The Brut, or The chronicles of England. Edited from Ms. Raw. B171, Bodleian Library, &c., by Friedrich W. D. Brie, with introduction, notes, and glossary ...

How þe king of Englond, Henry þe v^te, was made heritier & Regent of Fraunce, & how he weddid Quene Katerine. ca. ccxlv.

Anone after þat Rone was goten, Depe, & many other townes in baas Normandie yafe þeme ouer with-out stroke or siege, when þei vnderstode þat þe Kyng had goten Rone. Also þis same yere had bene A pees made & sworen bitwen þe Duke of Burgoyne & þe Dolphyn, which wer sworne vpon our Lordes body þat þei shold love & Assist eche other ayenst þer enmyse. [Addit. MS., Brit. Mus. 10,099 181b] And after þis, contrary to þis othe, þe Duke Iohn of Burgoyn was slayn & pitousely murthred in presence of þe Dolphyn; wherfor þe Frensh men were gretly devided, & of veray necessite labored to haue A traitie with þe King of Englond, ffor þe King of Englond wan dayly of þame, townes, casteles & fortresses. Also þis same yere was Quene Iane Arested & brought to þe Castel of Ledys in Kent, and one, frere Randolf, A doctour of Divinitie, hir confessor, which afterward was slayn by þe person of þe Tour falling at wardes & debate. And after Quene Iane was delyuered, In þe vij^te yeer, bothe þe kinges of Englond & of Fraunce were Accorded; & Kynge Henry was made Heir & Regent of France, & wedded dame Kateryn, þe Kyng of Fraunce Doughter, at Troyes in Champayn, on Trinite Sonday. And þis was made bi þe mean of Philipp, newly made Duke of Burgoyn, which was sworn to King Henry for tavenge his fadre deth, & was become Englissh. And þan þe King, with his new wife, went to Paris, wher he was rially receyved. And fro thens he, with his lordes & þe Duke of Burgoyn, & many other lordes of Fraunce, laid seige to diuerse

townes & Castels þat held of þe Dolphyns part, & wan þam; bot þe town of Melun held long, for þer-in was gode defenders.

In þe viij yere of his regn, þe King & Quene came ouer þe see, & landed on Candelmasse day in þe morow, at Dover; and [the] xiiij day of Feueryere, þe King com to London; & þe xxi day of þe same moneth þe Quene come thider; And þe xxiiij day of the same, she was crowned at Westmynster. Also þe same yeer, Anon after Ester, þe King held a parlement at Westmynster, at which it was ordeyned þat þe gold in Englissh coygne shuld be weyed, & none receyved but by weght. And Anone after Wittsontyde, þe King sayled to Caleys, & so forth passed in-to Fraunce. And in Marche, þe xxij day, before þe King come ouer, þe Duke of Clarence was slayn in Fraunce, diuerse other lordes take prisoners, as þerl of Huntyngdon, þerle of Somersett, with diuerse other: & al was because þei wold not take Archers with þam, bot thought to haue do with þe Frenshmen þer self, without [Addit. MS., Brit. Mus. 10,099 182a] thame. And yett, when he was slayn, þe Archiers come & rescued þe body of þe Duke, which þei wold have caried with þame: God haue mercy of his soul; for he was A valiant man! And þe same yeer, bitwene Cristemas & Candelmas, þe town of Melun was yholden to þe Kynge.

In þe ix yere of his regn vpon saynt Nicholas Day in December, was borne Henry, þe Kynges first begoten son at Windesore, whose god-fadres at fount-stone was Henry, Bisshop of Wynchestre, & Iohn, Duke of Bedford; & þe Duches of Holande was god-moder; And Henry Chicheley, Erchebisshop of Canterbury, was god-fader at confirmyng. And in þe x yere of his regn, þe Cite of Mewes, in Brie, was goten, which hadd bene longe besegied. And þis same yeer þe Queen shipped at Hampton, and sayled ouer to þe King in Fraunce, wher she was worsshypfully receyved of þe King, & also of þe Kynge of Fraunce, hir fadir, & of hir modir. And thus Kinge Henry wan

fast in Fraunce, & held gret Astate, & satte at Dyner at A gret feste in Parys, crowned, & þe Queen also, which had nat ben seen to-fore; And al peple resorted vnto his court. But as for þe Kyng of Fraunce, he held none Astate ne reule, but was left almoste Allone.

Also þis yeer þe weder-cokk was sett vpon Poules staple at London. And þis yeer, in þe moneth of Auguste, þe Kyng wex sike at Boys de Vincent. And when he saw he shold dye, he made his testament, and ordeyned many thinges nobley for his soul, And Devoutly receyved al þe rightes of holy churche, in so fer-forth, þat whan he was enoynted, he said þe seruice with þe preste; And at þe verse of þe psalme 'Miserere mei deus' þat was "Benigne fac dunc in bona voluntate tua, Syon, ut edificentur muri Ierusalem," he bad tarie þer, and said þus: "O good Lorde, þou knowest þat myne entent hath bene, & yet is, if I might lyve, to reedify þe walles of Ierusalem." & þen þe preest proceded forth, & made An end; & Anone aftre, þis moste noble prince & victoriouse kynge, flour in his tym of Cristen chiualrie, whom al þe world dovpted, gaf his soul in-to þe handes of God, & died, & made An end of his naturel lif, at þe said Bois de Vincent beside [Addit. MS., Brit. Mus. 10,099 182b] Parys, þe xxxvj yere of his Age: on whose soul, God haue mercy! Þan was þe body enbawmed & cered, & laid in A rial chare, & an ymage like unto him was leyd vpon þe corps, open, with diuerse baners & horse couered rychely with Armes of Englond & Fraunce, and also tholde Armes of seynt Edwardes, seynt Edmond, & oþer, And with gret multitude of torches; with whome went þe Kyng of Scotland, & many oþer lordes, which accompayned þe body til it come to Westmynster, bi London, in Englond. And in euery town by þe way he had solempny his Dirige on þe evyn, & masse on þe morne; & moche Almesse was giffen to þe pore peple bi þe way. And þe vijte day of Nouembre after, þe corps was brought to London with gret reuerence & solempnice, & had to Westmynster, wher he now lieth: it was

worshipfully buried; & after, was leyd on his tumbe A rial ymage like to him-self, of siluer & gylt, which was made at þe cost of Quene Katerine. And thus ended, & was enteired & buried, þe noble King Henry þe Fyft: on whose soul, God have mercy!