[1] [2] It is written, that he meant to haue become feu|darie (for maintenance sake against his owne disloi|all subiects, Matth. Paris and other his aduersaries) vnto Mira|mumeline the great king of the Saracens: but for the truth of this report I haue little to saie, and therefore I leaue the credit thereof to the authors. It is reported likewise, that in time when the realme stood interdicted, as he was abroad to hunt one day, it chanced that there was a great stag or hart killed, which when he came to be broken vp, prooued to be ve|rie fat and thicke of flesh;

Oh (saith he) what a plesant life this déere hath led, and yet in all his daies he neuer heard masse.

To conclude, it may séeme, that in some respects he was not greatlie superstitious, and yet not void of a religious zeale towards the maintenance of the cleargie, as by his bountifull li|beralitie bestowed in building of abbeies and chur|ches (as before yée haue hard) it may partlie appeare.