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.

[illustration]

Richardus .j.

¶Clement. Celestyne.

[ P] ¶Clement was nexte pope the yere of Chryst .M.C.lxxxvii. he hylde the see .iii. yere and more. ¶Celestyne was nexte pope / he hylde the see .vii. yere. [ P]

Henry.

[ E] ¶Henry sonne to Fredrycke was nexte Emperour / the yere of Chryst .M.C.lxxxix. he hylde the Empyre .x. yere. [ E]

Rycharde the fyrst.

[ B] RIcharde the fyrst sonne of kynge Henry the seconde / was crowned kynge of Englande the .iii. day of Septembre / the yere of Chryst .M.C.lxxxix. This kynge ordayned in the citye of London two Baylyffes to be chosen yerely to gouerne the citye / whose names were.

The fyrst baylyffes of London.

• Henry Tornehyll
• Rycharde fitz ryuer.

¶Vpon the whiche day of his coronacyon because the Iewes presumed further than they ought / the people fell vpon them and droue them to theyr houses / & robbed and spoyled them without pyte / and brent some of theyr houses / that the kyng sent strayte cōmaundement to cesse the ryot / but because the nombre of the trespassours were so many / they escaped vnpunysshed.* 1.1 ¶In the be∣gynnynge of his reyne / wyllyam kynge of Scottes came to Caunterbury / and dyd homage to kynge Rycharde. This Rycharde toke vpon hym to warre agaynst Chrystes enemyes / & made great preparacyon of money and therfore he gaue ouer Berwyke and Rokysborowe to the kyng of Scottes for .x.M.li. and solde to the bysshoppe of Durham his owne prouynce / & made many bysshoppes and ryche preestes to pay great sommes of money.* 1.2 Also he had lycence of the pope to dispence with them that had takyn vpon them the crosse wherby he raysed moche money / & than commytted the rule of Englande to his chauncelour the bysshop of Ely / & than went into Nor∣mandye and mette with Philyppe kynge of Fraunce at Turon / whiche had promysed the same voyage. In whiche metynge they deuysed assurance for the contynuance of theyr iourney into y^e holy lande: that is to say / that kynge Rycharde shulde passe by the see / and kynge Philyppe by the lande / and to mete agayne at Cycyll / where they mette accordynge to theyr apoyntement / where sone after a grudge began betwene the .ii. kynge for correctyon of theyr soudyours. wher∣fore kynge Philyppe departed / but kyng Rycharde entryd the lande of Cypres / & made so sharpe warre / that he toke the kynge of Cypres prisoner / and layde hym in bondes of syluer / because he had promysed he shulde nat be put in bondes of yron.* 1.3 After y^t he sayled to Acon or Acres / where kynge Philyppe with his hoost lay and beseged the citye whiche than ioyously receyued kynge Rycharde / whiche bothe princes set vpon the citye of Acres / and wanne it.* 1.4 But sone after that / a greater grudge began betwene those two prynces. Some say the cause therof was for the partynge of the pryes gotten at the sayd citye of Acres / and some say it was for that that kynge Rycharde denyed to kynge Philyppe / halfe that whiche was gotten at y^e citye of Cypres / whiche kynge Philyppe claymed by comenant made betwene them at Turon.* 1.5 And some say it was because that the erle of Champeyne departed from kynge Philyppe and forsoke to do hym plea∣sure / whiche erle kynge Rycharde receyued. And some say the cause of the varyaunce was for y^e that kynge Rycharde beynge in Cycell / maryed the syster of the eynge of Nauerne / where he be∣fore had promysed to mary the syster of y^e sayd kynge Philyppe. But what so euer was the cause of the grudge / trouthe it is that kynge Philyppe departed from Acres / & contynued his iourney tyll he came into Fraunce. Sone after this it was shewed kynge Rycharde / that the towne of Iapheth whiche was than in chrysten mennes handes / was beseged by one Salandyne / & lykely to be wonne. wherfore kynge Rycharde sayled thyther by water / & a nother hoost of Frenchemen and other whiche remayned there after the departynge of kynge Philyppe he sent them to Ia∣phethe by lande / & there by strength rescued the towne & wanne dyuers other holdes there nyghe /

¶Philyppe. [ B]

¶Philyppe called philyppe Auguste / was nexte kynge of Fraūce / the yere of Chryst .M.C.lxxx. [ F] he wanne a great battell agaynst Otton the Emperour Ferrande erle of Flaūders / & Raynolde erle of Bulleyne / and toke bothe those erles prisoners. [ F]

¶wyllyam.

¶wyllyam Dampeter maryed to Margaret syster to Iohanne / before countes of Flaunders / was nexte erle of Flaunders [ T]

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[ P] [ P] [ E] [ E]

[ B] and lefte many chrysten knyghtes to kepe them & slewe the Turkes which he had take prisoners / by reason wherof kyng Rycharde was sore dredde & fered of the Turkes. In the whyle y^t kynge Rycharde was thus occupyed in the holy lande / the bysshhop of Ely y^t had the gydynge of En∣glande dyd moche tyranye and extorcyon in Englande / as in depriuynge of Bysshoppes & Ab∣bottes / and kepynge theyr landes / & pollynge and oppressynge of lay people by dyuers meanes / that at the last by strength the lordes put hym out of the lande. This kynge Rycharde perceyued that the Chrysten people decresyd in the holy lande / aswell by infyrmytes as lacke of vytell / toke a truce for .iii. yere and returned whome warde / and sent the quene his wyfe by the see / & he sayled with a small company into Histra and there landed / where he was takyn prisoner by the duke of Ostreche and by hym put in prison / and brought to Henry Emperour of Almayne / whiche put hym in stronge prison / and after Raunsomed hym at .C.M.li. whiche duke of Ostryche was af∣warde therfore accursed of the pope for y^e wronge done to kynge Rycharde.* 1.6

¶Also for the payment of this sayd Raunsome / afterwarde the woll of all the whyte monkes and chanons in Englande was solde / and rynges / iewels of prelates and vessels and cha∣lyces of all the churches thorowe the lande / & dyuers & many shrynes scraped and spoyled of theyr golde and syluer. Dyuers causes there were as wryters reher••e / that the Emperour shulde owe grudge to kynge Rycharde / one was because kynge Rycharde had promysed to the Emperour an ayde for the wynnynge of the kyngdome of Cicyle / whiche the Emperour claymed as his in∣heritance / whiche promyse kynge Rycharde as he sayd brake. Another cause was for that y^e kyng Rycharde toke from a knyght of the duke of Ostryche the dukes banner and trode it vnder his fete in dispyte of the duke and of the Emperour his lorde / and therfore the duke and the Em∣perour were gladde to do kynge Rycharde displeasure.

¶It is sayd that a Lyon was put to kynge Rycharde beynge in prison to haue deuoured hym / and when the Lyon was gapynge / he put his Arme in his mouthe & pulled the lyon by the harte so harde / that he slewe the lyon. And therfore some say he is called Rycharde Cure de lyon / but some say he is called Cure delyon because of his boldenesse and hardy stomake. Also Iohn̄ the kynges brother by excytynge of the Frenche kynge / herynge that the kynge his brother was in prison in Almayne / began to make warre within Englande / & toke dyuers castels of the kinges / as wyndesore / Notyngham / & dyuers other. And the frenche kynge made warre in Normādye / but the barons of Englande resysted so this Iohn̄ the kynges brother / that he was fayne to de{per}te to the kynge of Fraunce. After whan kynge Rycharde came home into Englande / he called a parlyment and set the realme in order / & exy••ed all the Iewes out of Englande / saue onely a fewe whiche remayned in Norwyche: but after that the Iewes were suffred to inhabyte agayne in dyuers places in Englande. And than after he sayled into Normandye where his brother Iohn̄ than was / and made sharpe warre agaynst the Frenche kyng / but after a truce & peace was taken betwene them for a certayne tyme. And his brother Iohn̄ was then reconsyled to the kyng / whi∣che bothe to gyther returned into Englāde. But after when the day of truce was expyred / kyng Rycharde sayled agayne into Normandye / & made newe warre agayne vpon the Frenche kyng. In the whiche warre they sped dyuersly / for the Frenche kynge toke dyuers of his holdes in Nor¦mandye / & kynge Rycharde toke dyuers of his holdes in Fraunce / & many great conflyctes was betwene them. But at the last kynge Rycharde went to besege a castell / called castyll Gayllarde / and as he rode about the castell to aduyse it / one marked hym with a quarell / & smote hym in the hede / wherof anone after he dyed without yssue of his body / the .vi. day of Apryll / the yere of Chryst .M.C·xCix. and is buryed at Founteuerarde.* 1.7 [ B]

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Notes

• * 1.1

  The ie∣wes spoy¦led.
• * 1.2

  voyage into the holy lāde
• * 1.3

  the kyng of cypres takyn.
• * 1.4

  The citie of Acres wonne.
• * 1.5

  varyāce.
• * 1.6

  kynge ry¦charde ta¦kyn pri∣soner.
• * 1.7

  kynge ry¦charde slayne.