hem to go sauf & come sauf his ij worthy vncles / the duk of Gloucestre & the duk of york / And they ij wenten ouer the water of Graue∣nyng / & abyden there as for pledges / vnto
a strong power, & eche man in his best aray / & the duke of lancastre & the duk of york comen in the same maner with men of armes & archyers folewyng the kynge & sir williā scrope tresorer
/ And or he passed the see he ordeyned & made sir Edmond of lāgely his vncle the duk of york his lyeutenaūt of englond in his absence with the gouernaunce & counceyll of these iiij knyghtes that hadden taken
duk of Gloncestre / and Sir Thomas Beauford erle of dorset, and the duk of Aumarle he made duk of york / And than the kyng ordeyned his sone sir thomas duk of Clarence sir Tho∣mas Beauford erle of dorset
hem a capytayn cal led Iohn Cade an yrysshman / whiche named hym self Mortymer cosyn to the duk of york / & this Capytayn held these men to geder & made ordenaūces amōg them / & brought hem to
duk of york toke shippyng in walys / and sayled ouer in to yrlond, where he was wel receyued / How therles of marche warwyk. & salisbury entred in to Ca∣leys / & how therle of warrewyk went in to
to Irlōd for to speke with the duk of york / & to take his aduys how they shold entre in to en glōd ayene / And whan he had ben there. & done his erandes / he re torned
of humbre kyng of hunes for he was drowned therin And renneth fyrst a crook oute of the southside of york / and thenne it departed the pro∣uynce of lyndeseye that longed somtyme to the merces from-the othir contrey northumberland
and of their see Ca. xiijLucius was the first kyng cristend of the britons / in his tyme were thre archebisshops sees in Britayne / one was at london / nothir at york / and the thirde at Caerusk the
& southern vn∣derstande eyther othir / Wilhel. de pon̄. li. iij. Alle the langages of the northumbres & specially at york is so sharp shittyng frotyng & vnshappe / that we sothern men may vnneth vnderstande that langage / I
THis Ebrac regned lx yere and a strong man was and amyghty And this Ebra thurgh his myght and helpe ofhis bretons conquerd all frānce and wan ther so moche gold andsiluer that whan he come ayen in to
debate that arose among hem Enelyn that was the Erles cosin oflondon queld Irenglas that was the kynges cosin wherfor thekyng swore that Enelin sholde bene honged but the Erle of lon∣donthat was Enelin{us} lord wold nat suffre it
Canterburie an othir at york and othir manybysshoppes that yet bene in this lande ¶And whan thees ij. le∣gatzhad baptized all that lande they ordeyned prestz for to bapta∣zechildren and for to make the sacrament & after they went ayen̄to
and wysely and said that he wolde paye to Rom all that right andreson wolde with good will And so they accorded tho with goodwill and withoute any contak and both they duelled to gedees inloue ¶The kyng Coyll
AFter this kyng Edward regned Eldred his brother &seint dunston crouned hym & his seint dunston died soneafter that he had foryeue the quene hir trespace Estrildfor encheson that she was cause of kyng Edwards deth & seint dū¦stonhad
do all the sorwthat he myʒt to the kynges men of englond but anone after he wastaken & lad to york & ther he was drawe & honged for his felonye.¶Of the redressynge that kyng Edward made of his Iustices
de brezei seneschall of normandie with the Captayn of Dpe andmany othir Captayns & men of werre wente to the see with a gretenauye and come in to the downes by nyght / and on the morne erlybefore day
of march had victorie Thenne the Quenewith tho lordes of the north after they had distressed & slayn the du∣keof york and his felawship come southward with a grete mul∣titude& puissaunce of peple for to come to the kyng and
at this day Mēpris let quelle his brother thurgh treson. and hym self afterward helde the londe ād anone let crowne hym kȳg and regned / ād after bicame so lither a man that he destroied in a whi∣le
eldest sone Erle of Cornewaille. & that other erle of London / And whyle the kȳg Cassibalaȳ regned: came julyus cesar that was em∣perour of Rome in to thys land with a power of Romayns / and wolde haue