The chronicle of Ihon Hardyng in metre, fro[m] the first begynnyng of Engla[n]de, vnto ye reigne of Edwarde ye fourth where he made an end of his chronicle. And from yt time is added with a co[n]tinuacion of the storie in prose to this our tyme, now first emprinted, gathered out of diuerse and sondrie autours of moste certain knowelage [et] substanciall credit, yt either in latin orels in our mother toungue haue writen of ye affaires of Englande.

The .C .xliii. Chapiter.

¶ Henry the thyrde, kynge of Englande, duke of Normandye and Guyen, and Earle of Angeou, that beganne to reygne the yere of Chryste, a thousande .CC. xxi, and dyed in the yere, a thousande .CC .lxxiii. and of his reygne the .lvi. yere

¶ In his tyme was a batayl at Lincolne, where Earle Rau∣dolfe of Chester discomfyted Lewys, y^t sonne of kyng Phi¦lyppe of Fraunce.

HEnry his sonne, then was of .ix. yere age * 1.1 At Gloucester, crowned with the dyademe By the Legate Gwalo, & the Baronage Stephan of Langton, helpyng as did well seme Archbyshop then, as the byshop coulde deme The same yere then, the kyng w^t Lewys faught Besyde Lincolne, where Lewys was nere caught

¶ Foure .C. knyghtes, of Lewis there was slaine Therle of Perche, was slayne on Lewis syde And many fled, with Lewys soth agayne Therle Randolf, of Chester knowen wyde The felde there gate, y^t daye with mikell pryde

And Lewys then, all his ryght relesed And home he went, with mony well appesed.

¶ In the seconde yere, he wedded Alyanor Therls doughter of Prouynce, good and fayre Whose elder syster, kyng Lewys wed afore This earle was then, famed amonge repayre The noblest prynce, without any dispeyre That tyme alyue, through all chrystente Of all honoure, and greate nobilyte

And Iohn, the sonne of Dauyd of Huntingdon That of Huntyngdon, & Chester earle had bene Without chylde dyed, his erldome to the crowne Then sezed were, to tyme y^t it was sene Howe his systers myght them departe betwene The parliament graunted, y^t wardes to the kyng That helde of hym, by knyghtes seruyce doyng

¶ To make statutes, at Oxenforde & ordynaūce By whiche, there shulde none alyence enheryte And put the kyngvnder the gouernaunce Of certayne lordes, wysest & moste parfyte Whiche after made amonge them great dispyte And batayles stronge, & greate contrariaunce Through all the lande, by longe continuaunce

Notes

• * 1.1

  Kyng Hen¦ry y^t thirde