Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (08 of 12): Henrie the Third, the Eldest Sonne of King IohnHolinshed, Raphael
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Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (08 of 12): Henrie the Third, the Eldest Sonne of King Iohn
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- Henry III, 1216-1272; Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
It fortuned in this hurlie burlie, that a poore Irish scholer being
got in néere to the kitchin dresser, besought the cooke for Gods sake
to giue him some reliefe: but the cooke (as manie of that calling are
cholerike fellowes) in a great furie tooke yp a ladle full of hot
broath out of a kettell wherein flesh had béene sodden, and threw it
right vpon the Irishmans face, which thing when another Welsh scholer
that stood by beheld, he cried out; "What meane we to suffer this
villanie," and therewithall tooke an arrow, and set it in his bow,
which he had caught vp in his hand at the beginning of the fraie, and
drawing it vp to the head let flie at the cooke, and so slue him there
outright.
[Sidenote: The legat complaineth to the king.]
[Sidenote: The earle Waren sent to apprehend the offendors.]
Herevpon againe noise and tumult rose round about the house, the legat
for feare got him into the belfraie of the abbeie, where he kept
himselfe close till the darke of the night had staied the vprore, and
then stale foorth, and taking his horsse escaped as secretlie as he
could ouer the Thames, and rode with all spéed to the court, which laie
not farre off at Abington, and there made his complaint to the king, in
such lamentable wise, that he foorthwith sent the earle Waren with a
power of armed men, to fetch awaie the residue of the legats seruants
which remained behind in the abbeie, and to apprehend the chiefe
offenders.
[Sidenote: The legat curseth.]
[Sidenote: The regents of ye Vniuersitie absolued.]
[Sidenote: _Polydor_.]
The earle comming thither, tooke thirtie scholars, with one master Odo
a lawier, and brought them to Wallingford castell, and there committed
them to prison. The legat also in reuenge of the iniurie in this
wise to him doone, pronounced the cursse against the misdooers, and
handled the matter in such wise, that the regents and masters of the
Vniuersitie were at length constreined to come vnto London, & there
to go bare-footed through Cheapeside, vnto the church of S. Paule,
in such wise to aske him forgiuenesse, and so with much adoo they
obteined absolution. This legat among other things demanded soone after
the tenth part of all spirituall mens yearelie reuenues, towards the
maintenance of the wars against the Saracens in Asia.
[Sidenote: _Matth. Paris_. The emperor of Constantinople c[=o]meth
into England.]
[Sidenote: The countesse of Penbroke, sister to the king married to
Simon de Montford.]
[Sidenote: _Polydor._]
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