leaue the kyng, before they had obtayned that he should be reduced agayne into the church, and so he was. It was not long after, but the kyng in great displeasure sendeth to the Sheriffe of the shyre to keepe him well watched in the Church, tyll eyther he came forth, or there perished wyth famyne.

MarginaliaHubert deliuered out of prison & caried into Wales.It befell in the meane season that great dissension rose betwene the kyng and the nobles of hys Realme, by reason whereof Hubert was taken and caryed away by Richard Earle Marshall, into Wales, and there remayned till the kyng at length was reconciled wyth his nobles, and so receaued wyth the rest, the sayd Hubert agayne into hys fauour Ex Math. Parisiensi. Ex Flor. Historiarum. Of the which dissension more shalbe shewed (Christ willing) hereafter.

MarginaliaRoger B. of Lōdon goeth to Rome to purge hymselfe before the popeAs the beginning of this trouble of Hubert first sprang of vexing the Popes barnes: so likewise Roger Bishop of London suspected for the same cause, was enforced to trauayle vp to Rome, there to purge hymselfe before the pope. Where after much money consumed, and robbed also by the way, he gat nothyng els, but lost hys labour, and so came home agayne. MarginaliaAgainst vsurers.Who then doing the part of a good Byshop, after his returne from Rome, attempted to expell and exclude out of hys Dioces, all these Italian vsurers called, as is before sayd Caursini. These Caursinites commyng wyth the Popes Legates into England, and lending their money to Religious houses, to Colleges, and Churches, had their debters to them bound in such sort, as was much vantishable to them, and much iniurious vnto the other, as in the forme of their obligations in the storie of Mathew Pariens. is largely expressed fol. 65.MarginaliaVsurers excōmunicate & expelled by the Byshop of London.Agaynst these Caursinites the Byshop of London beyng worthely inflamed with zeale of iustice, first wyth louyng admonition went about to reclayme them, for the wealth of their soules, afterward with sharper wordes began to charge them. But they neyther regarding Christian counsayle, and despising the Byshops threatninges, would not leaue the sweetnes of their occupation. MarginaliaExcōmunication well vsed agaynst vsurers.Wherfore the Bishop proceeding to the sentence of excommunication, precisely and districtly charged them to depart hys Dioces. But they agayne beyng confident and emboldened vpon the popes defence, not onely set at light his excommunication, but also wrought such wayes with the Pope, that they caused the sayd B. of Lōdon, beyng both aged and sickly, to be cited perenptoryly to appeare beyond the Seas, there to aunswere to such obiections, as they should inferre agaynst him. And thus the Byshop mynding rather to couer, then to open þ^e faultes of the Church, and partly being let with infirmitie & age, was compelled to let the cause fall.

And thus much of the popes marchants here in England, which were not so busie here for their part, but the Pope the great master of these marchant vsurers, was as busie for hys. And although hys barnes here in England were destroyed, and hys banke somethyng decayed, yet he thought to winne it vp an other way: MarginaliaThe generall visitation of the pope, through all religious houses.for he proclaimed the same yeare a generall visitation through all the religious houses exempt or not exempt vniuersally perteyning to his iurisdiction, where by the cruell dealing of the visitours many were compelled to appeale and to trauell vp to Rome, to the great expenses of their money, and filling the Popes coffers. But as touching this visitation, to make short, (sayth the story) MarginaliaEx Paris.it tendeth not to any reformation so much, as to the deformation of the vniuersall order, Dum omnes qui in diuersis orbis partibus vnicam Benedicti secuti fuerant regulam, per nouas constitutiones ita inueniantur vbiq; discordes, quòd ex omnibus cœnobijs, vel alijs religiosorum Ecclesijs vix dua habeantur in norma viuendi concordes. i. While all they, which before through all partes of the world folowed onely the rule of Benedict, MarginaliaThe great diuersitie among all religious orders, noted.now through new deuised constitutions are found in all places to deuided and diuers, that of all monasteryes, and other Churches of religion, scarse may two be found, which do agree in one rule and institution of life.

All this while that Hubert aboue mentioned was secluded from the kyng, Peter B. of Winchester bare all the rule, and aboue all other alone was accepted. Thys bishop beyng in such principall fauour with the king, as by whose counsaile all thinges were administred, remoued the naturall seruitours that were Englishmen, out of their offices, and placed other straungers, namely of Pictauia, and of other countryes in their rowme. MarginaliaOld seruitores of the kyng put out and discharged.Amōg whom was thrust out William the Vndermarshall, which supplyed þ^e rowme of Richard Lord great Marshal of England: for þ^e which cause, the sayd Lord Richard was mightely offended. Also Walter Treasurer of the kynges house was not onely expelled, but also marsed at an hundreth pound, and put frōall his holdes and munitions, which he had by the kynges patent graunted to him.

Moreouer by the counsaile of the said Bishop of Winchester all the old counsaillours as well Bishops, as other Earles and Barons, and all the nobles were reiected from the kyng in such sort, that he would heare & folow no mās counsaile but onely the said Peter Byshop of Winchester and his cosine Peter de Ryuallis. Wherby it came to passe that all the greatest holdes and munitions in the Realme were taken from the old keepers, and committed to the custody of the sayd Peter. Then the Byshop of Winchester to plant and pitch himselfe more strongly in the kynges fauour, adioyned to his felowship Stephen Segraue succeding in the place of Hubert the Iustice: also Robert Passelew, who had the keeping of the treasure vnder the foresayd Peter Riuall. So by these three all the affayres of þ^e realme were ordered. MarginaliaThe kyng forsaketh his nobles & sticketh to straungers.Moreouer, to make their party more sure, by them was prouided, that souldiours and seruitours from beyond the Sea, as Pictauians and Britons were sent for, to the number of two thousand, which were placed partly about the kyng, partly were set in Castles & holdes within the Realme, and had the ouersight and gouernement of the Shyres and Baronies, who then oppressed the nobles of the land, accusing them to the kyng for traytours: whom the simple kyng did lightly beleue, committing to them the custody of hys Treasures, the sitting in iudgementes, and the doing in all thynges: And when the nobles thus oppressed came to complayne of their iniuries to the kyng, by the meanes of the Byshop of Winchester, their cause was nothing regarded. In so much that the sayd Winchester moreouer accused certayne Byshops also to the kyng, so that he did flie and shunne them as open traytors and rebels.

MarginaliaRichard Earle Marschall admonisheth the kyng.These thinges standing thus out of order, Richard the noble Marshall of England, with other of the nobles ioyning wyth hym, seeing these oppressions and iniuries dayly growing contrary to the lawes and wealth of þ^e realme, came to the king, and blamed him for reteyning such peruerse counsaile about him of the Pictauians and other foreners, to the great preiudice of hys naturall subiectes, and of the liberties of the Realme, humbly desiring and beseching him, that he with as much speede as might be, would reforme and redresse such excesses, wherby þ^e whole realme seemed to lye in daunger of subuersion. Otherwise if he refused to see correction therof, he with other pieres and nobles, would withdraw themselues from hys counsayle so long as he mainteyned the societie of those foreners and straungers about him.

MarginaliaThe disdainfull aunswere of the B. of Wint. to the nobles.To thys Peter Winchester aunswering agayne, sayd: that the king right wel might call vnto him what foreners and straungers him listed, for the defence both of hys kingdome and of his crowne: and what number of them he would, as by whom he might be able to bridle hys proude and rebellious subiectes, and so to keepe them in awe and good order. When the Earle and the nobles could get no other aunswere of hym, in great pertubatiō they departed, promising among themselues, in this cause which so touched the state of the whole Realme, they would constantly ioyne together to the parting of their life.

MarginaliaWicked coūsaile about a kyng.After this, the foresaid Petrus Byshop of Winchester with his complices, ceased not by all meanes to inflame the kynges hart to hatred and contempt of hys naturall people, whom they so vehemently peruerted, that he counting them no other then his enemyes, sought by all diligence þ^e vtter destruction of them: sending dayly for mo garisons of the Pictauians, that in short space they replenished welneare the whole land, whose defence the king onely trusted vnto: MarginaliaPetrus de Rupibus Bish. of Wint. peruerter of the kyng.neither was any thyng disposed in the Realme but through the guiding of this Peter, and of the Pictauians.

The kyng thus garded and strengthned wyth these foreine alians and straungers, proclaimed a Parlamēt to be holden at Oxford, where the nobles were warned to be present. They considering the indignation of the king conceiued, would not appeare. Agayne they were required the first, second, and third time to present themselues. The assemblie proceeded, but they came not, for whom the kyng looked. In this assembly or Parliament, it was playnely told the king by a Dominicke Fryer preaching before him, that vnlesse he remoued from hym the Byshop of Winchester and Peter Riuall his kinsmā, he should neither could long enioy peace in hys kingdome. This although it was bluntly spoken of the Frier agaynst the Byshop: yet thys remedy he had: The Frier had nothyng to lose. Yet was there an other Chappleine of the Court, who perceauing the king somewhat mitigated by the former preachyng, and after a courtlike dexteritie handling hys matter, being a plea-