one at caūterbury / an other at york / and other many bisshops / that yet be in this lande / & whan these two legats had baptised al that londe / they ordeyned prestes for to baptyse children /
and wysely / and sayd that he wold paye to Rome all that right & reson wold with good will / And so they acorded tho with good wyl / and without ony contak / and both they duellyd
they myght / but he and his folk were discomfyted / and slayne / And Otta his sone fled vnto york. And Aurilam∣bros hym folowed egrely / Otta a lytel whyle ageynst hym stode but afterward he put hym to
he to∣ke of hem homages, And after that kyng Arthur torned ageyne with his hoost / and come ageyne to york / and there abore duryng that vyage / And tho yafe he al loegers to Aloth / that had
fled fro thens in to Cornewaylle / The quene gunne that was kyng Ar thuris wyf that tho soiourned at york / & herd that mordred was fled thens / & myght not endure ayenst kyng Arthur / she was
the countrey and ordey ned all the power that he myght haue & wold haue gete the tou ne of york with strengthe / but the danoys come out anon / & yaf hym batayll / & slewe the kyng
al the ād / e gned no bly / and lyued but fyften yere / & dyed & lyeth at york / How kynge eldred come ageyne fro normandye / and how knought the danoys regned / & of the
come in to englond & slewe / and robbed & destroyed al that he myght till that he come to york / and ther he slewe many men of armes a / M / & an honderd preestes / whan
that he myght to the kynges men of Englond▪ but a non after he was taken / & lad to york / & ther was drawe & hon ged for his felon /Of the redressyng that kyng edward made of
vpon Trent / ordeyned hym a strong power / & Syr Symond ward also / that was tho shereue of york / & come and mette the barons at burbudge, and anon they breke the bridge that was made of
clothed hym in a ro∣be of ray, that was of his squyers liuere / and forth lad hym vn to york by water / Tho myght men see moche sorow & care / for the gentil knyghtes fledden in euery
nowe I shal telle yowe of the noble Erle thomas of lancastre whan he was taken / and brought to york / many of the cyte were ful glad / & vpon hym yed with highe voys / A sir
/ Sir henry of Bradborne / & sir william cheyne barons all and Iohan page∣squyer / And sone after at york were drawe and. honged Syr Ro∣gyer Clyfford / Syre Iohan of mombray barons / And Syr gos∣sel dauill knyght
he had done he wēt toward the kynge / & a strouge flyx hym come vpon er he come to york / & shed al his bowels at his fundament / & whan Syr hugh the spen cer herd this
to pontfret / & ther they were done in to prison / and the forsayd rogyer was sent vn to york & ther he was drawe & honged / And anon after sir rogi er mortimer of wygmore brake oute
armes & arryued at do uer. & they had leue for to gone forth / til that they come to york / ther that the king abode hem / & the scottes come thider to the kyng for to make
son was ful wely knowe a good while after as the storye telleth The kynge edward come ageyne tho to york ful sorowful / & hys hoost departed, & euery man went in to his owne coūtrey with ful heuy
or they determy ned ouʒt of ye forsaid articles / In the same yere deide Iohn the ar chebisshop of york / Iohn bisshop of Ely / william bisshop of worce∣stre / In whos stedes folewed & were made bisshops
coūceyl fledden out of tho land ouer the see that is to say Sir alysander neuyl / the Archebisshop of york / and Sir Robert le veer markuys of deuelyn & erle of Oxfford / & sir Michel de la
and his counseyl for the grete malyce and despyte that they had to the Cyte of london / remeued al his courtes from westmynstre vnto the Cyte of york / that is for to say the chaūcelrye / ye escheker