noyse about him, MarginaliaThe Cardinal runneth away.like a valiant Romain runneth as fast as he could into the steeple: and there locketh the doores fast vnto him, where he remayned tyll mydnight. The scholars in the meane while not yet all pacified, sought all corners about for the Legate, exclaming and crying out: where is that vsurer, that symoniake, that pyllar & poller of our liuinges, the proylar and extorcioner of our money, which peruerteth our king, and subuerteth his kingdome, enriching himselfe with our spoyles. &c. all this heard the Cardinall, and helde his peace. When the night approching had broken vp the field: the Cardinall comming out of his forte, and takyng hys horse (in silence of the night) was priuelye conueyed ouer the ryuer, toward the king, conueying him selfe away as fast as he could. After the king heard this, he sendeth to Oxforde a garrison of armed men, to deliuer the Romanes which were there hydden for feare of the scholars. Marginaliaxxx. scholars takē & had to prison.Thē was maister Odo a lawyer, with. xxx. other scholars apprehended, & caried to Wallingforde Castell: and from thence had in Cartes to London, where at length (thorow much entreaty of the bishops) being brought barefoote to the Legates doore, had their pardon, and the vniuersity released of interdiction. And thus much concerning the Popes Legates in England.

Thus partlye you haue heard and do vnderstand the miserable thraldome and captiuitie of this realm of England and the Clergy of the same: who (before) refused to take part with king Iohn their naturall prince against the forreyne power of the Pope: and nowe howe miserably they are oppressed and scourged of the same Pope. Whose insatiable extorcion and rapacitye did so exceede in pilling and polling of this realme long after this, that neither the king now coulde helpe them, neyther could the Pope with any reasonable measure be cōtent. Insomuch (as writers record) in the dayes of Sudbury archbishop of Cāterbury an. 1360. MarginaliaThre score thousand Florens cōtributed to the pope in one yere of the clergie.the pope by his proctors gat from the Clergy in lesse then one yere more then. lx. M. florēces, of mere cōtributiō: besides his other auayles and common reuenues out of benefices, prebēdaries, first fruites, tributes, Peter pence, collations, reseruations, relaxations, and such marchandise. &c.

Mention was made a litle before, of Albingenses keping about the citie of Tholouse. These Albingenses because they began to smell the pope, and to controle the inordinate procedinges and discipline of the see of Rome: the pope therfore recounting them as a people heretical, excited and stirred vp, about this present time and yeare an. 1220. MarginaliaLudouike the French king.Ludouicke the yong French king through the instance of Philippe his father: MarginaliaLudouike fighteth agaynst Albingenses.to lay siege agaynst the sayd citie of Tolouse, to expugne and extinguish these Albingēses his enemies. Wherupō, Ludouicke (according to his fathers cōmaundemēt) reared a puisant & a mighty army, to cōpasse about and beset the forenamed citie: & so did. MarginaliaLudouike besiegeth Tholouse.Here were the men of Tholouse in great daunger. But see how the mighty protection of God feighteth for his people, agaynst the might of man. For after that Ludouicke (as Mathew Paris testifieth) had long weried him selfe and his men in waste, and could do no good w^t all their ingines and artilerie agaynst the citie: MarginaliaThe hād of God fyghting for his people.
Ex Math. Paris. in vita Henrici. 3.there fell moreouer vpon the Frēch hoste by the hād of God, such famine, and pestilence both of men and horses, beside the other dayly slaughter of their souldiers: that Ludouicke was enforced to retire, and with such as were left to returne agayne home to Fraunce from whence he came. MarginaliaThe generall of the armie slain. The siege against Albingenses broke vp.In the slaughter of which souldiours beside many other was Earle Simon de monte forti, generall of the army, to whom the landes of the Earle of Tholouse was geuē by the Pope, who was slayne before the gate of the citie w^t a stone. And so was also the brother of the said Symō the same tyme in besiegyng a castell nere to Tholouse slayne w^t a stone in lyke maner. And so was the siege of þ^e Frēchmē agaynst Tholouse broke vp. Ex Mat. Par.

As the siege of these French men could do no goodagaynst the citie of Tholose: MarginaliaThe expugnation of a certayne stronge castle of Dameta, in Egipt by the Christiās.so it happened þ^e same tyme þ^t the christiās marching toward þ^e holy land, had better lucke by the way in laying their siege to a certain tower or castle in Egypt, nere to þ^e citie Damieta: which semed by nature, for the situation and difficultie of the place inexpugnable: as which being situate in the middest of the great floud Nilus (hard by þ^e citie called Damieta) could neither be come to by lād, nor be vndermined for the water, nor by famine subuded for the nerenes of the citie. MarginaliaDamieta taken by the christians.Yet notwithstanding, through the helpe of God and policie of man, in erecting scaffoldes and castles vpon tops of mastes, the Christians at last conquered it: and after that the citie also Damieta, albeit not without great losse of Christen people. In the expugnation of this citie or forte, among other that there died, was the Lātgraue of Thuringe named Ludouicke, the husband of Elisabeth whom we vse to call Saint Elizabeth. MarginaliaThe storye of S. Elisabeth.
Elisabeth daughter of the king of Hungarye.This Elizabeth (as my story recordeth) was the daughter of þ^e kyng of Hungary, and maryed in Almaine, where she lyued, w^t the forenamed Ludouicke Lantgraue of Thuringe. MarginaliaS. Elisabeth prouoketh her husband to go and fyght for the holy land.Whom she through her persuasions prouoked and incēsed to take that viage to fight for the holy land, where he in the same viage was slayne. After whose death, Elisabeth (remaining a widow) entred þ^e professiō of cloysterly religion, and made her selfe a nonne. So groyng and increasing frō vertue to vertue, that after her death, all Almaine did sound with the fame of her worthy doings. Mat. Paris. addeth this more, MarginaliaThe mother of S. Elisabeth accused of adulterye.that she was the daughter of that quene, who beyng accused to be nought with a certaine Archbishop: was therfore condemned with this sentēce pronounced agaynst her. MarginaliaA sentence of a double meaning.Reginam interficere nolite timere bonum est etsi omnes consenserint non ego cōtradico. That is, (although it be hard in Englishe to be translated as it standeth in Latine) To kil the quene wil ye not to feare that is good: And if all men shall consent therunto, not I my selfe do stand against it. &c. the which sentence beyng brought to pope Innocent, thus in pointyng þ^t sentence which otherwise semeth to haue a double vnderstanding, so saued þ^e quene: thus interpreting þ^t & poyntīg þ^e sentēce: MarginaliaThe Quene saued by fauourable interpretatiō of a double sentence.Reginā interficere nolite, timere bonū est, et si omnes consenserint, no ego. Contradico. That is: to kill the quene will ye not: to feare, that is good. And if all do consent thereto, not I my self do stand agaynst it: And so escaped she the daunger. Marginalia1220.
Elisabeth canonised a saint in Almaine.This quene was the mother, as is sayd, of Elysabeth the nonne, who for her holy nonnyshenes was canonised of the popes churche, for a sainct in Almanie, about the yeare. 1220. Ex Mat. Paris.

Marginalia1221.And this by the way, nowe to procede farther in the yeares and life of this kyng Henry. The next yeare followyng whiche was an 1221. the kyng went to Oxford: where he had some thyng to do with VVilliam Earle de Albermartia, who had taken the castell of Biham: but at last for his good seruice he had done in the realme before, was released of the kyng with all hys men, by the intercession of Walter archbishop of Yorke, and of Pādolph the legate. MarginaliaEx tabula pēsili in æde diui pauli.
The Gray fryers fyrst entred to England.
The order of Gray Fryers fyrst cōfirmed.About whiche present yeare, entreade fyrst þ^e friers Minorites, or gray frieres, into Englād, and had their first house at Canterbury: whose first patrone was Franciscus, whiche dyed an 1127. and his order was afterward confirmed by pope Honorius 3. an 1224.

About the first cōmyng of these Dominicke and gray friers Franciscane into the realme (as is in Nic. Triuet testified) many Englishemen the same tyme entred into their orders. MarginaliaIoannes de S. Egidio. Alexander de Hales.Among whom was Iohannes de sancto Egidio, a man famously expert in the sciēce of Phisicke and Astronomie. And also Alexander de Hales: both English men & great diuines. This Iohannes making his sermō ad clerum, in the house of the Dominicke friers: exhorted his auditorie with great persuasions vnto wilfull pouertie. And to confirme his wordes the more by his owne example, in the midest of his sermon he came down frō the pulpite and put on his Friers habite: and so returnyng