rons should restore to the king, or his attornay of S. Albans, all the treasure, horses, and iewells of the foresayd Gaueston taken at Newcastell, and so their requestes shoulde be graunted. And so was the matter for that tyme composed.

Shortly vpon the same, Isabell the Queene was deliuered of a fayre childe at Wyndsore, whom Lewes the French kynges sonne (the Queenes brother, with other Frenchmen there present) would to be called by the name of the French kyng: but the English lordes were contrary, willing hym to be called by the name of Edward hys father. At the byrth of which Edward, great reioysing was through all the lande, and especiallye the kyng hys father so much ioyed therat: that he beganne dayly more and more to forget the sorowe and remembraunce of Gauestons death, and was after that more agreable to the will of hys nobles.

MarginaliaAn 1312.Thus peace and concorde betwene them beganne to be in a good towardnes: which more and more myght haue been confirmed in wearing out of tyme, had not Sathan the autor and sower of all discord, stirred vp his instrumentes MarginaliaThe king ruled by forren counsail.
Makebates about the kyng.(certayn Frenchmē, Titinyllars, & makebates about the kyng) which ceased not in carping and deprauing the nobles, to inflame the kinges hatred and grudge agaynst them. By the exciting of whom, the old quarells being renued a freshe, the king in hys parlamēt called vpon the same: began to charge the foresaid Barons and nobles with seditiō and rebellion, & for slaying Peter Gaueston. Neyther were the nobles lesse stoute agayne in defending their cause, declaring that they in so doing had deserued rather thanke and fauour with the king then any displeasure, in vanquishing suche a publique enmeye of the realme, who not onely had spoyled and wasted the kinges substance, but also raised muche disturbance in the realme. And forasmuch as they had begonne with the matter to their so greate labours and expenses: they would procede further, they sayd, not ceasing till they see an end therof. To be short, great threats there were on both partes, & a foule matter like to haue followed. MarginaliaMediation for making peace.But agayne through the diligent mediation of the Queene, the prelates, and the foresayd Earle of Gloucester: the matter was taken vp and brought to reconcilement vpon these conditions, MarginaliaThe king recōciled agayne with his nobles.that the Lordes and Barons openlye in Westmynster hall, should humble themselues before the king, & aske pardon there of their doinges, and euery man there to receaue a letter of the kings pardon, for their indemnitie, and assurance. And so passed ouer that yeare, within the which yeare dyed Rob. Winchelsey Archb. of Cant. In whose roume, Thomas Cobbham was elected by the king & church of Cant. to succede: but the Pope, cassating that election, placed Walter Reynalde bishop of Worceter.

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What discord doth in a common wealth.
The Scottes rebell against the realme of England.In the meane time, the Scottes hearing thys ciuille discorde in the realme, beganne to be busie and to rebell of new, through the meanes of Robert Bruys: who being chased out of Scotland, by K. Edward the first, as is aboue premised, into Norway, was now returned agayne in Scotland: where he demeaned him in suche sorte to the Lordes there, that in shorte processe he was again made king of the realme: And warred so stronglye vpon them that tooke the kings parte, that he wanne from them many castles and stronge holdes, and inuaded the borders of England. The king hearing this, assembleth a great power, & by water entreth the realme of Scotland. Against whom, encountred Rob. de Bruys with hys Scottes at Estriualin, where was foughte a strong battail: MarginaliaEnglishmen ouercome by the Scottes.in the end wherof, the Englishmen were discomfited, and so egerly pursued by the Scottes, that many of the noble men were slaine, as þ^e Earle of Glouceter, syr Rob, Clifford, syr Edmunde Maule with other Lordes to the number of xlij. and knightes and Barons lxvij. beside xxij. men of name, which were taken priso-ners: of cōmon souldiours, thousand, or after þ^e Scottishe storie l. thousand slaine.

MarginaliaPope Clement neuer sate in the sea of Rome.About which tyme and in which yeare, dyed Pope Clement, who keping in the realme of Fraunce, neuer came to the see of Rome: after whose death the papacie stoode voyde two yeares.

Marginalia1314.The Scottes after this exalted with pride and fearcenes, inuaded the realme of England so sore killing and destroying man, woman & childe: that they came wynning and wasting the northpartes as farre as to Yorke. MarginaliaMiserable death and famine in England.Besides this, such dearth of vituals and penurie of all thinges so oppressed þ^e whole land, such moraine of shepe and oxe: as men were fayne to eate horseflesh, dogges, cattes, myse, and what els they could gette. Moreuer, suche a price of corne followed with all, that the king hardly had bread, for the sustentation of his own household. Moreouer, some there were that stale children and dyd eate them, and many of lacke of vituall dyed. And yet all this amended not the king of his euill liuing.

The cause & origene of thys great dearth was partlye the warres and dissention betwene them and the Scottes: wherby a great parte of the land was wasted. But the chiefest cause was, the vntemperate season of the yeare, which contrarye to the common course, was so moyste w^t aboundance of rayne: that the graine layd in the earth could haue no ripyng by heate of the sunne, nor growe to any nourishment. MarginaliaA description of an horible famine in the realme of England.Wherby, they that had to eate, could not be satisfied with saturitie, but eftsones were as hungrye agayne. They that had nothyng, were driuen to steale and robbe: the riche were constrayned to auoyde and diminishe their housholdes: the poore for famine died. MarginaliaEx chroni. R. Auesb. in vita Edouardi. 2.And not so much the wante of vitaile which coulde not be gotten, as the vnholesomnes of the same when they were taken, so consumed the people: that the quicke were not sufficiēt to burye the dead. For the corruption of the meates, by reason of the vnseasonablenes of the ground, was so infectious: that many dyed of the flyxe, many of hote feuers, diuers of the pestilence. And not onely the bodies of men thereby were infected, but also the beates by the putrifaction of the herbes & grasse fell in as greate a moraine: so farforth, as the eating of fleshe was suspecte and thought contagious. A quarter of corne and of salt, from the moneth of Iune to September grewe from xxx. sū. vnto xl. sū. The fleshe of horses was then precious to the poore. Many were driuen to steale fatte dogges and to eate them: some were saide in secrete corners to eate their own children. Some would steale other mens childrē to kill then and eate them priuely. The prisoners & theeues that were in bandes, such as newly were brought in vnto them, for hunger fel vpon them, and tearing them in peces did eate them halfe a lyue. Briefly, this extreme penurie had extincted & cōsumed (as it was thought) þ^e greatest parte of the people of the land: had not the king by þ^e statute of þ^e Lōdiners geuen forth cōmaundemēt through all his land, þ^t no corne should at that tyme be turned to the making of drinke. Such a Lord is God, this able to do where he is disposed to strike. And yet we miserable creatures, in our wealth and aboundance will not surcease dayly to prouoke his terrible maiestie.

But let vs returne to the order agayne of our story. After þ^e Scottes had thus plaged miserablye (as ye haue heard) the realme of Englād: they inuaded also Ireland, where they kept and continued warre the space of iiij. yeares. MarginaliaThe Scots driuen out of Ireland.But infine, the Iryshemen (by ayde sent to them from England) quitte themselues so wel: that they vanquished the Scottes, and slewe Edward le Bruys, and many of the nobles of Scotland with many other, and droue the residue out of the countrey.

Marginalia1317.The king about the xj. yeare of his reigne, assembled a new hoste and went into Scotlād, where he layd siege