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9.1. An extract of the foresaid writ, as it is registred in the booke that belonged to the abbeie of Abington.

An extract of the foresaid writ, as it is registred in the booke that belonged to the abbeie of Abington.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 _REx dilectis & fidelibus suis, Radulfo fi|lio Wilhelmi, & Iohanni de Barton de Riton salutem. Quia quàm plures male|factores, & pacis nostrae perturbatores, homicidia, depraedationes, incendia, & alia damna quàm plurima nocte dié perpetrantes, vagantur in boscis, parcis, & alijs locis diuersis, tam infra li|bertates quàm extra, in comitatu Eboracensi, & ibidem receptantur in maximum periculum tam hominum per partes illas transeuntium, quàm ibi|dem commorantium, in nostri contemptum, ac pa|cis nostrae laesionem manifestam, vt accepimus: per quorum incursum poterunt peiora peioribus de fa|cili euenire, nisi remedium super hoc citiùs appo|natur, nos eorum malitiae in hac parte obuiare, & huiusmodidamnis & periculis praecauere volentes, assignamus vos ad inquirendum per sacramentum tam militum quàm aliorum proborum & legalium hominum, de contemptu praedicto, tam infra liber|tates quàm extra, per quos ipsa veritas meliùs sciri poterit, qui sint illi malefactores & pacis nostrae perturbatores, & eos conduxerunt & conducunt ad verberandum, vulnerandum, malè tractandũ, & interficiendum, plures de regno nostro in ferijs, mercarijs, & alijs locis in dicto comitatu, pro inimi|citia, inuidia, aut malitia. Et etiam pro eo quòd in assisis iuratis, recognitionibus, & inquisitionibus factis de felonijs positifuerant, & veritatem dixe|runt: vnde per conditionem huiusmodi malefact|orum, iuratores assisarum, iurationum, recognitio|num, & inquisitionum illarum, pro timore dicto|rum malefactorum, & eorum minarum, saepiùs ve|ritatem dicere, seu dictos malefactores indictare minimè ausifuerunt, & sunt. Et ad inquirendum de illis qui huiusmodi munera dederunt, & dant, & quantum, & quibus, & qui huiusmodi munera receperunt, & à quibus & qualiter, & quo modo, & qui huiusmodi malefactores fouent, nutriunt, & manutenent in comitatu praedicto, & ad ipsos malefactores tamper vos, quàm per vicecomitem nostrum comitatus praedicti arrestandos, & priso|nae nostrae liberandos, & saluò & securè in eadem per vicecomitem comitatus praedicti custodiendos, it a quòd ab eadem prisona nullo modo deliberen|tur, sine mandato nostro speciali.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Et ideo vobis mandamus, quòd ad certos diem & locum, quos ad hoc prouideritis, inquisitiones il|las faciatis. Et assumpto vobiscum sufficienti passe comitatus praedicti, si necesse fuerit, dictos male|factores coram vobis sic indictatos, arrestetis, & ipsos prisonae nostrae liberetis, informa praedicta: & etiam omnia bona, & catalla ipsorum malefactorũ qui se subtraxerint, & fugam fecerint, postquam de felonijs aliquibus coram vobis solenniter in|dictati fuerint, per vicecomitem comitatus prae|dicti, in manum nostram capiatis, & ea ad opus no|strum saluò custodire faciatis, donec aliud inde vo|bis praeceperimus. Mandamus enim vicecomiti nostro comitatus praedicti, quòd ad certos diem & locum, quos vos prouidere duxeritis, venire faciat, coram vobis tot & tales, tam milites quàm alios, quos habere decreueritis, de comitatu illo, tam in|fra libertates, quàm extra, per quos ipsa veritas meliùs sciri poterit, & inquiri. Et quod omnes il|los quos per inquisitionem culpabiles inuenire con|tigerit, & quos vos sic liberaueritis, à nobis re|cipiantur, & quorum nomina eis scire faciatis, as|sumpto secum sufficienti posse comitatus prae|dicti, sine dilatione arrestari, & in prisona nostra saluò & securè custodire faciat in forma prae|dicta, & communitati dicti comitatus, quod si|mul cum vicecomite praedicto, vobis quotien|scún opus fuerit in praemissis pareat, assistat, & intendat, prout eis iniungetis ex parte nostra. In cuius reitestimonium, &c. ¶ Heerevnto were annexed certeine articles by way of instructi|ons, of what points they should inquire, as part|lie aboue is noted out of the addition to Mat|thew West. but not so fullie, as in the said chro|nicle of Abington is found expressed, and heere for breefenesse omitted.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the three and thirtith yeare of his reigne, Anno Reg. 33. 1305 king Edward put his sonne prince Edward in prison, bi|cause that he had riotouslie broken the parke of Walter Langton bishop of Chester;Prince Ed|ward cõmit|ted to ward. Caxton. Fabian. and bicause the prince had doone this déed by the procurement of a lewd and wanton person, one Péers Gauaston, an esquire of Gascoine, the king banished him the realme, least the prince, who delighted much in his companie, might by his euill and wanton counsell fall to euill and naughtie rule. Moreouer,William Wa|leis taken & put to death. Rich. South. the same yeare, William Waleis was taken, and deliuered vnto king Edward, who caused him to be brought to London, where on S. Bartholmewes euen, he was conueied through the streets vnto Westminster, and there arreigned of hie treason, and condemned, and therevpon hanged, drawne and quartered, his head was set ouer London bridge, his right side ouer the bridge at Newcastell vpon Tine, his left side was sent to Berwike and there set vp, his right leg was sent to S. Iohns towne, and his left vnto Aberden, in which places the same were set vp for an example of terror to others.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Also, about the same time, the king of France re|quired the king of England by messengers and let|ters sent vnto him, N. Triuet. that he would banish all the Fle|mings out of his realme, in like manner as at his instance he had latelie before banished all the Sco|tishmen out of France.

Flemings banished the land, at con|templation of the king of France.

Abington. The archbi|shop of Can|turburie accu|sed by the K. Nic. Triuet. He is suspended.

The king of England was contented so to doo, and by that means were all the Flemings auoided out of this land at that season, but shortlie after, they returned againe. King Edward accused Robert archbishop of Canturburie vnto the pope, for that he should go about to trouble the quiet state of the realme, and to defend and succour rebel|lious persons, wherevpon the said archbishop being cited to the popes consistorie, was suspended from executing his office, till he should purge himselfe by order of law, of such crimes as were laid and obiected against him. The king also obteined an absolution of the pope, of the oth which against his will he had ta|ken, for the obseruing of the liberties exacted by force of him, by the earls and barons of his realme, name|lie, touching disforrestings to be made.

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