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NEar Ringwood, from God and peoples service, to Beast and Luxury, thirty six Parish Churches were converted and pulled down by the Conqueror, and thirty miles of circuit inforrested for his Game of Hunting. Wherein his Sons, Richard and Rufus, with Henry the second son to Duke Ro∣bert
his first, felt by hasty death the hand of Justice and Revenge: For in the same Forrest, Richard by a blasting of a pestilent Air, Rufus by a shot taken for a Beast, and Henry as Absalom hanged by a bough, came to their untimely ends. At so dear a rate the pleasure of Dogs, and harbour for Beasts were bought in the bloud of these Princes.
In the City of Winchester was Richard and Rufus Interred, their bones by Bi∣shop Fox were gathered and shrined in little gilt Coffers fixed upon a wall in the Quire, where still they remain care∣fully preserved.
The Wars betwixt Maud the Em∣press, intituled Lady of England, unto whom all the Nobility had sworn Alle∣giance. And King Stephen Earl of Bol∣loign her Cousin German; was prosecu∣ted with such variable Fortunes in many conflicts on both parts, that Stephen himself was by her taken Prisoner, and retained in Irons with other extremities used. But the success of War altering,
Maud the Empress to save her own life, adventured through the Host of her E∣nemy, laid in a Coffin fained to be dead, and so was carryed in a Horse-Litter from Winchester to Lutegershall Vices, and Glocester, and thence to Oxford, whence the year following she escaped as dangerously by deceiving the Scout Watch in a deep Snow, Anno 1141.