seuenAnd now ben iiij. euen. buryVnder saxons all atte hondeSomtyme vnder pnces of ye lād¶ Of the maner & rises of the walsshmen Ca. xix.The maner lyuyng of ye londeIs well diuerse from englondIn mete & drynke & clothyngAnd many
viij. C. They had that name hibermences and hibernia of the forsaid hiberus or els of hiberus a riuer of spayne / they were cal¦led also Gaytels and scottes / of one gaytelus that was phenius neuew / This gaytelus
begynnyng of their bokes. touchyng the conqueste of the sayd golden fese. by occasiō wherof gre∣we the cause of the seconde destruc∣tion of the sayd cite of troye. is nott sett in the sayd boke of Recuyel of thistories of
had sailled xx. daies and moo theyfoūden fast beside a cost of the see a thousand men of the linage andkynred of Troye and hir soueraigne & hir master of all was cal∣ledCorin / And whan Brute wiste whennes they
and made thenoble temple and to hym come Sibelle quene of Saba for to hereand see yf it were soth that men speken of the grete and noble witand wisdam of kyng Salamon and she fonde it soth that men
and worthely & the landegoned And Claudius Cesar in remēbraūce of this acord& for reuerence & honour of his doughter made in this land a fairtoune & a fair castell and let calle the toune after his name Clau∣cestrenthat nowe
deliueredthe lande clene of his ennemyes Tho praied Engist the kyug of somoche land that he myght make to hym a Cite for hym and forhis meyne ¶The kyng ansuerd it was not to done with outconcill of his britons
thurgh treson of Engis ¶The kyng ther of had gre¦tepite / and thought to make in mynde of hem a monumēt of stonethat myght endure to the worldes ene And of this thyng they tokehir counce what ther of was
had ther lostethat is to say Borell Erle of Maunt Bedewere and Key and Li∣giersErle of Boloigne Vgeti Erle of Baac Aloth erle of wyn¦chestreCursale erle of chestre and after holdein erle of Flaundresthees were the grete lordes that kyng
/ and went him tho toward his stepmodre house thatin that tyme soiourned in the Castellof Corfe / and as he rode in thethikkenesse of the wode to aspie his game it befell that he wēt amysand lost his
secōde yere of his regne vpon seintkalixtes day and he lith at waltham¶Of kyng william bastard and how he gouened hym well &wysely and of the werre bitweue hym and the kyng of faunceCapitulo C.xxxiij.WHen william bastard duke of Normandie
othe was williamthe Erchebisshopp of Caunterbury And that othir kyng Dauidof Scotland and after hym all the Erles and barons of englōdAlso after the noble man the Erle of Angoy a worthy knyghtsent to the kyng of englond y• he
and helpe of many lordes in englond ayens hir othe that theyhad made to Maude the Em{per}esse toke the reame and let croune Ste¦phenkyng of the land ¶And the Erchebisshopp william of Caū¦trburythat first made the othe of feaute vn
& Richardthat was Erle of Cornewaille and Isabell that was Em{per}esse ofRome and Eeno was Quene of scotland ¶And thiskyng Iohan whan he had regned xvij. yere . mōthes and v. daieshe deide in the Castellof Newerke & his
by the cronicles of Scotland & of thegrete lordes of Scotland which of hem was of the eldest blode it was founde that Bailloll was eldest And that the kyng of land shold holde of the kyng of englond &
grete lordes of englond atone assent sent to kyng edward to the castellof kenilworththe that he was in kepyng vnder the ward of sir ohan Hachimthat was the bisshopp of Ely / & of sir ohan of Percy a
hat beforne were outelawed of Englond for hir wykkednesse¶But afterward come ayene in to Englond Sir hugh spencerthe fadre oute of fraunce / and so moche counceilled the kyng that heshold werre vpon Thomas of lancastre / So that the
was nygh at an ende¶Of the deth of kyng Edward of Carnariuan Ca.cc.xvANd now go we ayene to Sir Edward of Carnariuanthat was kyng somme tyme of England and was puta doune of his diguite / Allas for his tribulacion
ward &gouernaunce of Henry Erle of Lancastre his cosin for sauacioneof his body he was take oute of the Castellof kenilworth ther thathe was in warde and thurgh colour of Quene Isabell and of theMortimer withoute consente of any
or∣dinaunceof the freris prechours that sir Edward of Canariuanthat was kyng edwardes fadre of whom the geest telleth faiden y•he was a lyve in the castellof Corfe wherfor all the communes allmost of englond were in sorwe & in