with pride and disobedience) to helpe and amende that which is amysse. Concerning the Bull of Boniface, if any there be that eyther do not credit the same, so to contayne, or would for hys mynde see and reade the same, the words thereof here folow.

MarginaliaEx chron. Rob. Gisbur.BOnifacius. &c. Ad sempiternam rei memoriam Clericis, laicos infestos opido tradidit antiquitas. Quod & presentium experimenta temporum manifeste declarant, dum suis finibus non contenti nituntur in vetitum et ad illicita sua frena relaxant, nec prudenter attendunt quomodo sit eis in clericos ecclesiasticasue personas, et bona interdicta potestas. Quin imo ecclesiarum prælatis, ecclesiis ecclesiasticisq; personis regularibus et secularibus imponūtur onera grauia, ipsos talliant, et eis collectas imponunt, et ab ipsius suorumq; prouentuum, vel bonorum dimidiam, deccimam, seu vicesimam, vel quamuis aliā portionem quotam exigunt et extorquent, eosq; moliuntur multipharie subiicere seruituti, suæq; subdere ditioni. Et quod dolenter referimus, nonnulli ecclesiarum prælati, ecclesiasticæque personæ trepidantes, vbi trepidandum non est, transitoriā pacem querentes: plus timentes maiestatem temporalem offendere, quam æternam, talium abusibus non tam temerarie, quam improuide acquiescunt, sedis apostolicæ autoritate non obtenta. Nos igitur talibus actibus obuiare volentes, de fratrum nostrorum consilio * Marginalia* Apostolica autoritas frustra obtenditur, vbi Apostolica script ura cōtemniturApostolica autoritate statuimus: quod quicunque prælati, ecclesiasticæue personæ, vel seculares quorumcunque ordinum conditionis, seu status, collectas vel tallias, dimidiam decimam, vicesimam, seu sentesimam suorum et ecclesiarum suarum prouentuum vel bonorum laicis soluerint, vel promiserint, vel se soluturos excesserint, aut quamuis aliam quanticatem, porcionem, aut quicquam ipsorum prouentuum vel bonorum æstimationem vel valorem ipsorum subuentionis, subsidij, vel doni nomine, seu quouis alio timore, vel modo, vel quesito colore absque autoritate sedis eiusdem: Nec non imperatores, reges, seu principes, duces, seu comites, vel barones, potestates, capitaneas, officiales vel rectores quocunque nomine conseantur, ciuitatum, castrorum, seu quorumcūque locorum constitutorum vbi libet, et * Marginalia* Quiuis, pro quisquis, barbarismus Apostolicus.quis alius cuiuscunque præeminentiæ conditionis et status qui talia imposuerint, et exegerint, vel receperint, aut apud ædes sacras deposita ecclesiarum vel ecclesiasticarum personarum vbilibet * Marginalia* Flores Attici ex ispo helicone desumptiarestauerint, saysierint seu occupare præsumpserint, vel arestari, saysiri, aut occupari mādauerint, at * Marginalia* xxx, rhetorica.occupata, saysita, seu arestata receperint: nec non omnes qui scienter in predictis dederint consilium, auxilium, vel fauorem, publice vel occulte, eo ipso sententiam excommunicationis * Marginalia* Tauri cornu. Ware the buls horne.incurrunt. Vniuersitates quoque quæ in his culpabiles fuerint, ecclesiastico supponimus interdicto: prælatis, et personis ecclesiasticis supradictis in virtute obedientiæ et sub pæna depositionis districte mandantes, vt talibus absque licentia expressa dictæ sedis nullatenus acquiescant. A supradictis autem excommunicationis et interdicti sententiis nvllus absolui valeat, præterquam in mortis articulo absque sedis Apostolicæ autoritate & licentia speciali. &c.

MarginaliaThe clergy denieth to geue tribute to the kyng.This bull being directed, as is sayde, from Rome to the archbishop of Canterbury, and lykewyse throughe the whole vniuersall church, vnder the Popes autoritie: It chaunced not long after, the king held his parliamēt at saint Edmundes bury, where was grannted to hym of all cities and boroughes an eyght, and of the cōmons a twelfe of their goods. Onely the Clergye by vertue of this Bull, stoode stout: denyeng to pay any thing to the kyng. This answer not well pleasing the kyng, he wylleth them to deliberate better with them selues vpon the matter: and after long aduisement so to geue hym answer thereof agaynst the next parlament, which shoulde be holden the next Hillary terme at London.

MarginaliaThe clergy secluded from the kings protectionIn conclusion, the parlament came: the Clergy persisteth stil in denial of their subsidie, alledging the popes bull for their warrant and discharge. Whereupon, the kyng lykewyse secludeth them from vnder his protectiō and safegarde of his lawes. MarginaliaThe archb. of Cant. for his stubbornes had his goods confiscate to the kyngAnd as concerning the archbishop of Canterbury aboue mēcioned, because he was found more stubberne then the rest, and was the inciter to the other: he seasoned vpon all hys goods, and caused an inuentorie of the same to be enrolled in the Exscheker. Notwithstanding, diuers of the other bishops relented soone after to the kyng, and contributed the fyfte of their goodes vnto hym, and were receaued agayne to fauour.

MarginaliaThe variance betwene king Edward and his Barons and commons.In the lyfe of this kinges father it was declared before, howe the sayde king Henrye the thyrd, father to this king, after diuers warres and commotions had with hys Barons, had graunted certayne liberties and fredomes wrytten and conteyned in Magna charta and in Charta de foresta. Concerning whych matter, much busines happened in thys kings dayes also in the realme, betwene the kyng and his Barons and commons. The occasion was this. A packe of wolle which before payde but a marke to the king, was now by this kyng raysed vp to. xl. s. After thys, the kyng hauing a iourney to make vnto Flaunders, sent to hys Barons and diuers other, to geue their attendaunce and seruice in the same, which they refused and denyed to doe. Notwithstanding (the kyng persisting in hys purpose) with such power as he had, prepareth toward hys iorney. MarginaliaPetitions of the Barons and commōs to the kyng.To whom being in hys waye at Wynchelsey, the foresayd Earles, and Barons and commons sent certayne peticions contayned in writing, vnder the name of the archbishops, byshops, Abbots and Priors, Earles and Barons, with the whole commonaltie of the realme. Inwhich wryting first lamenting and cōplayning of their afflicted state and miserie, after humble maner they desired their Lord the king to redresse and amend certayn greuaunces among them. And first declared in þ^e name of the whole commons, that the premunition or writtes directed to them for their attendance vpon hys grace into Flaunders, was not sufficient: for that there was no certayne place in the sayd wryttes specified vnto them whether to come for making their prouision, and preparing money and other thynges according to the same. And if the place had bene to them signified, yet because none of their aunciters euer serued the kyng ouer into Flaunders before: the commons therfore thought them selues not bound to any seruice in that countrey. And albeit they had bene so bound therunto, yet they were not able to do it, being so heauely oppressed with so many tallages, taxes, tolles, customes, and pryses of corne, Oottes, Tynne, Wolle, Ledder, Oxen, Kyne, Fleshe, Fishe, &c: And besides all this, hauing no peny of wages geuen them to releaue their charges: Ouer and besides the lacke of the kings wages not payed them, their own pouertie lyke an heauie burden dyd so miserablye lye vpon them, that some of them had no sustentation, some of them were not able to tylle their own ground. They alleadged moreouer, that they were not now handeled after the olde lawes and customes of the land, as their aunciters were wonte. MarginaliaMagna charta. Charta de foresta.Many also found them selues greued in that they were not vsed according to the articles contayned in Charta magna, nor agayne that the Charta de foresta was not obserued nor kept as it was wonte to be. Wherfore, most humblye they beseched the king both for hys own honour and for the wealth of his people, that of these thynges they myght finde redresse. MarginaliaCustom for wolle.For þ^e custome moreouer of wolle, the whole commons bewayled to þ^e king their griefe: in that for euery packe of wolle was fined to the king. xl. s. and for euery sacke of toosed wolle. vij. markes. The which wolle of England as it doth ryse to the value of halfe the realme: so