Wyllyam.
[ E] ¶wyllyam was nexte Emperour / he hylde the see .vii. yere. [ E]
[ B] ¶Also about the .xliii. yere of this kynges reyne / the kynge at a court of Folkemote at Paulys / axed lycence of the cōmons of the citye accordynge to the sayd ordynauace to passe the see / and so went vnto Burdeux & into Fraūce / and had great chere of the Frenche kynge Lewys / & or that he came agayne / he gran̄ted all his ryght that he had in Normandye / Gascoyn / & Guyon / to the said Lewys / & toke agayne Guyon / Angeo / and Mayn / to holde of the Frenche kynge / and was called in Fraunce duke of Guyon / & dyd homage to the Frenche kynge therfore. Also about the .xlv. yere / ye Barons of Englande by force of those forsayd ordynances / toke vpon them to chaūge the kynges Iustyce & the kynges Sheryffe / and dyuers other offycers yt the kyng had admytted and put other in theyr places / wherwith the kynge was nat content / & publysshed his bull of a••∣solucion. wherfore the barons assembled to gether in the marches of wales with a strōge power / & sent a letter to the kynge / praynge hym to obserue the said ordynaūces wherto he was sworne / to whome the kynge sent no answere.* 1.1 Then the barons came forwarde with banners displayde and moche people resorted to them / & they put in prison and punysshed all them that toke the cō∣trarye parte / and at the last came into London / for the citye toke ye barons parte. But sone after agrement was made betwene the kynge and his lordes / whiche contynued nat longe / for ye hyng caused syr Edwarde his eldyst son to take the castell of wyndesore by a trayne / and the kynge se∣cretely departed from westmyster / and rode into the sayd castell / & many of the lordes that toke his parte came to hym. And the barons and the other that toke their parte drewe to London / but yet by some well disposed persons a concorde was takyng thus / that bothe partes shulde abyde the iugement of Lewys the Frenche kynge / concernynge the kepynge of the sayd ordynances. wherfore the kynge and syr Edwarde his eldyst son went ouer to the sayd Lewys / and for the barons parte there went syr Peter de Mountforde and other / before whiche kynge Lewys the mater was argued / but in conclusion kynge Lewys gaue sentence that the sayd statutes & ordy∣nances shulde be clerely voyde and the kynge set at lyberte. After whiche sentence gyuen / ye kyng & all the other returned into Lpndon / but the barons nat content with this sentence (reputynge parcialyte in kynge Lewys) departed and went into the Marches of wales & gathered a great nombre of people and came into London / and than because some varyaunce was betwene some of the rulers of the citye and the cōmons. The cōmons made them two captaynes / callynge them Constables of the citye / at whose cōmaundement all the cōmyns by tollynge of the great bell of Polles / shulde be redy in harnes to wayte vpon them. whiche Constables with the cōmons (by the exortynge of Hughe Spencer Constable of ye Towre) went to Thystelworth beyonde west∣myster / and there spoyled the maner of the kynge of Romayns / whiche dede was the great cause of the warre / for the kynge toke it greuously and gathered great power / and at the last came to the towne of Lewys in Sussex / but the wardens of the fyue partes kept the see with shyppes / ye no straungers shulde entre to ayde the kynge. And than the barons with a great multytude of ye citye of Lōdon / and with a great hoost of other people came agaynst the kynge / betwene whome the .xxiii. day of May was fought a maruelous cruell battell at Lewys / and the Lōdoners that gaue the fyrst assent / by reason of the sharpe shot of Arowes and strokes gyuen by them of the kynges partes began to drawe backe.* 1.2
But the barons incurraged theyr men in suche wyse yt they nat onely set vpon them with fresshe cheu••en / but incurraged so them that gaue backe / yt they turned agayne & fought so fersly that the kyng{is} {per}te gaue backe / & the kyng lost the fylde. where the kyng hym selfe & the kyng of Romayns & Edwarde the kyng{is} son were takyn prisoners & many other mo / and .xx.M. men slayne for this battell cōtynued ye more part of the day. After whiche battell endyd / they brought their prisoners to London / where the kynge agreed yt all the said ordynaūces shulde stonde in effecte / and if any were thought vnresonable to be correctyd by .iiii. noble men of the realme. s. ii. spirytuall men / & ii. temperall men / & many instrument{is} and wrytynges were made for the assurance of the same.