The chronicle of Iohn Hardyng. Containing an account of public transactions from the earliest period of English history to the beginning of the reign of King Edward the Fourth. Together with the continuation by Richard Grafton, to the thirty fourth year of King Henry the Eighth. The former part collated with two manuscripts of the author's own time; the last, with Grafton's duplicate edition. To which are added a biographical and literary preface, and an index, by Henry Ellis.

The. C.lxviii. Chapiter.

¶ Howe syr Robert Vmfreuile, earle of Angeou, and syr Aymer Valence earle of Pēbroke discomfyted kyng Robert Bruys, besyde saynte Iohns towne, and put hym vnto the flyghte.

ON [And on.] the morowe [sir Robert erle] [erle Robert.] Vmfreuile, Of Angeous then, y^t regent was by North

The Scottes sea, and Aymer Valence y^e while Erle of Pēbroke, by South y^e water of Forth, [Wardayne was, of Scotlande forsoth, That daye faught with kyng Robert Bruis,] [Wardeyn wase & fought with kynge Robert Brouse.] Beside Iohnstoune, where he fled w^tout rescowes

¶ Vnto [the] Kentir, & many Scottes there slaine, Where then they toke the wyfe of kyng Robert, And his brother Nygell, the sothe to sayne, And the earle of Athels, myght not [a sterte,] [astarte.] And sent them to the kyng w^t full glad hert; Whome the kyng kepte after theyr estate, At London, well together consocyate.

¶ Henry Percy toke the brethren two Of kyng Robert, Alexaunder & Thomas [y^t] hight, To the Iustes them sent y^t hanged [honge.] were tho, His other brother at London hanged ryght; Kyng Roberte then sieged the Percy [full] wyght, But Vmfreuyle hym anon rescowed, And the syege from hym anone remoued [remued.] .

¶ Kyng Robert Bruys faught w^t Aimer Valēce, Earle of Penbroke, and put hym to the flyght At Methfen so, and slewe with violence All Englyshemen in batell there downe ryght, Therle of Gloucester, Gylbert Clare y^t hight, Thre dayes after he syeged hym in Are, But kyng Edward therle [then] rescowed thare.

¶ The king Edwarde w^t hoost hym sought full [aie.] sore, But ay he fled into woodes & strayte forest, And slewe his men at straytes & daungers thore, And at marreys and mires was ay full prest Englysh[men] to kyll without [withoutyn.] any rest; In the mountaynes & cragges he slewe ay where, And in [on.] the nyght his foes he frayde full sere [sore.] .

The king Edward w^t hornes & hoūdes him soght, [Fol. C.lxix.] With mēne on fote, through marris, mosse, & myre,

Through wodes also, & moūtēs [wher thei fought,] [as they thought.] And euer y^e kyng Edward hight men greate hyre, Hym for to take and by might conquere; But thei might hym not gette by force ne by train. He satte by the fyre when thei [they went.] in the rain.

¶ The kyng Edward for anger fell in accesse [axcesse.] , And homeward came full sycke and sore annoyed, And bade his soonne he should, for no distresse, No trewce take w^t Scottes that sore [so.] hym noyed, But werre theim aye to tyme thei were distroyed, For he saied thus, "Thou shalt neuer fynd theim trewe, But whiles thei bee in thy subieccion dewe."

¶ At Burgh vpon the sande he died anone, [The deathe of Edward the first.] And to London caried then daye by daye, At Westminster buried with muche mone, With quene Margarete he had thē soōnes tway Thomas Brotherton erle of Northfolke gay, And marshall of England, the other of Kent Edmond Wodstok was erle in all entent.

¶ This noble kyng died [in Iuly the third daye,] [on seint Thomas daie.] [And toward heauen he then tooke his waye,] [Of Caunterbury called the Translacion.] The yere of Christ a thousand sooth to saie, Three hundred whole, and seuen by calculacion, And of his reigne and coronacion Fiue and thirty, not fully whole [all.] complete, When he so went vnto the blisse so [full.] swete.