
Jje  kyng  did  grete  trespas,  diffamed  ]?e  pape's  se. 

AN  \>e  next  somerestide  Sir  Edward  bad  has(e, 
No  lenger  wild  he  bide,  Scotland  for  to  waste. 
Conseil  he  had  of  on,  a  brigge  be  suld  do  wrihte. 
Botes  &  barges  ilkon,  with  flekes  mak  ]?aiu  tighte, 
jje  Scottis  se  to  passe,  if  ]?at  be  had  nede. 
J?er  passage  neuer  ore  wasse,  he  rode  ouer  on  his  stede, 
jje  Scottis  sauh  him  com,  fleand  fast  Jjei  ^ede. 
Mores  &  raountayns  nom,  bifore  J^ei  dryue  for  drede. 
f  J?e  kyng  did  parte  his  oste,  to  sprede  in  parties  sere, 
West  alle  bi  j^at  coste  jede  |?e  erle  of  Hulnestere. 
'  }?e  kynge's  oste  at  gesse  in  ])q  Est  mad  lardere, 
Of  touL  s  &  hamelesse,  of  granges  &  garner, 
More  &  mededid  rynce,  wod  &  playn  he  brent. 
\)e  same  way  ])e  prince  destroied  J^er  be  went, 
So  fer  Northward  be  ferde,  \>q  Scottis  io  chace. 
Of  Inglis  no  man  herde,  Jjat  euer  kyng  had  ]?at  grace. 
So  fer  baner  to  here,  &  suilk  oste  forto  lede, 
No  wasted  with  no  werre,  jje  cuntres  gan  ]?am  drede, 
Sane  kyng  Athelstan,  J^at  wastid  alle  Catenesse. 
SiJTen  was  no  man,  Jjat  so  fer  mad  stresse, 


Devastat'iQ 
Scottorum. 


Dividebat 
turmam 
suain  circi- 
terScociatn, 


'  Luy  Rey  vers  lorient 
enprent  son  aler,  Hamelez  & 
villes,     graunges    «&    gerner, 


Et   playnes     e    Toydes,    par 
tote  fet  arder,  Sfc.  MSS.  Gall. 


Q  4 


332  Edwardus  Rex. 

\>e  tounes,  )?e  countes^  l^e  foreyns  alle  abontc, 
To  ]>e  kyt»g  ftlle  on  knes,  liis  poweredid  l^am  loute^ 
Un  to  his  pes  j^am  jald,  feaute  did  Lira  suere, 
Treuly  with  him  to  hald,  non  armes  ageyn  him  here. 
f  Be  \ia.i  |?e  werre  was  ent  wyriter  was  |?er  jare, 
To  Dounfgrmelyn  he  went,  for  rest  wild  he  J^are. 
For  ]>Q  quene  he  sent,  &  scho  did  digtit  hire  chare, 
Fro  Cawod  scho  glent,  to  Dounefermelyn  to  fare. 
Jje  lord  of  Badenauh,  Freselle  &  Waleis 
Lyued  at  theues  lauh,  eiier  robband  alle  weis. 
J?ei  had  no  sustenance,  |?e  werre  to  mayntene, 
Bot  skulked  opon  chance,  &  robbed  ay  bituene. 
jjei  com  vnto  ])q  kyng,  for  pes  if  it  mot  tide, 
Opon  Jjer  askyng,  he  iorned  ]?am  to  bide. 
Men  bred  for  f)at  iorne,  j^ei  suld  haf  had  ]7e  pes, 
For  eft  })aH  suld  men  se,  bigyn  alle  new  jje  res. 

J.N  J)at  jere  ft  sais,  ])q  pape  had  grete  despite 
l^orgh  ]7e  *  Columpneis,  Cardinalles  of  habite. 
}?ei  were  born  xxi  Rome  alle  j^e  Columpneis, 
IpaX  kynde  bare  j?e  blome,  riche  ijien  &  curteis. 
Men  said  alle  |7at  kynde  had  nvhilom  |?e  dignite. 
If  clerke  of  J^am  niygiit  fynde,  pape  suld  he  be. 
Jjus  J7an  was  \ie  sawe  whilom  in  ]7at  cite, 
\ii  pape  fordid  }7at  lawe,  j^e  skille  can  I  not  se. 


•  '  See  Platina  cle  vitis  Pontiji.  \   Voyage  of  Italy,  Part  I.  p.  246. 
cum  Rom.  p.  231.  Col.Agrip.  I  Paris  1670.  Ed.  2d. 
M.DC.xxvi.SeelikewiseLassels's  | 

Cardi- 


Edtscardus  ReJ:. 


Cardinals  were  J7ei,  ]je  pape  did  J^am  doun, 

&  exiled  j^ani  awey,  &  mad  distructiouii 

Of  londes  &  feez,  )jer  kastcls  doun  he  cast, 

&  alle  }?er  dignitez,  ne  lengere  suld  ])ei  last, 

Grete  was  Jjat  linage  &  many  to  J?ara  cheuedj 

&  of  Jjat  ilk  outrage  ]>e  fast  J?ana  sore  agreuedi 

l^at  ]>e  pape  did  |?am  reuile  of  j?o  in  Rome  \>at  wore^ 

Went  vnto  Cezilc,  Jjore  help  ])ei  fond  wele  more. 

j?e  kyng  of  France  |)idere  sent  ]>am  help  inouh, 

|7er  kynde  &  ])e'i  togidere  vntille  Anayne  )jei  drouhi 

j^er  l^e  Columpne  kynde,  J?e  pape  forsoth  J)ei  toke, 

Tresore  ]7at  J7ei  mot  fynde,  with  |)ara  away  |?ei  schoke. 

'  Tuo  days  j?e  pape  withoulen  mete  lay, 

}e  ]7rid  day  com  grete  frape,  &  conged  him  away. 

Of  alle  l^at  grete  tresoure  J?at  euer  he  biwan, 

AIs  bare  was  his  toure  as  Job  ])e  pouere  man. 

Men  sais  he  gaf  pardoun,  assoiled  ]7am  of  pyne, 

})at  with  deuocioun  brouht  him  brede  or  wyne- 

Grete  pite  it  was,  Jjat  J^e  hede  of  Cristendam 

Suld  for  any  trespas  take  so  foule  a  schara. 

Wele  I  wote  alle  frayed  he  went  fro  j^at  cite 

Vnto  Rome  mispayed  to  }?e  pape's  se. 

He  cursed  J?e  kyng  of  France,  &  alle  }jat  with  him  held, 

jjat  did  him  |)at  mischance,  ageyn  him  reised  scheld. 

He  lyued  bot  j^re  days,  &  died  sone  J?ei  said, 

J)e  soner  for  jjat  affrays,  at  Petir  kirke  is  he  laid. 


Destructid 
Coliimpno- 
rum  per  pa- 
pain Boni- 
faciumu 


*  Le     Pape  saunz    viaunde  i  suruenaunt  le  terce  iour  issist 
fi).  il.  iours  en  s libit,  Par  eyde  |  [i?e/ assit]  MSS.  Gall. 


334 


JSdieardus  Re^t, 


Absoluti 
lunt  per 
Benedic- 
tum  papam^ 


JM  OW  haf  we  bulle  certeyn,  a  newe  pape  Bcnet^ 
J)at  calles  \ex  ageyn,  Jjat  Boniface  set, 
Assoyles  alle  bi  name,  J^o  robbours  J^orgh  grace, 
J?at  did  despite  &  scliame  to  pape  Boniface. 
Who  may  now  in  Rome  haf  any  sikernesse, 
Jjat  jjer  is  hiest  dome,  &  jit  vncerteyn  es  ? 
|?at  Boniface  bond  with  sentence  so  brim,  ] 
Eft  men  Benet  fond,  ]>ai  he  assoiled  him, 
?fota  bene.  I  '  He  is  folc  J)at  affies  in  }je  courte  of  Rome, 
Comes  a  nojjer  &  bies,  &  fordos  j?at  dome. 
Pur  quante  posse  dare,  what  J?ing  &  how  mykelle, 
Pur  fare  Sf  defare,  Rome  is  now  fulle  fikelle. 
Turne  we  now  ojjer  weys  vnto  our  owen  geste, 
&  speke  of  ))e  Waleys,  Jjat  lies  in  }pe  foreste. 
In  fe  forest  helendes  of  Dounfermelyn, 
He  praied  alle  his  frendes,  &  ojjer  of  his  kyn, 
After  J^at  jole  jjei  wilde  biseke  Edward, 
\)2ii  he  mot  him  jelde  tille  him  in  a  forward 
J?at  were  honorable  to  kepe  wod  or  beste, 
&  with  his  scrite  fulle  stable,  &  seled  at  jje  lest, 
To  him  &  allehise  to  haf  in  heritage, 
&  non  o)jer  wise,  als  terme,  tyme  &  stage, 


De  Willel 
moWaleys 


*  Molt  est  sotz  &  fous,  en 
Rome  qe  ceo  fist.  Pur  quant 
posse  dare,  a  graunt  &  a  petit, 
Par  fare  &  par  defare,  Rome 
nus  derist,  Ho  la  de  choses 
par  de  ca  dalyer  nous  suffist, 
in  the  French  Copy  that  be- 


longs to  the  Heralds  Office, 
but  in  Mr.  Anstis^s,  Mult  est 
fort  &  fous  en  Rome  qe  ceo  fit, 
Pro    quante    posse    dare,     a 


grant  &  a  petit,  Bo  la  de 
chose  par  de  cea  dalier  nous 
fit, 

Bot 


Edwardus  Rex, 

Bot  afs  a  propire  Jjing,  jjat  were  conquest  tille  him. 
Whan  \id  brouht  fat  tijjing,  Edward  was  fulle  grim, 
&  bitauht  him  |je  fende,  als  his  traytoure  in  lond, 
&  euer  ilkon  his  frende,  f^at  him  susteynd  or  fond. 
Jjre  hundreth  marke  he  hette  vnto  his  warisoun, 
Jjat  with  him  so  mette,  or  bring  his  hede  to  toun. 
Now  flies  William  Waleis,  of  pes  nouht  he  spedis, 
In  mores  &  inareis  with  robberie  him  fedes. 


XXERE  now  how  J^ei  sped,  \)e  Scottis  in  his  niiercie, 

^e  Freselle  first  fled,  out  taken  on  \>ex  partie. 

Tuo  jere  out  of  Kith,  in  strange  rearae  suld  be, 

|je  })rid  suld  he  haf  ;grith,  ageyn  to  haf  his  fe, 

J)e  tojjer  alle  suld  haue  boj^e  lif  &  lymmes, 

&  ]?er  tenement  saue,  bot  raunson  of  Jjam  nunn  es., 

Raunson  suld  Jjei  gyue  after  |?er  folie, 

&  in  his  pes  to  lyue,  &  haf  \>ci  raanauntie. 

Sijjen  in  Jie  Lenten  tide  he  went  to  Saynt  Andrew, 

About  on  ilk  a  side,  did  crie  his  pes  alle  new. 

J7e  bisshop  of  Glascow  ]7e  clergie  alle  out  ches, 

)?e  best  men  &  trew,  &  com  vnto  Jje  pes. 

J)e  kyng  was  so  curteis,  he  granted  j?ara  Jjer  wille, 

Saue  ]>e  araendes  he  sais  raunson  for  J7er  ille, 

&  suld  be  bot  right  bifor  J?e  baronie, 

&  at  \q  comon  sight  of  stile  ]7er  clergie. 


After 


326  Edxeardus  Aex. 

SieSuJl      After  Je  Pask  sone  ])e  kyng  did  make  alle  jarc^ 
*y°*  |?at  ))is  oste  were  bone,  to  Striiielyn  to  fare. 

Whan  f»ei  were  alle  comen^  jjei  ^ede  about  to  se, 
How  it  mot  be  nomen,  &  J)e  engynes  set  suld  be. 
Thrittene  grete  engynes,  of  alle  ])e  reame  ]>e  best, 
Brouht  J^ei  to  Striuelyne,  ])e  kastelle  doun  to  kest. 
Tqo  knyghtes  were  J^er  in,  ])e  castelle  had  in  warde,- 
Sir  William  of  Depplyn,  Sir  AVilliam  Olifarde, 
'  &  tuenti  of  honour,  without  page  &  portere, 
&  a  frere  prechoure,  a  monke  J^e  conseilere. 
J>er  was  with  in  J?rittene  rtiaydens  &  ladies^ 
&  no  mo  men  to  mene,  ]>a,t  felie  to  telle  of  pris. 
An  engyn  bad  |Jei  jjer  in,  &  profred  for  to  kast, 
])e  jerde  brast  in  tuyn,  to  help  mot  it  not  last. 
J)e  engyns  with  oute,  to  kast  were  ]?ei  sette, 
Wallis  &  kirnels  stoute,  Jje  stones  doun  bette. 
5  J>e  kyng  did  mak  right  gare  an  hidous  engyn, 
]>e  name  l^ei  cald  Ludgare  or  Lurdare  of  Striuelyn. 
Whan  ]?ei  kest  j^erto,  ]>e  walle  J7orghout  jjei  clef, 
&  non  ojjer  did  so  bifor  him  alle  doun  dref. 
jjre  monethes  &  ])re  days  Jje  sege  so  long  Jjei  teld, 
Fulle  &  hard  afiVays  had  alle  ])o  Jjat  it  held. 
Sore  Jjei  were  trauailed,  &  socour  com  J»am  non, 
&  alle  fier  store' failed,  jjer  mete  was  nere  gon. 
Tille  jjer  kyng  ))ei  sent,  }?ei  wild  be  at  his  wille, 
Bot  he  wild  not  consent,  he  Jjouht  to  do  Jjam  ille. 


*  Et.     XX.    gentyls  homes,  I  frere    Jacobyn,    th    moygne 
saunz    pages   &    porter,    Un  I  counsayller,  MSS.  Gall. 

'So 


Edwardus  Rex, 


327 


'  So  long  was  Jje  trayne,  or  it  wer  brouht  to  stalle, 
It  were  to  me  grete  payiie,  forto  telle  it  alle. 
I  wote  wele  at  jje  last  alle  com  }?ei  oute, 
Withouten  conaunt  cast,  tille  his  mercy  gan  loute. 
Boldely  J>ei  camen,  &  schewed  J)am  to  his  face, 
Felle  it  to  gode  or  grame,  J^ei  did  Jjam  in  his  grace. 
|je  castelle  now  is  golden,  \>e  kyng  dos  wardeyns  wise, 
To  kepe  J?e  lond  &  dres,  ]}e  folk  forto  justise. 
jjc  lond  was  so  wast,  he  mad  |?er  no  soioure, 
Tille  Inglond  in  hast  he  turned  with  honoure., 

I  j?e  moneth  of  September  golden  was  Striuelyn, 
Edward  may  remembre  ])e  trauaile  &  ]>e  pyn. 
With  many  grete  encumbre  of  in  hard  stoure, 
At  Brustwik  opon  Humbre  |?er  he  mad  soioure. 
Sir  Jon  of  Warenne  |?at  ilk  tyme  gan  deie, 
His  body  was  redy  }>en  in  graue  forto  Leie. 
After  ]ie  enterment  J^e  kyng  tok  his  way. 
To  ])e  South  he  went  ])orgh  Lyndesay. 
He  spired  as  he  jede,  who  did  suilk  trespas, 
Brak  his  pes  with  dede,  tille  he  in  Scotlond  was. 
Of  suilk  suld  be  spoken,  if  men  of  ]?am  pleyned, 
])o  J>at  J)e  pes  had  broken,  if  Jjei  mot  be  atteyned. 

?  *  Wise  men  of  gode  gaf  ansuere  to  ]>e  kyng, 
fat  suilk  foles  gode,  it  was  certeyn  j^ing, 


I 


'  Taunt  fust  la  traine 
longe  de  la  pees  parler,  Ke 
ioe  ne  say  ne  pusse  la  maite 
recorder,  MSS.  Gall.  »  Re- 
spouns  ount  fet  al  Reiz  gentz 
de  bien  Toillauncej    Coment 


par  my  la  tere  fet  est  graunt 
greuaunce,  Par  commune 
contekours,  qe  sunt  par  fi- 
aunce  Obligez  ensemble  a 
Tue  purueaunce,  Traylba- 
stouns  sunt  Qomez  de  eel  re. 
tenaunce. 


328  EdwardusRex, 

{jorgh  l^e  lond  is  don  suilk  grete  greuance, 

Bot  it  be  mendid  son,  a  werre  may  rise  o  chance. 

J)ise  contekours  whidere  }jei  assigned  a  stede  jjat  es, 

&  J)er  Jjei  com  togidere  &  mak  a  sikernes, 

Jjat  |?ei  salle  alle  gOj  io  whom  or  where  ]?ei  wille, 

To  robbe,  bete  or  slo,  ageyn  alle  raanere  skille. 

J7ei  profere  a  man  to  bete,  for  tuo  schilynges  or  \xt, 

With  piked  staues  grete,  beten  salle  he  be. 

In  feire  &  markette  Jjei  salle  seke  him  oute, 

Alle  I^e  lond  is  sette  with  suilk  foles  stoute. 

If  a  chapman  wille  not  lene  of  his  merchaundie, 

In  his  hous  for  tene  fiei  do  him  vilenie, 

Or  els  he  be  at  one  largely  to  gyue  of  his, 

Els  j^ei  salle  him  ilkone  bete  him  J)at  he  pis. 

For  men  of  suilk  maners,  bot  J^er  be  sora  justise, 

Sone  in  for  jers  per  chance  a  werre  salle  rise. 

}>e  kyng  herd  alle  ]?e  fame,  ])c  pleynt  of  ilka  toun, 

&  gaf  |7am  a  newe  name,  &  cald  f»am  Traile  bastoun. 

Jje  date  was  a  J^ousand  J)re  hundred  mo  bi  fine, 

Suilk  men  jjorgh  }?e  land  he  did  )7am  tak  bilyue. 

X  HE  kyng  |)orgh  })e  lond  did  seke  men  o  resons, 
&  with  ]7e  juslise  J)am  bond,  to  site  oTi  Trailebastons. 
Som  Jjorgh  quest  \)t\  demed  be  bonden  in  prisons, 
&  jjo  J?at  fled  J)ei  flemed  als  Jje  kynge's  felons. 


tenauncc.  En  faires  &  en 
marches  se  profrerent  [yel 
proferent]  fere  couenaunce, 
Pur.  iij.  souz  ou.  iiii,  cu  piir 


la  vayllaunce  Batre  vn  prod- 
home,  qe  vnqes  fist  nosaunce, 
4-c.  MSS.  Gall. 

Sora 


Edwardus  Rex.  329 


Som  men  out  }?e  kast  of  lond  was  holden  wrong, 

Fals  conenantz  J^ei  brast  Jjorgh  powere  holden  long, 

&  som  gaf  raunson  after  |)er  trespas, 

Als  }?e  dede  was  don,  so  Jje  amendes  was. 

Bot  men  did  amend  suilk  folic  openly  knowen, 

Non  suld  J?am  defend,  ne  dur  wonne  in  Jjer  owen. 


Jhesu,  whan  ]70U  wille  how  right  wis  is  Jji  raede  ?  De  cap. 


Clone 


\dX  of  Jje  wrong  has  gilt,  J^e  endyng  may  ^ei  drede.  Wiiieimi 

William  Waleis  is  nomen,  ]?at  maister  was  of  theues, 

Tijjing  to  |?e  kyng  is  coraen,  |)at  robberie  mischeues. 

Sir  Jon  of  Menelest  sewed  William  so  nehi, 

He  tok  him  whan  he  wend  lest,  on  nyght  his  leman  bi, 

]7at  was  J?orght  treson  of  Jak  Schort  his  man, 

He  was  J)e  encheson,  |?at  Sir  Jon  so  him  nam. 

Jak  brojjer  had  he  slayn,  Jie  Waleis  }jat  is  said, 

}je  more  Jak  was  fayn,  to  do  William  J)at  braid. 

Selcouthly  he  endis  )?e  man  fiat  is  fals, 

If  he  trest  ou  his  frendes,  ]?ei  begile  him  als 

Begiled  is  William,  taken  is  &  bondon. 

To  Inglond  with  him  ]7ei  cam,  &  led  him  vnto  London, 

\&  first  dome  he  fanged,  for  treson  was  he  drawen. 

For  robbrie  was  he  hanged,  &  for  he  had  men  slawen, 

&  for  he  had  brent  abbeis,  &  men  of  religion. 

Eft  fro  \e  galweis  quik  ))ei  lete  him  doun, 

&  bouweld  him  alle  bote,  &  brent  Jjam  in  Jtc  fire, 

His  hede  |jan  of  smote,  suilk  was  William  hire ; 

&  for  he  had  mayntend  fje  werre  at  his  myght. 

On  lordschip  lended  jjore  he  had  no  right. 


330 


Edwardus  Rex, 


&  stroied  \oxq  he  knewe,  in  fele  stede  sers 
His  body  j^ei  hewe  on  foure  quarters^ 
To  hang  in  foure  tonnes,  to  raene  of  his  maners 
In  stede  of  Gonfaynounes,  «&  of  his  baners. 
Cowede     I  At  London  is  his  heued,  bis  quarters  ere  leued,  in  Scoi 

Waleys. 

land  spred, 
To  wirschip  ]7er  iles,  &  lere  of  his  wiles,  how  wele  })at  h^ 

sped. 
It  is  not  to  drede,  traytour  salle  spede,  als  he  is  worjii, 
His  lif  salle  he  tyne,  &  die  jjorgh  pyne,  withouten  merer 
|7us  may  men  here,  a  ladde  forto  lere,  to  biggen  in  pays  ; 
It  fallis  in  his  ije,  })at  hewes  ou"er  hie,  with  ]?e  Walays. 


Rege  Scot 
lor  urn. 


n^Ii°sro?      ^^  William  haf  je  herd,  how  his  endyug  was, 
Now  of  kyng  Roberd  to  telle  30W  his  trespas. 
Als  Lenten  tide  com  in,  Cristen  man's  lauli , 
He  sent  for  Jon  Comyn,  }pe  lord  of  Badenauli ; 
To  Dounfres  suld  he  come,  vnto  Jje  Minours  kirke, 
A  spekyng  }?er  Jjci  nom^,  \e  Comyn  wild  not  wirke, 
Ne  do  after  |?e  sawe  of  Roberd  \g  Brus. 
Away  he  gan  him  drawe,  his  conseil  to  refus, 
Roberd  with  a  knyue  ]!»c  Comyn  jjer  he  smote, 
f'orgh  whilk  wounde  his  lyue  he  lost,  wele  I  wote. 
He  gcde  to  ]?e  hie  autere,  &  stode  &  rested  him  |7orc, 
Com  Roberde's  squiere,  &  wonded  him  wele  more, 
For  lie  wild  not  consent,  to  reise  no  folic, 
Ne  do  als  he  ment,  to  gynne  to  mak  partie, 
Agcyn  kyng  Edward,  Scotland  to  dereync, 


De  occt- 
stune  Jc> 
hanni^ 
Cornvn. 


WitU  werre  &  balail  hard,  roue  him  his  demeyiie. 


Sir 


Edwardus  Re:t.  331 

Sir  Jon  "wild  not  so,  |?er  for  was  he  dede. 

Bot  Roberd  wild  do,  &  oj^er  Jjat  gaf  him  rede, 

jjat  he  suld^o  to  Scone,  &  mak  redy  jje  se, 

&  whan  it  were  alle  bone,  to  tak  j^e  dignite. 

*  })e  garland  Roberd  tok,  Jiat  whiloni  was  ]>&  right, 

Jje  lond  forto  loke,  in  signe  of  kynge's  myght. 

Primatis  bisshopes  tuo  j^o  with  croice  &  ryng, 

&  an  Abbot  mo  of  Scone,  j^at  dubbid  \e  kyng, 

Erles,  barons  inowe  mad  him  j^er  feaute. 

With  oth  lie  did  ji^am  bowe,  at  his  wille  to  be, 

&  alle  Inglis  men  did  he  woyde  ])e  lond, 

})at  |?ei  mot  fynde  or  ken  in  stede  Jjer  he  ]7am  fonde. 
f  Now  gos  J7e  Brus  about,  werre  he  |?inkis  to  hold, 

J7e  Inglis  ]>(i  katched  out,  to  J7e  kyng  jje  told. 

Edward  )jan  he  toke  folk  with  his  banere, 

\>(i  erle  went  of  Penbroke,  his  name  was  Sir  Eymere. 

&  ojjer  men  fuUe  gode,  barons  &  barons  pere, 

At  tyme  wele  \ei  stode,  &  did  |?er  deuere. 
5  l^e  date  was  a  j^ousand,  J^re  hundred  mo  bi  sex, 

Whan  ]7e  werre  of  Scotland  jjorgli  |7e  Brus  eft  wex. 


*  Et  la  gerlaunde  i  prist, 
qe  Reis  solait  porter,  En 
signe  de  seignorye  a  son  en^ 
coronner,  E  mayntenaunt 
apres  par  tut  fist  crier  Citez, 
burgs  &  villes,  des  Englays 
voyder.  Euesqes  deus  estoy- 
ent  primatz  au  [yel  a]  dubber 


Oue  le  abbe  de  Scone,  qe 
pays  lachata  cher,  [yel  le 
chata  chier,]  Countes  &  ba- 
rouns,  chiualer,  esquier,  Du 
realme  descoce  estoynt  [pel 
estoyent]  conseyller,  Jurez 
en  eyde  al  Breus,  par  tere  & 
par  mer,  S;c.  MSS.  Gall. 


Vol.  II.  H  Jn 


332 


Dc  solem- 
pnitate 
festi  Rrgis 
apud  West 
monaste- 
rinm. 


Edxeardus  Rex, 

In  I?1s  jere,  als  I  told,  at  |)e  Whitsonen  day, 

])e  kyng  his  fest  suld  hold  at  Westmynstre  fulle  gay, 

His  Sonne  Edward  ]>q.  prince,  &  fiftene  for  his  sake, 

fre  '  hundred  of  jje  prouince,  knyghtes  wild  he  make. 

It  was  |7e  kynges  costage,  for  ilk  a  knyght  was  gest, 

Also  jjei  mad  mariage  of  som  \dX  were  Jje  best. 

J^e  ^ong  erle  of  Warenne  with  grete  nobley  was  )jare, 

A  wif  *  l^ei  him  bikenne,  J^e  erle's  doubter  of  Bare. 

\)e  '  erle  of  Arundelle  his  londes  lauht  he  J^an, 

&  toke  a  damyselle,  William  doubter  of  Warenne. 

gong  Sir  Hugh  was  ))arc,  j^e  Spensere  stoute  &  gay, 

Gilbert  doubter  of  Clare  wedded  be  J?at  day. 

It  is  not  to  wene,  bot  certeynly  to  witeu, 

Joye  inouh  is  sene,  })er  suilk  a  fest  is  smyten. 

In  alle  Breteyn  was  nouht,  sij'en  Criste  was  born, 

A  fest  so  noble  wrouht  aflere  no  biforn, 

Out  tak  Carleon,  }7at  was  in  Arthure  tyme, 

Jrare  he  bare  ]?e  coroune,  )?ereof  jit  men  ryme. 


*  Others  say^  that  the  whole 
number  then  knighted  was,  tzco 
hundred  threescore  and  seven. 
See  Dugdale's  Baronage,  Tom. 
I.  p.  80.  b.  *  Dugdale  observes 
(loc.  cit.)  that  John  E.  of  War- 
ren,  having  an  offer  made  unto 
him  by  the  King,  in  his  Cham- 
ber at  f'Vestminster,  in  Parlia- 
ment,  upon  Munday  next,  be. 
fore  the  feast  ofS.  Edward^  King 


and  Martyr,  33  Edw.  I.  of  Joan, 
Daughter  to  Henry,  Earl  of 
Baar,  gratefully  accepted  there, 
of  (he  being  not  then  fully 
twenty  one  years  of  age)  and 
took  her  to  wife.  JLe  Count 
de  Aroimdel,  saisie  de  ses  feez, 
II  prist  la  damoisele,  ki  [yel 
qe]  pere  fu  clamez  Willam 
de  Warenne,  a  dieu  coniaun- 
dcz,  MSS.  Gall. 


The 


Edwardus  Rex. 

A  HE  prince  after  J)e  fest  sone  liis  leue  toke, 
With  jolif  men  of  gest  toward  ]7e  North  he  schoke, 
To  chace  kyng  Robyn,  where  he  rayght  him  fynde, 
}?at  slouli  ])e  gode  Comyn,  destroie  him  rote  &  rynde. 
His  fader  Edward,  North  mad  his  jorne. 
Him  toke  a  sekenes  hard,  at  '  Laynertost  lay  he. 
Bot  Jhesu  ]7orgh  his  myght,  blissed  mot  he  be, 
Reised  him  vp  right,  &  passed  J^at  hage. 
*  ]7er  after  ros  hard  schoures  in  Scotlond  of  j^e  clergie, 
Bisshops,  abbotcs,  &  priours,  ])d  had  misborn  j^am  hie, 
&  alle  ]?at  fals  blode,  }?at  often  was  forsworn, 
]7at  neuer  in  treuth  stode,  sen  Jhesu  Criste  was  born. 
f  Sire  Eymere  of  Valence  lay  at  Saynt  Jon  toun, 
In  his  alienee  with  many  erle  &  baroun. 
Of  Scotlond  |?e  best  were  J7an  in  his  feith, 
\iex  ]>e\  gan  alle  rest,  tille  j^ei  herd  o]?er  greith. 
Sir  Robert  J^e  Brus  sent  to  Sir  Eymere, 
&  bad  he  suld  refus  ]?at  him  had  forsaken  ilk  a  pantenere. 
J7e  traytours  of  hise  ]7at  him  had  forsaken 
]?ei  suld  to  l^e  Jewise,  whan  J^ei  ])q  toun  had  taken. 
\e  tojjer  day  on  ]7e  morn  com  ]>g  Brus  Roberd, 
Jje  toun  wist  it  bcforn,  J)orgh  spies  Jjat  jjci  herd. 
Sir  Eymere  wild  haf  gon  out,  Sir  Ingram  Ymfreyuile 
Preid  him  forto  lout,  tille  it  were  none  jiat  while. 
*'  If  we  now  out  wende,  &  leue  \e  toun  alone, 
"  jjei  gtie  ]>e  faired  ende,  &  we  be  slayn  ilkonc. 


333 


'  Lanercost  vulgo.  Et  sic 
MSS.  Gall.  ^Maiutenaunt 
apres  surdrent  [yel  sour- 
drouut]    les    dolours  As  ab- 


bes,    as   euesqes,    as   clers    & 
lays  plusours  De  la  tere  de- 
scoce  a  [yel  as]  gentz  souent 
periours,  3ISS.  Gall. 
H  2  "  Bot 


^^*  Edwardus  Re±» 

"  Bot  do  crie  Jiorgh  j^e  toun,  j^at  non  for  wele  no  wc?, 
"  In  *  stete  walk  vp  &  doun  bot  to  jjer  innes  go. 
AVhan  ])e  crie  was  cried,  walkand  was  non  sene, 
Bot  to  innes  Lied,  as  j^er  no  man  had  bene. 
])e  Scottis  perceyued  wele,  \e\  durst  not  issben  oute, 
It  neghed  nere  metesel,  f^an  rus  vp  alle  j^e  route. 
At  ]7e  liie  midday  went  ]7e  Scottis  men, 
Tuo  myle  was  l^er  way,  io  j^e  castelle  of  Metfen. 
Whan  l^ei  to  Metfen  cam,  Jjei  dight  j^am  to  j^e  mete, 
f)an  said  Sir  Ingram,  "  if  we  go  now,  we  f^am  gete. 
"  Dight  vs  now  ilk  one,  go  we,  God  vs  spede, 
*'  Leue  not  j^e  toun  alone,  \q  way  I  salle  jow  lede. 
5  On  Saynt  Margarete  day  Sir  Ingram  &  Sir  Eyraere 
Cora  on  ]7am  })er  ]?ei  lay  alle  dight  to  j^e  dynere. 
]7er  vaumward  was  sone  dight,  our  Inglis  had  mervaile^ 
jiei  were  sO  sone  at  ]ie  fight,  &  redy  to  assaile. 
J7e  Inglis  |?orgh  j^am  ran,  &  had  jje  fairer  side, 
Jje  Scottis  ilk  a  man;  j^e  lordcs  durst  not  bide. 
Here  now  a  contreuore,  jjorgh  Roberde's  avis, 
Aboucn  l^er  armore  did  serkis  &  surplis. 
Alle  J^ei  fled  on  rowc,  in  lynen  white  as  railke, 
For  non  suld  f^am  knowe,  jjer  armes  whilk  were  whilk. 
Our  men  jiat  wild  haf  dede,  bare  j^am  forth  fulle  stoute^ 
Sir  Eymer  had  no  drede,  he  serchid  Jjara  alle  oute. 
At  ])e  tirst  comyng  he  slouh  Sir  Eymere  stede 
|)at  did  Robert  J^e  kyng,  &  turned  bak  &  jede. 
Sir  Eymer  had  inowe,  J^at  horsid  him  ageyn, 
Roberte's  men  J7ei  slowe,  J)e  numbre  vncerteyn. 

'  Pro,  strete. 

})an 


Edwardus  Rex,  335 

J7an  bigan  ])c  cliace,  &  drof  ])e  kyng  Robyn, 
To  reste  had  he  no  space,  long  to  duelle  J^er  in. 
f  Jje  Freselle  |7er  he  fled,  sone  after  was  he  foiiden, 
Now  taken  he  is  &  led  vnto  |?e  toure  of  Liindon, 
J)er  his  dome  he  feyng  als  tray  toure  salle  je  witen, 
First  drawen  &  si|)en  heyng,  &  his  hede  of  smyteno 
Alias  !  it  was  to  mene,  his  vertuz  &  his  pruesse 
So  fele  in  him  were  sene,  ]7at  perist  for  falsnesse, 
His  hede  vnto  jje  brigge  to  sette  was  it  sent, 
\>e  body  lete  jjei  ligge,  &  som  jjerof  jjei  brent. 

JriERE  now  ]>e  grete  despite,  &  j^e  vilenie, 

|7at  to  ])ex  bak  gan  bite  of  Scotlond  J?e  clergie. 

f>e  bisshop  of  Saynt  Andrew,  &  ]>e  abbot  of  Scone^ 

J7e  bisshop  of  Glascow,  j^ise  were  taken  sone. 

Fettred  on  hakneis,  to  Inlond  ere  })ei  sent, 

On  sere  stedis  it  seis,  to  prison  mad  present. 

Lewed  men  &  clerkis,  Jjat  did  werre  mayntene, 

Als  theues  here  \e\  raerkis,  hanged  alle  bidene. 

Cristofore  of  Seton  many  man  him  sauli 

Hanged  for  treson  of  Jon  of  Badenauh, 

Hanged  als  j^e  Freselle,  &  in  fie  same  stede, 

]7e  erle  of  Ascetelle  j^ei  bed  \)e  same  bede. 

Saue  he  was  not  drawen,  Jjat  poynt  was  forgyuea. 

Bot  alle  with  schame  slawen,  Jjorgh  treson  jjerto  dryuen.     • 

Alias !  J^at  jentille  blode  com  to  so  ille  fyne, 

&  alle  for  falsnes  jode  to  scheme's  dede  &  pyne. 

&  wele  I  vnderstode,  jjat  J7e  kynj  Robyn 

Ha^  dronken  of  ]?at  blode  j^e  drink  of  Dan  Waryn. 

H  3  Daa 


^ 


336 


Edvrardtis  Rex, 


Dan  Waryn  he  les  touncs  }7at  he  held, 
With  wrong  he  mad  a  res,  &  misberyng  of  scheld. 
Sijjen  in  to  j^e  forest  he  jede  naked  «&  wode, 
Als  a  wilde  beste,  ete  of  j^c  gres  ))at  stode. 
Jjus  of  Dan  Waryn  in  his  boke  men  rede, 
God  jyf  ]>&  kyng  Robyn,  J^at  alle  his  kynde  so  spede, 
Btus^&^  °  5  Sir  Robynet  ])e  Brus  he  durst  nour^  abide, 
circa  fit.         J'at  jjei  mad  him  restus,  bot  in  more  &  wod  side. 

Towhile  he  mad  yis  trayne,  &  did  vmwhile  outrage, 
Cora  Arthure  of  Bretayne,  &  asked  his  heritage. 
Holy  Richemond  schire  he  cleymed  ]?at  |?orgh  right, 
Kyng  Edward  our  sire  him  ansuerd  fulle  light. 
He  had  so  light  ansuere,  ]?at  Arthure  tokc  his  leue, 
God  schilde  vs  fro  j^e  werr«,  ]7at  non  with  olper  greue. 
Whan  Arthur  was  gon,  Ipe  kyng  did  alle  a  nofjer. 
He  gaf  it  to  Sir  Jon,  Sir  Arthure's  bro]:)er, 
Holdand  of  him  in  fe,  als  whilom  was  vsage, 
Of  Sir  Edward  fre,  &  of  alle  his  linage. 
j^e  duke  of  Bretayn  with  fulle  heuy  chere 
Passed  ouere  agayn,  fulle  light  ansuere  had  here. 


De  comife 
Sritanniae. 


De  Thoma 
&  Alexan- 
dro,  fratri- 
bus  Roberti 
Brus,  & 
capcione 
eorum. 


JN  OW  of  kyng  Robyn  salle  I  jit  speke  more, 

&  his  brof)er '  Tomlyn,  Thomas  als  it  wore, 

&  of  Sir  Alisandere,  }>at  me  rewes  sore, 

jjat  hope  com  in  skandere  for  dedes  ]?ei  did  J)ore. 

Of  arte  he  had  pe  raaistrie,  he  mad  a  coruen  kyng 

In  Cantebrige  to  J)e  clergie,  or  his  broj^er  were  kyng. 


'Site  Thomas  de  Breus/or  Tomlyn,  Thomas,  in  the  Fr. 


Si])en 


Edwardus  Rex.  337 

Si]?en  was  neuer  non  of  arte  so  jjat  sped, 
Ne  bifore  bot  on,  jiat  in  Cantebrigge  rcJ. 
Robert  mad  his  fest,  for  lie  was  J)oie  f'at  tyme, 
&  he  sauh  alle  J^e  gest,  j?at  wrote  &  mad  j)is  ryme. 
Sir  Alisander  was  hie  dene  of  Glascow, 
&  his  broj^er  Thomas  jed  spiand  ay  bi  throw. 
Where  our  Inglis  men  ware  not  in  clerke  habite, 
&  Ron  wild  he  spare,  bot  destroied  also  tite. 
}?orgh  |?e  kyng  Robyn  |7ei  ^ede  j^e  Inglis  to  spie, 
Here  now  of  \iex  fyn  j^ara  com  for  Jjat  folie. 

A  SERGEANT  of  Galweye,  his  name  was  Makedowel, 
On  Askwednesday,  whan  raesse  was  don  ilk  del, 
Sursante  he  j^am  mette,  als  J)ei  fro  kirke  cam, 
|7er  way  he  J^am  withsctte,  smertly  j^ore  f'am  nam. 
He  did  J)am  fettre  wcle,  streilly  &  right  hard, 
&  sent  jjam  to  Carlele  vnto  kyng  Edward. 
|7e  kyng  wele  paied  was,  he  sette  jiistise  of  lawe, 
Demed  J)e  Brus  Thomas  bo])e  to  hang  &  drawc. 
Sir  Alisander  ]>&  same,  &  after  j^er  hangyng, 
Bojjc  bi  o  name  hede  |?ara  bad  j^e  kyng. 
f  ])e  pape  Boniface  wrote  in  his  sexte  boke,  ^'o*^,  bene. 

What  clerke  felle  to  haf  grace,  for  what  cas  men  him  toke, 
Whilk  clerke,  for  what  trespas,  where  men  snld  him  saue, 
&  where  he  taken  was,  what  habite  on  suld  haue, 
&  if  he  were  atteynt,  als  thef  |?orgh  felonie. 
Of  suilk  Jje  pape  mas  pleynt,  &  writes  to  fe  clergie ; 
&  if  ]?e  decretal  ne  were  ordeynd  for  j?is, 
\e  clerkes  ouer  alle  ne  rouht  to  do  amys, 

h4  \q 


S3S  Edwardus  Bex, 


M".  CCC- 
VII°. 


J^e  date  a  jjousand  was,  jjre  hundred  &  seuen, 
\)c  clergie  for  }?at  cas  held  jjam  more  in  euen. 

Pariiaiiw-n-     i5LFTER  be  Paske's  wele  bat  bise  men  were  bus  schent, 

iiim  apnd  '  '        ' 

Carieie.         jjg  kyng  at  Carlclc  held  his  parlement. 

Fro  Rome  a  Cardinalle  ])e  pape  l^ider  sent, 

To  wite  ]>Q  sothe  alle  ]>e  mariage  long  of  ment. 

If  Jje  prince  mot  haue  J)e  kynge's  doubter  of  France, 

]>e  acorde  &  pes  mot  saue  Jjorgh  )?at  aliance, 

&  at  J7e  parlement  was  a  grete  spekyng. 

For  l^e  clergie  it  ment  of  holy  kirke's  J^ing. 

Erics  &  barons,  ilkone  it  forsuore, 

For  what  manere  resons  jit  wot  I  no  more, 

Bot  of  Jie  last  ende  of  |7er  grete  counsaile, 

To  London  suld  \q  sende  men  ]7at  niyght  auaile, 

To  speke  &  purueie  whilk  suld  ouer  |?e  se, 

j^e  sothe  to  Philip  seie,  &  sette  a  certeynte 

Of  |)at  raariage,  how  &  whan  suld  be, 

&  bate  alle  ojjer  outrage,  for  Gascoyn  do  fcaute. 

Of  alle  ])e  poyntes  spoken  j^e  parties  bifore  had  said, 

Neucr  suld  be  broken  on  payne  |?er  on  was  laid. 

&  whan  ]?e  parties  wold  mak  a  finalle  pes, 

God  grante  it  ]7am  to  hold  ]>e  con  ant  |?at  \ie\.  dies. 

DeRoberto  5  git  gos  kyng  Robyn  forth  in  his  vioteric, 

inovtejo-       Ne  com  not  git  his  fyn  to  ende  of  his  folic. 

\Vaieis.  Bot  Sir  Jon  de  Walcis  taken  was  in  a  pleyn, 

J)orgh  spiyng  of  Norreis,  men  J?at  were  certeyn, 

Fettred  on  a  hakeney,  &  to  London  led, 

lo  bring  him  sone  on  wey,  j^e  justisejjerto  sped. 


Als 


Edwardus  Rex,  ^39 

Als  his  dedes  was,  J)er  on  Jjei  gaf  ]>e  lawe, 

For  som  of  his  trespas  first  J)ei  did  him  drawe. 

SiJ^en  for  ojjer  theft,  J^ei  hanged  him  men  witen, 

SiJ^en  lete  him  doun  eft,  &  his  hede  of  snyten, 

&  born  to  London  brigge  fulle  hie  with  outheys, 

Biside  his  bro|?er  to  bigge  William  j?e  Waleys, 

j?at  neuer  had  pite  of  Inglis  man  no  weys, 

Bot  brent  toun  &  citez,  kirkes  &  abbeys, 

Chanon,  monk  &  frere  alle  passed  j^orgli  his  suerd, 

Was  no  man  so  dere,  to  dede  ])ei  jede  in  ferd. 

Blissed  be  ))ou  God,  f>at  jjou  in  erth  cam, 

J?i  word  is  wele  trod,  I  say  it,  bi  William.  Exem- 

plum. 

fou  said, «'  with  suerd  })at  smote,  with  suerd  suld  besmyten," 
Bi  ])e  Waleis  it  bote,  jje  vengeance  je  may  witen. 

A!  Jhesu,  fulle  of  myght,  fiat  alle  \)e  world  salle  deme,       De  morte 

May  no  man  lyue  so  right,  no  so  wele  him  ^eme,  wardi. 

No  so  stalworth  be,  ne  so  douhti  of  dede, 

jjat  has  powere  to  fle  ]?e  dede  j^at  is  to  drede. 

Adam  first  gan  synne,  did  jjat  God  forbede, 

Alle  we  were  him  inne,  whan  he  serued  J'e  dede. 

Siben  he  &  we  alle  com  of  him  &  Eue,  Magni  &  parvi^ 

omnes    &   singuli, 

borgh  be  dede  salle  falle,  be  we  neuer  so  leue.  reges  &  principes, 

siiperbus  &  humi- 

be  hardy  kyng  Bel  yn  be  cite  of  Rome  wan,  I's.  proth    dolor! 

'  praedam     rapit     omnia 

&  si]?en  Constantyn  &  Maximian.  s'Haba  quaedam. 

Arthure  wan  alle  France,  slouh  j)e  Emperour  of 

Rome, 
])ise  of  suerd  ne  lance  douted  dynt  no  dome. 


f'tse 


510  Edwardus  Rex, 

l^ise  kynges  men  dred,  &  alle  })e  world  jjara  knewe, 
For  alle  \ex  grete  boldehed,  ]>q  dede  jit  doun  j^am  threwe. 
Where  ere  '  ere"  now  alle  j^ise,  where  ere  j^ei  bicomen, 
J?ise  Lardy  men  &  wise  ?  ])e  dede  has  alle  Jjara  nomen. 
Among  alle  J?ise  hardie  may  Edward  our  kyng 
Be  sette  fulle  solempnelie,  &  mad  of  grete  praisyng. 
Sen  \q  dede  of  Arthure  in  Inloud  was  J^er  non, 
J?at  so  wele  stode  in  stoiire  ageyn  his  foos  ilkon. 
J»is  was  Edward,  kyng  Henry  sonne  \>e  last, 
Tijjing  haf  we  hard,  j^e  dede  him  doun  has  kast. 
Now  may  men  sing  &  say,  in  romance  &  ryme, 
*'  Edward  is  now  away,  right  has  lorn  his  tyme. 
*'  Sir  Jon  of  Badenauh,  who  salle  venge  ]>{  dede  ? 
*'  *  jje  prince  is  heire  j^orgh  lauh,  })at  to  jje  coroun  him  bedc. 
*'  He  has  mad  his  vowe,  to  slroie  j^e  kyng  Robyu, 
'*  ]?at  in  Dunfres  slowe  Sir  Joh  J7e  rede  Comyn. 
His  dede  whan  it  felle  here,  ))e  date  I  salle  jow  neucn, 
Moriebatur     Of  Cristc  a  bousand  Tere,  bre  hundred  &  seuen, 

apud  Burgh  ^  A        J   r  J 

bi  sandes.        Jq  Jje  monej?  of  July  euen  \ic.  seuend  day. 

Toward  Scotlond  to  hie,  at  Burgh  bi  sandez  he  lay, 
His  tyrae  was  no  more  sette  here  io  rcgne  in  landes, 
He  died  at  a  hamelette,  men  calle  it  Burgh  bisandcs. 

Ostensa  est  H  jjc  body  jjat  nyght  ]>cx  lay^  |?e  soule  at  Criste's  dome, 

paptE  mors  i         i         i  •     i  o  -n 

ejus  eadem      Jjc  pape  pc  toper  day  Wist  jt  in  pe  courte  of  Rome. 

nocte  per 

visionem.        \e  pape  on  pe  morn  bifor  pe  clergie  cam, 
&  teld  })ara  biforn,  \e  floure  of  Cristendara 


Dele.       *  Edward   le  fiz  |  Ke  tenuz    est    par   vowe,    le 

Was 


Edwardus  Rex,  341 

"Was  dede,  &  lay  on  here,  Edward  of  Inglond* 
He  said  with  heuy  chere  ia  spirit  he  it  fond. 
Fiue  jere  he  gaf  pardoun,  of  peyns  to  be  fre, 
J7at  for  him  with  deuocioun  said  pater  &  aue. 
To  Waltham  ])ei  him  brouht,  baronage  «&  ]>e  clergie. 
For  raonethes  for  him  wroulit  liis  seruise  solempnelie. 
j?ei  bawmid  his  body,  tresore  wild  f)ei  non  spare, 
])e  pouere  J?ei  gaf  party,  his  soule  bettere  to  fare. 
Four  &  tuenty  jere,  auht  monethes  &  fiue  daies, 
Noblie  regned  he  here,  bi  profe  &  gode  assaies. 
Fro  Waltham  beforsaid  to  Westmynster  jjei  him  brouht, 
Biside  his  fadere  is  laid  in  a  tourabe  wele  wrouht. 
Of  marble  is  })e  stone,  &  purtreied  J?er  he  lies, 
fie  soule  to  God  is  gone,  to  ]?e  joye  of  paradis,  Amen. 
%  Now  must  I  nede  leue  here,  of  Inglis  forto  write, 
I  had  no  more  matere  of  kynges  lif  in  scrite. 
If  I  had  haned  more,  blithly  I  wild  haf  writen. 
What  tyme  I  left  ]?is  lore,  |je  day  is  for  to  witen, 
Idus  |)at  is  of  May  left  I  to  write  j^is  ryme, 
*  B  letter  &  Friday  bi  ix.  J)at  jere  jede  prime. 

'  It  should  be  D. 


The  End  of  Langtoft's  Chronicle. 


The 


34S 


Tlie  Certificat  of  Richarde  Pollard  and  Thomas  Moyle, 
esquyers,  generall  Surveyors  of  the  King's  Highnes  Landes, 
made  upon  the  Survey  of  the  Lordships,  Mannours, 
Landes,  Tenementes,  Woodes,  Parkes,  Fisshings,  Waters, 
and  other  hereditaments,  belonging  to  the  late  attainted 
Monasterie  of  Glastonburye,  lying  and  ieyng  in  sondry 
Counties,  hereafter  specified,  now  in  the  King's  handes,  by 
the  Attaincture  of  Richard  Whiting,  late  Abbat  of  the 
same,  of  haute  treson  attainted.  And  according  unto  the 
vew  therof  by  us  in  particular  Bokes  made  doe  declare,  as 
hereafter  doth  ensue,  videlicet. 

The  State,  Value  and  Condition  of  the  sayde  Landes, 
Woods,  Waters,  Games  of  Fesauntes, Games  of  Suannesy 
Heronsewes,  and  all  other  possessiom,  as  well  Spiri- 
tuall  as  Temporall,  apperteyning  unto  the  saide  late 
atteyned  Monastery e  q/ Glastonbury  within 


The  Countie  of  SOMERSETSHIRE. 

Temporaltles. 

The  Lordship  of  Glastonburye. 

Demaynes  kept  in  theAbhaifs  handes. 

nPHE  Demaiiies  whiche  don  apperteyne  untcv^ 
the  sa^yde  late  Monasterye  attaynted, 
beyng  allwayes  kept  in  the  handes  and  oc- 
cupation of  the  saide  Abbat  and  Convent, 
unto  the  iyme  of  th'attaincture  tlierof,  over 
and  besydes  certayn  other  Demayne  Landes,  i 
letton  to  divers  persons  by  Indenture  for  terme 
of  thcire  lyves,  (the  parcells  vvherof  in  the 
particular  Boke  of  Survey,  at  this  present 
tyme  therof  made,  severally  don  appere)  ar  of 
the  yerely  value  of  J 


Rentes  ff  Assise  and  Customary  Tenannts. 

The  Rente  of  Assise  of  the  Freholders  ap- 
perteyniiiguntothe  saide  LordeshipofGlaston- 


XLVII  11. 
xs.  viiid. 


kuryp, 


344 


Survey  of  the  Estates  helonging 


burye,  allwaj^s   payable  at  the  Feasts  of  th'  I 
annunciation  of  oure  Ladye,  Mydsomer,  Mi-  jxxxv  s. 
chelmas  and  Christmas,  is  of  the  yerely  value  \  yid.  ob. 
of 

The  Rente  of  Customarye   Tenannts  and"j 
Copiholders   apperteynyng    unto   the    saide  fccLxiili. 
Lordeship,  with  the  Workes  and  Customes,  >^ 


ccLxiiiili. 
xi  s.  id. 


whiche  they  are  bounde  to  doe  by  the  tenure  1  05^ 
e  Landes,  is  of  the  value  of  -^ 


xvs.  vid. 


of  thcire 


Demaynes  left  oute  to  Fermes. 

The  Demaynes  apperteynying  unto  the 
saide  Lordship,  beyina:  lettto  Ferme  to  dy  vers 
persons,  for  terme  of  theire  tyves,  by  the  same 
late  Abbat  and  Convent,  long  before  his  At- 
tayncture,  with  the  herbage  of  the  Parks  of 
Norwood,  xxvi.  li.  xiii.  s.  iiii.  d.  Wyrrall 
xvi.  s.  and  Sharpham  xl,  s.  are  of  the  yerely  / 
value  of  J 


fXJAxV 


,    /XLlXll. 

Ixiis.Tiiid. 


Within  the  Parke  \ 
of  Norwood  there 
are  CLXxii.  Acres  of 
Woodde,  of  the  age 
of  XX.  yeres,  and 
heretofore  have  all- 
wayes  ben  used  io 
be  felde  and  solde 
every  xvi.  yeres 
every  Acre  thereof 
at  this  present  Sur 
veye  worth  xxs.       ^ 

Also   within 
Parke  of  Wy 
Lx.  Acres    of 
Tymbre,  estemed 
be  worth 

Also   within    tlie"^ 
Parke  of  Sharpliam 

XX 

there  are  iiii.  Acres 


Wood  and  Ti/mbre, 


\cLxxii.  li. 
xs.  vid.    ^ 


xs.     y 

n    the^ 
rrall  is  /      ^x 
ffayre  j-cciiiixli. 
ned  to  I  *^* 


pxLiiili. 
vi  d. 


Oute  of 
the  Cop- 
pices aad 
Under, 
woods,  of 
the  sayde 
Woods, 
there  may 
a  yerely 
Woodsale 
be  made, 
/not  hurt- 
1  yng  nor 
I  spoyllng 


XXX  s. 


0/ 


to  Glastonbury  Abbei/. 


345 


©f  Wood,  well  selt 
with  Okesj  Asshes 
and  Maples,  whiclie 
allweyes  have  ben 
used  to  be  felled  and 
solde  every  xiv. 
yeres,  and  every  A- 
cre  is  worth  at  this 
present  tyine  vi  s. 
viii  d. 

Also  within  the" 
same  Parke  there 
ar  cc.  Okes  fjtt 
for  Tymber,  every 
Oke  esteraed  to  be 
worth  ii  s.  -^ 


any  of  the 

Tymbre, 

or  Under- 

-LX.li.N 

Woodde, 

but  the 

sayde 

Woodes 

,xx 

allwaies 

/liii.li. 

to  conty- 

newe  as 

/ 

y 

good  as 
they  ar 
now,  to 

"xx.liy 

the  value 

J 

«f 

cccim.  iL. 
li.  ii.  s.  i  (I. 


Northwood ParTis  Wi/rrall  and  Sharpham. 


Northwood  Parke  con- 
teyrieth  in  circuite  iiii. 
raylcs,  the  Pales  well  re- 
pay red,  th'  erbage  verye 
good  and  swete,  wherein 
are 

Wyrrall  Parke  conteyn-  'I 
eth  in  Circuit  one  myle, 
and  one  quarter.  ThePales 
have  nede  to  be  repay  red, 
th'erbage  very  good  and 
ferfyle,  with  a  roning 
streme  throwe  the  same. 

The  Parke  of  Sharpham 
conteyneth  in  circuite  ii. 
long  niyles,  of  good  Meade 
and  Pitsture,  with  ii.  fayre 
Pondes  in  the  same,  wher- 
ia  are 


DCCC. 

Dere. 


Dere. 


>cLX.Dere. 


Com- 


346 


Survey  of  the  Estates  belonging 


XVI. 

myles. 


} 


Commons. 
Also  there  is  apperteynyng  unto  the  saide  Lordeship" 
one  fajre  Common,  call'd  Glaslonburi/e  Moore,  the 
Pasture  therof  is  very  fertile,  and  in  effect  as  good  as 
Meade,  wherin  the  Tenaunts  doe  common  with  theire 
Catall  at  all  seasons  of  the  yere,  and  it  conteyneth  in 
circuite 

Able  men  to  serve  the  King. 
Also  there  ben  of  Tennants  and  other  able  men,  re- 
ciaunt  and  inhabiting  within  thePrecintte  of  the  saide 
Lordeship,  beying  in  redynes  to  serve  the  King's  high 
Majestie,  when  so  ever  they  shal  be  called  upon,  to  the 
nombre  of 

Bondmen. 
Also  there  are  apperteyning  unto  the  said  Manor  cer-T 
layne  men  called  Bondemen,  whose  Bodeys  and  Goodcs  (    .... 
are  allwayes  at  the  King's  pleasure,  as  Lorde  thereof,! 
to  the  nombre  of  ■* 

Perquisites  of  Courles. 
The  Profits  commyng  of  the  Perquysites    of    the  "l  xviii. 
Courtes,  with  the  Fynes  of  Landes,  are  this  present  1-xviis. 
year,  as  appereth  in  the  Boks  of  Accompts,  J  T'iii  d. 

The  Mannour  of  Mere. 

Te  Scite  of  the  Memo 

The  Scite  of  the  saide  Manour  ys  of  an  auncyent 
Buyldyng,  having  a  fayre  large  Hall,  tli'  one  halfe 
wherof  is  covered  with  Leade,  and  th'  other  with 
Siate,  with  viii.  fayre  Chambers,  a  proper  Chapell, 
withaKitchyn,  Buttery  and  Pantrye,  and  all  other 
Howscs  of  Office  very  necessary.  Fynaliy,  theHowseis 
fitt  for  a  Man  of  Worship,  but  thayer  thereof  is  not 
very  holsome,  savyng  to  suche  as  have  contynued  long 
therein,  whereunto  are  apperteyning  iii.  fayre  Or- 
churdes,  well  replenyshed  with  frutefuU  Trees,  with 
iiii.  large  Pondes  in  them  conteyned,  full  of  all  maner 
of  Fysshe,  whiche  is  not  here  put  in  value,  untill  the 
King's  Highnes  pleasure  therin  be  knowne. 


>:; 


Customary 


to  Glastonburi/  AUbey, 


347 


Customary  Rents  and  Perquisites  ef  Courtes. 
Rent   of  Customarye    Tenauntes 
iii  d.  q.  and  Perquisites  of 
li.  iii.  s.  viiid.  apperteynyng 
allwayes  payable 


The 
f>ix.li.  VI.  s. 
Courtes.  viii. 
unto  the  saide  Mannour 


at  the  Feastes  of  th'annunciation  of  our 
Lad  ie  and  Saynt  Michell  th'archangel,  are 
of  the  yerely  value  of 

Fi/sshmg€s. 

Also  there  ys  apperteynynj^unto  thesayde  " 
Manour  on  fysshyng,  called  the  Mere^ 
whiche  ys  in  circuite  fyve  Myles,  and  one 
Myle  and  an  halfe  brode,  wherein  are  greate 
abundance  of  Pykes,  Tenches,  Roches  and 
Yeles,  and  of  divers  other  kindcs  of  Fisshcs, 
which  hathe  allwayes  ben  kept  to  the  use 
of  the  House,  and  is  worthe  by  the  yere  to 
be  lett  on  to  ferme 

Woodd'^!^, 

Also  to  the  sayde  Lordeship  there  are  ap-  " 
perteynyng.  ii.  Woodes,  wherof  one  ys 
called  Styveley  Wood,  conteynyng  fy\e 
Acres  of  th'age  of  xvi.  yeres,  every  acre 
estemed  to  be  worthe  vi  s.  viii  d.  and  the 
other  called  Westbye  Wood,  andcontayneth 
iiii.  Acres  of  th'  age  of  x.  Yeres,  at  vi  s. 
viii  d.  th'  acre,  whiche  are  not  here  put  in 
value,  for  somoche  as  heretofore  they  have 
not  ben  used  to  be  solde. 


Lxvii.  11. 
ixs.  xi  d.  q. 


xxvi  li. 
xiii  s. 
iiii  d. 


XX 

iiii.  xiii  I. 
iiis.  iii  d^ 

q- 


i^iili. 


Games  of  Swanes. 
Also  there  ys  a  Game  of  Swannes  apper- 
teynyng  unto  the  same  Water,  whiche 
were  allwayes  belonging  unto  the  sayde 
attainted  Monastery  of  Glastonburye,  and 
vewed  upon  the  Survey  to  the  nomber  of 


xLi.  Cow. 

pie. 


Game  ofHeronsewes. 

Also  there  were  vewed  at  this  present  Sur 
vey  certayne  Heronsewes,  whiche  have  all 
wayes  used  to  brede  there,  to  the  norabre 

Yol.  II.  I 


ofj 


iiU. 


Game 


348  Survey  of  the  Estates  belonging 


Game  of  Fesanntes. 
Semblablye  in  the  sayde  Woodes  there 
■were  founde  at  this  present  Survey  diverse 
Fesants,  whiche  don  alhvayes  use  to  brede 


>xvi. 


Able  men  to  serve  the  King, 


Also  there  are  of  Tenaunts,   and  other  "^ 
able  men,  recyante  and  inliabiting  within  I 
the  sayde  Lordeship,   redye  to  serve  the  >xxx. 
King,    when  so  ever  they  shall  be  called  I 
UDon.  to  the  nombre  of  J 


]■ 


Bondmen. 
Also  there  are  apperteynyng   unto  the 
sayde  Manonr  certayne  Bondernen,   Avhos 
Bodyes  and  Goodes  are  allwayes  subject  to  ^xv. 
the  King's  pleasure,  as  Lorde  thcrof,  to  the 
nombre  of 

The  Mannour  of  Weston. 

Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customary  Tenauntes, 
The  Rentes  of  Assise  of  tbe  Freholders  -j  xx    U 
and  Costoinarye  Tenaun<s,  belonginj^  unto  (iiiixiiii. 
the  sayde  Lordeship,  payable  at  the  l*eastes  f  iii  s.  vii  d. 
afore  sayde,  are  of  the  yerely  valew  of         •'  ^^• 

Perquysites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes. 

The  Perquysites  of  the  Courtes,    there - 
kept  twyse  in  ihe  yere,  with  the  La  we  dayes 
and  Fynes,     were  answered   this   present 
yere  to  the  King's  Highnes,  as  appereth  in 
the  Bokes  of  Accomptes, 

Comynon. 
Also  there  ys  a  Common  there,    called  { 
"Weston  Moore,  and  the  Tennantes  of  this  1 
Lordeship,  with  theTenauntesof  Chadsay,  cxv.  li 

maye  dryue  or    praye  from  a    Common,  I  Hi  c.  Acres    viis.  vd. 
called   Rowyng  Lake,  unto   Dower,    and  f  ob. 

the  King,  as  Lorde  of  thys  Lordeship, 
shall  have  the  Moytie  of  the  Strayes,  and 
conteynetU 

4hk 


xxi  li. 
iii  s.  x  d« 


to  Qlastoriburij  Ahbey 


349 


Able  men  to  serve  the  King. 
Also  there  are  able  men,  inhabitants  with- 
in the  Precinct  of  the  sayde  Lordeship,  be- 
yng  in  a  redjnes  to  serve  the  King,  when 
so  ever  they  shal  be  called  upon,  to  the 
nombre  of 

Bondmen. 

Also  there  are  within  the  sayde  Lordeship  1 
certayne  persons,  called  Bondemen,  whose  L^.j 
bodyesand  goodes  are  allwayes  at  the  King's  I 
pleasure,  to  the  nombre  of  ^ 

The  Mannour  of  Wrington. 
Rentes  of  Assise  and  Cusiomary  Tenaunles. 
The  Rentes  of  Assize  and  Cnstomarye  Te-  "^  xx 
nauntes  there,  with  theire  Workes,  whiche  (  i'"ii  v  li. 
they  are  bounde  unto  by  Tenure  of  theire  fvi  s.  iiii  d. 
Landes,  are  of  the  yerely  valewe  of  J  o^'  <1- 

Perquisites  of  Courles  and  Fijnes. 
The  Profites  comyng  of  the  Perquysites  of 
the  Courtes  holder 
Lawe  dayes  and  Fy; 
dite,  was  answer' 
Some  of 


omyng  of  the  Perquysites  of  -j 
en  there,  with  the  II.  greate  /  ^j^.jjj  j|^ 
Fynes  of  Landes  at  this  An-  i.,,;};  g  yfj 
'd  to  the  King,  come  to  the  I 


Wo  odes. 
Also  within  the  sayde  Manour  there  are 
dy verse  Woodcs  growing,  of  dyvers  Ages, 
as  in  tlie  particular  Boke  of  this  Survey 
fully  it  doth  appere,  whiche  are  nowe 
wortheto  besoldc  cLxxix.  li.  vii  s.  vii  d. 
whiche  allwayes  have  ben  used  to  be  solde 
every  xviii.  yeres,  owt  of  whiche  Woodes 
there  may  a  yerely  Wood  sale  be  made  of  J 

Able  men  to  serve  the  King. 
Also  within  the  sayde  Lordship  there  be 


J ^_  :UL--. 

able  men,  beying  all  in  a  rednes  to  do  the  I 

Servyce,  when  so  ever  they  shal  be  f  ^^< 


Kin 


called  upon,  to  Ike  nombre  of 


cxxxviii  II. 
xiiii  s.  xid. 
ob  d.  q. 


Bonde- 


350  SwDcy  of  the  Estates  Monging 


the -J 

bje-  >ii. 

des,  I 


'  Bondeman. 
Also  there  are  within  the  circuite  of  the 
saide  Lordeship  *  retayncBondemen,  bey 
at  the  Kinge's  Highnes  pleasure,  in  su' 
ction  and  bondage  both  bodyes  and  goodes 
to  the  nombre  of 

Coynmon. 
Also  a  Commone  there,   called  Blacke-i 
moore  and  Warmeshaw,  wberof  the  King  /  i.  myle 
ys  chief  Lorde,  and  hathe  the  Profitts  of  f  dim. 
the  dry  vyng  there  of,  and  conteyneth  ^ 

The  Mannour  of  Pylton. 
Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customary  Tenanntes, 
The  Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customary  Ten-  •»  xx 
nants,  with  their  Workes,  whiche  they  are  f  iiii  vi.  li. 
boundetodoeby  costonie  of  theirc  Tenures,  fxiii  s,  vi  d. 
arc  of  the  yerely  value  of  -'  ob.  di.  q. 

Demai/nes. 
The  Demaynes  apperteynyng  unto  the-^ 
sayde  Mannour,  now  letton  owt  by  Inden-  I 
ture  for  terme  of  ycres,  with  the  herbage  of  Vxv  li. 
( T.x  s.|  the  Parke  there,  are  of  the  yerely  va-  I 
lue  of  J 

Perguisites  of  Courles  and  Fi/nes. 
The  Profitts  ofCourtsandFynes  of  Landes, -J 
apperteynyng  unto  the  sayde  Manour,  were  I  xix  U. 
answered  this  yere,   in  the  boke  of  Ac- (  xvs.  viii  d. 
comptes,  to  the  somme  of  -^ 

Troodes. 
Also  within  the  Parke,  and  other  Woodesi 
aboute  the  Manour,  there  are  cxLvi.  Acres  | 
of  Wood,  the  pryce  of  the  Acre  xx.  s.  | 
whiche  all  way  es  heretofore  have  ben  used  ^x  s. 
to  be  feldeand  solde.     Owte  of  the  whiche 
Wood  there  may  a  yerely  Wood  sale  be 
made  of  J  ob.  di  q. 


cxxi  li. 
xix  s.  ii  d. 


?  Sic  Apogr.     *  Sic  Apogr, 


JFoocks, 


to  Glastonbury  Abbei/,  351 

The  Parke. 


Deere  of  7 


^Anntlott  S  k      ^^ 

Deere  o 
Rascall 


Deere  of  I      ^^  L^" 

Rascall    iccun.x. 


>f  the-, 
.King/. 
3  shall  f 


1:'he  Parke  tliere"" 

conteynethincir- 

cuite     iii.    long 

mjles  of  goodde  \rrrri      whereof 

pasture,  the  Pales/         '    ther  ar  of 

in    good    case , 

■wherein    are    of ! 

Dere 

Able  men  to  serve  the  Kin^. 
Also  there  be  "within  the  Precinct  of  the- 
Sayde  Lordship  able  persons,  to  doe  the  J 
Servyce  at  all  tymes,  when  so  ever  nede ; 
requyer  the  same,  to  the  norabre  of 
Bondemen. 

Also  there  be  inhabiting  within  the  sayde  -^ 
Lordeship,  certayn  servyle  and  bonde  per-  I 
sons,  totheKinge's  pleasure  in  bodye  and  f^^"^"* 
goodes,  to  the  nomber  of  J 

The  Mannour  of  Godenhay. 
Bentes  of  Assise  and  '  Customary, 
The  Rentes  of  certayne  Custuraarye  Te-  "j 
hauntes  there,  whiche  are  lett  by  Copye,  f     ..       . . 
and  not  by  Indenture,  are  of  the  yerely  va-  I  ^^"  ^'  ^'  * 
lue  of  J 

Rentes  and  Fermes. 
The  Scite  of  the  sayde  Manour,  with  the->| 
Demaynes    and    other  Customary  Landes  I 
there,  were  letton  owt  by  Indenture,   for  V-xl.  li. 
terme  of  Lyves,  and  are  of  the  yerely  value  I 
of  J 

Perquisites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes. 
The  Perquysites  of  Courtes,  Fynes  and"^ 
other  Casualties  were  ansuered  this  year,  as  >  xix  s.  x  d. 
appereth  in  the  Boke  of  accompts,  3 


Sic  Apogr. 

1 3  Woodes. 


S52  SunvTj  of  the  Estates  belonging^ 

Woodes. 
Also  there  are  appertey  ny  ng  unto  thesarae  j 
Mannour  iiii.  Woodes,  called  Erode  Oke  I 
Common,   Godlej   Moore  Common,    and  I 
Blackwars  Wood,  and  Keathe  Moore  Com- 1 
mon,  wherein  is  vnoche  fa^re  Tymbre,  and  y--  jj^ 
hathe  allwayes  used  to  be  felled  and  solde  to 
the  Tenannts  there,  and  upo.'  this  Survey 
esteemed  to  be  worthe  to  be  solvl  cLxii.  11. 
ix  s.  iii  d.  wherof  there  may  ayere' y  Wood- 1  xlv  li 

sale  be  made  of  j  xvii  s.  ixd. 

Common, 
Also  there  is  a  Common  belonging  uhto^ 
the  saide  Mannore,   called  God  ley  "Moore  I 
Common,  wherof  the  Kinge's  Highness  is  I 
chief  Lorde,  by  th'  anttaincture  of  the  sayde  V^*  myles. 
late  Monasterye,  and  the  Deane  of  Wells  j 
dothe  entre  Commyne  there,  and  it  cou- 
layneth  I 

Abk  7nen  to  serve  the  King, 


Also  there  are  inhabiting  within  the  sayde  "\ 
ordeship  of  Tennants,  and  other  able  per 

sons,  at  all  ty  mes  in  redynes,  when  so  ever ; 

shall  please  th 

are  in  nombre 


Lordeship  of  Tennants,  and  other  able  per-  I 

it  Is 
shall  please  the  King's  Highnes,  and  they  I 


Boidvieii. 
Also  there  be  recyaimte  within  the  saide -i 
Lordeship  certayne  Bondemen,  dependyng  f  . 
bothe  Bodye  and  Goodes  upon  the  King's  f  ** 
pleasure,  whiche  ar  in  nombre  J 

The  Mannour  of  Dultyng. 

Rentes  of  Assise  and  Custornarye  Tenanntes, 
The  Rentes  of  Assise  and  Custome  there,  T        ,. 
with  the  Workes  and  Customes,  whiche  they  (  ^^^. 
are  bound  unto  by  Teanure  of  they  re  Landes,  f^^i"  \ 
are  of  the  yerely  value  of  j      .  o  .  q. 


Rentes 


to  Glastonbury  Alibey. 


S53 


Rentes  of  Ftrmes, 

TheSciteofthesayde" 

Manour,  with  the  De- 

maynes     apperteynyng 

>xli. 

unto  the  same,  are  let- 

XLvi  li. 

tou  owt  by  Indenture 

ix  s.  ix  d. 

for                                   J 

ob.  q. 

The 


Perquisites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes, 
Profittes    com- 


>cxi  s.iilid. 


rayngof  the  Perquysites 

of  the  Courts  and  Fynes, 

and  other  Casualties,  are 

answered  th  is  y  ere  in  the  MMDccLxiiii  li 

Boke  of  Accompts  j  xs.  viiid.ob.q.di. 

Ahle  men  to  serve  the  King. 
Also  there  are  apper- 
teyning  unto  the  saide 
Manour  of  Tenanntes, 
and  other  able  men,  to 
the  nomber  of 

The  Mannour  of  Badcombe. 

Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customary e  Tenanntes. 

The  Rentes  of  Assise* 
and  Customary e  Te- 
naunts,apperteynyngto  | 
the  saide  Manour,  pay- 
able at  the  Feastes  of  th' 
annunciation  of  our  La- 
dye  and  Say  net  Mycha- 
ell  th  archangell,  are  of 
the  yerely  value  of 

The  Scite  of  the  same 
Manour,  with  the  De- 
may  ne  Landes,  apper- 
teynyng  unto  the  same, 
being  lett  out  by  Inden- 


XXV  li.  xi  s. 
vi  d.  q. 


Rentes  of  Fermes. 


vi  li. 
X  d.  q. 

i4 


ture, 


S54 


Survey  of  the  Estates  belonging 


ture,  for  terme  of  jeres. 

xxxiiii  li. 

are  of  tlie  yerely  value 
of 

xvii  s.  vi. 
ob. 

Perquisites  of  Couries  and  Fines. 

iThe     Profitts     com^ 

myng  of    tlie    Coartes 

there,    with   Fynes  of 

Landes  and  other  Ca-  \^^^'  *' 
sualties,  areofthe  yere-    "    * 

ly  value,  as  is  answer- 

ed in  the  bokcs  of  ac- 

compts,  of                     J 

Able  men  to  serve  the  King. 

Also  there  are  with-n 

m 

in  Ihe  precincte  of  the 

iii.  cxixli 

sayde  Lordeship  of  able 

Yiii  s.  ix 

men,  to  doe  the  King 

.XXX. 

di.  q. 

servyce,  to  the  nomber 

of 

The  Mannour  of  Melles. 

Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customary  Tenanntes. 
The  Rentes  of  Assise^ 
and     Customary      Te- 
nanntes there,  appertey- 
ijyng  unto  the  said  Ma- 
Jiour,  with  the  Wor" 
and    Customes  whiche 
they  are  bounde  to  doe 
by     Tenure    of     there 
Landes,  areofthe  yere- 
ly  value  of 


xxxvii  li. 
xviii  s. 
iiii  d.  ob. 


The    Scyte    of 


Rentes  and  Fermes, 
the-k 


aaide  Manour,  with  the 
Demaynes  apperteyn- 
yng  unto  the  same,  are 
letton  by  Indenture  for 
the  some  of 


vi  li.  tI  s. 
viii  d. 


Lxxi  li.TJiis, 
iii  d.  ob. 


P<T- 


to  Glastonbury  Abbey > 


355 


-1 

lis  ? 


Perquisites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes 
The  Profittes  of  the  Courtes,  Fynes  and  other  C;i- 
suallties,    are    answered  io  the  King's  Highness   th 
yere  at 

Able  men  to  serve  the  King. 

Also  there  are  of  able   menne  belonging  unto  thel 
same,  able  to  doe  the  King  servyce,  to  the  noraber  of /"xxx 

Bondemen. 
Also  there  be  within  the  sayde  Lordeship  certayne  >  . 

The  Mannourof  Budcleigh. 


xxvii  li. 
iii  s.  iii  d. 


Bondemen,  to  the  norabre  of 


The  Rentes  of  Assise  and  Coppye  holders  belongeing  -* 
unto  the  sayde  Manour,  with  the  Workes  and  Custoraes,  f  i^^^'^.lj' 
vvhiche  they  are  bounde  to  doe   by  tenure  of  theire  (  "*  s.yma* 
Landes,  are  of  the  yerely  value  of 


Job. 


Rentes  of  Fermes. 
TheScyte  of  the  sayde  Manour,  with  the  DemayneT 
Landes  apperteynyng  unto  the  same,  are  of  the  yerely  |-xili. 
value  of  J 

Perquisites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes ^ 
The  Perquysites  of  the  Courtes,  Fynes,  Herietts  and  T 
other  Casualties,  as  appereth  in  the  Boke  of  Accompts,  j.  y  s.  x  A 

Woodes. 


are  worthe 


Also      there     ys     a 
Woodde,  called  West- 

XX 

Wood,  conteynyug  iiii 
xiii.  acres,  well  sett  with 
Okes,  Maples,  and  Ha- 
syll,  of  th'  age  of  xx. 
yeres,  every  acre  e- 
stemed  to  be  worthe 
xiiis.  iiiid.  in  all 


\ 

\ 

Oute  of    "^ 
the  Cop- 

pices, and 
under- 

ah. 

wodes,  of 
the  saide 
Woodes, 
there  may 
a  yerely 
wood  sale 
be  made. 

Sic  Apogr.  iine  tituVo. 


Also 


356 


Survey  of  the  Estates  hehngini 


XX 

Dcciiii- 
xvii  li 
XV  s.  id, 


Also  there  is  a 
Woodde  ill  the  Co- 
moue  conteynyng  ii 
M'.  acres,  wellsettwith  ^ 
Alders,  Welhyes  and 
Okes,  whcrof  the  late  , 
Abbat  and  Convent  1 
made  a  yerely  Wood  | 
sale,  and  are  estemed  | 
to  be  worthe  J 

Also  there  ys  aA 
Grove,  called  Butles-  | 
beare,  contaynyng  xl.  l^i-  li 
Acres,  wherein  is  moche  ( 
fayre  Tymbre,  to  the  1 
value  of  -^ 


DCCC- 

-iiiixviii  11. 
xvs.  id. 


y 


y 


not  hurt- 
ing nor 
spoiling 
any  of  the 
Tymber 
lor  under- 
/wood,  but 
the  saide 
Woodes 
allwaies 
to  conty 
new  as 
good  as 
they  are 
now,  to 
the  value  of 


V    ,.    cli.ixs. 


/'L.li. 


vid.ob. 


Able  men  to  serve  the  King. 
Also  there   are  within  the   Precincte  of  tlie  saydel 
Lordeship,    certaine  Tenanntes,  and  able  men,  to  doe  r^^"'* 
the  Kinge  servyce,  to  the  nombre  of  J 

Bonde77ien. 
There  be  also  certayne  Bonde  menne  withm  the  same  1 
Lordeship,  at  the  Kinge's  pleasure,   to  the  nombre  of  ^  xvii. 

Co7nmon. 
Also  there  is  a  Common  apperteynyng  unto  the  said  "| 
Manour,  called  AUermore,  wherein  the  Coppie  holders  I 
of  the  same  Lordeship  have  fre  Common  for  their  Ca-  V-ii^niyles. 
tall,  and  are  bounde  to  drive  the  same,  and  it  conteyn-  I 
eth  in  circuyte  -^ 

The  Mannour  of  Bastesborough. 

Rentes  and  Demai/nes. 
The  Rentes  of  Assise,   Customarye  Tennantes,  and' 
Demaynes,  perteyning  to  the  saide  Manour,  are  of  the 
yerely  valew  of 

Perquisites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes. 
TheProfitts  of  the  Courts,  Fynes,  and  other  Casualties,  7  xxxiii  li. 
as  appereth  in  the  Bokes  of  Accompts  of  this  yere,  are  \  xvi  s.  iiid. 

Woodes. 


}cili. 
xd.c 


.Lxiii  s.        cxxxviii 

'vi  d.  li,  vii  s. 

vii  d.  q. 


to  Glastonbury  Abbey  357 

Woodes. 

Also  there  are  ii.  Woodes  pertaynyng  unto 
the  sayde  Manour,  called  Southvvoode  and 

c 
Northwoode,  contaynyn^  viii.  Acres,  well 
sett  with  Okes,  bothe  olde  and  yong,  whiche 
have  allwayes  ben  used  to  be  sold  to  the  Te- 

c 
naunts,  worthe  to  be  solde  iiii.  li.  wherin 
there  may  be  a  yerely  Wood  sale  be  made  of, 

Able  men  to  serve  the  King, 

Also  there  are  within  the  sayde  Lordeship") 
certayne  Tenanntes,  and  able  persons  to  doe  S  xxiii. 
the  King  servyce,  to  the  noraber  of  J 

Bondmen, 

Also  there  be  within  the  same  certayne-^ 
Bondemen,  beyng  in  '  ervytude  both  of  Bo-  /   jj^ 
dye  and  Goodes,  at  the  King's  pleasure,  in  f 
uorabre  ■' 

The  Mannour  of  Estpennard. 
Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customary  Tenanntes. 

The  Rentes  of  Assise  and  Coppeholders -\ 
apperteynyng  unto  the  sayde  Manour,  with  /     , 
theire  Workes  and  Customesjwhiche  they  are  V  ,* 
bound  unto  by  Gustome  of  there  holdyng,  I      '  ^* 
are  of  the  yerely  value  of  J 

Demaynes, 

The    Demaynes  apperteynyng    unto  theT 
saide  Manour,  beyng  let  out  for  terme  of  >xls.  xxlL 

yeres,  are  of  the  yerely  value  of  j  ""•  ^^  s. 

Perquisites  of  Couries  and  Fynes. 
The  Perquisites  of  Courtes,    Fines,   and  1 
other  Casualties,  are  worthe,  as  it  doth  ap-  y^^^.. 
pere  by  the  Boke  of  Accompts,  J  ^^'  " 


ob.  q. 


Sic  Apogr. 


Able 


S58  Purvey  of  the  Estates  helongkg 

Able  men  to  serve  the  King. 
There  be  also  pciteynyng   to  the  saidel 
Lordeship  certayne  able  persons,  to  doe  the  >xxi 
King  servyce,  it"  nede  be,  to  the  nombre  of  J 

Bondmen. 
Also  there    inhabite    within    the    sayde") 
Lordeship  cerlayne  Bondemen,  to  the  nom-  V  xi. 
brc  of  3 

The  Mannour  of  Dicheyat. 
The  Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customary  Tenauntes. 
The  Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customary  Te--* 
nanntes  there,  apperteynyng  unto  the  sayde  (lixII. 
Lordeship,  with  the  Workes  and  Customes  ^xiii  d.  ob. 
there  unto  due,  are  of  the  yerely  value  of       J 

Perquisites  of  Courtes  and  Fi/nes. 
The  Perquisites  of  the  Courtes,  with  the  l-jj  ^j.      ^xti  li. 
Fynes  and  other  Casualties^  were  this  jere  >jj  ^j  *  viii  s.  iiiii. 

answered  to  the  King  at  J       '  ob.    '       ' 

Able  men  to  serve  the  Kinge. 
Also  there  be  within  the  Precincte  of  tbe"! 
saide  Lordship  cerlayne  able  persons,  to  doe  >xxi 
the  King  servyccj  to  the  ilombre  of  j 


lers,  -^ 

with  /  xvii  li. 

ime,  I  xxii  d.  q. 


The  Mannour  of  Myddleton. 
The  Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customary    Tenannlts. 

The  Rentes  of  Assise  and  Coppie  holders, 
that  apperteyne  unto  the  sayde  Manour, 
the  W orkes  and  Customes  due  unto  the  same, 
are  of  the  yerely  value  of 

Bemaynes. 
The  Deniaynes  belonging  unto  the  same  *)   .  ^j     . 
Lordeship,  lett  owt  by  Indenture  for  ternie  \^^' 
of  yeres,  are  of  the  yerely  value  of  j      * 

71         .  .         r  r^  I  1-T  xxvii  li. 

Perquisites  oj  Lourtes  and  rynes.  j^  g  ^  ^^i 

The  Perquysitcs  of  Courtes  aud  Fynes, ^ 
with  other  Casualties,  aie  of  the  yerely  va-  >  liii  H.  ixd. 
iue  ot  3 

Able 


to  Glastonlury  Ahbet/.  359 

mg 


!rs,-^ 

"^'    I  XLi  li.  XS. 

b/J-xd.ob. 
to  I 

J  /  ix  li. 

J-  (  xiiii  s; 


^Z>/e  men  to  serve  the  King. 
Also  there  are  of  Tenantes,  and  able  per- 
sons to  doe'  Kingservyce,  yfriede  requyre,  ^  viii. 
^o  the  norabre  of 

The  Mannour  of  Harae. 
Rentes  of  Assise  and  Cusiomary  Tenannts. 
The  Rentes  of  Assise  and  Copyeholders, 
that  are  perteynyng  unto  the  sayde  Manour, 
with  the  Workes  and  Customes,  whiche  \ 
Tenure  of  theire  Lands  they  are  bounde 
4oe,  are  of  the  yerely  valne  of 

Demaynes. 
The  Scite  of  the  same  Manour,  with  the- 
Demaynes   belonging  thereunto,    letton   by 
Indenture  for  termeof  yeres,  are  of  the  yere- 
ly value  of 

Perquisites  of  Courtes  and  Fijnes. 
The  Proffites  coramyngof  the  ^  Perauy sites  •\  Lxi  li, 

of  the  Cowrtes  and  Fynes,  were  answered!     ,.  xiiii  s.xd. 

this  yere  in  the  Boke  of  Accompts,  to  the  f     ^*     '^*     oh. 
Some  of  -' 

Able  vien  to  serine  the  King. 
Also  there  are  within  the  Precinct  of  the  "t 
same  Tenannts,  and  able  persons,  to  the  nom-  V  xri. 
bre  of  J 

The  Mannour  of  Merkesburye  and  Hamsted. 
Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customary  Tenanntes. 
The  Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customary  Te-  • 
nanntes,  apperteynyng  unto  the  said  Man- 
nor,  with  the  Workes  and  Customes  whiche 
by  Tenure  of  theire  Landes  they  are  bounde 
to  doe,  are  of  the  yerely  value  of 

Demaynes. 
The  Demayne  Landes  belonging  untothe^  ...,.    ... 
same  Manour,  are  letton  oute  by  Indenture,  f  ^J'' '•^"'  s* 
for  terme  of  yeres,  for  the  some  of  j    ^ 

'  Sic  Apogr.     '  Sic  Apogr. 

Per- 


XVI  11. 

iiii  s.  V  d. 
ob,  q. 


360 


Survey  of  the  Estates  helonging 


Perquisites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes. 
The  Profiftes  comminff  of  the  Perquysites  ^ 
of  Courtes,  Fynes  of  Laiides,  and  other  Ca-  I  iiii  li.  iiiis. 
sualties,  are  this  yere  answered  in  the  Bokes  [  vi  d. 
of  Accompts  at  J 

Able  men  to  serine  the  King. 

Also  there  be  within  the  same  Lordeshipes  )  xxxii  li. 

able  men,   to  doe  the  King  servyce,  to  the  V  xvii.  ii  s.  v  d, 

iiombre  of  )  ob.  q. 

IVoodes.  ^ 

Also  there  are  apperteynyng  unto  the  saide  | 
Mannor,  certayne  Woodes,  called  Haywood, 
Newoode  and  the  Common,  set  witli  Okes  1 
and  Ashes  of  dy  vers  kyndes,  th'  Acres  Avhere  \  ^  ^   ^ 
of  can  not  be  estemed,  for  they  «:rovve  in  '  '  ' 
Plotts,  valued  at  this  survey   to  be  worth 
cvi  li.  xix  s.  viiid.  whereof  may  be  made  a 
yerely  Wood  sale  of  J 

Conunon. 

Also  there  is  a  Common,  apperteynyng  "j 
imto  the  sayde  Lordeship,  wherein  the  Te-  (. 
nanntes  may  put  in  their  Catle,  at  theire  C '* 
pleasures,  conteynyng  J 

'  Walton.  Asshecote.  Shapwyke.  Withes.  Greynton.  Otherye. 
Myddelsoye.  Berghes.  Sowthbrcnt.  Estbrent.  Lymplcshin. 
Northlode.  Bagberye.  Nylonde.  Clewer. 

The  Manors  of  Strete  in  Rente  of  Assiss 
and  Customarye  Rente,  Demaynes,  Perquy- 
sites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes,  i.  li.  viii  s.  x  d.  ob. 

Walton  in  Rentes  of  Assise,  Customary 
Rent,  Demaynes,  Perquisites  of  Courtes  and 
Fynes,  xLviii.  li.iiii  s.  iii  d.  ob.  Asshecote  in 
Rentes  of  Assise,  Customary  Rentes,  De- 
maynes, Perquisites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes, 
xxxiiii.  li.  ii  s.  v  d.     Shapwyke  in  Rentes  of 


myle. 


'  Sic  Apogr.     Sed  Strete  hic  addi  debuit. 


Assise, 


to  Glasfoiibury  Abbey. 


361 


Assise,  Customary  Rentes,  Demaynes,  Pcr- 
quysites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes,  i.xxi.li. 
xiiii.  s.  X.  d.  q.  Withes  in  Rentes  of  Assise, 
Customarye  Rentes,  Demaynes,  Perquysitts 
of  Courtes  and  Fynes,  xix.  li.  xvii  s.  iiiid. 
Greynton  in  Rentes  of  Assise,  Customarye 
Rentes,  Demaynes,  Perquysites  of  Courtes  and 
Fynes,  xxvi.  li.  xviii  d.  Otherye  in  Rentes 
of  Assise,  Customarye  Rentes,  Perquysites  of 


c  u. 

Yiii  LlX. 

xi  s.iii 

ob.  q. 


d. 


Courtes  and  Fynes,  iiiixix  li.  v  d.  q.  Myd- 
delsoy  in  Rentes  of  Assise,  Customarye 
Rentes,  Perquysites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes. 
cxxiiii  li.  xii  s.  iiii  d.  ob.  q.  Bernhes  in 
Rentes  of  Assise,  Customary  Rente,  Perquy- 
sites of  Courtes  and  Fynes,  Lxi  li.  ix  s.  iiob. 
South  brent  in  Rente  of  Assise,  Customary 
Rent,  Perquysites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes, 
i>xxvi  ii.  xiii  s.  xd.  East  brent  in  Rentes  of 
Assise,  Customarye  Rentes,  Perquysites  of 
Courtes  and  Fynes.  cxiii  li.  vis.  ii  d.  Lym- 
pleshin  in  Rentes  of  Assise,CustomaryeRente, 
Perquysites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes,  i.xxvii  li. 
ix  s.  vid.  Northlode  in  Rentes  of  Assise, 
Customarye  Rentes,  Perquysites  of  Courtes 
and  Fynes,  xxxiiiili.  xvis.  xd.  Baggebcre 
Tii  li.  vis.  viiid.  Nylondexiii  li.  xii  s.  I 
iiiid.  Clewer  xiiii  s.  ixd.  are  worthe  by  the  i 
yere,  as  appereth  by  the  Bokes  of  Accompts/ 
at  this  audite. 

Also  there  are  reciannt  and   demouring,  ^ 
■within  the  saide  Lordeships,  able  persons  to  I   c  xx 
serve  the  Kinge's  Highnes,  when  so  ever  the  uii.iii.ix. 
shal  be  called  upon,  as  in  the  particular  Boke  i 
of  Survey  at  this  present  tyme   made  parti- J 
cularly  appereth,  in  nombre 

Also  within  the  circuite  of  the  same 
certaine  servyle  and  bonde  persons,  at 
Kinge's  pleasure  in  Bod  ye  and  Goodes 
the  nombre  of 


e  are")  ( 
t  the  I 
is,  to  j 


Seuyn- 


jiiOi^y 


^62 


Survey  of  tine  Estates  belonging 


"J 


Seuynhamp  tondenyce.   Westpenard.    Esterete.  Weaster  Monck- 
ton.  Pedwell.  Sowey.  Sutton.  Murelynch. 

The  Manors  of  Seuynhamp  tondenyce  xix  li.  iii  s.  -^ 
id.  Wcstpenarde  cxxxli.  xiiis.  xd.ob.  q.     Eastre-  i     li 
ate  xi  li.  i  d.  Weastmonckton  Lxxix  li.  xii^d.  and  Ped-  Iccxl.  xvi  s. 
well,  So  wye,  Sutton  and  Lamporte  xviiis.  with  tbe  lob.  q.  di. 
Proffitts  and  Peiquy  sites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes,  are  of  J 
the  yerely  value  of  « 

Also  there  is  a  Comon  belonging  unto  the  saide  Ma-  I  . 

nour  of  Westpennard,  wherein  the  Tenanntes  of  all  the  •  ^^  ™^  *^* 
saide  Mannours  doe  enter  comen,  and  is  in  circute 

Also  there  are  Inhabitants,  deinouring  within  the 
said  Manours,  beyng  Tenanntes,  and  other  able  per- 
sons, beyng  in  redynes  to  serve  the  Kinge's  Highnes, 
wlienso  ever  they  shall  be  comaunded,  to  the  nombre 
of 

Also  there  are  inhabiting  certayne  Bondemen  within  1 
the  same,  whose  Bodies  and  Goodes  are  allvvayes  at  the  f  xii. 
Kinge's  pleasure,  to  the  nombre  of  J 

Ilundredes . 

The  Profitts  corny  ng  of  the  Amerciamentes,  F3'nes  "^ 
of  Trespaces,  and  other  Casualties,  of  the  Hundreds  of 
Whitestone  xii.  li.  Whiteleigh  xvli.  vs.  viid.  Glas- 
tonburye  x  li.  xviis.  vd.  Brent,  viii  li.  xx  d.  Wryng-  ^ 
ton  and  Bucklande  vii  li.  xiiii  s.  vd.  were  answered 
this  ycre,  as  it  appereth  in  the  Bokes  of  Accompts,  to 
the  some  of 

The  Mannours  of  Camleigh,  Nunney  and  Brode-wynsour. 

Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customarye  Tenannts. 

The  Rentes  of  x4ssiseapperteynyng  un-. 
to  the  saide  Manour,  allwayes  payable  at 
the  Feastes  of  the  Annunciation  of  our 
Ladie  and  Saint  Mychaell  the  Archangell, 
is  of  the  yerely  value  of 

Tlie  Rentes  of  the  Customarye  Te- -j 
naunis,  and  Coppie  holders  there,  is  of  the  I 
yerely  value  of  J 


till  ii. 
xix  s.  i  d, 


XLlxli. 

xxiii  d. 


Li  li. 
iiii  s. 


Lii  li. 


P(:r. 


to  Glastonbury  Ahbeyt 


36S 


es,  *) 
of  |: 


Perquisites  of  Courtes. 

The  Perquysifes  of  Courtes  and   other  Casimlties, 
as  appereth  in  the  Bokes  of  Accompts,  are  this  yere  of  j-xvis. 
the  yerely  value  of 

Spiritualties. 

Parsonages. 

The  Tithes  of  the  Parsonaare  of  Weston 
was  allwayes  kept  in  the  Abbalt's  handes,  to 
the  use  of  the  slide  late  Monasterye.  Corne, 
Haye,Wooll,  Lambe,  Lenton  Tythes,  AU  h^^^^*  1'- 
terage,  and  other  small  Tythes  and  Profitts, 
comyng  and  apperteynyng  to  the  saide  Par- 
sonage, are  worthe  by  the  yere 

The  Parson'ge  of  Glastonbury  semblea- 
blye  was  allwayes  kept  in  the  said  Abbal's 
handes  to  the  use  of  the  said  Monasterye. 
The  Tythes  of  Corne,  Haye,  Wooll,  Lambe,  ^Lxxiili. 
Alterages,  and  other  Profittcs,  a|iperteynyng 
unto  the  said  Parsonage,  are  worlhe  by  the 
yere  towardes  Charges 

Also  the  Tithes  of  Corne  and  Haye,  ap 
perteynyrig  unto  the  Parsonage  of  Doulting. 
beyng  left  out   by    Indenture  for  terrae 
yeres,  is  worthe  by  the  yere 

Also  the  Tithes  of  Corne  and  Haye,   ap 
perteynyng  unto  the  Parsonage  of  Budcleig 
are  letton  to  Elizabeth  Adams,  for  terme 
her  life,  paying  by  the  yere 

The  Tithes  of  Corne  and  Haye,  apper--\ 
teyny  ng  unto  the  Parsonage  of  Ba  1 1  esborough ,  I 
are  letton  to  ferme,  to  the  saide  Elizabeth  y. 
Adaraes,  for  terme  of  her  life,  paying  by  the 
yere 

Also  the  Tithes  of  Corne  and  Haye,  ap- 
perteynyng unto  the  Parsonage  of  Eastbrent, 
are  worth  by  the  yere 

Also  the  Tithes  of  Corne  and  Haye,  ap- 
perteynyng unto  the  Parsonage  of  Eastepe- 
narde,  are  worthe  by  the  yere 

Vol.  n.  K 


1} 

of] 


xviii  li, 
xiis  s. 
iiii  d. 


xii  li. 


c 
iiixv  li. 
ills,  iiii  d. 


viii  li.  xs. 


xxiii  li. 


xixH. 


Also 


se^ 


Survey  of  the  Estates  belonging 


Also  (he  Tithes  of  Hayc,   be 
longing    unto    the    Parsonag 
ShapwykeandMurelynche, 
and  Mere  xxii,  are  worthe 
yere 


ye,   be-•^ 
lage    of  I 
i.xiiili.  >^^     . ,. 
I  bjthe\'"^-^^l»- 


cccLiiii  It. 
xviii  s.  q^ 


Portions  Tj/thes, 

Also  there  are  ccrtayne  Portions  l 
of  Tithes,  belonging  unto  the  sayde  i 
late  Monastery e,  within  the  saide  | 
■here,  that  is  to  say,  Nylonde  xx  s.  Y'mi  li.  t  s. 
Button  xiii.  iiii  d.  the  Tithes  of  1 
Northwoode  i.i  s.  viii  d.  to  the  I 
yerely  value  of  i 

Pensio?is, 

Also   there  are    certayne  Pen-^ 
sions,    comyng  out    of  the    cer- 
taine  Churches  whithiri   the  saide 
Shere,  apperteyning  \into  the  saide 
late    attayntcd    Monastreye,    and 
yerely  payde  unto  (he  same.     That 
is  to  saye,  Westmoncklon  xxvi  s. 
viii  d.     Murelynche  viili.     Shap- 
Wyke  XX  s,  Badcombe  xx  s.  Bud- 
cleighxxs.  WringtonxL  s.   Dy-    xxxii  U. 
cheyatXLs.  Doultying  Liiis.  iiiid.  Vxvi  s. 
Mells XX  s.  Barnehouse  vi s.  viiid.  [viii d, 
Eastbrent  xiiis.  iiii  d.  Lyuiplesham 
xiiis.  iiiid.  HammeXLs.  Wyns- 
combe  xiii s.  iiii.  d.     llchestcr  vi  s. 
viiid.  Hovvnestert  xiiis. iiiid.  Cum- 
lerton  xiii  s.  iiii  d .    My ddelton  x  s. 
Slrete  lx  s.     Eastpcnnarde  xiii  s. 
iiiid.     SoyeLiiis.  iiiid.     Kentles- 
worthe  xx  s.  whiche  are  of  the, 
yerely  value  of 

Proxies  and  Synods^ 

Also  there  are  certayne  Proxyes  ] 
and  Sy  nodes  perteyning  unto  the  | 


Saide 


to  Glastonbury  Ahhei}, 


S65 


saide  late  attajnted  Monasterye, 
"whichewereallwayespaide  unto 
th'  archedeacon  out  of  the 
Churches  of  Mere,  Budcleigh, 
Strete,  Shapwjke,  Murelinche 
andSoje,  to  the  yearly  value  of  J 

The  Countie  of  GLOCESTERSHERE. 

Temporalties. 
Bristol!. 

Certayne  Lands  and  Tene-x 
nientes,  lying  within  the  saide  I 
Town  of  BristoU  in  the  Coun-  I 
lie  of  Glocester,  whiche  were  \ 
onely  to  the  Abbat's  use,  that  is  / 
to  saye,  iiii.  small  Tenements,  | 
on  square  Close  and  a  litle  Gar-  1 
deyne,  the  Rente  whereof  is  by  / 
the  yere.  ^  vi  li.  yiiid. 

Also  there  are  iiiscverall  small  ^ 
Tenements  in  the  saide  Towne  I 
of  Bristoll,  whiche  whereto  the  Cxx  s.Tiiid. 
use  of  the  Convent,    and  doe  I 
reat  by  the  yere  J 


Spiritualties. 

Pejisions. 

Also  there  is  a  yerely  Pension -| 
comrayng  out  of  the  Cliurche  of  j 
Saint     Michaell,     withyn     the  I  xxvi  s. 
Towne  of  Bristoll,  whiche  all-rviiid. 
wayes  was  payde  unto  the  late  I 
attaynted  Monasterye  by  yere     J 

Also  there  is  a  yerely  Pension -» 
comyng  out  of  the  Churche  of  j 
Puckelchurche,  which  was  all-  I 
wayes  payde  unto  the  saide  late  r 
attaynted  Monasterie  by  the  j 
yere  J 

1.2 


ixli.  xviis. 
uiid. 


Lxxns. 
TJii  d. 


Tlw 


366 


SujDei/  of  the  Estates  belonging 


The  Countleof  DEVONSHERE. 

Teraporalties. 
The  Mannour  of  Uplymc. 

Rentes . 


xxiii  li. 
iii  s^  i  d. 


The  Rentes  of  Customarye  ^ 
Tenaiintes  and  Coppicholders,  i 
apperteyning  unto  the  saide  | 
Manonr,  with  the  Workes,  y 
Customs,  whiclie  by  tenure  of  j 
there  Landes  they  are  bounde  I 
unto,  are  of  theyerely  value  of  J 

De77iai/m 
The  Scite  of  the  said  Manour,^ 
with  the  Demaynes  Landes,  ap- 
perteynynof  unto  the  same,  be-        .      .... 
Ing  lett  out  to  Ferme  by  th  Ab-  ^"^''-  ^""^- 
bat  and  Convent  of   the   saide 
late  attaynted  Monastery e  for 

Perquisites  of  Courtes  and  Ftjnca. 
Also  the  Perquysites  of  the.» 
Courtes,  Fynes  and  other  Casu- 
alties, with  vis.  vid.  of  Wood 
sales,  were  answered,  as  it  ap- 
pereth  in  the  Bokes  of  Accompts 
of  this  yere,  to  the  some  of 


vii  li. 


xxxiii  li. 
iiid. 


Common. 


Acres, 


Also  there  is  a  Common  ap-_ 
perteynyng  unto  the  saide  Ma-" 
nour,  called  Wolcombes  Downe 
and  Rolcombeshed,  wherein  all 
the  Tenanntes  have  theire  Com- 
mon for  their  shepe,  and  it  con- 
teyneth 

Able  menne  to  serve  the  Kint. 
Also  thereare  demouring  with-1 
in  the  Circuiteiof  saide  Manonr  | 

'  SicApogr. 


to  Glastonbury  Abbey. 


367 


^xiiili. 
viiid. 


cirtayne  able  persons  redy  to  doe  the  Kingj^Bond- 
si^rvyce,    when  they  '    called  upon,  to   the  |  men 
iiombre  of  J  x. 

The  Mannour  of  Newton. 
The  Scite  of  the  house. 

The  Scite  of  the  saide  House  standeth  on' 
a  highe  hill,  just  by  a  great  ronning  Ry  ver  in 
the  valey.  it  is  ofth'  ancyen  buylding,  portly 
and  strong,  able  and  mete  for  a  Knight  to  lye 
in.  The  Deniaynes  belonging  unto  the  same 
are  of  the  yerely  value  of 

Rentes y  Perquisites  and  Fijncs, 
The  Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customarye  Te-  -^ 
nanntes,  perteyning  unto  the  saide  Manour,  /  xx 
with  xviii  li.  xs.  iiii  d.  commyngof  the  Per-  Viiiixiiii  li. 
quisites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes,  arc  of  the  Ivid. 
yerely  value  of  J 

Woodes. 
Also  there  are  perteynyng  urjto  the  saidel 
Manour,  divers  Woodes,  well  set  wi(h  greatel 
Okes  for  Tymbre,  greate  Asshcs,  underwood  1 
Avell   growne,    the  Parcelles  whereof  in  the  I 
particular  Boke  of  Survey  ihere  of,  at  this 
tyniemade,  plainly  don  appereand  be  worth 
to  be  solde,  out  of  whiche  Woodes  there 
may  a  yerely  Woodsale  be  made  of  ; 

Able  men  to  serve  the  King. 
Also  there  are  demouring  within  the  saide  \ 
Manour,  certaine  able  men,  to  doe  the  King  \  xLiii. 
servyce,  if  nede  require,  to  the  noinber  of        J 

Common. 
Also  there  is  a  Common  perteynyng  unto 
the  same  Manour,  called  Sturmyster  Com- 
mon, wherin  the  Tenanntes  have  Common 
for  theire  Catall  all  tymes  of  the  yere,  and  it 
contayneth 


xli. 


cxvii  li. 
vii  s.  ii  d. 


11 

MM  acres. 


Sic  Apogr. 
k3 


The 


S68 


Survey  of  the  Estates  belonging 


The  Countie  of  DORCETSHERE, 

Temporalties. 
The  Mannour  of  Bucklonde. 
Rentes  andDemai/nes, 
The  Rentes  of  Assise"; 


txxiii  li. 
iiii  s. 
iiii  d.  ob. 


and  Custoraarye  Te- 
nauntes ,  apperteyning 
unto  the  sayde  Manour, 
with  XV  li.  comyng  of 
the  Demaynes,  are  of 
the  yerely  value  of 


Perquisites  of  Courfes  and  Fj/ncs, 

The     Profects    com-  -v 
mvn-  of  the  Perquisites  L-.y^^  ^-^^ 
ol  the   Cowrtes,  f*ynes  K^  ^ 


and  other  Casualties,  are  I 
of  the  yerely  value  of     J 


Woodes, 


the 


Also  there  is 
perteynyng  unto  tue 
sayde  Manour  certayne 
Woodesj  growing  upon 
the  Commons  there,  the 
Parcells  wherof,  in  the 
foresaide  particular 
Boke  of  Survey,  plainly  V 
doe  apere,  and  be  wortli 
at  this  present  tyme  to 

XX 

besolde,  iiii.  ii  li.  owt 
of  whiche  Wood  there 
may  a  yerely  Wood  sale 
be  made  of 


XX 

iiii.  il  li. 

iii  s.  ix  d. 

Ob. 

XX 

txiiiixiiiili. 

ii^.  iiii.  ob. 

Common. 


Also  there  are  vii.  se-^ 
yerall  Commons ,    be-  J 


longing 


c 
iiixvii*. 

acres. 


cccv  II. 
xiis.iiii  d. 
Ob. 


.   to  Glastmihury  AWey.  569 

lonf^ing-  unto  <lie  saydc 
Manour,  called  Monke 
wood  hill,  Dolye  wood, 
Cosmore,  Poplin^, 
Wykemarshe,  Mylle- 
marsheandCastell  wood, 
whiche  doe  contayne  in 
all  y 

Able  meii  to  serve  the  Khis^. 
Also  there  are  belonginsf  unto  thesayde) 
Manour,  certayne  able  persons,  allwayes  re-  >  xxr, 
die  to  doe  the  King  servyce,  in  nombre  3 

The  Mannour  of  VVarnehall. 
Demaynes^  Rentes,  and  Perquysites  of  Courtes. 
The  Demaynes  viiili.  viii  s.  iiii  d.  Rentes 
of  Assise  X  s.     Custoniarye  Rentes  xLvii  li. 
xvii  s.  V  d.     '  a  Perquysites  of  Courtes,  with  Lux  li.  v  «, 
Fynes  of  Landes,  XLix  s.  iiii  d.  apperteynyng  f  i  d. 
unto  the  saide  Manour  are  of  the  yerely  va- 
lue of 

Woodes. 

Also  there  areapperteynyng  unto  the  saide  | 

Manour,  dy  verse  small  Parcel  Is  of  Wood,  1 

the  Parceils  wherof  in  the  foresaid  particular  1    ... 

Boke  of  Survey,  at  this  tyrae  fullye  doe  ap-  >  ^!!!  "' 

pere,  are  worthe  now  to  be  solde  cLxxiii  li.  |  *"*  ^' 

viii  s.  owte  of  whiche  Woodes  there  may  a  I 
yerely  Wood  sale  be  made  of                          J 

Common. 
Also  there  is  a  Common,   apperteynyng^ 

unto  the  sayde  Manour,   calkd  iShortwood,  r* -^  ,^„::t 

i  1         A-      ^-  '  \  ail. acres,    r^xvii  ii. 

conteynyng  by  estunation  J  iviiis.id. 

A  Quarrey  of  Stone, 
Also  there  is  a  fuire  and  a  large  Quarrey  •% 
of  Stone,  and  of  agreate  Depthe.     TheStone  i 
therof  is  Free   Stone,    and    the   Tenauntes  lii  li. 
have  theire  Stone  there  allwayes  for  theire  I 
reparations,  and  therefore  in  value  J 


'  Sic  Apogr. 

^  *  Able 


370  Survey  of  the  Estates  belonging 

Alle  men  to  serve  the  King, 
Also  there  are  inhabiting  in  the  said  Ma- 1 
nour  ccrtayne  able  men  to  doe  the  Kin^  Ser-  ixxv, 
vyce,  to  the  nomber  of  '  J 

Bondmen. 
Also  there  are  in  the  Precinct  of  the  said  "j 
Manour,  certayne Bonde  menne,  to  the  nora-  I  ix. 
ber  of  J 

Byndon. 

The  saide  Ferme  of  Byndon,  otherwise -j 
called  Wynufonlo,  wilhin  ihp  s:»yde  Shyre  of  I  xxtI  Ji. 
Dorcet  is  let«on   aife  by  Indenture,  for  ternie  fxiiis.  iliid. 
ofyeres,  torthe  sonieof  J 

Spiritualties. 
Parsonage  and  Pensions, 

Also  within  the  saide  Counti.'  of  Dorcet-" 
sheere,  there  is  one  Parsonage  appropriat  un- 
to Oic  saide  late  Monasterye,  called  Sfunne- 
stnre  ISewton  x  li.  x  s.  And  on  Pension,  corn- 
mine;  owt  of  the  Churche  of  Marnehull,  xx  s. 
and  are  of  the  yerely  value  of 

The  Countie  of  BARKESHERE. 
Temporaltes. 
The  Mannour  of  Ashbury. 
Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customary  Tenanntes, 
The  Rentes  of  Assise  and  CuA 
stomarye  Tenauntes  there,  apper- 1 
teyning   unto    the  saide  Manour,  I  xxx  li. 
with  the   Workcs  and   Cnstomes,  \  viii  s. 
Tvhiche  they  are  bounde  unto  by|  vid.ob. 
the  tenoure  of  theire  Landcs,  ys 
of  the  yerely  value  of  J 

Demaynes. 
The  Scite  of  the  saide  Manour 
with   the  Demayne  Landes  a 


xi  li. 


\P*^'"-|^.V."-^»^-xi,viiili. 
3ttonfvnid.  xvs.iid. 

le  of  J  «h 


XLviiili. 


teyning  unto  the  same,  are  letton  (viiid.         ^^Hi'^    xv  s  i  d 
oute  by  Indenture  for  the  some  of  J  H^'  "   '  ^b. 

WoodeSa 


to  Glastonbury  Abbey,  371 


Woodes, 

Also  there  is  a  Wood  apper-- 
(eynyn^  unto  the  saide  Manour, 
coiitejning  by  estiinacion.  cc. 
Acres,  beyng  well  sett  with  fayre 
Okes  and  Ashes,  and  is  supposed  ^  ., 
to  '  worth  now  to  be  sold,  ci.xiii  / 
li.  ixs.  iid.  The  Underwooddes  I 
whereof,  being  well  enclosed,  I 
when  it  is  felled,  wil  be  yereiy  1 
worthe  J 

Able  men  to  serve  the  King, 
Also  there  be  demouring  in  the-x 
saide  Maiiour,  able  persons  to  doc  I 
the  Kyng  servyce,  when  soever  \.xi. 
they  shall  be  called  upon,  to  the  I 
nombre  of  J 


The  Countie  *  WILTESHERE. 
The  Mannour  of  Netletonne. 
Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customary e  Tenanntes. 


\x\  li.  ixs. 
\id. 


The  Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customarye  Te- 
nanntes apperteynyng  unto  the  saide  Ma- 
nour, with  the  Woikes  and  Ciistonies  wher 
unto  they  are  bounde  by  Tenure  of  tlieire 
Laudes,  are  in  value  by  the  yere 

Demaynes. 
The  Scite  ofthe  saide  Manour,  with  ihe^ 
Demayne    Landes    apperteyning  unto    the>xli.  vid. 
same,  ys  worthe  by  the  yere.  ) 

Perquisites  of  Coiirtcs  and  Fynes, 
The  Perquisites  of  the  Courtes,  with  the-* 
Fynes  of  Landes,  were  answered  this  yere,  /  iiiili.  xs.      xxxrii  li. 
as   appereth  in  the  Bokes  of  Accompts,  to  fixd.  viii  d. 

the  some  of  J 


'  Sic  Apogr.    *  Sic  Apogr. 


Woodes, 


37S 


Sui^ey  of  the  Estates  belofiging 


Woodes. 
Also  there  is  apperteynyng  unto  the  saide 
Manour,  on  Wood,  conteynyng  by  estima- 
tion xxiiii.  Acres,  with  the  shrubbed  Oke  in 
them,  which  is  supposed  now  worth  to  be 
solde  XX  li.  out  of  which e  Woode  there  may 
a  yerely  '  Wood  sail  be  made  of 

Able  men  to  serve  the  King. 
Also  there  be  within  the  saide  Manour,  1 
able  persons,  to  serve  the  Kinge's  Highnes,  >xxv. 

ofj 


when  nede  shall  requyre,  to  the  norabre 


The  Mannour  of  Grefletonnes. 


xxviii  li. 
*x  s.  vii  d. 
ob.  q. 


The  Scite  of  the  saide  Manour  with  the 
Demaynes.  cxviii  s.  Rent  of  Assise  and 
Coppie  holders  xv U.  xviii  s.  v  d.  ob.  q.    Per- 

?uisites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes,  with  other 
iasualties,  vi  U.  xiiii  s.  ii  d.  are  of  the  yerely 
value  of 

Also  there  are  reciant  and  demouring  of-^ 
Tenanntes,  and  other  able  persons,  within 
the  saide  Manour,  beyng  in  redines,  wlien 
soever  they  shall  be  premonyshed,  to  serve 
the  Kinge's  Highnes,  whiche  are  in  nom- 
bre  of 

Also  there  are  within  the  Precinct  of  the 
same  Manour,  certayne  Bondemen,  whose 
Bodies  and  Goodes,  are  allways  at  the  Kinge's 
Highnes  pleasure,  to  the  nombre  of 

The  Mannour  of  Kyngtonne. 
J)emai/nes,  Rentes,  and  Perquisites  of  Courtes. 
The  Scite  of  the  saide  Manour,  with  the  ^ 
Demaynes  Lxvii  s.  viii  d.  Rentes  of  Assise  Ixxxiiiili. 
and  Customary  Tenanntesxxiiii  li.  viii  s.  i  d.  Ixvi  s. 
q.  with  the  Perquisites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes,  Iviid.  q. 
vii  li.  X  d.  worthe  by  the  yerc  J 


Y 


Sic  Apogr. 


Wooddes. 


to  Glastonbury  Abbey, 


373 


Wooddes. 


Also  there  is  a" 
Wood  apperteynjng 
unto  the  sayde  Ma- 
nour  whiche  conteyn- 
eth  by  estimation, 
ccc.  Acres,  the  most 
part  whereof  standeth 
by  scrubbed  and  lop- 
ped Okes,  whiche  are 
estemed  to  be  worthe 
now  to  be  sold 

Also  the  Tymbre^ 
in  the  saide  Wood,  ] 
that   is   to   saye,    the  j 


•CXLli.l 


J^CLxli. 


greate    Ockes,    upon  \x\\\.. 


the  vew  taken  there- 1 
of  is    estemed 
worthe 


to  be 


/Oute  of  the" 
whiche 
VVoodes 
there  may 
a  yerely 
AVoodsale 
be  made, 
uothurting 
nor  spojl- 
ing  any  of  z*'  ^* 
theTymbre 
or  Under, 
woods, 
but  the  said 
Woodes 
alwais  to 
be  as  they 
are  now,  to 


thevalue  of. 


xxxix  li. 

xvi  s. 
tU  d.  q« 


Able  men  to  serxe  the  King, 

There  be  also  demouring  within  the  said-\ 
Manour,  certayn  able  persons,  allwayes  in  a  I 
readines  to  doe  the  King  service,  when  soe-  Ixxv. 
yer  they  shall  be  called  upon,  to  the  nom-  I 
bre  of  J 


Bondemen. 

Also  there  be  within  the  circuite  of  the 
same  Manour,  certain  Bondemen,  bothe  Bo- 
dies and  Goodes  at  the  King's  pleasure,  in 
nombre 


].. 


The  Mannour  of  Christ  Malford. 

Etntes  and  Perquisites  of  Courtes, 

The  Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customarye  Te- 
nanntesxLviii  li,  xix  s.  v  d.  ob.  q,  di.  with 
Fynes  and  Perquisites  of  Cowrtes  xviii  li. 
vii  s.  xd.  are  worthe  by  the  yeie 


1  Lxvii  li. 
>y\\  s.  iii  ( 
Job  q.  di. 


Wooddesi 


374 


Sw-oei/  of  the  Estates  belonging 


J^cli. 


)»cc  li. 


to 


led  I 
be  I 


iVili 


Wooddes, 

\  Oute  of    >^ 

whiche 
Woocles 
there   may 
a  ye  rely 
Woodsale 
be  made, 
not  hurt, 
ing  nor 
spoyling 
any  of  the 
Tymber 
or  Under- 
woodes, 
but  the 
/saide 
Woodes 
to  be  in 
as  good 
case  as 
they  are 
in  nowe, 
to  the  va- 
y  lue  of 

jdble  men  to  serve  the  King^ 
Also  there  be  inhabiting  and  demouiing 
within  the  saide  Manour,  certayne  able  per 
sons,  bejng  allvvayes  in  a  readines  to  doe 
King  servyce,  to  the  norabre  of 

Bondmen. 
Also  there  are  apperteyning  unto  the  saide 
Manonr,  certayne  Bondemen,  at  the  Kin<re 
Highnes  pleasure,  to  the  nombrcof 

The  Mannour  of  Devercll  Langebridge. 
Demaynes,  Rentes^  Fynes  and  Perquisites  of  Coiiries. 
The  Scife  of  the  saide  Manour,  with  the  | 
Demaynes,  ix  li.  vs.  iiiid.     Rentes  of  AssiseJ 


Also  the  Woodes,' 
appertey nyng  unto  the 
saide  Manour,  doe 
conteyne  by  estima- 
tion ccc.  acres,  where- 
in the  Tenanntes  have 
their  Common,  when 
they  be  not  coppy'd, 
the  most  part  there- 
of beyng  Okes  and 
greate  Tymbre,  the 
Underwoode  where- 
of, with  the  Loppes  of 
the  said  grete  Okes, 
are  supposed  now  to 
be  worthe  J 

Also    the    Tymber, -| 
whiche    ys     in     the 
saide  Wood,  upon  the 
vewe  thereof  '  takes,  w  I. 
is  estemed  and  valued 
now    worthe 
solde 


Lxxiii  li."* 
vii  s.  iii  d. 
ob.  q.  di. 


er-  U 
the  I 


Sic  Apogr.    *Sic  in  Apogr.  sine  numero. 


and 


to  Glastonbury  Abdey. 


375 


and  Custoraarye  Tenanntes  Lviii  li.  viii  s.  ^Lxxili. 
ix  d.  di.  q.  with  the  Fynes  and  Perquisites  ^xiii  s. 
of  Courtes  Lxxix  s.  iii  d.  are  worthe  by  the  jiiii  d.  di 
yere  yq- 

fVooddes. 


>xx 
iiii  li 


Also  the  Woodes, 
growing  in  certayne 
Places  about  the  saide 
Manour,  the  Parcells 
whereof,  in  the  par- 
ticular Boke  of  sur- 
vey, don  appere,  are 
worthe  to  be  solde  at 
this  tyme 

Also    the    Tymber"> 
in    the  saide    Wood,  f 
upon  the  vewe  there-  \xxvii  li. 
of  taken,    is    estemed  /iii.  iiii  d, 
and      valued      now     I 
worthe    to    be    solde  >' 


cvii  li. 
jii  s. 
iiii  d. 


^Oute        ^ 

hiche 
Woodes 
there  may 
a  yerely 
VVoodsale 
be  made, 
without 
hurte  or 
spoyle  of 
any  Tym- 
bre  or  Un. 
derwoods 
there, 
but  to  be 
in  as 
good  case 
as  they 
are  in 
nowe  to 
the  value 
Vof 

^ble  men  to  serve  the  Kin^e. 
Also  there  are  demouring  within  the  saide  • 
Manour  certayne  persons,  botlie  of  Te- 
nanntes and  ^  other,  able  to  doe  the  King  ser- 
vyce,  when  soever  they  shal  be  called  upon, 
to  the  nombre  of 

'Bondtmen. 
Also  there  are  within  the  same,  certayne- 
Bondemen,  whose  Bodies  and  Goodes  are  at 
tbe  Kinge's  Highnes  pleasure,  to  the  nom- 
bre of 

The  Mannour  of  Easte  Mockton. 
Rentes. 


Lxxiiili. 
XL  s.  xiii  s. 
iiii  d.  q. 


The  Rentes  of  Customary  Tenantes  and  j 
jppieholders,  pertayny  no^  unto  the saideMa- 1 


Coppie 


Sic.  Apogr.     »SicApogr. 


nour, 


376  Survet/  of  the  Estates  belonging 

nour,  -with  the  Workes  and  Cu-  | 
stomes,   whiche  they  are  bounde  ^'xvii  Ii.iis* 
unto,  by  tenure  of  their  Landes,  I  vi  d.  ob.q. 
ys  of  the  yerely  value  of  -* 

Detnat/nes. 

The  Scite  of  the  sayde  Manoar,  "I 

with  the  Demayues  apperleyiiyng  Ixfx  1.  vi  s.  xxxvi  li. 

unto  the  same,  are  of  the  yerely  l  viii  d.  ixs.  lid. 

value  of  -*  oJi-q- 

Jhfe  men  to  serve  the  King 

Also  there  are  inhabitins:  with- 
in the  said   Manou 
naunts,  and  other  able  Persons 
ways  redie,  when  soever  they 
be  called  upon,  to  the  nombre 

Bondemen, 
There  be  also  within  the  same 
certayne  Bonde  men,  beyng  at  the 
King's  pleasure,  bothe  Bodie  and 
Goodes,  to  the  nombre  of 

The  Mannour  of  Wynterborne. 
Rentes  and  Demaynes, 
The  Rentes  of  Assise  xxi  s.  iiid.| 
Customarye  Rentes  xiiii  li.  iiii  s. 
ix  d.     Demaynes  xii  li.  x  d.  with 
the  Workes  and  Customes,  whiche 
they  are  bounde  to  doe  by  tenure 
of  their  Landes,  are  of  the  yerely 
value  of 


babiting  with--% 
ir,    bothe  Te-  I 
!e  Persons,  all-  >xxi. 
ever  they  shall  i 
le  nombre  of     J 

men. 


xxvii  li. 
h\  s.  X  d. 


Perquisites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes 

The  Profits  comyng  upon  the^ 
Perquisites  of  the  Courtes,    with 
Fynes  and  other  Casualties,  arean- 
swer'd  now  to  the  Kinge's  High-  V  xxii  s 
nes  this  yere,  as  appereth  in  the  | 
Boke  of  Accompts,  to  the  some  xxviii  li.     DLvii  ii. 

of  I  viii  s.xi  d.  ixs.x  d.  q. 

'  AhU 


to  Glastonbury  Ahhey. 

Able  men  to  serve  the  King. 

Also  there  are  reciannt  and  de-^ 
mouring  with  in  the  saide  Ma-  I 
nour,  bothe  of  Tenanntes  and  I 
other  able  persons,  to  doe  the  \xxiii. 
Kinge  servyce,  when  so  ever  they  j 
shai  be  called  unpon  to  the  nom-  1 
bre  of  J 

Bondmen. 
Also    there  are  apperteynyng -» 
unto  the  saide  Manour,  certayne  I 
Bondmen,  at  the  King's  pleasure  Vi. 
bathe  Bodyes  and  Goodes,  to  the  I 
nomber  of  J 

The  Mannour  of  Badbury. 
Rentes  of  Assise  and  Customary  Tenanntes. 

The  Rentes    of  Assise  of  the  -»  \ 

Freholders,   apperteynyng    unto  / 
the  saide  Manour,  are  of  the  yere-  f  '^'^ 
ly  value  of  J 

The  Rentes  of  the  Custoraarye  ^ 
Tenanntes    and     Coppieholdcrs, 
apperteynyng  unto  the  saide  Ma- 
nour with  the  Workes  and  Cns- 


S77 


XV  li.  xi  s. 
xd.  ob. 


XVI  li. 
iiii  s  X  d. 
ob. 


tomes,  whiche  they  are  bounde 
unto  by  tenure  of  theire  Landes, 
are  of  the  yerely  value  of 

Demaynes, 
The  Scyte  of  the  saide  Manour-. 
of  Badburye,  with  the  Demaynes  I  xiili.  iii  s.  xxxv  li. 
apperteynyng  unto  the  same,  are  |  iiii  d.  xvii  s. 

of  the  yerely  value  of  J  v  d.  ob. 

Perquisites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes, 
The  Perquisites  of  the  Courtes, - 
with  the  Fines  and  other  Casual- 
ties belonging  unto  the  saide  Ma-  I  vii  li.ix  s. 
nour,  were  answered  this  yere  in  f  iii  d. 
the  Bokes  of  Accomptes  to  the 
«omnieof 


Dcr/ii  Ir. 
XTi  d.  q» 


Able 


S78 


Suroey  of  the  Estates  Mongittg 


jihle  men  to  serve  the  Kins^. 
Also  there  be  of  Ihe-Iiihabitantes,  within 
the  saide  Manour,  botli  of  Tenanntes  and 
other  persons,  able  to  doe  the  King  servyce, 
when  they  shal  be  called  upon,  to  the  nom- 
bre  of 


Bondmen. 
There  be  also  be1ongin£j   unto  the  saide 
Manour  certajne  Bondcnien,  to  the  noui 
ber  of 


'\ 


The  M annour  of  Dommorhame. 
Rentes  of  Assise  and  Cuslomarye  Tenanntes. 


\ 


d. 


The  Rentes  of  Assise,  apperteynynsf  unto 
the  saide  Mannonr,   allwayes  paiable  at  th( 
Feaste  of  th'  annnnciacion  of  our  I  adye  and  ^lv  s.  viid. 
SainctMichall  th'archangell,  are  of  the  yere 
ly  Value  of 

The  Rentes  of  the  Customarye  Tenanntes," 
and  Coppieholders,  apperteyiiyng  unto  the 
saide  Manour,  with  the  Workes  and  Cu- 
stomes,  whirhe  by  tenure  of  there  Landes 
they  are  bounde  to  doe,  are  of  the  yerely 
value  of 

The  Scite  of  the  saide  Mannour,  with  the 
Demayne  Landes  apperteynyng  unto  the 
same,  let  out  to  Ferme,  for  terme  of  yeres, 
for  the  some  of 

Demaynes^  Perquisites,  Couries  and  Fynes. 

The  Proffittes  commyngof  the  Perquisites 
of  Couries,  Fynos,  Amerciamentes,  and  other 
(>asualties  arysingof  the  same,  were  an&wered  I  xi.  li.  ix  s. 
this  yere  unto  Ih  Kinge's  Highnes,    as  it  ap-  fiiJi  d. 
pereth  in  the  Bokes  of  Accomptes  this  yere, 
at 

JVoodes  and  Tymbers. 

Also  thrre  are  dy 
vers  Woodes,  perley 
jnff  unto  the  said  Ma 


XX 

iiiix  li. 
xixs.  V. 
ob. 

XLii  li 

/•xiiii  s. 

viii  d. 


XX 

iiiixiiili. 
XV  s.v  d. 
ob. 


Liiii  li. 
ilii  s. 


Ml- 

ta-l 


to  Glastonbury  AUbey. 


S79 


Hour,  very  well  sp  tt 
with  Okes,  Assbesand 
M'lples,  the  Parcells^ 
with  the  Acres  wlier- 
of,  in  the  particular 
Buke  of  survey,  at  this 
present  tyme  made, 
fully  doe  appere, 
whiche  are  esteined 
now  worth  to  be  sold, 
over  and  besides  ihe 
Tymbre, 

Also  the  Tymbre^ 
growing  and  being 
within  the  saidc 
Woodes,  whereof  the 
noinbre  of  the  Trees, 
with  the  several  Prices 
in  the  foresiide  parli- 
culare  Boke  of  survey 
playnly  doe  appere,  is 
estemed  to  tlie  value 
of  / 


^ 


DXIUI  >^ 

;li.xii 
vd. 


DLV  ll, 

Vxvis. 


rii  d. 


Oufeof  the 
whiche 
Woodes, 
the  Tyra- 
ber  and 
old  wood, 
nor  my- 
iiyshed, 
jpoyld  nor 
hurt,  but 
still  to 
X  s.\contynew 
as  they  are 
now,  there 

lay  a 
Vfiely 
Wood 
sale  be 
made 
thereof  to 
the  somme 
and  value 
>'of 


\ 


CLXYiii  li. 
ri  s.  iii  d. 
ob. 


xxTi  li. 
xd. 


Eyes. 


Games  of  Fesanntes. 

Also  within  the  saide  Woodes  there  were  ^ 

founde,  at  this  present  survey,  ii.  eyes  of  Fe-  / 

sanntes,  whiche  aliways  her  to  fore  have  ben  j 

used  to  bred  there,  "^ 

Able  men  to  serve  the  King. 
Also  there  are  Reciant  and  deruonring 
within  the  saide  Lordeship,  of  the  Tenanntes 
aperteynyng  unto  the  same,  allwayes  being 
in  a  readynes,  when  so  ever  they  shall  be 
called  upon  to  serve  the  King,  to  the  nom- 
bre  of  ' 

The  Mannour  of  Idmistonne. 
Hefites  of  Assise  and  Customary  TenaiDites. 
The  Rentes  of  Assise  of  the  Freholtk  rs,  1  ^^^...  ^    ") 
apperteynyng  unto  the  saide  Manourof  Ide-  ?•.     i      *     I 
myston,  are  of  the  ycrely  value  of  J        '         | 

Vol.  IT.  L 


The 


380 


Smnjcy  of  the  Estates  belonging 


TFie    Rentes    of  CoppielioUlers  ami   Cn--\ 
sfomary  Tenanntes,  appending  unto  thesaide  /^^jj  ^j  ^^ 
Manoiir,  with  the  AVorkes  and   Customcs,  Vj-  ^j  J^ 
wliiche  they  are  bounde  to  doe  by  Tenure  of  1 
tkeie  Landes,  are  of  the  yearly  value  of  J 

Demaynes^  Perquisites  of  Courtes  and  Fynes. 

The  Scite  of  the  saide  Manour,  with  the  "j -viiiH- 
Demaynes  apperteynyng  unto  the  saide  Ma-  r^iii  s. 
nour,  arc  of  the  ycrely  value  of  J  ""  '^• 

The  Proffites  comyng  of  the  Perquysites-j 
of  Courtes,  Fynes  and  oilier  Casualties,  were  I  viii  li. 
answered  this  yere  unto  the  Kingc's  Highnes  (  vii  s. 
to  the  some  of  ■' 


J'xviii  Kv 
xixs.  ob. 


xvii  IL 
iiii  d. 


Ahle  vieti  to  serve  the  King. 
Also  there  are  recyaniit    and   inhabiting 


■within  the  saide  Manour  of  Tenanntes,  and 
other  able  persons,  beyng  in  a  readines  to 
snrve  the  Kinge's  Highnes,  when  soever  tliey 
slial  be  called  upon,  to  the  nombre  of 


fxx» 


Bondmen. 
Also  there  are  within  the  Precincte  of  the-* 
same  Manour,  certayne  Bondmen,  whose  Bo-  l^^m 
dies  and  Goodcs  are  at  the  Kinge's  Highnes  j 
pleasure,  to  the  nombre  of  J 

Spiritualties. 
The  Parsonages  of  Dommerliamme,  Marlone,  Deverell 
Langbrydge. 
The  Tithes  of  Corneand  Haie,  apperteyn-. 
yngunto  the  Rcfctorye  or  Parsonage  '''  ^ — 
merbam,  within  thesaide  Countie  or   vv  me-  l^xviii  li. 
shyre  aforesuid,    with   otlier   Tit 
same  belonging,  are  of  the  yerely 

The  Tithes  of  Corne  and  Haye,  apper^ 
teyning  unto  the  Chapel  of  Martonne, 
other  Tithes  to  the  same  belonging  and 
teyning,  are  of  the  yerely  value  of 

The    Tithes    ofS 
Corne,  Haye,  and  j 


,  apperteyn-  - 
ige  of  Dom-  I 
e  of  Wilte-  L 
ithes  to  the  ( 
7  value  of     J 

with  /  X  h.  xiu 
I  per- j"iid. 


all 


to  Glastonbury  Abi^- 


381 


all  other  maner  of 
Tithes,  appertej'n- 
yng  unto  the  Par- 
sonage of  Deverall 
Langbriclije,  with 
in  thesaideCounte 
of  Wilteshire, 
with  certayne 
Glebe  Landes  un- 
to the  same  be- 
lonj^ing,  are  wor- 
the  by  the  yere 


1 


XX 

iiiixiiii  Vi. 
xi  s.  vi  d» 


Pensiofis. 


[  XXTl  S, 

fviii  d. 


ALsothere  is  appertejnjnir  nnto 
the  saide  late  attaincled  Monas- 
tcrye,  aPencion,  comrnyns:  owte 
of  the  Churche  of  Deverell  Lan^- 
bridare,  within  the  saide  Countie 
of  Wilteshire,  wliiche  the  Yicare 
of  the  saide  Churche  is  bounde 
to  pay,  and  ys  of  the  yerely  va- 
lue of  y 


LONDON. 

Temporalties. 

Also  within  the  Citie  of  Lon-"^ 
don,  there  are   certeyne  Landes 
and  Tenementes,  now  appcrteyn- 
ynif  unto  theKinjje's  Highe  Ma-lxxxili. 
jesiie,  by  Attaincture  of  the  saide  /xiis.  vii  d. 
late  attainctcd  Monasterie,  whiche  J 
were  lot  oute  to  dyvcrs  persons/ 
there,  for  terme  of  yeres,    to  the/ 
yerely  value  of 

Also  with  in  the  saide  €itie  ot 
London,  there  are  certaine  other 
Tenementes  and  Gardynes,  apper- 
tcyning  nnto  the  Kiiio;e's  Hijilincs, 
by  reason  of  the  saide  Attaincture  .  , 
©f  the  same  late  Moisastcrye  at- Z''""^* 


xxxiiii  U. 

fxixs.ilid. 


tai'nctcd, 


Sui^ei)  of  the  Estates  belonging 


taincted,  whiclie  were  allwayes 
kepte  in  the  Abbat's  owne  handes 
to  the  yerely  value  of 


■■) 


yI  s.  viii  d. 


WALES. 

Temporaltics. 
The  Mannour  of  Barslake. 

Rentes  of  Assise. 

The  Rentes  of  Assise  of  the  Freholders,  |  ^ 

apperteynyiig- unto  the  saideMaiiourof  Barse- 
lake,  allwayes  piyable  at  the Feastes of  th' 
annunciation  of  oure  Ladye  and  Sainct  Mi- 
cltaell  tharchangell,  as  it  dothe  appeare  in 
old  terrours  ther  of  made,  are  the  yerely 
value  of 

The  Scite  of  the  House  and  Demaynes. 
The  Scite  of  thesaide  Manour,  withe  the 
Demayne  Landes  apperteynyng  thereunto, 
are  letton  owte  by  Indenture,  for  diverse 
yeres  yei  to  come,  and  were  answered  this  *  ^^i"  '^* 
yere  unto  the  Kinge's  most  highe  Majestic, 
as  yt  dothe  appere  in  the  Bokes  of  ac-' 
Gomptes,  (o  the  some  of 


xxiii  li. 
Vi  s.  viii  I. 


Some 


to  Glastoiibury  Addey. 


383 


Some  totall  of  all  the  foresaide  Landes  and  Possessions,  aswell 
Spiritual  as  Temporally  oxer  and  besides  olde  Woodes  and 
Tymbre,  pertej/ning  to  th  saide  late  3Jonasterj/j  in  the  Coun- 
ties of 


SOxMERSETSIIEERE. 


Temporaltics. 


Jientes  and         "]  , 
Fermes  of  Cop-  j  ^'^ 
pieholders.  Cu- 
stomary Te- 
nanntes,  Inden- 
ture holders  and 
Demaynts  J 

Perquisites    of^  jj^  ^^^ 
Courtes,    Fynes,  v.-^  jj 


II.  II. 
xxiiii  li. 

iii  s.  xd. 
ob. 


and  other  Casual- 
Pies  J 


d.  q'  ob. 
Lsrvii  li- 


vi  d. 


ver  and   besydes 
olde  Woodes, 
communibus 
annis  J 

Able   nt'n,   be-^ 
yng   allwayes  in  I    c 
(I  redenes  tn  serve  yix.     x: 
the  King's  highe  I  vii. 
Majestie  J 

Bondemen  of    ^ 
blood,   whos  Bo-  I 
dies  and  Goodes  )>ccxxvi 
are    allwayes    at  I 
the  King's  plea-) 


IIVII- 

iLxiiii 
'  li.  X  s. 

viii  d. 

ob.  q. 

di. 


gpirituakirs. 


Personages- 


Pensions  ■ 


Porcions  of 
Tithes 

Proxies  and  Sy- 
nedcs 


1 
y\\. 

CXIX 

li.  viii 
s.  ix  d. 

q- 


Ablp 
men,bp- 
yna;  all- 
way  i"s  in 
aredinos 
to  serve 
the 
King, 
when 
they 
shall  be 
called 
upon, 


Mrr- 

LXX- 


£L 

>Rond-    ^ 
men  of 

c. 

Blood, 

" 

apper- 
teyning 

uiito  the 

^LXXU 

saide 

late    at- 

tainted 

Mona- 

. 

stery, 

The  totall 

vSomme  of  all 

the  foresaide 

Landes, 

1 

Rentes  and 

M 

Possessions, 

iii. 

wh 

die  was 

>Dviii 

certifyed  un- 
to the  King's 
most  Ilighe 
Majestie,  for 
the  Tenth  of 
the  same  late 
Mona  terye,  J 


s.  nil 
d.  ob. 


Which 

have  in 

a  rcadi" 

res,ataU 

times, 

when 

they 

shall  be 

called 

upon  to 

seiTethe 

King's 

highe 

Maje- 

stye, 


L  3 


WILTES. 


384 


Surmy  of  the  Estates  bdonging 


WILTESSHERE. 

Temporaltics. 


'LiiiiH 


Jtentsa  and 
Fermes  of 
Coppieholders, 
Indenture 
holders  and 
Demaynts 

Perquisites 
of  Couries, 
Fynes,  other 
Casualties  -' 

Yerely  f^Vood^  xxx^ 
salts,  over  and  I  iiii    li 
hesydes     Tym-  /vi  s. 
her  and  old        J  x  d. 
Wood,  J 

Able  men. 
beyng  in  a  re-  I  CC 
dines   to  serve  ,'xxxi 
tfie  Kinge, 

Bondmen  of 
Bloodd, 


personages 


Fencions 


DCLU 

li.  xvi 
>d.  q. 


DORCETSHERE. 


Temporaltics, 


Rentes  and 

" 

Fermes   of 

c. 

Customarye 

iixLV 

Tennants,  In- 

J>li. xs. 

denture   hold- 

iii  d. 

trs  and  Ue- 

maynes 

Perquisites     '' 

ef  Court  s. 

XXV  li. 

Fines   and    c- 

^vix  s. 

ther  Casual- 
ties, 

q- 

1 

xwii  li. 
\x\m.  q. 
Ui. 

And  so 
this  sur- 
vey, 
without 
any  im- 
prove- 
ment, or 
anyTen- 
annte 
paying 
any  pe- 
ny,  or 
Somme 
of  mo- 
ney, 
more 
then    of 
olde 
tyme  he 
hatha 
don,  ex- 
cedeth 
thesaide 
Certifi- 
cate,asit 
dothap- 
pere  by 
tlieBoke 
of  the 
Tenthe, 


DCC- 

xviii 
li.viis. 
ix.  d. 
ob. 


Thf  Bay.    ^ 
lyves  and 
*  Renes  for 
the  Colle- 
ction, and        ^ 
gatlierynj^s    r  \ 
of  the  Mo- 
ney, and 
Rentes  of 
the  Tc- 
nanntes  and 
t  FremoursJ 


Certayne 

Officers, 
granted  by 
the  saide 
late  Abbat 
of  high 
Treason  at- 
tayit-<ljand 
the  Con- 
vent   under 
theire  seale 
for  terme 
of  theire 
lyves 


J 


1  Of  Rentes 

I  of    Landes, 
graunted 
out   by  the 
n   ^saydeTray- 
»   I  tor  and 
"j  I  Convent, 
I  for  lesse 
Rent  then 
hereto  fore 
J  hath  ben 

Ipaide,   and 
decaies  of 
I  TeuannteE, 


>.- 


*  Sic.  Apogr.     +  Sic  Apogr. 


Wood-^ 


to  Glastoniury  Abbey. 


385 


1  >cxx     I   c 

be-  ii  hit     |  iiiv.  li 

Ixxiili.     xiiii       Sxii  s. 
iin-  j  xiii  s.      li.  ii  s.     iiii  d. 


iiii  cL 
Ob. 


TVoodsales. 
over   and 
sides  olde 
Woodes,  com- 
muni  bus    an- 
nis, 

^ble  men 

Bondemen 


Spiritualties. 

Personages      )  x  li. 
S  xs. 

r  X  s. 

XX  s.    )  J 

GLOCESTER  SHERE. 

Temporalties  and  Spiritualties, 


Pendens 


Rentes  and    ") 

,:       ^ 

Fermesby       [l^"     \ 

yere                  ) 

Vix  li.  xvii  s. 

Annuall        1  lxx-     j'  iiii  d. 
Pencions  by     >  vi  s.       { 
yere                 )  viii  d.  -' 

BARKSHERE. 

Temporalties. 

^ 

XXXV- ' 

Rentes  and   "^ 

iii  li. 

Fertnes  by       ( 

xixs. 

Here                  r 

lid. 
ob. 

Perquisites     ' ' 
ef  Courtes        \ 

LXXvi 

xlviii  li. 

>s.            >xv  s.  ii  d. 

Woodsales     1 

ob. 

communi-        > 

vili. 

bus  annis         ) 

Able  men  to^ 

serve  the          C 

xi. 

This 

survey,  I   1. 

as  in  the  (  m.  xx 

particu-  J>iiii  iiiiv 

larBokcs  |  li.  vi  s. 

therof         viii  d.  q. 

taken 

it  dothe  I 

appere,  J 


i  > 


The 

Boke  of 
the 

tenthe 
certi- 
fyde  by 
the 
Com- 
missiou> 
crs  to 
the 

Kinge's 
High- 
J  nes 


1 

M 

iii.  cccxi 
'li.  vii  s. 
iiiid.ob. 
q.  di. 


And    " 
so  this 
Sur- 
vey 
exced- 


DCC- 

i.xxiii 
li.  xii 


eth  the  j  s.  iiii 
Boke  d.  ob. 
of  the  I 

tenthe  J 


King 


J 

DEVONSHERE. 

Temporalties. 


L4 


For. 


386 


Survey  of  the  Estates  helovging 


?  vi  H. 

S  xiiii. 

vi  s. 
vi  d. 


Sxxxiii  li.iiid. 


Perquisites  of 
Courtes 
Wo  odd  sales 
communi- 
biis  annis  ) 

^ble  men  ) 
to  serve  the  > 
King  ) 

LONDON. 

Temporal  ties. 

Rentes  of       ") 
eertayne  Te,     >  xxxiiii  li.  xix  s.  iii  d. 
nements  there  ) 

WALES. 

Temporalties. 

j4  31  an  tier 
tailed  Barls-    S  xxiii  li.  vi  s.  viii  d. 

lake  by  yere 


Somme  iotall  of  all  the  Woodes  and  Tymhre^   appertei/ning  uni9 
the  sa^yde  attainted  Monasterij  of  Glastonburj/,  videlicetj  in 

The  Count ie  o/SOMEflSET  SHERE. 
GLASTONBURYE. 


JWoodes-^ccxxxu  li.  x  s.  vi  d. ")  dxl  iii.  li.     "^ 
i.  X  s.  (  vi  d. 


Tymbre — cccx  1 

MERE. 
Woodes  — Lxix  s. 
Tymhre  — vi  li.  - 

WRINGTON. 

Woodes 

Tymlre  ^^^^^^^ 

PYLTON. 

Woodes  — XTA-i  li.  -■             — 
Tymbre  — c  li. 


>  ix.  li.  ix. 

7  XX  -1 

^  iiii.xix  li.  viis.  viid.  I  CLXxix  li 
I  vii  s.  vii 

}.    ,.  ■  MM  iiii 

CXLVl.  li.  L    ....    , 

r  xiiii  d. 


1  1     c 


xxxviii  li. 


GO- 


to  Glastonlury  Abhey. 


38T 


Woodes — Dcccxli  XV.  s.  id.       T  xx. 

■)  XX  >Dccciiiix. 

Tj^mlre^....^.^  Jli.xvs.id. 


GODENHAYE. 

Woode*  — cii  li.  ix  s.  iiii  d. —  ")  CLxii  li.  ix 

Tymbre  — lx  li. 3  iiii  d. 

BUDCLEYGH. 
Woodes  — DcccxIi  xv.  s 

XX 

iiii  li. 
BALTESBOROUGH. 

Woodes  — cxL  li. 7 

Tymhre  — cclx  li.  ■  •  j 

MERKE^BURYE, 
Woodes  — Lxvi  li.  sis.  s.  viii  d 
Tymbre  — xl.  li. 

The  Countie  of  DORCETSHIRE 
NEWTOXNE. 


cccc  li. 


")  cvi.  li.  xix 
^  s.  viii  d. 


Woodes  — cc  li.  ■ 

Tymbre  — CLxviii  li.xiii  s.  iiii  d. 

BUCKLOXDE, 

Woodes  — Lxx  li.     

Tymbre  — xii  li.  — — 


CCCLXVllI 

'  li.  xiii  s. 
iiii  d. 


I" 

^  iiii.  ii  li. 


CLXX  iii  li. 


MURNEHALL. 

Woodes  — cxLvi  li.xiiii  s.  viiid.  ]  clx: 
lymbre  — xxvi  li.  xiiis  iiii  d.    J  viii  s. 
The  Countie  a/BARKESHERE. 
ASHEBERYE. 

Woodes  wUhin  the  saide  Manour.  cili  ixs.  iid. 
Tymbre  wUhin  the 


tame  Mannore 


LX  li. 


)-  vixJ 


li.  xvi  d. 


Y: 


111.  OCC6 

li. 


CLxi.  li,  ix.  s.  ii  d. 


The  Countie  of  WILTES  SHERE. 
NETLETONNE. 
Woodes  — xvi  li. 


Tymbre  — iiii  li. 

RYNGTONXE. 

Woodes  — c:iL  li. 

Tymbre  — xx  li. 


XX  Ii. 


CLX  li. 


CHRIST- 


S88  Survey  of  the  Estates  belonging  &c. 

CHRISTMALFORDE. 


Wooies  — cviii  li.  xv  s. 
Tywibre  — cli  ■  ■^ 


. ")  ccviii  li. 
■  5  XV  ». 


!■: 


DEUERELANGBRIDGE. 


Wooies 
Tj/mbri 


Wooden  . — ; 
Tiimire 


5""-^'---:; ~0"s.  iii 

e  — xxvii  11.  in  s.  im  d.      } 
DOMMERHAM. 

. — Dxiiii  li.  xm  s.  v  n.      f  ^ 
— DLV.  li.  xvi  s.  vii  d.      ( '^ 


M.  LXX.  li. 
X  s. 


MDLXvi  li.  viii  s. 
iiii  d. 


An 


An  ACCOUNT 

Of  the  Hospital  of 

St.  MAHY  MAGDALEN 

Near  SCROBY 
IN 

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, 

By  JOHN  SLACKE, 

Master  of  that  Hospital. 

From  a  MS.  in  the  Hands  of  THOMAS  FEE  WIN, 
of  LiNCOLN*s-Inn,  Esq; 


Dr.  THOROTON's  Antiquities  of  NOT- 
TINGHAxMSHIRE,  Lond.  1677.  fol.  pag. 
478. 


rr^HE  Moretons  did  found  an  Hospital  in  the  uttermost  edge 
-*•  of  the  Parish  [of  i^artoort|)  in  jl9otting^am&ite]  near 
3Bautrcg  Town  in  |?or62jire,  to  which  there  is  also  a  Chapel 
yet  standing,  wherein  they  of  the  Family  have  used  to  be  buried, 
and  amongst  the  rest  there  lies  Katherin  (daughter  of  John 
Soun,  Esquire,  by  his  first  wife,  and  so)  half  sister  of  Gilbert 
Boun^  Sergeant  at  Law,  who  was  widow  of  George  Moj'eion, 
elder  brother  of  the  before  named  Robert  \_Moretony[  who 
sold  i^aiehjortl)  [to  Mr.  William  Saunderson^']  which  George 
died  long  before  the  said  Anthony  \_Moreton'\  his  father, 
[who  paid  in  Queen  Elizabeth'?,  time  3  s.  4  d.  for  half  a 
Knight's  Fee  in  i^artoortlj,  (sometime  Henry  BiseV^)  and 
■wasted  the  Estate.]  These  Moretons  bore  Quarterly 
Gules  and  Ermine^  the  first  and  last  charged  zcilh  each  a 
Goatees  Head  Erased  Anr. 


(  391  ) 


To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God, 
Richard,  by  the  "  Devine  Provi- 
dence of  God  now  Lord  Archbp. 
of  Yorke,  his  Grace,  Primate  of 
England  and  '  MetropoHtane, 
John  Slacke,  Master  of  that  poore 
Hospitall  of  Saint  Mary  Magda- 
len juxta  Bawtrie^  wisheth  all 
happiness  and  eternall  blessed- 
nes. 


J^  T  was  your  Grace's  speciall  charge 
att  Bawtrie,  that  I  should  make 
a  Booke,  and  therin  sett  down^ 
the  true  state  of  that  Hospitall,  viz. 

1.  Who  was  the  Founder ^ 

2.  For  whome  it  was  founded  ? 

3.  What  Maintenance  doth  belonge  thereunto  F 


Sic.     *Sic. 


4.   Who 


89%  Account  of  the  Hospital  of 

4.  Who  is  Patron  thereof? 

5.  HoWi  and  by  whome,  it  was  passed  as  a  CoiU 
cealment,  atid  given  to  Hugh  Millar,  Foot-man  to 
the  late  2iiee?ie  Elizabeth  of  famous  memory  ^  ands0 
passed  under  the  Great  SealeP 

6.  How,  and  by  whome,  it  was  reversed,  uppon 
a  solemne  hearinge  in  thexchecquer,  uppon  '  aincient 
Evidences  and  good  Testemony,  before  the  Lord  Bur- 
ley  then  Lord  Treasurer^  and  the  Barrons  there, 
by  the  vieanes  of  ^  John,  late  Archbyshop  of  YorkCy 
and  John  Cooper,  then  Master,  and  Predecessor,  6e- 

fore  mcs  of  that  Hospital  ? 

It  was  decreed,  that  the  Graunt  from  the  late 
Q>ueene  Elizabeth  to  her  servant,  Hugh  Myller, 
should  be  reversed,  and  allso  it  was  dec?red,  that 
that  Hospitall  should  continue  as  in  former  tyme, 
as  more  at  large  may,  a?id  doth,  appeai^e  by  the 
said  Decree,  exajnined  by  Thomas  Fanshaw,  her 
Majestic* s  Remembrancer  in  thexchecquer. 

Yet  after  the  death  of  Mr.  Cooper,  my  Prede- 
cessor, it  plesed  the  Lord  Archbyshop  *  Tobie,  to  col- 
late that  Hospitall  on  vie  John  Slacke,  but  was  re- 
sisted  in  the  Possession  by  Thomas  Robinson,  Tho- 
mas SJiorte,  Jolrn  Noble,  John  Bradley,  with  others, 
who  Jiad  for?nerly  coinbyned  with  James  Brewster, 
late  Master  there,  but  was  deprived  from  that  Ho- 
spitall,  in  regard  of  Combination  and  Concealement. 
I  repayred  to  Mr.  Houlder,  Prebend  of  Suthwell 


*  Sic.     » John  Piers.     J  Tobie  MattheWr 

and 


St.  Mary  Magd.  near  Bautre. 
snd  Executor  to  Mr.  Cooper,  ivith  -wliome  I  found 
out  these  Pleadings  and  the  Decree  ;  and  some  from 
Anthony  Mortm,  Esq;.  Thereuppon  I  exhibited  a 
Bill  against  those,  who  apposed  me  in  the  *  Pocession, 
and,  uppon  a  Motion^  repeatinge  the  Decree,  for- 
merly made  at  the  hearmge  in  thexchecquer,  there 
zvas  granted  a  Suhpcena,  to  cause  them  to  shew  good 
cause,  why  the  Possessiotis  and  Decree,  formerly  made 
and  established,  should  not  continue.  And,  upon 
theire  Answer,  in  HiUarie  terme,  octavo  Jacobi, 
in  thexchequer  Chamber,  by  Sir  Laurence  Tanjield 
Lord  chief  e  Barron,  and  the  rest  of  the  Barrons,  it 
was  there  decreed  againe,  that  the  former  Decree 
should  stand,  ajid  is  &i^dered,  that  both  my  selfe, 
and  my  Successors  there  after  me,  should  quietly  en., 
joy  the  same;  a?^for  that  purpose  the  Courtegraunted 
an  Injunction  against  any  that  should  molest  me. 
Lastly,  the  Court e  did  enjoyne  the  Auditor  and  Re- 
(.eiver  far  Yorkeshiere,  to  pay  unto  me  such  Pen- 
tions,  as  were  arreared  and  stayed  in  his  hands,  as^ 
by  the  said  Decree,  entred  into  tlus  Booke,  it  doth 
appear e.  So  that  this  Booke  may  give  both  Dire- 
ctions and  Instructions,  *  of  any  Ques '  ion  shoiUd  here- 
after arise  concerninge  the  Premisses.  And  thus  I 
take  my  have  from  Cantley  the  1 V^  of  August  1 635. 
At  your  Grace's  Command 
Job.  Slacke. 


L.if. 

Con- 


393 


(  394  } 


Concerninge  the  Founder. 

T  doth  appeare  to  be  Robert  Morton  of 
Bawtrie,  Esqr.  who  founded  the  Chap- 
pell,  the  Mansion-Howse  for  the  Mais- 
ter  of  that  Hospitall,  with  other  Ilowses 
r^  as  a  Barne  of  fower  Bayes,  a  Stable,  a 
Dove-coate,  and  a  Gate-howse,  but  most  of  them  ruin- 
ated, defaced,  and  pulled  downe,  and  carried  away,  by 
Thomas  Robinson,  Thomas  Short,  and  the  rest,  who 
combyned  in  the  Concealement. 

That  there  belongeth  to  the  said  Hospitall,  wherein 
it  standeth,  a  Close,  all&o  a  Close-More  in  Scatworth 
carr,  called  Preist-Close,  one  other  Close,  called  Lane- 
end-Close,  with  15  Roods  of  Meddow  in  Scroobie  Med- 
dowes,  alt  which  were  the  Gift  of  the  Founder. 

It  doth,  moreover,  appeare,  that  this  Roberte  Mor- 
ton gave  unto  the  Prior  and  '  Coment  of  St.  Oswauld 
250  1.  who,  to  gratifie  that  Gift,  gave  unto  the  Master 
of  St.  Marie  Magdalen,  then  founded  by  Roberte  Mor- 
ton, eight  Markcs,  as  appereth  by  the  Indenture  of  the 


*  L.  Convent, 


Mid 


Account  of  the  Hospital  of  &c.  395 

said  Prior,  made  in  the  time  of  Thomas  '  Lord  Arch- 
bjshopp  of  Yorke,  in  Anno  Dom,  1390.  The  Coppy 
of  that  *  Inventory  followeth  thus : 

%£10C  3I'^''^^^^'^^>  facta  inter  venerahilem  dominum 
S(  patrem,  dominum  Thomam^  Dei  gratia  Archiepisco- 
pum  Eborum,  ^  primiat''  fdes  legatum^  ex  una  parte,  &( 
*  religeosos  virosy  Adam  priorem  Sancti  Oswaldi  de  No- 
stell,  i^  ejusdem  loci  content mn,  ex  altera  pai^tCy  '  ^Z- 
ftatOC,  quod,  cum  iidem prior  &;■  conventus^  per  quoddam 
scriptum  suuni  Indentatum,  dedtrunt  Sf  concesserunt 
Boberto,  ^  Capellavo  cujusdam  '  cantare  in  Capelli  Sancti 
Marice.  Magdelence  juxta  Baxstrie^  vocata  \z  »»pittl0, 
8f  successorihus  suis,  "  capclanis  ejusdem  *  cantare y  quce 
quidam  cantaria  est  de  patronatu  dicti  domini  archie- 
piscopiy  ut  de  '°  xire  ecclesice  suce  Sancti  Petri  Eborum, 
quendam  "  annaleni  redditum  octo  Mercarum,  perci- 
piend.  secundum  moduni  Sf  formam  scripti  '*  eodem  prio- 
ris  Sf  conventus  inde  factiy  cujus  tenor  sequitur  in  heec 
verba : 

"  Universis  Sanctce  Matris  ecclesi'ce,  ad  quos  prcesen' 
"  tes  litterce  pervenerint,  Adam  prior  Sancti  Oswaldi 
*'  de  Nostelly  Ordinis  Sancti  Augustini  Eborum  Dioce- 
**  sis^  K  ejusdem  loci  conventus,  salutem  in  Domino 
*'  sempiiernam.  Noveritis,  nos,  unanimi  assensu  Sf 
"  consensu  totius  *'  Capitate  nostri,  '*  medietis  licentia  do- 
*^  mini  Regis,  pro  ducentis  Sf  quadraginta  libris,  **  quos 
*'  Robertus  Morton,  in  magna  necessitate  nostro,  in  re- 

'  Thomas  Arundel.  *  L.  Indenture.  '  Y.primitivoejidei lega. 
turn,  nisi  malis,  primitivce  sedes  legatum.  4  L.  religiosis.  sh.  tes. 
tatur.  (>h.capellano.  iL.cantariceinCapellaSancta.  ^L.Ca. 
pellanis.  ^h.  cantarice,  quce  quidem.  '°L.  Jure.  "Sic.  '*F. 
ejusdem.     ^i  h,  Capituli.     '*F.  mediante.     ^ih.quas. 

Vol.11.  M  'Ueva^ 


396  Account  of  the  Hospital  of 

*'  letiationem  domus  nostrce  prcedictce,  nobis  dederit  S; 
*^  charitatem  contulerit ;  dedisse,  concessisse^  Sf  hoc  prce' 
'^  senti  scripto  nostra  Tndentato  confirmasse  Roberto,  Ca- 
''  pellano  ejusde7n  cantarice  in  capella  Sanctx  Marias 
"  MagdalenoE  juxta  Bawtri/y  vocata  le  »ipittle,  Sf  sue- 
*'  cessoribus  suis,  capellatiis  ejusdem  Cantarice^  imperpe' 
"  tuum  '  querendam  annualem  reditum  octo  marcarum, 
**  percipiend.  de  dome  nostra  predicta  ad  tenninos  Puri- 
'^Jicatioms  beatce  Marice,  8f  Nativitatis  Sancti  Johan- 
"  nis  BaptistcBj  per  cequales  portiones  solvend.  dicta  Ro- 
**  berto  Capcllano,  Sf  successoribus  suis,  *  Capelanis  can- 
*•  tarice  prcedictce  singulis,  apud  prosdictam  capellam,  w- 
*'  catam  l0  Spittle,  in  forma  prcedicta,  in  '  augmenta' 
"  tione  sustentatione  dicti  Capellani,  &!  successorum  suo- 
''  rum,  capellanorum  cantarice  prcedictce,  divina  in  ca- 
**  pella  prcedicta,  pro  salutari  statu  dicti  Roberti  Mor- 
*'  ton,  Sf  *  Johanna  consortis  suce,  dum  vixerint,  ac  pro 
**  *  omnibus  eorundem  Roberti  8^  Johannce  cum  ab  hac 
*'  luce  migraverint,  nee  non  pro  ^  omnibus  pairem,  ma- 
"  trem,  parentum  Sf  benefactorum  eorundem,  imperpe^ 
**  tuum  celebraturorum ;  Sf  si  contingat,  dictum  '  ama- 
**  bulem  redditum  ad  aliquem  terminum  prcenotatum  de 
•*  •  aretco  esse  in  parte,  vel  in  toto,  quod  tunc  ibidem  liceat 
"  prcedicta  Roberto  '  capelavo,  Sf  successoribus  '°  capellavis 
**  cantarice  predicice,  in  placiis  Sf  maneriis  "  nostras  de 

"  trare,  Sf  in  eisdem  '*  dlstinguere,  Sf  ''  districtionis  ab- 
'*  ducere,  ^*fagare,reterere,  quousque  eidem  Roberto  Ca- 

*  F.  quendam.  *  L.  Capellanis.  J  F.  ^ugmentationem  su$. 
tentationis.  *Ij.  Johannce.  sF.  animabus.  (>F.  animabus pa^ 
trum  Sf  matrum,  &c.  7  L.  annualem.  ^  F.  a  retro,  id  est,  arre. 
ragioyelarrieragio.  ^Jj.capellano.  *°L.capellanis.  "L.nos- 
tris.  "  F.  distringere.  ^¥.  districtiones.  '*  Y.fugare  Sf  /e- 
nere,  vel  fugare  Sf  retinere, 

**  pellano  f. 


St,  Mary  Magd.  near  Baiitre.  397 

*'  pellano,  vel  successoribus  suis  '  capellavis  cantarice  proB' 
*'  dictaSf  de  prcedictorum  reddituum  *  arereagiis  ejusdem 
**  plenarie  fuerint '  sutosfat.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  kuic 
"  prcesenti  scripto  meo  sigillum  commune  capituli  nostri 
*'  *  exposuimus.  Dat.  in  domo  capitulari  Sancti  Oswal- 
*'  di,  prima  die  Octobris,  anno  Domini  1390.  ^  anno 
*'  regni  Regis  Richardi  secundi  post  conqucestum  Au' 
' '  glicB  xiiii°. 

Et  quod  si  contingat,  dictum  '  annalem  redditum,  post 
aliquem  terminumy  in  prcedicto  *  teneri  cowoentum,  per 
duos  '  mensis  a  retro  esse  in  parte  tel  in  toto,  tunc  prce- 
dicti  prior  Sf  convent  us,  Sf  successor  es  sui,  *  tenente  8f 
obligente  dicto  domino  Archiepiscopo,  8f  successoribus 
suis,  5  quotiens  in  quadraginta  solidos  '°  starlingos,  quo' 
tiens  praedictum  annualem  redditum  post  "  aliquam  ter-* 
minum  per  duos  menses  in  forma  prcedicta  a  '*  certo  esse 
"  contingerit,  solvend.  eidem  Domino  Archiepiscopo  Sf 
successoribus  apud  »)CCOObl0 ;  in  cujus  rei  testimonium 
uni  parti  hujus  Indentures,  penes  prcefatum  Dominum 
Archie piscopum  remanenti,  '*  altri'  prior  8^  conventus 
sigillum  commune  capituli  sui  apposuerunt,  alteri  vero 
"  parte,  pen^s  '*  dictas  priorem  Sf  conventum  remanen- 
ti, idem  dominus  Archiepiscopus  sigillum  suum  apposuit. 
Dat.  apud  Sanctum  "  Oswaldi  '*  prcedicto  quarto  die 
Octobris,  anno  Domini  1390.  Sf  anno  regni  regis  Ri- 
chardi secundi  post  conqucestum  Anglice  xiiii°. 

The  Abbey  of  St.  Oswald  beinge  ''  supressed,  and 
the  Revenues  comeinge  to  the  Kinge,  this  Pen- 
sion of  V  li.  vi  s.  viii  d.  is  continually  paid  by 
the  Auditor  and  Receiver  of  Yorkshiere. 

'  L.  capellanis.  *  Sic.  ^  F.  satisfacturi.  4  F.  apposuimus. 
J  Sic.  6F.  tenore.  'L.  menses.  ^¥.  tenentur  4'  ohligantur. 
9  F.  totiens.  »°  F.  sterlingos.  "  L.  aliquem.  "  F.  retro. 
*5  L.  contigerit.  '^  Vox  haec  deteiida  esse  videtur.  ^s  L.  parti. 
»6  L.  dictot.  ''  L.  Oswaldum.  »8  jr.  prcedictum,  '9  Sic. 
M,  2  And 


398  Account  of  the  Hospifal  of 

And  there  is  xxvi  s.  viii  d.  to  he  paid  unto  the  Hospt- 
tall  by  the  Lord  Archbishop  for  the  tynie  beinge,  as  ap- 
pearethe  by  an  Abstract  of  tlie  Letters  Pattents,  which 
Robert  late  Archbishop  of  Yorke  purchassed  from  King 
Edward  thesixt,  concerning  theMannor  of  »iCC00ti^,  with 
Ihappurtenances,  by  meanes  of  which  Purchase  the  Lord 
Archbisliop  of  Yorke  holdetli  the  same  Manor  ;  In  which 
Purchase  the  Lord  Archbishop  doth  take  upon  him,  and 
for  this,  who  shall  hold  the  same  Mannor  after  him,  to 
discharge  the  saide  Kinge  of  these  Purchasses,  which,  att 
the  day  of  the  Purchase,  they  were  charged  with,  and 
payed  the  same. 

The  Letters  Pattents  beare  date  the  27***  of  May,  art- 
no  sepiimo  Edwardi  sexli,  as  appeareth  upon  Record  in 
the  Rolls,  as  there  enrolled. 

"  PriEterquam  de  '  sumo,  ndbis,  heredibus,  successori- 
"  bus,  superius  per  proesens  *  reservato,  ac  pro  ^  termini' 
"  bus  de  demissionibus  &>  coticessionibus  de  prcemissis  pro 
*•  termino  vitte  vel  *  anorum  facta,  super  quibus  anil- 
*'  quus  redditus  vel  plus  resertatur,  ac  prceterquam  de 
*'  viginti  sex  solidis  &^  octo  denariis,  *  annatim  solutis 
*'  magistro  hospitalis  beatce  Alurice  juxta  Bawtrie^  pro 
*'  redditus  resoluiione,  exeuntis  de  certis  terris  in  clau- 
*'  sura   infui  palacium  in  campo,   sire  wareno,   tocato 

*'  ^Iiimme  field* 

Which  seemes  to  be  Clay-pitt  Close,  now  in  the  oc- 
cupation of  John  Clarke.  If  it  might  please  your 
Grace,  I  could  rather  wish  the  Ground  then  the 
Pension,  which  would  be  very  commodious  to 
the  Hospitall. 

'  F.  summu.   *  F.  reservata.     JSic.     4  L.  annorum.   5  Sic. 

Se- 


St.  Mari/  Magd.  near  BaiUre.  399 

Seco77dlj/,  for  what  poore  ? 
I  find  it  was  founded  for  two  poore  Widdowes,  and 
such   are  to  be  placed  successively,  and  there  is  given, 
by  your   Grace's   Directions,    to   either   of    them    xx  ^. 
yearly. 

Thirdly,  all  the  Profdls  cominge  to  the  Master^  both 
by  Pensions  and  Rents,  are  xiiii  1.  x  s. 

Fourthly,  the  Patron  of  the  HospHall  is  the  Lord 
Archbishop  of  Yorke,  for  the  time  beinge,  and  sede  vn- 
cante  the  Kinge. 

I  find  a  BUI  of  Remembrance  in  these  Words  : 

"  '^tjiSf  BfU  made  t!ie  xii^'^.  day  of  July,  awio  xix". 
"  Henrici  octavi,  Wiitm^iStt^  me  William  Hollgill  to 
*•  have  received  of  the  right  worshipfull  Maister  Barra, 
•*  Prebend  of  Suthwell,  the  day  of  these  presents,  vir. 
*'  Pieces  of  Evidences  sealed,  concerninge  the  Chappell 
*'  of  St.  Marie  Magdalen  of  Bawtrie,  to  the  use  and  be- 
"  hoofe  of  the  Incumbent  of  the  same  Chappell  that  now 
*'  is,  bis  and  his  successors.  In  witnesse  whereof  I  the  said 
"  William  Hollgill  have  sett  my  Seale,  and  subscribed 
**  ray  Name,  the  day  and  yeare  above  written. 

Butt  where  this  Hollgill  dyed,  or  what  became  of 
these  Evidences,  it  cannot  be  knowne,  which  is  a  great 
Wound  and  Hurt  to  that  Hospitall. 

The  Certificate  of  Sir  John  Markeham,  Kiiight,  AVil- 
liam  Cooper,  Nichollas  Powtrel!,  Esquiers,  and  John 
Wiseman,  Gent.  Commissioners  of  o\ir  Soveraigne  Lord 
the  King  iu  the  County  of  Nottingham,  for  the  sur- 
vayinge  of  all  Chauntries,  Hospitalls,  Colleges,  Free 
Chappells,  Fraternities,  Brotherhoods,  Guilds  and  Sal- 
laryes  of  stipendarye  Priests,  within  the  said  County,  ac- 
M  3  cordinoe 


400  Account  qf  (he  Hospital  of 

cordinge  to  cerfaine  Articles,  hereunder  written,  by  the 
vertue  of  the  King's  Majestie's  Commissioner  to  them  di- 
rected, Dated  the  xiiii"'.  day  of  February,  in  the 
xxxvii'*'.  yeare  of  the  Raigne  of  our  said  most  dread  So- 
veraigne  Lord,  Henry  the  eight,  by  the  Grace  of  God 
of  England,  France  and  ^  lerland  King,  Defender  of  the 
Faith,  and  in  Earth,  under  God,  of  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land and  lerland  the  suprearae  Head,  amongst  other 
things,  is  contayned  as  followeth. 

*'  The  parrishe  of  Harzsorthe. 

**  The  Hospitall  of  Mary  Magdalen  juxta  Bawtrie, 
"  founded  by  one  Robert  Morton  for  a  Priest,  there  io 
"  be  resident,  and  to  keepe  Hospitalitie  for  poore  Peo- 
^'  pie,  to  pray  for  the  Founder's  Soule  and  all  Christian 
"  Soules,  as  the  Deputye  of  the  Incumbent  saith  uppon 
"  his  Oathe,  without  any  Writings  shewed  to  the  Com- 
**  missioners. 

In  the  Booke  of  the  tenthe  '  xii  s.  viii  d. 

In  the  King's  Bookes  —  viii  li.  per  an.  —  xiii  s.  iiii  d. 
-paid  to  the  Priest,  with  vi  li.  xiii  s.  iiii  d.  received  aswell 
out  of  the  King's  Revenewes,  as  out  of  the  late  surren- 
dred  Monasterie  of  St.  Oswald  cvis.  8d.  as  out  of  the 
Lordshipp  of  Scrooby  xxvi  s.  viii  d.  which  Revenewes 
have  beene  imployed  to  the  use  of  Richard  Pigott,  Cha- 
•pliene  to  Kinge  Henry  the  eight,  savinge  that  he  did 
give  to  a  Preist  xiiis.  iiiid.  to  say  masse  there  two  dayes 
in  the  Weeke. 

And  it  hath  *  with  2  Closes  and  a  Mancion  rented  be- 
fore att  XL  s.  by  the  yeare. 


Sic.  a  Sic. 

The 


St.  Mary  Magd.  near  B autre.  401 

The  Names  of  some  Jrchbi/shops,  who  have  beene 
Patrons,  and  whom  they  have  'presented  to  the 
liospitall. 

Johannes  Romanus  collated,       Tho.  Langtofte. 

William  Melton Adam  Usflet. 

William  Booth Thomas  Wirell. 

Cristofer  Bainbridge  John  Hawkyns. 

Thomas  Woolcey      Richard  Pigott. 

Roberta  Holgate  '     William  Claybrowghe, 

sacrce  theologice  professori. 

Edwin  Sands      James   Brewster,    who 

combined  with  Robinson,  Short,  and  Noble  to 
subvert  the  Hospitall,  and,  uppon  false  Information, 
it  was  passed  as  a  Concealement,  and  thereupon 
he  was  deprived. 

John  Pierce John  Cooper,    and  in 

both  theire  names  was  the  suit  commenced  and 
decreed. 

Tobie  Mathew ■  John  Slacke,  who  was 

kept  out  of  the  '  Pocession   of  the  Hospitall,   by 
whose  meanes  the    old  Decree  is  established,    and 
Possession  granted  to  him  and  his  Successors. 
Now  by  xvhose  meanes  the  Hospitall  was  inform- 
ed to  be  a  Concealement,    and  so  passed  under 
the  Great  Scale  of  England. 
All  these,  that  are  here  sett  downe,  did  combyne  in 
that  Action  ; 

James  Brewster,  (then  Maister  of  that  Hospitall,)  Tho- 
mas Robinson,  Thomas  Short,  John  Noble,   as  appear- 

'  Sic. 
M  4:  eth 


40^  Account  of  the  Hospital  of 

etli   upon  tTieire  Confession  before  the  Higlie  Coramis^ 
sionejs  att  Yorke. 

A  Coppj/e  of  the  Warrant  from  the  Commissioners, 
to  attach  James  Brewster^  Tho.  Short,  Thomas 
Bobinson,  and  others,  for  profai/ninge  and  ruinat- 
inge  the  Ilowse  and  Chappell  of  the  Hospitall, 

"  CUEtera^  We  are  crediblie  enfourmed,  that  diverse 
*'  evill  disposed  Persons  have  of  late  entred  the  Hospitall 
*'  of  Mary  Magdalen  at  Bawtrie,  and  pluckt  up,  and 
"  carried  away  certaine  Stalls  and  other  Furniture  be- 
*'  longinge  to  the  same,  contrary  to  all  order,  and  wilh- 
'*  out  any  Auclhoritie ; 

"  On  '  the  bchalfe  therefore  her  Highnes  Commis- 
"  sioners  for  Causes  Ecclesiasticall  to  us  and  others  di- 
"  rected,  We  will  and  comniaund  yow,  and  allso  here- 
<'  by  do  aucthorize  yow,  and  every  of  yow,  or  any  of 
^'  yow,  that  if  any  such  Person  do  hereafter  enter  the 
*'  said  Ilospitalle,  for  the  purpose  abovesaid,  that  then 
"  yow,  or  any  of  yow  (not  omittinge  for  any  Libertie, 
*'  *  Previlidge  or  Exennpts)  do  attach  the  said  Person  or 
'^  Persons,  so  intermedlinge  in  the  Premisses,  and  there- 
"  upon  3  to  bringe,  or  send,  him  or  them  forthwith  be- 
-'  fore  us,  and  other  our  Associats,  her  Majestie's  Com- 
*'  missioners  for  Causes  Ecclesiasticall  within  tlie  Pro- 
"  vince  of  Yorke,  or  three  of  us,  to  the  Citty  of  Yorke, 
**  that  such  order  may  be  taken  with  them,  and  every  of 
*'  them,  as  to  Equitie  and  Justice  shall  appertaine ;  And 
"  these  Presents  shall  be  your  Warrant  in  that  behalfe. 
*'  Faile  ye  not  hereof,  as  yow  will  answere  the  contrary 


Sic.  *  Sic.  3  Sic. 

<'  att 


St.  Mary  Magd.  near  Bautre.  40S 

«<  att  your  perills.  Given  at  Yorke  under  her  Majestie's 
*<  Signett,  used  in  this  behalfe,  the  sixt  day  of  March 
"  Anno  Domini,  1390.. 

"  John  Gvbson. 

"  John  Bennett. 

"  JVilliam  Goodwyn. 
"  To  John  Thornaighe,  Esq;,  Sherife  of  the  County  of 
"  Nottingham i  and  to  all  Justices  of  Peace,  Alaiors,  She- 
*'  riffs,  Baliffs,  ileadborroughs  and  Constables,  and  to 
"  all  other  her  Majestie's  Officers,  and  loving  Subjects, 
*'  within  the  Province  of  Yorke.  And  allso  to  Anthony 
"  Morton,  Esq;  and  Roger  Collier,  her  Majestie's  Pursi- 
*'  vants,  or  to  any  of  them. 


Now  followes  the  Confession  of  Thomas  Robinson 
before  the  high  Commissioners  at  Yorke : 

**  About  May  last  I  agreed  with  one  Will.  Ballard,  of 
*<  Lincoln's-Inne,  Gent,  beinge  deputie  to  Sir  Edward 
"  Stanley,  havinge  a  Graunt  for  Concealeinents,  for  the 
"  Sura  me  of  xii  li.  to  have  the  Hospitall  convey 'd  to  me 
*'  by  Fee-Farme,  but  before  Sir  Edward  Stardey's  Booke 
*^  passed,  one  William  Typper  passed  a  Booke,  wherein 
**  William  Ballard  got  him  to  passe  his  Hospitall,  and 
**  tooke  his  hand  to  passe  it  to  him  by  Fee-Farrae. 

"  I  brought  for  Ralfe  Dames,  James  Brewster  and  Ed- 
**  ward  Watteson  a  Subpoena,  to  shew  how  they  held  it, 
"  and  they  yeildinge,  I  entred  to  the  Howse  and  Grounds, 
*'  and  sold  mine  Intrest  for  about  an  hundred  Markes,  if 
"  that  I  could  obtaine  the  Pension,  being  5  li.  yerely  to 
"  the  Maister  of  the  Hospitall,  whereof  I  have  received 
"  XV  li.  and  I  have  a  Bill  of  his  hand  for  49.  li.  bond  in 

"art 


4Q1  Account  of  the  Hospital  of 

"  an  hundred  for  the  payment  therof.  The  Howse  and  the 
**  Particulars  be  past,  but,  I  thinke,  not  the  Pension,  for 
*'  which  I  must  make  Allowance,  and  it  hath  cost  me  in 
*•  goinge  to  London  for  my  Assurance  above  20  li.  be- 
**  sides  iny  Charges  and  Short's  att  Yorke,  and  as  yet  I 
'*  have  no  Assurance  from  Typper,  but  from  Ballard,  be- 
**  cause  of  Welbecke  and  Brewster,  because  they  would 
**  buy  it,  and  are  some  what  a  kynne  to  Mr  Typper ;  but 
**  Mr  Typper  was  commaunded  to  lett  me  have  my  As- 
*^  surance  at  the  next  Tearme,  or  to  shew  some  good 
*'  cause,  why  I  should  not  have  it. 

**  I  am  bound  in  an  100  li.  to  Thomas  Short,  to  war- 
*'  rant  him  this  Assurance,  and  for  a  Pawne  allso  I  have 
**  delivered  to  Thomas  Short  my  Uncle  Robinson's  Will, 
*'  wherin  I  made  him  a  Letter  of  Atturney,  to  sue  for 
**  the  same,  with  a  Bond  of  200  li.  for  Performance  of 
'^  the  Will.  If  I  may  be  freed  from  Thomas  Short  for 
**  my  Pawnes  and  Bonds,  I  would  be  contented  with 
"  my  Money,  if  he  will  be  contented. 

**  B_y  me  Thomas  Robinson, 

The  Confession  of  Thomas  Short  before  the  high 
Commissioners  att  Yorke. 

1  "  Thomas  Robinson  was  att  bord  at  the  Hospitall 
"  nere  Bawtrie  with  Mr.  Brewster,  for  one  Quarter,  about 
*'  Easter  last,  duringe  which  tyme  Mr.  Brewster  moved 
**  the  said  Robinson,  to  procure  the  Queene's  Right  of 
*'  the  Hospitall  of  Bawtrie  to  the  said  Brewster's  use,  and 
"  told  him  he  should  have  30  li.  for  his  paynes. 

2  "  About  May  day  last  Mr.  Brewster  and  Tho.  Ro- 
**  binson  did  disagree,   '  and  went  from  Mr.  Brewster's 

'*  howse, 


St.  Mart;  Magd.  near  Bautre,  405 

«  howse,  and  went  to  gett  the  Hospitall  for  himselfe  at 
"  London,  and  being  there  did  procure  a  Bill  of  '  vocante 
«  from  one  Ballard,  deputie  to  Mr.  Stanhopp,  as  he  said, 
*«  and  came  and  entred  into  the  Hospitall  the  last  Sum- 
**  mer. 

3  *'  The  last  *  Siimer  Mr.  Welbecke,  Father-in-law  to 
**  Mr.  Brewster,  offred  Thomas  Robinson,  as  he  said,  a 
*'  100.  Markes  for  his  Intrest,  which  Summe  he  refused. 

4  *'  About  Michaelmas  last  the  said  Robinson  did  lett 
"  to  me  Thomas  Short,  the  said  Hospitall,  with  thap- 
*'  purtnances,  for  a  yere  for  4  li.  being  worth  vi.  //.  in 
*'  the  yeare,  and  promised  me,  when  he  gott  his  Assu- 
"  ranee,  I  should  have  the  Purchase  therof  for  60  //.  up- 
**  pon  conditions,  that  1  should  lend  him  as  much  Mo- 
**  ney,  as  then  I  could,  whereuppon  I  lent  him  15  li.  and 
**  tooke  his  Bond  for  the  payment  of  the  said  Summe  of 
"  13  li.  I  borrowed  it  of  John  Noble,  not  tellinge  him 
*'  for  what  cause  I  borrowed  the  same. 

"  B}/  me  Thomas  Short. 

The  Suplication  of  James  Brewster, 

"  To  the  Reverend  Father  in  God,  his. singular  good 
Lord  and  Patron ,  his  Grace  of  Yorke: 
'*  In  most  humble  wise  sheweth  unto  your  Grace  your 
*^  poore  and  daily  orator  James  Brewster,  Maister  of  the 
*'  Hospitall  of  Mary  Magdalen  juxta  Ba\ytrie,  Wheras 
*'  I  understand  the  xix^**.  day  of  March  last  past  of  your 
"  Grace's  Proceedings  against  me,  and  the  last  time  of 
**  my  appearance  beinge  the  sixt  of  Aprill,  there  to  shew 
*•  cause  before  your  Grace  of  my  not  appearance ;  These 


Sic.  F.  vacante.  *  Sic. 

"  are 


406  Accowit  of  the  Hospital  of 

*'  are  in  most  humble  wise  to  crave  jour  Grace's  Favour, 
**  favourably  to  consider  of  ray  far  distance  from  the 
*'  place,  and  my  necessarie  charge  depend! nge  upon  me, 
*'  especially  at  this  tyme.  This  bearer  hearof  Mr.  Han- 
*'  cocke  can  certify  your  Grace  more  largely,  whorae  I 
**  desired  to  supplie  my  place  at  the  Hospitall  in  my  ab- 
*'  sence ;  so  that  I  cannot  come  my  selfe  before  your 
**  Grace  at  this  time,  and  therfore  I  humbly  crave  your 
*'  Grace's  Favour,  accordinge  to  your  Grace's  Discre- 
**  tion,  to  grant  me  longer  tyme  of  appearance,  or  other- 
"  wise  to  help  me  out  of  these  Troubles,  as  it  shall  seeme 
**  best  to  your  Grace's  Wisedome. 

**  And  I  shall  make  it  knowne,  that  I  have  laboured 
*'  in  the  suite  against  them  the  directest  meanes  I  did 
"  know ;  and  thus  I  cease  this  20"'.  of  March,  prayinge 
**  for  your  Grace's  Prosperitie,  and  long  to  continue,  att 
"  Chelmford 

''  Your  Grace's  most  humble, 
^"^  "  ■  conaurast' 

"  James  Brewster. 

A  coppie  of  Mr  Ti/pper''s  Letter, 

*'  To   the  most  reverend  Father  in  God,   the  Lord 
Archhyshop  of  Yorke,  Metropolilane  of  E  in  gland. 

<*  My  very  good  Lord, 

*^  My  humble  dutie  to  your  Lordship  reraembred  8fC. 

"  Wheras  the  xxii*.  day  of  December  last  her  Maje- 

'*  stie  granted  to  Mr.  Edward  Dyer,    in  my   name,  the 

*'  Hospitall  of  Bawlrie  in  the  Countie   of  Nottingham, 


F.  commune  servant. 

"  which. 


SL  Mary  Magd.  near  Baiitrc:  407 

"  Avhicb,  since  the  same  was  past,  I  have  understood,  that 
'^  the  Patronage  theiof  belongeth  unto  your  Lordshipp, 
"  which  since  I  knew  I  have  made  stay  therof  in  mj 
**  ownc  hands,  by  order  from  Mr.  '  Freeascue,  for  that  one 
**  Robinson  hath  sought  to  have  had  the  same  from  me, 
*'  to  whome  I  rainde  not  to  passe  it,  nor  to  any  other 
*'  without  your  Lordship's  consent ;  and  what  your  Lord- 
'*  ship's  Determination  is  herein,  if  it  might  please  you,  I 
*'  would  gladly  understand,  whose  honourable  direction  I 
**  mind  to  follow.  Here  was  one  Ballard,  who  very  earnest- 
*'  ly  solicited  the  matter  to  my  Lord  Treasurer  and  Mr. 
*'*Fortscue,  by  whose  meanes  the  stay  came,  and  after 
*'  the  stay  made  by  them,  Robinson  found  meanes  to 
*'  procure  my  Lord  Chancellor's  Letters  to  me  for  the 
"  assuringe  the  same  to  him,  which  in  like  manner  I  have 
*'  refused  to  do ;  Therfore  I  shall  entreat  your  good 
"  Lordship  to  direct  me  some  Course  herein,  and  I  will 
"  not  faile,  but  performe  it.  Thus  restinge  at  your 
•'  Lordship's  Commands,  most  humbly  I  take  my  leave, 
"  from  my  howse  in  Aldersgate  Street,  the  3  of  April 
"  1590. 

''Your  Lordship's  humbly  to  be  commaunded 
*'  William  Tipper, 

Now  comes  the  Title  of  the  Hospitall  to  be  in 
thexchequer  Chamber,  before  the  right  honour- 
able Sir  William  Cicell,  Knight,  Lord  Burghley, 
Lord  Treasurer  of  Eingland,  John  Fortescue,  un- 
der Treasurer,  Sir  Roger  Manwood,  Lord  Cheife 
Barron,  and  before  the  rest  of  the  Barrens. 


»Sic.     2  Sic. 

«  Joha 


408  Account  of  the  Hospital  of 

**  John  Cooper  of  Sulhwelk  Master  of  the  Hospitall  of 
"  St,  Marie  Magdalen  neare  to  Bawtrie,  collated  to  it 
"  by  John  late  Archbishop  of  Yorke, 

"  Sheweth  unto  your  Honours,  John,  by  the  Provi- 
**  dence  of  God  Archbishop  of  Yorke,  that,  whearas 
**  ther  is,  and,  time  wherof  the  meraorie  of  man  is  not 
'*  to  the  contrarie,  there  hath  beene  a  Hospitall,  founded 
**  for  the  reliefe  of  certaine  poore  people,  and  of  a  Ma- 
"  ster  of  the  same  Hospitall,  beinge  an  ecclesiasticall  per- 
*'  son,  called  the  Hospitall  of  Marie  Magdalen,  neare 
"  the  Towne  of  Bawtrie  in  the  County  of  Yorke,  beinge 
*'  scittuate  att,  or  neare  unto,  the  Confynes  of  the  Coun- 
*'  tyes  of  Yorke  and  Nottingham,  being  there  neare  bor- 
*'  deringe  and  adjoyninge  together ;  And  the  same  Ho- 
*'  spitall  hath  beene,  from  time  to  time,  maintained  with 
"  certaine  Lands,  Rents,  and  other  '  Pocessions,  as  by 
*'  divers  Writings  may  appeare,  &  wherin  Devine  Service 
*'  and  Common  Prayers  have,  or  ought  weekly  to  have, 
*'  beene  said,  had  and  done  ;  And  the  said  Hospitall  by 
**  the  like  time  allso  hath  been,  and  yett  is,  or  ought  to 
"  be,  of  the  Patronage  of  the  Archbishop  of  Yorke  for 
**  the  time  beinge,  and  of  her  Majestie,  and  of  her  High- 
"  nes  most  noble  Progenitors,  in  the  Vacation  of  the  same 
**  Sea,  by  reason  of  the  Teraporallities. 

"  Butt  now  so  it  is,  if  it  may  please  your  Honours, 
*'  that,  within  two  yeares  last  past,  one  James  Brewster, 
**  now,  or  late,  of  Chelmsford  in  the  County  of  Essex, 
"  clayminge  and  pretendinge  himselfe  to  be  Maister  of 
*'  the  said  Hospitall,  and  preposterously  to  overthrow, 
"  and  utterly  to  dissolve,  the  State  of  the  same  Hospitall, 
*'  and  to  make  acquisition  to  himselfe,  and  to  his  Heires, 


Sic. 

"or 


St,  Mary  Magd.  near  Baiitre.  409 

*'  or  io  some  others,  of  the  Pocessions  of  the  said  Ho- 
"  spitall,  and  utterly  to  destroy  the  said  Patronage,  and 
**  decay  the  livings,  which  the  said  Maister  and  poore 
"  People  have  heretofore,  from  tyme  to  tyrae,  had,  and 
**  receiv'd,  thereof,  to  the  perpetual!  '  Dessolution  of  the 
''  same,  and  seeketh  to  free  and  disburden  hiraselfe  of  all 
**  things  of  attendance,  and  residence,  in  the  same  Ho- 
•'  spitall,  and  of  doinge  divyne  Service  and  Common 
**  Prayer  therein,  hath  combyned  and  confederated  him- 
**  selfe  to  that  end,  and  purpose,  together  with  one  Tho- 
**  mas  Robinson,  John  Noble,  and  Thomas  Short,  who, 
**  or  some  of  them,  by  practise  and  confederacy  amonge 
**  them  had,  have  procured  the  said  Hospitall,  and  all 
**  the  Lands  and  Pocessions  thereof,  to  be  passed  and 
*'  graunted  from  her  Majestic  by  her  Highnes  Letters 
*'  Pattents,  as  Lands  and  Tenements  concealed  from 
**  her  Majestic,  under  the  yearly  Rent  of  some  small  Fee- 
*'  Farrac  therefore  to  be  yeilded  and  answered  io  her 
**  Majestie,  her  Heires  and  Successors,  and  thereuppon 
**  the  said  Brewster  hath  beene  a  long  space  absent  from 
**  the  said  Hospitall,  placeing  himselfe  aboute  an  hun- 
*'  dreth  Myles  of  distant  from  the  said  Hospitall,  and 
**  hath  voluntarilye  and  willfully  suffered  the  said  Hospi- 
**  tall  to  fall  into  utter  Ruyne  and  Decay  for  want  of 
**  Reperations  ;  And  the  said  Thomas  Robinson,  John 
**  Noble,  and  Thomas  Short,  of  intent  to  pocesse  them- 
*'  selves  of  the  same  Hospitall,  and  of  all  the  Lands  and 
"  pocessions  thereof,  have  now  of  late,  (under  colour  of 
**  the  said  Grant  from  her  Majestie  made  of  the  said  Ho- 
*'  spitall,  as  concealed,  assaforsaid,)  utterly  profained  the 
*'  said  Chappell  of,    and  in,  the  said  Hospitall  beinge, 

'Sic. 

"and 


410  Account  of  the  Hospital  of 

*'  and  have  defaced  and  carryed  away  all,  or  a  great 
''  part,  of  the  Ornaments  in  the  said  Chappell  beinge, 
*'  and  have  altered  and  '  chainged  the  same  from  a  Chap- 
**  pell  to  be  a  Stable,  or  a  *  Uoarae  for  theire  Horses 
«  and  Cattell,  to  the  great  offence  of  the  Inhabitants 
**  neare  thereabonts  adjoyninge,  and  contrarye  to  all 
**  Law,  and  Equitie,  and  good  Conscience,  seinge,  as 
*'  the  same  Hospitall  was  never  lawfully  dissolved,  butt 
*'  from  tyme  to  tyme  ^  enjoyned  by  severall  Incumbents, 
"  collated  thereunto  either  by  her  Majestie,  or  her  High- 
*'  nes  Progenitors,  in  the  Vacation  of  the  said  Sea,  and 
'*  by  the  Archbishops  for  the  time  beinge  the  Sea  beinge 
**  full,  and  the  said  Robinson,  Short  and  Noble  do  threa- 
*'  ten.  and  give  out  in  Speeches,  that  they  will  very 
**  shortly  pull  downe  and  quite  deface  the  said  Hospitall 
*'  and  Chappell,  and  all  the  Howses  and  Buildings  to  the 
*'  same  appertayninge,  and  to  coramitt  and  imploy  them 
*'  to  theire  owne  uses,  and  do  shortly  intend  utterly  to 
*'  spoyle  and  destroy  the  same,  unlesse  some  speedy  re- 
*'  medie  be  by  your  Honours  meanes  shortly  had,  and 
**  provided,  for  redresse  and  reliefe  in  this  behalfe,  in 
*'  consideration  wherof,  and  for  so  much  as  all  the  said 
"  Misdemeanours,  Outrages  and  Profanations,  have  bene 
*'  attempted  by  the  said  James  Brewster,  Robinson,  Short 
"  and  Noble,  under  pretence  of  the  said  supposed  Pur- 
**  chase,  grounded  upon  a  Concealement,  as  aforesayd, 
**  whose  Abuses,  Prophanations,  and  Practises,  be  most 
"  aptly  to  be  examined,  heard  and  determined  before 
.*'  your  Honors,  and  in  this  honorable  Court  of  her  Ma- 
"  jestie's  Exchequer-Chamber,  the  rather  that  it  shal  be 
**  made  manifest  in  this  honorable  Court,  as  well  by  Re- 


'  SiQ,     *  Sic.     J  L.  evjoyed. 

"  cords. 


-5*^.  Mary  Magd.  near  Bautre,  411 

"  cords,   as  other  wise,  that  the  same  Hospitall  is  not, 
**  nor  ever  was,  dissolved,  wherby  the  said   pretended 
**  Graunte  in  Fee-Farme  of  the  said  Hospitall  from   her 
*'  Majesty  so  procured,  as  aforesaid,  is  mearely  voyd,  and 
*' of  no  force  or  effect:     And  for  that  the  said  James 
*'  Brewster,  for  his  longe  Absence  from  the  said  Hospi- 
'*  tall,  and  other  lewd  Demeanors,   is,  and  standeth,   de- 
''  prived  of  the  said  Hospitall  :   And  to  the  intent  that 
**  the  said  Archbishop,  beynge  the  Patron  and  Ordinary 
**  thereof,  may  have  the  said  Outrages  and  Abnses  afore- 
♦'  said  reformed,    and  severely  punished,   accordynge  as 
"  the  Qualitie  thereof  deserveth,  and   that  Reformation 
*'  therof  may  be  shortly  hadd,   accordynge  to  the  Foun- 
*'  dation  of  the  same,   as  to   his  charge  appertayneth  ; 
**  May  it,   therefore,   please  your  Honors,   not  only  to 
*'  graunt  unto  the  said  Archbishop  the  Queene's   Maje- 
''  stie's  most  gracious  Writ  of  Injunction  to  be  directed. 
*'  to  the  said  James  Brewster,   Tliomas  Robinson,  John 
''  Noble  and  Thomas  Short,   commaunding  and  enjoyn- 
*'  inge  them,  and  every  of  them,  under  a  certayne  payne, 
*^  and  by  your  Honors  to  be  limited,  peaceably  and  quiet- 
"  ly  to  permitt,   and  suffer,  such   Person,   and  Persons, 
**  as  the  said  Archbishop  hath,  or  shall  at  any  time  hcre- 
*'  after  collate,  to  the  said  Hospitall,  and  all  others   in 
*'  their,  and  every,  or  any,  of  their,  Rights,   to   have, 
*'  hold  and  enjoye  the  quiet  possession  of  the  said  Hospi- 
*'  tall,    and   all  the  Howses,    Buildings,    Lands,    Tcnc- 
*'  ments  and  Hereditaments  to  the  same  belonging  ;   And 
"  also  that  the  said  Robinson  and  Short  doe   forthwith 
"  repaire  agaiiie,  and  restore,  all  such  things,  as  they,  or 
"  either  of  them,   have,   or  hath,   taken  away   forth   of 
*•  the  said  Chappell,  and  not  to  attempte,  goe  about  to 
**  alter,  spoilc  or  deface  the  same  in  any  respect,  nor  to 
Vol.  II.  .X  «  in. 


4 IS  Account  of  the  Hospital  of 

"  interrupte,  or  disturbe,  any  Persons  collated  by  the 
"  said  Archbishop  into  the  said  Hospitall,  or  their  under- 
*'  assignes,  nor  to  commence  any  suite  eoncerninge  the 
**  said  Hospitall,  or  any  the  Possessions  therof,  in  any 
**  Court  whatsoever,  untill  the  same  matter  shall  have 
*'  receyvcd  a  fuUe  hearinge  and  order  before  your  Ho- 
**  nors,  accordinge  to  Right,  Equitie,  and  good  Con- 
**  science  ;  But  also  to  graunt  unto  the  said  Archbishop 
*'  the  Qucene's  Majestie's  most  gracious  Writt  of  Sub- 
**  poena,  to  be  directed  to  the  said  James  Brewster,  Tho- 
'*  mas  Robinson,  John  Noble  and  Thomas  Short,  com- 
**  maundynge  them,  and  every  of  them,  therby,  at  a 
**  certayne  day,  and  under  a  certayne  payne,  therin  by 
*'  your  Honours  to  be  limited,  *  to  be  personally  appeare 
*'  in  the  Queene's  Majestie's  Exchequer  Chamber  at  West- 
*'  minster;  then  and  there  to  answer  unto  the  Premisses, 
"  Sfc. 

The  severall  Demurrers  and  Answer  of  Thomas 
Jiobinson,  one  of  the  DefendantSy  to,  and  upon, 
the  Bill  of  Complaint  of  the  Right  Reverend  Fa- 
ther, John  Archbishop  of  Yeorke,  Complainant. 

''  Boucher  cum 
*'  querente. 

"  Po7id  cum  dc' 
"  ftndente. 

'*  The  said  Defendant  saith,  by  the  advise  of  bra 
"  Councell,  that  the  said  Bill  of  Complaint  is  not  only 
*'  insufficient,  to  put  this  Defendant  to  answere  unto,  for 
'^  sundrye  Imperfections  there  appearinge,  but  also  saith, 

'Sic. 

«  that 


St.  Mary  Magd.  near  Bautre. 

« (hat  the  said  Complainant  neither  ought  to  be  prive- 
*'  leged  in  this  honorable  Court,  to  sue.  molest  or  im- 
"  pleade  her  Majestie's  Fee-Farmer  or  Tenant,  in  prcju- 
"  dice  and  disadvantage  of  her  Majestic,  and  to  the  losse 
*'  and  avoydance  of  her  Majestie's  Fee-Farme,  now  an- 
*'  swered,  and  hereafter  to  be  answered,  unto  her  Ma- 
*'  jestye,  in  respect  wherof  this  Defendant  doth  demurr, 
"  and  abide  in  Lawe,  upon  the  said  Bill,  and  demaund- 
*«  eth  Judgement)  whether  this  Defendant  be  compella- 
*•  ble  to  answer  unto  the  same  Bill  ?  Neverthelesse,  if 
"  this  Defendant,  by  speciall  order  of  this  honorable 
<*  Courte,  shal  be  overruled,  or  awarded,  to  answer  to 
"  the  said  insufficient  Bill,  then,  and  not  otherwise,  the 
*'  Benefitt  and  Advantage  of  Exception  unto  the  Uncer- 
'*  taintye  and  Insufficiency  of  ^  said  Bill  unto  this  De- 
"  fendant  both  now  and  hereafter  beinge  saved,  he  the 
"  said  Defendant,  for  Answer  and  plaine  Declaration  of 
**  a  truth  in,  and  touchinge,  the  Matters  in  the  said  Bill 
*'  suggested,  saith,  that  the  said  Hospitall,  and  the  Lands 
"  and  Tenements  thereto  belong! nge,  were  justly  and 
**  lawfully  vested  in  her  Majestic,  as  in  tlie  right  of  her 
**  Majestie's  Crowne  of  England,  by  reason  whereof  her 
**  Majestic  was,  or  of  right  ought  to  have  beene,  seized 
"  in  her  Demeasnes  as  of  Fee,  as  in  the  right  of  her 
**  Crowne  aforesaid,  albeit  the  same  of  longe  tyme  had 
**  been  concealed,  and  unjustly  withholden,  from  her 
*'  Majestic,  which,  by  the  industrie,  and  at  the  charge 
*'  and  procurement  of  this  Defendant,  was  founde  out 
*'  to  be  concealed  from  *  from"  her  Highnes,  and  so 
"  seized,  her  Majestic,  by  her  Letters  Pattents,  under 
"  the  great  Scale  of  Englandc,  dated  the  two  and  twen- 


L.  the  said.    '■  Dele, 

n2  "tyth 


Account  of  tfie  Hospital  of 

"  tyih  day  of  December  now  last  past,  for  and  uppoir^ 
''  cer(ayne  consideration,  in  the  same  Letters  Pattents 
*'  specifjed,  did,  amongst  divers  other  things,  graunt  and 
*^  convey  the  said  dissolved  Hospital!,  and  the  Lands 
*'  thereto  belonging,  to  one  William  Tipper  and  John 
*'  Danes,  to  have  and  to  hold,  to  them  and  to  '  their 
*^  Ileircs  of  the  said  William  Tipper,  in  Fee-Farme,  ren- 
*'  dringe  unto  her  Majestic,  her  Heires  and  Snccessors, 
'*  a  certaync  annuall  Rent  for  the  said  late  Hospital], 
*'  and  the  Lands  therto  belonginge,  by  force  wherof  the 
*'  same  William  Tipper  and  John  Dawes  were  of  the 
"  same  Premisses  seised  joyntly  unto  them,  and  to  the 
"  Heires  of  the  same  William  Tipper,  in  whom  the  In- 
"  tercst  of  the  said  Premisses,  for  any  thinge  this  Defen- 
"  dant  knoweth  to  the  contrary,  now  remayneth.  How- 
"  bcit  this  Defendant,  upon  former  Agreements  made 
*'  touchynge  the  Sale  of  the  Premisses,  is  to  have  an 
*'  Assurance  of  the  same  at  the  hands  of  the  said  Tipper 
"  and  Dawes,  when  this  Defendant  shall  require  the  same, 
"  which  he  purposeth  shortly  to  procure  and  oWayne. 
*'  And  this  Defendant  further  saith,  that  the  said  Hospi- 
*' tall,  and  the  lands  *  and  the  lands"  in  question  i-it  the 
"  time  of  the  Dissolution  of  the  late  Monastery  of  St. 
''  Oswald's,  in  the  Countie  of  Yeorke,  and  alwayes  be- 
**  fore,  time  out  of  mynde,  as  this  Defendant  hopeth 
"  to  prove,  were  appropriated  and  anexed  unto  the  same 
*'  lale  Monastery,  and,,  as  a  Parcell  of  the  Possessions  of 
"  the  same  late  Monastery,  'came  to  this  Defendant  is 
*'  by  his  couucell  enformed,  to  the  Hands  of  the  late 
*'  Kingc  Henrye  the  eight,  Father  to  our  Soveraine  La- 
"  dy  the  Qucene's  Majestie  that  now  is.     And  that  the 


'  F.  the.     -Pele.     ^  F.  came,  as  this. 

«'  same 


Si.  Mary  Magd.  nem"  Bautre. 

**  same  Lands,  belonginge  to  the  said  late  dissolved  IIo- 
*^  spitall,  were  given  and  appoynted  to  divers  siipersti- 
"  tious  Uses,  as  this  Defendant  hopeth  to  be  able  to 
**  prove,  ever  sithence  which  tyme,  iintill  of  late,  the 
*'  same  late  Hospitall  and  the  Lands  were  wrongfully  de- 
"  tayiied,  and  kept,  from  her  Majcstie,  and  from  her 
"  said  most  noble  Father,  Brother  and  Sisters,  Kings 
<*  and  Queenes  of  this  Realme,  as  this  Defendant  is  like- 
*'  wise  by  his  Councell  enformed,  untill  her  Majestie's 
"  Estate  and  the  Title  to  the  same  was,  by  the  laboure, 
^'  industrye  and  charge  of  this  Defendant,  reveyled  and 
"  bronght  (o  light,  without  that  the  same  Hospitall  Avas 
"  an  Hospitall  for  the  Poore,  or  to  say  Divine  Service 
"  there,  or  that  it  is  materiall,  whether  they  were  so 
'*4ised  or  noe,  as  the  Plantill"  in  his  Bill  hath  suggested. 
"  For  this  Defendant  saith,  that,  within  the  Distance  of 
"  a  Mile  to  the  said  late  dissolved  Hospitall,  there  are 
«*  three  severall  Churches  and  Chappells,  where  the  Di- 
**  vine  Servyce  is  orderly  and  duly  said  and  maynfayncd. 
*'  without  that  the  said  Archbishop,  the  now  Plantif,  or 
**  any  his  Predecessors,  are  or  have  beenc,  or  of  right 
''  ought  to  be,  Patrons  of  the  said  Hospitall,  or  to  have 
*'  any  thinge  to  doe  with  the  Patronage  of  the  same.  And 
'*  M'ithout  that,  that  this  Defendant  did  ever  confederate 
"  with  the  same  James  Brewster  in,  or  touchinge,  any 
*'  the  supposed  Matters  in  the  Bill  suggested.  And  with- 
f'  out  that,  that  this  Defendant  hath  prophaned  the  said 
^^  €happell,  or  hath  defaced,  or  carried  away,  all,  or 
*' any,  of  the  Ornaments  in  the  same  Chappell  beinge, 
**  as  in  the  said  Bill  is  also  suggested.  For  that  same 
*'  Chappell,  and  Ornaments,  was  prophaned  and  defaced 
"  longe  before  this  Defendant's  intermedlynge  therewith. 
*'  And  without  that,  that  this  Defendant  doth  purpose, 
?f  .J  "  or 


Account  of  the  Hospital  of 

*'  or  give  out,  S peaches,  that  he,  or  any  other,  will 
"  spojle,  deface  and  plucke  downe  the  said  Hospitall,  as 
"  in  the  said  Bill  is  also  suggested.  And  without  that, 
"  that  any  thinge  els,  in  the  Bill  mentioned,  touchinge, 
*'  or  conceininge,  this  Defendant,  and  therin  sufficiently 
*'  not  answered,  confessed  and  avoyded,  traversed  or  de- 
"  nved,  is  true.  All  which  Matters  this  Defendant  is, 
*'  and  wil  be,  ready  to  averre  and  prove,  as  this  honor- 
**  able  Court  shal  award,  and  therupon  doth  demaunde 
*'  Judgment,  and  prayeth  from  thence  to  be  dismissed 
"  with  his  reasonable  Costs,  in  that  behalfe  most  wrong- 
**  fully  subtayned. 

"  Will.  Winter. 
'^  Prmdictiis    defendens    prcestitit    sacramentum 
**  xxiii.  die  Junii^  anno  xxxiii  regni  regince  Eliza' 
"  bethce,  coram  '  Johannem  Solherion,  unum  BarO' 
*'  num  S)C. 

The  Replicalion  of  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God^ 
John  Archbishop  of^  Yeor/ce,  Complainant j  to  the 
Demurrer  and  Answer  of  Thomas  Robinson  De- 
fendant. 

"  The  said  Complainant  averreth  his  said  Bill  of  Com- 
'*  plainte,  and  every  matter  and  thinge  therin  contayned, 
"  (o  be  juste  and  true,  in  such  manner  and  forme  as  in 
'*  the  said  Bill  of  complaynt  ^  in  playnly  and  truely  set 
*'  forth  and  declared.  And  further  saith,  that  the  said 
**  Demurrer  and  Answer  of  the  Defendant,  is  very  un- 
*'  certayne,  untrue  and  insufficient  in  the  Law  to  be  re- 
*'  plyed  unto,  for  divers  very  manifest  and  apparant  mat- 
*'  ters  and  causes  therin    contayned ;     the  advantage  of 

'  Sic,  pro  Johanne  Sothertouj  uno.     *  Sic.     '  L.  is. 

<'  thin- 


St.  Martf  Magd.  near  Baiitre.  M7 

**  thinsufficiencye  wherof  anto  this  Repliant  at  all  iymes 
"  hereafter  sacred,  for  further  Replication  thereunto, 
^*  this  Complainant  saith,  in  all  and  every  Matter,  Ai- 
*«  tide  and  Thinge,  as  he  before,  in  his  said  Bill  of  Coni- 
**  plaint,  hath  playnly  and  truly  set  forth  and  declared. 
*'  And  further  saith,  that,  for  as  much  as  the  said  De- 
*^  fendant,  by  his  said  Answer,  without  any  color  of  cause, 
**  pretendeth,  that  this  Complaynant,  beynge  priviledged 
^'  in  thexchequer,  as  the  Collector  of  the  annuall  Tenths 
**  and  Subsydies,  hayinge  in  this  Court  a  place  of  ac- 
"  conTpte,  as  well  for  that  Collection  of  the  Subsidye  and 
"  Benevolence  hath  not  Priviledge  to  maintayne  Suit  in 
'*  this  Court;  and  for  that  also,  that  the  said  Defend- 
"  ant,  by  untrue  Surmises  of  a  Concealeraent,  hath  ob- 
*'  tayned  in  Fee-Farnie  a  Hospital!,  not  dissolved  nor 
^'  dissolvable,  nor  yet  concealed,  for  a  yearly  Rent,  aun- 
"  swerable  in  this  Courte;  therefore  this  '  Complanant  is 
**  only  to  seeke  his  Remedy  in  this  honorable  Court,  and 
^*  not  els  where.  And  for  that  if  this  Repliant  by  Judi- 
*'  ciall  Decree  hath  had  Redresse  in  the  same  Court, 
*^  against  such  pretended  Purchasses  of  supposed  Conceal- 
*'  raents  of  this  Complainant's  See  and  Archbishoppricke ; 
*'  And  for  as  much  as  the  sayd  Defendant,  by  his  said 
"  Answer,  coufesseth  the  same  to  have  beene  a  Hospitall 
"  *  which"  without  Surrender  or  other  lawfull  Dissolution, 
"  therfore  there  is  no  cause,  that  the  Defendant,  or  the 
"  said  other  persons  in  the  Answer  named,  can  derive  to 
*'  them  selves  any  lawfull  Title  thereof,  nor  by  any  law- 
"  full  meanes  vested  in  the  Crowne.  And  this  Repliant 
"  further  saith,  that  the  same  Hospitall  never  was  appro- 
"  priated,  or  anexet,  to  the  said  late  dissolved  Priory  of 

'  Sic.  » F.  delend. 

N  4:  "  St, 


418 


udccount  of  the  Hospital  of 


St.  Oswald's  in  the  Answer  mentioned ;  But  the  same 
was  an  Hospitall  of  the  Patronage  and  Collation  of  the 
said  Plantif  and  liis  Predecessors,  as  well  in  the  time 
of  the  State  of  the  said  Priory  of  St.  Oswald's,  and 
since,  and  never  as  Parcell  of  the  Possessions  of  the 
said  Priorje  of  St.  Oswald's  surveyed,  although  the 
Maister  of  the  said  Hospitall  was  maynlayned  in  parte 
with  a  Rent-charge,  issuinge  out  of  the  Possessions  of 
St.  Oswald,  as  by  many  Records  shal  to  this  honorable 
Court  appeare.  Without  that,  that  this  Complainant 
ought  not  to  be  '  priveledged  in  this  Courte,  to  sue  or 
inipleade  her  Majestie's  Fee-Farmer,  or  the  Tenements 
of  the  said  Hospitall,  supposed  to  be  concealed;  Or 
that  the  said  Hospitall,  and  the  Possessions  thcrof,  were 
ever  lawfully  vested  in  her  Majestic,  as  in  the  Right  of 
her  Highnes  crowne ;  Or  that  her  Majestic  was  therof 
lawfully  seised  in  right  of  her  Highnes;  Or  that  the 
same  hath  of  longe  time  beene  concealed,  and  unjust- 
ly withhoulden,  from  her  Majestic  ;  Or  that  the  same 
Hospitall  was  at  the  Charges  and  Procurement  of  the 
Defendant  truly  founde  to  be  a  concealement  from  her 
Highness,  as  in  the  said  Answer  is  untruly  pretended  ; 
Or  that  her  Majestic  by  Letters  Patents,  under  the 
Great  Scale,  dated  the  time  in  the  Bill  supposed,  did, 
and  lawfully  could,  graunt  and  convey  the  said  dis- 
solved Hospitall,  and  the  Lands  there  unto  belonginge, 
to  the  said  William  Tipper  and  John  Dawes,  in  that 
Answer  named,  and  to  the  Heires  of  the  said  William 
Tipper  and  John  Dawes  in  thanswere  named,  and  to 
the  Heires  of  the  said  William  Tipper  for  ever  in  Fcc- 
Farme  ;  Or  that  the  said  Tipper  and  Dawes  were  there- 


Sic. 


of 


St.  Mary  Magd.  near  B autre.  419 

«  of  lawfully  seyzed,  and  have  the  Interest  thereof  in 
«' them  yet  remayninge;  Or  that  the  Defendants  can 
<«  have  any  lawfuU  Assurance  of  the  said  Hospitall  at 
"  their  hands  ;  Or  that  the  said  Hospitall  and  Lands  at 
"  any  '  at  any"  time  were  appropriated  and  anexed  unto 
"  the  said  late  Monastery  of  St.  Oswald's,  and,  as  Par- 
"  cell  of  the  Possessions  thereof,  came  unto  the  hands  of 
«'  the  late  Kinge  Henry  theight,  as  in  the  said  Answer  is 
"  surmised  ;  Or  that  the  said  Lands,  belongingc  to  the 
"  said  Hospitall,  were  ever  given  and  appoynted  to  any 
"  superstitious  uses,  and  dissolvable  by  any  Law,  and 
*' have  beene  ever  since  wrongfully  detayned  from  her 
"  Majestie,  and  her  noble  Progenitors,  untill  the  Title 
<'  of  the  same  was,  by  this  Defendant's  Industrye  and 
"  Charge,  remedyed  and  brought  to  light ;  Or  that  it  is 
"true  and  materiall,  wheather,  within  the  Distance  of 
*'  lesse  then  a  Mile  to  the  said  Hospitall,  there  are  three 
*'  severall  Churches  and  Chappells,  where  Divine  Ser- 
«'  vice  is  orderly  and  duly  said,  or  no :  as  though  no 
*'  Church  may  be  within  a  Mile  of  a  Hospitall,  but  the 
'^  same  Church  must  be  a  cause  to  dissolve  the  Hospitall. 
/'  For  then  almost  all  tlie  Hospitalls  in  this  Realme 
**  should  be  dissolved,  if,  by  that  reason,  the  same  might 
'*  be  dissolved.  And  without  that,  that  any  other  Ma(- 
<^  ter  or  Tliinge,  alledged  in  the  said  Demurrer  and  An- 
*'  swer  of  the  said  Defendant,  is  materiall  or  effectuall  in 
"  Law  to  be  replied  unto,  and  herein  before  not  suffi- 
^'  ciently  confessed  and  avoyded,  Sfc.  all  which  Matters 
''  Sfc. 

Samle  1591. 


Dele. 

The 


420  Account  of  the  Hospital  of 

"  The  Rejoinder  of  Thomas  Rohinsoiu  Defendant, 
"  to  the  Replication  of  the  right  Retereiid  Fa- 
'*  ther  in  Godj  John  Archbishop  of  Yeorke^  Com- 
"  plainant, 

"  Boucher  pro  queretite. 
*'  Pond  cum 
*'  defend" 

"  Eborurn.  The  saide  Defendant,  for  llejoynder, 
"  first,  as  touchingc  the  saide  Complanante's  Priviledge, 
*'  to  sue  in  this  honorable  Court,  saith,  as  in  his  Dc- 
**  murrer  and  Answer  before  he  hath  said ;  And  further 
"  saith,  that  neither  in  respect  of  the  Plantif's  beinge 
"  Collector  of  the  annuall  Tenthes,  Subsidies  and  other 
"  Duties,  payable  to  her  Majestic,  he  is  not,  neither 
*^  ought  to  be,  priviledged,  to  sue  in  the  same  Court, 
*'  specially  no  such  cause  of  Priveledg  beinge  in  the  Bill 
*'  sett  forth ;  and  much  the  rather  also  this  honorable 
*'  Court,  as  the  cause  now  standeth,  ought  not,  under 
*'  favor,  to  relieve  the  said  Complainant,  if  his  pretend- 
•'  ed  Bill  were  true,  as  it  is  not,  for  that,  by  the  Com- 
"  plainant's  owne  shewinge,  the  same  doth,  and  shoulde, 
**  tende  to  the  losse  and  disherison  of  her  Majestic  of, 
**  and  for,  the  said  Fee  Farme  Rente,  reserved  upon  the 
**  said  Pattents,  which  this  honorable  Court  useth  not  to 
"  do ;  And  for  further  Rejoynder  saith,  that,  albeit  the 
"  said  Howses  and  Lands,  now  in  question,  have  beeiifi 
*'  tearmed  by  the  name  of  an  Hospitall,  yet  the  same 
"  Howses,  in  truth,  were  but  a  Chappell,  and  a  dwell- 
**  inge  House  for  the  Chaplen,  which  Chapell,  House 
"  and  Lands,  at  the  time  of  the  Dissolution  of  the  said 
*<  Monastery,  and  time  out  of  rainde  before  the  Dissolu- 

"  tion, 


St.  Mary  Magd.  near  Bautre.  431 

^*  tion,  \rere  parcell  of  the  Possessions  of  the  said  dissol- 
**  ved  Monastery  of  St  Oswald's,  and,  by  reason  of  the 
"  Dissolution  of  that  Monastery,  and  by  vertue  of  the 
**  Act  of  Parliament  in  that  behalf  made,  and  enacted, 
*'  the  same,  amonge  other  the  Possessions  of  the  said  Mo- 
'*  nastery,  came  to  the  hands  of  the  late  Kinge  Henrye 
*^  the  eight,  from  whom,  and  from  all  his  Successors 
**  after  him,  untill  now  of  late,  the  same  Premisses,  now 
**  in  question,  have  beene,  and  were,  injustly  concealed, 
'*  defayned  and  withhoulden,  as  by  divers  credible  Wit- 
f'  nesses  and  Testimonyes,  as  well  by  Records,  as  other- 
*'  wise,  shal,  in  that  behaif,  be  made  manifest  unto  this 
**  honorable  Court,  notwithstandinge  all  the  resolute 
"  tearraes  used  in,  and  by,  the  said  Replication,  to  the 
*'  disgrace  of  this  poore  Defendant's  Title.  Without  that 
"  the  Plaintif  hath  beene  relieved,  in  any  such  cause, 
'^  against  any  such  Purchasser  of  any  such  Concealements, 
"  as  the  Plaintif  in  his  said  Replication  hath  supposed 
"  and  suggested  :  And  without  that,  that  the  Defendant, 
*'  by  any  untrue  Surmises,  hath  obtayned  the  Fee-Farrac 
"  of  the  Premisses,  now  in  question,  as  the  said  Plantif, 
**  in  his  said  Replication,  hath  suggested ;  this  Defend- 
"  ant  further  saith,  and  will  averr  and  prove,  that  ther  is 
"'good,  and  sufficient,  cause,  why  this  Defendant  should 
'«  derive  from,  and  under,  her  Majestie,  greate  and  law- 
"  full  Title  and  Estate  in,  and  to,  the  Premisses.  And 
*'  further  saith,  the  same  Premisses  were  appropriated  and 
"  anexed  to  the  said  late  Monastery,  and  were  Parcell 
**  of  the  verye  Possessions  of  the  same,  and,  by  reason 
*«  of  the  Dissolution  of  that  Monastery,  and  other  the  Pos- 
'*  sessions  of  that  Priory,  ought  to  have  ' corade  into  the 

'Sic. 

<*  hands 


422  Account  of  the  Hospital  of 

"  hands  of  her  Majestie's  late  Father,  Kinge  Henry  the 
"  eight,  and  so,  consequently,  were  lawfully  vested  in 
*'  her  Majestye  that  now  is,  from  whom  the  same  Pre- 
^'  misses,  now  in  question,  are  lawfully  conveyed  and 
'^  passed  in  Fee-Farme,  as  before,  in  the  Answer,  is  plain- 
*'  ly,  and  truly,  alledged  and  confessed.  Without  that 
*'  also,  that  this  Defendant  will  averr,  and  prove,  that 
*'  ther  are  three  severall  (Churches  and  Chappels,  wherin 
*'  Divine  Service  is  orderly,  and  duly,  saide,  within  a 
*'  Mile  of  the  sayd  pretended  Hospitall,  and,  therfore, 
*'  the  Suggestion  of  the  Concealement  in  his  said  Bill 
"  '  most  untruly,  in  that  he  doth  therein  affirme,  that  Di- 
"  vine  Service  was  duly  said  in  the  said  liospitall,  the 
"  Plantif  hopinge  therby  to  gaine  more  favour  in  this  ho- 
**  norable  Court  toward  the  Plantife's  pretended  Title, 
*'  which  one  moved  the  Defendant  to  inserte  in  his  An- 
"  swere,  that  there  are  three  other  Churches,  or  Chap- 
**  pells,  within  a  Mile  *  distand  to  the  said  dissolved  Ho- 
"  spitall  and  Chappell,  now  in  question,  and  not  for  any 
*'  such  purpose,  as  the  Plantife's  Councell  untruly  halh 
"  inferred. 

*'  And  without  that,  that  any  thinge  els,  in  the  Re- 
*'  plication  specified,  and  herein  not  sufficiently  rejoyn- 
*'  ed  unto,  confessed  and  avoyded,  traversed  or  denyed, 
**  is  true.  All  which  Matters  this  Defendant  is^  and  will 
*'  be,  ready  to  averr,  and  prove,  as  this  honorable  Court 
"  shall  awarde,  and  therupon  demandeth  Judgement, 
"  and  prayeth,  as  before  in  his  Answere  he  hath  prayed. 

*«  mil.  Winter. 


Sic.     »Sic. 

The 


St.  Mary  Magd.  near  Bautre.  423 

T/ie  Coppie  of  a  Letter  from  the  Lord  Archbishop 
John,  before  his  Death ^  to  the  right  honorable 
The  Lord  Treasurer  of  England. 

*'  My  very  good  Lord,  yoar  honorable  and  godly  care 
*'  for  the  Maintenance  and  Protection  of  Poore  Hospi- 
*'  tals,  which,  by  good  experience,  I  have  founde  here- 
*'  fofore,  raaketh  rae  the  more  bolde,  to  become  Suter 
**  unto  your  Lordship,  for  your  Favour  towards  the  Ho- 
*' spitall  of  Bawtrie,  in  Nottingham  shire;  the  Patron- 
*'  age  wherof  belongeth  to  the  Archbishop  of  Yeorke, 
*'  and  the  Title  is  to  be  examined  and  tryed  before  your 
*'  Lordship  in  thexchequer  Chamber  this  Tearme.  There 
*'  have  beene  often  Injunctions,  by  your  Lordship's  good 
"  meanes,  for  Possession  to  be  j-eilded  to  tlie  Gierke,  up- 
'*  on  whom  I  have  collated  the  same :  but  they  could 
*'  seldome,  or  never,  yet  take  any  effect.  And  so  I  com- 
**  mende  the  Cause  to  your  Lordship's  charitable  Consi- 
*'  deration,  and  your  Lordship  to  the  mercifuU  Protection 
*'  of  the  Almightye,  at  Bishopthorpe  this  27.  of  April 
*'  1593. 

"  Your  good  Lordship's  in  Christ  assured  to 
"  commande 

Jo.  Eborum. 

I  also  fiiide  divers  Orders  and  Motions  concerninge 
this  Triall,  a  Commission  graunted  for  Examination  of 
Witnesses,  Publication  graunted  upon  the  Returne  of  the 
Examination  of  the  Witnesses,  and  stayed  in  respect  of 
the  Death  of  the  Lord  John  Archbishop,  but  after  the 
liord  Archbishop  '  Mathew,  his  Successor,  exhibited  his 
Bill  of  reversion,  thereupon  the  matter  came  to  hearinge. 

'  Mattbe\^Hutton, 

The 


4^  Account  of  the  Hospital  of 

The  Commissioners  for  Examination  of  the 
Witnesses  were, 

Jervace  Lee, 

Thomas  Palmer, 

Will.  Burnell,  Esquiers, 

Will.  Cardinally  and 

John  Forrest. 
The  Names  of  the  Witnesses  examined  are, 

Anthonie  Morton,  aged  three  and  fortie  yeares. 
John  Mirfin,  clerke.  Vicar  of  Haworth,  of  the 

age  of  threescore  and  fonrteene  yeares. 
Roger  Wagstaf  of  Har worth,  aged  three  score 

and  six  yeares. 
John  Kendall  of  Bawtrie,  aged  three  score  yeares 

and  more. 
Henry  Sanderson  of  Scastworth,    aged  jSftye  and 

fower  yeares. 

Now  foUowes  the  Decree, 

Inter  reverendissimum  patrem  '  Mathevm,  Ebo- 
rum  Archiepiscopum,  Sf  Johannem  Coopery  ma- 
gistrum  Hospitalis  Sanctoe  Marice  Magdalence 
juxla  Bawtrie  querentem,  Sf  Thomam  Bobin* 
son  defendentem. 

Termino   Sancti  Hillarit,    anno  xxxviW*. 

BegincB  Elizabethce  Veneris  sexto  die  Fe* 

bruarii. 

"  Eborum.     Wheras  the  late  most  reverend  Father, 
*'  John,  late  Archbishop  of  Yeorke,  exhibited  his  Bill  of 

'  MatthKum  Hutton. 

?'  Cora- 


St.  Mary  Magd.  near  Bautre.  425 

**  Complaint  into  this  Court,  shewinge  therby,  that  there 
"  was,  and  hadd  beene,  time  out  of  minde,  a  Hospitall 
**  founded  for  the  relief  of  certayne  poore  people,  and 
**  for  a  Maister  being  an  Ecclesiasticall  person,  called 
*'  Mary  Magdalene  Hospitall,  neare  Bawtrie  in  Com. 
**  Eborum^  neare  unto  the  Confines  of  Yeorke  and  Not- 
*'  tingham,  beinge  there  neare  borderinge  and  adjoyn- 
**  inge  together,  and  that  the  same  had  beene  raaintayn- 
**  ed  with  certayne  Lands,  Rents  and  otiier  Possessions, 
**  as  by  the  Records  of  this  Court  appeared,  and  that 
**  there,  by  like  time,  hadd  beene  a  Chappell,  >vheria 
**  Divine  Service  and  Common  Prayer  had,  and  ought, 
**  weekely  to  have  '  said,  hadd  and  donne,  and  that  the 
**  same  Hospitall,  by  the  like  tyme,  hadd  beene  of  the 
*'  Patronage  of  the  ArchBishop  of  Yeork,  and  of  her 
•*  Majestic,  and  of  her  Progenitors,  in  the  Vacation  of 
**  that  Sea,  and  that,  within  two  yeares  then  last  past, 
**  one  James  Brewster,  Clerke,  clayminge  to  be  Maister 
**  thereof,  by  some  Collation  made  by  some  of  the  said 
**  Archbishops,  the  Plantife's  Predecessors,  to  overtlirow 
"  and  dissolve  the  State  of  the  same,  and  to  make  acqui- 
**  sition  thereof  unto  him  and  his  Heires,  or  others  to 
**  his  use,  which  the  Maister  and  poore  people  before  re-* 
'*  ceyved,  and  seekinge  io  free  him  self  of  all  Charges 
'*  of  Residence  there,  by  himself  hath  contrived,  and 
*'  confederated  himself  with  Thomas  Robinson  the  De- 
**  fend'ent,  who  have  procured  the  said  Hospitall,  and 
*f  the  Possessions,  to  be  passed  from  her  Majestie  by  Let- 
*'  ters  Patients  as  Lands  concealed  to  themselves,  or  to 
*'  others,  to  their,  or  some  of  their,  uses,  under  some 
*'  smale  Fee-Farme ;    And  thereupon  Brewster  absented 


Sic. 

"him 


426  Account  of  the  Hospital  of 

**  him  self,  bein2^e  placed  a  hundretli  miles  from  thence, 
*'  and  voluntarily  suffered  the  same  Hospitall  to  fall  into 
**  Ruine  :  And  the  Defendent,  of  intent  to  possesse  him 
*'  self  thereof  under  the  said  Graunt,  prophaned  the  said 
*'  Chappell,  and  carried  away  the  Ornaments  thereof  to 
*'  a  Stable,  or  Roome,  for  Oxen,  or  other  Cattell,  io 
"  the  Offence  of  the  Inhabitants  'there,  beinge  a  Hospi- 
*'  tall  not  dissolved,  but  enjoyed  by  severall  Incumbents 
•*  collated  'there  unto  as  aforesaid,  and  threatned  utterly 
"  to  pull  downe  and  ^vast  the  same,  and  to  imploy  the 
*'  Stones,  Bricks,  Slate  and  Wood  to  their  uses,  and  for 
"  that  Brewster  was  deprived,  and  for  that  the  Defen- 
*'  dent  claimed  the  same  under  a  Graunt  of  concealed 
*'  Lands  from  her  Majestic,  the  Plantif  prayed  Processe, 
*'  that  the  matter  might  be  determined  in  this  Court, 
"  wherby  the  said  Robinson  answered,  that  the  said  Ho- 
*'  spitall,  and  the  Lands  therunto  belonginge,  were  law- 
'*  fully  vested  in  her  Majestic  as  in  the  right  of  her 
"  Crowne,  and  by  reason  therof  her  Majestic  was,  or 
"  ought  to  have  beene  seized  thereof,  although  it  had 
*'  beene  longe  concealed,  and  with  houlden,  from  her, 
"  which,  by  the  Defendant's  Industrie,  was  found  to  be 
*'  concealed,  and  so  seized,  her  Majestic,  by  Letters 
*'  Paltents  dated  the  xxii'**-  day  of  December  tunc  id- 
"  timoy  granted  the  same  to  William  Tipper  and  John 
*'  Dawes,  to  hould  in  Fec-Farme,  rendringe  an  annuall 
*'  Rent.  And  that  '  that"  the  Hospitall  and  the  Lands 
*'  aforesaid,  at  the  Dissolution  of  *  Monastery  of  St.  ^  Os- 
"  wal's  in  Yeorkeshire,  and  time  out  of  rainde  before, 
*'  was  appropriated  to  that  Monastery  as  Parcell  therof, 
"  *  came  to  the  King's  hands,  and  that  the  Lands  ther- 


F.  delend.    »  L.  the  Mon.    J  Sic.     4  Sic. 

"  untp 


SL  Mari)  3Iagd.  near  BaiUre.  427 

'^*-unto  belonginge  were  given,  and  appropriated,  to  di- 
*'  vers  superstitious  Uses,  ever  since  which  tyme,  till  of 
^'  late,  '  same  Hospitail  and  Lands  were  wrongfully  dc- 
*'  tayned  from  her  Majestic  and  her  Progenitors,  untill, 
<*  by  this  Defendciit's  meanes,  her  Majestie's  title  was  re- 
*'  vayled,  traversinge  tlie  other  Contents  in  the  Bill. 
"  Whereupon  the  Plantif  by  Replication  averred  his  Bill, 
*'  shewinge  there  by,  that  he  waa  here  to  be  relieved, 
*<  and  not  elswkere,  for  that  the  Defendent,  by  untrue 
"  Suggestion  and  Surmise  of  a  Concealement,  had  ob- 
"  tayned  in  Fee-farme  a  Hospitail,  not  dissolved  nor  con- 
*'  cealed ;  further  shewinge,  that  the  said  Hospitail  was 
^'  not  appropriated  to  the  Priorye  of  St.  Oswald's,  but 
"  that  the  same  was  an  Hospitail,  as  in  the  Bill  was  al- 
"  ledged,  in  the  Estate  of  the  said  Priory  of  St.  Oswald's, 
*'  and  ever  since,  and  was  never  survayed  as  Parcell  of 
^^  the  Possessions  of  that  Priorie ;  although  the  Maister 
'*  of  that  Hospitail  was,  in  parte,  maintayned  with  a 
*'  Kent-charge  issuinge  ycarely  out  of  the  Possessions  of 
'*  the  said  Priory  of  St.  Oswald's,  as  by  Records  appear- 
*^  ed,  and  trayersed  the  Contents  of  the  Defendant's  An- 
^'  swere.  \y  hereunto  the  Defendant,  by  Rejoynder,  said., 
*'  (hat,  albeit  the  House  and  Lands  in  question  had  beene 
"  tearmed  by  the  name  of  the  Hospitail,  yet  the  same 
*'  Houses,  in  truth,  were  but  a  Chappelle  and  a  Dwell- 
**  inge  House  for  the  Chaplen,  which,  at  the  Dissohition 
"  of  the  said  Monastery,  and  before,  time  out  of  minde, 
•*'  were  Parcell  of  the  Possessions  of  St.  Oswald's,  and,  by 
"  Dissolution  of  that  Priory,  came  to  tiie  late  Kinge 
"  Henrye  tlie  eight  his  hands,  from  ^hom  *all  his  Suc- 
"  cessors,    'till  of  late,     the  Premisses  were  concealed. 


'  F.  the  same.     *  F.  and  all. 
Vol.  II.  o  <«  Where. 


428  Account  of  the  Hospital  of 

f*  Whereupon,  for  prouf  of  the  matters  alledged  in  the 
**  same  Pleadings,  a  Commission  was  a  warded  out  of 
"  tills  Courte,  and  sundry  Witnesses  examinee],  and  pu? 
**  Wished  orderly,  and  the  matter  beinge  at  full  and  per-? 
*'  feet  Issue  in  Trenitie  fearme,  anno  xx^^vii  Regince  Eli- 
**  zabefhce,  '  and"  a  day  of  hearinge  was  appoynted  to 
*'  be  in  Michaelmes  Terme  next,  before  which  Terme 
*'  the  said  late  Revt^rend  Father  died,  by  mcanes  where- 
**  of  the  said  Suite  abated.  By  and  after  whos  Death 
*' the  said  most  Reverend  Father  Mathew,  now  Archbp 
*'  of  Yeorke,  in  Easter  Tern'e,  anno  tricessimo  septimo, 
^'  upon  a  new  Bill,  revived  the  saide  Suite,  and  all  the 
**  Pleadings  and  Depositions,  in  snrh  sorte  as  they  were 
**  at  the  Death  of  his  said  late  Predecessor,  and,  after 
**  the  Deprivation  of  the  said  Brewster,  collated  the  said 
*'  John  Cooper  unto  the  said  Hospitall.  And  aftt  r  both 
*'  Parties  agreed,  that  the  matter  should  be  heard  the 
*^  last  Tearme,  Jovis  jcx"*  JSovemhris.  Att  which  day 
*'  it  was  proved,  by  many  Witnesses  so  examined  and 
**  published  in  that  cause.  That  the  said  Hospitall  was, 
*'  longe  before  the  memorie  of  man,  founded  for  the  Re- 
*'  lief  of  certayne  poore  People,  and  of  a  Maister  of  the 
*'  same  beinge  an  Ecclesiasticall  parson,  and  that  the 
"  poore  had  beene  relieved  there,  by  Allowance  from 
"  the  said  Maister  for  the  time  beinge,  and  that  the  said 
"  Hospitall  heretofore  had  beene  maintayiied  with  cer- 
f  tayne  Lands,  Rents,  and  other  Possessions,  and  with 
*'  one  Pension  or  Rent-Charge  of  five  Pounds  six  Shillings 
**  eight  Pence,  graunted  in  times  past  out  of  the  Priory 
*' of  St.  Oswald's  Possessions,  and  with  one  Rent-charge 
**  of  six  and  twentie  Shillings  eight  Pence,  issuinge  out 


F.  delend. 

f«of 


St.  Mary  Magd.  near  BaiUre.  429 

««  of  tlie  Lands  of  the  said  Lord  Archbishop  of  Yeorke, 
*^  called  Plumtrie  Parke,  and  that  there  did  belonge  (o 
"  the  said  Hospitall  one  Close  in  Scatworth-carr,  called 
*'  the  Priest-close,  contayninge  six  Acres,  one  Close  at 
"  Ihe  ende  of  Martin  Woods,  called  the  Riddings,  con- 
"  tayninge  eight  Acres  or  more ;  and  that  the  Rent- 
*'  Charge  of  six  and  twentie  Shillings  eight  Pence  had 
"  bene  payed  '  had  beene  payed"  from  the  said  Lord- 
*'  Archbishop  of  Yeorke  to  the  use  of  the  Maister  of  that 
'-^  Hospitall,  and  that  there  had  beene  a  Chappell  in  the 
*-*  said  Hospitall,  wherin  divine  Service  had  beene  done 
f  there  accordingly  by  divers  Maisters ;  that,  time  out 
*•'  of  minde,  the  said  Hospitall  had  beene  of  the  Pa- 
"  tronage  of  the  Archbishop  of  Yeorke  for  the  time 
^'  beinge,  *and  that  her  Highnes,  and  her  Majestie's  Pro^ 
f  genitors,  in  the  Vacation  of  that  Sea,  by  reason  of 
"  the  Tempioraltis  of  the  said  Sea.  And  that  they  knew 
*'  Doctor  Claybrough,  John  Wiseman,  and  the  said 
"  Brewster,  Clerks,  successively  collated  thereunto  by 
"  the  said  Archbishops  of  Yeorke,  and  enjoyed  the  Ho- 
**  spitall,  and  the  sayd  Possessions,  as  afore,  accordingly, 
*'  and  that  l^obinson  the  Defendant,  within  two  yeares 
"  past,  had  prophaned  the  said  Chappell,  and  defaced, 
*'  or  carried  away,  all,  or  the  greatest  parte,  of  the  Or- 
*'  naments  and  Furniture  of  the  same  Chapell,  namely 
*'  the  3  Stales  or  Seats,  and  the  Lcade  that  was  aboute  the 
«' Steeple,  and  altered  it  from  a  Chappell  to  a  House  to 
"  keepe  Swiue  in  ;  And  that  the  said  Defendant  Robin- 
*'  son  had  offered  to  sell  the  Free  stoun  of  the  said  Chap- 
•«  pell,  and  that  they  said  they  would  pull  it  downe  ;   And 

'Dele     2  Ita  haec  concipiuntur  in  MS.    Sedo/pro  that  for- 
sitan  repqnend,  est.     ^  Sic. 

o  2  "  that 


430  Account  of  the  Hospital  of 

<'  that  the  saide  Pension  of  five  Pounds,  six  Shillings, 
"  eight  Pence,  was  allowed  and  payed  by  her  Majestie's 
*^  Receyver  Ge.ierall  for  the  Countie  of  Yeorke  to  the 
*'4i5e  of  (he  said  Maisler.  Upon  hcarinoe  of  which 
'^  Cause  for  decaynge  and  entringe  upon  the  said  Hospir? 
*'  tall,  so  claymed  by  the  Plantif  to  be  an  Hospitall  of 
**  tbe  said  Lord  Archbishop's  Patronase,  and  by  the  De^ 
*'  fendant  to  be  a  Chantrie  or  Free-CliappcU,  and  con- 
'*  cealed  from  her  Majestie,  untill  of  late  the  same  had 
*'  beene  leased  for  Yearcs,  or  purchassed,  as  concealed 
*'  for  Triall  of  the  Title  and  Right  thereof;  it  was  or- 
^'  dred  by  the  Cqurt,  that  the  said  John  Cooper  clerke, 
*'  who  was  collated  to,  and  made  Maister  of,  the  said 
*'  Hospitall,  should  forthwith  bringe  an  Action  of  Tres- 
*'  pass  against  the  said  Robinson  in  the  Office  of  the 
*'  Pleas  in  this  Court,  and  should  suppose  thereby,  that 
*'  certayne  Quantities  of  Corne  and  Hay,  growings 
*'  upon  the  said  Grounde  in  variance,  did  come  to  the 
^'  Defendant's  Hands  in  some  Places  of  Midlesex,  al» 
*^  ledginge  the  Defendant  to  have  converted  the  same  to 
*'  his  proper  use,  wherunto  the  Defendant,  within  fower 
*'  Dayes  after  Declaration  putt  in,  should  plead  the  ge- 
*' nerall  Issue,  not  guiltie,  to  be  tryed  the  next  Terme ; 
*«  And  if  the  Verdict  should  fall  out  with  the  Plantif,  the 
*'  said  Cooper  should  be  stablished  in  possession  ot  the 
*'  House,  Lands  and  Tenements  in  variance,  and  the 
*'  said  Plantif  should  not  be  driven,  at  the  said  Triall,  tp 
**  prove  any  Entrye  into  the  Grounds  in  variance,  nei- 
"  ther  the  Defendant's  occupation,  or  takeinge  of  the 
*'  Haye  and  Corne,  growinge  upon  the  said  Grounde  in 
*'  variance,  nor  of  the  comminge  thereof  to  the  Defen- 
"  dant's  hands,  lor  that  the  Defendant  had,  in  open 
**  Court,  confessed  his  occupation  of  the  same  Grounds 

"  by 


!SL  Mmy  Magd.  near  Sautre,  431 

**  by  fower  or  five  yeaves  last  past ;  but  the  Evidence  at 
*'  that  Triall  should  bee  only  uppon  the  right,  whether 
**  the  same  be  Chantrie  Lands,  or  Ilospitall  Lands  ;  And 
*"  if  there  should  be  any  delay  in  the  said  Robinson,  in 
*'  proceedinge  to  the  same,  then  the  Court  would  sta- 
*'  blish  the  Possession  with  the  said  Cooper,  Maister  of 
*'  the  said  Hospitall,  upon  such  Delay.  And  thereupon 
**  the  said  John  Cooper,  in  Michaelmas  Terme  last, 
**  brought  an  Action  of  Trespasse  against  the  said  Tho- 
*•  mas  Robinson  accordingly,  alledginge,  in  his  Declara- 
**  tion,  that,  whereas  the  said  John  Cooper,  beinge 
**  seized  in  his  Demcasne,  as  of  Fee,  in  the  right  of  the 
**  said  Hospitall^  of,  and  in,  the  said  Hospitall  of  St. 
"  Marie  Magdalen  aforesaide,  and  of,  and  in,  twenty 
"  Acres  of  Land,  tvventye  Acres  of  Meadow,  and  three- 
*'  score  Acres  of  Pasture,  with  thapurtenanoes,  in  Har* 
**  worth,  in  the  said  Countie  of  Nottingham,  belonginge 
**  and  apperfayr)inge  to  the  said  Hospitall  of  St.  Mary 
"  Magdalen  aforesaid,  and  Parcel!  of  the  same ;  And 
"  whereas  the  said  John  Cooper^  the  twentith  day  of 
*'  November,  in  the  xxxviii.  yeare  of  her  Majestie's 
**  Raigne,  that  now  is,  at  Islington,  in  the  said  Countie  of 
*'  Middlesex,  was  possessed  often  '  Cart  lods  of  Rye,  every 
*'  Cart  load  whereof  of  the  valewe  of  fower  Pounds,  tea 
**  Carte  Loads  of  Gates,  every  Load  of  the  valewe  of  fower 
<*  Pounds,  and  of  twentie  Loads  of  Hay,  every  Load  of  the 
*'  valewe  of  ten  shillings,  comminge,  and  arisinge  and 
♦*  growinge  of,  in,  and  upon,  the  said  twentie  Acres  of 
**  Land,  and  twentie  Acres  of  Meadow,  as  of  his  proper 
*'  Goods  and  Chattalls,  and  beinge  so  possessed  thereof, 
"  the  said  twentie  day  of  November,  and  in  the  eight 
*'  and  thirtith  yeare  aforesaid,  did  casually  lose  out  of  his 

*  Sic. 

o3  "Hands 


432  Account  of  the  liuspital  of 

"  Hands  and  Possession  the  said  Goods  and  Chattalls  a( 
**  Islington,  in  the  Countie  aforesaid,  which  said  Goods 
"  and  Chuttals  afterwards,  the  same  day,  at  Islington  afore- 
**  said,  beinge  the  proper  Goods  and  Chattals  of  the  said 
**  John  Cooper,  the  said  Thomas  Robinson  halh  taken 
*'  and  carryed  awaye  with  Force  and  Armes,  which 
^'  Corne  and  Haye^  comminge  of  the  said  twenfye  Acres 
*'  of  Lande,  and  twentie  Acres  of  Meadow,  beinge  Par- 
"  cell  of  the  Possessions  of  tlie  said  Hospitall,  '  and  that 
"  the  said  Robinson  had  taken  and  converted  the  same 
"  to  his  owne  proper  use,  against  (he  Peace  of  our  said 
*'  Soveraine  Lady,  and  to  the  Damage  of  the  said  John 
*^  Cooper  of  one  hundred  Pounds. 

"  Whereunto  the  said  Defendant  pleaded  not  guiltye; 
*^  And  the  matter  beinge  heard,  Veneris  sexto  Februarii 
**  1595.  by  Nisi  priusy  before  all  the  learned  Barons  of 
"  this  Court,  in  the  presence  of  Maister  Soliciter,  and 
*'  olhers  for  the  Defendant's  Councell,  after  longe  Evi- 
*'  dence  given  by  the  Councell  of  both  Parties,  Verdit 
*'  passed  for  the  Plantif,  and  assessed  Damages  to  the 
*'  Some  of  and  for        Costs 

*'  of  Suite  ;  whereupon  Judgment  is  since  given  accord- 
**  ingly.  Whereupon  it  is  ordred,  and  decreed,  this  pre- 
*'  sent  Terme,  by  the  right  honorable  William  Lord 
"  Burghley,  Lord  High  Treasurer  of  England,  Sir  John 
*'  Fortescue,  Knight;  Chanceler  of  this  Court  of  Exche- 
"  quer,  and  the  Barons  of  this  Court,  that  the  said  John 
**  Cooper,  Maister  of  the  said  Hospitall,  and  his  Suc- 
"  ccssors,  shall  have,  hould,  and  enjoy  the  said  Hospi- 
"  tall,  and  all  the  said  Lands,  Pencions,  Rents  and  other 
"  Things,  so  proved  as  aforesaid  to  belonge  to  the  same, 
"to  be  apply  ed  towards  the  Reliefe  of  certayne  poore 

I  Sic. 

'<  People, 


St.  Mary  Magd.  near  Bautre,  433 

*^  People,  and  of  a  Maister,  beinge  an  Ecclesiasticall 
"  Person,  as  by  the  said  Bill  is  claymed,  and  by  the 
**  said  Witnesses  is  proved. 

"  And  further,  for  that  it  is  proved  to  this  Courte,  that 
**  the  Defendant  hath  defaced  and  prophaned  the  said 
*'  Chappell,  and  other  Howses  and  Woods  growinge 
^"^  upon  the  same,  and  taken  the  Profits  thereof  by  the 
**  Space  of  five  yeares  since  the  said  first  Suite  begann,  it 
**  is  farther  ordred  and  decreed,  that  the  said  John  Coo- 
*'  per,  either  by  Commisision  out  of  this  Courte,  or  by 
*'  Action  at  the  Common-Law,  may  recover  his  Damages 
**  thereby  sustayned,  '  to  intent  the  same  Hospitall,  Chap- 
*'  pell  and  other  Buildings  of  the  same,  may  be  reedificd 
**  and  continued  in  their  former  Estate. 

Exa,  per  me  Tho.  Fanshaw, 

Veritas  viget. 
uind  God  scattereth  the  Devises  of  the  craftie,  so  that 
'their  Hands  cannot  accomplishe  that  whiche  they  doe  en- 
terprise. 

5  Job  12. 

Now,  after  the  Death  of  John  Coopef)  it  pleased  the 
most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  *  Tobie,  late  Archbishop 
of  Yeorke,  to  collate  and  make  John  Slacke,  Clerke, 
Mr.  of  Arts,  Maister  of  the  said  Hospitall,  and  that  the 
said  John  Slacke  hath  endevored  io  enter  into  the  Pos- 
sessions of  the  said  Hospitall,  and  other  the  Premisses, 
but  was  denied  and  withstood  by  one  John  Bradley, 
Thomas  Truswell  and  Bartholomew  Wofendalle,    who 


L.  to  the  intent,  » Tobie  Matthew. 

o  4  were 


434  Account  of  the  Hospital  of 

were  Tenants  to  the  said  Hospital!,  and  other  the  Pre- 
misses, to  the  said  John  Cooper,  and  paicd  him  six  Pounds 
Rent  per  annum  for  the  same,  whilest  he  lived ;  but, 
sithence  the  Death  of  the  said  Mr.  Cooper,  are  turned, 
and  become,  Tenants  to  one  John  Noble,  Thomas  Shoii; 
and  Thomas  Robinson,  v,\\o  pretend  some  Interest  in 
the  Premisses  under  the  said  Robins  :n  t  And  also  that 
the  Auditor  of  the  said  Countie  doe  refuse  \o  paye  unto 
the  said  Mr.  Slacke  the  yearly  Pension  of  five  Pound&v 
six  Shillings,  eight  Pence,  per  annum,  and  so  did  for 
the  Space  of  one  yeare  in  the  time  of  his  '  Predicessor^ 
and,  therefore,  I  moved  the  Court  for  Relief  herein; 
And  thereupon  it  was  ordred  by  the  Court,  Veneris 
a:xiii°.  die  Novemhris,  anno  octavo  Regis  Jacobi,  that 
a  Subpoena,  under  the  Seale  of  this  Courte,  shalbe  di- 
rected to  the  said  John  Bradley,  Thomas  Truswell,  Bar- 
tholomew Wofendall,  and  to  the  said  John  Noble.  Tho- 
mas Short  and  Tliomas  Robinson,  commandinge  them 
by  the  same  to  appeare  in  this  Courte  crastino  Purifca- 
tianis  of  the  next  HUlarie  Terme,  and  shew  good  cause, 
why  they  should  not  pcrforme  the  said  Decree  made  as 
before  ;  and  why  the  Possessions  of  all  the  Premisses 
should  not  be  established,  accordinge  as  the  same  was  at 
the  Death  of  tlie  said  Cooper. 

Ex  parte  remanenli  Regis, 
Mercmii  xiii°  die  Fehruarii  termino 
Scti  Hillariit  anno  octavo  Regis  Jacobi. 

**  Nottingham, 

*'  Whereas  in  the  matter  heretofore  dependinge  in  this 
X' -Courte,  by  Englishe  Bill,   betweene  the  most  Reve- 

'    "^  '  Sic.  • 

'  « rend 


Sfi  Mary  Magdalen  near  ^autre.  435 

"  rend  Father  in  God,  Matliew  lafe  Archbishop  of  Yeorke 
**  deceased,  and  Thomas  Robinson,  Defendant,  beinge 
**  for  and  concerninge  an  Hospitall^  founded  for  the  Re- 
"  lief  of  certayne  poore  People,  and  for  a  Maister  beinge 
*'  an  Ecclesiastical  person,  called  Mary  Magdalen  Ho- 
*'  spltall,  neare  Bawtrie  in  i\\Q  Countie  of  Yeorke,  neare 
*'  unto  the  Confines  of  the  Countie  of  Nottingham,  and 
"  certayne  Lands,  Tenements  and  other  Possessions,  with 
*'  one  Pcncion  or  Rent  Charge  of  five  Pounds  six  Shil- 
*'  lings  and  eight  Pence,  issuinge  out  of  the  Lands  and 
**  Possessions  of  the  Priory  of  St.  Oswald's,  and  one  Rent 
V  Charge  of  xxvi*.  eight  Pence,  issuinge  out  of  the  Lands 
"  of  the  said  Archbishop  of  Yeorke,  called  Plumtrie  Parke, 
*'  belonginge  and  appertayninge,  claymed  by  the  Plantif 
*'  to  be  an  Hospitall  of  the  said  Archbishop's  Patronage^ 
*'  and  by  the  Defendant  to  be  a  Chantrie  or  Free  Chap- 
"  pell,  concealed  from  the  late  Queen's  Majestie  ;  It  was 
*'  ordrcd  by  the  Court,  the  sixt  day  of  February,  in  the 
**  xxxviii'''.  yeare  of  the  Raigne  of  the  late  Queene  Eli- 
**  zabeth,  that  John  Cooper,  then  Maister  of  the  said 
*'  Hospitall,  and  his  Successors,  should  have  and  enjoy 
'^  the  same  Hospitall,  and  all  the  said  Lands,  Pencions, 
"  Rents,  and  other  the  Premisses  aforesaid,  belonginge 
**  to  the  same,  to  be  ira  ployed  towards  the  Relief  of  a 
f '  Maister,  and  certaine  poore  People,  as  by  the  said  De- 
**  cree  more  at  large  it  doth  appeare:  And  wheras  the 
"  Court  was  informed,  that  the  said  Cooper  was  lately 
**  deceased,  and  that  the  now  Lord  Archbishop  of  Yeorke 
**  did  collate,  and  make,  one  John  Slacke,  Clerke,  Mai- 
**  ster  of  the  said  Hospitall,  and  that  he  the  said  Mr. 
**  Slacke  hath  indevored  to  enter  into  the  Possessions  of 
*'  the  said  Hospitall,  and  other  the  Premisses  aforesaid,  and 

«  that 


426  Account  of  tJie  Hospital  of 

*'  (fiat  he  was  denied,  and  withstobde,  by  one  John  Brad- 
**  le3>,  Thomas  Truswell  and  Bartholomew  Wofendall, 
**  some  tymes  Tenants  of  the  said  Hospital!,  and  other 
**  the  Premisses,  to  the  said  John  Cooper,  and  sithence 
*'  his  Death  are  turned,  and  become,  Tenants  to  one 
*'  John  Noble,  Thomas  Short,  and  Thomas  Robinson, 
"  who  pretende  some  Interest  in  the  Premisses  under  the 
**  said  Robinson  ;  And  also  that  the  Auditor  of  the  said 
**  Countie  doth  refuse  to  pay  unto  him,  (he  said  Maister 
**  Slacke,  the  said  yearly  Pencion  of  five  Pounds,  six 
**  shillings,  eight  Pence  per  annum,  and  therefore  he 
**  moved  the  Courte  for  some  relief  herein  ;  It  was  there- 
**  upon  ordred  by  the  Court,  the  xxiii*''.  day  of  Novem- 
'*  ber,  in  Michaelmas  Terme  last  past,  that  a  Subpoena^ 
*'  under  the  Seale  of  this  Court,  should  be  directed  to  the 
"  said  John  Bradley,  Thomas  Truswell,  '  Bartholomew 
*'  Wofendalle,  and  to  the  said  John  Noble,  Thomas 
*'  Shcfrt  and  Thomas  Robinson,  coramanndinge  them  to 
*•  appeare  in  this  Courte,  crastino  JPuriJicationis,  this 
*'  terme,  to  shewe  Cause,  why  they  should  not  performe 
*'  the  said  Decree,  made  as  before,  and  why  the  Pos- 
*'  sessions  of  all  the  Premisses  should  not  be  established, 
*'  accordinge  as  the  same  was  at  the  Death  of  the  said 
*'  Cooper,  as  by  the  said  Order  more  at  large  also  it 
**  doth  appeare.  Now  upon  readinge  of  the  said  De- 
"  cree,  and  upon  hearinge  the  Councell,  as  well  on  the 
"  behalf  of  the  said  Mr.  Slacke,  as  of  tlie  said  John  No- 
"  ble,  it  is  this  day  ordred  by  the  Conrte,  that  the  said 
*'  Decree  shal  stand  in  force,  and  that  the  said  Mr.  Slacke 
*'  shall  have  and  enjoy  the  Possessions  of  the  said  Hospi- 
**  tall,  and  all  the  said  I^ands,  Pencions,  Rents,  and  other 


Adde,  and, 

•Mhe 


•  '^L  Mary  Magd.  near  Baidre.  •  4^7 

**  the  Premisses,  without  the  Lett  or  Interruption  of  the 
*'  said  John  Noble,  Thomas  Short,  Thomas  Robinsoa 
*'  and  Thomas  Hurst,  or  any  of  them,  or.  of  any  other 
*'  person,  or  persons,  whatsoever,  '  claminge  b}-,  from 
**  or  under  them,  or  any  of  them,  or  under  the  title  of 
♦*  the  said  Thomas  Robinson :  and  that  an  Injunction 
"  shalbe  awarded  accordingly  to  establishe  the  Possession 
**  of  the  said  Mr.  Slacke  in  the  Premises. 

"  And  it  was  further  ordred  by  the  Court,  that  the 
"  Auditor  of  the  said  County  e  of  Yeorke  shall,  from 
'*  hence  forth,  pay  to  the  said  Mr.  Slacke  the  said  year- 
*'  ly  Pencion  or  Rent  Charge  of  five  pounds,  six  Shil- 
"  lings,  eight  Pence,  graunted  out  of  the  Possessions  of 
**  the  said  late  Priory  of  St.  Oswald's,  as  afore  saide,  to- 
**  gether  with  the  Arreareages  thereof.  Provided  al- 
**  wayes,  and  it  is  neverthelesse  ordred  by  the  Court, 
*'  that  if  the  said  John  Noble,  Thomas  Short  and  Tho- 
*'  mas  Hurst  have  any  new,  or  better,  matter  to  prove 
**  their  pretended  Interest  in,  and  to,  the  said  Premisses, 
**  then  heretofore  they  have  shewed,  that  then  they  shal- 
"  be  at  liberty  to  exhibite  an  English  Bill  upon  the  said 
"  new  and  better  matter. 

Ex'  per  Henricum 
Bahb  pro  2uerente. 
Stanton  pro  Defendente.  Fanshawe, 

Now  after  I  gott  the  Possession  at  my  greate  Charges, 
I  builded  up  the  decaied  Chappell,  I  repay  red  the  Win- 
dowes  with  Stone,  Iron,  and  Glasse,  I  made  new  Seats, 
and  thePulpitt,  and  bought  the  Bell  now  in  the  Chappell. 


Sic. 


4S8  Account  of  the  Hospital  of  &c. 

Et  hoc  exemplum  reliquil  sequentihits 
Johannes  Slarke,  8f  aliquid  efficiamus 
quod  sit  vita  dignum,  ut  Lactan, 

My  BenefactouTs. 


Tobye  '  Lord  Archbishop       >  ^^  YtQxke^ 
Samuell  *  Lord  Archbishop     > 
Anthony  Morton,  Esq;,  who  was 
buried  in  the  ChappelL 

ApOstrophat  Hospitale, 

So  I  conclude  and  say  with  Mica  7.  8.  rejoyce  not 
against^,  oh  mine  Enemy ;  though  I  fall,  I  shall 
arise  ;  when  I  sitt  in  Darkenesse,  the  Lord  shall 
be  a  light  unto  me. 

There  is  a  free  Rent  of  a  pounde  of  Peper  to  be  payed 
out  of  the  Hospitall  yearely  to  tlie  Mortons,  whos  An- 
cestors were  Founders  of  this  Hospitall. 

'Matthew.     *JIarsnet.     ^  Adde,  me. 


A 

DISCOURSE 

ABOUT  SOME 

ROMAN  ANTIQUITIES 

Discover'd  near  CONQUEST 

In  SOMERSETSHIRE, 

Supposed  to  be  the  Place  where  the  ROMANS 
Conquest  of  BRITAIN  was  compleated. 


By  an  anonymous  Author. 


(  Ml  ) 


CLAUDIUS  CiESAR's, 

AND  OTHER  OLD 

ROMANE  EMPERORS, 

TREASURE 

Jifewly  found  out  near  Conquest  in  Sow- 
MERSETT,  supposed  to  be  the  place  where 
their  Conquest  of  Britaine  was  com- 
pleated : 

By  Philantiquarius  Britannicus. 


Tran- 
scrib'd 
from  a 
MSt.  lent 
me  by  Mr. 
James 
West  of 
B\Luoi, 
College, 
A.  D.  1722. 


N  that  most  criticall  year  of  our  Lord  1666. 
two  large  earthen  Pitchers,  full  of  Roman 
Mcdalls,  each  tOi.  Troy  weight,  were  diged 
up  by  Labourers  with  Mattocks  in  ploughed 
fields,  the  one  in  ?laurcnce  %itlUpartl,  the 
other  within  the  Parish  of  »)t05Umber  adjoyning,  and  see- 
ing that  ^  Nummus  est  rei  certissimus  testis,  I  can  think  no 


\  Camd,  in  Belg, 


other 


443  A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  Antiquities 

other,  but  that  the  resurrection  of  so  much  of  such  an» 
cient  coyne,  so  neare  the  same  time  and  place,  was,  by 
speciall  providence,  to  mind  us  (of  these  parts)  of  some 
memorable  thing,  or  things,  done  hereabouts,  now  for^ 
gotten,  and,  therefore,  I  having  thus  long  expected, 
shall  now  endeavour  to  extract,  or  pumpe  out,  the  inter- 
pretation of  this  riddle,  out  of  the  mouth,  or 
Antiqnity  is  best      pen,    of  some  ueighbourne  Antiquarie,  by  de? 

illustrated     by      in-  ,      ,  ,  ,  ,      ,  ,    .      %  mi     ±   •  ,„„ 

habitants,         who       claring  this  my  conjecture,  (xiz.)  1  hat  in  some 
\\e.\o   s°?ve7"an       pl^ce  of  the  valley,  that  extends,  on  the  West 

circumstances     of     gide  of  <liuantoche,  from  '^autitoii  to  iLioiivajti, 

time,      place      and  _-,  ,  i       t-» 

persons,  »»tO0:umt)£C  and  ([(llatC^ett,  the  Romans  com- 

pleated  the  conquest  of  so  much  of  Britaine,  as 
is  now  called  England,  (Wales  and  Scotland  being  then 
unatterapted  by  them,)  and  that  the  Romans  throughout 
many  ages  afterward  continued  a  Legion,  or  part  of  one, 
here,  which  they  paid  with  such  money  as  this,  to  pre- 
vent insurrection  by  Land,  and  invasion  by  Sea  ;  for  de- 
monstration whereof,  it  will  be  requisite,  in  the  first 
place^  to  goe  backe,  and  fetch  my  force  as  farr  as  from 
Julius  Caesar,  SfC.  that  I  may  run  and  leape  forward  the 
more  vigorousely.  Julius  Cassar  having  once  and  againe 
audaciously  '  envaded,  and  as  shamefully  evaded,  Bri- 
taine, thereby  forfeited  his  Triumphant  Motto  *  Veni, 
"vidi,  viciy  was  stigmatized  with  Veiiit,  vidit)  fugil,  and 
scoffed  at,  by  one  of  his  own  Poets,  with  a  Territa  qua- 
sitis  ostendit  terga  Britannis.  So  that  now  he  was  ncr 
cessitafed  to  draw  up  all  his  forces  into  a  fleete  of  800, 
saile,  and  therewith  envaded  '  Britaine  a  third  time,  even 
to  vindicate  his  honour,  which  lay  bleeding  in  the  dust 
amongst  his  late  slaughtered  souldiers :  and  now 


Sic  H.     *  Sueto.  Tranq.     3  Casf.  Com.  lib.  bio. 

Par. 


discover  d  near  Conquest.  443 


Parturiunt  montes,  nalusque  est  ridiculus  mus  ; 
A  mouse  instead  of  a  Mount, 

Kent,  and  a  little  more,  subdued,  and  he  return 'd.  After 
Julius  CcBsar  came  Octavius  Augustus  in  his  place,  and 
he,  being  well  contented  with  what  his  predecessor  had 
wonne,  lived  and  died  in  peace.  After  him  rose  up  Ti- 
berius Cassar,  which  was  scf  over  powred  with  civill 
Warres,  that  he  had  no  opportunity  to  make  any  at- 
tempt on  Britaine.  And  after  him  Caligula  Caesar;  and  he 
had  a  great  minde  to  Britaine,  but  would  not  adventure : 

Catus  vult  piscem,  seel  non  vult  tangere  h/mpham. 

He  '  came  to  Calice,  where  he  looked  over  the  Sea  on 
Britaine,  and  put  his  Army  in  batalia  on  the  Shore,  in  a 
braveado  of  a  seeming  attempt  against  Britaine.  At  an 
ebbing  Sea,  he  commanded  the  Souldiers,  upon  the 
Sound  of  a  charge,  to  fill  their  bosomes  and  helmetts 
with  Shells,  as  Spoiles  of  the  British  Sea,  whilest  he,  and 
some  select  friends,  lanched  out  a  little  in  their  Gal- 
leyes,  and,  to  perpetuate  the  memory  of  this  vaine  glo- 
rious, or  rather  ridiculous,  action,  he  built  ^  upon  the 
shore,  altissimam  turrim,  since  called  Britain  ^UI0, 
(«.  c.)  :25ritainsf  tOUSfe,  appointing  it  for  a  Sea  Mark 
with  Fire  on  the  topp  by  night,  in  imitation  of  that 
3  Phares  at  the  Port  of  Alexandria. 

After  Caligula  rose  Claudius  Cassai-,  who,  by  the  in- 
stigation of  Bericus  a  banished  Britain,  first  sent  Plautius 


'  Suetonius  de  Calig.     *  Burt.  Com.  on  Ant.  It,  in  p.  15. 
?  A  ^a®-  vel  f  flf  f«j-. 

Vol.  11.  P  will, 


444:  A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  A?itiquities 

■with  an  armie  into  Brittaine  ;  after  liira,  he  himself  and 
Ostorius  Scapula  his  Propraetor,  with  more  and  more 
forces,  with  which  they  subdued  the  greater  part  of  the 
Island,  which  they  could  never  have  done,  had  the  Bri- 
tish pettie  Kings  continued  in  such  association,  as  they 
did  under  their  Monarch  Cassibellaunus  in  Julius  Caesar's 
time  ;  but  *  J)uin  pugnant  singuli,  nincnntur  universi. 
And  the  Cantii,  ^  Trinvhantes,  Attrehatii,  Regni,  Do-^ 
buni,  ^  Cattieudaniy  Coritani^  Coniavii,  Brigantes,  Sfc, 
being  gained,  some  by  the  Romane  sword,  some  by  un- 
voluntarie  Submission  ;  there  remained  but  two  Provinces 
(of  all  now  called  England)  unconquered,  (viz.)  the 
Iceni  and  the  Cangi ;  and  the  leeni  being  first  subdued, 
they  came  in  the  last  place  to  the  Cangi  of  Somersett, 
and  conquered  thera  also  in  this  valley  aforesaid.  So  that 
if  we  can  trace  this  Roman  Army  by  seaven  Footstepps, 
which  are  left  behind  it,  we  may,  at  length,  find  thera 
conquering  at  ConqUC0t,  and  afterward  quartering  in  the 
vally  betweene  ^cEauntOn  and  2(llatt^£tt.  The  first  of 
the  seaveri  Footstepps  of  this  conquering  Armie  is,  ac- 
cording to  Tacitus*,  decernable  in  the  word  Iceni,  (i.  e.> 
the  inhabitants  of  Norfolke^  Suffolke,  Cambridge  shire 
and  Huntington  shire,  who  haveing  submitted  to  the  Ro- 
mans formerly,  had  now  rebelled,  but  they,  and  their 
Confederates  of  the  *  adjoynind  provinces,  being  subdued, 
all  that  part  of  the  Hand  submitted,  and  the  Roman  ar- 
mie ductus  ^  est  in  Cangos  alias  Ganges,  which  was  their 
*  2  second  Footsteppe  *,  Cangi,  (i.  e.)  the  inhabitants  of 
Somersett^    according    to    Mr.  Camden,    instanceing  in 


'  Corn.  Tacit.  2  Trimob antes  MS.  H.  ^  CatiieuctaviMS.  H. 
4  Tacit,  lib.  4.  Ann.  Camb.  in  Icen,  i  Sic.  II.  *  Cor.  Tacit, 
ibid. 

tht 


discovered  near  Conquest.  445 

the  shadow  of  that  name,  continuing  in  four  places  of 

that  County  to  this  day,  as  Cam0ljam,  (i.)  Canffigiliam, 

the  habitation  of  the  Cangi ;  CattnitlfftOn,  (i.)  the  valley 
Town  of  the  Cangi;  Canmitggf,  (i.)  that  is,  the  vallei/s 
of  the  Cangi;  {[fllincauntOn,  Armorice,  &f  Britaniiice 
CrtJjpnniCaiintOtl,  (i.)  that  is,  the  bright,  or  pleasant, 
Towne  of  the  Cangi,  And  to  these  fowr  I  can  (if  need 
were)  add  1 1  more  the  like,  as  CangCChur,  which  »  do- 
ctissimus  ille  taketh  to  be  Cang;i-rr0-hun'e,  (i.)   Cangies 

Battlehurie;  CanficlD,  (i.)  Cangi'-ficlti ;  Canfott, (i.e.) 

Canffi-fOCU.  and  five  more  termiiiateing  in  2DeU,  rectius 
SDClit*,  (i.)  borders  or  confines,  because  they  are  scituate 
on  the  confines  of  the  Cangi  of  Soraersett  and  ^  Duro- 
triges  of  Dorset,  as  CaunUcU,  rectius  CaUltHellt,  (i.) 
the  borders  of  the  Cangi;  pur0e  CaimDcU,  rectiiis  ^tOCSS 
Canffi-Uclt,  (i.)  Purse  Caugies  borders,  from  *  Graec. 
Bvpffdc,  a  purse  or  treasurie,  the  signe  of  the  purse  painted 
over  the  treasurie  doore ;  CauntlCll  tJakr,  (i.)  the  wa- 
tring  and  warding  place  of  the  Cangi  on  the  borders ; 
»)tllCtOn  CauntlcU,  (i.)  the  Town  on  the  River  Stoiire 
on  the  borders  of  the  Cangi;  CaUllOeil  ^aCC^e0jS  and 
CauntlcU  ©i0l)Op0,  so  cognominated  in  latter  times,  one 
from  the  Owner  of  the  Soile,  the  other  from  the  Nature 
thereof;  €^nonSi  %£^\  rectius  <tm^i4l\^Q--%tV,  (i.e.) 
the  Valley  habitations  of  the  Cangi.  As  ^nffilllS  1,C^, 
rectius  Cangi'-ljlU^'ILe^,  the  hilly  habitation  of  the  Cangi; 
or  Cang;i  DelltSf  HCJ?,  because  it  adjnyns  to  the  black 
down,  the  bowndary  between  the  Cangi  and  the  Damno- 


»  Arch.  Usher  in  prim.  Eccl.  Britann.  ^  From  oiy^.  *  From 
But  water  and  ttigiag  habitation,  because  they  dwell  on  the 
Sea  Coasts.  4  Diction.  Fra.  Goldman.  5  Inhabitants  of  De- 
von so  called  from  their  dwelling  under  their  hills. 

p  2  niij 


446  A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  Antiquitieg 

nit,  not  Sil\Qt\\0'-%t^i  or  dwelling  place  of  A ngeh,  as  if 
they  had  left  their  heavenly  mansions,  to  dwell  on  the 
Earth,  and  rather  here  then  any  where  else.  And  these 
15  Shadowes  of  the  Cangi  in  Sommersett,  and  the  con- 
fines thereof,  arc  the  more  demonstrative  of  the  old  Can** 
gies  habitation  thert'in,  upon  farther  consideration  of  this, 
that  there  is  no  Towne  nor  Parrish  (besides  those  in- 
stanced) in  Devon,  Dorsett,  Glocestcr,  or  Wilts,  that 
bath  the  Syllable,  CaUlT,  Cat!  or  <ZmQ  in  it,  but  only 
*  Caune  i»  Wiltshire,  whose  right  name  is  Cain,  though 
enphonied  into  Cailfy  because  I  ante  n  quksrit.  Tlfe 
ancient  inhabitants,  therefore,  of  Soraersett  being  called 
Cangi,  it  will  be  necessary  to  know  why  so  called.  I  con«» 
].  jecture  at  two  reasons.  First  their  Musick  and  singing  to 
their  instruments  of  Mnsick.  For  cailXCgr,  CailU^tt  and 
jjan  are  Synoniraicalis,  signifying  Canlicum  Organi  mu* 
sici,  and  the  *  British  Call  (Lcllft  qOU  Renault  intimates 
soe  (i.  e.)  the  song,  Ijuf^t  or  fllcntC  is  the  song  of  old  age, 
and  the  word  Cangi,  which  seems  to  me  to  be  ro.v  a  so- 
no,  intimates,  that  the  old  inhabitants  of  this  County 
were  notablely  addicted  to  Canging  and  Iwanging  on 
their  British  harps,  as  their  ofspring  in  Whales  are  stil! 
^  CanUtClin,  to  sing  to  the  harp,  whikst  their  herds  and 
their  flocks,  feeding  on  their  rich  meadows  and  *  moores, 
maintained  their  health,  and  mirth,  without  any  such 
tilling  and  toyling,  and  as  their  neighbouring  *  SDUtlffttUll 
&  TSotlimi  endured,  and  upon  that  account  the  moderne 
Britaincs  also  of  Wales,  call  Somersett  (lDlaiJ;|j0r:l)af  (i.  e.) 

'  Cambd.  in  Belg.  ^  Dr.  Davis  Diet.  Camb.  Lat.  ^  "Dic^a" 
rcbion  ^gtfnraeg  D.  Da.  ?  dantelin  to  sing  *  to  harp  Beit. 
[*  F.  to  harpe  it.  H.]  4  Lacte  S(  came  vivunt.  Jul.  Caes.  Lib.  5®. 
Camb.  JDunU  &  TBoT^mi  (i.e.)  Hill  contrie  of  Witts  and 
South  of  Glost. 


discovej-'d  near  CoiiqvEST.  447 

merrie  Sommerfield  to  this  day.  The  inhabitants  of  So-  2. 
mersett  were  called  Cangi,  merry  and  musical!,  from 
their  worshiping  the  image  of  Apollo,  or  '  So/ their  God 
of  Musick,  with  his  harp  in  his  hand,  especially  in  IBat^ 
their  Metropolis,  and  being  the  Author  of  heate  and 
healeing,  and  consequently  of  Mirth  and  Gladness,  by 
the  Bath  Waters,  which  were  therefore  termed  Aquas 
Solis  by  the  Romans,  and  the  People  of  the  City  and 
County  Somersettenses,  because  /  ante  m  quiescit,  as  ^a- 
mon  not  Salmon.  Somersettenses^  (i.  e.)  Inhabitants  of y 
or  belonging  to,  the  Sun-poole^  as  the  Anglo-Saxons  for 
the  same  reasons  esteemed  them  »>un:tttCrif0ttan,  inhabi- 
tants of  the'Sun-Poole,  though,  for  easines  in  pronun- 
ciation, they  spake  them  Summersett  'people.  But  neigh- 
ther  the  Romans  nor  Saxons  called  them  so  from  that 
Town  nearc  ^l^^l^S^tt^t^?  whose  *  ancient  and  right  Name 
is  ^UmurtOn,  from  ^IlfumurtOllS  («.  e.)  runing  Pcole- 

ton,  but  from  Aqua  Solis,  ^ol'-mcrton,  feunmerton, 

or  Sun-pDole  Towne  or  Citie  of  Bathe,  and  for  this  rea- 
son the  Countie  was  antciently  called  both  Promncia  So- 
mersettensis  8^  Bathoniensis,  &  Westmonasteriensis  saith  ♦ 
that,  Anno  Domini  586.  Reges  West  Saxonum  domina-    Somersett 
hantur  in  provinciis  "BtXtZtl^  (i.  e.)  Dorsetensi,  Suthe-    nated'froiB 
ritnsi,   Wiltoniensi,  Sarisberiensi  S^   Bathoniensi.     Thus    ^^"'' 
may  we  conjecture  by  the  harmonious  consent  of  these 
musicall  names,  Cangi  (Blatl4T--|)Xlf,  Agues  Solis,  ^unX' 
imV^Ztt,  »>UnpOOle-tOn,  how  merily  and  melodiously  the 


'  Whose  platter  face  *  discovered  and  cleared,  when  I  found 
plastred  over  in  the  chie  Walls  among  those  Monuments  cele. 
brated  by  Cam.  in  Belg.  this  being  more  observable  than  all  the 
rest.  *  [F.  I  discovered  and  cleared,  zchen  J  found  it 
plastred  &c.  //.]  *  .Ethelwerd  Lib.  2.  cap.  14.  sFrom  a 
runing  Lake  neare  it.     4  Mat.  West.  pa.  105. 

P  3  Cans:i 


448  A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  Antiquities 

Cangi  of  this  Countie  past  their  time,  till  the  Roman 
Armie  rushed  in  among  them,  like  a  sudden  and  vio- 
lent storme,  and  put  all  their  canging  and  twaningy  cant' 
ing  and  chanting^  quite  out  of  tune,  and  turned  all  their 
Mirth  and  Gladness  into  Sorrow  and  Sadness,  battering 
downe    and  consuming  their    most  antcient    Metropolis 

Bath,  then  called  ■  CaetT   BiiDon,   Caer  Braitti  the 

burning  Citie  *,  ^r  mnaint  CaiC  +,  the  first  place  being 
nearest  to  the  Iceni,  from  which  the  Romans  came,  and 
then  as  they  marched  Westward  '  vastati  agri  prcedce 
passim  auctce,  they  wasted  and  plundred  the  Country, 
71071  ausis  vicem  hostibus,  the  Cangi  not  dareing  to  shew 
themselves  in  the  Field  ;  but  this  must  be  taken  with  a 
Limitation  thus,  they  durst  not  raise  an  Armie  and  fight 
the  Romans  at  their  first  entrance  into  their  borders,  but 
that  they  did  (though  in  vaine)  afterward,  when  they 
came  neere  ♦  ^t\)iz  fjolc  upon  9^cnlippp,  will  clearly 
3.  appear  by  the  third  Footstepp,  which  this  Roman  Ar- 
mie left  behind  it,  (viz.)  a  longe  Plate  of  Lead,  plowed 
up  neere  <^t\)it  I^Ole  in  (he  Reighne  of  King  Henry  the 
Eighth,  having  this  Inscription  * : 

Ti  Claudius  Ccesar  Aug  P  M 
TRIE  P  VIII  Imp,  XVI  de  Britan 

This  was  a  ^trophic  of  a  Victory,  obtained  therea- 
bout  by  Claudius  Caesar  over  the  Britons  by  the  Armie 
aforesaid.  And  there  are  S  more  Footsteps,  as  I  appre- 
hend, of  the  Cangies  conquered  Armie,  viz. 

'  The  City  of  Bath,  Mat,  West,  a  Isaakson's  Chro.  +  the 
anoynt  or  oyntment,  *Mat  l|oyiv.  [*Lege,  Kcn'l^oxiiy. H.']  ^  +  Or 
Tac.  [+L.  Cor.  Tac.  H.]  -tflDg  Brittain  <!Lmt\>t\U.  ^  Cam. 
in  Belg.  6  a  Tg£(ptf,  because  it  was  erected,  where  the  enemy 
was  turned  to  flight. 

All 


1 


discovered  near  Conquest.  449 

^   of  1.  Quartering-^ 
All  mention'd  by  old  \        g   Fighting     ( there. 
British  Names         ^        §.  Buriall        ) 

Of  their  Quartering  in  §)i\)\Z  I^Ole,  and  consequent-  1. 
iy  in  other  like  Dens  and  Caves,  as  their  mountainous 
military  Mansions.  For  that  Cave,  viz.  <Bt\)\Z  ^OlC, 
was  most  antciently  called  CljCllCCne  I^Olt,  (i.  e.)  the 
valiant  Souldiers  hole-,  as  Britainc  it  self  was  called  'J^jnisS 
J  CljCtiern,  Insula  fortimn  \ 

Of  their  fighting    in  the  Word  Ct)Ctltl0J,  being  pro-     2. 
nounced  as  l&afeUtlC^,   rectius   CatlCr,  (i.  e.)  Battle  Fild, 
the  Name  of  a  Parish  neare  CljtDeCHe  ^Ole,  which,  I 
suppose,  is  borrowed  from  that  adjoyning  Part  of  9^011* 
Dppp,  where  the  Battle  was  fought. 

Of  the  Buriall  of  so  many  of  the  Britans,  as  were  there     3. 
and  then  slain  in  that  great  number  of  Burrowesy  or    "^ 
JBurie-Hills^    vulgo    IBuCiaUsf,  in    and  neare    the    said 

CtjetiDer  or  iBatlefielH* 

The  4*'*.  Footstepp  of  this  Conquering  Armie  of  « 
Claudius  is  CanninfftOIl  ^UnOcetl,  which  was  then  call- 
ed *  Cangi,  not  so  much  in  regard  of  the  Natives  thereof, 
as  in  respect  of  the  Multitude  of  the  Cangi  of  the  whole 
County  coming  thither  for  Shelter,  and  to  make  resist- 
ance, it  being  secured  on  all  Sides  by  Sea,  Rivers  and 
Mountaines,  and  by  a  large  steepe  Mount,  fortified  round 
the  Toppe  with  Dyke  and  Rampire,  in  Canington  Parke, 
and  this  was  the  old  British  CaniltfftOn,  (i.  e.)  the  Can- 
gies  Vally  Towne,  and  by  that  Name  distinguisht  from 


*  H.  Hunting.  Lib.  !».  hist.  Cap.  i".  Dr.  D.  Diet,  Lat.Bitt. 
^  Camb.  Britt.  Editio  2a.  in  Indice. 

F  4  such 


450  A  Discourse  about  some  Roma.n  Antiquities 

such  hillj  Towns  as  nDonjShun'C  Ca0tle,  &c.  which  were 
(onned,  tjned    or   fortified   witli    militarie   Works    also, 

but  that  was  SDon^boro  (i.  e.)  2Doun0lbojo,  this  dauing:* 

ton*  And  that  the  Roman  Armie  made  their  fourth 
Stepp  hither,  will  appear  by  the  very  words  of  Tacitus. 
Jam  '  ventum  haud  procul  a  mare^  judiciously  translated 
n»ni.  by  Anonimus,  ^  how  the  Romane  Armie  came  near  the 
Sea  Coasts^  which  must  be  as  far  West  as  »)t0pp  I^OllttCiS 
and  the  River  ^actet*  For  there,  and  not  before  it  comes 
thither,  the  Sexerne  is  called  the  Sea^  and  so  far  East- 
ward doth  the  Hundred  of  Canington  extend  also;  and 
"whereas  he  saith  the  Army  came  near  the  Sea  Coast,  not 
to  the  Sea  Coast  it  selfe^  which  is  (IfllilUtOn  1^Unl)?etl : 
5,  The  5th.  Stepp  of  the  Roman  Armie  was  '  ad  locum, 

qui  aspicit  Hyherniam^  and  that  must  be  the  Toppe  of 
^©UantOCfee,  rectius  seems  ♦  ^angl^tOC^,  (i.  e.)  the  Ca-oes 
of  the  Cangi,  in  which,  it  seems,  some  of  the  Cangi 
dwelt,  as  other  in  <3Dcl)ie:  I^OlC,  ^c  or  rather  they  came 
to  the  Toppe  of  the  Toppe  or  highest  Knoll  of  CatttOCl^, 

(viz.)  Cotfjeriston  ^iW,  rectius  Cotljel0ton4jill,  (i.  e.) 

Knowing  or  Kening  Towne  hill,  from  a  becken,  or  bea- 
con, standing  on  the  Toppe  of  it.  For  the  Britans  were 
the  Erectors  of  Beacons  ever  since  the  Britons  time, 
where  an  Hole  through  a  Poste  was  their  Prospective 
Glass,  by  which  *  occulatissimus  might  aspicere,  though 
not  perspicere,  Il7/berniam,  over  the  interjacent  Hills,  at 
least  so  farre  towards  it  as  the  eye  of  Man  can  kenne. 


'  Tac.  Lib.  12°.  Ann.     ^F.  now.  H.     ^  Tacit,  ibid.     4  For 
^  there  is  no  Q  in  the  British  Alphabet,     s  Saxon's  Map.  eCot|> 
aud  tutci)   signify   knowing,  and  fecnincaguntOUfll)  signifyes  un. 
knowing  &  obscure,     ^  Sic.  H. 

The 


discovered  near  Conquest.  451 

The  6^.  Stepp  of  this  conquering  Armie  I  take  to  be    6. 
Conquett,  two  Miles  Southwest  from  COtljelftOlt'^  W* 
where  I  shall  endeavour  to  demonstrate, 

1 .  That  the  said  Armie  came  to  this  Conquett. 
g.  That  here  was  a  Conquest. 

3.  That  it  was  a  Roman  Conquest. 

4.  It  was  a  Roman  Conquest  over  the  Brifans. 

5.  That  the  Roman  Conquest  was  made  by  Clau- 

dius Caesar. 

6.  That  it  was  a  very  great  Conquest  or  Victorie. 

1.  First,  that  the  Romane  Armie  might  easily  come 
to  ConqUCft  being  but  two  Miles,  yea  they  must  come 
thither,  or  return  back  againe  '  re  infecta.  For  there 
was  no  Food    or  Accomodation   for  Man  nor  Horse  on 

the  top  of  dantocfe. 

2.  Here  was  a  Conquest  or  Victorie ;  how  [elce  could 
the  place  obtaine  such  a  Name,  if  here  had  been  no  such 
thing?  Is  there,  or  ever  was,  any  man  so  raadd,  or 
foolish,  to  call  his  Hill  or  Field  by  the  name  of  donqueOf, 
where  there  was  never  any  Battle  known  or  heard  off  ? 

3.  That  this  was  a  Roman  Conquest  may  be  con- 
jectured, first  from  the  Romane  Name  *  thereof  Co7i- 
questus,  and  ^  Conquestaniy  and  the  reward  of  a  Roman 
Conquerour,  implicitely  contained  in  the  Cognomen  of 
the  ♦  adjoying  parrish  %m,lZXitZ  H^tliacD,  perhaps  ant- 
ciently  %mXW^  H^lliartl »,  holding  forth  the  Laurell  or 
Laurell  crowne,  the  reward  of  a  Roman  Conquerour. 


'  Refecta  MS.  //.  »Dic.  Fra.  Goldm.  ^F.  Conquestum.  II. 
*  Sic.  //.  5 1  have  ^been  informed^  that  that  was  the  ancient 
name. 

4.  This 


46%  A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  Antiquities 

4.  This  was  a  Roman  Conquest  over  Cangi,  and  it 
could  be  no  other.  For  the  Saxons  compleated  their 
conquest  at  '  2Dcl)acani  in  Glocester-shire,  the  Deanes 
theirs  at  ©at^e,  and  the  Normans  theirs  at  :2Battle  ^btlj 
in  Sussex.  The  Cangi  did  *  agmen  carpere,  (i.  e.)  se- 
lect and  collect  a  great  multitude  of  the  ablest  of  their 
militia  against  the  Romanes  (according  to  my  conje- 
cture) into  the  toppe  of  I^OttOtt  ^lU,  within  a  Mile  of 
ConqUCtt,  fortified  it  with  a  very  strong  Dike  and  Ram- 
pire,  made  a  Sallieport,  and  a  broad  deep  Avenue  on 
the  North  side  of  the  Hill,  extending  directly  towards 
ConqUCff,  by  which  they  might  inviseblely  and  sudden- 
ly issue  out,  and  fall  on  the  Romans  there  at  their  plea- 
sure. But  it  seems,  all  this  availed  them  nothing.  For 
a  tradition  of  the  Nortonians  intimates,  that  they  were 
miserably  routed,  {mz.)  that  a  very  great  Heap  of  dead 
Mens  Bodies  lay  uuburied  at  the  Foot  of  the  said  Hill,  of 
whose  Corruption  a  Serpent  was  generated ',  which  de- 
voured living  Men,  and  it  seems  that  their  Ancestors  be- 
lieved this  as  their  Creed,  in  the  Place  whereof,  in  the 
Roode  Lofte  in  their  Church,  the  Effigies  of  this  Ser- 
pent is  curiously  carved,  and  painted,  as  having  *  the 
nether  Parts  of  a  Man  to  the  Navell,  the  Man  lifting  up 
his  Hands  and  Eyes  io  Heaven,  and  with  open  Mouth 
crying  out  for  Help.     But 


■credat '  Judceus  apella. 


Non  ego ' 

Hold !  hold !  and  let  the  circumsised  Jew, 
He  not  believe  it,  'tis  to  strange  to  be  true. 

'  Will,  of  Malm.  R.  Hoved.  Matt.  Paris.  *  Cor.  Tacit,  lib. 
12  Ann.  i  In  ^orme  iLane,  (i.  e.)  antciently  Serpent  iLatiPi 
4  Swallowed,    s  Juvenal  Sat. 

But 


discovered  near  Cosqu EST,  4;53 

But  yet  tbis  story  may  intimate  thus  much  in  geaeraH, 
that  there  was  a  great  Battel  and  Slaughter,  that  some 
monstrous  creature  (though  not  so  great)  was  generated 
of  the  Corruption  of  the  slaine,  (Historie  '  and  Expe- 
rience giveing  instances  of  the  like:)  and  although  in 
this  Climate  not  so  great  as  reported,  yet  great  enough 
to  araplifie  this  great  Conquest  over  the  Cangi. 

5*-  That  this  Conquest  over  the  Cangi  was  made  bjr 
Claudius  Cfesar,  or  his  Propraetor,  Anno  Domini  50. 
For,  beside  that  Trophic  found  neare  ^tW  ^Ol^'  *  ^^' 
(^ambden  speakes  of  another,  much  like  the  former, 
which,  we  suppose,  was  erected  in,  or  near,  CaninfftOIl 
i^UnDCCll,  which  extends  within  2  or  3  Miles  of  Con* 
qUCft,  saying,  Quid  si  de  CangtSg  minori  inter  Belgas 
^  nostras  popello^  constitutum  hoc  fuisse  Trophceum  dixe* 
ro  ?  But  let  Claudius  Caesar  speke  for  himselfe  in  this 
Trophie : 

TI    CLAVDIVS   CAESAR  AVGVSTPM 
TRIB  VIII  IMP  XVI  PP  CS 

In  aversa  vero  de  Britannia : 

*  where  he  spekes  of  certayne  antcient  Coynes  of  Clau- 
dius Caesar,  discribing  that  Conquest  and  Trophie,  and 
if  neither  those  Trophies  aforesaid,  nor  Coynes  had  ap- 


'  In  ailar  Church  the  Picture  of  a  Dragon,  said  to  be  gene, 
rated  in  a  Close  there,  called  Dr^agon  Close.  In  J^sxhlZt  Castle 
Gate  the  Picture  of  a  monstrous  overgroan  Toad,  said  to  be  ge. 
Derated  of  the  Corruption  of  dead  Men  in  a  Dungeon  there. 
*Cam.  in  Eelg.  Edit.  2da.  inlnd.  he  there  Englisheth  Cangi,  C^a* 
nington  i^unUreti,  in  the  sence  aforesaid.  ^  F.  nostros.  H, 
4  Camb.  in  Belg. 

peared, 


454  A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  Antiquities 

pearedj  we  have  enough  of  his  Coynes  found  in  the  two 
Pitchers  neere  COIUJUfrt,  to  prove  him  the  Conquerour, 
and  describe  divers  things  considerable  both  in  himself 
and  his  Souldiers.  The  most  antcient  and  greater  part  of 
these  Coynes  were  of  Claudius  Cffisar,  having  on  the  one 
side  his  Image  and  this  Circumscription,  (viz.)  Imp 
Claudius  Aug:  and  some  Imp  Claudius  V  ¥  Augustus  ^ 
the  godly  and  happy  Emperor  Claudius  Augustus,  and  on 
the  other  side  certaine  Hieroglyphicall  Images,  repre- 
senting some  Heroicall  qualifications  of  him,  as  he  was 
a  conquering  Emperour,  explayned  by  these  and  the 
like  circumscribed  sentences :  Fcelicitas  Augusti :  or, 
Prccidentia  Augusti.  some  having  (he  Image  of  Victo- 
rie,  offering  a  liawrell  Crowne  to  Claudius  Caesar,  and 
saying  Victori  Augusta  ;  and  some  offering  up  a  Lawrell 
Crowne  Jovi  Victoria  as  if  Jupiter  '  the  Conqueror  had 
been  a  Juvans  Pater  to  Claudius  in  his  Conquest,  there-: 
fore  a  Lawrell  Crowne  presented  to  him  in  this  Place, 
thence  called  Can,  and  some  other  of  the  Coynes  as 
they  had  such  Image  and  circumscriptions  aforesaid  on 
the  one  Side,  so  on  the  other  certaine  Images  representa- 
tive of  some  military  vertue,  requisite  in  conquering 
Souldiers,  interpreted  by  these  and  the  like  Sentences 
circumscribed,  jides  Militum  ;  Spes  Militum  ;  Concor- 
dia Mililum  ;  fortitude  Militum,  Sec. 

1 .  6.  That  this  was  a  very  great  Victorie  may  appear  by 
the  common  fame  thereof,  reporting^,  that  a  very  great 
Battle  was  fought,  and  Victorie  obtained  there,  although 
I  could  never  hear  of  any  Instances  of  the  particulars  from 
the  inhabitants   by  whome,   when,  how  Sfc.       But  the 

2.  Herculissimum  argumenlum  of  the  greatness  of  this  Vi- 


*  He  is  sdled  Jupiter  Opitulus  also.     Mundie  ex  Fest. 

ctorie 


discovered  near  Conquest.  455 

ctorie  wasj  t'-e  splendor  and  magnificence  of  the  triumph 
at  Rome,  for  joy  thereof.  For  Claudius  '  returing 
home  '  triumphavit  maximo  apparatu ;  and  Claudius, 
victoria  potitus,  Britannis  arma  ademit,  Claudius  hav- 
ing conquered,  disarmed  the  Britans,  and  first  he  him- 
self, and  then  his  son  was  honoured  with  the  title  Brit- 
tannicuSi  a  triumph,  yearly  playes,  torches,  bearing  Tro- 
phies, Lawrell  and  navall  Crownes,  and  other  triumphall 
ornaments,  ascending  the  Capitoll  Staires  on  his  Knees, 
his  Son  in  Law  Porapeius  and  Syllanus  supporting  him 
on  either  Side. 

7.  The  7*.  Stepp  of  this  Armie  I  take  to  be,  the 
whole  Valley,  extending  from  ^auntOIt  to  H^tDiam, 
fe)tO0:umber,  ?L(liatC^ett,  S^c.  in  which  is  very  probable 
the  Romane  Armie,  having  conquered  the  Cangi  as  afore- 
said, some  Partie  of  them  quartered  to  guard  and  defend, 
what  they  had  wonne,  against  the  Rebellion  of  the  Na- 
tives, and  Invasion  of  Forriners,  especially  against  the 
Silures  of  Southwales,  which  were  yet  unconquered. 
For  although  Tacitus  saith,  ortce  apud  Brigantes  •  discor- 
dicB  retraxere  ducem,  certaine  tumoults,  sprang  up  among 
the  Brigantes  of  Yorkshire,  drew  back  the  Generall,  yet 
he  saith  not,  and  his  whole  Armie,  he  was  so  sensible 
(no  doubt)  of  the  late  Rebellion  of  the  Ice7ii,  and  now 
again  of  the  Brigantes,  that  he  would  leave  a  sufficient 
guard  behind  him,  and,  therefore,  this  Vale  is  by  Synecdo- 
che (the  greater  part  of  the  whole)  called  "^L^UiatD  *, 
rertms  H'lLtO^tifarD,  (i.e.)  the  green  Vale,  where  the 
gaurding  Armie  was.     And  the  Vale  (especially  neare 


*  Sic.  //.  *  Suet.  Tranq.  in  vita  Claud.  Mellific.  hist.  par. 
1.  pa.  149.  '  Yorkshire,  Lancashire,  B.  of  Durham,  Westmorm 
land,  Cumberland,    4  Ch.  Saxton's  Mapp, 

the 


456  A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  Antiquities 

the  Sea  Side  of  it,  wbere  was  greatest  danger  of  Inva- 
sions) was  very  full  of  particular  <0uartl0  %  ^acUgf,  ^eatliS, 
©UCCOtJJJJ,  'QTucre^,  'CaftleiS,  some  partly,  and  some 
wholy,  British-railitarie-Names,  plainly  declaring,  and 
some  of  them  were  made  use  of  as  fortifications  to  de- 
fend the  maritime  Coasts,  while  the  Britans  lived  in  this 
Land,  although  under  the  dominion  of  the  Romans ;  as 

1.  gacDg?,  now  called  ^carUff,  (i.e.)  convenient  Places  for 
Cards  to  watch  and  ward  on  high  steep  Hills  ;  great  tra-' 
veiling  xmyes,  as  ^rclj^eattl  or  0rcl)^arll  (not  ^CClb^rtr, 
for  then  the  British  Name  would  have  been  '^TinO  jacti) 
'?iral\J3en  or  maejS  p  Drefi)  being  a  Graeco-Britanick,  signi- 
fying maine  Gard  or  cheif  Gard,  in  respect  of  such  a 
Gard  kept,  perhaps,  on  the  Topp  of  the  round  high  Hill, 
on  the  East  side  of  ^©cdjartl  ^^OUCc,  or  that  great  tra- 
velling way  neare  the  House,  too  and  from  the  Sea 
Coasts,  as  ^  garti  in  ^.tttltdinlK,  and  ^avU  in  fetOffUm* 
ier.  To  these  may  be  added  Ijalfe  ^eartl,  (i.e.)  Sum- 
mer Gard,  being  an  high  Hill  neare  CoiTlIje,  »>J?lHl£nl)am 

Cum  multis  aliis,  guee  nunc  perscribere  longum  est. 

2.  t^£ali0,  antcientiy  1^afD0,  pcitnotiss  fttaupt  abont  onat, 

(i.  e.)  video,  because  they  could  see  and  kenne  afarr  off 
from  Heads  of  such  Hills,  as  that  at  iSl^pnljCatl,   <£ntt 

<SDuantotUjeati,  aauK  j^Duantocldjeati,  ifitj^eaH,  €va\xU 
lieaH,  &c. 

S.  'ZirorrjS,  (i.  e.)  such  very  steepe  Hills,  as  need  no  For- 
tification at  all,  and  these  are  now  called  %\jyv0)  Angli' 


'  Dr.  Davis  his  Die.  Cam.  Britt.  In  voce  &mi).      *  Neare 
jFaiW  Crofs  way,  at  a  Cross  way  and  passage  over  a  River. 

ce 


discover 'd  near  Conquest.  457 

ce  Coto0C!2f,  as  ^ovt  in  |5etelcomtie,  ^tor  ^i\l  in  ^(U 
liton,  MicftVor  t;«^g:o  (LQlettotoer,  2Dunaorr,  (iej  2Doton?? 

•^Orr  or  'iltOC,  so  called  before  made  a  Castle. 

SucrOlD0,  elaborate  Fortifications,  as  ^rattOlt,  (i.)      ^' 

^ucrotDton,    2Dun0burcoto,    CEltoort^ie   BurroVoeiSf, 
and  upper  ^tanliurroto,  (iJ  »>tone  Buccoto. 
CaftlejJ,  fi-)  diminitive  Cattrum,  as  SDunftorc  Cattell,     1. 

so  called  when  the  2Dun0  '^Orc  was  fortified  with  Dyke 
and  Rampire. 

^Uiflt),  alias  -^m  €d^M\,  fi.)  ^OUCc  Cattle,  Tew  2. 
tonice.  I  have  been  credibly  informed,  that  there  have 
been  square  Stones  digged  up  there  as  of  a  house,  and 
know  it  to  be  *  much  more  eminent  and  visible  Place 
for  a  Sea  Light,  than  the  Turret  of  SDunftCV  CaftcU, 
where  such  a  one  was  maintained.  But  whither  there 
was  sucli  a  Brittain  ll^Vd^^  as  Caligula  built,  taceo,  vix 
credo, 

3Da\3je0  crectius^a^)€diitt[latmm^m,  (i.)  ^caps    s, 

fD  CaCttlU  It  seems  the  Hill  was  not,  or  not  thought  to 
be,  high  enough,  and  therefore  they  made  a  Superaddi- 
tion  to  it. 

SDouiStJce  CaCtl0,  (i.)  3DotonjStiucie,  neare  CaCt  )©uans    4. 
tort  can. 
CaCtle  IjiU,  (i.)  a  rounn  Ijijit  fortified  l^noU,  on  the    5. 

West  *  West"  of  liet^CCCtOVoep,  and  3  or  4  more  neare 
it  Westward. 

Two  Castles  in  Cljat^ampton,  rectius  Cacr4jam=ton.    6. 

The  fortified  SDtoeUinfftOn,    so  called   frum   the  said      7. 
Castles,  which  though  fortified  only  with  Dyke  and  Ram- 
pire, as  the  other  Castles,  yet  so  strongly,  that  the  word 


F.  a  much,  H.  *  F.  delend.  H. 

Caer, 


458  A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  Antiquities 

Cfl0t,  from  heb.  Gadher,  (i.)  murus,  doth  compare  it 
to  a  walled  Citie.  So  that  if  the  Roman  Souldiers  had 
all  these,  and  many  more,  ^earD0,  (Bacll^,  %f atlgf,  %^XX^, 
ISurCOtXigf  and  CaCtle0,  to  defend  themselves  and  the 
Countrie,  and  the  C  mmand  of  the  Britons  as  their 
Slaves,  *  to  make  what  more,  or  other,  militarie  workes 
they  please  J,  and  doe  what  elce  they  required,  could 
they  wish,  or  desire,  any  thing  more  for  their  accommo- 
dation ?  yes  Money,  the  Nerves  of  War ;  and  Money 
enough  and  enough  they  had  too  out  of  their  two  Sih 
toar^,  *  (i.)  purses,  Mints  or  Treasuries  amidst  the 
Guards  and  Fortifications  aforesaid,  the  one,  which  it 
seems  was  the  greater,   now  written  ^llctT,   near  ^Xt^- 

^earli,  the  other  BictiaUer,  rectius  2Bpc^anaU\33ar,  (i.e.) 

Smaller  ^int  or  'Ercafun'e,  and  it  seems  that  these 
Mints  and  Treasuries  did  so  much  superabound,  that  they 
were  faine  to  burie  one  of  the  said  Pitchers  of  Money 
within  a  Furlong  of  ^lltoer,  'viz.  at  Capton,  and  the 
other  at  ^ItDjtH'artJ  the  next  Parish ;  besides,  perhaps, 
some  hundreds,  yea  thousands,  of  such  vessels  full  else 
where,  which  never  did,  or  shall,  come  to  light;  and  al- 
though some  of  the  Money  might  be  coyned  farr  from 
hence,  yet  some  other  Peices  must  needs  be  coyned 
thereabout,  as  may  be  inferred  from  a  thinne  superfigies, 
or  rather  some  light  Tincture  on  them,  shining  as  if  they 
had  been  silvered  over,  but  if  put  into  a  Purse  amongst 
other  Money,  and  carried  about  a  few  houres,  the  said 
Superfigies  vanished.     For  which  reason  I  conceive  it 


'  For  they  complaind,  that  the  Romans  had  worne  out  their 
hands  and  bodies,  with  labor,  and  1000  of  stripes  in  making 
such  workes  for  them.  Tac.  in  vita  Agrico.  *  Dr.  Da:  Die. 
Br.  La. 

could 


discovered  iiear  Conquest.  459 

could  not  be  brought  from  farr,  and  according  to  proba- 
bility from  one  of  the  said  jSlltor^  of  these  Cojnes. 

The  most  antient  of  these  Cojnes  were  sorts  of  Clau- 
dius Cagsar's,  and  as  they  demonstrate  him  to  be  the  Con- 
querour  of  the  Cangi  at  ConqueCt,  so  the  rest,  Doral- 
tius  Nero,  Domitianus,  Trajanus,  Antoninus,  Victorinus, 
Septimius  Severus,  Tacitus,  Galienus,  Aurelius,  Aurelia- 
nus,  Tetricus,  Qnintillus,  Posthuraus  &;c.  yea  almost  all 
the  Successors  of  Claudius  about  600.  Years,  'till  the  Ro- 
manes left  this  Hand,  declare,  that  in  these  Maritime 
Parts,  lying  low,  open  and  easie  for  Invasion,  the  Ro- 
mans kept  guard,  to  prevent  Rebellions  and  Invasions, 
and  paid  them  with  such  Coynes  as  this,  which  was  hid 
by  them  in  such  V'essels  when  they  were  all  to  rcturne 
home  to  defend  their  own  native  Country,  but  never  re- 
turned to  take  them  up.  It  is  true,  that  in  ancient  Ages 
of  the  World,  before  the  Invention  of  Money,  Men  were 
all  for  bartering  of  Commodities,  as  '  Diodeme  ^  armour 
was  valued  at  10  Cowes,  and  Glaucus  his  Golden  Ar- 
mour at  100.  but  I  read  of  no  Money,  'till  Abraham 
^  paid  400.  Shekles  for  a  burying  Place.  The  old  Britons 
♦used  Iron  Rings  and  Plates  for  Money.  The  Graacians 
made  a  Law  for  the  useing  of  Money,  calling  it  ^  voi^iafxa,, 
awo  Toy  vo//.»,  the  Latines^  pecuniam,  a  pecu,  (the  Image 
^  Cow  'being  stamped  on  it,)  &  monetam,  from  * /xe'vw 
to  '  retnaine,  meinument  &  monument  amongst  such  as 
used  it.     The  Hebrews  called  it  Sl^aljalj,  the  French  gt^o* 


'  Sic,  pro  Diomedes's.  H.  *  Homer.  ^  Gen.  23.  4  Caes, 
Com.  from  a  law,  by  which  they  ordained  it.  s  No^o^a  MS.  H. 
*F.  of  a  Cozo.  H.  7  From  hence  Bos  in  lingua.  Juridici  *  mie- 
rituarii.Erasm.Adag.  [*  F.  monetarii.  IL]  *  U'^^^w  MS.  H.  9  F. 
remaine  a  meinument  &c.  H. 

Vol.  II.  9  nop, 


460  A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  Jntiquittes 

nO^,  the  Spaniard  9l5onctia,tbeGermans9^Unij,  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  '  Mynet,  unde  milU,  and  so  regina  pecunia  Mundi. 
But  we  must  rcturne  to  the  Roman  Money,  and  speke  a 
little  of  the  Valuation  thereof,  and  so  leave  it.  The  an- 
cient Roman  Coyne  ^  was  called  As,  (not  quasi,  but) 
quia  aes.  At  first  an  Js  consisted  of  a  full  Pound  Weight. 
Afterward,  in  the  Punick  Warr,  by  reason  of  the  scar- 
city of  Money,  they  made  of  every  Pound  of  Brass  6  of 
the  larger  Coynes,  each  valuing  as  that  one  at  first.  In 
the  second  Punick  Warr  12  made  of  every  Pound,  and 
afterwards  24  of  a  Pound,  of  which  six  are  our  largest  ^Mc- 
dalls,  and  made  for  honour  and  to  continue  the  memorie 
of  Princes,  yet  they  were  currant  as  the  smaller,  though 
all  the  same  value,  (viz.)  an  halfe  penny  farthing  a  peece, 
ye  ten  of  them  were  the  price  of  a  sheepe,  and  ♦  an 
100  the  price  of  an  ox.  The  next  probable  argument, 
to  prove,  that  the '  maritime  Parts  were  gaurded  by  the 
Romans,  as  aforesaid,  is,  that  they  were  as  carefuU  to 
keep  and  preserve  what  they  had  conquered,  as  indu- 
strious to  conquer,  according  to  their  maxirae  : 

Non  minor  est  sirtus,  qiidm  quoirere,  porta  tueri. 
Catch  is  a  good  dog,  but  hold  fast  is  a  better. 

And,  therefore,  when  they  had  conquered  all  Britainc, 
Antoninus,  who  "  began  to  rule  as  Emperor  '  about  40 
years  after  Claudius,  divided,  or  caused  to  be  divided, 
all  Britaine  into  16.  Iters  or  Itineraries,  each  consisting 
of  (12  and  between  that  and  20)  Mansions  or  Stations, 

'  SDunoU,  MS.  //.  *  Godwin  Antiqui.  Varr.  lib.  4.  Ling. 
Lat.  Plin.  Lib.  35.  cap.  14.  ?  Can.  Rem.  God.  Anti.  pa.  230. 
4  And  MS.  H.  s  Maritine  MS.  &  sic  infra.  //.  ^  Isaakson^s 
Chrouolog.  Antonm.  Itin.     i  AOoMS.  H. 


discover'd  near  Conqv EST.  461 

(i.e.)  encamping  Places,  fortified  with  Dyke  and  Ram* 
pire,  on  the  toppe  of  high  and  steepe  Hills,  the  Re- 
inaynes  whereof  are  extant  in  many  Places  to  this  day. 
And  the  three  Legions,  (i.  e.)  about  1800  Romans  Soul- 
diers,  were  distributed  amongst  these  Itineraries  and  Man- 
sions, according  to  their  discretion,  to  prevent  Insur- 
rections and  Invasions,  6  of '  these  Mansions  (with  their 
subservient  militarie  Fortifications)  were  designed  to 
guard  the  South  Sea  Coasts  of  this  West  Part  of  Bri- 
taine,  (viz.)  Isca  *  Danmoriorum^  now  Exeter,  ^  Mori- 
dum  now  Seaton,  Durnovaria  now  Dorchester,  Vindo' 
gladia  now  IVinburne,  Regnum  now  Ringwood,  and 
Clansentum  now  Southampton.  So  likewise  there  were 
7  more  of  those  Mansions  to  secure  the  South  part  of 
Wales  against  the  Severne,  as  Ahone  now  Avington,  Feji^ 
ta  Silurum  now  Caerzcent,  *  Esca  Legionum  now  Car- 
icon,  Bovium  now  Boverton,  Nedus  now  Neath,  Leu- 
carum  now  Loghor,  and  ^  Maridumum  now  Caermar' 
then,  and  can  any  man  be  so  void  of  reason,  as  to  think, 
that  botli  those  Sea  Coasts  ought  so  much  to  be  guarded 
and  regaurded,  and  that  this  Sea  Coast  being  either  land, 
and  of  greater  consequence  to  the  Hand,  should  be  alto- 
gether slighted  ?  No.  For  although  Antoninus  his  Iti- 
neraries ^  mentions  no  mansions  of  his,  or  North  Sea 
Coast,  yet '  there  were  many  such  fortified  Places  herea- 
bout, may  be  conjectured  by  the  great  multitude  of  An*, 
toninus  Coynes  *  in  the  Pictures,  intimating  the  mulli- 

»  Bur.  Cora,  on  Ant.  Itin.  *  F.  Daiimoniorum.  H.  J  F.  Mo. 
ridunum.  II.  4  F.  Isca.  H,  5  F.  Maridujium.  It  is  confounded 
in  Antoninus  with  the  other  Maridunum,  Moridunum  or  ATw- 
riiluniun,  (which  is  Seaton)  as  is  noted  both  by  Mr.  Camden  and 
Dr.  Gale.  H.  ^  p,  mention,  nisi  raalis,  Itinerat^y.  H.  7  F.  that 
there.  11.  ^  3  times  as  many  of  *  Antonius  Coyns,  as  any  other 
of  the  Emperors,  Claudius  only  excepted.  [^F.Antoninufs  H.] 
«  2  tude 


462  A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  Antiquities 

tude  of  Souldiers  belonging  to  them,  ^vliicli  were  to  ic- 
ceive  thera  as  their  pay  in  these  parts. 

1.  To  these  '  these  may  be  added  these  3  more  Arguments 

briefly.     First,  that,  during  the  whole  time  long  of  the 

'""^  Romans  dominion  here,  there  was  never  any  Invasion  of 

JO  years.  .  .  '' 

these  maritime  Paris,  because,   it  seems,   it  was  known 

2.  how  well  they  were  fortyfied  at  that  time.  But  shortly 
after  the  Romanes  had  relinquished  Britaine,  (viz.)  iti 
the  time  of  the  Anglo-Saxons,  these  maritime  Parts  were 
invaded  8  times.  But  the  Natives,  in  all  the  invasions, 
stoutly  defended  themselves,  and  destroyed  them  which 
invaded  them,  and  this  they  did  by  the  help  of  the 
King's  Armie,  or  Parties  of  the  same,  which  was  divided* 
in  Australi*  'parte  of  the  Seaverne,  opportitna  per  loca, 
and  the  opportuna  per  loca,  I  conceive,  were  those,  and 
the  like  Gards,  Heads,  Torrs,  Burrowes  and  Castles  afore- 
said. And  this  will  more  clearly  appear  by  the  circum- 
stances of  the  said  8  invasions  and  Repulses,  as  they  arc 
described  by  authentick  Historians,  some  of  them  living 
and  writing  in,  and  some  shortly  after,  the  time  these 
things  were  done.  Seaven  of  the  8  Invasions  on  these 
maritime  Parts  were  made  some  in  the  Reigne  of  King 
^Alfred,  and  the  rest  betwene  that  time  and  the  Nor- 
man Conquest,  whicli  was  Jrmo  Domhii  1066.  And, 
therefore,  it  will  be  requisite  to  declare  the  condition  of 
King  Alfred  and  this  Kingdome,  as  it  was  in  the  begin- 
ning of  his  Reigne,  for  the  better  understanding  of  these 
Invasions  and  Repulses  afterward. 

Tile  Danes  having  subdued  the  greater  part  of  this 
Kingdome,  before  the  begining  of  King  Alfred's  reighn. 


'  F.  tha^e.  nisi  delere  malis.  H.     *  Flo:  Wig.  pa.  600.     J  IIq 
U'g^n  \i\s.  reighne  anno  Din  872. 

the 


discovered  near  Cos<iVEST.  463 

the  first  nine  years  thereof  he  strove,  with  that  little 
power  left  him,  to  recover  from  them  all  that  was  left, 
but  all  in  vaine.  For  they  gained  still  more  and  more 
from  him,  till  they  had  ■  left  him  no  more  but  the  three 
Counties,  Sommersett,  Wiltshire  and  Hampshire,  and 
those  too  Jide  ^xigentes;  and  now  they  brought  an  in- 
numerable multitude  of  their  heathonish  nation,  under  3 
more  of  their  Kings,  to  subdue  and  possess  this  small 
remnant,  and  quartered  and  rendevouzed  at,  and  about, 
<ICl)ipUant  neare  iSatljC,  and  when  none  could  resist  them, 
they  took  all  for  their  owne,  whilest  some  of  the  Natives 
fled  out  of  the  Kingdome,  some  into  deserts  and  moun- 
tains, rocks  and  denns,  Kc.  yea  the  King  himself  was 
necessitated  to  fly  for  refuge,  with  a  few  of  his  nobles, 
into  the  Isle  of  ^  Sit^zlm^y  near  BurrO\5)  hUlDgC  Som- 
mersett, where  lie  lived  secretly  by  fishing  and  fowling, 
whilest  he  quartered  with  a  swineheard  in  that  inaccessi- 
ble moorish  place,  waiting  for  better  times,  where,  for 
his  recreation,  having  obtained  dexteritie  in  the  art  of 
jugling,  he  under  the  disguise  of  a  jugler,  adventured 
to  the  Camp  of  the  Deanes,  and  insinuated  first  with  the 
Souldiers,  and  then  into  their  King's  presence,  where 
having  observed  their  security,  and  learned  such  of  their 
counsel,  he  secretly  retourned  to  his  homely  quarters, 
wherein  having  suddenly  and  covertly  raised  a  consider- 
able power  in  the  County  of  Sommersett,  he  marched 
then  to  ♦  »)tltoOOll  in  the  East  of  that  County,  and  from 
thence,  as  out  of  an  Ambush,  suddenly  fell  on  the  Deanes, 


*  G.  Mai.  in  lib.  2.  cap.  4.  Mat.  West,  inpag.  170.  Flor.  Wig^ 
gorn.  pag.  191.  H.  Huntingd.  lib.  5  Histori.  Rogerus  Howed. 
Ann.  parte  prima.  *  F.  vagantes.  H,  The  noble  lie,  so  called 
Hpon  this  occasion,     4  Great  wood. 

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464  A  Discourse  alout  some  Roman  Antiquities 

and  routed  them  at  COinUon  in  the  West  of  Willshire, 
and  pursued  them  usqne  adfirmitatexn  suam,  (i.  e.)  some 
fortijied  place  of  theirs,  ■where  when  he  had  besieged 
them  14  dajes,  they  were  constrayned,  *  throng  hunger 
and  cold,  to  yeild  themselves  up  to  his  mercy,  give 
pledges,  sweare  they  would  depart  the  Kingdome,  and 
promised  '  that"  their  chiefest  King  Gudn,  alias  GiC' 
i/irum^i  should  be  baptized  a  Christian,  who  shortly  after, 
with  SO  of  his  noble  men,  came  to  King  Alfred,  at  ^s' 
lere  (i.  e.)  ^1102,  near  Athelney,  and  were  all  baptized 
accordingly.  King  Alfred  himself  being  ^  Gurmund's 
Godfather,  and  named  him  ^E't heist ane,  (i.  c.)  Royal  or 
precious  Stone,  and  Alfred  having  feasted  him  there  12 
dayes,  dismissed  him  with  many  rich  presents.  King  Al- 
fred having  thus,  by  his  Wisdome,  Valour  and  Mercy, 
recovered  the  greater  part  of  the  Kingdome,  yet  some  of 
the  Deanes,  which  were  still  left  in  the  Kingdome,  con- 
spiring, with  others,  which  still  swarmeing  (as  out  of  an 
hive)  out  of  Denmarke,  made  Invasions  upon  Invasions, 
sometimes  in  one  place,  sometimes  in  another,  and  parli- 
culerly  in  8  places  of  the  maritime  Coasts  aforesaid.  ; 
1.  The  first  invasion  of  the  Deanes  in  these  Coasts  was 

^Itttentiune,  *now  ^itfljam  on  Seaveme,  a  little  East- 
ward of  ©rentfenoU,  of  which  King  Alfred  having  speedy 
intelligence,  drew  thither  a  seeming  invincible  Army, 
and  '  beseighed  by  land,  and  also  by  Sea  with  his  fleet,  so 
long,  till  the  Deanes  had  eaten  up  all  their  provision, 
and  after  that  their  horses,  and  then  they  endeavoured  to 

*  Sic.  MS.  pro  through.     '  Bis  occurrit  in  MS.  H.  *  Quern 

nostri Gurmundum  vocant,Gv\\.  Malm.  lib.  2.  cap.  4.  ^(ffurwunli 

signi.  ailstnoutl),    (i.)  aCatealian  or  G;«<^/ow,  whence  a  Glutton 

is  called  a  ^urmuntiijer*     4  Matt.  Westmon.  p.  179.  II.  Hun.  lib. 

6°.  Hist,     i  F.  besieged  it  by.  II. 

escape 


discover 'd near  Conquest.  465 

escape  away  through  that  part  of  the  King's  Army,  whicli 
lay  on  the  East  part  of  (he  River,   wliere,  in  the  sharp 
conflict,  Ordenms  and  many  others  of  the  King's  Array 
■were  slaine  at  the  first  encounter,  but  the  Christians  pre- 
vailing at  length  put  the  Pagans  to  flight,  a  great  num- 
ber of  them  being  drowned  and  shiin  witli  the  sword,  and 
a  great  number  of  those  which  escaped  fled  to  '  %t^ZXZ^ 
ftcr,  Jnglo-Snxonice  (LQildjalC,  now  Cl(U00rle,  tive  miles 
Northeast  of  }5itlilj3ni,  where  they  associated  themselves 
to  a  strong  partie  of  theirs,  which  had  fortified  themselves 
so  ^  impregnable,  that  the  King  finding  it  so,   although 
he  did  not  besiedge  it,  yet  burnt  up  all  things  round  abont, 
that  might  yeild   sustenance,    whereby  they    were  con- 
strained to   forsake   the   Countrie  of  their  own  accord. 
A  second  Invasion  of  the  Danes  ^  on  these  two  maritime     ^' 
parts,   was  at  the  mouth  of  the  River   ^gdced,  which 
runs  by,  and  gives  name  to,  j]^OCtt  and  ^OUt^  ptDtClls 
ton,  vuigo  Petliectoa,    ^qjiton,  ^c  but  now  eupho- 
iiied  into  ^EJCet,  whose  muthy  (now  mouthy)  then,  it 
seems,  lying  open,  without  any  party  of  the  Army  of  the 
King  to  defend  it,  received   a  fleete  of  35  of  the  Danes 
largest  Ships,  man'd  with  a  great  number  of  Sea-men 
and   Souldiers,  but  venerable  ♦  Alestane  Bishop  of  Sher- 
bourne,  Duke  Ernulph   with  the  forces  of  Soramersett, 
and   Duke  Osred  '  \\ith''   Iiis  Dorsetanians,  gave  them 
battle,  and  there  slew  very  many  of  them,  and  obtained 
a  very  glorious  victorie  apud  ^i\yczXsit)^Z^     Whereas  this 
Victorie  was  obtained  at  the  mouth  of  the  River  ^CU* 
ratj   I   suppose  the  particuler  place  was  ;25r0nts1iinoll. 


'  L.  Icgcceflet.  Vide  Chron.  Sax.  p.  95.  //.  *  Sic,  pro 
impregnably.  H.  ^  H.  Hun.  lib.  2.  Histor.  ♦  Alias  Ale  Stan  stxsdi 
Algstan.     5  Bis  occurrit  in  MS. 

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A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  AntiquUies 

>vithm  a  mile  or  two  thereof.  For  the  tradition  of  that 
Place  is,  that  the  Danes  invaded  and  burnt  the  three  Par- 
rishesof^OUtl)  and  Ca0t  Brent  and  BujCtteliam,  which, 
I  suppose,  took  their  Names  from  their  burning  or  '  Bren- 
ning,  as  23r0lttfOCtl,  now  Brai'uroUti,  near  London  did 
upon  that  account.  And  this  may  be  yoi  farther  con- 
firmed by  Bcent'-l^noU  it  self,  which  is  a  very  high  and 
steep  Burrow  or  Mount,  the  topp  whereof  fortified  with 
dyke  and  Rampire,  in  which  the  Danes,  probably,  seat- 
ed themselves,  and  by  a  Ground  almost  plain  on  the 
Southside  of  the  said  hill,  by  estimation  two  Acres,  call- 
ed Battlthur^,  where  the  Battle  might  be  fought,  and 
the  Victorie  obtained.  The  third  Invasion  on  these  Parts 
was* apud  ^BDJtlOCait  ^ s latino j  Britt.  ^^I'pport,  aliier 
pOrtlOCatt  (from  Britt.  ^^XtXh  a  port,  and  Grac.  '^^oxsTov, 
a  dock  or  receptacle  for  Shipping)  but  now  pOtlOCkf, 
where  the  Danes  in  the  night,  leaving  their  Shipps  on 
the  shore,  plundered  and  burnt  the  said  Towne,  and 
other  Places  adjoyning,  but  were  all  slain  by  a  partie  of 
the  King's  Armie,  which  was  desighned  for  the  defence 
of  that  Coast,  and  the  present  Inhabitants  of  that  Towne 
speke  traditionallie  thereof  to  this  day,  and  if  they  were 
silent,  the  burnt  Foundation  Stones  of  some  of  the  ant- 
cient  Houses  would  proclaim  the  truth  thereof.  The 
4^*^.  Invasion  was  apud  '  CLtLl0Cl)CpOrtj  alias  ^et!)pOJt, 
Ci.  e.J  SSlatC^ett.  Thus  the  heathonish  Danes  having 
left  Briltaine,  for  the  space  of  J  9  years,  at  length  return 
hither,  under  the  commaund  of   Ohterus  and  Rhoaldus 


'  Benning  MS.  H.  *  Flo.  Wig.  Chro.  ex  Chron.  H.  Hunt.  lib. 
5.Histo.  Ro.  Hov.  paria  Wigg.  cxc  ^F.  Laiine,  yel  seimone 
Latino.  H.  4  TaySm  MS.  H.  s  R.  Ho.  p.  l^  Wig.  ex  Cro. 
|Iun.  Hist.  lib.  5". 

their 


discover' d  near  Conquest.  467 

(beir  Generalls,  and  having  sailed  round  Cornwall,  came 
into  Seavernej  plundered  and  burnt  upon  the  Sea  Coast 
wheresoever  they  had  opportunity,  but  the  King  had  dis- 
posed his  Armie  into  convenient  places  of  defence  from 
the  River  Avon,  which  runs  through  Bristol!,  along  the 
Sea  Coasts  to  Cornwall,  notwithstanding  the  Danes  brake 
into  (IfllatCllCtt  by  stealth  in  the  night,  plundered  and 
'  burnt  the  same,  and  then  they  marched  toward  the 
other  part  thereof,  which  must  be  (IfllilUtOtt,  where  a 
part  of  the  King's  Armie  *  using  out  of  their  fortifica- 
tions, there  met  them,  as  they  were  coming  encountered 
them,  and  slew  a  great  number  on  the  place,  pursued  the 
rest  to  (IZUatC^Ctt,  and  slew  as  many  as  could  not  swime 
to  their  Shipps.  But  the  Anglo-Saxons  Duke,  or  Gene- 
ral!, Godman  (sometimes  abbreviated  into  Goda)  and 
their  valiant  Champion  Streame  Gidd,  and  divers  other 
of  the  King's  Armie  were  slain  also,  upon  which  Victo- 
rie  the  Anglo-Saxons  made  two  solemn  triumphs,  the 
first  in  loco  funeris^  the  second  in  loco  jluminisy  accord- 
ing to  the  words  of  my  Authors.  And  now  let  us  rc- 
turne,  and  enquire  after  some  Remaines  and  Monuments 
of  this  Victorie.  The  Field,  in  which  this  battle  was  1. 
fought,  must  be  the  rich  plaine  or  vale  (now  divided 
into  meadowes  and  pasture)  betwixt  cL(llatCl)ett  and 
ClfllilUtOn,  where  the  Danes  were  encountred,  as  they 
were  coming  to  JLtUilUtOtt  as  aforesaid. 

The  locus  funeris,   or  buring  place,   of  the  slaine,  I      g^ 
suppose,  was  (BabbUCCO,  alias  CBcat)burp\lie0,  where,  it 
seems,  the  greatest  furie  of  the  battle  and  slaughter  was, 
and  where  the  remainder  of  three  huge  moles  or  bur- 


"  They  burnt  Sea  port  Townes,  that  they  might  land  again 
without  resistance.     *  F.  rushing  sive  issuing.  H. 

rowcs. 


A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  Antiquities 

rowes,  each   120  yeards  round  the  Basis,   and  so  of  a 
proportionall  pyramidall  height  and  forme,   as  first  ap- 
peared to  be  the  iJUn'alljS,  alias  \iW\it\)\\\^,  of  the  dead. 
For  by  the  often   diging,   and  carrying  away  of  much 
earth  from  them,  to  dress  the  ground  adjoyning,  some 
times  in  one,    and  some  times  in  another,    have  been 
found  fragments   of  mens  bones,   and  sometimes  sepul- 
chres composed  each  of  three  broad  stones,  like  Tombe 
stones,  two  of  them  lying  along  on  their  edges,   about 
two  foot  distance,  and  a  third  lying  flatt  on  the  topp, 
the  both  ends  walled  up  closely,  and  the  concavity  con- 
taining peices  of  mens  bones,  and  these  latter  I  take  to 
be  monuments  of  such  Anglo-Saxons,  as  were  slain  and 
there  buried,   as  the  others,  lying  confusedly,  were  re- 
maines  of  the  Danes,  for  which  there  was  no  such  care 
taken.      And  as  res   ipsa,   so  vox   ipsa  (BcabbOCrOtDe^, 
spekes  the  same  (BcaiJC  BurrOtXiesS,  (BcatjebUJJOe  being 
a  Teutonick ',  (viz,)  an  old  Germanick,  word,  common 
both   to  the  Danish  and  Saxons,  signifying  both  a  Sa- 
xonick  Danish  monument,  being  compoundded  of  (]5rab 
and  hUtO,  and  either  of  them  signifies  a  grave  :  but  (Brafa 
(from  the  Teutonick  CuahCll,   to   digge)   signifies  pro- 
perly the  pit  which  is  digged,  hUCO,  and  so  hUJlC,  signi- 
fies the  heap  raised  upon  the  pitt,  sometimes  long  and 
small,    as    our    ordinarie  Churchyeard  Graves,    "^  some 
round  and  high,  as  these  (15^at)bOUJ?OeSf ;  but  here  (i5rabl) 
and  buuo  joyned  together,  to  make  a  compleatc  discri- 
ption   of  this  compleate  sepulchre  of  the  slain  Saxons 
and  Deanes.     The  most  ancient  grave  ^,  that  I  read  of. 


*  All  Germany  spake  the  Teutonicke  language,  and  so  the  Sa- 
xons, Deans,  S^c.  difiered  in  language  but  dialectically.  Verst. 
An.  p.  116  &  123.     ^  F.  Sometimes.  H.     3  Gen.  23. 

was 


c^ 


V 


discovered  near  Co^ (IV EST.  469 

vas  called  in  Hebrew  Keher,  and  in  Greek  y-px^Qaros^  a 
bed  or  death  bed,  unde  Lat.  Grabbalus,  properly  a  bed 
to  rest  on  in  the  after  noone,  metaphorically  in  the  etetiing 
of  this  life,  unde  Belgick  ■  CPraf,  Saxon  <0ruf,  English 

(0cat3e,  Teutonick  CPrab  and  (l^caMjam,  (I.  e.)  graije 

lome,  alias  lonff  l)0mc,  and  Anglo-Saxon  and  Danish 
(Bcabburroe,  in  which,  after  their  furious  fighting,  they 
sleep  quietly  together. 

But  as  these  3  (BcabbUCrOCgi  are  to  be  looked  on  as  se- 
pulchres of  the  Anglo-Saxons  and  Danes,  so  also  as  Tro- 
phies of  the  Anglo-Saxons.  It  was  the  common  practice 
of  the  ancieijts,  to  triumph  in,  or  neare,  the  field,  where 
the  victorie  was  obtained,  and  to  erect  *  Trophies,  (i.  e.) 
Luge  Burrowes,  Fillers,  Arches,  &ic.  in  the  places,  where 
victories  were  obtained,  to  perpetuate  the  memory,  both 
of  the  victorie  and  the  triumphe.  So  that,  as  here  was 
nfunus  as  before,  so  a  dominantur  in  loco  funeris,  a  do- 
mineering or  triumphing  in  the  place  of  the  funerall,  and, 
consequently,  these  3  (0cabburCO\3)00  were  3  Trophies 
also  of  the  victorie  here  obtained,  and  the  triumph  here 
celebrated. 

But  there  was  another  domineering  or  triumphing,  be- 
sides this,  and  consequently  other  Trophies  also.  Angli ' 
loco  dominantur  Jluminis^  the  Anglo-Saxons  triumph  or 
domineere  in  the  place  of  the  River,  not  in  the  River, 
but  in  the  place  of  the  River,  (i.  e.)  (IflliUitOn,  which  ad- 
joynes  close  to  the  River,  and  indeed  here  was  the  great- 
est cause  of  joy,  triumphing  and  domineering,  when  the 
village  was  so  seasonably  preserved,  when  the  Enemies, 


•  Vid.  Minsh  Die.  ^  Tropasum  &  trophaeum,  ex  r^oTri  rgs- 
•nu,  quo  significatur  fuga  hostium.  Goldm.  Die.  Godwin  Ant. 
p.  275.     J  Rogerius  de  Hoveden  Annal.  pars  prior,  p.  427. 

likt 


A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  Antiquities 

like  hungry  Lions,  greedy  of  their  prey,  were  so  near  at 
hand,  with  open  mouths  ready  to  devour  them,  and  all 
theirs.  If  the  King's  arraie  dominantur  in  loco  funeris^ 
then  much  more  '  Willitonians  now  dominantur  in  loco 
Jluminis,  and  if  the  King's  arraie  erected  3  (0cal)t)UCrOC^, 
as  Trophcs  of  this  Victorie  and  triumphe,  the  Willito- 
nians will  erect  3  Crosses  (in  their  Teutonicke  language 
%Xt\Xt^t^)  in  emulation  of  them.  For  what  else  could 
move  them  to  erect  3  formall  Corosses,  so  near  together 
in  one  village,  when  scarcely  one  was  to  be  found  in  a 
Royal  City,  but  to  perpetuate  the  memorie  of  this  vi- 
ctorie and  triumphe  of  the  Christians  over  Pagans  ?  the 
originall  of  which  partie  was  this  ;  *  Maxentius,  a  Pagan 
usurping  the  Roman  Empire,  Constantine,  who  was  al- 
most perswaded  to  be  a  Christian,  raised  an  army  to  sup- 
press him,  and  to  that  end  marching  towards  Rome, 
where  Maxentius  tyrannized,  there  appeared  unto  him 
by  the  way,  and  to  his  army,  at  noone,  the  lively  fi- 
gure of  a  Cross  in  the  heaven,  with  this  inscription  in  it, 
In  hoc  vince ;  ?  which  Christ  interpreted  to  him  in  a 
dream  the  night  following,  by  which  his  Faith  in  Christ 
crucified  being  confirmed,  he  passed  forward  with  much 
alacritie.  Maxentius  hearing  of  his  approach,  drew  out 
his  army  into  the  field  beyound  the  River,  on  which  he 
made  a  bridge  of  boates,  called  Pons  ♦  Mihius,  so  falla- 
ciously, that,  when  any  considerable  weight  of  men 
should  come  on  it,  it  should  break  and  sinke;  but  Ma- 


'  F,  the  Willitonians.  H.  *EiisebiusPam  :  in  vita  Constant: 
5  Constantine  himselfe  did,  with  an  oath,  confirme  the  truth 
hereof  to  Euscbius,  who  wrote  this  storie  from  his  mouth.  Euse- 
biusPamphil.  lib.  10  de  vita  Const.  Anno  Domini  306.  "  Milinus 
},l<.  JI. 

xcntitis 


discovered  near  Conquest.  47 1 

xentiiis  being  routed,  was  necessitated  to  endeavour  to 
fly  out  over  that  bridge,  which  he  had  contrived  against 
Constantine,  which  sinking,  he  himself,  and  very  many  of 
the  cheif  of  his  army  were  drowned,  whereupon  Con^ 
stantine  entred  into  Rome,  without  resistance,  was  crea- 
ted the  first  Christian  Emperour,  erected  multitudes  of 
such  '  Crosses  in  every  place,  as  Trophies  of  this  his  vi- 
ctoria over  the  heathens,  and  afterwards  Christians  ob- 
taining Victorie  over  Pagans  did  the  like,  and  so  the  S  I 
Crosses  of  OiOmUtOn  might  be  erected,  as  such  Trophies 
of  Victorie  over  such  Heathens. 

Of  this  Victorie  of  Constantine,  Prudentius,  a  divine 
Poet  of  the  same  age,  singeth  an  eTriyUiov,  thus  englished 
by  Dr.  Meredith  Hanmer,  in  the  life  of  Constantine*. 

The  Christian  Captaines  coming  to  the  wall 
The  Milvian  bridge  can  zailnesse,  ajid  withall 
Which  did  the  trecherous  Tyrant  soon  deceive. 
And  shrunch  azoay  zchile  Tyber  did  receive 
Him  and  his  host,  and  it  did  also  see 
His  conquering  Armies  get  the  Victorie, 
While  his  Coulors  in  the  aire  displayed  tsere. 
Which  his  revenging  hand  did  boldly  rear. 
Their  armour  shined  with  a  radient  flame. 
And  on  his  ensigne  Christ's  most  holy  name 
Was  there  embroydered  on  the  purple  ground. 
In  golden  letters  on  their  buckler  round 


'  My  brother  near  IBatt)  had  a  stone  Coffin  diged  up  in  his 
grounds,  near  which  he  found  a  brass  Coyne,  on  one  side  with 
this  Circumscription,  Const antinopolis,  which  was  the  name  of 
Constantine,  and  his  imperiall  Citty ;  on  the  other  side,  an  Angel 
holding  such  a  Crosse  in  his  hand,  « Eusebius  Pam  :  in  vita 
Con.  translated  by  Dr.  M,  H. 


472  A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  Antiquities 

Thej/  engraved  Christ's  name,  that  precious  natne  of 

grace. 
And  golden  Crosses  on  their  helmets  place, 

5.  A  fift  monument  of  (his  fatal  battle,  is  a  stone  of 
8  foot  high  above  ground,  but,  before  a  part  of  it  was 
broken  away,  I  suppose,  so  much  higher.  It  is  no\r 
called,  in  the  full  of  the  mouth,  IjOOCC^CtOHC,  according 
to  the  dialect  of  Somraersett,  which  varies  !)CC  into  IjurC, 
/  and  to^ere  into  tof^OCC  and  toIjOOrCj    but  I  cannot  be- 

lieve any  one  to  be  so  simple,  as  to  think  this  to  be  an 
ancient  monument  of    some  whore ;    for  then  it  would 
^'-^     have  been  called  '  ^^tt  Ctone.     But,   doubtless,  the  an- 
cient name  was  either  i^CCeCtOn  or  l^etoC-rtOlte,  of  ^itt- 

ttonz,  (i.  e.)  2Dufee'0  ^toncor  (Benerair^  ftone  Anglo- 

Saxonice.  For  though  a  Generall  at  first  was  called  I^CCts 

jug;  and  ^ecftoffl),  («.)  a  IL^tts  Cugger  (unde  tona^,) 

because  he  went  foremost,  and  tugged  or  drew  his  Ar- 
my after  hiin  by  his  exhortation  and  example,  as  Julius 
Caesar,  who  never  said  ^7^,  hwi  venife;  yet  Tcutonice  he 
was,  and  is,  called  ^  tTeltli^CUC  («.  e  )  f  je'.U  CPenCCaU, 
and  for  brevity  =l^CCe  ^EtoCUCCteil,  {i.  e.)  that  is,  ficft 
or  prime  XorH  or  dommanDeC,  and  sometimes  '  l^£tor» 
\  And  if  the  right  name  of  this  stone  is  l^eucrtOU,  it  signi- 
'       fies   the  Generairs,  or  cheif  ^  Commander's  Stone,  who 

'  Verst.  Ant.  p.  261.  I  know  not  with  what  reason  some  write 
'^"  '^  to^ore,  seeing  the  ancient  name  is  ^grc,  from  the  letting  her 
body  to  hire.  »  Minish.  Diction.  Vers.  Ant.  p.  247.  *  InCorQ- 
Avall  the  chiefest  of  the  Seamen,  standing  on  the  topp  of  the 
highest  knoll,  discerneth  the  notion,  and  directeth  the  taking  of 
the  Skull  of  herring,  by  signes  and  tokens,  which  he  maketh 
with  a  long  stemmed  brush  in  the  Aire  :  and  he  is  also  called 
tlft  |)uer,  because  he  is  the  cliief  Commander  of  fishermen,  the 
other  of  Souldiers. 

being 


discover' d  near  Conquest.  473 

being  slain  as  aforesaid,  was  buried  here.  For  to  die 
and  be  buried  in  the  feild  was  most  honourable,  and 
this  stone,  as  I  suppose,  erected  as  a  Filler  or  the  Grave 
of  Generall  Godham,  according  to  the  practice  of  the 
Antients.  As  Deborah  was  buried  under  an  Oake,  in- 
stead of  a  Pillar,  Gan.  the  35.  Rachell  under  a  piller, 
ibid,  so  Absolom  raised  a  Piller  to  this  end,  2  Sam.  18e. 
18.  though  he  could  not  be  buried  under  it,  but  a  heape 
of  Stones.  So  many  of  the  Roman  Emperours,  Popes 
and  Potentates.      See  Burt.  Com.  on  An.  Itin.  S^  Inigo  \ 

Jones,  in  his  Stoneng  restored.  So  at  »)tan.tOns3DrUC, 
near  Bristol),  ^ZclburtOtX  IjlU  in  Wilts,  ^OCfeCnOVtOU  iu 
Oxfordshire,     battels    fought  S^c.  great  stones 

erected,  as  pillers,  on  the  graves  of  eminent  men  there 
sbiin  and  buried  under  them,  fragments  of  bones  yet  re- 
maining. Q.  But  what  doth  (BOllliaiTt  signyfie,  and  why  Q^ 
was  he  so  called  ?  (BoD  signified  with  the  Anglo-Saxons  A. 
as  now  with  us,  and  '^aiU  signified  an  house  or  home.  So 
that  (15olJ^am  S  (i.)  Godshouse or  Godhouse^  and,  as  others 
look  their  names  from  Woods,  Hills  and  Valleys,  in,  or 
near,  where  they  dwelt,  so  this  man,  from  such  Church 
or  Cliappel,  then  called  (BoMjam,  and  what  (0Ollljam 
more  likely,  then  that  most  ancient  Chappell  of  (Lfllllll- 
ton,  and  so  called  in  the  Anglo-Saxons  times  ?  and  why 
might  not  (Botll^am  take  his  name  from  his  dwelling  near 
this  Chappell,  as  well  as  Stream C-toOUlD,  the  other  Cham- 
pion, from  his  dwelling  at,  or  near,  »)tCCame,  as  shall 
be  shewed?  It  may  be  answered,  that,  if  any  CSotlljani 
anciently  had  dwelt  in  that  ancient  Manor-house,   there 


'  The  Anglo-Saxons  delighted  in  godly  Names,  as  (25otl|jam 
^oUatH,  (i.)  Yodam  Yeard,  or  Chiirchyeard ^  (SoUtoinr,  (i.)  God^s 
love;  (Sotifiie,  (i.)  God's  peace. 

had 


47.4  A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  Antiquities 

liad  been  some  coulour  for  it.  But  it  may  be  replied,  ant° 
ciently  one  Ursus  dwelt  in  it,  and  left  his  cognisance, 
(viz.)  3  bears  heads,  in  his  Chamber  window,  apparent  to 
this  day,  and  this  Ursus  might  be  called  at  first  ^0Ut0  l\Hll^} 
(\.  e.)  the  Lord's  house,  as  well  as  '  (0Otl^am,  (BoMjant, 
Gods  house,  but  euphonied  out  of  that  harsh  word  hewrs 
haus  iiUo  Ursus,  as  Ursus,  for  the  same  reason,  into 
SJrfC,  according  to  William  of  Malmsburie%  which  saith, 
that,  as  soone  as  William  the  Conquerour  was  anointed 
King  by  Alredus  Archbishop  of  Yeorke,  the  King  made 
one  Ursus  sherrife  of  Worcestershire,  and  he,  (according 
to  his  Commission,)  begining  to  fortifie  Severne,  the 
first  Castle  which  he  built,  was  that  of  WLOtttHtV,  but 
built  it  so  near  the  Abbey,  that  part  of  the  Abbey 
Church  Yeard  sanck  down  into  the  Castle  trench  or  mote, 
whereupon  the  said  Arch  Bishop  denounced  a  curse  on 
Ursus  in  these  Words,  ^HtzU  t^OU  tltCe,  |)ate  tljOU  (Botl'g? 
CuCfe.  Whence  I  iriferre,  if  this  Stone  be  t^ueriftonc, 
it  is,  Lords  Generalh  Stone,  if  "iBxlZ-'^tQXiZ,  it  is,  Ursus- 
Stone,  if  1^l{CC=ftOnC  and  Elcre^ftOIte,  then  Lord  Generall 
Ursus  his  stone,  who  might  be  father  to  Sherife  Urse  in 
respect  of  time  ;  for  this  Battle  was  fought  in  the  Reigne 
of  King  Ethelred,  about  60  years  before  King  William 
the  Conquerour :  and  in  respect  of  Office,  the  one  (it 
Seems)  succeeding  the  other  in  guarding  the  Severne» 
Coasts.  3  in  respect  of  honourable  blood  ;  for  Serrife 
Ursus  was  xir generis  prceeminentia  conspicuus^. 
Q  And  as  I  suppose  (BotaiU  dwelt,  or  quartered,  at,  or 
near,  (BoDam,  fviz.)  (LOllllltOIt  Chappel,  so  I  am  confi- 
dent, that  the  valiant  Champion  »)t?eamC--tO0UlD  dwelt. 


'  Sic.  H.     *  Willielm.  Malm,  de  Gest*  Pont.  lib.  3.  p.  271- 
i  Rogerius  Hoved*  parte  1'. 


discovered  near  CoiiqvEST.  '*'^. 

or  quartered,  in,  or  near,  '  ^tcam-lDOUltl,  (?*.  c.)  ^tceamC- 
tDllD  Ijillrf  (which  word,  before  inclosu res,  comprehend- 
ed *  2Blacfe=2DOtonC  and  g£a?tl  Ijiil,  alias  ffuattJ  t)ill,)  which 
he,  probablely,  was  to  guard,  together  with  the  great  tra- 
velling wayes  on  every  side,  and  from  thence  took  his 

name  ^t^eame'-tooulti  of  ^treame  tooulD. 

The  fourth  invasion  (or  rather  evasion)  of  the  Danes  4. 
in  these  parts,  was  into  »)tcep  %Ome0,  by  Florentius 
Wiggorniensis  ^termned  ^KeOClC,  (i.e.)  l)iglj  mOUUt, 
butby'H.  H.  insula  UZ]ftn,  for  they  being  so  miserably 
routed  at  QxIUUttOn,  some  killed  in  the  pursuit,  some 
drowned  in  wading  and  swimming  to  their  Ships,  and 
the  survivours  discouraged  by  the  sight  of  more  and  more 
of  the  King's  forces  approaching,  upon  this  encourage- 
ment, and  now  wanting  Maniuers  to  guide,  and  Soul- 
diers  to  mann,  their  Ships,  they  fled  to  this  succourless 
Hand,  or  rather  rock,  for  refuge,  where  they  continued 
in  hunger  and  cold,  till  the  greater  number  were  con- 
sumed, there  being  no  house  or  harbour,  but  one  poor 
Cave,  no  meat  or  drink,  but  one  small  fresh-water  spring, 
to  refresh  some. 

Their  5'\  invasion,  was  at  ^Ipljill,  Blction,  S^c.  ^' 
where  I  have  enquired  of  the  *  inhabitans,  whether  they 
had,  at  any  time,  heard  of  any  Deaiies,  that  came,  in 
the  days  of  yore,  to  ^t£ep  ijOHie^  near  them.  They  ^"J?^  P""*? 
told  me,  that  the  gencrall  tradition  of  their  Country  hatli 
beene,  that  a  fleete  of  Deanes  fled,  to  shelter  themselves 
in  the  said  Isle,  and  sometime  they  brake  out  into  Eng- 


'  F.  Stream^tDOuIti.  II.  -  BlacStietott  and  ^earli|)ill  are  as 
wild  a  would,  as  eottftooulU,  Stoue  on  t^z  tooulU,  Sfc.  '  Flor. 
Wigg.  Chro.  XX.  4  For  which  in  the  Saxon  Annals  'tis 
Bjiabaiijielice,  under  the  year  Dccccxviii.  H.  sH.  lluu.  Lib.  5°. 
Historiarum.     6  gic.  //. 

Vol.  U.  R  land, 


47^  A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  Antiquities 

land,  and  sometimes  into  Wales,  for  sustenance;  at 
length  coming  to  (!Llpl)ill  and  ©leOon,  etc.  they  fastned 
their  ships  to  the  shoare,  left  them,  and  marched  up  into 
the  Country  for  booties,  and  that  all  the  inhabitants  fled 
away  before  them,  one  poor  lame  woman  excepted, 
/  which  hidd  in  a  Rock  near  the  ships,  and  when  she  was 
/,  near  spent  with  hunger,  she  was  necessitated  to  adven- 
ture down  the  ships  for  releif:  saying  to  her  self,  with 
the  Lepers,  if  they  kill  me,  I  shall  but  die :  but  com- 
ing thither,  and  scearching  from  ship  to  ship,  and  find- 
f  ing  no  living  Creature,  at  last  espjing  an  hatchett,  took 

/  it,  and  with  it  chopped  of  all  the  Cables,  which  ancored 

the  ships  to  the  shoare,  and  sent  them  to  Sea,  where 
they  quickly  perished.     The  Danes  having  gotten  intel- 
ligence of  the  loss  of  some  of  their  ships,   speedily  re- 
treated, to  save  themselves  and  the  rest,  but  the  people 
of  the  Country,  having  intelligence,  that  all  their  ships 
were  cast  away,  took  courage,   pursued  them  to  25ltU0tl, 
there  fought,   and   destroyed   them  with  such  a   bloody 
slaughter,  as  that  frome  thence  the  place  took,  and  ever 
since  halh  kept,  the  name  BltUOn,  alias  BUcD^tlOVDlt  or 
blOUtl-lJOtDn,  to  this  day.     And  some  of  them  have  in- 
formed me,  that,  when  their  Husbandmen  plough   theii 
grounds,    they   fmd    multitudes  of    Men's  Teeth  there, 
Avhich  being  naturally  the  hardest  bones   '  in  the  body, 
and  obdurated  with  cliewing  (in  some  grounds)  are  al- 
most as  permanent  as  little  stones.     And  a  Gentleman 
there,  within  7  yeares  last  past,  having  bought  a  peice 
of  Moorish  ground,  lying  at  the  foot  of  the  said  BlcDOtl, 
when  his  labourers  renewed  the  dyke  filled  up  about  it, 
they  found  great  heaps  of  Men's  skulls,  and  other  hu- 

'  Crook's  Anat, 


I 


discover'd  near  Co fiqv EST.  477 

raane  bones,  as  entire  as  ever  they  had  been,  or  as  the  Ocuiati 
Oakes  and  Fish  shells  found  under  the  like  morish 
ground  near  the  place,  as  a  Gigantick  skull,  as  capacious  ] 
(almost)  as  a  '  peck,  found,  in  the  like  ground,  near 
l&napp  Bn'tlffC,  *  by  an  iEsopical  Cock  (rather  Cocks- 
combe)  threw  it  immediately  into  the  River  Tone,  ne- 
ver to  be  raised  till  the  last  day,  and  this  may  well  be 
deemed  a  Reliq;^  of  an  ante-deluvian  Giant,  of  the  first 
edition,  there  buried  in  the  Mudd  of  Noah's  flood  ;  and, 
lest  any  should  think  I  speke  this  without  book,  let  him 
consult  the  *  Antiquare  of  Antiquaries,  who  saith  ',  that, 
in  many  places  of  moorish  ground,  both  in  Field  and 
Towne,  in  Holland,  are  found  innumerable  shells  and 
bones,  not  only  of  small,  but  great,  fishes  (describing 
them  by  their  pictures)  and  firr  trees,  brought  thither, 
and  buried  there,  by  Noah's  flood,  wherinto  I  will  not 
adventure  to  wade  so  farr,  but  returne  back  to  the  Mouth 
of  the  River  ^acmt : 

Where  the  Danes  made  their  sixth  invasion.     *  H.  Hun-      6. 
tingdon  'called  ^etJCetlfmOUtlj,  (/.  e.)  the  month  of  the 
River  Fedred,  which  runs  near,  and  gives  name  to  jjtiottlj 

and  ^out^  ^etitetiton,  now  ^et^ecton  and  l^zmtoiiy 

&c.  but  ^etiretl  is  now  euphonied  into  ^artett,  and 
mut^  into  mOUtlj,  and,  it  seems,  this  ^arettfmOUtlj  lay 
so  wide  open  in  those  daies,  without  sufficient  forces  to 
defend  it,  that  it  received  a  fleet  of  35  saile  of  the  lar- 
gest ships  of  the  Deans,  and  a  great  number  of  Sea-men 
and   Souldiers,  which   came  to  plunder  and  destroy  it.  ^ 

But  venerable  Alestane  Bp.  of  Sherbourne,  and  Duke 


'  and  proportionably   thick.     » F.    but.   H.  J  Gen.    6.   4. 

4  Sic.  H.     3  Versteg..  Ant.  p.  84.      6  H.  Hu^t.  libr.  5«.  hist. 
'  F,  called  (vel  calls)  it  }Pftirelijemout&. 

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A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  Antiquities 

'  Ernlph,  with  the  forces  of  Sommerselt,  and  Duke  Osrcd, 
with  his  Dorscltaniims,  gave  (hem  battel  there,  and  slew  a 
great  number  of  them,  and  obtained  a  glorious  Victorie. 
Wherastliis  Victorie  is  said  to  be  obtained  at  the  mouth 
of  the  Kiver  ^aCCCtt,  1  suppose  the  particuUir  place 
meant  (thougli  not  mentioned)  was  ^StCnt^l&noUy  with- 
in a  Mile  or  two  therof.  For  the  tradition,  amongst  the 
natives  there,  is,  that  tlie  Dcanes  invaded  that  place, 
plundered  and  burnt  the  3  parishes  of  (faft  and  »>OUtIj 

Brent,  and  Brcnijam,  now  Biini=Ijam,  all  which,  I 

suppose,  took  their  Names  from  their  burneing,  now 
burning,  as  ;25r0tltforD,  now  ^StapnefOCtl,  because  it 
was  burnt  by  the  Dcanes  also.  And  this  may  yet  be  far- 
ther confirmed  by  ^BCCnt-I^ncll  it  self,  which  *is  a  very 
.steep  and  round  Burrow  or  Mole,  the  topp  fortified  with 
Dyke  and  Rampire,  where  ih[\  Deans,  according  to  pro- 
bability, seated  themselves.  And  by  a  Groimd  (almost 
phune)  of  two  acres  in  the  South  Side  of  that  burrow, 
called  BatttUlUirie,  where,  I  suppose,  the  battel  was 
foughten,  and  the  \'ictorie  obtained. 

A  7'^.  invasion,  intended  ^ngainst  the*  maritime  Coasts, 
but  by  the  hand  of  God  confounded,  before  they  could 
come  quite  thither  (like  that  of  the  Spaniards  in  88) 
thus.  The  Deancs  having  a  great  fleet  and  arniie  at 
CtllCCCljaiU  in  Dorsett  shire,  designed  their  armie  in  these 
parts  by  land,  and  a  fleet  of  ISO  saile  here  to  meet  them. 
So  the  fleet  sailing  round  about  Cornwell,  came  to  an- 
chor apud  »)toam'toicfe,  which  I  take  to  be  now  »)toane« 
fev,  on  the  North  Coasts,   over  against  the  West  of  Som- 


'  Erulph  MS.  11.  ^  Is  verij  MS.  //.  J  Flo.  Wig.  Matt. 
Westm,  p.  1G9.  4  Maritime  MS.  quemadmodum  &  supra  mo- 
nui.  Ih 


discovered  near  Conquest.  47  9 

Hiersett.  But  then  it  pleased  the  Lord  to  send  such  a 
violent  and  sudden  tempest  upon  them,  as  destroyed 
them  all  :  so  that,  as  '  Ovid  saith  of  the  Sea  where  Ica- 
rus was  drowned, 

Icarus  Icariis  nomina  dedit  aqicis ; 

So  may  I  say  *  of  King  Swanus  his  fleet,  drowned  at 
fetoanatoICk  atias  Swaneserj^  (i.  e.)  Swanus-Sea, 

Swanus  Sanewicis  nomina  dedit  aquis. 
Swarms  to  Sane-Sea  waters  gave  their  name. 

The  S*.  and  last  invasion  in  these  parts,  was  at  ^  9^pnC= 
^eaD  by  a  fleet  of  Weltchmen,  in  the  49'*'  year  of  King 
Henry  the  3^  Jmio  Domini  1265,  set  forth  by  Matt. 
♦  Paris,  but  the  Antecendents  and  Consequents  &"c.  to 
compleate  tliis  storie,  being  collected  out  of  severall 
places  of  this  Author,  and  dulie  composed,  the  whole 
will  sound  thus.  King  Henry  the  third  and  his  Barons, 
having  long  contended  the  one  for  the  other,  against 
certaine  privileges  and  prerogatives  claymed  by  the 
King,  and  denied  by  the  Barons,  at  last  their  differences 
were  composed  in  a  Parliament  at  Oxford,  where  the 
King  himself,  and  his  eldest  sonne  Prince  Ed.vard,  so- 
lemnly swore  to  the  due  observation  of  all  the  purticu- 
lers  of  the  agreement ;  but  afterward  the  King,  by  the 
instigation  of  evill  Counsellours,  repented  of  the  said 
Oath,  and  because  he  would  not  be  esteemed  a  perjured 
person,  sued,  and  easily  obtained,  an  absolution  from  the 


'  Ovid  Metam.       ^  To  of  (quod   deest   in  MS.)  adjeci.  H. 
?  Matt.  Paris,  p.  1330,  1339.  fi:  alibi.    4  P.  1330,  1339.  k  alibi. 

R  3  said 


A  Discourse  about  some  Roman  Antiqq.  &c. 

said  Oath  of  the  Pope ;  but  Prince  Edward  did  not  ac» 
cept  of  the  said  absolution,  and  so  raised  an  Army  against 
his  Barons,  and  they  another  against  the  King,  making 
Simon  de  Monte  fortiy  Earl  of  Leicester,  their  Generall, 
who  gave  the  King  Battell,  routed  his  Armie,  tooke  him 
and  Prince  Edward  Prisoners,  detained,  or  rather  enter- 
taiiipd,  the  King  as  a  Royall  Prisoner  with  himself  wi- 
ll'ersoever  he  went,  and  sent  Prince  Edward  Prisoner  to 
Hereford  Castle,  where  he  being  permitted  to  recreate 
himself,  by  raceing  with  Noble  men  in  a  large  meadow, 
adjoyning  to  the  Citie,  he  tempted  them  to  run  their 
liorses  so  often,  that  his  own  and  their  horses  being  tired, 
and  he  having     ******      ***** 


DISCOURSE 

CONCERNING 

STONE-HENGE, 

By  the  same  anonymous  Author. 


n  4 


(  483  ) 


FOOLS  BOLT 


SOON  SFIOTT  AT 


STO  N  AGE. 


From  ano- 
ther MS. 
lent  me  by 
the  same 
Friend, Mr. 
James 
West,  of 
Baluol- 
Coll.  writ- 
ten  in  the 
same  hand, 
and  by  the 
same  ano- 
nymous 
Author. 


Wander  witt  of  Wiltshire,  rambling  to 
Rome  to  gaze  at  Antiquities,  and  there 
skrewing  himself  into  the  company  of 
x\ntiquaries,  they  entreated  him  to  illustrate 
unto  them,  that  famous  Monument  in  his 
Country,  called  »>tOnaff0.  His  Answer  was,  that  he  had 
never  seen,  scarce  ever  heard  of,  it.  Whereupon,  they  kicked 
him  out  of  doors,  and  bad  him  goehome,  and  see  »)tOnaffCi 
and  I  wish  all  such  iEsopicall  Cocks,  as  slight  these  ad- 
mired Stones,  and  other  our  domestick  '  Monuments  (by 


So  called  a  monendo.    Goldni.  Die. 


which 


484  A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  sliott  at  Stonage. 

•which  they  might  be  admonished,  to  eschew  some  evil, 
or  doe  some  good)  and  scrape  for  barley  Cornes  of  vani- 
ty out  of  forreigne  dunghills,  might  be  han^^Med,  or  ra- 
ther footed,  as  be  was.  If  I  had  been  in  his  place,  I 
should  have  been  apt  io  have  told  them,  that,  surely,  it 
•was  some  heathoiiish  temple  demolished  by  the  imme- 
diate hand  of  God,  as  an  intollerable  abomination  unto 
him  :  yet  reserving  so  much  of  it  standing,  as  may  de- 
clare what  the  whole  was,  and  how,  and  why,  so  de- 
stroyed, that,  as  we  are  to  remember  Lot's  wife,  turned 
into  a  Filler  of  Salt,  for  looking  back-ward  towards  Ido- 
latrous Sodome,  so  we  should  remember,  that  these  for- 
lorne  Fillers  of  Stone  are  left  to  be  our  remembrancers, 
dissuading  us  from  looking  back  in  our  hearts  upon  any 
thing  of  Idolatry,  and  persuading  us,  in  imitation  of 
Moses,  and  the  Frophets,  so  to  describe,  and  deride,  it  in 
it's  uglie  Coullers,  that  none  of  us,  or  our  posterity,  may 
returne,  -with  Doggs,  to  such  Vomit,  or  Sows  to  wallow- 
ing in  such  mire.  And  since  all,  that  have  (as  yei)  writ- 
ten on  this  Subject,  have  contradicted  and  confuted  each 
other,  and  never  any  hath  as  yet  revealed  this  mysterie 
of  iniquity  to  this  purpose,  and  thatFedlers  andTinckers, 
vamping  on  London  way  near  it,  may,  and  do,  freely 
spend  their  mouthes  on  it,  I  know  nothing  to  the  contra- 
ry, but  that  I  also  may  shoot  my  bolt  a  little  farther  into 
it,  however  I  will  adventure,  were  it  for  nothing  elce, 
but  to  recreate  my  self  somtimes,  after  other  studies, 
and  to  provoke  my  friends,  which  importun'd  me  to  it, 
to  shoote  their  acute  shafts  at  it  also,  hopirig,  that  one 
or  other  of  us,  by  art  or  accident,  shall  hit  the  mark.  My 
bolt  is  soon  shott  in  this  short  conjecture,  that  ^tOnflffC 
"was  an  old  British  triumphall  tropicall  temple,  erected  to 
Anaraith,  their  Godess  of  victory,  in  a  bloudy  field  there. 


A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  sJiott  at  Stonage.  485 

wone,  by  illustrious  Stanengs  and  his  Cangick  Giants^ 
from  K.  Di-citiacus  and  his  Be/gce.  In  which  temple 
the  Captives  and  spoiles  were  sacrifised  to  the  said  Idol 
Anaraith.  So  that  these  12  particulers  hereof  are  to  be 
demonstrated, 


1.  That  »>tOnag;e  was  an  old  British  Monument. 

2.  That  it  was  a  Monument  of  a  bloody  battel 
foughten  there. 

3.  This  bloudy  battel  produced  a  glourious  Victorie. 

4.  This  Victorie  was  wonne  by  the  Cangi  of  (0lall* 

5.  The  Cangi  were  Giants. 

6.  Commanded  by  the  famous  Slai^enges  of  l^onni- 

tutt. 

7.  The  Army  conquered,  was  K.  DivHiacus  and  his 
Belgce. 

8.  In  this  place,  assoone  as  the  Cangi  had  conquered, 
they  triumphed. 

9.  Where  they  triumphed  they  erected  this  Monu- 
ment as  a  Trophie. 

10.  This  Trophie  was  a  Temple. 

11.  This  Temple  was  consecrated  to  Anaraith^  their 
Goddess  of  Victorie. 

12.  In  this  temple  the  said  Victors  sacrifised  their 
Captives  and  Spoiles  to  their  said  Idoll  of  Vi- 
ctorie, 

Our  work  lies  before  us  in  these  12  particulers,  and 
our  tooles,  to  perform  it,  should  be  antcient  and  credi- 
ble histories,  treating  of  this  subject,  but  what  are  they, 
and  where  to  be  found  ?  Jeffrie  of  Monmouth  will  tell 
you  a  tale,  that  these  Stones  were  brought  by  Giants 

from 


486  A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  slioit  at  Stonage. 

from  Africa  into  ^lultiaje  in  Ireland,  and,  by  some  Lc- 
/       gerdcraainc  of   Merlin,    conveyed  to  the  place,    where 
!         Ihey  are ;     but  no  credible  Historian   could  speke  any 
word  of  any  such  thing.     Gildas   Badoniciis   of  Bathe, 
within  20  Miles  of  ^tOliage,  writing  anno  Domini  543^ 
,         hath  not  a  word  of  it,   nor  venerable  Bede,   who  writing 
anno  727.  of  many  other  rari(ies  of  this  Land,  hath  not 
a  word  of  fetona^e,  nor  William  of  Malms-burie,  writ- 
ing anno  1142.  within  14  miles  of  »)tona0:e,   hath  not 
a  word  of  it,  nor  Ethelzfred,  nor  Hoveden,  nor   '  Ingul- 
.  thus^  nor  Paris,  nor  Weslmonasteriensisy  nor  Florentius 

\J  Wigorniemis,  who  all  wrote  above  500  years  since,  yet 

not  a  word  of  it ;  and  Henriciis  IluntingdoniensiS',  writ- 
ing near  the  same  time,  tells  the  naked  truth  of  the  Mat- 
ter, that  it  was  not  because  they  would  not,  but  because 
they  could  not,  say  any  thing  of  it.  His  words  are*: 
Quatuor  sunt  in  Anglia,  quce  mira  videntur,  scilicet  ^tdi- 
ncnjCSl,  (i-  e.)  ^tOnaffC,  ubilapides  mirce  magniiudims 
in  modum  portarum  elevati  sunt^  ita  ut  portce  portis  su- 
per posit  cb  videantur,  nee  potest  quis  excogitare,  qua  arte 
tanti  lapides  adeo  in  altum  eletati  sunt,  xel  quare  ibidem 
constructi  sunt.  This  »»tOna0;C  did  astonish  them,  this 
did  amaze  them,  that  they  durst  not  labour,  lest  they 
should  ^  lost  their  labour,  and  themselves  also.  And  if 
the  grand  Seniors,  which  lived  so  near  it,  above  a  thou- 
sand years  since,  could  not,  how  shall  we  sillie  fresh- 
men unlock  this  Closet?  I  have  stumbled  on  2  pick- 
locks, wliich,  if  dexterously  handled,  will  set  it  -wide  open 
to  the  world. 

1.  A  description  of  the  fabrick  of  ^itOIiaffCj  at  least 
of  some  part  of  it,  as  it  was  in  it's  primitive  perfection. 


'  Pro,  /«i^//(fw5.  II.     Mlonilc.  Hunt.  lib.    1°.    Ilisto.     '  F. 
/o>.,  \v\h<i:C'  lost.  \L 

2.  A 


A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  shott  at  Stonage.  48? 

2.  A  raappe  of  Wiltshire. 

1.  As  for  a  description  of  the  saide  fabricke,  I  would 
referr  you  to  Architector  Inigo  Jones  in  his  book,  enti- 
tuled,  Stonehenge  restored^  but  that  some  would  be  ready 
to  say,  the  multitude  of  his  Grecian  Architectonicall 
termes  of  the  parts  of  it,  as  hypcethross  vionopteros,  *  di- 
pteros,  architrave f  *  Pycnostj/los^  Scheame^  peripteros^ 
hexagon,  &c.  do  rather  obscure  then  illustrate  the  same, 
and  that,  whereas  he  hath  10  designs  of  this  fabrick  all 
in  folio,  one  in  4'°.  may  serve  the  turn  as  well.  Nay 
one  whole  one  is  to  ranch ;  because  the  externall  circle 
of  high  Stones  will  overshadow  allmost  all  within  themj 
as  a  company  of  tall  men,  standing  round  about  a  com- 
pany of  Children.  And  \  think  three  or  four  Stones 
of  each  of  the  5  Circles,  with  verball  apprehensions 
of  the  number  and  dimension  of  the  Stones  of  each 
circle,  will  give  best  intelligence  to  common  capacities, 

which  I  endeavour  to  informe,  and  this  I  have  done  ia      (j-   "^1 
the  frontispice,  and  have  added  Characteristicall  letters     *^    '^ 
to  each  remarkable  part  and  place  of  the  fabrick,  corre* 
lateing  to  what  I  shall  say  concerning  such  particulers. 

2.  The  second  pick-lock,  to  help  the  former,  is  a 
Mapp  of  Wiltshire,  at  least  of  the  Hill  Country  about 
Stonage,  describing  the  antient  British  Names  of  cir- 
cumjacent Hills,  HamlettSj  Rivers,  S^c  For  I  conceive, 
that  the  old  Britons,  which  lived  in  those  places,  took  it 
for  a  great  honour,  that  thence  pittifull  habitations 
should  be  called  after  the  name  of  this  antient  renowi)ed 
mount,  or  some  part  or  propertie  thereof,  and  this  is 
most  observable  in  those  3  eminent  Rivers,  CeUmbum, 
5ltJ0n  and  ^^allllCi:,  runing  from  tlicir  severall  quarters 


'  Diptoros  MS.  H.  ^Pi/mostolos,  Shecne.  perupferos,  MS.  //. 

al- 


488  A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  slwtt  at  Stonage. 

almost  to  ^tonage,  and  meeting  a  little  below  it,  and 
in  many  of  the  hamletts,  situate  on,  or  near,  those  Ri- 
vers, up  to  their  Foiintaines,  both  the  said  Rivers,  and 
many  Villages  on  them,  taking  their  antient  British 
names,  some  from  ^ttOnaffC,  some  from  some,  some 
from  other,  parts  and  properties  thereof,  shortly  after  it 
was  founded,  and  seeing,  that  conveniunt  rebus  nomina^ 
and  that  any  one  of  those  antient  names,  taken  from  ^tOIts 
age,  is  a  Description  of  the  same,  then,  surely,  out  of  many 
of  those  names,  methodically  composed,  may  a  defini- 
tion of  it  be  formed,  at  least  some  such  cotijecture  of 
mine  aforesaid.  And  because  this  nominall  picklock  is 
of  my  invention,  as  he  that  forgeth  a  pick-locke  will 
try  him  upon  some  doore  of  his  own,  before  he  will  ad- 
venture with  it  to  the  publick  treasuric,  so  I  entreat  leave 
to  try,  how  I  can  illustrate  that  famous  monument  the 
hot  Bathe  water  of  ^Bat^C,  by  this  engine,  before  I  make 
use  of  it  on  »)tOn£n0;0.  Suppose  then,  tliat  when  the 
heathenish  Saxons  had  subdued  all  this  Hand,  saving 
lBatl)C  and  parts  adjoyning,  and  at  last  came  so  near 
IBattie  as  SDdjOCam,  now  2DtCCam,  and  having  there 
slain  the  3  Kings  of  ^atljC,  (KlOCCCtC?  and  ClCEnCedCr, 
routed  their  armies,  and  destroyed  those  Cities,  suppose, 
I  say,  upon  the  invasion  of  those  infidelis,  and  destru- 
ction of  those  Christians,  the  Lord  had,  in  his  wrathful! 
indignation,  dryed  up  the  waters  of  life  and  health,  as- 
he  did  'other  sal utiferous  waters,  upon  like  provocation, 
or  that  Merlin's  provecie, /nge^ani  Badonis  balnea^  Sf 
salubres  eoruyn  aquce  mortem  generabant,  had  been  fulU 
filled,  as  soon  as  it  had  been  pronounced ;  and  that  those 


'  Dr.  Ford  of  the  nature  and  use  of  the  Bathes.     Matt.  West, 
pa.  83. 

bar- 


A  Foot's  Bolt  soon  shott  at  Stonage.  489 

barbarous  Saxons  had,  in  their  fiirle,  burnt  the  Ciiie  to 
ashes,  and  nothing  of  it  remaining,  but  the  old  British 
names  thereof  in  antient  histories,  and  in  the  names  of 
Hills,  Rivers,  Hamletts,  Sfc.  near  it,  yet  much  of  the 
Citie,  and  nature  and  propertie  of  the  Bath-water,  might 
be  collected  and  inferred  out  of  those  names  now  a  thou- 
sand jpars  afterward ;  as,  first,  the  tradition  of  the  man- 
ner of  finding  out  the  vertue  of  the  Bath- water  being 
this.  Bladud,  alias  Bluda,  the  son  and  heir  of  Rudhudi- 
bres,  beeing  smitten  with  a  leprosie,  was,  Nebuchad- 
nezar  like,  driven  out  from  amongst  men,  and  became 
a  swineherd  near  iSat^C,  which  was  then  a  bogg  or  quag- 
mire of  hot  water,  in  which  his  swine  often  wallowed, 
and  one  of  them,  being  a  Scabbilonian,  was  thereby 
cured,  whereupon  Bladon  making  triall  of  it  was  also 
cured,  whereupon  he  built  a  Temple,  and  consecrated  it 
io  the  sun,  as  the  God  of  tlie  heat  of  the  Bath-water, 
and  Health,  which  he  recovered  by  the  same,  and  his 
father  dying,  Bladon  reigned  there  in  his  place.  Now 
although  this  is  taken  generally  for  a  fabulous  tradition, 
yet  much  of  it  may  be  proved  by  such  old  British  names, 
as  aforesaid ;  as,  first,  that  ®at^g  was  such  a  bogg,  or  1. 
quagmire,  may  be  inferred  from  the  most  antient  name 
thereof  ■  CaC  BalJOH,  thebogg  of  Bathe,  9^CCetUnC,  (i.  e.) 
Mireton. 

2.  That  there  was  such  a  King  Rudhudibres,  may  be  f 
inferred  from  part  of  his  name,  still  continuing  in  KllU*             ; 
Ue,  and  a  rclique  of  his  Kinglie  dignitie  in  l^inffCVoOOD, 
I^inffCDOtone  adjoyning. 

3.  That  there  was  a  man  of  great  honour  and  fame, 
living  in,  or  near,  Bathe,  of  the  name  Bladon.    For  the 


Matt.  West.  lib.  i». 


490  A  fooi/s  Bolt  soon  shott  at  Stona6£. 

navigable  river,  runin<?  under  the  walls  thereof,  was  call- 
ed, after  his  name,  |;iant=B'allOn,  and  Jaton^BlaDon, 
and  fumen  '  bladon,  (i.  e.)  the  river  of  Bladud,  and 
the  place,  where  ^  9^alm0buriC  now  stands,  on  the  said 
River,  \vas  called  aiJ^blatlOn,  the  fortified  place  of  Bladud. 

4.  That  this  Bladud  was  a  King,  but  reduced  into 
some  miserable  condition  on  the  North  side  of  iBatljC, 
ns  may  be  collected  hy  his  picture  over  the  North  gate 

of  Batl)e. 

5.  That  he  being  healed,  as  aforesaid,  he  lived  in  a 
3  Cave  in  the  side  of  ^alC^buriC  hill  there,  called  vulgb 

Jacliaiiuum  ^oUe,  orthog.  3!ack=cim  trVon  tjoU,  (i.) 

the  Jiealed  King's  hole  in  the  side  of  the  hill,  which  last 
words  intimate,  that  he  had  some  other  Cave,  in  some 
other  place  of  the  said  hill,  and  about  4  jears  since  there 
was  discovered  a  formall  Cave,  vaulted  over  with  some 
Crombs  of  a  man's  bones  in  it,  which  might  be  the  said 
healed  King's  hole  on  the  topp  of  the  hill,  from  thence 
called  Orthog.  »)aUlC=tlJI,  (i.  e.)  hecdth  on  the  topp  of  the 
hill,  in  which  he  might  live,  die,  and  be  buried  in  bis 
own  Cave,  according  to  the  custome  of  those  dayes,  as 
Abraham,  Sara,  <^r. 

6.  That  the  said  ^all0&urie,  being  also  called  ^ol0 
bun'e,  («.  e.)  »)Unf-I)UCie,  (as  another  little  one  also,  at 
the  foot  thereof,  is  called  »)Unl!ate'0  1)111)  the  temple  of 
the  sun  might  be  built  thereon*.  ForHanCDOtone,  IL^mU 
bn'DffC,  and  Ham&CICkj  (i.  e.)  Temple  downe,  Templeridge, 
and  TemplebridgCj  round  about  this  hill,  intimate,  that 
there  was  such  a  heathonish  temple  on  it,  and  what  more 


'  Gull.  Malm.  p.  9.  *  Camb.  Br.  in  Belg.  '  Doinus  antea 
fucrint :  Ovid.  Met.  lib.  7°.  4  For  heathenish  temples  were  built 
•D  high  hills.  Ilor. 

likely 


A  FooL*s  Bolt  soon  sliott  at  Stonage.  ^^i 

likely  place  for  SoVs  temple  then  ^ollSbUCie  ?  and  why 
might  not  that  Image  of  the  Sun,  like  the  face  of  a  man, 
and  '  Hercules,  with  his  Clubb,  affixed  to  the  city  walls, 
be  brought  from  »>Olff:hU?ie,  as  well  as  those  antient  Ro- 
mane  urnes  there  also  brought  out  of  the  Fields? 

7.  That,  in  regard  of  the  supposed  influence  of  the 
Sun  on  the  Batt  water,  it  was  called  ^ol=mer,  (/  )  t^e 
^Un-POOle,aUhoughenphoniedinto^OmmCC,as^falme 
into  pfamc,  and  ^almoit  into  ^ainOH,  because  %  ayite 
m  qmescit. 

8.  That,  upon  the  said  account,  Batlje  was  antient- 
ly  called  »)Ommer0ett,  (i.  e.)  the  scale  or  Citie  of  the 
Sun-poole,  and  the  province  or  County  of  which  it  was 
the  metropolis,  as  somtimes  provincia  Bathoniensis^  som- 
times  Sommersettensis*. 

9.  That  the  vertue  of  the  Bat^  water  being  discovered, 
as  aforesaid,  the  neighbouring  hamlets  (as  those  about 
&  to  naff  C)  ambitiously  attributed  to  themselves  variety 
of  names,  which  they  catched,  or  borrowed,  from  Batl)0, 

asBat5efton,Batl)ampton,Bat5forti,Bati)\3Jicfe,IBat5c^ 
lio\one,  &c. 

10.  That  so  great  was  the  confluence  of  people,  trou- 
bled with  aches,  to  this  City,  that  it  was  thereupon  called 
J2[feemancefter%  (i.)  the  Citie  of  ached  people. 

11.  They  esteemed  so  highly  of  this  water,  as  the  best 
oyntment  for  Limbs,  as  that  they  termed  the  City,  gc  ZXi- 
naint,  The  ointment, 

12.  They  drank  so  frequently  of  this  water,,  that  the 
place  was  also  called,  '^Tto^ttlin,  (i.  e.)  hot  broth. 

13.  They  raised  such  multitudes  of  l)atn0,  (i.  e.)  home' 

^  Hercules  by  his  12  labors  represents  the  Sun  passing  through 
the  12  signs  of  the  Zodiak.  »  Matt.  West.  p.  105.  s  Matt. 
Westm. 

Vol.  II.  s  /y 


493  A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  sliott  at  Stonage. 

i^   Collages f  about  this  water,  as  that  the  ground,  of 
large  circumference,    now   without  the  Citie,   is    called 

Barijamjs,  ©atljetoicfefijamj:^,  &c.  to  this  day. 

14.  That  this  City  Batljam,  lying  in  a  low  valley, 
had  a  ^at!)ampton  (i.  e.)  «  Bathefort^  on  the  toppe  of 
IBat^amptOn  downe,  to  secure  the  mabout  50  acres  off, 
the  topp  whereof  being  surrounded  with  a  strong  Dike 
and  Rampire,  a  sallic  port  to  issue  out  upon  occasion  on 
<iriaU0CtOn0  downe,  and  military  worke  about  100  yeards 
off,  to  secure  their  issues  and  retreats,  and  avenue  ex- 
lending  from  the  fort  down  the  hill  directly  towards 
^at^C)  whereby  the  Bathonians  might  pass  and  repass 
securely   and   invisiblely   between  ^at'^aiH  and    25at^s 

ampton. 

15.  That,  in  proccsse  of  time,  there  was  so  niuch  re- 
sort to  this  hill,  that  they  dwelt  here  and  there  over  .ill 
the  downes,  which,  before  inclosurcs,  was  comprized 
all  under  the  name  of  ;35atlOIl,  and,  upon  that  account, 

Batlje  was  also  called  Sation,  IBaHoiiia,  IBat^oit,  253-- 
tl)onia,  &;c. 

16.  That,  for  their  better  security,  they  afterward 
fortified  the  said  Uowne  in  more  places,  as  near  'illulUe 
Lane  end,  CillOnClJIClj,  or  'E^Off^toOtienftlltfee,  &>c.  and 
thereupon  it  was  called  CaiC^BaDon,  the  forlijied  Baihe- 
downe.  So  that,  I  say  again,  if  Batl)e  had  been  anni- 
hilated 1000  years  since,  yet  these  and  the  like  names 
of  it,  and  other  neigbbouriug  places,  preserved,  a  philan- 
tiquarie  might  easily  out  of  them  extract  both  these,  and 
many  more,  things,  which  otherwise  would  continue  bu- 
ried in  oblivion,  and  much  of  the  fabrick,  and  many  of 
the  names,  of  ^tonafft,  and  parts  and  properties  there- 
of, being  hitherto  preserved,  I  hope,  I  shall  do  the  like 
thereupon,  beginning  with  the  lirst  particuler  of  my  con- 
jecture, viz.  1.  fetonaff^ 


A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  shott  at  Stonage.  493 

1.  »>tOn£l0;0  is  an  old  British  monument ;  where,  first, 
I  shall  briiflj  shew,  who,  and  what,  the  old  Britons 
were,  and  afterward,  that  this  was  an  old  British  monu- 
ment. 

The  old  Britons  were  the  first  of  six  Nations,  which 
had  the  possession  of  this  Land  successively,  viz.  old  BrU 
ionSf  Bel^ce,  Romanes^  Saxons,  Danes  and  Nonnans. 
The  old  Britons  came  origenally  from  the  Tower  of  '  Ba- 
bell  tlius.  Shortly  after  the  deluge,  the  Lord  having 
blessed  Noah  and  his  posterity,  saying,  be  fruitfully  mul- 
tiplie  and  replenish  the  earthy  *  they  notwithstanding  had 
been  fruitfull,  and  had,  in  a  short  time,  multiplied  in- 
credibly, yet  they  obstinately  refused  to  replenish  the 
«eartli,  but  said,  go  too,  let  us  build  us  a  Citie  and  a  Tower 
in  it,  whose  topp  may  r&ach  unto  heaven,  least  we  be 
scattered  over  the  face  of  the  whole  earth  ;  so  they  in- 
tended to  dwell  in  their  Cilie  together,  and  to  secure 
themselves  from  any  future  flood  in  the  Tower,  but  the 
Lord  confounded  their  one  (cis.  the  Hebrew)  in  52 
Languages,  so  that  they,  not  understanding  each  other, 
^  Babling  about  carrying  on  the  Worke,  were  necessitated 
to  give  it  over  unfinished,  and  then  each  principall  ma  i 
amongst  them  having  sought  out,  and  brought  together,  j 

such  as  cotdd  understand  his  language,  conducted  them  j 

into  the  severall  parts  of  the  earth,  where  many  of  them 
are  called  after  (heir  conducters  narafs  to  this  day,  as 
the  Medes  from  Madai,  the  Moscovites  from  Mesech 
alias  Mosoch,   the   Canonites  from  Canan,  and  Gomer^  '   [ 

the  eldest  son  of  Japhet,   calling  together  all  such  as  ■ 

could  understand  ♦  (Bomcrarff,  as  the  speech  of  Gomer, 

'  Camb.  Brit.  *  F.  tiotzeiihstanding  they  had.  II.  i  From 
whence  it  was  called  J^abzll.  Verst.  Ant.  4  The  Britons  of  Wales 
call  thfir  language  Somerafg,  to  this  day. 

s  2  con- 


494  ji  Fool's  Boll  soon  sliott  at  Stonage. 

conducted  tliem  to,  and  seated  tbem  in,  France,  whert 
they  were  called  Gomeri  after  old  Gomer,  and  some  of 
them  into  Britaine.  But  because  '  he  doth  not  parti- 
cularize the  place,  where  they  were  first  seated,  give  me 
leave  io  conjecture,  that  it  was  in  9^0Unt  C^Omert  in 
Wales  (for  that  is  also  called  'QTcefaltlffUin,  the  famous  old 
Towne^  a  proper  name  for  such  old  Towns-men.)  From 
^OUnt  CDontCji  they  might  dilate  their  plantation  over 
all  amount  (I5omecifl|)iCe,  still  called  Gomori,  as  long  as 
they  had  such  garments  *  as  their  fore-fathers  had ;  but 
those  being  worne  out,  and  they  being  destitute  (in  this 
wilderness)  of  meanes  to  recruite  apparrell,  yet  found 
expedients  to  paint  their  naked  bodies  with  severall 
Coullers  of  Cloathes,  and  then  they  were  no  longer  called 
Gomeri j  but  Britons^  (i.  e.)  Painters,  and  their  land 
%  Britaine,    (i.   e.)    the   painted    fiation'.     Some   families 

I  painted  gtolll  white,  some  DU  blacl;  some  (3lSl0  blew,  some 

I  (30t\^  (pronounced  (Boff)  red,  some  HlOlD  (pronounced 

JflO^tl)  green,  and  this  is  the  originall  of  those  common 
I         names  CDtDin,  2DU,  CPlajS,  (Boff  and  iflOltl,  amongst  their 
I         posteritie  in  Wales  to  this  day.     He  that  desires  any  fur- 
/    [         ther    intelligence    concerning  the  old  Britons,    let  him 
/  reade  Caesar's  Commentaries,  Strabo,   Diodorus  Siculus, 

Pomponius  Mela,  Solinus,  Dio  Cassius,  Ziphiline,  Plinius 
Secundus,  Cambden,  Speede,  Sfc. 

Haying  seen  who  the  old  Britons  were,  we  may,  in 
the  next  place,  well  look  upon  this  »>tona0:e  as  an  old 
British  monument.  If  it  had  but  one  old  British  name,  it 
were  a  probable  argument,  that  it  was  an  old  British 
thing.  For  conveniunt  rebus  nomina,  ut  supra.  For 
who,  but  old  British  Founders,  would  have  given  it  an 


Camb.  Brit.      *  Gen.  9.      3  Camb.  Brit,  de  prim,  incol. 

old 


A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  sliott  c^Stonage.  405 

old  British  name?  But  it'  I  can  produce,  at  least,  oIJ 
British  names  thereof,  and  parts  and  properties  thereof, 
and  not  one  Belgick,  Romane,  Saxon,  Deanish  or  Nor- 
man name  thereof  (but  the  nick-name  '  »)tOn0^Cn0;0) 
then,  surely,  it  was  an  old  British  monument.  I  forbear 
mentioning  those  names  now,  because  I  would  not  tau- 
tologize, when  I  shall  have  occasion  both  to  mention 
and  interpret  sometimes  one,  sometimes  another,  of 
them.  But  the  Architector  (and  I  wish  I  could  say  the 
Antiqiiarie)  Jones  is  point  blanck  against  a  British,  and 
also  for  a  Romane,  Monument,  and  I  will  complie  with 
him,  as  farr  as  I  may,  by  saying,  it  might  be  a  Romane 
work,  but  not  a  Romane  Monument.  For  it  is  true, 
which  he  raainteins  at  large,  that  this  monument  was 
framed  according  io  the  most  exquesite  rules  of  Archi- 
tecture, in  which  the  pittifull  naked  Britons  had  no 
knowledge  at  all,  and  the  Romans  were  the  most  expert 
men  in  the  world  in  that  art,  and  might  be  hired  by  the 
Britons  to  do  that  work  for  them.  For  *  there  was  a 
commerce  between  the  BrKons  and  forreigne  nations, 
before  Julius  Caesar's  dayes,  insomuch  that  the  Grecians 
frequented  this  Hand  upon  this  account ;  and  if  so,  then 
much  more  the  nearer  and  more  Architectonicall  Ro- 
manes, who  as  they  '  taught  and  helped  the  Britons  io 
build  tempells  after  they  had  conquered  them  (being 
well  hired,)  so  might  some  of  them  build,  or  help  them 
to  build,  this  one  before  they  conquered  them,  and,  in 
this  respect,  it  might  be  called  a  Roman  work,  but  no 
more  a  Romane  Monument,  or  Temple,  then  the  tem- 
ple of  the  Jews  might  be  called  the  temple  of  the  Gen- 


'  (/.  e.)  Stone  hanging  place,  because  some  remaices  of  it  are 
like  gallowes.    *  Cass.  Com.  lib.  5.    i  Cornelius  Tacitus, 

s  3  tiles. 


496  A  Fool's  Bolt  sooushoU  at  Stona6e. 

liles,  because  the  Gentiles  had  the  chiefest  hand  in  builds 
ing  it  for  the  Jews.  The  Romans  endeavoured  (no  way 
more,  then)  by  magnificent  Structures  to  perpetuate  their 
fame,  as  well  in  this  Hand,  as  in  other  places,  and,  to 
this  end,  they  imposed  their  Romane  names  on  them,  as 
Templum  Claudii;  ac  Camulodunum^  consecreated  Vi' 
ctorite ;  murus  Severi,  extending  from  Sea  to  Sea  in 
the  North  of  this  Land  ;  the  fosse  way  from  the  Roman 
fossa,  a  ditch  on  each  side  of  it,  out  of  which  the  earUi 
was  cast  up ;  '  Antonini  Jtinerarium,  by  which  lie  dc- 
vided  Britaine  into  16  Itinera,  and  every  Iter  into  12, 
13  or  14  Mansions,  some  Reminnders  of  some  of  thera 
to  be  seen  to  this  day.  Not  so  much  as  that  paltrie  tot* 
tering  bridge,  built  by,  or  for,  the  Romanes,  near  (BlaD 
fcnbUjiC,  but  must  be  called  by  the  Romane  name  Pons 
periculosus,  and  is  called  ^OllTperl^  at  this  day.  and  if 
so,  then,  surely,  this  most  glorious  monument  (if  it  had 
been  Roman)  shohkl  have  been  called  after  the  name  of 
one  of  the  RomaU  Emperors,  as  *  founders  of  it,  at  least 
by  some  other  Roman  name  or  word ;  but  no  Roman 
Bame,  word  or  syllable,  on  or  near  it,  but  all  British,  is 
argumentum  Herculissimum,  that  it  was  no  Roman,  but 
a  British,  monument. 

2.  My  second  particuler  is,  that  a  bloody  battle  was 
foughten  at  ^tonage.  For  the  very  name  »>tOn£affe, 
signifies  Stone^battle,  the  last  syllable  age  comeing  from 
'  the  Greek  aywv,  a  furious  battle,  and  a  village  near 
fetOna8;e  is  called  JfittU=tOn,  not  in  regard  of  it's  owne 


■♦  See  Burton's  Com.  on  it.  »  F.  founder.  H.  *  When  the 
€rraecians  came  and  traded  with  the  Britoas,  they  left  some  part  of 
their  words  compounded  with  British,  as  3fj5i0,  ^t>ama0i0,  age 
in  S)ton80e»  Camb.  Brit,  in  BeJg.  Speede. 

Si- 


A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  shott  at  Stowage.  497 

Situation  (in  a  valley;)  bat  because  it  is  near  the  Jight- 
tullton,  or  place  '  hired  in,  where  the  fight  was,  (i.  e.) 
^tOnagC,  which  stand  in  the  midst  of  a  multitude  of 
burrowes,  (i.  e.J  burying  hillocks,  which  are  the  tumuli 
or  tombes,  in  which  the  slaine  of  the  battle  were  buried. 
He  that  can  not,  or  will  not,  believe  it,  let  him  scearch 
one  of  them,  and  there  see  the  fragments  of  mens  bones, 
and  peices  of  their  old  fashoned  armour,  spoken  of  by 
Cambdeii,  Speede,  Sec.  and  conclude,  as  I  do,  this  par- 
ticuler,  that  all,  that  have  built  their  opinion  of  this  mo- 
nument, on  any  other  foundation,  then  a  bloody  battle, 
have  built  ^itOnagCJJ  in  the  aire. 

8.  This  blouilie  battle  proiliiccd  a  glorious  Victorie. 
It  was  not  bellum  ancepa^  or  a  drawn  battle.  He  that 
runeth  may  reade  almost  clear  Victorie  of  the  one  over 
(he  other  armio,  i/i  the  numerous  iraines  of  burrowes,. 
with  mens  bones  in  them,  extt'ndiiig  from  »»tOna0;0  to 
ianUSfhurie,  and  from  thence  to  the  topp  of  l^araDon  ^lll, 
about  5  miies  in  all  the  burrowes,  being  very  great,  and 
standing  tlicke  at,  and  near,  »)tOnag;C,  and  still  smaller 
and  thinner  till  near  the  topp  of  i^acaUOIl  ^\\\,  plainly 
declaring  the  great  execution  done  neare  »itOnaff0,  and 
that  the  conquered  Armic  fled  toward  l^acadon  l)ill,  the 
conquer'ng  armie  pursued  them  thither,  and  slew  many 
thousands  of  them,  and  buried  them  in  heaps  together, 
in,  atd  near,  London  way  to  the  said  hill. 

4.  That  this  V^ictorie  was  won  by  the  Cangi  of  (BlaD* 
Cr-ljaf,  viz,  the  people  of  Sommersett,  who  *  where  all 
called  Cangi\  (i.  e.)  Singers  to  iiislruments  of  Mustek^ 
from*  (EanijJ,    CanUcum    organi  musici,   in   which,   it 


'  r.  buried.  H.     *  Sic.  //.     ^  Camb.  Erit.  in  Eelg.  ex  Ta- 
cito.    ■♦  Dr.  Davis  Die.  Brit.  Lat. 

8  4  seeras, 


> 


i         ^ 

498  A  Fool's  Bolt  soonshott  at  Stonage. 

seems,  they  delighted  so  much,  that,  as  the  old  BrU 
tons  did,  so  their  posteritie  of  Wales  do,  call  Sommer- 
sett  (0lall;CC»^afi  ifie  merry  'Sunwier -field ^  to  this  day. 
The  Cangi  then  were  the  Wcslermost  inhabitants  of  this 
Hand.  For  Devon  and  Cornwall  were  not  then  inhabited, 
and  their  f.rovince  extended  East-ward  either  to,  or  near 
unto,  »)tOna0;P»  For  Mr.  Cambden  '  intimatelh,  that 
Canninff0  ll^unll^Cdj  reaching  within  few  miles  of  ^ton= 
agE,  was  so  called,  as  bdng  part  of  the  Caiigies  territo- 
ries, *  whence  I  inferr,  that  if  the  traine  of  burying  hil- 
locks aforesaid,  had  extended  from  »)tona8;C  westward, 
then  the  Cangi  had  been  routed  and  sliine  in  their  flight 
home- ward.  But  the  traine  extending  East- ward  de- 
clareth,  that  the  Cangi,  c  )ming  out  of  their  westerne 
parts,  routed  their  enemies  assoone  as  they  began  to  en- 
ter upon  their  frontiers,  and  pursued  them  East-ward  to- 
wards their  homes,  or  quarters,  as  more  in  due  place. 
5.  That  these  Cangi  were  Giants  will  appear, 

1.  by  their  names.  For  Cambden',  Speed,  <Srr.  affirme, 
that  this  monument  was  antiently  called  the  Giants 
dance,  and  Canning^  or  the*Canging:0,  near  ^totiaffe, 
signifie  Canffick  (Btantcf. 

2.  Qy  their  chaines,  intimated  by  all  the  names  of  Ri- 
vers and  Villages  on  them  near  »)tOnagt,  whick  have 
the  syllable  in  or  ^nij  in  them*.  For  they  come  from 
Heb.  *^nafe,  which  signifies  a  Giant  hanging  a  Chain 
about  his  neck,  as  tliose  Anakims  in  the  scripture,  and 
such  Anakims  were  the  Gigantick  old  Brilons,  wearing 
Chaines  about  their  necks  and  wasts.     '  vestis  usum  non 


'  Camb.  in  Belg.  »  Whenche  MS.  H.  i  Camb.  in  Belg. 
4  Cangimgs  MS.  //.  5  Dr.  Da\is  his  Die.  Br.  Lat.  *  Leighe's 
Grit.  Sac.  p.  373.  and  Ainsworth  Ps.  726.     '>  Herodian,  pa.  106. 

cognO' 


A  FooL*s  Bolt  soon  sliott  at  Stonage.  499 

eogmrunt,  ventrem  atqiie  cermcem  ferro  incingunt,  or- 
nwnentum  id  esse,  ac  divitiarum  argumentum,  existi* 
mantes,  and  thus  pride  compassed  them  about  as  a  chaine 
*  Psalm  Lxxiii. 

3.  By  some  huge  bones  of  men,  found,  amongst  others, 
in  the  said  burrowes,  as  aforesaid,  and  in  other  pluces  near 
fetonag;e,  according  to  the  very  words  of  Sr.  Thomas  El- 
liott in  his  Dictionarie,  on  the  word  Gigras.     SlbOUt  SO 

peaciS  fince  31  mp  Telf,  Mn^  toitt)  mp  farijec,  ^r.  Ei-- 

tfjajn  (Elliott,  at  a  9^3nafterie  of  regular  Canoncf  (tfirce     

or  torn  miles  front  Stonage,)  be^eltt  tt)e  t)onc0  of  a 
titaU  man  founti  Ueep  in  t^e  grounti,  tofiict)  btins  io^n- 
eU  tojetljer,  toas  m  lengtlj  *  is  foot  anU  lO  inclje??, 
teliercof  one  of  tl)e  teetlj  mg  fatljer  t)aU,  toliic^  toas  of 
tt)e  quantitp  of  a  ff^eat  Voallnut.  %W  1  tiatJe  torit^ 
ten,  (saith  he)  betaufe  fome  men  twill  beleite  notljing:, 
tljat  i&  out  of  tlje  compafgf  of  tlieir  oton  knotoleOge* 

He  that  cannot  beleive  Sir  Thomas  Elliott,  let  him  see  a 
Giant's  tooth,  which  I  can  shew  him,  diged  up  Anno 
Domini  1670.  at  {UHeeDmOOre  near  (l(Ucll0,  three  inches 
long  above  the  roots,  S  inches  about,  and  4  ounces  in 
weight,  and  at  the  Lord  Sturton's  house  in  »)turt01l 
Cauntiell,  (i.  e.)  the  borders  of  the  Cangi,  a  Giant's 
thigh  bone  of  a  full  yeard,  in  which  instances  argue,  that, 
as  amongst  the  Canonites,  so  amongst  the  conquering 
CangU  there  were  races  of  Giants  10  principall  Com- 
manders, in  regard  of  which  »)tOnage  was  called  Giants 
Dance,  For  Denominatio  sumitur  a  pnestantiori.  Arist. 
Organ. 


'  Psalm  XXX.  By  &c.  MS*  without  either  the  figure  of  3,  or  be- 
ginning a  new  Paragraph.  H,  *  'Tis  xiiii.  in  some  Editions  of 
Elyot.  H, 

4.  by 


90^  ^  Fool's  Bolt  soon  sJwti  at  Stonage. 

4.  by  their  armour,  or  peices  of  it,  (whicb,  when 
new,  was  large  enough  for  Giants)  found  there  also.  But 
5.  here  I  must  distinguish  Giants  into  two  sorts,  Giants  of 
antiquitie,  and  Giants  of  abilitie,  and  so  declare  what 
sort  of  these  2  the  Cangi  were.  Giants  of  antiquity  were 
so  called  in  respect  of  their  senioritie,  as  if  they  had  not 
been  borne  into  the  world  by  the  way  of  all  flesh.  For 
they  being  heathens,  and  not  beleiving  any  Creation, 
supposed  the  first  inhabitants  of  each  nation,  were  brought 
forth  by  the  earth,  as  froggs,  mice,  serpents,  and  here- 
upon the  earth  was  worshiped  by  the  name  of  Dea  ma- 
ter, and  the  first  inhabitants  termned  Terrce  Jilii,  and 
terra  editi,  and  Gigantes,  (a  yhofAxi  sr  vaTa,  Dorice  ya) 
that  is,  men  brought  forth  hy  the  earth,  according  to  that 
of  the  Poet': 

Terra  feros  partus,  immania  monstra  GiganheSf 
JEdtdit. 

And  such  were  the  Giants  of  antiquity.  Giants  of  abili- 
ty were  men  of  a  very  great  stature  and  strength.  And 
these  Cangick  Conquerors  were  Giants  both  of  great  An- 
tiquitie and  Abilitie.  Their  great  Antiquitie  may  ap- 
pear in  <aUpn0;tOn,  orthog.  <aidintOn,  (i.  e.)  ajitieiit  Giants 
ton.  Their  abilitie  in  ^Mmffton,  (i.  e.)  able  or  strong 
Giants-ton.  For  neither  of  these  two  names  were  proper 
to  either  of  those  villages,  but  borrowed  from  ^tonagC 
as  aforesaid,  and  now  restored  to  ^tonaffC,  to  declare 
the  antiquity  and  ability  of  the  Cangick  Giants,  which 
here  conquered.  As  ex  ungue  Leonem,  so  ex  dents  Gi^ 
gantem,  it  is  easie  to  conjecture  at  the  incredible  stature 


^'Ovid.  Meta. 

and 


K 


/^^<^  C-'     ^.t/f.      J  ttj^/^-t.^^^' 


A  Fool's  Bolt  ^oon  shott  at  St  on  age.  301' 

and  strength  of  a  Cangick  Giant,  by  the  topp  of  his  skull 

an  inch  thick,  and  a  tooth  of  his,  which  I  have,  3  inches 

long*  now  since  the    root  is  broken  away,    and  three 

inches  and  a  quarter  round,  and  three  ounces  and  half 

in  weight,  being  full  four  ounces  till    the  roots  were 

broken  off;   so  that,  according  to  this  instance,  the  Can* 

gick  Giants  were  very  mucli  greater  and  stronger  then 

Goliah,  or  any  other  of  the  Giants  described  in  the  Scri-!-  y' 

pture.     Mr.  Cambden  writes  of  two  teeth  of  a  Giant,  out  \/ 

of  which  SOO  ordinary  teeth  might  be  cut,  and  this  one 

Cheektooth  weiglieth  just  100  Cheek  teeth. 

6.  That  the  commander  in  chase  of  these  Cangi  was 
the  famous  old  *  Stanenges  of  (BlaU^ar-taf  aforesaid, 
which  gives  demonstration  affC,  as  ^tOnaffC  was  one,  so 
»>tancnp0  another,  Britannick-GraBcian  name  of  this 
Monument,  compounded  of  ^taitC  and  lyyvs^  (i.  e.)  Stones 
pitched  up  near  together ;  and  as  ^tancngejf  was  the 
name  of  this  antient  Monument,  so  also  of  a  most  antient 
family  flourishing  in  (BlaD:aC-'yaf  to  this  day,  which  name 
could  not  arise  from  any  other  place,  or  thing,  then  this 
monument.  I^'or  there  was  never  an^  other  place,  of 
tiling,  of  this  name  but  this. 

Therefore,  the  prime  Ancestour,  of  the  family  Sta- 
nenges, took  his  name  from  this  monument  ^tOntflffCjS, 
which  being  easily  granted,  it  will  be  enquired,  upon 
what  account  he  took  his  name  from  this  monument? 
and  answered,  it  must  be  either  from  his  'habitation 
there,  or  from   some  action   performed    there  by  him, 


'  These  reliquesof  a  Cangick  Giant,  were  found  13  foot  deep 
in  digging  of  a  draught  well,  in  OaaeUmore,  Anno  Domini  1670, 
2  H.  Hun.  lib.  prime  Histor.  3As  i&ill  nalctPOoB,  ^eatlC  ficID,  <5rc. 
were  so  called  from  their  dwelling  m  such  places, 

No$ 


A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  shott  at  Stonage. 

Not  from  any  inhabitation  there.  For  it  was  an  heathen- 
ish Temple,  as  shall  be  shewed,  and  the  inhabiting  in,  or 
at,  it  had  been  esteemed  a'grealer  prophanation^  then 
the  dwelling  in  a  Church  or  Chappell.  Besides,  there 
was  no  water,  nor  any  other  accommodation  for  a  dwell- 
ing, within  2  or  3  miles  of  it.  So  the  name  of  »)tarien; 
g;C0  was  not  taken  from  any  habitation  there,  but  from 
some  action  performed  there;  and  what  action  could 
that  be,  but  from  conquering,  and  erecting  this  Trophic 
there?  Nimrod  the  conquerour,  and  his  adherents, 
would  needs  build  him  a  '  Bable  to  get  him  a  name,  and 
from  what  else  could  Tropliimus,  and  others  of  that 
name  before  and  since  him,  take  their  Tropicall  names, 
but  from  their  Trophies?  And  why  should  not  old  Sta- 
nenges  take  his  name  from  ») tan CnffC0  also;  as  he  did 
his  Arms,  3  Batts  volitant  in  a  field  argent,  from  the 
innumerable  multitude  of  Batts  (the  peculiar  animals  of 
that  place)  ambuscadeing  there  by  day,  and  rendevouz- 
ing  by  night,  never  so  much  as  any  sheep  coming  io 
rubbe  or  shelter  there.  Or  in  what  respect  could  their 
most  antient  ^OUni-CUtt,  alias  !^onniall--CUtt,  (i.  e.)  it- 
lustrious  court i  be  so  called,  -but  from  that  most  antient 
illustrious  Stanenges  of  ^OliniCUtt,  who  wonne  the  field, 
and  erected  the  Trophic  aforesaid  ? 

7.  The  people  conquered  by  the  Cangi  were  King  Di" 
vitiacus  and  his  Belgce  of  Low  Germanic.     For 

1.  The  king  Divitiacus  and  his  Belgce  were  the  on- 
ly people  recorded,  that  invaded  the  old  Britons,  and 
therefore  if  the  old  Britons  conquered  such  as  invaded 
them,  they  were  the  King  Divitiacus  and  his  Belgte, 


«  No  monument  was  ever  erected,  but  to  gett  the  owner  a 
name* 

2.  Ju- 


A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  shott  at  Stonage.  '50S 

2.  Julius  Caesar  saith,  that  '  Dhitiactis  magnum  partem 
BrilannicB  obtinebat  nostra  etiam  memorid ;  which  great 
part  of  Britair.e  Mr.  Cambden  suppose(h  was  Hampshire, 
AViltshire,  and  Sommersett,  called  antientiy  the  Belgce, 
after  the  name  of  those  which  conquered  them  ;  but  Ju- 
lius Caesar  doth  not  say,  they  conquered  them  without 
any  repulse.  Julius  Cassar  himself  was  routed  2  or  3 
times  by  the  Britons,  before  he  could  subdue  that  little 
part  of  Britaine  which  he  did,  and  therefore  King  Di- 
vitiacus  and  his  Belgw  might  be  routed,  at  least,  once 
by  them,  and  at  ^tOItaffC,  before  they  could  vincere  that 
great  part  of  Britaine  called  Belgce. 

3.  The  armie,  which  was  conquered,  fled  Northeast 
directly  towards  Belgium^  as  the  traine  of  Burrowes 
aforesaid  declares. 

4.  ^araHun  ^ill,  orthog.  ^er\x>tiun,  to  which  the 

routed  armie  fled  for  refuge,  is  a  Belgick  word,  or  name, 
signifying  the  hill  of  refuge,  and  who  was  so  likely  as 
the  Belgce,  to  give  it  a  Belgick  name  of  refuge,  when 
being  routed  at  ^tOnaffC,  they  fled  back  thither  for  re- 
fuge? all  which  being  put  together,  will  amount  to  some 
such  historic,  insteade  of  a  Chronicle,  as  this: 

Divitiarus,    King  of    the    Belgce,    invading   Britaine 
with  his  Salii  o^  Belgium^  came  into  Wiltshire,  and  quar- 
tered   and   plundered    all    over   the    Salisburie  g  g^j^ 
Plaine,  particularly  at  ^aletfiorpe,  ^UCfflCale,       ^^out  Stonlflc"  an 

l^uttifale,  *  Sl^artinCale,  9^artinCale,  ^Luffale,     not  one  more  in  a 

«Sr.  so  called  from  the  Salii,   which  were  the       ^^iits,   Hampts.   St 
chief  people    of   the   Belgce.      Old   Stenenges      "^''^"'  ^'  0°"^"- 
and  his  Ca n gi  drevr  up  their  Armie  in  geaCn0t)UCie,  orth, 

gamaitpun'e,  Cattle,  5  miles  Westward  from  ^ton. 


C;esar's  Com.  Lib.  5.       *  Sic.  H. 

afff; 


A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  shott  at  Stonage. 

age,  Divitiacus  and  his  armie  from  the  topp  of  ^drfls^ 
tlOn  1)111  5  miles  Northeast  thereof,  where,  after  they 
had  faced  each  other  a  while,  they  meii  and  fought  a 
bloudie  battle  in  the  midd-way,  where  the  BelgcB  being 
routed,  fled  homeward  toward  their  said  hill  of  refuge, 
but  so  many  of  their  Salii  were  slain  and  buried  in  the 
burrowes  aforesaid,  that  the  field  was  ever  since  called 

^aU'jsbune  ^lalne. 

8.  The  Cangick  Giants  having  conquered,  triumphed 
over  their  enemies  at  ^tonage,  which,  upon  that  occa- 
sion, was  called  the  Giants  danccj  and  this  triumphant 
singing  and  dancing  together,  at  the  time  and  place  of 
Victorie,  was  the  common  practice  of  the  antients.  So 
when  '  Jephtha  had  conquered  the  Ammonites,  the  Israe- 
lites triumphed  with  timbrell  and  dances.  So  assoone  as 
*  David  had  slain  Goliah,  and  the  Philistines  were  rout- 
ed, the  Isralites  triumphed,  singing  and  dancing  with 
Tabretts  and  joy,  and  with  instruments  of  Musick,  and 
the  women  answered  one  to  another  as  they  played,  Saul 
hath  slain  his  thousands,  and  David  his  ten  thousands. 
So  assoon  as  the  Lord  had  given  victorie  to  the  Isralites 
over  the  Egyptians,  and  that  they  saw  the  Egyptians 
dead  upon  the  Sea  shore,  ^  Then  sang  Moses  and  th^ 
Children  of  Israeli  this  song  unto  the  Lord  &c.  and  then 
verss  the  20'^.  Miriam  the  Prophetess,  the  sister  of  Aa- 
ron, took  a  timbrell  in  her  hand^  and  all  the  women  went 
out  after  her  with  Tabretts  and  with  dances,  and  Mi^ 
riam  answered  them,  sing  ye  to  the  Lord,  for  he  hath 
triumphed  gloriously ,  And  yet  not  long  *  after  they  sang 
and  danced  a  palinodia,  like  an  herd  of  skipping  and 


•Judges  the  \V\      »1  Sam.   18.  6.       » Exodus  15.   1. 
•♦  Expdus  32.  and  the  8. 

bleating 


A  Fool's  Boll  soon  shott  at  Stonage.  ^509 

bleating  Calves,  to  the  similitude  of  a  '  Calf  that  *  eathetk 
hay^  sitting  down  to  eat  aiid  drink,  and  riseing  up  to 
flay,  dancing  and  singing,  (much  out  of  Tune)  these  he 
thy  Gods,  O  Israeli,  which  have  brought  ^  the  up  out  of  the 
land  of  Egypt,  and  this  Idolatrous  singing  and  dancing 
being  too  easily  learned  of  the  Gentiles  from  tlie  Jewes, 
•was  put  in  practice  at  i^tOttajC,  by  the  Cangick  Giants 
of  (Blati^ejifjaf,  which  was  thereupon  called  the  Giants 
dance. 

9.  But  all  this  singing  and  dancing  did  but  beate  the 
aire,  uncapable  of  any  legible  impression,  in  which  poste- 
ritie  might  read  this  glorious  victorie;  therefore  they 
thought  it  expedient  to  erect  this  Monument,  as  their 
♦Trophic,  and  as  such  a  Gazett,  as  all  the  world  might 
gaze  at,  and  in  it  admire  their  Heroicall  valour  through 
all  generations  :  and  herein  also  they  imitated,  or  rather 
emulated,  the  Isralites,  who  being  delivered  from  the 
Egyptians,  and  having  trampled  the  Red  Sea  and  Jor- 
dan (opposing  them)  under  their  feet,  did,  by  God's  com- 
mand, erect  a  ^tonag;^  of  twelve  Stones  in  the  midst  of 
Jordan,  whence  it  was  driven  back,  and  they  are  'there, 
saith  Josuah  ^,  unto  this  day,  standing,  perhaps,  as  a  cir- 
culer  guard  of  Souldiers,  up  to  their  middle  in  water,  as 
keeping  in  possession  what  had  been  conquered  as  afore- 
said; and  another  such  a  »>t0na5e  of  12  Stones  they 
carried  to  their  first  quarters,  and  erected  them  as  a  me- 
morial! to  the  Children  of  Israeli  lor  ever.  vers.  7. 


'  Psahn.  106.  ver.  20.  Sfc.  «  Sic.  //.  J  Sic.  H.  4  A 
Tgifw,  to  turne,  because  it  was  set  at  the  place,  where  their  Ene- 
mies were  turned  to  flight,  at  the  beginning  of  the  trains  of  the 

Burrowes  afofesaidj  ^c.    «  They  MS.  H.    6  Joshua  the  4''' 
fit*. 

This 


506  A  Fool's  Boll  soon  slwlt  at  Stonage. 

This  Tropbie  of  these  Giants  was  called  Sl^annjllff, 
orthogr.  '  Sl^an^nff,  (i.  e.)  Giants  great  Stone,  observa- 
ble in  the  3  S^aiX^ng;  fOCD0,  so  called,  because  at  each 
of  those  villages  there  are  fords  to  pass  over  that  River, 
which  runeth  downe  near  to  S^an^no;,  or  Giants  great 
Stones.  So  that  although  that  River  is  commonly  called 
i^tlOn  (i.  e.)  the  River,  yet  the  proper  name  is  Q^atl^ng, 
the  Giants  great  Stones,  from  runing  down  near  them, 
as  jflOtmantOn,  orth,  I^O^ttmantOn,  (i.  e.)  the  Towne 
standing  nearest  to  them ;  and  all  this  may  be  exempli- 
fied by  other  old  British  Trophies,  all  resembling  ^tOfl* 
SLQZ  in  theire  circuler  formes,  British  names,  and  some 
other  respects,  although  not  in  magnificence,  as 

1.  The  first  was  also  called  9^antOIl  near  Marlbur- 
rowe,  from  a  pettie  »>tonaff0  there,  of  eight  huge  Stones, 
now  called  the  broad  Stones,  antiently  standing,  but 
now  lying  circularly  in  London  way,  testified  to  be  a 
British  Trophie,  by  the  fragments  of  mens  bones  found 
in  the  Burrowes  in  the  fields  adjoyning. 

2.  On  ^Ctenhujrotoesl  %il\,  4  Miles  West  of  Marie- 
burrow  near  London  way,  are  40  great  Stones,  sometimes 
standing,  but  now  lying  in  a  large  Circle,  inclosing  an  inner 
circle  of  16  great  Stones,  now  lying  also,  testified  to  be 
an  old  British  Trophie  by  the  Anglo-British  name  there- 
of, (viz.)  Seaven  Burrowes,  and  by  those  7  huge  Bur- 
rowes very  near  it  with  fragments  of  mens  bones. 

3.  At  Stanton  2D?U,  six  miles  on  the  South  of  Bri- 
stoll,  are  8  Stones  bigger  then  the  greatest  of  those  at 
fe)tOnagC,  but  their  topps  broken  ofi",  so  that  they  are 


'  ^&n  signifies  such  a  great  stone  as  a  pilier,  milstone  Sfc. 
from  which  the  British  proyerb  CaUclaci)  fllito,  naman:  durior 
est  fortis  quam  saxum. 

not 


A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  shott  at  Stonage.  50T 

not  above  12  foot  high  standing  circulerlie,  and  round 
about,  within  200  yeard  of  those  8,  arc,  at  least,  60 
more  smaller  stones,  6,  7  or  8  foot  high,  standing  up- 
light. 

This  was  an  old  British  Trophic,  as  may  appear  by 
the  name  thereof,  reteined  still  in  I  he  name  of  the  parrish, 
in  which  it  stands,  t?z.  »)tantOm2DjU,  the  Stone  Town 
of  Victorie.  2  by  the  smaller  stones,  monuments  of  the 
Conquerours  friends  '  their  slain,  one  of  which  being 
lately  fallen,  in  the  Pitt,  in  which  it  stood,  were  found 
the  crumbes  of  a  man's  bones,  and  a  round  bell,  like  a 
large  horse-bell,  with  a  skrcw  as  the  stemme  of  it; 
whence  I  conjecture,  that  as  the  circle  of  large  Stones 
was  the  Trophic  of  victorie,  so  those  smaller  were  mo-  • 
numents  of  friends  slain  in  wining  tlie  Victorie,  (for  » 
Victors  would  not  honour  their  enemies  with  such  mo- 
numents :)  and  the  bell  was  part  of  an  old  Briton's  Wea- 
pon, there  buried  with  it's  owner,  and,  I  suppose,  the 
like  bones  and  bells  may  be  found  under  the  other  small 
stones,  confirming  the  praemises.  For  Mr.  Speed,  in  his 
Chronicle,  pictureth  an  old  Briton  naked.  Lions,  Beares, 
Serpents  painted  on  him  to  terrific  enemies,  *  with  a  Lance 
in  his  hand,  on  the  butt  end  whereof  is  such  a  bell 
screwed  fast,  which  served  in  steade  of  a  Trumpett  to 
alarme,  and  a  clubb  to  dash  out  the  enemies  braines,  and 
this  bell  was,  I  suppose,  the  permanent  part  of  that  old 
Briton's  weapon  there  buried  with  his  owner,  according 
to  the  old  custome,  continued  to  this  day,  in  burying 
Souldiers  weapons  with  them,  at  least  in  carrying  them 
on  their  Coffins  to  their  graves. 


*Sic.  H.     ^Herodiaaus. 
Vol.  II,  T  4.  la 


508  A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  shott  at  Stonage. 

4.  In  Denbigh  shire  *  is  a  famous  monument  of  a  cir* 
cle  of  great  Stones,  called  tcteff  ?  SDrUlDfOIt,  (i.  e.)  the 
Stones  of  Victor ie,  alias  the  stones  of  the  Druides,  (i.  e.) 
Priests  sacrt/ficeing  at  Victories, 

5.  In  Mount  Gomerie  Shire  *  there  is  an  high  Moun- 
tain, called  CocnllOn,  on  "which  there  is  a  famous  monu- 
ment of  great  stones,  standing  circulerljr,  a  Trophic  of 
Victory. 

6.  At  ^ifcato  Mlaum  in  Cornwall  ^  arc  21  great 
Stones  in  a  Circle,  the  greatest  standing  in  the  Center, 
a  Trophie  of  Victorie. 

7.  At  !^Otl)rnortOtt  in  Oxford  Shire  ♦  36  very  great 
stones  in  a  circle,  called  I^OU'ttC^-SonC^,  and  this,  as  all 
the  former,  deemed  Trophies  of  Victorie,  by  that  Ora- 
cle of  antiquities  Mr/Cambden,  who,  for  the  excellen- 
eie  of  his  knowledge  in  affaires  of  this  Nature,  was 
created  King  at  armes,  and  if  all  these  pettie,  or  dimi- 
nitive,  &tOltap0  were  Trophies  of  Victorie,  then,  sure- 
ly, their  great  grandfather  ^tOnflffC  was  a  Trophie  ©r 
that  Victorie  aforesaid. 

Q.  But  what  kind  of  Stones  are  they  ?  how  brought 
hither  ?  and  sett  up  in  this  place  ? 

A.  2uot  homines  tot  senteniicBf  the  first  is,  that  mon- 
strous legend  of  Monmouth,  and  his  Giants  bringing 
them  per  mare^  per  terras,  out  of  the  utmost  parts  of 
Africa,  to  Ifi^illiare,  Kc.  of  which  a  little,  but  too  much, 
already. 

2.  The  second  is,  that  childish  tale  of  Childrie,  who, 
because  he  could  find  no    small   stones    on    Salisburie 


'  Camb.  Brit,  in  Ordov.      »  Camb.  Brit.      3  Cam.  Brit,  in 
Cornwall.       Cam.  Brit,  in  Oxford  shire. 

plaines, 


A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  shott  at  Stonage.  509 

plaines,  dreamed ',  that  nature  had  aggregated  all  the  la- 
pidificke  Vertue  of  that  country  into  fetOItaffe* 

3.  The  third  is,  that  of  Inigo%  who  might  truly  have 
said  out  I'goe,  when,  after  he  had  affirmed,  fol.  •  10. 
they  were  hewen  out  of  a  quarrie  at  ;ai&UCi0,  he  said, 
they  are  so  churlish  and  extream  hard,  that  they  disdaine 
the  touch  of  tooles,  and  if  they  were  hewne  out  from 
thence,  tell  me,  how  they  were  brought  15  miles  over 
hills  and  dales  from  thence  to  ^tOnajC,  <^  em  miht 
magnus  J  polio. 

4.  The  fourth  is,  that  of  learned  Cambden,  who  sup- 
poseth  *  them  to  be  saxa  factitia  ex  arena  pura  8f  ^  un- 
ctuoso  aliquo  coagmentata. 

5.  And  I  am  confident  they  are  saxa  factitia,  great 
artificial  stones,  made  of  many  small  naturall  Stones, 
•  made  of  many  small  naturall  Stones".  That  a  Lime- 
kilne  was  there  erected,  which  being  filled  with  lime- 
stones, extraordinarily  coaled,  were  melted  with  fer- 
vent heat  into  a  birdlime-like  substance,  which  was  let 
runne  out  into  such  variety  of  Cisterns,  one  after  ano- 
ther, as  formed  them  for  their  severall  places,  into  which 
they  were  drawne  up  by  some  Crane,  or  other  Engine. 

1.  My  reasons  are;  first,  itt  was  impossible  to  work 
them  into  their  severall  formes.  Free  stones  may  be 
wrought  to  any,  but  these  churlish  stones  to  no,  forme, 
in  regard  of  hardness  and  brittleness. 

2.  Iron  ^  ginncs,  chimney  back-stones,  stone-inges, 
the  pillers  of  the  late  royall  exchange,  the  8  great  pillers 
of  ^tantOlt-SDrU  Trophic,  were  all  cast  stones,  formed 


'  In  his  Brit.  Bac.  '  Inigo  Jones  in  his  Stonehenge  restored. 
'  L.  36.  H.  4  Camb.  in  Belg.  edit.  4*.  J  Unctuoquo  MS. 
H.    6  F.  delend.  //.     i  Ginmes  MS.  H. 

T  2  some 


hlO  A  Fool's  l^olt  soon  ^Jiott  at  StonAgS. 

some  of  one,  some  of  another,  sort  of  melted  stones'^ 
and  why  might  not  ^tonagj-stones  be  so  also  ?  Surely 
Leere  was  such  an  aggregation  for  a  saxificition,  but 
not  made  by  Minerva,  as  Childrie  dotetb,  but  Mars,  or 
indeed  by  the  Martiall  old  Britons,  who  having  been 
active  in  gaining  the  victorie,  were  officious  in  gathering 
together-the  small  stones  of  the  plaines  to  be  melted  into 
great  ones,  and  so  multorimi  manibus  grande  levatur 
onuSf  an  old  British  limeburner  and  his  stonegetherers 
performed  this  optcs  herculissimum. 

10.  This  trophic  was  a  Temple,  or  rather  a  Tropicall 
!•  Temple.  For  first,  it  was  the  common  practice  of  the 
heathens,  to  promise  and  vow  Temples  as  Trophies  to 
their  supposed  Gods,  or  Goddessess,  of  Victorie,  in  case 
they  would  give  them  some  great  Victorie,  which  when 
they  had  obtained,  they  surely  built  it  accordingly  in  the 
place  aforesaid  of  an  ordinarie  Trophic,  so  it  was  called 
a  Tropicall  Temple,  and,  upon  this  account,  the  Ro- 
mans usuallie  vowed  and  built  Temples  as  Trophies  to 
Mars,  Victoria,  Sfc.  and  upon  this  account  Canutns 
built  '  a  Temple  at  SiH^  UO^JJIie,  and  all  other  places 
where  he  wone  Victories;  yea  some  Christians  have  imi- 
tated heathens  in  this  particuler,  as  King  William  the 
Conquerour,  once,  though  he  built  not  a  Temple  to 
Mars,  yet  he  did  an  Abbey  to  St.  Martin,  as  a  Trophic, 
in  the  place  where  he  conquered  King  Herald,  the  ruines 
whereof  in  Sussex  are  called  Battle  ahbfp  to  this  day. 

2.  fetOna^C  was  a  Temple  in  respect  of  the  magnifi- 
cence thereof.  Any  such  circle  of  rough  stones,  as  afore- 
said, served  well  enough  for  a  Trophic,  but  this  was  a 
magnificent  Tropicall  Temple,  or  Templarie  Trophic. 


Camb.  Brit,  in  Essex. 

3.  s>tonafft 


A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  shott  at  Stonage.  511 

3.  »>tonas;0  was  of  a  Circuler  forme,  according  (o  the 
forme  of  all  other  heathonish  Temples. 

4.  In  that  it  stood  sub  dio,  open  to  the  heavens  and 
ayre.  For  the  Heathens  '  accounted  it  a  great  sin  to  im- 
prison their  Gods  within  roofs  and  walls,  who  would 
have  liberty  (as  they  thoughl)  to  be  abroad  doing  good. 

5.  It  was  the  opinion  of  our  great  Architectur  *  (or- 
thodox in  this  point)  saying,  I  am  clearely  ofopinion, 
that  ^tOn^ff^  was  originally  a  Temple. 

6.  (laiilton,  within  2  miles  of  ^tonaffe,  was  antient- 
ly  called  Ulandune  (pronounced  CUantlunC)  (i.)  Tern- 
ple-iowne^  not  in  regard  of  any  such  thing  in  it  self,  but 
in  regard  it  was  so  near  the  said  heathonish  Temple,  and 
the  Earles  of  Wiltshire  were  antiently  stiled  Earles  of 
CUanDune,  and  if  Qfllilton,  the  old  Metropolis  of  Wilt- 
shire, took  it's  antient  name  from  this  Temple,  then 
consequently  Wiltshire,  and   all  the  rest  of  the  SflllUjkJ 

about  Stonage,  as  aaiiUiboucne,  ^illfall,  (aiiUfocD, 

and  {laiilSJforll,  (IfllllCOtt,  and  ([(IKUCOt  sKuate  some  on 
one,  some  on  other,  of  the  Rivers  near  ^tOtiaffC,  took 
their  Templarie  names  from,  and  must  then  restore  them 
to,  »itona0:c,  to  prove  that  it  was  a  Temple,  and  so  must 
all  those  Villages  near  it,  whose  names  begin  with  Cl)el 
or  ♦  Clil»  which  antiently  were  <tz\  and  dElU,  signifying, 
properlie,  the  Cell  of  a  Temple,  but  here  synecdochichallie 
(the  chief  part  for  the  whole)  a  Temple ;  so  that,  ac- 
cording to  the  rule  aforesaid,  C'biltOtl  termeth  ^tona^^e 
a  Temple,  CljeltertOH  an  elegant  Temple,  but  dljels 
tCCintOn  the  Giants  elegant  Temple.  And  if  ^tOnagC 
was  such  a  triumphant  Tropicall  Temple  of  singing  and 


'  Godw.  Anti.     *  Inigo  Jones,  pa.  75.     *  Camb.  Brit,  in 
Belg.    *  F.  erjil.  H. 

T  3  danceing, 


513  A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  shott  at  Stonage. 

danceing,  then,  surely,  no  such  sepulchre  of  sorrow,  or 
monument  of  mourning,  weeping,  wailing  and  gnashing 
of  teeth,  erected  by  the  old  Britons  for  Aurelius  Ara- 
brosius,  according  to  Polydorus  Virgilius,  or  for  the  old 
Britons  by  Aurelius  Ambrosius,  according  to  Galfridus 
MonumethensiSf  or  for  Queen  Baodicea  by  the  Iceniy 
according  to  Anonimus.  For  never  any  sepulchre  bare 
any  aspect  like  this  monument,  but  far  different  in  forme, 
manner  and  composure.  The  severall  pillers  of  Rachell 
and  Absolon,  the  '  columnes  of  Vespatian  and  Trajane, 
the  one  having  his  shield,  the  other  a  Colossus  on  the 
topp  of  it,  had  no  resemblance  with  this.  Neither  had 
the  Obelisks  of  Mitres  or  liamesis,  or  the  Piramides 
of  Memphis,  or  Arsinoe,  or  the  Mausoleum  of  Jrthe- 
misia,  any  resemblance  with  ^tOna^C  And  how  much 
did  the  sepulchre  of  King  Arthur,  *  buried  at  (BlaffenhUs 
tit  in  an  hallowed  Oake,  with  a  little  Pi/ramis  at  the 
head,  and  another  at  the  feet,  differ  from  this  ?  Is  there 
any  probability,  that  King  Arthur  and  Ambrosius,  fel- 
low Christians,  Coaetanians,  living  and  dying  so  near 
together  in  time  and  place,  that  the  one  should  be  bu- 
ried and  monumented  according  to  the  custome  of  the 
old  British  Kings  and  Princes,  and  the  other  as  never 
man  before,  or  since?  Amongst  all  nations  sepulchres 
were  alwaies  such  sollid  piles,  as  might  be  truly  termed 
monuments,  (/.  e.)  remaines,  not  ayerious,  with  fre- 
quent openings  and  void  spaces  within,  and  subject  to 
ruine,  but  this  was  such,  therefore  no  sepulchre,  but  a 
Temple. 

11.  And   this  Temple  was   consecrated  to  AndrastCy 
alias  Anraiik,  alias  Andaies,  their  Goddess  of  Victorie. 


I  Plin.  Secund.  pa.  249.     ^  Cam.  in  Belg. 

For 


A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  sJiott  at  Stonage.  513 

For  to  "whome  else  would,  or  could,  they  dedicate  a 
Temple  for  Victorie,  but  to  their  supposed  Goddesse 
of  Victorie  ?  She  was  termed  Andraste,  in  relation  to 
the  Conquerors,  from  '  avS/Mti©*,  a  manlie  virago,  not 
guasi,  but  qiiiaf  xir  agens,  playing  the  man,  and,  in  re- 
spect of  the  conquered,  Anraith.  For  as  t|)Eill  signified 
a  Spear,  so  HncaiD  and  J^nrait^  unseparated,  figura- 
tively disarmed  and  bereft  of  all  treasuresy  garmentSy 
food  and  other  necessaries  to  maintaine  life;  and  it  is 
observable,  that  some  parts  of  those  names,  Andraste, 
Anraith  and  AtulateSy  are  retained  in  the  names  of  some 
of  the  circumjacent  Villages  to  this  day  ; 

1.  as  anlicatte  in  ^nUrofl)  ILuniSDon.   There  is  a  ^Ser* 
vi  BlunCOan,  a  bcoatie  ^lunCOon,  and  an  anDrofl[)  %nnU 

tian,  and  janlJrofl)  HunCDon  is  nearest  to  the  Temple  of 

Aiidraste ;  two  i3Dg:burn£gf,  (BtovQt  jDffliurne,  and  SLn- 

iJCOiS   jDffburne,   nearest  to  this  Temple  of  Andraste ; 

s  *  Callingljurne,  Callinffliourne,  Callmgbujne  limg;- 
(fsn,  and  Callinghajnc  ^nUrogf,  and  CaUingbucix  SLn- 

UCOjJ  nearest  to  this  Temple  of  Andraste.     The  name  of     g. 
anjaitl)  is  retained  in  garitjSburiC  Cattle,  (orthog.  ^  0n= 

rait50tiurie  Cattle,)  in  (Bvzat  ^messbune  and  %ittlz 

SLmt^iiUVitj  ^  wich  Mr.  Speede,  in  his  Mapp,  termns 
jansSbUCte,  (i.  e.)  ^ncaitll^bun'e,  so  distinguished  from 
p  ^ncaitbSfbUCie  Cattle,  and  upon  the  same  account  the 
two  anttieiS  and  SiXi^  )^\\\^  might  be  jancait^ttie  and 
^njait^0  1)111,  but  euphonied  to  what  they  are  now,  be- 
cause they  did  stick  in  the  teeth  in  pronunciation.  J3tts  g, 
Hatesf  inanllOteC,  {orthog.  anUtofur,)  ^ntiate0  river  run- 
ing  through  it,  and  iSlnlieljeclej  ^UllDrelJ ;  so  that  whereas 


Sic,  pro  ay^ftas.  H,.     » F.  €aUmil\xmt0.  H.     ^  Sic.  jH- 

T  4  onlie 


A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  sfioit  at  Stonagb. 

onlie  4  parrishes  names  beginin;^  with  fill  afe  to  be 
found  in  all  Sommersett,  Dorselt,  Glocester  and  the  West 
of  Wiltshire,  as  thf  re  are  10  (UUlllSl,  so  14  an0,  about 
fetonap,  the  ZBillSS  yoUng  that  it  was  a  Temple,  the 
SLtlQ  thdt  it  was  a  Temple  of  Andraste^  alias  AnraitJiy 
alias  Andates. 

Q  But  of  what  forme  and  coiinlenance  was  this  Idoll  ? 
Gildas  sapiens  (alias  Badonicus)  an  old  Briton,  borne  at 
Bathe  abou:  20  miles  from  fetOnaffC  Anno  Domini  493. 
in  his  Book  de  excidio  Britannorum  dc  scribeth  the  Idols 
of  that  his  native  Country  in  these  words: 

Nee  enuvie>ans  patrice  portenta  ipsa  diaboHca,  pene 
numei'o  Mgt/ptiaca  tineenfia^  quorum  nonnulla,  linea- 
mentis  adhuc  deformibus,  intra  vel  extra  deserta  mce' 
nia  solito  more  ri^entia^  torvis  vultibns  intuemur.  He 
doth  charactarize  them,  first  by  their  monstrous  shape, 
implied  in  the  word  portenta. 

2.  by  their  Father  and  Patron,  in  ipsa  Diaholica. 

3.  by  their  multitude,  in  pene  nuniero  M^yp  iuca  vin' 
cent  la,  although  they  Goddified  their  very  Leeks  and 
Onyon?,  to  encrease  their  number,  insomuch  that  Juve- 
nal scoffed  at  them,  sayinor,  Jdices  gentesy  quibus  hcsc 
noscuntur,  eic. 

4.  by  their  deformed  lineaments,  in  lineamentis  de- 
formibus. 

5.  by  their  Temples,  in  intra  vel  extra  mania. 

6.  by  their  long  standing  in  the  word,  adhucy  from 
the  beginiiig  of  the  world  till  his  daies. 

7.  by  their  bullish  countenances,  in  torvis  multibus. 
For  to'vus  comes  from  Taw  us.  Gold.  Dictio.  and  as 
these  words  of  Gildas,  so  the  bullish  names  of  divers  cir- 
cumjacent parrishes,  do  intimate,  that  Anraith  was  a 
very  Bullegger,  as  ©ulfOCU,  two  23lunCtlOn0,  orihog.  Tbwh 

lanf* 


A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  shott  at  Ston  age.  515 

tonC^OtDneiS,  (i.  e.)  Bulls-Temple  Dowries,  and  SflllUs 
fell,  orthog.  IBuUfall,  (i.  e.)  Bui  Devil,  and  why  might 
not  the  old  Biitons  have  their  Bui  Devil,  as  well  as  the 
Israelites  their  Calf  Devill,  and  the  Egyptians  their  Ox 
Devil,  Apis  ? 

12.  In  this  Temple  the  said  Victors  sacrificed  their 
Captives  and  Spoiles  to  their  said  IdoU  of  Victorie,  where 
I  shall  shew,  that 

1.  The  said  Britons  usually  sacrificed  their  Captives 
and  Spoiles, 

2.  to  Jndates,  alias  Anraith,  in  Temples  consecrated. 

3.  That  they  sacrificed  their  captives  and  spoiles  there 
in  this  Temple  oi'  Andate. 

The  Britons  usually  sacrificed  their  Captives  and  Spoiles 
of  war,  according  to  the  testimony  of  Julius  CcBsar ',  when 
he  invaded  this  Islan.l,  2ui  in  bello  versantur,  aut  pro 
victimis  homines  *  immolant,  aut  se  inmolaturos  xovent^ 
(i.  e.)  They  which  addict  themselves  to  warr  either  sa» 
crijice,  or  vow  they  will  sacrifice  men,  (i.  e.)  their  Ca-^ 
ptives,  as  Victimes  for  Victory  (saith  h<^).  The  Ma- 
jesty of  the  immortal  *  Goi'dess  would  not  be  phased,  un- 
less they  offer  up  the  life  of  a  Captive,  or  the  life  of  a 
man,  and  they  have  sacrificed  or  puhlickly  institutedt 
and  some  of  them  (saith  he)  make  hallow  images  of  vast 
magnitude,  with  twiggs  wreathed  about  together,  whose 
members  they  fill  up  with  living  men,  (i.  e.)  Captives^ 
and  so  burn  the  Images,  men  and  all  together:  and  these 
*instanses  are  sufficient  to  prove,  that  the  old  Britona 
did  usually  sacrifice  their  Captives. 


»  Caesar's  Com.  I.  lib.  *  b^°.  [*  L.  6*°.  H.'\    »  Emolantur  MS. 
H.    3  F.  Gods,  H.    4  Sic.  H. 


2.  They 


yf  Fool's  Bolt  soon  sliott  at  Stonase. 

2.  They  usually  sacrificed  their  Captives  and  spoiles 
to  Andates  in  her  Temple ;  and  this  I  prove  out  of  Cor- 
nelius Tacitus.  The  Romans  having  conquered  Britaine, 
tyrannized  so  intollerably  over  them,  that  Prasutagus,  King 
of  (he  Iceni,  that  he  might  free  his  Subjects  from  their 
calamities,  made  the  Romane  Emperor  Nero  his  Heir, 
hoping  that  he,  and  his,  should  thereby  have  the  more 
favour,  during  his  life  at  least ;  but  the  Romanes  taking  all 
for  their  owne,  presently  tyrannized  infinitely  the  more, 
whipped  his  Queen  Baodicea,  ravished  his  daughters,  and 
plundered  his  Subjects  of  all  their  estates,  whereupon  his 
wife  Baodicea  (whom  Gild  as  termes  the  subtill  Lioness) 
stirring  up  first  the  Trinobantes  (i.  e.)  the  Lonclotie?'Sy 
and  afterwards  the  Britons  in  generall,  raised  a  most 
blody  warr  against  the  Romans,  cut  off  their  two  Colo- 
nics Verolamium,  and  Camalodunutn,  destroyed  'three 
in  the  L^ion,  put  Catus  Decianus  to  flight,  destroyed 
80000  of  them,  some  by  the  sword,  and  some  by  sacri- 
ficing them  with  the  greatest  crueltie  to  Andates  in  her 
Temple. 

And  that  those  old  Britons  sacrificed  their  Captives  al- 
so to  Andates  in  this  her  Temple,  may  appear  by  this, 
that  it  had  all  accomodations  for  such  heathonish  sacri- 
fices, as  an  internall,  or  spatious,  Court,  lying  round 
about,  marked  with  the  Letter  A  in  the  frontispice, 
wherein  the  Victimes  for  oblation  were  slain,  into  which 
it  was  unlawfull  for  any  prophane  person  to  enter.  It 
was  seperated  from  the  circumjacent  plain  with  a  large 
trench,  (marked  with  B)  instead  of  a  wall,  as  a  bounda- 
rie  about  the  Temple,  most  conformable  to  the  raaine 


»  F.  their  ninth  Legion,  H. 

work 


A  Fool's  Bolt  soon  shott  at  Stonage. 

work,  wholy  exposed  to  open  view.  Without  this  Trench 
the  common  promiscuous  multitude,  with  zeal  too  much 
attended  their  Idolatrous  sacrifices,  and  might  see  the 
oblations,  but  not  come  within  them.     ***** 

******  4|t,|t##***4|t* 

««**«««*»««**«* 

Ceetera  desunt. 
Vide  Inigo  Jones. 


517 


GLOS. 


SIS 


GLOSSARY. 


A. 


A         a,  at,  to.    a  Bangore,   at 

^^^  Bangor,  a  Code's  grace, 
of  God's  grace,  or  bj/  God's 
grace,     a  dynt,  at  a  blow. 

abaist,  abash'd,  terrify'd,  confound' 
ed.  J'e  kyng  abaist  him  nouht, 
Tlie  king  did  not  at  all  abash 
or  lessen  himself;  sive  potius. 
The  king  was  not  at  all  terri- 
fy'd. 

abaued,  abashed,  astonished,  re- 
duced  to  mean  fortune. 

abbeus,  abbeys. 

abide,  abide,  exspect,  remain,  con- 
tinue. 

able,  buy. 

abite,  habit. 

abouen,  above. 

abowen,  above. 

a  cheson,  occasion. 

a  cord,  accord,  agreemeiU. 

acordance,  agreement. 

a  dele,  a  deal,  very  much. 

afFaied,  affvaid,  affrighted,  af- 
fected. 

affaies,  burthens. 

affere,  affright. 

afFerme,  confirm. 

affiance,  affiance,  assurance,  confi- 
dence, trust. 


affie,  affie,  assure,  affirm,  confirm, 
rely,  trust,  affix,  joyn,  to  have  af~ 
fiance,  to  fix.  on  his  folk  af- 
fie, joyn  hifnself  to  his  people. 

affied,  relyed,  depended. 

affies,  trusts. 

affraied,  affrighted,  nffraid. 

affraies,  frights. 

aflray,  affright,  to  affright,  af. 
frighten,  terrify,  affraid,  fright,  a 
fright,  a  fear.  J?er  of  had  many 
affray,  many  xoere  affrighted  at  it, 

affrayes,  frays,  frights,  terrors, 

affrays,  fright,  terror,  fear. 

afie,  ffx,  rely. 

a  fryjte,  af righted. 

after  with  dede,  followed  after. 

agast,  astonished. 

agayn  sive  a  gayn,  against. 

agen,  against. 

ageyn  sive  a  geyn,  to,  towards^ 
against,  again. 

ageyn  s,  towards,  against. 

ageynsaid,  gainsaid,  contradicted. 

ageyqto,  again  to. 

ageynward,  towards  them  again, 
backwards. 

agrete,  a  great. 

agreued,  aggrieved. 

aiorned,  adjourned. 

akres,  fields.      So  that  the   Word 

was   taken   formerly    in    a   ?nore 

extended    Sense    than    it    is    at 

this 


GLOSSARY. 


519 


this  day,  when  xve  confine  it  to 
a  measure  of  Land  containing  40 
Perches  in  Length,  and  4  in 
Breadth.  And  indeed  as  Akre 
denotes  Field  (and  n6t  that  small 
Quantity  of  Ground,  which  ive 
now  adays  understand  by  it  J  it 
agrees  exactly  with  the  original 
Saxon  word  Acejie,  from  whence 
it  comes.  For,  saith  Somner  in 
his  Saxon  Dictionary,  "  Acepe. 
"  Ager,  campus,  a  field.  Vom 
"  cabulum  omnibus  Europais 
*'  fere  conwiune,  ut  viro  doctis~ 
"  simo  ja7n  observatum,  Notis 
*'  in  Willeramum,  p.  1  i3".  And 
truly  'tis  worth  ivhile  taking 
notice,  that  the  Acre  of  land 
(notwithstanding  the  former 
quantity  prescribed)  is  not  in 
every  place  in  this  land  of  like 
quantity;  for  the  Cornish  acre 
is  said  to  contain  a  Carew  of 
land.  6.  E.  3.  2S3.  and  in  the 
Commentary  of  Mr.  Ploden  the 
Cornish  Acre  is  said  to  con- 
tain an  hundred  other  Acres. 
Com.  Throg.  &  Tracy  154.'. 
And  sometimes  it  hath  been  noted 
to  be  the  same  with  a  yard  land, 
scil.  34-  or  30  Acres*,  tho^  even 
the  yard  land  also  differs  much 
in  different  places.  From  this 
extensive  signification  of  the  luord 
in  old  time  I  cannot  but  observe. 


that  whereas  in  some  places, 
where  there  have  been  undoubt.. 
edly  Roman  Works,  the  common 
people,  as  well  as  others,  make 
use  of  Castle  Acre,  to  distin- 
guish such  a  piece  of  Ground 
where  they  have  been,  I  think 
we  ought  not  to  restrain  that 
term  to  our  modem  narrow  Ac- 
ceptation of  the  word,  but  look 
vpon  it  to  be  meant  in  the  old 
sense,  so  as  to  denote  an  intire 
Field.  So  whereas  by  Castle 
Acre  in  Weycock  field,  in  the 
Parish  of  Laurence-  Waltham 
near  Maidenhead  in  Berks,  the 
Country  people  commonly  underm 
stand,  no  more  ground  than  what 
is  now  genei-ally  known  by  the 
term  Acre,  I  rather  think,  that 
'tis  to  be  understood  of  the  whole 
Field,  at  least  of  a  great  many 
of  our  common  Acres,  and  that 
the  Building  there  was  very  large, 
a  thing  ivhich  the  great  number  of 
Antiquities  found  in  the  Field 
proves  very  plainly,  in  reference  to 
which  I  shall  here  transcribe,  what 
I  put  down  in  one  of  my  MSS.i  a 
few  years  since,  when,  in  my  walk, 
I  lay  at  Hare-Hatch,  and  the 
next  day  went  through  this  Field, 
as  I  have  upon  occasion  done 
several  times.  "  Wednesd.  A- 
"  pril  \".   1719.    /  talk'd  with 


See  my  Collection  of  curious  Discourses,  p.  67.    «  Ibid.  p.  78.    «  Vol,  70.  p.  91. 


sso 


GLOSSARY. 


*'  an  old  Gentleman,  who  aU 
"  so  lodg'd  [as  I  did  on  Tues* 
"  day  Night,  being  JEaster  Tues- 
"  day,  March  31.]  at  Hare. 
**  Hatch,  but  said  he  lived  at 
"  Cookham,  where  he  had  re- 
'*  sided  21  Years.  He  told  me, 
"  that  there  was  a  Tradition 
*'  at  Cookham,  that  the  Em' 
*'  press  Maud  was  some  time 
*'  at  Cookham,  and  that  she 
"  built  Cookham  Bridges  and 
"  some  Houses  there  :  but,  says 
"  the  Gentleman,  I  believe  no- 
*'  thing  of  it.  For  my  own 
*'  part,  I  am  apt  to  think  there 
"  is  some  Ground  for  the  Tra- 
"  dition.  I  talk'd  with  him 
*'  about  the  Road's  going  over 
*'  the  River  in  old  time  nearer 
*'  Cookham  than  it  does  now. 
"  He  said,  he  had  heard  Stories 
*'  about  such  a  Road,  but  he 
"  did  not  think,  that  there  was 
*'  any  credit  to  be  given  to 
"  them.  Leland  tells  us,  that 
"  the  old  Name  of  Maiden. 
"  head  was  South  -  Aillingion. 
**  But  I  think  South  -  Ailling. 
"  ton  was  distinct  from  it,  more 
"  near  Cookham,  and  'twas  at 
"  this  Place  that  the  Roadpass'd 
"  before  Maidenhead  Bridge  was 
"  built. 

"  This  old  Man  (whom  I 
"  have  mention's,  and  is  a 
"  Person  of  good  Sense,  and 
"  seem'd  very  honest)  had 
"  not  heard  of  Leland  the  An- 
*'  iiquary,  'till  I  mention'd  him. 


"  From  Hare.Hatch  I  toaWd 
"  to  Shottesbrooke,  and  passed 
"  through  a  great  Field  (in  the 
"  Parish  of  Laurence- Waltbam J 
"  call'd  Weycock. 

One  part  of  this  Field  is 
"  call'd  Castle-Acre.  There  is 
"  a  Tradition,  that  there  was 
"  a  large  Castle  there. 

"  Indeed  there  is  no  manner 
"  of  doubt,  but  in  this  Field 
"  there  was  once  a  very  consi- 
"  derable  Fort,  andseveral Build- 
"  ings  besides.  The  Ground  call'd 
"  Castle  Acre  is  higher  than  the 
'■  rest.  Abundance  of  Roman 
"  Money  hath  been  found  in  this 
"  Field  of  Weycock.  I  dis. 
"  cover'd  in  many  Places  of  it 
"  Fragments  of  Roman  Bricks. 

"  I  met  with  two  or  three 
"  Workmen,  with  whofn  I 
"  talk'd  about  this  Field,  par- 
"  ticularly  about  the  Coyns 
"found  in  it.  There  was  a 
"  Youth  with  them,  who  told 
"  me,  that  a  great  many  little 
"  Pieces  of  Money  had  been 
"  plough'd  up  in  this  Field, 
"  and  a  many  pretty  Things 
"  (says  he)  besides.  I  ask'd 
"  him,  xvhere  any  of  them  might 
"  be  seen.  He  said,  at  Mr. 
"  Nevill's  of  Billingbeare.  I 
"  am  apt  to  think,  that  some 
"  of  the  pretty  Things  he  men. 
"  tion'd  might  be  tessellae  of  some 
"  Roman  Pavement. 

"  My  great  Friend,   Francis 
*'  Cherry, 


GLOSSARY. 


521 


«  Chcrri/,     Esq;      had 
**  Coyns    found    in    this  Field, 
*'  one    of  ivhich    tvas   a  Silver 
**  one   of    Amyntas,     and    ihis 
**  I  have  published  in  Leland's 
*'  Itinerary '. 
albe,  ike  alb  or  aub,  which   is  a 
long    white    linnen    garment    or 
surplice,    wherewith    Priests  are 
cloalhed  when  they  say  Mass,  or 
officiate  at  Divine  service.      Of 
this  garment  mention  is  made  in 
the  following  Words  in  that  Part 
of   my    ingenious    Friend    Mr. 
Thomas   Ward    of  Longbridge*.s 
MS.  about  Rome  (quoted  in  my 
Preface  *    to    this   Work)    that 
relates  to  the  blessing  the  agnus 
Dei.      Neither   are    they    [the 
agnus  deies"]  nowe  mixed  with 
holy  oyle  or  creame,   but  on- 
Jye    beinge    pure    without    all 
mixture,   are  brought  unto  the 
Pope  in  his  chamer    [Sic  pro 
chamber]   upon  certeyne  plat- 
ters,   or    in    certeyne    coffers, 
where  the    Pope    some   tyme, 
when  he  thynketh    good,    be- 
fore the  Saturday  in  alhis,  that 
is,  Saturday  in  Easter  week,  or, 
as    it    is   also    called  with  us, 
Lawson  even,  comethe,  when  he 
hath  sayd  or  herd  Masse,   in- 
veetured  in  the  almyce,    albe, 
gyrdle,    stole,    and    a    playne 
myter,  and  fyrst  maketh  holy 
water    (if   it    were    not  made 
before)    ordynaryly,    as    it    is 


commonly  wount  to  be  made, 
and  after,  standynge  at  the 
same  holye  water,  whych  is 
then  made  in  a  great  vessell, 
and  puttynge  of  hys  myter, 
sayth  :  adjutorium  et  c,  our 
helpe  is  in  the  name  of  the  Lord: 
&c. 

alblastere,  cross-botO'man. 

aid,    ■)    , . 

alde,r^^- 

alderbest  vel  alder  best,  best  of  all, 
of  all  the  best,  the  best,  alder 
next,  next  of  all,  next  year  after, 

aldermost,  greatest,  most  of  all. 

algate,  altogether,  nevertheless. 

Alhalwemesse,  AlLhallontide. 

alie,  to  confederate  sive  to  confede^ 
rate  together,  toalliey  to  associate, 
toj'oyn,  be  annex' d,  bejoyn'd. 

alied,  7nade  an  alliance  with,  or 
hastened,  sive  went  to;  as,  To 
Malcolme,  fe  Scottis  kyng, 
Tostus  alied  to,  with  Malcolm, 
the  Scotish  king,  Tostus  made  an 
alliance,  sive,  to  Malcolm,  the 
Scotish  king,  Tostus  hastened  or 
went. 

alienee,  alliance. 

alie,  all.  Also,  whole;  as,  J»is 
alle  pepuUe  in  Append,  ad 
Prof.  Num.  xv.  is,  this  whole 
people. 

alle  gate,  altogether,   always.     To 
London     he    wild     alle    gate. 
to  London  he  xvould  (go)  by  all 
means. 
alle  mygh,  almighty. 


Vol.  V.  p:  124.  &  Vol.  IX.  p.  193. 


§  XI. 


ille 


652 


GLOSSARY. 


alle  myght,  almighty. 

alle  on,  all  one,  alone,  only. 

alle  one,  alone. 

.aller,  of  all.  for  ]>er  aller  sake, 
for  all  their  sakes.  fat  I  be 
gour  aller  brother,  that  I  be 
altogether  your  brother,  or,  that 
I  be  the  brother  of  all  of  yoxu 

alle  weis,  siv9  alle  weys,  al- 
ways. 

Almanz,  Germans. 

Al marie,  Albemarle. 

Almayn,  the  Romans. 

-almoyn,  alms. 

a  lone,  all  one,  one,  altogether  one. 

als,  as,  also,  than,  als  his  mete 
he  sat,  as  he  sat  at  his  meat. 

also  mykelle,  as  much.  Just  as 
much. 

als  so,  also,  and  so,  just  so.  als  so 
verrayly,  as  truly,  als  so  sone, 
very  soon. 

alterage,  the  profits  xohich  accrue 
and  are  due  to  the  priest  by  ream 
son  of  the  altar. 

altercand,  contending,  striving. 

anlan,  (conjunctim,)   a  man, 

amang,  among. 

ame,  am,  esteem,  love,  desire,  rec- 
kon'd,  aim' d,  fathom,  tell. 

amerciaments  (from  the  French 
merci,  i.  e.  mercy)  are  pecu- 
niary punishments  imposed  up- 
on Offenders  at  the  Mercy  of 
the  Court ;  and  differ  from  Fines, 
•which  are  Punishments  certain 
and  determined,  by  some  Sta^ 
tute. 


ameved,  moved. 

amite,  amict,  a  garment  or  attireg 
particularly  *,  that  linnen  at- 
tire, which  Priests  put  first  on, 
when  they  vest  themselves^  by 
which  is  represented  to  us  the 
head-cloth,  wherewith  the  Jew* 
covered  the  face  and  eyes  of 
our  Saviour,  when  buffeting  him 
they  said,  *  Prophecy,  who  is  it 
that  smote  thee  ? 

Amnesbiri,  Amesbury  or  Ambres- 
bury. 

a  mod,  amidst,  in  the  middle, 

amountment,  reckoning. 

an,  a,  on. 

ancessoure,  ancestor,  ancestors, 

&,  and,  both,  if,  ever,  even,  verily. 
&  euer,  if  ever.  &  I,  if  I.  fe 
barons  &  of  hise  said,  and  of 
his  barons  they  said,  vel,  and  cpf- 
ry  one  of  his  barons  they  said, 

ancestre,  ancestors. 

ancestrie,  ancestors. 

Andrewmesse,  Andrew's  mass, 

anens,  links,  fetters,  chains,  shaC' 
kles. 

anerty,  hardy,  stout. 

anntcler,  anntler,  or  anntloV 
dere,  young  deer;  from  the 
French  andoillers,  the  brow» 
anklers,  or  first  branch  of  a 
Deer's  head, 

an  ired,  angry,  an  angered. 

Antoyn,  Anthony, 

apeires,  impairs. 

apers,  appears. 

apert,  openly. 


Blounfs  Diet,  interpreting  hard  Words,  vtc.  amict.    »  Luke  XXII.  64. 


aperte 


GLOSSARY. 


523 


aperte  sive  a  perte,  open,  plain, 

openly. 
apostoyle   sive  apostoile,    apostle, 

pope. 
a  prowe,  her  profit,  her  good,  her 

honour. 
are,  ere,  before,  ever. 
arere,  back,  backwards. 
areson,  reason,  pei  swade, 
arke,  chest. 
armes,  arm. 
armet,  hermit. 
arte,  arts,    of  arte  he  had  }e  mais- 

trie,  he  zsas  master  of  arts. 
Arteys,  Artoys, 
aryuen,   arrived. 
aryues,  arrive,  go,  get. 
asaied  sive  asayed,  tryed. 
asay,  t7-y,  essay,  attempt. 
ascrie,  to  cry  to. 
askaped,   escaped. 
askeped,  escaped. 
askes,   ashes. 
askie,  to  ask,  ab  Anglo-Sax,  aj^cian, 

interrogare. 
Askvvednesday,  Ashicednesday. 
asoiled,  absolved. 
asoyled,  absolved. 
aspie,  espy^  view,  take  notice  of. 
assaide,  attempted. 
assaies,  essays,  tryuls. 
assaile,   assault,  set  upon  sive  set 

on. 
assailed,  assaulted,  beset. 
3,ssa]ed,  assaulted. 
assaut,  assault. 
assay,  try,  attempt,  tryal. 
assent,   assenting. 
assise,   assize,  sessions.     Rents  of 


Assise,  fixed  and  determined 
Rents,  anciently  paid  by  Te- 
nants, in  a  set  Quantity  of 
Money  or  Provisions.  Spel- 
man  writes  thereof  (in  his 
Glossary)  thus :  "  Assisus  Re. 
*'  ditus,  in  Maneriis  dicitur 
"  certus  ille  &  immobilis  cen- 
''  sus  qui  domino  solvitur  ex 
*'  praediis  liberis,  unde  &  liber 
"  appellatur  :  estque  mobili 
"  &  nativo  contrarius.  Assisae 
"  de  Clarendun  apud  Hovend. 
"  in  Henr.  2.  Balivi  Domini 
'^  Regis  respondeant  ad  Scac. 
"  curium  tam  de  assise  reditu, 
"  quam  de  omnibus  jierquisitio- 
"  nibus  suis.  Hqdie  vero  nati- 
"  vus  reditus  etiam  sub  assiso 
"  JEstimatur  ;  nee  male,  cum  per 
"  tempus  praescriptionis  ita  in- 
"  valuit,  lit  mutari  nequeat. 

assojle,  absolve. 

assoiled,   absolved. 

assoiles,  absolves. 

assoled,   absolved. 

assoyle,  absolve,  loose, 

assoyled,  absolved. 

assoyles,  absolves. 

a  stounde,  in  a  minute,  in  a  trice. 

at,  in,  at,  but.  at  J^at,  p.  74.  as 
many  as  ;  adeo  ut  forsitan  re~ 
ponendam  sit,  al  J^at .  bot  at,  iit 
Rob.  of  Brunne^s  Prologue  ^, 
but  that,  6;  forte  quidem  ibi^aX 
legi  debet. 

ateyrted,  attainted. 

atcynt,  attainted,  toere  attainted. 

atire,  cloalh,  accoutre. 


Vide  Append,  ad  Pfccf.  nost.  Num.  V. 


Vol.  II. 


atired. 


524 


GLOSSARY. 


atired,  allured^  intked,  invited,  at. 
tired,  they  equipped,  they  put  in 
order,  they  prepared  for. 

atires,  pt  epares,  riggs  out,  Jits  out, 
provides. 

atisfcnient,  tissues^  silks,  inter- 
lacings. 

atrip,  try. 

atric^d,  tried. 

atrightes,   out.right. 

at  stand,  as  stand. 

attached,  ajjlxed,  fastened,  an. 
nexed. 

atteynod,  attainted. 

atteynt,   attainted,  accused. 

atirie,  try. 

atturcoppe,  spider,  from  the  Saxon 
Acceja-c  )ppa,  aranea. 

auailed,  cast  down. 

auale,  avail. 

auance,  advance. 

auanced,  advamed. 

auancement,  advance,  a  proposal, 
advancement,  help,  advantage, 

auantage,  advantage. 

auaunce,  advance. 

auauntrie,  vaunting.  Rebuke  him 
for  that  ilk  of  J'at  auauntrie, 
reprimand  him  therefore  for 
that  same  vaunting  or  brag, 
ging. 

auenant,  heaut/full,  comely. 

auenture,  adventure,  hazard, 

auere,  riches. 

Aufrice,  p.  198.  Austria.  Sed 
Austrice  verior  lectio,  nt  mo. 
niii  ad  imum  paginx.  Aufrice 
to  aspie  him  were  better  haf 
left,  it  had  been  better  for  him 
to  have  omitted  the  spying  of 
Austria. 


Aufrik,  Africa. 

auh,  aught. 

auht,  eight,  had,  held,  otced,  oughgf 

ought  to  have. 
auhte,  eight. 
auhten,    eighteen.      Sed  pag.    81. 

eighth   potius    significare    vide- 

tur. 
auhtend,  eighteenth,  or  rather  in 

pag.  81.  eighth. 
auhtene,  eighteen. 
avis,    advice,   opinion,  judgment^ 

counsell,  sentence,  direction,  disi. 

cretion. 
auise,   advised. 
avised,  advised. 

avisement,   consideration,  advice. 
avowe,  vow,  oath,  renounce. 
auowrie,    authority,  approbation, 

j)rotection,  allowance. 
austere,  rough,  roughly. 
Austrice.     See  Aufrice. 
autene,  eighteen. 
autere,  altar. 
auys,  advice,    opinion,    direction. 

at  his  auys,   according  to  his  own 

opitiion  or  judgment. 
auysementj  advice,  advisement. 
aw,  away. 
awen,  own. 
a  werre,    wared,    defended  them. 

selves. 
a  wile,  a  zehile. 
a  wiles,  a  while,  after  a  little,  pre. 

senlly. 
awith,  p.  p9.  out,  azcay.    Sf  quidem 

ad  imum  pagince  away  reponen. 

dum  esse  conjeci. 
ay,  always,  ever,  egg. 
aye,     grief,     sorrow,     difficulty, 

sharpness. 

aysed, 


GLOSSARY. 


595 


aysed,  eased. 
aywhare,  every  where. 

B 

bad,  bad^  bid,  commanded. 

bade,  bode,  presaged,  ordered,  bid, 
commanded. 

bagelle,  rings,  jezoells. 

bailie,  government,  function,  of. 
fice. 

baitand,  in  great  hast. 

bakkis,   backs. 

bald,   bold. 

baldely,   boldly. 

bale,  grief,  sorrozc,  burthen. 

balie,  bailywick,  territories,  go. 
vernment. 

balifes,  bailiffs. 

baly,  government,  wardship,  tut- 
tion. 

bandj  bound,  bonds. 

bandoiis,  divisions,  bonds,  custody. 

bandoun,  list,  custody,  bonds, 
bands,  clutches,  pouer. 

bankis,   banks. 

bapteme,  baptism. 

bare,  bore,  tarried. 

baret,  imposition,  cheat. 

barete,  contention.  J^at  wele  couth 
of  barete,  that  were  well  skiU'd 
in  contention. 

barette,  trouble,  disturbanoe. 
Hence  Minshieu  observes,  that 
a  barretour  is  the  same  as  a  trou- 
blesome fellow,  q.  dicas,  a  barre 
troubler,  because  he  setteth  men 
atoddes,  and  is  a  common  wrang- 
ler,  causing  one   or  another  to 


be  impleaded  or  troubled  at  the 
Barre  of  Justice,  where  the  Law 
is  handled. 

barn,  beajin,  barne,  son,  child. 

baron,  lord. 

Bascel,  Bascles,  a  sort  of  robbers 
or  highway-men  so  called.  Hence 
Du  .  Fresne,  in  his  Glossary  : 
"  BASCLI,  Basculi,  Prasdones, 
*'  Ruptarii,  ex  Vasconia,  cujus 
"  incolas  Basques,  id  est,  Vas. 
"  cones,  appellantur. 

Baskles,  idem  quod  Bascel. 

baston,  (in  Robert  of  Brunne^s 
Prologue  ')  battune,  cudgel,  but 
here  it  denotes  a  sort  of  verse 
in  rhythm,  that  was  pungent  and 
biting. 

batailed,  battled,  fought. 

batailes,   battles. 

bafand,   beating,  hastily,  hasty. 

bate,  abate. 

batelle,  little  boat. 

bawmed,   embalmed. 

bayard,  bayard,  the  particular 
name  of  an  horse,  but  some, 
times  it  signifies  an  horse  in 
general'  Whence  Dr.  Skin, 
ner,  "  Bayard,  sc.  horse, 
"  /v.  G.  Bay  art,  Ang.  Bay, 
"  Lat.  Ridero  Badius,  Balius". 
The  word  baiardus,  for  an 
horse,  occurrs  likewise  in  some 
middle-aged  Writers,  as  Du. 
Fresne  hath  zcell  observed, 
tcho  notes,  at  the  same  time, 
that  it  is  the  same  in  signift. 
cation  zei/h  bagus,  bagius,  or 
baius,    which   originally    deno. 


Append,  ad  Prsef.  nostr.  Num.  V. 

V  2 


ted 


526 


GLOSSARY. 


ted  only  the  particular  colour 
of  an  horse^  viz.  phoenicius,  or 
puniceus,  i.  e.  a  bright  bay  or 
light  red,  a  colour  much  set  hy^ 
and  therefore  very  often  exhi- 
bited in  the  Figures  of  Horses 
in  old  illuminated  books.  The 
Word  crOT«<^i|  is  the  same. 

bayte,   baited,  fastened,  invaded. 

be,  by,  6c,  /*.  be  skrite,  by  zori. 
ting,  do  git  be  be  consaiie,  do 
yet  be  \_guverned']  by  coiinsil. 
This  -isay  of  zoriting  he  for  by 
occitrrs  also  in  the  old  Song  of 
Chevy  Chaccj  that  I  have  pub- 
.  lish'd  at  the  beginning  of  my 
Edit,  of  Guiliolmus  Neubrigen- 
sis,  as  it  does  likezinse  fre- 
quently  in  the  S<:oliish  Wri- 
ters, \)articularly  in  the  old 
Translation  of  Hector  Bo'e~ 
iius's  History  of  Scotland,  thus 
iniiVled: 

The  History  and  Chroniklis 
of  Scoiland  with  the  Cosmo- 
graphy and  Discription  thair- 
of.  (.'oinpilit  be  the  noble  Clerk 
maister  Hector  Boece  Channon 
of  Aberdene.  Translatit  lait- 
ly  in  our  Vulgar  and  Commoun 
Langage,  be  maister  Johne  Bel.. 
lenden  Archedene  of  Murray, 
and  Channon  of  Ross.  At 
the  Command  of  the  richt 
hie,  richt  excellent,  and  noble, 
prince    James    the    V,    of    that 


Name  King  of  Scottis.  And  im- 
prentit  in  Edinburgh  be  me 
Thomas  Davidson,  prenter  to 
the  kyngis  nobyll  Grace, 
dwellyng  '  fornens  the  frere 
Wynd. 

The  mention  of  ivhich  book, 
(of  which  there  were  but  few 
Copies  printed  *)  and  the  bat~ 
tie  of  Chevy  Chace,  (which 
others  call  the  Battle  ^  of  Ot- 
terbuioe)  brings  to  my  mind 
the  follozoing  Passage,  tran- 
scrib''d  out  of  the  said  Book 
for  me  by,  my  ingenious 
Friend,  Mr.  Ward  of  Long~ 
bridge,  at  the  same  time  that 
he  sent  me  the  before  specify'' d 
Title : 

Sa  mony  gud  as  of  ye  Douglas  hes 

bene. 
Of  ane   Surname    was    nevir    in 

Scotland  sene. 

This  battall  of  Otterburne  was 

strikin  on  Sanct  Oswaldis  day 

the.  V.  day  of  August,  the  zeir 

of  God  ane.  M.  iii.  C.  Ixxxviii. 

zeris. 

And  'twas  from  the  same  book 

also,  that  the  same  Friend  af- 

terzaards  sent  me  the  three  fol- 

lowing  Notes.     The  first  is  on 

Gathelus's  Chair,  nozo  at  West- 

miiister : 


« Over    against.      =  Nicclson's    Scottish   Historical  Librarj,  pag.     lOf.      3  De    quo 
proelio  vide  Fordunum,  a  nobis  editum,  pag;  1075. 

The 


GLOSSARY. 


527 


The  Scottis  sail  brake  that  realme,  as  natyue  Ground. 
(Geif  weirdis  fayll  nocht)  quhair  euir  this  chiar  is  found. 


Palladius  was  the  first  by- 
schop  that  bure  au  thorite 
amang       the      Scottis,     -     - 

,      _      -      and      deceissit 

in  ane  town  of  Mern  T  nam- 

it  Fordoun,  quhare  his  blissit 
body  Testis  zit  haldin  in  gret 


veneration  amang  ye  pepylL 
His  banis  war  iaitly  translatit 
be  ane  nobyl  man  Williaoi 
Scheues  archebischop  of  Sanct 
Andros,  &  put  in  ane  Syluer 
cais  with  mony  solempne  ceri  = 
monyis.  Fra  ye  incarnation 
of  god  ane.  M.  iiii.  C.  Ixxxxiiii 
zeris. 


3  Sanct  Colme.     Sanct  Patrik.     and  Brigitta  pure. 

•  Thir  thre  in  Dune  lyis  in  ane  Sepulture. 


beam,  the  tree^  the  stock. 

beame,  (trabs,)  beam,  no  bote 
o  beame,  no  remedy  or  assist- 
ance. 

Be  calle,;?.  257.  advoco,  eomodo 
quo  &  bespeak  dicimus.  Sed 
hie  loci  accuse  denotat. 

be  cum,  became. 

bed,  offered,  bid.  bed  the  same 
bede,  made  the  same  order. 

bede,  prayed,  intrea/ed,  bid, 
offer,  offered,  promise,  pray. 


er,  order,  ordered,  commanded, 
command,  dxell^  invited,  con- 
tinned. 

bedes,  offers. 

bedLs,  offer. 

beem,  death,  no  bote  of  beem, 
J).  103.  no  keeping  from  death. 
But  in  an  old  MS.  Tract  of  the 
last  Judgment  {voritten  in  the 
same  ancient  MS.  that  I  quote 
under  the  wordheWe)  heamsigni. 
fies  trumpet.  The  Passage  is  this: 


And  thynke  euere  on  the  dredful  dome, 

As  dede  that  holy  man  Seynt  Jerome, 

That  euere  (houghte  ther  on  bothe  night  and  dayes, 

And  therfore  in  a  bok  thus  he  says, 

St  comedam  vel  bibam,sive  aliquod aliudfaciam,  semper  michividetur 
ilia  tubasonare  in  auribus  meis,  "  Surgite  mortui,  venite  ad  judicium. 


Tliese. 


u  3 


He 


528 


GLOSSARY. 


He  seyth  whethir  that  I  ete  or  drynke, 
Other  do  ought  elles,  euere  me  thynke, 
That  the  beem,  that  schal  blowe  at  domesday, 
Sowneth  ia  myn  ere,  and  thus  say, 
"  Rys  up  ^e  that  ben  dede  and  come, 
"  Un  to  the  dredful  day  of  dome. 


Afterwards  the  same  Author 
useth  beom,  ia  the  singular,  for 
trumpet,  and  beomes,  in  the 
plural,  for  trumpets. 

beforn,  before. 

begile,   beguile,  deceive. 

begiled,  beguiled,  deceived. 

behald,  to  behold. 

be  hette,  promised. 

behoue,  behoof. 

behouely,  necessary,  behooveable, 
ab  Anglo-Sax.  behojrhc,  yieces- 
sarius. 

belde,  build. 

belyue,  quick,  quickly,  now  ba- 
tale  vs  belyue,  now  let  us  fight 
immediatdy. 

bene,  bane,  destruction,  been. 

benisoun,  benediction^  blessing. 

benk,  bench* 

benke,  bench,  bank,  treasury. 

benyson,  blessing. 

berd,  board,  beard,  in  his  berd 
redy  ran,  readily  ran  aboard 
him. 

berde,  bride. 

bere,  behave,  behave  well,  bier, 
bear,  bring.  Inpag.  119,  it  is 
bier,  or  rather  tumulus,  where 
the  words  are,  hir  lord  Jay  on 
bere,  i.  e.  her  Lord  lay  in  tomb, 
It  is  from  the  Saxon  beojij. 
Our  Word  burrow   or  barrow 


ansioers  to  it.  Heaps  of  Earth 
(and  sometimes  Stones)  were 
the  ancient  Monuments  in 
England.  Stones  were  to  the 
Memory  of  those  of  superior 
Rank,  Heaps  of  Earth  to  such 
as  were  of  the  middle  and  in., 
ferior  degree;  whence  HiSj 
that  even  to  this  day  the  loxc- 
est  Quality,  buried  in  Church^ 
Yards,  have  only  small  Hil. 
locks  in  your  Country  Villages 
rais''d  over  them.  Yet  the  Dis- 
tinction was  often  disregarded 
formerly,  as  nell  as  it  hath  been 
since. 

beres,  bears. 

beris,  bears,  carries. 

bes,  be.  His  right  bes  noiiht  doun 
soner  J^an  any  wend,  his  right 
will  be  quite  down  sooner  than, 
any  one  thinks. 

be  schent,  ruin,  destroy. 

be  side,  by  the  side  of,  besides. 

be  sight,  scandal,  offence.  Angl. 
Sax.  hep's,  scandulum. 

besquite,  bisket. 

betauht,  committed,  resigned. 

bete,  abode,  mitigate,  alleviate. 

beten,  commanded. 

Bethlyngton,  p.  77.  Betlingetun 
alias. 

betide  sive  be  tide,  betide,  happen. 
betis. 


GLOSSARY. 


529 


betis,  heais. 

betraised,  betrayed^  tricked. 

bez,  iSy  shall  be. 

biddyng,  request,  asking,  com~ 
mand,  order,  ordering. 

bide,  abide,  exspect,  tarry. 

bidene,  biting,  abiding,  tarrying, 
bidding,  praying,  bidden,  being 
bidden,  being  desired,  continuuL 
ly,  commanded,  judged,  adjudg- 
ed, readily,  quite  alle  bidene, 
quite  and  clean,  he  robbed  all 
bidene, /«e  robbedall  oontinually. 

bie,   by. 

bien,  been. 

bifor,  sive  bi  for,  before. 

bifore,   before. 

biforn,  before. 

bigan,  began. 

bigeged,  besieged. 

bijete,   begot. 

bigge,  to  build,  to  be,  to  remain, 
to  continue.     Ab.  ASax.  (inquit 

'  Skinnerus)  bycjan,  aedificare, 
bijan,  colere,  byan,  habitare. 

bigged,  begged,  builded,  inhabited. 

biggen,  begin. 

bijond,  beyond. 

bigonnen,  begun. 

bigyn,  reverencing,  obeying,  pre. 
sently. 

bihest,  command,  Jat  kepe  not 
his  bihest,  those  that  keep  not 
his  commandments. 

biheste,  promise. 

biken,  acknowledge,  bring  forth, 
deliver,  render,  enjuyn. 

biUenne,  sought  out,  signifyed, 
found,  assign. 

biker,  bickering,  strife,  contest. 


bikere,  bicker. 

bileft,  left,  leaving,  lived,  conti.. 
nued.  The  Word  bileve  or 
heleve  for  leave  zoas  very  pro- 
perly used  in  old  time,  ichen 
they  spoke  of  sticking  closely 
to  any  old  Laws,  and  therefore 
'tis  that  zee  find  it  in  Robert 
of  Gloucester,  (p.  470.)  z^hen 
he  acquaints  us  with.  Thomas 
of  Beckefs  firmly  adhering  to 
the  old  Laws,  rather  than 
strike  in  with  Innovations  and 
new  fangled  Customs.  And 
the  word  was  so  ivell  approved 
of  afterwards,  that  even  the 
person,  that  undertook  to  me- 
taphrase him  (tho""  his  per- 
formance was  but  indifferent) 
about  the  time  of  K.  Henry  FL 
kept  to  the  very  word,  as  may 
appear  from  the  intire  Pas. 
sage,  as  I  have  here  transcribed 
it  from  the  vellum  MS.  of  this 
Metaphrase,  that  was  lent  me 
(since  I  published  Robert  of 
Gloucester)  by  a  curious  Gen- 
tleman, viz.  Thomas  Ward 
of  Longbridge,  near  War- 
wick, Esq.  Nomau  myglit 
thynke  the  loue  that  was  be- 
twne  him  [_K.  Hen.  7/.]  and 
seyntThomas,  And  the  Deuylle 
had  therto  envy,  and  set  ma- 
lice and  disturbance  betwene 
the  kynge  and  seynt  Tho- 
mas. For  the  kynge  woldnot 
beleve  the  lawes  that  he 
founde^  but  occupiede  suche 
l\iher  lawes,  as  othir  vn- 
V  4  happy 


530 


GLOSSARY. 


happy  kynges  occupied,  as 
William  Bastarde  and  Wil. 
liam  the  rede,  and  othere. 
And  seynt  Thomas  wolde 
not  by  his  -wille  suffre  none 
iville  law,  nor  iville  cus- 
tome.  So  that  grete  stryff 
felle  betvvene  hym  and  the 
kynge.  And  som  seynt  Tho- 
mas graunted,  and  som  Avith- 
/  seide     of     the     kyngc's     de- 

^  sires,      he   graunted    thes  ar- 

*  1  tides   that    followeth:     That 
&     an    boundemannes     Sonne 
/  becom   a  clerke,    he     shalnot 

/  receve    J^e     ordre     of     prist- 

'  ode,    without    licens     of    his 

lorde.     For  a  bondeman  may 
not     be     made     ageynst     his 

2  lorde's   Aville    fre.        And    yf 
,                man   of    holy   Churche   holde 

/  eny    lay  Fee    in     his    honde, 

/  he  shalle  do  therfore  kynge's 

I  serues    that     longeth     therto, 

V-  as  pledynge,  assise  of  londes 

&    at    jugements,     saue  only 

at      excecusion      doynge      of 

3  deth.  Seynt  Thomas  graunt- 
ed, Yf  eny  man  were  the 
kynge's  Traytoure,  and 
had  taken  the  Churche, 
that  hit  be  levefulle  to  the 
kynge     and     his    officers     to 

4  take  him  out.  And  also 
yf  eny  Fclone's  goode  were 
broght    to    holi   churche,  that 


they  shulde  none  suche  kepe 
there.  For  euery  Felon's 
goodes  bene  the  kynge's. 
Seynt  Thomas  graunted  also,  5 
that  no  lond  shulde  be  geven 
to  the  Churche,  or  to  eny 
house  of  Religion,  Avithout 
the  kynge's  lycens.  And 
this  poyntes  that  followeth 
seynt  Thomas  graunted  not, 
and  that  was  to  hym  grete 
sorowe  aftir  warde.  The 
first  was,  yf  that  betwene  1 
a  Clerke  and  a  lay  man 
were  eny  stryvynge  for  eny 
churche  godes,  *  the  wolde 
that  the  pie  shulde  be  done 
in  his  Court.  The  secunde  2 
poynt  was,  that  ther  shulde 
nothir  bishop  nor  clerke 
goo  out  of  the  londe,  with- 
out the  kynge's  licens,  and 
then  he  shulde  swere  vp- 
pon  a  boke,  that  he  shulde 
not  purchase  none  hurt  a- 
geynst  the  kynge,  nor  none 
of  his.  The  thred,  and  if  3 
eny  man  were  denoncede  a 
cursede,  and  when  he  were 
come  ageyne  to  amende- 
ment,  the  kynge  woldnot 
that  he  shulde*  he  shulde '' 
be  sworen,  but  only  fynde 
sewrties  to  stonde  to  that 
holy  churche  wolde  awarde. 
The     fourth,      That     noman,  4 


*  The  marginal  Numbers  aie  of  a  much  attr  hand. 


He. 


Dele. 


that 


GLOSSARY. 


5ai 


Ihat  helde  of  the  kynge  in 
cheflf  or  in  seruice,  shulde 
not    be     a    cursede,    without 

5  the  kynge's  licence.  The 
fifte,  that  all  tlie  Bishopryes 
and  Abbeis,  that  were  va- 
cant, shuld  be  in  the  kynge's 
hondes,  vnto  suche  tyme  that 
he  wolde  chuse  a  prelate  ther- 
to.  And  he  shuld  be  cho- 
sen out  of  the  kynge's  Cha- 
pelle,  and  first  or  he  were 
confermede  he  shuld  ['  </o] 
his    homage     to    the    kynge. 

6  The  sixte,  if  eny  pie  were 
to  Con-[*  sQ  story  broght, 
they  shulde  appelle  from  thens 
to  the  Archedeken,  and  from 
thens  to  the  Bisshoppes  Court, 
and  from  the  Bisshoppes  to 
the  Archibisshoppes,  and  from 
thens  to  the  kynge,  and  no 
farther.  So  that,  in  conclu- 
sion, the  complcyntes  of 
holi  churclie  must  come  be- 
fore the  kynge,*    and  not   to 

7  the  Pope.  The  seveneth, 
that  alle  dettes,  that  were 
owynge  through  truth  plight, 
shulde  not  be  pleded  in  spi- 
ritualle,     but     in     temporalle 

8  Court.  The  eight,  that  the 
Petirs  pens,  that  to  the  Pope 
shulde  be  taken,  to  the  kyuge 

9  were  gadered.      The   nenyth, 


if  eny  Gierke  for  felony  were 
taken,  and  so  provede,  he  shulde 
first  be  disgrade,  and  thea 
throgh  Jugement  hange  hym, 
or  elles  drawe.  For  thies, 
and  many  othere  good,  seynt 
Thomas  fledde  out  of  Eng- 
londe,  and  after  warde  was 
martrede.  And  nedes  he  must 
be  martrede,  or  elles  holy 
churche  hadde  evir  be  in  grete 
bondage,  J^at  of  verey  right 
shulde  be  fre.  And  >  that 
same  yere  diede  the  Emperes 
Molde. 
bilyue,  fast. 


:'  s' 
bis,  grei/,  black. 

bisandes,  bi/  the  sands. 

biseke,  beseech^  desire,  intreat. 

bisemed,  beseemed,  seemed. 

bisent,   bcseeched. 

bisouh,   besought. 

bish,  bishop.     Our  Ancestors  had 

different  ways  of  writ.   ^  ^  ^^^ 

iiig    and  pronouncing  Pope's  su- 

this  Word.     In  Saxon  primacy 
trenched 
'//*  biyceop.    In  Henry  apone. 

the    VIV^'.    time    they 

often  writ,  and  pronounced  it^ 

pushup.       Hence   an   old    MS. 

Note,      ihat       my      ingenious 

Friend      Thomas      Ward,      of 

Loiigbridge     near     Warwick; 


'This  word  is  by  the  same  modern  hand,  that  put  the  marginal  Numbers, 
is  this  syllable.     3  This  marginal  Note  is  likewise  by  the  same  modern  hand. 


And  S3 


Esq;. 


632 


GLOSSARY. 


Esq;,   met  wilhj    and  commu. 

nicated  to  me:    Thomas  Ulzay 

pushup     of    Yourke     cardinalle 

/     &   legate   of    Lattery    dyed    at 

'^        Laycetter  the  xxix   day  of  No- 

vembyr  anno  regis  H.  viii.  xxii. 

Bishop^ s-Waltham  in  Hampshire 

in  some   Maps   is  styled  Bush. 

Walt  ham. 
Wstad,     consumed,   conjined,  put. 

bistad  in  hold,  put  in  hold,  con. 

fined  in  hold  or  in  prison. 
bisted,  fared,  bested,  besteed,  put 

to  it.      fuUe   hard   was    bisted, 

was  very  hardly  put  to  it.     j^e 

clergie  ille  bisted,  the  clergy  had 

fared  ill. 
bisuike,  deceive.     Ab.  Angl.  Sax. 

bej-pican,  supplantare,  decipere, 

seducere. 
bit,  bit,  bite. 

bitaken,  committed  to,  given  to. 
bitauht,  committed,  committed  to. 
bite,  to  bite,  to  abide,  to  alight. 
l)iteched,committed,  intrusted zoith. 

Ab  Ang.  Sax.  becaecan,  tradere. 
commendare. 
biten,  between. 
bitid,  it  betided,  it  happened. 
bitidde,  betide,  betid. 
bi  tide,  betimes. 
bitides,  happens. 
bitraised,  betrayed. 
bitraist,  betray'd. 
bituen,   between. 

bituene,  between,  betzoeen  whiles. 
bituex,   betxjoixt. 
bityme  sive  bi  tyme,  betimes,  early, 

soon,  presently* 


biwan,  bewan,  toon,  got. 

bi  went,  turned,  turned  about, 
winded  about. 

blanne,  ceased. 

blaunche,  ivhite. 

bleiik,  blink,  look  aside,  trans, 
gression,  wrong,  damage,  mis. 
chief. 

blithe,  glad,  merry,  joyfull. 

blitheli  sive  blithely,  gladly,  Tea* 
dily. 

blij^ely,  readily,  chearfully,  glad- 
ly. 

blithly,  gladly. 

bio,   bleziti. 

blome,  bloom,  blossom,  flower. 
Ab  Angl.  Sax.  blojfm  sive  bloj- 
ma,  flos. 

blynfeld,   blindfold,  blinded. 

blythe,  glad. 

blythely,  gladly. 

bo,   but. 

bode,  message  sive  a  message, 
news,  messenger,  messengers, 
rumour,  tidyngs,  boded,  for. 
bode,  prcesaged. 

boke,  book.  The  Saxon  is  boe 
or  bee.  The  ancients  used  to 
write  upon  the  bark  of  treeSy 
particularly  upon  the  bark  of 
beech  trees,  the  greatest  plen. 
ty  whereof,  among  us,  gi'ew 
in  that  Province  called,  pro- 
bably from  thence,  Bucking- 
hamshire. Afterwards  even  pie- 
ces of  Wood  were  called  also 
bokes,  insomuch  that  boka  '  al. 
so  signify''d  an  old  bit  of  Wood. 


Coll.  Nostr.  MSS.  Vol.  104.  p.  44. 


Of 


GLOSSARY. 


Of  such  Pieces  of  Wood  Chim- 
ney.pieces  formerly  consisted, 
upon  which  inscriptiofis  zsere 
sometimes  cut  by  our  Ances. 
tors,  as  there  were  also  now 
and  then  when  they  were  made 
of  Stone.  Such  Pieces  had 
often  Mouths  to  them.  Such 
is  thai  published  by  Dr.  Wallis. 


The  French  Word  bouche, 
therefore,  very  properly  sig- 
nifies OS  or  mouth.  In  which 
signification  is  also  to  be  taken 
the  Word  boka  in  the  follow- 
ing  old  Inscription,  written  over 
a  Chimney-piece,  or  rather  cut 
in  stone,  at  Puddleton  in  Dor- 
setshire. 


Dominus  Willelmus  Owen 

vicarius  istius  loci. 

Quod  boka  icy. 


Quod  {the  same  with  quoth) 
for  inquit  or  saith,  is  often 
found  in  MSS.  particularly 
after  the  Reign  of  Edw.  It\ 
about  which  time  I  take  this 
Inscription  to  be.  And  I  find 
it  expressly  many  times  in 
Mr.  Sheldon's  old  MS.  of  the 
Lives  of  the  Saints.  Icy  is 
the  same  as'  hie.  So  that  the 
meaning  of  the  last  line  is, 
saith  the  Mouth  [of  the  Chimney] 
here. 

bokes,   books. 

boidehed,  1 

boldhede,  I  boldness,  courage. 

boil,  bone. 

bond,  bound,  bonds,  bondage,     of 

bond  was   brouht,   was  brought 

out  of  bonds. 
bonde,   bound. 


bonden,  bound,  bounden,  impri- 
soned. 

bondon,  bound. 

bone,  request,  petition,  prayer, 
boon,  good,  xoell,  apt,  ready^ 
fine,  readily,  bonny.  The  Word 
boon,  for  a  favour,  good  Turn, 
or  Request,  (from  the  Saxon 
bene,  postulatio,  petitiq,  roga- 
tio)  is  noio  in  common  use. 
And  it  denotes  also  a  blessing  ; 
to  which  purpose  'tis  well  ap- 
ply''d  to  K.  Charles  I.  (a  King 
so  calm,  so  patient,  so  merci- 
full,  more  like  to  a  natural 
Father  than  a  Prince,  that 
such  another,  for  an  excellent 
temper,  and  all  peifections 
belonging  to  a  good  Prince, 
was  never  read  of  before  in 
the     Stories     of    this    Land', 


'  See  a  Prayer  made  for  the  Chnrch,  and  all  the  States  thereof,  at  the  End  of  a  very 
small  Pocket  Kditioji  of  the  Singing  Psalms,  imprinted  at  London  ^.  D.  1635.  Sea 
a\so,  Britannia;  y'irtutis  Imago,  or  The  Life  of  that  incomparable  Knight,  Major  General 
Smith,  by  Edward  Walsingham,  A".  1644.  4to. 


and 


5M 


GLOSSARY. 


and  therefore,  as  I  said,  the 
Word  is  properly  used  of  him) 
in  p.  100.  of  a  very  loyal,  and 
very  scarce  little  Book  (con- 
sisting of  six  Sheets  and  an 
half,  and  jjrinted  in  12°.  at 
London  A.  D.  1660.)  ititit. 
Cromwell's  bloody  slaughter- 
house ;  or,  his  damnable  Designes 
laid  and  practised  by  him  and  his 
Negro's,  in  contriving  the  mur- 
der of  his  Sacred  Majesty  King 
Charles  I.  discovered.  By  a  Per. 
son  of  Honour.  I  say  this  word 
boon  for  a  blessing  is  properly 
us''d  in  this  little  Book,  this 
excellent  Prince  being  certain, 
ly  one  of  the  greatest  Bless, 
ings  ever  bestowed  upoti  these 
Kingdoms,  tho'  his  Rebelli. 
ous  Subjects  made  a  very  ill 
use  of  it.  The  Stationer  in 
the  Preface  to  this  small,  but 
very  valuable.  Treatise  ac 
quaints  us  (that  I  may  ob. 
serve  this  by  the  'za^ay)  that  it 
was  penn''d  many  years  before 
it  came  out,  arid  teas  sent 
over  from  the  Hague  to  be 
Printed  here,  for  his  Maje. 
stie^s  service  ;  but  that  'tzcas 
hindered  (till  after  the  Restau. 
7'ationJ  upon  this  occasion. 
The  Printer,  to  zchose  care 
it  zoas  commended,  fell  into 
some  trouble,  for  some  Acts 
of  Loyalty,  which  were  then 
call'd  Treason ;  such  as  were 
the  Printing  K.  Charles  the 
1st'*  ificomparable  Book,  in. 
iiuled     ElKflN     BA2IA1KH,      in 


English,  Latin,  French  and 
Italian :  Salmasii  Defensio  Re- 
gia  :  Elenchus  Motuum  nupero- 
rum  in  Anglia,  by  Dr.  Bates; 
and  some  other  things  of  the 
like  nature.  He  was  commit- 
ted to  Newgate ;  his  Press 
and  other  Materials  seized  up- 
on and  carried  azvay  by  Huns- 
cott ;  his  Wife  and  six  chil- 
dren turned  out  of  doors,  and 
threat7ied  to  be  tried  by  an 
high  Court  o/In-justice.  When 
it  appeared,  those  of  rebel- 
lious Principles  were  strange- 
ly nettled  at  it,  especially 
when  they  saw,  that  the  Au- 
thor had  discovered  (in  p.  3S. 
as  well  as  in  the  Frontispiece 
of  the  Book)  that  Hugh  Pe- 
ters  was  the  disguized  Villain, 
that  cut  off  this  blessed  King''s 
Head.  Who  the  Author  was, 
I  cannot  say.  My  learned 
Friend  Mr.  Baker  of  Cam- 
bridge  suspects  it  to  have  been 
done  by  Clem.  Walker,  Esq; 
whose  third  Part  of  the  Hi- 
story of  Independency  bears 
the  like  Title,  viz.  The  High 
Court  of  Justice,  or  Cromwel's 
New  Slaughter  House  8(c.  but  it 
was  printed  before  the  year 
1660.  a?id  reprinted  that  year 
in  4to.  and  nothing  is  there 
said  of  Hugh  Peters  being  the 
Executioner,  who  tho^  he  had 
guilt  enough  to  deserve  hang, 
ing,  yet  (i)i  the  Trial  of  the 
Regicides)  seems  to  clear  him- 
self of  that  part  of  the  charge, 
by 


GLOSSARY. 


555 


by  proving,  he  tbos  sick  in  his 
Bed  all  the  day  of  the  King's 
Murther,  and  the  Judges  seem 
to     absolve     him    from     that 
Crime,    tho^    it   teas    sworn   a- 
gainst  him.     Indeed  that  seems 
to  me   to    he   very  true,  which 
is.   observed  by    William   Lilly 
the    Astrologer    in    his    Life, 
written    by    himself,    zohich    I 
have     seen,     under     his     ozvn 
hand,  in   the    Ashmolean   Mu- 
seum,    viz.      that     Lieutenant 
Collonel    Joyce    xcas    the   very 
person,     that    did   this    barba- 
rous    Execution  ;     nor    can    I 
think,   that  any    will  look  up. 
on    it    as    at   all    improbable, 
that  shall  consider   the    impu. 
dence  of  that  vile  Fellow,  and 
how  he  was  prompted  and  in- 
stigated  to  undertake  this  vil- 
lanous   Action    by    that    Arch- 
Rebell,  Oliver  Cromwell,    who 
was  as  great  an  Enemy  to  the 
Church  of    England,    as    this 
King   was   a   Friend  to   it,    it 
being   his  sincere  Affectioti  to 
this     excellent     Church      (the 
Rights  of  which   he  would  not 
give  up)  that  brought  him   to 
the  Block,   a  thing   -which  Bi- 
shop Andrews  had  predicted  ma- 
ny years  before  it  happened,  as 
■may   appear  from   an   authen- 
tick    Paper  {transcribed  from 
a  MS.   in  the  Ashmolean  Mu- 
seum j    and   given    to    me,    by 


Mr.  Jones,   one   of  the  Assist, 
ants  of  that  place)  which  I  have 
printed  in  the  Appendix  to  my 
Preface  '. 
boote,  boot,  boat,     to  boote  mad 
him  bone,  made  a  prayer  for 
him  to  boot. 
borde,  table. 
borowe,  borrow,  to  be  surety,  to 

undertuke. 
boste,  aloud,  with  boasting,  with 

ostentation. 
bot,    but,  except,    unless,   booty, 

compensation. 
bot  if,  unless. 

bot  if  he,  unless  he,  but  and  he. 

bote,    boot,    booty,  compensation, 

remedy,    recompence,    bit,  ma. 

naged,  bout,  punished,    boded, 

she-wed. 

bo}er,  p.  194.  brother,  quo  modo 

etiam  plane  legendum. 
botlers,  butlers. 
bouh,  bow,  stoop. 
bouke,  back,  chine. 
boule,   bowle. 

boun,  bound.  &  to  the  boim  redy 
with  him  to  fight,  p.  70.  and  full 
ready  to  Jight  with  him.  nam 
idem  plane  est  boun  quod  para- 
tus,  adeo  ut  fir  met  vocem  redy 
mox  sequentem,  haudjue  aliud 
proinde  sit  quam  full  vel  valde. 
Vide  Skinnerum,  voc.  bound, 
bourdour,   boarder,  pensioner. 


bowed,  stooped. 


Num.  XIX. 


bownus. 


536 


GLOSSARY. 


bownus,  bones. 

boye,  603/,  young  man,  youth^ 
servant,  a  boye  full  pantenere, 
«  servile  fellow. 

Brabans,  Brabanters. 

braid,  eruption^  trouble,  deceit., 
guile,  loss,  taking  axcay,  brunt, 
office.  Jie  more  Jak  was  fayn, 
to  do  William  J'at  braid,  the 
more  Ja:k  was  glad,  to  do  Wil- 
liam that  office  or  turn. 

braide  of  tresoiij,  commission  of 
treason. 

braken,  broke. 

brast,  burst,  broke. 

brede,  breadth. 

brefe,   brief,  writ,  writing. 

breke,  arms,  steel,  breech. 


brest,   brast,  burst. 
brej^er,   brothers,  brethren. 
bridale,   marriage-feast,  bride-ale 

or  wedding. dinner.     Ab  Angl. 

Sax.   bjiyb-ealo^j   nuptiale  con' 

vivium. 
brige,  bring. 
brigge,   bridge. 
Brigges,      Bruges     (or,     as     the 

French     Copies,      Barges)     in 

Flanders, 
briggid,  abridged. 
brim,  hot,  eager,  full,  brim  full, 

high. 
bring,   brought. 
britten,    carryed  away,  dispersed 

abroad.     Ab  A.  Sax.   bjiaebanj 

propalare,  auferre. 
bro,  broio,  brink. 
broched,  spurred. 
brondcs,  brands. 


brojjefulle,  wrathful!,  angry. 

bro^ely,  angrily,     fulle  broj^ely  & 
brim,  great  anger  and  wrath. 

brouh,  brought. 

brouhtes,  broughtest. 

bru,  Bruce. 

Brute,  (in  the  Prologue  of 
Rob.  of  Brunne,)  Brute.  J7e 
Brute  alle  j^at  j^e  Latyn 
spelles,  all  that  the  Latin  tells 
of  Brute.  or,  it  may  be, 
^tis  here  the  same  with  bruit 
or  a  story.  And  so  perhaps 
the  English  Chronicle  calPd 
Brute  of  England  (of  which 
there  are  many  MS.  where, 
of  one,  tho^  imperfect  in  se. 
veral  places,  which  is  pity,  it 
being  otherwise  a  Book  of 
very  good  note,  was  given 
me  very  lately  by  my  Friend 
Mr.  Barman  of  Christ-Church 
in  Oxford)  was  stiled  not 
from  Brutus,  but  from  the 
Notion  received  at  that  time, 
tohen  the  Compiler  lived, 
that  Brute  xoas  an  History  or 
Story ;  and  then  Brute  of 
England  will  be  no  more 
than  the  History  or  Story  of 
England.  Yet  I  do  not 
know,  but  the  zoord  bruit  for 
a  Story  in  general,  might  owe 
iVs  original  to  the  Word  Bru- 
tus, who  used  formerly  to  be 
so  much  talWd  of,  as  giving 
Name  to  Britannia.  This  is 
certain,  that,  in  the  said  Pro. 
logue  of  Brunne,  these  Words, 
Mayster  Wace  J^e  Brute  all 
redes,  are  the  same  as. 
Master 


GLOSSARY. 


5Bf 


Master  Wace  tells  all  the  British 
History  or  Story. 

brym,  brim,  full,  the  utmost  edge 
of  anything,  ab  A.  Sax.  bjiymme, 
ora,  margo,  ripa,  lahrum.  Item 
famous,  notable,  ab  Angl.  Sax. 
bjiyme,  solennis,  clarus,  notabi- 
lis,  to  J70  )>re  bare  hjm  so  bryra, 
carried  himself  so  notably  to 
(^or  against)  those  three. 

bryn,  brains,  icay,  path,  passage, 
journey. 

bugerie,   buggery. 

buke,  book,     bulces,  books. 

bulchyn,  bull's  chine,  oxe's  chine. 


bulle,  bull.  Among  the  old  Ro- 
mans it  was  properly  a  gold 
ornament  or  jewel  for  children, 
(especially  the  pueri  prcetextati, 
or  noblemens  children)  hollow 
within,  made  like  a  heart,  and 
UFed  to  be  hung  about  their 
necks,  and  to  be  worn  by  them 
'till  they  were  fourteen  years 
of  age.  It  came  afterwards 
to  have  various  significations. 
Hence  Ebrardus  Bethuniensis  (an 
author  who  flourished  in  the 
year  1212.  ')  in  his  Grwcis~ 
mus  * ; 


Bulla,  tumor  luticis,  Nola,  Sidus,  Gemma,  Sigillum, 
Bulla  notat  Gemmam,  Sfellam,  vesfem  puerorum, 
Ornamenta  sil.  .   .  bullas,  4"  balthea  signal. 


But  the  Signification,  that  more 
nearly  concerns  us,  is  that, 
which  relates  to  the  Briefs  or 
Mandats  of  the  Pope  ^,  which 
are  called  Bulls,  from  the  lead, 
and  sometimes  golden  Seal  af- 
fixed thereto,  which  Seal  Matth. 
Paris,  anno  1237.  4  describes 
thus  :  In  bulla  domini  Papa'  slat 
imago  Pauli,  a  dexti  is  crucis 
in  medio  bailee  Jiguralce,  &^  Pe- 
tri fi  sinistris  :  nulla  tamen  in. 
ter  tantos  sanctos  est  orta  iin- 
quam  contentio,  ambo  enim  sunt 


in  coiequali  gloria.  Veritnta- 
men  propter  Petri  clavigeri  dig. 
nitatem,  S^-  Apostolatus  princi. 
patum,  necnon  ^  cathedralem 
dignitatem,  cum  prioratu  voca. 
tionis ;  meritb  a  dextris  crucis 
ejus  imago  collocanda  videtur. 
Sed  quia  Paulus  credidit  in 
Christum,  quern  non  vidit ;  a 
dextris  Jiguratur:  Beati  euim 
qui  non  viderunt,  4'f  But  in- 
stead of  saying  any  thing  more 
from  printed  Authors,  or  of  no- 
ting   how     properly    some    de- 


'  Du  Frcsne  in  Prcef.  ad  Gloss,  med.  S<  inf.  Lat.  n.  XL  V.  ^  in  Indice  Auctorum 
V.  EBRJRDUS.  •  Du  Fresne  Gloss,  voc.  BULLA.  3  Blount's  Interpretation  of 
Hard  Words^  voc.  bull,     *  Ed.  fVatsii,  p.  447. 


Tire 


538 


GLOSSARY. 


rive   the  word  from   the  Greek 
/S«>,i,    I   shall   refer   the   Reader 
to  Spelman's  '  and    Dii-Fresne's 
Glossaries  %  and  in  the  mean  time 
I  will   transcribe,  what  I  find  in 
a   MS.    Latin   Glossary    (that   I 
have)  written,  as  I  take  it,  about 
the  time  of  K»  Edw.  I.  and  is  the 
same  (hat  is  cited  by  the  learned 
Mr.  Dodwell  ^,  (to  whom  I  had 
sent  some   Passages    out  of  it :) 
Bulla,  ut  alt  Papias,   ornamen. 
turn  est  regalium  jmerorum,  vel 
equorum^   vel  camelorum,    quia 
hiijiismodi  ornamenta  poneban" 
tur  circa  colla  eorum.     In  sig- 
num    eciam    nohilitatis    nobiles 
pueri  portabant  bullae ,  a  collo 
pendentes.        Dicuntur     bullce, 
quia    similes    sunt    rotunditate 
bullis,  quce  in  aqua  vento  inflan.. 
tur ;  vel  dicuntur  bullce  a  bul- 
liendo.     Item  bulla  dicitur,  quce 
Jit  in  aqua  ex  cadente  pluvia,  S^ 
vento  injlante.     Item  invenitur 
eciam  pro  stella.      Unde  Ovidius 
JMethamor.    ex.    gracia,  4   Tnti. 
muit  sicud  pluvia  perlucida  coelo 
surgere    bulla  solet.     Idem  bul- 
lam  vocat  Ivo  vestem,  Sf  papale 
sigillum.     The   Form  of  Abso- 
lution  by  the  Pope's  Bull  I  iind 
express'd  thus,  in  a  small  Quar- 
to Paper  MS.  written  about  the 


time  of  K.  Hen.  VI.  and  lent  mc 
by  Thomas  Ward,  of  Longbridge 
near  Warwick,  Esq;,  (contain- 
ing, among  other  Things,  a  La- 
tin account  of  the  finding  the 
Holy  Cross  :) 

Absolucio  per  Bullam. 
Et  ego,  auctoritate  DeipatriSy 
&;  filii,  S;  spirit  us  sancti,  4"  do- 
mini  nostri  papa;  summi  pontifi- 
ciSy  ac  tocius  universalis  ecclesia', 
quafungor  in  hac  parte,  te  ab' 
solvo  ab  omni  sentencia  excom. 
municacionis,  suspencionis  S^~  in- 
terdict i,  siquam  incur risti.  eciam 
sacramentis  ecclesice  te  restifuo. 
In  nomine  pair  is,  S^-Jilii,  Sf  spi^ 
ritus  sancti.  Amen. 
bunden,  bound. 

burd,  behooved,  board,  table,oieghf, 
it  behoved,  it  obliged,  nedes 
burd  him  wende,  it  was  necesm 
sa/'i/for  him  to  go  a  ship. board, 
j>at  help  burd  it  haue,  that  it 
ought  to  have  help.  Sed  sicut 
in  p.  76.  buyd  pro  burd  repo- 
nendum  esse  aliquando  conj'ece- 
ram,  it  a  Sf  inpag.  180.  m  adver. 
sariis  notavi,  "  burd,  ab  Anglo. 
"  Sax.  buji^en,  onus  esse,  nisi 
'' forsitanhn'id  reponas,  ut  burd 
"  idem  sit  quod  buid  sive  huij>, 
"  i.  e.  both,  eo  sc.  sensu,  ut 
J^am  burd  departe  j'er  jjrong  sit, 


■Gloss.  Archaeolog;  voc;  bulla.  =  Gloss,  mediae  &  inf.  Lat.  voc.  BULLA.  Item 
Gloss,  mediae  &  inf.  Graecitatis  voc.  Bj.'M».  3  Diss,  de  Parma  Equcstri  VVoodwardiana, 
p.  38,  40;     *  L.  intumuit. 

"  both 


GLOSSARY. 


539 


^•both  of  them  separated  their  com- 
**  pany  or  their  party,  quam  lectio. 
"  nem  Jirmat  textus  Gallicus." 
To  treus  on  alle  wise  him 
l)urd  grant  fertille.  That  he 
granted  boards  or  table,  or  a  con- 
venient place,  to  treat  by  all 
means  of  a  truce. 

burgeis,  burgesses j  citizens^  towns- 
men. 

burgh,  iown, 

busk,  bush. 

buske,  bush. 

busked,  ambushed,  lurked,  shel- 
tered themselves. 

busse,  vessel. 

bussed,  laid  in  ambush. 

bussement,  ambushment. 

busses,  vessels,  great  vessels. 

but,  unless,  except. 

by,  be,  continue. 

by  fore,  before. 

liyholldyng  on,  looking  on. 

C. 

Gald,  called,  appealed,  appeaVd  to. 

calle,  call,  say. 

camen,  came. 

can,  can  do. 

Cantebrige,  Cambridge.  They 
fermerly  writ  it  in  Latin  either 
Cantebrigia,  or  Cantibrigia,.«o^ 
Cantabrigia.  See  Lelajid's  [tin. 
Vol.  IX.  p.  169. 

•ar  or  carr,  a  rocke,  a  skar.  Angl. 
Sax.  cajiji.  rapes,  scopulus,  pe. 
ira. 

carfe,  cut,  cut  off. 


casten,  was  east. 

catchis,  causeth. 

catelle,  chattels. 

certes,  certainly,  surely. 

certeya  sive  certayn,  certain,  cer~ 

tainty,  certainly. 
certis,  truly. 
cerue,  cut,   circle;   from  the  Sax 

ceoppan,  secure,  scindere. 
char,  care,jobb. 
chare,  chair,  cheerfully,  finely, 
Chayn,  Cain. 

cheitefe,  caitif,  ivretched  villain. 
cheitif,  caitif,  knave. 
chek,  check,  checking,  opposition, 

obstruction,  obstacle,   robbery y 

mischief,  quarreling,  quarrel. 
cheke  bi  cheke,    cheek   by   cheek, 

cheek  (vulgo  J/|f)  by  jowl,  very 

close  together. 
chekere,  Exchequer. 
chelde,  child. 
chene,  chiii. 
chere,  cheer. 
cherle,   churl,   clown.     Ab   Angl. 

Sax.    ceojil,    rusticus,    colonus, 

villanus. 
cherles,  churls. 
ches,  elected,  chosen,  chos6d,choose, 

chose,  choosest. 
chese,  choose,  chose. 
chesis,  choose. 
cheson,  occasion. 
chesons,  scandals. 
chest,  mur?7iuring,  strife,  conten- 
tion.    Ab  A.  Sax.  ceajc,  lis,  con- 

tentio,  murmuraiio. 
cheualrie,     chivalry,     knighthood, 

brave   men.     A  Knight   among 

the  Romans  was  called  eques  ' 


AahmoUiS  Order  of  the  Garter,  ^,17. 


Vol.  II. 


from 


540 


GLOSSARY 


from  equus  a  Horse ;  because 
they  zcere  esteemed  Equites  ', 
who  having  a  publick  Horse^  did 
receive  the  stipend  of  a  Horseman 
to  serve  in  the  Wars :  and  in. 
deed  one  pari  of  the  Cere, 
mony^  whereby  this  Honor 
became  conferred^  zcas  the 
giving  of  a  Horse,  bestowed 
on  them  at  the  Publick 
Charge.  And  it  must  be  no. 
iedf  withall,  that  *  the  zcord 
used  to  donote  the  Degree  of 
Knighthood,  in  the  several  Dia- 
lects  of  other  Nations,  hath 
the  same  derivation,  to  wit, 
from  a  Horse ;  for  in  the 
i^'rench,  a  Knight  is  called  Che- 


valier; (which  zoas  a  Word 
also  much  used  by  our  English 
Ancestors,  and  it  very  fre. 
quently  occurrs  in  our  MSS. 
as  it  does  also  in  Mr.  Dods. 
worth's  MSS.  Collections :) 
in  the  German,  Ridder;  in 
the  Italian,  Cavagliero;  {to 
which  Italian  term  our  mo. 
dern  English  Word  Cavalier, 
now  commonly  used  for  a 
truly  honest  man,  such  as  those 
that  suffered  for  K.  Charles  I, 
&c.  answers:)  nay  even  in  the 
ancient  British,  Morchog ;  con. 
cerning  some  of  zshich,  hear 
also  (saith  Mr.  Ashmole  ')  one 
of  GeofFry  Chaucer' J  Scholars. 


4  Eques,  ab  Equo,  is  said  of  very  ryghtj 

And  Chevalier,  is  said  of  Chevalrie, 

In  Mhich  a  Rider  called  is  a  Knight, 

Arogoners  done  also  specifie 

Caballiero  through  all  that  partie. 

Is  name  of  worship,  and  so  took  his  'ginning, 
Of  Spurs  of  Gold,  and  chiefly  Riding. 


And  alt  ho  the  Latin  Word 
Miles,  and  the  English  Word 
Knight,  had  not  their  deriva. 
Hon  from  a  Horse,  as  those 
had  that  arc  before  enumera. 
ted;  yet  they  are  now  re. 
strained  to  a  Title  of  Honor 
(  notwith  Stan  ding  heretofo  re 
they  had  other  significations) 
and  are  ordinarily  used  to  ex. 


press  a  dubbed  Knight.  And 
such  kind  of  dubbed  Knights 
icere  those  four  wretched 
Knights,  that  slew  Saint  Tho. 
mas  a  Becket,  mentioned  thus 
in  his  Life,  written  about  the 
time  of  King  Edward  the  1st. 
in  a  MS.  s  that  is  refer'd  to 
by  Mr,  Ashmole  ^ ; 


'  Pcmsle  in  Rosin,  p.  94. 
the  Horse,  Sheep,  and  Goat. 
Carter,  p.  )jll. 


'Ashmole,  loc.  cit.     3  Loc.  cit.    «  Jo.   Lydgate  MS.  of 
Penes  Sjlatn  Tavlor  gen,  fo.  25S.    *  In  his  Order  of  the 


His 


GLOSSARY. 


541 


His  Knyghts  tho  hi  '  T  *  husde  this,  hi  stode  some  stille, 
Hi  bethoghte  stillelich,  to  pay  the  Kyng  at  wille, 
Vour  that  mest  3  strewen  wer,  bithoghte  of  one  gile, 
Sir  Renaiid  le  fiz  Ours,  and  Sir  Hewe  de  Morvile, 
And  Sir  William  Traci,  and  Sir  Richard  le  Brut. 


Mr.  Ashmole  notes  4,  that 
these  four  Knights  in  the 
same  MS.  are  termUl  lather 
Knights,  a  very  proper  Ap- 
pellation for  those,  that,  by 
their  vileness  and  zsickedness, 
forfeit  their  Fertile  and  the 
Honour  of  Knighthood,  as 
■certainly  all  do  that  are  con. 
cerned  in  treacherous  and 
disloyal  Acts.  And  therefore, 
even  in  the  primitive  bloudy 
Persecutions,  such  Kiiights 
(Equites)  as  appeared  most  zea. 
lous  against  the  Christians, 
lost  also  their  Honour,  how. 
ever  instigated  and  counte. 
nanced  by  the  Emperours,  as 
acting  against  common  hu. 
manity,  the  light  of  the  Go. 
spel  that  they  had  heard,  and 
abetting  the  Designs  of  the 
grand  Rebell  the  Devil  him. 
.self.  There  were  many  wic. 
Iced  men  of  this  nature  in  Bri. 
tain,  in  the  time  of  Diode, 
tian,  and  we  have  Accounts 
of    their   Cruelties  represented 


not    only     in     old     Writings, 
particularly  Martyrologies 

(one     MS.    €>/    which   I  pur~ 
chas''d  lately)  but  in    Pictures 
and      old     Stones,     some      of 
which    Stones    are    of  Alaba. 
ster,     and    are     very    curious 
in  their  kind.     I  saw  an   Ala- 
baster one   {but    broke)    in    a 
Friend^s  hands  lately,  in  which 
t's   represented   the    torture   of 
some  very  holy  Person  (a  Bi. 
shop,  I  suppose)  uith  a  Mitre 
on,   in  a  very  barbarous  cruel 
manner.       1   cannot    he   posi. 
tive  ivhen  it  was  done,    tho'  I 
think    it   was   about    the    time 
of   Richard   I.     The   Ruffians 
have   the  Visages  of  Saracens. 
The   Shoes   are  of  the  Age   I 
have  mentioned.     Archbishops, 
Bishops  and  Abbots   had  rare, 
ly     Mitres,    'till     a    thousand 
Years   after  Christ,    tho'    IVo- 
men   had    them    commonly   be 
fore    that     Period,    but    of  a 
different      make     from     those 
used    afterwards     by    men.     I 


•  Sic  Ashmolius.  F.  im,  i.  e.  him.  "  Ita  Ashm,  F.  hurde,  i.  e.  heard;  s  Sic  Ashm. 
F.  screwen.  Nam  uour  that  mest  strewen  wer,  i.ihil  aliud  est  quam,  foui"  that  were  the 
jreatest  shrews:     ♦  Loc,  cit. 

X  3  take 


542 


GLOSSARY. 


/ 


take  this  Alabaster  Antiquity 
to  have  belonged  formerly  to 
some  Chappel  or  Oratory. 
Greater  care  ought  to  be  ta- 
ken of  these  Monuments  ; 
but  'tis  no  wonder,  that  ha- 
vock  should  be  made  of  them, 
when  the  Chappels  and  Ora- 
tories themselves  have  not 
been  spared. 

cheve  vel  cheue,  agree,  combine, 
shew,  the  chief,  the  head,  thrive, 
cleave,  adhere,  obtain,  go,  ad- 
dress. To  chese  the  suld  cheue, 
p.  2.08.  they  might  have  power 
to  choose,  or  to  choose  they 
should  shew. 

cheued,  sheived,  obtained,  fared,, 
prevailed  with,  adhered.  The 
Ejorc?  cheued /or  shewed  occur rs 
also  in  z).  31.  of  the  Life  of  St. 
Wenefride,  written  in  old  Eng. 
lish  Rhythms,  and  printed  (from 
my  Copy,  as  I  have  noted  in  §. 
XVII.ofmyPreface  to  this  Work) 
at  the  End  of  the  late  learned 
Bishop  Fleetzeood^a  Book  about 
St.  Wenefride ;  the  Author  of 
j  which  Rhythmical  Life,  as  well 
/  as  of  the  other  Lives  of  the 
Saints,  in  old  English  verse, 
perhaps,  was  Robert  of  Brun. 
ne,  to  whom  we  owe  the  obso- 
lete English  Chronicle,  that  is 
here  published. 

cheuen,  submit,  agree. 

chevisance,  covenant,  agreement, 
compact,  articles,  composition. 

cheuysance,  gain,  mercluindize. 

childir,  children. 

childre,  children. 


chip,  a  chip,  a  beam. 

chyne,  chain. 

chynes,  chains. 

cite,  kastelle  &  toun,  cities^  castles 

and  towns. 
citez,  city. 
clef,  cleft. 

clergioun,  clergyman, 
clerkcy  clerk,  clerks. 
cleue,  cleave,  adhere. 
cleyme  alle  quit,  quit  all  daim. 
clos,  close,  in  clos,  inclosed. 
clostre,  cloyster. 
Goffris,  coffers, 
cofines,  chests. 
com,  come,  coming,  came,  convene. 

him  com,  it  came  to  him,  it  hap~ 

pened  to  him. 
com  and,  coming. 
comen,   come,  comes,  came,  com. 

ing,  brought,  commons^     com» 

mon  people,  common. 
Gomin,  coming,  came. 
common,  came. 
commyny  came. 
Gomon,   commons,  conwion  sort  of 

people,  commonalty. 
comond,  communed. 
compassement,      compassing,     af~ 

tempt,incircling,  turning  round. 
compast,      compass'df     contrivedr 

made. 
conant,  covenant,  agreement,  con. 

vention,  bargain. 
conante,  covenant. 
conantz,  covenants. 
conaunt,  covenant. 
Gonaiinte,  covenant^  bargain. 
condie,  conduct. 
condite,  conduct. 
Gondute,^  conduct. 


GLOSSARY. 


543 


cone,  could,  can. 
confonded,  confounded. 
conged,  dismissed,  conveyed. 
conn,  understand,  j^at  \e  Lat>'n  no 
Frankys  conn,  that   understand 
neither  Latin  nor  French. 
conne,  acknowledge,  render,    ex. 
press,  signify.  &  )>anke  wilde  he 
)»am  conne,   and  he  zcoiild  give 
them  thanks,     j^ank  I   auh  ^ow 
conne,  /  ought  to  give  thanks 
to  you.    Ab  A.  Sax.  cennan  sive 
connon,   scire,   no^cere,  cogno- 
scere. 
conquerand,  conquering. 
conrey,  run  together. 
consail,  counsel. 
conseil,  consult. 
conseild^  counselled,  advised. 
conseile,  cofisult,  advise,    counsel. 

conseile  Jre,  advise  thy  self. 
conseiled,  counselled,  advised,  con- 
sulted,   conseiled   J7am,  consult, 
ed  themselves,  advised  together, 
conseilere,  counsellor. 
conseilers,  counsellors. 
conseiloure,  advise,     I    Mille  con- 
seiloure-j     /  null  advise  yuu,    J 
v:ill  be  your  counsellor. 
conseilyng,  counselling. 
conseile,    counsell. 
contek,  contest,  contention. 
conU;kours,  contenders. 
contenance,  countenance^ 
contene,  continue. 
contreued,  contrived. 
coatreuore,  contrivance. 
coiitroued,  contrived. 
controues,  contrives. 
f:ontroueyng,  contriving. 
conyng,  cunning,  skill. 
Cordelyn,  Cordelier. 


corn,  cut.  on  four  quarters  corn, 
teing  cut  into  four  quarters, 
so  that  ^tis  the  same  with 
coru. 

coronment,  coronation, 

corouned,  crozoned. 

corounment,  coronation. 

corsaynt,  p.  44.  (le  cors  seiat  in  the 
French)  holy  body,  i.  e.  the  holy 
body  of  St.  Edmund.  See 
Speed^s  Chron.  p.  364.  Lond. 
1632. 

corseytit,  holy  of  heart,  a  holy 
body,  corseyat  verray,   a  truly 


holy  man. 


C^-i? 


coruen,  cut,  scurvy. 

corun,  crown. 

coruned,  crowned. 

costage,  costs,  charges. 

costeu,  cast. 

couant,  covenant. 

couenaz,  covenant,  covenants^ 

couent,  convent. 

couere,  cover,  close  up. 

couetise,  covetousness, 

counseil,  cotisult. 

countas,  countess. 

countes,  counties^ 

countred,  encountered. 

couth,  could,  could  do,  skillfully 
known,  understood,  nonne  couth 
ne  wild,  no7ie  neither  could  nor 
would.  &  name  couth  of  myght, 
and  of  knoicn  nam^for  his  might 
or  power. 

couthe,  could.     );at  noght  ne  cou- 

the,  that  could  not  at  all. 
Couwe,  A  sort  of  verse^  so 
called  from  ifs  being  sharp 
end  cutting,  couwe  signify, 
ing  a  tail  or  something  sharp  .• 
X  3  /a 


544 


GLOSSARY. 


for  which  reason  I  take  the 
word  Coway,  in  the  famous 
Coway  Stakes  in  Surretf,  where 
Julian  Cwsar  passed  the 
ThameSy  to  signify  Stakes,  so 
that  Stakes  there  is  only  a 
Tautology^  tho^  Dr.  Skinner 
is  of  another  opinion,  telling 
us,  that  Coway  is  the  same 
as  a  way  for  the  Cows,  "  Coway 
*'  Stakes",  (says  he  'J  in 
''  Com.  Suit,  locus  sic  dictus 
"  a  Palis,  quos  in  adverse  lit. 
*'  tore  Britanni  contra  Caesa- 
'*  rem  fixerunt,  ubi  Caesar  Ta- 
"  misiii  viulo  transivit :  Co- 
"  way  autem  nimis  manife- 
^'  ste  ortiim  ducit  a  Cow  & 
"  Way,  q.  d.  Iter  Vaccarum 
"  seu  Via,  per  quam  vaccce 
"  transire  solent. 

couyn,  covin,  deceit,  collusion. 
The  Lawyers  describe  it  to  be, 
a  deceitfull  assent  or  agreement, 
between  two  or  more,  to  the  pre- 
judice or  hurt  of  another. 

coy,  coy,  shy,  quiet,  still,  peace- 
able. 

credance,  credence. 

credille,  cradle. 

crie,   cry,  proclaim,  proclamation. 

Cristen,  Christians,  Christian. 

Cristendom,  Christianity. 

Croice,  cross.  J^e  croice  and  Je 
rode,  the  cross  and  the  road. 
Tho^  these  two  are  commonly 
taken  for  the  same,  and  Sovmer, 


therefore,  in  his  Saxon  Bicti* 
onary  translates  pobe  by  the 
Word  cross,  yet  the  rood  pro- 
per/^ signify^l  formerly  the 
image  of  Christ  on  the  Cross,  so 
as  lo  represent  both  the  Cross 
and  the  Figure  of  our  blessed 
Saviour  as  he  suffered  upon  it. 
The  Roods  that  were  in  Churches 
and  Chappels  were  placed  in 
Shrines,  that  were  stiled  Rood- 
lofts.  "  ^oof!i\oh"{saithBlount^) 
"  a  Shrine  whereon  was  placed 
"  the  Cross  of  Christ.  The 
^'  Rood  was  an  image  of  Christ 
"  oji  the  Cross,  rnade  generally 
'•'•  of  wood,  and  erected  in  a  loft 
''for  that  purpose,  just  over 
"  the  passage  out  of  the  Church 
"  into  the  Chancel.^''  But 
Roodloft  sometimes  also  signi- 
fies a  Shrine,  on  which  was 
placed  the  Image  or  Relicks  of 
a  Saint,  because  generally  a 
Crucifix  or  a  Cross  used  like- 
wise to  attend  such  Images  or 
Relicks.  I  am,  therefore,  in- 
clined to  think,  that  even  the 
fine  Image  of  the  Assumption 
of  the  Virgin  Mary,  found  oii 
Friday  i  Febr.  7.  1723.  just 
within  the  Church  of  Sandford, 
near  Oxford,  stood  in  a  Rood- 
loft  there,  and  that  it  was 
removed  and  hid,  being 
made  part  of  the  Floor  of 
the     Church,     (for     the    Face 


«  Etymolog.  nominum  propriorum,  in  vore. 
Words.    3  Coll.  nostr.  MSS.  Vol.  102.  p.  68. 


In  his  Dictionary  interpreting  hard, 
part 


GLOSSARY. 


545 


pari  was  found  li/itig  down- 
wards,  and  the  back  part  up- 
zoards)  in  the  time  of  King  Ed- 
Hoard  VI.  when  the  following 
Act  of  Parliament^  was  made 
in  the  3d.  and  fourth  year  of 
his  Reign  upon  this  account : 


An  Act  for  the  abolishing 
and  putting  awaie  of  di. 
uerse  bookes  and  images. 

Where  the  kings  most  ex- 
cellent piaie^tie  hath  of  Jat,e  set 
foorth  aivi  established  by  au- 
tiiorilie  of  parlepient,  an  vni- 
/orrae,  quiet,  and  godlie  or- 
der of  common  and  open 
praier,  in  a  booke  intituled 
The  beoke  of  common  praier^ 
{Und  administration  of  the  sa- 
craments, and  other  rites  and 
ceremonies,  after  the  church 
of  England^  to  be  vsed  and 
obserued  in  the  said  church 
of  England,  agreeable  to  the 
order  of  the  primitive  church, 
much  more  comfortable  vnto 
his  louing  sub'iects,  than  other 
diuersitie  of  seruice  as  heere- 
tofore  of  long  time  hath 
|}eene  vsed,  being  in  the  said 
booke  ordeined  nothing  to 
be    read,     but   the     verie    pure 


word  of  God,  or  which  is 
euidentlie  grounded  vpon  the 
same,  and  in  the  other  things 
corrupt,  vntrue,  vaine,  and 
superstitious,  and  as  it  were 
a  preparation  to  superstition, 
which  for  that  they  be  not 
called  in,  but  permitted  to 
remaine  vndefaced,  doo  not 
onelie  glue  occasion  to  such 
peruerse  persons,  as  doo  im- 
pugne  the  order  and  godlie 
meaning  of  the  kings  said 
booke  of  common  praier,  to 
continue  in  their  old  accus- 
tomed superstitious  seruice, 
but  also  minister  great  occa- 
sion to  diuersitie  of  opinions, 
rites,  ceremonies  and  seruices. 
Be  it  therefore  enacted  by  the 
king  our  souereigue  lord,  the 
lords  spirituall  and  tempprall, 
and  the  corpmons  in  this  pre- 
sent parlement  assembled,  that 
all  bookes  called  antiphoners, 
missals,  grails,  processionals, 
manuels,  legendies,  pies,  por- 
tuasses,  primers  in  Latine  or 
English,  couchers,  iournals, 
ordinals,  or  other  bookes  or 
writings  whatsoeuer,  heereto- 
fore  vsed  for  seruice  of  the 
church,  written  or  printed  in 
the  English  or  Latine  toong,  o- 
ther      than     such     as     are      or 


'  The  Statutes  at  large,  pr.  at  Lqndon,  in  a  Pot  folio,  for  Christopher  Barker,  15S7. 
Vol.  second,  p;  112. 

.    X  4  shall 


546 


GLOSSARY. 


shall  be  set  foorth  by  the 
kings  maiestie,  shall  be  by 
authoritie  of  this  present 
act  cleerelie  and  vtterlie  a- 
bolished,  exfinguishedj  and  for- 
bidden for  euer  to  be  vsed, 
or  kept  in  this  realrae,  or  else. 
where  within  anie  the  kings  do- 
minions. 

And  be  it  further  enacted 
by  the  authoritie  aforesaid, 
that  if  anie  person  or  per- 
sons, of  what  estate,  de- 
gree, or  condition  so  euer 
he,  she,  or  they  be,  bodies 
politike  or  corporat,  that 
now  haue,  or  heerafter  shall 
haue  in  his,  hir,  or  their 
custodie,  anie  the  bookes 
or  writings  of  the  sorts 
aforesaid,  or  anie  images 
of  stone,  timber,  alabaster, 
or  earth,  grauen,  earned, 
or  painted,  which  heereto- 
fore  haue  beene  taken  out 
of  anie  church  or  chapell, 
or  yet  stand  in  anie  church 
or  chapell,  and  doo  not,  be- 
fore the  last  day  of  June 
next  insuing,  deface  and 
destroie,  or  cause  to  be  de- 
faced and  destroied  the 
same  images  and  euerie  of 
them,  and  deliuer  or  cause 
to  be  deliuered,  all  and 
euerie  the  same  bookes  to 
the  maior,  bailiffe,  consta- 
ble, or  church-wardens  of 
the  towne,  where  such 
bookes  then  shall  be,  to  be 
by     them     deliuered    euer    o- 


penlie  within  three  month* 
next  folowing  after  the  said 
deliuerie  to  the  archbishop, 
bishop,  chancellor,  or  cora- 
missarie  of  the  same  djo- 
cesse,  to  the  intent  the  said 
archbishop,  bishop,  chancel- 
lor, or  commissarie,  and 
euerie  of  them,  cause  them 
immediatlie  either  to  be  o- 
penlie  burnt,  or  other  waies 
defaced  and  destroied,  shall 
for  euerie  such  booke  or 
bookes  willinglie  reteined 
in  his,  hir,  or  their  hands 
or  custodie,  within  this 
realm^,  or  elsewhere  with- 
in anie  the  kings  domi- 
nions, and  not  deliuered, 
as  is  aforesaid,  after  the 
said  last  daie  of  June,  and 
be  thereof  lawfuUie  con- 
uict,  forfeit  and  loose  to  the 
king  our  souereigne  lord, 
for  the  first  offense  ten  shil- 
lings, and  for  the  second  of- 
fense shall  forfeit  and  loose 
being  thereof  lawfullie 

conuict,  foure  pounds,  and 
for  the  third  ofl'ense,  shall 
suffer  imprisonment  at  the 
kings  will. 

And  be  it  further  enacted 
by  the  authoritie  aforesaid, 
that  if  anie  maiors,  bai- 
liffes,  constables,  or  church- 
wardens, doo  not  within 
three  moneths  after  the  re- 
ceipt of  the  same  bookes, 
deliuer  or  cause  to  be  deli- 
uered, such  bookes  so  by 
them 


GLOSSARY. 


547 


them  receiued,  to  the  arch- 
bishop, bishop,  chancellor 
or  commissaiies  of  their 
diocesse:  and  if  the  said 
archbishops,  bishops,  chan- 
cellor,  or  commissaries,  doo 
not  within  for'ie  daies  af- 
ter the  receipt  of  such 
bookes,  burne,  deface,  and 
destroie,  or  cause  to  be  burn- 
ed, defaced  or  destroied 
the  same  bookes,  and  eue- 
rie  of  them,  that  then  they 
and  euerie  of  them  so  of- 
fending, shall  loose  and 
forfeit  to  our  souereigne 
lord  the  king,  being  there- 
of lawfuUie  conuict,  fortie 
pounds :  the  one  halfe  of 
all  such  forfeitures  shall  be 
to  anie  of  the  kings  sub- 
jects, that  will  sue  for  the 
same,  in  anie  of  the  kings 
courts  of  record,  by  bill, 
plaint,  action  of  debt,  or 
information,  in  which  a- 
ction  no  essoine,  protection, 
wager  of  law,  or  other  de- 
laie  shall  be  allowed. 

And  for  better  execution 
of  the  same  act,  be  it  en- 
acted by  the  authoritie  a- 
foresaid,  that  as  well  iu- 
stices  of  assise  in  their  cir- 
cuits, as  iustices  of  peace, 
within  the  limits  of  their 
commission  in  the  generall 
sessions,  shall  haue  full  po- 
wer and  authoritie,  to  in- 
quire of  the  ofl'enses  afore, 
said,    and    to     heare    and    de- 


termine the  same  in  such  forme 
as  they  may  doo  in  other  such 
like  cases. 

Prouided  alwaies,  that 
this  act  or  anie  thing  there- 
in conteioed,  shall  not  ex- 
tend to  anie  image  or  pi- 
cture, set  or  grauen  vpon 
anie  roome  in  anie  church, 
chapell,  or  churchyard,  one- 
lie  for  a  monument  of  anie 
king,  prince,  nobleman, 

or  other  dead  person,  which 
hath  not  beene  commonlie 
reputed  and  taken  for  a 
saint,  but  that  all  such  pi- 
ctures and  images  may 
stand  and  continue  in  like 
maner  and  forme,  as  if 
this  act  had  neuer  beene 
had  nor  made,  anie  thing 
in  this  act  to  the  contrarie 
in  anie  wise  notwithstand- 
ing. 

Prouided  alwaies,  and 
be  it  enacted  by  authoritie 
aforesaid,  that  anie  person 
or  persons,  may  Tse,  keepe, 
haue  and  reteine  anie  pri- 
mers in  the  English  or  La- 
tine  toong,  set  foorth  by  the 
late  king  of  famous  memo- 
rie  king  Henrie  the  eight, 
so  that  the  sentences  of 
inuocation  or  praier  to 
saints,  in  the  same  primers, 
be  blotted  or  cleerelie  put 
out  of  the  same,  anie  thing 
in  this  act  to  the  contrarie 
notwithstanding. 

Hiis    Kus   one  of  ihe  extra- 
yagaut 


543 


GLOSSARY 


vagant  Acts  (as  some  call  them) 
made  in  those  times.  ^Tis  in- 
credible to  think,  what  a  vast 
number  of  curious  Books  and 
Monuments  perished  by  vir~ 
tue  of  if.  The  Reader  will 
take  the  more  notice  of  it, 
because  I  have  transcrib''d  it 
from  an  Edition  of  our  Acts, 
in  ivhich  are  many  Particu- 
lars that  have  been  left  out  in 
later  Editions.  The  Sandford 
Image  {made  of  Barrington 
Stone  by  Burford,  and  paint- 
ed) is  certainly  comprehend, 
ed  in  this  Act.  I  look  upon 
it  to  be  as  old  as  the  Reign 
of  K.  Edw.  Hid.  and  as  the 
Artists  ushl  to  have  some  fine 
Lady  of  their  owti  time  in 
view,  when  they  wrought  I- 
mages  of  the  Virgin  Mary,  so 
I  am  of  opinion,  that  the 
Face  (which  is  a  little  da- 
maged, as  the  Arms  are  also 
broke  off)  of  this  Image  was 
intended  by  the  Artist  for 
that  of  Q.  Philippa,  a  thing 
■which  I  noted  also  {soon  af- 
ter it  was   discovered)    in   one 


of  my  Volumes  »  of  MSS. 
Collections,  where  the  fol- 
loiving  Particulars  occur  : 

"  K.  Edward  III.  married 
"  (in  the  Jirst  year  of  hs 
"  Reign,  *  A.  D.  1327.  set. 
"  15.)  Philippa,  Daughter  of 
"  William  (E.  of  Hainault 
"  and  Holland)  and  Jane  de 
"  Valois,  both  at  that  time 
"  living.  She  was  a  most  beau^ 
''  tifull,  charming,  lovely,  crea- 
^ '  ture,  (the  Mirrour,  as  it  were, 
"  of  her  Sex)  and  was  then 
"  scarce  14 years  of  age.  The 
"  Persons  sent  about  this  Af~ 
"  fair  beyond  Sea  were  ^  Dr. 
"  Roger  Northborough,  Bi. 
*'  shop  of  Coventry  and  Litch. 
"  field,  with  tzoo  Knights  Ban- 
"  ne.rets,  and  two  Men  learn- 
"  ed  in  the  Lazes.  These  Am^ 
*'  bassadours  zcere  attended 
^'  with  an  Honourable  Equi- 
"  page,  and  coming  to  Va. 
"  lenciennes,  the  chief  City 
"  of  Heinalt,  the  Earl  Wil- 
'^  Ham  and  his  Lady  received 
"  them  very  gladly,  and  en- 
"  tertain'd  them,  during  their 


'  Vol.  102.  p.  111.  '  A.  D;  1327.  24.  January  (Anno  Reg.  I.)  kinge  Edward  the 
third  tooke  to  wyfe  ladie  Philip,  daughter  of  William  carle  of  Heinault,  and  neece  to 
John  lord  Beamnontc,  MS.  containing  the  Annals  of  England  ( beginning  anno  1066. 
and  ending  in  the  year  1531 .  or  the  20.  of  H.  VIII.  when,  perhaps,  the  Author  or  Col- 
lector livd,  tho'  the  Hand  does  not  seem  to  be  quite  so  old  as  that  of  H.  VIII.)  inth 
hands  of  Thomas  Ward,  of  Longbridge,  Esq;.    ^  Barnes's  Hist,  of  Edw,3.  p.  26,  27. 

"   Stay, 


GLOSSARY. 


549 


'5  stay,  with  great  Splendour 
*^  and  Magnificence.  'Tis  re. 
*'  ported,  that  one  day,  when 
**  I  the  Earl  brought  forth  all 
*'  his  Jive  Daughters  to  their 
"  View,  while  the  ethers,  be- 
*'  ing  amazed  with  the  Beau. 
"  ties  and  delicate  Shape  of 
*'  them  all,  stood  in  deep  Sus- 
*'  pence,  not  knowing  which 
"  to  prefer ;  the  piercing  Eye 
"  of  the  Bishop,  observing 
"  liith  good  heed  the  Lady 
''  Philfppa  to  be  the  best  built 
"  about  the  Hips,  and  of  a 
"  good  sanguine  Complexion 
"  agreeing  icith  the  King's, 
"  he  secretly  advised  his  001' 
"  leagues,  that  she  was  the 
"  Lady,  among  them  all,  that 
*'  was  ?nost  likely,  zciih  her 
"  sweet  Disposition,  to  please 
"  the  King,  their  Blaster,  and 
"  also  to  bring  forth  a  nu- 
"  merous  and  hopefull  Proge- 
*'  ny.  This,  coming  thus  from 
"  a  Bishop,  zzhose  Order  was 
"  not  then  allowed  to  marry, 
"  gave  occasion  of  much  Di- 
*'  version    and   Mirth    to    the 


*'  Company.  But,  however, 
"  the  Judgment  prevail\l,  and 
"  Madam  Philippa  (who  was 
"  the  very  youngest  *  of  the 
"  Ladies)  was  pitched  upon 
"  to  be  their  Queen. 

"  She  was  received  in  Eng. 
"  land  uith  all  possible  Joy 
"  and  Respect,  and  the  Mar. 
"  riage  was  solemnized  with 
"  unspeakable  Gaiety  and 
"  Mirth,  and  all  manner  of 
'■'  Feasting,  agreeable  to  the 
"  Age  and  Dispositions  of  the 
"  K.  and  Q.  and  their  several 
"  Attendants.  And  being  ad. 
"  orn'd  with  so  much  Beauty, 
"  'twas  ctrmmon  to  represent 
"  the  Virgin  Mary  in  her 
"  Shape;  and  one  of  these 
"  figures  I  take  that  to  be 
'■'■found  lately  in  Sandford 
"  Church,  done,  as  I  take  it, 
"=  about  the  year  1339.  when 
"  the  Queen  was  about  26 
"   Years  of  Age. 

'^  The  Assumption  of  the 
"  Virgin  Mary  happened  A°. 
"  D.  i  50.  in  the  4  62rf.  Year 
"  of   her  Age,   she    being    14 


■  John  Harding, c.  178. /o/.  177,  Stanza2,  3,  4,  &c,  c.  \83.  fol.  184.  'Sic  in  illius 
Epitaphio.  3  Sprotti  Chron.  p.  34.  *  But  others  say,  the  63d  year.  Whence  tec  have 
these  Verses  in  a  little  Quarto  Paper  MS.  (  written  about  the  time  of  K.  Hen.  VI. )  in  the 
Hands  of  my  before  mentioned  ingenious  Friend,  Thomas  fVard,  of  Longbridge,  near 
fVarKick,  Esq;, 


Virgo  parens  vixit  sexaginta  trihus  annis. 
Quatuor  atque  decern  fuit  in  partu  benedicta, 
Vixit  cum  filio  ter  d<>cem  cum  tribus  annis, 
Scxque  decern  vixi,t,  sed  post  haecaiitrasubi 


'^  years 


553 


GLOSSARY. 


**  ifcars  old  when  she  brought 
*'  forth  our  Saviour,  uith 
*'  whom  she  lived  »  33  i/ears, 
*'  and  after  his  Crucifixion 
*'  15.  She  is  always  repre- 
*'  sented  young  ivhen  the  As- 
**  sumption  is  figured,  not' 
"  withstanding  so  old,  and 
*'  the  Artists  generally  had 
*'  the  most  beautifull  Women 
•'  of  the  greatest  Quality  in 
*'  their  View,  when  they  made 
*'  Statues  and  Figures  of  her. 

But  now,  if  any  one  should 
think,  as  I  once  did  *,  that 
this  Image  did  not  originally 
belong  to  Sandford  Church, 
it  may  be  he  will  not  judge  it 
absurd  to  believe,  that  it  be- 
longed either  to  the  Chappcl 
by  the  great  Ivy  House  at 
Sandford,  or  else  to  the  Min- 
diery  at  Littlemore,  and  that 
in  Hen.  F///'*'^'  time,  when 
suck  a  Destruction  of  Reli- 
gious Houses  was  made,  it 
was  removed  to  Sandford 
Church,  as  to  the  more  safe 
Place,  since  Parochial  Chur- 
ches were  not  ordered  to  be 
destroyed  or  pulled  down. 


I  have  often  been  willing 
to  think,  that  K.  Edw.  VI. 
had  he  lived  to  a  mature  age, 
would  have  repented  of  the 
Act  above  published,  and  of 
many  other  Things,  that  he 
was  drawn  to  consent  to  by 
bad  Counsellors,  such  as  his 
own  Godfather  Cranmer,  tiho 
(as  well  as  Cardinal  Wolsey) 
had  likewise  suggested  many 
unworthy  Things  to  this 
young  King^s  Father  Hen. 
VHI.  a  Prince  of  himself, 
without  such  Prompters,  na~ 
turally  ready  to  commit  Bar- 
barities, and  to  involve  him- 
self in  Sacrilege,  of  which 
there  are  deplorable  Instan- 
ces, one  of  which  many 
have  looked  upon  to  be  the 
beheading  of  Bishop  Fisher, 
a  thing  of  it  self  that,  as 
these  men  observe,  was  e- 
nough  to  draw  down  severe 
Judgments.  One  of  these  Ob. 
servers  zcas  Richard  Hall,  D. 
D.  sometime  3  pj  Christ's 
coll.  in  Cambridge  (the  same  4, 
of  which  Bishop  Fisher  was  a 
member)      afterwards     Canon^ 


'  T/iis  is  the  common  and  truest  account  of  our  Lord's  age.  And  Hh  xxxiii.  in  the 
Sermon  de  Transfigiiracione  Domini  in  Winkcn  de  Worde's  Edition  of  liber  Festivalis, 
that  Kas given  me  by  my  accomplished  Friend  Mr.  West  of  Balliol-College;  but  then  in 
an  imperfect  Copy  of  another  (which  seems  to  be  a  later)  Edition  of  the  said  liber  Festi- 
Talis,  given  me  by  my  learned  Friend  Mr.  Graves  of  Mickleton,  'tis  only  xxxii.  '  Coll. 
nostr.  MSS.  Vol.  102.  p.  69.     s  Mhenw  Oxon.  Vol.  I.  col.  487.     *  Ibid. 

and 


GLOSSARY, 


551 


and  Official  of  the  Cathedral 
Church  at  St.  Omer^s,  zeho  dying 
in  the  year  1604.  left  behind 
him  in  MS.  the  Life  of  this 
most  venerable  Prelate^  which 
zcas  printed  at  London  in  Svo. 
in  the  year  1655.  by  Dr. Thomas 
Bayly,  but  with  very  many  and 
unwarrantable  Alterations,  as 
may  appear  in  part  from  the 
Conclusion  of  this  Lfe  ;  which 
Conclusion  I  shall  here  take  the 
opportunity  of  publishing  from 
a  MS.  Copy,  that  I  have  ^,  of  the 
Life,  that  it  may  be  the  more 
easily  compared  with  the  said 
Dr.  Bayly'' s  Edition.  But  then 
it  must  not  from  hence  be  in- 
ferred, that  I  am  of  the  same 
perswasion  with  Dr.  Hall,  the 
original  Author  of  this  Life. 
Dr.  Bayly  would  have  main- 
tain'd  a  better  Character,  had 
he  published  it  faithfully  ;  and, 
therefore,  tho^  Dr.  Hall  and 
my  self  happen  to  be  of  dif. 
ferent  perswasions  (for  I  pro. 
fess  my  self  to  be  a  sincere,  tho'' 
very  unworthy,  Member  of  the 
Church  of  England)  yet  in  pub- 
lishing MSS.  I  look  upon  it  as  a 


forfeiture  of  one''s  honesty  and 
honour,  to  make  them  speak 
otherwise  thati  the  Authors  of 
them  both  wrote  and  thought.  I 
am  apprehensive,  what  will  be 
objected  against  Dr.  Hall,  upon 
account  of  this  Specimen  only, 
and  much  more  upon  accomit  of 
the  whole,  were  I  to  publish  it. 
Let  the  whole  blame  of  the  com. 
posure  fall  upon  the  Dr.  who  is 
now  above  all  calumny;  and 
as  for  my  self,  if  there  be  any 
hurt  faithfully  to  transcribe 
and  publish,  upon  occa^ion^ 
a  Citation  from  an  historical 
Author,  I  am  ready  to  zinder- 
go  the  Censures,  that  suck 
Readers  shall  be  pleased  to 
pass  upon  me. 

Finallie  {saith  this  writer) 
whosoever  shall  read  of  Cocleius., 
Wicellius,  Eckius,  and  others 
learned  writers  of  Germane,  of 
the  worthy  Bishope  and  eloquent 
Writer,  Osorius,  of  Alphonsus 
de  Castro,  and  others  of  Spaine 
and  Portugall,  besides  a  number 
of  such  learned  fathers  of  manie 
nations,  whereof  some  lived  in  his 


•  Being^iven  me  on  Jan.  'ith.  1717.  by  (my  Friend  and  Acquaintance)  the  ingenious 
Mr.  Thomas  Kymher  of  Holywell,  (in  the  Suburbs  of  Ojford, )  who  died  (in  the  sixty 
second  year  of  his  Age)  on  Wednesday  Morning  Dec.  30.  1724.  and  tvas  buried  on 
Friday  Evening  {being  J^n.  I .).  immediately  foUomng  in  IJolyvsell  Church-Yard. 

owne 


552 


GLOSSARY. 


owne  dayes,  and  some  since,  shall 
easilie  perceive  that  he  [Fisher^ 
was  a  man,  for  his  profound  learn- 
ing and  rare  vertue,  highlie  reve- 
renced and  esteemed  throughout 
Christendome.     And  no   doubt, 
but  if  his  writings  and  doings  be 
well  compared,    ye  shall  find  him 
most  like  those  holy  Fathers  and 
Doctors,  that,  in  the  '  primative 
Church,  laid  the  verie  foundacion 
and  firstground  of  our  beliefe,  up- 
on the  which  we  have  since  rested 
and  stayed  our*  selfes,  whome  to 
describe  whoUie   and  fuUie  unto 
you,  according  to  his  worthinesse, 
I  will  not  take  upon  me  (o  do  it, 
neither  am  I  able.      No,   were  I 
as  eloquent  as  Cicero,  or  as  wit- 
tie  and  subtill  as  Aristotle,  as  co- 
pious as  Demosthenes,  or  as  pro- 
found in  philosophieasP/a?o,such, 
and  so  innumerable,    were  his  i 
singulervertues.  But  herin  I  will 
content  my  selfe  with  the  generall 
commendacion,  which  all  the  fa- 
mous  universities  of  4  devinitie  in 
Europe  do  give  this  learned  Fa- 
ther, by  calling  him  blessed  Mar- 
tir,  and  alleaging  his  workes  for 
great  authoritie.     Thus   much   I 
may   also  say,  that  unto  Justus 
his  predecessor,  the  first  Bishope 
oi  Rochester,  he  was  a  just  and 
true   suGcessour.      The  place  of 
his  birth  he  doth  greatlie  beau- 
tifie   with  the  glorious  Bishoppe 
St.  John  of  Beverley.     To  the 
Countrey    of  Kent,    where     he 
was  bishope,  he  is  an   ornament 


with  St.  Thomas  g{  Ctinterhu^ 
rie  ;  in  gravetie  of  his  writing  he 
is  to  be  reverenced  with  Sti  Bede; 
for  stout  defending  the  right  and 
libertie  of  the  holie  Church, 
against  the  power  of  princes,  he 
is  not  inferiour  to  the  blessed 
bishope  St.  Ambrose,  and  St. 
Crysostome ;  in  praying  for  his 
enemies  and  persecutors,  he  re- 
sembleth  holie  St.  Stephen;  in 
constancie  and  stoutnesse  of  his 
martirdom,  he  was  a  second  Ci. 
prian.  But,  above  all  other,  he 
is  most  to  be  likened  and  com- 
pared to  the  holie  Prophett  and 
Martir  of  God  St.  John  Bap. 
tist ;  and  first,  to  sett  aside  all 
congruence  in  their  names  of 
John,  it  is  to  be  noted,  that  as 
John  lived  in  ^  wildernes  a  hard 
and  solitarie  life,  in  penance  and 
punishment  of  himselfe,  so  this 
John  lived  a  solitarie  and  austere 
life,  in  his  private  house  and 
cell,  saving  when  he  was  called 
abroade  to  other  businesse,  pu- 
nishing himselfe  with  studie,hard 
lodging  upon  the  mattes,  fasting, 
praying,  wearing  of  heareshirtes, 
and  whipping  himself.  Likewise, 
as  that  John  preached  diligent- 
lie  the  coming  of  Christ  at  hand, 
giving  knowledge  of  salvation 
to  all  them  that  would  be. 
leeve  and  be  baptised,  so  this 
John,  with  like  diligence  and 
care,  warned  the  people  by  his 
continuall  preaching  and  writ- 
ing  of    Christens    departure     at 


Sic.    3  Sic.    *  Sic.    i  jF.  the  wildernes. 


hand. 


GLOSSARY. 


553 


hand,  in  case ,  they  stopped  nOt 
their  eares  against  those  horrible 
heresies,  dailie  preached  and  sett 
forthe  un'o  them  ;  And,  as  that 
John,  died  for  a  case  of  matri- 
mony, contrarie  in  appearance, 
but  agreable  in  substance  and 
truth,  saying  unto  kinge  Hett- 
ri/Cy  it  is  not  lazsfull  for '  the 
*'  to  put  away  thy  wife,  and 
*'•  take  an  other,  though  she 
"  were  once  thy  brother'' s  xoife, 
^^  for  thy  brother  is  dead  with- 
*'  out  issue,  and  *  then  now 
*'  lawfuliie  maried  unto  her  by 
*'  dispensation  and  anthoritye 
*'  of  the  Church.''''  For  Ilerode, 
whom  St.  John  Baptist  repre- 
hended, took  to  him  his  bro- 
ther's wife,  his  brother  living, 
which  ?  is  manifestlie  repugnant 
to  God's  Lawe,  could  not  be 
done  :  Eut  king  Jlenrie  tooke 
his  brother's  wife,  when  his  bro- 
ther was  dead  without  issue  of 
her,  which  by  Moyses  Lawe  is 
not  in  that  case  forbidden,  and  by 
the  authoritye  of  the  Church  may 
be  permitted  as  this  M'as,  and  ther- 
fore  was  the  mariage  good  and 
lawful! ,  and  consequentlie  the  se- 
cond detestable  and  unlawfull. 
Furthermore,  as  that  JoAw's  head 
was  begged  of  king  Herode  at  a 
banquett  by  a  Psaltresse  or  wo- 
man dancer,  so  this  John's  head 
was  by  a  like  person  of  king 
Henrie,  as  he  sat  banqueting  and 
chearing  at  his  house  at  Ham.. 
zcorth.     As  this  John   was   be- 


headed on  the  birth  day  of  kinge 
Herode,  so  this  Johti  was  be- 
headed on  the  birth  day  of  king 
Henrie,  the  king  having  accom- 
plished that  day  the  just  age  of 
fortie  five  yeares.  And  as  the 
holie  fingar  of  that  John  with 
pointing  to  the  Lambe,  when  he 
said,  Ecce  agnus  dei,  was  mi- 
raculouslie  preserved  from  Cor- 
ruption long  after  his  death  and 
martirdome,  so  the  holie  head  of 
this  John,  wherwith  he  stoutlie 
defended  the  head  of  our  holie 
mother  the  Church,  was  by  mira- 
cle preserved  long  after  his  mar- 
tirdume  with  a  fresh  and  livelie 
colour,  till,  by  commaundemcnt 
of  the  king,  it  was  taken  away, 
and  conveied  out  of  sight.  Fi- 
nallie,  as  in  the  person  of  that 
John  "*  their  died  thre  severall 
functions  or  offices  at  once,  that 
is  to  saye,  of  a  Preist,  a  Prophett, 
and  a  Patriarke,  so  in  the  person 
of  this  John  there  died  three 
like  worthie  vocations,  that  is 
to  say,  a  Priest,  a  Bishope  and 
a  Cardinall.  And  thus  we 
see,  hoW'  the  death  of  our 
holie  John  may  be  compared 
to  St.  John  Baptiste^s  death, 
and  yet  in  verie  deed  for  some 
respectes  it  surpasscth  the  death 
of  St.  John.  And  the  wick- 
ed doings  of  kinge  Henrie 
surpasseth  likewise  the  wick- 
ed doings  of  king  Herode. 
For  St.  John  Baptist  reprehend- 


F.  thou.    3  F.  a5.     4  Sic. 


ed 


554 


GLOSSARY. 


his  acte  in  taking  onelie  his  bro- 
ther's wife ;  but  king  Ilenric, 
whome  this  our  holie  John  re- 
prehended, put  away  his  lawfull 
and  vertuous  wife,  and  took  to 
him,  as  is  rehearsed,  his  own  un- 
lawful! daughter,  made  suer  alU 
readie  to  another,  and  in  hones- 
tie  no  better  then  an  harlott. 
Ilerode  was  sorie  for  his  rash 
promise  to  the  woman  dauncer 
when  he  heard  her  ask  St.  John'% 
head,  but  king  Henrie  was  no- 
thing at  all  sorie  for  the  promise 
he  made  of  this  our  holy  John^s 
head,  but  wilfallie  and  maliti. 
ouslie  sought  all  unlawful!  meanes 
to  cut  it  from  t!ie  bodie,  neither 
respecting  his  age,  his  vertue,  his 
learninge,  sanctytie  of  life,  dig- 
nitie,  nor  other  quality  in  his 
worthie  personage.  The  fact  of 
king  Herod,  for  which  St.  John 
died,  did  most  concerne  tlie  in- 
jurle,  which  Herode  did  to  his 
brother,  whose  wife  he  took.  But 
the  fact  of  king  Henrie^  where- 
fore our  blessed  John  died, '  not 
onelie  touch  the  injurie  committed 
against  the  vertuous  ladie  his 
lawfull  wife,  but  it  contained  the 
expresse  contempt  of  our  holie 
father  the  Pope,  and  of  the  au- 
thor! tie  of  the  Catholike  Church, 
besides  the  occasion  of  sinne  and 
scandal!,  which  it  gave  to  the 
partie,  that  did  pretend  title  to 
her,  whomethe  king  would  nedes 
marry.  But  what  should  I  speake 


of  Herode,  whose  crueltie  was 
nothing  to  be  compared  to  this 
king?  For  in  malice,  which  he 
showed  to  a  great  number  of  ho- 
lie and  learned  men,  principallie 
to  this  our  holie  father,  he  had 
never  yet  his  like  bearing  the 
name  of  Christ,  and  professing  his 
faith.  In  unthankfulnesse  he  was 
much  worse  then  Alexander.  For 
he  did  not  onelie  nothing  consi- 
der the  great  affiance,  which  his 
noble  father  king  Henrie  the 
Vjjth.  had  in  this  holie  man,  mak- 
ing  him,  at  his  death,  one  of  his 
exe(;utors(as  we  have  before  men- 
tioned) nothing  waying  the  singu- 
lar affection  and  creditt,  that  his 
Grandmother,  that  wortliy  Ladie, 
Margarett  Countesse  of  Rich, 
mond  and  Darbie,  had  in  him 
above  all  the  Prelates  and  Bishops 
of  this  Land ;  but  setting  at  naught 
the  great  Vertue,  Learning  and 
Holinesse,  which  he  knew  to  be 
in  this  so  rare  a  Bishope,  and  ut- 
terlie  forgetting  the  honor  and 
fame,  which  by  him  both  he,  and 
all  his  realme  had  gotten,  like  a 
most  unthankfull  Prince,  and 
most  contemptuous  of  his  sove- 
raigne  and  holie  father  the  head 
of  Christ  in  earth,  sought  outmost 
wickedlie  all  the  meanes  he  could, 
to  intrappe  this  holie  Bishopp 
and  vertuous  Cardinal! ;  and  con- 
trarie  both  to  the  law  of  God, 
and  decrees  of  our  holie  mo- 
ther  the  Church,being  ameere  lay 


Prince, 


Glossary 


555 


l^rince,  and  so  haTing  no  Autho- 
titie  nor  Jurisdiction,  -wherby  he 
might  lawfullie  thus  proceed  a- 
gainst  an  anointed  Bishope  and 
Cardinalof  the  Church  of  RomCj 
but  that  by  intending  the  least  of 
the  waies,  that  he  used  against 
him,  must,  of  necessitie,  incurre 
the  sore  and  grevous  Excommuni- 
cation, accompanied  with  manie 
Other  dangers  and  inconveniences 
then  can  well  be  rehearsed :  He, 
I  say,  contemning  all  these,  did 
most  wickedlye  take  upon  him 
and  usurpe  the  authoritie,  which, 
before  his  daies,  never  Christian 
and  Catholik  Prince  did,  (and 
which  John  Calvin,  an  heretike, 
did  utterlie  detest  and  condemne 
in  him ;)  and  against  all  lawe  and 
reason  most  cruellie  put  to  death 
this  man  of  God,  over  whome 
neither  by  Lawe,  nor  Custome, 
he  could  have  anie  Criminall  Ju- 
risdiction, but  ought,  if  he  had 
made  anie  offence,  to  have  refer, 
red  the  hearing  and  discussing  of 
his  crime  to  his  Metropolitan,  or 
tather  to  the  cheefe  Head  of  all 
Bishopps,  to  whome  onelie  the 
Judgement  and  hearing  of  a  Bi- 
shope's  crime  in  a  spirituallcause, 
as  this  was,  doth  and  allwaies 
hath  of  right  appertained.  And 
as  the  enormities  of  King  Henrie 
in  this  case  were  so  exorbitant, 
and  surpassing  all  Lawe,  Reason 
knd  Conscience,  so  is  the  wonder- 
full  working  of  Allmightie  God, 


whose  Judgements  are  secrett  and 
strange  in  our  sight,  much  to  be 
marked  and  noted  in  him,  and  his 
adherentes.  For  as  God  of  his 
owne  nature  is  patient  and  long 
suffering,  '  by  cause  he  expecteth 
the  amendment  of  our  sinfull 
lives ;  so  is  he  allso  just  in  his  do- 
ings, and  punisheth  greivoslie 
when  no  amendment  is  indevour- 
ed,  as  now  may  well  be  perceived 
by  those  persons,  that  Avere  per- 
secutors of  this  blessed  man.  For 
they  escaped  not  the  danger  of  his 
heavie  hand,  as  shal  bedeclared 
unto  yoUi 

And  first  to  begin  with  the  La- 
die  Anne  BuUen^  as  the  chefe 
and  principall  cause,  for  ivhome 
all  this  wofull  tragedie  began, 
who  was  also  the  chefe  persecutor 
of  this  holie  man,  marke  how  she 
tvas,  in  short  space,  cast  downe 
from  the  topp  of  her  high  honor 
and  uignitie,  -wherin  she  was  ex- 
alted,  and  for  a  most  vile  and  ab- 
hominable  incest,  committed  with 
her  owne  brother,  besides  sun- 
drie  adulteries  with  other  per- 
sons, was  throwneinto  cruell  and 
straite  prison,  where  she  remain- 
ed not  longe  before  she  was  con- 
demned to  death  by  sundrie  no- 
ble men  of  this  realme,  that  late- 
lie  before  were  pliable  and  readie 
to  please  her  in  allher  commaun- 
dements,  whereof  some  were  neare 
of  kindred  to  her,  yea  one  of 
them  her  owne  father,  Accord- 


Voi.  n. 


Sic. 


mg 


556 


GLOSSARY. 


ing  to  which  condemnaclon  she 
was  put  to  open  and  shameful! 
execution  of  death,  leaving  behind 
her  nothing  but  an  infamous  name 
to  remaine  for  ever,  for  whose 
losse  the  king  himselfe  tooke  so 
little  sorow,  that  the  verie  next 
day  after  she  was  dead,  he  was 
maried  to  an  other  wife. 

Next  that  the  Lord  Crumvoell 
is  to  be  remembred,  who  with  a 
great  diligence  solicited  the  matter 
to  the  king,  and  earnestlie  pro- 
voked him  in  this  and  manie  other 
ill  purposes*  He  being  advaunced 
to  such  honor  and  authoritye,  as 
no  man  in  this  realme,  at  that 
time,  bare  the  like  about  the  king, 
grew  at  last  into  such  hatred  a- 
inongst  the  noble  men  and  com- 
mons '  througout  the  realme,  for 
his  untollerable  and  tirannicall 
crueltie,exersiced  over  them,  that, 
finallie,  he  was  by  sundrie  pra- 
ctises brought  also  into  the  king's 
displeasure,  and  so  cast  into  miser- 
able prison  condemned  to  death  by 
act  of  parliament  for  heresie  and 
treason^  and  after  executed  ac- 
cording to  his  judgment,  no  man 
pittying  his  case. 

Then  Cometh  to  mind  Mr.  The. 
mas  Cranmerj  archbishope  of 
Caunterburie^  who  of  his  owne 
power,  without  just  warrant,  pro- 
nounced the  sentence  of  divorce 
betwene  the  king  and'the  Queene, 
and  after  calling  this  holy  man 
before  him  and  others,  cast  him 


into  prison,  with  as  much  extre-^ 
mitie  as  could  be  shewed,  for  re- 
fusing the  two  othes,  the  one  of  the 
king's  new  mariage,  the  other,  of 
the  supremacie,  from  whence  he 
was  never  delivered,  till  death. rid 
him  of  all  worldlie  cares.ThusMr. 
Cranmer  allthough  he  continued 
his  place  and  dignity,  during  the 
unnaturaUand  cruell  times  of  king 
Henrie,  and  the  infant  his  sonne 
king  Edward;  ypt,  at  last,  in 
the  raigne  of  that  hiost blessed  la- 
die  Queene  Marie,  when  the  true 
light  of  Justice  of  Christens  aun- 
cientandCatholike  religion  beg^n 
againe  to  shine,  he  was  called  to  a 
reckoning  for  manie  of  his  former 
ill  doings,,  and,  lastlie,  standing 
stiffe  in  divers  horible  and  foule 
heresies,  was  worthelie  burnt  with 
fier,  and  consumed  to  ashes. 

Likewise  Mr.  Rich,  the  king's 
Soliciter,  that  gave  false  testimonie 
against  him,  and  was  forsworne 
at  his  «  araigment,  in  so  falselie 
betraying  him,  although  for  ma- 
nie yeares  after  he  continued  cor- 
ruptlie  gathering,  togiether  of 
wealthe,  till  the  daies  of  king 
Henrie  were  ended,  y^thave  I  bin 
crediblye  informed,  that,  if  the 
king  had  lived  but  a.  fewe  dayes 
longer  then  he  did,,  he  was 
growne  into  such  displeasure 
against  him  for  sundrie  false, 
hoodes  and  deeeiptes,  in  frau- 
dulent purchasing  and  exchanging 
of  land  betwene  the  king  and  him, 
wherin  the  king  was  deceived  of 


Sic.    'Sic* 


CdjL. 


-^  st^.. 


GLOSSARY. 


557 


ho  small  value,  and  likewise  for 
diverse  bribes  extorted  upon 
many  of  his  subjectes,  that  he  was 
fullie  determined  to  have  attainted 
him  of  felonie,  extortion  and  per- 
jurie,  and  so  in  one  houre  to  have 
spoiled  him  of  all  the  great  heape, 
which  he  so  falselie  had  raked  to- 
gether in  mania  yeares  before. 
But  being  after,  in  the  wicked 
time  of  the  Infant's  raigne,  ad- 
vanced to  high  honor  and  place, 
far  above  his  desert,  yet  lived  he 
to  be  deposed  againe  of  that  place, 
'evin  by  the  same  persons  that 
preferred  him.  But  since,  in  the 
time  of  that  noble  and  blessed 
Queeneil/ary  of  worthiememorie, 
he  became  penitent,  as  I  have 
heard,  for  many  of  his  offences, 
for  the  which  God  permitted  him 
(as  it  may  be  thought)  to  die  in 
better  order  then  the  rest  before 
did.  But  true  it  is,  that  after  his 
death  his  bodie  escaped  a  narrow 
daunger  of  burning.  For  at  such 
time  as  he  was  dead,  and  his  bo- 
die laid  in  a  coflSn  ceared  and 
balmed,  and  certaine  candles  set 
upon  the  hearse,  as  the  maner 
was,  one  of  the  candles,  either  by 
the  will  of  God,  or  els  by  negli- 
gence of  some  *  of  some"  of  the 
watchers  that  were  absent,  fell 
downe,  and  tooke  hold,  first  of 
the  clothes,  and  after  of  the  cof- 
fin, that,  in  the  end,  before  anie 
bodie  was  ware,  the  fier  was 
fastned  upon  the  seare-clothes, 
where  his  miserable  carcasse  lay, 
and  had,  without  all  doubt,  con- 


sumed the  same  into^shes,  had  it 
not  bin  spedelie  espied  by  certaine 
of  the  servantes  by  chaunce,  who 
saved  all  for  that  time,  though 
not  with  out  great  danger  to  the 
bodie  and  the  rest  of  his  howse 
also ;  All  which  so  narow  escapes 
I  can  impute  to  nothing,  but  one- 
lie  to  the  goodnesse  of  God,for  that 
he  conceived  (as  before  is  said) 
some  repentance,  though  I  ne- 
ver heard  of  anie  penance  by  him 
donne  at  all. 

Last  of  all,  it  is  worthie  to  be 
remembred,  how  justlie  the  king 
him  selfe  was  plagued,  first  by 
the  inordinate  number  of  wives, 
being  in  all  six,  and  not  one  law- 
full  more  then  the  first,  as  may- 
be thought.  Of  these  six,  two 
were  repudiate,  two  beheaded  for 
incontinence,  one  killed  witting- 
lie  in  childbedd  for  saving  of  her 
child,  and  the  sixt  survived  him, 
wherin  her  fortune  was  better 
then  the  rest  of  her  fellowes.  For 
(as  I  have  heard  reported  by  such 
as  had  no  cause  to  lye)  he  was 
wearie  of  her  longbefore  he  died, 
and  therfore,  if  he  had  lived  but 
one  yeare  longer,  meant  to  have 
framed  such  matter  against  her, 
for  heresie,  as  should  have  cost 
her  her  life,  as  it  did  some  others 
of  her  predecessors  before.  And 
as  for  heire  male  of  his  bodie, 
which  he  so  much  desired,  and 
made  so  much  adoe  for,  as  though 
the  realme  had  bin  utterlie 
undonne,  if  he  had  died  without 


558 


GLOSSARY. 


some  purpose,  permitted  him  at 
last  to  have  a  sonne,  rather,  as  it 
may  be  thought,  that  no  sillie 
woman  should  loose  their  lives  for 
satisfying  his  licentious  and  vaine 
appetite,  then  for  anie  other  just 
respect.  But  after  his  death,  the 
raigne  of  that  sonne  was  verie 
short,  and  his  yeares  verie  few,  so 
Is  there  no  great  matter  praise  wor> 
thie  to  be  written  of  him,  but  of 
things  done  under  the  colour  of  his 
name  and  authoritie  we  have  all 
great  cause  to  lament,  which  tend- 
ed to  nothing  else,  but  the  over- 
throw and  extirpation  of  theCatho. 
like  faith  here  within  this  realme, 
as  we  have  felt  and  tasted,  and 
should  have  tasted  still  more^  if 
God  had  not  taken  upon  him  some 
speciall  favour  (as  may  be  thought) 
and  mercifull  pittie,  which  at  last 
he  beganne  to  have,  of  his  poore 
afflicted  contrey,  reducing  it  to  the 
true  and  auncient  faith,  by  the 
cutting  away  of  such  an  Impe,  at 
whose  handes  we  were  not  to- 
looke  for  more  grace,  then  the  fa- 
ther, by  his  pernitious  examples, 
had  grafted  in  so  incestuous  and 
damnable  a  stock.  Then  note  his 
numercifuU  and  unspeakable  cru- 
eltie,  wherinhe  wasentredby  the 
horrible  murder  of  this  holy  Pre- 
late, he  conceived  such  a  bold- 
nesse,  and  therwithall  was  strick- 
en with  such  ablindnesse,  that  in 
crueltie  lie  was  to  be  accompted 
nothing  inferiour  to  Nero.  For 


Avheras  Nero  committed  exccrt. 
ble  »  paracide,  in  causing  his  na- 
turall  mother  to  be  slaine,  and 
not  satiate  therwith  commaund- 
ing,  that,  in  his  presence,  her 
bellie  should  be  opened,  to  the 
intent,  as  he  said,  that  unnatur- 
allie  he  might  behould  the  place 
where  he  was  conceived  in  her 
wombe ;  this  king  Ilenrie,  an 
other  Nej'o,  did  not  onelie  per- 
petrate* paraeide  and  sacriledge^ 
but  also  that  haj^nous  treason  of 
heresie,  all  at  one  clapp,  whiles^ 
in  ripping  the  bowels  of  his  mo- 
ther the  holy  Church,  and  verie 
spouse  of  Christ  upon  earth,  he 
labored  to  teare  her  in  peces,  and 
despising  her  authoritie,  being- 
but  one  of  her  rotten  members, 
monstrouslie  took  upon  him  to 
be  her  supreame  head.  For  this 
onelie  act,  if  he  had  donne  nothing 
els,  alwaies  was,  and  is,  by  law 
accounted  so  enorme  and  exor- 
bitant a  thing,  that  as  he,  whicb 
M  ithdraweth,  or  detracteth,  from 
anie  particular  church  her  right, 
doth  manifest  injurie  andwronge;;^ 
so  he,  that  goeth  about  to  take 
awaye  thepriveledge  of  the  churcl* 
of  Rome,  given  of  Christ  him- 
selfe,  the  supreame  head  of  all 
Churches,  falleth  into  heresie. 
And  wheras  the  other  trans- 
gressor is  to  be  termed  inju- 
rious and  unnatural!,  this  kind  of 
ofFendor  is  to  be  called  both  ai 
schismatikeandanheretike.  For 
he  doth  violate  faith  and  natufe, 


'S.:c. 


Sic. 


Id 


fn^ 


^^  m- 


GLOSSARY. 


f^ 


559 


in  attempting  against  the  Church, 
which  is  the  mother  of  faith.  But 
this  our  second  Nero  was  not  yet 
content  with  this  abhominable  act, 
but  heaped  a  great  manie  moe  up- 
on it,  rasing  to  the  ground  holie 
MonasterieSjpriorieSjandalJsortes 
,of  religious  houseSjprofaningthem, 
with  all  the  holie  reliques  and  pre, 
tious  omamentes  dedicate  to  the 
service  of  God^  not  sparing  the 
bloodshedd  of  all  such  holie  men, 
and  learned  Clarkes,  as  preferred 
the  pleasure  of  God,  and  com. 
maundement  of  their  mother  the 
jCatholik  Church,  before  his  un- 
lawfull  l^wes  and  wicked  will. 
And  for  noble  personages  of  this 
Realme^  both  men  and  women,  he 
spared  neither  kindred  nor  other; 
yea  manie  times,  for  a  word  speak- 
ing, he  would  revenge  by  death, 
were  it  spoken  upon  never  so  rea- 
sonable a  ground  or  cause,  by  rea- 
son wherof  more  of  the  nobilitie 
were  consumed  in  his  daies,  then 
in  anie  3.  of  his  predecessours, 
since  this  Realme  was  first  inhar 
bited ;  so  that  in  murder  he  passed 
the  cruell  Turk  Selim.  To  this 
joyne  his  licentious  and  wanton  ex. 
pences,  wherby  he  consumed  the 
treasure  of  his  realme,  and  then 
falling  into  lacke,  turned  his  gold 
and  silver-  into  copper,  and  after 
spending  the  same  unthriftelie, 
tooke  of  his  subjectes  so  excessive- 
lie,  that  neverPrince  in  this  realme 
lived  with  lesse  love  and  favour 
of  all  good  people,  though  among 
flatterers  and  Parasites  (among 


whom  this  treasure  was  spent)  ne- 
ver so  highlie  magnified  and  ex- 
tolled. Then  consider,  how  just- 
lie  he  was  plagued  in  his  grosse  bo- 
die,  many  yeares  before  his  death, 
with  sores  and  diseases,  that  grew 
upon  him  by  meanes  of  drunken 
surfettSjidlenesse,  sloth  and  vicious 
trade  of  life,  sparing  neither  kin- 
dred nor  other,  if  she  liked  hi* 
carnall  appetite,  wherby  he  be- 
came at  last  so  impotent  and  loth- 
some,thatwhen  the  surgions  should 
dresse  him,  it  hath  bin  reported  by 
some  of  his  privie  Chamber,  that 
they  have  smelt  the  ill  savour  of 
his  sores  the  space  of  two  cham- 
bers, before  they  came  at  him. 
Lastlie,  and  most  of  all,  weighe 
the  danger  of  his  miserable  soule, 
dying  in  the  perilous  state  of  ex. 
communication,  without  anie  re- 
conciliation or  repentance  known« 
or  hard  of  in  the  world :  yea  it 
hath  bin  reported  by  such  as 
were  about  him,  at  his  end,  that 
he  diejd  almost  in  d«speracion, 
cryin  ^put  upon  the  Phisitians, 
because  they  could  not  cure  him, 
saying,  "  Have  I  thus  rewarded 
^'  you  with  Livings,  and  given 
"  yon  fees,  and  nowe  none  of 
-**  you  able  tp  heipe  me,  when  I 
"  have  most  need  of  your  helpe  ?" 
And  with  that  calling  for  Sr,  //n- 
ihony  De?mej/,  an  egregious  flat- 
terer about  hinjj  and  commonlie 
never  far  from  him,  commaunded 
him  to  whippe  them.  And  al- 
though he  perceived  at  last,  that  by 
no  meanes  he  could  escape  death, 
yety  as  farre  as  anie  uan  can  re- 
T  2  port, 


660 


GLOSSARY, 


port,  in  all  the  time  of  his  sick- 
nesse  he  not  once  called  to  God 
for  mercie  and  forgivenesse  of  his 
former  wretched  life.  No  trulie, 
but  sometimes  lying  in  a  studie 
with  him  selfe,  and  sometimes 
sorrowing,  as  seemed  by  his  coun- 
tenance, would  sodenlie  say,  "Oh! 
*'  I  must  die.  Yea,  Sir,"  would 
some  one  or  other  saye,  "you 
**  must  nedes  die  once,  and  so 
**  must  I  and  eyerie  one  heare, 
"  but  I  trust  you  shall  not  die 
*'  now.  Alas"!  would  he  say 
""againe,  "thinkest  thou  thait  I 
*'  shall  be  saved  when  I  die  ?  for 
**  I  have  bin  a  king  and  lived  like 
''  a  king".  And  no  doubt  but 
evin  as  his  life  was  sinfull,  so,  af- 
ter his  death,  God  shewed  a 
strange  example  upon  his  wretch- 
ed carcasse.  For  in  such  time  as 
it  was  in  preparing,  to  be  ceared 
and  spiced,  by  the  surgeons  in  the 
chamber  at  Westmiuster,  where 
he  died,  to  be  after  removed 
downe  to  the  chappell,  and  so 
from  thence  to  Windsore,  where  it 
■was  buried,  it  chaunced  the  said 
carcasse,  by  mishap,  and  over 
boisterous  lifting,  to  fall  to  the 
ground,  out  of  which  issued  such 
a  quan title  of  horrible  aud  stink- 
ing blood  and  matter,  that  it  was 
no  small  troble  to  a  number  about 
it,  to  dense  the  place  againe,  and 
make  it  cleane  against  the  next 
day  for  the  remove.  But  be- 
fore all  could  be  done,  there 
came  into  the  place,  as  I  have 
bincredeblie  informed,     a  great 


black  dogg,  no  man  could  tell 
from  whence,  which  dogg,  whiles 
everie  one  was  occupied,  filled 
himselfe  so  full  as  his  sides  could 
hould  with  licking  up  filthy  blood 
that  was  spilt,  and  in  the  end 
escaped  without  hurt  from  the 
guard  and  diverse  others,  that 
Stroke  at  him  with  their  holberdes 
and  other  weapons,  meaning  ve- 
relie  to  have  killed  him,  if  they 
could. 

Others  I  coulde  have  named 
unto  you  that  were  doers  in  this 
matter,  and  that  of »  righ  great 
calling,  whome  God  worthelie  af- 
ter punished,  some  by  a  foule  and 
shamefuU  end,  some  by  leaving 
them  without  either  issue  or  kin- 
dred, Avherby  their  lands  and 
goodes,  after  their  death,  came 
to  the  handes  of  straungers,  that 
fell  in  strife  among  *  themselfes. 
Others  were  attainted,  and  ther- 
by  not  onelie  their  owne  bodies 
executed  to  shamefuU  death,  bpt 
also  their  lands  and  goodes  being 
forfeited,  their  children  went  a 
begging,  some  came  to  one  mis- 
happe,  and  some  to  an  other, 
which,  if  it  were  written,  wold 
requier  a  long  processe. 

These  being  manifest  signes  and 
tokens  of  God's  indigna,tion  and 
heavie  displeasure  agains.t  this 
whole  realme,for  so  cruell  andhor. 
rible  murdering  of  his  holie  Pro- 
phettes,it  staudeth  us  in  hand,and 
that  spedelie,  without  delay,  to 
prostrate  our  selfes  before  him,and 


Sic.     '  Sic, 


his 


GLOSSARY. 


£61 


'hh  iftfinhe  mercle  and  goodnesse, 
that  we  be  not,  according  to  our 
'desertes5Worthelyepunished,first, 
in  this  world,  by  the  intoHerable 
yoake  and  barbarous  tirannie  of 
Infidells  and  Tm-kes,  and  after, 
an  the  world  to  come,  by  everlast- 
'ing  paine  and  torment  of  Hell 
iier ;  but  that  rather,  by  the  me- 
ritts  and  intercession  of  this,  and 
other  holie  Martirs,  this  noble 
Realme  may  once  againe  be  re- 
stored to  tha,t  auncient,  and  true 
Christian  faith,  in  which  our  fore- 
fathers lived  these  thousand  yeares 
and  more,  and  that  we  the  dwellers 
tlierin,  and  our  posterltie,  may 
once  againe  peaceblie  serve  him, 
in  the  same  faith,  all  the  dales  of 
our  lives,  and  after,  in  the  world 
to  come,  glorifie  him  in  his  hea- 
venly kingdome,  where  he  raign- 
•eth  for  ever  and  ever.  Amen. 
'This  is  the-Condusion  of  a  Po. 
j)ish  Book,  to  the  Boctrines  of 
vihick  I  bj)  no  means  subscribe. 
Nor  will  I  voucli  for  the  mat- 
ters of  Fact.  I  have  been  a 
faithfull  Transcriber,  and  I 
ieave  the  whole  to  the  Judgment 
of  the  Reader.  I  took  occasion 
■to  do  it  from  the  mention  of  the 
fatal  destruction  of  Bookes  and 
Images,  by  virtue  of  the  order 
for  which  many  excellent  Pic- 
tures also  perished  of  divers 
worthy  persons  of  both  Sexes. 
JEven  these,  however  innocent  in 
themselves,  were  looked  upon  as 


Images  and  Representations  of 
Favourers  and  Abettors  of  Su. 
perstition.  The  Executioners 
of  the  Act  exceeded  their  Coin- 
mission,  and  made  it  reach  even 
to  Things  never  intended  by  it. 
So  that  'tis  a  wonder,  that  anif 
curious  Pictures  of  Antiquity 
escaped  their  Fury,  and  that 
they  had  not  committed  to  the 
Flames  even  such  Pictures,  as 
K.  Henry  the  VHP'',  himself 
admired,  (particrdarly  those  of 
fine,  but  wanton  Women)  one  of 
wfhich  was  an  ancient  and  fine 
one  of  the  beautifull  Rosamond, 
that  is  now  in  the  possession  of 
my  ingenious  and  worthy  Friend 
Samuel  Gale,  Esq;,  who  lately 
purchased  it  accidentally,  and 
'twas  from  him  that  I  received 
the  following  account  of  it. 
'Tis  painted  on  a  Pannel  of 
W-ainscot,  und  represents  her 
in  a  three  quarter  proportion^ 
dress' d  in  the  Habit  of  the 
Times,  a  streight  Body'dGown 
of  changeable  red  Velvet,  with 
large  square  Sleeves  of  Black 
Jlowr'd  Damask  Faceings,  turn'd 
up  above  the  Bend  of  her  ArmSy 
and  close  sleeves  of  a  pearl 
coloured  Sattin  puff'd  out, 
but  buttoned  at  the  Rist  ap* 
pearing  from  under  the  Large 
ones.  She  has  several  Rings 
sett  with  pretious  Stones  on 
her  Fingers.  Her  Breast  co. 
ver'd  with  a  fine  Flower' d 
y  4  Lin. 


ns^it 


56^ 


GLOSSAR'^ 


Linnen,  galher^d  close  at  the 
Neck  like  a  Ruff.  Her  Face  is 
charmingly  Fair,  zcith  a  fine 
Blush  in  her  Cheeks.  Her 
Hair  of  a  Dark  Brozon,  parted 
with  a  Seam  from  the  middle 
of  her  Forhead  upwards  un- 
der her  Coifure,  which  is  ve- 
ry plain,  but  a  Gold  Lace  ap- 
jjears  above  if,  and  that  co. 
ver^d  izsith  a  small  cap  of  Black 
Silk.  She  is  looking  very  in- 
tensly  upon  the  fatal  Cup, 
which  she  holds  in  one  hand, 
and  the  Cover  in  the  other, 
as  going  to  drink  it.  Before 
fier  is  a  table  covered  with 
black  Damask,  on  which  there 
lies  a  Prayer  Book  open,  writ 
in  the  ancient  black  Chara- 
cter. The  whole  Piece  is  ex- 
treamly  well  preserved.  Mr. 
Gale  takes  it  to  have  been 
I  done  about  Harry  the  ^th'^ 
time. 

croised,  crossed. 

croiserie,  crosses. 

crounment,  coronation. 

croupe,  buttocks,  crupper. 

cum,  came. 

cumraythe,  come, 

cuntre,  country,  encounter. 

curfais,  courteous. 

curtasly,  courteously, 

curteis,  courteous. 

curteisly,  courteously. 

curteyly,  courteously. 

curteys,  courteous. 

eussed,  kissed. 

Customary  Tenaiintes.  Such  Te. 
fiants  as  hold  by  the  custom  of 


the  Manour,  or  such  as  hold 
by  Copy  of  Court  Rolls  upon 
performance  of  the  usual  Cu^" 
toms. 

0. 

da,  dame. 

daile,  dally,  deale. 

dam,  dame. 

Damas,  Damascus. 

dan,  dominus,  Sir. 

Daneis,  Danish.  In  pag.  2.  the 
author  thinks  that  Kampedenq 
is  the  same  as  campus  Dano- 
rum  ;  but  falsly.  See  Kampe- 
dene. 

Danes,  Danish. 

Danesry,  Danish. 

Dangilde,  Dane. gelt. 

dangu,  dungeon,  tower,  castle.  The 
Author  of  the  English  some- 
times  uses  the  very  French 
}Vords,  as  in  pag.  203.  where 
we  have  at  J^e  dangu  J7at  nyght, 
^tis  dangu  also  in  the  French. 

danz,  dominus.  Sir.  Videsis 
Glossarium  nostrum  ad  Ro- 
bertum  Gloucestriensem,  voc. 
sire. 

dar,  dare,  durst.  I  dar  ne  may, 
/  durst  not.  jmt  strength  ne 
dar,  that  strength  durst  not. 

dare,  give,  grant. 

dawes,  days. 

dayet,  a  curse,  cursed,  confounded. 
dayet  haf  his  lip,  and  his  nose 
Jerby,  a  pox  take  his  lips,  and 
his  nose  thereby,  dayet  j'at  J^er- 
of  rouht.  cursed  be  he  that  occa- 
sioned 


GLOSSARY. 


563 


stoned  this.  dayet  who  }e 
kyme,  confounded  be  he  that  en. 
tertains  thee,  dayet  his  nose, 
confound  his  nose^  a  curse  to  his 
nose. 

ded,  death,  did. 

dede,  death,  deadydeed,  deeds, feats, 
action,  died.  \e  dede  him  dight, 
prepared  himself  for  death. 

dedes,  deeds. 

dedis,  deads,  as  in  pag.  239.  in 
to  Je  dedis  bond,  is  into  the 
deads  hand,  or,  i^i  rnanum  mor- 
tuam. 

deed,  dead. 

defare,  undo. 

defendes,  prohibiteth,  forbiddeth. 

flegh,  voitchsafd. 

deie,  put  to  death,  kill,  destroy,  die. 
&  do  \(i  Scottis  deie,  and  kill 
the  Scots,  do  ]'ise  Scottis  deiQ,kill 
these  Scots.  &  did  j^e  Walsch 
men  deie,  and  did  the  Welsh 
men  to  death,  or,  made  the  Welsh 
men  die. 

^eignouse,  disdainfuU. 

deih,  die,  nought  ne  deigh,  did 
not  die,  he  ne  deih,  he  did  not 
die. 

dele,  a  deal,  part,  distribute,  neuer 
a  dele,  never  a  whit. 

deles,  deals,  meddles. 

pemaynes  sive  Demaines,  Demains 
or  demeasns,  (either  from  the 
Lat.  Dominicum,  or  French 
Deraain  or  Domain,J  a  word 
sufficiently  known,  and  sig. 
nijies  as  much  as  patrimo- 
nium  Domini.  Hotoman,  (in 
verbis  feudalibus,  verbo  Domi. 
picum^)     btj    divfrf    4^th'*ri^ 


ties,  proves  those  lands  to  be 
Dominicum,  which  a  man  holds 
originally  of  himself;  and 
those  to  be  feodum,  which  he 
holds  by  the  benefit  of  a  supe. 
rior  Lord.  But  this  word  is 
now  most  commonly  used  for 
a  distinction  betzeeen  those 
Lands,  that  the  Lord  of  a 
Manour  hath  in  his  oivn 
hands,  or  in  the  hands  of  his 
Leassee,  demised  upon  a  rent 
for  term  of  years  or  life  ;  and 
such  other  Lands  appertain., 
ing  to  the  said  Manour, 
which  belong  to  Free  or  Co. 
py-holders;  howbeit  the  Co. 
py.hold  belonging  to  any 
Manour,  is  also,  in  the  opi. 
nion  of  many  good  Lawyers, 
accounted  Demeasn.  See  Co- 
well's  Interpreter,  and  Blount'* 
Dictionary  interpreting  Hard 
Words. 

deme,  condemn,  judge,  deed,  exa- 
mine,  decree. 

demed,  judged,  managed,  con., 
demned. 

demeyne,  demeasn,  demains. 

demouring,  dwelling. 

demple,  wrangle.  No  more  of 
J7is  to  demple,  no  more  of  this  to 
wrangle  or  dispute. 

demyng,  judging. 

dene,  dean. 

dep^rte,  separate,  depart. 

deppest,  deepest. 

dere,  sorrow,  hurt,  damage,  ob. 
struction,  dare,  dear.  )>e  less© 
wille  dere.  the  less  hurt  will 
there  be. 


S64 


GLOSSARY. 


dereyne,  derayn^  confound  or  turn 
out  of  order.  In  this  sense  the 
word  seems  to  come  from  the 
French  disarroyer,  i.  e.  confun- 
dare,  turbare.  There  are  other 
senses  of  it.  See  Spelman''s 
Gloss,  voc.  dirationare,  and 
J)u-Fresne's  Gloss,  voc.  ratio, 
where  Du.Fresne  observes, 
that  it  signifies  J  among  other 
things,  to  plead  and  to  claime  ; 
and  indeed  to  claim  suits  with 
the  Chronicle  I  now  publish. 
See  also  Skinner  in  his  Eti/~ 
molog.  of  Law  words  voc. 
dereyn,  and  my  Glossary  to 
Mob.  of  Glouc.  in  voc.  de- 
reyny. 

des,  dice,  desk,  seat,  table,  on  des, 
at  a  table. 

desces,  decease,  death. 

desceyuance,  deceit^  tricky  deceiv- 
ing, couzening. 

deses,  decease,  disease. 

despite,  despight,  inpur'y,  affront^ 
contempt,  scorn,  vexation. 

ilestrere,  (dextrarius,  equus  mi- 
litaris,)  a  steed,  a  great  horse^  a 
horse  of  service. 

dcstres,  distress. 

destresse,  distress. 

desturbled,  he  disturbed^  he  o&- 
structed. 

dete,  date. 

Deuelyn,  Dublin. 

deuere,  devoir,  endeavour,  duty, 
service. 

deuise,  devided,  device,  discretion. 

deus,  God.  as  so  say  deus^  as  one 
would  say  good  God. 

iJeuyn,  prophesy^ 


deuys,  device. 

dey,  dye. 

deyooushede,  scornfuUness. 

deze  pers,  twelve  peers. 

did,  caused,  did,  did^st.  He  did 
masons  deuyse  &  cast,  He 
orderedmasons  to  devise  andcou- 
slder.  He  did  J^e  king  in  reson, 
He  made  the  king  to  under- 
stand,  did  ];am  be,  made  or 
caused  them  to  be. 

diflfamed,  defamed. 

dx^i,  prepare,  make  ready,  made 
ready,  accoutred,  prepared, 
dressed,  deck,  decked,  furnish, 
ready,  rats'* d,  hastened,  made,  he 
dight  him  io  \e  town,  he  made 
himself  ready  against  the  town. 

dightes,  prepares,  makes  ready* 

digne,  worthy. 

dike,  ditch,  ornament. 

d^kes,  ditches. 

disceite,  deceit, 

discert,  desert. 

disceyuance,  deceit. 

disconfet,  discomfited. 

disconfite,  discomfited. 

dises,  decease,  death. 

disherite,  disherit,  disherited. 

disheriteson,  disseizin,  disheriting, 
disinheritance. 

disheritsoun,  disherison,  disherit- 
ftge. 

disours,  discourse. 

dispende,  spend,  expend, 

dispite,  injury- 

disputeson,  disputation. 

disputesoun,  disputation, 

disseised,  disseized,  dispossessed, 

distance,  discord,  distance,  diffe- 
rence, division^  dissension,  for 
alle 


GLOSSARY. 


565 


alle  oj'er  distance,  notwithstand' 
ing  alt  other  difference. 
distaunce,  division,  difference. 
disturblyng,  disturbance^  impedi- 

ment,  let,  hindrance, 
do,  make,  do.  do  com,  make  or  cause 
to  come,  do  dight  and  mak 
gow  hone,  p.  170.  prepare  and 
make  your  self  ready,  sivepre- 
pare  your  self,  and  be  of  good 
courage  and  cheer,  tho''  indeed 
bone  may  here  be,  what  we 
commonly  say  bonny ;  and  then 
the  Words  will  denote,  make 
your  self  ready,  and  be  brisk 
end  bonny.  Sc  or  I  jit  do  my 
fyn,  and  before  I  yet  make  my 
end,  or,  and  yet  before  I  dye. 
do  fe  coroun  kyng,  make  thee  to 
be  crown' d  king. 
doand,  doing. 

doelfuUie,  dolefully,  grievously, 
doguise,  disguized. 
dole,  grief. 

dome,  doom,  judgment,  condem^a. 

Hon,  discretion,    dome  on  j^am 

salle  nedes,  judgment  must  ne^ds 

pass  on  them. 

dominoun,     dominion,     lordship, 

house. 
don,  done,  laid. 

dunjon,  dungeon,  prison.  <'  Dun« 
*'  geon",  (inquit  Skinnerus) 
«  Barathrum,  Tullianum,  Car- 
**  cer  Subterraneus  8f  Caligi- 
*'  nosus,  mire  detorto  sensu, 
**  a  Fr.  G.  Dongeon,  Turris  mu- 
<*  nitissima  Propugnaculi  ad 
f'  ultimum  Receptum,  utr. 
*' J.  d.  Domio  (i.  c.)  Domici- 


*'  lium^  fortean  enim  antim 
^'  qui  captivos  suos  in  altissi. 
*•  ma  Sf  munitissitna  totius  ar~ 
*'  cis  sen  urbis  tut  re,  tanquam 
"  loco  tutissimo,  custodieruni. 
"  Posses  etiam  dejlectere  H 
"  nom.  Dung,  quia  in  tali 
*'  carcere  miseri  cubiculum 
*'  stercore  suo  conspurcant,  sed 
*'  prius  longe  prcefero".  Rec. 
iissime  hcec  Skinnerns  de  altissi- 
ma  Sf  munitissima  turre.  Inde 
^  hoec  verba  apud  nostrum,  p. 
121.  &  did  reise  in  J7at  coste  a 
stalworth  donjon,  idem  valent 
quod,  and  did  raise  in  that  coast 
a  strong  high  tower  or  castle. 
Et  quidem  turris  arcis  nostras 
Oxoniensis  aptissime  dongeon  a 
nonnullis  appellatur,quantumvis 
vulgo  per  synecdochtn  haud  alio 
nomine  quam  the  castle  veniat, 

donjoun,  dungeon,  prison. 

doole,  grief. 

dortoure,  dorter,  dormitory. 

dos,  does,  do* 

douhteli,  doughtily,  readily,  will, 
ingly. 

^ouhtiiiesse,  manhood,  strength^ 
valqur. 

douhty,  Sitout,  strong,  couragious, 
magnanimous,  valiant,  brave, 
sturdy.  Godefrey  of  Louayn 
]7e  duke  Jjat  was  douhty, 
Bi  messengers  tuayn  sent  to 
kyng  Henry,  For  his  douhter 
Adelayn,  J7at  wele  was  Jan 
of  age.  i.  e.  K;ing  Henry 
sent  to  Godfrey,  that  was  the 
stout  duke  of  f^ouvain,  for  his 
daughter 


566 


GLOSSARY. 


daughter  Adelayn^  that  was  then 
ripe  of  age. 

douhtynes,  couragiousness,  cou- 
rage. 

douhtynesse,  couragiousnesSj  har- 
diness. 

doure,  endure. 

doute,  fear,  doubt. 

douted,  doubted,  feared. 

doyngus,  doings. 

dred,  dreaded,  feared,  were  fear- 
full,  terrify' d,  afraid. 

drede,  fear, terrify. 

dref,  drove. 

drenge,  drag. 

drenkled,  drowned,  zceredroiun''d. 

driue,  to  drive,  to  draw,  to  go. 

drof,  drove. 

dronkeld,  drowned,  dronkeld  euer 
ilkon,  every  one  of  them  was 
drowned. 

dronkeu,  drunk. 

dronkled,  drowned,  was  drowned, 
was  sunk. 

droiikon,  drunk,  drank. 

drouh,  drew. 

drowe,  drew,  threw. 

dryue,  drive,  drove. 

dryuen,  drove  off. 

dubbid,  dubbed,  either  from  the 
French  douber,  doubber,  or 
addouber,  to  rig,  trim,  dress, 
patch,  mend,  arm,  or  else(uhich 
I  rather  think)  from  the  Nor. 
man~Saxon  Word  foubban,  to 
create,  gird,  or  strike,  which 
occurs  in  p.  187.  of  the  Saxon 
Chron.  tinder  the  year  whxxxv. 
where  'tis  said,  that  William 
the  conqueror  created  his  son 
Henry  a  Knight  at   Westmin- 


ster, "j  bubbabe  hi]-  j-unu  Henjiic 
to  jiibepe  Jaeji.  See  Dr. 
Hickes's  Gram.  Sax.  p.  151. 
Sf  Gram.  Franco-Theotisc.  p. 
91. 

duelland,  dwelling. 

dur,  durst. 

dure,  enduring, 

dures,  doors. 

durre,  door. 

duryn,  hard. 

dnze,  douzen,  twelve. 

dnzepers,  doiizen  peers,  twelve 
peers,  sed  ad  pag.  269.  duze- 
pere  pro  duzepers  forsitan  re- 
ponendum  est,  ut  metrum  prio- 
ri metro  commodiiis  respon. 
deat. 

dyglit,  prepared. 

dynt,  dint,  blow,  point,  stroke. 

dyntisj  dints,  blows. 


E. 


earn,  unkle.  *'  Fame.  Avuncu- 
lus''. (saithSomner,  in  his  Sax- 
on Diet.)  "^  the  mothers  brother; 
"  who  to  this  day  is  so  called 
"  in  Lancashire.  Noel.  Bel- 
*'  gis,  oom."  But  then  Hwas 
often  used  promiscuously,  both 
for  the  father's,  as  well  as 
mother's  brother.  See  my 
Glossary  to  Rob.  of  Glouc.  in 
voc.  erne. 

eft,  afterwards,  after,  again. 

eftson,  again. 

eftsones,  again. 

eftsonne,   again,  soon  qfi^f' 

eftsons,  eftsoons,   now    and  then, 

ever  and  anon,  presently,  again, 

soon 


GLOSSARY. 


56f 


soon  after.  In  pa^.  130.  /.  6. 
ihe  French  hath  altre  feez,  (for 
eft  sons)  from  zchz'ch,  I  think 
zee  commonly  say  to  fetch  a 
fiez. 

egged,  egg'd,  egg'don,  spurred  on, 

•     incited,  urg''d. 

egre,  eager,  fierce. 

else,  ease,  to  ease, 

eke,  ease. 

Eland,  p.  77.     Healande  alias. 

elde,  age,  old,  old  age,  smyten 
in  to  elde,  brought  or  drawn  to 
old  age;  smitten  in  age  or  years. 


elleuend,  eleventh. 

ellis,  else,  otherwise, 

elne,  ell. 

els,  else. 

Elyng,  Ely, 

emprise,  enter  prize. 

emys,  enemies. 

enbussed,  belayed,  waylaid,  am- 
bushed,  in  ambush, 

enbussement,  ambushment. 

encheson,  occasion, 

enchesonne,  occasion,  need. 

cnchesoun,  occasion,  cause. 

encumberment,  annoyance,  in~ 
cumbring,  incumbrance,  moles- 
tation. 

encumberyng,  incumberance,  trou- 
ble. 

encumbre,  incumberance,  trouble. 

endis,  ends. 

enioxniB,  form,  fashion,  settle. 

enmys,  enemies. 

cnoyuted,  anointed. 

enquere,  inquire,  was  enqnere, 
vias  to  inquire. 


enselid,  sealed,  was  sealed. 

ent,  ended,     wele  ent,  well  ended. 
enterdite,  interdict. 

enterdited,  interdicted. 

enterlace,    interlace,     a    kind    of 
verse  or  rhythm  so  called. 

entermet,   intermediate,  interceed, 
intermeddle. 

entre,  entred,  entry, 

entres,  entries. 

er,  are,  before.     It  er,  there  are^ 

erbage,  see  herbage* 

ere,  before,  are, 

erle,   earl,  duke.       Vide  not.    ad 
imum  pag.  179,  180. 

erresdeken,  archdeacon. 

ersbisshop,  archbishop. 

ersdeken,  archdeacon. 

ersebisshop,   archbishop. 

ert,  art. 

er]7e  horn,  poo-.  118.  earth-horn^ 
or  rather  (for  so  I  take  the 
word  naturally  to  signify) 
country.horn.  But  then  zchat 
sort  of  horns  these  were  1 
cannot,  as  yet,  learn,  iho^  1 
have  written,  for  Satisfaction, 
into  that  very  Country,  where 
the  Action  is  related  to  have 
been.  Nor  indeed  can  I  re- 
collect, that  I  have  met  with 
the  wo7'd  any  where  else. 
The  Scots  had  designed,  to 
have  got  an  entire  victory 
over  K.  Stephen,  by  a  vast, 
and  almost  incredible,  num- 
ber of  cattle,  that  they  had 
got  together,  thinking  {by 
that  means)  to  trample  down 
the  English  before  them;  but 
the 


GLOSSARY. 


the  English,  being  forewarned 
of  the  matter,  cunningly  pre- 
vented it,  by  placing  Earths 
horns  or  Country~horns  in  every 
street  and  way,  which  the  Cat- 
tle were  to  pass,  and  the  Effect 
proved  according  to  their 
wishes.  For  the  Earth-horns 
being  blow^d,  it  put  the  Cattle 
into  such  a  terrible  consterna- 
tion, that  they  ran  furiously 
back,  crush'd  the  Scots  thenim 
selves,  and  so  the  English  came 
off  compleat  conquerors.  The 
matter  was  talked  of,  as  if  it 
had  been  fresh,  very  frequent, 
ly  in  the  time  of  Robert  of 
Brunne  ;  for  as  for  the  relation 
in  Peter  Langtoft  himself  (/ 
mean  in  the  original  French)  it 
is  not  otherwise  expressed,  than 
that  the  Scots  were  vanquished 
by  an  hideous  sound,  or  noise, 
that  was  made  by  the  English. 
The  Stratagem  is  so  very  re- 
markable, that  lean  not  but 
think,  that  Polycenus  would 
have  vouchsafed  it  a  parti- 
cular place  in  his  Work  m- 
(i  rpctrvyrifiuTuy,  had  it  been  trans~ 
acted  either  before,  or  in,  his 
time,  especially  since  he  tells 
us  ',  how  the  besiegers  of  Theu- 
dosia,  or  Theodosia,  a  city  of 
Pontus,  were  frighted  away  by 
the  Noise  of  a  great  number  of 
Trumpets,  that  were  sounded 
all  at  the  same  time. 


es,  ts. 

eschekere,  exchequef. 

eschel,  troop,  company^ 

eschele,  squadron. 

escheles,  squadrons. 

eschete,  escheat,  escheated,  fallen, 

ese,  easily. 

essheked,  asked. 

essoyn,  excuse. 

essoyne,  excuse,  communing,  par. 
leying. 

estere,  state. 

estre,  state,  estate. 

estres,  states,  state,  condition,  con- 
ditions, things. 

&.    See  under  A. 

eth,  easily. 

euel,  ill,  illness,  distemper. 

euelle,  sickness. 

eiien,  even,  adjusted. 

euenhed,  eveness,  equality,  equal. 

euenhede,  equity. 

euenlik,  evenly. 

eueridele,  every  part. 

euerilkon,  every  one. 

euer  ilkon  sive  euerilkonj  every 
one. 

euer  iikone,  every  one,  each  one  of 
them, 

euon,  even. 

extende,  extend,  display,  seize  and 
value, 

extendours,  extenders,  surveyors. 

«ye,  awe,  aid,  obedience,  he  stode^ 
of  him  non  eye,  he  stood  in  no 
awe  or  fear  of  him,  eye  of  fe- 
sanntes,       (faetura,     pullities,) 


•  L.  V.  c.  XXIII. 


game 


GLOSSARY. 


S69 


game  of  fesauntesy  ab  ey,  ovo. 
eyrus,  years. 
«yse,  ease, 

faired,  fairest,  farthest. 

fairer,  fairer,  farther. 

fairhede,  beauty. 

falle,  fall,  fell,  happen. 

fallis,  falls,  happeneth. 

falste,  falsity,  falsness. 

famen,  famish. 

fsind,  found. 

fanged,  received. 

fare,  (vaJeat,)  rest,dzcell,  go,  jour. 

ney,  fare,  ferry,  pass,  do. 
fatn,  fared. 
faut,  fault. 
faute,  fault. 
fawe,  enmity^ 
fay,  faith,  per  fay,  in  faith. 
feyn,  glad,  gladly,  joyfull,  zssre 

glad,  fain,  willingly, 
fayoe,  glad,  desirous. 
fayntise,  faininess. 
fayntlie,  gladly^ 
fe,fee,  lands,  income. 
feaute,  fealty,  fidelity,  faithfull. 

ness. 
fedis,  feeds. 
feendes,    attempts,    ab    A.    Sax. 

fanbian,  tentare. 
feffe,  feoffe,  enfeoff e,  endow,  pos. 

sessjput  in  possesion. 
feflfed,  feoffed,  endowed. 
fieffement,  feoffment,  grant  in  fee, 

infeoffing,  possession. 
feffementes,  feoffments,  fees. 
feiht,  fight. 
feire,  fairs. 


feith,  faith. 

fel,  fell  out,  happened. 

felauhes,  fellows. 

felaus,  fellows. 

feld  sive  felde,  felt,  feeVd. 

fele,  many,  happened. 

felle,    beat  down,  cut  down,  pull 

down,  humble,  happened,  came^ 
felly  fall,  to  fall,  to  cut,  befelly, 

crafty,  cunning.,  much,  felle  him 

fulle,   dejected  him  much,   fuile 

felle,  very  cunning. 
fellis,  fells,  falls,  throw  or  pull 

down. 
felon,  traytour.. 
felonie,  cruelty,  anger,  despight- 

fullness,outrage,treachery,trea~- 

son,  mischief,  villany. 
felons,  traytours,  treacherous. 
felonse,     p.    207.    {pro    felonie) 

treachery,  villany. 
feloun,  felon,  traytour,  traytours^^ 
felowus,  fellowes. 
fend,  find,   tj:y'd. 
fende,  defend,  fiend,  devil. 
fende's,     p.     281.     {singular  iter  y 

casu  genitivo,)  fiend's,  deviVs. 
fendes,p.  281.  {pluraliter.) fiends y 

devils. 
feT,far.  fer  fro,  far  from,  afar  off. 
ferd,  fear,  affraid,  fearfull,  wenty 

fared,   managed,    host,  forces^ 

army.     Fide  inferd. 
{etde,ferry^  d,  went,passed,affraidy 

fared,  went.. 
fere,  journey,   society,  company^ 

fear,  far,  companion,  fellow. 
feres,  companions. 
ferlike,  terrible,  strange. 
ferly,  wonder,  horribly,  terribltf^ 

strangely.       Bot    I    haf   grete 
ferly 


576 


GLOSSARY. 


ferly,  bui  I  have  great  wonder j 
or,  I  wonder  very  much, 

fcrne,  far. 

ferrer,  farther. 

ferrere,  farther. 

fers,  fresh,  companions ^  fierce. 

ferth,  fourth. 

fertre,  shrine. 

ferynges,  sudden.  Ab  Anglo- 
Sax,  jrepinja,  extemplo,  sud- 
denly. 

fesed,  fastened,  detained. 

fesid,  jerked,  whipped,  beaten. 

fest,  fast,  fastened,  fetched,  noise, 
fuss,  (as  we  say  commonly,) 
to  make  a  fuss. 

fet,  fetcht.  fet  his  dede,  got  his 
death. 

fete,  feet. 

Mie,  fetcht. 

fettre,  fetter. 

feyn,  glad. 

feyng,  received. 

feyntise,  dissimulation. 

fef]>\y,  faithfully. 

fti,fees. 

ficacie,  fickly. 

me,  fifth. 

fiftend,  fifteenth. 

figlitand,  fght  in  g. 

fike\\e,fckle,  inconstant,  changea- 
ble,fickly. 

file,  fool,  thread,  trifle. 

filed,  defiled,  failed,  injured,  abus~ 
ed,  foiled,  repulsed. 

fine,  ceased. 

first,  forest,  and  of  )je  first  assise, 
p.  301,  and  of  the  forest  assize. 


adeo  ut  assise  hie  (dem  sit  ^uod 
statutum  sive  decretum.  Vide 
Spellmanni  Gloss,  ooc.  assisa. 

fist,  first. 

fitz  Izoun,  p.  68.  fitz  John,  ndih 
fiz  Joun  in  Codd.  Gall. 

^e,fly,  avoid. 

fleand,  fiy,  flyi?ig,  flighting,  put. 
ting  to  flight. 

&eha,nd,  flying. 

Aeih,  flew,  fled, 

fleihes,  flies. 

fleked,  bent,  bowed,  plied,  turned. 

fiekes,  flags,  twigs. 

fleme,  banish,  terrify. 

flemed,  exiled,  banished,  exiles, 

flette,  fleets 

flode,  floudy  inundation,  raging 
of  the  sea,  tempest,  water,  sea^^ 
river. 

flom,  river.  It  must  be  here  re., 
membered,  that  on  this  side 
Fryer  Bacon's  study  at  Oxford 
is  a  little  Bridge  ',  under  which 
runneth  a  small  stream,  {that 
divideth  Oxfordshire  and 
Bark-shire)  being  part  of  Tril- 
milbow,  whose  Course  of 
old  time  was  not  to  fall  int9 
Isis,  as  now  it  doth,  but  into 
the  River  Charwell  through 
the  midst  of  Christ-Church 
Meadow,  which  though  it  be 
now  but  one,  in  former  times 
was  two,  whereof  the  farther 
part,  next  to  Isis,  belonged 
to  the  City  of  Oxford,  and 
was    called    the    Town   Mead^ 


•  See  Dr.  Leonard  HuUeiC$  Antiquitka  of  Oxford,  published  by  me  at    the  end  of 
Textu*  Roffei)si3,2>  348. 

und 


GLOSSARY. 


571 


-S/k/  the  higher  pnrt^  next  to 
Fr  ides  widens,  belonged  to  Christ- 
Church,  and  zsas  called  of  old 
Frideswide's  Mead.  But  in 
the  days  of  K.  Edzcard  Vlt''. 
the  Dean  aiid  Chapter,  having 
then  an  annual  Market,  or 
Fair,  usually  kept  about  St. 
Frideswide^s  day  in  the  Quad- 
rangle, for  many  days  toge- 
ther [and  was  much  more  con. 
siderable  than  Stourbridge 
Fair  by  Cambridge)  were 
pleased  to  exchange  the  said 
Fair  with  the  Town  for  their 
part  of  the  foresaid  Meadow ; 
so  that  Christ.Church  having 
thus  got  the  whole  Meadow 
to  themselves,  they  dammed 
up  the  old  Channell,  that  ran 
into  Charwell,  and  brought 
both  the  Meads  into  one; 
yet  to  keep  up  certain  tokens, 
how  the  Course  ran,  certain 
meer  stones  were  set  in  the 
Meadow,  and  it  still  bore  the 
name  of  Shire-lake.  And  in. 
deed  even  to  this  day,  there 
are  very  visible  signs,  such  as 
Rushes  and  different  Grass, 
where  it  went,  and  (zchich  is 
the  reason,  for  which  I  men. 
tion  all  this)  it  is  often  call.d 
the  flam  or  the  flum.  It  is  with, 
all  remarkable,  that  low,  wa. 
try,  rushif  places  are  frequently 
caWd  f'lanis  by  persons  (espe. 
daily  such  as  deal  in  Mea- 
dows and  Cattle)  in  and  a. 
bout  Oxford.     Of  which   Flams 

Vol  n. 


there  was  fonnerly  a  much 
greater  Number  than  there 
is  at  present,  the  Water  of 
Charwell  being  then  more  ob. 
structed  than  now,  which  con- 
duced, in  no  small  degree,  to 
Sicknesses.  And  those  that  are 
acquainted  with  the  History  of 
Oxford  are  not  ignoiant,  that 
the  Pestilence  was  often  in 
old  time  in  that  place,  ishich 
occasioned  the  Scholars  to  re. 
tire,  a  thing  which  is  to  be 
attributed,  in  great  measure, 
to  the  Flams,  as  well  as  to  the 
neglect  of  cleansing  the  Streets, 
and  keeping  out  Creatures 
that  raised  Filth  and  corrupt, 
ed  the  Air.  Of  such  kind 
of  Flams  there  were  abund- 
ance  on  the  South  side  of  the 
City,  even  beyond  Fryer  Ba. 
con's  Study,  the  Causey  being 
not  raised  so  high  as  at  j^resent, 
nor  that  way  so  much  fre. 
quented  {the  Flams  hinder, 
ing)  as  nowadays  /  zohich  was 
the  reason  therefore  that  the 
place,  now  called  Fryer  Ba. 
con's  Study,  xcas  very  private 
(in  respect  of  what  it  is  nozo) 
and  afforded  that  great  Man 
a  very  convenient  Retreat 
from  the  Grey  Fryery,  in  or- 
der to  contemplate  in  the 
night  time,  and  make  proper 
Observations  in  Astronomy, 
and  other  parts  of  Mathema- 
ticks ;  which  he  did  with  the 
greater  advantage,  after  he  had 
z  in- 


57f 


GLOSSARY. 


invented     the     Telescope    (for 
^tis  to  him   zee  are  to    ascribe 
this  usefull  Invention ')   xchich 
added  so   much  to  his  Reputa~ 
tio?i,  that  there  urns  no  one  but 
loolc''d     upon    him    as     a   pro- 
digy,    and   his  Discoveries   de- 
rived upon   him  so    much    En. 
vy,    that   he  was  proceeded  a. 
gainst    as    a    Magician,     tho^ 
he  wrote  expressly  against  Ma. 
gick,     as    I  have   shewed  else. 
tchere  *.     But  *tzcas  in  the  Sum. 
mer    time     chiefly,     that     this 
admirable    Scholar     made     his 
Obset^vations  at  the  place    that 
noiv   bears  his   Name,  and  not 
in    Winter.     At  that  dry  Sea. 
son     he    was    less     obnoxious 
to   the   ill    Vapours,     that    at 
other     Seasons    icere    trouble, 
some    and  dangerous,   especial, 
hj  when  there  was  then  such  a 
Multitude     of    Flams,    the     ill 
Effects    of    which,       however, 
himself,   by  the   Directions   he 
gave,    very    much     prevented, 
for    tchich    he    deserved,    and, 
without   doubt,    received  thanks 
from     the   University,    as    zcell 
as  the  Town,   it  being  the  In. 
terest  of  this   Seat    of  Learn, 
ing,     which     is     so    admirably 
(^nothing    more  finely)    situat- 
ed,    to    listen     to    persons    of 
Skill  ivhen  they  prescribe  what 
may     prevent     Infection,     and 
therefore  more  Attention  should 
have  been  given  to  such  know- 


ing Men  above  fourscore  years 
since,   when  many    suffered   by 
a  new    Disease,    which    tho^  it 
was  felt    at  other   places,  yet 
rag^d  most  at  Oxford,   as  mayi 
appear  ?  from   a    scarce     little 
Book,  lent  me  by    my  xsorthy 
Friend      Thomas      Rawlinson^ 
Esq;,  intituled,  Morbus  Epide- 
viius  Anno  1643.  England's  new 
Disease  most  contagious  at  pre- 
sent in  Oxford-     With  theSignes, 
Causes,  Remedies.     Published  hy 
his  Majesties  Command.   Oxford, 
Printed  by    Leonard    Lichfeild, 
Printer   to  the  University.  4"  in 
3  Sheets.     Though  it  teas  as  an. 
cient  as    Hippocrates*,    ytt   it 
was  termed  The    new  Disease. 
^  Tic  as  generally  defined  to  be  a 
malignant  and  contagious    Fea- 
ver,    being  comprised  under  the 
Genus  of  a  putrid  continued  Fea- 
ver,  which  proceedeth  from  pu- 
trefaction Q/"bloud,   or  humours 
continued  in  the  greater  vessels. 
So   that    the   Disease   may    be 
truly     called,    Febris    putrida, 
continua,    maligna,   &  contagio. 
sa;    that  is,  a  putrid,   continued 
Feaver,  both  malignant  and  con- 
tagious.      Tho'   it  was   not  the 
Plague,    yet  it  was  (as  we  be. 
fore  defined  it)  what  some  ne- 
vertheless    denyed,     malignant 
and   contagious,    us    the     Au~ 
ihor      of     that      Tract      hath 
well    proved.       One     cause   of 


ostn  MSS.  Vol.  79.  p.  122.     *  In  ErUem. 

it 


GLOSSARY 


573 


it  Kits  found  to  he  those  putrid 
Exhalations,  drawn  up  by  the 
Sun,  fro7H  stinking  Matter, 
Dung,  Carcasses  ofdeadHorses, 
and  other  Carrion,  in  and  about 
the  City,  the  removing  of  which 
noysome  Inconveniences,  arid 
keeping  the  Streets  sweet,  and 
clean,  zcas  soon  found  to 
tend  much  to  the  abatement  of 
the  Disease.  A  second  cause 
Tsas  found  to  be  Diet.  For 
although  there  zcas  no  such 
scarcity  of  Provisions,  as  forc- 
ed any  of  the  Inhabitants  (Scho- 
lars or  others)  to  feed  upon  bad 
Meats,  yet  the  Drink  could  7iot 
be  excused,  being,  fur  the  most 
part,  {by  reasoji  of  the  multitude, 
and  concourse  of  people)  over, 
new,  and  not  ripe  or  fit  for 
drinking.  Which  Inconvenience 
is  what  we  still  complain  of. 
And  therefore  ''tis  zcished  the 
Brewers  would  someichat  re. 
gard  our  health,  as  zcell  as 
their  own  profit,  in  drying  their 
Mault  sufficiently,  throughly 
boyling  their  Beer,  and  making 
clean  their  Vessels ;  whereas  a 
common  Complaint  against  them 
is,  that  they  make  use  of  slack- 
dried  Mault,  do  not  half  hoyl 
their  Beer,  that  they  add  few  or 
no  Hopps,  and  tun  it  up  in  un. 
■washed  Vessels,  which  causeth 
the  Drink  to  be  crude,  raw,  and 
apt  to  corrupt  xvilhin    :is.     To 


zshich  Observation  zee  may  add, 
that  the  Brew-houscs  all  stand 
upon  the  Banks  of  the  River 
Isis,  txhich  of  it  self  is  a  cold 
hungry  PVater,  the  source  and 
springs  of  it  arising  from  Cots- 
wold  in  Gloucestershire :  zshere 
at  the  spring  head,  the  extre- 
mity of  Coldness  in  the  JVater 
is  such,  that,  as  it  is  observed, 
Beasts  refuse  to  drink  of  it ; 
hozo  great  care  then  ought  the 
Brewers  to  take  i'th'  boyling, 
zshereby  to  alter,  and  amend  this 
qualify  of  the  imter  ?  This  Di- 
sease as  it  proved  mortal  to 
some,  so  it  hung  long  upon 
others;  but  then  many  pre. 
vented  the  ill  Effects  by  using 
this  method.  Presently  upon 
complaint  of  Chilness,  of  aking 
find  dizziness  in  the  Head,  they 
took  a  Cordial,  went  straitway 
into  bed,  and  swet,  and  rose 
next  day,  without  any  distemper: 
which  might  very  well  be,  by 
discussing,  and  expelling  the 
pa<7/:*«,  a7id  inquinamentum  pu. 
tredinale,  before  it  had  fer. 
mented,  and  assimilated  the 
whole  Masse.  And  by  this 
means  alone  was  cured  that 
most  fatal  Disease  t^^owa-os,  or 
Sudor  Ariglicus,  which  raged 
with  such  destructive  violence 
Ctill  constant  szveating  for 
24  houres,  the  only  certain 
Remedy  zcas  found  out)  that 
z  2  neigft. 


574; 


GLOSSARY. 


neighbouring  Counties  did  not 
believe  this  Island  had  so  mani/ 
Inhabitants  as  died.  We  have 
not  been  wholly  free  since  that 
time  from  the  same  kind  of 
Disease,  that  this  little  Book 
before  mentioned  describes  to 
have  been  so  violent  at  Oxford; 
(tnd  whether  or  no  there  was 
not  a  touch  of  it  in  the  latter 
end  of  the  year  1724.  /  shall 
leave  to  the  Judgment  and  De- 
cision of  those,  that  shall 
read  these  Notes  and  made 
any  Remarks  of  what  happened 
at  that  Season. 

float,  sayling.  Now  er  alle  on 
flote,  now  are  all  sayling  on  the 
Sea. 

flowand,  flowing,  flowed,  over. 
Jlow'd. 

flum,  river.  In  old  charms  ^  ue 
have,  plum  lupban  for  the  river 
Jordan. 

fo,  few,  foe,  foes,  enemies,  for. 
fo  men,  the  enemies, 

fode,  food. 

fodes,  foods. 

foen,  foe.  fulle  foen,  an  utter 
enemy. 

foisoun,  store,  plenty,  abundance. 

fole,  foolish,  fool,  a  fool, 

foles,  fools,  foolish,  folks. 

folie,  foolish. 

folowand,  following. 

folowes,  follow. 

foltid,  foolish,  faulty. 

fomen,  enemies. 

fond,  ^nd,  found,    have    found, 


try,  tryed,  went  to.  Hastily  bf- 
gynne  Philip  to  folow  Jou  fondy 
begin  thou,  and  try  or  contend 
hastily  to  follow  Philip.  See 
tynd. 

fonde,  found,  try,  find,  contend, 
labour,  endeavour,  strive. 

fonden,  found. 

fondes,    tryes,   attempts. 

fondon,  found. 

fondoure,  founder. 

fondred,  forced,  he  fondred  Je 
Sarazins  otuyiine,  he  forced  the 
Saracens  into  two  parties. 

fonk,  funk,  vapour,  smoke. 

fonkes,  funks,  be  beten  alle  fonkes, 
be  beat  all  to  funks,  or  till  they 
stink  again. 

foole,  foolish. 

foos,  foes. 

for,  for,  because,  from,  for  that, 
in  that,  when,  of,  four,  for  ne 
non,  for  not  one.  ware  him  for 
tricherie,  take  heed  to  himself 
of  treachery.  for  monethes, 
four  months. 

forbarred,  debarred,  barred  of, 
deprived  of. 

forbede,  forbid. 

forbi,  before,  for  by,  notwithstand. 
ing,  away,  therefrom.  forbi 
euer  ilkone,  before  every  one. 

forby,  excluded, 

fordid,  destroyed. 

for  do  sive  fordo,  undo,  destroy. 

fordon,  undone,  lost. 

fordone,  hindered,  lost,  stopt. 

fordos,  destroys,  damages,  un- 
does. 


Hickesii  PrcEf.  ad  Thes,  lingg,  Sept.  p.  xvJ. 


fore. 


GLOSSARY. 


575 


fore,  gone,  fared,  Z2ent,  go.  ne  hob 

j?er  after  fore,  neither  didany  one 

go  after  it. 
foreyns.  aliens,  strangers. 
forfare,  forfeit,  loose,  to  make  de. 

sert,  to  make  destitute,   destroy. 
forfaren,  forlorn,     deserted,    de~ 

stroyed. 
for  for,  wherefore. 
forgetilschip,  forgetfullness. 
forgo  site  for  go.  forego,  forsake, 

leave,  loose.     Ab   A.  Sax.  yop. 

jan,  dimittere,  derelinquere. 
forholn,     zoitholden,    witheld,    de. 

tained,  kept  back. 
forlete,  leave,  loose. 
forlome,  lost, 
formast,  foremost,  formast  on  of  ]>o, 

the  foremost  man  of  those;   the 

foremost  one  of  those. 
foremest,  foremost,  foremest  next 

Palmesonenday,      next      before 

Palmsiinday. 
for  schent,  very  much  confounded. 
forset,  stopped. 
for  soth  sive  forsoth,  in  truth,  for 

sooth,  in  troth,  truly,  of  a  truth. 
forsters,  foresters. 
forsuore,  forszoore,  abjured, 
forth,  forth,  from,  thenceforth. 
forthely,  readily,     als  forthely    as 

he,  as  readily  as  he,  as  well  as 

he,  as  far  forth  as  he. 
forthes,  freta,  friths,  sti  eights. 
forth  jode,  should  go  forth,  should 

be  confirmed. 
for}>ouht,    grieved,   feared.       for- 

l^ouht  it    sore     and    smerte,    it 

griev'd  them  sorely  and  smartly, 
for  told,  foretold. 
forward,  bargain,   condition,  cove. 


nant,  love,  argument,  compact, 

contract,  forwards.     In  a  gode 

forward,  on  good  Articles. 
for  warned,  forewarned. 
forwondred,    much    wondered  at, 

very  strange. 
fosoun,  confidence,  ability. 
fote,  foot,  feet. 
founde,  trjj. 
founden,  founded. 
foundes,  founds,  frameing,  found. 

ing.  ^ 
fourtenyght,  fortnight. 
fou]>ty,  fourty. 
foyntes,  attempts. 
foyson,  abundance,  plenty,    store, 

confidence,  career. 
foysoun,  store,  plenty,  abundance. 
fraist,  nourish,  countenance. 
fram,  frame. 
Franceys,  French, 
iranchise,  franchise,  franchises,  It. 

berty. 
Frankes,  French: 
Frankis,  French. 
frape,    clutter,    hurly   burly,    aid, 

from  the  French  frappe,  struck, 

knockt,  rapt,  kc. 
frauh,  fraught. 
fraunkeleyn,   franklin,    freeman, 

denizen. 
frayed,  aff raid,  frighted. 
fre,  free. 

freist,  freeze,  cool. 
freistes,  fraughts. 
frere,  frier. 
freres,  friers. 
frese,  freez'd,  froze. 
fresse,  fresh,  quick. 
frette,   fraught    or  fiaight  of  a 

ship. 
z  3  frith, 


576 


GLOSSARY. 


frith,  peace. 

frithe, //-ee,  privikge,  sanctify, 
ito^from,  of,  against,   fro  that  for- 
ward,   from    that     time    for- 
wards. 
fulle,  full,  fulli/y  many,  very,  ful- 
le  suythe,  sive  suijje,  very  readily, 
very  quickly,   very  fast.      fulle 
faire,    very  fair.      fulle     grim, 
nery   austere,     very    sower    or 
rough,   very  sharp,  very  grim. 
fulle  rebelle,    very  rebcUiously. 
fulle  streit,   p.  79.   immediately, 
Tel  etiam  potest  denotare,   very 
strictly  sive  very  narroicly. 
funde,  found. 
funden,  found. 

fyn,  fine,  finely,  end,  contract,  con- 
clusion. 
fynde,  endeavour. 
fyne,  pure,  fine,    end,  payment, 

bargain  or  agreement. 
tynes,fnes.  This  Word  fyne  or 
line,  Cometh  of  the  Latin  finis, 
and  is  so  well  known,  among 
our  lawyers  and  others,  that 
it  is  to  no  purpose,  to  say 
much  about  it.  It  hath  divers 
applications  in  our  Common 
Law.  But  the  common  Sig- 
■nif  cations  are,  (1)  A  formal 
Conveyance  of  Lands,  by  ac- 
knowledging a  pe}fect  Agree- 
ment before  a  Judge.  (2)  A 
Sum  of  Money  paid  for  Lands 
and  Tenements  let  by  Lease. 
(3)  A  Penalty  or  Amends  made 
in  Money  for  an  Offence. 
fyue,  five,  whan  he  had  regned 
fyue,  &  wele  was  aboue,  p.  57. 
^hen  he  had  reigned  five  year^ 


{nam  in  Codd.  Gall,  kaunt. 
V.  anuz  en  la  tere  en  pees 
auoyt  reigne)  and  was  much 
above. 


G. 


ja,  yea, 

gadred,  gathered. 

gadres,  gathers. 

gaf,  gave,  cared,  gaf  of,  cared  for. 
of  j^e  kirke  gaf  Jei  leste,  they 
cared  least  for  the  church,  gaf 
no  tale,  cared  not. 

jaflF,  gave. 

galais,  galleys. 

gald,  i;iclded,  gave, 

jalde,  yielded. 

galwes,  a  gibbet  or  gallows. 

galweis,  gallows. 

gamen,  game,  sport,  rejoycing, 
gladness,  mirth.  No  gamen  him 
ne  list,  no  game  liked  him. 

gamened,  gamed,  j^an  jamened 
]?api  no  glevve,  then  ivere  they 
not  at  all  glad. 

gamned,  gamed,  rejoyced.  Sone 
with  ]?e  Danes  gamned  J'am  no 
glewe,  presently  no  mirth  re. 
joyced  (or  remained  with)  the 
Danes. 

gan,  begin,  began,  gan  mis,  gone 
amiss. 

gannok,  standard,  ensign. 

gare,  ready,  at  hand,  provide,  pre- 
pare, get  ready,  prepared,  rea- 
dily, quick. 

gared,  prepared,  made  ready,  pro- 
vided. 


garner^  garners^  granaries. 


gart, 


GLOSSARY. 


577 


gart,  p.  4.  prepared.    Sed  gan  ma. 

lir/ij   ut    ad  iinum    ^><|o-/«c?  mo- 

nui. 
gaste,  ghost. 
gate,  altogether,  got,   beget,   toay, 

the  zcuT/,  gate.      I  rede  out  of  J^is 

oste  ]>e  marchis  go  his  gate,  /  ad- 
vise,   that  the   marquiss  go  his 

zi-aj/  out  of  tikis  host. 
gatis,  gates. 
gauelokes,  (hastilia,)  gaTielocks,(i:om 

the    Saxon     jajrelucajr    in     JEl. 

frick,    which    sigKifies,    shafts, 

Javelins,  zcarlike  Engines,   &c. 
gayn  stie,  Jlngl.  Sax.  gang  jcije, 

high.i£ay. 
gayte,   guiety,  gladness.      gadred 

als  fe  gayete,   gathered  as  gay 

people  use  to  do. 
^i^,  ye,  you,   went,  yea.     je  unnej? 

is  any  dele,  you  have   scarce  any 

jot. 
Geantz,  Giants* 
geay,  gay,  merry. 
ged,  goed,  icent. 
gede,  Kent. 
goffen,  given. 
Getfroun,  Geffry. 
geldj  yield,  yielded. 
gelde,  yield. 
gelded,  yielded. 
geldes,  yields, 
jelp,  yelp,  hozcl,  hozcljng,  crying, 

cry,  Kail,  may  cry,    may   boa>t. 

J7at  men  of  vs  jelp,  that  a  great 

noise  or  report  may    be    made 

about  us. 
^ome,  appoint,  care,  govern,    be 

governed,  be  guarded,  to  xsield. 

ouertok  it  tp   jeme,  undertook 

to  take  care  of  it, 


gemed,  defended,  governed,  mind- 
ed, aimed,  look'd  to. 
gendrure,  issue,  generation. 
Gene,  Genua  or  Genoa. 
jeng,  young. 
gent,  gentle,  fine,  pretty,  soft,  gen- 

teel,  courteous. 
gentille,  genteel,  fine,   noble,  ho. 

nourable. 
gepe,  in  jest. 
jerd,  yard. 
jerde,  rod,  yard. 
gere,  ready.,  very,  year. 
jerne,  earnestly,   vehemently,   de- 
sire, speedily,   vigorously,  ear. 

ncstly    desire,     earnestly    con. 

tend  or  endeavour. 
gerned,  yerned,    longed,    desired, 

contended,  earnestly  endeavour. 

ed. 
jernyng,  desiie,    desiring,  covet. 

ing. 
Geruans,  p.  78.      Girvum,    Gyr. 

zci  or  Jarrow. 
gert,  sharp,  great, 
gese,  gees. 
gesse,  guess. 
gest,  guess,   guessed,  guest,   com. 

pany,  guests,  gests,  acts,  trans. 

action,  transactions. 
joste,  guest,  guests,   allies,  gests^ 

transactions,  affairs. 
gested,  entertain''d. 
gestes,  gests,  acts,  transactions, 
gete,  get. 
geten,  gotten. 
getis,  gets, 
gett,  yet,  still. 

gette,  got,  kept,  shed,  purchased. 
geyns,  gins,  traps,  engins. 
gif,  giv.Ujgavc,  give. 

^  4  giir, 


578 


GLOSSARY. 


giff,  if,  give, 

gifFes,  gives. 

gile,  guile,  deceit,  deceive. 

gilerie,  deceit,  guile. 

^iXery,  cheat,  fallacy,  deceit,  guile. 

giloure,  guiler,  deceiver,  traijtour, 
more  deceitfull,  more  crafty. 

gilt,  gilt,  guilt. 

sing,  young. 

gird,  girt,  girded. 

git,  yet,  nevertheless,  moreover, 
furthermore. 

gites,  beds,  lodging  places^  inns. 

glathjp.  192,  publick.  Hinc  cer. 
te  cl,  Ski?merus  de  voce  gladly 
hcec  profert.  "  Gladly,  exp. 
"  Commonly,  fort.  q.  d.  Le- 
"  odly,  AS.  Leoblie  {i.e.) 
"  Publice,  Populaiiter,  ab  AS. 
"  Leobe,  Populus. 

gleam,  light. 

glede,  a  coal. 

glent,  glanced,  passed,  glided. 

glewe,  glee,  mirth,  joy. 

glosed,  flattered. 

God,  God,  good.  God  son  of 
heyiion,  God's  son  of  Heaven. 

gode,  God,  good,  method,  zcent, 
goods,  gone,  of  Gode,  against 
God,  from  God.  Gode  lone, 
God's  love-  iiG  ^ode,  did  not 
go.  sais  me  a  godf  certeyn,  tell 
me  a  certain  method,  give  mc 
good  advice. 

godes,  goods. 

Godesbord,  God's  table. 

golden,  yielded. 

gole,  Christ  mass. 

gole  feste,  feast  of  Christ  mass. 


gomen,  yeomen. 

Gomor,  Gomorrah. 

gon,    go,    began.      gon  Itelle,  be^ 

gun  to  be  told. 
gonfaynoun,  banner. 
gonfeynounos,  standards.. 

SO"g)    >    nouns'. 

gonge, 3 

gonnen,  begun- 

gorde,  7/ard. 

50 rk,  York. 

gos,  go. 

gost,  ghost,  spirit,  soul, 

•^onr,  your. 

gow,  you,  your  selves. 

grace,  grace,  favour. 

graith,  readiness,  peace,  agreement. 

gram,  grieve,  trouble,  vex,  punish, 
anger,  fury,  sorrow,  debate, 
irksomness. 

grame,  punishment,  sorrozc,  hurt. 

grant,  granted.  grant  mercy, 
gratnmercie,  as  Cofgrave  hat^ 
noted  in  his  English  and 
French  Dictionaj'y.  "  Gra- 
"  mercy,  (saith  Dr.  Skin- 
ner) "  a.  Fr.  G.  Grammercy. 
"  It.  Granmercie,  q.  d.  gran. 
"  dem  mercedem  tibi  duit 
"  Deus."  He  should  have 
said  rather,  grandem  misericor. 
diam. 

grantise,  grant,  a  grant,  conces. 
sion,  zearrant,  security. 

graytli,  array,  drazv,  ornament. 

gre,  great,  estate,  iiill,  pleasure, 
degree,  step. 

grefe,  grievous,  troublesome. 

greitli,  motion. 


grene,  green. 


gres, 


GLOSSARY. 


579 


gres,  grass. 

gret,  great. 

gretand,  crying. 

grete,  greeted^  crt/,  exclaim,  com. 
plain,  great,  greatly,  crying, 
estate.  I  haf  nqt  git  so  wrouht, 
to  haf  maugre  j'e  grete.  /  have 
not  behaved  my  self  so  as  yet, 
but  I  can  do  zoithout  thee,  grete 
J^inges  {in  Appendice  ad  Pr^f. 
Num.  XIV.)  wounds. 

gretis,  greets. 

grette,  grated,  clawed,  greeted,  sq- 
luted'  his  barpus  alle  Jjei  grette. 
his  barons  he  greeted  alt  of 
them. 

greue,  be  grievous,  grieve,  be  at 
grievance,  grief. 

grenus,  griefs. 

grille,  cruel,  cold. 

grim,  grim,  cruel,  sharp,  austere, 
rough,  roughly,  fierce,  harsh, 
gruff,  stern,  devilish,  vile. 

grith,  agreement,  peace,  gpi^- 
bjayce,  3Jiichb|iiche,  jjiichbpece, 
or  gfie^bjiece,  is  breach  of 
peace  in  old  Monuments. 

grym,  grim,  harsh,  sharp,  ghastly, 
cruel,  base. 

^ude,  good,  zoent. 

guye,  guide,  lead,  govern,  manage, 
direct. 

guyour,  guider. 

guyours,  guiders,  commanders. 


guyse,  guise,  manner. 

gye,  guide. 

gyf,  give. 

gynne,  begin. 

gynnes,  begins. 

gynnyng,  beginning. 

gyqui,  guider,  captain, 

gyiie,  gift. 

gyuen  of,  given  off  or  over. 

gyues,  give. 

H. 

ha,  hast. 

hache,  hatchet,  ax. 

had,  have,  had,  hadst.  had  haued, 
had  had. 

haddon,  had. 

haf,  hc^ve,  hath,  he  had,  to  have. 
haf  gode  day,  God  by^e,  or  good 
by'e,  ut  vulgo,  i.  e.  God  be  with 
you, 

hage,  ague,  sickness.  It  comes 
from  the  French  aigii,  sharp, 
because  an  ague,  at  least  in 
the  Paroxysm,  is  known  to 
be  so.  But  Hwas  common 
zcith  our  Ancestors  to  p?-efix 
h  to  Words,  when  there; 
zcas  no  manner  of  occasion. 
IJence  some  of  them  xcrit  Ho- 
xonia/or  Oxonia,  as  is  even  ob. 
sej-o'd  by  Mr.  Vernon  in  his 
Oxonium  Poema,  where  he 
writes  '  thus  of  two  odd  Verses 
in  ]}Ierton.College  Windows: 


Jlic  veteres  potes  inspicere,  &  ridere  Poetas, 
Qui  dignum  cunctis  carmen  sensere  fenestris, 


Pag.  21. 


Hoxo. 


580 


GLOSSARY. 


In  fenoslris 
Collegii  Mer- 
tonens.   pas-  And  as  they  frequently 

Sim       legitur  .      ^^    ^.         '    n   i  q^ 
hoc     cannon  ^      ,     _.      ^      , 

cnmilioalte-ford,  iloxford,   SO  they 
to,    Tempusj^j    Abbineton,      Ha- 

in  omne,  tern- 
pus  consu- pyndouu,  as  may  be 
mere  grave,  learned  from  Thomas 
Sprofs  Chronicle  ',  that  I  lately 
published. 
hakeney,  hackney  horse. 
iiakneis,  hackney  horses.  From 
the  French  haquence,  i.  e.  an 
iimbling  horse,  gelding,  or  tnare. 
We  commonly  call  any  Coach  or 
Horse,  let  out  to  hire,  a  Hack. 
uey,  cSc.  and  some  tcill  tell  yon, 
that  the  name  ones  it's  original 
io  Hackney,  a  Toxcn  of  much 
resort,  about  three  Miles  froyn 
London.  But  then  hozc  comes  it 
io  puss,  that  it  should  be  so 
much  used  in  the  same  sense  in 
Countries,  where  this  tozon  zcas 
never  heard  of  ?  or  hozo  came 
the  Word  to  be  in  vogue  be- 
fore this  Tozsn  became  noted? 
I  altogether,  therefore,  incline 
io  the  French.  And  so  does 
the  learned  Dr.  Skinner. 
♦'  Hacknoy",  {says  he)  "  kFr. 
"  G.  Hacquenee,  liisp.  Haca- 
*'  rea,  Haca,  It.  Acchinea,  Ac- 
*'  chenea,  Chinea,  C.  Br.  Hac- 
"  nai,  quod  illis  Equum 
"  Gradarium,  nobis  E(juum 
**  Condnctitium  signijicat,  fort. 
**  omnia  a  Teut.  Hengst,  E- 
*'  quus,   vel  saltern  catera  oni. 


Hoxoniam  quare  venisti prcemediiare* 


"  nia  ab  It.  Chinea,  S;  hoc  k 
"  Sclikma,  Dorsum,  q.  d.  Ca- 
"  vallo  di  Schiena,  a  Backed 
"  horse,  a  Saddle  Horse,  or 
"  Pad  nag." 

hakneye,  hackney. 

hald,  hold,  to  hold. 

halde,   hold. 

halden,  holden. 

haldes,  holds. 

hale  vp,  lift  up,  hoizc  up. 

haled,  healed. 

half,  side,  part. 

halidam,  holy  lady. 

halle,  all. 

halp,  help''d. 

hals,  heels,  neck.  wikked  hals. 
zcickedness. 

haluendele,  half  part,  the  half 
part,  half. 

haiwes,  Saints. 

Halwethurs,  holy  Thursday. 

hal}',  holy. 

hamage,  homage. 

hamelesse,    hamletts. 

han,  have. 

Hanaud,  Hainalt. 

haned,  had.  N  for  v  /*  after  the 
Scottish  manner.  For  in  the 
old  Scottish  Translation  of 
Hector  Bo'ethius  tee  have 
abone  for  above.  Hane  and 
haue  have  been  used  promi- 
scously.  Thus,  in  Winken 
de  Worde's  Ed.  of  lib.  Festi- 
valis,  there  is  haue  in  the 
Serm.    de  Transfiguracione  Do- 


Fag.  101. 


GLOSSARY. 


581 


mini,  whereas  His  hane  in  that 
other  Ed.  I  have  mentioned 
above  tinder  the  Word  croice. 

hard,  hard,  sharp^  grievous,  hard- 
ship, sorroTsfull,  terrible,  great, 
heard. 

hardille,  boldly. 

harden,  heard. 

harie,  devastation,  vexation,  moler 
station. 

has,  has,  have,  hast,  has  he  had, 
p.  296.  had  he  had. 

hastif,  hasty,  quick,  hastiness. 

hastifly,  hastily. 

hastiuen(.'ssc,rash7icss,j)ride,haugh' 
tiness. 

hat,  had. 

hate,  v:as  called,  heat. 

haten,  called. 

hater,  attire,  habit. 

hatie,  p.  180.  haughtiness,  high, 
ness.  sed  hie  loci  potiiis  est 
idem  quod  hastif ;  adeo  ut  jiorght 
hatie  denotet  hastily,  id  quod  de 
Gallico  par  hatye  itidem  est 
dicendum. 

hatrex,  hatred. 

hauberke,  lorica,  habergion,  coat 
of  mail. 

hauelon,  (Gallice,)  heullant,  hold- 
ing, yelling.  Hither  the  zsord 
hauelogh  is  to  be  referred,  that  I 
have  printed  from  Caxton  in  p. 
664.  of  Heming^s  Chartulary. 

hawwt,  frequent,  usual. 

haunte,  frequent,  common. 

ha.m\ted, frequented,  practised, 

haut,  the  high. 

Jiauteyn,  haughty. 


hayre,  heir,  a  hare. 

he,  him,  her,  they,  he,  his,  smote 
he  to  dede,  smote  him  to  death. 
of  he  answere  ameved,  moved  by 
her  answer,  he  he  light,  he  him~ 
self  alighted,  so  in  p.  167.  he  he 
is  he  himself,  or  himself,  unless 
one  of  the  he's  be  superfluous, 

heberd  j^am  bileue,  p.  80.  gave 
them  harbour,  harboured  them 
xvith  livelyhood,  sive  entertained 
them,  hileue  etiam  readily  deno~ 
tare  potest. 

hede,  head,  behead,  heads. 

hede  liode,  p.  267.  the  hoods  of 
their  heads.  Sed  forte  potius 
legend,  hede  &  hode,  /.  c.  heads 
and  hoods.  Sed  £f  hede  hode 
eo  sensu  potest  accipi,  quo  man. 
hood,  ut  hode  conditionem  sig- 
nificet,  adeo  ut  tunc  temporis  eo 
ipso  in  prcslio  tam  Normanriiy 
quam  S^-  Picardi  conditionem 
virilem^  imo  etidtn  ipsam  vitam^ 
perdiderint. 

heen,  hen. 

heiere,  higher. 

heised,  eased. 

held,  reckoned,  accounted,  hold^ 
held,  zcent,  kept,  held  no  tales, 
made  no  account,  not  held,  did 
not  hold,  did  not  observe,  didnot 
keep. 

helo,  health. 

helle,  hell,  the  deep,  the  depth  or 
bottom  of  the  sea.  Either  from 
the  Saxon  helan,  tegere,  celare  ; 
or  from  hoi,  caAerna,  fovea, 
abditum,  cavitas,  fo|-amep.  Inth^ 
q14 


52S  GLOSSARY. 

old  Rhythmical  Tract,  about  of  this  old  Tract^  as  well  as 
the  Pains  of  Hell,  in  an  an-  of  the  other  Pieces  in  the  MS. 
cient  Vellum  MS.  {given  me  Be  that  as  it  will,  it  puts  me 
by  my  learned  Friend  Richard  in  mind  of  the  old  odd  Map, 
Graves,  of  Mickleton  in  Glou-  J  formerly  often  perused  in 
cestershire,  Esq;)  Hell  is  not  the  Bodl.  Library,  in  which 
only  made  to  signify  a  great  the  Scottish  Sea  is  made  to 
pit  or  hole,  where  the  wicked  be  Hell,  our  Ancestors  having 
are  to  be  punished  after  the  strange  Notions  of  that  Sea, 
Resurrection,  but  the  Sea,  as  well  as  they  had  of  all 
zchere  the  fiends  dwell,  as  Scotland,  particularly  the 
well  as  in  the  air  and  earth,  Northern  Parts  of  it.  But  I 
till  the  day  of  Judgment.  I  shall  give  the  Rhythms  in  the 
do  not  know,  but  Robert  of  old  Tract  ',  /  ]iave  spoke  of, 
Jirunne   might  be    the   Author         at  large. 

But  first  I  will  schewe  where  is  helle 

As  I  haue  herd  grete  clerkes  telle. 

And  ^  setthcn  wil  I  shewe  gow  more, 

And  speke  of  the  paynes  that  ^  ben  there. 

Some  clerkes  sayn,  as  the  boke  bereth  witnes, 

That  helle  euene  a  mydde  the  erthe  is. 

For  al  the  erthe  4  be  skylle  lykned  may  be 

iVntyl  a  round  appul   tre. 

That  euene  ^  a  myddes  haneth  a  colke, 

Ryght  as  an  "  ey  a  mydde  haneth  a  jolke. 

For  as  a  jolk  is  euene  a  mydwarde 

Of  the  schelle  of  aney,  whan  it  is  harde ; 

Ryght  so  is  helle  pit,  as  clerkes  telles, 

A  mydde  the  erthe  and  no  where  elles. 

As  the  golk  a  mydde  of  an  ey  ^  lys, 

And  the  white  a  boute,  so  in  the  same  wys, 

Ryght  so  is  the  erthe,  with  cute  doute, 

A  myddes  the  heuenes,  that  9  gon  a  boute. 

Thus  may  men  se  '°  be  an  hard  ey  "  dyght, 

How  heuene  and  erthe  stondeth  ryght. 


'  Pfl^.  183.  '^  After.  3  Be  there.  '^  By  reason.  ^  Unto.  ^  In  the  middle  hath  a 
heart,  colke  being  the  same  here  Kith  bolke  or  venter,  i.  e.  belly  or  paunch.  "^  Egg  in 
the  middle  hath  a  yolk,     ^  Lies  or  lays.     9  Go.     '"By.     "  ReadUy. 

Full 


GLOSSARY.  5S5 

Ful '  hydous  and  *  mychel  helle  is  i  kyd, 
For  why  ?  it  is  with  in  the  erthe  hyd. 
Thedir  ■»  schul  the  synful  be  dryuen. 
As  sone  as  the  laste  s  dom  is  jeuen, 
With  alle  the  ^  fendes  euere  ther  to  duelle, 
That  now  ben  in  the  eyr,  in  erthe,  and  in  helle. 
Ther  schul  they  alle  ben  stopped  to  gyder. 
Woo  schul  hem  be,  that  schul "?  wende  thider. 
For  ther  is  so  moche  sorwe  and  ^  bale, 
And  so  many  9  payne  with  onte  tale, 
That  alle  the  clerkes  that  euere  liadde  wit, 
That  euere  were,  or  that  lyuen  git, 
Cowde  not  telle,  ne  schewe  thorw  '^lore, 
How  moche  sorwe  and  paynes  ben  thore. 
And  gif  it  thorw  kynde  myghte  ben  so. 
An  hundred  thowsand  men,  or  mo, 
Hadden  an  hundred  thowsand  tonges  of  "  stel, 
And  ech  tonge  myghte  speke  wysly  and  weel, 
And  ech  a  tonge  of  euery  man 
Hadde  be  gunne,  whan  the  world  be  gan. 
To  speke  of  paynes,  and  schulde  speke  ay. 
Whiles  the  world  laste,  tyl  domes  day, 
git  myghte  they  not  the  sorwe  telle. 
That  to  synful  men  is  ordeyned  in  helle. 
For  why  ?  no  wit  of  man  may  be  gynne 
The  paynes,  that  ther  ben  ordeyned  for  synn^. 
But  men  may  fy nde,  who  so  '*  wele  loke, 
Some  manere  of  paynes  wryten  in  boke, 
As  men  haue  herd  wyse  clerkes  telle, 
A  mong  alle  othere  paynes,   that  ben  in  helle. 
Bote  what  man  is  so  wys  and  wytty, 
That  cowde  telle  the  paynes  properly, 
*^  But  if  it  were  on  that  hadde  ben  thore, 
And  '*  sen  the  paynes'*  lasse  and  more  ? 


"  Hideous.  *  Great;  3  Said  to  be,  shew'd  to  be.  <  Shall,  s  Judgment.  ^  Fiends. 
Devils.  7  Go.  « Grief.  9  PunisiimentSj  pains.  '*  Learning.  "Steel.  '^^Vill.  '^Ex- 
cept it  were  one.     '*  Seen,     'J  Less. 

But 


584 


GLOSSARY. 


But  he  that  cometh  ther  certay  n 
May  not  lyghtly  turne  a  jeyn,  S{c. 

helled,  healed,  covered. 

helpand,  helping. 

halt,  healthy, 

hcra,  them. 

hand,  kind.     fuUe  hend,  very  kind, 

very  civil,  very  courteous. 
hende,  ^ne   courteous,   generous, 


kind,  gentle,  good. 

hender,  kinder,  better. 

henge,  hang. 

Henners,  Hainalters. 
!nt,    too 

landed,  catck'd,  taken,  have 
taken,  lay  hands  upon,  appre~ 
hended. 

her,  hear,  their. 

herbage  or  erbage,  tho^  it  naturally 
signifies  the  fruit  of  the  earth, 
provided  by  nature  for  the  bit 
or  mouth  of  the  Cattle  ;  yet  it  is 
most  commonly  used  in  law, 
for  that  liberty,  a  Man  has  to 
feed  his  Cattle  in  another  Man^s 
Ground  :  also  for  what  is  cu. 
stomarily  paid  in  lieu  of  Tithe 
for  Pasture  Ground. 

herbegerie,  habitation. 

herberd,  harbour. 

herbere,  arbour. 

herd,  hearing,  having  heard,  hear, 
heard,  herd  an,  p  90.  heard  of, 
nisi  malts  herdan,  unica  voce, 
pro  hearing. 

herde,  herd  or  gather  together, 
summon,  heard. 

here,  ariny,  hear,  here,  heard. 
TiJ?ing  here  we  say,  we  heard 
tidings  spoken. 


herfor,  upon  this. 

Herford,  Hereford. 

Herietts,  Ueriots  or  harlots,  front 
the  Saxon  Ilepe-jeat,  i.  e. 
armour,  weapons,  or  provision 
for  zvar :  or,  a  tribute  that  zoa$ 
of  old  given  to  the  Lord  of  a 
manor  for  his  better  preparation 
toward  war.  "  Vocevi  ductam 
"  puto"  (sa/ih  Somner,  in 
his  Saxon  Dictionary)  "  ab 
"  hejie,  exercitus,  Sf  jeac,  alias 
<'  geoc,  fundo,  ejfundo,  quasi 
^'  fuerit  quid  in  exercitum  ero- 
"  gutum,  vectigali  lleregeld 
''  dicto,  nan  dissimile^'.  We 
now  commonly  understand  by  it, 
the  best  Chattel,  that  the  Te. 
nant  hath  at  the  hour  of  death, 
due  to  the  Lord  by  Custom, 
be  it  Horse,  Ox,  Cow,  or  any 
such  like. 

heritagelik,  inheritahly,  in  fee  sim^ 
pie,  for  ever. 


herkis,   hearken. 


listen, 
harlot,    ribald, 
is  riband  in  the 


herlote,  p.  317. 
and  indeed  it 
French. 

hernays,  harness.  Tho^  this 
Word,  which,  perhaps,  comes 
either  from  the  Teutonick 
Harnisch,  or  from  the  French 
Ilarnois  or  Hamas,  common- 
ly sig  nifies,  either  all  the  Ac- 
coutrements of  an  armed 
Horseman,  or  else  the  Furni- 
ture for  a  Horse  in  a  Char* 
riotf 


GLOSSARY. 


585 


riot,  Cuach  or  Waggon ;  yei 
there  is  also  another  signifi- 
catioHy  zchich  hozsever  for- 
reign  to  any  thing,  that  is 
mentioned  in  our  Anther  {in 
Tchose  time  also  Coaches^  as 
ue  at  present  understand  the 
Expression,  icere  not  in  use,) 
I  think  fit  to  mention  here, 
and  that  is,  zshat  these  Words 
in  the  Statute  of  2  Hen.  VI. 
14.  have  relation  to :  And  that 
no  Goldsmith  nor  Jeweller,  nor 
any  other  that  worketh  Harness 
of  Silver,  shall  set  any  of  the 
same  to  sale  within  the  City  [o/ 
London,'^  before  that  it  be 
touched  with  the  touch,  and  also 
■with  the  Mark  or  Sign  of  (he 
Workman  of  the  same,  upon 
pain  of  Forfeiture  of  the  double 
value  &c.  upon  zchich  Passage 
the  Author  of  a  little  Book  in 
8ro  '  intituled,  A  Touch. stone 
for  Gold  and  Silver  Wares, 
remarks  *,  that  all  sorts  of  Sil- 
ver JVork,  of  the  most  Eminent 
account  {that  are  made  in  and 
about  the  City  of  London,  and 
uithin  three  miles  of  the  same) 
are  comprehended  under  the 
Names  of  V^essels  and  Harness; 
mentioning  vessels  Oy  reason    of 


zchat  he  had  cited  from  former 
Acts. 

herneis,  harness,  furniture^  equi.. 
page,  armour. 

herne^'s,  harness. 

heronsewes,  herons.  *^  Hern. 
sues",  (saith  Dr.  Skinner  in 
Etymolog.  vocum  antiquarum) 
"  Ardea  avis,  vox  adhuc  iti 
"  agro  Line,  obtinet,  ab  Heron, 
"  Sf  Sue  pro  Pursue,  Prosequi^ 
"  Fr.  G.  Suivre,  quia  sc.  haic 
"  rapax  avis  turn  alias  aves^ 
'•  turn  pisces  insectatur". 

hers,  hear  est,  hears,  hear. 

Heruegra,  p.  67.  Harfager,  bsin£ 
spoke  of  Harold  Harfager. 

heste,  command,  zcill. 

hestcs,  commands.  The  true  Sa, 
xon  Word  zi-as  hjeses:  but  after 
the  Normans  cams  into  Ens;- 
laud,  that  Word  waspronounc'd 
hestes,  and  by  that  Name  zcere 
the  X  Comtnandments  culled^ 
as  may  appear  from  zchat  fol- 
lozees,  trunscribhl  hy  me  from 
an  old  MS.  Fragment  in  FeU 
lum,  lent  vie  by  my  zcorthy 
Friend,  Thomas  IVard  of 
Longbridge,  near  Wuizcicky 
Esq;.  The  hand  is  of  the  age  of 
King  Stephen. 


Les  diz  comandemens. 

Lone  god  ouer  alle  J^ing. 

J  Ne  suuer  ]>\i  fals  for  no  }ing. 


Piinted  at  Lond.    167 


Peg.   1- 


J  S'ui  SKeariheu. 


Fc'ste 


586 


GLOSSARY. 


'  Feste  held  fram  *  wrcliing. 
Fader  and  moder  do  ^  worjnng. 
Of  *  manslojt,  ^  naue  ^  willing. 
Hordom  let,  it  is  '  ful  jjing. 
8  Mid  wrong  of  noman  haue  no  fing. 
Of  false  witnusse  let  bering. 
Let  fleses  lust  9  ut  of '°  spusing. 
"  Wyllet  of  oj^er  man  no  J'ing. 
J70S  ten  hestes  '*  J>at  heueneking 
Ilolde  for  '^  habbe  gad  ending. 


Where  the  2f/.  Commandment  is 
omitted  (as  ''tis  in  several  other 
MSS.  of  middle  Age  Antiquity^ 
that  I  have  seen)  and  the  10th 
is  divided  into  two.  I  meet 
with  the  same  Word  also  in 
another  MS.  Fragment  in  Vel- 
lum,  lent  me  by  the  same  Friend, 
being  part  of  an  old  Homilie 
about  Confession  and  Penance. 
The  Fragment  contains  two 
Pages  in  4to.  Tho'  it  be  later 
than  the  former,  yet  I  take  it  te 
be  of  the  Reign  of  Richard  11. 
The  chief  Thing  I  observed  in 
it  is,  the  Apostle's  Creed,  which 
is  brought  in  thus:  &  '*  wite 
it  wel,   )>at  j7ou    oujtost  holde 


Godes  X  hestes.  For  jif  }o\i 
breke  on  of  'S  h  ,  )?ou  dost,  in 
as  myche  as  in  Je  is,  as  Adam 
dide  jjat  tyme,  )»at  he  ete  J'e 
appel,  ,where  ]?orou  al  Je  '^  wold 
was ''  .  .  rlore.  vnderstond,  J^at 
j>e  fyrste  heste  is,  jjou  schalt  not 
'8  ha  alyen  Godes  ...  fat  tow- 
che)?  }y  byleue.  &  Ai^yte  it  wel, 
]7at  '9  bot  ]70u  byleue  .  .  .  .  t, 
alle  ]?at  ]iou  dost  here  »°  anerjje 
is  wor]?  *'   apese,   forte  wyne  j^e 

e    of   heueue.    &   j'er- 

fore  at  the  **  bygynyg  Jjou 
*J  most  sygge  J'i  crede  .... 
yleue  in  God,  fader  almyjti, 
*4  schipper  of  h  &  of  h,  & 
in      Jhesu      Crist,      his      only 


'  Fast  hold.  "  Working.  3  Honour.  *  Manslaughter,  murther.  5  Perhaps  it 
should  be  ne  naue,  i.  e.  know  not,  or  be  not  conscious.  «  Willingly.  7  Foul.  «  With, 
9  Out.  '<>  Spowsing,  marriage.  "  Will,  desire,  covet.  '^  Commanded.  '3  to  have 
good.  '*  Know.  '5  F.  hem.  >«  F.  world,  j,  F.  forlore,  i.  e.  lost.  '« Have  strange. 
»»  Unless.  ■">  On  earth.  ='  A  pea,  for  to  u>in.  «  Beginning.  "3  Must  say.  «*  Crew 
tor,  maker,  from  the  Saxon  rcapen,  create,  formate. 


GLOSSARY.  587 

,   ,  .   .   .    e     oure     Lord,     that  of  the  Apostles  Creed  brings  to 

conceyued  my  mind  the  Form  that  occurrs 

was      ybened      of     ]ie      Holi-  «^  Me  ewrf  o/ Pierce  the  Plough- 

gost.       *    ybo     of     ]>  m.  mans  Crede,  printed  in  4to  with 

ede  The   vision    of  Pierce  Plowman 

ma *      ied      vnder  in  the  year  1561.  which  II uckily 

put  purchas''d  sometime  since ^  after 

Pounce         Pil.         Idon  on  /  had  made  use  of  one  (tho^  of 

croys  another  Edition)  that  had  been 

rode,    ded  &    burd,   he   '     lijte  lent  me  by  my  excellent  Friend 

into    helle ryd     day  lliomas    Rawlinson,    Esq;,    as 

he     ras     fram     de]>     to      lyue.  may  appear  from  this  note,  that 

he    4    stey  into   h.   &  here   he  /  have   written   at   the    begin. 

sit    on ader     ryjt  ^^^^    ^j   ^„^    q^^^^      u    This 

side,  fro  ^  benne  he  a    77     ;      r  i,     ,  i    ^       1    . 

,  '    ,       -^  ,      A    J  Book    I   purchased    to    day 

bond    A  IS  to   comyng  to   °   de-  ,,   ^r,  ,  ,  ..  j'  n 

»,        M  A   I.    A    ^  (Febr.  22.  172|.)  out  of  Dr. 

me   pe  quike  and  pe  dede  ...  *■  +  /  j 

I    bileue    in    >e   Iloligost,    and  "  Charlett's  Study.     It  former. 

in     the    holy     chirche,     7   hale-  "  ^y   belonged   to   the    learned 

wene   in   coraune,  of  synne   for  "  Mr.  William  Fulman.     Tho* 

gyuenesse,    Fleschlyche   arysyng  ^'  /  have  two  other    Copies   of 

to  >e  lyf  wi>  outen  ende.     The  a  The  Vision  of  Pierce   Plow- 

other  Commandments  are  want.  u  ^^n,    of    this  Edition,     yet 

ing.     The   Points   are  put     to  u  the  Crede  of  Pierce  Plowman 

sheio  that  a  little  Bit  of  the  Skin  ,,    ,  i  •  1.    t      ^  * 

:'  "  (upon   which   I  set  a  great 

IS  zoanting,   being   either   torn  t,       ,     .    .  ,     , 

or    rather    eat    of.     What    is  ^"^"^^   ''  ^^'«"^^'^-"-   "'   ^''^^' 

over    the   line    is    by    another  ''  I  have  quoted  this  Crede  both 

{tho'  an  old)  hand  of  the  Reign,  ^'  «'«  "^]/  Ed.  o/Guil.   Neubrig. 

I  think,  of  Hen.  FI.  from  which  *'  and  in  my  Glossary  to  Rob. 

hand  is   likewise  the    Note   of  "  of  Glouc.  from  a  Copy  lent  me 

Inductions.     And  this  old  Form  "  by  Thomas  Rawlinson,  Esq;". 


'Born  of  the  maid  Mary.  '  For,  tholied,  i.  t.  suffered,  from  the  Saxon  Jjollan  ferre, 
lolerare.  3  Alighted,  descended,  from  the  Sax.  Iihcan  or  alihcan,  desilire,  descend- 
ere.     *  Ascended,  fro7u  the  Sax.  yti^a,n,  asccndere,  conscendere,  scandere.     ^  Thence, 


'  Judge.     7  Of  Saints. 

Vol.  ir. 


But 


5S8  GLOSSARY. 

Bui   because   the  Reader  per,  son,    here    transcribe   it,    that 

haps  mat/   be  desirous   of  see.  it  may  be    the    better    compa- 

tng    the  form    of  this   Creed,  red  with  what  I  have  printed 

as    the     Ploughman    is     there  from   Mr.    Ward's    3IS.  Fra- 

taught  ity  I  shall,  for  that  rea.  gment. 


f  '  Leue  thou  in  oure  *  louered  God,  that  al  the  werld  wrought 

holy  i  heuen  erth  on  hey,  hoi  iche  he  fourmede 

and  is  almighty  hym  self,  ouer  alle  his  werkes. 

and  wrought  as  4  is  wil  was,  the  werld,  and  the  heuen. 

and  on  gentil  Jesu  Christ,  engendred  of  him  seluen 

his  owen  onlyche  sone,  lord  ouer  all  yknowen. 

That  was  clenlich  conceiued  clerly  in  trewthe 

Of  the  heye  holy  gost,  this  is  the  J  hoi  ybelyue. 

and  of  the  maiden  Marie,  man  was  he  born 

with  outen  synful  seed,  this  is  fully  thebyleue. 

with  thorn  ycrouned,  crucified,  and  on  the  ores  dycde, 

and  6  sythen  his  blessed  body  was  in  a  stone  byried. 

and  descended  a  doun  to  the  derk  helle. 

and  fet  out  oure  7  formfaders,  and  ^  hy  ful  »  fayn  weren. 

The  thyrd  day  redeliche  him  self  ro9  from  deeth. 

and  on  a:  ston  there  he  stod,  he  '°  steigh  up  to  heuene,. 

and  on  his  fader  right  hand,  redclich  he  sitteth, 

That  almighty  god  "  our  alle  other  **  whyghtes. 

and  is  hereafter  to  commen,  Christ  al  him  seluen 

To  'J  demeri'  the  quyke  and  the  dede,  withouten  any  doute. 


•  Believe.  « Lord.  3  Ileneneth  on  hey,  holiiche  in  Mr.  Rawlinson'a  Copy^  imprinted 
at  London  by  Reynold  Wolfe,  anno  Domini.  M.D.L.  IIL  whereat  my  Copy  was  itnpr. 
at  London  by  Owen  Rogers,  dwelling  betwixt  both  Sainct  BarthelmeweSf  at  the  tigne  of 
the  Spread  Eagle,  A.  D.  (as  I  have  noted  before)  M.D.LXJ.  the  XXI.  daye  of  the 
Moneth  of  Februaryc.  *  Jlis.  &  Holy  bcl'cue  Cod.  Raiel.  ^  After,  afterwards.  1  Fore- 
fathers. *  They.  9  Glad.  '"  Ascended.  "  Ouer  Cod.  Rawl.  Mr.  Fulntak  hath'writteti 
m  the  margin  of  my  Copy,  ore,  i.  e.  over.     '»  Creatures.     '3  Judge. 


GLOSSARY. 


and  in  the  heighe  holy  goSt,  holly  I  beleue. 

and  general  holy  chirche  also  hold  this  in  the  mynde. 

The  communion  of  saintes  for  soth  I  to  the  '  sayii. 

and  for  our  great  sinnes  *  forginenes  for  to  gelten 

and  only  by  Christ  clenlich  to  be  clensed. 

Our  Bodies  again  to  risen  right  as  we  been  here 

and  the  liif  euerlasting  3  leue  ich  to  habben.     Amen. 


het,  commanded. 

hete,  promise^  offered^  promised. 

hej>ing,  mockery. 

hette,  promise^  promised. 

heued,  head. 

heuest,  harvest. 

heuyed,  heavied,  grew  heavy.,  sic- 
kened, fainted. 

hew,  heza^d,  threw,  cut.  in  tuo  hew, 
cut  in  two. 

he  we,  hewed,  cut. 

hewes,  hews,  cuts,  hacks. 

heyle,  health,  healing,  recovery. 

heyng,  hung,  hanged. 

hiderward,  hitherto. 

h  idnes,  fear,  caution,  secret  places. 

hidous,  hideous,horrible,dreadJull. 

hie,  hie,  hasten,  to  the  kyng  gan 
hir  hie,  to  the  king  she  began  io 
hasten. 

high,  called. 

hight,  called,  was  called,  were  call- 
ed, promised,  permitted. 

hii,  high. 

Hillariraesse,  Hilary  v/tdss,  Hi- 
lary tide. 

hilled,  high. 

him,  them,  themselves,  him,  him. 
self,  he,  it. 

him  sieluen,  himself. 


hime,  p.  227.  (pro  hine.;  hinder- 
ance,  ab  A.  Sax.  hynan,  impe- 
dire. 

Hingland,  England. 

hir,  p.  303.  him,  and  the  stroke 
indeed  in  the  MS.  shews,  that 
it  should  be  read  him. 

hire,  her,  herself,  to  her. 

hir  seluen,  her  self. 

his,  hath,  his,  their,  he^  her.  his 
body  did  )>ei  leie,  /;.  248.  her 
body  did  they  lay.  Richard  his 
his  spie,  p.  187.  Richard  hath  his 
spies,  hie  nimirum  utroque 
sensu,  tarn  so.  hath  quam  his, 
adeo  ut  prius  his  in  has 
mutandum  esse  conjecerim. 

hise,  his,  his  people,  his^n,  quam 
posteriorem  voccm  quantum- 
vis  corruptam  barbaramque 
esse  censeant  homines  elegan- 
tiores,  rede  tamen  se  habere 
contenderim ;  id  quod  etiarn 
de  multis  aliis  vocibus,  ut- 
cunque  apud  valgum  fere 
tantummodo  in  usu,  dicendum 
est. 
hit,  it. 
hiJ7en,  hence. 


Satf.     «  Forgiuenes  Cod.  Rateh    »  Believe  1  to  have. 
AA2 


ho. 


590 


GLOSSARY. 


ho,  he. 

hoddon,  had. 

hodred,  tired. 

hogge,  huge,  from  the  Saxon  05a, 

horror,  timer,  fear,  dread* 
hold,  holding,  held,  accounted,  rec* 

koned,  hold,  confirm,  grant. 
holdand,  holding. 
holden,  accounted,  held.       holden 

hard,  judged  of  hardly. 
holdes,  holdest. 
hole,  wholly. 
holelyche,  wholly. 
holle,  whole. 
holpon,  holpen,  helped. 
holy,  wholly. 
holyche,  wholly. 
home,  house. 
hond,  hand. 
hondeSj  hounds. 
hondns,  hands. 
honeste,  honour;  but  in  Num  XV. 

of  the  Appendix  to  my  Pref.    it 

signifies  honourable. 
hongen,   hanged. 
honne,  disgrace,  reproach. 
hoole,  whole. 
hooly,  wholly,  fullj/. 
hopes,  ihinkest,  hopest. 
hose,  house. 
hote,  promise,  offered,  hot,  warm. 

hote  is  dette  j^ing,  promise  is  a 

thing  that  is  a  debt. 
hotte,  hold,  hold  fast. 
hottes,  huts. 
hous,  houses, 
how,  p.  268.  lo!  how. 
hulk,  hulk,  cover,  Ij/e,   lodge,    ab 

Anglo.Sax,  huld,  cubile,  tugu- 

rium. 
hund;  hound. 


hunde,  hound. 
hy,  kast. 

hyng,  hang. 
hyngand,    hanging. 

I. 

Japht,  Japhet. 

jentille,  gertteel,  fine,  gallants 

Jewise,  Jews. 

if,  if,  whether. 

[l^-)  ^y<^^  ^yes. 

ijen,  eyes. 

ijene,  eyes. 

ilde,  isle,  island. 

ildes,  isles. 

iles,  isles,  islands. 

ilk,  same,  each,  very,  every,, 
the  same,  ilk  del,  every  whit, 
every  bit.  ilk  a  kyng,  every 
king,  sive  each  king,  ilk  a 
gere,  every  year,  ilk  a  hede,. 
every  head,  ilkaman,  sive  ilk 
a  man,  every  man.  ilk  a  side 
vel  ilka  side,  every  side,  each 
side,  ilk  a  dele  vel  ilka  dele 
sive  ilkadele,  every  jot,  on  every 
part,  every  side,  on  every  side, 
every  one,  every  tvhit,  altoge.^ 
ther,  in  every  respect,  every  bit, 
every  scrap,  every  thing,  every 
part.  \ei  lede  j^e  ilk  a  dele^ 
they  lead  thee  just  us  they 
please.  at  the  coronment  ilk 
dele,  at  every  part  of  the  co- 
ronation.  ilk  a,  every,  every 
a.  ilka  del,  on  every  side.  ilk 
dele,  on  every  side,  every 
whit,  every  jot,  quite  and  clean, 
every  part,  every  side,  altoge. 
ther,  by  all  means,     ilk  a  Cristen 


GLOSSARY. 


591 


Man,  every  Christian  man.  ilk 
a  lordyng,  every  lording  or 
iord.  ilk  a  schrewe,  everi/  shrew. 
ilk  a  toun  vel  ilka  toun,  every 
town,  ilk  a  Pikard,  every  Pi- 
card,  ilk  a  cuntre,  ever'y  coun- 
try, ilk  a  taile,  every  tail,  every 
man.  oa  ilk  a  way,  on  every 
side,  every  waj/s.  ilk  a  schire, 
every  shire,  ilk  a  flok,  every 
flock,  ilk  a  kny^ht,  €ZJen/  knight. 
J^at  ilk  seele,  the  ver^  seal,  ilk  a 
htik,  every  stick,  every  bit.  ilk 
a  day,  every  day.  ])at  ilk  wais, 
that  in  like  manner,  ilk  a  coste, 
every  coast,  each  coast, 

ilkadele,  see  ilk. 

ilkan,  every  one. 

ilkon,  everj/  one,  each  one. 

ilkone  sive  ilk  one,  every  one,  each, 
each  one,  alt. 

m,  in,  6|C.  in  on,  at  once,  in  present, 
at  present,  in  clos,  inclosed. 
in  born,  born  in,  by  birth. 

ine,   in,  eyes. 

inferd,  p.  23,  (fearless.)  quod  si 
disjunctim  legas  in  ferd.  f quern, 
iidinodum  plane  tegendum  esse 
existimo,)  tunc  erit,  in  a  fright. 
Vide  ferd. 

Inglis,  English. 

Inlond,  England. 

inouh,  enough. 

inow,  enough,  many,  very  many. 
oj^er  inow,  a  great  many 
others, 

inowe,  enough. 

in  tille,  into. 

intyssementj  inticemenl. 


Inwitte,  conscience,  at  myn  in,, 
witte,  biU  in  my  conscience. 

jolif,  jolly. 

jolifte,  jollity. 

Joppyn,  Joppa. 

iorae,  journey,  days  journey ^  ad' 
journment. 

iorned,  adjourned. 

jornes,  battles.  Auht  jornes  he 
wan,  he  got  eight  batties. 

Josep,  Joseph. 

journez,  journey,  tuo  journez, 
two  days  journey. 

joynt,  joyned. 

ire,  anger. 

iren,  iron. 

Iris,  Irish. 

irke,  laborious,  noeary.  to  praie 
J7ei  suld  not  irke,  they  should  not 
cease  (or,  it  should  not  tire  them) 
to  pray. 

frus,  Irish. 

is,  is,  art, 

isshen,  issue,  rush. 

it,  yet,  it.  for  it,  because. 

Jiierie,  Jewry,  Jews. 

justise,  justice,  try,  judge,  to  judge  ^ 
govern,  have  jurisdiction  over^ 
governour,  justices,  administrar 
tion.  If  I  rayghtthe  paemie  ja- 
stise  J'am  ilkone.  If  I  might 
govern  every  one  of  the  pagans, 

justise  of  lawe,  justices  of  law, 
judges  of  law. 

justiseles,  without  justice. 

Juwet,  Judith. 

Juwise,  Jews. 

iys,  ice,  with  ice. 
K. 

kam,  came. 

A  A  3  Kame, 


5C2 


GLOSSARY. 


Kame,   Cane  or  Cae7i  in  Norman. 

dy. 
kamen,  came. 
Kampedene,  p.  2.  a  place  so  called 


in  which  a  great  Vict  or y  was 
obtained  by  K.  Jna  over  the 
Danes. 


In  a  grete  Daneis  felde  J?er  jiei  samned  alle, 
J7at  euer  siJ7en  hiderward  Kampedene  men  kalle. 

Nor  is  the  French  otherwise : 

En  le  chaump  Danays  touz  sunt  assemblez, 

Qepus  eel  houre  en  sea  [yel  ca,,  sivecea-l  estCampedene  nomez. 


So  that,  according  to  this  Au- 
thor, Campden  is  Campus  Da- 
norum,  Danes  Field  or  Danish 
Field;  and  I  do  not  doubt  but 
that  ^'as  the  vulgar  notion  at 
that  time.  But  I  rather  '  in. 
cline  to  those,  who  make  Camp- 
den to  be  a  military  valley. 
"  Campden,  tJe/ Camden",  [saith 
Dr.  Skinner  *)  "  in  Com.  Gloe. 
"  (J.  d.  Vallis  miitaris,  ab  AS. 
"  Camp,  Pugna,  Cempa,  Miles, 
"  Sf  Den,  Vallis,  ab  hoc  oppido 
*'  turn  illustris  Gens  supraci. 
"  tata,  turn  eximius  noster  An- 
"  tiquarius  nomcn  traxerunt". 
Especially  since  Mr.  Somner, 
in  his  Saxon  Dictionary,  ex- 
pressly fells  us,  that  camp  or 
campe,  is  bellum,  castra.  warre, 
a  camp;  that  cempa,  is  miles, 
agonista,     manipularis,    tyro,    a 


souldier,  a  champion,  a  comba- 
tant, a  trouper,  a  novice,  a  fresh 
water  souldiqr;  and  that  Den  is 
vallis,  a  valley,  a  vale,  a  <lale.  Cto 
omit  the  other  Signijications 
of  iVs  being  cubile.  a  couch, 
a  den  ;  and  locus  invius,  sylves- 
tris,  asper  &  incultus,  porcisque 
&  pecudibus  pascendis  accom- 
modus.  a  Forest.)  Sir  Robert 
Atkins  indeed  is  pleased  to  note 
J  of  Campden  in  Gloucestershire^ 
which  is  the  same  with  our 
Kampedene,  that  it  is  so  called 
from  a  Camp,  near  that  Place, 
where  a  Battle  had  been  former- 
ly fought,  without  expressing,  at 
the  same  time,  ichat  the  latter 
Syllable  of  the  Word  denotes^ 
as  thinking  that  it  teas  sufficient, 
ly    knozcn.     And   he  had  just 


»  Coll.  nostr.  MSS.  Vol.  IO61  p.  112.     '  Etymolog.  Onomast.  voc.  Campden. 
tnent and pr..icnt  Staic  of  GlostersMre^  p.  309. 


GLOSSARY. 


593 


reason  to  think  so,  since  there 
•are  so  many  Deans  in  Eng. 
land,  that  from  their  very  na. 
tare  all  shew  what  the  mean- 
ing of  that  Term  is;  which 
puts  me  in  mind  of  a  very 
pleasant  valley  called  Cookham 
Dean,  {in  the  Parish  of  Cook- 


ham)  in   Berks,  which 


'tis 


near  Maidenhead  in  that  Coun- 
ty, so,  withall,  'tis  but  at  a 
little  distance  from  Great- 
Marlow  in  Buckinghamshire, 
which  is  a  very  pleasant,  tho' 
very  poor  Market-Town  ;  uhere 
however  there  is  plenty  of  Fish, 
Corn  and  Wood,  whence  the 
People  of  Great.  Mai  low  com- 
tnonly  say:  Here  is  Fish  for 
catching,  Corn  for  snatching, 
and  Wood  for  fetching.  And 
now  upon  writing  these  parti- 
.cula>\s,  I  KanKot  but  observe, 
fhat  Kinepten,  near  ArjtdoveK  in 
JJampshire,  seems  to  me  to  be 
the  same  with  Kempton.  It 
zcas  usual  to  change  e  into  i. 
The  Syllable  ton  for  toun  is 
very  common.  Nor  will  what 
I  note  seem  at  all  improbable 
to  those,  that  shall  consider, 
that  the  Parish  of  Kimpton, 
as  lam  informed  (for  I  never 
saw  it  my  self)  by  the  pre- 
sent learned  Rector  thereof,  the 
Reverend  Mr*  George  Green- 
way,  is  encompassed  with  Ro. 
man  camps,  ways,  &c.  on  every 


side,  and  that  Roman  Urns  and 
Coins,  and  other  Curiosities 
have  been  frequently  discovered 
thereabouts.  Two  Urns,  have 
been  found  in  the  Parish  since 
Mr.  Gi^eenway  came  to  it,  one 
a  Sepulchral  Urn  with  bones 
in  it,  and  several  teeth  as  firm 
<is  ever  he  saw,  that  he  gave 
to  the  Earl  of  Burlington.  In 
the  other  were  many  Coins 
found,  seven  of  which,  viz. 
one  of  Silver,  the  others  of 
Brass  or  Copper,  Mr.  Green, 
way  was  pleased  to  give  me. 
That  of  Silver  is  of  Julian  the 
Apostate,  on  the  obverse  or  face 
side  of  which  is,  FL  CL  IVLI- 
ANVS  PF  AVG  Juliani  Apos- 
tataj  caput  diad. 

Reverse, 

voTjs  ^    . ; 

^  f      intra     coronum 

MULTIS    \     f'"i'Z'      ^"' 
^         ^     fra  LVG 

This,  as  I  take  it,  is  of  the  year 
361.  when  Julian  ■  became  sole 
Emperour,  upon  the  J)eath  of 
his  Couzin  Gerriqn  Fl.  Julius 
Constantius,  and  is  different 
from  another  scarce  Silver  one  of 
tjie  s^me  Julian's,  that  ivas  given 
me  by  my  excellent  Friend,  Rich- 
ard Graves,  of  Mickleton,  in 
Gloucestershire,  Esq;,  on  the 
face  of  which  is,  DN  CL  JULL 
ANVS  AVG  Juliani  cap.  diad. 


Duct.  nnsl.  Ilht.  Vol.  II.  p.  159, 161. 
A   A   4 


Rer. 


594 


GLOSSARY. 


Rev. 
VOTIS 
V 
MVLTIS 
X 
in  corona  quercea,  zchich   is  (as 
I  think)  of  the  Year  360,  a'/tc« 
Julian  was  declared    Augustus 
in  Gaul,  and  is  the  very  year 
when     he  apostatiz'd.       Under 
the  Corona  quercea   is  T  CON 
that  is,  percussa  Constantinopo- 
li,    T  being  put  for    P,    unless 
CON  be  Constantia,   Mediobar- 
bus   having  one    in    that    very 
year  withT.    CONSTANTIA, 
tho^    he   hath  not  any   one  ex. 
actly  the  same    zcith  this  given 
me    by  Mr.  Graves.       Two   of 
the   six    Brass   ones   (given  me 
by  Mr.  Greenway)  are    of    the 
said   Constantius ;      the    others 
are   of  Faustina,  {icife  of  Mar. 
cus    Antoninus)    Claudius  Go- 
ihicus,    Constantine     the   Great 
and  Valens,  but  are  much  ob. 
litterated  and  defaced,  and  not 
of  so    good  account    as  either 
that   I  have   described   of  J  u. 
lian  (iihich  is   scarce,  and  not 
in    Occo   or  Mediobatbus)     or 
two  Silver  ones  found    in   the 
same  Urn  of  Gratian  very  well 
preserved,    which     Mr.    Green. 
way  gave  the   E.  of  Winchel- 
sea,  having    on   their    Reverse 
a  Trophy  with  VIRTVS  EX- 
ERCITVS,  tihich    Mr.   Green. 


way  supposes  was  a  complex 
ment  to  the  Army,  which  had 
here  saluted  him  Emperour. 
But  I  should  rather  ascribe  it 
to  some  Victory  that  he  had 
obtain-d  against  the  Saxons 
in  Gaul  in  the  year  370.  since 
I  find,  that  Occo  is  of  the  same 
opinion,  zchen  in  p.  509.  of  the 
folio  Ed.  of  his  Book  of  Coins 
he  writes  thus,  with  respect  to 
a  Coin  with  the  same  reverse, 
Saxones  in  Galliis  irrumpentes, 
cum  Patre  Valentiniano  repellit 
Gratianus,  placing  it  A.  V.  C. 
1122.  Christi  370.  at  which 
time  Gratian  was  tnuch  belov. 
ed  in  Britain,  tho'  not  so  some 
Years  after,  nhen  Magnus 
Maximiis  was  declared  Angus, 
tus  there,  and  treacherously 
caused  Gratian  to  be  murder, 
ed.  After  I  had  writ  zehat 
goes  before,  I  took  occasion 
to  mention  Dr.  Skinner  that 
excellent  EtymologisVs  Account 
of  Campden  to  the  before.men. 
tioned  Mr.  Graves,  who  soon 
after  sent  me  a  Letter,  fraught 
with  curious  Notices  of  things, 
as  the  Reader  may  be  pleased 
to  see  in  the  Appendix  '  to  my 
Preface.  Upon  occasion  of 
which  Letter  of  Mr.  Graves's, 
it  may  be  here  farther  re. 
markUl,  that  Denton-Court,  in 
the  Parish  of  Cumnor  near 
Abbington  in    Berks,     was  not 


Num.  XX. 


GLOSSARY. 


595 


so  denominated  from  the  Danes, 

as  several  have  suggested,  but 

from   it^s    being   situated  in    a 

Fallet^.      In     old     time     there 

xsere  at  that  place  several  little 

Cottages,    all    ichich    together 

were  stiled  Denton,  i.  e.  a  Town 

in   the   Valley,    but  a   Manoiir 

House,     caWd    frequently     in 

those  days  curtis  or  court,  being 

at    length   built    there,   it  zsas 

afterwards,  as  'tis  to  this  time, 

call'd  Dcnton.Court ;    of  vchich 

kind  of  Courts  there  was  a  vast 

number  formerly,    which    were 

likewise  stiled  sometimes  cassati, 

a  zsord  by  which  also  the  Saxon 

hiba  is  translated  in  Heming^s 

Chartulary  of    the    Church   of 

Worcester '.      These  curtes  zceve 

also   in    old  time    often    called 

mansae,  and  indeed  either  curtes 

or  mansa;  was  a  proper  appeL 

lation  enough  for  the  old  Halls 

in  Oxford,  I  mean  even  the  three 

famous  ones  of  King  A^lfred, 

as    well    as   the    vast    number 

besides  that  were  there,  tzoo  of 

which    were     King's. Hall    and 

Black. Hall  in  the  Parish  of  St, 

Gyles,  as  they  are  mentioned  by 

the  famous  Mr.  Miles  Windsore, 

zcho    specifies    these  two   (and 

there  were  others  besides)  us  far 

more  ancient  than  Great  or  Mi. 

chell    University    Hall,      Quia 

fuerant  ali^    longe   antiquiores, 


nempe  Reg'ia  &  nigra  in  parochia 
Scti.  iEgidii,  are  Mr.  Wind- 
sore's  Words,  as  I  find  them 
written  in  the  margin  just  op. 
posite  to  these  (xshich  are  the 
first)  Words  of  Assertio  an- 
tiquitatis  Oxoniensis  Academias : 
"  Collegium  Universitatis, 

"  quod  pnmum  magna  unim 
*'  versitatis  aula  uppellaba- 
*'  tur'\  The  said  Words  are 
of  Mr.  Windsore's  own  hand 
writing,  and  indeed  the  zshole 
Book,  {which  I  very  lately  pur~ 
chas'd,)  containing  the  first 
Edition  of  Londinensis',?  two 
Books  de  Antiquitate  Cantabri- 
giensis  Academiae,  as  zeell  as  the 
sf«'rf  Assertio,  is  full  of  marginal 
Notes  and  Strictures,  several  of 
which  are  very  good,  by  Mr. 
Windsore,  for  which  reason 
I  set  the  greater  value  upon  it, 
these  Notes  fully  convincing  ?)ie, 
that  the  Author  had  studied  the 
Antiquities  of  Oxford  to  very 
good  purpose,  and  I  do  not 
doubt  but  he  furnished  Mr. 
Tuyne  with  many  Things  thai 
were  made  use  of  by  him  in  his 
Apology,  which  will  not  seem  ai 
all  a  zconder  to  those,  that  con^ 
sider,  that  Mr.  Windsore  was 
well  acquainted  with  Mr.  Tho. 
mas  Key,  the  Author  of  the 
Assertio,  and    had  engaged    to 


Pag.  408,  409. 


596 


GLOSSARY. 


defend  him,  for  which  end  he 
had  also  got  (it  may  he  from 
Mr.  Key  himself)  a  Defence  of 
the  Assertio,  as  Mr.  Key  had 
drawn  it  up,  tho'  it  teas  never 
yet  printed ;  and  this  Defence 
is  that  very  MS.  that  Mr.  Wood 
speaks  •  of  under  this  Title : 
Examen  judicii  Cantabrigiensis 
cujusdam,  qui  se  Londinensem 
dicit,  nuper  de  origine  utriusque 
Acadeiniaj  lati,  several  MSS. 
Copies  of  which  he  tells  us  went 
about  from  hand  to  hand.  But 
the  very  best  Copy  in  the  World 
is  that  which  I  now  have,  being 
the  very  original  Book  of  the 
Author,  containing  a  printed 
Copy  of  the  first  Ed.  of  Lon- 
dinensis  and  the  Assertio,  with 
abundance  of  MSS.  Strictures 
upon  Londinensis,  and  some 
MSS.  Additions  to  the  Asser- 
tio, and  at  the  End  is  added 
the  said  Examen  consisting  of 
many  Sheets  under  this  Title, 
Aninmdversiones  aliquot  in  Lon- 
dinensis de  antiquilate  Cantabri- 
giensis Academiae  libros  duos. 
The  idiole  Work  is  just  as  Mr. 
Key  intended  to  have  published 
it  (for  he  would  have  reprinted 


Londinensis  too)  had  he  not  been 
prevented  by  death.  All  the 
MSS.  Things  are  neatly  and 
correctly  written,  and  His  this 
Book  I  had  an  Eye  to,  zohen,  in 
my  Preface  ^  to  Sprotti  Chronica, 
/  promised  to  print  Mr.  Key^s 
Examen,  which  I  still  design 
to  do,  if  other  Things  do  not 
obstruct.  But  to  return  to 
manss,  although,  as  I  have  said, 
this  zcas  a  Word  often  used 
for  curtes,  yet  we  must  not  take 
it  in  that  sense  in  pag.  101.  of 
the  first  Vol.  of  the  Monasticon 
Anglicanum,  where  we  are  in- 
formed, that  Kenulf,  King  of 
the  Mercians,  Anno  D.  821. 
being  the  eleventh  5  of  his  Reign 
(which  does  not  agree  with  the 
Accounts,  that  make  him  begin 
his  Reign  Anno  796,  ajid  to  dye 
Anno  819  4  or  820  s,)  gave  15 
mansae  i?i  Cullanhamme,  or  Cu. 
lanhom,  now  calVd  Culham,  to 
the  Abbey  of  Abbington,  which 
mansae  tho^  they  were  houses  to 
ichich  lands  (Papias  says  6  12 
Acres)  nere  annexed,  yet  they 
were  too  small  to  be  termed  cur- 
tes, which  Word hozcever  agreed 
properly   enough    to    Manours 


*Athen.  Oxon.  Vol,  I,  col.  137.  •  §•  16.  '  Jn  another  place  of  the  Monast.  viz.  p. 
JOO.  V/s  the2bth.,  which  will  answer  to  what  I  here  remark  of  his  beginning  his  Reign  A". 
796.  ♦  TabuleeChron.  adjinemDi  AndretB  Fonntaine  Diss,  de  Nummis  Anglo-Sax.  8? 
Anglo-Dan.  *  Ductor  Hist.  Vol.  II.  p.  301.  «  Du-Fresne  in  Gloss,  media:  i)  i  nf.  Lat. 
voc.  Mansus. 

or 


GLOSSARY. 


597 


or  mansa  capitalia,  as  it  did 
likezcise  to  religious  cells,  such 
as  that  (which  belonged  to  Jb. 
bington)  at  Bradanfeld,  (which 
I  take  to  be  Bradjield  in  the 
Hundred  of  Theale  near  Read, 
ing  in  berks,)  that  the  Monas- 
ticon  calls  "  a  monastery,  and 
is  said  there  to  have  been  built 
by  King  Ina. 

kan,  prevailed. 

kank,  p.  187.  batik.  Sf  quidem 
bank  reponendum  esse  con- 
jeci. 

kant,  couragious. 

karke,  charge,  care. 

karole,  dance. 

kas,  chance. 

kast,    cast,  throw. 

kastand,  casting. 

katched,  snatched,  coursed,  catch, 
ed,  chased,  hunted. 

kauce,  causey,  from  the  old 
French  caussie,  which  signifies 
strewed  with  Chalk  or  Flint, 
and  His  commonly  taken  with 
us  for  a  High-way,  or  Bank 
raised  in  Marshy  Ground  for 
Foot.Passage,  tho'  even  some- 
times the  Ways  for  Horse- 
Passage  are  also  known  by  this 
Name,  such  as  that  beyond 
Fryer  Bacon's  Study  by  Ox. 
ford.  Causetum  is  one  expres. 
sion  for  it  in  the  middle-aged 
Latin  Writers  ;  but  His  written 
caucetum    in   my  Lord  Bruce''s 


MS.  of  John  of  Glastonbury. 

Kelion,  Carleon  in  Wales. 

kemse,  p.  122.  shift,  smock.  This 
is  the  common  signification  of 
the  Word,  but  it  being  here 
made  use  of,  upon  account  of 
the  Empress  Maud's  escaping 
out  of  the  Castle  of  Oxford, 
it  must  denote  a  white  garment 
over  her  smock,  as  even  the 
Latin  camisia  a/*o  (from  whence 
tis  taken)  and  the  Greek  xapo-ioy, 
signified  a  pricsVs  white  Gar. 
ment,  or,  as  we  now  call  it, 
a  Surplice,  as  zcell  as  a  smock 
or  shift.  And  this  interpre. 
tation  is  justify'd  from  the 
word  smok,  made  use  of  in  this 
Chronicle  immediately  before. 
The  Author  says,  that  the  Em. 
press,  being  blocked  up  in  the 
Castle,  entered  upon  a  strange 
adventure.  For,  as  he  tells 
us,  soon  after  Midnight  she 
went  out  in  her  Smock,  in  the 
midst  of  the  Snow,  over  the 
Thames,  that  was  frozen,  with, 
out  kirtle  or  kemse,  that  is, 
without  either  gown  or  linnen 
garment  over  her  smock,  and 
having  nothing  over  her  face 
but  her  kerchief.  If  we  do  not 
take  it  in  this  sense,  we  must 
(what  will  be  very  absurd)  sup. 
pose,that  she  went  toWullingford 
stark   nakedj  whereas   his  men. 


Vol.  I.  p.  100. 


598 


GLOSSARY. 


Honing  the  word  smok  before 
shews  the  contrary.  And  in- 
deed Robert  of  Gloucester 
{p.  463.)  expressly  tells 
us,  that  she  put  on  white 
(.loath  s ;  signifying  thereby^ 
that  she  had  some  other  gar- 
ment of  a  white  colour  besides 
her  smock,  which  must  be  the 
kemse  or  caraisia  specify^ d  here. 
And  'lis  remarkable,  that  the 
Greeks  distinguish\l  the  Smock 
from  the  other  linnen  garment, 
by  terming  the  Smock  vwovM^iaiov 
or  I'zao'x^iTbiv,  and  the  other  ;£ap!noy 
or  ytTuv.  But  whereas  the  Au- 
thor of  the  prose  MS.  Chro- 
nicle, in  Mr.  Ward  of  Long- 
bridge's  hands,  taken  from 
Robert  of  Gloucester,  says, 
that  she  and  her  retinue 
c  loathed  themselves  in  white 
Sheets,  I  think,  he  took  too 
great  liberty  with  Robert  of 
Gloucester,  as  he  did  likewise 
(ill  along  both  in  curtailing 
him,  and  in  icsing  zoords  which 
the  original  sense  will  not  of. 
ten  bear.  But  the  Passage  in 
that  MS.  (that  the  curious 
Reader  may  judge  of  it)  is 
this :  Alle  '  this  batailes  was 
done  in  the  sixt  yere  of  kynge 
Stephen's  regiie.  Kynge  Ste- 
phen then  evir  was  in  a  wayte 
to  gete  the  Emperes,    and    she 


was  in  the  Castelle  of  Oxen- 
forde.  The  kynge  come  thedre, 
and  set  stronge  siege  to  the 
Castelle.  And  at  that  tyme 
was  so  grete  Frost  and  Snowe, 
that  the  water  wold  bere  a 
wayne,  charged  with  her  lode. 
And  vppon  a  nyght  the  Empe- 
res thoght  hir  vppon  a  wile, 
and  toke  vppon  hir  and  hir 
*  pryve  meyny  white  shetes,  and 
so  stale  out  at  a  Postorne, 
and  Avent  vppon  the  ise  ovir 
Temes,  and  so  forth  to  Wa- 
lyngforde.  And  when  the  kynge 
liad  goten  the  Castelle,  he 
fonde  not  hir  there.  And  ther- 
fore  he  was  right  wroth,  and 
robbed  the  Countre  in  euery 
quarter.  For  white  shetes  'tis 
Avhite  lynen  cloth  in  the  chroni- 
cle called  Brute  of  England. 
For  thus  in  the  valuable  (tho' 
very  imperfect)  MS.  thereof, 
that  was  given  me  by  my  in- 
genious Friend  Mr.  William 
Burman  of  Christ-Church :  And 
Avhanne  he  \_K.  Stephen^  was 
come  out  of  prison  \_at  Bri- 
stol,'] he  went  to  Oxinford,  & 
biscged  ]7e  Emperesse,  that  ^ 
tho  was  in  that  toun,  and  \e 
seege  dured  from  Mighelmasse 
vnto  seint  Andrewes  tide.  And 
the      Emperesse     j^o     lete     hir 


'  See  Rob.  of  Glouc.  p.  462.      =  Privy  retinm.    3  Then. 


clothe 


GLOSSARY. 


599 


clothe  alle  in  white  lyuen  cloth, 
for  '  encheson  that  she  wold 
nought  ben  knowen,  for  in  that 
tyme  j^er  was  moche  snow,  and 
so  she  ascaped  away  bi  Ta- 
myse  from  hir  enemyes,  and 
from  thennes  she  went  to  VVal. 
yngford,  and  ]»er  hir  helde,  and 
Je  Kyng  wold  haue  biseged 
hir,  but  he  had  so  moche  to 
done  wi]?  the  erl  Randolf  of 
Chestre,  and  wij?  Bigott  that 
strongly  werred  vpon  him  in 
euery  place,  that  he '  ne  -wist 
•whither  for  to  turne,  and  Jje 
Erl  of  Gloucestre  halp  hem 
•wi)»  his  power.  And  in  an  old 
Vellum  MS.  Chronicle,  in  Tri. 
nity-College  Library  Oxford, 
ascribed  by  Dr.  Powell  {to 
zohom  it  belongUl)  to  John 
Bever,  ^tis  albiB  vestes.  For 
thus  that  MS.  3  Anno  regis  Ste- 
phani  septimo  idem  rex  cbsedit 
imperatricem  in  urbe  Oxon.  a 
festo  Sancti  Michaelis  usque  ad 
Natale  domini  cuucta  extrinse- 
cus  devastando.  Invalescenteita- 
que  inedia,  Imperatrix,  albis 
yestibus  cooperta,  perThamisiam 
congelatam  &  nive  conspersam 
evasit  usque  ad  Wallingfordiam. 
Nam  oculi  obsedencium  pt  r  nivis 
reverberacionem  delusi  ei.iiit, 
&  sic  urbs  ista  regi  reddita  est. 
This  escape  of  the  Empress  is 
one    of  the    most  considerable 


Passages  in  all  our  English 
Uistoryy  and  it  ought  to  be 
ascribed  to  the  divine  Providence, 
She  was  intirely  belov\l  by  the 
University  and  Toz&n  of  Oxford, 
who  were  persons  of  too  good 
sense  and  too  much  honesty 
heartily  to  approve  of  K.  Ste- 
phen, who  was  an  Usurper. 
The  Town  was  a  very  strong 
place,  and  the  Castle  looked 
upon  as  impregnable.  There 
was  no  coming  hither  by  reason 
of  the  depth  of  the  Waters  alt 
about,  as  is  well  observed  by 
Robert  de  Mo?ite.  And  yet 
such  teas  the  Intrepidity  of  K. 
Stephen,  that  he  forced  his  way 
through  the  depth  of  the  Waters 
into  the  Town,  and  immediately 
attacked  the  Castle,  where  the 
Empress  zcas  inclosed  with  a 
great  number  of  gallant  meit 
[several  of  which  were  Scho- 
lars) and  Ladies  to  assist  her. 
K.  Stephen  did  not  doubt  but  to 
take  her  prisoner, but  afterabove 
two  Months  Siege  of  the  Castle, 
(for  noiidthstanding  what  the 
Trinity-College  MS.  and  other 
Writers  say,  the  City  was  taken 
long  before  the  Castlg)  he  was 
quite  baffled.  For  Just  as 
she  was  as  it  were  starved  for 
want  of  Provisions,  she  made 
her   miraculous    Escape    (with 


0«(amn,     »  Knew ni^t.     ^  FjI.MI.  a. 


600 


GLOSSARY. 


a  very  few  Attendants)  God 
Almighty  having  heard  the 
Prayers  both  of  her  self  and 
her  Friends.  K.  Stephen  was 
extremely  vex'd  and  enraged, 
when  he  found  himself  dis- 
appointed. She  went  over 
the  Snow  and  Ice  directly  by 
Kennington  to  Rodley  now 
called  Radley  {where  there  was 
a  Rode  in  those  times')  and  so 
to  fVallingford,  a  wonderfull 
strong  Castle^  where  she  se- 
cured  her  self.  K.  Stephen 
presently  pursues  her,  zcith  a 
design  to  besiege  her,  but  was 
obliged  to  give  over  his  pur- 
pose for  the  present  to  mind 
other  Troubles,  with  which  he 
was  surrounded,  and  he  did  not 
resume  his  undertaking  'till 
two  or  three  years  afterwards, 
zchen  he  besieged  Wallingford 
In  good  earnest,  and  built  the 
Castles  of  Cromish  and  Bright- 
well  (that  vsere  afterwards  de- 
inolished  by  K.  Henry  II.)  in 
opposition  to  the  Empress  at 
Walling  fold,  and  yet  at  last 
was  forced  to  quit  his  Attempt, 
and  to  leave  the  Empress,  whom 
God  Almighty  wutck'd  over,  to 
the  utter  confusion  of  the  tyran- 


nical Usurper,  who  was  the 
more  vex^d  because  he  found  the 
people  of  Wallingford,  as  well 
as  those  at  Oxford,  in  the 
Interest  of  the  Empress,  for 
whose  security  they  had  also 
fortify''d  their  very  houses, 
which  might,  for  that  reason, 
be  properly  stiled  hagas,  as 
they  were  in  the  time  of  K. 
Edward  the  Confessor,  when  the 
Town  ',  according  to  Domesday 
Book  *,  consisted  of  Fill.  vir. 
gats  of  Land,  containing  276. 
hagje,  8  of  which  were  after- 
wards destroyed  for  the  Castle. 
By  which  it  appears,  that  Wal- 
lingford even  then  (and  it  had 
been  bigger  in  former  times, 
before  it  had  suffered  so  much 
from  the  Danes)  contained  three 
hundred  and  twenty  acres  of 
grou7id,  every  virgat  compre- 
hending fourty  acres,  as  is  plain 
from  the  following  Note,  in  an 
old  hand,  at  the  end  of  John  of 
Glastonbury''s  History  or  Chro- 
nicle of  Glastonbury,  that  I 
have  now  before  ine,  by  the 
favour  of  the  Rt.  honourable  the 
Lord  Bruce,  who  was  pleased  ta 
lend  me  the  MS. 


Decern  acrae  faciunt  ferdellum. 
Quatuor  fardella  faciunt  virgatam  unam. 


C<.ll.  nostr.  BISS.  Val  107.  p. 


Seep.  763.  of  Dr.  Gale's  XV.  Scriptores. 

Qua. 


GLOSSARY. 

Quatuor  virgatae  faciunt  hidam  unam. 
Quatuor  hidae  feodum  unum  faciunt. 


601 


Fardel  lum 
Acrae  i. 


virgata 

XL. 


hi  da. 


Which  Note  I  the  more  readilj/ 
insert  here,  because  His  the  ac- 
count the  Abbey  of  Glastonbury 
isent  by.  So  that  whereas  His 
said  in  Domesday  Book  ',  that 
Ashbury{in  theCounty  of  Berks) 
which  belong' d  to  the  Monastery 
of  Glastonbury,  (the  Manour 
of  Ashbury,  containing  fourty 
hides,  being  given  to  it  by  £- 
dred*  King  of  the  JVest-Saxons, 
the  same  that  is  mentioned  in 
pag.  33.  of  this  work)  had  a 
Church  and  Priest,  to  whom  ap~ 
pertained  one  Hide  (Ibi  Ecclesia 
&  Presbyt.  habent  1  Hyd.  &  4 
servos  ^,  or  Ibi  Ecclesia  &  pres- 
biter  habens  1  hid.  &  4  servi  ♦) 
we  must  understand  by  it,  that 
the  Parson  there  had  an  hun. 
dred  and  sixty  acres  of  Land, 
which  was  a  noble  thing,  and 
enabled  him  to  keep  hospita- 
lity  and  to  give  away  in  Cha- 
rity.    But   not    only   Glaston- 


feod 


um  unum 


CCCCCCXL. 


btiry,  but  other  places,  went 
by  the  same  account,  tho^  in 
several  places  {as  a  Yard-land 
now  also  varies)  there  were 
differences  ;  notwithstanding 
which,  where  the  Church  and 
Religion  were  concerned,  there 
was  a  certainty,  and  they  were 
guided  by  the  before  mentioned 
explication.  And  His  by  that 
interpretation  that  I  would  ex. 
plain  the  same  terms,  when  they 
occur  in  Domesday.  So  that 
whereas  His,  in  that  old  and 
most  valuable  Register  s,  said, 
that  Shottesbrooke  in  Berkshire 
contained  7  hides,  I  would  un, 
derstand  thereby  one  thousand 
one  hundred  and  twenty  acrei : 
And  whereas,  in  the  same  ve- 
nerableMonumentof  Antiquity  ^ 
His  said,  that  that  part  of 
AbboC  s.Waltham  {now  com. 
monly  called  White  WaL 
tham)    which    belonged   to   the 


'  Coll.  nostr.  MSS.  Vol.  99.  y.  111.  •  Sic  in  Johannis  Glastoniensis  Chronica  sine 
Ilistoria  de  rebus  Glastoniensibus,  MS.  3  Jta  in  dicto  Vol.  Coll.  nostror.  e  Coll.  nimirum 
€/.  Harbinii.  *  Sicut  in  Codice  Ashmoliano,  prout  in  Coll.  nostr.  MSS.  vol.  107.  p. 
36.  meoMJ.     ^  S*t  Leland't  Jtin.  vol.  JX.  p.  IH9.     ^  Lg  land's  It  in.  ibid. 


Abbey 


602 


GLOSSARY. 


Abbey  of  Cliertsey^  contain' d  10 
hides^  I  would  thereby  under. 
stand  one  thousand  six  hundred 
acres,  without  any  regard  to 
the  three  hides  of  Land  which 
the  same  Book  tells  '  us  be- 
longUl,  in  Bernesh  Hundred 
(by  which  one  would  gather, 
that  it  was  also  part  of  AbboVs 
or  White. PValtham,  which  is  in 
Bernesh  Hundred,  whereas  Lau- 
rence.JValtham  is  in  the  hun- 
dred of  Wargrove)  to  the 
Bishop  of  Durham,  and  con. 
tain^d,  according  to  this  Ex- 
plication, four  hundred  and 
eighty  acres.  And  moreover, 
whereas  the  same  Register  in- 
forms  us,  that  Cumnor  {in 
Berks)  which  belonged,  and  al. 
ways  did  belong,  to  the  Abbey 
of  Abbington,  contaiifdin  Edzo. 
the  Confessor's  time  50  *  hides, 
and  but  30  in  K.  William  the 
Conqueror^s,  the  meaning  is, 
that  in  the  former  King^s  time 
it  consisted  of  eight  thousand 
acres,  in  the  latter''s  of  only 
four  thousand  eight  hundred. 
Yet  it  must  be  granted,  that  as 
there  were  great  Alterations  be. 
tween  K.  Edward  the  Confess, 
or^s  time  and  the  reign  of  Wil. 
Ham  the  Conqueror  {otherwise 
Cumnor  could  not  have  been  so 
much   lessened)   so   there    have 


been  much  greater  since  the 
Conqueror'' s  time;  so  as  to 
have  even  very  considerable 
Changes  with  respect  to  Coun- 
ties, Hundreds  and  Parishes, 
Hozo  else  comes  it  to  pass,  that 
Cookham,  near  Maidenhead  in 
Berks,  now  gives  name  to  a 
Hundred,  whereas  in  the  Con. 
queror^s  time  it  was  reckoned 
in  Bernesh  Hundred?  For  thus 
in  that  Register  ^ :  In  Bernes 
Hund.  Rex  tenet  Codieham  in 
Dominio.  Rex  E.  tenuit.  Tunc 
20ti.  hidae,  sed  nunquam  geld. 
Terra  est  25.  car.  And  here, 
without  doubt,  some  Readers 
will  be  apt  to  inquire,  what  the 
true  meaning  of  the  word  haga 
is?  In  answer  to  which  I  shall 
here  transcribe  what  Mr.  Som. 
ner  notes  about  the  word  haej 
in  his  Saxon  Dictionarj/,  viz. 
''  Hasg.  Sepes,  septum,  a  hedge. 
*'  Hinc  Latino.barbarorum 
"  haia,  pro  septo.  Cassis,  vel 
"  tendicula  nobis  hodieque,  a 
"  hay  to  catch  conies.  Hage, 
''  &  hagen  tot  oppidorum  Teu. 
'*  tonicorum  nominibus  hinc 
"  annexum.  Upon  which  ac- 
count I  would  translate  the  word 
haga  in  Domesday  always  by 
hedge  (some  perhaps  would 
rather  use    haw,  hay,  or  hack) 


'  Ibid.    '  Sic  in  MS.  exemplari  Ashmoliano, 
notaviin  Coll.MSS^  Vol.  101, p.  36. 


^Sicut  in  exemplari  Ashmoliano,  uti 
and 


GLOSSARY. 


603 


and  not,  as  others  do,  house, 
so  as  there  were  in  Walling- 
ford  276  hedges  in  the  time 
of  E.  Conf.  8  of  which  were  de- 
stroy'd  for  the  Castle,  that  was 
built  by  K.  William  Conq.  in 
lieu  of  an  older  Castle,  that  had, 
I  suppose,  been  originally  built 
by  the  Romans,  tho'  utterly 
destroyed  by  the  Danes.  Which 
hedges  were  made  of  (vviihia) 
twigs,  wattles,  S)C.  and  from 
thence  our  fences  of  closes, 
grounds,  and  fields  are  now  sti- 
led  by  the  same  name;  but  then 
being  covered  at  the  top  fit 
for  lodging,  (just  as  the  an- 
cient cassati,  which  had  land 
annex'd,  were)  they  are  com- 
monly translated  houses,  as  if 
dnnus  and  haga  were  really  the 
same  kind  oflnclosure  or  Fence, 
whereas  haga  or  hedge  was  of 
a  more  ordinary  kind  of  work, 
tho'  generally  large,  as  may 
appear  not  only  from  their  be- 
ing call'd  curies  in  Heming's 
Chartulary  of  the  Church  of 
^V'orcester  ',  but  from  the  pre- 
sent site  of  Wallingford  Castie, 
Avhich  is  about  five  Acres,  and 
shews  that  formerly  an  haga  or 
hedge  (.viuce  eight  haga;  only 
were  pull'd  down  and  destroy'd 
for  building  it)  was  of  a  consi- 
derable extent  and  compass.  But 
now  whereas    the    word    domus 


instead  of  haga  occurrs  in  Do- 
mesday Book,  where  it  speaks 
of  Oxford,  as  I  take  it  we  are 
thereby  to  understand,  that  the 
Buildings  of  Oxford  were  far 
better  than  those  at  Walling- 
ford. For  that  I  think  the  true 
signification  of  domus  will  war- 
rant, the  word  really  denoting 
Buildings  or  Inclosures  of  a  much 
better  kind  than  those  call'd 
haga:.  A  thing  which  may  also 
appear  from  Publius  Victor's 
Description  of  Rome,  in  which 
tho'  the  several  Wards  are  re. 
presented  as  large,  yet  the  Do- 
mus, a  word  always  there  used, 
as  'tis  also  in  the  old  anony- 
mous Description  of  the  same 
City  published  by  Labbe,  are 
but  few  in  comparison  of  the 
Extent  of  those  Wards ;  much 
fewer  indeed  than  the  Wards  of 
the  City  of  Constantinople,  de- 
scribed also  by  another  anony- 
mous Author  published  by  the 
same  Labbe,  and  yet  the  Wards 
of  Constantinople  were  less  than 
those  of  Rome.  I  should  there- 
fore readily  conclude,  that  the 
Domus  in  Constantinople  (for 
that  is  the  Word  there  used 
also,  that  of  haga  being  not 
as  yet  come  into  fashion) 
were  nothing  near  so  big 
nor  so  fine  as  those  at 
Rome,    and    yet  in  both  places 


1   Pag.  409.     See  also  my  Pref.  to  that  Cliartulary,  \.  xi. 
Vol.  11.  '  B  B 


they 


604 


GLOSSARY. 


they  were  of  stone,  to  which 
the  word  haga  cannot  proper- 
ly agree,  which  I  look  upon 
therefore  as  one  reason,  why 
'tis  not  used  with  respect  to 
Oxford,  where  they  had  be- 
gun to  have  some  Stone  build- 
ings some  time  before  the  Con- 
quest, as  may  appear  from  St. 
Grymbald's  building  St.  Peter's 
Church  in  the  East  of  Stone  out 
of  Hengesteseiht  (commonly  call'd 
Hinxey)  Quarry,  Masons  be- 
ing brought  for  that  end  out 
of  Normandy,  at  which  time 
also  instead  of  hagce  other  do- 
mils  were  erected  of  Stone,  and 
the  method  of  building  there- 
with being  now  learned,  it  soon 
began  to  be  established  and  prac- 
tised elsewhere,  tho'  not  with- 
out much  interruption'.  Yet 
tho'  I  should  reckon  St.  Peter's 
Church  among  the  old  Do?nus 
of  Oxford,  it  ought  neverthe- 
less by  no  means  to  be  reck- 
oned in  the  Taxation  of  Wil- 
liam the  Conq.  in  which  not- 
withstanding I  fear  the  three  fa- 
mous Halls  were  reckoned  that 
were  built  by  King  yElfred,  be- 
cause I  find  2,  that  K.  William 
withdrew  the  Exhibitions  that  K. 
JElhed    had    settled    upon    his 


Schools,  tho'  others  say'  that 
K.  Harold  depriv'd  these  Schools 
of  their  Revenue,  and  tr-tally 
destroy'd  the  two  lesser  oi  K. 
Alfred's  Halls.  But  be  this  as 
it  will,  those  Halls  ought  pro- 
perly to  be  stiled  domus,  yet 
perhaps  being  so  much  superi- 
or to  the  generality  of  build- 
ings then  in  Oxford,  had  the 
anonymous  author  of  the  De- 
scription of  Constantinople  seen 
them  and  described  Oxford, 
he  would,  it  may  be,  have  called 
them  domus  nobilissimcc^  an 
expression  he  uses  vith  respect 
to  houses  of  a  better  kind  than 
ordinary.  However  notwith- 
standing this  difierence  between 
domus  and  haga,  we  cannot  de- 
termine for  certain  how  big  ge- 
nerally those  domus  were  in 
Oxford.  There  is  no  doubt  but 
they  were  large,  since  Domes- 
day Book  4  tells  us,  that  in  Wil- 
liam the  Conqueror's  time  there 
were  only  243  domus  both  with- 
in and  without  the  Walls  of  Ox- 
ford,  besides  20  mural  mansions^ 
call'd  so  because,  upon  occasion, 
they  were  obliged  to  repair 
the  Walls  (in  order  to  which 
there    were   there,     as  well   as 


'  See  my  Discourse  concerning  the  Stunsfield  tessellated  Pavement,  at  the  Beginning  of 
the  Vlllth.  Vol.of  Leland's  Itin.  ^.  III.  '  Seemy  Notesto  Sir  Joha Spelmaa's  Lifeof 
K.  j:ifred,  p.  196.    3  ibid,  p*  197.    "^  Gale  ut  supra,  p.  165. 

at 


GLOSSARY. 


605 


at  old  Athens,  T£txo7roio*  xa»  Im- 
s-oiTctt  mm  e^ywii')  tho'  it  withall 
informs  us,  that  478  lay  in 
Tuins,  -which,  however,  will 
not  diminish  the  notion  we 
have  of  the  largeness  of  those 
domiis,  since  they  seem  to  have 
been  chiefly  on  the  North  West 
side  of  Oxford,  even  without  the 
present  City  down  as  far  as 
Walton-Well,  at  which  time  also 
what  is  now  called  St.  Giles's 
Church,  (formerly  the  Univer- 
sity Church,  in  which  Convoca- 
tions and  Congregations  were 
held,  as  they  were  afterwards  in 
St.  Marie's  Church  ')  lay  also  in 
it's  ruins,  and  was  not  rebuilt  by 
Elwine  Fitz-Godegose  'till  about 
the  time  ofiK.  Stephen  ^. 

ken,  knoiOy  see,  discern,  tender- 
stand. 

kend,  understood. 

kende,  taught,  knew,  saw,  con. 
sented. 

kene,  keen,  sharp^  brisk,  bold. 

kenne,  see,  are  sensible. 

kennes,  ken,  knows,  know,  see. 

kennys,  knows,  sees. 

kepand,  keeping.  Jiat  was  kepand 
j'e  se,  that  guarded  the  Sea. 
qe  la  mare  gardait  Gall. 

kepe,  kept.  J'ink  &  gif  Godekepe, 
consider  whether  God  kept  it  or 
no. 

keped,  kept. 

kept  up,  snatcht  up. 

kepynj,    keeping,  withouten     ke- 


pyng,  without  a  guard. 
Kerlion,  Carleon. 
kest,  cast. 
keste,  cast, 
kestis,  casts. 
kewe,  p.  302.  knew.  Et  quidem  vzdi 

apud  quosdam  capan  Angl.  Sax, 

pro  cnapan. 
kid,  signify,  shew.     John  Skeltou 

uses  it  for  shew'd  in  his  Image 

of  Ypocresy  ^ ,  saying  4, 

The  troiith  can  not  be  hid 
For  it  is  plainly  kid,  &c. 

kie,  kine,  cattle. 

kip,  keep,  hold. 

kirke,  church,  the  church,  to  the 

church,   kirkes,  churches. 
kirkis,  p.  320.  churche^s. 
kirnels,  corners  or  holes  in  battle* 

ments,  hornworks. 
kirtelle,  cyptel,  J.  Sax.  ("tunica,) 

a   'i.uoman''s  gown    or   kirtle,  a 

sort  of  short  jacket. 
kith,  knowledge,  acquaintance,  no- 
tice, shew,  prove. 
kij^e,  shew,  to  shew.  &  se  what  he 

wild    kij^e,    and    see    zchat    he 

would  be  at. 
kneland,  kneeling. 
knes,  knees. 
knew,  knew,  knewesi, 
knowe,  knew. 
kof,  boisterous. 
kom,  came. 
komaud,  cominsr. 


•  LelancTs  Ilin.  Vol.  IV.  p.  133.     »  SeeLdand's  Itin.  Vol  II.  p.  15.     »  Of  which  see 
^dovc  in  the  voord  wroke-    ■»  MS.  fvl-  78.  b. 

B  B  2  komen. 


606 


GLOSSARY 


koraen,  come. 

konyng,  cunning^  •skilly  knowledge. 

kotte,  caught,  catch'd. 

kouerchef,  [from  the  French  cou- 
vre,  to  cover,  and  chef,  the  head'] 
kerchief,  a  sort  of  Linen  Dress 
formerly  worn  by  Women  on 
their  Heads,  and  hence  our 
common  word  handkerchief, 
tho^   not  very  properly. 

kowe,  cozce,  a  sort  of  Rhythm  so 
called.     See  couwe. 

kroces,  crosses. 

kroken,  crack'd.  Sed  forsitan 
broken  reponend. 

kryue,  grave. 

kutted,  cut, 

kye,  she. 

kyghtes,  knights.  ' 

kyme,  comes  to,  entertains. 

kynde,  kind,  kindred,  blond,  fa- 
mily, lineage,  birth,  right,  ge. 
aeration,  kin,  line,  relation,  pa- 
rentage. 

kynghtes,  knights. 

kyngtes,  knights. 

kynrede,  kindred,  generation. 

kyns,  king. 

kythe,  kindred,  kinsfolk,  acquaint,., 
ance,  alliance.  Ab  Ang.  Sax. 
cy'S^e,  notifia,  familiaritas, 
cog?iatio. 


L. 


Jad,  laid,  lead,  led,  brought,  drew. 

ladde,  lad,  youth. 

lafton,  left. 

lage,  p.  241.  large. 

lak,  vice,  sin,  little,  to  lak,  too 
little,  too  diminishing,  too  disho- 
nourable. 


lance,  rouse,  start,  raise,  stir  up, 
shoot  at.  a  herte  ];erof  gan 
lance,  a  hart  thereof  began  they 
to  rouse  or  start,  or  rather  to 
shoot  at. 

lang,  long. 

lange,  language. 

langer,  longer. 

langere,  longer. 

langest,  longest. 

laiigoure,    weakness,    languishing, 
languishment,  pining,  droojiing, 
feebleness,  faintness,   decay   of 
spirit. 
nguour, 

lap,  lap,  fold  up. 
rdere,   season  o 

urn,  larder,  lardrie,  provisions. 
stand,  lastini. 

lastell,  lasted. 

lat,  let.     lat  it  be,  let  it  alone. 

latched,  shut  up,  barred. 

late,  lately,  let.  J^e  menace  late 
alle  be,  let  all  threats  be  laid 
aside. 

laten,  letten,  let. 

lates,  les. 

lauh,  laze. 

lauht,  laught,  detested,  left.  Ab 
Ang.  Sax.  la^e,  loath,  sed  pag. 
94.  met  denotat.  nam  ibi.  \e 
stroke  he  lauht  so  smerte,  i.  e. 
he  met  with  the  stroke,  which 
ivas  very  smart  orsha^y.  ab  A. 
Sax,  nempe  la;tan,  tolerare,  pa- 
ti,  impedire.  Et  sic  etiam  in 
Appendice  ad  Prcef.  nostr.  Num. 
Xiy.  ubi,  ]Jo  jjat  were  seke  & 
lauht  scathes,  idem  est  (piod, 
those  that  were  sick  and  suf- 
fered diseases. 

lawe,  laugh. 

lay> 


I 


GLOSSARY. 


607 


lav,  lyings  laid,  doctrine,  lay.men, 
luiety,  luxe,  put. 

layen,  lay. 

leale,  loyal,  true,  fciilhfull,  honest, 
trusty,  Jirm. 

Leaus,  Lewis,  or  Lewes,  in  Sus- 
sex. 

leaute,  loyalty, 

lebardes,   libbards,  leopards. 

leche,  physician. 

led,  led,  luaidled,  tumbled,  tossed, 
zcas  led  or  carried,  fulle  hard 
was  he  led,  full  hardly  was  he 
handled  or  dealt  by.  so  euelle 
he  j^am  led,  he  used  them  so  ill 
or  barbarously. 

ledde,  brought,  lead,  might  lead. 

lede,  bring,  lead,  carry. 

lees,  a  lye,  lyes,  lost. 

lefe,  life,  livelyhood,  loved,  be. 
loved,  loving,  left,  lefe  &  dere, 
loving  Cor  beloved)  and  dear 
friend. 


left,  left,  avoided,  shunned,  lived. 

leid,  laid. 

leie,  laid. 

leke,  leek.  It  was  not  told  a  leke, 
It  zi'as  not  looked  upon  as  a 
leek. 

lele,  loyal. 

lemman,  [?n  all  probability  from 
the  Fretich  V  aimante,  a  sioeet. 
heart.']  leman,  dear,  mistress^ 
concubine,  zchore,  harlot.  This 
Word  in  old  Writings  is  some, 
times  also  applyUl  to  men,  as 
zcell  as  zcomen  ;  particularly  in 
Mr.  Sheldon's  MS.  of  the  Lives 
of  the  Saints,  zchere  zee  have 
these  Rhythms,  in  the  Life  of 
St.  Edmund,  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury,  zsho  zcas  born  at 
Abbington,  educated  at  Oxford 
and  Paris,  zoas  even  from  his 
childhood  inclined  to  Piety  and 
Virtue,  and  zoas  a  bitter  Enemy 
to  all  manner  of  Lezfdness  : 


Ilis  ostasse  had  a  douter,  '  J7er  he  [St.  Edmund]  was  at  inne, 
>at  louede  moche  J^is  hoU  childe,    \_St.  Edm.]  gef  -  heo  hit  mijte^ 

Avinne, 
Heo  4  ne  koj^e  ne)?er  non  oj^er  v-it ;  heo  s  fontede  forto  do 
Folie  nigt  and  dai,  gef  heo  mijte  bringe  him  j^er  to. 
Heo  6  badbim,  fat  hoo  '  moste  ani^tto  his  bedde  ^  wende. 
}jis  holi  man9  ne  wernede  hure  nojt,  ac  dude  ase  ]-e  hende. 


'  Where.     '    She.      '    Git.     *    Neither    spolce  of  neither  any    other  kneio.     s    Tryed 
Desired.      7  Mi^/it  ine  night.     *  Go.     9  Did  nut  deny  her  at  all,  but  did  as  the  kind. 

V.  3  3  Heo 


608  GLOSSARY. 

Heo  was  glad  inow,  for  »  er  heo  hadde  wel  ofte. 

A  nijt  *  fo  heo  sei  hure  time,  to  his  bedde  heo  com  wel 

softe. 
Hure  clojjes  heo  dn^e  of  anon,   as  rijt  is  of  bedde, 
And  naked  hure  made  to  crepe    in,  ac  ^    febliche  hure 

spedde. 
For  Seint  Edmund  hadde  a  smarte  4  jerde,  Jis  womman  s 

adon  he  bredde, 
And  leide  vp  on  hure  naked  bodi,  Jat  ^  heo  in  awadde. 
He  7  ne  sparede  rig  ne  side  noj^er,  er  heo  to  gronde  bled- 

de. 
Queinche  heo  migte  hure  foule  j^ojt  *  mid  blode  j^at  heo 

9  schadde. 
And  euere  seide  Jis    holi  man,    as  heo  leide  on    hure 

faste, 
*'   Maide,  J^ou  schalt  '«>  lerni  J^us,  awei  forto  caste 
*'  J!e  "  fol  wille  of  J^i  bodi  flesch,  ^^i]>  such  discipline. 
He    Jogte   '*  lite  of  ful  ]70gt,    er  fis    goudeman    wolde 

«  fine. 
Jjis   wenche    '4  wende    ajen    softe,    hure    '^  rug    smerte 

sore, 
'6  He  bi   gat  so  lite  fo,  fat  hure  '7  ne  longede  Juder  na 

more. 
Clene  womman  heo  bi  com,  v/\])  oute  flesches  dede, 
And  clene  maide  '^  suj^j^e  deide,  as  cure    '9  schrifTader 

sede. 
Jus  maidenes  Jat  *°  beo]?  wilful,  foli  for  to  do, 
Ich  wolde  *'  hi  fonde  such  a  *'  lemman,  that  hem  woldf 

'i  chasti  so. 


•  Before.  '  When  she  saw  her.  3  Feebly.  *  Rod.  s  Down  he  threw.  «  She  dwelt 
in,  or  she  was  mad  in.  ,  Neither  spared  back  nor  side  neither,  ere  she  to  ground. 
8  With.  9  Shed.  '°  Learn-  "  Foul.  '^  Little  of  foul.  '3  End.  '*  Went-  "s  Back 
smarted.  '^  She  got-  '7  Longed  not  to  go  thither  any  more.  '*  Afterwards  died. 
'9  Confessor  said.    ''"Be.    "  TUey  found.    "  Whoremaster.    33  chastise. 

Thii 


GLOSSARY, 


609 


This  St.  Edmund's  Father  zoas 
Raynold  le  Riche  ',  (not  Ed. 
Tsard  Rich,  as  in  Godwin^) 
so  sirnamed  from  his  Wealth. 
His  Mother's  Name  uas  Ma~ 
bilia  or  Mabile,  a  Woman  very 
eminent   for  her   Piety,    as   is 


noted  by  many  Writers,  and 
particularly  likewise  by  the 
Author  of  the  before  mention, 
ed  Rhythmical  Life  of  St.  Ed. 
mund,  where  'tis  noted,  v:ithall, 
that  she  was  buried  in  St.  Ni. 
cholas's  Church  at  Abbington : 


This  5  goude  womman  [Mabile  ^e  riche]  deide  Jjus,  fat  of  4  we- 

dewen  was  flour, 
And  ia  Seint  Nicholas  churche  at  Abiadon  5  ibered  with  great 

honour, 
In  a  ston  bi  fore  fe  ^  rode,  in  j^e  sou)?  side  "  iwis, 
A  ^  luite  wjthoute  J^e  abbei  jate,  ]ie  chapel  arered  is. 
A  boue  9  hure  hit  is  i write,  "  'o  hure  "  lif  in  )?is  ston 
"  Mabile  flour  of  '*  wodewen  ",  and  '?  lesing  is  hit  non. 
For   heo  was  womman  of   goude  lif,  as  '4  me  mijte  bi  hure 

'i  iseo, 
And  miracle  at  Abindoun  for  hure  '^  suHe  hath  '7  ibeo. 


What  the  Author  here  fells  us 
of  her  being  buried  in  St.  Ni. 
cholas's  Church,  may  be  true 
enough  with  regard  to  his  own 
time,  when,  'tis  likely,  the 
chappel,  in  which  Mabilia,  or 
Mabile,  was  buried,  teas  look'd 
vpon  as  part  of  St.  Nicholas's 
Church;  but  it  could  not  be 
true  at  the  time  of  her  burial, 
because  at  that  time  St.  Nicho. 


las's  Church  was  not  in  being, 
it  being  not  built  'till  the  Reign 
of  K.  Edzo.  I.  the  Founder  be. 
ing  '8  Nicholas  de  Coleham,  who 
became  Abbat  of  Abbington  A.D. 
'»  1289.  and  died  A.D.  1307.  and 
after  it  was  so  built,  it  be. 
came  the  chief  Parish  Church 
of  Abbington  ^°,  tho'  the 
greatest  Resort  now  is  to  St. 
Helen's     Church.        But     now 


Hist.  &•  Jntiq.  Univ.  Oxon.  I.  II.  p.  9- 


De  Prws.  p.  130. 
i  Buried.     *  Rood.     7  Certainly.     8  Little.     9  Her.     ">  Here. 

'»  JVidows.     '3  Lying.      '*  Men.     »5  See.     '6  Since.     '7  Been.     '8  Leland's  Itin.  Vol.  II. 
p.  13.     '9  Leland's  Coll,  Vol.  VI.  p.  193-     «-  Leland's  Itin.  Vol.  VII.  p.  64.  Coll.  Vol. 


3  Good.     1  Widows. 
F.    Iij7,    i.e.   lieth. 


VI.  p.  i88. 


B  B  4 


not. 


610 


GLOSSARY. 


notwithstanding  St.  Nicholas''s 
Church  was  built  after  Mabile''s 
death.,  yet  there  can  be  no  doubt 
of  a  chappeVs  being  built  some 
time  (tho^  not  long)  before  that 
happened^  since  Mr.  Wood  as- 
sures '  us^  that  she  zoas  interred 
in  a  chappel  {adjoining  to  the 
Abbei/.Church)  built^  about  the 
middle  of  H.  Illd's  Re/'gn,  by 
John  de  Glostinevile  {the  same 
that  others  *  call  John  de  Blos- 
mevH)  Abbat  of  Abbington^ 
and  that  this  chappel  was  ge- 
nerallj/  known  by  the  Name  of 
the  chappel  of  St.  Edmund's 
Mother,  altho''  it  was  reported 
to  be  dedicated  to  the  Holy 
Cross,  and  to  St.  Edmund  and 
St.  Guthlac  the  Confessors. 
When  Hivas  that  this  chappel 
was  destrofd,  I  cannot  tell. 
'Tis,  hozoever.,  probable  it  might 
remain  ^iill  the  lamentable  Age 
of  Confusion  and  Sacrilege.,  at 
which  time  too  {for  I  cannot 
think  it  was  before)  'tis  very 
likeli/  the  Story  of  this  vene- 
rable and  holy  Matron  (that 
was  put  over  her  Tomb,  to  be 
read  and  considered  by  such  as 
came  out  of  Reverence  and  De. 
votion  to  see  it)  might  be  utterly 
defaced  and  obliiterated,  and 
the    very    Plate    conveyd    off, 


with  many  holy  Relicks  relating 
to  her.  I  mention  holy  Relicks, 
because  there  zi:as  such  an  u~ 
niversal  opinion  conceived  of 
her  extraordinary  Sanctity, 
that,  some  years  after  her 
Death,  a  prodigious  concourse 
of  people  constantly  flocked  to 
the  chappel,  and  look'd  upon 
themselves  as  happy,  if  they 
could  but  have  a  sight,  or  a 
touch,  of  her  Tomb,  and  any 
thing  that  appertain'' d  to  her. 
Several  Things  belonging,  in 
some  sort  or  other,  to  her  were 
preserved  there ;  as  there  zcere 
others  in  private  hands,  zohich 
were  as  religiousli/  secured,  the 
possessors  thinking  themselves, 
in  those  times,  very  happy  on 
that  account.  Hence  the  high, 
est  value  was  put  upon  even  the 
least  rag  of  her  clout hes.  '  What, 
therefore,  shall  we  think  of  the 
fine  gilt  Girdle,  with  a  curious 
blew  Pendant  {commonly  caWd 
the  long  pendant  Girdle)  that 
zsas  formerly  preserved  by  some 
devout  people  at  Oxford,  and 
teas  at  lust  bequeath' d  {by  Jo. 
hanna  Gylls,  wife  of  Edmund 
Gylle  of  Oxford,  and  Daugh- 
ter and  Heiress  of  Wil- 
liam     DanvylCf      of     Oxford^ 


'  /Tist.  Sc  Antiq.    Univ.  Oxoti.  I.  II.  p.  9. 
Jf  Anliq.  Univ.  Oxon.  I.  IL  p.  9. 


LelaniVs  Coll.  Vol.   F/.  i>.  193.     ^Ilixt. 

Gent. 


GLOSSARY. 


611 


Gent.)  in  the  year  1486.  {be. 
ing  the  beginning  of  Hen.  flP. 
Reign)  to  the  Image  of  St.  Ed- 
mund of  Abbington,  that  zcas  in 
one  of  our  O  xford  Churches;  i.  e. 
All-Saints,  alias  AlLHallows,  as 
Mr.  Wood  reckons  *,  in  zchich 
the  said  Johanna  zoas  buried? 
Surelj/  such  a  Curiosity  as 
this,  was  judg''d  as  invaluable, 
and  could  not,  therefore,  bezsell 
lost  ''till  the  Dissolution.  After 
this  great  Man  had  been  canon, 
ized,  many  places  zcere  immedi- 
ately dedicated  to  his  honour. 
Among  the  rest  must  be  rec- 
chap' 


pel  in  the  Nunnery  of  Ca- 
tesby  in  Northamptonshire,  of 
which  place  his  two  Sisters  were 
Nunns,  being  placed  there  by 
himself,  having  before  try^d. 
some  other  Nunneries,  but 
could  not  prevail,  unless  he 
would  have  incurred  the  Guilt 
of  Simony.  One  of  these  Sisters 
was  afterwards  Prioress  of 
Catesby.  The  chappel  to  St. 
Edmund  was  built  by  their  carCy 
and  upon  their  Death  they  were 
buried  in  if  before  the  High 
Altar.  For  thus  our  Rhythmi. 
cat  Author  before  cited : 


Jis  goudeman  sojte  wide  aboute  mani  a  nonnerie, 

Er  he  migte  his  *  sustren  do  wij?  oute  sinionie. 

Atte  laste  he  com  to  Catesbi  in  Northamtoun  schire, 

I  granted  J'er  him  was  anon  al  ]7at  he  wolde  desire. 

BoJ^e  his  soustres  ^  a  Godes  half  nonnen  he  made  j^ere, 

Jat  liuede  J^er  al  here  lif,  and  holi  wimmen  were. 

jje  Elder  was  4  snJ^J^e  prioresse,  5  ase  J^e  leuedies  echone 

For  hem  ha]?  su]7]7e  God  ido,  miracles  manione. 

And  bifore  j^e  s  hei  je  wened  ibured  hi  beoj?  j>ere, 

In  7  o  chapel  J^at  hi  lette  of  Seint  Edmund  arere. 


This  passage  may  give  seme 
light  to  such  as  are  concerned 
about  the  Dedication  of  this 
Nunnery  of  Catesby.  Some  say 
'twas  to  St.  Thomas  the  Martyr, 
others  to  St-  Mary  and  St.  Ed. 


mund.      See    Tanner''s  Notitia. 

Mon.  p.  165. 
lende,  land,   lean,  hung,  stay,  in. 

dine. 
lended,  landed,  seized,  settled. 
lendes,  lands,  comes. 


*  Ibid.  "  Sisters  dispose  of.  3  In  God's  behalf,  or  in  God's  name.  *  Afterwards, 
5  Js  (or  so  that)  for  the  ladies  every  one  upon  their  account  huthsince  God  done  miracles 
mann  one.      *  High  altar.     ,  A  Chappel. 

lene. 


612 


GLOSSARY, 


lene,  li7i,  cease,  leave. 

lenge,  bring  along. 

lenger,  longer. 

lengere,  longer. 

Lenten  tide,  Lent  time. 

Lenton  Tythes,  Lent  tythes, 

leouns,  lyons. 

lepe,  leaped,  he  leaped.  _ 

lept,  leaped.  J>at  eft  not  on  him 
lept,  that  afterwards  not  one  as. 
saulted  him. 

lere,  leai'n,  teach. 

lered,  learned,  clergy.  lered  men, 
clergy -men. 

lerid,  learned,  clerks,  clergy. 

les,  lost,  loose,  might  loose,  left, 
relinqnished. 

lese,  lost,  loose, 

leses,  looses. 

lesis,  looses. 

lesyng,  lying,  lye. 

let,  little. 

lete,  left,  let,  stop,  put  a  stop  to, 
cease, permitted,  ceased,  left  off, 
laid,  leave,  endured,  to  leave,  to 
have  left,  lete  of,  cared  for. 
Jei  lete  of  him  so  lite,  they  cared 
for  (or  set  by)  him  so  little. 
Jat  lete  J^e  slo,  that  suffered 
thee  to  be  persecuted.  J?er  of 
fulle  wele  he  lete,  he  suffered  this 
very  willingly,  or  he  was  very 
glad  of  this.  &  fer  of  wele  he 
lete,  and  was  well  enough  pleas. 
ed  with  that. 

letenof,  esteemed  of,  approved  of. 

Letenes  tide,  Lent,  time  of  Lent, 
lette,  let,  hinder,  abide. 
leue,  leave,  live,  life,  lye,  love,  be- 
loved, jolly,  jovial,  leave  off. 
leued,  leavext,  left^  was  left,  full 


on  lond  leued,  being  left  wholly 
on  land. 

leuen,  lightning. 

leuer,  rather.  I  haue  leuer 
|>at  \ovL  do  me  to  dethe,  in 
Append,  ad  Prcef.  Num.  XV. 
I  had  rather  that  thou  put  me  to 
death. 

leues,  leaves,  leave,  continues,  lyes, 
lives,  remains,  goes.,  looses. 

lewed,  laiety,  lay,  laymen,  igno- 
rant, illitterate. 

lewid,  lay  people,  unlearned. 

leyn,  layn. 

leysere,  leisure. 

licchorie,  leachery. 

licherie,  leachery,  for  leachery. 

lichorie,  leachery. 

lies,  p.  177.  liest,  (mentiris.) 

liffes,  live. 

lift,  exalted,  left,  lifted. 

ligge,  lye,  lay. 

liggen,  lyen,  layn. 

ligges,  lyes,  lays. 

liggis,  lyes,  lays. 

light,  lightly, easily,  alighted,  light, 
easy. 

lighter,  delivered. 

lightly,  easily. 

lis,  lies,  untruths. 

list,  listed,  bound,  desired.  North 
alle  gate  him  list,  he  altogether 
desired  the  North. 

liste,  listen,  listen  to,  hear. 

listnes,  listen  to,  harken  to,  hear. 
listnes  me,  listen  to  me,  harken 
to  me. 

lite,  little,  light,  short,  let,  hinder- 
ance* 

lith,  p.  194.  tenement,  as  ap- 
pears from  the  French  at  the 
bot- 


GLOSSARY. 


613 


bottom  of  the  page. 

lijje,  a  navie,  ajleet,  ships^  tene. 
ments.  but  ia  pag.  67.  plainly. 
and  in  pag.  93.  hear^  ^PP^J/^  ^^- 
iendf  from  the  Saxon  lijjan, 
(applicare,  conferre,)  to  apply ^  to 
lay  one  thing  close  to  another. 
and  'tis  from  the  same  word  like- 
wise that  lij'e  (as  it  denotes  a 
ship  or  navy)  comes,  lij^an  si- 
gnifying also  fluctuare,  navigare, 
tojlote  on  the  water,  to  sail. 

lijjes,  ships,  water,  waters,  lims^  te. 
nements. 

\\\i,  lazy,  easy. 

liuere,  livery. 

liuerisoun,  livery  or  delivery. 

loges,  lodges,  sheds,  small  houses. 

loke,  advise,  determine,  consider, 
look  J  look  to,  look  after,  to  loke 
hir,  to  look  after  her,  to  be  her 
guardian,  taken  is  he  to  loke, 
cotnmitted  is  he  to  be  look'd 
after. 

loken,  look. 

lokyng,  looking,  determination, 
cognizance,  consideration. 

iond,  land. 

Londreis,  Londoners,  the  Lon. 
doners. 

Londres,  Londoners. 

londus,  lands. 

long,  belong. 

longly,  long,  at  length. 

Jordan,  lord  Dane. 

lordyng,  lording,  lordings,  lords. 

lordynges,  lordings,  lords. 

\ove,loss, doctrine,  learning,  lesson. 


lorenge,  iron;  from  the  French 
lormier,  a  worker  in  small  iron^ 
a  maker  of  small  iron  trinkets^ 
as  nailes,  spurs,  &c.  In  the 
Parish  of  North-St.  MichaeVs 
in  Oxford  (*o  called  in  contra., 
distinction  to  South  St.  Mi~ 
chaePs,  the  church  whereof 
is  now  down)  was  an  Alley^ 
or  Lane,  calVd  The  Lormery  *, 
it  being  the  Place,  where  such 
sort  of  Iron  works  were 
sold  for  all  Oxford.  And  here 
'lis  to  be  observUl,  that  *  in 
old  time  (tho''  it  be  otherwise 
now)  the  Professors  of  such 
and  such  Occupations,  or 
Trades,  used,  as  well  in 
Oxford,  as  in  other  Places, 
to  live  or  dwell  all  together 
in  such  and  such  Parts  of  the 
Town,  and  the  Suburbs  ad' 
joyning.  The  Forbery  in  Rea~ 
ding  is  very  zcell  known,  tho'' 
the  meaning  of  the  Word  is 
hardly  known  to  any  of  the 
place,  notzeithstanding  no  one 
was  ignorant  of  it  before 
the  Dissolution,  when  our 
Princes  and  Great  Men  used 
to  be  so  much  there,  and 
had  their  Arms  constantly  fur. 
bished  and  j)olished  in  that 
part  of  Heading,  the  signiji' 
cation  of  forbery  being  no. 
thing  but  Forbishers  or  Fur- 
bishers  Rew,  or  the  place  where 
the    Arms    were  furbished,  and 


Coll.  nostr.  MSS-  Vol.  77.  p.  199-     «  Coll,  nosfr.  MSS-  Fol.  106-  p-  71. 


thosf 


614 


GLOSSARY 


those  that  did  it  dwelt.  The 
Spicery,  07~  Spice  Rew,  in  Ox. 
ford)  being  the  Place  where 
Spices  and  sweet  Oijntments 
were  sold,  was  famous  formerlj/, 
tho''  unknozcn  since.  ^Tis  men- 
tioned expressly  in  the  remark' 
able  old  Rhythms  of  Robert  of 
Gloucester,  concerning  the  great 
Conflict  between  the  Scholars 
and  Townsmen  of  Oxford,  in 
the  year  1263.  (47  11.  3.)  at 
the  time  Prince  Eduard  pass''d 
by  Oxford,  in  his  Journey  to- 
wards  the  Marches  of  Wales. 
The  zzhole  Passage  in  Robert 
of  Gloucester  is  very  well 
worth  reading,  and  deserves  at- 
tention,  and  therefore  "'twas 
deservedly  taken  {tho'',  us  it 
seems,  from  second  hand  ') 
into  Mr.  Wood's  History  and 
Antiquities  of  the  University  of 
Oxford  *,  where  are  several 
Mistakes,  which  render  it  un. 
intelligible,  and  for  that  rea- 
son 'twill  be  proper  to  peruse 
it,  as  1  have  printed  it  from  the 
Cottonian  MS.  3  and  at  the 
same  time  it  will  be  retpiisite 
also  to  compare  it  with  the  prose 
passage,  upon  the  same  occa- 
sion, that  Ishall  here  transcribe^ 
and  publish,  from  a  MS.  Giro- 
nick  of  England  in  the  hands 


of  the  ingenious  Thomas  PVard, 
of  Longbridge  near  Warwick, 
Esq;.  7oritten  about  the  Reign 
of  11.  VI.  by  an  Author,  who 
undertook  to  metaphrase  Robert 
of  Gloucester,  but  in  doing  it  he 
hath  committed  many  Mistakes, 
and  oftentimes  miserably  cur- 
tail'd  the  Work,  especially 
where  he  did  not  understand  his 
Author,  as  may,  in  so?ne  mea- 
sure, be  learn'd  from  this  very 
Passage  about  the  said  Conflict , 
zchere  he  hath  quite  pass'd  over 
those  remarkable  Words  hare 
well,  purely,  as  I  conceive,  be- 
cause he  did  not  understand  the 
Signification  of  the  Expression, 
ivhich  is  no  tnore  than  old  well, 
and  is  to  be  understood  of  Wal- 
ton well,  as  I  have  insinuated 
in  my  Preface  to  Rob.  of  Glou- 
cester 4.  Then  the  barones  had 
the  towne,  and  the  kynge  had 
the  Castelle  [0/  Gloucester,"]  and 
oftentymes  bykred  to  gedre.  So 
that  Sir  Edward,  J^at  was  in 
the  Est  quarter,  entend  to  res- 
cue the  Castelle  of  Gloucestre, 
and  come  with  his  poer,  and 
wolde  come  throgh  Oxenforde. 
But  the  yates  were  shitt  faste 
ageynst  hym.  For  the  Burges 
of        the        Tnyversite        wold 


«  Sec  my  Preface  to  Rob,  of  Glouc. 
540.     *  5..  VI J  I. 


VJII.     'Lib.  J.  p.  112.     3  Eob.   of  Glouc.  p. 

uot 


GLOSSARY. 


615 


not  suffre  hym  come  ynne.  But 
he  lay  in  the  kynge's  halie  with, 
out  the  gates,  and  vppon  the 
morowe  lie  went  his  wey  West- 
ward. And  then  alle  the  gates 
•were  opened,  save  the  smej^e 
gate.  For  that  wey  alle  )'e 
Clerkes  shulde  goo  vnto  their 
pleynge  place,  called  Bemondes. 
Oftentymes  they  desirede  the 
baillies  to  opene  that  gate,  that 
thei  might  haue  their  sportynge, 
but  alle  was  for  noght.  So  that 
wilde  hedede  felowes  toke  their 
councelle,  and  after  dyner  come 
te  the  gate  with  axes  vnder  their 
mantelles,  and  alle  to  hewede  the 
gate,  and  bare  hym  forth  vppone 
their  shuldors  to  Bemonde,  and 
sange  suhuenyte^  as  it  were  to  a 
dede  Cors.  William  Spicer  and 
Geffrey  Hencsey  were  porters, 
and  Nycolle  Kynston  was  Meir. 
And  thoo  were  at  brekynge  of 
the  gate  were  put  in  pryson  by 
theMeir'scommaundement.  And 
the  '  Propters  sende  dyvers  times 
to  have  hem  delyvered.  And 
ther  with  alle  were  the  Clerkes 
wroth.  But  the  bourges  were 
bolde,  and  thretened  to  put  moo 
of  hem  in  prison.     And  thefiist 


Thursday  in  Lent  the  bourges, 
while  people  were  at  mete,  reis- 
ed  vppe  two  baners,  and  gadred 
their  power  to  destroy  the  Clerkes 
or  they  were  ware.  And  as  thei 
come  by  AUehalowen  with  their 
power,  at  Seynt  Mary  churche  a 
clerke  range  the  towne  belle, 
and  alle  the  Clerkes  stirt  from 
their  mete,  and  put  their  trust 
in  God,  for  thei  stode  in  grete 
daunger.  Thei  met  with  the 
Bourges,  and  began  to  shete  fast, 
so  that  many  were  sore  wonded 
of  the  Bourges,  and  at  last  the 
began  to  fle,  so  the  Clerkes  hadde 
the  stretes  fre.  Thei  brake  vppe 
the  boweers  shoppe,  and  toke 
out  bowes,  and  then  they  set  the 
Porteres  houses  a  here.  And 
sone  after  they  went  and  brake 
vppe  the  Spicery,  and  bare  it 
awey,  and  then  made  havok  of 
the  meyr's  wyne,  by  cause  he  was 
a  vj'ntener.  And  wheune  the 
kynge  vnderstode  of  suche  tres- 
pas,  he  put  out  alle  the  Clerkes 
out  of  Oxenford  tille  after  My- 
ghelmas.  SirEdwarde  the  kynge's 
son  went  to  the  March,  and  vp* 
ponAxeweudysday  he  come  to  the 


F.  Procters. 


West 


616  GLOSSARY. 

West   ende   of  Gloucestre,    and  all  the   MSS.   of  the    Hisforif 

assoilled  >e  tewne   strongly,  ^-c.  or  Chronicle^   commonly   caWd 

This  MS.   (which  is  in   Folio)  Brute   of  England,  that  I  have 

begins  with  the  Story    of  Al-  seen    hitherto^.       There    is    a 

lion's    being    so    called  from  Picture  at  the  beginning  of  Bio.. 

Albine,    the  eldest  of  Diocleci-  decian  and  his  Daughters.  The 

m    King   of  Syria's   XXXIII.  King  is  represented    standing. 

Daughters,   (not   ffty  one,   as  ^uh  a  szoord  in  his  right  hand, 

in  Hector  Boethius)  who  hav.  and  an  hat,  or  sort  of  bonnet, 

ing  murdered  their  Husbands,  upon   his    head.       The  Daugh. 

were  by  their  Father  put  to  the  ters  are  represented  going  to  a 

hazard  of  the   Sea,    and  were  ^j^.^^     j^  ^^^^^  ^^  ^^^  ^^^^^^  ^^ 

luckily    brought  to  this  Island,  j^             .^  ^^j^.^j^    -^              ^j^^g 

which    was    named  Albion    by  ^j^^  King  of  Almaine  was  taken 

the  eldest  from  her  onon  Name.  .        rrr-    .    .7/         .  .7    >   t.  . 

rm     c,                     •    ^     ^           I  2«  a  yvindmill.  and  that  Fnnce 

1  he  Story  occurs  tn  Laxto7i  and  7-,,        7   /i   7  .\    ^7     tit- 

,       ,      "^          ,         ^  •     7     ,     .  Edward  fled  into  the  Minor  (or 

elsewhere,    and  particularly  in  ^       \    -n  ■             a    1      1.       ^l 

r    ..         '  ,      ,      .      .          ^  Grey)  rriers.      And  -when   the 

l^atin  at  the  beginning  of  an  ,           ,       ^.,               ,,     ,,7-     7  \ 

, ,        „          -,rc<,         J'  ,/  ^  two  ostes  (these  are  the  Words) 

old    vellum     MS  \     of    Gejfry  ^    ^^                                      j 

,,             ,,         ,              ,  7    r.    I  ,  inet,   there  was   many   a    modre 

Monmouth  andvenerable  Bede's  ■.       -l^    ^               j           j 

_-.                .          ,        ,       ,          ^  Sonne   broght    to    grounde,   and 

History       in      the     hands      of  ,,      ,          %  ai                    \  ^ 

,^         ,     _,         ,      AT,,  the  kynge  of  Al may ne  was  taken 

my     learned    triend.      Ihomas  .            .    ,      .,,      i    .            , 

^     ,              „            /  ma  wyndemylle,    pat   som  tyrae 

Jtiaiclinson,  Esq;,  where  never.  ,  ,         en             ha 

,    ,                      ,    -^r^r^    rx        i  "^^^    duKc    ot    Lomewalie,    and 

iheless   are   only  XXX  Daugh.  g.^  j,^^^^^^   ^^^   ^^  ^^^   p^^.^^^ 

iers     mentioned    of  Dioclecian. 

Tho'    there   is  not  one  material  * * 

point  of  History  in  Mr.  Ward's         *• '■  ' ' 

3IS.  but  what  is   already   well        1 •.  •.  •  • 

kno-xn,    and  far     better     and  I  have  put  points,    because    a 

more  fully  delivered  in  the  ori.  little  more  than  a  line    (which 

ginal  of  Robert   of  Gloucester,  would    have    quite     JiWd    the 

that  I  printed,  yet  'tis   a  great  page)    is    plainly    eras'd     (the 

Curiosity,    and  worth  preserv.  Rasure  being   very  visible)  by 

ing,  being  really  different  (as  I  know    not    what    hand,     on 

far  as   I  can  remember)  from  purpose  to  make  one     believe^ 


•  E  quo  quidem  Cod-  MS.   ipse  penes  me  apographum  fragmenti  hvjus  historici,  ad  Al- 
iinam  pertinentis,  Jiabeo.     ^  ColU  nostr.  MSS.  106.  p.  82r 


GLOSSARY 


617 


'^possible,  that  the  book  is 
compleat;  for  zohich  reason  a 
late^  I  suppose  the  same,  hand 
hath  added  the  Word  Finis  to  it-, 
tho*  ^tis  certain  His  an  iinper. 
feet  MS.  and  I  do  not  doubt, 
but  it  concluded,  as  Robert 
of  Gloucester  himself  did,  at 
the  Beginning  of  Edward  the 
Isfs.  Reign,  to  which  Period 
perhaps  another  Picture  at  the 
End  of  the  Book  relates.  At 
the  beginning  of  the  MS.  [on 
the  backside  of  the  first  Picture) 
is  written 

Jo:  Hales  1640. 
and  below    that    again  by   the 
same  hand,    on  the  same  page, 

Jo:  Hales. 
I  first  thought,  that  this  had 
been  the  hand  writing  of  the 
famous  Mr.  John  Hales  of 
Eaton,  and  that  the  Book  be. 
long'd  to  him  ;  but  I  am  now 
of  opinion  with  Mr.  Ward, 
that  it  rather  belonged  to  the 
Fumily  of  the  Hales'' s  of  Co, 
veniri/,  and  that,  perhaps,  it 
came  from  the  Priory  of  Co. 
•ventry.  This  Family  lately 
dwelt  at  Coventry,  and  John 
Bale  says  thus  of  one  of  their 
Ancestors  '  ;  JOHANNES 
HAYLES,  vel  HALESIUS,  il- 
lustris  Generis  Homo,  bonarum- 
que  literarum  peritus,  Coventrice 
magnificas  erexit  Scholas,  ac  pro 
pueris  iustituendis  edidit 


Introductiones  quasdam,  Lib, 
I. 

Claruit  anno  Domini  1548. 
And  I  am  the  rather  inclined 
to  be  of  this  opinion,  from 
some  things  that  I  have  heard 
from  my  worthy  Friend,  Mr. 
Francis  Taylor,  M.A.  and  FeL 
low  of  University. College. 
The  said  John  Hales,  as  Du^ 
gdale  also  observes  *,  was  the 
same  that  Leland  calls  i,  Hales 
with  the  clubbe  Foot. 

lorn,  lost,  was  lost. 

lorne,  lost.  Sed  in  Appendice 
ad  Pra;f.  Num.  XF.  learn  de. 
notat. 

los,  praise. 

losengere,  flatterer. 

lote,  lot. 

lotes,  lots. 

loth,  lothsomness,  irksomness,  loth, 
some,  lot, 

lothe,  lot. 

louand,  loving. 

louh,  low,  lower,  laughed. 

loanes,lowness,lowliness,  humility. 

lout,  loyter,  tarry,  stay. 

loute,  bow,  stoop,  bow  to,  to  bozn. 
to,  to  honour,  bows  to,  stoops. 

lowe,  love. 

lowed,  praised,  said. 

luf,  love. 

lufe,  love. 

lufed,  loved. 

lufes,  loves,  love. 


■  J.  Baleus  de  Script,  p.  106.  Lib-  S**'' 
vol- IV.  p.  91. 


Antiquities  of  Warwickshire  p.  112.    ^  IHn. 
lufly. 


618 


GLOSSARY. 


lufly,  lovely. 

Lundreis,  the  Londoners. 

lusk,  to  lus/c,  to  be  idle,  to  be  lazy. 

Lyndesay,  p.    311.    Lindsey,  one 

part  of   Lincolnshire,    as  may 

appear  here  from  Lindsay  and 

Kesteven  being  joyn^d  together. 
Lyndseie,  p.  248.    Lindsey,    Lin^ 

colnshire. 
iyfh,  water,  ship,  a  navie,  a  fleet, 

tenement. 
lyuand,  living. 
'lyue,  life,  live,   lives.      Salle  j>on 

neuer  jti  lyve,  thou  shall  never 

in  thy  life. 


M. 


mad,  made. 

madon,  maiden,  scd  in  Append,  ad 
Prctf.  Num.  XV,  idem  est  quod 
made. 

madones,  maidens. 

madon  hode_,  maidenhead,  maiden 
state. 

magneles,  military  engins. 

magre,  maugre,  in  spight  of,  whe.. 
ther  one  will  or  no. 

Mahoun,  Mahometanism,  Maho- 
met. 

mak,  make. 

makand,  making. 

makes  assay,  make  essay ^  make 
tryal. 


malisoun,  malediction,  curse. 

Malmcestre,  p.  46.  Malmsbury, 
and  so  in  p.  258.  according  to 
-the  vogue   of  our  other    Chro- 


nicles ;  but  if  zae  follow  the 
French,  we  must  interpret  it 
(contrary  to  the  tenour  of  our 
Historians)  in  both  places  Man- 
chester. 

manace,  menace,threatning,  threat. 

manaced,  inhabited,  kept,  menaced. 

manauntie,  maintenance. 

mandement,  commandment,  com- 
mand. 

manere,  manner,  manners.  j^at 
manere,  the  manners. 

maners,  manners,  manours. 

manfesours,  ill  doers,  malefactours. 

mangnel,  military  en  gin. 

mansbond,  slaves. 

mantelle,  mantle,  cloak. 

manymoj  many  more. 

manyone  sive  manyon,  many  q, 
one. 

marchandz,  merchants. 

Marche,  Marches. 

marchis,  marquess. 

mare,  p.  S5.  more. 

mareis,  marshes. 

Mariole,  little  Mary. 

marite  —  gaf  marite,  p.  210.  mar- 
ried, gave  in  marriage. 

mas,  makes,  fulle  bare  mas  many 
wone,  makes  many  a  dwelling, 
vel  habitation,  full,  vel  very 
bare. 

mast,  most. 

maste,  most. 

mate,  companion. 

Mathatie,   Maitathias. 

maugre,  notwithstanding,  in  spight 
of,  in  spight  of  teeth. 

Maumetrie,  Mahometanisfn. 

maundement,  commandment,  com' 


1 


mand. 


may, 


GLOSSARY. 


619 


may,  maid.)  virgin,  maiden,  maijy 
may^st, 

maydon,  maiden,  maid. 

maydon  hede,  chastity. 

mayn,  power. 

mayne,  ])ozcer. 

maynhed,  maimed. 

maynpis,  p.  138,  mainprize,  bail, 
the  taking  or  receiving  a  man  into 
friendly  custody,  (as  it  signifieth 
in  our  common  Law)  that  other- 
wise is,  or  might  be,  committed 
to  the  mercy  of  the  prison,  upon 
security  given  for  his  forth-com- 
ing at  a  day  assigned.  See  Dr. 
Cowell's  Interpreter. 

mayntend,  maintained. 

mayntenyng,  maintaining,  mana- 
ging. 

mcj  men,  me,  to  me,  I.  me  mer. 
uailes  of  my  boke,  /  wonder  at 
my  book.  me  Jjouht,  men 
thought,  methoughts,  [thought. 

mede,  mead,  meadow,  meads,  mea- 
dows, reward,  meed,  stipend. 
he  wild  take  no  mede  ];at  was 
ateynt  of  wikkednes,  he  would 
take  no  money,  or  bribe,  to  save 
him  that  was  attainted  of  wicked, 
ness. 

medeled,  mixed. 

medis,  meads,  meadozsos. 

medle,  meddling,  business,  mix. 
tare  of  business. 

medue,  meadow. 

meke,  humble,  meek,  mild,  fulle 
meke,  p.  167.  very  humbly. 

mekes,  humbles. 

menage,  manage,  business. 

mene,  moan,  grieve,  mean,  men. 
tion,  commemoration,  lament. 
Vol.  IL 


to  mene,  in  memory. 
menge,  mingle,   7nix. 
ment,    meant,     mean^d,    thought, 

intended,    design''d,    mentioned, 

understood,    was   meant,  made 

viention. 
menyng,  mention. 
merchaundic,  merchandize. 
mercled,  amerced,  mulcted. 
merk,  mark. 
merke,  mark. 
merkis,  marks. 
mervaile,  marvel,  wonder. 
merwayl,  marvel. 
meselle,   leprous,   leper,      meselle 

houses,  lazar-houses. 
meselrie,  leprosy. 
messe,  mass. 
meste,   most,   chiefest.     ^Jise  were 

hede    &  meste,    these   were  the 

heads  and  the  chief  or  principal. 
mete,  moat,  a  ditch  encompassing 

a    Mansion   House    or    Castle, 

meat,  (esca,  cibus,)  food,  meet, 

to  meet,  metelesse,  without  meat. 
metesel,   meat    sitting,   (from    the 

Saxon  mece,  meat,  and   pelde,  a 

seat)  dinner  time. 
mette,  met,  dreamed. 
meusk,  mercy. 
meyne,  company,   retinue,  power^ 

multitude,  people,  army. 
mikelle,  much. 
mikille,  much. 
mirie,  merry, pleasant, 
mirk,  dark. 

mirke,  jnark.     In  mirke,  by  mark. 
miry,  merry. 
misauentoure,   misadventure,  mis. 

chance. 

c  c  misau^n- 


620 


GLOSSARY. 


misauentours,  nmadventures. 

misbede,  declared  enmity,  ivrons;'d, 
did  wrong,  didst  amioS,  did  wrong 
to. 

misberyng,   misharing. 

misborrij  misborn,  misbehaved. 

mischcne,  7idschance,  loss. 

mischeue,  mischief,  have  mis- 
chance, mischiefs,  mischances,  does 
mischief.  ]>ei  salle  mischeue, 
thej/  shall  rue  it. 

mischuous,  mischievous. 

misdede,  misdeed,  misdoing,  7nis- 
deeds,  misdoings,  transgressions. 

misdiyuen,  misdriven,  drove  a- 
way. 

miseyse,  decay,  poverty. 

misfare,  fare  amiss. 

misfer'd,  misfared,  fared  amiss, 
did  amiss. 

misfore,  misfared,  fared  amiss. 

mishapnes,  mishappens,  fares  ill, 
meets  with  bad  chances. 

mishappenyng,  }nishap. 

misleued,  misbelieved, 

misnam,  mistook. 

mispaied,  displeased. 

mispayed,  displeased. 

mister,  p.  94.  art. 

mistere,  p.  169.  craft,  occupation, 
trade,  but  in  the  French  it  is 
gentyl  mester.  —  Nous  sumes 
de  Antyoche  de  gentyl  mes- 
ter. 

mOj  more,  many,  might, 

moble,  moveable. 

mobles,  moveables,  moveable. 

mon,  man. 

mone,  mention,  mind,  vinan,  la- 
ment,  cry,  represent  in  a  sorrow- 


full  manner,  lamentation,  it  was' 
great  pity,  money,  coyn.  woman 
vveddyng  to  mone.  to  money  or 
to  biii/^  procure  or  purchase,  a 
xuoman's  wedding  or  marriage. 
mones,  mentions,  mindest,  moneys. 
And  here,  in  reference  to  the 
ivord  moneys,  /  cannot  but 
transcribe,  ivhut  I  find  in  the 
IIl<i.  Part  of  Cax ton's  ymage 
or  myrrour  of  the  world, 
which  is  a  most  rare  Book 
(printed  in  1 480  J  and  was  lent 
me  by  the  ingenious  Mr.  Ward 
of  Longbridge.  As  there  are 
many  things  in  that  book,  which 
are  very  odd  and  singular,  so  it 
luill  be  very  diverting  to  the 
reader,  to  read  the  Author's  no- 
tion about  money,  especially  too 
since  the  Remark  will  be  of  some 
service  in  illustrating  our  old 
English  Coyns: 


^  Here  it  declareth  for  what 
cause  monoye  was  first  estab- 
lisshid. 

'THHE     monoyes    were    estab- 
lisshed  first  |  for   as  moche 
as  they  had  not  of  alle  thinges 
necessarye   to  gydre   That  one 
had  whete  |  another  had  wyn  | 
and     another    cloth     or     other 
wares  |  he    that    had    whete  | 
had     not     wyn      withoute     he 
chaunged    one     for     another  | 
and  so  muste  they  dayly  chaunge 
one     for     another     j      For    to 
hau«  • 


GLOSSARY. 


621 


haue  that  they  had  not  j  as 
they  that  knewe  none  other 
mene  I  whan  the  philosophres 
sawe  this  |  they  dyde  so  moche 
that  they  establisshed  wyth  the 
lordes  somtyme  regnyng  |  a  ly- 
til  lyght  thynge  whiche  euery 
man  myght  here  with  him  to 
bye  that  was  nedeful  to  hym  | 
and  behoefFul  for  his  lyf  | 
And  so  ordeyned  by  aduyse 
to  gydre  a  thynge  whiche  was 
not  ouer  dere  |  ne  holden  for 
oner  vyle  |  and  that  it  were 
of  somme  vahire  for  to  bye 
and  vse  wyth  all  true  mar- 
chandyse  one  wyth  another  j 
by  vertue  of  suche  enseygne  | 
And  that  it  were  comune  ouer- 
all  and  in  all  maner  [  And 
establed  thenne  a  lytil  moneye 
j  whiche  shold  goo  and  haue 
cours  thurgh  the  world  |  And 
by  cause  it  lad  men  by  the 
waye  and  mynystered  to  them 
that  was  necessarye  |  it  was 
called  monoye  ]  That  is  as 
moche  to  saye  |  as  to  gyue 
to  a  man  al  that  hym  behoueth 
for  his  lyuyng  |  Monos  in  gre- 
kyssh  langage  is  as  moche  te 
saye  |  as  one  thyng  only  |  For 
thenne  was  but  one  maner  of 
monoye   in  all  the  world — But 


now  euery  man  maketh  monoye 
at  his  playsir  by  which  they 
desuoy  and  goo  out  of  the  wa3'e 
more  |  than  yf  ther  were  but 
one  coyne  only  |  For  by  this 
cause  is  seen  ofte  plente  of 
dyuerse  monoyes  j  Thus  estab- 
lisslied  not  the  philosophres  I 
For  they  establisshed  for  to 
saue  the  state  of  the  world  I 
And  I  saye  it  for  as  moche 
y f  the  monoye  were  out  of  grotes 
and  pens  of  siluer  so  thenne  it 
shold  be  of  lasse  weyght  and 
lasse  of  valewe  j  and  that  shold 
be  better  for  to  here  by  the 
way  for  poure  folke  j  and  bet- 
ter shold  be  easid  for  the  helpe 
of  their  nedes  to  their  lyuyug. 
And  for  none  other  cause  it 
"was  ordeyned  first  j  For  the 
monoyes  be  not  preysed  but  for 
the  gold  and  syluor  that  is 
therin  [  And  they  that  estab. 
lisshed  it  first  |  made  it  right 
lytil  and  lyght  |  For  the  more 
ease  to  be  born  al  aboute  | 
where  men  wold  goo  |  For 
now  in  late  dayes  as  in  the 
begynnyng  of  the  Regne  of 
kynge  Edward  '  and  longe  after 
was  no  monoye  curraunt  in 
englond  but  pens  and  half- 
pens    and    ferthynges   [       And 


The  Hid.     See  Camden's  Remains,  p.  172.     Lond.  1629. 4». 

cc2  he 


62f 


GLOSSARY. 


he  orloyned  first  the  grote  and 
half  grote  of  syluer  [  And  noble 
I  half  noble  and  ferthyng  in 
golde  I 

mens,  admonishctk^  inindeth. 

mony,  many. 

monyng,  morning.     See  wonying. 

mor,  more. 

more,  moor^  greater. 

more,  p.  242,  3J6,  moor,  hilt,  bar- 
ren ground.  See  the  zoord  fol- 
loicing. 

mores,  ;>.310.  moors,  barren  moun. 
tains,  heaths  or  barren  spaces 
of  ground,  meers,  fens,  or  loio 
mcist  or  marshy  places,  and  so 
it  seems  to  signify  here  from 
the  zoord  medis  immediately 
following.  The  Words  moor  and 
meer  in  the  South  parts  of  Eng- 
land are  confounded,  zchcnce 
Uis,  that  the  great  meer  near 
Bicester  is  called  Otmoor,  when 
it  should  be  Otmeer  or  Otmere. 
The  JVord  mora,  also  is  taken  in 
both  senses  in  the  middle-aged 
Latin  Writers,  tho"  it  more  f re- 
tjuently  signifies  in  them  a  fenny 
or  moist  place,  and  so  Uis  ce/- 
tainly  to  be  understood  in  John 
of  Glastonbury,  zchen  he  is 
speaking  of  the  XII.  Hides  of 
Glastonbury.  Betzseen  liother- 
ficld  Grays  and  Nettlebed  in 
Oxfordshire  is  an  Hamlet  called 
llighmor,  zchich  I  once  thought^ 
should  be  liigli  meer,   meer  sig. 


nifying  often  a  boundary;  but 
I  am  since  sufficiently  satisfy''dy 
that  it  is  rightly  called  High- 
mor  or  Highmore,  being  an  higky 
barren,  dry  Ground,  where  is 
a  prodigious  Quantity  of  black 
Cherries,  uhich  grozo  in  the  very 
Hedges.  And  just  above  Sand- 
ford,  as  zee  go  from  Oxford  ta 
Dorchester,  is  a  dry  barren 
Soil,  zchich  they  call  Basse-More 
(not  from  one  Bassus  %  a  Ro- 
man General,  that  got  a  great 
Victory  here,  as  some  have  right 
foolishly  suggesied,but)  from  if  9 
being  a  lozc  Moor,  or  lozo  dry 
barren  ground,  in  opposition  to 
the  high  dry  barren  ground, 
that  is  farther  off  than  thiSy 
being  upon  the  Hilt  just  be- 
yond the  way  that  turns  off 
to  Nezcnham  Courtney,  and 
may  therefore  be  properly  sti- 
led,  as  the  Moor  by  Nettle^ 
bed  is,  IJighmor  or  Highmore. 
And  this  mention  of  mor63 
brings  to  my  mind  a  remark- 
able Passage  (concerning  a 
dry  ground,  caltd  Hob  MoreJ 
that  occurrs  in  a  Letter  that 
a  as  zerit  to  me  from  Mickle- 
ton  in  Gloucestershire  on  Sa- 
turday July  SS^'.  1723.  by 
my  very  zcorthy  Friend,  Ri- 
chard Graves,  Esq;.  It  is  this. 


Coll.  nnstr.  MSS.  Vol.  9.5.  p.  G. 


•'  Coll.  nostr.  MSS.  Vol.  102.  p.  21. 


GLOSSARY. 


623 


I  was  mightily  pleas'd  with 
a  Statue  I  met  with  upon 
the  Road,  the  Morning  that  I 
came  from  York.  It  stands 
about  half  a  Mile  from  the 
City  on  the  right  hand  of 
the  Road  to  London,  about  a 
Land's  Length  from  it  in  a 
short  Lane,  that  leads  down 
to  a  Common,  called  Hob 
More.  It  is  of  a  Person  in 
Armour,  tis  Face  bare,  and 
very  comely  ;  cross- legg'd, 
with  Spurrs  en  ;  girt  about 
with  a  Sword,  and  Belt ; 
and  a  lajg«  Shield  on  his  left 
Arm,  with  these  Arms  there- 
on, viz.  three  Waterbou. 
■  gets ;     which    I    remerabred 


I  had  seen  the  day  before, 
carved  on  the  Shields  in  se- 
verall  Places  of  the  Stone- 
work in  the  Minster. 
".  It  had  been  tumbled  down, 
and  lay  neglected  for  seve- 
rall  years,  till  it  was  repayr- 
ed,  and  set  up  again  about 
6.  years  since  ;  and  tho'  they 
have  now  set  it  upright  upon 
a  Pedestal,  I  am  apt  to  think 
it  at  first  lay  along  upon 
an  Altar,  like  another  Mo- 
nument ;  for  the  Backside  is 
square  and  flat,  and  seem's 
to  have  joyn'd  to  something 
'  else ;  and  upon  this  they 
'  have  put  the  following  lii- 
'  scription,  vip. 


"   Tfiis  Image  long  Hob's  Ncune  ha's  bore, 
"   Who  was  a  Knight  in  tijne  of  yore, 
*'  And  gave  this  Common  to  the  Poor. 

''   This  ivas  erected.  Anno,   1717, 
"   W.  Tesh,  L.  Dnrcy,  J.  Yates,  J.  Lum, 
"  Pasture  Masters. 
It  was  given  to  the  Poor  of  Mickle  gate  Ward. 


jnorn,  morning. 

morne,  morning,  morrow,  ab  A. 
Sax.  majine. 

piornes,  mornings, 

mosard,  a  muser,  dreamer,  lin- 
gerer, cessator,  gazer,  a  dull, 
heavy,  lazy  fellow^  from  the 
French  musard. 

most,  7nust. 

moste  &  leste,  the  greatest  and  the 
least. 

raostret,  shewed. 

mot,    mighty    must,    vdghtest,  may, 


mayst.      whi     ne     mot    I    se  ? 

ivhy  may  J  not  see  ?  why  might  1 

not  see  ? 
mote,  moat,  moot,  meet,   move,  pla- 

citatio,  disceptatio,    exercise  or 

arguing  of  Cases  in   Law,  from 

the   Saxon    mot;    or   gemot,    a 

meeting  together. 
nioten,  p.  22.   at  most,    vel   forsi- 

tan  hy  measure. 
motoun,  viutton, 
nioun,  viay,  can. 

mournand,      mourning.  fulle 

4iC  3  mourn- 


C24 


GLOSSARY. 


moiirnand    was    his   chere,    his 

cheer    or    countenance   was   very 

dolcfuU  or  dismal. 
mowe,  mai/. 
musard,  dreamer,  mussy  felloiv ,  the 

mu-.sy.     See  mosard. 
my,  mine,  my. 
layrhe,  much. 
inyi;htles,    iviihout  viight,    lailhout 

strength. 
myKellt;,  much,  great,  many, 
inykiJIe,  jnuch. 
my  J  lies,  rniils. 

niyiisyng,  ?ninding,  remembrance. 
my  in,  tnind,  endeavour. 
myraculis;,  miracles. 
myraculus,  miracles. 
myn,  merry. 
my  lie,  merry,  pleasant. 
mys,  amiss,  grievances,  mischances, 

misfortunes. 
mystere,  business,  need,  occasion. 

N. 

nages,  nags. 

nakned,  made  naked. 

nam,  took,  he  took,  take,  xvent,  ap- 
prouch'd,  7night  go.  Ageyn  R. 
lie  nam,  he  approached  toivards 
R. 

namen,  took. 

nape,  neck. 

nasee,  nosy. 

ne,  nor,  neither,  not,  no,  no  wote, 
ivot  not,  know.  not.  I  ne  wote, 
I  know  not.  nouht  ne  slepe, 
did  not  sleep  at  all.  ne  wille, 
ivill  not.  ne  jode,  did  not  go. 
J?at  he  ne  perceyue,  that  he 
does    not    perceive.        ne    M'old 


turne  ne  change,  wotdd  not 
turn  nor  change,  more  joy  ne 
had  Jei  haue,  you  need  not  bid 
them  have  tnore  Joy.  ne  con- 
sent to  resoun,  not  to  consent 
to  reason,  ne  rouht,  cared  not, 
were  not  scrupulous. 

nede,  need,  needs. 

nedes,  needs,  necessities. 

nedis,  needs. 

nedly,  necessarily. 

neghand,    approaching. 

neghed,  approached. 

uehi,  nigh,  near. 

neid,  nothing,  no  whit,  need,  need 
tvas,  it  wc  inecessary. 

neih,  n/gh. 

neihand,  nigh-hand,  near  to. 

nemnid,  named. 

nene,  nine. 

ner,  nearer. 

nere,  near. 

nerhand,  near  hand,  nighhand, 
nigh  at  hand,  approaching,  ap- 
proached. 

nerre,  near,  nearer.  negh  him 
nerre,  approach  or  come  near 
hijH. 

nesch,  soft,  ease. 

nessh,  soft. 

nesshe,  nice.  ncsshe  &  hard, 
niceness  and  hardship,  for  nessh 
or  hard,  either  for  niceness  or 
roughness,  i.  e.  upon  no  account. 
Maken  nesshe  is  interpreted 
molHfico  and  molleo  (so  'tis  ex- 
pressed for  mollio)  in  the 
Promptorium  parvulorum  sive 
clericorum,  (call'd  also  MedulJa 
Granimaticae)  a  very  scarce  fo- 
lio   book,    I  rinted    by    Richard 


GLOSSARY. 


625 


Pi/nson  in  the  year  1499.  being 
the  14'*.  year  of  the  Reign  of 
K.  Henry  VII.  at  tchich  time 
it  was  look'd  upon  as  a  Work 
of  great  use  and  excellency,  as 
may  appear  from  this  printed 
note  at  the  End.  ^  Ad  laudem 
et  ad  honorem  omni|>oteiitis 
dei.  et  intemerate  genitricis 
eius.  Finit  exceJleiitissimum 
opus  exiguis  magiiisque  sco- 
Jasticis  vtilissimum  quod  nuucu- 
patur  Medulla  grammatice. 
Inpressum  per  egregiuni  Rich- 
ardum  Pyuson.  in  expensis 
virtuosorum  viiorum  Frederici 
egmondt  &  Petri  post  pascha. 
anno  domini.  M.CCCC.  non- 
agesimo  nono.  Decima  V*.  die 
mensis  Maij.  The  Author  was 
a  preaching  or  black  Fryer,  and 
folloiu'd  the  dialect  of  the  East 
parts  of  England,  to  ivhich  he 
had  been  used  from  his  Infancy, 
as  he  tells  us  in  his  Prologue. 
His  Name  was  Richard  Fraun- 
cis,  as  I  find  by  this  Note, 
xvritten,  in  an  old  hand,  at  the  be- 
ginning  of  a  Copy  of  this  Book, 
that  was  lent  me  by  Mr,  Ward 
of  Lmgbndge,  viz.  ^  Nomen 
Compilatoris  istius  libri  est 
Frater  Ricardus  Fraunces,  inter 
quatuor  parietes  pro  Christo 
inclusus, 
nete,  ncats,  labouring  beasts,  any 
kind  of  beeves,  (as  Ox,  Cow, 
Steer  or    Heifer,)    Sax.    neac. 


jiimentum. 

nettille,  nettle. 

neuen,  name^  7ia7ned,  nepheiu,  men- 
tion. ]>at  haf  herd  neuen, 
that  I  have  heard  named. 

neueiie,  named,  called. 

neuer,  never,  neither. 

neuer  a  dele,  never  a  ivhit,  never  a 
bit.  neuer  for  ]7an,  never  for  that. 

neuerles,  nevertheless,  neuerles  Jje 
forward  held  what  so  was 
in  his  J70uht,  nevertheless  what- 
ever ivas  in  his  thoughts  about 
holding  or  keeping  the  covenant . 
or  agreement. 

newed,  named. 
nex,  next. 

nien,  nine. 

nientend,  nineteenth. 

nisse,  navy,  ships. 

no,  710,  nor,  not,  now,  neither,  no 
dure,  not  endure,  no  J^ing,  in 
nothing,  at  all.  no  Jjeles,  ne- 
vertheless, no  weys,  no  ways, 
in  no  wise. 

noblay,  nobleness,  honour. 

nobley,  nobleness,  splendour,  nobi- 
lity, honour. 

nobleye,  nobleness,  greatness. 

noen,  noon,  midday,  bituex  vn- 
deron  &  noen,  p.  18.  betwixt 
nine  a  clock  in  the  7norning  and 
noon  or  the  middle  of  the  day* 

noght,  nought,  nothing,  not. 

noie,  annoy. 

noied,    annoied- 

noke,  nook,  notch,  nitch,  bit,  hole, 

nom,  took,  taken,  undertook. 
c  c  4  nome. 


626 


GLOSSARY. 


nome,  took. 

nomon.,(ake, (oak,  taken,  resorted, 
uppl^ed,  produced 

non,  none,  no,  no  one,  noon,  not, 
nothing,  non  ne  suld  j?ei  spare, 
thci/  should  fiot  spare  one.  on 
non  oj7er  side,  on  no  other  side, 
on  fie/iher  side,  neuer  more  suld 
j^ei  non,  never  more  should  none 
of  them. 

none,  noon. 

I  one  tide,  noon  time. 

nonhut,  no  house. 

nons,  nonce,  for  jje  nons,  p.  108. 
(de  industria,  opera  dedita,)  for 
the  nonce,  dcsignedlj/,  on  pur. 
pose. 

Nortisj  people  on  the  North  side 
of  the  Illumes,  NorKegians, 
Northern  men. 

iiorise,  nurse,  nourish. 

norised,  nourished. 

Normand,  Normans. 

Noimant,  Normans,  Normandi/. 

nomen,  taken. 

Norreis,  Norzeegians,  Northern 
people.  Northern  men.  All 
people  beijond  Ilumber  icere 
styled  Norreis,  bat  in  p.  32. 
those  of  Northumberland  are 
particularly  called  by  that  name, 
whence  'tis  that  Florence  of 
Worcester,  on  thai  occasion, 
makes  use  of  the  Word  North- 
imbrenses. 

Nor(heren,  Northern  men,  of  the 
Northern  folk. 

Northermore,  more  Northernli/, 
)"ore  Norfhzcardly. 

Northreii,  Northern  people,  north- 
cm  men,    Northumbrians ;  but 


indeed  in  p.  32.  something  more, 
than  those  of  Northumberland, 
is  to  be  understood. 

norture,  nurture,  nourishing,  pa~ 
rentage,  education. 

Norwais,  Norwegians. 

not  for  J7i,  not  but  that,  not  a  dele, 
not  a  zchit. 

note,  zorestle.  With  doulity  fo 
to  note,  zcith  strong  foe  to  con- 
tend or  grapple. 

noj^eles  sive  no  j^e  less,  neverthe- 
less. 

nouli,  not,  nought,  nothing. 

nouht,  nought,  nothing,  not,  not 
at  all,  none,  nouht  J^ien  fulle 
fer,  not  very  far  from  thence, 
nouht  ne  slepe,  did  not  sleep  at 
all. 

noiire,  no  zzhere. 

noujjer,  neither,  nouj^er  whi- 
dere,  not  hozo,  no  zchere  hozc. 
noujjer  of  som  no  alle,  ne  wist 
what  J7ei  dies,  no  body  knezc, 
zrhat  zcas  chosen  by  them,  or, 
710  body  knezc.,  zchat  anszcer  zoos 
brought.  For  the  French  is, 
Respouns  quels  il  port  put  nul 
home  sauer. 

nowgte,  nought,  nothing. 

nowse,  noise. 

noyse,  annoy,  vexy  annoyance,  da- 
mage, hurt,  disturbance. 

noyed.  annoyed,  vexed. 

nunn,  none. 

nyce,  stupid,  dull,  silly. 

nycdy,  foolishly. 

nyen,  7iinc. 

nyent,  ninth. 


GLOSSARY. 


nyjte,  nigh. 

nym,  take. 

nymme,  take. 

ny]7,  (ny^,  Sax.  malitia,)  xdcked- 

ness,  naughtiness,  lewdness. 
nythe,  naiigiitmesSy  strije. 


O 


o,  one,  an,  of,  or. 
oblige,  bind. 
oboweii,  abovCk 
o  brode,  abroad. 

o  cliance  sive  ochance,  by  chance^ 
of  chance,   peradveniure,   per- 
haps,  it  may  be. 
o  dele,  a  devil. 
o  deuel,  a  devil. 

o  drehi  sive  o  dreigh,  aside,  azsajj, 
drazo   in  sive   on.       &    do  j>am 
hold    o    drehi,    and   drazc,    vel 
force,   vel   drive,  them   in   sive 
into  hold.    He  bad  j^am  alle  draw 
]7am  o  dreigh.     He  bid  them  all 
drazo  themselves  away,  sive,  He 
ordered  them   all  to  withdraw 
themselves. 
of?  0/5  off,  from,  against^ for,  by, 
out  of.     of  was  jare,  was  pre- 
pared or  7-eadj/.      of  fayth,   in 
truth,     of  load,  off  the  land,  out 
of  the  land. 
pfBce,  business. 

of  leten,  esteemed  of,  approvW  of. 
o  fote,  on  foot,  of  foot. 
ofright,  affrighted. 
oft,  after,  aftericards,  often,  oft, 
oftentide,   oftentimes. 
oftsone,  again. 
oft  tide,  oftentimes. 
egast,  agast,  astonished. 


oglift,  affraid,  surprized. 
oglyft,  ugli/,  bedaubed. 
ograntj  agreed. 
ogrefe,  of  grief. 

ogrisen,  to  fear  greatly,  to  tremble. 
oijjer,  either. 
oknowen,  know. 
o  liche  sive  oliche,  alike. 
o  lif,  alive. 
olife,  alive. 
o  lite,  a  little. 
o  loft,  aloft. 
olofte,  aloft. 
o  lyue,  alive. 

on,  one,   on,  in,    at,   a    certainy 
against,   but  on   was  marinere, 
but  only  one  that  was  a  mariner. 
on  one,  in  one,  alone  or  with  a 
very  small  retinue  to  attend  him. 
on  a  gate,  at  the  gate,     on  one, 
at    once,    always,    continually. 
oTi  Code's  enmys,  against  God's 
enemies,     on    lyue,     alive,     on 
hand,     at    hand,    approachingj 
coming. 
o  name,  one  name. 
onde,  (anhelitus,)  breath,  fury, wic. 
kedness,  coiitention.    with    nyth 
&  onde,  with  the  utmost  malice 
and  vehemence.      See  Cotgrave 
and  Skinner.     Jt   is   a  French 
word,    signifying  a  wave  which 
goes  with  force.     'Tis  very  pro. 
perly   usUl,    in    Mr.    Sheldon's 
MS.  of  the  Lives  of  the  Saints, 
for  malice  or  fury,  zctth  respect 
to     the      unnatural     barbarity 
that   was    shezc'd    to    that    ad- 
mirable young  King,    St.   Ed- 
zcard  the   martyr  (who  is   very 
absurdly    represented    with    a 
long 


328  GLOSSARY. 

long   beard    in    the    old    Paint-         Library)    by     his     Step  •  Mo- 
ings     of     All  -  Souls      College         thtr  : 

Seynt  Edward  j^e  gouge  martir  was  kyng  of  Engelonde : 
gong  y  marterid  he  was  ]7oiw  trecherie  and  onde. 

In    which     MS.      (to   note   this         with     which     this     holy    Prince 
by   the   v^uy)     is    the    following         was  slain : 
mention     made     of     the     Kiafe, 

A,  sere,  quod  J^is  luj'cr  quene,  whanne  hit  so  schal  be, 

I  wol  to  ]?<-  drynke,  and  su}?e  ]7ou  sca.t  hym  se. 

A  redy  was  J'e  botelcr,  and  brcugt  hem  drynke  anon, 

Amoiige  alle  J^e  oJ»er  schrewyn  j^er  com  on  gon. 

And  weiromede  the  kyng,  and  made  him  ioie  y  now. 

And  custe  hym  Judas  '  cos,  and  J^er  wi]?  hym  slow. 

For  as  he  stoupid  adoun,  and  *prest  was  y  now. 

In  his  wombe  he  put  aknyf,  and  jte  guttis  adoun  drow. 

A  ionge  knyf  and  asmale,  as  me  may  git  y  se. 

For  in  fe  churche  of  Caijersham  he  hauyj?  jeris  y  be. 

N':w  as  this  Passage  ought  to  Glastonbury,  instead  of  Shafts- 
be  compared  with  what  I  have  bury  J  are  the  following  Verses 
observed  in  §.  VI.  of  my  Pre-  relating  to  K.  Edward  the  Co?u 
face  to  Robert  of  Gloucester;  fessor,  which  plainly  confir7n  what 
so  I  desire  it  may  be  observ'dy  I  have  remark'd  in  my  Glossary  * 
that  in  this  MS.  at  the  End  to  Robert  of  Gloucester  about  the 
of  the  Account  of  K.  Edward  Month  of  Lud's  being  the  same 
the  Martyr  (whom  Caxton  er-  ivith  the  Month  of  March  : 
roneously  makes  to   be  buried  at 

The  Kyng  Atheldred  his   [A'.  Edw.  the  Martyr's"]   brojjer  goode 

man  was  y  nowe, 
Edward  was  his  sone  y  bote,  J^at  to  alle  godnesse  drowe. 
That  kyng  was  suJ7e  after  hym,  an  by  halwe  in  heuene  is. 
He  was  suje  yschryned,  at  Westmester  iwis. 


Kiss.  "  Beady.  3  yoc,  Lud. 

Four- 


GLOSSARY. 


629 


Fourtene  nyjt  *  vp  Myhelmasse.     His  dai  is  in  J^e  jere 
A  mydde  J^e  mounj^e  of  Lyde*y  J»at  itolde  here. 
God  for  loue  of  hem  bojje,  J'at  oure  kynges  were, 
Graunti  vs  J^at  we  mote  \v]\>  hym  ^  wonye  J>ere. 


The  Word  Lyde  is  the  same 
with  Robert  of  Gloucester's  Lud. 
And  the  Author's  noting,  that 
K.  Edward's  day  (he  means  the 
Confessor)  is  in  the  middle  of 
the  Month  of  Lyde,  shews  that 
March  is  meant  by  it.  For 
against  the  18'*.  of  that  Month, 
in  our  old  Kalendars,  we  have 
Edwardi  regis  &  mar. 

one,  only,  alone,  on. 

on  gan,  against,  on  the  other  part, 
cont'ariivise,  otherwise. 

on  gjt,  as  yet. 

ons,  one. 

open,  upon. 

opon,  vpon. 

or,  or,  ere,  before.  or  j^at,  ere 
that,  before,  or  he  foore,  before 
he  departed,  before  he  went  away, 
or  euer,  or  ever,  ere  ever,  before 
that. 

ordand,  ordain' d. 

ordine,  order,  ordinance,  ordained, 
in  orders,  clergymen. 

ordinez,  ordinances,  orders. 

ore,  before,  over,  ever,  ere,  hereto- 
fore. )7at  I  ore  of  ment,  that 
I  before  mentioned. 

orely,  early. 

©  resons,  of  reasons,  of  understand- 
ing, of  reasoning. 

orfreis,     A    French     Word    from 


or.  Gold,  and  frize  or  frise, 
and  signifieth  a  guard  or  welt 
of  Gold,  or  frizled  Cloth  of  Gold. 
"  Orfrais",  (suith  CotgraveJ 
"  broad  welts,  or  gards  of  gold, 
"  or  silver  imbroiderie  laid  on 
"  Copes,  and  other  Church-vest- 
"  ments.  In  old  time  the  Jack- 
"  ets,  or  Coat-armours  of  the 
"  Kings  gard  were  tearmed  so, 
"  because  they  were  covered 
"  with  Goldsmithes  worke. 

orisoun,  prayer, 

orly,  early. 

orribulle,  horrible. 

o  sonder  vcl  o  sondere,  asunder* 

ostage,  hostages,  pledges,  hostage, 
surety,  pledge,  pawn. 

oste,  host,  army. 

ostegers,  hostages. 

ostes,  hosts,  armies, 

Ostrece,  Austria, 

Ostrice,  Austria. 

o  strut,  astrut,  stretch'd  out. 

o  sundere,  asunder. 

oj^er,  other,  others,  the  other,  ojjer 
half  gere,  a  year  and  an  half. 
This  is  a  Saxonism.  See  .So- 
mner's  Sax.  Diet,  voc.  o]7<  jt 
healj:e,  and  his  Glossary  to  ihe 
Decern  Script  ores  voc.  marca. 

o  toure,  a  tower. 

o  tuyn,  asunder. 


That  is  accounted  (or  call'd)  here. 


3  Dwell. 


cso 


GLOSSARY. 


otuynne,  atico,  in  two  parts. 

o  twynne,  alwo,  separate. 

ouer,     over^     above,    ouer     ^ede, 

passed  over,   ouer  ronnen,  over- 

run.  ouer  rauht,  ovcr-came,  con.. 

quered,  from  the  Saxon  ojrejijiehc, 

victtis,  siiperatus,  fractus.  ouer 

alle,  over  all,  after  all. 
ouercomen,   co7iquered,  overcome. 
ouerhaf,  had  over. 
ouerhipped,    hopp'd  over,    skipped 

over,    ouerhipped    J7am    ouerhaf, 

kept  from  them  above  half. 
ouerhippis,    overhops,    hops   over, 

passes  by. 
ouerschaken,       overshook^     over. 

turned. 
ouertok,  undertook. 
ouer  wend,  go  over. 
buerwenyng,    presumption,     inso. 

lenci/,  pride,   arrogance,    over- 

zceeniug. 
oiierwhere,  evert/  where. 
ouh,  ought,  owest,  oh. 
ouht,  ought,  any  thing. 
ovoice,  one  voice. 
oure,     over,      oure     greuc,     over 

grievous. 
out,   ought,  out.  out  flie,  Jlie  out, 

make  Jlie    out,    drive   out.  out 

j^ring,  press    out,    squeeze    out, 

thrust   out.    out  wyn,    get  out. 

out  schete,    shot  out.  out  braid, 

took  out. 
oiijjcr,  cither. 
outhere,  either. 
outheys,    ouches,   nooks,    notches, 

{from    the    French     oche)     or 

rather  hitches,   ropes  or  pullies. 

Sec   Skinner  in   voc.    to   hitch. 


o  wile,  one  while. 
P. 

paemie,  the  pngan  or  heathen  coun~ 

try,  pagans,  paganism,  among 

the  heathens. 
paemy,  pagans. 
paen,  pagan. 
paenie,  pagans,  heathens. 
paied,  pleased,  appeased,  paid. 
paiemie,    paganistn.     j^e     folk    of 

paiemie  ^c  word  J^er  of  fer  gos, 

the   sayng    is    spread    thereof 

far  among  the  heathen  people. 
paien,    pagan,    heathen,    pagans. 

paien  lawe,  pagan  law,  heathen 

law. 
paiens,  pagans. 
paired,  impaired. 
paires,  perishes. 
pais,  poise,  weight. 
palaised,  palisadoed,  defended  with 

palisadoes,     impaled,      inclosed 

with  pales.  ^ 

paleise,  palace. 
palfray,    (palafridus,   mannus,  gra. 

darius,)  horse. 
pallion,     (pallium,)  pall. 
])a\lioux\,  pall. 
palmere,  pilgrim. 
paly,;;%. 
pantenere,  rascal,    ilk  a  pantenerc, 

every  scoundrel. 
pape,  pope. 
parage,  peerage. 

parche,  parks,  inclosures,  pearch. 
paringalle,  equals. 
parlement,     parliament,      council, 

assembly, 
ipartc,  part, 

par. 


GLOSSARV. 


dsi 


partise,  parties. 

party,  part,  a  share. 

pas,  peace,  j)assage,  passages,  pace, 
journey,  pass,  troop. 

pase,  passage,  travel,  case. 

Pask,  Easter.  Pask  tide,  Easter 
time.  Our  zaord  Easter  is  the 
same  with  the  Saxon  Eaj-teji, 
Eajtjie  or  Ojtep,  mho,  as  vener- 
able Bede  tells  '  us,  mas  a  God- 
dess of  the  Saxons,  in  honour  of 
whom  Sacrifices  zi'ere  offered 
about  that  time  of  the  year. 
And  thence  it  zoas,  that  they 
called  Jpril  Eajteji  Mona^, 
"  Easter",  {saith  Dr.  Skinner, 
in  his  Etymolog.)  "  ab  AS. 
*'Eaj-teji,  Ojcep,Oj-toji,  Ej-teji. 
''  baej.  Belg.  Eajteji  Mona^, 
*'  Aprilis.  Somner"  (he  should 
have  said  Beda,  the  Passage, 
$ho^  in  that  place  forgot  to  be 
comnui'd,  being  not  Somner^s 
but  Bede\i)  "  ab  Eajcjie  Dea 
"  Saxonum  seu  Germanorum, 
''  qu(B  sub  illud  anni  tempus 
*'  sacrificiis  colebatur,  deflcctit, 
*■'  fort,  autem  illud  numen 
*^  Orienti  prieesse  creditum  est, 
"  Si  idem  fuit  cum  Aurora 
"  Laiinorum'\  My  learned 
Friend,  Mr.     Thomas   Hinton, 


Rector  of  Lasham  in  Ilamp. 
shire,  zoho  hath  studied  these 
things  *,  observes  ',  that  Oster 
Monet /*^/ie Resurrection  Month, 
and  that  thence  comes  our  Easter. 
And  for  that  reason  it  is,  as 
I  take  it,  that  Charles  the  Great 
zoho  gave  nezo  Names  to  the 
Months  and  Winds,  called  Aprils 
Ostermonet,  as  zee  are  assured 
by  an  elegant  Writer,  Eginhar. 
tus  4j  zsho  had  been  his  Secretary^ 
tho^  aft:  rmards  an  Abbat. 

Paske,  Easter. 

passand,  ])assing. 

passed,  stopped. 

pastours,  pastures. 

pauillon,  pavilion. 

pauillons,  tetits. 

pauilloiin,  pavilion,  tent,  tuber, 
nacle. 

pay,  cost,  charges. 

payd,  pleased. 

payed,  pleased,  paid. 

payens,  pagans. 

payne,  pain,  punishment. 

payned,  pained,  punished,  afflicted. 

paynes,  p.  310.  plains.  Et  quidem 
hic  playnes  legendutn  esse  con~ 
jeccrim;  quod  si  non  mutetur, 
idem  valebit  quod  punishment* 
S)  pains. 


'  See  Somner' s  Saxon  Diet.  vvc.  mona«.  =  Seep.  263.  of  ,ny  Occasional  Observations 
*^pon  the  Account  of  thepainted  Glass  at  Fairford,  printed  at  the  End  of  Roper's  Life  of 
Sir  Thomas  More.  3  Coll.  nostr.  MSS.  vol.  17.  p.  186.  •>  Fita  Karoli  Magni,  p.  34, 
Col.  15?1.  Ato. 

paysj 


632 


GLOSSARY. 


pays,  peace. 

pedaile,  footmen,  co?npanj/,  base 
companj/. 

peired,  impaired. 

peires,  wrongs. 

peis,   (ponduS;)  iveight. 

pele,  house. 

pencelle,  ensign,  flag. 

pencels,  pencils,  banners. 

penies,  pence,  money. 

per,  by. 

perceyued,  apprized. 

pei-de,  rogue,  knuve. 

pere,  peer,  peers,  equal,  equals, 
companion,  fellow.  for  praier 
or  for  pere,  for  all  (or  not- 
voilhstanding)  prayer  or  peer.  In 
pag.  103.  it  seems  to  be  for 
«  wife,  so  as  even  in  the  time 
of  Peter  Langtoft,  and  of 
Robert  of  Brunne,  wives  were 
called  peers,  especially,  such  as 
Queens,  Princesses,  Dutchesses, 
Si-c. 

peres,  peers, 

perist,  perish' d. 

penoueiidere,  pardoner. 

pers,  peers,  compaiiions. 

Pers,   Pe^er. 

person,  parson. 

persons,  parsons. 

pes,  peace,  appease. 

pese,  appease. 

pesed,  appeased,  pesed  behoued 
it  be,  it  behoved  that  there  should 
be  peace. 

pesid,  appeased. 

peyn,  pain,  labour. 

peyres,  impairs. 

peyrment,  fear. 

peysed,  appeased. 


Pharaon,  Pharaoh. 

Pikard,  Picards. 

pike,  pick,  peck,  work,  dig  or  break 

up  with  a  pick-ax. 
pikit     him,      &     dikit     him,     he 

picked    (or  he    peck'dj   and  he 

ditched. 
piled,  pilled,  pillaged. 
pilgryn,  pilgrim. 
pine,  pain. 

pite,  pity,  compassion. 
plaied,  played,  joked. 
play,  play,  rumble. 
plener,  fully. 
plenere,  fully. 
plenerly,  fully. 

plentynous,  plenteous,  plentifull. 
pleyn,  ivhole,  fully,  full,  compleat, 

fall-filled,  complain,  plain. 
pleyned,    complained,     complained 

of,  lamented. 
pleyn  ere,  full,  fully. 
pleynerlie,  fully. 
pleynerly,  fully. 
pleynt,  complaint. 
pleyntes,  complaints. 
plight,  plight,  plighted,  promised, 

rest,   safety,    health,      whan   j^ei 

were   trouth   plight,     ivhen   they 

had  plighted  or   promised  their 

troth,  truth  or  faith. 
podels,  puddles. 
pol,  pole,  head,  noddle. 
polk,  bulk. 
popille,  people. 
pople,  people. 

poraile,  poor,  beggarly,  mean. 
posse,  can. 
pouer,  poor. 
pouere,  poor. 
pouert,  poverty. 

pouerte. 


GLOSSARY. 


633 


pouerte,  poverti/. 

pouste,  powei',  possession, 

praised,  pressed. 

pray,  prei/. 

prayes,  pray. 

prayses,  praises,  esteems. 

prayth,  pray. 

prechement,  preaching. 

preid,  prayed. 

pres,  press,  multitude,  throng, press- 
ure. 

present,  presently,  presentation, 
jjresent,  presents,  presence,  a  pre. 
sent,  offer. 

presons,  prisoners. 

presnun,  prison. 

prest  sive  preste,  ready,  prepared. 

prester,  more  ready,  prettier. 

prikelle,  drive,  push. 

primalte,  primacy. 

Primatis,   Primates. 

primaute,  primacy. 

prime,  p.  24-3,  305.  six  a  clock  in 
the  morning;  but  in  p.  341.  it 
isignifies,  the  prime  or  Golden 
number. 

pris,  price,  prize,  praise,  victory, 
the  prize,  the  victory. 

prise,  prize,  price. 

prisons,  prisoners. 

priue,  privy,  private,  privately, 
privy  counsellor.  For  ]7um  \e. 
kyng  was  sette  his  priue  par- 
lenient,  for  them  the  king  was 
obliged  to  call  his  privy  coun- 
sil. 

priues,  private  persons. 

priuete,  privily,  a  secret,  secresy, 

procore,  procure. 

procurand,  procuring, 

profe,  proof. 


profere,  profer. 

propire,  proper. 

propirte,  property. 

prouendes,  provender,  provisions. 

prouendis,  the  provender,  the  pro~ 
visions,  the  riches.  Kirkes  wild 
he  dele  prouendis  jjat  wer 
woi-yie,  he  would  distribute  the 
riches  of  the  church  to  such  as 
Zi-ere  vjorthy. 

prouest,  provost,  provost  Marshall, 
principal  magistrate  or  judge.  See 
Cotgrave's  Fr.  Diet,  in  voc. 
prevost. 

prouh,  proivess. 

prow,  profit,  honour,  proxvess. 

prowe,  profit,  honour,  be  of  profit. 

proxyes,  procurations,  pecuniary 
sums  or  compositions  paid  to  an 
Ordinary,  or  other  Ecclesia- 
stical Judge,  to  commute  for 
the  provisions  or  entertain- 
ments, which  were  other- 
wise to  have  been  procur'd 
for  him  at  his  visitations. 
See  Du  Fresne's  Glossary  voc. 
procuratio. 

pru,  profit. 

pruesse,  proivess,  courage,  power. 

pundes,  pounds. 

pundred,  pondered,  weighed,  was 
reckoned. 

puplised,  published. 

pur,  to.  pur  quante^  in  as  muck 
as. 

purale,  parole.     • 

purchacp,  procure. 

purches,  procure. 

purtraid,  pnurtraied.  in  a  toumbe 
purtraid,  in  a  tomb  with  his  por- 
traiture or  image  on  it. 

So 


63f 


GLOSSARY. 


So  it  seems,  according  to  this 
Author,  p.  91-.  had  William 
Rufus's  at  Westminster. 

purtrei,  pourtraied. 

purtreied,  pourtraied. 

purtreit,  pourtraied. 

purueiance,  provision,  provisi  my, 
order. 

purueid,  provided. 

purueie,  pruiide. 

purueied,  provided,  prepared,  set- 
tled. 

purueies,  provides,  makes. 

purueis,  provides,  prepares. 


pyn,  pain,  punishment,  suffering. 

pync,  pain,  punish,  torment,  penal- 
ty-,  punishment,  from  the  Saxon 
pin  tan,  punire.  to  lede  fis 
pyne,  to  endure  this  pain,  sive, 
to  undergo  this  punishment.  The 
Word  pyued  for  sullied  oc- 
currs  in  an  old  Scrap  of  Parch- 
ment, written  in  the  Reign  of 
K.  Ediv,  III.  as  I  guess,  lent 
me  hy  Mr.  Ward  of  Longbridge, 
which,  for  the  sake  of  the  curious, 
I  shall  here  copy  ; 


*******     ***iit 
********** 
********* 
********** 

j'at  geten  was  of  ]?e  hali  gast. 

Born  of  \z  virgine  Marie  '  wyt  vten  last, 

Pyned  vnder  Ponce  Pilat, 

Don  on  J'e  rode  after  J^at. 

Ded  and  *  doluen,  an  layid  in  stan, 

3  Lychted  til  helle  son  *  on  an  ; 

ye  thridde  day  vp  he  ras 

Fra  ded,  al  his  wylle  was 

********* 

******** 

***** 


pynes,  pains.  quaintly,    artfully,    archly,     cun. 

ningly. 
Q.  quantise,  cunning,  quaintness,  stra- 

tagem, 
qna'mte,  cunning,  fne,  elegant,  pro.     quantyse,    cunning,     manage    cun- 

found.  ningly. 

quaintise,  cunning.  quarelle    sive   querelle,     a    quar- 


Without  lust.        »  Delved,  buried.        a  Descended  to.        *  Anon. 


relL 


GLOSSARY. 


655 


rell,  or  boult  for  a  Crossbow,  or 
an  Arrovo  with  a  foure-square 
head. 

quassed,  quashed. 

quathe  sive  quath,  bequeath'd. 

quaynt,  cunning,  quaintly,  cun- 
ningly, 

quaynte,  cunnings 

quaynted,  acquainted. 

quayntise,  cunning,  skill,  know- 
ledge. 

quayntly,  cunningly. 

queme,  please,  delight. 

quemed,  pleased. 

quere,  quire,  choir. 

querte,  p.  123. pro  J)uerte,«;  opinor, 
adeo  ut  with  querte  idem  sit  quod 
oblique,  transversim,  athwart, 
across^  obliquely. 

quest,  inquest,  jury,  inquiry,  in- 
quisition. 

questis,  inquests,  examination,  co~ 
gnizance. 

quik,  alire,  quickly,  quick. 

quirisons,  orisons,  prayers. 

quirisoun,  question,  orison,  petition, 
request,  prayer. 

quite,  quit,  free,  altogether,  wholly, 
thoroughly.  quite  clamance, 
quit  claim. 

quitely,  quite,  intirely,  wholly, 
quietly. 

quoke,  qvak'd,  shook. 

E. 

raf,  viean  condition. 
raft,  rent,  reft. 
rais,  rise. 
rakend,  reckoned. 
ran,  run,  arose. 
Vol.  If, 


rank,  rankle,  fester,  putrify. 
ransoun,  ransom. 
rape,  hie,  hasten. 
raped,  hastened. 
rascail,  scum. 

rascaile,      (popellus,)      rascalitie, 
scum,  dregs,  offalls,  simple  people, 
outcasts  of  any  company,   a  base 
and  rascally  sort  of  people,  vile 
people,  rascals,  rascal,  multitude, 
numbers,  persons  of  meaner  con- 
dition, meaner  sort. 
rascail  deere,     lean    or    worthless 
deer,     from   the   SaXon   jiafcal, 
fera  strigosa. 
rathe,  soon,     to  rajje,  too  soon. 
raj^ely,  soon. 

rauht,  reach'd,  wrought,  got,  took. 
raumpand,  rampant. 
raunson,  ransom. 
raunsoun,  ransom. 
reade,  council. 
reame,    realm,  kingdom,      reame'a 

right,  kingdom's  right. 
reames,  realms,  kingdoms. 
rebuk,  rebuke,  upbraid,  reprehend. 
rebuke,  revoke. 
recchesse,  riches. 
reciaunt  vel  recyante,  resident. 
recouere,  recovered,  recovery. 
recreant,  tired,  out  of  heart,  faint m 

hearted. 

red,    said,   admonished,    mentioned, 

advised,  read,  spoke.     I  red  him 

ore   in   pas,      /    mentioned   him 

before  in  passing   along.       j>a\T 

red,   p.  127.    took  their  counsel 

together. 

rede,  counsel,  remedy,  decree,  red, 

advice,    direction,   speak,   tell,    to 

counsel, advise, consult, read, declare. 

JD  D  redes. 


636 


GLOSSARY, 


redes,  reads,  read,  tells, 

red  is,  reads. 

redy,  readj/,  readily,  make  ready. 

refous,  refuce,  the  scum. 

reft,  spoiled,  plundered,  bereaved, 
bereft,  deprived,  bereav'd  of,  de- 
prived of,  ivas  bereav'd,  snatcht, 
took,  fore' d,  taken  off,  carry' d  a- 
luay,  conveyed  off,  taken  away, 
taken  from  them,  robbed. 

refus,  refuse. 

regalle,  government. 

jegalte,  royalty,  teign. 

regante,  government. 

regnand,  reigning,  regnant. 

regne,  kingdom,  reign. 

reise,  raise. 

reised,  raised. 

releue,  relief. 

relie,  rally. 

religions,  religious  orders. 

religicun,  religion,  religious. 

religiouses,  religious  houses,  sive 
religious  people. 

rerae,  the  kingdom. 

remue,  remove,  tnove,  take, 

remued,  be  removed. 

Ten,  run, 

retie,  deny. 

renes  (pro  reeves,)  p.  384.  gover- 
nours. 

rengaile,  ranks. 

renge,  range,  ring. 

lenged,  ranged,  roved,  strayed  a- 
bout. 

renne,  run. 

rennes,  runs. 

renst  at  at  J^e  toumbe,  running  to 
the  tombc. 

rentus,  rents. 

res,  rising,  rise,  contention,  rashness. 


folly,  race,  thing. 

rescet,  reside. 

rescette,  reception,  receipt,  fefitgi, 

resceyuoure,  receiver. 

reson,  reason. 

resons,  reasons. 

respite,  respil,  truce,  a  breathing 
fit,  leasure,  &c. 

respons,  answer,  answers. 

respouns,  answer. 

resteie,  to  resist,  to  oppose,  to  ar- 
rest, to  apprehend,  to  take. 

restis,  rests. 

restus,  rests. 

retenanz,  retinue. 

retreied,  retryed,  tryed  again. 

retted,  rated,  retted  Godwyn  J^er 
tille,  rated  or  charged  Godzoyn 
with  it. 

reue,  bereave,  deprive,  take  from, 
rove,  spoil,  ravage. 

reued,  bereaved  of,  deprived  of. 

reues,  bereaves. 

reufulhed,  ruefullness,  fright. 

reuile,  7'evile,  insult. 

reuth,  pity,  lamentation. 

reward,  regard. 

rewardons,  guerdons,  rczoards. 

rewardoun,  reivard. 

rewes,  rues,  now  rew-es  J^am  ]>er 
res,  noii;  it  repents  them  of  their 
folly. 

reyme,  remove,  take  aivay. 

reymed,  removed,  bereaved. 

reyued,  rifed  or  blazed  abroad. 
Ab  A.  Sax.  jiype,  frequau. 

ribaudie,  ribaldry,  roguery. 

Ricardyii,  Richard's  party.      Alio 

tok      Kicardyn,     p.    J 92.      alt 

these  Richard's  Party  took.    Sie 

uimirum     Roberti     de    Brunne 

verba 


GLOSSARY. 


637 


Verba  explico,  quse  desunt  in 
.  textu  Gallico. 

ricchesse,  riches, 

JRichere,  Richard. 

rif,  fast. 

rif  raf,  (quisquiliae,)  a  great  mix* d 
multitude  of  the  inferior  sort  jum- 
bled together,  rif  &  raf,  p.  151, 
276.  the  most  vile  things  are 
so  called,  rif  no  raf,  p.  111. 
the  least  scrap,  the  least  bit.  See 
riffe. 

rife,  frequent,  common. 

rifle  &  raf,  all  vile  things  are  so 
called.     See  rif. 

righ,  right. 

right,  rig/itly,  righteously,  upright- 
ly, right,  justice,  equity. 

rightwis,  righteous. 

rike,  rig. 

rincthed,  ranged,  ordered,  disposed, 

Rions,  p  268.  Rion. 

risen,  arisen,  rising. 

riuale,  7-evel. 

riue,  to  arrive. 

ri  uely ug,  turning  in  and  out,  lurig- 

riue«,  arrives. 

riuyng,  arrival. 

robband,   robbing. 

robis,  robes. 

Robynet,  Robert,  Rohyn,  little  Ro- 

byn. 
rode,  rood. 

romance,  romance,  story. 
ron,  run,  ran. 
roncoled,  rankled. 
ronnen,  run. 
ros,  arose. 
roson,  reason. 
rote,  root. 


ro]7er,  rudder,  oar.  A.  Sax.  j\o^oji, 
remus. 

Rouhan,  Roan.  Helianore  forth 
hir  dight  to  Rouhan  hir  menage, 
Eliunor  set  her  self  out  to  her  bu- 
siness at  Roan. 

rouht,  rout,  troop. 

roun,  iim. 

roungers,  gnawers,  nippers. 

route,  company,  rout,  multitude, 

rowe,  rough,  roughness. 

ruucys,  horses, 

runties,  horses. 

ryme,  rim,  border,  edge.  Ang.  Sax. 
Jiima,  ora,  margo. 

ryiice,  rince,  cleanse. 

rynde,  rind,  branch. 

Rynes,  Rhine,  a  River  so  called, 
from  whence  they  used  to  have 
strange  odd  stones  to  be  shot  ia 
Engins. 

ryue,  arrive,  retided. 

ryued,  arrived. 

ryuen,  rended,  torn.  ];at  schip 
salie  alle  to  ryue,  that  ship 
shall  be  torn  all  to  pieces,  but 
the  word  in  the  French  is,  en- 
foundrer,  which  signifies  sinking, 
drowning,  or  overwhelming 
(and  thence  our  common  word. 
foundering.)  Ore  tost  dist  le 
Reis,  vous  alez  batyiler,  As- 
saylez  la  i>eef,  la  fetes  en* 
foundrer. 


S. 


sacred,  consecrated. 
sac  rid,  consecrated. 
said,  said,  spoke ^ 
saideii,  suid^ 

DD  2 


saied. 


638 


GLOSSARY. 


saied,  said. 
sailand,  sailing. 
saile,  accost. 

sais,  tell,  say,  tellest,  speakest. 
sakles,  sackless,  without  cover,  na- 
ked. 
salle,  shall,  shalt.     salle  not  spede, 

they  shall  not  speed. 
same,  same,  agreed.     Alle  J>ei  safiie 

)>is  same.     All  of  them  agreed  in 

this  same  thing. 
samen,     together,    summon,    gather 

together,  assembled,   to  assemble, 

at  once. 
samenyng,     fellowship,    assembly, 

meeting,  summoning,  citation,  con~ 

gregation. 
samned,   (ab  A,  Sax.  gej-amnian, 

congregare,   convenire,   &c.)    as. 

sembled,  summoned,  gathered,  ga~ 

thered  together,  met,  called  their 

forces  together,  convened. 
samnyng,  assembly,  rendevous. 
sandez,  sands. 

sans,  besides,  since,  aftenvards. 
sanz,  nuilhout. 
sanz  faile,  sive  sanzfaile,    without 

fail. 
Sarazin,  Saracen,  Saracens. 
Sarazins,  Saracen. 
sare,  sore. 
Sathans,  Satan. 
sailed,  shackled,  embarassed. 
saue,  safe. 

saued,  saved,  secured. 
sanely,  safely. 


saufte,  safety. 

sauh,  said,  made,  saw.  Isaac 
sanh  his  vow,  Isaac  made  his 
vow. 

sauhtillyng,  settling,  agreement, 
settlement. 

saut,  assault. 

sautes,  assaults. 

saw,  saying,  speech,  jrat  fe  saw  of 
nam,  of  whom  this  is  reported. 

sawe,  saying,  answer,  sayings,  sto- 
ry, speech.  &  jit  a  noj^er  sawe 
of  behoues  be  spoken,  it  yet 
behoves  us  to  speak  of  another 
story.  This  Word  sawe  or 
saw,  for  a  saying  or  proverb, 
is  us'd  in  many  Places  to  this 
day,  and  it  occurrs  in  the  ve- 
ry beginning  of  the  Preface  to 
a  very  shrewd  book,  written 
by  Dr.  Nicholas  Harpesfield, 
never  yet  printed,  but  is  in  MS. 
in  the  Library  of  New-CoUege 
(where  I  saw  it  on  June  20, 
1719.  and  on  May  13.  172.5.) 
and  is  intit'led,  A  Treatise  of 
Dr.  Nicholas  Harpsfield's  con- 
cerninge  Marriage,  occasioned 
by  the  pretended  Divorce  be- 
tween King  Henry  the  Eight 
and  Queen  Catherine.  The  Pre- 
face, call'd  The  Epistle  to  the 
gentle  Reader,  begins  thus,  * 
-  ^  and 
It  is  an  old  ^  true  ^  saing,  (gen- 
tle Reader)  that  &c.  Mr.  Wood 


•  Coll.  noEtr.  MSS.  Vol.83,  p.  70.  &  Vol.107,  p.  1S9.  "  This  and  is  writ  above 
the  Line,  in  a  different  Hand.  3  n  was  first  writ  said  sawe  for  saine,  but  corrected 
by  the  same  Hand,  that  writ  the  and  above  the  line. 


(Jth. 


o  Su 


GLOSSARY. 


639 


(Aih.  Oxon.  Vol.  1.  col.  172.) 
takes  notice  of  this  book,  and 
of  the  beginning  of  it,  but  with- 
out saying  any  thing  about  the 
two  Corrections  (by  another 
Hand)  that  I  have  mentioned 
in  the  Margin.  He  also  ob- 
serves,  that  at  the  End  of  the 
MS.  is  this  note  :  This  copy  was 
taken  from  the  original,  ivhich 
ivas  found  hy  Mr,  Topcliff  in  the 
house  of  William,  somtimes  ser- 
vant to  the  said  Dr.  Harpesfield, 
who  confessed,  that  two  lines  of 
the  said  original,  tvere  of  his  said 
Masters  own  hand  writing.  I 
saw  this  Note  at  the  End,  but 
then  for  two  lines  'tis  two  leaves 
in  the  MS.  Yet  a  Friend  told 
me  at  that  time  *  (when  I  first 
saw  this  MS.)  that  in  a  Copy 
he  had  of  this  book  it  is  two 
lines;  which  Copy  he  thought 
was  as  authentick  as  the  MS. 
in  New-CoU.  besides  which  he 
mentioned  a  third,  that  was 
equally  as  valuable,  in  the  hands 
of  another  Friend,  And  even 
I  my  self  have  now  by  me  a 
little  Folio  MS.  (being  given 
me  by  a  Gentleman  of  very 
eminent  Virtues,  who  died  in 
1721.)  which  contains  many  re- 
markable Extracts  out  of  that 
work,  among  which  is  the  in- 
tire  Epistle  to  the  Reader,  be. 
ginning.    It  is   an   old  true  sad 


saying  (gentle  Reader  J  that  truth 
is  the  daughter  of  time :  &c.  The 
last  thing  in  these  Extracts  is 
this  Memorandum  :  At  the  end 
of  the  Booke,  from  tvhence  all, 
that  is  here,  [was]  transcribed, 
there  is  this  Note: 

*'  This  coppie  was  taken  from 
''  the  originall,  which  was 
"  found  by  Mr.  '  Topliffe  in 
"  the  house  of  William  Car- 
"  tor,  sometime  servant  to 
"  the  said  Doctor  Nicholas 
"  Harpsfield,  who  confess- 
"  ed,  that  two  leaves  of  the 
"  said  originall  were  of  his 
"  said  Masters  owne  hand 
"  writeing. 

There  is  abundance  of  secret 
History  in  this  Book,  some 
whereof  is  contain'd  in  the  said 
Extracts,  all  which,  however,  I 
shall  here  pass  by,  not  so  much 
as  insisting  upon  what  he  insi- 
nuates about  Anne  Bulien's  be- 
ing K.  Henry  VHI^'s  own 
Daughter  (a  point  which  hath 
been  much  urg'd  by  a  learned 
anonymous  Author,  with  whom 
I  cannot  agree,  that  I  have  re- 
ferr'd  to  elsewhere  *)  or  what  he 
notes  about  the  King's  being 
married  to  that  Lady,  long  be- 
fore there  was  any  Divorce,  se- 
cretly at  White  Hall,  very  ear- 
ly before  day,  and  will  only 
beg   leave   (tho'  1  fear   it  may 


Sic. 


Prffif.  ad  Camdeni  I:Hz.    ^.  VIII. 


*  In  the  Errata  to  the  former  edition  of  Laogtofl,  Hearne  inserted  the  following 
Note  on' this  passage  : 

"  He  is  since  dead,  I  find  his  Memory  fait  d  him.  For  his  Brother  tells  me,  that 
"  His  expressly  two  leaves  in  the  MS.  and  not  two  lines.  The  Transcript  he  sent  me 
"  of  the  Note  at  the  End  of  the  MS.  is  verbatim  thus:  This  C  ;pY  was  talcen  from  an 
"  authentic  Transcript  of  the  original,  which  was  found  by  Mr.  Toplifte,  in  the  House 
"  of  William  Carter,  some  time  servant  to  the  said  Dr. Nicholas  Harpsfield,  who  con- 
"  fessed  that  tvco  Leaves  of  the  said  original  were  of  his  said  Maatei's  own  hand 
"  writing."     Edit. 

DD  3  be 


640 


GLOSSARY. 


be  look'd  upon  as  unseason- 
able) to  insert  two  of  his  Re- 
marks, viz  tiiat  about  the 
Death  and  Virtues  of  K.  Hen- 
ry Vlilth's  fust  Queen,  the 
Lady  Katherine  of  Spain,  and 
that  which  concerns  the  Mis- 
chiefs that  occurrVl  from  the 
Dissolution  of  the  Monaste- 
ries, 

—  "■  But  the  Pope,"  (saith  this 
*'  learned  Writer)  when  he  un- 
"  derstoodj  how  ail  such  things, 
*'  as  wee  have  before  declar- 
"  ed,  had  passed  in  England, 
"  was  so  farr  from  any  man- 
"  ner  of  confirmation  of  the 
"  said  divorce,  tiiat  he  accurs- 
"  ed  the  King  and  the  whole 
"  liealme.  The  procureing 
*'  wheieof  was  imjjuted  to 
"  Q.ueen  Catherine,  and  there- 
*'  fore  the  Duke  of  SuUoIke 
*'  was  sent  to  her  att  Bugden 
"  in  December  in  the  25  yeare 
f  of  the  King,  where  he  break 
"  the  Older  of  her  court, 
"  and  discharged  a  great  sort 
*'  of  her  household  servants, 
"  who  beemg  svvorne  before 
"  to  serve  her  as  Qucene, 
"  would  not  now  serve  her 
"  as  Princess  Dowager.  In  Ja- 
"  nuary  twelve  month  after 
"  she  departed  att  '  Kymbal- 
"  ton,  and  chainged  her  woe- 
"  full  trouble.some  life,  with 
"  the  celestial  heavenly  life, 
"  and     for    her    terrestiall    in- 


grate  husband,  found  a 
kinder  and  better  and  a  ce- 
lestiall  spouse,  from  whome 
she  shall  never  be  seque- 
strated and  divorced,  but 
raigne  with  him  in  eternall 
glory  for  ever  '  Att  the  time 
of  her  death,  she  wrote  a  let- 
ter to  the  King  of  this  te- 
nor :  Mj/  Lord  and  Deare 
Husband,  I  comcnd  mee  unto 
you.  The  hoiver  of  my  death 
diaxoeth  fast  on,  and  my  case 
beein<^  such,  the  tender  love,  J 
owe  you,forceth  mee  wtth  a  few 
words  to  put  you  in  remem~ 
berance  of  the  health  and  safe^ 
guard  cf  your  soule,  xvhich  you 
ought  to  prcferre  before  all 
iviirldly  matters,  and  before  the 
cure  and  tendering' of  your 
ozone  bodie,  for  the  which  you 
have  cast  mee  into  many  mise- 
ries, and  your  selfe  into  mmj) 
cares.  For  my  part,  I  do  par- 
don yon,  yea  I  do  wish  and  de- 
vnutli/  pray  God,  that  hee  would 
also  pardon  yon.  Then  after 
she  had  commended  to  him 
her  Daughter  the  Ladie  Mary, 
and  her  household  servants, 
desiring  him  to  bee  good  to 
them,  shea  shutteth  up  her 
letter  thus  :  finally,  I  de- 
clare that  my  Eyes  desire  no- 
thing, but  only  to  see  you.  Att 
the  reading  of  which  letter 
the  King  burst  out  a  weep- 
ing.     Her  dead    corps    was 


Sic. 


GLOSSARY. 


641 


'**'  carried  to  Peterborough,  and 
•*'  there    interred.      Before  she 
"  departed  att  Kimbolton,  shee 
*'  had  iyen  two  yeares  at  Bug- 
"  den,  passing  her  soh'tarie  life 
*'  in  much   prayer,  great  ahiies 
"  and    abstinence,     and    when 
"  shee  was  not  this  way  owcu- 
*'  pied,  then  was  shee  and  her 
"  gentlewomen  workeing  with 
"  their  owue  hands,   something 
"  wrought  in  needleworke  cost- 
"  lie    and     artificially,     which 
"  shee  intended   to  the  honour 
"  of  God  to  bestow  upon  some 
*'  Churches.       There    was    in 
"  the  said  Jhouse  of  Bugden  a 
"  cbaniber,    with    a     window, 
"  that    had     a    prospect    into 
"  the     chappell,     out     of    the 
"  which   shee  migiit  heare  di- 
•"  vine  service.     In   this  cham- 
'*  ber  shee  inclosed    her  selfe, 
"  sequestred     from     all     other 
"  company,    a    greate   part   of 
"  the  day  and  night,  and  upon 
"  her  Knees   used   to  pray  att 
"  the    said    windowe,    leaning 
"  upon  the  stones  of  the  same. 
"  There'  was  some  of  her  gen- 
*'  tleworaen,    which    did    curi- 
"  ously  marke  and  observe  all 
"  her   doeings,    who   reported, 
"  that   often   times  they  found 
"  the  said  stones  so  wett  after 
"  her  departure,    as    though   it 
"  had    rained    upon   them.      It 


"  was  credibly  thought,  that  iu 
"  the  time  of  her  prayer  shee 
"'  removed  the  cushion^:,  that 
"  ordinarily  lay  in  the  same 
"  Window,  and  that  the  said 
"  stones  were  imbrued  with  the 
"  tears  of  her  devoute  Eyes.  I 
"  have  credibly  also  heard,  that 
"  att  a  time,  w-hen  one  of  her 
"  Gentlewomen  began  to  curse 
*'  the  Ladie  Anne  Bull :"  [with 
whom  Sir  Thomas  Wyatt  the 
elder  had  had  carnal  pleasure, 
before  the  King  married  her,  as 
Sir  Thomas  himself  told  the 
King  when  he  endeavoured  to 
disswade  his  Majesty  from  the 
Match,  because  her  coHversatioa 
had  been  very  loose  and  base, 
if  you  will  believe  what  this 
Author  observes  in  another 
place]  "  she  answered,  hold 
"  your  peace,  curse  her  not,  but 
^'  pray  for  her,  for  the  time  will 
"  come  shortly,  when  you  shall 
"  have  much  neede  to  pittie  and 
"  lament  her  case,  and  so  it 
"  chanced  indeed.''  In  short, 
this  Lady  was  one  of  the  greatest 
patterns  of  true  Humility,  Chas- 
tity, and  all  Virtues,  of  that  age, 
and  'twould  have  been  very  hap- 
py (according  to  this  writer) 
for  the  King  to  have  acted  con- 
trary to  what  he  did,  espe- 
ciall}^  since  himself  always  ac- 
knowledg'd    her  to  be   a  Lady 


■  Sic. 
DD   1- 


of 


GLOSSARY. 


of  an  unblemished  Character 
and  Reputation,  But  as  the 
King  was  in  this  case  manag'd 
by  that  great  wicked  man  Car- 
dinal Wolsey  (for  such,  if  we 
credit  this  writer,  he  certainly 
was,  notwithstanding  his  Gene- 
rosity and  Hospitality)  so  the 
Cardinal  himself,  as  well  as  the 
King,  soon  tasted,  even  in  this 
Life,  the  Fruits  of  unparallel'd 
Villany,  a  term  soft  enough  fin 
the  opinion  of  this  writer)  for 
an  Act,  that  derived  such  an 
ocean  of  Mischief  upon  the  Na- 
tion, part  of  which  was  the  de- 
struction of  the  Monasteries, 
which  our  Author  (the  second 
Remark  I  promised  to  mention) 
speaks  of  in  the  following  man- 
ner : 

" Yea  I  will    now   add 

"  and  conclude  withal),  that  the 
**  only  losse  of  the  Monasleryes, 
"  was  not  only  for  the  decay  of 
"  Vertue,  Prayer  and  Religion, 
"  but  allso  of  the  publicke  com- 
"  mon  Wealth,  inestimable  and 
**  importable.  I  say,  they  were 
*'  the  very  Nurseryes,  not  only 
"  of  pietie  and  devotion,  but 
*.'  allso  of  the  happy  flourishing 
"  of  the  common  wealth.  Where 
*'  were  the  blind  and  lame,  or 
"  the  impotent  poore  people, 
*'  fedd      and      succoured      but 


there  ?  I  have  heard,  that 
there  were  more  such  holpen 
in  the  Citty  of  Canterbury  in 
one  day,  then  bee  now  in  all 
Kent ;  more  in  Winchester  in 
one  day,  then  bee  now  in  all 
Hampshire;  and  the  like  may 
bee  said  of  other  places. 
Where  wet-e  Noblemens,  Gen- 
tlemens,  and  other  mens 
sonnes,  so  well,  so  vertu- 
ously,and  so  mannerly  brought 
up  as  they  were  there?  Where 
'  had  the  younger  Brothers  of 
■  Noblemen  and  Gentlemen 
'  better  entertainement  then 
'  there  ?  Who  found  so  ma- 
'  ny  needie  Schollers,  and 
'Poore  menns  sonns  at  the 
'  Universities,  as  they  did  ? 
'  Whereby  were  the  Rents, 
'  and  the  price  of  other  things, 
'  so  excessively  *  exhaunsed 
'  but  by  the  suppression  of 
'  the  Abbyes  ?  Yett  were 
'  there  some  ignorant  people, 
'  that  would  taike,  and  some 
'  fond  fooleish  Preachers,  that 
'  would  preach,  before  the  sup- 
'  pression  of  the  said  Abbeys 
'  (Eggs  beeing  then  at  twelve 
■■  or  more  a  peny,  and  fish  at 
■■  a  very  reasonable  price)  that 
'  the  Religious  people,  by 
'  reason  of  theire  fasting  in 
'  Advent    and   at  other  times. 


iSic. 


made 


GLOSSARY. 


643 


■  made  those  victualls  deare. 
But  since  wee  have  been 
faine  and  gladd  to  buy  three 
or  fower  Eggs  a  penny,  and 
to  pay  three  times  or  fower 
times  so  much  for  fishe,  as 
wee  did  before.  Yea  I  have 
crediblie  heard,  that  our  sea 
and  our  waters,  in  many 
places,  have  not  so  plenty- 
fully  yeilded  fishe,  as  they 
did  before.  Whereby  is  it 
come  to  passe,  that  where  be, 
fore  there  dwelt  many  a  good 
Yeoman,  able  to  do  the  King 
and  the  Realme  good  service, 
there  is  no  bodie  now  dwell- 
ing but  a  sheppard  with  his 
dogge,  but  by  the  suppression 
of  the  Abbeys?  Whereby' 
is  it,  that  whereas  men  were 
wont  to  eate  sheepe,  now 
sheepe  eat  up  houses,  whole 
townes,  yea  men  and  all,  but 
by  the  suppression  of  the 
Abbeyes?  What  is  the  de- 
cay of  Tillage,  but  the  sup- 
pression  of  Abbeyes?  What 
is  the  decay  of  wooddes,  and 
the    cause    of    the    excessive 

■  price  of  wood,  but  the  sup- 
•  pression  of  the  said  Abbeyes, 
'  which  did  carefully  nou- 
'  rish,    supplie,    and    husband 

'  the  same  ?  What  is  one  of 
'  the  causes,  that  the  people 
'  is   now   more   charged,    then 


they~were  wont  to  bee,  with 
subsidies,  loanes,  and  other 
payments,  but  the  suppression 
of  the  said  Abbeyes,  out  of 
the  v/hich  was  wont  the 
Prince  to  bee  furnished  with 
money,  when  occasion  of  his 
suddaine  and  weighty  affaires 
required  present  helpe  ?  A- 
gaine,  what  is  one  of  the 
causes  of  the  greate  poverty 
and  beggery  of  the  People, 
but  the  suppression  of  the 
saide  Abbeyes  ?  For  whereas 
in  times  past  a  greate  num- 
ber of  both  *  sexe  and  kinde 
entered  yearly  into  Religion, 
and  there  led  a  single  chast 
life,  now  all  such  beeing 
since  marryed,  and  they, 
theire  children,  and  Child- 
rens  children,  beeing  multi- 
plied in  such  an  infinite  num- 

'  ber,  neither  Farmes  sufficient 
for  such  a  number  can  be9 
conveniently  provided,  nor 
yett  can  they  live  by  the  way 
of  Merchandize  or  by  occu- 
pying,  but  with  the  greate 
hinderance  of  other  occupyer^ 
and  merchants.  Nor  yett  cai^ 
they,  by  service  and  retaine- 
raent  with  Noblemen  and 
other  Gentlemen,  bee  conve- 

'  niently,  in  such  a  hughe 
number,  provided  for.  I  talke 
nothing    here    of    divers    o- 


Jt  is  IV^S. 


Sic. 


th^r 


644 


GLOSSARY. 


*'  ther  ititoUerable  and  import- 
"  ablecJetryments,  whereof  one, 
*■'  among  other,  is,  the  deface- 
"  ing,  distruction,  and  losse  of 
"  the  old  worthy  Chronicles, 
*'  and  other  rare  monuments 
"  (as  yett  unprinted)  that  were 
"  carefully  and  tenderly  kept 
"  and  preserved  in  the  said 
"  Monastery es,  which  losse  if 
"  it  bee  well  valued,  as  it  ought 
"  to  bee,  is  greater  then  I  can 
"  well  expresse,  and  will  bee 
"  felt  by  the  whole  Realme 
•'  and  our  posteritie  many 
*'  yeares  after  our  death.  Woe  ! 
"  therefore,  even  for  very  ci- 
*'  ville  and  politicke  causes,  to 
**  the  said  Prelate  ",  [Thomas 
Cranmer,]  "  that  made  the 
"  lewde  lying  Sermon,  for  the 
"  destruction  of  the  said  Ab- 
"  beyes.  Woe  !  bee,  therefore, 
"  to  them  that  procured  the 
"  spoyle  and  eversion  of  them. 
"  Woe  !  bee  even  to  the 
"  great  Abbots  themselves,  that 
"  wincked  at  the  matter,  yea 
"  and  gave  theire  consent  to 
"  the  suppressing  of  the  lesser, 
"■  thinking  to  keepe  and  pre- 
"  serve  their  owne  still,  which 
"  they  could  not  do  long  after, 
"  for  all  the  faire  and  flattering 
"  promises  made  unto  them, 
"  and  for  all  that  many  of  them 
"  had  (to  theire  greate  char- 
"  ges  and  impoverishment)  pro- 
^'  cured  and  purchased  the  con- 


tinueance  of  theire  howses 
under  the  greate  scale,  as  I 
have  heard  some  of  them  re- 
port, rnly  they  got  that  be- 
nefitt  that  Poliphemus  pro- 
mised to  Ulisses,  that  is,  hee 
would  be  so  gratious  and  fa- 
vourable to  him,  that  he 
would  spare  him  and  eate 
him  last  of  all  his  fellowes. 
But  yett  Ulisses  got  himself 
by  policie  out  of  dainger,  but 
these  men  could  by  no 
meanes  provide,  butt  that 
theireAbbeyes  were  att  length 
eaten  and  devoured  as  well 
as  the  lesser.  All  those  which 
beeing  under  the  cleere  yeare- 
ly  value  of  two  hundred 
pounds,  or  not  above,  were 
given  to  the  King  by  act  of 
Parliament.  But  as  for  the 
residue,  they  came  to  the 
King's  hands  by  one  meanes 
or  other,  and  that  without 
any  Act  of  Parliament  at  all. 
Such  as  would  voluntarylie 
give  over  were  rewarded  with 
large  annuall  pensions,  and 
with  other  pleasures.  Again? t 
some  other  there  were  found 
quarrells,  as  against  Hughe 
Farindone  Abbot  of  Ked- 
ding,  which  was  there  hang- 
ed, drawne  and  quartered  ; 
against  Richard  Whiting 
Abbot  of  Glassenbury,  that 
was  hanged  on  the  Torr 
hill  beside  his  monastery  ; 
"  against 


GLOSSARY. 


643 


'**  against  John  Beche  Abbot 
*'  of  Colchester,  put  allso  to 
"  death  ;  which  dreadful)  sight 
"  and  heareing,  made  some 
"  other  so  sore  afiayde,  that 
"  they  were  soone  intreated  to 
"  yeild  over  all  to  the  King's 
"  hands,  and  some  thoui^ht  they 
"  escaped  fay  re,  when  they 
"  escaped  with  their  lives.  So 
*'  that  after  a  few  yeares  there 
"  needed  no  Parliament  att  all, 
"  for  the  greate  Abbeyes,  they 
"  came  in  oih^^rwise  so  thicke 
"  and  so  roun  ily,  but  only  to 
"  confirme  such  as  had  been 
"  already  relinquished,  and 
"  such  other  as  should  after- 
"  ward  bee  so  relinquished 
"  and  yeilded  up  to  the  King. 
"  So  much  have  I  the  more 
"  said,  that  you  may  (Gentle 
"  Reader)  see  the  just  hand 
"  and  plague  of  God  upon  these 
"  great  rich  Abbotts,  and  theire 
"  marvellous  overthrowe,  which 
"  so  lightly  and  unadvisedly 
"  gave  theire  consents  to  the 
"  overthroweing  of  the  houses 
"  of  theire  poore  Brethren. 

Say,  Saint. 

sayed,  assayed,  essayed,  tried. 

scabbed,  scabbed,  shabby. 

scathe,  loss,  harm,  with  loss,  dam^' 
age,  hurt,  scathes,  losses,  harms, 
diseases.  The  Word,  which  is 
properly  Suxon  (Mr.  Somner 
/laving  told  us,   in  his  Diction- 


ary, that  j-ca^e  is  nocwnentum, 
noxd.  harm,  hurt,  damage, 
mischief.)  was  made  use  of  even 
after  the  Reformation.  TJience 
in  a  wonderfull  rare  little  book 
(consisting  of  seven  sheets  of  pa- 
per in  8"^". J  intit'lcd,  A  brefe 
Chronycle  concerning  the  exa- 
mination and  death  of  the  Bles- 
sed martir  of  Christ  |  Sir  John 
Oldecastell  the  Lord  Cobham  ( 
collected  together  by  Johan 
Bale.  Imprinted  at  London  | 
by  Anthony  Scoloker.  And 
Wyllyam  Seres  Dwelling  wyth- 
out  Aldersgate.  ^  Cum  Gratia 
et  priuilegio  ad  Imprimendum 
solum,  (at  E  iiij  b,  for  the  book 
is  not  paged)  ive  find  it  used  in 
this  passage : 


An  other  clerke  yet  asked  him 
[the  Lord  Cobham,]  VVyll  ye 
than  do  none  honour  to  the 
holy  cross? 

He  answered  hifti.  Yes  | 
if  he  were  myne  I  wolde  lay 
him  vp  honestlye  |  and  set  vn- 
to  him  that  he  shuld  take  no 
more  scathes  abroade  j  nor  be 
robbed  of  his  goodes  |  as  he  is 
now  a  dayes.  This  book  ivas 
given  me  in  the  year  1720. 
by  my  learned  Friend,  Ed. 
xvard  Burton,  of  the  Middle 
Temple,    Esq;,  and  'tis  the  on- 


646 


GLOSSARY, 


ly  Copy  I  ex)er  yd  saw,  tho*  I 
hear  of  several  others,  one  of 
which  was  sold  ia  the  first  part 
of  the  Auction  '  of  my  learned 
Friend  Thomas  Rawlinson,  Esq; 
for  three  pounds. 

schad,    distinguished,  shaded,  sha- 
doived,  parted. 

schake,  move. 

schaken,  moved. 

scham,  sluwie. 

schames,  shames. 

Schap,  shape,  image. 

Schape,  shape,  form,  frame,  decree. 

schaped,  shaped,  formed. 

sche,  she. 

scheawes,  shetvs. 

sched,  cast,  separate.  1  Ab.  A.Sax. 

schede,  to  depart.       y    jrceaban, 
segregare,  dividere,  separare. 


scheld,  shield,  defence,  he  jald 
him  ilk  a  scheld,  he  yielded 
them  every  one  up  to  his  defence. 

schelde^  shield,  target,  buckler,  pro- 
tection, government. 

scheltron,  p.  305.  shelter,  cover^ 
ing;  or  rather  schiltrons  or  round 
battailes.  This  word  is  used  by 
our  Author,  with  reference  to  the 
Battle  of  Foukirke,  and  upon  the 
same  occasion  it  may  he  proper 
here,  to  transcribe  what  is  said  by 
Hollingshede,  in  p.  833.  of  the 
last  Volume  of  his  Chronicles, 
printed  in  15T7.  which  is  the 
first,  and  the  true  genuine  Edi- 
tion of  that  Work;  and  I  insert 
the  whole  passage  at  large,  be- 
cause  the  Book  is  very  rare,  and 
not  to  be  met  with  easily. 


X.  Triuct. 


The  bat- 
taile  of 
youkirke. 


The  Kyng  nowe  hearing  that  the  Scottes  were  com., 
jnyng  towardes  him,  raysed  hys  fielde,  and  wente 
foorthe  to  meete  them,  lodgyng  the  nexte  nyghte  in  a 
fayre  playne.  In  the  morning  very  early,  a  greate  alarme 
was  reysed,  so  that  euery  man  got  him  to  armour,  sup- 
posing the  Scottes  to  be  at  hande.  The  horse  appoynted 
for  the  kyngs  saddle  that  day,  as  the  Kyng  shoulde  haue 
got  vppon  hym,  afrighted  -with  some  noyse,  starte  a  side, 
and  threwe  the  Kyng  downe  wyth  suche  violence,  that 
hee  brake  twoo  of  his  ribbes,  as  the  reportewent.  Other 
Avrite,  that  his  horse  trode  on  hym  in  the  night  as  he  and 
his  people  rested  them,  keeping  their  horses  still  bridled, 
to  bee  ready  the  sooner  vppon  occasion  of  any  necessitie: 
but  howsoeuer  hee  came  by  hys  hurt,  he  stayed  not  to 
passe  forward  in  his  purposed  iourney,  but  mounting  vp- 
pon an  other  horse,  went  forth  wyth  hys  armye  till  he 


See  the  Catalogue,  p.  57. 


GLOSSARY. 


647 


came  to  a  place  called  Foukirke,  where  both  the  ar- 
myes  of  England  and  Scotland  met  and  fought.  The 
Scottes  were  deuided  into  four  schiitrons,  as  they 
termed  them,  or  as  we  may  say,  round  battailes,  in 
forme  of  a  circle,  in  the  whiche  stoode  theyr  people, 
that  caried  long  staues  or  speares  which  they  crossed 
ioyntly  togither  one  wythin  an  other,  betwixt  which 
schiltrons  or  round  battails  were  certain  spaces  left,  the 
which  wer  filled  wyth  theyr  archers  and  bowmen,  and 
behinde  all  these  were  theyr  horsmen  placed.  They 
had  chosen  a  strong  grounde,  somewhat  sideling  on  the 
side  of  a  hill.  The  Erles  Marshall,  Herford,  and  Lin- 
colne  whiche  ledde  the  fore  warde  of  the  Englishemen, 
at  the  first  made  directly  towardes  the  Scottes,  but 
they  were  stayed  by  reason  they  founde  a  marys,  or  an 
euill  faaoured  mosse  betwixt  theyr  enemy es  and  them, 
so  that  they  were  constreyned  to  fetche  a  compasse  to- 
Wardes  the  weste  side  of  the  fielde. 

The  Byshop  of  Durham  ruling  in  the  seconde  bat- 
taile  of  the  Englishemen  consisting  of  sise  and  thirtie 
standerds,  or  banners,  knowing  the  let  of  that  mosse 
or  maris,  made  toward  the  Easte  side,  hasting  forth  to 
be  the  firste  that  shoulde  giue  the  onset :  but  yet  when 
they  approched  neare  to  the  enemies,  the  Bysshoppe 
commaunded  his  people  to  staye  tille  the  thyrde  battaile, 
which  the  Kyng  led,  mighte  approch :  but  that  valiant 
Knyght  the  Lorde  Raufe  Basset  of  Drayton  sayde  to 
hym  :  "  My  Lorde  Byshoppe,  you  may  goe  and  say 
Masse,  which  better  becometh  you,  than  to  teache  vs 
what  we  haue  to  doe,  for  wee  will  doe  that  that  belong- 
eth  to  the  order  of  warre :"  and  herewyth  they  hasted 
foorthe  on  that  syde  to  chardge  the  fyrste  schiltron  of 
the  Scottes,  and  the  Earles  wyth  theyr  battaile  on  the 
other  side,  and  euen  vppon  the  firste  brunt,  the  Scot. 
tishe  horsemen  fledde,  a  fewe  only  excepted,  which  stayed 
to  keepe  the  footemen  in  order.  And  amongest  other, 
was  the  brother  of  the  Lorde  Stewarde  of  Scotlande, 
who  as  hee  was  aboute  to  set  in  order  the  bowemen  of 
Selkirke,  by  chaunce  was  unhorsed,  and  slayne  there 
amongest  the  same  bowemen,  and  many  a  tall  mans  bo- 
dye  wyth  hym.  The  Scottishe  archers  thus  being  slain, 
the  Englishemen  assailed  the  speare  men.  but  they  keep. 

ing 


Abingdon, 
The  order 
of  the  Scot- 
tishe bat- 
tayles. 


The  Earlm 
Marshall, 
Herforde, 
and  Lin- 
colne  ledde 
the  fore 
warde. 

Thebisshop 
of  Durham 
ledde  the 
seconde 
Warde, 


The  Lorde 
Basset  of 
Draiton'i 
wordes 
to  the  Bi- 
shop of 
Durham. 

The  Scot- 
ti^.he  horse- 
men flee. 


Their  ar- 
chers 
slayne. 
These  Scut- 


648 


GLOSSARY. 


tish  speare- 
men  wer 
of  Gallo. 
waye,  as 
iluersdcn 
hath. 


N.  Triuet. 


Mat.  West. 
hath  four- 
tye  thou- 
sande. 


ing  them  selues  close  togyther,  and  standyng  at  defence 
wyth  theyr  speares  like  a  thicke  wood,  kepte  out  the  En- 
glishe  horsemen  for  a  while,  and  foughte  manfully,  though 
they  were  sore  beaten  wyth  shotte  of  arrowes  by  the  En- 
glishe  archers  a  foote  ;  and  so  at  length  galled  wyth  shot, 
and  assailed  by  the  horsemen  on  eche  side,  they  begun  to 
disorder  and  shrinke  from  one  side  to  another,  and  her- 
M'ith  the  horsmen  brake  in  amongst  them,  and  so  they 
were  slaine  and  beaten  down  in  maner  all  the  whole  num» 
ber  of  them.  Some  saye  there  dyed  of  the  Scottes  that 
daye  (beyng  the  twoo  and  twenty  of  July,  and  the  feaste 
of  Mary  Magdalene)  aboue  twentie  thousande.  Other 
write,  that  there  were  slaine  at  the  leaste  to  the  number 
of  XV.  thousande.  The  Scottishe  writers  alledge  that 
this  battaile  was  loste  by  treason  of  the  Cuniyns  and  o- 
ther,  as  in  the  Scottish  historie  ye  may  more  plainly  per- 
ceiue,  with  more  mater  touching  the  same  battaile  : 


scheme,  shame.  gode  to  sche- 
me's dede  &  pyne,  tvent  Cor 
came)  to  a  shamefull  death  and 
puni&hnient. 

schende,  to  trouble,  disorder,  de- 
stroy, loose. 

schene,  shining. 

schant,  confounded,destroyed,spoil'd , 
lost,  ruined,  shamed,  troubled,  cor- 
rupted. 

schente,  spoiled. 

schet,  shot,  rush'd,  sat,  cast,  made. 
Jjorgh  schet  ]>am  als  J^e  ro,  they 
shot  them  through  with  arrows  as 
the  roe  buck, 

schewned,  shelved. 

schilde,  shield,  defend. 

schille,  p.  30.  shrill. 

schire,  shire,  district,  province, 
county. 

schirue,  sheriff. 

scho,  she. 

Schobschire,  p.  97.    (pro  Schrob- 


schlre,  ut  in  versu  mox  prece- 
dent i)  Shropshire. 

schok,  moved,  ran,  run. 

schoke,  shook,  moved,  extended. 

schond,  confound,  perplex,  destroy, 
confusion,  wreck, 

schone,  shone,  shined. 

schonne,  shun,  avoyd,  to  glitter. 

schorte,  shorten. 

schoten,  shot. 

schoure,  breach^  wound. 

schoures,  showers,  griefs, 

schreward^  ribald,  rascal. 

schriue,  shrive,  confess,  consult. 

schrowe,  p.  159.  shrew.  I  shrew 
(for  a  murrain  take)  is  a  com- 
nion  expression  in  several  parts. 


even     at     this      t 

shrowe. 
schryue,  confess. 
schryuen,  confessed. 
sclaundire,  slander. 
scole,  school. 


Sec 


scornand. 


GLOSSARY. 


649 


scornand,  scorning,  mocking. 

scorted,  shorted,  shortened. 

Scottis,  Scottish. 

scris,  ivritings. 

scrite,  ivriting.  This  Word  Scrite 
ivas  very  properly  made  use  of 
by  our  old  Writers,  with  respect 
to  the  famous  Roll,  called  Domes- 
day Book.  Robert  of  Gloucester 
indeed  in  his  Chronicle,  p.  374. 
useth  both  the  word  writ,  and  the 
xvord  boke ;  but  the  Author  of 
the  prose  English  Chronicle  of 
England,  in  the  ingenious  Mr. 
Ward  of  Lotigbridge's  hands  (ta- 
ken from  Robert  of  Gloucester) 
hath  no  other  word  than  screyte. 
In  the  seven  yere  (saith  he)  of 
his  Reame  his  [William  the  Con- 
queror's]  mod  re  diede,  vppon 
alle  alle  {sic]  Soules  day.  Th*e 
King  William  wolde  vnderstond 
the  valowe  of  the  londe  of 
alle  Englonde,  and  howe  many 
Shires,  and  howe  [manyl  plough 
londe  in  a  Shire,  and  howe 
many  townes,  a  whate  rentes 
of  wodes  and  waters,  seruyces 
and  customes.  So  that  he  wist 
whate  alle  Englond  was  worth, 
and  lett  writt  hit  in  a  Screyte, 
and  sett  hit  in  the  tresury  of 
Westmystre.  And  there  hit  is 
yet  for  a  President, 

scritte,  writing. 

scryuen,  shriven,  confessed.  & 
)»erof  clen  be  scryuen,  and 
thereof  a  confession  be  fully  re- 


quired. 

se,  see,  say,  dignity,  sea. 

seche,  seek. 

sedgeyng,  saying,  telling. 

see,  sea. 

seel,  soul,     non  seel,  no  soul. 

seere,  sore,  several,  separate. 

sees,  seest. 

seged,  besieged. 

seggers,  sayers,  historians. 

seie,  say,  said. 

seignorie,  power,  dominion^  do7ni~. 
nions,  demeasn,  daneasns,  lord^ 
ship,  sovereignty. 

seignories,  dominions. 

seignory,  dominion,  power,  nobi- 
lity. 

seis,  says, 

seise,  place,  settle^  give  seizin, 

seised,  settled,  seized. 

seke,  sick,  seek, 

sekenesse,  sickness. 

selcouth,  (rarus,)  strange,  odd,  sel- 
dom seen,  strange  thing,  a  fulle 
selcouth  rede,  a  very  odd  or 
strange  counsel  or  purpose,  a  grete 
selcouth,  a  very  strange  thing. 

selcouthe,  strange,  uncouth,  fulle 
selcouthe,  very  strange, 

selcouthes,  strange  things. 

selcouthest,  strangest. 

selcouthly,  strangely,  odly. 

self,  self  same,  same. 

selli,  wonderful. 

sellis,  sells. 

selly,  silly. 

seluen,  selves. 

sely,  silly. 


650 


GI.OSSARY. 


semand,   summoned,  warned,  seen* 
ly,  seeming. 

semblablye  sive  sembleablye,  like- 
xvise,  in  like  manner. 

semble,  assembly. 

sen,  since,  after. 

sendis,  sends,  sent. 

sendus,  sends. 

sene,  see. 

sent,  saint. 

sere,    divers,  several,  different,  di- 
stinct. 

serganz,  sergeants. 

sergeanz,  sergeants. 

serke,  shirt. 

serkis,  shirts. 

sermon}'ng,  speech,  discourse. 

sermoun,  sermon,  speech. 

sers,    several,    divers,    particular, 

special. 
seruage,  slavery. 
seruand,  servant. 
ses,  sees,  seest,  cease. 
sesed,  seized,  possessed. 
sesse,  cease.     J^er  for  ne  wild  he 
sesse,  he  ivould  not  there/ore  cease 
or  lin. 
Sessons,  Saxons, 
set,  sett'st. 
setan,  sat. 
setnesse,  decree. 
seton,  sat. 
setteud,  seventh, 
seuent,  seventh. 
aewed,  followed. 
sext,  sixth. 
sexte,  sixth. 
sextend,  sixteenth. 


seye,  see,  say,  to  say. 

seyen,  seen  to  or  settled,  forgh 
seyen,  thoroughly  settled. 

shad,  separated. 

shende,  spoiled. 

sho,  she. 

shrowe,  shrew.  I  shrowe,  be- 
shrew.  I  shrowe  alle  }>er  ma- 
ners,  p.  236.  a  curse  on  all  their 
manners.     See  schrowe. 

sib,   under. 

si  bred,  consanguinity. 

sihi,  saw. 

siker,  secure,  sure. 

sikerd,  assured. 

si  k  ere,  secure,  confirm,  secured. 

sikered,  secured. 

sikerer,  a  securer,  a  mare  secure, 
a  more  safe. 

sikerly,  surely, 

si  kernes,  security,  surety,  bond. 

sikernesse,  security,  surety,  sureness. 

sikred,  secured,  confirm'd. 

Sir  (written  oftentimes  sere,  as 
well  as  sire,  in  Mr.  Sheldon's 
MS.  of  the  Lives  of  the  Saints.  J 
Dominus,  Sir.  About  this  word 
J  shall  refer  the  Reader  to  my 
Glossary  to  Robert  of  Gloucester, 
and  at  present  will  note,  that 
the  word  Dominus',  in  the  old 
Epitaphs  in  Ew-Elm  Church 
near  Dorchester  in  Oxfordshire, 
is  us'd  as  a  title  for  a  Bat- 
chelour  of  Arts,  as  may  appear 
from  the  word  niagister,  us'd  in 
the  same  Church  for  a  Master 
of  Arts. 


Coll,  nostr.  MSS.  Vol.77,  p.  190, 193. 


sire. 


GLOSSARY. 


651 


sire,  ^eer,  father ^  lord. 

site,  sigh,  lamentation,  sight. 

sij;en,  since,  after,  afterwards, 
moreover,  furthermore,  after 
that,  since  that  time,  after  that 
time. 

siJ7es,  times. 

skam,  shame,  disgrace,  dishonour. 

skandere,  slatider. 

skandre,  slanderous,  scandalous. 

skajje,  (ab  Anglo-Sax.  j-ceaj'ian 
sive  gej'ceajjian,  nocere,  spo- 
liare,  &c,)  hurt,  harm,  loss, 
mischief,  damage.     See  scathe. 

skiile,  skill,  reason,  opinion,  judg- 
ment, discretion,  did  no  skiile, 
cared  not.  &  wild  vnto  no  skiile, 
and  would  hearken  to  no  reason. 
he  schewed  J^ara  \q  skiile,  he 
certified,  he  assured.  The  word 
skyles  or  skilles  (in  the  plural) 
occurrs  for  reasons  in  a  piece  of 
an  old  Homily,  in  old  English, 
written,  as  I  guess,  in  the 
Reign  of  K.  Rich.  II.  and  lent 
me  by  Thomas  Ward,  of  Long, 
bridge,  Esq;.  The  Subject  is 
Charity.  It  beginns  thus  :  And 
for  we  speke  of  charite  and  loue 
of  god  and  oure  bre]>ere,  ic 
'  segge,  )>ou  most  loue  god  more 
J?an  alle  Jyng,  je  more  J7an  J7y 
self.  &  J^at  for  iiu  skyles.  jie 
firste  is,  for  ]7ou  *  nadest  neuere 
ibe,  jif  he  ne  were.  ]>e  u  is,  j^at 


for  loue  of  ]>e  he  made  alle 
werkes,  J>at  he  euere  made,  pe 
III  is,  for  5  J7o  J70U  were  for  lore 
]7orou  Adam's  synne,  he  dyede  on  . 
J^e  rede  tre  to  *  bugge  J^e.  ]>e  1111 
is,  Jjat  jif  }70u  haue  *  sengeg, 
he  ^e  6  wite]?  fro  j^e  fynd  by 
his  power,  to  whom  J^ou  hast 
J^e  bytake,  and  is  redy  to  '  vnder- 
fonge  jie  to  mercy,  jif  J^ou  wilt 
come  to  mendement,  &  jet  he 
ha]?  8  ygrey]7ed  to  J^e  ioye  wi]? 
outen  ende,  J^at  euere  schal 
laste  gif  ]?ow  wolt  it  deserue. 
&  Jjerfore  skil  wele,  J^at  J^ow 
loue  hym  so  myche,  }?at  raj^er 
]7ou  schuldest  geue  fy  body  to- 
brenne  )»an  any  ]>yng  do  ajenst 
his  wille,  where  J^orow  j^at  he  9 
enes  were  wroj?  wi]?  J^e.  jet  jjou 
most  loue  jii  self  most,  &  ]?at 
in  J^is   twey    maners,    &    eyj^er 

maner  for  twey  skilles. 

Some  old  MSS.  zcrite  schilles 
for  skilles,  4'  so  His  in  Mr. 
Ward's  excellent  MS.  of  the 
Book,  called  Festival  or  Festial, 
where  the  printed  book  useth 
for  it  the  more  modern  Word 
causes. 

skip,  skip,  leap,  arise. 

skitte,  rash. 

skornes,  scornest. 

skrite,  zcriting. 

Skulk,  sculk,  lurk  here  and  there. 


«  Say.     »   Hadst  never  been.     3    When  thou   tcast   lost. 
Defendeth.     7  Receive'    •  Prepared.    »  Once- 


Buy,  redeem.     ^  Sinned' 


Vol.  IT. 


skulk- 


659 


GLOSSARY. 


skulkand,  sculkingi 

skulked,  sculked^  depended. 

skurne,  scorn,  disgrace.  For  Sa- 
razin  ne  wild  he  skurne  j^at 
were  of  his  eschele,  He  would 
not  disgrace  (hose  that  xcere 
of  his  troop,  or  company,  for 
the  Saracens. 

slaw  en,  slain. 

slede,  the  valley. 

:l:f^"' }"'»'*''-*'•"• 

slo,  slay,  to  slay^ 

slouh,  sleic. 

slowe,  slezo. 

sraert,  smart. 

smerte,  wound,  smdtt,  s^nartly, 
brisk,  rough,  sharp,  fodied  alho 
smerte,  arid  died  also  of  his 
izounds. 

smerthed,  smartness. 

jimertly,  smartlj/. 

smote,  drove,  struck. 

srayte,  smite,  struck,forge,coi>i. 

emyten,  smitten,  struck,  forged, 
coined. 

snyten,  cut  off.  From  the  Sax. 
j^niban,  scindere. 

Sodomite,  Sodomy. 

soiorne,  tarrying,  sojourning,  so- 
journ, stay,  tarry,  if  I  may  my 
soiorne,  if  I  may  sojourn  my 
self,  if  I  still  tarry. 

ioiour,  sojourning. 

soioure,  sojourning,  habitation, 
tarrying. 

som,  at  once,  For  wirschip  of  j^e 
werld  forsoke  ]jou  alle  &  som, 
and  at  once,  out  of  regard  to  the 
zeorld,  thou  forsookest  all. 

somerestide,  summer time,eummer 
season. 


somond,  summoned, 

son,  soon. 

sond,   will,   mind,  commandment^ 

command,  messenger,  amhassa^ 

dour,  message,  ambassage,  news. 
sonde,    messenger,   7nessage,    am* 

bassadour,  commission. 
sondre  a  partie,  to  divide  apart. 
sone,  soon. 
songen,-  sung^ 
songon,  Slings 
sonkeii,  sunk. 
Sonne, soon. 
sore,  sorely. 
soth,  truth,  true. 
soth  sawe,  true  saying. 
sothe,  truth. 
soj'ly,  truly. 
sottis,  sotts. 
souched,  couched,  cast. 
Soudan,    Sultan,    Saladine.    Sous, 

dan   Saladyn,   Sultan    (or    Soh 

dan)  Saladine. 
souders,  souldiers, 
setloiioure,  p.  280.  souldier.     But 

it   should    be   rather   sojourner 
for  soudioure,  if  we  will  follow 

the  French. 
souht,    sought,   on"  londes    souht, 

sought  satisfaction  on  his  lands/ 

seized  upon  his  lands. 
souhtes,  soughtest. 
soure,  sore. 
south,  sought. 
sowlus,  souls. 

spak,  speke,  spoke,  spoken. 
sped,  sped,  made,  speed,  proceeded, 

hied,  hastened,  went,  gone,  suc- 
ceeded, fared. 
spede,  speed,  run. 
spedis,  speeds,  speed,  succeeds. 

spele, 


GLOSSARY. 


m 


speie,  spilt,  loose,  spoil. 

spellis,  spells,  relates^  teaches j  tells, 
signifies. 

spendes,  spendesf,  consumest. 

spendid,  spended,  spent. 

spendyng,  spending,  money,  ex- 
pences. 

spene,   block  up,  stop  up. 

spense,  expe7ices. 

spente,  expences. 

sperd,  sparred,  barred,  looked  af- 
ter, shut,  inclosed,  shut  up,  im~ 
prisoned,  spared. 

spere,  spear. 

sperre,  examin,  search  out,  try. 

speyr^  hope.  ]?e  Londreis  wer  in 
speyF)  him  for  J^ar  kyng  vplift, 
they  were  in  hopes,  that  the  Lon~ 
doners  would  exalt  or  make  him 
to  be  their  king. 

speyre,  aspiring,  inquiry,  hope, 
looking  after,  ab  A.  Sax.  j-py- 
jiian,  explorare,  investigare. 
Of  Roberd  is  no  speyre  to  mak 
of  parlement,  the  Farliament  is 
to  make  no  inquiiy  about  Ro^ 
bert. 

spiand,  spying. 

spie,  spies. 

spille,  spoil. 

Spire,  search, 

spired,  examined,  inquired. 

spires,   zcatches,  spies. 

Spiritualties,  Spiritualia,  the  Pro- 
Jits  ■vohich  a  Bishop,  Abbat,  or 
other  ecclesiastical  person,  re. 
ceives,  not  as  he  is  a  temporal, 
but  as  he  is  an  ecclesiastical, 
officer.  The  Spiritualties,  there- 
fore,  of  a  Bishop,  being  com- 
monly defined  to  be  those  Pro. 


Jits,  which  he  receiveth,  as  he 
is  a  Bishop,  and  not  as  he  is  a 
Baron  of  the  Parliament,  from 
the  understanding  thereof  the 
nature  of  other  Spiritualties 
may  easily  be  conceived.  See 
CoxseVs  Interpr. 

spoken,  spoke. 

sposage,   spo usage,  marriage. 

spouse,  spouse,  espouse,  marry>. 

sprad,  spread,  disperse. 

spredis,  spreads. 

sprit  sancti,  holy  Ghost. 

squierie,  squiery,  squires,  esquired. 

stabille,  establish. 

stabilly,  firmly,  certeyn  be  holden 
stabilly,  be  accounted  Jlrm  and 
immoveable. 

stable,  stable,  establish,  conjirm. 

stabled,  established,  confirmed. 

stal,  stole. 

stalle,  stall,  stable,  prison: 

stalworth,  valiant,  strong,  stout, 
couragious. 

Stalwor]?ely,  couragiously. 

stalwortWy,  couragiously. 

stampe,  pond,  from  the  French 
estangi,  a  great  pond,  pool,  or 
standing  water. 

stanche,  (ab  Anglo. Sax.  j-tincan, 
hebetare,  sanguinem  compe» 
scere.)  asszcage,  stop. 

standand,  standing. 

standen,  stood. 

stank,  p.  68.  standing,  smellingi 
(See  Skinner  in  voc.  stink, > 
sed  stang  malim,  i.  e.  stagn, 
si'ce  lake,  nisi  bank  reponen. 
dum  esse  existlmes.  Potest  6; 
Strang  (i.  e.  strong)  legi. 

stark,  strong,  hard,  rigid,  sharp. 
K  E  2  oste 


634 


GLOSSARY. 


oste  stark,  a  strong  armif. 
Starke,  strong. 
staworth,  stout. 

stede,  place,  places,  horse,,  steed. 
stedes,  places,  horses,  points. 
steem,  esteem. 
stele,  steely  steal. 
stem,  stem,  root,  stock,  original. 
stength,  strength. 

Sterne,   opening.       \&  tyme  at  \e 
day   Sterne,    at  the  time  of  day 
break. 
sterre,  slir. 

stete,  {pro  strete,)  street. 
stie,  cavern,  by.place,  crinh,  way, 
ascent,  from  the   Sax.    ytijan, 
zchich  sig7iijies   both   to   ascend 
and  to  descend. 
Stille,  assiduously,  incessantly,  di. 
ligently,     still,    quiet,    as    yet, 
privately. 
stilly,  privately,  secretly. 
stinkand,  stinking. 
stirte,  started. 
stith.   stithy,   hardy.     Angl.  Sax. 

jti^,  durus,fortis,  &c. 
stode,  stood. 
stokked,  imprisoned^  inclosed,  Jix' 

ed  in. 
§tompus,  stumps. 
stoned,  stunn'd,  daunted. 
store,  many. 
stound,    time,    little   while,     oii  a 

stound,  in  a  little  time. 
stounde,  time,  little  time.  oti  a 
stounde,  on  a  time,  on  a  sud. 
den,  in  a  little  time. 
stoundes,  times,  minutes,  ne  salle 
be  many  stoundes.  nor  shall  be 
in  many  years.  with  in  fo 
stouudeSj  within    few   minutes^ 


in  a  little  time,  in  a  trice.  So 
that  His  the  same  with  what 
the  Hebrews  calVd  in  the  sin^ 
gular   irj"i    a  moment,    and     in 

the  pi.  a»rJ"i  moments,  or  the 
least  particles  of  time,  such    a» 

are  mentioned  in  Isaiah  xxvii. 

3. 
stour,   >  {ah    Jnglo-Sax.    jc^pan, 
stoure.j  jrteopan  vel  j^tiejian,    tur-- 

bare,    niovere,     irritare ;     unde 

vulg.    to  stir.)  Jight,    assault, 

biUtle,  stir,  disturbance,  motion. 

J'er  ^e  bataile  was  stoure,   where 

the  battle  was  fought. 
stours,  battles,  zoarrs,  stirrs. 
straied,  strayed,  went,  rambled. 
strangere,  (in  the  Prologue,)  a  kind 

of  rhythmical  verse. 
strangle,  tnay  be  strangled. 
streite,     strict,     exactly,   (statiin,) 

straight  vel    strait,    straightly, 

strictli/,  narrowly,  closely,  pre-^ 

sently. 
streiter,  stricter,  straiter. 
streitly,  strictly. 
slrcnj^e,  strength. 
stresse,  stress,  hardship,  violencey 

distress.       Angl.    Sax.  jcjiecey 

vis,  violentia. 
streyjte  euou  owte,  even  straight 

out,  stretched  even  out. 
stroie,  destroy. 
stroied,  destroyed. 
strong,    strong,   hard,     it  is  fuUe- 

strong,  it  is  very  hard. 
stroupe,  stirrup. 
stroye,  destroy. 
stund,  minute,  instant. 
sturbled,    troubled,      confounded, 

spoiled,  marred,  rujfled. 

stu. 


GLOSSARY. 


651 


fituried,  stirred. 

stynt,  stoody  stop,  stoppage,  als 
J7ei  togidir  stynt,  as  they  stood 
or  contended  together.  Ofnon 
Je  had  ay  to  stynt,  they  never 
stopped. 

4tynte,  stinted,  stopped,  ceased. 

sua,  so. 

suelle,  swelling,  proud. 

suete,  szceet. 

sueuen,  dream. 

•sueyn,  swain,  servant,  svcains, 
young  men. 

sueynes,  swains,  young  men. 

suffre,  suffer,  bear,  undergo. 

suilk,  such. 

suiJ7e,  apace,  readily,  quickly, 
speedilj/,  hastily,  quick,  suij^e 
ta  bataile  mad  him  gare,  made 
him  very  ready  to  battle,  or  put 
himself  with  speed  in  order  of 
battle. 
lid,  shoi 

sulle,  shall,  should. 

sundred,  separated,  divided. 

suowe,  swag,  (vacillatio,)  noise, 
sound,  Ab  A.  Sax.  j"pej,  J"pe5e, 
sonus,  clangor,  S^c. 

sur  ]e  Rone,  (super  Rhodanum,^ 
sive  upon  the  Rhone. 

surgien,  surgeon. 

surplis,  surplices. 

Surreis,  people  on  the  South  side 
of  the  Thames,  Southern  men. 

Surrie,  Syria. 

sursante,  rising. 

sate,  after. 

suylk,  such. 

suyth,    quickly,    swiftly,    he   hied 


him  j^ider  suyth,    he    hied  him 

thither  quickly  or  very  fast. 
suythe,    apace,  very,  he   hied  hi- 

der  suythe,    he  hied  hither  a- 

pace. 
swalle,  sxoelVd. 
svvilk,  such. 
syj,  saw. 
sygte.  sight. 
synods     sive     synodes,     councils,      C'^l 

synodals,    synodies.    Pecuniary 

Rents,  paid  to  Bishops   &c.  at 

the  time  of  the  Annual  Synods, 

by  every  Parochial  Priest. 
systeren,  sisters. 


ta,  to. 

tabard,  (Fr.  tabarre.J  taberd,  a 
jacket,  jerkin,  mandilion,  or 
sleeveless  coat,  worne  in  times 
past  by  Noblemen  in  the  warrs, 
but  now  only  by  Heralds,  and  is 
called  their  coat  of  Arms  in 
service.  Verstegan  tells  us,  in 
his  Restitution  of  decayed  intel. 
"  ligence  ',  that  tabert  was  an- 
^'  ciently  a  short  gown,  that 
*'  reached  no  further  than  to 
"  the  mid-leg,  that  it  remain- 
**  eth  for  the  name  of  a  gown 
''  in  Germanic  and  in  the  Ne, 
"  therlands,  and  that  in  Eng~ 
''  land  it  is  now  the  name  only 
"  of  a  heralds  co.at.  But  what 
Stowe  tells  us,  in  his  Survey  of 
London,  /*  more  remarkable^ 
where  talking    of  several  fair 


Pag'  233.  Ed,  Anlw.  1605.  4" 
E£  3 


Inn* 


656 


GLOSSARY 


Inns    in  Southwark,    he  takes 

occasion   to   speak   of  the    Ta. 

f?ard  Inn  as  the  most   ancient 

of  them,   and  thereupon  writes 

thus  ' :    *'  Amongst  the  zchich 

"  Innes,  the  most  an. 

The  Tabard      ;,  ^  .^^^  .^  ^^  Tabard, 

inSouthwark;    ,,  „    ,        „  ' 

''  so    called    of     the 

"  signe,  zchich  as  wee  now  terme 
*'  it,  is  of  a  Jacket  or  sleevelesse 
"  coate,  whole  before,  open 
"  on  both  sides,  with  a  square 
^'  collar,  winged  at  the  should. 
<'  ers:  a  stately  garment,  of 
*'  old  time  commonly  worne 
^'  of  Noblemen  and  others, 
"  both    at    heme    and    abroad 


^'  in  the  wars;  hut  then  {t& 
"  wit,  in  the  warrcs)  their 
"  Armes  embroidered,  or  o. 
"  therwise  depict  upon  them, 
"  that  every  man  by  his  Coate 
"  of  Armes  might  bee  knowne 
''  from  others :  But  now  these 
*'  Tabards  are  onely  zoorne 
"  by  th^  Heralds,  and  bee 
"  called  their  Coates  of 
"  Ar7nes  in  Sermce.  For  the. 
"  Inne  of  the  ,  Ta- 
"6arJ,  Geffrey  Chau.  ^.^Sr. 
"  cer,Esquire,the  most 
*'  famous  Poet  of  England,  in 
"  commendation  thereof,  wru, 
"  teththus: 


^'  It  befell  in  that  season,  on  a  day, 

*'  In  Southwqrke,  at  the  Tabert,  as  I  lay, 

*'  Ready  to  wend  on  my  P^igrim^ge 

*'  To  Canturbury,  with  full  devout  courage  | 

*'  That  night  was  comen  into  the  Hosiery 

*'  Well  nine  and  twenty  in  a  company, 

*'  Of  sundry  folke,  by  adventure  yfall,' 

*'  In  fellowship  and  Pilgrims  were  they  all, 

"  That  toward  Canturbury  woulden  ride  : 

"  The  Stables  and  Chambers  weren  wide, 

^*  And  well  we  were  eased  at  the  best,  <^c. 


^}  Within  this  Inne  was  aU 
"  so  the  Lodging  qf  the  Ab. 
"  bot  of  Hide  (by  ,  the  Ci. 
"  'i/  <^f  Winchester)  a  fair e 
*'  house  for  him  and  his 
"  Traine,  when  hee  came  to 
"  the  City  to  Parliament, 
"  &c."  The  Batchelots  of  Arts 
(upon      the      Foundation)     in 


Queen* s-College  in  Oxford  (a^ 
"'tis  zcell  known)  are  caWd 
Tabiters  or  Taberders,/A-o?«  iheif 
being  obliged  to  wear  a  taberd 
or  short  gown. 

tached,  tacked,  fastened. 

taile,   taiL 


ber,   to  order, 
jierson. 


ilk  taile,   every 


Pr.S'ibQ.  Ed.fuh 


tak, 


GLOSSARY. 


657 


tak,  take^  took,  pass. 

take,  commit.  I  take  ia  gour 
kepynges,  /  committ  to  your 
keepings. 

tald,  accounted. 

tale,  number. 

tallage,  tribute^  tax,  tollage,  toll, 
taxes,  impositions. 

^apised,  lurk'd,  lay  hid. 

targe,  target,  shield. 

tateles,  tattles,  twattles. 

tauht,  taught,  committed  to. 

team,  generation,  offspring,  child, 
ren. 

teld,  told,  said,  accounted. 

telle,  call,  think,  reckon,  a  saynt 
he  men  telle,  men  call  him  a 
faint.    I  telle,  I  think  it. 

tellis,  tell,  tellls  fro,  iellest  of, 
speakest  of. 

teme,  issue. 

itemporalties,  the  temporal  State  of 
Church.men,  or  the  Profits 
zehich  a  Bishop,  Abbat,  or  other 
ecclesiastical  person,  receives, 
not  as  he  is  an  ecclesiastical, 
but  as  he  is  a  temporal, 
officer.  See      Spiritualties. 

The  nature  of  these  Tern, 
poralties  will  be  the  better 
perceived,  from  what  Cowell 
says  cone,  the  Temporalties  of 
Eishops  (Temporalia)  being  (as 
he  notes)  such  revenues,  lands. 


and  tenements,  as  Bishops  have 
had  laid  to  their  Sees  by  the 
Kings  and  other  great  persqnages 
of  this  land  from  time  to  time, 
as  they  are  Barons,  and  Lords  of 
the  Parliament. 

tend,  tenth. 

tende,  tenth. 

tens,  sorrow,  trouble. 

tened,  provoked,  troubled. 

tenement,  tenement,  tenements, 
territories,  inheritance,  or  lands 
held  in  fief,  by  Cens,  or  a  chief 
rent,  lands  possessed,  or  held 
absolutely.  Houses  or  Lands 
held  of  another. 

tent,  try,  heed. 

tentis,  tents. 

terrours,  terrors,  terrers,  or  ter. 
riers,  (from  terra,)  a  particular 
or  survey  of  a  Mannour,  or  of 
ones  uhole  estate  of  landsy 
containing  the  quantity  of 
acres  and  boundaries  there^ 
of  '.  Also  it  signifies  the  Sur. 
vey  of  lands  and  profits  be. 
longing  to  a  Parsonage  or  Vi.. 
caridge,  such  as  that  of  the 
Vicaridge  of  Waltham.Ab. 
bats  or  White-Waltham  near 
Maidenhead  in  Berks,  which 
I  shall  here  beg  leave  to  in. 
sort  *,  as  it  was  communicat.. 
^d  to    me    many    Years   ago : 


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GLOSSARY. 


*'   Waltham-Abhots  a. 
<<  lias  White-Wa'tham 
*'  Com.BerksDioc.Sarum 
^  Novemb.    27th.     1704, 


4.3 


A  Terrier  of  such  Lands,  Tiths,  Proffits 
and  Emoluments,  as  belong  to  the  Vicar- 
idge  of  the  Parish  of  VValtham-Abbots, 
alias  White-Waltham,  aforesaid. 


«  TMprir 


there  is  be. 
longing  to  the  said 
Vicar  a  licaridge  house^  and 
a  little  Barne,  icith  a  Gard. 
en-Plott,  and  one  Acre  of 
Ground     thereunto     adjoyn. 


"  Item,  there  belongeth  to 
*'  it  an  Annual  pension  of 
"  Forty  Shillings,  paid  out-  of 
*'  her  Majestie's  Exchequer. 

"  Item,  there  is  due  to  the 
*'  said  Vicar  all  manner  of 
"  Tithsy  except  corn,  which 
"  are  to  be  paid  in  kind,  there 
*'  being  no  Custom  or  Pres. 
"  cription  to  the  contrary, 
*'  which  zee  know  of,  except 
^'  one,  which  is  one  peny  for 
"  every  Cou's  Milk  yearly. 

"  Item,  thete  belong  to  the 
*'  Vicar  all  Oblations  and 
*'  Mortuarie:. 

"  Item,  all  the  Surplice  fees, 
*'  viz.  for  Burying  of  any  Pa- 
''  rishoner  in  the  Church  or 
*'  Chancel  tzco  shillings,  and 
"  in  the  Church-yard  one 
"  shilling,  and  for  every  For. 
*'  reigner  double,  as  also  for 
*'  every  Marriage  by  License 
"  5  shillings,  with  Banns  pu~ 
*'  blished  two  shillings  six 
"  pence,    and  where   the  fVo. 


man  is  married  in  any  other 
Parish  ten  shillings,  as  also 
one  shilling  for  every  Church- 
ing. 

"  Item,  there  is  due  to  the 
Vicar  ten  Shillings  for  Break, 
ing  of  the  Ground  in  the 
Chancel  for  any  Parishoner, 
and  tvoenty  shillings  for  any 
out.Parishoner,  that  shall  be 
huryed  there,  the  Vicar  al. 
waies  maintayning  the  Floor 
of  the  Chancel. 
"  Item,  there  is  payable 
yearly  from  the  impropria^ 
tor  to  the  said  Vicar  these 
Quantitys  of  Corn,  viz.  18 
Bushells  of  Wheate,  18 
Bu shells  of  Barly,  and  16 
Bushells  of  Beans  and  Pease, 
on  the  Feast  of  St.  Michael 
tharchangel,  or  within  30 
dales  after. 

*'  Item,  we  doe  find  by  cer. 
tain  antient  Terriers,  that 
there  is  belonging  to  the 
said  Vicar,  the  Tith-corn 
of  certaine  Garden-Plotts, 
in  Number  seaven,  whereon 
have  houses  stood  in  for- 
mer Times.  The  Fields, 
or  Places,  in  which  they 
lye,  are,  first,  in  Joan-croft, 
containing  2  Quarters  of  an 
'«  Acre, 


GLOSSARY 


*^  Acre.  2dli/  in  Longer  oft, 
*'  contayning  as  much  ground. 
^'  3dlj/    in    Staples,    contayning 

"  one    Acre.  Athly  in   ' 

*^  an  other  contayning  an  o- 
''  ther  Acre.  bthly  in  Bin- 
"  fields  croft,  contayning  3 
"  quarters  of  an  Acre.  6thly 
"  in  Rogers  croft  one^  con^ 
*'  tayning  one  Acre.  Ithly 
"  in  Bucketts  owe,  contayning 
*'  one  Acre. 

"  All  these  forementioned 
*'  Tiths,  Fees,  Pension,  Quan. 
*'  titles  of  Corn  and  Tith. 
"  Come  of  Garden-Plofts, 
*'  have  been  paid  to  the  Vi- 
"  cars  there  from  Time  to 
"  Time. 

testimons,  testifyes. 

|?ai,  they. 

Jjam,  them,  they,  themselves. 

\am\,  them,  they. 

jjam  self,  themselves. 

J'an,  then,  when,  bi  J^an,  by  then, 
by  that  time:  J»an  had  jiei  won 
jjei  fer  had  souht.  When  they 
had  got  what  they  sought  for  far. 

J^ank,  thank,  thanks,  favour. 

Jar,  their,  there. 

Jare,  their,  there. 

Jjat,  that,  those,  the,  before  that, 
but,  then,  fro  Jat  now  lyue, 
from  those  that  noxo  live.  to 
duelle  J^at  with  \e  kyng,  p.  154. 


to  droell  then  tuith  the  king,  nisi 
mails,  to  dwell  that  time  w'th  the 
king,  vel  j^ar  pro  j^at  reponas. 
>at  >at  p.  222.  those  that. 

j^ate,  that. 

Jaw 5,  though. 

thawjte,  taught. 

Je,  Mey,  the,  thee,  thy  self,  to  thee, 
those,  of  those,  thigh,  them,  that. 

thede,  nation,  people,  province. 

Jei,  the,  they. 

Jenk,  think,     him  Jenk,  he  thinks. 

]7er,  there,  their,  of  them,  the, 
where,  that,  these,  ouer  alle 
Jer  Jam  Jink,  every  zohere  zchere 
they  thought  Jit.  A  litelle  Jer 
biforn,  a  little  before  that.  Jer 
as,  there  as,  whereas,  in  the  place 
where,  whereat. 

Jer  bi,  thereafter,  after  that. 

Jerfor  sive  Jer  for,  therefore. 

Jerforn,  therefore. 

Jerfro.  therefrofn,  of  it. 

Jer  in,  therein.  Jer  mor,  tnore 
than  that. 

Jerrej  there.  Jerre  as  non  seen  be 
fore,  where  none  zcas  seen  be. 
fore. 

Jer  Jro,  there  thorough,  thorough 
that. 

Jertille  sive  Jere  tille,  thereto. 

Jerto,  thereto,  for  that,  therefore. 

Jes,  these. 

these,  p.  13.  [in  not.]  this. 

theues,  thievish,  thief  ^s. 

thewe,  threw. 

Jey,  the,  they. 


'  This  was  torn,  (saith  my  honoured  Friend,   that  communicated  this  Paper)  I  coulj 
BOt  make  it  out. 


Jhe, 


m 


GLOSSARY. 


J? he,  thei/. 

Jhit,  that. 

Ji,  thee,  thy. 

fider,  thither,  fider  I  salle,  p.  142, 
thither  I  shall  go. 

Jien,  thence. 

Jing,  thing,  things. 

Jink,  thinks. 

J>inkis,  thinks. 

fis,  these. 

j^ise,  these. 

j>i}en,  thence. 

thnke,  p.  86.  ^ftjw^. 

I'D,  these,  this,  the,  their,  those, 
then,  thou,  that.  In  p.  320. 
idem  est  quod  ihrovgh,  Etqui~ 
dem  \vo  potius  legendum  esse 
ad  imum  pagince  monui. 

j'of,  though. 

]?oled,  sujferedst. 

]?oo,  so,  then. 

Jjor,  there,  lohere. 

thore,  therefore,  inhere,  there. 

fprgh,  over,  thither,  through,  by, 
of.  jjorgh  sight,  apparent,  as  his 
heyre  j^orgh  sight,  in  p.  127. 
is  Aw  heir  apparent, 

J'orghe,  through. 

jjorgh  for,  therefore. 

)»orght,  throughout,  through. 
j^orght  schete,  shot  through,  run 
through,  rushed  through. 

J70U,  thou,  thy  self. 

J70uh,  thought. 

j»ouht,  p.  155.  thought.  Kt  qui- 
dem  secutus  sum  Codicem 
MS.  {ut  alibi  etiam)  hoc  in 
voce,  licet  re  vera  malim 
pouht,  idem  quod  vulgb  di. 
cimus  pout,  de  its  scilicet  in, 
telligendumj    qui    ex   indigna- 


tione  mire  inflare,  labiaque 
proinde  protrudere  Solent. 

I'D uhtis,  thoughVst  of. 

Jralle,  slaves,  a  slave,  servant. 

jrawe,  time,  while,  passion,  angert 
a  gode  J7rawe,  a  good  while. 

J^re,  three. 

jjretis,  threats,  threatens. 

Jrette,  threatened, 

Jretty,  thirty, 

Jrid,  third. 

jjride,  third, 

ihxWledi,  pierced,  bored  through. 

jjrin,  three. 

\nng,  press,  squeeze, thrust, 

thrist,  thrust. 

thrittene,  thirteen. 

Jjritti,  thirty, 

thro,  suffer,  suffering,  passion, 
hardship, 

j^hrotus,  throats. 

throw,  time,  bi  tjirow,  betimes, 
early. 

throwe,  time,  minute,  very  little 
time,  season,  while,  little  while. 

jjrydde,  third, 

Jrytty,  thirty. 

]?hryue,  thrive.  Clerkes  j^at  wild 
)>ryue.  Clerks  that  would  thrive, 
\.  e.  were  provident  and  care- 
full,  as  being  indeed  poor  them- 
selves. 

Thurday,  Thursday. 

]7us,  this,  these. 

)?ydur  sive  J^yder,  thither. 

tid,  happened,  tidings,  news,  but 
m  pag.  52.  it  seems  to  be  for 
]>nd  or  third. 

tide,  time,  chance,  opportunity, 
happen,  luck.  This  word  comes 
from  the  Saxon  cib,  con- 
cerning 


GLOSSARY. 


eqi 


periling  zchich  Mr.  Somner^ 
in  his  Saxon  Dictionary  ', 
hath  observ''d  7nani/  remark- 
able Particulars,  zchich  I  shall 
forbear  repeating  here,  and, 
instead  thereof,  shall  take  the 
opportunity  of  informing  the 
Reader  xcith  what  I  meet  zcith, 
in  a  very  ancient  and  very 
valuable  3IS.  (in  vellum)  de 
computo  EcclesiasticOj  in  the 
Ashmolcan  Museum,  the  au- 
thor whereof  was  Bj/rdferthus, 
Brightfertus  or  Bridfertus, 
monk  of  Ramsey,  or,  as  o- 
ihers  *  say,  Thorney,  who,  ac- 
cording to  Bale,  flourished  in 
the  year  980.  in  the  Reign  of 
King  Ethelred.  //e  tells  us, 
564  atoms  make  a  moment,  4 
moments  a  minute,  two  minutes 
and  an  half  a  prick  or  point, 
four  pricks  or  points  a  tid  or 
hour  in  the  course  of  the  Sun, 
six  tids  a  fyrthling,  4  fyrtliUngs  a 
day,  and  seven  days  a  week. 
The  original  words  (which  zci/l 
be  more  acceptable)  are  these. 
jip  hunb  -j  jieopejx  "j  jryxtij 
acomi  jepyjica^  an  momentum, 
peopeji  momenca  jej:ylla^  mi- 
nucum.  'j  t/ejen  minuca  "j 
healj:  jepyjica%  anne  pjiican.  "j 
feopeji  pjiica  jepyjicea^  ane 
tib   on    ]>xjxe    j-unnan  pyne.    i 


j'yx  tiba  pyrca^  anne  jryji^inj. 
•j  peopeji  jryp^linjaj-  pyjica^ 
anne  bsj.  'j  jreofon  bajaj  ane 
pucan.  /  the  rather  take  notice 
of  this  MS.  because  it  contains 
many  things  that  are  really 
very  curious,  such  as  will  give 
great  light,  in  inany  respects, 
to  such  as  deal  in  the  Saxon 
times,  and,  for  that  reason^ 
Leland  ^  read  this  author  in. 
tirely  over,  zcith  wonderfull 
pleasure  and  delight.  Indeed 
the  Work  is  an  improvement 
of  Bede,  •u.hom  Byrdferthus 
stiles  appuji^a  jiimcjiKpcija, 
a  very  wprthy  chronologer,  or, 
as  Bj/rdferthus  expresses  it  in 
Latin,  venerandus  astrologus, 
the  word  astrologus,  it  seems, 
being  then  apply'd  to  Chro- 
nologers  and  Astronomers,  not- 
zcithstanding  not  observed  by 
Du.Fresne,  who  was  hozocver 
acquainted  4  with  this  Author. 

tight,  prepared,  appointed,  order- 
ed, a  direct  journey,  intire.  had 
tight,  p.  203.  carried  himself 
directly,  to  Snowdon  has  he 
tight,  he  hath  all  intirely  to 
Snowdon. 

tijhte,  tight. 

tjlle,  get,  obtain,  manage,  to,  till, 
labour,cultivate,  improve,zchile, 
to   tille  lende,   to   get,    obtain^ 


'  Voc.  t\h.  '  Letandi  Coll.  Vol.  IV.  p.  23.  3  Coll  vol  IV.  p.  23.  De  Scriptorib. 
p-  171.  *  See  his  Index  Auctorum  prcefix'd  (o  his  Clossar.  inf.  &  med.  Lat.  voc. 
BRIDFERTUS. 


659 


GLOSSARY. 


manage  or  govern  the  land, 
timbred,  occasional.  J^at  timbred 
him  histene,  that  occasioned  him 
his  trouble. 
tinselle,  tinsell^fine  robes,  honour. 
If  him  com  any  scaJ7e  tinselle  of 
seignorie.  If  there  happen  any 
damage  to  the  dignity  of  his 
dominion. 
tint,  shut  up,  stojfd,  lost.  This 
Word  for  lost  is  made  use  of 
by  John  Bellinden,  in  his  old 
Scottish  Translation  of  He- 
ctor  Boethius,  where  also  he 
iiseth  tine  for  loose,  particu- 
larly in  I.  VIII.  c.  xiiii.  when 
he  is  speakifig  of  the  mis- 
chiefs, that  befell  King  Vor. 
iigern,  from  his  amours  with 
Roxena,  the  most  beautifull 
daughter  of  Hengist.  Fynaly 
{saith  he)  Vortigern  come  with 
ane  certane  of  his  nobillis  to 
•  Towquham  castol,  quhare  he 
was  plesandly  ressauit  &  feistit 
with  all  maner  of  delytis  &  ple- 
souris  that  micht  be  deuysit. 
Than  Heiigost  set  hyni  to  pro- 
long the  banket  within  the  nycht 
that  the  kyng  mycht  be  takin 
with  the  wynis.  Incontinent 
lioxena  the  douchter  of  Hengist 
(as  scho  was  instruckit)  went  to 
the  kyng  with  ane  coupe  ful 
of  mycht}'  \\yne,  &  said,  I  drink 


to  the.  Kyng  Vortigern  drank 
mychtely  of  the  coupe,  &  quhen 
he  had  embrasit  hir  in  his  armis, 
he  set  hir  down  nixt  hym  self 
in  the  banket.  Efter  lang  com- 
monyng  he  fel  in  blind  raige  of 
lust.  Quhilk  thing  was  nocht 
onely  occasion  to  him  efter  to  do 
aduitry,  bot  als  to  tine  his  kyng- 
dom.  For  incontinent  throw 
birnand  flame  of  new  lust  he 
had  nothir  respect  to  the  law 
of  god  nor  zit  to  the  law  of  matri- 
mony afore  contrackit  with  his 
lauchfuU  wife.  And  *  but  mair 
delay  he  tuk  the  said  Roxena  to 
his  wife.  Syne  gaif  to  Hengist 
all  the  landis  of  Kent  with  cas- 
tellis,  townis,  and  munitionis 
pertenyng  thairto.  Sone  efter 
the  Saxonis  sat  down  in  the 
samyn  with  yair  M'iffis  &  childrin 
&  put  out  the  auld  inhabitantis 
thairof.  Sic  thingis  done  Vor- 
tigern returnit  with  his  new 
queue  to  London,  and  repudiat 
his  lauchfull  wyfe. 

tion,  p.  265.  dissension,  trouble,  ut 
sit  pro  tene. 

ii'^\»ei\,.  tipped,  headed. 

tired,  attired. 

tirede,  attired. 

tirpeil,    7  trouble,    broil,  villany, 

tcrpeile,  \  base    action,     vileness, 


Thong.     '  U'ilhout. 


roguery^ 


GLOSSARY. 


(m-^ 


roguery^  filthy  thing,  vile  busi- 
ness, naughty  tricks,  foul  act. 
late  be  Jjis  tirpeile,  lay  aside 
these  broils. 

tirpelle,  stir. 

tite,  close,  tight,  closely,  presently, 
directly,  tightly,  stiffly,  stoutly, 
quickly,  readily,  immediately, 
whole,  fulle  tite,  full  tightly. &his 
Sonne  Alisandere  for  ostage  gald 
him  tite,  and  surrender  to  him 
immediately  his  son  Alexander 
as  hostage  or  surety,  als  tite, 
also  (vel  as)  tightly. 

ti^and,  tiding,  tidings,  nezas,  given 
tidings  to. 

i'lying,  tidings,  tiding,  nezcs. 

tij^inges,  tidings,  nezi's. 

fiyng,  tidings,  tiding. 

to,  second,  to,  at,  for,  in,  by,  one, 
of,  too.  Ne  to  suilk  seruage  his 
heyrs  disherite,  Nor  to  disherit 
his  heirs  by  such  servage  or 
slavery.  Ne  par  tele  seruage 
ses  heres  desheriter  Codices  Gal- 
lici.  jjeto  kyng  and  J^e  toj^er,  the 
one  king  and  the  other.  To 
Gascoyne  J^at  he  were,  till  that 
he  zcas  at  Gascoigne.  to  West- 
mynstere  Jei  ment,  they  were 
called  [the  statutes]  of  West- 
minster, to  Frodesham,  at 
Frodesham. 
to  bote,  to  boot,  besides. 
to  breke,  broke,  might  break.  In 
Judges  IX.  53.  to  brake  is  the 
same  as  brake  or  broke.  For 
thus  it  is  said  there,  accord., 
ing  to  our  common  Transla- 
tion, And  a  certain  woman  cast 
a  picc«  qf  amilstone  uponAbime- 


lech's  head,  and  all  to  brake  his 
scull.  But  in  the  old  Transla.. 
tion  in  Hen.  Vlllth's  time 
His,  and  all  to  brake  hys  brayne 
panne ;  in  the  vulgar  Latin,  of 
St.  Hicrome,  &  confregit  cere- 
brum ejus,  and  in  the  Septua- 
gint,  Koci  knXettn  TO  y.^ac-mv  uvra. 

tocorae^  coming. 

to  drawe,  drew,  inclined,  jier  to 
to  drawe,  drew  thereto,  incliri'd 
thereto. 

to  gedur,  together. 

Toghalle  p.  77.  Tughall  alias. 

togider,  together. 

to  gone,  %i:ent.  \q  kyng  formast  to 
gone,  p.  161.  the  king  went 
first  or  formost.  Le  Rey  fu  ly 
primer  Codd.  Gall. 

to  hewe,  hezc'd,  cut,  cut  in  pieces, 

toke,  took,  assigned. 

token,  took. 

told,  accounted,  called. 

tolde,  accounted,  told,  caWd. 

torn,  pro  com  (in  Appendice  ad 
Prcef.  Num.  XIF.)  id  est, 
came. 

tome,  shut,  enclosed,  cut. 

to  morn,  to  morrow. 

ton,  one.  \e  ton  ne  ]7e  to)'er,  the 
one  nor  the  tother. 

toname,  tico  names.  J»is  tonarae^ 
p.  168.  by  these  two  names,  but, 
according  to  the  French,  by 
this  Sirname.  See  Robert  of 
Gloucester's  Chronicle,  p.  431, 
432.  where  there  is  a  very  re- 
markable passage,  relating  ta 
Robert  bastard  Son  of  K. 
Henry  the  JirsVs  marrying  of 
Ma. 


&04i 


GLOSSARV. 


Mdhyle,  the  daughter  of  Ro. 
bcrt  Fitz  Haym^  which  is  much 
better  in  the  original^  than  in 
the  prose  MS.  taken  from  Ro- 
bert of  Gloucester  (about  the 
time  of  Hen.  VI.)  in  the  Hands 
of  Thomas  Ward,  Esq.  zchcre 
the  passage  is  thus  curtailed 
the  Author  being  not  v:ell  e- 
nbitgh  skiWd  to  interpret  Ro- 
bert at  large :  One  of  the 
grettest  lordes  of  Knglonde,  ex- 
cept tHe  kyng,  callode  Robert 
le  figh  Haym.  For  he  lefte  his 
bodi  buried  at  Tewkesbury, 
fdt*  lie  rered  that  Abbey  hym 
selfe.  ,  He  hadde  a  doughter  dud 
his  helre  called  Maboly.  Kynge 
Henry  thoght  to  mary  his  bas- 
tard son  Robert  to  hir.  and  this 
gentille  damycelle  seid  hay,  that 
hit  were  not  sittynge  [/.  fittynge] 
to  mary  suche  anian,  that  bare 
no  name  but  only  Robard. 
Then  the  kynge  seide.  That 
tiis  son^  schulde  haue  a  name. 
And  bycause  hir  name  wats  Ma. 
boly  le  Fyzhaym,  his  name 
Schulde  Robert  leFizRoy.  Nay, 
quoth  she,  "what  name  shalle 
cure  children  bere  betwene  hym 
and  me  ?  Par  ma  fey,  seide  the 
kyrig,  thien  he  shalle  haue  aname. 
his  name  shalbe,  Robert  Erie 
of  Gloucester,  and  1  geve  hym 
the  Erledome  for  thy  sake,  and 


to  him  and  to  youre  bothes  iieltesi 
Then  this  Damycelle  thankfede 
hym,  and  then  the  mariage  wa^ 
done.  And  this  was  the  firste 
Erie  of  Gloucestre. 

tone,  one. 

tor,  to. 

to  rent,  tome. 

torment,  tempest,  storm  of  nind, 

torne,  turn. 

to  rof,  rended. 

to))er,  second,  other,  tothers,  to- 
ther,  the  other,  next.     See  to. 

to])ire,  t other. 

to  trowe,  to  prove,  to  confirm, 

to  ward,  towards. 

to  while  sive  towhile,  the  while,  thd 
zchilst,  as  long  as. 

towhille,  while,  the  while,  thd 
zchilst. 

towhils,  the  whilst,  the  while. 

to  wite,  to  Wit,  (o  know. 

Trailebastoun,  certain  particular 
Justices  so  talVd  in  the  time 
of  K.  Edio.  I.  in  reference  to 
zchich  Dr.  C'dwell  zorites  '  in 
this  manner  :  "  Justices  of  triall 
"  baston,  alius  of  trayl  baston, 
*'  were  a  kind  of  Justices  ap- 
"  pointed  by  King  Edward  the 
"  first,  upon  occasion  of  great 
"  disorder  growhe  in  the 
"  Realme,  during  his  absence 
"  in  the  Scottish  arid  French 
"  war  res.  They  are  called  in 
"  the  Old  nit.  brev.  fo.  52.  Jm- 


Jntcrp>  tnu     Justices  of  triall  baston. 


tikes 


GLOSSARY. 


^^  siices  of  triall  Boston,  but  by 
*'  Holynshed  and  Stow,  Ed.  pri. 
*^  of  Traile  bastofi,  of  trailing 
"  or  drawing  the  Staffe,  as  Ho- 
*'  linshed  saith.  Their  office 
*'  zvas  to  make  inquisition 
*'  through  the  Realms,  by  the 
*'  verdict  of  substantiall  Juries 
*'  upon  all  Officers,  as  Ma- 
"  jors,  Sheriffes,  Bailiff es^  Es. 
"  cheators  and  others,  touch. 
*'  ing  extortion,  briberies  and 
"  other  such  grievances,  as 
*'  intrusions  into  other  mens 
*'  lands,  and  Barratours  that 
*'  used  to  take  money  for  beat- 
*'  ing  of  men,  and  also  of  them 
**  uho?n  they  did  beat :  by 
*'  meanes  of  zchich  inquisitions 
•'  many  were  putiished  by  death, 
*'  many  by  ransome,  arid  so  the 
"  rest  flying  the  Realme,  the 
*'  land  was  quieted,  and  the 
*'  King  gained  great  riches  to. 
*'  zcard  the  supporting  of  his 
*'  wars.  Baston  is  thought  by 
*'  some  to  be  the  beame  of  a 
*'  paire  of  Scales  or  Weights  : 
*'  And  this  is  in  this  place  me- 
*'  taphorically  applied  to  the 
*'  just  poising  of  recompence 
"  for  offences  committed.  My 
"  poore  opinion  is,  that  the 
<'  etymologie  of  this  title  or 
**  addition  groweth  from  the 
"  French  (Treilles)  i.  cancelli, 


*'  bars  or  letises  of  what  thitig 
*'  soever,  a  grate  with  crosse 
"  bars,  or  of  the  singular 
*'  (Treille)  i.  pergula,  an  house, 
*'  arbour,  a  raile  or  forme, 
*'  such  as  vines  run  upon,  and 
*'  (Baston^  a  staffe  or  pole,  no. 
"  ting  thereby,  that  the  Justices 
"  employed  in  this  Commission, 
"  had  authoritie  to  proceeds 
"  ivithout  any  solemne  Judge. 
"  ment  Seate  in  any  plate 
"  either  compassed  in  with 
*'  r (tiles,  or  made  Booth  or 
"  Tent-wise,  set  up  with  staves 
*'  or poales  without  more  workCy 
"  wheresoever  they  could  ap» 
*'  prehend  the  malefactors  they 
"  sought  for.  See  libro  Assi- 
"  sarum^  folio  57.  141."  For 
farther  particulars  I  shall  re~ 
fer  the  Reader  to  Spelman  '  and 
Du  Fresne  '. 

traised,  betrayal. 

traist,  trusty. 

translate,  he  translated. 

trauaile,  travel,  disturbance,  /«- 
hour.  )?aiiked  his  trauaile,  thank, 
cd  him  for  his  travell  and  pains  i 

trauaild,  travelled,  laboured. 

trauaile,  pains,  undertaking,  tra^ 
veil,  labour. 

trauailed,  laboured,  travelled^  put 
to  it. 

traueile,  vex,  molest,  weary,  har. 
rie,  hurras. 


'  Ql9$s.  vec'  Trailbftstoh.     «  Gloss,  med.  Sf  inf.  LaU  vqc-  Traylebaiton. 

tray 


666 


GLOSSARY 


tray,  treason,  treachery.  trewe,  truce^ 

trayn,   dealing,      he    mad    a    fals  trip,  p.  203.  troop,  host,    and  His 

.  trayn,  he  dealt  falslj/,  or  unfair-  host  in  the  French, 

ly,  or  perfidiously.  triste,     (meta,)     mark,    direction, 

trayne,  tarrying,  train.  thrust,  trust. 

traytorie,  treachery,  treason*  trod,  thought,  believed,  gone,  con~ 

tre,  tree,  wood,  timber.  Jinri'd.     wele  trod,  made  plain. 

trechet,cousen,cheat,trick,beguile.  trokes,   trucks,    Square  pieces   of 

trechettyng,  treachery,  tricking.  Wood  at  the  Tops   of  Masts  to 


tre  ether,  treat,  trick  t 

treie,  tryal. 

treist,  trusty. 

treistes,  trusts. 

treistid,  trusted. 

trencheour,  trencher^  little  knife. 

trepas,  trespass. 

trcson,  treason,  treachery. 

tresond,  betray''d. 

tresorere,  treasurer. 

tiespas,  passage,  toll,  custom. 

trest,  trust. 

treste,  trestle. 

trestes,  trusts. 

trestille,  trestle. 

tretels,  trestles. 

treu,  truce. 

treuage,  toll,  tax,  imposition,   cu. 

stom. 
treue,  truce. 

treuwage,  taxes,  customs. 
trew,  truce. 


put  the  Flag.staffs  in.  Also 
round  Pieces  of  Wood  like 
Wheels  fixed  on  the  Axle-trees 
of  Carriages  to  move  the  Ord- 
nance at  Sea^.  Whence  Dr. 
Skinner,  in  his  Etymologicon : 
"  Trucks,  vox  Naut.  Sic  autem 
*'  vocantur  Rotce  lignece,  qui^ 
*'  bus  Machines  bellicce  moven- 
"  tur. 

trompors,  trumpeters. 

trost,  trusty,  trust,  ti  usted. 

troste,  trust. 

trosted,  trusted. 

trouage,  truage,  toll. 

trouht,  truth.  trouht  him  plight, 
plighted  him  troth,  promised 
him  truth. 

trow,   ")  believe,  think,  true,  faith' 

trowe,  3  full,  trusty,  trust,  ex- 
spect,  understand ;  to  give  credit 


to,  as  in  letters  of  credence. 

There  be  some  that  prate 

Of  Robin  Hood,    and  of  his  bow 

Which  never  shot  therein,  I  trow, 
in    Mr.  Anth.    u    Wood's   Col.         note     this     by    the     by)     Mr. 
lection   of  Ballads,  in  the  Ash.         Wood     is   pleased    to     *    note 
molcan      Museum,     whei^e     {to         thics   about    Robin    Hood,  viz. 


Set  N.  n<ii!,/s  Engllah  Dklivnary,  boc.  TRUCKS-    »  Coll-  nostr.  MSS.  vol.66,  p. 


"ffo- 


GLOSSARY 


667 


**  Robin  Hood  luid  his  chief 
*'  abode  in  Noilinghamshire, 
<'  in  the  time  of  K.  Rich.  I. 
"  who  began  to  raigne  in  the 
^'  yeare  1189. 

'*  John  Major^   a  Scotch  Hi- 
*'  sioriany  zcho  lived  in  the  time 


"  ofK.  Hen.  8  saith  of  him,  that 
''  he  was  indeed  an  arch-robber, 
"  but  the  gentellest  thief  that 
*'  ever  was. 

"  Mich  Drayton  the  poet,  in 
"  his  Poly. Albion,  in  the  26 
"  Song,  saith  of  him  thus  : 


"  From  wealthy  Abbots  chests,  &  churches  abundant  store, 

"  What  oftentimes  he  took,  he  shar'd  amongst  the  poore. 

"  No  Lordly  Bishop  came  in  lusty  Robin's  way, 

"  To  him  before  he  went,  but  for  his  pass  must  pay. 

"  The  widow  in  distress  he  gratiously  releiv'd, 

"  And  remedied  the  wrongs  of  many  a  virgin  greiv'd." 


Had  Mr.  Wood  seen  the  Fa- 
ther of  the  Scottish  Historians, 
John  Fordun,  he  would,  without 
iitl  doubt,  have  also  referred  to 
that  famous  Writer,  who  (ac- 
cording to  the  Harleyan  MS.) 
speaks  •  of  him,  not  only  as 
a  most  notorious  Robber, 
but  as  a  man  of  great  de- 
votion  and  charity.  But  then 
he  mentions  him  as  one  that 
flourished  in  the  Reign  of  Hen. 
in.  and  not  of  Rich.  I. 

Stowed,  believed ,^  gave  heed,  heark. 
ened. 

trulle,  trull,  sorceress. 

trut,  turd.  The  Saxon  Word  is 
topb.  Hence  Somner,  in  his 
Sax.  Dictionary:  "  Topb. 
*'  Stercus,  merda,  flmus.  dung, 

if  a  t .     Hinc  nostr.  dyrt. 

"  ».    stercus,   sordes.       Belgis, 


"  driit".  Jnd  Dr.  Skinner, 
"  in  his  Etymol.  Turd,  ab  AS. 
"  Tojib,  Belg.  'Ibrde,  Tort, 
"  Merda.^^  And  even  in  Hen. 
VHth^s.  time  they  writ  it  also 
torde,  as  is  plain  from  tht 
Promptorium  parvulorum,  whert 
zee  have,   "  torde.  stercus. 

tueie,  tzoo,  twain. 

tuende,  tzoentieth. 

tuentende,  twentieth. 

tueye,  two. 

fueyn,  tzao. 

tuke,  took. 

tuo,  to,  two. 

turbe,  squadron,  iroofi. 

tureile,  turret. 

turne,  turn  to. 

tuwne,  town. 

tuyn,  twain,  two. 

tuynne,  depart,  divide,  separata. 

tuyunes,  separates,  departs  from. 


Vtl.  11. 


P»g.  774. 


tyde, 


C68 


GLOSSAIir. 


tyde,  time. 

tynd,  lost.  \q  ,ne  tyiid  ne  fond, 
thei)  neither  lost  nor  found. 

tyiie,  fortify,  fence,  shut  up,  put 
up,  lament,  suffer. 

tynes,  labours  in  sorrow,  his  tyme 
he  tynes  and  spendes,  he  pro- 
tracts and  spends  his  time  in 
sorrow. 

tynt,  stopi,  slacked,  lost,  holden, 
shut  up,  touched,  for  tynt  wer 
Jjei  told,  they  were  looked  upon 
as  malecontents.  See  Somner^s 
Sax.  Diet.  voc.  tynan.  Herneys 
nouht  ne  tynt,  he  did  not  so 
much  as  touch  the  harness. 

V. 

vaile,  submit,  avail,  prevail. 

valiantise,  valour,  galantness. 

valovv,  value,  vcorth,  goodness, 

vamward,  vanguard. 

vassalage,  duty  of  vassals,  service. 
Jorgh  his  vassalage,  p.  86.  by 
the  assistance  of  his  vassals, 
or  those  that  owed  hitn  knighfs 
service,  nisi  malis ,  hoc  loco 
Jorgh  idem  esse  <juod  ad,  ut  sit, 
to  his  subjection. 

vavasoure,  valvasour  or  vavasour, 
[m  French  vavasseur]  a  Noble. 
man  in  former  Times  who  was 
next  iti  Dignity  to  a  Baron. 
It  also  signifies  villain  or  ser- 
vant, as,  I  am  J7i  vavasoure,  p. 
166.  /  am  a  servant  to  thee,  I 
.  am  thy  servant. 

vavasours,  Noblemen  in  dignity 
next  to  Barons. 

vaunnvard,  vanguard. 


vegance,  vengeance. 

venge,  revenge. 

vengenient,  revenge,  vengeance. 

venom,  poyson. 

rerray,  true,  very. 

vertuz,  vertues. 

vilanie,  treachery,  grievance,  ro- 
guery. 

vilany,  villany,falshood,  treachery. 

rilaynly,  villanously. 

vilenie,  villany,  treachery. 

vileyn,  a  villain. 

vis,  visage,  face,  no  turne  The- 
bald  his  vis,  nor  turn  his  face 
to  Thebald.  bare  vis,  bare- 
faced. 

vmbeleid,  humbled. 

vmbilaid,  humbled,  levelled,  pulled 
down,  thrown  down. 

vmwhile,  sometime,  at  some  time 
or  other,  one  while,  formerly. 

vnbiwened,  p.  117.  unthought  of. 
It  may  be  also  read  vnbiweued, 
to  answer  heued  in  the  next 
verse. 

vnce,  ounces. 

vnconyng,  folly,  ignorance. 

vndcrfong,  undertake.  * 

vnderfonge,  receive. 

vnderon,  the  same  with  vndron, 
ofzohich  by  and  by. 

vnderstond,  undertake,  take  it  up~ 
on  him,  understand. 

vndron,  nine  a  clock  in  the  morn, 
ing.  bitnex  vndron  «&  prime, 
p.  243.  so  'tis  expressed  for 
the  rhythm's  sake,  whereas 
otherwise  it  should  rather  be, 
bituex  prime  &  vndron,  i.  e. 
betwixt  six  and  nine  of  the  clock 
in  the  mprning.  This  word  vn- 
dron 


GLOSSARY. 


669 


dron  is  the  same  with  the  Saxon 
unftejin,  which  Mr.  Somner  ex- 
pressly tells  us^  is  nine  of  the 
clock  in  the  Morning.  "  Un- 
*'  bepn".  {saith  he  ')  Tempus 
"  antemeridianum,  hora  diet 
'*  veterum  tertia,  nostra  nona. 
"  the  forenoon,  the  third  houre 
*'  of  the  day,  that  is  nine  of  the 
"  clock  with  us.  Bed.  Hist. 
"  I.  4.  c.  22.  f  jiam  unbepnribe 
"  ]>onne  mon  masj'je  ojrcojc 
''  jinje"^.  i.  a  tertia  hora  quan. 
"  do  missce  fieri  solebant.  L. 
"  M."  {_sive  liber  medicus  vet 
raedicinalis,  quern  e  bibliutheca 
Regia  mutuatus  est  Somnerus'] 
*'  p.  1.  c.  64.  fele  bjiincan  on 
"  ]7peo  ciba.  on  unbejin  on  mib. 
"  bagj  on  non.  /.  potandum 
"  detur  ad  tria  tempora  (vel  ho- 
*'  ras  :)  hora  {sc.)  diei  tertia, 
"  meridie,  hora  tertia  pome. 
"  ridiana.  Accordingly  both 
"  Chaucer^s  interpreter  and 
"  Verstegan  are  to  be  cor- 
"  rected,  who  by  undent  & 
"  underntide  understand  after- 
"  noone".  Our  Ancestors  be- 
fore the  Reformation,  and  many 
since,  called  this  hora  tertia,  the 
houre  offeree,  and-in  Edrcardthe 
IFth's.  time,  when  some  dispute 
arose  about  the  exact  hour  of 
the   day,   which  this    word    de- 


noted in  the  Statutes  of  the 
Order  of  the  Garter,  it  was 
determined  *  to  be  nine  of  the 
clock  in  the  forenoon^  thn''  ufter~ 
wards  i,  in  Hen.  VIHth's  time, 
it  was  interpreted  to  be  3  of 
the  clock  in  the  afternoon:  but 
very  absurdly ;  as  plain' y  ap. 
pears  from  the  ancient  Canoni. 
cal  hours  of  the  Church,  which  * 
were  seven  in  number,  viz. 
Matutinas  laudes,  or  Mattins, 
the  Prima  Hora,  or  Prime,  the 
Hora  tertia,  the  Hora  sexta,  the 
Hora  nona,  Vespers,  and  the 
Completorium,  besides  the  Noc- 
turnum  Officiuni,  the  Office  for 
Nights;  which  is  also  divided 
into  four  Vigils,  the  Contici- 
nium,  Gallicinium,  Interapestiim, 
and  Antelucinium.  Now  since 
their  Mattins  z::icre  performed 
about  break  of  day,  and  their 
Prime,  by  consecptence,  at  Q  a 
Clock  in  the  morning,  I  can  see 
no  reason  to  doubt,  but  the 
hour  of  Tierce  was  9  a  Clock 
in  the  Morning,  and  so  the  rest 
at  3  hours  distance  one  after  the 
other.  And  this  Deter  mina. 
tion  of  it  to  nine  of  the  clock 
is  confirmed  again  by  Mr. 
Somner  in  another  place  of 
his  Saxon  Dictionary,  where  s 
this  passage  occurrs,     "  Kyn_ 


•  In  Sax.  Diet.  «m6  voce.     «  Ashmoles  Institution  of  the  Garter,  p.  506.     a  Ibid,  p 
503.    *  Ibid.  p.  507.    »  Voc.  Kyjijiiole. 

F  F  2  jiiole. 


mo 


GLOSSARY. 


(^  jiiole.  Bridfrithus  Ramesien. 
''  sis  MS.  in  Biblioiheca  Ash- 

'^  moliana.   —    \?l    haljan 

"  unbejin-tib  apj-cebij-copafmid 
"  gehabebumj^egnuuikyjitenlice 
"  pynjfumia^.  'j  J>aaej;elan  mune- 
*'  cay  ]7Sfie  cibe  lof  nub  kyp- 
*'  jiiole  *j  engla  lojryaiije  jepuji- 
*'  ^la^.  i.  e.  (fortasse :)  sacram 
*"^  horam  diei  ( veterii m )  tertiam, 
*'  (nostram  autcm  nonam  ante 
*'  meridiem)  Archiepiscopi  cum 
*'  Clero  festiva  celebrant  hilari- 
'^  tate;  nobiles  etiam  Monachi 
*'  illius  horag  laudes  (quas  vacant 
*'  matutinas  Ecclesiastici.  V, 
<«  Bed.  Hist.  U.  3.  c.  12.)  cum 
*'  kyppiole,  &  Angelorumhymno 
*'  honorant.     Fen*  *a^w  e*^  h^ 


"  mj/e  kyjijiiole  Jioc  a  kyrfe 
*'  eleison,  gworf  inter  preces 
*'  publicas  matutinas  repeti  so~ 
"  fe/,  fuisse  corruptum.  V» 
*'  Durandi  Rationale  Diviner, 
*'  /.  5.  c.  5.  Hinc  etiam  (ni 
"  Jailor)  nostratium  Carrol, 
*'  hymnus  scil.  in  Natali  decan. 
*^  tarisolilus^\  Andagreeabbj 
to  this  sense  the  word  undarne 
is  used  in  old  3ISS.  of  the  holi/ 
Festivals  of  the  Churchy  com~ 
posed  in  Meeter  about  the 
Reign  of  K.  Edicard  the  First,, 
in  the  Life  of  St.  Brandon, 
where  Mr.  Ashmole  '  {n:ha 
tells  us  this  MS.  was  in  the 
hands  of  Mr.  Silas  TayloVr). 
met  with  *  these  Rhythms  : 


This  Fowles  song  ek  her  Matyn»:  wel  right  tho  it  was  timei 
And  of  the  Sauter  sede  vers  ;  and  seithe  alsa  Prime, 
And  Undarne  seithe,  and  Midday,  and  afterward  seith  non-. 
And  ech  tyde  of  the  day  songe  as  cristenemen  scholde  d'on. 


Which  Verses   I  likewise  find, 


but 
St. 


with    some 
Brandan^s 


Variation,    in 


Life, 


Mr. 


Sheldon\<i     excellent     MS. 
the  Lives  of  the  Saints,  ?iz. 


]>e  foweles  songe  here  Matyns  ;  rigt  so  hit  m  as  tyme,. 
And  of  the  sauter  seide  J7e  vers,  suthe  also  Prime, 
And  Undren  and  Myddai  ;  and  afterwards  None, 
And  eche  tide  of  J'e  dai,  as  menden  scholden  done. 


Jttst.  of  the  Garter,  p.  507.    »  Fol.  72 


Tb 


GLOSSARY. 


67i 


To  zchat  hath  been  here  sug. 
gested  I  shaU  add,  that  as  the 
word  terce  comes  from  the 
Latin  tertia,  so  in  ail  the  old 
Books  of  Offices,  zchich  I  have 
seen,  the  Expression  hora  tertia 
«V  ahcaj/s  understood  to  be 
nine  of  the  dock  in  the  Morn, 
ing,  and  hora  nona  thj^ce  in  the 
afternoon.  I  have  now  (Jan. 
8.  1724.)  before  me  one  MS.  of 
ihis  kind,  being  a  Breviary,  in 
zchich  both  Expressions  occur 
in  that  sense.  And  I  mention 
this  MS.  the  rather,  because  I 
Jind,  at  the  End  of  it,  the 
foUoising  remarkable  Notes 
(in  an  old,  tho^  later,  hand) 
relating  to  the  Family  of  the 
Tilneys : 

<*  Pertjnet  iste  liber  prius 
**  Frederico  Tyllnei,  de  Boston 
<*  JR  comitatu  Lincoln,  militi 
*'  facto  apud  Aeon  in  terra 
^'  Judjeas,  anno  regni  Regis 
*'  liichardi  primi  tercio.  Vir 
"  magna;  stature,  &  potens 
*'  in  corpore,  qni  cum  patribiis 
^'  suie  doraiit  apud  Tirring- 
"  ton,  juxta  villam  vocatam 
*'  per  nomen  suum  TyWney 
"  ia  Mersheland.  Cujus  al. 
''  titudo  in  salram  custodiam 
**  p«rmanet  ibidem  usque  hunc 
"  diem.  Et  post  ejus  obitum 
*'  pertinet  iste  liber  sexdecem 
*'  militibus  hujus  nominisque 
"  Tyllney.     Quorum  unus  post 


"  alium   semper  habitavit  apud 

*'  Boston  prifcdictura,  dum  fratris 

*'  senioris   hereditas  accidit  he- 

"  redi    generali.     Tunc    eorum. 

"  miles    ultimus    fuit    Philippus 

*'  Tylney,  nuper  de  Shelleigh  ia 

*'  comitatu  Suffolchiae,  pater  ac 

**  genitor    Thomae    Tylney,     de 

'<  Hadleigh  in  comitatu  prsfedicto 

*'  armigeri,    cui    modo    attinet 

"  hie   liber,     anno    suae    aetatis 

"  64°.    die   Aprilis     14.     anno 

"  Domini  1556. 

"  ES  POYER  .  MA. 

«  CONFORT  ;  QVOD* 

«'  TYLNEY. 

"  in  liberi,  quorum  nomina 
"  htcsequuntur,  suntfilii,  quibus 
^'  genitor  fuit  Fredericus  Tyl- 
"  ney,  nuper  de  Kelsall  in 
*^  comitatu  Suffolchas  armiger, 
*'  filius  ac  heres  praefati  Thomas 
"  Tylney,  de  Hadleigh  in  comi- 
"  tatu  prajdicto  armigeri. 

«  Natus  fuit  Thomas  Tyl- 
"  ney,  filius  primogenitus  di- 
"  cti  Frederici  Tylney,  deci- 
"  mo  septimo  Aprilis,  anno 
"  regni  Regis  llenrici  octavi 
"  rif^ocimo  nono,  anno  Domini 
"  millesimo  quingentesimo  tri- 
'''■  sesimo  octavo. 

"  Natus  fuit    Philippus  Tyl- 

"  ney,    filius     minor    natu    di- 

■'  cti   Frederici    Tylney,     deci- 

r  F  3  *'  mo 


67g 


GLOSSARY 


*'  mo  nono  Mercil,  anno  regni 
"  dicti  Regis  Henrici  octavi 
*'  tricp.-imo,  anno  Domini.  1539. 
*'  praedict. 

*'  Funus   dicti    Frederici    Tyl- 
ne} .  T 

''  Decessit  ab  hac  vita  prae. 
*'  fattis  Fredericus  Tylney  ar- 
"  migcr,  pater  ac  genitor  prae. 
<'  fati  Thomae  et  Pliilippi  Jyl. 
''  ney,  apud  Kelsall  praedict. 
"  vicesimo  sexto  die  mensis 
^'  Januarii,  anno  regni  Regis 
"  Henrici  octavi  tricesimo  se- 
"  cundo,  anno  Domini  millesi- 
*'  mo  quingentesimo  quadrage- 
*'  simo. 

"  Natus  fuit  Carrolus  Tyl- 
*'  ney,  primogenitus  Phillippi 
''  Tylney,  die  Martis  hora  oc- 
"  tava  post  meridiem  Septem- 
*'  bri  die  23.  anno  Domini 
"   1561. 

'^  T  Sic  transit   gloria  mundi. 
"  Vivens  autem  Deo. 

One  would  think  from  the 
first  of  these  Notes,  that  the 
MS.  is,  at  least,  as  old  as  the 
Reign  of  K.  Richard  the  first. 
And  yetj  as  soon  as  I  saw  it, 
I  guess'd  it  to  be  much  more 
modern.  And  I  soon  found  my 
conjecture  confirm'd  from  the 
mention  (in  the  body  of  the 
bookj    in   the    very   same   hand 


with  the  rest)  of  Pope  Sixtus 
the  fourth  thus ;  Dominus  pa. 
pa  Sixtus  quartus  composuit 
quartam  6^'  quintam  prcedicio- 
rum  suffragiorum  oraciiinculas» 
Et  cum  hoc  omnes  indulgencias 
hcEC  legenlibus  per  ante  con. 
cessas  duplicavit.  Now  Sixtus 
the  fourth  being  made  Pope  in 
1471.  and  dying  in  1484.  the 
Book  cannot  be  older  than  the 
Reign  of  Edw.  IV.  I  suppose, 
therefore,  tliat  the  Note  relates 
really  to  some  other  older 
Breviary  or  Book  of  Offices^ 
of  which  this  (which  is  finely 
written,  in  good  large  cha- 
racters, such  as  were  proper 
for  elderly  people,  and  those 
that  had  bad  Eyes)  may  have 
been  a  Copy.  The  like  Note 
occurrs  both  in  Hackluyt  and 
Weever  ;  but  there  being  some 
differences,  I  question  whether 
it  were  immediately  from  the 
same  MS-  That  the  Reader  may 
the  better  perceive  the  Varia- 
tions, I  shall  transcribe  the  Copy 
as  'lis  in  Weever's  Ancient  Fu- 
nerall  Monuments^  pag.  818. 

"  I  reade  in  IJackliiiis  first 
''  volume  of  Voyages,  that 
"  Sir  Fredericke  Tilney^  a  great 
"  Commander  in  the  holy 
"'  Avarres,  was  interred  in  this 
"  Church  of  Tirrington  [in 
"  Norfolk:]  take  it  as  he  sets 
•*  it  downe. 


A 


GLOSSARY 


673 


*' A  note  out  of  a  Booke  in  the 
'■^  hands  of  Thomas  Tilney 
*'  Esquire,  touching  Sir  Frcm 
''  dericke  Tilney  his  ance- 
"  stor,  kniglited  at  Aeon  in 
"  the  Holy  Land,  by  King 
*'  Richard  the  first. 

S£V  Frede-        "  Pertiniiit  iste  liber 

S,*,"7'    "priusFrederkoTyl. 

man  of  high      "  ney    de    Boston    in 

stature.  u  (^^^^    Lincoln,    mi. 

"  liti  facto  apud  Aeon  in  terra 

*'  sancta,   anno   Regis   Richardi 

"  primi  tertio.       Vir   erat   iste 

''  magnae  staturae,  et  potens  cor. 

"  pore,    qui  cum    patribus    suis 

"  dormit  apud  Tirrington  juxta 

"  villam  sui  nomiiiis  Tyliiey   in 

"  Mershland,    cujus   altitudo  in 

"  salva  custodia  permanet  ibidem 

"  usque   in  hunc  diem :   Et  post 

"  ejus  obitum    sexdecem    Mili- 

Sixteem     "  ^ibus  ejus  nominis  Tyl. 

knig/itsof      *^  neyhcereditas  illasuc- 

the  Tilneys,      ii  ^.^ggj^.^    obvenit,  quo- 
successively.  '  ^ 

"  rum  unus   post  alium 

"  semper   habitabat   apud   Bos- 

"  ton  prajdict.   dum  fratris  seni- 

*'  oris  haereditas   haeredi  generali 

"  dcToluta  est,    ijuae   nupta   est 

''  Thome  Duci  Norfolciae.     Eo- 

*'  rum    miles   ultimus  fuit    Phi. 

"  lippus  Tylney  nuper  de  She!. 

*'  leigh   in   Com.    Suff.  pater  & 

*'  genitor    Thomas     Tylney    de 

*'  Hadleigh    in     Com.    pra;dict. 

*'  Armigeri,     cui    modo    aUinet 

"  iste    liber     anno    aetatls     64. 

"   1556. 


To  the  above  said  Notes  is 
added  (bj/  the  learned  Peter 
Le  Neve,  Esq;.  Norrojj  King 
of  Arms,  to  whom  the  MS. 
nozo  belongs,  and  who  was 
pleased  to  lend  it  me  for  my 
perusal)  this  memorandum  : 

"  Carolus  Tylney  unus  co» 
"  hortis  pensionariorum  Eli~ 
"  zabethce  Regince,  IcescB  ma- 
*'  jestatis  reus  8^-  pcenam  delicti 
"  luebat  cum  Babingtonio  Sf 
"  aliis  anno  Domini  15S6.  Fide 
"  Holinshed  edit.  '  1575.  pag. 
"   1586. 

The  Word  quod  for  quoth  is 
a  confirmation  of  what  I  have 
above  observed  in  the  Word 
boke.  Before  these  Notes  are 
some  Prayers,  which  I  have 
omitted,  {in  a  different  hand  also 
from  the  Book)  of  Thomas  Til- 
ney, Esq. 

Mr.  Le  Neve  hath  observed^ 
in  a  Letter  to  me,  that  Sir  Fre. 
derick  de  Tylney  luas  the  famous 
champion,  knozcn  by  the  name 
of  Hycophrix  or  Hycothrift, 
which  is,  probably,  a  corrup. 
tion  of  Frederick,  and  he  hath 
noted,  withall,  that  his  MS.  is 
the  very  same,  that  Hackluyt 
refers  to.  For  the  Reader's 
better  satisfaction,  1  shall 
take  the  opportunity  of  pub., 
lishing  the  whole  passage 
in  Mr.  Le  Neve's    Letter,   and 


F.  1587.    H. 


F  F   4 


afterwards 


074 


GLOSSARY 


afterwards  I  mill  leave  it  to 
tfie  Reader's  own  Judgment, 
to  determine  as  he  shall  think 
Jit, 

*'  College  of  Arms  in  London, 
"  Saturday  16  of  May  1724. 

"  Sir, 

*'  In  your  Glossary  lo  Ro- 
*"•  bert  of  Glouc.  page  640. 
*'  you  mention  the  famous 
'*  champion  of  Mershland  in 
*'  Norfolk,  whose  story  hath 
*'  been  long  since  printed  in 
"  a  black  letter,  but  the  signi. 
'*  fication  of  the  fable  I  am  not 
**  yet  satisfied  fully  about.  Tho 
*'  I  intend,  this  vacation,  to 
*'  travel  over  Mershland  in 
*'  Norfolk,  to  find  out  more 
^*  certainty;  in  the  mean  time, 
*'  I  would  beg  to  know,  \yhat 
*'  is  in  your  MSS.  vol.  61.  p. 
*'  117.  and  vol.  82.  p.  67.  said 
*'  of  him.  The  most  probable 
*'  opinion  is  Sir  Henry  Spel- 
*'  man's,  apd  that  of  Mr.  Weav- 
*'  er  in  hjs  funerall  Monuments, 
"  pag.  818.  (frojn  Hackjuit)  in 
*'  his  Discourse  of  Terrington 
*^  in  that  country,  who  tells  ypii, 
"  that  Sir  Frederick  dp  Tylney, 
*'  a  yaliaiit  Knight,  was  at  the 
**  seige  of  Aeon  with  King  Ric 
^*  I.  &  lyes  buried  in  Tirington 
"  church-yard,  and,  I  sup- 
*'  pose,  haveing  a  cross  on  the 
"  upper   end    of  a  long    stall'. 


"  cutt  on  his  tomb,  (which  1  will 
"  suppose  something  like  the 
'*^  cross  in  the  hand  of  the  cutt 
*'  of  the  Knight  templer  in  Dng- 
"  dale  M on.  Angl.  [and]  might 
*'  give  rise  to  the  story  of  the 
"  wheele  &  axle  tree,)  as  dyeing 
*'  in  the  holy  land,  might  be 
*'  the  person,  Avho  either  gave 
*'  the  large  common  to  the 
"  inhabitants  of  the  towns  round 
*'  (called  Tilney  Smeth)  or  ra- 
"  ther  recovered  it  fqr  them 
*'  by  his  power  or  lawe  from 
"  some  person,  who  had  iuclosed 
"  it.  (Quwre  if  Hycophrix  is 
"  not  a  corruption  of  Frede^ 
"  rick?)  The  story  ^boutthe  16 
"  Knights  of  the  name  succeed- 
"  ing  him  is  false.  For  they 
^'  were  not  all  Knights,  neither 
*'  were  sixteen  descents  from 
"  him  to  Sir  Philip  Tilney,  Knt. 
"  whose  daughter  was  second 
«'  wife  of  Tho.  Duke  of  Norfolk, 
*'  &  which  Duke  married  to  his 
"  first  Wife  Eliz.  daughter  & 
*'  sole  heif  of  Frederick  Tylney, 
**  Esq;  not  Knight,  of  Boston 
"  in  Lincolnshire,  and  carried 
"  avvay  the  main  of  thp  estate  qf 
f  the  family  to  her  son  John,  lasjt 
'^  Lord  Berners,  by  her  first 
"husband  Sir  HumfcyBourchier, 
"  Knt.  killed  atBarnet  feld  t.  E. 
"  4.  who  dyed  25th.  H.  8.  leav- 
<'  ing  one  daugluter  &  sole 
''  heir 


GLOSSARY. 


GfM 


**  heir  Jane,  married  to  Edmund 
*'  Knyvet,  Serjeant  Porter  to 
"  K.  H.  8.  to  whose  descendents 
"  the  title  of  Baroness  Berners 
*'  was  adjudged  by  the  house  of 
"  Lords  J.D.  1720.  in  the 
*'  person  of  Katharine,  only 
*'  surriTing  Daughter  and  Heir 
*«  of  Sir  Jo,  Knyvet,  Kt.  of 
«  Bath,  of  Ashwell  Thorp  in 
**  Norfolk,  as  appears  by  the 
*'  printed  case  and  pedigree,  one 
*'  of  which  you  may  command 
*'  from  me,  if  you  please,  by  Mr. 
^^  Murray.  But  the  whole  ac- 
*'  count  of  the  family  as  printed 
**  by  Weaver,  he  transcribed 
"  terbatim  out  of  an  original 
"  Mass  book,  at  the  latter  end 
**  of  which,  in  the  hand  writr 
*'  ing  '  of  Frederick  Tylney, 
<*  son  of  Sir  Philip,  who  dyed 
^'  -  -  -  H.  8.  are  continued  the 
*'  births  and  obits  of  the  family 
*'  to  Frederick's  Grand-sons  jn. 
*'  elusive,  which  originall  I  9.m 
"  the  Possessor  of 

vnfayn,  displeased,  angry,  unglad, 
sorry,  fulle  vnfayn,  very  sorry. 

vnfoldeu,  unfolded. 

ynhap,  mishnp. 

vnhende,  unkindly,  unhandsomely. 

vnkonand,  the  ignorant. 

vnmayn,  zceakness. 

\n  raykelle,  over.>nuch,for  muck. 


vnne);,  scarce. 

vnnejisjscarce,  scarcely y  dijfflcuUly. 

vnride,  unrid,  continuaL 

vnsele,  unhappy. . 

vnskille,  un^killfullness. 

rnt,  unto. 

vn)?ank,  unwillingly,  by  constraint, 

yntille,  unto,  uniill,  till. 

vntime,  p.  227.  untimelyy  nis^  ong 

time  malis. 
vnto,  unto^  untill. 
vnwar,  unwary. 
voide,  empty. 
vouched  saue,  vottchsafisd, 
vouches,  confirms. 
vowe,  vox?!,  promise. 
upbraid,  reproach. 
vplift,  to  exalt,  lifted  up,  rffised,  * 

exalted. 
vp  rif,  arrived  upon. 
vp  ryf,  arrive  up,  arise  up,  stir. 
rpryue  vel  yp  ryue,  arrive,  bring 

up. 
vpspede,    to    »peed  up,    to  raise 

speedily, 
vp  Jjat,  upon  that,  upan  that  acr 

count. 
up  wrigbt,  bufld  up,  raise  t^p, 
vsure,  usury. 
yys,  eyfs. 

W, 

Avachched,  watching,  having  wakti^ 

ed. 
l»ad,  zcajf. 


>  So  Mr-  Le  Neve.  But  I  should  rather  think,  that  the  Prayers  I  have  mentioned 
(and  which  I  have  trarscrib'd  into  one  of  my  MSS.  vol.  106.  p.  44.)  as  well  as  all  the 
hcforegaid  N^es  (excepting  the  last  ,about  Charles  Tylney)  are  of  the  hand  writing  of 


;(576 


GLOSSARY. 


■wage,  gage,  pledge, .pawn,  wages. 

waise,  waves. 

"wakand,  waking. 

•wake,  wake,  watch. 

waken,  watch,  stir  up,  watch'd, 
kept,  waking,  awake,  watching. 

:  Jei  Avaken  vs  euer  wo,  they  al- 
ways  watch    to   do   us   a    mis- 

■     chief. 

■wakend,  watched. 

wald,  would. 

•walde,  would. 

^Va\e,  miles. 

Waleis,  Wallace. 

walk  and,  walking. 

walle,  well.     . 

^\  als,  Welsh. 

"VValsch,  Welsh. 

Walschrie,   Welshmen,  Welshfolk. 

Walsh,  Wehh. 

Walsland,  WelshJand,  Wales. 

wamssed  (pro  Avarnstored  vel  wa. 
renstorcd.)  fortify'' d. 

wan,  got,  uon,  wan.  Fabyan,  in 
his  Chronicle,  makes  use  of  the 
word  Wynne  for  get,  when  he  is 
speaking  of  Fair  Rosamund. 
But  yet  (saith  he)  he  [K.  H. 
Jl.^  left  not  the  company  of  the 
forenamed  Rosamund,  vnto  the 
whiche  wenche  he  had  made  an 
house  of  wonder  Avorking,  so 
that  no  creature,  man  or  woman 
might  Wynne  to  her,  but  if  he 
were  instruct  by  ■  the  kynge, 
or   suche  as  were  ryghte  secrete 


wyth  him,  touching  that  matter. 

wandelard,  wandered,  went. 

wanes,  dwellings,  habitations. 

Avapen,  weapon. 

war,  zcere. 

warant,  protection,  defence. 

ward,  guard,  custody,  keeping. 

ware,   were,  should  be,  was. 

waren,  were. 

Avarinstour,  defence,  fortification. 

warisoun,  r-eward,* provision.  Ri- 
chard Fraunces  {Auhor,  as  I 
have  observed  above ',  of  the 
Promptorium  Parvulorum,)  men- 
tions the  word  warysone  as  used 
in  Hen.  Filth's  time  for  dona- 
tivum  and  possessio. 

warisoune,  reward. 

Avarnised,  fortified.  &  warnised 
J^at  cite,  p.  293.  and  garrison, 
ed  or  fortified  that  city .  But  for 
cite  His  la  ville  in  the  French, 
and  indeed  ville  in  the  French 
signifies  a  city  as  well  as  village. 

warnisoun,  reward. 

was,  zoas,  Hwas,  wast. 

Avasschon,   sive,  Avaschon,  washed. 

wasse,  was. 

wasteyn,   wast. 

wate,  wot,   knows,  know. 

waj^e,  a  straying,  a  wandering,  an 
errour. 

Avayn,  drove,  back,  waggon,  char- 
riot,  habitation,  possession,  vie- 
tory. 

viG,  p.  128.  was. 


Thomas  Tylney  to  whom  the  Book  bclong'd  in  1566.     •  Pag.  623. 


wed, 


GLOSSARY. 


677 


.;wecl,  pledge. 

wedlaike,  wedlock. 
.wehere,  harrying^  wasting,  dis. 
sension,  trouble  (Belg.  vet. 
weere,  i.  e.  war)  care,  wariness, 
a  maze,  doubt,  a  doubt,  (either 
from  the  Saxon  pasjie,  cautio,  or 
elsefromp3£j\,  cautus.)  in  wehere, 
cautious,  wary. 

weie,  way. 

welcom,  p.  222,  opportune  Sf 
optato  adveniunt,  welcome, 
from  the  Saxon  pilcumian, 
salutare,  salutem  dicere,  &c. 

vre\d,wield,govern,possess,wealth, 
opes,  at  weld,  p.  160.  in  plenty. 
The  French  hath  it  for  two 
years.     De     vitaylle    pur    deus 

■     annz  de  rien  &  fandrait. 

welde,  possess,  manage,  wield. 

wele,  well, full,  will,  weal,  wealth, 
much,  ivhile,  time,  wele  willand, 
well  willing,  well  willers,  good 
willers,  well  wishers.  ]>at  were 
his  wele  willand,  that  xeere  his 
icell  wishers.  I  wille  wele,  / 
willingly  agree,  wele  fond,  ivill 
try.  wele  fare,  well  fare,  to  fare 
well,  wele  mo,  many  more,  wele 
more,  much  more,  after  the 
Paske's  wele,  p.  338.  after  Eas- 
ter time.  The  French  is  a  la 
pasqe  apres,  wele  j^e  more,  inuch 
the  more,  wele  bone,  very  ready. 

wem,  hurt,  fat  not  did  no  wem, 
that  did  no  hurt  at  all ;  that 
did  not  the  least  harm. 

wend,  ween'd.,  thought,  thought  of 
it,  he  thought,  go,  think,  thinks, 
went. 


wende,  to  go,  thought,  did  wende, 
caused  to  go. 

wendand,  going. 

wendes,  goes. 

wendis,  goes. 

wendyng,  going,  journey.  &  was 
of  wendyng  gare,  and  was  ready 
to  go. 

wene,  ween,  think,  think  of. 

wenes,  thinks. 

went,  went,  gone,  thought,  he 
thought,  drawn  aside,  swayed, 
turn,  chance,  hazard. 

Wentland,  Northumberland. 

wepand,  weeping. 

wer,  were,  be,  was,  might  be. 

werand,  warring. 

were,  doubt,  perplexity,  defend, 
war,  where,  were,  was,  is,  might 
be,  shall  be. 

weren,  were, 

werk,  work. 

werne,  deny,  put  aside,  drive  from. 

weron,  were. 

werrand,  warring. 

werre,  war.  werre  wo,  harm  by 
war.  His  werre  ordeynd  & 
dight  to  J^o  J^at  cou]7e  j^am  guye, 
he  ordained  his  zcar,  and  com~ 
mitted  it  to  those  that  iverc 
able  to  manage  it.  nisi  forsa7i 
werre  pro  were  habeas. '  Sed 
aliter  textus  Gallicus,  ubi  gwere 
legitiir. 

werreour,  zcarrier. 

werreoure,  warrier. 

werryng,  warring. 

wery,  zcearisomness,  being  weary, 
being  tired,  curse. 

wesch,  uash. 

westreis,  west  country  gentleman, 
vel 


678 


GLOSSARY. 


vel  potius   a  Hector  or    sirong 

man.     Vide  Skinnerum  in  voc. 

wastour. 
Wex,  waxed,  zcax,  grew,    wex  fulle 

brim,  increased  mightilify  swelled 

prodigiously. 
weye,  way. 
ireys,  ways. 
•weyvieA, played,  moved,  put  back, 

waved,  avoyded, 
wham,  whom,  what.    At  pag.  122. 

when,  ubitamen  conjeci  whan, 
whan,  when. 
whasseche,  to  be  washed. 
what,  what,  ivhich,  by  which,  where, 
whedere,   whether.       whedere  j^ou 

wille  or  npn,  whether  thou  wilt 

or  no. 
whedir,  whether. 
where,  where,  whether.     At  pag. 

253.  idem  est  quod  whore,  sive 

wench,  vel  potius  wife, 
-^berfe,  7£>/iflr/,  a  b^oad  plain  Place 

near  to  a  Creek  or  Hit  he,  to  land 

or  lay  Wares  on,  that  art  brought 

from  or  to  the  Water. 
whe)>€n,  whence. 
while,  while,  time. 
while,  p.  123>  wile  s\\e  guile,   nisi 

malis  interpretari  spatium  tem- 

poris.  sed  pfius  recfius  esse  vi- 

detur.      ]>at  while  p.  132.   that 

lime. 
whilk,  what,  which,  whether,  who- 
ever.    It  is  the  sam^  with  the 


Saxon  hpilc.  In  many  places 
the  word  whilk  is  us'd  to  this 
day  ;  and  formerly  it  was  every 
where  in  use.  But  after  that 
was  left  off,  the  uord  witch  or 
wieh  came  in  vogue,  and  in  lieu 
thereof  the  modern  which.  It  is 
witch  and  wich  in  the  following 
Remark,  that  was  sent  me  by 
the  ingenious  Mr.  Ward,  of 
Longbridge  near  Warwick,  {who 
found  it  writ  under  the  Prin- 
ter's  Preface,  in  a  Copy  of  Fa- 
bian's Chrotitcle,  imprinted  at 
London  1559.)  tho^  in  Fabian's 
Epitaph  in  Stowe's  Survey  it  bf 
printed  which : 

Robert  Fabian,  the  wrighter 
of  this  Cronicle,  (witch  was  to 
the  great  hoimore  and  Glory  of 
the  English  Nation,  and  the 
Citty  of  I^ondon  where  hee  wa^ 
borne)  was  Alderman  &  one  of 
the  sheriffes  of  London,  the 
ninth  year  of  King.  Hen.  the  sea- 
Tenth,  anno  Do :  1493.  Hee 
was  a  yery  pious  and  painfull 
man.  Hee  departed  this  life  the 
third  year  of  King  IJenry  the 
eight,  anno  1511.  Hee  was  bu- 
ried in  St.  Michaell's  Church  in 
Cornhill  London :  Hee  w^s  free 
of .  -  - 


Fag'  371.  Land.  1618.  ito.  fif  p.  214.  Land,  \635.fot. 


His 


GLOSSARY 


«7» 


His  Epitapli. 

Ijike  as  the  day  his  Course  doth  consume, 
Sf  the  new  morrozo  springeth  againe  as  fast, 
so  man  Sf  woman  by  Natur's  Custome 
this  life  to  passe,  att  last  in  earth  are  cast 
in  Joy  and  Sorrow,  wich  hear  there  time  doe  wast. 
Never  in  one  State,  but  in  Course  transitory. 
So  full  of  Change,  is  of  this  World  the  Glory, 


ivbiloni,  formerly,  some  time,  some 
time  ago,  a  uhile  ago,  for  some 
time,  heretofore. 

Whitsonen  day  sive  Whitsonenday, 
Whitsunday. 

wholom,  p.  272.  wholly.  Sed 
•whilom  malim,  id  est,  some  time. 

whore,  where. 

whore  so,  wheresoever. 

wiiBn,  wijling,  whiffling. 

wight,  swift,  brisk,  bot  eft  ou 
hors  fulle  wight,  but  afterwards 
on  his  horse  full  swift. 

wightly,  foolishly,  sillily. 

wik,  wickedness,  wicked. 

wike,  work''d,  contrived. 

wikhals,  rogue,  wicked  rogue,  wic- 
ked Jackanapes,  hals  autem  col- 
lum  denotaf. 

%ikke,  wicked. 

wikly,  wickedly,  deceitfully. 

wikaes,  wickedness. 

wiW,  wilt,  manage,  would,  wild 
fei  no  wolden,  would  they,  or 
zsould  they  not;  whether  they 
isould  or  no. 


wilde,  would. 

wile,  p.  219,  wile*  Potest  Sf  while 
signare. 

wilkednes,  wickedness, 

willand,  loilling,  willingly.  wcr« 
hir  wele  willand,  wished  her  tcellf 
bore  her  good  will. 

wille,  will,  wilt. 

wiri,  price  or  value  of  a  man.  See 
Somner's  Sax.  diet.  vac.  pejie. 
Where  it  must  be  observ'd^ 
that  this  Saxon  Word  pejie 
is  quite  distinct  from  pajic, 
which  signifies  properly  men, 
incolae,  habitatores,  &^c.  For 
which  reason  it  is,  that  in  wy 
Preface  to  the  second  Volume- 
of  Diictor  Historicus  /  have 
noted,  that  Mejij-cpape  is 
the  same  with  viri  palustres,  or 
Marshmen,  and  that  agreea-- 
bly  to  what  Mr.  Somner  hatJh 
said  in  the  said  Saxon  Dictio. 
nary,  where  '  is  the  following 
Passage.  "  Mejij-cj^apa.  (al. 
*'  j'ape.)  Viri  palustres,  qua- 
"  Ics  in  agro  Cantiano  Romnei- 


/n  vtee  Mejijc/apa. 


680 


GLOSSARY. 


''  enses :  sic  autem  a  loco  dicii, 
^'  de  quibus  in  Chron.  ad 
"  ann.  796.  <^  838.  marshmen, 
"  fen.dwellers,  as  those  at 
"  Romney  in  Kent,  the  feiines 
"  in  Lincolnshire,  ^c".  But 
here  I  must  beg  leave  to  do 
my  self  one  piece  of  Justice, 
which  is  this,  that  whereas 
in  the  fourth  Edition  of  Doctor 
Historicus  ^tis  most  ignorantly 
and  absurdly  printed  Menrc- 
pane  for  Mepj-c-pape,  /  desire 
that  neither  this,  nor  any  other. 
Mistake  {particularly  the  omitt- 
ing four  lines  in  a  passage  of 
Robert  of  Gloucester,  and  the 
putting  of  Watlingacerten,  and 
Wenlamcearten,  itt  p.  78.  for 
Watlui  jaceyceji  and  Wejilamce- 
aj-ct'ji)  in  that  Edition  may  be 
ascriVd  to  me,  the  said  Edition 
being  both  printed  and  publish- 
ed without  my  knowledge  or 
prinity.  Nor  indted  had  I  any 
manner  of  hand  in  any  of  the 
Editions  of  Ductor  Historicus, 
excepting  in  the  second  Edition 
of  the  first  Folume,  and  the  first 
Edition  of  the  second  Vo- 
lume. 

wirke,  zoork. 

■wirschip,  worship,  honour. 

■wis,  zoish''d. 

wise,  wise,  conditio)!,  uppon  suilk 
a  wise,  upon  such  a  condi- 
tion. 


wisse,  certify,  wish. 

Wissonday,  Whitsunday. 

wist,  knew,  understood^  ne  wist, 
knew  not. 

wiste,  know,  know. 

wit,  with,  knew. 

wite,  blame,  know,  understand,  to 
wite,  to  know,  punish. 

wited,  blamed. 

witen,  know,  given,  understands 
ne  witen,  know  not. 

witeword,  allotment,  assignation. 

with,  with,  by.  with  Jji  that,  dum- 
modo,  ea  lege  ut,  ea  conditione 
ut,  so  that,  upon  condition  that. 
with  Jjider,  whither. 

withhald,  withhold. 

withouten,  without. 

withsette,  withset,  set  against,  put 
in  a  condition  of  opposition. 

\vithsitte,  sit  against,  zcithstand. 

with  stand,  zoiihstand,  stopped. 

witte,  know,  design. 

wittyng,  knozsledge. 

witworde,  ordinance. 

wityng,  knowledge,  privity. 

wo,  grieved. 

wod,  wood,  woods. 

wode,  mad. 

woke,  watched,  week,  awaked. 
This  Word  woke  is  used  also  by 
Robert  of  Gloucester  for 
week ;  but  His  woiike  in  that 
place,  '  where  he  speaks  of 
Otho  the  Pope^s  Legatees 
going  to  Oxford,  and  of  the 
great  fray  that  happened  at 
that  time   at  Osney,   when  the 


Pag.  527. 


Le. 


GLOSSARY. 


681^ 


Legate  was  forced,  for  secu. 
rity,  to  get  into  the  Steeple  of 
Osney  Abbey  Church,  the  Scho. 
lars  of  Oxford  being  enraged 
to  such  a  degree,  from  the 
Affront  put  upon  them  by  one 
of  his  servants,  that,  in  all 
probability,  he  might,  other- 
wise,  have  lost  his  Life.  The 
matter  was  afterwards  accom. 
modated,  but  with  Loss  to  the 
Scholars,  as  may  be  learned 
from  Mr.  Wood's  account  there, 
of,  in  his  History  and  Anti- 
quities of  the  University  of 
Oxford,  under  the  years  ciocc- 
XXXII  x:,  cioccxxxix.  But  then 
Mr.  Wood  does  not  take  no- 
tice of  what  Robert  of  Glou- 
cester says  thereof,  having  not, 
I  suppose,  met  with  it  in  the 
Papers  (for  I  do  not  think, 
that  he  had  seen  Robert  of 
Gloucester  himself  ^)  zohich  he 
perused;  and  yet  RoberVs  ac- 
count ought  not  to  have  been 
passed  over,  as  having  something 
in  it  very  particular  about  an 


ullozmnce,  that  the  Scholars 
made  to  the  Legate,  even  as 
much  as  he  spent  in  commons 
(or  in  his  Family  or  Houshold) 
in  the  Week,  which  was  a  great 
Burthen,  considering  that  it 
lasted  many  Weeks  together,  and 
that  the  Legate,  and  his  Reti- 
nue, which  was  very  large,  lived 
very  magnificently,  and  spent 
much,  notwithstanding  the  fre^ 
quent  Treats  they  met  with. 
But  the  MS.  prose  Chronicle,uin 
Mr.  Ward  of  Longbridge's 
hands,  represents  this  com- 
promise, as  if  the  Scholars 
granted  the  Legate  as  much  as 
every  Scholar''s  Com7nons  came 
to  by  the  Week,  whereas  the 
original  Words  have  another 
Sense,  viz.  nhat  I  have  men. 
tioned,  that  they  allowed  him 
as  much  as  he  spent  in  the 
Week  in  Commons,  whichmight 
be  therefore  sometimes  more, 
sometimes  less  {but  ulzoays,  to 
be  sure,  very  great)  as  occasions 
offered. 


So  that  (saith  Robert  *)  vor  the  manslajt,  &  uor  the  other  won, 
The  clerkes  finede  with  him  gret  raunson  inou, 
That  ech  clerc  in  the  toune  him  jef  atten  ende 
As  muche,  as  he  [Otho  the  legate'^  in  the  wouke  in  is  commune 
spende. 


Set  my  Prefact  to  Robert  nfGlouc.  pag.  XLr.     •  Pag.  528. 


But^ 


68St 


GLOSSARY. 


But,  for  better  satisfaction  to 
the  curious  Reader,  I  have  here 
thought  Jit  to  transcribe  the 
■whole  passage,  as  'tis  in  Air. 
Ward's  MS. 

And  at  that  tyme  was  niaister 
Edmunde  of   Abendon    arcliibis- 
shoppe  of  Caunterbury,  an  lioli 
,jg^^      man,   in  the  twelff  hundred 
yere  of  our  lorde  and  foure 
and  thritti.    And  at   that  tyme 
«ome  the  legat  Oter  from  Rome, 
and    called   a  councelle  of  Bis- 
shopes    at    London,    and    went 
from  thens   to  Oxenford  to  the 
Abbey  of  Osney.      And  as  cer- 
teyn    of   the  Clerkes    come    to 
speke    with    the     legate,  vppon 
Seynt    Gregoryes    day,  one    of 
the  legate's  men  cast  bote  broth 
vppon  a  scolore,  and  then  come 
the  Clerkes  first,  and  besett  Os- 
ney, and  slew  one  of  the  legat- 
te's  men,   and  the  legat  fled  in- 
to the  Stiple.       So  that  at  last 
they  to  accorde.     But  the  legat 
asked  a  grete    raunsome  for  his 
manslaughter.     And    in    conclu. 
cion,   the  Scolers  graunted   hym 
asmoche  as  euery  Clerkes  comon. 
nes  come  to  by  the  woke. 
yf old,  zoorld,  would. 


wond,  zL'ound. 

wonded,  wounded. 

wonden,  wound. 

wondere,  xionderfull. 

wondes,  wounds. 

wondred,  wandered,  rambled,  rush^ 

edi  wondered. 
wone,  continue,  wont,  habitation. 
on  purchace  wise  to  wone,   to 
continue  in  purchase  wise. 
woned,  dwelt,  lived,  continued. 
wonen,  uon,  conquered. 
wones,     dwellings,      habitations, 

houses. 
wonn,  live,  inhabit,  dwell. 
wonne,    inhabit,      dwell,     tarry, 
wont,  continue,  customed,  usual, 
customari/,accustomed,  won,  got, 
wont  to  have,  found.     ]>e  empe- 
rice  was  wonne,  &   right  heyre 
forto  trowe,    the    empress    was 
found,  and  believ'd  to  be    the 
right  heir. 
wonned,  dwelt. 

wonneU,  won,  wan,  got,  dwelling, 
continuing,  taken,   dwelt,  inha- 
bited, tarried,  were  zsont. 
wonnes,  tarrys,  stays,  dwells. 
wonnyng,  habitation,  dwelling, 
wons,  dwells. 

wonyng,     dwelling,      habitation, 
dwellings,  wonyng  mp.  223.  is  a 


}  This  marginal  Number  is  of  a  modern  hand;  but  it  should  be  1238.  as  it  really  is  in 
Robert  of  Oloucester  himself^  tho'  the  Metaphrast  hath  not  noted  it,  who  however  could 
not  but  see  that  Robert  hath  fx'd  Edmund  of  Canterbury's  time  to  the  year  liSi-  an4 
the  coming  of  the  Legate  to  that  of  1238. 

fahe 


GLOSSARY. 


683 


false  Print  for  monyng. 

wonyng  stede,  dzcell/ng  place. 

woo  sive  wooe,  vozv. 

wore,  were,  was. 

worth,  worthy,  worth  be  schent, 
zcorlhij  to  perish. 

Most,   xcist,  knozvest. 

wot,  know. 

wote,  know,  knows,  wot,  I  wote 
vvele,  /  know  well.  1  ne  w  ote, 
/  know  not. 

wooh,  wo^  gf'i^f  affliction,  harm, 
loss,  grew  mad.  to  fele  wroiih 
he  woLih,  he  grew  mad  with 
much  wrath  sive  great  anger. 

woule,  wool. 

wouwe,  zvooe. 

wowj,  wall. 

woyde,  void. 

woje,  vow. 

wrask,  brisk,  coiiragious. 

wrecchis,  wretches. 

wreche,  zoretchedness,  miserj/,  re- 
venge, vengeance. 

wreke,  revenge. 

wrenk,  deceit,  cheating. 

"wrenke,   deceit. 

wreth,  wrath,  anger. 

Wright,   build,  work,  raise. 

wrightes,  wrights,  artificers,  ei- 
ther from  the  Saxon  ppyhta, 
Jictor,  or  pyj^hra,  opifcx,  ope. 
r arias. 

wrihte,  zorought.  dowr'ihta,  work, 
make. 

writ,  writing.  We  commonly 
understand  by  Writ  (the  same 
with   the  Latin   breve)   a  writ- 


ten Order  or  Precept  from  the 
King  or  Court  of  Judicature, 
by  which  any  thing  is  command- 
ed to  be  done,  relating  to  a 
Suit  or  Action  ;  of  which  kind 
is  that  remarkable  one,  relating 
to  University-College,  of  K. 
Rich"^.  11.  with  his  Seal  annex'd, 
that  I  just  saw  and  hastily  run 
over  not  long  siiice  i ,  indorsed 
by  a  late  hand  in  this  manner, 
if  I  remember  rightly  :  A'.  R. 
2.  tVritt  of  supersedeas  to  the 
Maior  of  Oxon  to  stay  sute 
of  Edmund  Froces  [/.  Fraun- 
ces]  against  the  College.  As 
the  King  reckons  himself  and 
his  Progenitors  there  Founders 
and  Patrons  of  UniAersity-Col- 
lege,  or  the  College  of  Great 
University  Hall,  so  the  same  was 
done  afterwards  expressly  byllen. 
VL  iu  a  Writing,  quoted  from 
the  College  Muniments  by  Mr. 
Twyne^,  in  which  K.  Alfred  is 
as  expressly  mentioned  as  Foun- 
der. —  magna  Aula prcedicta  est 
quoddani  antiquum  Collegium  ex 
fundutione  S)  patronatu  pnedic 
ti  Domini  Regis  [Hen.  VL] 
nunc  et  prvgenitorum  suoruin 
quondam  Regum  Anglice,  vi- 
delicet  ex  fundutione  quondam 
Domini  Alfredi,  quondam  Re. 
gis  progeniforis  domini  Re 
gis  nunc  praidicti  ante  tern- 
pus  a  foto  tempore  cujus  contra. 
rii  memoria  hominum  non  ex- 


'  Coll.  nostr.    MSS.    vol.  107.   p.    147.      ^In  Apologia  Aiitiquitatis  Acad.  Oxou. 
p.  189. 

Vol.  II.  G  G 


S//7 ; 


684. 


GLOSSARY. 


istii ;  I  know  indeed  that 

Mr  Prynne  denys '  K.  Alfred 
to  be  the  Founder,  but  we  know 
what  party  he  had  io  serve, 
which  made  him  willing  to  over- 
look and  pass  over  every  thing 
that  appertain'd  to  the  King's 
Right  *. 

write,  K.-r?Y,  zsriting. 

Avroken,  revenge,  revenged.     The 


Word  wroke  for  reveng'd  icas 
used  even  in  the  Reign  of  K. 
Henry  VIIl.  For  thus  John 
Skelton,  the  famous  Poet  Lau- 
reat  at  that  time,  in  his  Ymage 
of  Ypocresy  \  the  MS.  zohereof 
was  lent  me  hy  the  learned  Fe- 
ter  he  Neve,  Esq. ;  Norroy 
King  of  Arms : 


For  when  he  \_the  Pope"]  wilbe  wroke, 
No  man  may  bere  his  stroke, 
So  hevy  is  his  yoke,  Sfc. 


in  which   Treatise  the   Author 
most    inalitiously    writes,    not 
only    against     the    Pope    and 
other  Bishops,  but  against  Ca. 
nons,  Priests,  Monks  and  Fri- 
ers,   and  makes    use    of   such 
opprobrious,    unbecoming   Ian. 
guage,     as     he     zcas     hardly 
matched  by  any  of  those  times, 
unless    by  foul-mouthhl    Bale. 
But  notzoithslanding  he  reviles 
the  Clergy  and  others  at  such 
a  rate,  he  was,  tho''  a  clergy, 
man  himself  (being  Rector  of 
Dysse  in   Norfolk  *)  guilty  of 
those  very  crimes,  that  he  ac 
cases  others,  however  ifinocent, 
of,  insomuch  that  he  kept  a  con. 
cubine  or  u-hore  in   his  house, 
and  made  use  of  her  body  (and 


therefore  'tis   no   znonder  that 
he  longed  to  enjoy 

Systers  and  nonnes. 

And  littell  pretty  bonnes  5) 

a  great  ivhile  together  ^,  a  thing 
so  very  notorious,  that  he 
most  deservedly  fell '  under  the 
censure  of  his  Diocesan  Richard 
Nykke,  Bishop  of  Norwich, 
zohich  discontented  him  (for 
he  was  a  proud  man)  to  that 
degree,  that  it  shortened  his 
Life  ".  This  man^s  malice  was 
so  outragious  as  to  fall  upon 
that  great,  good  man  Sir 
Thomas  More,  whom  in  this 
Treatise  he  thus  asperses  9 : 


'  University  of  Oxford's  Plea  refuted,  pag.  4J,  45.  =  Coll.  iiostr.  MS^".  vol.  107.  p. 
148, 149.  3  Fol.  5-1,  a.  *  Wood's  Athenae.  Oxon.  Vol.  I.  col.  20.  &  Of  whom  he 
makes  mention  in  his  book,  fol.  125.  b.  «  Pitseus  dc  illustribus  Angliae  Scriptorib. 
p  701.    7  Wood's  Atheiiae  Oxon.  loc.  cit.     »  pitseus,  loc.  cit.    9  Fol.  100.  b. 

But 


GLOSSARY 


6S5 


feut  nowe  we  have  a  knighte. 

That  is  a  man  of  mighte, 

All  armed  for  to  fighte, 

To  put  the  trouthe  to  tJightc, 

By  bowbell  poUecy 

With  his  poetry, 

And  his  sophestry, 

To  mocke  and  make  a  \y 

With  quod  he  and  quod  I, 

And  his  appologye 

Made  for  the  prelacy,  S,c. 


^ow  had  he  taken  care  to 
have  His  Satyr  levelled  against 
the  Crimes  of  particular  ill 
Men,  it  had  been  tolerable, 
and  his  Lushes  might  have 
proved  of  great  Service.  Wise 
men  in  this  Age  do  not  blame 
him  for  his  falling  upon  Car. 
dinal  Wolseij,  who,  with  all 
his  Greatness  and  Mugnijicence, 
did  an  incredible  deal  of  Mis- 
chief, as  is  well  known  to  such 
as  recollect,  not  only  his 
perswading  the  King  to  put 
away  his  >  virtuous  and  truly 
religious  Wife,  and  his  lead, 
ing  the  way  to  destroy  Churches, 
Chappels,  and  other  Houses, 
dedicated  to  Religion,    but  his 


great  Enmity  to  that  usc^ 
full  art  of  printing,  so  as  to 
obstruct  iVs  progress  at  St. 
Alban's,  where  otherwise  we 
should  have  seen  many  more 
Books  printed  than  we  now, 
with  all  our  Searches,  find  that 
there  voere.  It  must  be  allowed, 
that  the  Author's  Name  is  imnt. 
ing  in  this  MS.  but,  7iotwith. 
standing  that,  MtK  Le  Neve 
(and  I  readily  agree  zrith  him) 
for  many  reasons  ascribes  it 
to  Skelton,  who  therefore  in 
vain  endeavoured  to  stifle 
his  name,  and  to  get  off  in  a 
leering  manner,  (after  the 
fashion  of  Buffoons)  if  he 
were   inquired    after,    as    may 


•This  I  learn  from  a  Volume  of  Collections  and  ObscroaiionSy  (about  the  Original 
and  Progress  of  Printing,)  made  by  tlie  late  ingenious  Mr.  John  Bagford,  in  the  be- 
ginning; of  which  Volume  we  have,  an  Account  of  the  liouks  printed  at  St.  Alban's. 
with  something  very  rcmarUabh  about  Cardinal  IVolsaJs  enmilfi  to  printins,  and  hii 
stopping  the  Press  at  St,  Albans. 

G   G  2  op. 


686  GLOSSARY. 

appear    from     the    following         End  of  the  four  Parts   of  the 
LineSy  that  he  hath  writ,  at  the         Book  : 

The  grudge  of  ypocrites  conceyted 
ageyiist  the  Autor  of  this  treatise. 

^  These  be  as  knappishe  knackes, 
1  As  ever  man  made, 
yFor  javells  and  for  jackes, 
\.  A  jym  jam  for  a  jade. 

/  Well  were  if  we  wist, 
1  What  a  wight  he  were, 
^That  starred  up  this  myst, 

V  To  do  us  all  this  dere. 

^  Oh  !  yf  we  could  attayne  hym, 

3  He  might  be  fast  and  sure ; 

J  We  should  not  spare  to  payne  hym,, 

V  While  we  raighte  indure. 

The  Answer  of  the  Auctor. 

/  Ego  sum  qui  sum, 

1  My  name  may  not  be  told, 

J  But  where  ye  go  or  come, 

V  Ye  may  not  be  to  bold. 

^  For  I  am,  is  and  was, 
1  And  ever  truste  to  be, 
J  Neyther  more  nor  las, 

V  Then  asketh  charite. 

^This  longe  tale  to  tell, 
1  Ilathe  made  me  almost  horse, 
y  I  trowe  and  knowe  right  well, 
VThat  God  is  full  of  force. 

^  And  able  make  the  done, 

1  And  defe  men  heare  and  speake, 

J  And  stronge  men  overcome 

V  By  feble  men  and  weke. 


GLOSSARY. 


687 


So  tliens  I  say  my  name  is, 
I  Ye  geit  no  more  of  of  me, 
I  Because  I  wilbe  blameles, 

And  live  in  charite. 


But  zee  ought  not  to  wonder, 
that  Skelton,  and  such  as  he, 
should,  in  their  JVritings,  fall 
so  very  foully  and  scurrilously 
upon  great  good  Men,  when 
even  others,  that  would  fain  be 
thought  of  a  more  sedate  tern, 
per,  have  not  avoided  the  same 
indecency  in  their  Writings; 
whence  'tis,  that  we  find  such 
malicious  flirts  against  the 
poor  Monks  in  Robert  Hegge's 
Legend  of  St.  Cuthhcrt,  that 
was  published  at  London  A. D. 
1663.  by  one,  who  stiles  himself 
B.  R.  (not,  as  in  Anthony  a 
JVood'.  R.  B.)  Esq;.  But,  it 
seems,  the  Publisher  hath  tuken 
such  <i  liberty,  in  setting  out 
this  little  Book  (which  is  noxo 
extremely  scarce)  that,  it  may 
be,  all  the  unbecoming  Ex  pre  s. 
sions  are  to  be  ascribed  to  him, 
and  not  to  the  Author,  whose 
original  MS.  was  formerly  in 
the  hands  of  the  famous  Dr. 
Pocock,from  which  the  lear)icd 
Mr.  Rosewell  {late  Master  of 
Eaton  School)  transcrib'd  the 
Epistle  to  the  Reader,  omitted 
hy  the  Publisher,  and  inserted 
it  in  a  Copy  of  the  printed 
Book,  that  I  lately  very  luckily 
purchased,  froui  which  I  shall 
here  copy  it,  together  zsith  what 


Mr.    Rosezccll  says  previously 
to  it, 

"  The  3IS.  once  belonged  to 
"  Mr.  Noel  Spark,  B.  D.  and 
^''fellow  of  CCC.  Oxon,  tin. 
"  der  ivhose  hand  the  following 
"  Note  is  written  before  the 
"  Title  Page  : 

"  Author  hujus  Libri  Robcr- 
"  tus  Ilegg  Diinelm  :  Coll.  Cor- 
"  poris  Christi  Oxon  Socius,  qui 
"■  in  Domino  mortuus  est  Jun. 
"  XI.  An.  Do.  MTXJXXTXT" 

"  The  following  Epistle  to 
"  the  Reader  I  transcrioed  out 
"  of  a  fair  3IS.  of  this  Book, 
"  written  with  the  Author's 
"  own  Hand,  and  now  belong. 
"  ing  to  the  Reverend  c^  most 
"  learned  Dr.  Edward Pococke  ; 
"  betwixt  which  MS.  and  this 
"  printed  Copie  \_there  is  much 
"  difference,']  there  being  in  the 
"  latter  many  omissions,  some 
"  additions,  besides  literal 
"  mistakes,  especially  in  names 
"  of  men  S^-  places,  and  several 
^'•passages  transposed. 

"  Dec.  26.       "  Joh:  Rosewell, 
"  1S70  <'  CCC.Soc. 


Athen.  Oxon.  Vol.  I.  col,  455. 

G  G   3 


To 


688 


GLOSSARY. 


To  the  Reader. 


**  Things  once  done  and  past ^ 
*'  are  7iot   left  for   the  Inven^ 
"  tion,    but  the  Judgement   of 
"  after  ages.    And  Theft  (zcilh. 
"  out  a  paradox)  in  writers  of 
"  Historyes    is   plain    dealing 
"  6r    an    argument   of   Truth. 
"  Onelif  it  is  Ingenuity  in  the 
*'  Historian^  and  satisfaction  to 
"  the  Reader,  to   confess  from 
"  ti-hom  he  took  his  Slorie  upon 
*'  Trust.    In  my  Journey  there- 
'■^  fore   through  this    Ilistorie, 
"  I  first  light  into    the    Com, 
'■^ pany  of  St.  Beda,  ztho  told 
"  me   he  was  eleven  years  old 
"  at  St.  CuthberVs  death,   and 
"  upon   good   information   had 
"  zerit  his  life.    A  little  further 
"  /  met  with    Turgotus  Prior 
'•'•  of  Durham,  one  that  was  an 
"  eye  witnesse  of  St.  CuthberVs 
"  incorruption,    &;    had    made 
*'  diligent  searches  into  the  An- 
'-'■•  tiquities    of    Lindisfarn,     Sf 
''  Chester,  who  brought  me  for. 
"  ward  a  great  part  of  my  way  : 
''  till  I  overtook  one  Laurentius 
*'  a    Monk    of    Durham,    who 
*'  continued    to    me    the     Dis. 
"  course     of      St.      Cuthbert, 
*'  where  Turgotus  had  left  off: 
"  Sf   travailing   on    I  fortuned 
"  to  hupp   upon  my  «  ountrie- 
"  man  Simeon  of  Durham,  but 


"  Roger  Hovenden  told  me 
"  the  same  tale.  Afterwards 
"  I  had  the  company  of  Mai- 
"  mesburiensis,  Nubrigensis, 
"  Parisiensis,  IVestmonasteri- 
*'  ensis,  Hygden,  who  all  had 
''  travailed  the  way  I  was  to 
"  go,  and  could  tell  me  Stories 
"  of  St.  Cuthbert.  But  Cap- 
"  grave  a  Monk  of  Bury  pass.. 
^'  ed  all  for  telling  wonders^ 
*'  Sj'  one  Nicolas  of  Finchale 
"  cosen^d  some  few  miles  with 
*'  a  merry  relation  of  St.  God- 
*'  ric.  Harpsjield  also  stood 
''■  me  in  stead  by  his  direc- 
"  lion,  when  I  had  almost  lost 
*  ■  my  way,  with  many  others,  I 
"  mett  besides,  of  whom  I 
"  asked  the  way  to  my  Jour- 
"  ney''s  end,  where  I  rest 


Julij  1. 
Anno  1626. 


R.  H:  Dutielm : 


But  though  Mr.  Rosewell 
ohserv''d  so  much  difference  in 
the  Text,  I  do  not  find,  that 
he  hath  made  any  Corrections 
in  this  Copy  from  the  said  MS. 
except  these  following : 

Pag.    8.    lin.    3.  at  one   bloio 

kill'd  a  Prince,  and  a  Bishop 

with 


GLOSSARY. 


689 


xtith  sorrow^']  at  one  blow  kiWd 
a  Prince  with  the  sword,  and  a 
Bishop  with  sorrow,  MS. 

P.  17.  1.  15.  at  Twiford  upon 
Sluj'j  at  Twiford  upon  Alne,MS. 

P.  21. 1.  13.  Venerable  Tu. 
da']  Venerable  Cudd  MS. 

P.  33.  1.  13.  Ethelred  a 
Motikl  Ethelwold  a  Monk  MS. 

P.  64.  i.  8.  that  Cumulus 
their  King']  that  Canutus  their 
King  MS. 

P.  73.  I.  13.  Abbot  of  Sa. 
gium,]  Abbot  of  St.  Albans, 
MS. 

P.  72,  alias  89.  1.  13.  a  PiL 
grimage  to  the  Holj/  Island^]  a 
Pilgrimage  to  the  Holy  Land, 
MS. 

P.  84.  I.  16.  twenty  two 
Oxen :]  twenty  two  yoke  of  Ox- 
en:  MS. 

P.  91.  I.    10.    Richard  Fox, 
and  Bishop   Winton]    Richard 
Fox,  Bishop  Winton  MS. 
wrote,  wrought. 

wroth,  wrath,  anger,    in    anger, 
with  anger. 


wrotherhaile,   loss  of  health,  to  the 

loss  of  health. 
wroj^erheile,    loss    of   health,    or 

safety,  malediction,    cursed  j^am 

wroJ7erheile,    cursed  them    with 

the  loss  of  salvation  ;  anathema. 

tiz'd  them. 
wrouh,  wrath. 
wrouhtis,   wroughfest. 
Mundred,       wandered,     rambled, 

rushed,   wondered. 
wyght,  swift,  couragious, 
wyld,  would. 
wyn,  get. 
Wynne,    win,   get,    conquer,   riot, 

luxury,  joy,  mirth. 
wynnyng,  winning,  getting,  gain. 
wyntertide,   winter-time. 
wys,  wise. 
wyten,  know. 
wytte,  know. 
wytten,  know. 


Y. 

yche,  each,  every. 


«  G  4 


INDEX. 


690 


INDEX. 


i\Bington       p.  29,  609,  610 
Abretonway    or    Abreconwaye 

263. 
Acrps  besieged  by  the  Christians 
J  73,  S^-c.  and  taken  179.     An 
Account  of    a    dreadfull    fa- 
mine there  174.  Acres  taken 
by  the  Saracens  248 
Act  of  Parliament  for  the  abo- 
Jisliing    and  putting  away  of 
divers  Books  and  Images  545 
Adelard  (Iv.)  6 

Adelwolf  or  Ethelwolf  (K.)  19. 
he  was  the  first  King  in  Eng- 
land, that  gave  Tithes  to  the 
Church  ibid.  Some  say  he  was 
Founder  of  the  University  of 
Oxford,  which,  however,  is 
more  rightly  said  of  his  Son 
Alfred  ibid. 
Alabaster  Monument,  an  ac. 
count  of  an  old  curious  one 
541 
Albemarle   (William  of)     119, 

120. 
Alexander  bishop  of  Lincoln  6 
Alfride   or  Alfred  (K.)  24.  he 
founds  the  University  of  Ox- 
ford 19,  683 
Algar  E.  of  Kent  61,  62 

AUormore  356 

Alnewik  castle  226 


Aluertone  sire  AluertonSl,  47, 

114 
Anlaf  (K.)  31,  32 

Arthur  (King)  his  prudent  con- 
duct and  strict  Justice       311 
Ashbury   sive   Aslieberye    370, 

387,   601 
Ashecote  360 

Athelstan  (K.)  28.  crowned  at 
Kingston  zAzJ.forcestheWelsh 
to  pay  him  tribute  ibid,  con- 
quers several  kings  ibid,  the 
treachery  of  his  brother  Ed- 
wyn,  who  is  therefore  thrown 
into  the  Thames  ibid,  his  be- 
nefaction to  Beverlay  and 
Durham  29.  vanquishes  Gon- 
stantyn  K.  of  Scotland  ibid. 
smites  an  ell  in  a  stone  at 
Dunbar  ibid,  his  sister  Hilda 
married  to  Charles  K.  of 
France  29,  30.  vanquisheth 
Constantyn  K.  of  Scotland 
again,  and  also  K.  Anlaf  30, 
31,  32.  his  death  and  hu. 
rial  32.  his  Acquisitions  in 
Scotland  321 
Atkins  (Sir  Robert)  592 

Auenu,  Aucune  or  Aucunes  (Sir 
James  of)   188 

B. 

Bacon  (Fryer)  See  Oxford. 
Bad  bury  377 

Bad- 


INDEX. 


691 


Badcombe  353,  364 

Bagberye  sive  Baggebere  360, 

361. 
Bagford  (John)  685 

Baker  534 

Baldewyn  K.  of  Jerusalem  140, 

141 

Bale  (John)  645 

Baliol  (John)    K.  of  Scotland, 

does  homage  to   K.  Edward 

'250.  his  falseness  265.    a  sad 

destruction  made  of  his  Ar- 

rny  by  the   English  276.   he 

is  brought    to    London   279. 

and  deprived  of  his  Kingdom 

279,  280 

Baliol  (Sir  Guy)  222 

Baltesborongh  363,  387 

Bamburgh  castle  78 

Bangor  15 

Barnehouse  364 

Barslake  sive  Barselake  382, 386 

Basse-More  near  Oxford      622 

Bastesborough  356 

Bathe  9,  43 

Battle  Abbey  72 

Bautiehj^n*    See  IBCOixtte* 

Bayly  (Thomas)  552 

Bede  (St.)  1,   10,  25,   306 

Bedford  47.     Bedford  besieged 

and  taken  113. 
BeDuerc  ^^autictopn  of)  112 

Beket  (St.  Thomas  a)  born  128. 
his  father  ibid,  made  archbi- 
shop of  Canterbury  129.  he 
was  a  great  Friend  to  the 
Clergy  ibid,  wiiich  occasions 
a  great  difFcreuce  between 
him  and  K.  Henry  II.  ibid,  he 
is  murthered  131.    great   ho- 


nours paid  him  ibid. 
Beleyse  (^Robert  de)  an  account 
of  his  Enmity  to  K.  Henry  1. 
97,  98. 
Bellinden  (John)  662 

Berghes  361 

Beruers  674,  675 

Bernwolf  (K.)  14  his  Son  VVi- 

laf  15 
Berwick   taken  by  K.  Edward 

271,  272 
Bethlyngton  77 

Bever (John)  599 

lBit])&m  castle  120 

Blacke  moore  350 

Blackwars  wood  352 

Body  (Rob.)  242 

Boetius's  (Hector)  History   of 
Scotland,     the     old     Scotish 
Translation  thereof  526 
Boloyn  (Godfrey  of)  his  sayings 
about  Robert  Courthose    101 
Boniface  (Pope)    a  great  differ- 
ence   between   him   and   the 
K.  of  France  320 
Boun  (Sir  Humfrey)  marries  K. 
Edward's  daughter  Elizabeth 
318 
Bourchier  674 

Bradanfeld  or  Bradfeld         597 
Brady  (Dr.)  230 

Brent  362 

Brightfertus,  Bridfer(us,or  Brid- 

frithus.     See  Byrdferthus. 
Brightwcil  Castle  600 

BristoU  365 

Brittrik  (K.)  10.  his  queen  Ed- 
burgh,   or  Eadburg,   a  wic- 
ked woman  ibid,  she  was  the 
occasion  for  her  villany  of  the 
De. 


692 


INDEX. 


Decree,  that  the  Queens  of 
the  West-saxon  Kings  should 
not  be  stiled,  Queens,  but 
the  Kings  wives  12.  A  passage 
about  him  out  of  the  prose 
Additions  to  Robert  of  Glou- 
cester in  the  MS.  of  Rob.  of 
Glouc.  in  the  Heralds  Office 
ibid. 
Erode  Oke  Common  352 

Brode.wynsour  362 

^rom0t|)ueite   83.      It  is    TBto- 
mefitnayt     in      the     French 
MSS. 
Brotherton  310 

Bruce  (Ld.)  597,  600 

Bruce  (Robert)  K.  of  Scotland 
kills  John  Comyn  330.  and 
takes  possession  of  Scotland 
331.  and  defies  the  English, 
ibid,  he  is  vanquished  and 
forced  to  ramble  about  336. 
and  his  two  brothers  are  tak- 
en ibid,  and  both  executed 
337.  See  Bruse. 
Brunesburgh  31 

Brunne  (Robert  of)  perhaps 
the  Author  of  the  Lives  of 
the  Saints  in  old  English 
Verse  542.  and  of  several  old 
MSS.  tracts  (one  of  Avhich  a- 
bout  Hell^  in  the  Hands  of 
the  Publisher  582 

Bruse   (Robert)    his    advice    to 
David   K.  of    Scotland    116. 
See  Bruce. 
Brustwik  upon  Humber         327 
"^Btutc   of    (IBnglaitli,    the    Chro- 
nicle so  called   536,  598,  616 
Buckingham  47 

jBucklande  sivp  Bucklonde  362, 


368,  387 
Budcleigh  355,  363,  364,  365, 

387 
Bullen  (Ladie  Anne)   555,  641 
Bulton  364 

Burraan  (William)         636,  598 
Burton  (Edward)  645 

Butlesbeare  356 

Byndon  370 

Byrdferthus,  Brightfertus,  Brid- 

fertus,  or  Bridfrithus  66 1 ,  670 

C. 

Cadwalader*s  (K.)  death  1 

Caerdiff  101 

Camleigh  362 

Campden  (battle  in  a  fine  green 
under)  2.  this  Campden  is 
in  Gloucester-shire  592 
Canterbury  (A  contention  a- 
bout  choosing  an  archbishop 
of)  208 
Carleon  38 

Carlile,  Parliament  there       338 
Castell  wood  369 

Cawood  310 

L'hadsay  348 

Charles    I.   (King)   his   Excel- 
lencies 533.    Lieutenant  Coll. 
Joyce    probably    the    person 
that  cut  off  his  Head  535 
Charter  of  liberty  299,  30% 

Cherry  (Francis)  520 

Chester  19 

Christ  Malford  373,388 

Christians,  their  success  against 
the   Saracens  in   the   time  of 
K.  Stephen  125 
Cistercian    Monks    come    into 
England  88 

Cler- 


INDEX. 


693 


Clergymen  (punishment  oO  337 
Clewer  360,  361 

Cnute  seizes  the  Crown  of  Eng- 
land 45.  but  is  chaced  by  K. 
Eilred  or  Ethelred  ibid,  he  is 
made  K.  of  England  48.  the 
agreement  between  him  and 
Edmund  Ironside  ibid,  his 
behaviour  and  diligence  im- 
mediately upon  Edmund  I- 
ronside's  death  ibid,  he  mar- 
ries Q.  Emma  49.  attentive- 
ly considers  the  words  of  Q. 
Emma,  with  regard  to  Edrick 
the  traytour,  whom  he  or- 
ders to  be  hang'd  49,  50.  di- 
vides his  dominions  amongst 
his  Sons  50.  his  death  and 
burial  51 
CofFrer  (Sir  Ralph)  319,  320 
Colibrant  the  Gy ant  31.     slain 

by  Guy  E.  of  Warwick  32 
Columns  or  Colonnesi,  the  con- 
troversie  between  the  Pope 
and  them  322-  the  destru- 
ction of  them  by  Pope  Boni- 
face 323 
Commandments     (the    ten)    in 

old  English  585,  586 
Common  (the)  a  Wood  so  called 

360 
Comyn  (Robert)  burnt  at  Bur- 
ham  74 
Comyn  (Sir  John)  slain  by  Ro- 
bert Bruce  King  of  Scotland 
330 
Conquest  in  Somersetshire,    a 
Discourse   of  some   Antiqui- 
ties found  near  it  439 
Constantyn  K.  of  Scotland  his 
falseness  29,  30 


Cookham        602. 

Cookham 

Bridges        520. 

<ZEoo6!?am 

Dean  593 

Corbridge 

273 

Corf 

101 

Cosmore 

369 

Coventry 

617 

Coventry    (Church   of)   robbed 

by  Rob.  Marmion  123. 
Coway  stakes  544 

Cowe,  a  Rhythm  so  called  320, 

uti  etiam  alibi. 
Coyn  (the)  altered  238 

Cranmer  (Tho.)  550,  556,  644 
Creed  (Apostles)  in  old  English 

586,  587,  588,  589,  634 
Cressyngham    (Concerning   Sir 

Hugh)  297,  298 
Cromish  Castle  600 

Cromwell  (Oliver)    the  Arch- 

Rebell  535 
Crouland  35 

Crumwell  (Lord)  556 

Culham  596 

Cumlerton  364 

Cumnor  602 

Cuthbert's  (St.)  Reliques  76, 
77.  they  are  brought  again, 
and  put  in  a  Shrine  at  Dur- 
ham, where  they  had  been  be- 
fore  77 
Cysfeaux  (The  order  of)  first 
brought  into  England  89 


D 


Danegelde  or  Dane  gelt  (alias 
Dane-gild)  109,  110.  taken 
ott'57 

Dardan,  Son  of  the  K.  of  Den- 
mark 16 

Davidj 


694 


INDEX. 


David,  K.  of  Scotland,  assists 
the  Empress  Maud  against  K- 
Stephen  113.  summons  his 
Parliament  at  Roxburgh  ibid. 
goes  into  England,  but  is  vi- 
gorously  opposed  114,  115. 
lie  is  advised  by  Robert  13ruce, 
but  lie  follows  not  his  coun- 
sel, but  fights  with  the  En- 
glish, is  beat  and  taken  pri- 
soner 117,  118.  he  is  sent  in- 
to England  with  his  Son  Hen- 
ry by  K .  Stephen  ibid,  he  e- 
scapes  to  Scotland  121 
Denney  (Sir  Anthony)  559 

Denton..Court  594 

Bepplyn  (Sir  ^yiliiam)  39.6 

Derby  33 

Deverell  Langbrydge  sive  Deue- 
relangbridge  374,   380,  381, 
388 
Deyvile  (Sir  John)  223 

Dicheyat  sive  Dycheyat  358,  3t)4 
Dodwell  538 

Dolj'ewood  309 

DomcsHar  IB00&  649 

Dommorhame      sive     Dommer- 
hame    vel   Dommerham    378, 
388 
Doncaster  16,   47.  battle  there 

17 
Doulting   sive    DouKying   203, 

364 
Dower  348 

Drirteld  23 

Dufnald  K.  of  Scotland  90 

Dnltyng  352 

Dunbar  273,  b;c. 

Dunkan  K.  of  Scotland  90,   91 
Dunstan    the    Son     of    Agilet, 
something    relating     to    him 
64 


Dunstan's  (St.)  D^ath  38 

Durham,  the  havock  made  there 
by  William  Conq.  74.  ano- 
ther account  of  the  Damages 
that  happened  to  Durham  in 
the  time  of  William  Conq. 
74,  77.  and  what  reparations 
are  made  by  order  of  that 
King  77,  79.  Durham  Church 
and  Cloyster  built  80 

Durham  (Randolph  Bishop  oO 
his  treachery  96 

Durham  (Walter  Bishop  of) 
slain  82 

Dycheyat.     See  Dicheyat. 


Eadbald  K.  of  Lyndesay      8,  9 

Eadwin  and  Morkar  endeavour 

to  set  Edgar  Atheling   upon 

the  Throne,  after  the  Death 

of  K.    Harold,    but  are   not 

countenanc'd  enough  by  the 

men  of  power,  71,  72 

Eastbrent  360,   361,    363,    364 

I'^aste  Mockton  '  375 

Eas'^eppnarde,Eastpennarde  sive 

Estpennard  357,  363,  364 
Edbalde(K.)  20 

Edgar   [Atheling]  right  heir  to 
the  Crown  of  England,  tho' 
not  countenanc'd  by  such  as 
should  have  done  it  72 
Edgar,     Son   of  Malcolm,  set- 
tled on  the  Throne  of  Scot- 
land by  the  help  of  K.    Wil- 
liam fiufus  of  England  92. 
Edi^ar  (K.)   35.    his  foundation 
ofRumsey  Nunnery  ibid,  mar- 
ries  Elfled  the  fair  ibid,  and 
af. 


INDEX. 


695 


after  that  bitter  Estrild  ibid. 
his  issue  ibid,  his  power  ibid. 
a   great    friend  to    Churches 
and  religious  houses  ibid,  his 
death    36.     he    is    buried    at 
Glastonbury,    where    was    a 
Shrine  for  him  ibid. 
Edith  Wife   of    K.   Edw.  Con. 
fessor  60.  taken  away  by  Ead- 
win  and  Morkar,   and  carried 
to  Carleon  71,  72 
Edmund   Irenside    marries    the 
widow    of    Sigiferde    46.  E- 
drik's  treachery   to    him  46, 
47.     Edmund   goes  to  Lon- 
don 47.  and  is  crowned  King 
there  48.  the  great  opposition 
he    meets    with    from   Cnute 
ibid,  the  agreement  between 
them   ibid.    Edmund's  Death 
ibid,  he  is  buried  at  Glaston- 
bury ibid,  his  son  slain  by  K. 
Cnute,    by  advice  of  Edrick 
49 
Edmund  (K.)  brother  of  Athel- 

stan  32 
Edmund   (S.)  king  and  martyr 

22 
Edmund  (S.)  Archbp.  of  Can- 
terbury 606.  his  Father  Ray- 
nold  I'e  Riche  609.  his  Mo- 
ther Mabilia    ibid,   his    two 
Sisters  611 
Edmundsbory    (S.)    A   Parlia- 
ment  held   there   by  K.  Ed- 
ward 283 
Edred    (K.)    brother    of     Ed- 
mund 33 
Edrick    the   traytour   destroy'd 

49,  50 
Edward  the  elder  (K.)  26 


Edward  the   Martyr  (K.)   36, 
629.      absurdly    represented 
with  a  long  beard  in  the  old 
Paintings  of  All-Souls  CoUeg« 
Library  628 
Edward  (S.)  Son  of  K.  Ethel, 
red,   goes   into  Normandy  to 
Duke     William     52.    returns 
into  England  56.  crowned  K. 
of  England  57.  assists  Swane 
King  of    Denmark  ibid,  his 
troubles  from  E.  Godwyn  58. 
he     marries      E.     Godwyn's 
Daughter     60.      his   Friends 
take  the  Scottish  K.  and  the 
Scots  do  homage  to  K.  Edw. 
Conf.   61.    overpowers   Grif- 
fyn  K.  of  Wales  ibid,  he  re- 
calls  his   brother's    Son    Ed- 
mund   out  of  Hungary   ibid. 
overpowers     Griflyn     again, 
who   is   beheaded  63.  the  op- 
position    he     receives     from 
Malcolm  K.  of  Scotland  62. 
his    troubles    from    the   bro- 
thers  and  son  of  Griffyn   63, 
64.  he  builds  St.  Peter's  Myn- 
ster   at  Westminster    65.   his 
Vision    and    Death    ibid,    he 
forgets    his    agreement     with 
Duke  AVilliam,     and  desires, 
that  Harold  may  be  his  Suc- 
cessor  ibid,    the   wickedness 
of  men,  even  of  the  Clergy,  in 
his  days  ibid,  for  which  they 
sulfered  by  the  coming  to  the 
Crown  of  William   Duke   of 
Normandy      66.     some     old 
Verses   (from  a  MS.   of  the 
Lives    of    the    Saints   in  the 
hands    of    Mr.  Sheldon)   re- 
iating 


()96 


INDEX. 


lating  to  this  K.  Edward, 
commonly  called  the  Con- 
fessor 628 
Edward  (Prince)  escapes  from 
prison  at  Hereford  219.  his 
victory  at  the  battle  of  Eve- 
sham 221.  his  atchievements 
at  the  Isle  of  Ely  225.  he  is 
a  courteous  and  mercifull 
prince  ibid,  he  takes  AlneAvik 
castle  226.  he  goes  into  the 
Holy  Land  226,  227.  he  is 
wounded  by  a  Saracen  with  a 
poysoned  knife  229.  his  mar- 
riage with  dame  Elianor  230. 
by  whom  he  hath  young  K. 
Edward  ibid,  and  dame  Joan 
of  Acres  ibid,  he  returns  into 
England  ibid,  he  is  crowned 
K.  of  England  235.  his  wife 
also  crowned  ibid,  he  quells 
the  rebellion  of  Leulyn  prince 
of  Wales  236,  237.  alters  the 
coyn  238.  at  which  time  the 
Statute  of  Mortmayn  is  made 
239.  new  troubles  from  Leu- 
lyn and  David  240.  K.  Ed- 
ward's  Enemies,  Leulyn  and 
David,  beheaded  242,  244. 
after  which,  things  are  at  peace 
244.  he  goes  with  his  queen 
towards  Gascoiny  245.  after 
his  departure  the  Welsh 
rise  again,  by  advice  of  Re- 
seamiraduke  ibid,  the  king 
and  queen  return  to  England 
246.  he  punishes  the  false 
Justices  upon  his  return  ibid. 
is  rid  of  Reseamiraduke  247. 
the  death  of  his  Queen  Elia- 
nor   218.      he     goes    toward 


Scotland  ibid,  and  fortifies 
the  castle  of  Norham  ibid. 
decides  the  controversy  about 
the  crown  of  Scotland  in  fa- 
vour of  John  Baliol  249,  260. 
and  receives  Homage  of  the 
said  Baliol  250.  comes  to 
Durham  and  Beverlay  251. 
he  is  very  pensive  after  the 
death  of  his  Queen  252. 
thinks  of  marrying  Blanche 
(a  most  beautifuU  creature) 
Sister  of  the  K.  of  France  253. 
and  a  form  of  Marriage  is 
agreed  between  them  254. 
but  the  K.  of  France  proves 
treacherous  256.  and  K.  Edw. 
endeavours  to  have  justice 
255,  256.  the  proceedings  on 
that  occasion  between  him 
and  theK.  of  France  257,  Sfc» 
he  finds  new  troubles  in  Wales 
from  another  Reseamiraduke 
262.  the  issue  thereof  ibid. 
8f  seqq.  John  Baliol's  false- 
ness to  K.  Edward  266.  and 
the  falseness  also  of  the  Welsh 
265,  266.  The  Normans 
arrive  against  him  at  Do- 
ver, but  are  beat  back  266, 
267.  the  treachery  of  Thomas 
Turbevile  to  him  267.  the 
King  sends  an  Army  into 
Aquitain  271.  and  goes  him- 
self in  person  towards  Scot- 
land ibid,  and  takes  Ber- 
wik  271,  272.  he  scours 
the  Scots,  after  they  had  burnt 
Hexham  and  Lanercost  273, 
274,  275.  and  kills  a  prodi- 
gious number  of  thorn  in  bat- 
tle 


INDEX. 


697 


tie  277.  he  depriv^es  JohnBa- 
liol  of  his  Kingdom  of  Scot- 
landj  and  committs  the  Go- 
vernment of  it  to  Justices 
280.  concerning  this  union 
of  both  Kingdoms  282.  K, 
Edw.  holds  a  parliament  at 
Edinburgh  283.  in  which  the 
King  and  Clergy  differ  ibid. 
which  difference  is  continued, 
but  pretty  well  compro- 
mised in  a  Parliament  at 
London  286,  287.  at  this 
time  Messengers  come  to  him 
from  France  287.  he  sum- 
mons a  Parliament  at  West- 
minster 290.  and  resolves  to 
go  to  Flanders,  contrary  to 
the  advice  of  his  Council 
293.  and  goes  accordingly 
ibid,  to  his  great  hazard  294, 

295.  he  is    not  generous   to 
his  barons,  as  K.  Arthur  was 

296.  after  his  Toyage  the 
Scots  rebell  297.  he  is  trou- 
bled at  it,  and  grants  the 
Charter  of  liberty  299.  and  is 
thereupon  strenuously  assist- 
by  the  Clergy  and  barons 
300,  301.  and  the  barons  as- 
semble  at  York  on  that  ac- 
count 301.  where  the  Charter 
of  liberty  is  read  302-  K.  Ed- 
ward refers  the  difference 
between  hira  and  the  K.  of 
France  to  the  Pope,  and  re- 
turns into  England  302,  303. 
he  sets  the  .Scottish  Prisoners 
at  liberty  ibid,  who  prove 
treacherous  ibid.  theKing  goc  s 
ia  pilgrimage    304.   and    ob- 


tains  a  great  victory  over  the 
Scots  at  Faukirk  or  Foukirk 
ibid,  he  gets   a   dispensation 
for    dissolving    his    Contract 
with  Blanch,  in  order  to  mar. 
ry  Margaret,   Sister    to   the 
King  of  France    [viz.  Philip 
the  IVth.  sirnamed  the  Fair^ 
306.    whom    he  marries    ac- 
cordingly 308.  goes   towards 
Scotland,but  indiscreetly  ibid. 
and  returns  ibid,  calls  a  Par- 
liament at  London  309.  and 
adjourns  them  to  Carlile  ibid. 
and  for  what  reasons  ibid,  his 
Son  Thomas  born  at  Brother- 
ton   310.  and  the  King  him- 
self goes  thither  ibid,  agrees 
upon  a  truce  with  the  Scots, 
and  returns   to  London  311. 
calls  a  Parliament  at  Lincoln 
311,    312.     the     Complaints 
made     to     him    there     312. 
and       his       Answer      ibid. 
what     followed    after,   espe- 
cially   Avhen   he    would    not 
acquiesce  in  what  was  said  by 
the   Barons    313,    314.  what 
the  Pope  said  with  respect  to 
the  difference     between     K. 
Edw.  and  the   K.  of  France 

315.  K.  Edward  gives  Wales 
to  his  Son  ibid,  he  and  his 
Son    go   for    Scotland     315, 

316.  but  return  again  upon 
the  arrival  of  the  Pope's  jNun- 
cio  316.  marries  his  Daugh- 
ter Elizabeth  to  Sir  Hum- 
phrey Bonn  318.  great  endea- 
vours, that  Matters  should 
be    reconciled    between   him 

ami 


6DS 


INDEX. 


and  Scotland  ibid,  but  in  vain, 
and  (hereupon  a  Slaughter  is 
made  by  the  Scots  of  the  En- 
glish, occasioned  chielly  by 
the  Flight  or  Cowardice  of 
Sir  John  Segrave  319.  he 
drives  the  Scots  'before  him, 
and  passes  a  vast  way  into  the 
Country  321.  the  War  being 
ended,  he  and  his  Queen 
reside  for  some  time  at  Dun- 
fermlyn  322.  he  besieges 
and  takes  Strivelyn  326.  he 
makes  diligent  search,  in  his 
return  from  Scotland,  after 
those  who  had  been  tlie  au- 
thors and  abettors  of  any 
commotions  and  disturbances 
in  his  absence  327.  and 
upon  that  occasion  ordains 
Trailebaston  328.  he  prepares 
Mar  against  Robert  Bruce,  K. 
of  Scotland  331.  keeps  his 
FeastofWhitsontideat  West- 
minster 332.  at  which  time 
he  dubs  many  Knights  ibid. 
This  was  the  greatest  Feast 
that  ever  happened  in  Britain, 
since  the  Feast  of  K.  Ar- 
thur at  Car! eon  ibid.  He  and 
Prince  Edward  take  their 
Journey  toward  Scotland 
against  Robert  Bruce  333.  the 
King  sickens  at  Lanertost,  but 
recovers  ibid,  he  gets  a  Vic- 
tory over  the  Scots  atMetfen, 
and  forces  K.  Rol^ert  to  scnlk 
about  ibid.  K.  Edward  holds 
a  Parliament  at  Carlile  338. 
whither  a  Cardinal  comes 
from  Home    about  a  Match 


for  the  Prince  with  the  King 
of  France's  daughter  338. 
King  Edward's  Death  339. 
he  is  buried  at  Westminster 
341 

Edward  VI.  (K.)  Act  ofParlia- 
ment  in  his  Reign  for  the 
abolishing  and  putting  away 
of  divers  Books  and  Images 
545 

Edwy  (K.)  brother  of  K.  Edred 
34 

Egbriht(K.)14, 15,  16,17,  18. 

Eilred  [whom  others  call  Ethel- 
red]  (K.)  Son  of  K.  Edgar  37. 
St.  Diinstan's  words  to  him 
ibid,  the  strange  troubles  of 
his  Reign  from  the  Danes  38. 
marries  Emma,  Daughter  of 
the  Duke  of  Normandy  40. 
his  Issue  by  her  ibid,  he  beats 
the  Danes,  and  thereupon 
Swane  comes  against  him 
ibid,  he  compounds  with 
Swane  41.  he  makes  Edrik 
his  privy  counsellor,  who 
proves  a  traytour  ibid,  and 
'tis  by  Edrik's  means,  that  so- 
much  mischief  is  done  by 
Swane  and  his  Son  Knute  at 
Oxford  and  elsewhere  42. 
Eilred  goes  with  his  Wife  to 
Normandie  43,  44.  he  is  again 
plagued  by  Swane,  who  dies 
suddenly  44,  Eilred  comes 
again  into  England,  and 
receives  the  Kingdom  45.  but 
is  again  troubled  by  the  con- 
trivance of  Edrik  46.  he  is 
assisted  by  his  Son  Edmund 
Irenside  ibid.  Eilred  falls  sick 
i/id. 


INDEX. 


699 


ibid,  his  Death  47.  his  two 
Sons  Alfred  and  Edward  52. 
whereof  Alfred  is  destroyed 
by  E.  Godwin  ibid,  and  Ed- 
ward goes  over  to  Duke  Wil- 
liam the  Norman  ibid. 

Eland  77 

Elendoune  (battle  of)  14 

Elfrith  or  Elfride  (K.)  21 

iEUis's  (Mr.  Thomas)  imperfect 
Edition  of  Dr.  Powell's  Hi- 
story of  Wales,  3,  61,  62 

Elys.     See  Helys. 

Enderbie  (Percy)  a  paultry  writ- 
er 4 

England  (The  five  plagues  or 
sorows  of)  7 

Esterete  362 

Estpennard.   See  Eastepenarde. 

Ethelbert  (K.) 

Ethelred.     See  Eilred. 

Ethelwolf.     See  Adelwolf. 

Euesham  46.  The  battle  of  Eue- 
sham  221 

Ew.Elm  Church  650 

Eylrike  the  Dane  put  up  by  some 
in  opposition  to  K.  Edred   34 

Eymer  (Sir)  Earl  of  Pembroke 
331,  333 


Fabian  (Robert)  678 

Eardell  or  Ferdell  what  ?  600 
Faukirk  or  Foukirk  (the  battle 

of)  304,  647 

Feversham  127 

Fisher  (Bishop)    550.    his  Ex- 
cellencies 551 

Fitz  Haym  664 

Fleetwood  (Bishop)  542 
Vol.  H. 


Florence  of  Worcester,  an  ex- 
cellent Copy  of  the  4to.  Ed. 
with  Dr.  Langbaine's  MSS. 
Notes,  in  possession  of  the 
Publisher  5,  64 
Font-Everard  142 

Fordun  (John)  667 

France  (Concerning  the  Court 
of)  255.  War  between  France 
and  Flanders  317 
Fraunces  (Richard)      625,  676 
Freselle  (Sir  Simon)  319,  325. 

taken  prisoner  335 
Frithbald  or  Frethebald  15 

Frodesham  237 

Fulman  (William)         587,  588 


Gale  (Samuel)  561,  562 

<Sate0|)CueU  82 

Gaunt  (Gilbert  de)  119 

Gaynesburgh  42, 44 

Gervans  77,  80 

Gildas  25 

Gladous.     See  Leulyn. 

Glastonbury  36,  48,  63.  Survey 

of  the  Estates   belonging  to 

the   Abbey    of    Glastonbury 

343  Glastonburye  Moore  346 

Glastonbury    (Sohn    of)     597, 

600,  601,  622 
Glossary,  a  Latin  one  in  MS.  in 

the  publisher's  hands  538 

Gloucester  33 

Gloucester  (Robert   of)    12.  a 

MS.  Metaphrase  of  him,  tho' 

done  but   indifferently   529, 

598,  649,  664,  681 

Godenhay  351,  387 

Godley  Moore  Comraoa       352 

HH  God- 


700 


INDEX. 


Godwyn  (Earl)  concerning  him 
and  his  Son  Ilarald  b7.  he 
and  his  Sons  are  banished 
58,  59.  and  land  afterwards 
in  England  bQ.  and  are  par. 
doned  by  K.  Edward  the 
Confessor  60.  but  his  Son 
Swane  dies  in  Lombardy  ibid. 
Earl  Godwin's  perjury  and 
death  54,  55. 
Gospatrick  E.  of  Cumberland 
78.  and  the  Differences  be- 
tween him  and  Malcolm  K. 
of  Scotland  ibid,  this  Gospa- 
trick is  humbled  by  K.  Wm. 
Conq.  78,  79. 
Graves    (Richard)     582,    593, 

594. 
(5raj?  (g)ir  KeEnalB  tjjc)  242 

Greenway  (George)   5Q3,     594 
Grefletonnes  372 

Greynton  360,  361 

Griflyn  K.  of  Wales  makes  war 
upon  K.  Edw,  Confessor  61. 
and  is  beheaded  ibid,  and  af- 
terwards his  Son  Griliyn  op- 
poses K.  Edward  62.  but  sub. 
mitts  with  Algar  H  of  Kent, 
and  are  pardoned  ibid,  but 
afterwards  Griflyn  rises  again 
ibid,  is  taken  at  last  and  be- 
iieaded  63.  but  his  brethren 
and  his  son  are  afterwards 
troublesome  63,  64 
Grimsby  or  Grymesby  26,  42 
Guilford  52 

Gunter  the  Father  of  Hanelok, 

concerning  him  25 
Guy  E.  of  Warwick  fights  Avith, 
and  slays,  Colibrant  the  Gy- 
aut  32 


H 


Haga  what  ?  602 

Haldayn  his  valour  and  probity 

18. 
Hales  617 

Hall   (Richard)   550    The  Con- 
clusion of  his  Life  of  Bishop 
Fisher  551 
Hame  359 

Hamme  364 

Hamsted  Z5Q 

Hanelok,  concerning  him  25 
Hardeknute  made  King  of  Eng- 
land 53.1  54  an  austere  Prince 
54  a  tyrannical  exacter  of 
Taxes  55,  56  his  Death  56 
Harald  Harefoot  made  King  of 
England  51  but  is  disturbed 
by  Hardeknute  ibid,  but  they 
come  to  agreement  ibid,  his 
ingratitude  to  his  Mother, 
whom  he  banisheth  53  his 
Death  ibid,  he  is  buried  at 
Westminster,  and  afterwards 
his  body  is  taken  up,  and 
thrown  into  the  Thames 
53,  54 
Harald  Harfager  67 

Harald  son  of  Earl  Godwyn  58 
he  is  intrusted  by  K.  Edward 
tlie  Confessor  62  he  is  made 
King  of  England  66  but  is 
embroiled  in  troubles  by 
Tostus  and  Harald  Harfager 
66,  67  whom  he  defeats  and 
kills  in  battle  67  the  kindness 
he  receives  from,  and  the  pro- 
mises he  makes  to,  William 
Duke  of  Normandy  68  but 
he  does  not  mind  what  he 
pro- 


INDEX. 


701 


promisod  69  upon  which  he 

justly  looses  the  Kingdom  71 

being    beaten    and   slain    in 

battle      by     Diiie     William 

ibid. 

Harbinii  Coll.  601 

Harpesfield  (Nich.)  his  MS.  Dis. 

course  concerning  Marriage, 

with  some  Extracts  out  of  it 

638,  4-c. 

Hastings,  a  castle  built  there  96 

Epaugljc  212 

Haut  assise,  a  place  so  called  a- 

raong  the  Saracens  228 
Haywood  360 

Heathe  Moore  Common        352 
Hedmingham,  Hengam,  or  He- 

ningham  127 
Hegge  (Robert)  687,  688 
J^eltoellc  119 

Helys  or  Elys  of  St.  Omere  124 
Hemingham.  See  Hedmingham. 
Hengam.  See  Hedmingham. 
Henry  I,  crowned  King  93  as  is 
also  Dame  Maud  his  Wife 
ibid,  he  is  opposed  by  his 
brother  Robert  Duke  of  Nor- 
mandy 96  and  by  Randolf 
Bishop  of  Durham  ibid,  an 
agreement  between  him  and 
his  brother  Robert,  by  the 
means  of  Anselm  Archbishop 
of  Canterbury  97  he  meets 
with  other  opposition  from 
Robert  de  Eeleyse,  who  is 
taken  prisoner,  and  led  with 
his  brother  Arnald  to  K. 
Henry,  ibid.  K.  Henry  be- 
haves himself  courteously  to 
his  Subjects,  by  advice  of 
his  Queen   Dame   Maud    98 


breaks  with  his  brother  Ro- 
bert, and  passes  over  into 
Normandy  against  him  ibid. 
they  are  again  reconciled  99. 
and  K.  Henry  returns  into 
England  ibid,  but  they  break 
again  ibid,  and  K.  Henry  goes 
again  into  Normandy  ibid. 
his  Enmity  to  the  Clergy, 
which  is  turned  to  Friend- 
ship by  means  of  Anselm 
Archbishop     of     Canterbury 

100.  he  carries  on  a  War 
against  Duke  Robert  ibid. 
whom  he  vanquisheth  in  bat- 
tle,   and  takes  prisoner  100, 

101.  after  which  Robert  dies 
in  Prison,  but  his  Eyes  were 
not  (as  some  say  they  were) 
pulled  out  101.  after  Ro- 
bert's Death  K.Henry  is  in- 
vaded by  the  K.  of  France, 
Avhom  he  forces  back  104.  K. 
Henry  marries  his  Daughter 
Maud  to  the  Emperor  of  Ger- 
many 105.  gives  Normandy 
to  his  Son  William  ibid,  the 
Death  of  Maud  his  Queen 
ibid.  She  is  buried  at  St,  Paul's 
at  London  ibid.  There  is  an 
account  of  her  story  at  West- 
minster ibid,  after  which  the 
King  goes  to  Normandy  to 
his  Son  William  106.  he  re- 
turns to  England  ibid,  and 
his  Sons  and  others  follow 
after,  but  are  unfortunately 
drowned  in  the  Sea  ibid,  his 
second  Wife  Adelayn,  Daugh- 
ter of  Godfrey  of  Lovain 
106.    his    Daughter   Maud's 

hh2  Hus- 


702 


INDEX. 


Husband  Henry  the  Emperor 
dies  106.  and  she  is  after- 
wards married  to  Henry  Soti 
of  the  Earl  of  Anjoii  107. 
or  rather  to  GeflVey  Planta- 
genet  Earl  of  Anjou  ibid,  by 
"whom  she  hath  Issue  Henry 
and  William,  that  were  ex- 
tremely beloved  by  K.Hen. 
I.  108.  K.  Henry  goes  over 
to  Normandy  ibid,  his  Death 
ibid,  he  is  buried  at  Reading 
ibid,  the  Abbey  of  which 
Place  he  had  founded  ibid,  a 
controversy  about  the  Succes- 
sion upon  his  Death  ibid 
Henry  II.  made  King  127.  his 
power  128.  a  great  difference 
arises  between  him  and  Tho- 
mas a  Beket  129,  529.  Some 
hot  words  from  the  King  oc- 
casion the  murther  of  St. 
Thomas  131.  at  which  K. 
Henry  is  much  grieved  132. 
a  War  between  him  and  the 
Scots  ibid.  William  the  Scot- 
tish King  taken  prisoner  by 
his  Forces  ibid,  his  Son  Henry 
rises  in  rebellion  against  him, 
and  is  abetted  by  the  Scots 

133.  this  Rebellion  is  quelled 

134.  The  Contents  of  K. 
Henry  lid's  Will  made  at 
Waltham  135.  after  he  had 
made  this  Will,  he  sails  over 
Sea,  and  goes  to  Paris  137. 
makes  peace  with  France,  and 
returns  into  England  ibid. 
holds  a  Parliament  at  Ox- 
ford ibid,  receives  homage  of 
the  Scottish  King  137,  138. 


the  Articles  upon  that  occa- 
sion 138.  some  breach  after, 
but  new  conditions  agreed 
upon  139.  his  Son  Henry 
dies  ibid,  and  his  Death  is 
much  lamented  by  the  Fa- 
ther ibid.  K.  Henry's  Affe- 
ction for  the  wench  Rosa- 
mond 139,  140,  676.  Appli- 
cation made  to  him  in  be- 
half of  the  Christians  against 
the  Saracens  140,  141.  he 
weeps,  but  declines  going 
into  the  Holy  Land  141. 
does  honour  to  St.  Thomas 
the  Martyr  142.  he  sickens^ 
and  obliges  his  Son  Richard 
to  go  to  the  Holy  Land  ibid. 
he  dies,  and  is  buried  at 
Font-Everard  ibid,  his  chil- 
dren 128.  he  had  a  child  by 
Alice,  Sister  to  Philip  K.  of 
France  155 
Henry  III.  crowned  King  of 
England,  with  a  particular 
account  of  his  Reign  212v 
«*5'  seqq.  the  wonderful  beau- 
ty of  Eleanor  his  Queen 
213 
Henry  VIII.  (K.)  550,  8fc. 
Hexam     32.      Hexham     burnt 

273,  279 
Hide  what  ?  601 

K^iCSJjmor  near  Nettlebed        622 
Hinton  (Thomas)  631 

Hob  More  near  York  622 

Hoilingshede  646 

Hood  (Robin)  666,  667 

Hownestert  364 

l^untimanbg  castle  120 

Hunscott  534 

Hun^ 


INDEX. 


703 


Huntington  (Henry  of)  the  hi- 
storian 6,  25,  111 
Huntingtone  47 

Jlycophrlx  or  Hycothrift  G73, 
674 

I 

Idmistonne  sive  Idemyston  379 

380 
Jews,    their   wickedness   in  K. 
Edward's  time  247 

Ilchester  364 

Ine  K.   of  the  West-Saxons  2. 
his  Son  Adellus  5.    K.  Ine's 
Death  and  Burial  ibid. 
•Inguar  and  Ubba  22 

Ini  &  luore  1,  2 

John,  Brother  of  K.  Richard, 
marries  206.  he  is  crown'd 
King  of  England  ibid,  a  par- 
ticular account  of  his  Reign 
ibid.  4-  seqq.  his  children  211. 
his  Death  212,  230 
Jones  535 

Joyce   (Lieutenant  Coll.)    pro. 
bably  the  person  that  cut  off 
K.   Charles    the    Ist's  Head 
535 
Ipswich  38 

Isaac  K.  of  Cyprus  and  Empe. 
rour  of  the  Griffons  put  to 
flight  by  K.  Richard  161.  he 
and  K.  Richard  are  reconci- 
led 163.  but  the  Emperour 
falls  off  164.  See  Richard, 
luore.  See  Ini. 
Justices,  their  falseness  in  K. 
Edward's  time  246 

K 

Kame  in  Normandy^  the  Church 


there    founded   by    William 

Conq,  84 

Karelauerok  castle  310 

Earham  (battle  of)  16 

Katherine   of    Spain     (Q.)    her 

Death  and  Virtues  640 
Kennington  600 

Kentlesworthe  364 

Key  (Thomas)  595,  596 

Kilyngworth  castle  224 

Kimpton,     near    Andover    in 

Hampshire  593 
Kingston  28,  37 

Knight,    the   word,    some  Re- 
marks about  it  539,  540,  541 
Knight's  fee  what  ?  601 

Knyvet  675 

Konyngesburghe  15 

IRoutonmotc  118 

Kymber  (Tho.)  551 

Kynewolf  (K.)  9 

Kyngtonne     alias     Ryngtonne 
372,  387 


Lamporte  362 

Lanercost  burnt  273 

Langbridge.     See  Deverell. 
Langtoft  (Peter)  36 

Langton  (Steven)  209 

Leavys  (battle  of)  217,  218 
Leicestre  or  Leycester  33,  47 
Leland's  Cabinet  in  the   Bod. 

leian  Library  199 
LeNeve  (Peter)  673,  674,  675, 

684 
Leulyn  prince  of  Wales  his 
spouse  236.  he  rebells  against 
K.  Edward  ibid,  and  isquell'd 
2^7.  his  and  his  brother  Da- 
HI!  3  vid's 


704 


INDEX. 


■vid's  Falsity  240.  Leulyn  be- 
headed by  Pi,obert  Body  242. 
his  Daughter  Wencilian  a 
Nun  at  Senipryngham  243. 
and  her  cousin  Giadous  a 
Nun  at  Sixille  ibid.  Lenlyn's 
brother  David  taken  and  be- 
headed 244 

Lewis  K.  of  France  goes  to. 
wards  the  H.  Land  226,  227. 
and  dies  in  his  Voyage  227. 

Leycester.     See  Leicestre. 

Lichfield  (Leonard)  572 

Lilly  (William)  534 

Lincoln  33,  47.  Lincoln  castle 
125,  A  strange  old  Stone  in 
the  Castle  of  Lincoln  26. 
The  Jewry  at  Lincoln  de- 
stroyed 224.  Parliament  at 
Lincoln  312 

Lindsay  (about  the  three  Monks 

of)  80 
London  381,  386 

Lud  or  Lyde  (the  mouth  of) 
628 

Lympleshin  or  Lymplcsham  360 
36l,  364 

M 

Maddok  and  Morgan  of  Wales, 

concerning  them  256 
Maidenhead  520 

Malbis  (castle  of)  81 

Malcolme  K.  of  Scotland  taken 
prisoner  by  William  the 
Conq,  79  and  ransomed  ibid. 
and  promises  for  himself  and 
Heirs  to  do  homage  to  Eng- 
land ibid.  Malcolm  or  Mal- 
colya  K.  of  Scotland  slain 
-with  his  Son  Edward  89,  90 


See  William  Ri/fus. 
Malmcestre  46   ^almtemz  the 

same  with  ^anc^zsKt  4 
Map   (an  old)  in  the  Bodleian 
Library,  in  which  the  Scott- 
ish Sea  is   made   to  be  Hell 
582 
Marche  (Wolnot  earle  of  the)  82 
Margaret   Daughter   and   Heir 
of  Alexander  K.  of  Scotland, 
her  death  248 
Marlow  (Great)  593 

Marmion  (Rob.)  123 

Marnehall  370 

Marshal  (William)  121. 

Martone  380 

Maud  the  good  Queen,  con- 
cerning her  95 
Maud,  the  Daughter  of  K. 
Henry  L  concerning  her  106. 
by  being  married  to  the  Em- 
perour,  she  becomes  Empress 
ibid.  Maud  the  Empress  assist- 
ed against  K.  Stephen  by  Da- 
vid K.  ofScotland  113.  comes 
into  England  118.  She  is  be- 
sieged in  Arundel  Castle  by 
K.  Stephen  119.  from  whence 
she  goes  to  Bristol  ibid,  where 
she  hath  news  of  the  Death 
of  her  Husband  ibid,  she 
sends  about  to  the  Earons 
for  assistance  ibid,  and  finds 
great  Friends  120.  she  takes  K. 
Stephen  and  imprisons  him 
at  Bristol  ibid,  and  is  held  for 
Lady  in  many  places  ibid,  her 
Success  makes  her  haughty, 
which  proves  to  her  disad- 
vantage ibid.  She  goes  to 
Winchester  121.  and  her 
half 


INDEX. 


705 


half-brother  Robert  and  Da. 
vid  K.  of  Scotland  accompa- 
ny her  thither  ibid.  She  is 
taken  at  Winchester  ibid,  and 
rescued  ibid.  She  and  Robert 
Lovell  fly  to  Oxford  121  She 
escapes  from  Oxford  to  Wa. 
lingford  122  Some  Remarks 
relating  to  that  Escape  597 
The  Death  of  Maad  the  Em- 
press 126  and  the  agreement 
between  her  Son  Henry  and 
K.  Stephen  126 
Maundevile  (Getfr.  of)  123 

Mells  354,  364 

Menetest  (Sir  John)  329  about 

him  330 
Mere  346,  365,  386 
Merkesbury  359,  387. 
Metfen  (Battle  of)  333 

Money,  a  remarkable  Passage 
concerning  it,  out  of  Cax- 
ton's  gmage  or  mprtour  of 
tije  toorin  620 
Monk  (A)  hang'd,  that  leaves 
his  profession  for  the  Title  of 
a  King  171,  172 
Monke  woode  hill  369 

More   (Sir  Thomas)    84,    199, 

684 
Morgan.     See  Maddok. 
Mortmain  (The  Statute  of)  239 
Moubray  (Robert)  subdued  by 
William   Rufus,    and   impri. 
soned  at  Windsor  91 
Mountfort   (Simon)     and      his 

Sons  217  4-c. 
Murelynche  362,  364,  365 

Murnehall  387 

Murray  (John)  19,  76,  88, 131, 
200,  675 


Myddelsoye  360,  361 

Myddleton  sive  Myddelton  358, 

364 
Myllemarshe  369 


N 


Netletonne  371,  387 

Nevill  of  Eiilingbeare  520 

Nevill  (Sir  Thomas  de)         319 
New  Forest  of  Winchester  made 

92,  93 
Newoode  360 

Newton  367,  387.    See  Sturme- 

sture 
Norfolk  (Roger  Earl  of)         82 
Norham  castle  248 

Normans    (The)  arrive  at  Do- 
ver, but  are  beaten  back  266 
Northampton  47,   121.    Parlia. 

ment  there  222 
Northlode  360,  361 

Norwood  or  Northwoode  344, 

345,  357,  364 
Notingham  33,  47 

Nunney  362 

Nylonde  360,  361,  364 


Ode,  Eishop  of  Winchester,  his 

advice  to  William  Rufus      94 
Olifarde  (Sir  William)  326 

Orkney    (Rauf  of)     114,    115, 

117 
Oseth  K.  of  Denmark,  invades 

England  23 
Osney.     See  Oxford. 
Otherye  360,  361 

Ottobon  the  legate  222 

Owen  (Will.)  533 

im  4  Oxen, 


706 


INDEX. 


Oxen,  a  town  so  called  where 
St.  Edmund's  body  fell  22 

Oxford  or  Oxenford  42.  Ox- 
ford (University  of)  founded 
by  K.  Alfred  19,  683.  Ox- 
ford  castle  besieged  by  K.  Ste- 
phen 121.  curious  old  Wain- 
scotts  at  Oxford  199.  Le- 
land's  Cabinet  in  the  Bod- 
lejan  Library  ibid.  Christ- 
Church  Flom  570.  Fryer  Ba. 
con's  Study  571.  Fryer  Ba- 
con the  Inventer  of  Tele, 
scopes,  with  which  he  made 
observations    in    that    Study 

571,  572.  This  Fryer  was  of 
service  as  well  to  the  Univer- 
sity,   as  Town,    of    Oxford 

572.  a  contagious  disease  at 
Oxford  ibid.  Two  odd  Ver- 
ses in  Merton-College  Win- 
dows 579.  Some  particulars 
relating  io  the  Antiquities  of 
Oxford  595,  603,  613.  Some 
Remarks  relating  to  the  E- 
scape  of  the  Empress  Maud 
from  Oxford  597.  The  great 
Conflict  there  in  the  Reign 
of  K.  Hen.  III.  614.  The 
great  fray  at  Osney  by  Ox- 
ford, when  Otho  the  Pope's 
Legate  was  forced,  for  se. 
curity,  to  get  into  the  Steeple 
of  Osney  Abbey  Church  681 


Pedwell  362 

Pers  of  Eridlynton  25,  32 

Pete-s  (Hugh)  534 

Philip  K.   of  France,  his  Fic- 


tion 152.     See  K.  Richard. 
Philippa  wife  of  King  Edw.  III. 
her   beauty  548.     Images  of 
the  Virgin  Mary  in  her  Shape 
548,  549 
Pilgrim  castle,   the  Siege  there- 
of 180 
Pocock  (Dr.)  687 

Popling  369 

]Poita0tic|)e,  IPort  &ke\ott\},  or 
}Porta0cit{)  64 

Ports Battle    between    the 

Ports  and  the  Normans  252 
Powell  (Dr.)  599 

Printers  formerly  learned  men 

84 
rromptorium  parvulorum  sive  cle- 
ricoruni,  a  book  so  called  624 
Prynne  (Mr.)  684 

Pucklechurche  365 

Puddleton  in  Dorsetshire,  an 
old  Inscription  over  a  Chim- 
ney-piece, or  rather  cut  in 
Stone,  there  533 

Pylton  350,  386 


R 


Radley.     See  Rodley. 
Ramsey  abbey  123 

Rasteli  or  Rastall   (John)   19 

76,    82,    84,   88,    101,    107 

131,    139,    198,     199,    200, 

218,  230 
Rawlinson  (Thomas)  572,  587, 

588,  61 G,  G46 
Reading    14.     Reading    abbey 

founded  by  K.  Henry  I.  109. 

Tile  Forbery  in  Reading  613 
Repyndon  9 

Reseamiraduke  heads  a  Rebel- 
lion 


INDEX. 


707 


Hon  in  Wales  245.  he  is  ta- 
ken  and  executed  247.  an- 
other Resmiraduk  heads  an- 
other Rebellion  262.  The 
issue  thereof  ibid.  <Sf  seqq. 
Rejnrere  of  Picardy  124 

Ricalle  67 

Rich  (Mr.)  556 

Richard  Son  of  H^n.  IT.  crown- 
ed King  142.  prepares  for  the 
Holy  Land  143.  and  applies 
to  Philip  K.  of  France  to 
lend  his  Assistance  in  that 
good  design  143,  144.  who 
sends  him  a  courteous  answer 
145.  K.  Richard  sells  his 
Moveables  and  Manours  to 
raise  Money  for  his  Expedi- 
tion to  the  Holy  Land  ibid. 
sends  to  William  King  of 
Scotland  io  come  and  do 
Homage  to  him  ibid,  which 
he  does  accordingly  146.  an 
agreement  between  him  and 
the  said  K.  William  with  re- 
spect to  future  Homage  ibid. 
he  settles  the  Justices  that 
were  to  look  after  the  Land 
in  his  absence  ibid,  he  goes 
to  Normandy  146,  147.  He 
and  Philip  of  France  take 
shipping  for  the  H.  Land 
147.  they  are  molested  with 
a  dreadfull  tempest  148.  but 
escape  miraculously  148, 149. 
he  relieves  his  sister  Joan  Q. 
of  Sicily,  and  delivers  her 
from  the  thraldom  of  the 
King  of  that  Country  149, 
150,  151.  And  provides  for 
her,    and  the  King  of   that 


Country  at  last  proves  civil 

151,  152.  Philip  K.  of  Fran- 
ce's Fiction   to    K.   Richard 

152.  an  agreement  in  agita- 
tion between  K.  Richard  and 
the  King  of  Sicily  153.  K. 
Richard's  Mother  comes  to 
him  ibid,  and  he  marries  the 
beautifujl  Berengaria  ibid,  and 
162.  abundance  of  Kings  and 
Dukes  at  the  Weddmg  162. 
He  and  Tancred  travell  to 
Saint  Agatha  the  Virgin  ibid, 
the  Difference  or  Quarrell  be- 
tween K.  Richard  and  K. 
Philip  154.  the  reason  why 
K.  Richard  would  not  marry 
Alice,  Sister  to  K.  Philip  155. 
an  agreement  between  them, 
and  K.  Richard  is  intirely 
freed  from  Alice  156.  He 
and  K.  Philip  at  Acres,  157. 
and  K.  Richard  takes  Me- 
schines  ibid,  the  great  dan- 
ger of  his  Ships  in  his  way 
to  Cyprus  157,  158.  he  takes 
Cyprus  160.  he  comes  to  the 
City  of  Lymosin  ibid,  puts  to 
flight  Isaac  King  of  Cyprus 
and  Emperor  of  ihe  Griffons 
161.  he  and  the  Emperor  are 
reconciled  163.  but  the  Em- 
peror falls  off  164.  he  pur- 
sues Isaac,  and  takes  his 
Daughter  164,  165.  and  ma- 
ny  Towns  ibid,  he  takes  Isaac 

167.  and    conquers    Cyprus 

168.  he  destroys  a  great  Ship 
of  the  Saracens  169,  170. 
takes  Aeon  171.  comes  to 
the  haven  of  Acres  ibid,  his 

Cap- 


708 


INDEX. 


Captain  Robert  of  Thorn- 
ham  hangs  a  Monk,  that 
leaves  his  Profession  to  have 
the  Title  of  a  King  171, 
172.  which  he  justifies  to  K. 
Kichard  173.  K.  Ricliard 
besieges  Acres  173,  174. 
the  misery  that  the  Chri- 
stians endured  there  through 
famine  174.  the  diligence 
both  of  K.  Richard  and  K. 
Philip  in  the  Siege  176.  con. 
cerning  a  Treaty  of  Peace  be. 
tween  the  two  Kings  and  the 
Saracens  177.  at  which  time 
a  Miracle  happened  178.  K. 
Richard  takes  Acres  by  the 
assistance  of  K.  Philip  179.  he 
besieges  and  takes  Pilgrim 
Castle,  which  K.  Philip  had 
in  vain  attempted  180,  181, 
182.  concerning  his  probity 
and  valour  183.  K.  Philip  is 
dismayed  at  K.  Richard's  glo- 
rious Atchievements  184.  K. 
Philip  returns  into  France  by 
leave  of  K.  Richard,  \>ho 
found  him  to  be  an  Enemy 
instead  of  a  true  Friend  185, 
186.  K.  Richard's  great  Ex- 
ploits afterwards  186.  a  Treaty 
of  IVace  between  him  and 
the  Saladin  195,  after  which 
K.  Richard  takes  his  Journey 
towards  England  197.  and 
is  imprisoned  by  the  Duke 
of  Austria  198.  and  unwor- 
thily treated  in  prison  ibid. 
and  200.  his  ransom  ibid. 
the  reason  of  his  being  c;il. 
led   Sure  Be   ilpon    ibid,  his 


rt4)ects  to  St.  Thomas  of 
Canterbury  201.  the  injuries 
he  receiv'd  while  he  was  in 
prison  from  his  brother  John 
ibid,  he  calls  a  Parliament  at 
London  202.  takes  an  ac- 
count of  the  Wealth  of  the 
Kingdom  ibid,  he  goes  be- 
yond Sea  in  opposition  to 
the  K.  of  France  203.  he  is 
Avounded  and  dies  205.  and  is 
buried  at  Font-Everard  ibid. 

Richard  II.  (K.)  repairs  West- 
minster Hall  89 

Rippon  34 

Rivaulx  (The  abbey  of)  found- 
ed by  Walter  Espeke  89 

Robert  of  Brunne  when  he 
flourished  337 

Robert  Curthose  Duke  of  Nor- 
mandy goes  towards  the  Ho- 
ly Land  87.  returns  to  Eng- 
land to  his  Brother  William 
ibid,  returns  out  of  the  Holy 
Land  into  England  95.  du- 
ring his  absence  in  the  Holy 
Land,  his  beautiful!  Wife 
Edith  was  kept  by  the  Earl  of 
Cornwall  ibid,  but  now  the 
Duke  conveys  her  into  Nor. 
mandy  ibid,  he  comes  against 
his  brother  K.  Henry  96.  and 
is  abetted  by  Randolf  bishop 
of  Durham  ibid,  an  agreement 
made  between  K.  Henry  I. 
and  Robert  Duke  of  Nor- 
mandy by  means  of  Anselm, 
archbishop  of  Canterbury  97. 
but  Henry  quarrels  with  him 
tigai!!,  and  they  are  again 
appeased  98,  99.  but  break 
again 


INDEX. 


?09 


again  ibid.  Duke  Robert  beat 
by  K.  Henry,  and  taken  pri- 
soner 100,  101.  and  dies  in 
prison  101.  but  his  eyes  were 
not  (as  some  say  they  were) 
pluckt  out  101.  an  account 
of  him  from  John  Rastall's 
Chronicle  102.  his  ill  fate 
occasioned  by  his  declining 
to  be  King  of  Jerusalem  102, 
103.  See  William  Conq.  See 
William  Rufus 
Robert  the  first  Earl  of  Glou- 
cester 664 
Rodley  or  Radley  600 

Rolcombeshed  366 

RoUo  the  heathen  baptized  and 
named    Robert   24.    he  con. 
quers  Normandy  25 
Eootiloft  what  ?  544 

Rosamond     (the    wencti)     139, 
140,   676.  Account  of  a  fine 
Picture  of  her  561 
Rosewell  (John)  687,  688 

Rowyng  Lake  348 

Rumsey  Nunnery  S5 


Sacrilege  (Punishment  of)   123, 

124 
St.  John  (Sir  John)   concerning 

the  taking  of  him  at  Belgrade 

288 
Sandford   near  Oxford,    the    I- 

mage   of   the   Assumption  of 

the  V.  Mary  found  there  in 

1723.  544 
/Scotland,    a   controversy  there 

who  should  be  King,   which 

is  decided  by  K.  Edward  249. 


Concerning  the  Union  of 
England  and  Scotland  282 
Scots  their  falseness  132,  303. 
they  submit  to  K.  Henry  II. 
134.  They  do  homage  to  K. 
Richard,  and  enter  into  Ar- 
ticles thereupon  138.  another 
agreement  between  them  and 
K.  Richard  ibid.  The  Scots 
rebell  upon  K.  Edward's  go- 
ing into  Flanders  297.  and 
commit  odd  disorders  298, 
299.  they  are  in  a  conster- 
nation upon  news  of  K.  Ed- 
ward's assistance  from  the 
Clergy  and  Barons  300.  they 
are  vanquished  in  a  great  bat- 
tle at  Foukirk  304. 
Segrave  (Sir  John)  his  flight  or 
cowardice,  and  of  the  Slaugh- 
ter thereupon  that  was  made 
by  the  Scots  of  the  English 
319 
Sempyngham  208,  243.  the 
original  of  the  Order  of 
Sempyngham  111 
Senynhamp  tondenyce  362 

Shapwyke  360,  364,  365 

Sharpham  344,  345 

Sheldon        533,  606,  627,  650, 

670 
Shirburne  20,  21,  121 

Short (Jack)  329 

Shortwood  369 

Shottesbrooke  601 

Sibriht  (K.)  9 

Sixille  243 

Skelton  (John)    605,  684,  685, 

686,  687 
Slacke's  (John)  Account  of  the 
Hospital  of  St.  Mary  Magda. 
len 


710 


INDEX. 


left  near  Scroby  in  Netting- 
hamshire  389 
Snotingaham  33 

Snowdoun    240.      The  destru- 
ction of  the  English  by  Welsh- 
men    at    Snowdoun    bridge 
241 
South-Aillington  520 

Southampton  38j  39,  51 

Southwoode  357 

Sowthbrent  360,  361 

Sowye  362 

Soye  364,  365 

Spark  (Noel)  687 

Spek  (Walter)  114 

Spenser  (Sir  Hugh)  332 

Stafford  33 

Stamford  33 

Stanford  bridge  67 

Statin,  steward  to  the  emperor 
Isaac,  looses  his  nose ;  and 
how?  165,  166.  he  is  Cour- 
teously received  by  Richard  K. 
of  England  166 
Stephen  crowned  King  of  Eng- 
land 110.  though  he  had  no 
right  to  it  ibid,  his  Oath  at 
Oxford  ibid,  he  hath  a  con- 
troversy with  the  Scottish 
King    111.   he   is   tyrannical 

112.  and  is  perjured  ibid. 
goes  beyond  Sea  ibid,  his 
Son  Eustace  is  made  Duke  of 
Normandy  ibid.  K.  Stephen 
comes  io  England,  and  be- 
sieges Bedford  and   takes   it 

113.  goes  to  Scotland  against 
K.  David,  but  is  obliged  to 
return,  and  goes  to  Wales 
ibid,  sets  up  his  standard  at 
Hereford  113.   takos  PristoU 


castle  and  several  other  places 
ibid,  goes  to  Winchester iftzrf. 
a  great  victory  obtained  for 
him  over  David  King  of  Scot, 
land  117,  118.  he  goes  into 
Scotland  and  takes  K.  Da. 
vid  Prisoner  118.  and  sends 
him  with  his  Son  Henry  into 
England  ibid.  K.  Stephen's 
Son  Eustace  marries  the 
Daughter  of  Lewys  K.  of 
France  ibid,  his  Anger  to- 
wards Alexander  Bishop  of 
Lincoln  ibid,  he  besieges  the 
Empress  Maud  in  Arundel 
Castel  118,  119.  he  finds  the 
Empress  a  most  couragious 
warlike  Enemy  119,  120.  he 
is  taken  by  her  and  impri- 
soned at  Bristol  120.  he 
escapes  out  of  Prison  121. 
be  goes  to  Wilton,  and 
builds  a  strong  Fort  there 
ibid,  goes  to  Northampton 
ibid,  thence  to  Oxford,  and 
besieges  the  Empress  in  the 
Castle  there  ibid.  A  Decree 
in  his  time  by  the  Pope's 
care  in  behalf  of  the  Clergy 
ibid,  his  hatred  to  Sir  Hugh 
Bigod  124.  and  to  Ralf  earl 
of  Chester  ibid,  keeps  his 
Christmass  at  Lincoln  125. 
the  agreement  between  him 
and  Henry  fitz  Empress  126. 
K.  Stephen's  Death  127.  he 
is  buried  at  Feversham  ibid. 

Stigand     (Archbishop)     depri- 
ved 73 

Stone-henge  (A  Discourse  con- 
cerning) 481 

f)tian^f 


INDEX. 


711 


^txmat  {S>it  Eogei  t^t) 

242 

Twyne  (Mr.)                595,  683 

Strete                               360 

1,  365 

Tyrrel  (Walter)                 93,  94 

Strivelyn   (the  battle  vf) 

297. 

Strivelyn  besieged  and  i 
326 

Sturmesture  Newton 

taken 

U 

370 

Vescy  (Lord)                         22& 

Sturrayster  Common 

367 

Vescy's   (Sir  John)  success  a. 

Styvely  Wood 

347 

gainst  the  Welsh  242 

«)U2ne0ijeueli 

212 

Vices  (Examples  of)  which  ex- 

Swane K.  of  Denmark  assisted 

tinguish  the  Grace  of   God 

by  K.  Edw.  the  Confessor  57. 

28 

See  Eilred. 

Virgat  what  ?                         600 
Umfreyylle  (Sir  Ingram)  333, 

T 

334 

Vortigern  (K.)  his  amours  with 

Tame 

14 

Roxena  662 

Tanner  (Dr.] 

84 

Uplyme                                  36ft 

Taylor  (Francis) 

617 

Uttred  (K.)                                8 

Tenkere  (castle  of) 

100 

Terwenne 

81 

W 

Teukesbiri  13,  664 

Thetford  27 

Thornham   vel  Turnham    (Ro- 
bert oQ  164,  168,  169.    See 
Richard  I. 
Thuenge    (Marmeduk  de)    his 
courage  298.  the  Treachery 
of  the  Scots  towards  him  300 
Thurstan  (archbishop)  114,  115 
Tilneys      (several     remarkable 
Notes  relating  to  the  Family 
of  the)  671,  672,  673,  674, 
675. 
Toghalle  77 

Tostus    of    Cumberland,     con- 
cerning him  65 
Trailebaston,  concerning  it  327 
Turbevile  (Thomas)    his    trea- 
chery 267.    his    punishment 
270 
Turuhara.    See  Thornham. 


Wales  (tribute  of)  in  the  time 
of  K.  Athelstan  28 

Walker  (Clem.)  534 

Wallace  (John)  taken  and  exe- 
cuted 338 

Wallace  (William)  297,  Sfc. 
he  seeks  for  a  compositioa 
with  K.  Edward,  but  in  vain 
324.  his  hatred  to  the  En- 
glish 339.  he  is  taken  329. 
and  executed  ibid. 

Wallingford  43,  122.  Walling, 
ford  Castle  600,  603.  The 
bigness  of  Wallingford  for- 
merly 600,  603 

Wallis  533 

Waltham  (Abbot's  or  White) 
in  Berks  601,  602.  A  Terrier 
of  the  Vicaridge  there  658 

Waltham  (Laurence)  in  Berks, 
602. 


71^ 


INDEX. 


602.     an  Account   of    some 

Antiquities    found    in   Wey- 

cock  field  in  that  Parish    519 

Walton  360 

Ward  (Thomas)  of  Longbridge 

nearWarwick,  Esq;  521,  526, 

529,  531,  538,  548,  5  19,  585, 

588,  598,  614,  617,  620,  625, 

635,  649,  651;  664,  678,  681, 

682 

Warenne  (Earl  of)  marries  the 

Earl's  Daughter  of  Baar  332 

Warenne    (Sir   John  of)   297, 

327 
Warhame  11,  13 

Warmeshaw  350 

Warnehall  369 

Weaster  Moncktou  or  Weast- 

monckton  362 
Welsh   pay  homage   to  K.  Eg- 

briht  15 

Wencilian.     See  Lculyn. 

West  (James)       441,  483,  550 

Westbye  Wood  347 

Westmynster  37,  51,  53.  St.  Pe. 

fer's  Westminster  built  by  K. 

Edw.  Conf.  65.  Wt'sfminster 

Hall    built    by    K.    William 

Kufus    89.    and    repair'd   by 

Rich.  II.  ibid.   The  Statutes 

of  Westmynster  237 

Westmonckton  364 

W^eston  348,  363 

Weston  Moore  348 

Westpenard  362 

Westwood  355 

Weycock   field   (in    the   Parish 

of     Laurence-Waltham)     in 

Berks,    an   account  of  some 

Antiquities  there  519 

Whileleigh  362 


Whitestone  362" 

Wicomb  14 

William  of  Malmesbury  cited 

25,  82 
William  Duke  of  Normandy  en- 
tertains Edward  Son  of  K.  E- 
thelred  52.  comes  into  Eng- 
land to  St.  Edward  the  Confes- 
sor 59.  The  reason  of  William 
Duke  of  Normandy's  inva- 
ding England  68.  at  his 
Landing  he  stumbles  70.  the 
battle  between  him  and  Ha- 
rold  ibid,  in  which  Harold  is 
slain  71.  after  which  the 
Duke  goes  to  London,  and 
meets  with  all  possible  Sue 
cess,  those  that  were  for  Ed- 
gar  Atheling  being  over- 
powered 72.  he  is  croAvned 
King  73.  the  wickedness  of 
the  Clergy  at  that  time  ibid. 
he  goes  to  Normandy  ibid. 
and  his  Queen  with  him  ibid. 
they  both  return  to  England 
ibid,  and  his  Queen  is  crown- 
ed ibid,  he  is  disturbed  by 
Edmund  and  Edwyn,  Sons  of 
Harold  of  Kent  ibid,  he  goes 
to  Durham  and  makes  ha- 
vock  there  74.  the  Danes  and 
others  come  against  him  in 
great  numbers,  but  peace  be- 
ing made  between  the  K.  and' 
them,  they  retire  again  74, 
75.  his  wickedness,  and  the 
miseries  for  nine  years  in  his' 
time  75,  76.  he  abates  his' 
cruelty  78.  he  goes  into  the 
North  of  England,  quells  his 
^  ,lcolm" 
K.  of 


INDEX, 


7J3 


K,  (Jf  Scotland  prisoner  79. 
he  comes  to  Durham,  and 
visits  St.  Cuthbert's  Shrine 
ibid,  and  builds  the  castle  of 
Durham,  and  incloses  St. 
Cuthbert's  Church  with  a 
•wall  ibid,  he  goes  to^York  80. 
and  keeps  his  Whitsontide 
there  ibid,  and  thence  goes 
to  London,  and  does  ju- 
stice there  ibid,  sails  over  into 
France,  and  comes  to  the 
Parliament  at  Paris  81.  con- 
quers several  places  there  ibid. 
goes  towards  Normandy  ibid. 
holds  his  Parliament  every 
year  at  Winchester  82.  severe 
upon  those  that  kiU'd  Wal- 
ter Bishop  of  Durham  ibid. 
goes  to  Alverton  ibid.  Avhere 
he  is  warned  of  treason  from 
Malcolm  K.  of  Scotland  83. 
orders  his  Sou  Robert  to  en- 
quire about  it  ibid,  surveys 
the  Nation  ibid,  gives  Nor- 
mandy to  his  Son  Robert 
ibid,  and  England  to  his  Son 
William  ibid,  and  Wales  ifc. 
to  his  Son  Henry  ibid,  his 
daughter  SDe  married  to  the 
earl  of  ©Icsance  ibid,  by 
.whom  she  hath  Steven,  who 
was  afterwards  K.  of  Eugland 
ibid,  his  Daughter  Constance 
married  to  aiapn  earl  of  Bri- 
tain ibid.  K.  W  illiam  dies  at 
iSamc  84,  and  is  there  bu- 
ried in  the  Church  that  he 
had  founded  ibid,  he  built 
Battle  Abbey  ibid,  and  Ber- 
mondsey  Abl)ev  ibid,  and  se- 


veral other  Abbies  84,  85. 
William  Rufus  crowned  King 
of  England  85.  but  finds 
many  Enemies  upon  account 
of  his  eldest  Brother,  who 
was  the  rightfuU  heir  by  birth 
ibid,  he  thereupon  applys  to 
the  K.  of  France  ibid,  and  an 
agreement  is  made  between 
the  two  brothers  86.  he  and 
his  brother  Robert  go  to- 
Avards  Scotland,  and  the 
Scottish  King  Malcolm  sub- 
mits and  does  Homage  to  K. 
AVilliam  88.  a  great  wind  in 
his  time  ibid,  he  builds  West- 
minster Hall  88,  89.  goes 
to  Wales,  and  subdues  the 
Welsh  ibid,  and  lays  out  much 
money  upon  the  Tower  of 
London  89.  his  brother  Ro- 
bert takes  leave  of  him,  and 
g/)es  to  Normandy  ibid.  This 
K.  William  is  a  very  covetous 
ill  man  ibid,  assists  such  Scots 
as  stood  to  their  rightfull 
King  Dunkan  90.  for  which 
the  said  Scots  do  him  ho- 
mage, and  promise  to  hold 
of  England  for  the  future 
ibid,  but  the  rest  stick  to 
Dufnald,  slay  Dunkan,  and 
shake  off"  William's  power  91. 
the  difference  between  K. 
William  and  Robert  Mou- 
l)ray  ibid.  K.  William  goes 
again  to  Wales,  and  makes 
a  terrible  slaughter  there  ibid. 
goes  to  York  ibid,  and  assists 
Edgar  Son  of  Malcolm  in 
gaining  the  Crown  of  Scot, 
land, 


714 


INDEX. 


land,  for  which  Homage  is 
done  by  Edgar,  and  future 
Allegiance  promised  to  Wil- 
liam and  his  Heirs  ibid.  K. 
William's  ingratitude  ibid,  he 
makes  the  New  Poorest  near 
Winchester  as  some  say,  tho' 
others  say  it  was  Windsor 
Forest  92,  93.  he  is  slain  by 
Walter  Tyrrel  93.  and  is  bu- 
ried  at  Winchester  tho'  some 
say  at  Westminster  ibid,  and 
94.  his  dream  before  his 
death  93.  which  he  reveals 
to  Ode  Bishop  of  Winche- 
ster, who  advises  him  there- 
upon 94 

William  K.  of  Jerusalem  140, 
141 

William  K.  of  Scots  taken  pri- 
soner 132.  does  homage  to 
K.  Richard  I.  137,  138.  the 
Articles  upon  that  occasion 

138.  as  likewise  afterwards 
upon    account  of    a    breach 

139.  he  does  homage  at 
Canterbury  to  the  said  K. 
Richard  145.  an  agreement 
between  the  two  Kings  what 
was  to  be  done  for  the  future 
in  that  case  146.  William  K. 
of  Scotland  does  Homage  to 
John  King  of  England  208. 


his  Daughter  espoused  to  the 

Earlof  BoloyQ210 
Wilton  39,  121 

Winchester  10,  19,  20,  21,  26, 

28,  34,  42,  56,  57,  82,  93.  A 

castle  built  at  Winchester  96 
Windsor  Forest  92,  93 

Windsore  (Miles)  595 

Withes  361 

Wolcombes  Downe  366 

WoUerton  (Robert  of)  223 

Wolsey  550,  642,  685.  his  death 

532 
Wood    (Anth.    a)    666,    667, 

687 
Wren  (Bishop)  535 

Wrington  349,   362,   364,  386 
Wyatt  the  elder  (Sir  Thomas) 

641 
Wykemarshe  369 

Wyndforde  370 

Wynne  a  nun  at  Sempyngham 

243 
Wynscombe  364 

Wynterborne  376 

Wyrrall  344,  345 


York  75.  siege  there  76.  The 
abbey  of  St.  Marie's  at  York 
built  81.  Parliament  at  York 
301. 


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The  following  Additions  and  Corrections  to  Peter 
Langtoft's  Chronicle  were  appended  ht/  Hearne  to 
three  of  his  later  Publications. 

*'  Pag.  423.  1.  ult.  Reversion]  So  'tis  in  the  MS. 
But  it  sbould  be  rather,  Revival  or  Revivor.  P.  476. 
1.  8.  Down  the  ships]  For  down  to  the  ships.  P.  478. 
1. 11.  Burneing]  Potius,  hrenning.  P.  489. 1.  antepenult. 
Kingsmead  may  be  added.  P.  490.  not.  3.  antea  fuerint : 
Ovid.  Met.  lib.  1"^°.  P.  501.  1.  12.  Chase:]  for  chief. 
P.  514.  1.  23.  Noscuntur,]  L.  nascuntur.'' 

Johannis  Cenfratris  Sf  Monachi  Glastoniensis  Chronica, 
2  vol.  8°.  Oxon.  1726. 

*'  N.  B.  In  pag.  248.  of  this  Work  is  a  short  account 
ef  the  taking  of  Aeon  or  Acres  from  the  Christians  by 
the  Saracens  in  the  year  1292,  upon  occasion  of  which 
I  shall  here  beg  leave  to  publish  a  Letter  of  Soldon  Em- 
perour  of  the  Turks  directed  to  a  Christian  King,  as  it 
was  transcribed  and  sent  to  me  from  the  Register  of 
John  de  Pontissera  Bishop  of  Winchester  by  my  learned 
friend  the  Reverend  Mr.  Richard  Furney,  Archdeacon 
of  Surrey.  'Tis  a  Curiosity,  and  as  it  pleased  me,  so 
I  believe  it  may  not  be  displeasing  to  curious  Readers. 

«  E  Registro  Johannis  de  Pontissera  Episcopi  Winton. 
Fol.  122. 

"  Tenor  Literarum  Soldani^  translatarum  in  Latinum^ 
"  director um  cuidam  Regi  Christiano,  et  postmodum  ad 
*'  Romanam  Curiam,  talis  est : 

*  Nos  Soldanus  Malet,  magnus  dominus,  sapiens,  rec- 

*  tus,  fortis,  potens,  sollicitus,  bonus  seculo  et  fidei  Sol- 

*  danus  Saracenorum  perfectorum,  salvandorum  visitator, 

*  juris    faciens    justitiam    oppressis,    de    opprimentibus 
'  ffidificator  dominationis,  Soldanus  Arabura,  Turcorura, 


Persarum,  conquisUor  Terrarum  et  provinciarura  de- 
bellator,  victor  cxercituum  Francorum,  Armeniorum  et 
Tartaroriim,  Rex  et  dominator  in  gemino  et  geminis 
maris,  Dominus  duarum  adorationunij  scilicet  Orientis 
et  Meridiei,  Servus  duarum  grandium  domorum  Meche 
et  Jerusalem,  Dominus  Regum  &  Soldanorum,  Parti- 
cipatio  Amiralii  fidelium,  filins  Soldani  Malet  Monso- 
riensis  fidei  talaon  Salachii,  In  Nomine  Dei  Misericordis 
Nobili  et  honorabili  sapienti  Leoni  Haiconi  de  Stirpe 
Christi,  gloria  nationis  crucis,  lumen  sequetitium  Ihesumj 
amicum  Regum  et  Soldanorum  faciat  te  Deus  qui  pro- 
videt  de  futuris  in  prffiterilis  et  pr.-esentibus  per  ex- 
emplum,  et  uniat  te  cum  obedientibus  private  et  mani- 
teste,  qui  recepit  in  propria  persona  cum  palientia  tri- 
bulationem  emergentem  supra  suam  nationem,  ex  quo 
viam  invenire  non  potuit  resistendi,  facimus  vobis 
notum,  quod  Civitatem  Aconen :  quae  erat  sedes  fidei 
crucis,  conquisivimus,  earn  in  tam  paucis  diebus  obse- 
dimus,  quod  milites  cum  omni  sua  potentia  earn  de- 
fendere  non  valebant,  nee  resistcre  multitudini  exercitus 
obsidentis,  et  cum  sustinere  nequiverunt  propter  mul- 
titudinem  occisorum,  quanlumcunque  norainati  essent 
et  landati  milites,  una  brevi  Iiora  diei  omncs  a  nobis 
ferrati  fuerunt  et  compediti.  Omnes  Milites  Hospital : 
noster  consumpsit  vibrans  ensis.  Templarii  Civitatem 
Aconen  :  prodiderunt  et  fratres  terrani  perdere  dubi- 
tantes,  set  nee  sic  ruinae  eventum  evaserunt.  Consump- 
to  totaliter  Hospital!  Alamanorum,  Ecclesias  omnes  ter- 
ras coacquavimus,  super  altaribus  trucidatis  qui  popu- 
lum  ad  obedientiam  ipsorum  inducebant :  Patriarcha 
finali  supplicio  liberato,  copiam  aurorum  credere  non 
possetis  qui  ad  manus  hominum  devenerunt.  Tanta 
fuit  Dominarum  multitudo,  quod  una  pro  drag- 
ma  vendebatur.  Civitate  conversa  in  agriculturam  et 
desertum,  Illius  civitatis  notorius  est  conqucstus,  et  ex 
prassentium  literariim  nostrarum  exhibitione  scire  pote- 
ritis,  quomodo  niortuorum  corpora  balistariis  coagquan- 
tur,  ignem  supponentes  mortuorum  corponbus  in  pul- 
verem  sunt  redacta.  Ex  armamentis  fieri  fecimus  com- 
pedes  pro  pedibus.  Qui  vivi  nobiscum  remanscrunt 
Comites  et  Barones,  qui  signa  super  eorum  capita  por- 
tare  consueverant,  ligatis  pedibus  et  manibus  nostris 
carceribus  mancipantur.  Et  tu  Rex  si  teipsum  castiga- 
veris  per  hujus  rei  eventura,  qui  super  civitatem  Aeon 


per  nos  subito  &  potenter  evenit,  salvus  eris  ;  quod  sL 
non  feceris,  super  te  dicetur  quod  dicitur,  super  eis 
peribis  tu  et  terra  tua,  sicut  ipsi  per  ensem  nostrum 
perier.int.  Et  si  coghoveris  eventum  corum  quae  acci- 
derunt,  erit  tibi  ad  profectum,  et  venias  personaliter 
cum  cioiiis  tuis  et  tributo  duorum  annorum  ad  altitudi- 
nem  portarum  nostrarum,  sicut  homo  qui  vult  salutem 
persona;  proprias  et  terrre  sure,  et  qui  vtUt  subterfiigere 
robur  potentiae  tanti  regis,  et  dicere  poleris,  quod  post 
dcs  lationem  Aeon  talis  victor,  sicut  nos  su  iius,  non 
reraansit.  Idcirco  cogita  de  teipso,  &  cito  labora  ante- 
quani  in  Muscipulam  nostram  cadas.' 

Adami  de  Domerham  Hisioria  de  Rebus  Gestis  Glaston, 
2  vol.  8°.  Oxon.  172T. 

"  N.  B.  In  p.  615.  of  my  Glossary  to  this  Work, 
J  have  taken  notice  of  lying  Bale's  Book  about  Sir  John 
Oldecastefl,  which  being  printed  after  a  very  particular 
manner  in  the  black  Letter  [agreeable  to  the  black  Cha- 
racter of  its  Author)  by  Anthony  Scoloker  and  Wyllyam 
Seres^  hath  oeeasion'd  some,  that  are  curious  after  Books 
printed  in  the  black  Letter,  to  give  great  Bates  for  it, 
otherwise  'tis  but  a  Trifle,  and  is  taken  into  John  Fox^s 
Acts  and  Blonuments,  particularly  into  the  first  Edition 
thereof,  p.  261.  col.  fl." 

Historia  Vitec  et  Regni  Ricardi  II.  AngUcE  Regis, 
8vo.  Oxon.  1729, 


To  these  may  he  added  two  or  three  Notes  from  the 
copy  of  Peter  Langtofts  Chronicle  foinnerly  belong- 
ing  to  John  Loveday  Esqr.  of  Caversham  near 
Beading :  a  friend  and  contemporary  of  Hearrw. 

"  Pref.  p.  xliii.  Gidding]  See  Papers  relating  to  the 
Protestant  Nunnery  of  Little  Gidding  ;  and  some  Histo- 
rical Notes  about  the  Ferrars,  particularly  Mr.  Nich. 
Ferrar,  at  tlic  end  of  Caii  Vindiciae  Antiq.  Acad.  Oxon. 


p.  clxii.  Mi\  Theodore  Hank.']  Haak,  v.  Birch's 
Life  of  R.  Boyle,  p.  53.     Ath.  Ox.  II.  845. 

P.  343.  The  Certificat  of  Richard  Pollard  and  Thomas 
Mojle.]  Publish'd  from  the  Copy  of  the  Original  in  the 
hands  of  Mr.  Gray  of  Colchester.  See  the  Apparatus  to 
Caij  Vindiciae  Antiq.  Acad.  Oxon.  p.  xcvii. 

P.  533.  1.  13.  2uod  (the  same  with  quoth).']  Hearne 
saw  the  following  inscription  over  the  door  of  the  par- 
sonage house  at  Chewstoke  in  Somersetshire  in  1729. 

"  A  diTo  factu  est  Istud  quod  Barry  in  anno  dni  1529." 

■ note.     For  Britannia  L.  Britannicce. 

P.  538.  notes.  L.  28.40.  113. 

P.  645.  A  hrefe  Chronycle  &c.]  It  was  republished 
at  London  by  Mr.  Blackbourne,  in  1729,  with  an  Ap- 
pendix. 

P.  670. 1.  11.  imdarne.]  Dr.  Hickes  gives  another  very 
expressive  proof  of  what  we  contend  for,  in  his  MSS.  Addi- 
tions to  Soraner's  Saxon  Dictionary,  in  the  Earl  of  Ox- 
ford's Library.  The  words  are  Unbejimj-  bajej-  ]?pibbe  tib. 
Cod.  MS.  Can.  et  Const.  Eccl.  in  Rubrica  de  Officiis, 
Cap.  28.  See  the  Glossary  to  Urry's  Chaucer,  the 
author  of  which  nevertheless  says  that  it  is  still  us'd  as 
the  Afternoon^  the  Evening,  in  some  parts  of  England, 
and  may  be  so  understood  in  Chaucer." 

For  the  permission  to  transcribe  these  last 
Notes  the  Editor  is  indebted  to  ■  Loveday, 

Esq.  of  Williamscot,  in   Oxfordshire,    through 
the  medium  of  Mr.  Archdeacon  Churton.
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