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¶How kynge Edwarde wente into Scot¦londe wyth an hundrde thousande mē of ar¦mys / and myght not spede.

SO whan kynge Edwarde of Englon¦de had brought the floure of cheua••▪ vnto theyr deth. thrugh counsell & con••ente of syr Hugh Spenser the fader / & syr Hughe the sone he became as woode as ony lyon▪ & what so euer the Spensers wolde haue it was done So well the kynge louyd theym y^t they myght do with hym all thynge that them lyked wher¦fore the kynge gaaf vnto syr Hughe Spenser the fader y^e erldom of wynchestre and vnto syr Andrewe of Herkela the erldome of Cardoyll•• in preiudyce and in harmynge of hys crowne. And kyng Edwarde tho thrugh counsel of the Spensers dysheryted alle them that had be a∣yenst hym in ony quarel with Thomas of L••∣castre. And many other were dysheryted also / by cause that the Spensers coueyted for to ha∣ue theyr londes. And so they had all that they wold desyre wyth wronge / & ayenst all reason. Tho made the kynge Robert Baldok a fal••e pylled clerke Chaunceler of Englond. thrugh counsell of the forsayde Spensers. ¶And he was a false rybaude / And a coueytouse. And

so they counseylled the kynge moche / that the kyng lete take to hys owne warde all the good¦des of the lordes that were put wrongfully to the deth in to hys owne honde. And aswell they toke the goodes y^t were within hooly chyrche / es the goodes y^t were wythout / & lete theym be put in to hys tresoury in London / & lette them calle hys for feytes. And by there coūsell y^e kyn¦ge wrought for euer more he dysheryted them that the godes ought / & thrugh ther coūsell lete arer a talegge of all the goodes of Englonde / wherfore he was the rychest kyng y^t euer was in Englonde. after wyllyam Bastarde y^t com∣quered Englonde. / And yet thrughe coūsell of them hym semyd y^t he hadde not ynough. But made yet euery towne of Englonde for to fyn¦de a man of armys vpon theyr owne costes / for to go & werre vpon the Scottes y^t were his enmyes / wherfore the kynge went in to Scot¦londe with an houndred thousande men of ar∣mys at wytsontyde in the yere of our lord Ihe¦su Crist .M.CCC.xxii. But the Scottes wen¦te / & hyd them in moūteyns & in wodes and ca¦ryed the Englysshmen fro day to day / that the kynge myght for no manere thynge fynde thē in playne felde / wherfor many Englysshmen that had lytyl vytaylles deyed ther for hungre wonder fast an sodenly in goynge and comyn¦ge and namely tho that had bene ayenst Tho∣mas of Lancastre & robbyd his men vpon hys londes. whan kynge Edwarde sawe that vy∣taylles fayled hym / he was wonder sore dys∣comfyted. bycause also y^t hys men deyed. & for he myght not spede of his enmyes. So att the last he came ayen in to Englonde / & anone af∣ter came Iames Douglas and also Thomas Radulph with an huge hooste into Englonde in to Northumberlonde / and wyth them the Englysshmen that were dryuen out of Eng∣londe / and came and robbed the countree / and slewe y^e people / & also brente the twone y^t was callyd Northallerton & many other twones to yorke. And whan the kynge herde thys tydyn∣ges he lete so mane all maner men that myght trauyllee. And so the Englysshmen mette the Scottes at y^e abbay of Beyghelande the .xv. day after Mygelmas. en the same yere aboue sayd / and the Englysshmen were there dyscon¦fyted. And at that dyscomfyture was take syr Iohan of Brytayne Erle of Rychmonde that helde the countree & the erldome of Lancastre and after he payed an huge raunsonne & was lete goo. And after that he wente in to Fraun∣ce and came neuer after agayne.