¶ This is the Cronycle of all the kyngꝭ names [...]hat haue ben in Englande: and how many yeres they reygned / and how many sayntꝭ & martyrs haue ben ī this lande: and she­with the hole sūme / from the makyng of the worlde tyll the cōmynge of Brute: y e whiche is .iiii.M.lxxvii. yeres / and fro the cōmynge of Brute to the Incarnacion of Christe is M.C.xxii. yeres: & fro the Incarnacion to the .xxiiii. yere of kynge Henry the .vi. is .M.CCCC.xlvi. yeres.

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THis is the Cronycle of all the kyngꝭ names and how many yeres they reygned and how many sayntꝭ & martyrs haue ben in this lande.

¶ Brute came after the makynge of the world into the lande of Albyon / in the tyme that Ely the Prest of the lawe was in the lāde of Israel .iiii.M.lxxvii. yeres.

¶ Newe Troy (that now is callyd London) was foūdyd by the makynge of Brute / after y e makynge of the worlde .iiii.M.C.xxiiii. yere.

¶ Rome was was foundyd by Remus & Romulus iiii.M.iiii.C.lxxxiiii. yere.

¶ Iesu Christe was conceyuyd by the holy goste in the maydē Marie on a fryday: in the tyme of kynge Kamelyn was kynge of Brytayne: the .xv. daye of Marche: after the makynge of the worlde .v.M.C.lxxxxix. yere.

¶ Iesu Christe was borne / whan his mother was xiiii. yere olde on a sonday / the .xxv. day of Decem­ber / in the same yere: after the makynge of y e worlde v.M.C.lxxxxix. yere.

¶ Saynt Iohn̄ the Baptyste was hedyd the .xxv. day of Auguste after the Incarnacion .xxxii. yere.

¶ Iesu Christe suffred deth on a fryday the .xv. day of Marche: after his incarnacion .xxxiii. yere

¶ Saynt Stephen was martyred the thirde daye of August: after the Incarnacion. xxxiii. yere.

[Page] ¶ Saynt Paule was cōuerted the .xxv. day of Ia­nuary after the Incarnacion .xxxiiii. yere.

¶ Our lady Mary was taken into heuen the .xv. day of August in the .lx. yere of her age: after the In­carnacion .xlv. yere.

¶ Saynt Longlus was martyred after the Incarnacion .lvii. yere.

¶ Saynt Peter & Paule were martyred the .xxix. day of Iune: after the Incarnacion .lxix. yere.

¶ Lucy the kynge of Brytayn̄ becom christen after the incarnacion .C.lxii. yere.

¶ Saynt katheryne was martyred by Maxenciꝰ Empero r of Rome in y e tyme y t Constantyne saynt Elynsonne was kynge of Brytayn̄ after the Incar­nacion .CC.lii. yere.

¶ Saynte Vrsula / with the .xi.M. virgins were martyred at Coleyn: by a Sarasyn that was called Swane y e whiche was kynge of Coleyn in y t tyme that Maxymyan was kynge of Brytayn̄: after the Incarnacion .CC.lxxxxvii. yeres.

¶ Saynte Abon was martyred / by the foresayde Swane in the tyme of Maxymyan: after the In­carnacion .CCC.i. yere.

¶ Saynt Gregory the pope / sente into Englande saynt Augustyne after the Incarnacion .CCCCC.lxxxxvi. yere.

¶ Saynt Edmunde the kynge was martyred / by Hungar and Hubba of Dēmarke: in tyme that first Alured was kynge of Englande: after the Incarnacion .viii.C.lxx. yeres.

¶ Saynt Edwarde the martyr / was martyred by [Page] hys stepmother after the Incarnac .ix.C.lxxx. ye.

¶ Saynt Edwarde the confesso r was quycke and deed in the yere of grace .M.lxvi. yeres.

¶ Saynt Edmunde the kynge was translated the tyme that Wyllyā Ruphus was kynde of England the yere of grace .M.lxxxxvi. yeres.

¶ Saynt Edwarde the confessour was translated by saynte Thomas of Caunturbury in the tyme of kynge Henry .ii. yere of grace.

¶ Saynt Thomas of Caunturbury was marty­red in the same kynge Henr tyme in the yere of gra­ce .M.C.lxx. yer.

¶ The same saynte Thomas was traunslated in the tyme of kynge Henry in the yere of grace .M.CC.xx. yeres.

¶ These ben the Cronycles of the kynges that haue ben / syth Brute came into this lande fyrste.

¶Brute came into this lande after the makynge of the worlde .iiii.M.lxxvii. yeres. And he lyued ī the lande or he were crowned .xl. yere. And after he was crowned .xx. yeres.

¶Lotryn hys sone .v. yeres.

¶Madan his sone .xxx. yeres.

¶Ebranke his sone .xl. yeres.

¶Leyle his sone .ix. yeres.

¶Bladud his sone .xxi. yeres.

¶Guentolyn his wyfe. xv. yeres.

¶Memps his sone .xxiiii. yeres.

[Page] ¶Brute Bremenshull .xxx. yere.

¶Ludebras .xiii. yere.

¶Lyre his sone .xlviii. yere.

¶Credel his daughter .v. yere.

¶Conadage her suster sone .xxxiii. yere.

¶Reynolde his sone .xx. yere.

¶Gorbodyan his sone .xv. yere.

¶Denobaud wan the realme by cōquest and reyg­ned .xl. yere.

¶Bellyn his sone .xi. yere.

¶Cornabatrus his sone .xxv. yere.

¶Guentolem his sone .xxv. yere.

¶Scisisse his sone .xv. yere.

¶Kymore his sone .xix. yere.

¶Morwych his sone .ix. yere.

¶Grandobodyan his sone .xi. yere.

¶Portagayle his sone .xvi. yere.

¶Petitur his brother .v. yere.

¶Esydur his brother .xiiii. yere.

¶xxxiii. kyngꝰ reygned afterwarde.

¶Luke the last kyngꝰ sone of .xxxiii. reygned .xi. ye.

¶Kassibalan his brother .xxvii. yere.

¶Andragen Luddes firste sone .viii. yere.

¶Kembolyn before the Incarnacion .ii. yere.

¶The hole sūme fro the cōmynge of Brute tyll the Incarnacion .M.C.xxii. yere.

¶Grynder and Armogꝰ his .ii. sones .xliiii. yere.

¶Koyle Armogꝰ his sone .xli. yere.

¶Lucy his sonne reygned an Hethenman .xi. yere. [Page] and a Christen man .xi. yere.

¶And afterwarde was so great debate in y e lande / that the realme was longe without a kynge l. yera.

¶Cole that made Colchester was kynge then .xiii. yeres.

¶Constantyne the Romayne / that weddyd saynte Elyn Coles daughter .xv. yere.

¶Constantyne that was Enꝑour his sone .xx. yer.

¶Octauyan reygned after that Constantyne was gone to Rome to be crowned Emperour .xv. yeres.

¶Maximyā wedded Octauiās daughter & reyg­ned .xxviii. yer. in his tyme saynt Albon was slayne.

¶Constātyne cosyn to the kynge of lytell Brytayn̄ reyned .xii. yere.

¶Constantyne his sone that was a monke at Wyn­chester reygned .v. yere.

¶Forteger that was Erle of Essex reygned .xi. yer

¶Fortymer his sone .xiiii. yere.

¶Engyst of Saxony in that lande of Iarmayn / y t was a Sarasyn / wan the lande & reygned .v. yere.

¶Aurylambros Constantynes sonne slough En­gyst / and droue the Sarasyns awaye / and reyg­ned .viii. yere.

¶Vter Pendragon his brother reygned .xvii. yer.

¶Arthur his sone reygned .xxvi. yere.

¶Constantyne Arthurs cosyn .xxiiii. yere.

¶Guran for Constantyne had none heire .xxx. yer

¶Tonagh his cosyn .xxiiii. yere.

¶Syryke reygned .xxv. yer.

¶Saynt Adelbert & Sebert y t were conuerted by saynt Augustyne & his felowshyp reygned .l. yere.

[Page] ¶Elfrede and Cadwaller / saynt Oswald & Cad­walyn reygned in the realme of England one after another. .lxxx. yer.

¶Off a saynt Oswaldis brother .xlviii. yeres

¶Alured the fyrste / in his tyme saynt Edmunde of Bury was slayne of Hungar and Hubba the kyngꝭ bretherne of Denmarke .xxx. yeres.

¶Edwarde the fyrste his sone .xxv. yer.

¶Edmunde his brother .xvii. yeres

¶Adelstone. [...]

¶Eldrede his brother .x. yer

¶Edwyn his thirde brother .iiii. yeres.

¶Edgar his sone .xvii. yer.

¶Saynt Edwarde the martyr his son̄ .xii. yeres.

¶Swyn̄ that was kynge of Denmarke .xv. yer.

¶Eldrede saynt Edwardes Brother ix. yere.

¶Edmunde Irensyd & Knowt Swyn̄son̄ .xx. yer

¶Harolde harefote knowte son xiii. yer.

¶Hardeknowte his brother .xvi. yeres.

¶Saynte Edwarde the confessour Eldred sonne reygned .xxiii. yeres.

¶Harolde / that was Godwyn sonne Erle of west­sex reygned .i. yere.

¶Here endeth y e cronycle of the kyngꝭ that reygned before the conquest.

¶The cronycle of all the kynges names that haue reygned in Englande syth the conquest of Wyllyam Conquerour.

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¶This myghty Wyllyam Duke of Normandye
As bokes olde make mension
By iuste title and by his chiualrye
Made kynge by conquest of Brutes Albion
Put out Harolde / and toke possession
Bare his crowne full .xxi. yere
Buryed at Cane. thus sayth the cronycolere.
Nexte hym in ordre by succession
Wyllyam Rufus his sōne crowned kynge
Whiche to godwarde had no deuocyon
Distroyed churche of newe and olde buyldynge
To make a forest plesaunt for huntynge
xiiii. yere bare his crowne in dede
Buryed at Wynchester: the cronycle ye may rede.
His brother next / called the fyrste Henry
Was at London crowned / as I fynde
Whose brother Robert / duke of Normandye
Gaue hym war [...]: the cronycle maketh mynde
Rcconcyled: all rancour set behynde
Full .xxxvi. yere (by recorde of wryttynge)
He reygned: and buryed at Redynge.
His cosyn Stephen / whan Henry y e fyrst was deed
Towarde Englande / gan to crosse his sayle
The Archebysshop set vpon his heed.
A ryche crowne: beynge of his counsayle
xix. yere with sorowe and great trauayle
Bare his crowne and had neuer rest
At Feuersham lyeth buryed in a cheste.
Henry the seconde sonne of the empres
Was next crowned: a full comely knyght
As bokes olde playnly do expresse
Thys sayd Henry by frowarde force and myght
Slewe saynt Thomas for the churches ryght
xxxv. yere he reygned: as it is made mynde
At Founteuerarde lyth buryed: as I fynde
Rycharde his sonne next by succession
Fyrste of the name stronge / harde / and notable
Was crowned kynge / called cure de lyon
With Sarasyns heed is serued at his table
Slayne at Talus / by deth lamentable
He reygned fully the space of .ix. yere
His hert kuryed at Rone at the hygh autere
Next kynge Rycharde reygned his brother Iohn
After soone entred into Fraunce
Lost all Angie and Normandye anon
This lande enterdyted by his gouernaunce
And as it is put in rememberaunce
xviii. yere kynge of this Regyon
Lyeth at Worcester / dyed of poyson.
Henry the .iii. his sone of .ix. yere of age
Was at Gloucestre crowned as I rede
Longe warr he had with his baronage
Greatly delyted in almesdede
lvi.yere: he reygned here in dede
Buryed at Westmynster by recorde of wryttynge.
Day of saynt Edmunde made martyr and kynge
Edwarde the firste with the shankes longe
Was after crowned that was so good a knyght
Wanne Scotlande / maugre the Scottes stronge
And all Walys dispyte of all theyr myght
Duryd his lyfe maynteyned trewth and ryght
xxxv. yere he was here kynge
Lyth at Westmynster / this is treuth & no lesynge.
Edwarde his sōne called Carnaruane
Succyde after to make his alyaunce
As the cronycle wel reherse cane
Weddyd the daughter of the kynge of Fraunce
On Thomas Lancaster by deth he toke vengeaūce
xix. yere here / he helde his regalye
Buryed at Glocestre / as bokes specifye.
The thyrde Edwarde / borne at wynsore
Whyche in knyghthod had so great a pris
Enherytour of Fraunce withouten more
Bare in his armys quartly .iii. flowerdelys
And he gate Calys by his prudent deuyce
Reygned in Englande .li. yere
Lyth at Westmynster. thus sayth the cronycolere.
Sōne of prynce Edwarde / Rychard the secoūde
In whose tyme was peas great plente
Wedded quyne Anne of Ceume as it is founde
Isabell after of Fraunce / who lyst se
xxii. yere he reygned here parde
At Langley buryed / fyrste so stode the case
After to Westmynster his body caryed was
Henry the .iiii. next crowned in certeyne
A famous knyght / and of great semblenesse
From his exyle whan he came whome agayne
Trauayled after with warr and great sykenesse
xiiii. yere he reygned in southnesse
Lyth at Caūterbury in that holy place
God of his mercy do his soule grace.
The .v. Henry of knyghthod lodsterr
Wyse and ryght manly playnly to termyne
Ryght fortunate proued in peas and warr
Greatly expert in marcyal displyne
Able to stande amonge the worthys nyne.
Reygned .x. yere / who so lyst haue regarde
Lyth at Westmynster nat farr frō saynt Edwarde.
Henry the syxte / as I fynde by wryttynge
Reygned iustly .xxxviii. yere
Whyche was ryght holy and vertuous of lyuynge.
And after hym: as it doth appere
Reygned Edwarde the fourth. xxii. yere
And one moneth: neyther lasse nor more
And both those kyngeslye at Wynsore.
After this .iiii. Edwarde: as it is accōpted
Reygned Edwarde the .v. of that name
The whiche Edwarde was neuer crowned
Who redeth the cronycle shall se the same
And atter hym (myn accōpte for to frame)
Rycharde the thirde / reygned in certayne
Two yere & .ii. monethes: the cronycle sayth playn.
After whome reygned / that most noble kynge
Henry the seuenth .xxiii. yere
And .viii. monethes by record of wryttynge
Whome his enemies drad both farr & nere
With whom all christen pryncis / as it doth appere
In his actis: were glad to make bandꝭ of peas
And for to lyue in quiete / reste / and eas.
Whiche prudent prynce / of April the .xxi. day
Departed this worlde by deuyne ordynaūce.
For whom many one sayd / alas and welway
With lamentable teres and woful semblaūce
Blamed Athropos for all theyr greuaunce
And specially the comons sorowed for theyr kynge
But nothynge auayled theyr lachrymable wepyng.
Moche was the dolour of great and smalle
Hys deth ryght greuous to vs euerychone
For in his tyme we were drede ouer all
yet vs to recōfort / and to be our champyon
He lefte behynd hym the myghty Sypton
Hys only sōne / the eyght kynge Henry
Of great hardy corage / Ector the worthy.
Whyche myghty prynce shortly to determyne
The .xxii. day of April / began to rayne
(Anno domini. M.D. and nyne)
Ouer England / sumtyme named Brytayne
The .xxiiii. day of Iune after / in certayne
(With all the nobles of spiritual & tēporalte)
Crowned he was / with tryūp he and solēpnyte.
And here wyll I leue hym as a conquerour
Saylynge forth (a prynce inuictissimus)
Within the shyp / of hygh and great honour
Whiche grace gydeth from all thynges perillous
With .iiii. quarter maisters most famous
Called Iustice / Prudence / and Temperaūce
And stronge Force / all them doth auaunce.
¶Finis.

¶ Thus endeth the cronycle of al the kynges names / that haue reygned in Englande. sith y e comynge of Wyllyā Conque­rour: & how longe they reygned. Imprinted by Rychard Pynson / Prynter vnto the kynges noble grace.

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