Henry the fyfte.
[ B] HEnry the fyfte of that name / and son to Henry the .iiii. was crowned kynge of Englande the .ix. day of August / the yere of Chryst M.CCCC.xii. he was borne at Monmouthe in wales / and therfore he is called kynge Henry of Monmouthe. This Henry before the dethe of his father applyed hym selfe to vyce and insolence / and vsed ryotous & wylde companye. But after that he was admytted to gouerne ye lande / he became a newe man / and turned all his wyldenesse to sobernesse / and his vyces to vertue.* 1.1 And than he gaue sufficyent rewardes to all his olde wylde cōpany that were his familyers / & charged all them vpon payne of theyr lyues that they shulde nat come within .x. myles of his presens. And after his coronacyon / he caused the corps of kynge Ry∣charde the .ii. to be taken vp at Langley / & with great solempnyte buryed agayne at westmyster / and ordayned there .ii. tapers to brenne perpetually vpon his graue / and euery weke a solempne Deryge and masse to be songe for hym / and certayne money to be gyuen in almesse.
¶Also in the .ii. yere of his reyne / one syr Iohn̄ olde castell knyght was appeched of Heresye and taken / and he escaped and fledde into wales.* 1.2 But after that the adherentes of the sayd syr Iohn̄ gathered / a great nombre of people & assembled them in a fylde nyghe saynt Gylles nyhhe Lon∣don. But the kynge herynge therof / sodaynly gathered his people and entryd the fylde vpon them or they were fully assembled / and vanquesshed them and toke them prisoners / and after caused .xxx. and mo of them to be iudged / whiche were hanged vpon galouse in the same fylde and there brent.
¶Also in the .iii. yere of this kyng Henry / he was put in mynde by his lordes spirituall and tem∣porall / to make warre vpon the frenche kynge / for the tytle and ryght that he had to Normādye / Gascoyne / & Guyan. whervpon he sent his imbassadours to the frenche kynge Charles the .vi. & also desyred to haue Katheryn his doughter in maryage / whervnto it was answered by the coū∣sell of Fraunce that they had no leyser to answere suche tryfelinge busynesse. And some wryters affyrme that the frenche kynge sent kynge Henry worde that he was to yonge to enterpryse any warre / and in derisyon sent vnto hym a tonne full of tennes balles / whiche was more mete for hym and his lordes to play with / than to meddyll with any warres. wherfore the kynge by the aduyse of his counsell / made quycke prouisyon for to warre / as after shalbe shewed. ¶Also in the same yere there was a generall counsell of all the clargye of Christendome / holdyn in ye citye of Constaunce in hyghe Almayne / where the opinyons of wykelyffe were condempned for Heresyes / whiche counsell contynued by the space of .iiii. yeres / and than the olde Cisme of the two popes was determyned / and one newe pope chosen called the .v. Martyn.
¶Also whan the kynge had made prouisyon for his warre in the .iiii. yere of his reyne / he with his lordes rodde thorowe London and so to Southampton where his armye went with hym / but whyle he was shyppynge his people / Rycharde erle of Chambrydge sonne to Edwarde of Langley / the .iiii. son to kynge Edwarde the .iii. whiche Rycharde maryed Anne doughter to Roger Mortymer son to Philyp onely doughter of Leonell .ii. son to kyng Edwarde ye thyrde.* 1.3 [ B]
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