An English chronicle of the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI written before the year 1471; with an appendix, containing the 18th and 19th years of Richard II and the Parliament at Bury St. Edmund's, 25th Henry VI and supplementary additions from the Cotton. ms. chronicle called "Eulogium." Edited by John Silvester Davies.

Anno ij. A.D. 1378-9.

And the ij^de yeer of his regne began a debaat betuene the lord Latymer and ser Raaff fferers knyghte, and Johan Hawle and Richard Shakele squyers, for the erl of Dene, that was take prisoner in the bataille of Spayne, [The battle of Navaretta, fought between Najarra and Navaretta, in which Peter the Cruel, aided by the Black Prince, obtained a victory over his brother Henry and the French, and regained the Crown of Castile, A.D. 1367. The Earl of Denia, in Valen|cia, was among the prisoners.] be the said squiers; the whiche prisoner the lord Latymer and the said ser Raaf wolde haue had. And thay of Spayne sente to the king for delyueraunce of the said erl; but the

ij. squiers dredyng [See note at the end of the volume.] that thay sholde lese the raunsoun of thair prisoner, and wolde not brynge him forth atte kyngis commaunde|ment. Wherfore the kyng was wroth, and saide that thay hadde maad a prison in thair owen house withynne his reme ayens his wille and commaundement: and therfore he sente thaym to the tour of Londoun; and thay brak out therof and fledde to Westmynstre. And the constable of the tour and the said lord Latymer and ser Raaff fferrers wente to Westmynstre, and wolde haue brought thaym agayne, but thay made defens, and Hawle was slayn in the chirche atte gospel of the high masse, and anon the monkeȝ cesid of diuine seruiȝe; and meny sundaieȝ aftirward, the said personeȝ [fragment Aa] were denounced acursid, as brekers and defoulers of thair privilegis; and wolde not halow ne reconsile agayn thair chirche. The king sente meny tymeȝ be his writtes to the Abbot of Westmynstre, forto appere befor him, and forto cece of his cursyng, and that he sholde halowe agayn his chirche, and serve God therynne aftir the fundacion therof, and alle the mater sholde be broȝt to a good ende. But the abbot wolde not appere, ne cece of the castyng of the cen|suris of the chirche, for he saide that the chirche of Westmynstre was halowed be saint Petir be myrakille, and therfore it nedid not to be halowed of non othir manne, and shewde and broughte forth the cro|nicle how saint Petir halowed it, as folowethe . . . . .

endowed with meny possessiouns and privilegis. And whanne the [fragment Ab] tyme was come that the chirche sholde be halowed, and alle thyng was redy that was necessary to the solennite therof, Mellit, Bisshop of Londoun, lay in his tentis the nyȝt before the dedicacioun, and there was greet concours and multitude of peple, not onli for deuo|cion but also forto se the newe and unkid solennite. And the same nyghte, on the ferthir side of the Thamyse, saint Petir, in liknesse and in the habit of a pilgryme apperid to a fissher, and behighte

him for his trauail, to sette him ouer the watir; and whanne he was come ouer, he wente into the chirche, and anon sodenli the chirche was ful of heuenli lighte that made the nyghte as light and as cleer as the day. And with saint Petir . . . . .

Reme, and paide for hir xxij. m^l marc. Ther was offrid vnto him [folio 146a] the erlis douȝter of fflaundris, with whom he sholde haue had alle fflaundris, but he refusid hir, and aftirward the duke of Burgoyne weddid hir, and be hir he was erl of fflaundris.