Fabyans cronycle newly prynted, wyth the cronycle, actes, and dedes done in the tyme of the reygne of the moste excellent prynce kynge Henry the vii. father vnto our most drad souerayne lord kynge Henry the .viii. To whom be all honour, reuere[n]ce, and ioyfull contynaunce of his prosperous reygne, to the pleasure of god and weale of this his realme amen

Anno dn̄i. M.CCC.xxiiii.		Anno dn̄i. M.CCC.xxv.
	Benet of Fulham.
Hamon Chyckwell.		Anno .xviii.
	Iohn̄ Canston.

IN thys .xviii. yere, kynge Ed∣warde beynge enfourmed that the Frenche kynge had gyuen vnto syr Edwarde his sonne the duchye of Guyan cōtrary hys mynde and plea∣sure, & that also the quene hys wyfe, nor the sayde syr Edwarde made no spede into Englande, nat wythstan∣dyng hys often sendyng for thē / was with hys sayd wyfe & sōne greuously dyspleased / in so moche that procla∣macyons were made at London in y^e moneth of Decembre, y^t yf the quene and her sonne entred nat the lande by the octauys of the Epyphany of our Lord next folowyng in peasyble wyse, that they shuld be takē for ene∣myes to the kyng & hys realme of En¦glande. But for the quene fered the trecherye of the Spēsers and other y^t were nere vnto the kynge, she abode styll in Fraunce. wherfore kyng Ed∣warde after the expyracyon of y^e fore¦sayd day, caused to be seased all such lādes as to hys sayd wyfe and sonne belonged / and the profyttes of them toke to hys owne vse. when this ru∣mour was knowē through the more parte of Englande / dyuerse men of name of the landes, as syr wyllyam Trussell, syr Iohn̄ Cromewell, wyth dyuerse other, departed secretely out of Englande and saylled vnto the quene.

whan kynge Edwarde was ware of thys / he sent vnto the Frēch kyng so sharpe and sore letters, that he mo¦nysshed the quene out of hys lande,

and wolde nother ayde hys nor hyr company / but as sayth Iohn̄ Froy∣zarde y^t made a compendyous werke in Frenche of the hole lyfe or story of the thyrde Edwarde, and therwyth expressed many other storyes and cro¦nycles, as of Fraunce, Flaunders, & other regions / at thys tyme when y^e quene was thus monisshed to auoyd out of Fraūce, syr Iohn̄ de Henawde brother to the erle of Henawde a mā of great fame, was then in the Frēche kynges court. The whych hauynge cōpassyon of the quene & of hyr yōge sonne, requyred her to go with hym vnto hys brothers court foresayde. wherof the quene beyng fayne graū∣ted vnto hys request, and spedde hyr thyther shortly after / where she with hyr company was ioyously & honora¦bly receyued. In the tyme & season y^t the quene with hyr sonne lay thus in the court or countrey of the erle of He¦nawde / by meanes of suche as were about hyr, a maryage was cōcluded betwene syr Edwarde hyr sonne, and Philip the sayd erles doughter, vpō certayne condy••••ōs, wherof one was that the sayd erle shuld at his propre costes set ouer into Englande y^e sayd syr Edward with a crew of .CCCC. men of armys. For the whych, prouy¦syon was made with all dylygence. Of thys, the fame sprange shortly in Englande. wherfore the kynge in all haste made prouysyon to haue y^e ha∣uyns & the portes of hys lāde surely kept, for to resyste the landyng of his enemyes. For subdie wherof / the cyte¦zyns of London were constrayned to fynde at theyr propre costes an hun∣dred men of armys / the whyche con∣trary theyr lybertyes, with a condy∣cyon that after that daye it shulde be no president, they sent vnto Port∣chestre. In thys season & passe tyme the quene with syr Edwarde hyr son with a small company of Englysshe∣men, and a crewe of Henawders, of the whych syr Iohn̄ of Henawde the erles brother was capytayne / toke shyppynge in those partyes / & had y^e wynde so fauorable vnto them, that they landed in Englande at a porte called Orwell besyde Harwyche in Suffolke the .xxv. day of Septēbre, without any resistens of mē of warre agayne hyr made. To whome after hyr landyng, the people of the coūtre drewe by great companyes / & so sped hyr towarde London. At thys tyme of the quenes thus lādyng / the kyng was at hys cytye of Londō. But whē he harde of the great people y^t drewe to hyr out of all countres, he fered. wherfore in safegardyng of hym self he fled wyth a small companye to∣warde walys / & lefte mayster walter Stapyltō bisshop of Exceter behynd hym, to haue the rule of the cytye of London. It was nat longe after the kynges departyng, that y^e quene sent a letter vnto the mayre & comynaltie of the cytye / & requyred of them ayde to subdue the oppressours of y^e comō weale of the realme. But to that let∣ter was made none answere. There∣fore she wrote the secōde tyme / aduer¦tysyng them of theyr landynge, & of the entent that she had to refourme y^e enormytyes & mysgouernaūce of the lande / in admonestyng them of theyr ayde & socoure, as by the tenure of y^e sayd letter more playnly appereth. wherof the circumstaūce I haue left out of thys boke, for so moche as I fynde varyaunce in the contentes thereof / and also for the copyes there of ben sette oute in the cronycles of Englande and dyuers other bokes. Than thys sayde letter was tacked vpon the crosse in Chepe, whyche at that daye was called the newe crosse. In the nyght before the day of saynt Denys or the .ix. day of October. And other copyes of the same were

fastened in dyuerse other places of y^e cytye / wherof one was fastened vpō the mayres gate. After whyche letter thus publysshed in the cytye / the bis∣shop of Exceter, to whome as before is sayd the kyng had commytted the rule of the cytye, sent vnto the mayre to haue the keyes of the gates of the cytye by vertue of hys commission. By the whych he stode so fermely, & vsed so sharpe wordes in the kynges name, that varyaunce grew betwene hym & the cytezyns / so ferfourth that the commons of the cytye in theyr rage toke the sayd bysshop the .xiiii. day of Octobre, and hym with .ii. of hys housholde esquyers beheded vn∣reuerently at y^e standard in weschep. And the same daye was taken for a spye a cytezyn called Iohn̄ Marshal, whych fauoured the Spensers {per}tye & in y^e same place also beheded with∣out processe of lawe. And then the corps of y^e sayde bysshop with hys .ii. seruaūtes, were haryed to Thamys syde where the sayd bysshop had be∣gonne to edyfye a toure / and there in the rubbusshe and sande of the same they buryed or conueyed these thre bodyes. whyche dispyte to hym was done after some auctoures, for so moche as he had vsurped of the comō grounde of the cytie in settyng of the sayd toure. But for what cause was he thus vngoodly & vnreuerentely delte with no mencion is made. And in thys passe tyme the quene easely & a foote space folowed y^e kyng / which by thys season was cōm•• to Brystow hauyng with hym the Spēsers & his dyffamed chaūceller mayster Robert Baldocke, syr Iohn̄ erle of Arundell & other. where by theyr counsayls it was agreed, that syr Hugh Spēser the father shulde remayne there and haue the rule of the towne & castell, whyle the kynge with the other toke shyppynge & sayled frome thens into walys to rayse the walshemen. And so the kyng with syr Hugh Spenser the sonne & the other, toke shyppyng at Brystowe & so sayled into wa••ys. when the certaynte therof came vnto the quene anone she sent to Brystow the erle of Kent the kynges brother, syr Iohn̄ of Henawde wyth dyuerse other, for to take syr Hugh Spenser the father. The whyche put them in suche deuour, that they tooke the sayde syr Hugh, and lefte a certayne to holde the towne & castell tyll the quene with hyr power came thyther▪ In the whyche tyme they sped them into walys / and in processe tooke y^e kynge, hys chaunceller, the erle of Arundell, and syr Hughe Spenser the sonne, and broughte them all to the towne of Hereforde. And in thys whyle the cytezeyns of London wan the towre of Londō and kept it vnto the quenes vse.

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