A chronicle of London, from 1089 to 1483; written in the fifteenth century, and for the first time printed from mss. in the British museum: to which are added numerous contemporary illustrations, consisting of royal letters, poems, and other articles descriptive of public events, or of the manners and customs of the metropolis.

Id'm maior. Rauf Blount. Hub't Botevyle.

Anno xj^mo.

In this yere the kyng with a gret oost wente into Walys and

remeved and brak the sege of the castell of Flynt and Rothelan. And in this yere in the iij idus of Decembre, Thlewelyn prince [Prynce of Walys sclayn.] of Walys was sclayn, and his hed smyten of be S^r. Edmond Mortymer, and sente it to the kyng, whiche that tyme lay at Rothelan; and the kyng sente it to London, and comaunded that it schulde be sett upon the tour of London. And that said prynce of Walys before or he was sclayn, come into the landes of the forsaid S^r. Edmond Mortymer, and occupied manye of hise lordschippes, wherfore the said S^r. Edmond manly with meyne fillen on hym as it is before seyd. And it was seid that yif the forseid prince hadde lyved too dayes longere than he dede, alle the Walssh tonge hadde holly ben enclyned to hym. And in this yere, on seynt Leonard day, S^r. Roger Clyfford the yonger was droughned betwen Snowdon and Englessey, and manye othere also, whiche because there myghte nought abyde the comynge of the Walsshe men, unwysly, withoughten hors, passed the bregge of Penbroke [["Devy" in the Cotton MS.]] . Also in this yere deide seynt Thomas the bysshop of Hereford, whiche was called Thomas [S'cus Thom' Hereford' ep'us obiit.] Cantel'. After hos disses succedyd into the bysshopriche, Richard of Swynfeld.