Here begynneth a shorte and abreue table on the Cronycles ...

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Here begynneth a shorte and abreue table on the Cronycles ...
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[Enprynted at Londo[n] :: In powlys chyrche yarde at the west dore of powlys besyde my lorde of londons palays by me Iulyan Notary,
In the yere of our lorde god. M.CCCCC.xv. [1515]]
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¶Of kynge Rycharde yt conquered ayen al the holy londe / yt the crysten men had loste.

ANd after this kyng Henry regned Ry¦charde his sone a stowte man & a stron¦ge

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& a worthy / & also bolde. And he was crow¦ned at westmestre of the Archebysshop Balde¦wyn the thyrde daye of Septembre. ¶And in the seconde yere of his regne / kyng Rycharde hymself and Baldewyn the Archebysshop of Caunterbury / and Hubert bysshop of Salys¦bury / and Radulf erle of Glocetre / and other many lordes of Englonde / went in to the holy londe / And in that vyage deyed the Archebys∣shop of Caunterbury. And kynge Rycharde wente before in to the hooly londe & rested not tyll that he came forthe in his waye vnto Cy∣pres / and tooke it with grete force. And after that kynge Rycharde went forth to warde the hooly londe / & gate there as moche as the crys∣ten men had there before lost. And conquered the londe ayen thoruhh grete myght / saufe on¦ly the holy crosse. And whan kynge Rycharde came to the cyte of Acres for to gete the cytee / ther arose a gret debate bytwene hym & ye kyn∣ge of Fraunce / so yt the kyng of Fraūce went a¦yen in to Fraunce & was wroth towarde kyng Rychard but yet for all yt / are kyng Rycharde wente ayen / he toke the cyte of Acres. & whan he had take it / he dwelled in the cyte a whyle. But to hym came tydynges / that ye erle Iohn̄ of Oxenforde hys brother wolde haue seased all Englonde in to his honde / and Norman∣dy also / and wolde lette crowne hym kynge of all the londe. ¶And whan kynge Rycharde herde telle of these tydynge / he wente ayen to∣warde Englond with all the spede that he my∣ghte. But ye duke of Ostryche mette with hym and toke hym and brought hym vnto the Em¦perour of Almayne / And the Emperour hym brought vnto pryson. And afterward he was delyuered for an Huge raunson / that is for to saye / an hundred thousande pounde. And for the whiche raunson to be paied / eche other cha¦lyce of Englonde was molten and made in to moneye. And all the monkes of the ordre of Cy¦steaux yaue alle theyr bookes thrugh oute all Englonde / for to doo them to selle / and the ra∣unson for to paye.

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