Before Duke Wyllyam's knyghts han hither went; Whose cowart arrows manie erles sleyne, And brued the feeld wyth bloude as season rayne.
There was in that ship a good and wise Matrone, a Countesse or an Erles wife, who perceiuing the tempest to grow, and fearing her selfe, called to her the M.
And there being made his secretarie, I gouerned the Erles Court (albeit with the enuie of some) as my selfe pleased, yea whom I would I abased, and preferred whom I thought good.
Writing of the Earl of Warwick, Ponet states, 'at the erlessute Arundell hathe his head with the axe divided from his shoulders.
He bidds ye mete him at Permanscore, And bring four in your cumpanie; Five erles sall gang himsell befor, Nae mair in number will he be.
Desyre him mete thee at Permanscore, And bring four in his cumpanie; Five erles sall gang yoursell befor, Gude cause that you suld honour'd be.
Bid him mete me at Permanscore, And bring four in his cumpanie; Five erles sall cum wi' mysell Gude reason I suld honour'd be.
Also in this yere oon Prentyng of Norfolk was enprisoned in the erles place of Northumbr', for whiche the peple of London aroos and wolde a sclayn the erle and cast down his place.
John Cromwell, and manye othere, whiche alle togideres ordeyned to make a maryage betwen Edward the kynges sone and the erles doughter of Henowde.
And in this yere was the rysynge of the erlesand barons of this lond; and they token S^{r}.
Sidenote: The children of the erles of March were stole out of the castell of Wyndesore.
Sidenote: A mariage betwen the kynges sone Edward and the erles dought' of Henowde.
Sidenote: The rysynge of erles and barons of this land.
Also in this yere, in the[54] conversion of seynt Poul after Cristemesse, the kyng spoused dame Philip' the erles doughter of Henawde at York.
In that disconfiture war tackin the two Erles foirsaid, the Lordis Flemyng, Somervaill, and many otheris baronis and gentilmen, besydis the great multitud of servandis.
And for the better establishing, ordering and gouerning of the said Erles of Warwike and Leicester, Thomas Starkie, &c.
Bid him mete me at Permanscore, 235 And bring four in his cumpanie; Five erles sall cum wi' mysell, Gude reason I suld honour'd be.
He bids ye meet him at Permanscore,[L247] And bring four in your cumpany; Five erles sall gang himsell befor, Nae mair in number will he be.
Desyre him mete thee at Permanscore, And bring four in his cumpanie; Five Erles sall gang yoursell befor, 205 Gude cause that you suld honour'd be.
Item, my lorde usith and accustomyth to gyfe yerly to everyerles mynstrellis, when they custome to come to hym yerely, iiis.
Master Nortton that Esquier with him a ffull great companye; and then the Erles they comen downe to ryde in his companye.
Then Sir George Bowes he straitwaye rose, After them some spoyle to make: 110 Those noble erles turn'd backe againe, And aye they vowed that knight to take.
He sent also his wife the erles daughter prisoner to Wilton, with one onelie maiden attending vpon hir, where she laie almost a yeare before she was released.
Schort after the said Parliament, war send from the counsall Ambassadouris to England, the Erles Mortoun and Glencarne, togidder with William Maitland of Lethingtoun youngare.
Thair war letteris found in the Erles pocket, that disclosed the treassone of the Erle of Sutherland, and of diverse otheris.
The freindis on eather partie embrased other, and the two Erles departed to ane wyndo, and talked by thame selfis familiarlie a reasonable space.
How Uther loved The Erles wyff of Cornewayle the Earl of He loued to Muche sanz fayle; 20 Cornwall's wife, [Arthur Has the Round Table Made.
And after them did rise good Sir George Bowes, after them a spoyle to make; the Erles returned backe againe, thought ever that Knight to take.
But then rose up Master Norton that Esquier, with him a full great companye; and then the Erles they comen downe to ryde in his companye.
Of the same transactions Peter Langtoft gives this account:— “The erles and barons at their first summoning, For many manner reasons ’plained to the king.
The wisest of the clergie, with erles and barons, Together went, to trie of their petitions.
He did not doubt but that Bonteen had shown the correspondence to his friends, and that the Ratlers and Erles had conceded that he, Phineas, was put out of court by it.
The Ratlers and Erles and Fitzgibbons all knew that Phineas was safe, but Mr. Bonteen was still in doubt.
All this Phineas knew, and was of opinion that the Barrington Erles and Ratlers of his party would not thank him for ventilating a measure which, however certain might be its coming, might well be postponed for a few years.
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