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

¶How syr Andrewe of Herkelay was take and put to deth / that was Erle of Cardoil.

THen at that tyme was syr Andrew of Herkela / y^e new was made erle of Car¦doil / for cause that he had taken the good erle Thomas of Lancastre. ¶He hadde ordeyned thrugh the kynges cōmaundement of Englon¦de. for to bringe hym all the power y^t he myght for to helpe ayenste the Scottes as the abbaye of Beglonde. And whan y^e fals traytour had gadred all the people that he myght & shold ha¦ue come to the kynge vnto the abbaye of Bey¦ghelande / y^e fals traytour ladde them by a no∣ther coūtre thrughe Copelonde. And thrughe therldome of Lancastre / & went thrugh y^e coū¦tree & robbed & slewe the folke all y^t he myght. And ferthermore the fals traytour had take a grete somme of golde and syluer of syr Iames Douglas for to be ayenst the kyng of Englon¦de. & to be helpynge & holdynge with the Scot¦tes / thrugh whose treason the kynge of Eng∣londe was scomfyted at Beyghelande or y^t he came thyder. wherfore the kyng was to ward hym wonder wrothe. and lete pryuely enquere by the coūtre aboute how y^t it was. And some men enquered and aspeyed / so at the laste the trough was foūde & sought. And he atteynte & take as fals traytour / as y^e gode erle Thomas of Lancastre hym tolde of y^t he was pute vnto deth at hys ta••ynge att Burbrugge. & to hym sayd. Or y^e that were doon he sholde be take & holde a traytour And so it was as the holy mā sayd. ¶wherfore the kyng sent pryuely to syr Anthony of Lucy / a knyght of the countre of Cardoil that he sholde take syr Andrew of Her¦kela & put hym vnto the dethe. And to brynge this thynge vnto the ende. the kynge sente hys Commyssion so that thys same Andrewe was take at Cardoill and ladde vnto the barre in the maner of an erle worthyly arayed / & wyth aswerde gyrde aboute hym / and hosyd and spo∣ryd. ¶Tho spake syr Anthoyn in this maner syr Andrewe sayd he the kynge puttyth vpon the for asmoche as thou hast be orpyd ī thy de∣dys / he dyde to the moche honour / & made the erle of Cardoil. & than as a traytour to thy lor¦de laddest the people of hys countere that shold haue holpe hym at the batayll of Beyghel and

and thou laddest them awaye by the countree of Copelande / and thrugh the erldom of Lan¦castre wherfore our lorde the kynge was dys∣comfyted there of the Scottes thrugh thy tre∣ason & falsnesse and yf thou haddest come by ty¦mes he had had the bataylle and treason thou dydest for y^e grete somme of golde & syluer that thou receyued of Iames Douglas a Scot the kynges enmye And our lorde the kynge wyl / y^t the ordre of knyghthode. by the whiche thou re¦ceyued al thyne honour and worshyppe vppon thy body be all brought to nought & thyn esta∣te vndoyne. that other knyghtes of lower de∣gree mowe after beware / whyche lorde hathe the auaunted hugely in dyuerse countrees of Englonde and that al may take ensample by there lorde after warde. truly for to serue. ¶Tho commaunded he anone a knaue / To hew of hys spores of his helys / and after he le∣te breke the serde ouer hys heed. the whiche the kynge yaue hym for to kepe and defende hys londe ther wyth whan he / made hym Erle of Cardoyll. And after he lette hym be vnclothed of hys furred taberde and of hys hode / and of his furryd cotes / and of his gyrdell. ¶And whanne this was done / Syr Anthony sayde thenne vnto hym. Andrewe sayde he Nowe arte thou noo knyghte But a knaue / and for thy treason the kynge wylle that thou shalte be hangyd and drawen and thy heed smyten of / and thy bowels take oute of thy body and bren¦te before the / and thy body quartryd and thy heed sente to London / and there it shall stonde vpon London brydge / and the foure quarters shall be sente to foure townes of Englonde / y^t all other maye beware and chastysed by y^t And as Anthony sayde / so it was done all manere of thynge in the laste daye of Octobre. in the ye¦re of grace .M.iii.C.xxii. yere. And the sonne torned in to blood as the peple it saw / and that dured from the morne tyll .xi. of the cloke.