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.

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¶ Howe at the nexte parliamente after, Thomas of Lanca∣ster and Leycester erle and certayne lordes, exiled the twoo Spencers out of the land, but then y^t Spencers made great persecucion with the kyng agayn the lordes, and slewe the erle of Lancaster and the other lordes.

AT y^e parliamēt thē at westminster next hold Erle Thomas, y^t then was called ful trewe Therle Vmfrey of Herford, that was bold Therle of Marche, full manly as men knewe The Monbrey also Percy and Clyfford drewe

All armed came, and two Spencers exiled Out fro Englande, neuer to be reconsyled.

¶ But sone, the Spencers came to y^t kyng again Syr Hugh the lorde, and syr Hugh his sonne And put therle of Marche, in great disdayn Roger his sonne, that with hym did wonne Appeched hym then of hye treason Agaynst the kyng, wherfore the kyng hym sent Into the toure, tabyde the parliament.

¶ Then went the kyng, and Spencers both two With hostes full great, to Burton vpon Trent Where the lordes laye, and sparled theim then so That north they went, then wayes by one assente To rayse mo men, they trust in theyr entent The Spencers two, fully for to destroye Who all the realme, full cruelly did noye.

¶ At Borinbrig, syr Andrewe Hertlaw met With erle Vmfrey of Herford, and hym slewe And toke the erle Thomas, without let And to the kyng, that then to Pountfret drewe Where then were sette, vpon hym iudges newe Therle Edmound of Arondell for iustice And syr Robert Mapilthorpe, his enemyes.

¶ There he was headed, anone vpon the hyll And buryed was there in a chapell fayre, Henry his brother, stode at the kynges wyll Whom the kyng graunted to bee his heyre That wedded then Alyce, without despayre The doughter and heyre, of therle Henry Lacy

Of Lyncolne, so graunted by the kynges mercy.

¶ Wyllyā fitz Wareyn, & many another knight In diuers shyres, some hanged and some head That hold with hym, or with his compeers right Syr Bartholomewe Badelismore, without rede Drawen and hanged, and put to foul dead Roger Clyfford and Iohn Monbraye barons Headed then were, for theyr rebellions.

¶ Therle of Marche, syr Roger Mortymer His sonne Roger, foriuged were for treason And by the kyng, of death pardoned were And put were then, in perpetuall pryson Into the towre, for that same encheson Fro that tyme forth, the Spencers other excede The quene was, but an hand mayden in dede

¶ To tyme the kyng, to her brother hir sent And also his sonne Edwarde to dooen homage For Guyen, so to haue at his entente And for they dwelled, so long in that viage The kyng theim had suspecte, of theyr message By councell of the Spencers, theim exiled As in chronicle pleynly is compiled.

¶ The kyng then made, and playnly did create Andrewe Hertlawe, erle then of Carlele Whiche tyme, the kyng Robert full fortunate Rode all the east Marche, full proudly and well The byshopryke and Yorkeshire euery dele Andrewe Hertlawe, erle of Carlele absent To Lancastre hym drewe in false entente.

¶ The kyng Robert, was passed home agayn With prayes greate, and many prysoners Fro Humber north, the people downe were slayn Of whiche the kyng, and all his councelers Blamed therle Andrewe, and his compeers For he had men enough, with hym arayed The Scottes all, that might haue slayn & frayed.

¶ He hight the kyng, haue brought to hym great powers Into yorkshyre & held nothing his hight Therfore the kyng, by counsell of the Spencers Gaue charge to take hym, either by daye or night Or kyl hym downe, wher they mete w^t hym might To all shryues, was sent this commaundement Fro Trent northwarde by writtes & maundemēt.