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.lxxvii. Chapiter.

¶ Edwarde the thyrde, kynge of Englande and of Fraunce, beganne to reygne the yere a thousand thre hundreth twentye and syxe, and dyed the yere a thousande thre hundreth thre score and seuentene, and of his reygne one and fyftye yere.

EDward his sonne, y^e prince of Wales was than [Edward y^e thyrde.] In tender age that time of. xiii. yere, Was crowned on saint Brice day [&} begā, The yere of Christ was then accompted clere A thousande hole, thre. C. and syxe and. xx. were, Whose father then had reygned. xix. yere oute, And in his [twenty yere,] [yere tuenty.] withouten doute.

¶ [From the third daye of Iuly by computacyon, Of the yere, vnto sayncte Brycez daye,] [

Fro seynt Thomas daie the translacion Of Caunterbury vnto seynt Brice daie.

] So muche [in his] [ouer.] twenty by relacyon He reygned had, & then put downe for aye; From Kyllingworth to the castell of Berke[ley] By nyght he was caryed and translate, From wyfe and chylde forsake and repudyate,

Where he was slayne with an hote brenning spyt, [Fol. C.lxxvi.] Through his towayle [foundement.] vp to his herte within, In September, his bowelles brent for hete, That deed he was without [withoutyn.] noyse or dyn, On saynt Mathewes daye, so they dyd hym bren, The fyrste yere was [it] then [accompted & wonne,] [accounte and runne.] Of kyng Edward the third that was his sonne.

¶ At Gloucester entombed fayre and buryed, Where some say God shewed [sheweth.] for him [great] grace, Sith that tyme with miracles laudifyed Ofte tymes in dyuerse many [and many.] case, [As is wryten there in that same place;] For whiche kyng Richard, [called] the seconde, To translate hym was purposed hole and sounde [grounde.] .

¶ Sir Iames Douglas, in Englād w^t an hoste, Destroyed the lande, wherfore the kyng Edward, With Frenche, Henauldes, & Englysh for y^e moste, In myghty hoste & great, then came northward, The seconde yere of his reygne, to regarde Whome in Stanhope parke he besieged then That compted were of Scottes, ten. M. menne.

¶ By. xv. dayes that syege there endured; He helde them in they myght not passe [passen.] oute, But through a mosse, y^t all men trowed was sured, So depe of [a.] myre, and brode it was aboute, No siege was layde, for there they had no doute, [By which y^e Scottes cast them what so betyde, To escape awaye in the nyghtes tyde:] [

Ne no mystruste of no maner escape, More like to fooles than to the werly iape.

]

But Iames Douglas their flekes fell [many.] dyd make, Whiche ouer the mosse echeone at others ende He layde anon, with fagottes fell [seer.] ouer the lake, There gate awaye, and passage to pretende, On whiche by nyght they led their horse vnkend, And home they went to Scotlande harmelesse [than harmeles.] , Wherof the kyng was heuy there doutlesse.

¶ When they were ouer y^e quaking mosse & mire, They drewe the flekes ay after as they went, That Englyshe should not them sue ne conquere, This was a poynt of warre, full sapyent, But on our syde there was, by consequent, But [Full.] lytell wytte that lefte the [that.] myre vnwatched, And [For.] by good watch y^e Scottes myght haue be cached.

¶ And in the yere a thousande compted clere, Quene Isabell her doughter maryed, Dame [Iane of y^e towre] [Iohan of Toure.] to Dauid Bruis her pere, Kyng Robertes sonne, and heyre hole notifyed, At Berwyk towne, the seconde daye signifyed Of Iuill, and of kyng Edwarde then was thre, By cause of whiche the kynge in pryuite.