About this time or in the yeare 1391, according to Henrie Knightons account,

Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knigh|ton canon of Leicester abbeie.

A sore bridle for the clergie.

there was a prophane statute made against the church & churchmen; name|lie that no ecclesiasticall person or persons should possesse manors, glebeland, houses, possessions, lands, reuenues or rents whatsoeuer, at the hands of the feoffer, without the kings licence & the chiefe lords. And this statute extended it selfe, as well to parish-churches, chappels, chanteries, as abbeies, priories, & other monasteries whatsoeuer: likewise to citizens of cities, to farmers, & burgesses, hauing such rents or possessions for the common profit. For men in those daies, that would bestow land or liuelod vpon church, fraternitie, or conuent, and were notable for cost and charges to procure a mortmane, vnder the kings licence and chiefe lords; were woont to feoffe some speciall men, in whom they had confidence and trust; vnder whose name and title, churchmen, or anie other fraternitie or conuent might inioy the profit of the gift, and might haue the commoditie thereof in possession. And it was prouided by that statute, that all and euerie as well persons ecclesiasticall as pari|shioners, both citizens, burgesses, and farmers, or a|nie other whatsoeuer, hauing such rents, possessions, manors, or anie reuenues whatsoeuer, in the hands of such feoffers, without the licence of the king and chiefe lords; that either they should obteine and get a licence of the king and the chiefe lords to make it a mortmaine; or else set such things to sale, & raise profit of them, on this side or before the feast of Michael|masse next insuing: or the said feast being past and expired, that then the king and the chiefe lords, in things not ordered and disposed accordinglie, may enter and seize vpon the same, and them haue and hold at his and their pleasure.

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The duke of Glocester his iournie into Prutzen land.

The duke of Glocester in great fauor with the com|mons.

About the same time, the duke of Glocester went into Prutzen land, to the great griefe of the people, that made account of his departure, as if the sunne had beene taken from the earth, doubting some mis|hap to follow to the common wealth by his absence, whose presence they thought sufficient to stay all de|triments that might chance, for in him the hope of the commons onelie rested. In his returne home, he was sore tormented with rough weather and tempe|stuous seas. At length he arriued in Northumber|land, and came to the castell of Tinmouth, as to a sanctuarie knowen to him of old, where after he had refreshed him certeine daies, he tooke his iournie homewards to Plaschie in Essex, bringing no small ioy for his safe returne to all the kingdome. Anno Reg. 15. ¶On the ninth of Iulie the sunne séemed darkened with cer|teine grosse and euill fauored clouds comming be|twixt it and the earth, so as it appeared ruddie, but gaue no light from noone till the setting thereof. And afterwards con [...]nualli [...] for the space of six weeks, a|bout the middest of the daie, clouds customablie rose, and sometimes they continued both daie and night, not vanishing awaie at all. ¶ At the same time, such a mortalitie and death of people increased in North|folke, and in manie other countries of England, that it seemed not vnlike the season of the great pesti|lence. In the citie of Yorke there died eleuen thou|sand within a short space.A great death in Yorke and sundrie other places. ¶ Henrie Persie earle of Northumberland lieutenant of Calis, was called home from that charge, and created warden of the marches against Scotland, and Robert Mowbraie was sent to Calis to be the kings lieutenant there.