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2TIOTDHAI

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ON be zere folowand þat I rekened here

Coronacio
Edwardi

Edward com to land, als prince of grete filii præ

In þe kyrke of Westminstere, at þe abbay sollempnely, be bisshop of Canterbere, Robert of Kilwardeby, Corouned Edward pore biforn alle pe clergy,

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⚫ & dame Helianore corouned quene & lady.
Was neuer at Saynt Denys feste holden more by,
Ne was of more pris, ne serued so redỷ.
Was neuer prince, I wene, þat I writen of fond,
More had treie & tene, þan he had for his lond.
In Scotlond & in Wales, in Gasconie also,

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зе liste alle pe tales, pis storie tellis gow to. Pray we alle to God of myght, & his modere Marie,

Grante him conquere his right Gascoyne & Normundie, þat þe kyng of France chalanges falsly.

Help him to pat chance moder of mercy,

& Thomas pe martire, St. Jon of Beuerle,
St. Cutbert be per fere, he trestres on gow pre.
Towhile in Gascoyne es þe pes zit alle certeyn,
We salle leue þat pas vnto we com ageyn,

1 Others say it was the very day of the Assumption, or the 15th. of August. Ausint la Rayne Elyanore sa amye Fu

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coroune le jour, vnqes a
seint Dynie Ne fu si bele
feste, ne si grant noblye, MSS.
Gall.

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dicti Henrici.

& telle zow oper tales of Edward curteisie,
& of Leulyn of Wales, & his berỳng hie,
Of Dauid his bropere & of his felonie,
Resaunraduk an opere how he did folie.
How þe contek was laid of Scotlond þat first
How eft þei mad a braid, & on Inglond ran.
Of Madok þe Morgan, of þer nyce ribaudie,
Of Jon Baliol no man, & of his treccherie,
& of his duze pers togider þei gan alie,

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I schrowe alle per maners, þat lufes per partie.
A pousand & ii. hundred sexti & fiftene,

þe date of Criste so pundred whan Leulyn gan þis tene.

THE next gere folowand of Edward coronment,
Leulýn of Walsland in to France he sent,

pe Mountfort douhter to wedde, hir frendes alle consent,
Almerik hir ledde, to schip now er þei went.
Now þei saile & rowe to Wales to Leulýns,
A burgeis of Bristowe charged was with wynes,
He ouertoke per schip, & asked wheþen þei ware?
He said, with kỷng Philip to Wales wild þei fare.
What did pis burgeis? desturbled his wendyng,
þe may & hir herneis did led vnto þe kỷng.
þe mayden Edward toke, als he was fulle curteys,
In saufte did hir loke, & panked þe burgeis.

¶ Whan Leulýn herd say, to werre sone he bigan,

For tene he wende to deie, þat taken was his lemman.

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Edward wex fulle grim, whan he wist he was risen.
Sone he hasted him, to mak þam alle ogrisen.

be Walssh wer alle day slayn, now rewes pam per res,
& Leulyn is fulle fayn, to pray Edward for pes,
Gyues Edward for his trespas fifti pousand mark,
& per tille bonden was with scrite & oth fulle stark,
To com tuys in þe gere vnto his parlement.
be may on pis manere with Leulyn home scho went,"
& held his heritage in pes as he did ore,

Mad was pe mariage at Snowdon biside Bangore.

IN' be zere seconde after his corounment,,
N'be

New statute þei fonde, to Westminstere pei ment.
þe nex Paske folowand Edward sent his brefe
To Leulýn for his land, to com als tille his chefe.
Leulyn had despite of Edwarde's sonde,

Bot werred also tite on him with nyth & onde.
Edward raised scheld, after his men alle sent,
þat scruise of him held, manly tille him went,
& ran on Sir Leulýn, & alle his folk him with,
& maugre bobe his bryn was fayn to com to grith.
Danid at þat while was with Edward þe kyng,
git auanced he þat file vntille a faire þing.
To Frodesham with pe fe, & alle pat longed per tille,
To Leulýn forgaf he alle his euelle wille.

Le [an] secounde apres commune assent, Ke de Wele encorounement, Le Reis

a Wemonstere tynt son parlement. E statuz fist fere par

monstere sunt dist propre ment, Codd. Gall.

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Now is Leulyn bonden eft to Sir Edward,

If he with faute be fonden, I trowe, it falles him hard.

Now turnes Edward ageŷn to London his cite,
& wille wite certeyn, who schent has his mone.
Of clippers, of roungers, of suilk takes he questis.
Olde vsed traitoures ilk at oper hand kestis.

Ilk thefe oper out said, ilk a schrewe oþer greues,
Of fele wer handes laid, & hanged þer as theues.

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Edward' did smyte rounde pený, halfpeny, ferthýng,

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þe croice passed passed" þe bounde of alle þorghout þe rýng.

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See my Preface to Robert | rayment Quatre esterlinges of Gloucester's Chronicle, p. LXIII. where I have printed these eight Rhythms,that relate to K.Edward the first's alteration of the Coyn. As I had á desire my self to see how they are express'd in the French,so, it may be, some readers may have the same curiosity, and for that reason Ishall here publish them in that language, only noting, that all that I have inclos'd in Crotchets or Hooks is wanting in the MS. of the Heralds Office, tho'exstant in both Mr. Anstis's Copies, and that what is put in a parenthesis is a various Reading: Esterlýng, maylle, (vel male) ferthing (vel ferlynge) fet forger roundement, Et gros Tournais Englays qe valent ver

en achate & vent. (vel esterlyngs a chat e a vent) [De ren (vel rien) se lo ly prestre. ke le offrande (vel offrant) atent, Ne lý cháytif pouers ke ren nad (vel rien ayd) dount despent.] En tote la moneye la croice par my se tent. (vel sestent) [Par quay le ferlynge (vel ferthing) rounde est communement. Offert v (vel ou) done pur deu (vel dieu) omnipotent, Le sterlynge et la maylle uienent (vel. venent) rerement, Sur deu (vel dieu) et sur les sons chet len payrement.] (vel foens chiet lempeyrement) Mil. cc. et octaunte (vel vttaunt) annz del incarnacioun Sunt passez par acounte kaunt de religioun (vel del

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