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¶ Capitulum 16 /

THe second calyxt was pope fyue yere and fyue monethes / ••e gadred strengthe in euery syde and toke and prysonned morys the forsayd antipope and made fyrst sette hym vpon a ca∣mel and turne his face toward the camels tayle / And soo he ro∣de / and helde the tayle in his honde in stede of a brydel and roode before the pope / Willelmus de regibus libro quinto ¶ •• Aboute th••s tyme beganne thordre premostracensis / that is the ordre of whyte chanons and bygan in the dyocesy laudunensy· vnder the fader nothbert of the nacion of Coloyn / Aboute this tyme deyd

mold quene of englond / Fyrst she was lerned lettrure and was nourysshed among menchons / at wynchestre / for to putte of vn∣worthy maryage / that her fader profered her ofte tyme / she bare the veyle of hooly auowe / therfor kyng henry wold haue her to wyf / that doyng fylle in grete desputyson / and ancelm wythstode that maryage till it was preued by lawful wytnesse that she to¦ke the veyl for to put of wowers and for none other cause / This had twey children at one byrthen a sonne and a doughter / and cessed of children beryng / than she dwellyd at westmynstre & was founde as a quene by the kynges wyll / But she were the heer vnder the ryal araye and yede barfote to chirche in the lente tyme and was not squaymes to wesshe seke mēnes fete and gro¦pe soore botches with her hondes and kysse the seke men and sette to hem a mete borde and serue hem / Also she loued moche goddes seruyse / therfor she spente moche on clerkes that couth wel sin¦ge / therfor famo{us} men of scole come to her with versus and with songe as it were oute of al londes / ¶ Also she spente largely in comers that cam of euery syde / Desyre of praysynge is so kyndely pyghte in mennes hertes / that vnnethe ony man though he be of good Conscyence holde hym apayd with the fruyt of his good werkes / but yet he hath lykynge that the peple kno¦we of his good dedes / by cause of suche dedes she pyled her plowe men / but that may be wyst by the counseylle of hyr mynystres

¶ Willelmus de Regibus libro quinto / The syxthe day byfore december at harfleet In normandy vp goo the ankers / and the kyng sayled graciously in to englond / His sonne william wolde sayle after hym / and was adreynte and many noble men not fer from londe. / ¶ The kynges sonne Rychard bastard was among hem and nota the contesse of Percy / and Rychard Erle of Chestre and his wyf that was the kynges neece / and the Archedeken of Herford / and other in the nombre of an honderd and fourty / Of hem alle escaped none but one chorle bochour that swamme al nyghte vppon a broken maste / and cam to the clyue in the morowe tyde / and told alle the geste / how it was byfalle / ¶ Alle these wente by nyghte in to a newe ship with dronken shipmen / and fylle anone vppon a rock not fer from the lande / and the ship to cleef / And william the kynges sone was do in a bote in the which he might haue be saued wel ynough / but whan he. cam to the clyf he herde his syster wepe & crye / than he torned ageyn and toke her in to his

bote / Than other men starte in to that boote / and ouerlode it and drowned the bote and al that was therynne oute take the forsa∣yd chorle / But it was wonder that grete tresoure was founden fast by the clyues in the morowe / and none of the dede bodyes we¦re founde / but they were al eten of the ffysshes of the see / Henr / libro septimo / And it was sayde that nygh al these were sodomytes / ¶ William / And also this william the kynges eldest sonne had manaced Englyssh men that yf euer he were lord ouer hem / he wold make hem draw as oxen at plowe / ¶ R / Also Rychard erle of Chestre had manaced that whanne he were ••••me oute of normandy / he wold destroye the monkes of Chestre that his fader had ordeyned there / W / de re / li / 5 ¶ Herafter ful∣co erle of Angeo / whoos doughter william that was drowned hadde wedded come oute of the holy land and maryed his other doughter to Robert short hooses sonne / and yaf with her the Erl∣dome of Cenomannia / For kynge henry withhelde his dower in Englond / Herafter / ¶ Henry maryed his doughter mold to the fourth henry Emperour of Almayne / ¶ This yere kyng henry made a greete parke at Wodestode / Whanne Rychard Erle of Chestre was drowned / the fyrst Ranulph de mescheues / the so¦ne of the fyrst hughe was erle eyght yere after hym / Raaf Archebisshop of Caunterbury dyed and william Canoni¦cus was Archebisshop after hym / ¶ Aboute this tyme be∣ganne the ordre of the templers / These were gadred of the Re∣leef of the hospytalers / & ordeygned hem a place in the porche of the temple of Ierusalem / therfor they be cleped knyghtes of the temple / these were susteyned by the Releefe of the hospytalers bothe in mete and in armure / and waxe soo ryche that it semed that the doughter passed and wyryed the moder / Atte laste for vyle apostasye and despysyng of Cryst / they were destroyed in the fyfth pope Clements tyme· the yere of oure lord a thousand thre honderd and twelue / ¶ Henricus libro septi∣mo / ¶ Iohan Cardynal of Rome cam in to Englond and made a greuous processe ageynst preestes concubynes & said that it is a foul•• synne and a grete to aryse from a strompettes syde to sacre crystes body / but the same day after that he had songe mas¦se he was taken with a strompet at euen / thynge that was open∣ly y knowe myghte not be forsake / Hit moste nedes be knowen yf this dysplesyth ony man / I reede hym holde his peas / and be stylle lest it wold be demed that he folowe Iohan in wordes /

and in dedes / After kalixt the second honorius was pope fyue ye¦re / The fourth henry the Emperour of almayn is dede / & som men tellyn that he is buryed at spyre with his forfaders with such wrytynge on his tombe / Here lyeth the sonne and the fader and the grauntsyr and the faders grauntsyre. R / But it semeth / that Gyrald in his booke itinerario wallie hath the more soth vnder∣standyng / there he sayth that this henry after that he had empry∣soned his flesshely fader / and his goostly fader the pope / and the Cardynals also / hym repented atte last and wente awey vnwy∣tyng his wyf mold of Englond / & exyled hym self by his good wylle / and lyued at Chestre ten yere as an heremyte / and by cau∣se he wold not be knowen the whyle he was alyue / he cleped him self godestal that is goddes clepyng / whanne the emperour was soo pryuely goone / mold the Emperyce cam ageyne to her fader kyng henry in to normandy / there she was soone maryed to gef∣froy plantagenet Erle of Angeo / and hadd by hym the second henry that after hym was kyng of Englonde /