¶How the towne of Berwyk was take thrugh treason / and how two Cardyna¦les were robbyd in Englonde.
ANd on mydlente Sondaye. in the yere of our lorde .M.CCC.xvi. Berwyke was loste thorugh false treson of oon Pers of Spaldynge. the whyche Pers the kynge had put there. For to helpe that same towne with many burgeyses of the same towne / wherfore the chyldren that were put in hostage thrughe the burgeyses of Berwyk folowed the kynges march••••se many dayes fettred in strōge yrens And after ye tyme two Cardynalles in to Eng¦londe / as the pope had theym sence for to ma∣kepe as bytwene Englonde and Scotlonde. And as they wente to warde Durham / for to haue sacred mayster Lowys of Beamont bys∣shop of Durham they were take & robbed vp∣on the moore of wynglesdom / Of whiche rob¦bery syr Gylbert of mytton was atteynt & ta∣ke and hangyd & drawen at Lōdon & his heed smytte of. & put vpon a spere / & set vpon newe gate / & the foure quarters sent / to foure cytees of Englonde. and that same tyme befell many myscheues in Englonde / for the poore people deyed in Englonde for hungre / and so moche and so faste deyed. that vnethe mē myght bury them For a quarter of whete was at .xl. shelyn¦ges▪ and two yeres & an half a quarter of whe∣re was worth .x. marck· and of tyme the poore people stole chyldern and ete them / & ete also ye hoūdes that they myghte take: & also hors and cattes And after there fell a grete myrreyne a¦monge bestes in dyuers countrees of englōde durynge kynge Edwarde lyues tyme.