imprisoned them in the castle of Douer, and slew almost all their men that came with them, and soonke theyr ships in the sea, onely, xv. ships (saith some of my stories) escaped away. Ludouike or Lewes hearing this losse of his ships and men, and misdoubting his own life for the great mischief he had don to the realme, sought meanes by Swalo, and the archbishop of Canterb. and by other Lordes, to be at accorde with the king. With whom at length it was so cōcluded and agreed, þ^t for hys costes & expenses he to haue a thousād pound of siluer geuē. Parisiens. MarginaliaEx Math. Parisiensi.speaketh of xv. M. markes (which he borowed of the Londiners) þ^t he should departe the realme, neuer to returne into England agayn, neyther he nor none of hys.

MarginaliaLewes the French kings sōne driuen out of Englād.This done, & vpon the same, he with all the other Barons that tooke hys part, was assoyled of Swalo the legate. And thus the peace being confirmed at Merton, Lewes tooke his leaue, and being brought honorablye to the sea with the bishop of Cant. and other bishops, Earles, and Barons, returned home into Fraunce.

And here sayth Gisburn. it was truly verified, þ^t was before spoken of the French kyng, father of Lewes: At what time the sayd Lewes was in England, his father the French kyng demaunded of his messengers cōming into France, where his sonne was: & they said at Stamford: And he asking again, whether he had got the castle of Douer, and they said no: MarginaliaThe aunswere of the Frenche king cōcerning his sonne Lewes.Then the father swearyng by the arme of S. Iames: My sonne, quod he, hath not one foote in England, as afterward well proued true. Ex Gisburn.

But the chiefest helpe that repelled Lewes and the Frenchmen out of the realme, and that most preferred kyng Iohns sonne to the crowne, was the singuler workyng of Gods hand, wherof mention was made before pag. 334. which was through the confession of a certain gentleman of the French hoste (as Florilegus doth testify) MarginaliaEx Florilego.Who lyeng sore sicke at þ^e poynt of death, & seyng no hope to escape, was touched in conscience for danger of his soules health openly to confesse and vtter to the Barons of England, what was the purpose of the French men to do: MarginaliaAn admonitiō to English mē not to admitte forein rulers into the realme.who were conspired and sworne together among thēselues, with a priuy cōpactiō, þ^t so soone as they subdued þ^e land, they should thrust all the chief and nobles therof, into perpetuall exile out of the realme, wher out they should neuer returne agayn. This, cōmyng to þ^e eares of þ^e Barons, as is said: gaue thē to cōsider more with themselues, wherby many of them were the more willyng to leaue Lewes, & apply to their naturall kyng and prince. Which no lesse may also be an admonition to all tymes and ages, for Englishe men to take heede, not to admitte or to place forren rulers into the realme, least perhappes it followe that they be displased themselues.

After the happye departure of this Lewes and hys Frenchemen out of the lande, whereby the state of this realme long vexed before, was now somwhat more quieted: MarginaliaIt is a bad wynde that bloweth no man to profite.immediatly Swalo the legate looking to hys haruest, directeth forth inquisitors through euery shyre, to search out all such bishops, abbots, priors, canons & seculer priests, of what order or degree so euer they were, þ^t w^t any succor or coūsel, dyd either helpe, or els cōsēted to Lewes. For all these were exempted out of þ^e charter of pardō & absolutiō made before, betwen þ^e king & Lewes. MarginaliaMony coming into the pope & Cardinall.By reason wherof no small gayne grew to the pope and the Cardinal: for all such were eyther put out of their liuings, and sent vp to the pope, or els were fayne to fyne sweetely for them. Emong whom (besydes a great number of other clarkes, both religious & secular) was Hugo bishop of Lincolne: MarginaliaHugo B. of Lyncolne redemeth his bishopricke for 1000 markes.who for the recouery of his bishoprike, disbursed 1000. markes to the pope, & 100. marks to the foresaid Swalo the legate, who now (as Parisiensis recordeth) by thys time had gathered in a fayre croppe of that, which he dyd neuer sow. Ex Mat. Paris. &c.MarginaliaEx Math. Paris. in vita Reg. Hen. 3.

MarginaliaPope Innocent the thyrd.About this season or not much before, dyed pope Innocent the third, in the xix. yeare of hys popedō: to whose custodie, Fridericus þ^e nephew of Friderike Barbarossa beyng yet yong, was committed by the Empresse his mother, of whom more shall followe (the Lorde willing) hereafter. MarginaliaPope Honori⁹ the thyrd.After this Innocent, nextly succeded pope Honorius 3. who writing to yong K. Henry in a speciall letter, exhorted hym to the loue of vertue, and to the feare of God, namely to be circumspect wyth what familiars and resorte, he acquainted himselfe: MarginaliaThe effect of the letter of P. Honori⁹ the. 3. to king Henry the thyrd.
Ex Parisien.but principallye aboue all other monisheth him to reuerence the Churche which is the spouse of Christ, and to honor the ministers therof, in whome Christ hymselfe (sayth he) is both honored or despised. And this seemeth the chiefest article of þ^t his writing to hym.

MarginaliaA straunge tale of pope Honorius if it be true.Of this Pope Honorius, Abbas Vrspergensis (who liued in the same tyme) reporteth a straunge wonder, more straunge peraduenture thē credible which is this: Honorius beyng priest in Rome (whose name was then Centius) and procurator of Iacinctus a Cardinal. So it befel, þ^t his maister sent him abroad about Rome, to borow & procure mony for hym against his iourney into Spayne: for Pope Clement then intended to send þ^e sayd Iacinthus hys legate vnto Spaine. As this Centius was walkyng by himselfe all sadde and sollicitous to speede hys maisters message, commeth to hym a certain aged and reuerend father, and asketh what cause he had to walke so heauye and carefull. The whom he aunswered agayne, and signified the occasion of his busines, what then he had to doe. Then the olde father sayde to him, Goe and returne home agayne: for thy maister sayth he, shal not at thys tyme goe to Spayne. How so, quod the other, how is þ^t true? As true (said he) as it is certayne that the Pope shal die, and the sayd thy maister shalbe pope after hym. Centius thinking that to be vnlikely, sayd: he could not beleue that to be true. To whom the other inferreth againe. So know this, said he, to be as certaine, as it is true þ^t the citie Ierusalem this day is takē of the Saracens, and shall not be recouered from them, before the time of thy papacie. And thus speakyng, saith Vrsperg. he voyded sodenly away. Ex Abbate Vrsperg. MarginaliaEx Abbate Vrsperg. in Chronico.All which sayth the sayde author came afterwarde to passe: and were testified of the same Honorius being pope afterward in hys publike sermons at Rome. All which I graunt may bee, and yet notwithstandyng this fabulous narration may be a piece of the popes old practises subtillie inuented, to driue men forth to Ierusalem to fight, &c. Agayn, after Honorius (when he had gouerned x. yeares) folowed Gregorius the ix. which two popes were in the tyme of this king Henry 3. and of Friderike þ^e Emperour, of whom we mind (Christ willing) farther to touch, after þ^t we shall haue prosecuted more, concernyng þ^e history of K. Henry & matters of Englād.

After that it so pleased the mercifull prouidence of almighty God, to worke thys great mercy vpon þ^e stock of K. Iohn (which notwithstanding þ^e vnkynde prelates with their false Prophets had declared before, þ^t neuer none should succede in throne after þ^t kyng) & also vnto þ^e whole common wealth of the realm, in deliuering them from the daungerous seruice of Ludouike and the foresayd Frenchmen. MarginaliaAn. 1218.After their departure, the nexte yeare followyng, an. 1218. which was the third of this kings raigne, the archbishop, S. Langhton and the byshops, Earles and Barons, resorted to London vnto the kyng at Michaelmas next followyng: and there held a greate parliament, MarginaliaK. Henry confyrmed the liberties graūted by king Iohn.wherin were confirmed and graunted by þ^e kyng all the franchisies, which were made and geuen by kyng Iohn his father at Ronemedow: and them he confirmed and ratified by his charter, which long tyme after, saith my autor, vnto his dayes did continue & were holden in Englād. For the which cause, by the nobles &