¶In this yeare 1418, and in the first yeare of the reigne of this victorious king, Abr. Fl. out of Fabian pag. 397. and Iohn Stow pag. 598. Henrie the fift, on Ea|ster daie in the after noone (a time which required de|uotion) at a sermon in saint Dunstans in the east of London, a great fraie happened in the said church, where through manie people were sore wounded, and one Thomas Petwarden fishmonger that dwelt at Sprots keie was slaine outright;Slaughter and bloudshed in S. Dun|stans church on Easter day. as they (vpon a good intent) did what they could (to their owne perill as vnfortunatlie it befell) to appease the turmoile, and to procure the kéeping of the kings peace. Here|vpon the church was suspended, and the beginners of the broile, namelie the lord Strange and sir Iohn Trussell knight (betwéene whome such coles of vn|kindnesse were kindled (at the instigation of their wiues,Women full of mischéefe. gentlewomen of euill disposition and at curs|sed hatred one with another) that their husbands ment at their méeting in the said church to haue slaine one another) were committed to the counter in the Pultrie. Two wise gentlemen (I wisse) and well aduised (no doubt) who without regard of day, place, people, preacher, or perill that might insue; were so forward to become the instruments of their mischieuous wiues malice; the fulfilling wherof they would haue forborne, if with discretion they had pon|dered the verdict of the poet concerning the said sex:

Foemina laetalis, foemina plena malis.

Record. Cant. The archbishop of Canturburie, when he had in|telligence giuen of this outragious prophanation of the church, caused the offendors to be excommunicat, as well at Paules, as in all other parish churches of London. Shortlie after, to wit on the one and twen|tith of Aprill, the said archbishop sat at saint Mag|nus, vpon inquisition for the authors of the said disor|der, and found the fault to consist speciallie in the lord Strange and his wife. So that vpon the first daie of Maie next following in Paules church, before the said archbishop,The princi|pall offendors punishment. the maior of London, and others, the said offendors submitted themselues to doo penance, and sware to doo it in such sort as to them it was in|ioined; namelie, as followeth. That immediatlie all their seruants should (in their shirts) go before the parson of saint Dunstans, from Paules to the said saint Dunstans church; and the lord Strange bare|headed, with his ladie barefooted; Reignold Kenwood archdeacon of London following them. Also it was appointed them, that at the consecrating or hallow|ing of the said church (which they had prophaned) the la|die should fill all the vessels with Not teares of hir cõplaint (I trust) for sorrow of hir sinne. water and offer likewise to the altar an ornament of ten pounds; and the lord hir husband a pix of siluer of fiue pounds. Which doone by waie of a satisfactorie expiation, it is likelie they were absolued: but the lord Strange had first made the wife of the said Petwarden slaine in the fraie, large amends: as Fabian saith, though in what sort he maketh no mention.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Whilest the king of England wan thus in Nor|mandie, his nauie lost nothing on the sea, but so scow|red the streames, that neither Frenchmen nor Bri|tons durst once appeare; howbeit, on a daie there a|rose such a storme and hideous tempest, that if the earles of March and Huntington had not taken the hauen of Southhampton, the whole nauie had peri|shed; & yet the safegard was strange,A sore [...]. for in the same hauen, two balingers, and two great carickes, la|den with merchandize were drowned, and the broken mast of another caricke was blowen ouer the wall of the towne.A violent tempest of wind. When the furie of this outragious wind and weather was asswaged, and the sea waxed calme, the earles of March and Huntington passed o|uer with all their companie, and landing in Norman|die, they marched through the countrie, destroieng the French villages, and taking preies on each hand, till they came to the king where he then was.