The pastyme of people The cronycles of dyuers realmys and most specyally of the realme of Englond breuely co[m]pylyd [and] empryntyd in chepesyde at the sygne of the mearemayd next to pollys gate. Cum priuilegio.

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Edwardus .ij.

¶Benedicte.

[ P] ¶Benedicte was nexte pope the yere of Chryst .M.CCC.iii. he hylde the see .ix. monethes. [ P]

Henry.

[ E] ¶Henry was nexte Emperour / the yere of Chryst .M.CCC.viii. he hylde the Empyre .vi. yere. [ E]

Edwarde the seconde.

[ B] EDwarde the seconde of that name / and son to Edwarde the fyrst borne at Carnaruan / was crowned kynge the .xxiiii. day of Febru∣ary / the yere of Chryst .M.CCC.vii. after the countynge of Englande. This kynge was fayre stronge of body but vnstydfast of condicyons / for he refused the company of his lordes and wyse men / and haunted the com∣pany of vyle persons / and gaue hym to great drynkyng / and lyghtly wolde discouer thynges of great counsell / whiche turned hym after to great hurte / and the realme to great vnquietnesse. This kynge as sone as his father was buryed / sent for Piers of Ganeston his olde compyre / and aduaunced hym to great honour / con∣trary to the promyse that he made to his father. This kynge in the seconde yere of his reyne went ouer into Fraunce and maryed Isabell doughter to Philyppe le Belle kynge of Fraunce / and after with her returned into Englande. This kynge for the displeasure done before to hym / by y^e bysshop of Chester / put the sayd bysshop in the Towre in strayte prison / but the lordes whiche y^e kynges father in his dethbede sware to be trewe to his son / came to the kynge and spake so to the kynge / * 1.1 that contrary to the kynges mynde / this Piers was banysshed into Irelande / but the kynge secretely comforted hym with great gyftes / and made hym chefe ruler of the contrey / but after that for the auoydynge of grudge betwene y^e kynge and the lordes / the sayd Piers was suffered to come into Englande agayne and had the rule of all the kynges iewels / and spende & wasted moche of the kynges treasure / that shortely after by y^e labour of the lordes / he was exyled agayne into Flaunders to the kynges displeasure.* 1.2

¶About this tyme the knightes of saynt Iohans wanne the citye of the Rodes from y^e Turkes. Also the Templers landes for that they vsed thyng{is} contrary to the faythe of Christ / were gyuen to them of saynt Iohans / and the Templers were distroyed thorowe out all Chrystendome / and about this tyme the order of the Crossyd freres came fyrst into Englande.* 1.3 This Piers of Ga∣neston was suffered to come agayne into Englande / whiche than demeaned hym selfe moche wors than euer he dyd before / and waxed proude / and reuyled so the iordes that they were sore moued agaynst hym / that sodaynly they rose and beseged hym in the Castell of Scarbrugh / and at the last wanne it and toke it and brought hym to a place besyde warwyke / and there stroke of his hede / wherwith the kynge was greatly displeasyd.* 1.4

¶About the .vi. yere of this kynge / Robert le Bruse herynge of the dyuisyon betwene the kynge & his lordes / came agayne into Scotlande / & there was admytted as kynge: wherfore kyng Ed∣warde prepared a great armye and went into Scotlāde / agaynst whome came Robert le Bruse with a great power of Scottes / & they met at a place nyghe a ryuer called Bannokisborne / where was fought a great batell / but the Englysshemen lost the fylde / and many of the lordes and great men of Englande were slayne and taken / and the kynge with a fewe of his hoost fled and escaped with great daunger into Berwyke / wherfore the Scott{is} were so inflamed with suche pryde / that they made this eyme.* 1.5

ye maydens of Englande nowe may ye morne For ye haue lost your ••emans at Bannokes borne with heue a lowe what weanes the kynge of Englande So sone to wonne Scotlande with rumbelowe.

¶In the .ix. yere of kynge Edwarde / Robert le Bruse kynge of Scottes gatte Berwyke / which was by treason as the fame went. And the nexte yere after the Scottes entred Northūberlande / and brent and slewe man / woman / and chylde / and the contrey therby greatly hurte. And yet to [ B]

¶Lewys Huten.

¶Lewys Huten son of Philyppe le belle / was nexte kynge of Fraunce / the yere of Chryst .M.CCC.xiiii. [ F] he made the court of parlyament of Fraunce / to be holden contynually in Parys / he reyned .ii. yere / and lafte his wyfe the quene with chylde.

¶Iohn̄ son to Lewys was borne after his fathers dethe / and reyned but .viii. dayes. [ F]

¶Robert.

[ T]

¶Robert son to Guy countie of Flaunders was nexte erle of Flaunders. [ T]

Clement.

[ P] ¶Clement was nexte pope / he hylde the see in Auinyon .viii. yere and more. [ P]

[ E] [ E]

••his myschefe was ioyned another / that vytell and corne was so scant / that the people were fayne [ B] to eate hors flesshe & dogges flesshe / and some stale chylderne and ete them / & many for defaute of vytell dyed / & after insued great pestylence & 〈◊〉〈◊〉 / that the people of Englāde wondersly decayde: yet these monicyons mended nat the kynge of his yuell lyuynge.

¶Also about the .xi. yere of his reyne / he assembled a great hoost of the Southe & Eest partes of Englande / & came and beseged Berwyke: wherfore the Scottes gathered a great company and came into Englande another way / into the marches of yorke shyre / & there slewe moche people. wherfore the Archebysshop of yorke and other Abbottes / pryours / clerkes / withe husbandemen / assembled a great companye / & gaue them battell at a place called Mytton / where the Englysshe∣men were discomfyte / and many of them slayne / but the Archebysshop and the Abbot of Selby / & dyuers other there escaped.* 1.6 But because there were so many spirituall men there slayne / it was called therfore the whyte battell. And whan kynge Edwarde harde therof because it was nyghe wynter / he brake vp his sege and returned into yorke. Also about this tyme there was nothynge done but by the aduyse of Hughe Spencer the father / and Hughe Spencer the son / & the cōmons had them in as great hateryd / as they had Piers of Ganeston before.

¶Also in the .xii. yere of this kynge / two Legates whiche came from Rome / made great labour to conclude a peace betwene the kynge of Englāde & the Scottes / but that auayled nat: wherfore kynge Edwarde gatte a curse of pope Iohn̄ / to accurse Robert le Bruse / & all other that toke his parte that had hurte the reame of Englande / & that to stande in strength tyll they had recōpensed for all harmes done to Englande / but it auayled nothynge / but put Englande to great cost for the optaynynge therof. Also when the barons of Englāde sawe this mysterye / that y^e Spencers mysgouerned all the realme / they assembled them to gether / & made a re••uest to the kyng / that he shulde remoue the Spencers from his person. wherfore there was a parlyment called at Lōdon / & the barons came thyder with a great company in iakettes of yelowe and grene / and a bande of whyte cast ouerthwarte / and therfore it was called the parlyment of whyte bandes.* 1.7 At whiche parlyment bothe the Spencers were banysshed the lande for terme of theyr lyues / and they toke shyppynge at Douer & ••o voyded the lande. But it was nat longe after / but the kynge contrarye to that ordynance made in the parlyment / sent for these Spencers agayne / & set them in hyghe auctorite / & ruled all thynge after theyr sensuall appetytes / nothynge regardynge Iustyce nor the cōmen welthe: wherfore the barons intendyng agayne to reforme these myschefe assembled their powers / but the kyng made so hasty spede & gathered his people so sone & was strōger than they / and pursued them so in dyuers places / that the barons euer fled / that in the ende Thomas erle of Lācaster was taken by one Andrewe of Harkeley (whome the kynge sent w^t a great power) at y^e battell of Borough brygge / where many other of the barons were s••ayne and taken.* 1.8 And after that the sayd erle of Lancaster and dyuers other of the barons and knyghtes were put to dethe / & after that the kynges power and the Spencers powers greatly increasyd / & the barons powers decayde by the space of .v. yere contenuynge. In whiche tyme one Robert Baldocke / whiche was a man of euyll fame / was Chaunceler of Englande / by whose meanes the kynge gatheryd many forfettes and fynes of his people / contrary to good order of Iustyce.

¶In the .xv. yere of this kynge / one Edwarde le Bruse brother to the kynge of Scottes / with a great power entred into Irelande / intendynge to haue wonne that lande / but the people of Ire∣lande quytte them so well / that they venquysshed the Scottes and slewe Edwarde le Bruse / & many of the nobles of Scotlande and many other / and droue the resydewe out of the contrey.* 1.9 ¶Also the .xvi. yere / the kynge prepared a meruaylous great armye as some wryters reporte / to the nombre of .C.M. and inuaded Scotlande. But the Scottes for fere of the great multytude drewe them to moūtaynes & other places / y^t the Englysshe hoost preuayled lyttell agaynst them / wherfore the kynge returned agayne into Englande / because many of his people there perysshed for ••••••ke of ••yrell:* 1.10 wherfore syr Iames Dudglas with a great nombre of Scottes / folowed and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with the kynge at a place / called Leylande in Northumberlande / where was betwene them [ B]

¶Philyppe.

[ F] ¶Philyppe le longe / seconde son of Philyp••e l••bell / was nexte kynge of Fraunce / he ordayned but one weyght and mesure to be thorowe all Fraunce. [ F]

[ T] [ T]

Iohn̄.

[ P] ¶Iohn̄ was nexte pope / he hylde the see in Auynyon .xix. yere.

[ P] [ E] [ E]

[ B] a great battell / but the Englysshemen lost the fylde / & the kynge fled & escaped with great daun∣ger. In whiche battell the erle of Rychemonde was taken prisoner & many men slayne / & dyuers other men taken / ••nd the kynges treasure & his ordynaūce was takyn and conueyed into Scot∣lande. But this fylde was loste by the treason of the sayd Andrewe of Harkeley / whome y^e kynge had made erle of Carlyll whiche had a great nombre of people / & cōmynge to the ayde of y^e kynge toke secretely a great sōme of money of the sayd Dudglas / & so betrayed the kynge & came nat at the fylde / whiche was cause y^t the kynge lost the fylde / for the whiche dede the sayd Andrewe was after drawne / hanged / & quartered. About this tyme warre began agayne betwene the Frenche∣men & the Englysshemen / & Gascons / in Guyan. For the pacifyenge of whiche warre / kyng Ed∣warde sent ouer the quene his wyfe to her brother the Frenche kynge / and whyle she was there / Edwarde y^e kyng{is} eldyst son beynge .xiiii. yere of age / asked leaue of his father to go into Fraūce to his mother / & to se his vncle Philyppe le Belle kyng of Fraunce / and had leaue and departed.* 1.11 And because kynge Edwarde had denyed to do homage to the kynge of Fraūce for the Duchye of Guyan / the sayd kynge Philyppe there made Edwarde the kynge of Englande his eldyst son duke of Guyan / wherwith kynge Edwarde was nat content / & dyd exyle bothe the quene & his sayd son out of Englande / by the counsell of the Spencers / & of syr Robert Baldocke his Chaū∣cellour: wherfore the kynge made opyn Proclamacyons / that yf the Quene & her son came nat into Englande by a certayne day / that they shulde be take as ennemyes to the kynge / before the whiche day they came nat / wherfore the kynge seased all the quenes landes / & his sons landes / & toke the hole profyte therof. And after the kynge sent suche worde & thretenynges to the kynge of Fraunce / that he was compelled to auoyde the quene out of Fraunce: wherfore she and her son went to the erle of Heynaude / where Edwarde her son was shortly after contracte to Philyppe y^e sayd erles doughter. And whan this was knowen / dyuers men of name of Englāde came ouer to the quene / and sone after the erle of Henaude prepared .v.C. men of armes / of the whiche one syr Iohn̄ of Henaude the erles brother was captayne / and sent them ouer with the quene and her son into Englande / whiche landed besyde Harwiche in Suffolke / to whome a great nombre of people anone resorted to her ayde / and than she came with great spede towarde London / where the kynge at that tyme was / whiche herynge therof / for fere ••led towarde walys with a small com¦panye / and lefte the bysshop of Excester behynde hym to gouerne London.* 1.12 And than the quene sent a letter to the Mayre and cōmynalte of London / whiche letter was tacked vpon the crosse in Chepe / and dyuers copyes therof set vp in dyuers other places. wherfore this bysshop of Ex∣cester sent to the Mayre to haue the keys of the citye / & spake to hym so sharpe wordes / that they fell at suche a varyance / that the cōmons of the citye in a rage toke the sayd bysshoppe & brought hym to the standarde in Chepe / and smote of his hede / and two of his seruantes hedes / & a cyte∣ners hede called Marshall / that was syr Hughe Spencers spye. Than the kynge went to Bry∣stowe / and ordayned syr Hughe Spencer the father there to kepe castell and the towne / and the kynge with Hughe Spencer the son / and syr Robert Baldocke his Chauncelour / and the erle of Arondell went into walys.* 1.13 And the quene sent the erle of Kent and syr Iohn̄ of Heynaude after them with a great companye / whiche so pursued them that fyrst they toke Hughe Spencer the father at Brystowe / and after pursued the kynge into walys and there toke the kynge / and sent hym to the castell of Kenelworthe / and toke Hughe Spencer the son / and syr Robert Baldocke and the erle of Arondell / and brought them all to the towne of Herforde / & anone after syr Hugh Spencer the father / and Hughe Spencer the sonne / were drawne / hanged / and quartered / and syr Iohn̄ of Arnudell was beheded / and syr Robert Baldocke put in Newgate in London / and there shortly after dyed amonge the theues / & anone after at a parlement holden at westmyster / the .xxv. day of Ianuarii / the yere of Chryst .M.CCC.xxvi.* 1.14 * 1.15 The kynge was deposyd of his kyngly dignyte / and he is buryed at Gloucester. [ B]

¶Charles.

[ F] ¶Charles the thyrde sonne of Philyppe le belle / was nexte kynge of Fraunce. [ F]

[ T] [ T]

Notes

• * 1.1

  Piers of ganeston exyled.
• * 1.2

  The ro∣des won from the Turkes.
• * 1.3

  The tem¦ples dys∣stroyed.
• * 1.4

  Piers of Ganastō beheded.
• * 1.5

  batell at Banno∣kisborne
• * 1.6

  battel of Mytton
• * 1.7

  spence•••• banys∣shed.
• * 1.8

  battel at borough bryg.
• * 1.9

  battell in Irelande
• * 1.10

  battel at Leylāde
• * 1.11

  Quene Isabell went īto Fraunce
• * 1.12

  y^e quene landed.
• * 1.13

  kyng ed∣warde ta¦kyn.
• * 1.14

  spencers beheded.
• * 1.15

  the kyng deposed.