Here begynneth the first volum of sir Iohan Froyssart of the cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flau[n]ders: and other places adioynynge. Tra[n]slated out of frenche into our maternall englysshe tonge, by Iohan Bourchier knight lorde Berners: at the co[m]maundement of oure moost highe redouted souerayne lorde kyng Henry the. viii. kyng of Englande and of Fraunce, [and] highe defender of the christen faythe. [et]c.

¶ Howe the duke of Lancastre kepte him selfe styll in Scotlande / for feare of this rebellyon. And howe the kyn∣ge punysshed of these traytours / the chefe maisters. Cap. CCC .lxxxv. (Book 385)

NOwe lette vs speke / how the duke of Lancastre in the meane season of this rebellyon / was in the mar∣chesse of Scotlande / trea∣tyng for a peace with therle Duglas / and the other lor∣des of Scotlande. The Scottes knewe right well of this rebellyon in Englande / and in like¦wise so dyde the duke of Lancastre. Howe be it he neuer made any semblant ther ofto the scot∣tes / but was as sore in his treatie / as thoughe Englande had ben in good rest and peace. So longe this treatie was debated amonge them / that at last a truse was taken to endure thre yer bytwene Englande and Scotland. and whan this truse was thus accorded / the lordes of eche parte made good chere eche to other. Than the

erle Duglas sayd to the duke of Lācastre. Sir we knowe right well of the rebellion of the co∣mon people in England / and the parell that the realme of England is in by that incidēce. Sir we repute & take you for ryght sage & a valiant man sith ye haue cōtinued your treaty so frely / as ye haue done / for ye wolde neuer make any semblant therof. Sir / we say to you y^t we offre ourselfe yfye haue nede / to be redy to ayde you with .v. or .vi. C. speres / and to do you seruice. by my faith sayd the duke. fayre lordes I thāke you / I woll nat refuse your offre. howe be it I thynke veryly / that the kynge my lorde hath so good counsayle / that the mater shall right well come to passe. how be it I desyre you to haue a salucconducte for me and myne to returne in to your coūtrey / if nede be / tyll the mater be apea∣sed. The erle Duglas and the erle Moret who had the kynges auctorite / graūted hym his de∣syre / and so than thy departed. The scottes re∣turned to Edenbourge / and y^e duke & his went to Berwyk. wenyng to the duke to haue entred in to the towne / for whan he passed that waye: ther he left all his prouision. but the capitane of the towne / called {ser} Mathue Redmayn / refused to hym the entre / and closed the gates agaynst hym and his. sayng howe he was so comaūded by the erle of Northumberlande / who as than was princypall and soueraygne of all the mar∣ches and frounters of Northumberlande. And whan the duke herde those wordes he was sore displeased & sayd. how so Mathue Redmayn. Is ther in Northūberlande a gretter soueray∣gne than I am / that shall lette me to passe this way / and left all my prouisyon with you. what meaneth these tydyng{is}? By my faith {ser} sayd the knyght. This is true that I say / and by the cō∣maundement of the kynge. Sir this that I do to you is ryght sore agaynst my wyll: how be it I must nedes do it. Therfore {ser} for goddessake holde me excused / for I am thus commaunded on payne of my lyfe / that ye shall nat entre in to this towne / nor none of yours.

yE may well knowe that y^e duke of Lā∣castre hadde great marueyle / and was sore displeased with these wordes / but nat with the knyght all onely / but with theym that ordeyned that mater. seyng that he hadde traueyled for the besynes of England / and than to haue hym in suche suspecte. As to stoppe fro hym the first to wne bytwene England & Scot¦lande. And so imagyned greatly in hymselfe / & discouered nat all that he thought in his coura¦ge. & so he made no more prease on the knyght / and thought well the knyght wolde nat so do without some expresse commaundemēt. and so brake out of that mater and sayd. {ser} Red••ayn / haue you any knowlege of y^e tidyng{is} ī Englād. {ser} sayd he I know none / but that the countrey is sore meuyd. and the kyng our soueraigne lorde hath written to all the lordes / knyghtes / and good townes of this contrey: to be all redy to come to him whan soeuer he sendith for them. & all cōstables and kepars of cyties / townes / and castelles in Northūberland. he hath sent strayt commaundement on payne of deth / to suffer no man to entre in to any place vnder theyr rules / and to take good hede of theyr charge. And as for the comon people that rebelleth about Lon∣don / I knowe no certayn worde of thē. but that the offycers of the bysshopryche of Lincolne / of Cambridge / of Stafforde / of Bedford / and of Norwich / haue writen: how that y^e comon peo∣ple vnder them haue great desyre / that the ma∣ter shuld go euyll. & that ther shulde be trouble in England. ya sayd the duke / what here you of our countreys of Lancastre / Derby / and Lyn∣setur. here you of any rebellion ther? Sir sayd the knyght I here no thynge y^t they passe Lyn∣colne. Than the duke mused a lytle and de{per}ted fro the knyght and toke his way to Roseburge / and there he was receyued of the constable / for whan he passed he set him ther. Then the duke of Lancastre was coūsayled / bycause he knewe nat surely how y^e maters dyd in Englande / nor of whome he was beloued nor hatyd. That he shuld send to the lordes of Scotland / desyring them to send a quantite of men of warre to con∣uey hym in to Scotlande / with a saueconduct. And so thus he sent to the erle Duglas / who lay as than at Alquest. and whan the erle sawe his lettre he had great ioy / and made great cher to the messāger. And sent worde therof to the erle Moret / and to therle de la Mare his brother / desyring them incontinent without any delay / to mete with him at Morlane the thyrd day af∣ter / with a certayne nombre well horsed & apa∣rellyd. Assone as these lordes knewe this / they sent for theyr men and frendes / and so came to Morlan / and ther they foūde the erle Duglas / and so they rode all together / to the nombre of v. C. speres / and came to the abbey of Mauros a .ix. lytle myle fro Roseburge. And on the way they met the duke / & ther they made great chere eche to other. And so longe they rode together tyll they came to the cite of Edenbourge / wher as the kynge of scottes was. And for the moost

parte euer the kynge lay there / for there was a good castell / a bigge towne / and a fayre hauyn but as at that tyme the kyng was nat there. He was in the wylde scottysshe. There the duke of Lancastre was greatlye honoured of the Erle Duglas / and of the barownes of Scotlande. and the castell was delyuered to the duke to lye in. And so there he lay a season / tyll other tidyn¦ges came to hym out of Englāde / but that was nat so soone as he wolde. Than it was maruell to regarde the yuelles of these vnhappy people howe in malyce and hatered they spake of this duke / without cause. The voyce and brute ran about in Englande / the tyme of this rebellyon / Howe y^• the duke of Lācastre was a trayto^r to the kyng / and howe he was become scottysshe. but anone after it was founde false and contra¦ry. But these vngracyous people / to bringe the realme into trouble sowed abrode these word{is}. and that they knowleged at y^e hour / whan they were executed to dethe. That is to say: Lyster / Watte Tyler / Jacke Strawe / Uaquyre / and Johan Balle. These fyue were throughout all the realme chiefe and souerayne capitayns / for in fyue part{is} of the realme / they were maisters and gouernours. And specially they had in ha∣tered the duke of Lancastre / and that they well shewed. For at their first entryng in to Lōdon / they brent his house of the Sauoy / clene to the erthe. And besyde y^• / they had sprede abrode in England by their false wordes / howe the duke was of the scottysshe parte. and in dyuers plac{is} they turned his armes vp so downe lyke a tray¦to^r the which was after derely bought / for they that dyde it / lost their heedes for their labour.

NOwe I shall shewe you the vengeaunce that the kyng of Englande toke of these vngracious people. In the meane season while the duke of Lancastre was in Scotlande.

wHan these people were repeased / and that Uaquyre was executed to dethe: and Lystre of Stafforde / Watte Ty∣ler / Jacke Strawe / Johan Balle / and dyuers other at London. Than the kyng was coūsay∣led to go visyte his realme / through euery shire bayliwyke / and vyllage: to pourge & punysshe all the sayd yuell doers. And to gete agayne all suche letters as byforce / he had gyuen thē in dy∣uers places. and so to bring agayne his realme in good order. Than the kyng sent secretely for a certayne nombre of men of armes to come to him / at a day apoynted. and so they dyde / to the nombre of a fyue hundred speares and as ma∣ny archers. and whan they were all come as the kyng had deuysed. The kyng departed fro Lō¦don with his housholdmen all onely / and toke the way in to Kent / wher as first these vngra∣cyous people began te styrre. And these forsaid men of warre folowed after the kynge / and co∣sted hym: but they rode nat in his cōpany. The kyng entred in to Kent / and came to a vyllage called Comprimbre / and called the mayre and all the men of the towne before hym. And whan they were all come in to a fayre place / the kyng made to be shewed them by one of his coūsayle howe they had erred agaynst the kyng / & howe they had nere tourned all Englande / to trybula¦cyon and to losse. And bycause that the kynge knewe well that this busynesse was begon / by some of them and nat by all. Wherfore it were better that some dyde beare the blame than all. Therfore he cōmaunded them / that they shulde shewe what they were y^t were culpable / on pain to be for euer in the kynges indygnacion / and to be reputed as traytours agaynst hym. And whan they that were ther assembled herde that request / and sawe well that suche as were culpa¦ble shulde excuse all thother. Than they beheld eche other / and at last sayd. Sir / beholde hym here / by whom this towne was first moued. in contynent he was taken and hanged / & so there were hāged to the nombre of seuyn. and the let∣ters that the kyng had gyuen thē / were demaū∣ded agayne. and so they were delyuerd agayne and torne and broken before all the people / and it was sayd to them all. Sirs / ye that be here as¦sembled: We cōmaunde you in the kyng{is} name on payne of dethe / euery man to go home to his owne house peasably / and neuer to grudge nor ryse agaynst the kyng nor none of his offycers. and this trespace that ye haue done / the kynge dothe pardon you therof. Than they cryed all with one voyce: God thanke the kynges grace and all his counsayle.

IN lyke maner as the kyng dyde at Com∣primbre: he dyd at Caūterbury / at Sād¦wyche / at Germeney / at Conculle / and in other places in Kent. In likewise he dyde in all other plac{is} of his realme / wher as any rebellyon had ben. And there were hanged and beheeded / mo than fyftene hundred. Than the kyng was coū¦sayled to sende for his vncle the duke of Lanca∣stre out of Scotlande. so the kyng sent for hym by a knyght of his house / called sir Nycholas Carnefell. The knight rode so long that he cāe to Edenbroughe / and there he founde the duke

and his company / and delyuered his letters of credence fro the kynge. The duke obeyed as it was reason / and also gladly he wolde retourne in to Englande / to his owne herytage. And so toke his way to come to Ros bourge, and at his departyng he thāked the lordes of Scotlande / of the conforte that they had done to hym / as in susteyninge hym in their realme / as longe as it pleased hym. The erle Duglas / therle Moret / and other of Scotlande / brought him to the ab¦bey of Maurose. Thus the duke came to Rose bourge / and to Newcastell vpon Tyne / and so to Dyrham and to yorke. and in euery place he founde / cyties and townes redy apparelled / as it was reason. ¶ And the same season there dyed in London a knight / called sir Rycharde Dangle erle of Hūtyngdon / and maister to the kynge. He was reuerently buryed in the freres prechers in London. And on the day of his ob∣sequy / there was the kynge / his two bretherne / the princesse his mother / and a great nombre of prelates / barownes / and ladyes of Englande: and there dyde hym great honour. And truely this getyll knight was well worthy to haue ho∣noure / for in his tyme he had all noble vertues / that a knight ought to haue. he was mery / true amorous / sage / secrete / large / prewe / hardy / ad¦uenturous / and chyualrous. Thus ended the gentyll knight sir Rycharde Dangle.