[1] [2] [3] In this yeare, on the exaltation of the crosse,A subsidie granted in a parlement holden at Lambeth. at Lambeth, in the assemblie of the states there, a subsi|die was granted to the K. of the fortith part of eue|rie mans goods towards the discharge of his debts which he owght to the earle of Britaine. Anno Reg. 17. Also in the beginning of the seauentéenth yeere of his reigne, Ranulfe earle of Chester and Lincolne departed this life the six and twentith day of October, Matth. Paris. Ranulfe earle of Chester de|parteth this life. whose bodie was buried at Chester, and his bowels at Walling|ford where he died. This earle Ranulfe was thrice married,Erle Ranulfe thrice maried. first to Constance daughter and heire to Conan earle of Britaine and Richmund, and so in right of hir was intituled earle of those two places: which Constance had beene first married vnto Gef|frey the third sonne of king Henrie the second, by whom she had issue Arthur (as before yée haue heard.) But by earle Ranulfe she had no issue at all, but was from him diuorced, and afterwards married vn|to Guy vicount de Towars. Then after earle Ra|nulfe was so diuorsed from the said Constance,This Cle|mence was daughter to erle Ferrers. he married a ladie named Clemence, and after hir de|ceasse, he married the third time the ladie Margaret, daughter to Humfrey de Bohun earle of Hereford and Essex, constable of England.