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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Hall's Chronicle 1458 is in Hall's Chronicle.
At this commaundement came to London, Richard duke of Yorke, and Richarde, erle of Salisbury, accompanyed with a great number of meigniall sernautes & frendes, lest peradventure they for lacke of ayde, might haue bene betrapped, or they had knowledge, or were warned. After they came from Caleys to London, the erle of Warwycke, whose servituers were apparreled in rede cotes, embroudered with white ragged stafes. These. iii. lordes were lodged within the citie: the duke at Baynardes castel, the erle of Salisbury, at the Herber, and the erle of Warwyke at his place, beside the Graye Friers, About thesame season, with no lesse company of men came to the citie, the yong duke of Somerset, the erle of Northumberland, & the lord Clyfford, whose fathers were slayn at sainct Albos: and after them resorted the dukes of Excester, and Buckingham, the lorde Egremond, and allmoste all the nobilitie of this realme. The duke of Yorke and his mates, were lodged within the citie; and the duke of Somerset; and all his frendes, soiourned without Templebarre; Holborne and other places of the suburbes: as who sayd, that as the Jewes disdayned the company of the Samaritans, so the Lancastriis abhorred the familiaritie of Yorkysh lygnage.
After the commynge of these lordes to the citie, the kyng, the Quene with all their familie, shortly folowed, and were lodged in the Bishoppes palayce of London. These lordes had such great companies, attendyng on them (for one had. v. C. other. v. C. and divers. iiij. C. persones in a band) that continuall watche was kept by the Mayre and senate of London, aswell by day as by nyghte, for the preseruacion of the peace, and continuaunce of good order. The Jordes, which lodged within the citie, kept a daily counsail at the Blacke friers, within the citie. The other parte soiornyng withoutye walles, assembled likewise in the chapter house of Westminster. Thus every part both studied his awn profitte and advancement, and also how to revenge thynges done to them, by their foes and aduersaries.
But the Archebisshop of Canterbury, and other vertuous prelates, so exhorted, applied, and persuaded both the parties (although a great while they were neither heard, nor regarded) that in conclusion, they brought them to a communicacion, where after long altercacion, aswell of olde Iniuries, and of new displeasures, by the one faccion, against the other committed, ye feare of outward hostilitie, and foren inuasion, so mollified their indurate hartes, that they outwardly promising, to forget a olde rancors, & auncient displeasures, sealed and signed writinges, the one ever after to be frend to the other, and all together to be obedient to the Kynge, & favorers to his frendes & enemies to his enemies. This cocord was so ioyfull to the superiors, and so embraced of the common people (who ever beare the burden, when princes be at controuersie) that for the open apparaunce, and demonstracion of this godly concorde, publique processions were appointed, to be solemnly celebrate, within the Cathedrall church of sainct Paule in the citie of London, on the day of the Concepcion of our Lady, in the moneth of March.
25th March 1458. At which solempne feast, the Kyng in habite royal, and his dyademe on his hedde, kept his estate in procession, before whom, went hand in hand, the duke ol Somerset, the erle of Salisbury, the duke of Excester, and ye erle of Warwyke, and so on of the one faccion, and another of the other sect, and behynd the kyng the duke of Yorke ledde the Quene with great familiaritie to all mens sightes: but wo worth dissimulacion, and false flatteryng contenaunce: fye on doble entendement, and cloked adulacion, whiche hath bene the common seruituers in all palacies, both Imperiall and Regal, and by their only pestiferous venime, and secrete malyce, hath ben the destruccion of many a noble man, and the confusion of a great number of trew meanyng and faithfull persons. But the Wiseman, which saieth: wo be thou that hast a doble hart, meant, that dissimulacid once espied, should be the arrow wherwith the dissembler should be wounded. As by this cloked pageant, and dissimuling procession, hereafter shall playnly be declared. For their bodies were ioyned by hand in hand, whose hartes were farre a sonder: their mouthes louingly smiled, whose corages were inflamed with malice: their toungues spake lyke suger, and their thoughtes were all inuenemed: but all these dissimulinge persons, tasted the vessel of woo, as the Wyseman sayde: and few or none of this company were vnblotted, or vndestroied by this dolorous drink of dissimulacion. But this cancard worme, and pestiferous coccatrice, not onely at thys tyme reigned in Englande, bat also dyd muche harine in the courte of Fraunce: for Jhon duke of Alanson, which before had bene prisoner, & wel enterteyned in the realme of England, and after Capitayn Generall of the warres in Fraunce agaynst the Englishmen, highly favoured, and of great estimacion in the Frenche kynges house, was by suche as he most trusted & vsed most familiaritie withal, & whom he had greatly promoted, and highly exalted, accused of highe treason, as enemye to his kyng, and traytor to his countrey, alledgyng that he longe before yt tyme had conspired with the Englishmen, to cause them once agayn to recouer the duchye of Normandy: wherupd by the order of the law, he there suffered death very unjustly, as divers aucthors affirme, whereof one sayeth: that kynges sekyng treason, shall fynde lande, and the denyal of a princes desyre, was the inuented destruccion of the innocent Naboth. Well let vs now leue the cloked collusion, that remayned in Fraunce, & returne to the open dissimulacion, which now appeared in England.
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