municatiō. Wherfore they were to be left for people desperate, as which were departed from all truth and honesty.

These thynges (sayd the Byshops) we as your faythfull subiectes, before God, and mē, do tell and aduertise your grace, desiring and beseching you, that you will remoue and seclude from you such counsaile, and as the custome is of all other kyngdomes to do, that you wil so gouerne in like maner your kyngdome by you owne naturall liege people, and such as be sworne vnto you of your owne realme. MarginaliaExcōmunication denounced by the byshops agaynst the kyng.For thus (sayd they) in veritie we denounce vnto you, that vnlesse in short tyme you will see these thynges reformed, we accordyng to our duetie, will procede by the cēsure of the church, agaynst you, and all other that gaynstand the same: tarying no other thyng, but onely the consecration of this our reuerend Archbyshop.

These wordes of the Byshops thus sayd and finished, the kyng required a litle tyme of respite, wherein to aduise with himselfe about the matter, saying: MarginaliaThe kinges answere to the Byshops.that he could not in such a sodeine remoue frō him his counsaile, before he had entred with thē a cosite of his treasure committed to them, and so that assemble brake vp.

It folowed then after this communicatiō so broken vp, that þ^e kyng resorted to the parts of Northfolke, where cōmyng by S. Edmundes bury, MarginaliaThe pitie of the kyng toward the wife of Hubert.where the wife of Hubert the Iustice was, he being moued with zeale of pitie toward the woman, who very humbly behaued her selfe to the king, did graunt vnto her viij. manerplaces, which her husband before with his money had purchased, beyng then in the custody and possession of Robert Passelew, one of the kynges new counsaillours aboue specified. MarginaliaEdmund consecrated Archb. of Cant. which was afterward canonised by Pope Innocent the fourth for a Sainet.It was not long after this, but Edmund the Archbishop was inuested and consecrated in the Church of Canterbury, who shortly after his consecration, about the moneth of April, commyng with his Suffragans to the place of counsaile, where the kyng with his Earles and Barons was assembled, opened to him the cause and purpose of his commyng and of the other Prelates, which was to put him in remembraunce of their former talke had with him at Westminster: MarginaliaExample of excommunicatiō rightly practised.denouncyng moreouer to him expressely, that vnles with spede he would take a better way, & fall to a peaceable and godly agreement with þ^e true & faythful nobles of his Realme, he incontinent with the other Prelates there present, would passe with the sentence of excommunication agaynst him, and agaynst all them that should be enemyes to the same peace, & mainteiners of discord.

The kyng after he heard the meanyng of the Bishops, with humble and gentle language aunswered them agayne, MarginaliaThe kinges promise to the Byshops.promising to condescend to them in all thynges. Wherupon within few dayes after, the kyng commyng to some better remembraunce of himselfe, MarginaliaPeter Bishop of Wint. discharged the Court.commaunded the forenamed byshop of Winchester to leaue the Court, and returne home to his Byshopricke, there to attend vnto the spirituall charge and care of his flocke committed to him. MarginaliaPeter Riuall called to account of the kinges treasures.Moreouer he commaūded Peter Riuall the Byshops cosin (some stories say his sonne) who had then the disposing of all the affaires of the Realme, to render vnto him his Castels, and to geue a counte of all his treasures, wherof he had the keepyng, and so to voyde the Realme, swearyng moreouer vnto him, but for that he was beneficed, and was within orders of the church, els he would haue caused both his eyes to be pluckt out of his head.

MarginaliaPictauians and straungers sent home by the king into their countrey.He expelled likewise the Pictauians out of the Court, and from the custody of his munitions, sendyng them home into their countrey and byddyng they should no more see his face. And thus the king wisely dispatchyng himselfe of his wicked counsaillours, first did send Edmund the Archbyshop, with the Byshops of Chester and of Rochester, into Wales to Leoline, and to Richard Earle Marshall and other, to entreate with them of peace. MarginaliaReconciliation sought betwene the king and the nobles.Also he receaued to his seruice agayne men of his naturall countrey, to attend about him, offering himselfe willyng to be ruled by the coūsaile of the Archbyshop and the Byshops, by whose prudence he trusted his Realme should be reduced agayne to a better quietnes.

But in the meane tyme, while these thinges were doyng in England, the foresayd Richard Earle Marshall by the falshode of the byshop of Winchester and Peter Riuall, forging the kinges letters to the Irishmen agaynst him, & partly by the conspiracie of Gilbert de Marisco,

MarginaliaRichard Earle Marshall fraudulētly circumuented and slayne in Ireland.was circumuented by the Irishmen in warre, and there taken and wounded, was by them through the meanes of his Surgean slayne.

MarginaliaCatini slayne about Almaine, iudged of the Papistes for heretickes.Great slaughter the same tyme was of thē which were called Catini, about the partes of Almaine. These Catini were estemed of Pope Gregory and the Papistes to be he-retickes. But what their opinions were I finde it not expressed. In Pariensiens.

MarginaliaAlbigenses slayne in Spayne by the Popes setting on.In like sort the Albingenses afore mentioned, recounted also of the Popes flocke to be heretickes, with their byshops, & a great number and company of them, were slayne by the cōmaundement of Pope Gregory at the same tyme in a certaine playne in Spayne. Ex Mat. Pariens. fol. 87.

How the Archbyshop of Canterbury with other two Byshops, were sent into Wales for intreatie of peace, ye heard before. At whose returne agayne after the tyme of Easter, the kyng going toward Glocester to meete them by the way, as he was in his iourney at Woodstocke, came messengers from Ireland, declaryng to þ^e kyng the death of Richard Earle Marshall, and the order therof, through the forged letters of Winchester and other,MarginaliaThe K. lamēteth the death of Richard Earle Marshall.whereat the kyng made great lamentation and mourning, to the great admiration of all them that were by, saying and cōplainyng, that he left not his like in all the realme agayne.

After this the kyng procedyng in his iorney came to Gloucester. Where the Archbishop with the other Byshops comming to the king, declared to him the forme and condition of peace which they had cōcluded with Leoline, which was this: If the king would be reconciled before with the other nobles with whom he was confederate, such as the king had banished out of his realme: to the end that the concorde might be the more firme betwene them. Thus (sayd they) was Leoline contented, although with much a do and great difficultie, to receaue the league of peace, saying & protesting thus vnto them, MarginaliaThe saying of Leoline kyng of Wales.
The almose of K. Henry more feared then his puisaunce.that he feared more the kinges almose, then all the puisaunce both of him and of all his Clergie within England.

MarginaliaPeace cōcluded betwene the kyng and the nobles.This done the king there remaining with þ^e byshops, directeth his letters to all the exiles and banished Lords and to all his nobles, that they should repayre to him about the begynnyng of Iune, at Gloucester, promising to them his full fauour and recōcilement to them and to their heyres, & that they should suspect no fraude therein, they should haue their safe conduct by the Archbishop and Byshops.

Wherupon through the mediation of the sayd Archbyshop and the Byshops, first commeth to the kyng Hubert Earle of Kent, offering himselfe to the kings good will and fauour. MarginaliaHubert Erle of Kent restored agayne to the kinges fauour.Whom the king with cherefull countenaunce receaued and embraced, restoring him not onely to his fauour, but also to his houshold and counsaile, with his liuinges & possessions frō which he had bene diseised before. MarginaliaHubert geueth thankes to God.Then Hubert lifting vp his eyes to heauen, gaue prayse and glory to God, by whose gratious prouidēce he so meruelously being preserued from so great distresses and tribulations, was agayne so happely reconciled to the kyng, and his faithfull frendes. After him in like sort came in Gilbert Basset a noble man, Richard Suard: also Gilbert the brother of Rich. Marshall that was slayne. Which Gilbert recouered again his whole inheritaunce as well in England as in Ireland, doing his homage to the kyng and his seruice due for the same. To whom also was graunted the office of the high Marshall Court, belonging before to his brother Richard.

MarginaliaFalsehode & murder commeth out.In the same counsaile or communication continuyng then at Gloucester, the sayd Edmund Archbishop of Caunterbury, bringing the forged letters, wherin was betrayed the life of Richard Earle Marshall, sealed with the kynges seale, and sent to the great men of Ireland, read the same openly in the presence of the kyng and all the nobles. At the hearing wherof, theMarginaliakings many times abused by wicked counsaile.kyng greatly sorowing and weeping, confessed there in truth that beyng forced by the Byshop of Winchester and Peter de Riuallis, he cōmaunded his seale to be set to certaine letters presented vnto him, but the tenour therof he said and sware hee neuer heard. Wherunto the Archbishop aunswering agayne, desired the kyng to search well his conscience, & sayd, that all they which were procurers or of knowledge of those letters, were gilty of the death of the Earle Marshall, no lesse then if they had murdered him with their owne handes.

MarginaliaThe Bish. of Winchester called to hys aunswere.Then the kyng callyng a counsaile, sent his letters for the Bishop of Winchester, for Peter Riuall, Stephen Segraue, and Robert Passelew to appeare and yeld accoūt for his treasures to them committed and for his seale by them abused. But the Byshop and Riuall keepyng themselues in the sanctuarie of the minster Church of Winchester, neither durst nor would appeare. Stephen Segraue who succeded after Hubert the Iustice, and was of the Clergy before, after became a layman, and now hidyng himselfe in S. Maryes Church in the Abbay of Leycester, was turned to a Clerke agayne. Robert Passelew couertly hid himselfe in a certaine celler of the new tēple, so secretly that none could tell where he was, but thought he was gone to Rome. At length through the foresayd Edmund Archbishop of Can-