fingar, if it were iij. d. Of his hād, if it were vij. d. Of hys head, if it were xij. d. Moreouer whosoeuer would bring to the queene þ^e head of Hugh Spenser the yonger chopt from his body: should receaue for so doing of the queene ij. thousand poundes. Thsi done, the queene sendeth her letters to the citie of London for ayde and succour to subdue the oppressor of the realme, to the which letters first no answere was made. Again she wrote the second letter, which was then tacked vpon the crosse in Chepe, which was then called the new crosse. The copy and tenour of which letter was this.

Marginaliathe quenes letter.JSabell by the grace of God, quene of Englande, ladye of Irelande, and Countesse of Pountyf. And we Edward the fyrst sonne of the kyng of Englande, Duke of Gyan, Earle of Chester, of Pountyf and of Mountstrel, to the Maior and all the comminaltie of London sēdeth greeting. For asmuch as we haue before this tyme sent to you by our letters, and how we come into this land in good array and good maner, for the profit of holy church and of our right deare Lord and king, and all the realme wyth all our myght and strength, to keepe the maintain the realme as all good people ought for to do. Vpon that we pray you and desire you that ye would be helpyng to vs for the health & profit of the realme, and we haue had none aunswere of you, nor knowe not your wyll in that partye. Wherefore we send to you agayne and pray you, and charge you, that ye beare you so agaynst vs, that ye haue nor make no cause vs to greue, but that ye be to vs helping in all the wayes that you may. And wete ye wel in certaine that we and also all those that commeth with vs into this realme, nothyng for to done, but that shalbe pleasyng to God, and common profyt to all the realme. Not els, but for to destroy the Spencers, enemies to the realme as ye well know. Wherefore we pray and charge you, in that fayth that ye owe to our Lord the king to the crowne and to vs, and vpon all that ye may forfeite, that if Hugh Spencer both the father and the sonne our enemies come within your power, that ye do them hastely to be take, and safly kept, till we haue ordeyned for them our wyll. And as ye desyre profit and honour of vs, and of the realme. Vnderstandyng well if it be so that ye doo our desire and prayer, we shall the more be beholden to you. And also we shall do you profyt and worship if that ye send vs hastely word agayne of our wyll. Geuen at Baldocke the vi. day of October.

MarginaliaThe bishop of Exeter beheaded of the commons at the standerd in Chepe. This bishop of Exeter builded in Oxford ii. colledges, Exeter colledge, and Hart hall, whose name was Gualter Stapleton.These foresayd letters being published & perused, þ^e B. of Exeter, to whom (as ye heard) was cōmitted the rule of þ^e citie: sent to þ^e Maior for þ^e keyes of þ^e gates, vsing so sharpe wordes in the kinges name: that variance began to kindle betwene him and the Citizens, so farre forth that the commons in their rage toke the forsayd bishop and beheaded him and ij. of his housholde at the Standard in Chepe. Then the king went to Bristow, and ordayned syr Hugh Spenser the father there to keepe the castle and the towne: And the king with Hugh Spenser the sonne, and syr Robert Baldocke Chauncelour, and the Earle of Arondell went into Wales. And the queene so pursued them, that first they tooke the towne yelded vp to her: MarginaliaHugh Spenser the father, taken and hanged in chaynes.Thē they tooke syr Hugh Spenser the father, whom being drawen, and torne, they at last hanged vp at Bristow, in chaynes of yron. As the king was thus flyeng, the queene caused to be proclaimed through her armie, that the king should come in and appeare, and so to receaue hys kingdome againe if he would be conformable to his liege subiectes. Who whē he did not apeare, prince Edward his sonne was proclaimed high keper of the realme. MarginaliaThe kyng taken in Wales.In the meane time Henry Earle of Lancaster, and brother to the good Earle Thomas which before was beheaded, also Lord William Souch, and M. Vpphowel were sent by the Queene into Wales to pursue the king: and there toke him, and sent him to the castle of Kenelworth: MarginaliaHugh Spenser the sōne taken and executed.And toke Hugh Spenser the sonne, and syr Robert Baldocke Chauncelour, and syr Iohn Earle of Arundell, and brought them all to the towneof Hereford. And anon after, Hugh Spenser the sonne was drawen and hanged on a galowes l. foote hye, and after headed and quartered, whose quarters were sent into iiij. quarters of the realme. Syr Iohn of Arundell was beheaded. Syr Robert Baldocke was put in Newgate at Londō, where shortly after he pyned away and dyed among the theues. This done, a Parlament was assembled at London, from whence message was sent to the king, that if he would resigne vp hys crowne, hys sonne shoulde haue it after him: If not, an other should take it to whom the lot would geue it. Wherupon, the king being constrayned to yelde vp his crowne to hys sonne, was kepte in prison and after had to Barkley: where he is sayd to take great repentaunce. MarginaliaA bill exhibited in the parliament house against king Edward the secōdAfter thys message being sent, & the king halfe condescending therunto (the Parlament notwithstanding prosecuting and going forwarde) there was a byll exhibited and put vp contayning certaine articles agaynst the sayd king, thē in prison in the castle of Barkley, touching his misbehauiour & imprudent gouerning of the realme: which bill, openly before all the lordes and commons by þ^e speaker of the Parlament house was red. After long consultation therof had amongst themselues touching those articles, and also for the better & more circumspecte gouernment of the realme from þ^t tyme forth: MarginaliaKing Edward deposed by consent of the parliament house, and hys sonne Edward to be chosen kyng.it was consulted & agreed vpon by the lordes spirituall and temporal, and commons there assembled: that the saide Edward was a man not meete to be their king, nor from þ^t tyme forth any more to beare the crowne royall or title of a kyng. But that Edward his eldest son, who there in the same court of high parlament was present, as he was rightfyll heyre and inheritour thereunto: so should be crowned king thereof in his fathers steede, with these condicions thereunto annexed: That he should take wise, sage, and true counsellers vnto him. That the realme myght be better and more circumspectly gouerned, then before in the tyme of Edward his father it was: That the olde king his father should be honourablye prouided for and kept, so long as he lyued, accordyng as vnto his estate it appertained. &c. These and other thinges thus finished and ended, the parlament breaketh vp, and all thynges necessary to the coronation of a prince apertaining wer in spedye wyse prepared, wherof more hereafter Christ wylling shall be specified.

In the meane tyme as touching the king which was yet in pryson, it is thought by some wryters: that the next yeare following by the meanes of syr Roger Mortymer, he was miserablye slaine, with a spyt (as is sayd) being thrust vp into his body, and was buryed at Glouceter, after he had reigned xix. yeares.

MarginaliaMichael house in Cambridge founded.
Henry Stauntō founder of Michael house in Cambridge.In the time and reigne of this king, the colledge of Cambrydge called Michael house was foūded and builded by syr Henry Stanton knight, to the vse & encrease of learning: a thing in a common wealth very profitable and necessary to be had, the wante and neede wherof many and sondrye times, is sooner felt in this realme of ours, & other realmes abroad, then is the discommoditie therof, of most men commonly vnderstood.

MarginaliaNicolaus de lyra.
Gulielmus Ocham.Aboute the same tyme also, was Nicolaus de Lyra, which wrote the ordinarie glose of the Bible. Also Gulielmus Occham, a worthye diuine, and of a right sincere iudgement, as þ^e tymes thē would either geue or suffer.

In the tractation of this kinges historie before was declared, what grudge did kindle in the harts of the Barons agaynst the king, for reuoking suche actes and customes, as had ben before in the Parlament established, both for Peter Gauestō, and for the two Spensers. MarginaliaTirāny odious to the people.Also what seuere punishment the king did execute vpon them for the same, in such cruell and rigorous sort, that as he spared none of thē, whome he could there finde: so he neuer ceased all his life after to inquire out & to be reuen-