made wulstan the pryour bisshop of / wyrcetre / Noo man wold gladly of Stygandus the archebisshop of caunterbury receyue the yefte of bisshopryche nowther wiliam conquerour whanne he was co∣me wold receyue the blessyng of hym / After nycol
¶Incipit Liber septimus¶ Capitulum primumWHan william cam to london and was crowned at westmynstre of aldredus archebisshop ofyork and wyded stygandus archebisshop of Caunterbury / & was y crowned in a mydwynter day / that fil that ere on
reftres of the chirche / and stroke theym soo deepe in the grounde / that vnnethe the sixte part of hem was seen aboue the erth / ¶ Also a whyrlwynde threwe doune the heelyng of the chirche of Salesbury
Also he sayde that the Bisshopriche of lyncolne longed to the See ofyork / till that Robert bloet had yeue the kynge fyue thousand marc / ¶Also this yere deyde Ro∣gyer erle of shrowesbury / whanne he lay seke
to the bisshoprych ofyork wulstan was chosen Bisshop of wyrcetre specially by the procu∣ryng of aldredus that hoped to blynde his rebberye by the sym∣plenesse of wulstan / but he had more helpe of vertue than of let¦trure /
In his consecracion were two legates of the court of Rome / and though he made pro¦fession to Stygandus the Archebisshop / he toke his consecracion and his sacryng of aldredus the Archebisshop ofyork / but for to auoyde
a tyme lanfrank putte ageynst wul-stan of lettrure / And the archebisshop ofyork Aldredus chalen∣gyd of hym lawful subiection / and he wente oute of the palays / and sayde the houre of none that he had behynde and
of in his faders tyme. & closed ranulph bisshop of durham in the toure of london & reconcyled ancelm archebisshop of caunterbury that was so exiled / he chasted the fals mesures of marchauntes and brought forth the length
is con∣teyned loste and lesyng of eyen of pryny stones of fustes and of hondes / Than he made subgette the Scottes the walsshmen / the bri¦tons of beyonde see / and lowys kyng of Fraunce / Than kynge henry
excetre and william Archebisshop of Caunterbury deyd / and theobald abbot of becco was Archebisshop after hym / Lotharius Emperour of almayne deyd / and Conradus was Emperour after hym fyftene yere of Almayns and of Romayns / And though
Eustace / Constaunce the kynges syster of Fraunce / Thurstan the Archebisshop ofyork was a grete foundour of ab∣bayes of hagustald of Founteynes / and of eyght other / and to∣ke the habyte of monk / and pountfret /
cause of the feyth / But for desyre of her owne welthe and hope of grete happe and fortune / but the ryghtwysenesse of God aloweth not suche maner doyng / but semely god ordeineth that outrageo{us} pryde of mysby¦leuyd
the Couent of Co∣uentre / nowe with strengthe of men of Armes he putte oute the monkes as passing euil doers / and gilty of hughes trspaas / and sente anone to the court of Rome men of answere ful
wroth for the takyng of his bro¦der Geffrey erle ofyork / and gadred grete strengthe of his owne prouynce and of walsshemen with many bisshops / and chaced this william from wyndesore to the toure of london / and
the coming of the scottes in to englond a this half the water twede shold not eftsones be to him preiudice of comyng eft in to englond eraftr the grettest of scotlond & of englond that chalengid right of the
peyne of prisonnemente and of lesynge of his heede / ¶ In the feste of the trans¦lacion of saynt thomas of Caunterbury kynge Edwarde toke the See vnwyttynge all his men whether he wold wende / But by ledynge of
tyme of the kynges coūseyll fled out of the londe / that is to saye mayster Alysaunder neuel Archebis¦shop ofyork / Syre mychel de la pole Erle of Suffolk & chaun¦celer of englond / and the marquys of deuelyn
bytwene the Erle of morryf in Scotland and Syre Edmond Erle of kente vpon a chalenge made by therle of morryf to Ius¦te certayne courses of warre with sharp sperys on horsbak / And the Erle of kente had the
sonne duc of Clarence / And Io¦han his sone duc of Bedford / And his sonne vmfrey Duke of Gloucetre / Syre thomas beauford Erle of Dorsete / And the duc of Anmarle he made Duck ofyork / ¶
lordes assembled There was taken and arestyd for hye treasonne Syre Rychard Erle of Cambrydge brother to the duc ofyork / the lord Sccope Tresorer of englond / and Syre thomas gray knyght / whiche shol¦de ymagyne the kynges