MarginaliaRobert Bleuet payd. v. thousand markes for his bishoprike.Kyng William (as ye hard an excedyng piller or rauener rather of churche goodes) after he had geuen the bishoprike of Lincolne to his chauncelor Robert Bleuet (aboue mynded) began to cauill: auouchyng the see of Lincolne to belong to the see of Yorke: till the bishop of Lincolne had plesed him with a greate summe of mony, of v. thousand markes. &c.

MarginaliaHerbert Losing a bishop of Norwige.
Losinga. i. adulagtor.And as nothyng could come in those dayes, without money from the king: so Herbert Losing a paying to the kyng a piece of money, was made bishop of Thetforde as he had payd a little before to bee Abbot of Ramesey. Who likewyse the same tyme, remouyng his see from Thetford, to the citie of Norwige: MarginaliaNorwyge minster builded by Herbert.there erected þ^e cathedrall church with the cloister in þ^e sayd citie of Norwige: where he furnished the Monkes with sufficient liuyng & rentes of his owne charges, besydes the bishops landes. Afterward repenting of his opē and manifest symonie, he went to Rome: where he resigned vnto þ^e popes hands his bishopricke: but so, that incontinent he receiued it agayne. This Herbert, was the sonne of an abbot called Robert, for whom he purchased of the king to be bishop of Winchester, wherof runneth these verses.

Filius est præsul, pater Abba, Simon vterq̀,
Quid non speremus si nummos possideamus:
Omnia nummus habet quod vult facit addit & aufert
Res nimis iniusta, nummus sit præsul & Abba. &c.  

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Verses about Abbot Robert, son of Herbert

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Filius est præsul ... & Abba. &c.

Translation

John Wade, University of Sheffield

The son is a bishop, the father is an abbot and each is a Simon:
What would we not hope for if we were to possess money?
Money has everything because it wants, it makes, it adds and it takes away.
It is all too unjust a thing, a bishop and an abbot made by money.

Ye heard a little before of the death of pope Hildebrand: after the time of which Hildebrād, the Germaine Emperours began to lose their autoritie and ryght in þ^e popes election, and in geuyng of benefices. For next after this Hilbebrand, came MarginaliaPope Victor the. iii.Pope Victor by the settyng vp of Matilda, and the duke of Normandes, with the faction and retinue of Hildebrand, who likewise shewed him self stoute against themperour. But God gaue þ^e shrewd Cow short hornes: MarginaliaPope Victor poysoned in hys chalice.For Victor beyng poysoned (as some say in his chalice) sate but one yeare & a halfe. Notwithstandyng the same imitation and example of Hildebrād continued still in them that folowed after. MarginaliaA comparison betwene Hildebrand pope of Rome: And Ieroboam king of Israell.And lyke as the kynges of Israel followed most part the steps of Ieroboam, tyll the tyme of their desolation: so for the greatest sort all popes followed the steps and procedyngs of this Hildebrand their spirituall Ieroboam: in maintai-tainyng false worship, and chiefly in vpholdyng the dignitie of that see, against all rightfull autoritie, and the lawfull kyngdome of Syon. MarginaliaThe order of Charter mōkes beganne.In the tyme of this Victor, began the order of þ^e Monkes of Charter house, through the meanes of one Hugo bishop of Gracionople, and of Bruno bishop of Colen.

MarginaliaPope Vrbanus the. ii.Next to Victor sate Vrbanus the. ij. by whom the acts of Hildebrand were confirmed, and also new decrees enacted against Henricus the Emperour. MarginaliaTwo Popes in Rome.In this tyme were. ij. popes at Rome Vrbanus and Clemens. iij. whō the emperour set vp. MarginaliaThe order of Cistercian or whyte monks beganne.Vnder pope Vrbane, came in the whyte monkes of Cisterciane order, by one Stephē Harding a monke of Sherborne (an English man) by whom this order had his beginnyng in the wildernes of Cisterye, within the prouince of Burgoyne as witnesseth Cestrensis. Other wryte that this Harding was the second abbot of that place, and that it was first founded by the meanes of one Robert abbot of Molisme in Cisterciū, a Forest in Burgundy. an. 1098. (persuaded perchance by Harding) and afterward in the yeare of our Lorde 1135. it was brought into Englande by a certayne man called Espek, which builded an abbay of the same order called Merinale. In this order the monkes did lyue by þ^e labour of their hands. They paid no tythes nor offrings. They weare no furre nor linyng. They waare red shoes their coules white, and coate blacke, all shorne saue a litle circle. They eate no fleshe but onely in their iourney. Of this order was Bernardus. &c.

This Vrbanus held dyuers councels: MarginaliaSynodus Romana. uel placentina.one at Rome, where he excommunicated all such lay persons, as gaueinuestiture of any ecclesiastical benefice. Also all such of þ^e clergy as abiected themselues to be vnderlinges or ser-seruauntes to lay persons for ecclesiastical benefices. &c.

MarginaliaSynodus Claromontana.An other councel he helde at Claromount in Frāce. Where among other thynges the bishop made an Oration to the Lords beyng there present, concerning the viage and recouery of the holyland, from the Turkes and Sarasins. MarginaliaThe viage vnto the holy land.The cause of which viage, first sprang by one Peter a monke or heremite: who beyng in Ierusalem, & seyng þ^e great misery of þ^e christians vnder þ^e Paganes, made therof declaration to pope Vrbane, & was therin a great sollicitor to al christiā princes. By reason wherof, after the foresayd Oration of Pope Vrbane, MarginaliaThe number that went.30000 mē (takyng on thē the signe of the crosse for their cognisāce) made preparation for that vyage: MarginaliaThe captaynes of thē which went to the holy land.whose captaines wer Godfrey duke of Lorayne with his two brethren, Eustace, and Baldwyne: the bishop of Podye: Bohemunde duke of Puell, and his nephew Tancredus: Raymunde erle of s. Egidius: Robert Earle of Flaunders, & Hugh Legraund, brother of Phillip þ^e French king. To whō also was ioyned Robert Courthoyse duke of Normādie with diuers other noble men, with þ^e foresayd Peter the Heremite, who was chiefe causer of that viage.

At that tyme, many of the said noble men layd their landes and Lordships to morgage, for to prouide for the forenamed viage: as Godfrey duke of Lorayn, who sold the dukedome of Boloine to the bishop of Eburone for a great summe of money. Also Robert Curthoyse Duke of Normandye layde hys Dukedome to pledge to hys brother William kyng of England for ten thousande poundes. &c.

Marginalia1096.Thus the Christians which passed fyrst ouer Bosphorus: hauyng to their captaine Peter the Heremite (a man perchaunce more deuout then experte to guide an army) beyng trapped of their enemies, were slayne and murthered in great number among the Bulgares, and nere to the towne called Ciuitus.

MarginaliaThe actes of the christians in their viage to winne HierusalemWhen the nobles and the whole army met together at Constantinople (where Alexius was Emperour) passyng ouer by Hellespontus goyng to Ierusalem, thei toke the cities of Nicea, Eraclea, Tarsis, and subdued the country of Cicilia, appointyng the possession thereof to certaine of their captaynes.

MarginaliaAntioche takē of the christians
1098.Antioche was besieged, & in the. ix. moneth of þ^e siege it was yelded to þ^e christiās by one Pyrrhus: about which season were fought many strong battailes to the great slaughter & desolation of the Sarasēs, & not w^tout losse of many christian men. The gouernaunce of this citye was committed to Boamunde duke of Puell, whose martiall knighthoode was often proued in tyme of the siege therof.

MarginaliaThe slaughter of the Persian infidells.And not long after Corbona, maister of the Persiās chiualry was vanquished and slayne, with an hundreth thousand infidels. In whiche discomfiture were taken 15000. camels.

MarginaliaHierusalem conquered by the christians
Ex Henric. Lib. 7.Ierusalem the 39. day of the siege was conquered by the christians. Robert duke of Normandy was electe to be kyng therof. But he refused, hearyng of þ^e death of king William of England: wherfore he neuer sped in all his affayres well after the same. Then Godfrey captaine of the christian army was proclaimed the first kyng of Ierusalem. At the takyng of the city was suche murder of men, þ^t bloud was congeled in the streate the thicknes of a foote. Then after Godfrey raygned Baldwyne his brother. After him Baldwyne the seconde nephew. Then Gaufridus duke of Gaunt, and after hym Gaufridus his sonne: by whome manye great battailes there, were fought against the Sarasens, and al the coūtrey therabout subdued saue Ascalon, &c. And thus much hetherto touching the viage to the holy lād. Now to our owne land agayne.

About this tyme (as Matheus parisiensis wryteth)