¶ In this yeare 1388, in Lent,

Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knigh|ton canon of Leceister ab|beie.

O Scotish crueltie and more than barbarous bloudthirsti|nesse.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 This yeare in August,An ouer|throw giuen to the Eng|lishmen by the Scots at Otter|burne. the Scots inuaded the coun|trie of Northumberland, and at Otterburne ouer|threw a power of Englishmen, which the earle of Northumberland and his sonnes had leauied against them. In this battell the earle Dowglas chiefe of that armie of Scots was slaine, and the lord Henrie Percie, and his brother sir Ralfe, sonnes to the said earle of Northumberland, were taken prisoners, as in the Scotish chronicles ye may read more at large. After the feast of the natiuitie of our ladie, Fabian. Caxton. A parlement at Cam|bridge. a parle|ment was holden at Cambridge, in the which di|uerse statutes were ordeined; as For the limiting of seruants wages; For punishment of vagarant persons; For the inhibiting of certeine persons to weare weapons; For the debarring of vnlawfull games; For maintenance of shooting in the long bow; For remouing of the staple of woolles from Middleburgh vnto Calis; For labourers not to be receiued, but where they are inhabiting, except with licence vnder seale of the hundred where they dwell. There was also an act made, that none should go foorth of the realme, to purchase anie benefice with cure or without cure, except by licence obteined of the king; and if they did contrarie herevnto, they were to be excluded out of the kings protection. There was granted to the king in this parlement, a tenth to be leuied of the clergie, and a fiftéenth of the laitie. More|ouer, during the time of this parlement,Sir Thomas Triuet slaine with the fall of his horsse. as sir Tho|mas Triuet was riding towards Barnewell with the king, where the king lodged, by forcing his horsse too much with the spurs, the horsse fell with him so rudelie to the ground, that his entrails within him were so burst and perished, that he died the next daie after. Manie reioised at this mans death, as well for that men iudged him to be excéeding haultie and proud; as also for that he was suspected not to haue dealt iustlie with the bishop of Norwich, in the iour|nie which the bishop had made into Flanders: but speciallie men had an ill opinion of him, for that he stood with the king against the lords, counselling him in the yeare last past to dispatch them out of the way. ¶ Sir Iohn Holland, the kings brother on the mo|thers side, that was latelie returned out of Spaine, where he had béene with the duke of Lancaster, was now made earle of Huntington.

¶ In Iulie, whiles the king was at Shéene, there swarmed togither in his court great multitudes of flies and gnats, Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knigh| [...]on canon of Leicester ab|beie. insomuch that in maner of skirmi|shing they incountered ech other; and making great slaughters on both sides, were in the end swept a|waie EEBO page image 466 from the place where they lay dead,Battell and slaughter be|tweene flies. with bru|shes and béesoms by heaps. This was deemed an vn|luckie prognosticat of some mischiefe like to fall vpon the necke of the land.