Richard Merlawe, John Lane, m'c'. A^{o}. xj^{mo}.
Irmong', maior. Will' Chichele, groc'.
[Sidenote: An heretyk was brent.]
This same yere there was a clerk that beleved nought on the sacrament
of the auter, that is to seye Godes body,[89] which was dampned and
brought into Smythfeld to be brent, and was bounde to a stake where as
he schulde be brent. And Herry prynce of Walys, thanne the kynges
eldest sone, consailed hym for to forsake his heresye, and holde the
righte wey of holy chirche.[90] And the prior of seynt Bertelmewes in
Smythfeld broughte the holy sacrament of Godys body, with xij torches
lyght before, and in this wyse cam to this cursed heretyk: and it was
asked hym how he beleved; and he ansuerde, that he belevyd well that
it was halowed bred and nought Godes body; and thanne was the toune
put over hym, and fyre kyndled thereinne: and whanne the wrecche felte
the fyre he cryed mercy; and anon the prynce comanded to take awey the
toune and to quenche the fyre, the whiche was don anon at his
comaundement: and thanne the prynce asked hym if he wolde forsake his
heresye and taken hym to the feith of holy chirche, which if he wolde
don, he schulde have hys lyf and good ynowe to lyven by: and the
cursed schrewe wold nought, but contynued forth in his heresye;
wherfore he was brent, and a versyfyer made of hym, in metre, thise
too verses:
_Hereticus credat ve p'ustus ab orbe recedat
Ne fidos ledat satel hunc baratro sibi p'dat._
[Footnote 89: "in forme of brede" _in the Cotton MS._]
[Footnote 90: _See note_ AA.]
[Sidenote: The newe stokkes were begonne to make.]
Also in this yere the stokkes betwen the Cornhull and the Pultrye was
begonne to make, and in the yere nest folwynge it was ful complet and
made. In this yere was a fray mad in Estchepe, be the kynges sones
Thomas and John, with men of the town. Also this same yere there went
the duke of Clarence, the duke of Yorke, the erl of Dorset, to the
duke of Orlions, ageyn the duke of Burgoyne, and landed at Hogges.