8.5. Edward earle of Northumberland dis|comfiteth Mackbeth the vsurper of the Scotish kingdome and placeth Malcolme in the same, a controuersie whether Siward were at this discomfiture or no; his stout words when he heard that one of his sonnes was slaine in the field, bishop Al|dred is sent to fetch home Edward the sonne of K. Edmund Ironside into England; earle Algar being banished ioineth with the Welshmen against the English and Normans, and getteh the victorie; Harold the son of earle Goodwine putteth earle Algar & his retinue to their shifts by pursute, pacifica|tion betweene the generals of both armies, their hosts, Si|ward earle of Northumberland dieth; his giantlike sta|ture, his couragious heart at the time of his de|ceasse, why Tostie one of Goodwins sonnes succeeded him in the earle|dome. The fift Chapter.

Edward earle of Northumberland dis|comfiteth Mackbeth the vsurper of the Scotish kingdome and placeth Malcolme in the same, a controuersie whether Siward were at this discomfiture or no; his stout words when he heard that one of his sonnes was slaine in the field, bishop Al|dred is sent to fetch home Edward the sonne of K. Edmund Ironside into England; earle Algar being banished ioineth with the Welshmen against the English and Normans, and getteh the victorie; Harold the son of earle Goodwine putteth earle Algar & his retinue to their shifts by pursute, pacifica|tion betweene the generals of both armies, their hosts, Si|ward earle of Northumberland dieth; his giantlike sta|ture, his couragious heart at the time of his de|ceasse, why Tostie one of Goodwins sonnes succeeded him in the earle|dome. The fift Chapter.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 _ABout the thirteenth yeare of king Edward his reigne (as some write)Matth. West. 1054 Hector Boet. or rather a|bout the nineteéenth or twen|tith yeare, as should appeare by the Scotish writers, Si|ward the noble earle of Nor|thumberland with a great power of horssemen went into Scotland, and in battell put to flight Mackbeth that had vsurped the crowne of Scotland, and that doone, placed Mal|colme surnamed Camoir, the sonne of Duncane, sometime king of Scotland, in the gouernement of that realme,Simon. Dun. M. West. who afterward slue the said Mackbeth, and then reigned in quiet. Some of our English writers say, that this Malcolme was king of Cum|berland, but other report him to be sonne to the king of Cumberland. But héere is to be noted, that if Mackbeth reigned till the yeare 1061, and was then slaine by Malcolme, earle Siward was not at that battell; for as our writers doo testifie, he died in the yeare 1055, which was in the yeare next after (as the same writers affirme) that he vanquished Mackbeth in fight, and slue manie thousands of Scots, and all those Normans which (as ye haue heard) were with|drawen into Scotland, when they were driuen out of England.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 It is recorded also, that in the foresaid battell, in which earle Siward vanquished the Scots, one of Siwards sonnes chanced to be slaine, whereof al|though the father had good cause to be sorowfull, yet when he heard that he died of a wound which he had receiued in fighting stoutlie in the forepart of his bodie, and that with his face towards the enimie, he greatlie reioised thereat, to heare that he died so manfullie. But here is to be noted, that not now, but a little before (as Henrie Hunt. saith) that earle Siward went into Scotland himselfe in person, he sent his sonne with an armie to conquere the land, whose hap was there to be slaine: and when his father heard the newes, he demanded whether he re|ceiued the wound whereof he died, in the forepart of of the bodie, or in the hinder part: and when it was told him that he receiued it in the forepart;

I reioise (saith he) euen with all my heart, for I would not wish either to my sonne nor to my selfe any other kind of death.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Shortlie after, Aldred the bishop of Worcester was sent vnto the emperour Henrie the third,Matth. West 105 [...] to fetch Edward the sonne of Edmund Iron side into England, whome king Edward was desir [...]us to sée, meaning to ordeine him heire apparant to the crowne: but he died the same yeare after he came into England. This Edward was surnamed the outlaw: his bodie was buried at Winchester,Hent Hunt. 1055 or (as an other saith) in the church of S. Pauls in London.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶About the same time K. Edward by euill coun|sell (I wot not vpon what occasion, but as it is thought without cause) banished Algar the sonne of earle Leofrike: wherevpon he got him into Ireland, and there prouiding 18 ships of rouers, returned, & landing in Wales, ioined himselfe with Griffin the king or prince of Wales, and did much hurt on the borders about Hereford, of which place Rafe was then earle, that was sonne vnto Goda the sister of K. Edward by hir first husband Gualter de Maunt. This earle assembling an armie, came forth to giue battell to the enimies,Matth. West Simon Dun. appointing the Englishmen contrarie to their manner to fight on horssebacke, but being readie (on the two & twentith of October) to giue the onset in a place not past two miles from Hereford,The welsh|men obteine the victorie a|gainst Eng|lishmen and Normans. he with his Frenchmen and Normans fled, and so the rest were discomfited, whome the ad|uersaries pursued, and slue to the number of 500, beside such as were hurt and escaped with life. Grif|fin and Algar hauing obteined this victorie, entered into the towne of Hereford, set the minster on fire, slue seuen of the canons that stood to defend the doores or gates of the principall church, and finallie spoiled and burned the towne miserablie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king aduertised hereof, gathered an armie, ouer the which Harold the sonne of earle Goodwine was made generall, who followed vpon the eni|mies that fled before him into Northwales, & staied not,Stratcluid. Snowdon. till hauing passed through Strat [...]luid, he came to the mountaines of Snowdon, where he pitched his field. The enimies durst not abide him, but got them into Southwales, whereof Harold being ad|uertised, left the more part of his armie in North|wales to resist the enimies there,The citie of Hereford for|tified by Ha|rold. & with the residue of his people came backe vnto Hereford, recouered the towne, and caused a great and mightie trench to be cast round about it, with an high rampire, and fensed it with gates and other fortifications. After this, he did so much, that comming to a communica|tion with Griffin and Algar at a place called Bili|gelhage, a peace was concluded, and so the nauie of earle Algar sailed about, and came to Chester, there to remaine, till the men of warre and marriners had their wages, while he went to the king, who par|doned his offense, & restored him to his earledome.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this, in the verie same yeare, being the 15 of king Edwards reigne, as some writers affirme, Siward the noble earle of Northumberland died of the slix, of whom it is said,The deceasse of Siward earle of Nor|thumberland. Ran. Higd. that when he perceiued the houre of death to be néere, he caused him selfe to be put in armour, & set vp in his chaire, affirming that a knight and a man of honour ought to die in that sort, rather than lieng on a couch like a féeble and fainthearted creature: and sitting so vpright in his chaire armed at all points, he ended his life, and was buried at Yorke. [O stout harted man, not vnlike to that famous Romane remembred by Tullie in his Tusculane questions, who suffered the sawing of his leg from his bodie without shrinking, looking v|pon the surgeon all the while, & hauing no part of his bodie bound for shrinking!] The said Siward earle of Northumberland was a man of a giantlike stature, & thereto of a verie stout and hardie courage, & because his sonne Walteif was but an infant, and as yet not out of his cradell, the earledome was gi|uen vnto earle Tostle one of Goodwins sonnes.