Agreeably to the superstition of the time, all his misfortunes and death were looked upon as judgments, for various alleged offences committed against the Church revenues: recommending that the clergy should be taxed more than the laity--for living an ungodly life--for “everything that could render him hateful in the eyes of monks, whom he insulted and exposed.” After him followed his sonne <g>John</g>, second Earle of his line, who, in running a tilt[377] at Woodstock, was slaine by Syr John <g>Saint John</g>, casually, in the yeare 1397. And hereupon, for default of his issue, there fell very many possessions and fair revenewes into the King’s hands, as our lawiers use to speake: and the <g>Castle</g> of Penbrock was granted unto Francis <g>At-Court</g>, a courtier in especiell great favour, who commonly thereupon was called Lord Penbrock. Not long after, Humfrey, sonne to King Henry the Fourth, before he was Duke of Gloucester, received this title of his brother, King Henry the Fifth: and before his death Henry the Sixth granted the same in reversion--a thing not before heard of--to William <g>De la Pole</g>, Earle of Suffolk, after whose downfall the said King, when he had enabled Edmund of <g>Wadham</g>, and Jasper of <g>Hatfield</g>, the sonnes of Queen Katherine, his mother, to be his lawfull half brethren, created <g>Jasper</g> Earle of Penbroke, and <g>Edmund</g> Earl of Richmond, with pre-eminence to take place above all Earles--for Kings have absolute authority in dispensing honours. But King Edward the Fourth, depriving Jasper of all his honours by attainder and forfeiture, gave the title of <g>Penbrok</g> to Syr William <g>Herbert</g>, for his good service against Jasper in Wales;[378] but he shortly afterwards lost his life at the battle of Banbury. Then succeeded his son, bearing the same name, whome King Edward the Fourth, when he had recovered the kingdom, invested in the Earldom of Huntingdon, and bestowed the title of <g>Penbrok</g>, being surrendered, upon his eldest sonne and heire, <g>Edward</g> Prince of Wales.--[Chronicle.]