[1] [2] [3] About the beginning of the seuen and twentith yeare of his reigne, Anno. Reg. 27. his brother the earle of Corne|wall, misliking the order of things which he saw dai|lie in the king his brothers procéedings, would néeds returne backe into England, but chieflie when he per|ceiued that his councell & aduise could not be heard. The king was sore offended herewith, but he could not well remedie the matter, nor persuade him to ta|rie. And so the said earle of Cornewall,The earle of Cornwal and other returne home. togither with the earles of Penbroke and Hereford, and diuerse o|ther noble men tooke the sea, and after manie dan|gers escaped in their course, at length on S. Lucies daie they arriued in Cornewall, though some of the vessels that were in the companie were driuen by force of the tempestuous weather vpon other con|trarie coasts. ¶About this season also, that is to saie, [page 231] on the day of S. Edmund the king, there happened a maruellous tempest of thunder and lightening, and therwith followed such an excéeding raine (which con|tinued many daies togither) that riuers rose on mar|uellous heigth, and the Thames it selfe, which sildome riseth or is increased by land flouds, passing ouer the banks, drowned all the countrie for the space of six miles about Lambeth, so that none might get into Westminster hall, except they were set on horsse|backe.