Prolicionycion [sic]

¶ Capitulum 27.

AFter Steuen the fyrst Adryan was pope four and twenty yere / First this gadryd the second counceyl at Constantino¦ple of thre honderd faders and fyfty / he made another counceyll in the Cyte of Rome with thre honderd and fyfty faders / kynge charles was presente there / Thenne him was graunted right in the election of the pope and of the ordeynyng of the popes see /

The northumbres putt oute theyr kynge Aluredus and toke ethelbertus that hete Etheldredus also the sonne of mollus· and made hym theyr kyng / he regned ouer hem fyue yere / The fourth leo the sonne of the fyfth Constantyn regned in grece four yere / He brente in thurste for grete couetyse· he toke of a chirche a crow¦ne that was ryally sette with carbuncle stones / and sette it on his heede and was take with a sodayne feuer and deyde / That yere / offa kyng of mercia spoylled lamberd Archebisshop of caū∣terbury of his dygnyte / of prymate / and brought that dygnyte to lychefeld and helde it there while he was a lyue by assente of the pope adryan The sixth Constantin the sonne of the fourthe leo regned in grece with his moder Iren ten yere / In his last ye¦re fylle discorde and stryf bytwene the sonne and moder. And the moder toke the sonne and put hym in prison & so she regned al¦one fyue yere. Atte laste the sonne had helpe and counseyl of the Armenyes and cam oute of prysonne and poursued cruelly his moder and her helpers Thenne afterward the sonne for his gre¦te cruel••es was take by commaundement and strengthe of the moder / and his eyen were put oute in so euyl m••ner that he deyde

sone afterward and soo Iren regned ageyne fyue yere. But ni¦choforus patricius that had grete worship of Iren. roos ageynste her and toke the crowne ayenst the peples wylle. and toke of her the tresour of thempyre with an oth made to be harmeles· and exi¦led her and soo exyled she deyde / the fyrst yere of this Constan∣tin in a dede mannes graue at Constantinople was founde a pla¦te of gold. in which plate was wreton in this maner / Cryst shal be borne of mayde marye / In him I byleue· Vnder Constantyn and Iren / sone efte me. thou shalt see. Mari li. secundo. That yere kenulphus kyng of westsaxons / . & offa kyng of mercia fought strongly for the cyte of besyngton / but offa had the vyctory and the cyte ¶ That yere the northumbres put oute her kyng ethel∣bertus that heete etheldredus also / and made Aswolf kynge that regned enleuen yere / That yere the second synode was made at ni¦cene of thre honderd and fyfty bisshops in adryans tyme / In that synode ayenst thoppinion of grekes it is sayd that the hooly gost cometh of the fader and of the sone Willelmus de pontificibus libro quarto Kenulphus kyng of westsaxons cast for to put ki¦nehard oute of his kyngdome the broder of his predecessour Si¦gebertus and cam by nyght to a womans hows at merton that was his lemman / there Clyto cam with four score felawes / and and bysette the kynge al aboute· But whanne the kynge was awaked he defended manly hym self / but he was slayne at laste Erly a morow it was knowen that the kyng was dede· and of••¦cus the kynges capitayne cam with his felawes to the place and slough clyto and his felawes euerychone / and toke the kynges body and buryed it at wynchestre· ¶After kenulphus brightri¦cus of Cerdicus bloode was kynge of westsaxons fyften yere•• Anone by helpe of kynge offa whos doughter he had wedded be putte oute Egbertus the sonne of Alemundus the vnder kynge that was the sone of offa that cam of the bloode of gengulsus & of Iue / Anone as he was so put doune he wente in to Fraunce· & vsed the scole of chiuailrye. And whan bryghtricus was dede. he cam ageyne and regned and taught the scole of chyualrye / as he had lerned in fraunce / lull archebisshop of caunterbury deyde / and Rychulfus was archebisshop after hym eyght and twenty yere he bygan to buylde seynt albons grete chirche from the fundamēt of a wonder werke of brente tyle and brought it nobly to an en¦de / ¶Willelmus de pontificibus libro quarto This yere kyng offa maryed his doughter Ethelburga to Brightricus kynge of

westsaxons / Of her it is sayd that she laboured besyly by might or by venym for to sle al the houshold men of her husbonde / thenne on a tyme she yaue venym to a yonglyng that was homly with the kyng and slough both the kynge and the yonglynge / thenne she wente to the kynge of Fraunce and had with her grete tre∣sour and ryches / And in a tyme the kynge and his sone stode in a chambre / and the kynge yaue her choy•• / whether she wold ha∣ue to husbond of the fader or the sonne / And she chees the sonne / haddest thou chose me quod the kynge / thou sholdest haue had my sonne / But for thou hast forsake me / thou shalt not haue me ner¦my sonne / thou muste leue the pryde of the world / and goo in to an abbay / there a lewd mā laye by her / & she was put oute & dey¦de in pouerte / After that tyme therof it cam to be vsed amonge the Angles that the kynges wyf sholde not be callyd quene. ner sitte by the kyng in the kynges sete / ¶Henricus / libro quarto / ¶ That yere was seen a wonder signe of the Crosse on Englysshe mens clothes / and blood fylle doune fro heuen to the erthe / It is not knowen / whether this befyll in token of the mocion of Ierusa¦lem / that fyll thre honderd yere afterward in wiliam the Reedes tyme / or ellys for tamende Englysshmen that they shold drede the wreche that was to come vpon hem by the danes / but as god wil soo mote it be / that yere the danes cam fyrst in to Englonde / The kynges styward of westsaxons wēte ayenst hem vnwysely with fewe men and was slayne of hem / ¶ Seynt Oswold kynge of northumberlond was slayne of his owne men / his neuew Osre∣dus the sonne of Aluredus / and broder of Alcmundus regned after hym and was sone put once after and slayne / After hym Etheldredus that was somtyme put oute of his kyngdome reg∣ned ageyne and was sone afterward slayne / therfor Colwul∣phus bisshop of lyndeffar fo••soke bothe and lefte the see and the kyngdome / Here after oswaldus regned after fewe dayes After him Adulphus regned one yere / There after / lxxvj / yere kynges regneden there / the last of hem were Osbryght and Elle The danes slough hem atte Cyte of yorkland al the flour of their men the yere of our lord eyyht honderd / lxxvij / After that tyme the danes regned in northumberlonde two and fyfty yere / vnto Ethelstans tyme ¶Pipinus the sonne of charles conspyred a∣yenst his fader / but his counceyl was wried / And he was shore monke. and closed in an Abbaye / and his felawes were somme byheded and somme an hanged by the throte / Seynt Ethelbert{us}

kynge of ••estangles was pryued bothe of his kyngdome and of his lyf by heest of kynge offa and by exytynge and counceyll of his owne wyf kyneswyda