[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] After this, to the intent that whiles he might be occupied in warres abroad, he should not be troubled with ciuill discord at home, he deuised to ioine in af|finitie with the Scots, Matt. Westm. Matth. Paris. Marriages concluded. giuing his sister Ione in ma|riage vnto Alexander the king of Scotland, and Hu|bert of Burgh on the other side married the sister of the same Alexander called Margaret. These mar|riages were solemnized at Yorke on the morrow af|ter the feast of S. Iohn Baptist, in the presence of a great number of the Nobles both of England and Scotland. Anno Reg. 6. 1222 A councell also was holden by the arch|bishop of Canturburie at Oxford for reformation of the state ecclesiasticall and the religion of moonks.A councell or synod at Ox|ford. ¶ In which councell two naughtie felowes were pre|sentes before him, that of late had beene apprehen|ded, either of them naming himselfe Christ, and prea|ched manie things against such abuses as the clear|gie in those daies vsed. Moreouer, to prooue their er|rour to haue a shew of truth,Two dissem|bling persons apprehended. Matth. Westm. they shewed certeine tokens and signes of wounds in their bodies, hands and féet, like vnto our sauiour Iesus that was nai|led on the crosse. In the end being well apposed, they were found to be but false dissemblers, wherefore by doome of that councell, they were iudged to be nailed vnto a crosse of wood, and so those to whom the execu|tion was assigned, had them foorth to a place called Arborberie, where they nailed them to a crosse,They are exe|cuted. and there left them till they were dead. The one of them was an Hermophrodite, that is to say, both man and woman. Also there were two women condemned,Two women counterfei|ting them|selues to be, the one our ladie, the o|ther Marie Magdalene. Ralfe Cog. of whom the one had taken vpon hir to be that bles|sed virgine Marie, and the other fained hir selfe to de Marie Magdalene.