of fortune. how he was laddewhere that Spynx. kepte the mountayneAnd how that he slowe▪ also in certayneLrynge Layus atte castell gateTowardes nyghte. whan it was full lateAnd to Thebes. than he gan hym spedeTo fynde oute. the stok
the seeLinowyng right nought. ye syght of the coūtreeFull of hylles. and of hye mountaynsCraggy roches. and but few playnsWounder dredfull. and lothsome of passageAnd therwith all. full of bestes rageHoldynge his waye. of herte noo thynge lyghteMate and wery.
Tydeus sawe. where a castell stodeStronge and myghty. bylte vpon a rocheTowarde whome. faste he gan approcheConueyed thyder. by clerenesse of the stoneThat by nyght. agayn the mone shoneOn the towres. with crestes maryallAnd Joynyng. all moost to the wallWas
yf it myght beAnd to his paleys. full royall bylte of stoneThe worthy Grekes. cam rydyng euerychoneEuery lorde. full fresshely on his stedeAnd Lygurgus. example of manlyhedeAnone as he knewe. of her comyngTaquyte hymselfe. lyche a gentyll kyngAgayn hem wente.
vnto oure owne castell / and in lyke wyse as she saide so they departed / that neyther the kynge nor none of his counceill were ware of their depar∣tyng Also soone as kyng Vther knewe of theire departyng soo
/ & helde with the lordes of englond, & netheles the kyng by help & socour of men of london / & also of helpe of southerne men / the kyng gate the castell maugre hem al that were therin
vaga at the Castellof strigelin departeth englond & wales / Also kynge Offa for to haue a distinction for euermore bitwene the kynges of englond and of wales made a longe dyche that stretcheth forth oute of the southside
of couetise of richesse and mar¦chandise / and called hym mercurius And so bachus he called god of wyn / Venus goddesse of loue and beaute / lauerna god of thefte and of robberye Protheus god of falshede and
men and bicome in a litelwhyl of so grete poer and so moche peple had that menwyst not in litell tyme which were the kynges men and whichewere Engistes mē wherfor all britaigne had of hym drede & saidamong hem
that is to say the Erldome of Nichol ¶The vj. hadleicestreshire Northm̄ptonshire ¶Hertford & huntyngdon̄ ¶Thevij. had Oxūford Gloucestre Wynchestre Warre wyk and Derbyshire¶Howe vortiger went in to wales and bigan there a castell thatwolde nat stande without mortier tempred
to seyne the Erle Raudolfe of Che∣strewilliam Erle Marchall william Erle of Penbroke williamthe Brener Erle of Feriers Serle the Maule baron and all othirgrete lordes of Englond helde with lowys the kynges sone of fraū∣ceAnd anone after when kyng
that were yolden to himne to no man of ordre ne to no ous of religion ne no maner chirchBut let aspie all that he myʒt wher that he myght finde any of hisenemies / Tho come a spie to
power ofpeple and went thidderward to eskewe the Castell and his poerencresed from day to day ¶Whenne the Erle of lancastre and theErle of Herford and the barons of hir companie herd of thisthyng they assembled all hir power and
Of the scomfiture of Burbrugge Ca.C.lxxxxvijTHe good Erle Thomas of lancastre Humfrey de Bohonn̄Erle of herford and the barons that with hem were tokencounceill bitwene hem at frere prechours at pounfrete Thothought Thomas vpon the traitrie of Robert Holand and
these were his ustices Sir hugh the fa∣dr /Aymer of valaunce Erle of Penbroke / Sir Edmond of wo∣destokeErle of kent / Sir Iohan of Britaigne Erle of Riche∣mondand Sir Robert of Malemethorppe Iustice / and Sir Ro∣berthym acoulped in
sauf kepyng in the castellof kenilworth and hym kept sir henrythat was seint Thomas brother of lancastre ¶And sir hughspencer the fadre came and put hym in the quenes grace and SirEdward hir sone duke of gnyhenne But sir
yere of grace M.CCC.xxvj. that was of ageat that tyme but xv. yere / and for encheson that his fadre was inward in the castellof kemlworth and eke was put doune of his ro¦yalte / the reame of englond
deliuered Edward the kynges fadre by endenture vnto sir Thomas of Berkeley / And so sir Iohan Mautreuers / andthey lad hym from the Castellof kemlworth vn to the Castell ofBerkely and kept hym ther saufely / ¶And at
hast tothe Baillifs of wynchestre that they shold smyte of sir Edmondeshede of wodestoke Erle of kent withoute any maner abydyng orrespite vp payne of lyfe and lymme and that he shold haue noneothir execucion be cause of tarieng nat
Isabellthurgh counceill of the Mortimer toke to hir the keyes of the yatesof the Castellof Notyngham so that no man myght come nethir inne oute by nyght but thurgh commaundement of the Mortimer nethe kyng ne none of his