and there his malady seized him, and he died on the sworn to feast of St. Edmund de Pontigny (November 16), and is buried at Westminster. And the same day the earl of Gloucester did fealty to sir Edward, who at the time was in the Holy Land. And the same year Joanna, sir Edward's daughter, was born at Acre. EDWARD, the son of king Henry III., was in the Holy Edward I. Land when his father died, and when he saw that his returns, stay there brought no good to Christianity, he returned to England. Edward crowned. at Lyons. Trivet. A.D. 1273, Sir Alfonzo, the king's son, was born. Prince A.D. 1274, the king was duly crowned, with Eleanor, Alfonzo b. his consort, at Westminster by Robert de Kilwarby, who and queen then was archbishop of Canterbury, and before had been Eleanor prior provincial of the Dominicans of England, on the Lan. 96. feast of St. Magnus the king [Aug. 19], which was the Sunday next after the feast of our Lady's Assumption Council (Aug. 15). And the same year a great council was held in presence of pope Gregory X., in Whitsuntide [May 22], at Lyons, and solemn messengers came there from Greece and from Tarsus, of whom the Greeks promised to believe and to hold all that the Holy Church of Rome held and believed. And the messengers from Tarsus were there baptized, and so they returned home. In that council the two orders of the Domi- Domininicans and Franciscans were confirmed by the and by all the prelates who were there. The two confirmed. other orders of the Carmelites and Augustinians he suffered until something more should be settled about them; and all the other orders of Mendicants he quashed utterly, so that they should on no account receive more into their numbers; but those who then were should remain undisturbed until the end of their life, or, if they preferred it, they might go into some other order which was confirmed by the court of Rome. pope cans and Minors [LA VIE DEL REI EDWARD LE PRIMER.] 1274. 1275. 1276. 1277. 1278. 1279. 1282. E dunc fist le rey fere les estatuz de Westmoster. E si fist dunc sumundre Sire Leulin, prince de Wales, ke i venist aLoundres au parlement, e fere homage au roy; e pur ceo ke il ne vint pas, e pur sa inobedience, par le conseil des cuntes e de baruns, 5 si ala le roy Edward sur Sire Leulin, e conquist Angleseye sur lui, e de la tere de Wales jekes a Snoudone: e dunc furunt acordez. E il vint a Loundres e fist homage; e espusa la file Sire Symound de Mount Fort, le an de le regne Sire Edward quint. *A pres le rey fist chaunger sa monoye ke dune fu vilement roignie de totes parz. A cel hure fut defendu feffer mesun de religiun de teres ou de rentes, hu temporaute purchacer, sanz especial cunge le roy demaunder. Le an le roy Edward novime si en veia le roy Sire Roger de Clifford come justice: e Sire Davi ki fu nuri ou le rey si en aveit grant en vie, e sen de parti privementes de le roy, e vint come traitre *Le roy son chemyn de vers Londres reprent 10 15 Piers Langtoft. THE WROXHAM CONTINUATION. minster. And then the king caused the statutes of Westmin- Statutes of ster to be passed, and then he caused sir Llewellyn to Westbe summoned to come to London to the Parliament and do homage to the king; and because he came not, and for his disobedience, by the counsel of the earls and barons, king Edward marched against sir Lle- Welsh war, wellyn, and won Anglesey from him by conquest, and all the land of Wales as far as to Snowdon. And then they made peace, and he came to London and did homage, and married the daughter of sir Simon de Llewellyn Montfort, in the fifth year of sir Edward's reign. married. After this the king caused his coinage to be changed, Coinage. which at that time was everywhere shamefully clipped. At this time it was forbidden to grant a fief of lands Mortmain. or rents to any religious house, or that such a house should purchase any temporality without asking especial leave of the king. The ninth year of king Edward the king commis- David sioned sir Roger de Clifford as justiciary, and sir David, rebels. who was brought up with the king, conceived great wrath at this, and stole away unknown to the king, 1282. nuitauntre, e prist Sire Roger de Clifford en sun lit, si lui enveya la nuit de le Dymeine la Paske Flurie en Snoudone a Sire Leulin; e comenca la guere sur le roy, e abata les chausteus le roy a Flint, e arda le viles le roy. E le roy fist banir sun ost 5 e sui Sire Davi, e prist le chausteus dele spe, e prist Anglesie. E la perdi le roy xiiii. banerez: Sire Wyliame de Audele e Sire Roger de Clifford le Pune, e autre deus. E puis vint Sire Leulin e descendi de Snoudone, e vint a Mount Gumeri; e la vint Sire 10 Roger le Estraunge e autre marchiz e gent de le pais e pristrerent Sire Leulin, e le occirent, e sa teste fu en veye ala Tour de Loundres. Ceo fu le an le roy Edward dime. 1283. 1284. 1285. E puis vint Sire Johan de Vesci e autre chyvalers, 15 e le bachelers, de part le roy, e entrerent en Snoudone, e tant tost apres entra le roy, e purprist tote la tere e la saisist, e sui Sire Davi le le prist par force de grant guere; e li tint en sa prisun jekes il avoyt sun conseil pris. 20 E pus fu Sire Davi mene de vant le conseil le roy, e la fu encupe de traysun fet a sun Seygniour le roy, e de plusurs homcides e plusurs roberiis. E pur la tresun fu agarde de estre traine, e pur les homicides e pur roberie pendu, e quarcele, e pendu de quatre 25 parz de Engletere. Ceo fu le an le roy Edward unzime. roy de Fraunce e le E pus surt guere entre le roy de Espanie. Dunc le roy de Engletere sovent fu maunde. E puis vint le roy de Aragaoun gwer-30 rer sur Sire Charles roy de Pulis e de Cesilie e de Calabre, e prist Philippe le fiz Charles, e pus ala Sire Charles a Rome e purchaca entredit sur Peres de Aragoun e croiserent en France, par la Apostoylle Martin, sure Peres. Et Et pus ala le roy de 35 and came by night as a traitor, and took sir Roger de Clifford in his bed, and sent him off on the night of the Monday in Holy week to Snowdon to sir Llewellyn. And he commenced war against the king, and demolished the king's castles as far as Flint, and burnt the king's towns. And the king caused his army to be David and Llewellyn mustered, and followed sir David, and took the castles taken, with the sword, and seized Anglesey. And there the king lost fourteen knights bannerets, and sir William de Audele and sir Roger de Clifford the younger, and two others. Then came sir Llewellyn and descended from Snowdon and came to Montgomery. And sir Roger L'Estrange came thither and other marchers, and the people of the place, and seized sir Llewellyn and killed him, and his head was sent to the tower of London. This was the tenth year of king Edward. invaded; After this sir John de Vescy and other knights and Scotland the esquires on the part of the king came and entered David Snowdon; and soon after the king arrived and con- taken. quered the whole country and seized it, and pursued sir David and took him by force of hard fighting, and kept him in prison until he had considered what to do. And then sir David was led before the king, and there David was tried for treason committed against his lord the executed. king, and for many murders and for many robberies, and for the treason he was judged to be drawn, and for his murders and robberies to be hanged and quartered, and hung in four parts of England. This was the eleventh year of king Edward. Then war began between the king of France and the king of Spain, when the king of England was often applied to. Then came the king of Arragon to fight with sir Charles, king of Puglia and Sicily and Calabria, and captured Charles's son Philip. Then sir Charles came to Rome, and obtained an interdict against Peter of Arragon; and in France, by command of pope Martin, they made a crusade against Peter. Then the king of U War of France and |