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.

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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.
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[London]: Printed for the Camden society,
1856.
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"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." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/ACV5981.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 25, 2025.

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Anno primo. A.D.1413.

AFTIR the deth of king Harri the iiijthe, regned his sone king Harri the V, that was ybore at Monemouth in Walis, and [[Reign began March 21st.]] crouned at Westmynstre on Passion Sunday. [[April 9th].]

And anon, the firste yeer of his regne, for the grete and tendre loue that he hadde to king Richard, he translatid his body fro Langley vnto Westmynstre, and buried him beside quene Anne his firste wiff, as his desire was.

And this same yeer were ytake certayn Lollardes and hereticks, [Insurreccio Lol|lardorum.] that hadde purposid thorough their fals tresoun to haue slayn the [[January, A.D.1414.]] kyng and the lordis spirituel and temporel, and destroid al the clergie of the reme: but the king, as God wolde, was warned of their fals purpos and ordenaunce, and took the feld that is callid Fikettis feld, and with him maister Thomas Arundel Archebisshoppe of Cauntirbury, and leet keep the weieȝ aboute Londoun. And meny of thaym were take, and drawe and hanged and brent on the galoweȝ in saint Gileȝ feld. And a knyȝt callid ser Roger of [[February 10th.]] Acton was take for Lollardrie and for treson, and drawe and hanged and brent in saint Gileȝ feld.

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