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CHarles Grossus was poysonned of a Iewe as it is sa∣yd bifore / and wexed strongly seke / Therfor Arnul∣phus the sonne of his brother Charleman was chosen kynge / But whanne Charles was deede / were ordeyned fyue kynges / But the Empyre leste with Arnulphus / and he was crowned atte laste of Formosus the pope / and he bete downe the normās & the danes that had werrid in fraūce xl / yere / Aatte last
he was hard holden with a stronge sekenesse / and myght not be he¦led ne saued with no maner medycyne / that he was destroyed and eten with lyse ryght to the deth / Franco Archebisshop of Rothomage Crystened Rollo / And kynge Guttrun is deede
¶ Willelmus de Regibus libro secundo ¶ For reses of normans and of the danes / seynt ma••tyus body was transla∣te from Turon to seynt Germayns chirche at Altissiodor / and many were there myracles done / And the monkes of Turon and of Altissiodore pleted for thofferyng / And for the saynt shol¦de deme whether of hem hadde ryght of thofferyng / they brought forth a leper that was heled in that one syde of his bodye / that was to warde seynt martyn / and the other parte of his bodye lefte foule and not heled / ¶ Than for me sholde wene that that was happyly byfalle / they tourned the other foule syde toward saynt martyn / and anone it was heled also /
Than the monkes of Turon hadde at the offerynge till the werre was seeced and than they hadde her owne saynt hoome ageyne to her owne hows / ¶ This befel not in this maner / for no power of seynt germayne / but he spared & dide his gheste reuerence in his owne hows / ¶Henricus libro quinto / That yere cam four hoostes of danes ayenst Aluredus / one in northūmberlonde / another in Eestenglonde that conteyneth Nor∣ffolk / and southfolk / the thyrdde at Excestre / the fourth at Ches∣tre / but at chestre the danes were soo besyeged / that they ete her horses for honger / ¶Thre scottysmen dusblay mahbon / and malmmyn desired to lede pylgryms lyf and toke with hem lyue∣loode for one weke / and toke Akarabum / that is a ••oote made but of twey huydes and an half and wente therinne wonderly withoute sayle withoute rother and oore / and al maner tacle of
Shipcraft and cam on londe at Cornewayle after seuen dayes / and come to kyng Aluredus / ¶ After steuen fo rmosus was pope fyue yere / Somtyme for drede of pope Iohan / he lefte his bisshopryche of portune / but for whan he was callyd / he wolde not come ageyn / he was cursyd / Atte last he come to the pope Iohan / and was degraded vnto the state of a lewd man / Also he was made swere that he sholde neuer tourne ayene to hi•• bisshopryche nowther come in to the cyte of Rome / But atte last he was restored ageyne by pope martyn that was pope Iohannis successour / ¶Plegmundus Archebisshop of Caunterbury
that was a noble man of Clergye receyued the palle of formo¦sus / the pope / and ordeyned seuen Bisshops to chirches of englond in one day / ¶ That yere kyng Aluredus chaced the danes furste oute of Kente / of excestre / and of Chichestre /
Henricus libro quinto / ¶ The danes that were at Chestre we∣re besyeged thre dayes / And were compellyd by honger to leue the Cyte / Than they spoylled Northwales / and wente soo about by Northumberlonde in to Eest Englonde / there her wyues and theyr Shippes were / They entryd in to the Ryuer luys / and buylde a castel there fast by / But the Londoners by helpe of the kynge destroyed that castel / and departed that Ryuer in thre chanels or stremes / Soo that Danes myghte not brynge oute theyr Shippes / and dwellyd atte brydge vpon Seua••n faste by wales / and buylde there a stronge castel / And soo these thre yere / Englond was harde bysette with thre manere of sorowe / with warre of the Danes / Moreyue of men / and pestylence of beestes / ¶ After Formosus Bonefas was pope fyften dayes / ¶After hym the sixth steuen one yere and thre mo∣nethes / ther after he lefte the papacye / and was made monke / This was somtyme made Bisshop of Angum by Pope Formo∣sus / But afterwarde whanne he was pope he pursued soo For∣mosus that not only he withsayde his doyng and his dedes / But also he lette take vp Formosus / whanne he was deede / oute of the erthe / and made men brynge hym in to the playne Consistorye clothed as a pope / And than he made men vnclothe hym / and take of hym that manere clothynge / and clothe hym as a lewde man / and kytte of twey fyngars of his ryght honde and caste hym in to Tyber / ¶ After this Steuen Roma∣nus was pope foure monethes / Lowys Arnulphus sonne regned in Fraunce twelue yere / But he hadde neuer the Crow∣ne of the Empyre / And in hym was the ende of the Empyre▪ / towchynge Charles ofsprynge / ? In his tyme were fyue Popes Theodorus / Iohan / Benette / Leo / and Crystofor / Of hem Theo¦dorus the seconde / though he were Pope / but one monethe / yet he aroos ayenst pope Steuens doyng / and wi••hsayd his dedes / and confermed the dedes of Pope Fromosus / The nynth Iohan was pope twoo yere / he made a counseyll at Rauenna / and dampned pope steuenes dedes and fought ayenst the Romayns Willelmus de re / libro secundo / This yere deyd kyng Aluredus and was fyrst buryed in the cathedral chirch at wynchestre / but
for the madnesse and rauynge of the chanons that sayde / that spyryts of kynges taken the careyn / and walke aboute by nyght from hows to hows / His sonne Edwarde toke the faders bodye and dyde it in the newe Abbaye / This and suche other lewde tales Englysshmen holden by a mysbyleue that hath full longe dured / and borowed it of mysbyleuyd men / ¶ That they trowe not that after a mannes deth the bodye walketh and goth aboute by menyng of the fende / ¶ Therof spekyth Vyrgyl / and sayd / whanne deth cometh what semyng shappes fleeth aboute / Ranulphus / ¶ In praysynge of this kynge Henricus libro primo wryteth versus in this maner / Kyndly noblesse / of goodnesse / yeueth to the worshipe / And goodnesse trauayle / myghty werryour Aluredus / And traua∣yle name / to the withoute ony ende / Ioye with woo medled / he hadde in euery tyme / Alweye thyne hoope was medled with greete drede / Though he were nowe downe / he arayd bataylle a morowe / yf he were vyctor / he dradde the bataylle a morowe / After trauaylle of lyf / of regnynge bothe / His veray reste / be with Cryste withoute ende / ¶ Marianus libro secundo /