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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willm̄s ru¦fus.

Vrban.

[ P] ¶Vrban was nexte pope / The yere of Chryst .M.lxxxviij. he hylde the see .xii. yere and more. Vnder hym was determyned the voyage to Ierusalem by Godfrey de Boleyn / & other chrysten men whiche wanne the citye of Ierusalem. [ P]

[ E] [ E]

¶Wyllyam Rufus.

[ B] WIllyam Rufus or Wyllyam the redde / the seconde son of wyllyam conquerour / was crowned nexte kynge of Englande / the .xxvii. day of Septembre / the yere of Chryst .M.lxxxvii. Sone after that wyllyam Rufus had taken vpon hym the kyngdome. His brother Robert Courteyse came out of Normandye and landed at Hampton / to the intent to haue ex∣pulsed his brother from the kyngdome / but wyllyam Rufus herynge therof sende to hym embassadours / requyrynge hym that he myght inioye it duryng his lyfe / payeng to hym yerely .iii. thousande markes / with condicyon that whiche of them ouer lyued other to inioye the kyngdome To the whiche Robert by y^e aduyse of his counsell / assented & returned agayne to Normandye. This wyllyam Rufus was somwhat vnstable of maners and couetous / and solde benefyces of the churche and bysshoprykes / so that betwene hym and his lordes was oft discencyon / wherfore well nere all the Normans toke parte agaynst hym / so that he was forced of necessyte to drawe to hym the Englysshemen.

¶Also sone after Robert Courteyse duke of Normandye layde his dukedome to plegge to his brother kyng wyllyam Rufus / for .x.M.li. & toke his voyage into y^e holy lande. Also in this tyme Malcolyn kyng of Scott{is} enteryd Northūberlāde / & there dyd great distruccyon: but yet after many cōflyct{is} betwene y^e kyng and hym / Malcolyn was sworne to be obedient to kyng willyam. ¶The .iiii. yere of his rayne a great wynde was in London / y^e 〈◊〉〈◊〉 downe .v.C. howses and y^e rofe of Bowe churche / and dyd great hurte in wynthester & in dyuers other places. In this tyme also the welchemen rebellyd / but they were subdued & theyr duke or kyng called Ryse was slayne whiche was accompted the last kynge of wales. After that Malcolyn kynge of Scottes rebellyd & came into Englande w^t his retenewe / whome one Robert erle of Northūberlande inconteryd / & there the kynge Malcolyn was slayne / and by the ayde of kyng wyllyam Edgare his son was made kynge of Scotlande.* 1.1 ¶About this tyme the order of Cysteaux was fyrst brought into Englande / by one water Espeke that founded the fyrst Abbey of that religyon at Ryuall. ¶This kynge wyllyam was a very couetous man / a proude & a wylfull / and pylled both•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 spe∣rytualte & temperalte / with sellynge of Bysshoprykes / Abbeys / & benefyces / and leuyenge vnre∣sonable taxes & trybutes on the temperalte / specially by the onely counsell of one Ranulphe hys procuratour. whiche ryches the kynge dyd spende vpon the Towre of London / & some say vpon the makynge of westmyster halle: but yf y^e sayenge be trewe of westmyster halle / it must be some olde halle there / & nat the newe halle that is nowe. For the armes that appere in the halle y^t nowe is aswell in y^e stone worke as in the tymber worke / be y^e armes whiche kyng Rycharde the seconde gaue / which be .iii. Lyons with y^e flour delyce quarterly / & the whyte hart for his badge. For there was neuer kyng of Englande y^t bare the armes of Fraūce / whiche be the flour delyce / before kyng Edwarde the thyrde / for in his tyme the armes of Fraūce was fyrst ioyned to y^e armes of Eng∣lande. wherfore it shulde seme euydently that westmyster halle y^t i•• nowe / was nat bylde in the tyme of kynge wyllyam Rufus / except it were onely the foundacyon therof / or els it was y^e halle in westmyster aboue the steyres / which is nowe called y^e whyte halle. By the reporte of the cōmyn people / in this kynges tyme dyuers great wonders were sene / as y^e deuyll apperyng in mannes lykenesse / great wyndes / tempest / & swellynge & rysynge of waters. And therfore the kynge was tolde by dyuers of his famylyers / y^t god was nat content w^t his lyuynge / but he was so wylfull & proude of mynde / y^t he regardyd lyttell theyr sayeng. This kynge wyllyam as is sayd & wrytten of hym / had great pleasure in hūtynge / in so moche y^t he pulled downe & distroyed dyuers houses of religyon to inlarge the newe forest of wyndesore for wylde dere: but a knyght of his named water Tyrell by y^e glaunsyng of his arowe vpon a braunche whan he shot at an harte in the sayd forest / smote the kyng & woūded hym to dethe wherof shortely he dyed. The fyrst day of August the yere of Chryst .M.C. without any yssue of his body. And he rayned .xii. yere .xi. monethes and .xii. dayes / and is buryed at westmyster. [ B]

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[ T] Dedyre son to y^e doughter of Robert erle of Flaūders was next erle of Flaūders. [ T]

Notes

• * 1.1

  the kyng of Scot∣tes slayn