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[ B] ¶whan this kynge Henry came into Englāde / about ye .vii. yere of his reyne / he maryed Maude his doughter to Henry the Emperour of Almayne: whiche henry themperour prisoned pope Pascall and dyuers of his Cardynals / but after he resygned his dignyte to pope Calystus and lyued after a strayte lyfe. Sone after this the erle of Shroysbury and the erle of Cornewall re∣bellyd and rose agaynst the kynge with helpe of the welchemen. But the kynge gate the fauour of the welchemen and caused those lordes for feare to flee into Normandye / wherfore the kynge sayled thyder and made sharpe warre vpon them / and toke them bothe prisoners / and than re∣turned into Englande. About this tyme the contrey of Flaunders was sore surroundyd and hurt with the see / that the flemynges requyred the kynge to inhabyte in the Eest partes of the ryuer of twede whiche was to them graunted / but after a certayne of yeres they were remouyd into west wales / whiche after spredde all Englande ouer.
¶In the .xiii. yere of this kynge / there were sene dyuers straunge thynges in the fyrmament / as blasynge sterres and .ii. mones / one in the Eest / another in the west / and a great erthe quake at Notyngham durynge from morne to euenynge / and the ryuer of Trent drye in the somer / that men went ouer a fote drye. Sone after there folowed a harde wynter / moreyn of cattell / scarcyte of vyttell / and great dethe of people.
¶About the .xv. yere of this kynge great warre began betwene Lewys kynge of Fraunce and kynge henry / and Lewys with a great hoost enteryd into Normandy & wanne many townes & castels / & droue kyng henry from place to place. But after that fortune turned ye many noble cap∣taynes of the Frenche kynges dyed / & some were slayne at the seges / & some forsoke the Frenche kynge. But at the last these .ii. prynces mette with .ii. great hoostes in a playne fylde / where there was fou•••••• a cruell battell / but the Frenche kynge lost the fylde / and many of his people were slayne 〈◊〉〈◊〉 he hym selfe fayne to flee / but after these princes were agreed / and wyllyam the eldyst son of kynge henry dyd homage to the kynge of Fraunce for Normandye / & the fre men of Nor∣mandye dyd homage to wyllyam the kynges sonne.* 1.1
¶After this done kynge Henry sayled into Englāde / but the shyppe wherin wyllyam his eldyst son was / and Rycharde his brothe / rthe erle of Chester / and his suster the / kynges doughter the countes of Percye / & the kynges nyce / and many other great estates / and other to the nombre of .C.lx. parsons strycke vpon a rocke and was sodaynly brokyn / where they were all drowned saue one man that escaped.* 1.2
¶About the .xxi. yere there was a great coūsell called in Lōdon / for ye correccyon of the vicyous lyuynge of preestes to be done by the kynges offycers. Sone after this Henry the Emperour dyed / and Maude the empresse came to her father kynge henry / whiche caused Dauyd the kynge of Scotlande and the more parte of the lordes of Englande to do othe and fealte to the Em∣presse / and to kepe the lande to her if the kynge dyed without issue male.
¶Also about the .xxviii. yere / one Geffrey Plantagenet erle of Angeo maryed the sayd Maude and after by her had issue Henry / whiche henry after kynge Steuyn was kynge of Englande / as shalbe shewed after.
¶This kynge henry the fyrst / buylded the Abbey of Redynge / & released to the Englysshemen the Dane gelt. Also this kynge henry beynge in Normandye in the .xxxv. yere of his reyne / the seconde day of December in the yere of Chryst .M.C.xxxv. dyed. Some say he dyed of a surfet / and some wryters say that it was by a fall of a horse / and his body was brought into Englande / and is buryed in the Abbay of Redynge. [ B]
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