him the keyes of their city, desiring his ayde against the infidels: which offer he than refused, alledging the great charge which he had at home, and the rebellion of hys sonnes, which might happen in his absence.

¶ And here, the olde histories finde a greate faulte with the king for hys refusall, declaring that to bee the cause of Gods plages, which after ensued vpon hym, by his children: as the Patriarche (in his oration, being offended with the kyng) prophecied shoulde so happen to him for the same cause. MarginaliaAyde not to be denied to our neighbors the cause being godly.Which story if it be true, it may be a lesson to good princes: not to denye their necessarye helpe to their distressed neighbors, especiallye the cause appertayning vnto God.

MarginaliaEx Polichronico.
Ex Giraldo Cambriensi.The wysedome, discretion, manhoode, and riches of this prince was so spred and ronoumed through al quarters: that messages came from Emanuel Emperour of Constantinople, Frederick Emperour of Rome, & William archbishop of Treuer in Almayne, and Duke of Saxon, and from the Earle of Flaunders, and also frō the French king (vpon determination of great questiōs and strifes) to aske counsel and determination therof, of this king Henry: as of one most wyse & scholemaister of all wisedome and iustice, to haue solution of their questions and doubtes. MarginaliaKing Hēry chosen arbitrerr by 2. kingesMoreouer, Alphonsus king of Castile, and Sauncius king of Nauerne, being in strife for certayne Castels, and other possessions: submitted them (of their free accorde) and by their othe, to abyde the award of this king Henry: who made awarde, & pleased them both. Wherby it is to be presupposed that this king, to whom other princes did so resorte as to their arbitrer and deciser: did not attende either to anye slouth or viciliuing. Wherefore, it may seeme the actes of this prince not to be so vicious as some mōkish writers do describe.

Among many other things in this king memorable, this is one to be noted (follow it who can) that hee reigning. 35. yeares, and hauing such warres with hys enemies: yet neuer vpō his subiects put any tribute or taxe, nor yet vpon the spiritualty, first frutes, and appropriations of benefices. Belike they were not knowen, or els not vsed. MarginaliaThe tresure of king henry the 2.And yet his treasure after his death (weyed by king Richard hys sonne) amounted to aboue nine hundreth thousand pound, besides Iewels, precious stones, and houshold furniture. Of the which substance a leuen thousand pound came to him by þ^e death of Roger, archbishop of Yorke: who had procured a Bull of the Pope, that if any priest died within his prouince without testament, then he should haue all hys goods. MarginaliaA couetous archebyshop.And shortly after, the Archbishop died, and the king had all his goods: which extended (as is sayd) to a leuen thousand pound beside plate. &c. an. 1181.

But as there is no felicitie or wealth in this mortall world so perfect, which is not darkned with some cloude of incombraūce and aduersitie: So it happened to this kyng ,that among his other princely successours, this incommoditie followed him withal: that his sonnes rebelled and stoode in armour against him, taking the part of the French king against their father. First at the coronacion of Henrye his sonne, whom the father ioyned with him as king, he being both father and king, tooke vpon him (that notwithstanding) as but a Steward: and set downe the first dishe as Shewer vnto his sonne: renoūcing the name of a king. At what tyme, the foresaid archbishop of Yorke, sitting on the right hand of þ^e yong king, sayd: sir ye haue great cause this daye to ioye. For ther is no prince in the worlde that hath suche an officer thys day. &c. Marginaliapride destoryth all.And the yong king disdayning his wordes, sayd: my father is not dishonored in this doing. For I am a King and a Quenes sonne, and so is not he. And not onelye this, but after hee also persecuted his father. And so in hys youth, when hee had raygned but a fewe yeares, died: teaching vs what is the price and rewarde of breaking the iust commanndements of God.

MarginaliaKing Henry the 2. persecuted of hys Sonnes.After hym likewise Richard his sonne (who was called Richard Cure de Lyon) rebelled agaynst hys father: And also Iohn hys yongest sonne did not much degenerate from the steps of his brethren. In so much that this foresayd Richard (like an vnkind child, persecutyng and taking parte against his father) brought hym to such distresse of body and mynde: MarginaliaThe death of king Henry the second. How the kynge beyng ded bled at the comming of his sonne.that for thought of hart he fel into an ague, and within foure dayes departed, after he had reigned xxxv. yeare. Whose corps, as it was caried to be buryed, Richard his sonne comming by þ^e way and metyng it, and begynning for compassion to weape: the bloud brast incontinent out of the nose of the king at the comming of his sonne: geuing therby a certaine demonstration how he was the onely autor of his death.

After the death and reigne of whiche kyng: hys children after hym (worthely rewarded for their vnnaturalnes against their father) lacking the successe which their father had: lost all beyond the Sea that their father had got before.

And thus much concerning the reygne of Henry the secōd, and the death of Thomas Becket: whose death (as is aforesayd, happened in the dayes of pope Alexander þ^e third: which pope vsurping the keyes of ecclesiasticall regiment xxi. yeares (or as Gisburgensis writeth, three and twēty yeares) gouerned the church with much tumulte: striuyng and contending with Friderick the Emperour not shamyng like a most proude Lucifer, to treade with his foote vpon the necke of the sayd Emperour, as is aboue described pag. 263.

MarginaliaAn. 1179Thus pope among many other hys actes, had certein councels (as is partly before touched) some in Fraunce, some at Rome in Laterā, by whom it was decreed: that no archbyshop should receiue the palle, onlesse he should first sweare. Concernyng the solemnitie of which palle: for the order and maner of geuing and takyng the same w^t obedience to the Pope, as it is conteined in their own wordes: I thought it good to set it forth vnto thee, that thou mayest well consider and vnderstand their doyngs therein.

MarginaliaGeuyng of the pall.AD honorem omnipotētis Dei, & beatæ Mariæ virginis & beatorum Petri & Pauli, & domini nostri N. Papæ, & sanctæ Romanæ ecclesiæ, nec non N. ecclesiæ tibi commissæ tradimus tibi pallium de corpore beati Petri sumptū plenitudinem pōtificalis officij, vt vtaris eo infra ecclesiam tuam certis diebus, qui exprimuntur in priuilegijs tibi ab Apostolica sede concessis. That is.

To the honour of almighty God, and of blessed Mary the virgin, and of blessed S. Peter and Paule, and of our Lord Pope N. and of the holy churche of Rome, and also of the churche of N. committed to your charge, we geue to you the palle takē from the body of S. Peter, as a fulnes of the office pontificall, whiche you may were within your owne church, vpon certein dayes, which be expressed in the priuiles of the sayd churche, graunted by the see Apostolike.

☞ To the honour. &c. with what cōfidēce durst the pope couple the honour of almighty God, and the honour of Mary, of S. Peter. and of the Pope, and of the Romishe church altogether if he had not bene a presumptuous Lucifer, equalling him selfe not onely with such saintes, but also euen with hym whiche is God alone, to be blessed for euer? Taken from the body. &c. If S. Peters body be not all consumed, let hym shewe it if he cā. If he cā not shew it, how then is this palle taken from the body of S. Peter? or if he meane it to be of S. Peters owne wearyng, then belyke S. Peter had a goodly wardrop of palles, when euery Archbishop in all christendome receiueth from the pope a diuerse palle.

As a fulnes of the office, &c. Rather he might say, the